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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/01/19 ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR
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9 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54), Marilynn WORKING ('54)
Sharon PANTHER ('57), Leoma COLES ('63)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Phyllis CUNNINGHAM ('64)
Irene WALDNER ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larson GRENINGER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb MILLER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna PARDEE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken DEERY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark PERKINS ('75)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Bill HIGHTOWER ('49) & Shannon CRAIG ('50)
MAREN's MALARKEY:
Get ahead of yourself. Send Sandstorm Stuff early.
Please put the "save for" date in the subject line...
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Happy New Year to Bombers everywhere
I pray that all Bombers have a great prosperous New Year.
Those who are lonely will have someone come into their life
and cheer them up. Those who are hurting will receive the
"medicine" necessary to ease their pain, whether emotional
or physical. For those who have hurt others with their words
and/or actions will muster the will power to apologize as
necessary. For those who are happy and content that they will
help all others to achieve that level of peace that knows God
is in control and He wants the best for all His children.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ In chilly Kennewick
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Happy New Year!
Spent the last several days in hospital. Had what started out
as food poison... threw up my socks... then kept going...
then severe pain started in my stomach. Food poison turned
into inflamed duodenum to inflamed pancreas. All worried was
an expansion of my lung cancer going crazy. Hard for me to
believe that terminal cancer can get worse??? Just shows than
man can generate about anything. Anyway am home late today
[12/31] with more gas on my stomach than the good year blimp.
Just as well as the football results have been rather poor.
I must remember to thank whoever manufactured that bed I was
in. With a little bit of luck I would never have to worry
about walking again. May your new years be as bright!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ In lovely downtown Hanford, CA where
they recently opened a brand new Hospital. (looks very
pretty) Same old doctors so was like putting lipstick
on that old pig. She may be prettier but still stinks.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Before it gets too late in the day: "Happy New Year!" to
one and all. Hope you kept last night's celebrations within
reason. And watch out for all them bowl game scores; I
thought Notre Dame was worth more than 3 points.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the rain will return later in the week.
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: Greetings to ALL BOMBERS and FRIENDS
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! May your time in 2019 be as special as all
of you are!!
Look forward to seeing those of you in class of 1954 who can
make it, to our 65 year Class Reunion the weekend of Club 40,
September 6th and 7th, 2019. Stay Safe, Healthy and Happy!!
Re: Maren
Want to display my gratitude to you for all the work you have
done on the Sandstorm since moving to Louisiana 16 years ago.
I remember when you left the Tri Cities and you sent me a
business card with your granddaughter's picture on it when
she was born!! So cute!! You've worked on our Sandstorm a
long time before, and it has been great! THANK YOU!!
[She's not a baby any longer:
http://ForeverAbby.com -Maren]
Re: David RIVERS ('65)
Let's plan on 2019 being a better year for you!! Keep up
the good work of healing and get your 2 cents back in the
Sandstorm and Facebook!! :0 We miss you!!
Re: Reunions
Look forward to seeing the dates and plans for all of the
classes who will be celebrating their 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65
and 70 years this year, in the Sandstorm and Club 40! Get
those plans made!!!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco Relaxing today at
home and visiting with friends and family via phone!!
Christmas decorations down and now the tree as soon as
my husband's back feels better!
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>>From: Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
Re: Desert Inn Hotel Lobby Table
I have a wonderful birch table I bought at auction from the
Desert Inn hotel in the '60s. The table is ornate, heavy,
6 sided, 6 legs, 36 in across and 30 in high and has a
wonderful hand carved 6" apron of grape clusters and leaves
around the table under the top. The table was in their lobby
until the hotel sold and was torn down. We sold the farm in
September and moved back to Richland in November so I am
downsizing. If anyone wants a piece of Richland history You
are welcome to it.
-Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
Happy New Year to all the Alumni in Bomberland. Hope the
coming year is the best ever and that health and happiness
come your way. We are already planning a trip to Reno with
family and friends on spring break and I have Beta Sigma Phil
conventions booked in Reno in May and Yakima in July!! Busy
times, just like I like it!!
Well, off to the casino tonight for a party with friends, Sir
Mixalot playing for free in the banquet room. And I may win a
few dollars as well... *LOL*
Take care all,
-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ in sunny Lincoln City, OR
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Last night (12/30/18) Lance ('60) and I celebrated our 52
anniversary with our daughter, Christy Jenkins (NAB), son-in-
law, Allen Jenkins (NAB), grandson, Cameron Jenkins ('16),
and granddaughter, Sydney Jenkins ('19) with dinner at the
Outback in Kennewick because Lance wanted their ribs. It was
a great meal and wonderful service and we all had a great
time.
When we were married at West Side church by Rev. Homer
Goddard in 1966 the cost of our wedding was about the same as
the bill for our celebration dinner last night!
We will be home on New Year's Eve as usual these days
watching the ball drop at midnight and up early New Year's
Day to watch the Rose Parade. Lance will be working at Horn
Rapids golf course so I'll be hunkered down to watch the Rose
Bowl and trading insults with my Rabid Dawg brother, John ('67)
over the Husky vs. Buckeye match up. He and his wife, Elaine
ROBERTS ('67) were going to attend the Rose Bowl game this
year, but when they figured the cost including travel they
decided to watch it on TV at their cabin in the mountains of
Arizona.
This will be a classic game in a classic bowl like was before
all of the changes. The Big 10 vs. the Pac 12 (or 8 or 10)
was always the Rose Bowl and all of my family gathered around
to watch it.
Go Buckeyes!
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in Richland
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>>From: Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
rE: celebrating 55 years
Happy New Year Bombers!!
To: The Class of '64
I hope I know where you will be 9 months and 13 days from
today!! Celebrating 55 years since graduation, with your
classmates, who know what you are talking about when you
say," I used to chase the mosquito truck." Good times.
Our reunion will be held at The Courtyard by Marriott at
Columbia Point in Richland. The dates are September 13-14,
2019.
For those attending the reunion who want to stay, "on site,"
you will be given special rates. A sunset view is $129.00 for
a king or 2 queens. I was thinking that was a very good rate
for a water view, but alas, sunset view means parking lot.
That's still a good rate though. :) The river view rate is
$149.00 for a King or 2 queens.
I hope to see you in September.
-Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
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>>From: Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
A teenager at church this week had on a T-shirt in glorious
green and gold with Richland High School Choir on the front.
I was in choir and small groups my three years at school and
got nothin'. Well, thanks and occasional applause. Certainly
not a T-shirt. My son graduated in '90 (Pasco) and LETTERED
in music. Still, back in the '60s, nothin'. It's nice to be
recognized for clubs and achievements that aren't sports.
(And Title 9 happened after I left school.) And good for that
kid in his choir T-shirt. I have my memories.
-Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: New Years from the past
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190101_00.htm
Searched for New Years Eve photos, not much luck.
2247 is party that looks like its a bit out of control in a
couple of places. I believe the party was in the VFW.
13543 are photos inside the old 700 Area Steam Plant. These
photos are dated 12/23 and it looks like the whistle was
blown the end of day shift or beginning.
Happy New Year. Remember Make Life
Last Put Safety First. By the by does anyone know people who
worked at the airport?
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/02/19
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Lori SIMPSON ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary RALSTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PIIPPO ('70)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
To: Bob Carlson AKA Mike CLOWES ('54)
Notre Dame simply proved what I felt all along. They didn't
deserve to be in the top four because they weren't that good.
To: Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
I still have my music Letterman's sweater from 1953. I didn't
know that was stopped. Of course one had to buy it.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Reflection
Have you seen the movie, "Vice"? Rudyard Kipling must have.
He said, "How smoothly and how swiftly they have sidled back
to power by the favour and contrivance of their kind."
Here is some solace for those of a certain age:
"I have the sunshine still and the plants and my birds
and they'll all last my time." -Nicolas Freeling
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
To: Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
Irene, I also have great memories from Choir in Church, RLC,
and Chrous at Col-Hi with you and many others. Hope all is
well with you and yours,
-Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/03/19
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Earl BENNETT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tobe ROBERTS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Rose Bowl
What a shame! Washington out-played Ohio Sate in every
statistic except the score. Another case when Ohio State
didn't win the game, their opponent lost it.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Kennewick where it is a chilly 28°
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>>From: Earl BENNETT (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Leoma COLES ('63) in 1/1/19 Alumni Sandstorm
Love your Beta Sigma PHIL - I actually took two years of
modern Greek while stationed on Crete from '66 to '69. If I
remember correctly from '65 (might have been '64), Beta Sigma
Phi may have been the sorority at WSU (or were you talking
about conventions of a social service organization?)
where I volunteered to a classmate, with whom I was mildly
infatuated, to build a rounded canopy over their front door
for one of their balls - possibly Homecoming, I recall it
was uncomfortably cold. It didn't work out as I hoped, and
I didn't like her much afterward (her attitude during the
building process revealed that she was pretty much just using
me), but the canopy was pretty good since I had learned a lot
from Dad and Grandpa. She may have learned a little something
from the experience, as she was nicer toward me after I
responded to one of her snide comments near the end of the
project with: "I could just come down from this ladder and
leave." Gaylor BOLTON ('63-RIP) and I were both living
in Stimson Hall, not the slightest bit interested in the
fraternity lifestyle and culture. We were pretty close for
the three semesters I was there, and he worked with me
on that project - I believe he was interested in another
freshman girl at that sorority, and received roughly the
same attitude as I did.
Regards, ecb3 - from unseasonably warm (69°) central Virginia
on a happy New Year's Day after pork, sauerkraut,
applesauce, whipped potatoes, and apple and peach pies
at our daughter Kristina's (NAB) and family.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/04/19
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Ginger BAIRD ('82)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula Jill LYONS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria KENNEDY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda HANSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen HORNE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nina BERLAND ('69)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Steve BOCK & Suzi O?MALLEY ('67)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
To: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Rose Bowl
The only thing that counts in football is the final score.
The Buckeyes beat the Huskies 28 to 23 and received the Rose
Bowl Trophy.
End of story!
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in warming Richland (this
morning we were warmer than Mesa, AZ)
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>>From: Ginger BAIRD Wireman ('82)
To: Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
I'd love to get the birch table from you. Please call or text
me at 509-528-9377 and I'll arrange for pickup.
To: All
I really enjoy popping in and reading the Alumni Sandstorm
periodically. I was going to attempt the fake Spudnut recipe
but was too lazy to convert it to a family sized recipe!!
I work for the WA State Dept. of Ecology Nuclear Waste
Program (we are one of the cleanup regulators in the Tri-
Party Agreement). I am an education and outreach coordinator
and would love your help. I'm developing a curriculum unit we
can make available to teachers. We'd like to build it around
a graphic novel (comic book) that explores Hanford from 1942-
to today, and also long term stewardship.
To make it more interesting I'd like to include profiles of
people who lived here over the years so students can get a
better sense of growing up here, working on site, the
culture, science, etc.
If any of you know of interesting stories from being an
intern, or maybe a secretary who knew a lot but had to keep
it secret? I once heard a story of some guy who stole a rad
contaminated A/C and his house had to be demolished after he
installed it... Stories like that would be great to include if
there were actual citations or first hand accounts. Pointing
me back to specific Sandstorm entries would be a huge help,
but I will continue reading through back issues.
Because we're targeting middle and high school the weirder or
more unique the stories the better. As you may have noticed
with your grandkids, it's hard to keep kids' attention these
days! Though in addition to the physical comic, I will likely
have some sort of online, linked interactive materials.
Also, any thoughts on race relations and gender equality on
site would be welcome. If it's to meet proper social studies
standards, the good, bad, and ugly truth should be explored.
I prefer to link to first hand stories and 'primary
documents' that students can read and create their own
opinions. (Unfortunately, these issues are still a problem. I
had a female engineer friend in her 50s who left the Waste
Treatment Plant project a few years ago because of harassment
by the men - not of a sexual nature - but sexist/misogynist
BS. This was before 'Me Too', but I was surprised and somehow
assumed it would be a more professional atmosphere.)
Lastly, I have searched and searched - including the photo
archives at East Benton County Historical Society - and
cannot find photos of the Columbia River prior to the McNary
pool filling (other than the '48 flood). I would love to see
pics of the river from Howard Amon Park or other views of the
river in the natural channel.
Anyway, if you have anything you think would great
to include, please email me
Thanks in Advance (or as the kids would say TIA, took me
forever to figure that one out!)
Happy 2019
-Ginger BAIRD Wireman ('82)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
Re: D.I. Table
Before someone stops by to collect your cool table I'd like
to see it in person. Not very often something like this
surfaces. As you know I have a keen interest in history so if
you are comfortable with the idea of me stopping by you can
contact me at hanfordengineerworks@juno.com.
To: All Bombers
Photos from the 700 Area. Happy viewing.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190104_00.htm
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/05/19
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Carol CARSON ('60)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCLELLAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Louise HARTCORN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam EHINGER ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Thanks to Don Sorenson (NAB), we got to see all the
modern office technology that was abundant in the 700 Area.
Really makes one wonder how they did it all and not a laptop
in sight.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190104_00.htm
Oh well, that's all in the past. What is in the present is a
Bomber birthday of a fellow classmate. Think I could get a +
mark from Miss Brown for that transition?
Well, any way this guy currently resides in the "Duke" City
(Albuquerque) which isn't too bad unless there's a whole
bunch of snow on the ground.
So, a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!"
to Roger McCLELLAN ('54) on this occasion. Hope to see you at
the 65th.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the snow level keeps bouncing up and down but not to
the valley floor (lately)
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: General MATTIS ('68)
Thought this article by Newt Gingrich was a glowing tribute
to our own Jim MATTIS ('68):
General Jim Mattis: An American Patriot
General Jim Mattis has served his country for his
entire life. He is one of the most important and
respected military leaders of the last half-century.
He also has the distinction of being the only person
I know who has been fired by both Presidents Obama
and Trump. In both cases, it was to the admin-
istration's - and the country's - detriment. However,
in both cases, General Mattis also knew his duty
was to the United States. That made him feel com-
fortable in disagreeing with his commander in chief.
I first knew General Mattis during the Iraq war
under President George W. Bush, when Mattis was
part of the Marine detachment in Kuwait. I was
immediately impressed. I later watched him
continually adjust and adapt in the battle of
Fallujah, which led him to a decisive victory.
His 44-year career as a Marine, which began when
he enlisted in 1969 at age 18, has been stunning.
He led Marine forces on the ground in some of the
most dangerous places on the planet - including
Iraq in 1991 and 2003 and Afghanistan in 2001.
His success eventually led him to become the
Commander of all Marine Forces in the Middle East
and later the Commander of U.S. Joint Forces
Command, NATO's Supreme Allied Command for
Transformation, and U.S. Central Command. His
non-combat service for the Department of Defense
has been equally impressive.
I have greatly enjoyed and deeply appreciated
working with him as he has served as U.S.
Secretary of Defense. Few people alive today have
embodied valor, courage, and sheer patriotism
that matches General Jim Mattis.
One of my fondest memories with General Mattis
was drinking wine and talking with him for a few
hours after a meeting with then-Senate Armed
Services Committee Chairman John McCain. When I
told Mattis about my grandson's fascination with
Waterloo, he told me that he had never fully
understood the conflict until he had read the
Sharpe novel series by Bernard Cornwell about a
British officer fighting in the Napoleonic Wars,
which I passed on to my grandson.
I have come to know General Mattis as a
remarkable intellectual - and perhaps the best-
read officer the Marine Corps has ever produced.
The respect for him at the Department of Defense
is tremendous. The respect he has garnered around
the world - from both our allies and enemies is
breathtaking. Anyone who questions his patriotism
or service is simply wrong.
General Jim Mattis is an American patriot. We
should all be deeply thankful for the lifetime of
service he has devoted to our country - and
saddened that his service as Secretary of Defense
has come to an end.
