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Alumni Sandstorm Archive ~ MAY, 2020
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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/01/20 ~ MAY DAY
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
John ADKINS ('62), Marc LEACH ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ginger ROSE ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sylvia PLUMB ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug CARLSON ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Jess DANIEL ('67) & Nancie MILLIUS ('69)
Richland Bombers on Facebook
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Bombers_On_Facebook.htm
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: John ADKINS ('62)
I picked this up on the news
There are now more American deaths from Covid19 than all
the US deaths from the Viet Nam War.
Gives me pause to think
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)
Re: beautiful sagebrush cameos and earrings
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/20040501-Artwork.jpg
Those are my childhood art/business efforts. And I thought I
was the only craftsman to do this. Here's my inventory of
unsold artwork. Not enuf relatives to sell them all.
-Marc LEACH ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: May Day
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are
hard to beat. -Laura Ingalls Wilder
Re: If
For my graduation in 1964 an Aunt and Uncle sent me a
sterling silver bracket inscribed D. HAMMER. It is on a big
huge heavy chain that I don't understand because no one but
Popeye has big enough forearms to wear it. I would need a
jeweler to shorten it, but I never did because I never wanted
to wear it. Well, I ran across it a few days ago. It came
with a really high quality card inscribed with the words of
Rudyard Kipling. "If you can keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs . . ."
I have seen that written as a parody, "If you can keep your
head when all about you are losing theirs, chances are you
just don't understand the situation."
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I don't think it exactly fits the situation today, but
perhaps it is worth re-reading, even though Kipling would
probably be black-balled today because the last line is not
politically correct. . .
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling
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To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Scams and Spam
My understanding is you should just hit delete. Never send an
email or if they have a place to "unsubscribe" tell them you
don't want their garbage, because all that does is tell them
that they have a good email address.
I'm sure I wouldn't do it but I would be tempted to send them
a return email, telling them something like, "I am short on
funds in the US right now because all my money is still stuck
in Nigeria. I will pay up, but you will have to go to Nigeria
yourself and look up the Prince. Tell him I have authorized
him to pay you $800 in USD plus another $100,000 for your
inconvenience. Have a nice day."
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in sunny Kennewick; got out the hose,
bucket, sponge and washed my car so it is sure to rain
this weekend.
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Another Ancient Memory
Does anyone else remember a "travelling" blade sharpener who
came to town to hone scissors and knives? I don't know if he
came every year or every few. But I can remember my mom
gathering things for him to work on.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu 1949
[200501_03 and 07 -- SAYS PEACHES on the end
of one box, but it sure looks like potatoes
to me. -Maren]
To: All Bombers
The first time I saw these photos I went to find more
information about them. As you can see its agricultural in
nature, unlike 141 laboratory in F Area. Looks to be 40,50
acres or so and an old farm house. Anyone have information
about this place? There is nothing I've found in the years
I've looked. Anyone left in these photos would be 85 or 90.
There are quite a few of them so I'll have to make a few more
entries.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/02/20
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4 Bombers Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pat DORISS ('65)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack NICHOLS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan PHILLIPS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene RICHTER ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Merradyth TRUNNELL ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kevin LINN ('81)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
"Happy Birthday!" to Joan PHILLIPS and Jack NICHOLS (both
'54) on this occasion.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
Re: Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200501_00.htm
While checking and enlarging the series of photos that Don
Sorenson (NAB) submitted April 30th, the first photo (#01)
might have been taken along the Columbia River north of Pasco
with Rattlesnake Mountain in the hazy background. Also, in
the last two photos (#10 and #11), on the left side is a
white building with a smokestack (a power plant?) set back
from the river, which might be the Columbia River. Can anyone
confirm this?
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) ~ West Richland
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200501_00.htm
I have been told that the area must be Wahluke. But we are
asking further questions about the "Research Farm."
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Scams and Spam
Indeed, I don't respond to any spam and treat it like you
mention. I find it amusing (sometimes).
I particularly enjoy the videos where somebody is skilled at
stringing along some of the phone scammers. One woman in
particular is skilled at imitating the voice of a typical
answering system vocals. Another rather skilled IT type had,
within a couple of minutes of the start, located the building
the scammer was calling from and asked things like "are you
on the third floor?" and "I've been to that city and I love
the restaurant a block down the street [naming the street].
Can you meet me there?" Spooked the spammer.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200502_00.htm
To: All Bombers
So thinking a bit about the location of this research farm, I
compared the photos with google earth and it was located next
to the Hanford construction camp.
Project map - shows where everything was
A couple things come to mind, 1st a few historical records
say the camp was completely removed by late '47, 2nd if that
is true either the date of the photos is incorrect or the
camp wasn't removed entirely. There are three smoke stacks in
one of the images, a single next to the river and dual stack
closer to the 4 lane road. Maybe the contract didn't include
all the buildings? Oh well here are a few more images to
enjoy.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/03/20
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Phil GANT ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy ELY ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denise TODISH ('78)
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>>From: Phil GANT ('54)
Does anyone know what happened to those big old class
pictures of the '40s, '50s & perhaps '60s that used to adorn
the hallways of the old school?
-Phil GANT ('54)
Sent from Phil's iPhone
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/04/20
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Keith HUNTER ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Betti AVANT ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Hanford research farm
Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200501_00.htm
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200502_00.htm
I don't have any specific "intel" on the so-called Hanford
research farm, but can add a possible connection to it. In
1949, Columbia High started a school agriculture program,
with a school farm of 80 or more acres located roughly in the
areas where Hanford High and the Richland WSU campus are now
located. I was a "charter member student" of the program, as
were George BRUNSTAD ('52) and Richard GIBSON ('51). The high
school built a shop/classroom building on the site, and there
was a resident caretaker who lived there in an old farm house
that predated WW II.
The possible connection to a Hanford research farm is that
we were given a small herd of sheep (in 1950, I think) and
perhaps some hogs, by the Hanford operation. It was my
understanding that these animals were the healthy "control
specimens" for animals kept out in the area somewhere -
radiation testing, perhaps. I recall people coming to the
school farm and examining the sheep, taking blood/tissue/hair
samples etc.
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ now living just east of Hanford High
where I raised steers, alfalfa etc. in the early '50s...
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Sorenson Photos
Hanford Research Farm and Animals - Wahlu 1949
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200501_00.htm
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200502_00.htm
What does the label "Wahlu" 1949 mean? And, is it possible
that the year is in error?
The background hills in photos 03, 04, 05, 07 [from the
5/1/20 batch of pics. -Maren] look a lot like the part