Your Friend, Newt
_Submitted by Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
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[Not sure where this picture was taken, but I love it.-Maren]
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/00/190105_Def_Scty_Mattis.jpg
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Ginger BAIRD Wireman ('82)
I once heard a story of some guy who stole a rad contaminated
A/C and his house had to be demolished after he installed
it... Story sounds good but not likely.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190105_Burial_Gardens.jpg
However this is true. Years ago during an interview of a
former Manhattan Project Chemist who worked in 222-T process
support laboratory told me a story about a patrolman who
brought contaminated pipe from a waste trench home. Now you
might wonder why? Pipe from a "hot" waste trench? He should
have known better. Truth is he didn't know. Words radiation,
contamination, were not part of Hanford speak, few people
did. So back to the patrolman, the trench he found the pipe
in looked harmless enough the sign said "Danger Area" however
it looked safe enough so in he went. As you can guess Danger
Area meant contamination and dose rates existed in the
trench. Normally operations covered that type of waste with
dirt to prevent contamination spreads and reduce exposure.
His theft was discovered the next time he used a hand counter
when exiting a Danger Zone. One of many I've heard over the
years, pink men's underwear, "hot" foot Marge, alligator
theft, a few favorites. The Sandstorm has a plethora of
stories just like them.
I'll go looking for some photos of the Columbia prior to the
dams.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
P.S. Are you related to Alma Baird?
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/06/19
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Betti AVANT ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lora HOMME ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia REDISKE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allyson SMITH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig WALTON ('75)
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>> From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: General MATTIS ('68)
First, I want to say that I, also, hold the deepest respect
for General Jim MATTIS ('68), and am proud to know that he
was a Richland Bomber graduate.
Re: Some stories from historical or hysterical Richland
I heard this story from a friend whose dad worked in the
areas. Apparently it was not unusual for workers to walk off
at quitting time with a tool from the area in their tool box.
When someone did, accidently or not, when he went through the
check gate the next day to go to work he set off an alarm and
they found a hot tool. How he got off the premise, I don't
know but apparently when he went back, it was found. It seems
like it might be pretty hard to do that, but I don't know.
My brother ('61) asked me if I ever ran after one of the area
busses that was picking up or letting off area workers and
held onto the rear bumper to slide on the soles of my shoes
when there was ice on the road in the winter. I'd never admit
to that, but I did watch a number of kids I knew doing that.
That was almost as bad as riding your bike in the summer
behind the DDT sprayer jeeps.
I think I was either still in Jefferson school or at Chief
Joseph when I heard this. Apparently someone in a small plane
accidently crossed over into the Hanford restricted area and
military planes from Moses Lake were there in a jiffy and
forced it to land which was met by the area's "gendarmes".
Maybe someone that was with the CAP could confirm that one.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>> From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Everyone is invited to the All Bomber lunch, Saturday
12Jan2019. The place to be is Sterlings on Queensgate at
11:30. Come join us for some great food, drink, and
conversation.
-Betti AVANT ('69)
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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>> From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: 700 AREA and sheep
Photos of 700 Area workers and of what looks like F F A
students. A Bomber a couple of months ago mentioned a
purchase of animals for a school project, these might be
related.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/07/19
6 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63), Anita FRAVALA ('73)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol DuBOIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SCHAUER ('84)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Referring to Don Sorenson's entry yesterday (Jan 5th), and
the photos of high school age guys with sheep: I was a Col-Hi
ag student when the program started in 1950. We had a school
farm roughly where Hanford HI and the WSU campus are now
located. And we did have a flock of sheep, provided to us by
AEC or a contractor, I'd guess. They had sheep out in the
area complex, and we had a healthy control flock on the
school farm. What they did with the sheep in the "area"
wasn't known to us - radiation exposure testing??? - but from
time to time they would take samples from our "flock" - wool,
blood etc. for comparison, I guess.
As an aside: I live just east of Hanford High, see some
of the students from time to time, and tell them that the
Richland Hi (Col-Hi) ag farm was where their school is now
located, built on top of Col-Hi manure. [happy face? emoji]
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in unseasonably warm Richland (low 50s today)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
The last two pictures of your latest set were, indeed, taken
at the Ag Farm. I recognized the steam plant and barracks at
the south end of North Richland in the first pic.
Also, from that pic, I recognized in the front row from the
left Jerry MYERS ('54-rip) and next to him maybe Dave KOEPPEN
('54). Pretty sure the tall dude wearing glasses in the
middle of the back row is Roger McCLELLAN ('54). According
to the '52 Columbian, they were members of the F.F.A. at the
time and were know to have frequented the Ag Farm.
Sorry, Maren, I didn't copy down the file numbers or whatever
to identify the pictures.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the wind has subsided and the rain continues with snow
in the mountains.
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
At Last .. I found someone who was at the Dutch Harbor, AK
NYE display. And she shot a video of essentially all of the
display... and I have a copy.
I have not had much time to do much with it as was having
doctor look at my right leg where I hit in a bad fall. A real
"crash and burn" type fall right on my hip point on a large
rock under an inch of ice. Now that the NYE display at Dutch
Harbor is over till J-4 I am off island and in Anchorage
house. So I can have it looked at.
So kind of long story short, We will upload the NYE display
to YouTube some time today. Unfortunately it is my birthday
and that is a big thing with my wife. I may age but I refuse
grow old.
I spend more time looking at my "bucket list" figuring what I
want to do before I have to kick it. However some time today
I think we can get it uploaded to YouTube Probably under.
"DUTNYE18" all caps. I will get a note off to Maren as soon
as it is loaded.
Keep in mind the lady who took this video was about 3/4 mile
across the harbor. Some of the colors are washed out. But
the whole display was there. Most displays like this use
shells to 6 inch in diameter. We had near 100/6in, 14/8in,
2/10in, and 4/12in. We had a couple of a interesting shells.
8 in. Fired out over the water it is 2 parachutes holding a
chain between them with a waterfall from the chain. So if you
see the knot of fire in the sky and watch the chain does
spread and the falls do drop from it for a short period.
Chuck LOLLIS ('64) was my invaluable assistant and I would
have been hard pressed to get it done without him. The
weather was about as nasty as ever, 2 blizzards, one near
white out. Rain and freezing temps.
In my "after show" conference with city officials they were
delighted with the display. And they hinted that I might get
a permanent 50' trailer where we could leave the mortars set
up. A lot of technical thinking coming up on that just in 2
days I have 12 pages of notes. The concept is simple... the
probable finale details are not.
My computer did a complete white out on me when I turned it
on the first day at DUT {Dutch Harbor, AK]. So it is off to
the shop as soon as I get to SeaTac.
My iPad is OK as I have a key board case it sits in. Unfold
and turn on. But It is compact and not what I am used to.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ 77 today... gads
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
In reply to the bad things we did like hooking onto a car
for a ride on ice I never did that but I did run after the
DDT spray truck in the summer.
It's a wonder so many of us over 70 are still around who did
that.
Well, here we are speeding into 2019 already!! Seems as I
grow older, the years go by faster; just got the Christmas
decorations put away, and we'll soon be getting them down!!
I've been able to reconnect with so many Bombers here in the
Sandstorm and on Facebook. REALLY FUN, mostly we pass around
photos of our grandchildren!!
I'm enjoying watching these English reruns on PBS tonight!!
Don't know why, but they fascinate me!!
A Late Hapoy New Year's wish to all Bombers!!
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana where we're having a very mild winter. Much
easier to get around in 60° weather and rain, than ice
and snow.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
We kept the sheep at the school owned 120 acre "Ag Farm".
Helped with the lambing chores too. Stayed up all night and
took care of the little critters and their moms.
FFA Regards,,
Pitts
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: General MATTIS ('68)
After reading Gingrich's article about our hometown General,
I have to point out it was inaccurate. General MATTIS was NOT
fired by Trump. General MATTIS RESIGNED (read his resignation
letter which has been publicly published).
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
"Inadvertent" travel of items in lunch boxes are humorous
and plentiful. One that comes to mind, while waiting for the
swing shift bus Clair Underwood, 234-5 worker, told the story
of a young girl who was walking towards her dad and yelling
something at him, the first two attempts trailed off until
she got closer "mom said don't forget the green tape". For
some reason I'd bet he didn't deliver. One worker had a habit
of putting tools inside another's lunch box, then retrieving
them after boarding the bus. Beginning in the late '40s
portal monitors were installed in badge houses in response
to a security test conducted by the A E C, it was in all the
papers. I would bet it was one of those monitors discovered
the tool. How "hot" for detection isn't shared, but I'd bet
the tools weren't just contaminated. Because of that a team
of radiation monitors would have been dispatched to the
workers house, an unnerving experience. A E C security
maintained surveillance of Hanford air space using two
modified Super Piper Cubs. Radar, near Othello, supported the
A E C and Larson AFB. How many scrambled aircraft responded
to Hanford who knows? Security always played those incidents
close to the vest. For those that did occur I'm betting they
were directed to the Richland Airport. I've included two
photos,W. E. "Gene" McKay, A E C pilot circa 1954 and
Richland Airport (AEC Airport actually) with two F-101 Voodoo
fighters.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190107_Follow_Me.jpg
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190107-AEC_Airport.jpg
[Note the HUGE Air Force plane in the background
of the AEC Airport picture. -Maren]
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/08/19
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Allan AVERY ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Paul WEBSTER ('56), John FLETCHER ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kath CARLSON ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SINCLAIR ('77)
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>>From: Allan AVERY ('54)
Re: Dangerous Things We Did As Kids in Early Hanford/Richland
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Monday Jan 7
Oh Yeah, running after the DDT Spay truck, in the cloud of
stray. We did that eight years before you, too. Till our
parents discovered it and slammed the door on it. Who knows
if the DDT contributed to my present sorry mental state.:)
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/DDTtruck.html
Another thing I and my buddies got away with a little longer
(because Mom and Dad both worked) was "explosions." Probably
against my better judgement, I'll explain. Back then, you
could order quantities of chemicals by mail; neither age nor
anything else was asked. And maybe around the sixth grade I
learned which ones (No list here) made a simple explosive
mixture. Gun Powder. What fun! Roll it up in a half inch
(better yet, full inch) diameter cardboard tube; make a fuse,
and take it out to the front sidewalk. Stand Way Back, and
BOOOM!! Up and down the street, folks popping out their pre-
fab front doors looking for what happened. On one occasion,
one un-named buddy was too close, and went home with a burned
arm. That may be what led to immediate halt; I don't remember
for sure. But do not try this at home. Or anywhere else, at
the obvious risk in today's world. Actually I think we all
learned rather soon about required responsibility; and many
want on to truly illustrious lives and careers, of many
kinds. (I note mention in this same Alumni Issue of my '54
Classmate Roger McCLELLAN, who became a renowned Biological
Environmental scientist. Becides the DDT and Radioactive
Iodine in the air - (my Personal Exposure Estimate was
benign, as most of us kids' was) - there was some other
"fragrance" there that gave us collectively a unique growing-
up experience. Seems to continue to this day.
-Allan AVERY ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Not sure if the following tale happened at Hanford. As the
story goes, a worker would, on occasion, go through the
security gate pushing a wheelbarrow full of straw. The guards
would carefully search the straw and the wheelbarrow for
whatever. This happened over a period of months. One day,
at a local "watering" hole, a guard and the worker happened
to meet. After several adult beverages, the guard told the
worker that the guard force knew he was stealing something,
but they were puzzled as to what. The worker told the guard
that it was all over with and the guard force shouldn't worry
about it.
The guard said if it was all over with, why won't you tell me
what it was?
The worker replied, with due modesty, wheelbarrows.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
there is no shortage of wheelbarrows.
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>>From: Paul WEBSTER ('56)
Re: Women's Dorm (W-2)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Your mention of the men and women's dormitories brought back
memories of my earliest years in Richland. I don't remember
the construction of the men or women's dormitories as my mom
and I were living in Walla Walla while our house was under
construction. That said, I can't ever remember the dorms
not being there. In fact I spend many, if not most, of my
weekends with my grandmother in the old Women's Dormitory
(W-2). I am not sure how her room window mysteriously was
open for me to gain ingress or egress but I do remember that
all the first floor rooms were supposed to be nailed to
prevent entry. The little things that struck me as different
at the time were the buses that showed up on the weekend for
couples (I still wonder where those mystery buses dropped off
their human cargo for the evening) and the monitoring that
was required to keep the men out of the women's dorm rooms.
As I remember my bathroom breaks required a team effort by
the women to sneak me in and out. The men, on the other hand,
were only allowed in the front greeting area and the women
had to meet them there. It required a monitor to relay the
request to meet the male visitor in the lobby and also
monitor their behavior during the visit. My grandmother's
dorm was in back of the (HEW) cafeteria. Eating there seemed
to be the highlight of my weekend. This building was later
"The Mart" which housed and eventually was sold to Economy
Drugs. Later name changed to Payless Drug Store. I also
recall that there was a jewelry store located in the front of
"The Mart" and I believe it was McVickers Jewelry but that is
fuzzy. I think eventually they moved to UpTown Richland which
makes believe it was McVicker's.
What have I learned from this trip down memory lane? The guy
in the mirror, who penciled this, has gotten really old.
-F. Paul WEBSTER ('56)
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>>From: John FLETCHER ('64)
Re: Hanford Bibliography
Last year Jo MILES ('64) kindly sent in a list of Hanford
books. I have one good one to add: Chasing Heisenberg, The
Race for the Atom Bomb by Michael Joseloff. This concerns the
German physicists in competition with the Manhattan Project.
Of note is the concise history of the making of the 'bomb'
that is the core of the story. This book is 'free' to
download if you have Amazon Prime and I think only $2.99 if
you have to purchase it. It's a quick read at 148 pages and
most engrossing.
I appreciate Don Sorenson's (NAB) postings and historic
photos. I hope to get up in the attic and retrieve my Mom's
photos. She was an RN at Hanford for many of her years in
Richland. Dad was a steamfitter at Hanford. I recall the
wire basket with empty urine sample bottles on our front
porch that appeared occasionally. They would disappear by
the following morning.
-John FLETCHER ('64),
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Dear Diane,
It was called hookybobbing; I'm not sure why. Maybe it was
called something else other places, other times, but around
Jason Lee in the late fifties and early sixties we called it
hookybobbing. We'd stand casually off to the side of the
intersection of Sandford and Torbett, some snowpacked
evening, and wait for an unsuspecting driver to come to a
stop there at the Torbett stop sign. Then one or two of us
would slink quickly out around behind the car and crouch
down, hanging onto the bumper, and slide down the street
behind the car when it took off.
A half block ride was considered a pretty good one. And if
the car got going more than, say, 15 or 20 mph, you'd let go
and slide to a stop, because if you hit a spot where the snow
was melted you could get hurt. If the car stopped and the
driver got out, you'd let go and run off down the street into
the darkness, because if the driver was some high school guy
you could get your face rubbed in the dirty curbsnow. Brian
JOHNSON ('65), has a small scar between his nose and left
eyebrow from when, in 7th grade, he ran into one of those
angle-iron clothesline poles in the backyard right there on
the corner of Sandford and Torbett, when we were running from
one of the cars that stopped. The rest of us ran under the
iron bar, but Brian was much taller and bonked his head. And
I mean HARD.
You could get hurt hookybobbing. I'll never do it again.
TDK 65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: Last Installment of 700 area photos
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/09/19
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Floyd MELTON ('57), Steve CARSON ('58)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65), Clif EDWARDS ('68)
Brad WEAR ('71), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan ECKERT ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John TAYLOR ('63wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pearl DROTTS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole FATUR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FUNDERBURG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam HUNT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lee BUSH ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edna SMYTH ('71wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Joe and Kristi MAGULA ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stefan SCHERPEREL ('97)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Men's and Women's Sorms
I refrain from discussion of the women's dorms for fear of
retribution, We lived across the way on Douglass. Now for
the men's dorms I delivered the Spokesman Review there as
well as on Column, Douglass and Duane now Goethals. I had
difficulty collecting at times from the men in the dorms but
when I pounded on their door early in the morning and woke up
their neighbors and their neighbors got on their case I had
no more trouble. The word got around and customers would pin
their monthly payment on their door. Made for easy collecting
and peace for everyone, HA.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Very interesting edition today [1/8/19]. Seems to clearly
demonstrate how good our LONG TERM MEMORIES are intact????
[Four question marks = two happy face icons
that do NOT show up in the plain text Alumni
Sandstorm. -Maren]
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Hanford Bibliographies
To: John FLETCHER ('64)
I don't know what was on Jo MILES' ('64) list of books about
Hanford that you mentioned in yesterday's Sandstorm, but I am
just finishing one that might not have been included, in hat
it was published just last year. It's called "Nowhere to
Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943". It is
the first of a planned trilogy about Hanford from WSU Press.
As the subtitle indicates, this book is about the peoples who
settled the Hanford area prior to the coming of the Manhattan
Project. It offers an intimate look, beginning with Native
Americans and continuing up to the Great Depression-driven
immigrants who settled the area and made it an oasis of
fruit orchards we would marvel at today. It also extensively
discusses the tragedy of these people being forced from their
homes with 30 days' notice, and how some of them fought the
government for proper compensation for their lost properties.
Numerous pictures are included, and there are oral interviews
with Hanford and White Bluffs survivors at the back of the
book. Revealing and recommended.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Don Sorenson's (NAB) last entry for 700 Area
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190108_00.htm
Re: Picture of Mrs. Wise
The lady standing is Mrs. Jeanice Wise, mom of Darla WISE
Kennedy ('60) and Nester WISE ('63) and my neighbor from
Elm Street.
Have enjoyed all the pictures that Don finds for us to look
at and bring back memories. Hope he keeps finding more and
more of them.
Also have enjoyed all the posts about "hooky-bobbing" and the
mosquito truck escapades---am pretty sure all of us "from
back in the day" ran behind those trucks---it's a wonder we
are "alive and kicking"---couldn't have been very healthy OR
safe running in that "fog", only one benefit that I can think
of, mosquitoes dont seem to like me at all.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: Hookybobbing
Read with great interest Terry DAVIS Knox' ('65) entry about
"hookybobbing". Remember Sanford and Torbett corner well...
good hunting. Remember a guy catching a ride on the back of
Fred MELLING's ('57) blue '53 Ford, for a ride almost to
Chief Jo. Also had another occasion to see three other
"bobbers" get a ride home from one of Richland's finest.
Terry ended his tale with a "never again"... don't believe
that for a second.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
Re: Private planes and the areas
I remember a friend of our family from around Willowa Lake in
Oregon had a small - very small - plane. He flew up to visit
my folks one summer, and asked me if I would like to go for a
flight with him. Me, being an average (?) junior high aged
boy, jumped at the chance to go on an adventure in a "private
plane." He had landed at the little private air strip that
was off of Jadwin and the by-pass. I hope I have the area
right.
The take off was routine and we spent probably an hour or so
flying around Richland, Pasco & Kennewick. We "buzzed" my
dad's foursome on the golf course, and decided to head back.
Jerry, the pilot, must have been a little confused because
somehow we landed on one of Hanford's small strips. There
was a small building with a hanger, but that wasn't what
caught our attention. As we taxied up to the building, there
were at least six guys (police?) walking towards us with
guns drawn. They motioned for Jerry to shut the plane down
immediately! Jerry said "Oh, crap (edited) I landed at the
wrong field!" The men surrounded the plane, took Jerry into
the building, and told me to sit tight. Of course I did; it
took about an hour until Jerry came back, escorted by the
police, guns in hand. They came to my side of the plane and
told me that we had "violated the air and boundaries of
Hanford" and under no circumstances were we to talk about the
incident to anybody -ANYBODY - at all. My dad worked at the
areas, they had all of his information from Jerry. We were
allowed to take off and fly to the strip we started from.
Jerry was visibly shaken. He told me the guys were "very
serious" about us wandering onto Hanford's space. There would
be a report sent to the FFA (?) on his record.
I was so scared, I was shaking when I got to talk to my dad.
He was so concerned about his job he made several phone calls
and was less worried after that.
Pretty weird, now, how anything then could rattle the roots
of our very existence.
We did not see any other aircraft in the area, maybe because
we were flying so low. The guys with guns shook us up enough,
we didn't need any aircraft after us.
-Clif EDWARDS ('68) ~ from sunny but cool Apache Junction, AZ
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthdays
Happy Birthday to Joe MAGULA ('71) so that means a Happy
Birthday to his twin sister Kristi ('71) as well. Hope the
both of you have a great day!!!!
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in Plano, TX where it was 74 today!!!!!
But the duck hunting sucks.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Yes, I've heard that tale before. A similar story involved a
worker from West Area's sheet metal shop. I don't know how
the person did it but they made a really cool canopy for a
pick-up in that shop. Unfortunately, for the worker and good
for the tax payers, the Patrolman realized the pick-up didn't
have a canopy when coming to work. 'Nuff said.
To: John FLETCHER ('64)
About 15 years ago I spoke with Michael Joseloff about
Hanford History, interesting fellow. Didn't realize he
published a book about German physicist. I'd like to see
those photos of your mother's. Was she in the construction
camp? When you locate them I'd suggest posting them. I don't
know of anyone who doesn't appreciate photos.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/10/19
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mac QUINLAN ('62), Donna NELSON ('63)
Tedd CADD ('66), Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Brad WEAR ('71), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma CULVERHOUSE ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl FRANKLIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl DeMERS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary BUSH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy STEIN ('71)
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>>From: Mac QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Terry's "never again" comment.
That phrase reminded me of something my dad told me when I
was in Jr. High. He grew up in New York city. He said no one
ever Hookiebobbed, they never even thought about it. But they
often would get a ride behind a city bus on roller skates!
Even as a young kid I don't know if I would have tried
something like that. The roller skates he used had wooden
wheels and when smoke would start coming up from around the
axles, it was time to let go. Anyway, the "never again"
comment came after he hit a manhole cover at about 20 miles
per hour.
-Mac QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Re: DDT Truck
Nope, not all of us road or played behind the mosquito jeep.
My dad knew DDT was dangerous and we couldn't go outside
until the cloud went away although traces were still in the
air. I practically hid under my bed and covered my nose to
try to avoid breathing in the smell. I could hear the jeep
coming if we were outside playing and think all but a few on
the 1400 block of Judson went in.
[Smyth kids all went inside AND helped close
all the windows in our "L" house on Perkins -
- 23 windows including the basement. -Maren]
Hookybobbing was fun and being pulled behind a car on our
toboggan was too but tobogganing down Flattop was even
more... hitting rocks and sagebrush along the way down.
Carmichael Hill was much smoother.
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Women's dorms and memory...
I was doing some research on police reports in old Tri-City
Heralds a while back and ran across a report of a man
arrested wearing a dress trying to get into one of the
women's dorms. I guess he was a little too obvious.
Long term memory? Mine is good for 30 feet.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Re: The first Spokane Bomber Lunch of 2019
DATE: Saturday January, 12th.
WHERE: The Hillside Inn Restaurant
3001 N. Nevada St. in North Spokane
TIMeS: Coffee at 11:30 AM Lunch around 12:00 Noon.
Come and join us for lunch, All Bombers Their families and
friends are welcome, the more the merrier. (this is an all
class gathering, all class years are welcome)
Out of Towners welcome... See You There...
Any Questions or need directions contact me...
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday Girl
I have so much history with this Birthday Girl: Jason Lee,
Chief Jo, Col-Hi, WSU, dated some of her friends, and we're
still friends!!! A big Happy Birthday to Judy STEIN ('71, WSU
'75), and renowned world traveler!!!! Hope you have a great
day.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in Plano, TX where it was 74° a day ago,
but going to be 38° today!!!!
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Books on White Bluffs
To: All Bombers
I'm not much of a book reader, never have been. The last book
I read was "Orchards of Eden: White Bluffs on the Columbia
1907-1943". It's probably been mentioned in other Sandstorm
posts but I'd like to re-mention it here. The book is about
two families who worked hard, by today's standards it would
be considered impossible, to create lives you feel privileged
to read and learn about. Living in tents, helping neighbors,
teenagers paddling a boat from White Bluffs to Portland for
college, cutting ice from the river, venereal disease scandal
and other stories. As I mentioned, I'm not a book reader
however this time was different, I had the most excellent
opportunity to read it to Annette Heriford who was born
and raised in White Bluffs. Annette knew these people and
provided additional insight that made me appreciate them
more. I read "Orchards" to her because the last years of her
life were spent bed ridden, so much that scratching her nose
was about the only thing she could do for herself. We spent
an hour on Sunday afternoons, together, reading to her and me
listening. I received more in those hours than I gave and
I'm so thankful for that experience. I have "No Where to
Remember", still in the wrapper, but not convinced that is
the best title. I would really have to believe those who
lived there might feel the same way, but I'm not them.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim RUSSELL ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kurt JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken FORTUNE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Len PARIS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SMYTH ('73wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob LYSHER ('81)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: History Books of the project before it became an
atomic project
I have 2 copies of "Tales of Richland, White Bluffs & Hanford
1805 - 1943" by Martha Berry Parker and I am willing to part
with one of them for $75.00 to someone in the Tri-Cities. On
Amazon they are $150.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Re: Sacajawea, 3rd Grade, 1945, Christmas Program
[Left picture HUGE so you can see the faces. -Maren]
-Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Just a note to say that in honor of new front and back covers
and new interior formatting for my triple-award-winning
novel, The Rail Queen, I'm offering a reduced ebook price of
$.99 from January 10 to January 15, and a reduced paperback
price of $12 (regularly $16.50) from January 11 through
January 15. If you like adventure, romance, the Old West,
railroads, locomotives, empire building, or strong female
nothing-will-stop-me characters, your book is waiting!
https://www.amazon.com/Rail-Queen-B-J-Scott/dp/1502573229
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Allan AVERY ('54)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Annie PARKER ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HUNT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Earl BENNETT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charles KNOEBER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug STRASSER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim CORREY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCOLLEY ('71)
BOMBER LUNCHES Today:
ALL Bombers,: 11:30, Queensgate Sterlings (2nd Sat)
Spokane Bombers, 11:30, Hillside Inn, North Spokane
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Allan AVERY ('54)
To: Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Hey WSC Frat Bro, Jack! That wonderful, Sacajawea '45
Christmas photo you sent in for the 1/11/19 Sandstorm.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ale/190111-Sacy_Xmas_1945.jpg
Please tell me - and the rest of us - exactly where you are
in that pic? By '45, I and some others who started out at
Sacajawea were relocated up north at Marcus Whitman.
And Jack, my boy, where are you now?
[Allan put a happy face at the end which does
not show in the "plain text" Sandstorm. -Maren]
-Allan AVERY ('54)
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Jack McGEE and Sondra TELFER '60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill WENDLAND ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Luda STAMBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David WILLIAMS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat RUANE ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Sharon and Karen POLK ('76)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
As it used to be reported in "Pogo" many years ago; thank
heavens Friday the 13th happened on a Sunday this month.
And that just happens to coincide with a Bomber Birthday. To
say I knew this guy when might be stretching it a bit. But I
did know him. As rumor has it, we even graduated at the same
ceremony. And it could have been outside, if someone hadn't
been frightened by the appearance of a cloud over Badger.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to
Bill WENDLAND ('54). Keep on having them, and we'll possibly
talk at the big do come this September.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
high pressure seems to be back for a while and fending
off any form of precipitation.
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>>From: Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Hello Alan AVERY ('54)!!
We were not only Frat Bros., but if memory is correct,
roommates after you returned from your grand Mexico City
adventure in late 1950s.
Re: 1945 Sacajawea Christmas Program photo
I'm on the extreme left side, the boy with the shaved head,
as I was in Mrs. Shay's 3rd grade class photo:
http://richlandbombers.1955.tripod.com/55Sac3rd-Shay.html
I'm now living in Gilroy, CA, retired, sometimes writing
books on California Machinery History, available online at
https://www.lulu.com/
Would love to hear more about your Mexico City adventures...
-Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
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>>From: Jack McGEE and Sondra TELFER McGee ('60)
We recently learned of the death of classmate Charles H.
"Chuck" WILEY ('60) who passed on February 13, 2017.
What an interesting life he led. He was a talented visual
artist and musician. He worked for George Lucas on special
effects for Star Wars, Indiana Jones and many other movie
sets. He also was an accomplished musician, playing bass,
guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo for a variety of bands
including the award-winning "Phantoms of the Opry". He was
the beat behind the Old Time Music band, "The Road Oilers,
playing bass and singing with his lovely voice.
RIP buddy!
Jack McGEE and Sondra TELFER McGee ('60)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/14/19
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan BAKER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane ARMSTRONG ('66)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Bomber Spirit
A wonderful thing happened to me during the Bomber-Hanford
game at Richland High School on January 12. I was wearing
green and gold. I always stand up, clap and sing the Bomber
fight song with enthusiasm when cheerleaders perform below
the bleachers where I sit. I had sung three times for the
Bomber girls and once for the boys. It was almost half-time.
Suddenly, several cheerleaders climbed the bleacher stairs to
where I sat. They presented a special T-Shirt rolled neatly
and tied with green and gold ribbons. One cheerleader
explained that I had been selected to receive that night's
honorary "Bomber Spirit" Tee. I'm still ecstatic! The green
T-Shirt features a plane, a mushroom cloud, a big R, and the
heartwarming words, "Bomber Spirit."
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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{AND - For the record - it was Norma who started
alla the "Bomber cheers" you see on many Bomber
communications. Had to be at least 20 years ago...
First time I saw that "Bomber cheers" I LOVED it
and started using it at the end of nearly every
communication between myself and any Bomber.
THANK YOU Norma! -Maren]
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
We woke up to a winter wonderland this morning; our
grandson's baptism was cancelled today as are most church
services around here.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/190114-Snowy_Lake.jpg
Happy Birthday to Luda STAMBAUGH ('65) today. never realized
you were in my brother's class till now. I remember you as
Sheila's ('62) younger sister, when your mom was my Campfire
Girls' leader, if I remember right.
Got all the Christmas stuff up, and we keep removing things
from the family room to keep our grandchildren safe. Now that
over, I want to fly out and see my grandkids in Nevada, as
those kids are growing and changing as fast as the ones here
are.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/190114-G-kids.jpg
Time keeps passing so quickly, 2019 is off and running!!
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in snowy SE Indiana in the house
by the little lake
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch changes
I will post this again a week prior to our February lunch but
am adding it now for a heads' up.
I will also call those of you I have a phone number for who
haven't attended our lunch for a time.
The All Bomber lunch is changing a few things with our
February lunch. It will still be the 2nd Saturday of each
month (9 Feb is the 2nd Saturday). We are returning to
JD Diner in West Richland. At the manager's request we
will be meeting at 11am rather than 11:30. You will need
to use the front entrance as the one on the parking lot
side is now locked and you can't come or go through it.
[Sounds like a FIRE HAZARD not to be able to
exit that door in case of fire. -Maren]
If you have any questions feel free to email me.
Thanks and hope to see you there.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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NO Bomber but Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron RICHARDS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Les TADLOCK ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ronna Jo LYNCH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Clif HOOVER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patty YARGER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FREEMAN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy SCHILDKNECHT ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Roger FISHBACK ('62) & Sandy JONES ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED Today: Wendy CARLBERG ('64-RIP)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Richland Streets 1955
To: All Bombers
It looks like in these photos the rush of village road
construction caught up after 10 years of use. Following this
set will be repair pics, not as many photos in that group.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/16/19
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TRACY ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barry BYRON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary TELFER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean SCHWINBERG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich SNIDER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue FOSTER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lucinda BARR ('69)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: 1955 Richland Streets
Wow that last set of pictures Don sent in were real memory
floggers. That's the Richland I left in '55 not to return to
till 2004.
Thank you, Don. You have proven to be a Great Treasure for
the Sandstorm and to all its minions.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from rain soaked Hanford, CA - fog will
be a real bitch when the temps drop.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: 1955 Richland Roads - last pic
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190115_614-50-E.html
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Don't believe the last picture in your most recent collection
was taken in 1955. I don't think there were any flat roofed
pre-fabs by that year. I am not certain when the pre-fabs got
the peaked roof, but it was a few years before.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather lately has weather guessers in a tizzy as
they have not encountered the current conditions
before. None of them, however, are claiming global
warming as the culprit for our fearless leader has
declared such a thing as "fake news"
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Nevada Grandkids
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/190116_NV_Grandkids.jpg
After a great flight across country with a short plane change
in Denver, I'm being a solo grandma with my 2 grandkids out
here in Gardnerville, Nevada for a few weeks.
Didn't leave the house yesterday, just played with my little
grandson who st almost 4 is talking up a storm.
[Don't ya just LOVE that four year old? -Maren]
Depending on the weather may get over the pass to see some
Sacramento friends for lunch (which we've been doing pretty
much yearly since 1992 when we left Roseville and moved back
to Cincinnati.
Glad my son has his big poodle "Bear", as he slept with me
last night, as my son greeted me with the news there have
been 2 murders of older women living alone in their
neighborhood in the past few days. I have to say I'm glad
I had 75-80 pound "Bear" with me last nigh ass I said my
prayers, and realized I fit that description of being an
"older woman" (age 50-80)??.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ not by the little lake in SE IN, .
but in dry Nevada where they are expecting record snow
soon looks like today looking outside.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Daylight savings time
Wow! I guess nothing much was happening in Bomber land
yesterday, but Don Sorenson (NAB) saved the day and we had
something to read this morning.
Washington state is considering adopting daylight savings
time year round. No more flip flopping our clocks twice a
year. Sounds good plan to me, but why not do like Hawaii and
Arizona and just stick with regular time? After all, as the
years pile up I don't want to waste even one hour!
[WOW! Add one more reason to move back to my
beloved Washington STATE! -Maren]
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in cold, gray Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/17/19
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Marc LEACH ('63)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denis SULLIVAN ('62) '44
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teresa HOLMES ('93)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
At, or near, the end of every year, there is published a list
of celebrities we have lost during that year. No list, only
numbers, of police, firefighters and military men and women
lost during that same year. I have started compiling a list
for 2019 that will be published in some way at the end of the
year. These are people who have given their lives so that we
can continue to enjoy ours. The list of celebrities, for the
most part, have only entertained us, not given their life for
our security. The beginning of the list includes:
Officer Dale Woods
Officer Chateri Payne
Officer Natalie Corona
Sgt Wytasha Carter
Trooper Christpher Lambert
Master Officer Joseph Shinners
Officer Clayton Townsend
When anyone hears of the death of a member of the police,
firefighter, or military, please send their name and rank to
me at the above email address, or post it to me in the
Sandstorm. Thank you!
Bomber Proud Tears
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)
Re: 1955 pictures
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190115_00.htm
Those are some interesting photos of 1955, now we are talking my era.
Re: http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/190117_Easter1949.jpg
Attached is a copy of the whole fam damily standing in front
of our prefab at 1203 Sanford. As you can see the flat roof
is being replaced by a peaked one. By the Sunday duds I'm
guessing this was Easter April 17, 1949.
Re: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190115_14555-B.html
I particularly like the shot of the guy walking away from the
Hanford Area bus. Remember a summer job at Hanford in the 200
area for a month in the summer of '65 riding one of those
with Ray STEIN's ('64) father. He clued me in that you want
to get on early for the shady side as there was no A/C. Very
helpful for the trip home.
Re: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190115_14555-E.html
There is another photo of a rut in the road but showing those
great weeping willow trees common to Richland, probably
chosen for how fast they grew. Climbing one of those when the
wind was howling and being blown around was quite a trip for
a 5yo.
-Marc LEACH ('63)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: 1955 Richland Roads - last pic
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190115_614-50-E.html
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
You're right the last few 614 photos were not '55 but rather
'50 the same year gabled roofs were being put on the pre-
fabs. I need to review my submissions a little closer. As you
know it takes a village, thank you for the help.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Bruce STRAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Missy KEENEY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeannie SHANKS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy O'NEIL ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob DeGRAW ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila DAVIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie MARSHALL ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eric HOLMES ('90)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Don,
You are a gift, Sir. A real gift. To all of us.
Thank you.
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: 1203 Sanford -"Fam Damily" Easter pic
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/190117_Easter1949.jpg
To: Marc LEACH ('63)
Whoa... We lived at 1203 Sanford also!
It would have been around 1956 through 1957. I did
kindergarten and first grade at Spalding while we were
living in the pre-fab. I started second grade at Marcus
Whitman but since we were moving into its district, for a
couple months, I got to walk from 1203 Sanford to Marcus
Whitman. (Five miles, uphill both ways, of course... ) My
brother and younger sister, Douglas ('74) and Marlene ('76)
were born while we living there.
As I recall, the roof was pitched and the exposed crawl-space
in your picture was covered by then. Also, the house was
angled on the property but now has long since been squared
with the street.
Cool...
-Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ "Freezing" in Tempe, AZ at about 50°
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/19/19
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Marc LEACH ('63)
Mike DALE ('66)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon BROOKS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna BOWERS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan LAWSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ARMSTRONG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne WILSON ('81)
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63
Re: 1203 Sanford - The old Homestead
To: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Well Bruce I guess you got to enjoy those willow trees, but
sadly the irrigation ditch was history when you moved in
right on our heels. My school hike from kindergarten to 5th
grade was much easier, a short jog up to Spalding, although
after we moved to 1504 Potter I had to hike back to finish
the year out.
Do you remember the "garbage door" at the back of the house?
Perfect for sneaking out and avoiding raising an alarm.
I too had noticed the house was squared up from its original
slanted position. I could never understand why anyone would
have spent the money to do that. Maybe prefabs were not that
hard to spin.
Here's another shot from '53 or '54 showing the roof project
finished. That's my first cat "Fluffy" on the table, given
to me the summer after kindergarten by Susie SHAVER ('63).
Unfortunately "Fluffy" did not want to move and my Dad
finally gave up on picking him up at the old house and
taking to the new one. Maybe you saw him hanging out.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/190120-1203-Sanford53.jpg
[Cat is IN the bird feeder that is sitting on
the table in the middle of the picture -Maren]
-Marc LEACH ('63
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>>From: Mike DALE ('66)
Re: Tri-City Herald Subscription
Maren, I renewed my subscription to the Tri-City Herald
yesterday and thought I would share my experience. I looked
up Tri-City Herald subscription on Google on my smart
phone. The head line that came up was a 52 week subscription
for $129 for e version and printed delivery to my home.
The problem was I left for AZ for the winter in Oct so
discontinued the paper. Since I didn't want or need the
printed copy I assumed I could call and get a reduced cost
for just the electronic copy. I called and to my surprise
they told me the $129 price was for printed copy and
electronic or just the electronic but to get that price I
needed to provide the promotion code from the offer. I told
her I would have to hang up and retrieve the code. When I
looked up Tri-City Herald subscription again there was an
offer for $88 for 52 weeks for delivered paper as well as
electronic. I still didn't see a promotion code but I was
allowed to subscribe at the $88 for the subscription. I will
have the delivered paper donated to one of the schools. That
is my Tri-City Herald renewal experience.
-Mike DALE ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
Yes, our All Bomber lunch has changed places and time
starting with the February lunch. It will continue to be on
the 2nd Saturday of each month but will move back to JD Diner
at 11:00 AM.
One must use the main entrance door both coming and going as
the side door is for emergencies only. I guess they are
losing money with bill skippers and complaints of costumers
by hot and cold air blowing through it when opened.
Hope to see you there. Saturday 9 February at 11:00. I'll
post another note a week prior to the lunch. Betti Avant,
('69)
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Marlene STRAND ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don RAY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene MANESS ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack ANS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Audrey CHAMBERS ('74)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
The other day, in my junk mail box, I received notification
that I had been "hacked". I was sore tempted to respond by
thanking the hacker for getting me up to speed with all
others who had been hacked. Then common sense set in, and I
deleted the email without opening it. Think it might have
been safer that way.
That event should not dim the fact that today we are
celebrating a Bomber birthday. Now I know this guy, I went to
school with him, saw him around the halls and even graduated
with him. I run into him on those occasions that I make it to
Club 40 events.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!"
goes out to Don RAY ('54). Hang in there and we'll talk it
over at the whoop-de-doo this September.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
"weather events" have returned after a lull.
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH (GMC '63)
Re: David RIVERS ('65)
Sending loving thoughts to our Bomber guy, David RIVERS ('65).
-Jeanie WALSH Williamson (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Simi
Valley, CA Home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library where it's a warm 64°
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: 1964 Columbian
At Bergan's Timeless Treasures in downtown Kennewick,
a 1964 Columbian is currently for sale at $10.
Phone them at 509-302-7022.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Marlene STRAND Brennan ('76)
Re: 1203 Sanford
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Str/190120_00.htm
Hi nostalgia seekers,
Thanks for the photos. Here's a couple more photos of Sanford
house. By the way, was EVERY house gray siding at that time?
-Marlene STRAND Brennan ('76)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/21/19
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Jack ALEXANDER ('55), Tedd CADD ('66)
Brad WEAR ('71), Vicki OWENS ('72)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Claris VAN DUSEN ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony DURAN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judi WILSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leona Mari ECKERT ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janey ZWICKER ('71)
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>>From: Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
Re: Quonset Hut classrooms in 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ale/190121-Quonset_Class.jpg
Anyone remember the Quonset hut classrooms at Sacajawea
Grade School? My 3rd grade class was held in one.
-Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
[John Ball School in North Richland was ALL
Quonset Huts. -Maren
http://richlandbombers.com/0gspicsJBt.html
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Regarding "hacked" (Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)):
I've received no less than 44 of these messages.
Interestingly, each has been an attempt at extortion claiming
to have hacked all my accounts, contacts et al. The threat
is to send photos or videos of me watching pornography via my
computer's camera. They claim to have paired the pornography
with me reacting to the images.
Two problems: I don't go to those sites and I have taped over
the camera.
The extortion is 48 hours and 600 to 800 USD via bitcoin.
I imagine they get some people to pay up since there is so
much of that stuff out there and so many people who are doing
that.
I have to admit that I've been reading some "pornography" -
that is using the source definition: Writing of prostitutes.
The book "Paid For" by Rachel Moran is a very difficult
exposé of the reality of what prostituted women and children
actually experience and how it degrades all women and even
dehumanizes the men who partake. Moran spent some 7 years
being used.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
PS: Out of idle curiosity, I started tracking how
many spam emails I receive on Christmas day in 2011.
As of this moment, I've seen 99,664. The highest
one day total was 596.
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Sacarugu
If you know what that is, then you probably watched all of
the old Tarzan, Johnny Weismueller movies.
Watching the lunar eclipse tonight, that's what I thought of.
Hope Judy STEIN ('71) and Jane BROWN Hedges ('71) saw it from
Egypt.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ from Plano, TX where we're colder than
you are in Richland.
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>>From: Vicki OWENS ('72)
Wow, great question from Marlene STRAND Brennan ('76) on
whether our Richland homes all had gray siding back in "the
day". I thought they were all white, but a quick scan of old
photos shows that those early memories are based on black-
and-white photos, making it hard to tell the difference
between white and gray! The earliest color photos I found for
my birth home, 201 Bernard, and my big brother's birth home,
1506 Stevens, both appear to show tan siding. When we moved
to my "real" childhood home at 639 Birch early in 1958, it's
hard to tell from the photos whether the siding was tan or
white. By 1960 our ranch house was white and stayed that way
for over 40 years!
That brought me to another question. How early do we
remember? Personally I have one or two vague memories from my
earlier home that we left when I was 3-1/2. I don't remember
much, with only a random memory here and there until about
first grade. Second grade is when my memories become clearer.
I googled and learned that research now says that our
earliest memories begin to fade around age 7, a phenomenon
they call "childhood amnesia". That fits with second grade
for most of us, so I suppose I'm normal. It also fits with
why I'd only remember white siding. I look forward to seeing
what those with better memories have to say on siding. And
other topics! That's one of the reasons I love the Alumni
Sandstorm. Thanks for those of you who take the time to write
and share your memories. I love my daily Sandstorm fix.
-Vicki OWENS ('72) ~ Bangkok, Thailand where it's "winter"
and only reached 93 today
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: People and Places
To: All Bombers
I remember Barbara BRODACZYNSKI ('53-RIP) from years ago,
she was in charge of a play. It was about two couples, one
stable the other going thru the initial stages of a pending
separation. Don't remember all details other than that was my
first play, ever since high school, I attended. It was in
the Richland Players Theater as you guessed correctly. What a
wonderful place. You know I heard something interesting, as
all older Bombers know there were two theaters in Richland.
I've been informed by Karen Miles one theater played mostly
films for adults and the other for children. Possible I
suppose but who am I to refute a Bomber who was there?
Several years ago someone made a post about the family who
lived above the theater that is still standing. Who lived
above the theater on George Washington Way?
Re: 1948 Flood
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190121_00.htm
Just for fun I've attached a few photos of the West Richland
bridge over the frozen Yakima River. Interesting story to
follow.
Re: 1948 Flood (already on the Bomber site)
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/22/19
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
Mina Jo GERRY ('68), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deedee WILLOX ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony RHEINSCHMIDT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SCHODT ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul BOEHNING ('85)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sarah AVANT ('94)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY: Randy RHOTEN and Kathryn SANT ('79)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
When the gummint started to expand the village of Richland,
part of the plan was to include two (count 'em 2) movie
theaters. One was built on the south side of the parking
lot for what became C.C. Anderson's emporium. This was the
Richland; which would show the better movies of the day. The
other, built on GWWay just north of the original commercial
buildings and was called the Village. That was where all the
"B" movies and low-budget westerns were shown.
Round about 1951 or '52, a new theater was built on the
southwest corner of the new Uptown shopping center. Surprise,
surprise, it was called the Uptown. A short while after it
opened, it was closed for modifications. When the Uptown
re-opened we got to see the latest in movie gimcrackery:
CinemaScope. So, the Uptown was given to showing all the
wide-screen movies; the Richland got 3-D filums and "Art
House" flicks, and the Village closed and became the venue of
the Richland Players. That event occurred sometime between
1955 and 1958.
By the way, both the Richland and Village theaters were built
to the same Corps of Engineers plan. Probably a medium post
theater.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather is still changing.
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Movie Theaters
I never heard that one of our movie theaters was mostly for
adults, but I guess that could have been the case. I remember
seeing one or two Walt Disney movies about nature at the
Richland Theater (now the Richland Players Theater) and
seeing afternoon movies like Gene Autrey, Tarzan, and Buck
Rogers at the Liberty Theater (on GWWay). I suppose that the
night-time movies at the Liberty could have been adult fare.
I always wondered why we had two theaters so close together.
Maybe because they were within walking distance of the
Quonset huts and dormitories, in case some Hanford workers
didn't have cars. My earliest movie at the Uptown Theater
starred Randolph Scott, with whom I was in love. The Uptown
Theater must have had a pretty good size stage behind the
screen, because my parents had season tickets to an early
version of the Richland Community Concerts there. I remember
their going to see Marian Anderson sing there, and Mom took
me to a ballet of international stars. Still remember most of
their names (4 women, 2 men).
Re: old Neighbors
We lived in a green "F" house at 208 Atkins from March 1949
to about November 1950; Larry MATTINGLY ('60) lived right
around the corner to the south. Mikuleskys (sp?) lived on our
north side. Atkins was only one block long (there may have
been more but cut off), and I used to get lost on the way
home from Lewis and Clark. My first grade teacher was the
fabulous Marie Phillips (hi Fred!), second grade was Mrs.
Scott, and third grade was Louise Fellows in a Quonset hut.
She later became a Home Ec teacher at Chief Jo. From November
1950 to around March 1958 we lived in a "Q" house at 77
McMurray. Fran Rish later bought that house, put a pool in
the back yard, and gave swimming lessons for years, including
to my three kids. The McMurray neighborhood had even more
kids than Atkins did.
Across the street from us on Atkins lived the Andersons
(Peter, Marie, others), Nancy something (I forget her last
name), and the Evans (son Dennis - Mr. Evans was the Ag
teacher), and down the block were the Collins (Anne, Leah,
Punky - I forget her real name). Around the corner from
the south end were the Mannings (Darlene and others) and
Goodenows (Diane? and others). Behind us were the Cowans
(Bernie, Joyce, Annemarie) and Helgesons (Tommy and others).
The neighborhood was full of kids. Nearly every family had
one in my class ('60) and/or my brothers' (Jeff DAWSON ('62),
Gaynor DAWSON ('65)). I have wondered what ever happened to
the Andersons, Evans, and Nancy. Any clues?
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60) ~ Richland where it rained
all day Sunday but cleared up just in time for the
lunar eclipse, and now (Monday) it is frosty but sunny.
P.S. We moved back to Richland in 1978 and raised our kids
(Jeff JANICEK ('88), Jennifer JANICEK Ellison ('90), Joshua
JANICEK ('93)) in a converted "A" house at 1508 Thayer,
originally 1506 and 1508. It is set back from the street and
faces west and is flanked on eather side by "B" houses facing
each other. I heard that Danny KLEPPER ('60-RIP) and Jessie
WILLOUGHBY ('60) each lived in one or the other side of our
"A" house some years earlier. We bought it from the Bennetts
(Hanford High principal?), who converted it from two families
to one. Later we built a home in West Richland, where we have
lived since 1994.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Sacarugu
Within the last year I have watched all the Johnny
Weismueller Tarzan movies and a number of after-Weismueller
Tarzan movies but still did not recognize the word. TCM had a
bunch of them I recorded and pretty much binge-watched them.
I Googled the word and only got two hits, one in Spanish
(which is all Greek to me) and one that was just a list of
jumbled up letters which might have been what I was really
looking for. Then I tried Yahoo and the only thing that came
up was yesterday's Alumni Sandstorm. An unusual word like
that I would probably not remember anyhow, so please
enlighten us.
It seems like there have been a lot of actors who were good
at playing Tarzan, Johnny Weismueller being the best, but
Maureen O'Sullivan was probably the only one, or one of a
few, who was a good Jane. She decided she no longer wanted to
play Jane, so during the WWII films it was just Tarzan and
Boy, but it was explained that Jane was working as a nurse in
London. After the war she didn't want to come back so they
hired a new Jane. In one of them Tarzan, Boy, and Jane are
in their tree-house, Jane is wearing her jungle suit, but
wearing a broach on it. That was not too bad but her hair
looked like she just walked out of a beauty salon. Of course
that has to be the director's fault.
I do wonder, Tarzan first meets Jane and has no knowledge of
human civilization, but he has a knife and knows how to wear
it, how to use it, and obviously how to take care of it.
Also, why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Who taught him to
shave with his knife?
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Spam/Scam
WOW!!! 99,646 spam emails in seven years and 596 in one
day!!! I can't imagine that. Too bad you can't make them
spamers pay you a dollar for each spam they send you. I don't
get much spam anymore, think maybe Charter, now Spectrum, is
good at filtering it out, still do get the occasional one.
I did get what seemed like to me it might be ransomeware
attempt where the computer froze up and they were wanting
money to fix it. Seems to me Maren had a post which sounded
like the same thing happened to her about the same time. I
just restarted the computer and watched for and closed as
soon as I could the last tab I had been working on. Worked
fine after that. They ain't getting no bitcoin from me. I
have heard most times when you pay them off you still don't
get your data back. I do have a portable hard drive but am
behind in backing things up. Back when I had GTE, which
became Verizon, which was taken over by Frontier, I used to
get spam in waves; I would get a bunch trying to sell me
pirated software, then it would stop and they were selling
Viagra, then a bunch something else, then meet local women,
I guess on that last one I could afford it because I have
enough money in Nigeria I would have to send a container
ship to bring it back.
"You can't get a woman with money."
"Try getting one without it."--Paint Your Wagon
Well, Tarzan was able to do it without even knowing what money was.
I am getting various scam attempts on the phone now. My wife
took a call saying we owed the hospital a bill and wanted her
to give bank information. She said, "I am not giving you that
information over the phone. Send me a bill." Told me about
and I figured it was a scam and we would never hear from
them. But we did get the bill and it was semi-legit. It was
a bill I had paid seven months ago. I had disputed that bill,
called the hospital, they said I had to call Insurance co.
Called them, he set up a conference call and in the end he
said the insurance company would pay. Then I got that bill
again and called hospital again and they gave me a reason I
didn't understand so went through the same rigamarole with
the conference call. Shortly after insurance call back and he
said he researched it and a "might" actually owe that bill
because of something about not meeting deductible. Don't see
how that can be with all her medical problems and this bill
was for December 2016. I gave up and wrote them a check.
It was only $30.20 (what is that in a hospital--a box of
Kleenex?). Then seven months later a collection agency comes
calling. I went to the bank and got three copies of my
cancelled check, copied the hospital bill and the collection
agency bill, wrote a letter and mailed copies of each to the
hospital and collection agency. That was Dec 26, 2017. I have
heard nothing from either place. I know I won't get it, but I
think I am owed for the paper, envelopes, printer ink, stamps
and gasoline I used up to get this to them, to say nothing
about the time--even if I am retired my time has value to me.
An apology would be nice, but don't think I will get that
either. What I want most if a statement from both that I am
off their books and that no damage is done to my credit
rating or that it has been corrected. Looks like I am going
to have to contact the three credit agencies and take care of
that myself. I think I prefer the scamers, at least they are
honest about being crooks.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: Far back memories
(inspired by Vicki OWENS' ('72) entry 1/21/19)
My earliest childhood memory is age 1.5 years - the wind was
blowing (not shocking for March in Richland), & the rose
bush my father had planted outside the "B" house window was
scratching on said window, & scaring me. My Daddy had me
all snuggled up, trying to get me to fall asleep. He was
soothingly telling me stories about wind & rose bushes
(GREAT story teller), & making me feel safe. I have LOTS of
"snapshot memories" from ages 2 & 3, but very powerful non-
specific memories of the general sense of life in my family.
I started Kindergarten (Lewis & Clark) at 4, & I have pretty
strong & consistent memories from then on.
We moved to our "F" house when I was 5. It was definitely
gray on the outside, because scraping & painting it fresh,
darker gray on the bottom& white on upper story was a big,
exciting undertaking. (Probably less exciting for Daddy!)
Do any of you remember the interior "GI colors"? Dark brown &
dark green walls. Pretty awful - & took many coats of paint
to cover! Still, for parents like mine - who were dirt poor
coal miners before moving to Richland - owning a home with
two stories and a basement and a yard .. WOW! How truly the
job at Hanford changed the family's life! (I never knew any
different, since I was born in Richland). So they didn't
complain about the colors. Just got to work painting over
them, room by room, as money permitted.
Re: The family over the theater
In response to Don Sorenson's (NAB) question of 1/21/19
That was the Erickson family, I believe. According to what
I've been told by my brother-in-law, Dick BIGGERSTAFF ('58),
there were two sons somewhere close to Dick's age. As I
recall (I could double check details with Dick), both
took their own lives - one by hanging & one by asphyxiation
with a plastic bag. Such sadness and devastation in that
family.
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: House colors
I remember our prefab at 1808 McClellan being gray. It seems
to me that the houses on our block were either gray or a
light brown. When we moved to our ranch house on Cottonwood
in 1956, it was white with dark green trim. Others on the
block were also white or tan with a lighter green, brown or
dark red trim. It wasn't until people started buying houses
in 1958 that colors changed. The Durfee (sp) house a couple
down from us got a coat of pink paint and mom painted
alternating green and white stripes around the front door.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68) ~ Richland where it is 35° at
8:20am but the sun is out!
Sent from my iPad
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: Correction to my 1/21/19 entry
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190121_00.htm
The photos of winter bridge construction its not the West
Richland Bridge. Upon further review its the one in South
Richland, in fact its two. The train trestle and the
replacement bridge. The photos were taken in 1949 and
construction was finished late '50.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Dale ENNOR ('59)
Mary ROSE ('60), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62), Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Brad WEAR ('71)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billie LAWELL ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann McCUE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank STRATTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra HARDING ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt HASKINS ('81)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Dennis, if you can buy the premise of a white man swinging
thru Africa in swim trunks, with a 12 year old boy and a
knock out girl friend, why can't you buy into her having a
beautician, and Tarzan not needing a shave. Just A random
thought.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ in sunshiny lovely day but damn cold at
nights. Hanford. Calif. where I need both.
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: living above the Richland theater
I have vivid recollections of the Richland Theater and the
residents in the upstairs apartment. It was the family of the
manager: Frank Stiles, which included brothers Doug ('57-RIP)
and Dave ('59-RIP). I direct your attention to the obit for
Doug which verifies the fact.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics11/RIP57StilesDoug11.htm
Dave went through Boy Scouts and Explorers with many of us
"southsiders." I recall a 12-day excursion in the Wallowa
mountains with our Explorer post in 1957 with Dave always
happy and singing-he had a great voice. His a cappella
version of "My Prayer" could give the Platters a run for
their money.
The theater on GWWay was quite inexpensive-12¢? The Saturday
movies always seemed to be serials which ended in cliff
hangers, thereby requiring attendance the next Saturday.
The Uptown I remember not for the movies as for the sanctuary
it provided one day in my senior year of high school. Seems
Tom REKONEN ('59-RIP) and I were not in attendance that day
and found ourselves wandering around the uptown shopping
district. Walking south around the corner of the Uptown
Theater who should I see coming in our direction but my
mother! Panic! If we ran back north she would turn the corner
before we were out of site. Just then a smiling Mr. Stiles
beckoned to us and opened the front door of the theater. He
knew what was happening and let us cool our heels in the
lobby until mom was on down the block. Whew!
Good times growing up in a town without gangs, gun violence,
or drugs . . . beer not included.
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: House siding colors and more
Our "A" house at 1306 Symons, along with all the others, were
a light/medium brown shake siding. They looked horrible as
they aged and before paint. I have a really good picture but
can't get it to post. When my parents bought the home, they
had some very nice white siding put on. Don't think they ever
had to paint again, just the trim?
Judy WILLIAMS Clem ('61), if you are reading this, I am sure
Thelma and Nick's "B" house at 1212? McPherson had the same
brown siding! Do you remember?
Also, I do not remember the inside colors we chose from being
dark and ugly, and remember the excitement of choosing new
colors when they came around.
I also commented to Lynn-Marie ('68) that the family I
remember living above the Richland Theater was the Stiles.
Doug Stiles ('57-RIP) was one son, cannot remember the other
one. There could have been someone previous to them that I
cannot remember. Anyone remember how strict he was with us at
the Uptown Theater? I had friends who were ushers and they
had their hands full on Friday nights and so did Mr. Stiles!
I worked at Ward's Ice Cream next to the Taihitian Room and
closed up at 9:00 pm. I would sometimes walk down and meet my
friend Jessie who was one of the ushers. We walked everywhere
even after dark and never were scared or had a problem. Fun
memories!!
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ros/190123_A-House_Siding.jpg
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
I remember the older Erickson brother named Ralph ('59-RIP),
and I remember when his brother took his life with a plastic
bag. Did not know that we also lost Ralph early. How
ghastly for the parents. I think they must have lived in
the Jefferson school district, maybe near Howell and GWWay,
or I would not have known them back then.
Through Ancestry, I found a Ronald Gene Erickson, born 1943,
died Oct 25, 1959, buried in Resthaven Cemetery in Richland.
Father Ralph, mother Stella. Also found Ralph Wayne Erickson
Jr who was born in 1941 and died in 1963, also buried in
Resthaven Cemetery in Richland. - Maren, do you have any
verifying info on this? Sensitive subject. Sure hope we all
have our names and facts straight! My apologies if I have it
wrong.
[Had both boys as deceased... Ron ('61-RIP) and
Ralph, Jr. ('59-RIP). No DOB or DOD for either. -Maren]
Bomber tears for the whole family
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Wow, some people have such good recall of their lives.
My earliest memory in Richland is of being in the half of an
"A" house on McPherson that we lived in with my dad's brother
and his wife (my Aunt Phyl and Uncle Bob) where we lived
about 6 months (It must have been something, as Allan ('59-
RIP) was -/+ 7, Bobby ('62) and I ('62) both 3, and Carol
(64-RIP) and my brother ('65) were 1-2 year olds, MaryJane
('68) and Duane ('79) hadn't arrived on the scene yet at my
Aunt and Uncle's ;) until we could move into our ranch house
on Olympia St. Where I lived till I left to be an exchange
student right after I graduated from Col. High.
I returned there after that year for a year at CBC, then I
left and went to WSU and only returned to visit my folks who
lived there until 1999 when my dad passed away and my mom
moved into groups living in Kennewick.
Our neighbors were the Davises Barbara ('61) and her brother;
the Pittcocks Diane and Susan both older than me, (not sure
they graduated from Richland, think they moved to California)
the LeCLAIRS (Gary ('63) and Bob ('65)), the Holclaws (Pam)
older than me, the Richardson's (Sally moved to Seattle
before she graduated). I and some of my friends stayed with
them in Seattle when Richland went to state when I was in
High School, and back on Olympia St., the Walkers Susan
('64), Harry ('67), Jimmy ('71), and little Eddie ('76) who I
remember as a baby, but who grew up to be a Col Hi or class
President); I remember them the most because their dad, Bill
wrote many reference letters for me for college, etc. and
their mom continued to live there for years, even after my
folks left; and I visited her there, even after my folks left
when I came to the Tri-Cities, and I attended her 100th
birthday party up in Issaquah at her son, Jim's in 2013, I
believe it was. Oh,and the Rohrbachers (Susan ('63-RIP), Mark
('66)) were original neighbors on little 2 block long Olympia
St., but I never really knew anybody on the other block on
the other side of Swift, except a family I babysat for, and I
honestly can't remember their name.
Other neighbors came and went like the Voilands, the
Martinsons (think their kids went to Christ the King, the
Brauers, (stayed on Olympia a long times actually) their kids
were younger than me, so I never knew them really well; the
Stones, Emmajean ('63))
But I loved living in Richland.
This is a long post, but the 3 theaters were mentioned in
Richland; I remember our dad dropping off my brother Roy
('65) and I to watch movies (mostly westerns) at the downtown
one on GWWay that's no longer there - so we did get rides
somewhere as kids, and we were picked up too, but we were
still both in grade school, I think.
And about '64 I worked at the Richland theater that is now
where the community players are. I worked with Dawna Kay
Burnet ('62-RIP), and we worked for Morris Mack ('56-RIP...
older than us; he used to play on the American ? Baseball
team of 17 year olds my dad coached when I was about 6.)
The movie house showed adult and artsy films then, I remember
one was a French film. I didn't work there long, and I went
back to Densow's Drug for more hours as I was saving money to
go to WSU.
Lots of good memories about growing up in Richland, but no
memory of the colors the exterior of houses were.
I do remember when we lived in the ranch (from spring, 1949
on) house, every so often someone from the government came
and painted the interior of our house, and then after about
1960 when the houses could be bought, we had to paint our own
house.
That's just a little of what I remember.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from Nevada where I'm enjoying
being grandma with my 2 grandsons out here for
another week.
P.S. My English teachers would give me an F for my
punctuation errors. Sorry. Guess I'm lazy typing on my phone
on Jan 22, 2019, at 12:29 AM, and Miss Brown, my typing
teacher would be disappointed in me too. She taught me to
type better than this. [Helen added a happy face that doesn't
show up in the Alumni Sandstorm PLAIN TEXT publication. This
isn't real typing anyway... more like hunt n peck. -Maren]
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
Re: houses & such
My parents and older brother -- David ('64) -- and I lived in
a prefab at (I think) 99 Casey. Around the time my younger
brother -- Jesse ('66) -- was born (I was around 2ish) we
moved into a precut at 708 Stanton. (had to have the right #
of bodies to qualify for 3 bedrooms! Isn't that fun to tell
folks -- along with I grew up in the desert part of the
evergreen state -- or that Washington is a state as opposed
to that large city) As I recall we had slate shingles which
were (I think) whitish. In later years after my folks owned
the house they put on aluminum siding.
As to paint colors, I don't remember the colors exactly, but
when the government came around to paint you could choose --
there was horrible, terrible, and awful. Also if you didn't
take off cabinet handles/knobs, etc. and outlet covers, they
would paint right over them.
We have memories no one else has!
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ we are currently having winter
-- have also had spring every few days and rain -- way
too much rain (broke the rain record last year by 20
some inches. This is W TN
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Hey there, Bob,
Terry Here. Since moving back to town here, I've been
confused about some Village Theater history. Village was
always my favorite--the Roy Rogers on Saturday mornings kind
of thing. Twenty cents.
There were two long, steep concrete drainage ducts running
down the hill behind the theater there, and after the
Saturday morning double-features, bunches of us would sit on
cardboard boxes we'd find behind the theater and slide down
those ducts on our butts to the parking lot below.
I was 8 or 9 at the time, so that makes it around '55'. Even
after they shut it down, it was still my favorite building
there along GWay, when we'd ride past on our bikes. As the
businesses came and went there, over the years, they still
kept the same old-fashioned cottage-style shake roof on the
building--even today-- probably without realizing the
memories it might some day evoke in an old man in his rental
car. I'm not describing it very well, but I'm hoping you'll
remember it the same way I do. But you were already driving
by '55', so sliding down the hill on your butt on a piece of
cardboard might have lost some of its thrill.
I would never question your remembered account of things,
Sir, but I don't think the Richland Players were ever at the
Village Theater. The old Richland Theater is their home, and
they will soon even begin showing movies again. (They say).
I look forward to your SS posts. Your wit and style often
make my days.
Re: Tarzan Movies
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64),
Dennis,
Seems like in order to have dramatic conflict, other than
Tarzan wrestling with a crocodile or a stuffed lion, they'd
HAVE to bring in an adult antagonist from civilization once
in awhile.
Can you imagine how hilarious it must have gotten on those
jungle sets of Tarzan, probably on the "back lot" of FOX, off
Pico Blvd there in LA, to film one of those lion fighting
scenes? Flopping around in the mud holding onto a stuffed
lion head? Sometimes the toughest thing about filming some of
the make-believe violence in a low-budget movie was to
maintain a strict "giggle discipline" amongst the cast and
crew. But I could be wrong about where they filmed those
Tarzan movies. All comes down to budget, really.
But those animal sequences were no joke when they used live
animals. On location somewhere in 1979 with Bo Derek to do a
big-budget Tarzan remake, the handsome young Tarzan, a
Swedish Actor whose name escapes me, got beat up pretty bad
by a toothless, clawless old trained lion.
As far as I know, they don't even TRY to train crocodiles...
I remember Boy in a couple of them.
Yeah, that was a store bought knife.
But remember, every once in awhile the plots would involve
wandering white men with rifles and native servants.
Best,
Terry
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Sacarugu
The episode was a lion claw symbol carved into the gate.
I think Buster Crawb was the fist Tarzan.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in freezing Plano, TX
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Hospital Bill
Dennis, I have a whopper collection story. In 2014 I had
surgery in New Orleans. After the primary & secondary
insurances paid, and I paid my share, the hospital came back
to me and tried to get me to pay the "write-off" portion that
is agreed to between insurance companies and hospitals. After
fighting with them for almost two years, they sent me to
collections (I worked for attorneys for too many years so I
had names, dates & what was said of everyone I talked to).
I'd finally had enough and contacted our insurance company
(by this time, the secondary insurance company was now our
retiree insurance company) and gave them the run down of what
had been going on and did they have any suggestion as to what
I could do. I was told to give her a couple hours to review
it. A couple hours later, I got a voice mail from the
insurance company advising me I would hear no more from the
hospital or the collection agency. Following that, 3 weeks
later, I got a letter from the hospital advising that after
further review of my file, I had a zero balance. I don't know
what was said, but I was so glad it was finally over. I just
wish I could have sent a bill for all the time I had spent
dealing with incompetent people. I don't know if the hospital
just thought I would pay up because other patients always
paid up but they picked on the wrong woman!
[Yep... and they did not know that you are a
Richland Bomber either. -- obviously!! -Maren]
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/23/19
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Dale ENNOR ('59)
Mary ROSE ('60), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62), Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Brad WEAR ('71)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billie LAWELL ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann McCUE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank STRATTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra HARDING ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt HASKINS ('81)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Dennis, if you can buy the premise of a white man swinging
thru Africa in swim trunks, with a 12 year old boy and a
knock out girl friend, why can't you buy into her having a
beautician, and Tarzan not needing a shave. Just A random
thought.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ in sunshiny lovely day but damn cold at
nights. Hanford. Calif. where I need both.
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: living above the Richland theater
I have vivid recollections of the Richland Theater and the
residents in the upstairs apartment. It was the family of the
manager: Frank Stiles, which included brothers Doug ('57-RIP)
and Dave ('59-RIP). I direct your attention to the obit for
Doug which verifies the fact.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics11/RIP57StilesDoug11.htm
Dave went through Boy Scouts and Explorers with many of us
"southsiders." I recall a 12-day excursion in the Wallowa
mountains with our Explorer post in 1957 with Dave always
happy and singing-he had a great voice. His a cappella
version of "My Prayer" could give the Platters a run for
their money.
The theater on GWWay was quite inexpensive-12¢? The Saturday
movies always seemed to be serials which ended in cliff
hangers, thereby requiring attendance the next Saturday.
The Uptown I remember not for the movies as for the sanctuary
it provided one day in my senior year of high school. Seems
Tom REKONEN ('59-RIP) and I were not in attendance that day
and found ourselves wandering around the uptown shopping
district. Walking south around the corner of the Uptown
Theater who should I see coming in our direction but my
mother! Panic! If we ran back north she would turn the corner
before we were out of site. Just then a smiling Mr. Stiles
beckoned to us and opened the front door of the theater. He
knew what was happening and let us cool our heels in the
lobby until mom was on down the block. Whew!
Good times growing up in a town without gangs, gun violence,
or drugs . . . beer not included.
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: House siding colors and more
Our "A" house at 1306 Symons, along with all the others, were
a light/medium brown shake siding. They looked horrible as
they aged and before paint. I have a really good picture but
can't get it to post. When my parents bought the home, they
had some very nice white siding put on. Don't think they ever
had to paint again, just the trim?
Judy WILLIAMS Clem ('61), if you are reading this, I am sure
Thelma and Nick's "B" house at 1212? McPherson had the same
brown siding! Do you remember?
Also, I do not remember the inside colors we chose from being
dark and ugly, and remember the excitement of choosing new
colors when they came around.
I also commented to Lynn-Marie ('68) that the family I
remember living above the Richland Theater was the Stiles.
Doug Stiles ('57-RIP) was one son, cannot remember the other
one. There could have been someone previous to them that I
cannot remember. Anyone remember how strict he was with us at
the Uptown Theater? I had friends who were ushers and they
had their hands full on Friday nights and so did Mr. Stiles!
I worked at Ward's Ice Cream next to the Taihitian Room and
closed up at 9:00 pm. I would sometimes walk down and meet my
friend Jessie who was one of the ushers. We walked everywhere
even after dark and never were scared or had a problem. Fun
memories!!
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ros/190123_A-House_Siding.jpg
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
I remember the older Erickson brother named Ralph ('59-RIP),
and I remember when his brother took his life with a plastic
bag. Did not know that we also lost Ralph early. How
ghastly for the parents. I think they must have lived in
the Jefferson school district, maybe near Howell and GWWay,
or I would not have known them back then.
Through Ancestry, I found a Ronald Gene Erickson, born 1943,
died Oct 25, 1959, buried in Resthaven Cemetery in Richland.
Father Ralph, mother Stella. Also found Ralph Wayne Erickson
Jr who was born in 1941 and died in 1963, also buried in
Resthaven Cemetery in Richland. - Maren, do you have any
verifying info on this? Sensitive subject. Sure hope we all
have our names and facts straight! My apologies if I have it
wrong.
[Had both boys as deceased... Ron ('61-RIP) and
Ralph, Jr. ('59-RIP). No DOB or DOD for either. -Maren]
Bomber tears for the whole family
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Wow, some people have such good recall of their lives.
My earliest memory in Richland is of being in the half of an
"A" house on McPherson that we lived in with my dad's brother
and his wife (my Aunt Phyl and Uncle Bob) where we lived
about 6 months (It must have been something, as Allan ('59-
RIP) was -/+ 7, Bobby ('62) and I ('62) both 3, and Carol
(64-RIP) and my brother ('65) were 1-2 year olds, MaryJane
('68) and Duane ('79) hadn't arrived on the scene yet at my
Aunt and Uncle's ;) until we could move into our ranch house
on Olympia St. Where I lived till I left to be an exchange
student right after I graduated from Col. High.
I returned there after that year for a year at CBC, then I
left and went to WSU and only returned to visit my folks who
lived there until 1999 when my dad passed away and my mom
moved into groups living in Kennewick.
Our neighbors were the Davises Barbara ('61) and her brother;
the Pittcocks Diane and Susan both older than me, (not sure
they graduated from Richland, think they moved to California)
the LeCLAIRS (Gary ('63) and Bob ('65)), the Holclaws (Pam)
older than me, the Richardson's (Sally moved to Seattle
before she graduated). I and some of my friends stayed with
them in Seattle when Richland went to state when I was in
High School, and back on Olympia St., the Walkers Susan
('64), Harry ('67), Jimmy ('71), and little Eddie ('76) who I
remember as a baby, but who grew up to be a Col Hi or class
President); I remember them the most because their dad, Bill
wrote many reference letters for me for college, etc. and
their mom continued to live there for years, even after my
folks left; and I visited her there, even after my folks left
when I came to the Tri-Cities, and I attended her 100th
birthday party up in Issaquah at her son, Jim's in 2013, I
believe it was. Oh,and the Rohrbachers (Susan ('63-RIP), Mark
('66)) were original neighbors on little 2 block long Olympia
St., but I never really knew anybody on the other block on
the other side of Swift, except a family I babysat for, and I
honestly can't remember their name.
Other neighbors came and went like the Voilands, the
Martinsons (think their kids went to Christ the King, the
Brauers, (stayed on Olympia a long times actually) their kids
were younger than me, so I never knew them really well; the
Stones, Emmajean ('63))
But I loved living in Richland.
This is a long post, but the 3 theaters were mentioned in
Richland; I remember our dad dropping off my brother Roy
('65) and I to watch movies (mostly westerns) at the downtown
one on GWWay that's no longer there - so we did get rides
somewhere as kids, and we were picked up too, but we were
still both in grade school, I think.
And about '64 I worked at the Richland theater that is now
where the community players are. I worked with Dawna Kay
Burnet ('62-RIP), and we worked for Morris Mack ('56-RIP...
older than us; he used to play on the American ? Baseball
team of 17 year olds my dad coached when I was about 6.)
The movie house showed adult and artsy films then, I remember
one was a French film. I didn't work there long, and I went
back to Densow's Drug for more hours as I was saving money to
go to WSU.
Lots of good memories about growing up in Richland, but no
memory of the colors the exterior of houses were.
I do remember when we lived in the ranch (from spring, 1949
on) house, every so often someone from the government came
and painted the interior of our house, and then after about
1960 when the houses could be bought, we had to paint our own
house.
That's just a little of what I remember.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from Nevada where I'm enjoying
being grandma with my 2 grandsons out here for
another week.
P.S. My English teachers would give me an F for my
punctuation errors. Sorry. Guess I'm lazy typing on my phone
on Jan 22, 2019, at 12:29 AM, and Miss Brown, my typing
teacher would be disappointed in me too. She taught me to
type better than this. [Helen added a happy face that doesn't
show up in the Alumni Sandstorm PLAIN TEXT publication. This
isn't real typing anyway... more like hunt n peck. -Maren]
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
Re: houses & such
My parents and older brother -- David ('64) -- and I lived in
a prefab at (I think) 99 Casey. Around the time my younger
brother -- Jesse ('66) -- was born (I was around 2ish) we
moved into a precut at 708 Stanton. (had to have the right #
of bodies to qualify for 3 bedrooms! Isn't that fun to tell
folks -- along with I grew up in the desert part of the
evergreen state -- or that Washington is a state as opposed
to that large city) As I recall we had slate shingles which
were (I think) whitish. In later years after my folks owned
the house they put on aluminum siding.
As to paint colors, I don't remember the colors exactly, but
when the government came around to paint you could choose --
there was horrible, terrible, and awful. Also if you didn't
take off cabinet handles/knobs, etc. and outlet covers, they
would paint right over them.
We have memories no one else has!
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ we are currently having winter
-- have also had spring every few days and rain -- way
too much rain (broke the rain record last year by 20
some inches. This is W TN
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Hey there, Bob,
Terry Here. Since moving back to town here, I've been
confused about some Village Theater history. Village was
always my favorite--the Roy Rogers on Saturday mornings kind
of thing. Twenty cents.
There were two long, steep concrete drainage ducts running
down the hill behind the theater there, and after the
Saturday morning double-features, bunches of us would sit on
cardboard boxes we'd find behind the theater and slide down
those ducts on our butts to the parking lot below.
I was 8 or 9 at the time, so that makes it around '55'. Even
after they shut it down, it was still my favorite building
there along GWay, when we'd ride past on our bikes. As the
businesses came and went there, over the years, they still
kept the same old-fashioned cottage-style shake roof on the
building--even today-- probably without realizing the
memories it might some day evoke in an old man in his rental
car. I'm not describing it very well, but I'm hoping you'll
remember it the same way I do. But you were already driving
by '55', so sliding down the hill on your butt on a piece of
cardboard might have lost some of its thrill.
I would never question your remembered account of things,
Sir, but I don't think the Richland Players were ever at the
Village Theater. The old Richland Theater is their home, and
they will soon even begin showing movies again. (They say).
I look forward to your SS posts. Your wit and style often
make my days.
Re: Tarzan Movies
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64),
Dennis,
Seems like in order to have dramatic conflict, other than
Tarzan wrestling with a crocodile or a stuffed lion, they'd
HAVE to bring in an adult antagonist from civilization once
in awhile.
Can you imagine how hilarious it must have gotten on those
jungle sets of Tarzan, probably on the "back lot" of FOX, off
Pico Blvd there in LA, to film one of those lion fighting
scenes? Flopping around in the mud holding onto a stuffed
lion head? Sometimes the toughest thing about filming some of
the make-believe violence in a low-budget movie was to
maintain a strict "giggle discipline" amongst the cast and
crew. But I could be wrong about where they filmed those
Tarzan movies. All comes down to budget, really.
But those animal sequences were no joke when they used live
animals. On location somewhere in 1979 with Bo Derek to do a
big-budget Tarzan remake, the handsome young Tarzan, a
Swedish Actor whose name escapes me, got beat up pretty bad
by a toothless, clawless old trained lion.
As far as I know, they don't even TRY to train crocodiles...
I remember Boy in a couple of them.
Yeah, that was a store bought knife.
But remember, every once in awhile the plots would involve
wandering white men with rifles and native servants.
Best,
Terry
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Sacarugu
The episode was a lion claw symbol carved into the gate.
I think Buster Crawb was the fist Tarzan.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in freezing Plano, TX
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Hospital Bill
Dennis, I have a whopper collection story. In 2014 I had
surgery in New Orleans. After the primary & secondary
insurances paid, and I paid my share, the hospital came back
to me and tried to get me to pay the "write-off" portion that
is agreed to between insurance companies and hospitals. After
fighting with them for almost two years, they sent me to
collections (I worked for attorneys for too many years so I
had names, dates & what was said of everyone I talked to).
I'd finally had enough and contacted our insurance company
(by this time, the secondary insurance company was now our
retiree insurance company) and gave them the run down of what
had been going on and did they have any suggestion as to what
I could do. I was told to give her a couple hours to review
it. A couple hours later, I got a voice mail from the
insurance company advising me I would hear no more from the
hospital or the collection agency. Following that, 3 weeks
later, I got a letter from the hospital advising that after
further review of my file, I had a zero balance. I don't know
what was said, but I was so glad it was finally over. I just
wish I could have sent a bill for all the time I had spent
dealing with incompetent people. I don't know if the hospital
just thought I would pay up because other patients always
paid up but they picked on the wrong woman!
[Yep... and they did not know that you are a
Richland Bomber either. -- obviously!! -Maren]
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/25/19
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Mike BRADY ('61), Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
Lori SIMPSON ('70), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue FARLEY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack ARMSTRONG ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Scott FULCHER ('81)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
To: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Re: Village Theater - on GWWay
You are correct in saying that the Village Theater was used
by the Richland Players (then called the Richland Light Opera
Association). I had the comedy lead in the Vagabond King,
which was presented in that venue. My wife and I have
attended a number of plays that the Richland Players have
performed and we have never been disappointed.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Nice of someone to connect the dots to pictures of both the
Richland (next to Thrifty) and Village (on GWWay) Theaters.
Both are still standing, but you wouldn't recognize the
Village as it has been converted into office spaces (I
think). The only theater not standing is the North Star in
North Richland. Well, to be honest about it, not much if any,
of that North Richland is standing. I'm beginning to wonder
if the grocery store, which was moved to West Richland, is
still standing.
Not to the point, however. Today we must acknowledge a
birthday of a Bomber Babe whom I went to school with. I know
that ain't proper grammar, so I will probably get points
taken from my final grade. Hey, I got the diploma!
A flourish of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy
Birthday!" to Sue FARLEY ('54). Perhaps she will show up
at the shindig in September. Now, if Marilynn WORKING
Highstreet ('54). will let us know where that will be all
will be "hunky dokey".
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
unseasonably warm weather is about to descend for at
least the week end.
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>>From: Mike BRADY ('61)
To: Chuck WITTEBORT ('61wb)
I remember those cool shoes you wore with large taps on
the heels. I always wanted a pair just like those. When you
walked down the halls of Sacajawea... you must have driven
the teachers crazy. You were the "Fonz" of our class.
-Mike BRADY ('61)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: I Stand Corrected
Thanks to everyone who has joined into the discussion about
the theaters, which one was where (The Village on GWWay, The
Richland in downtown next to the old Thrifty Drug store, and
The Uptown - well, in the uptown of course), & who lived
above the Richland. (Yes, it was the Stiles, not the
Ericksons. And I have chastised my source - my brother-in-
law, Richard "Dick" BIGGERSTAFF ('58) appropriately, for
misleading this "baby-of-the-family!")
The Erickson brothers are the ones Dick was thinking of as
having, sadly, suicided. Not sure how the "living above the
theater" got into the mix.
But, that has led to some interesting entries here. (I
especially enjoyed Terry DAVIS Knox ('65) description of the
upstairs apartment over The Richland - & the memories of
looking back up into the flickering lights from the
projection booth. Yes, I too did that, wondering who was
"making it all happen ".)
Remember when occasionally the film would catch somehow, &
you could watch the projected image of it melting? Remember
when things would go black on occasion, apparently requiring
replacement of the light source in the projector?
I recall once the projector breaking down altogether. We all
sat & waited for about 1/2 hour. Then we were informed that
we'd have to leave, as they would have to order parts to fix
the projector. We all got a refund, plus free popcorn on the
way out (since they'd just have to toss it out). The theater
was closed for several days till they could fix that
projector.
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: 1-24-19 post
Thanks for the memories about the living quarters of the
Stiles family. As a 1970 Alum I had no idea there was a home
above the theater with a family no less! Blush. {Lori added
a blushing happy face which doesn't sho in the PLAIN TEXT
Alumni Sandstorm. -Maren]
-Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Theaters - Village (GWWay), Richland (next to Thrifty),
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190125_00.htm
To: All Bombers
So I did some digging today turns out the Richland Theater
was built 1st and a play was performed there, according to
record, in November '44.
Photos, April 1958 the Safety Magician performance at the
Village, Richland Players rehearsal in the kitchen? December
1950, Richland Theater shows April, August and December '44,
view of the Parkway Feb '45 and the Uptown 1953.
[Web page has Richland opened 2/17/44 and Village
opened 3/16/45. -Maren]
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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8 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Tony DURAN ('55)
Chuck WITTEBORT ('61), Margaret EHRIG ('61),
Duane LEE ('63), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Pam EHINGER ('67), Irene WALDNER ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doris VAN REENEN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron HOGLEN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry FORSYTHE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Greg and Sharon MARKEL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ben JACOBS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert MILLER ('96)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: Classmate RIP
My condolences go out to the family and friends of a dear
1954 classmate, Gloria ADAMS Fulcher, who passed away on
Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Gloria had moved to Connecticut
last Spring to be by her son, Jeff ('76). We missed Gloria so
much and now know she is reunited with her husband, Clarence
('51-RIP) who passed away in 2016.
Rest in Peace, Gloria.
July 19, 1936 - January 23, 2019.
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Enjoying the warmer 40°
weather in Tri-Cities with intermittent rain... Spring
is only 58 days away!!!!
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>>From: Tony DURAN ('55)
Re: Village Theater - on GWWay
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Don, I lived at the Village theater for a time in late 1955
and '56 when I was manager there for Mid-State Amusement who
managed all three theaters under Frank Stiles. I was moved to
manage the Pasco theater in late 1956. This was a good move
for me as I was going to CBC at the time. I made some good
contacts there and went on to work at West Coast Airlines in
late '56.
On another note, my son Patrick Duran was in a number of
plays at the Richland Theater. I think it was about 1986 or
'87. I was the doorman at the Richland theater, taking
tickets, in 1953 to '55 before I was moved to the Village.
When the Uptown Theater opened our RHS dance band played for
the opening. I played trumpet along with Bob BOOTH ('55-RIP),
Bob HARRIS ('55-RIP), and Don DAWSON ('55-RIP).
So many of our fellow classmates are gone now.
-Tony DURAN ('55)
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>>From: Chuck WITTEBORT ('61)
To: Mike BRADY ('61)
There were several of us in our neighborhood who had put taps
on our shoes. Alvin NALL ('58-RIP) and my next door neighbor,
was the one who came up with putting taps on our shoes. The
one thing that didn't last long was our shoes with taps. I
was sent to the Principal's office along with the others who
had taps on their shoes and we were sent home. My parents
removed the taps and grounded me for about a week.
The next thing Alvin came up with was making large fire
crackers - and that didn't last long because when the Chief
Joseph Jr. High pitcher's mound was blown up, by some very
"large" fire crackers, the noise and smoke attracted parental
elements that had all of our chemistry sets permanently
removed.
Living and growing up in Richland was a wonderful experience
and playing all of the sports was a lot of fun especially
basketball. As an example, I use to practice dribbling a
basket ball in the halls of Sacajawea and - well Mike you
know the rest and so does the statue of Sacajawea - HA!
-Chuck WITTEBORT ('61)
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Re: Richland Players vs Richland Light Opera
These have always been two separate organizations since they
were founded in the late '40s. Richland Players does plays
and Light Opera - now Mid-Columbia Musical Theater (MCMT)
does musicals such as Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, or The
Mikado. This year is MCMT's 70th season and Players is in
their 71st or 72nd. Both are great amateur companies. MCMT
does not own a theater but rents one of the high schools or
other venues for their productions. We have a great time and
ask the communities to support the arts.
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
All these entries about the local theaters is very
interesting but there is one mystery that will never be
solved. Did the Uptown originally have a balcony????
I was born in Richland in 1945 and I never remember a balcony
but others who I have argued with state unequivocally that
there definitely was one at one time.
I have researched it and have never been able to find any
real proof one way or the other. Hmmmmmm
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Earl BENNETT (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Theaters Discussion
When I participated in stage crew some at Chief Jo, I was
told that the auditorium was built by G.E. for a major
conference of some sort during the '50s, and they put serious
equipment into the lighting, spots, curtains, etc. I remember
it was a great venue for the shows that our international
folk dance club, the Cigany Dancers, put on from time to
time. Helped Mom and my sisters with hours and hours of
cross-stitch embroidery for the Polish, Serbo-Croatian and
Bulgarian costumes. I really enjoyed being in the dance crew
there for Richland Light Opera's "The Music Man", probably in
'62 - I can still hear the chorus opening with the railroad
rhythm story about the "boys' band" salesman, and the
protagonist singing "Marian, The Librarian" and "Trouble in
River City." Heard an anecdote about one play that was done
there while we attended Chief Jo '57-'60: There was a fight
scene, and one of the fighters was to attack the other with
a knife - believe Paul ANDERSON ('63) may have been the
attacker. They didn't bother to find a fake knife, and the
attackee barely missed being wounded when they fell and the
knife actually stuck into the stage floor next to a shoulder.
Regards, ecb3 - from unseasonably pleasant,
sunny and crisp central Virginia (Stanardsville).
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Gloria ADAMS Fulcher ('54-RIP)
Dear Fulcher Family,
I am so very sorry to hear of Gloria's passing. When they
still lived in Naches, WA I took care of Clarence, while he
was sick. It gave Gloria a chance to get away for a while.
I enjoyed caring for them until they moved to the coast.
Gloria will be missed by many.
RIP Gloria & Clarence, God Bless you both.
Bomber Tears.
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Diner-Kindl (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
P.S. My married name was Pam Edinger when I cared
for the Fulchers
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>>From: Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
Re: the Richland theater
I seem to remember in '67 or '68 taking a short field trip
from Col High with my class down to the Richland theater to
see "Far From the Madding Crowd", with Julie Christy and Alan
Bates. Now, IMDB tells me that this movie came out in 67, so
it's possible I remember this correctly. Can anyone else
confirm or correct my old memories?
Thanks, Maren. You're super!
-Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: "Harvey" at Columbia High
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190126_00.htm
To: All Bombers
Someone mentioned the play Harvey that ran in the Richland
in a few posts back. These are some photos I found however,
these are from Harvey during its run at Columbia High.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Arlas KLUCAS ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Don Sorenson (NAB),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty CONNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura PARKER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob TURPING ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara KESTER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg POYNOR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay SCHAFER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg GRADY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norm ENGLUND ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darcy FORSYTHE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darwin PERKINS ('69)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Gloria ADAMS Fulcher:('54-RIP)
I was lucky to date Gloria in 1953 or early '54. She was
fun to be around. I was very shallow in those days but have
always cherished knowing her in high school.
God Bless and give her peace! Free at last Free at last!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from blank Hanford, CA where its so
foggy it is like trying to look thru a white wall
which in Hanford's case it a blessing.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Believe I covered this before, but, to repeat, there was no
balcony in the Uptown Theater. The only balcony in a Tri-
Cities theater I am sure of was in the Roxy in Kennewick.
There may have been one in the theater on 4th Street in
Pasco. The reason the balcony thing in the Uptown may be
from its construction. The projection booth over hung the
last two or three rows giving that impression.
I do recall a Richland Light Opera (RLO) production in the
Chief Joseph Auditorium. Don't remember if it was "Die
Rosenkavalier" or "The Merry Widow." And RLO was a distinct
organization from the Richland Players, although cast members
may have shuffled between the two.
On an entirely different note, today may mark the 21st
birthday of a younger Bomber Babe. I think there may be a
tribute here from the Junior Gyrene ('65) as he is somewhat
enamored of this young lady. I personally don't know her, but
we have corresponded via e-mail.
A deep flourish of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy
Birthday!" to Mary Lou Watkins ('63). Enjoy the day, but,
please, not too many adult libations.
I am deeply saddened at the loss of fellow classmate Gloria
"Skippy" ADAMS ('54-RIP). I do hope she is in a better place.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
one would think it is spring already, but February is
yet to arrive.
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>>From: Arlas KLUCAS Nemnich ('63)
Re: Theaters
Sally JOHNSON Stiles ('61) was my neighbor growing up. One
day I was visiting her, when Doug STILES ('57-RIP), her
fiance, asked me if I wanted to work at the Richland Theater.
Of course, I did.
Most of the movies were "B" movies, but I remember watching
"The Blue Max" from the front row, as the place was crowded.
That was a neck stretcher!
Then, when Doug's dad, Frank Stiles, needed more help, I went
to the Uptown Theater. Most of the staff were also Bombers.
Mr. Stiles was a great person to work for and such a
gentleman. Whenever I was home on a break from college,
I had a job ushering and selling concessions.
The projection room had a door that opened to the roof, so
one night several of us decided to see what was up there.
We walked on the roof tops all the way to the bank (NBofC?)
where we were met by a tall concrete wall! That prompted us
to turn around ASAP!
Dave STILES ('59-RIP) seldom came in, as he traveled a lot
with his band. Mr. Stiles often played the record his group,
"The Big Sky Singers" had recorded. It was so sad when he
passed away. He was so young and talented.
There was no balcony at the Uptown when I worked there in the
mid '60s.
-Arlas KLUCAS Nemnich ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Theaters
Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61) is correct in that Richland Players
and Richland Light Opera (RLO) were always separate
organizations. RLO used the Village Theater (on GWWay) for a
while before moving to Chief Jo. My little sister Candice
('66) had an early interest in Light Opera productions and I
recall her playing a little Japanese girl, kimono and all, at
about age 4 or 5, in one of their productions at the Village,
probably The Mikado. Thankfully this was before milennials
were screaming "cultural appropriation!" (Oh, the horror.)
When we were both very young, Richland Players put on a play
at the Village, and we had lent the production an antique
chair, which in one scene had been placed stage front center.
We were all seated in the first row, and when the chair
appeared as the curtains were opened, Candice, then probably
about four, stood up in her seat and loudly proclaimed,
"That's our chair!" Yesterday's mention of a knife attack
gone awry jogged my memory of a production of Carousel at the
Village by RLO. In one scene, "Billy" is supposed to get
stabbed on the docks by another man, which led to his death.
But one night, "Billy" was theatrically stabbed, but forgot
to react to it. He remembered to fall down about 2 or 3
seconds later, provoking a few laughs from the audience.
Re: The Uptown
I will bet the ranch that it never had a balcony. I have no
memory of one, and don't believe it was ever there.
Re: House Colors
All the family was out working in the yard of our "E" house
one fine day back in the '50s, when along the sidewalk comes
an aluminum siding salesman. Well, long story short, Dad
thought it was a grand idea, and pretty soon the old "E"
house was swathed in aluminum siding, white, like the
original shakes. As of the last reunion, that aluminum siding
was still there, some 60 years later. Some things do last.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Rex Hunt ("53)
Re: Tarzan
*LOL* Rex. You got to buy a lot of other stuff too, like how
many lost civilizations and tribes are there in Africa
populated by white guys? Remember, Jane was from England, and
from a wealthy family too, so I can imagine when she is in
what we call civilization she might want a new hairdo. I just
can't imagine that it would last the trip through the jungle
all the way back to their tree house.
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
They used to have Roy Rogers and Dale Evans hosting their
movies on I think CBN. There would be breaks in the movies
with them talking about their movies. In one of them Roy
pulled his six-gun out of its holster held it up and said,
"This is a 45. Do you know why they call it a 45? Because you
can shoot it 45 times without reloading."
Stupidest line I think I have heard from movies is Superman
II, or was it III. These three bad guys come to Earth from
Superman's home planet, so they have the same powers Superman
has. In a fight in the street they throw a bus which slams
into Superman and comes to a stop against a building. When
there is no movement one guy in the crowd picks up a stick
and says, "They killed Superman, let's get "em!!"
To: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Tarzan
I have seen some westerns staring Buster Crabbe and possibly
some as Flash Gordon. I knew he had played Tarzan, but pretty
sure I haven't seen any. Knew Johnny Weismueller was an
Olympic champion swimmer, but did not know Buster Crabbe also
was. Must by why they are good at getting in the water and
killing rubber crocodiles.
To: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Hospital Bill
I know it wouldn't work and not be worth the extra time
anyway, but, wouldn't it be nice to make up a bill itemizing
all your expenses and send it to the hospital. Then if they
don't pay, or really when they don't pay, hire the same
collection agency the hospital uses to collect from them.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: pictures of "Harvey" from Don Sorenson (NAB)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190126_00.htm
So neat to see Mr. Bill Dunton (former teacher) in picture
#6... am betting the painting of the actor and "Harvey" were
painted by Mrs. Lynn Dunton (RIP)... Bill is "alive and
kicking" in Fullerton, CA... just recently celebrated his
90th birthday, if I remember right. Both Bill and Lynn
were involved with the schools and school activities in
Richland... he was the music teacher at Carmichael and she
taught 3rd grade... can't remember which school she taught
at... I was fortunate enough to live behind them, when we
lived on Rossell and they lived on Roberts... they moved to
CA in the Summer of '58... we reconnected our long friendship
when I moved to CA in '73.
Thanks, again, Don Sorenson (NAB), for all the pictures.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ wishing we'd get snow, in Kuna, Idaho
but doesn't look promising
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Okayokayokay
You'rerightI'mwrong
You'rerightI'mwrong
Richland Players WERE, in fact, at the Village/Liberty
theater on GWWay for a couple years in early '50s. And BOTH
Curt DONAHUE '53' and Mike CLOWES '54' played leading roles
in separate productions there.
I am embarrassed but grinning at 4:32 A.M. here with my cell
phone in my palm, because as soon as it gets light outside
and a couple of young Richland Players board members wake up,
I'm gonna drop some historical information on them that's
gonna leave them stunned.
Seriously stunned.
AND WHICH ALSO MEANS that, PROBABLY, while Curt DONAHUE and
Mike CLOWES were rehearsing onstage in '54' and '55', I was 9
years old and out behind the theater there, sitting on scraps
of cardboard and sliding down that hill on my butt.
These occasional, forgotten intersections of Art and Life
sometimes give us pause.
To: Earl BENNETT ('63)
One summer day, immediately after your good father had sat
you down and explained the "facts of life" to you, we stood
out in your front yard while you tried explaining the
definition of the strange new term, "Sex."
I always had a great deal of respect for your wisdom about
things in general, Earl, but that day in particular I didn't
believe a word you said.
I probably ought to have.
I wish now, these 60-something years later, to apologize.
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: 1953 Public Health Department
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190127_00.htm
To: All Bombers
A while back a Bomber mentioned reading the monthly reports
G.E. made to the A.E.C. About 2/3rds of the way thru the
report, I think, Public health was a topic. Keeping track
of various childhood illnesses, water quality, births, milk
quality and general cleanliness of the Village. I found
some photos of Public Health workers I'd like to share.
They were taken in 1953.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Steve CARSON ('58)
Helen CROSS ('62), Duane LEE ('63)
Tony HARRAH ('65), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Walker DOUGLAS ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ferna GAROUTTE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty NEAL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DURBIN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe FORD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Beth MEYER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vince DONIHEE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy GOBLE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jennifer HASKINS ('91)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Josh JANICEK ('93)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Terry DAVIS ('65)
Gotta tell ya, I wuz never in a starring role with the
Richland Players. At best I was probably listed with the
"withs" or maybe with the "alsos" and never above the title...
Don't know about DONAHUE ('53).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
rain is in the forecast for next weekend.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Don't recall a balcony at the Uptown.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Didn't realize I missed reading yesterday's Sandstorm till I
just saw it. I flew back from Nevada to Cincinnati in a full
overnight flight from San Francisco arriving this morning.
Just had time to wash and change my clothes and go hear my
husband preach at 2 small rural churches today.
It's pretty outside, but cold, and we hear it will get colder
Want to wish Ron HOGLAN ('62) and Greg MARKEL ('65)(never
really knew your twin, Greg. Happy Birthday on the 26th.
I only got a few hours sleep on the plane last night and am
trying to stay up till after Downton Abbey, so hopefully I
will wake up on eastern time.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ back in the house by the little
frozen lake in SE Indiana.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/190128_frozen_Lake.jpg
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
Re: the Uptown and the balcony issue
I worked with many older Bombers who SWORE on their mother's
grave that the Uptown had a balcony. I had big money bets
with them about it with me saying it never did. The problem
is that after all my phone calls and research I could never
come up with proof to win my bets. I researched pictures,
plans from city hall and called several referrals that
finally led me to a company in Spokane and all he could tell
me for sure was that it had 1350 seats. Just seems strange
that there is no PROOF in the way of pictures or history. I
could have made a lot of money off of those bets.
They said their was a spiral type staircase in the corner and
they remodeled and got rid of the staircase and the balcony.
They all "remember" throwing popcorn boxes, etc. from the
balcony. The memory is a crazy, funny thing. I just tried so
hard to find some solid proof because they all thought I was
the stupid one. No substantial proof. I finally gave up.
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Tony HARRAH ('65)
During my sixth, seventh and eighth grade years at Christ the
King ('58 to '61), my mother and I lived in an apartment on
Gribble, not far from Uptown. Our next door neighbors were
Howard and Mary (last name forgotten), and Howard was the
union projectionist at the Uptown Theater. Sometime during
the seventh grade I was recruited by Howard for the twice-
weekly chore of changing the marquee at the theater and
putting up the posters outside, a job I had through the
eighth grade. I believe I got $2.15 each time, and, of
course, free admission to the movies. This made my first
date (I'll leave the girl's name out of this, as she's still
living and still might not want anyone to know she ever
agreed to go anywhere with me) very cheap, as I got in for
free, her ticket was .35 cents and she didn't want popcorn.
Those were the days. Mr. Stiles would leave instructions on
his desk about the layout of the lettering on the marquee,
and, after he went home, as a bonus benefit, I would peruse
the "girlie" magazines he kept there. I can thus truly
say that Frank Stiles made a positive contribution to my
education. After my chore was done I'd often go up to visit
Howard, who had made the projection room into what was
basically a small apartment, complete with cot, refrigerator,
couch and pictures on the wall. I saw every movie that played
while I worked there, and while those years were not exactly
a golden era for American films (too much Rock Hudson and
Doris Day and too many sword and sandal epics) I can still
say my first paying job was in show business... And no, there
was no balcony.
-Tony HARRAH ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: High Water Photos
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190128_00.htm
To: All Bombers
Found these June '56 high water photos
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/29/19
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda STEWART ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl BEYER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robin FRISTER ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheryl ROMSOS ('76)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: High Water Photos
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/190128_00.htm
I remember one year when the river flooded pretty good, a lot
of trash along the shoreline was picked up by the water and
floated downstream. A bunch of rattlesnakes floated down the
river on the trash and many of them got off in Riverside Park
(now Howard Amon) and were running around, causing a real
panic. It seems like it was around the time of the 1956
flood.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: Tri-City Theaters
When I turned 16 I started my first job at Farrell's, which
had just opened at Columbia Center. That didn't last long
and, thanks to my friends Glenn EKLUND ('71-RIP) and Jim
GEIER ('71), I quickly got hired as a janitor by Sterling
Recreation Organization which at that time owned all the
theaters in the Tri-Cities and Walla Walla (they also owned
KALE radio at the time, which created some very fun cross-
promotions.) I worked at the Uptown, the original Columbia
Center Cinemas, the River-Vue and Highland Drive-Ins, but
mostly at the Island View Drive-In for the rest of my high
school years and during college summers and spring breaks...
a total of seven years. Sticking with what I knew I also
worked as a doorman and assistant manager at the Cordova
Theater in Pullman while attending Wazzu.
Tony HARRAH's ('65) mention of Howard and Mary prompted a lot
of great memories... not only was Howard the projectionist,
but his wife Mary was the Uptown manager when I first
started. Since working at theaters meant working nights...
often until early morning hours when I was at the Island View
or Highland Drive-Ins... it meant that most of my free time
was during the day when everyone else was working, leading to
some great friendships with other theater employees... lots
of daytime parties, good times at the river, and some
memorable days at Hat Rock Park.
Over the years keeping with the movie theme it seemed we had
a cast of thousands. Some longer term employees during those
years were Jim GEIER ('71), Glenn EKLUND ('71-RIP), Jack
SWANSON ('71), Mark STEELMAN ('72), Mollie RUTT ('71), Dan
CREEK ('71) and his sister Barb ('72), and a whole flock of
Jacobs' (Ben ('69), Bob ('70), Scott ('74), and Rich ('75) at
various times.)
The regional manager for the theaters and KALE, Bob Wood,
lived in the house at the Island View Drive-In entrance at
the Wye and that became the unofficial after hours hangout.
Bob had a couple of huge Voice Of The Theater speakers in his
living room (surplus from one of the Seattle theaters) and,
because of the KALE connection, an unending stream of pre-
release promo records from every rock band of that era.
Kicking back after hours and making the picture windows in
that house rattle are still great memories... or as much as I
can still vaguely recall!!
The experience I got even helped me get my post college life
started. After college I decided I wanted to live in Portland
and figured I should be able to find a job in a movie theater
here. I ended up managing theaters for Moyer Theaters in
Portland for a year while deciding what I wanted to be when I
grew up!
Thanks to whoever started this thread for triggering some
great memories of one of the most fun jobs I've ever had!
-Gary TURNER ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/30/19
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
David DOUGLAS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave RHODES ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vikki LYTLE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: April MILLER ('92)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
George BRINKMAN ('60) and Betty NEAL ('62)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Don Sorenson's (NAB) pictures prompted me to look for some in
the box I inherited from my mother. This was a real
adventure. Dad took slides. We had a projector that took
cartridges, and unfortunately there were more than 20 in the
box. Fortunately, after hunting through them at random I
finally found what I was looking for in cartridge #1. I tried
calling Walgreens and CVS photo departments to see if they
could convert slides to jpeg files or prints, but
unfortunately they couldn't. Fortunately, I had a little
machine that would scan slides and generate jpeg files, but
unfortunately we had a hot water tank leak that required the
restoration company to pack up everything in the room in big
boxes. There were over a dozen boxes, and the slide scanner
was in one of them. Fortunately, I found it in the second box
I opened. Unfortunately, it would only work with Windows XP
and Vista. Fortunately, I found a 64-bit driver on the
manufacturer's website and downloaded it. It actually worked,
and I scanned in the pictures that Im sending to Maren.
The first picture is of flat-roofed prefabs. Fortunately, I
never had to live in one. The next two pictures are Frontier
Days - a parade and me and my older brother Walker ('57) in
our usual appropriate costumes. The pictures must have been
taken around 1949, as the winter pictures are of Walker
shoveling snow away from our 1940's vintage Packard. Dad
bought a new Ford in 1950, when the Korean War had started
and he was afraid we might have rationing like WWII.
Dad brought the family to Richland from Arkansas in the
summer of 1945 in the Packard, with his watch repair bench
tied on top. My very first two memories are of that trip.
One was driving through a flood. It was probably only a
couple of inches deep, but it looked like a flood to me.
The other memory is a pillow fight with Walker. We both
had duck down pillows, and mine split open, filling the
car with feathers. I cried so hard Mom made Walker give
me his pillow. I still had it with the cover replaced
occasionally when I got married in 1966.
Dad came to Richland at the suggestion of my maternal
grandfather who was working in constructing Hanford. Dad
was a watchmaker, and my granddad said there were no watch
repairmen in Richland - people had to send their watches to
Spokane for repairs. Dad started out as a contract worker at
C.C. Andersons, but got fed up when new employees at the
store got housing preference over him. He went to work at
Richland Jewelry, on the corner of the street leading down
to Riverside Park (now Amon Park, I think). I sometimes
walked from Marcus Whitman down to his store and watched
him working.
We first lived with my grandparents in a two-story duplex,
but there was some kind of problem with the way my
grandparents treated Walker, and we moved to a tiny green
trailer in North Richland. Trailers back then didn't have
bathrooms. Several trailers were grouped around a community
building with rest rooms, showers and laundry facilities. My
one memory of that is my mom and another mother with a kid
about my age bathing us in the big cement double sinks. I
have a vivid memory of the two of us splashing water on our
mothers while we were in the sinks.
We finally got to move to a ranch house (the houses that the
architect forgot to include bedroom closets, so portable
closets were built and advertised as moveable, an advantage
as you could rearrange the room occasionally). We went to
look at the house before the streets were paved and street
signs added. We got lost, but finally located it. We were
among the very first to move into that block, on Birch near
Duportail. Dad said he almost walked himself to death fixing
Saturday breakfast; in the trailer he could fix breakfast
standing in one place. Dawna BURNETT's ('62) family moved in
across the street.
Before Kindergarten, my mom worked developing the film from
radiation badges while I went to the government preschool. My
one memory from that experience was learning how to make the
very best paper airplanes. I can still do it. In Kindergarten
I met Marianne DURFEY ('62), who lived in the same block
on Cottonwood. I loved to play at her house - she had
a doll corner just like the school's, with wooden sink,
refrigerator, stove, doll bed and ironing board. I remember
the ironing board best. She was the first girl I ever kissed;
I'd pretend to be the Dad coming home from work, and I'd kiss
her like I saw my dad kiss my mom when he came home. Then I
did the ironing, which was good practice for college.
Dad eventually went to work for GE at the DR reactor as an
instrument specialist when there were watchmakers in every
drugstore. He caught the shuttle bus on Basswood, behind our
house.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Dou/190130_00.htm
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where I'm waiting for the
weather to warm up so I can use the pool again
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tina FRASER ('89)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
A thank you to David DOUGLAS ('62) for the pictures,
especially for the shots of the empty part of the North
Richland trailer park. Even got an old bathhouse or two in
there. Not only were they bathhouses, they also had a laundry
room across one end.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Dou/190130_00.htm
But enough of that. Today there is a Bomber celebrating a
birthday. I have previously alluded to the fact that we
"thesped" together on the Col-Hi Auditorium stage. I'll
say no more about that.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to
Gene BARFUSS ('53). As a perfect gift, be especially nice to
Treasure ('54).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the temps have gotten down to freezing, but not too
much more and definitely above zero.
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Bombermania/'79 Richland Basketball
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: High School Basketball News & Videos | Tri-City Herald
A very cool story and website from the TCH. Jeff Morrow does
a great job these days covering local high school sports
after several years of very little coverage.
-Gary TURNER ('71)
Sent from my iPhone
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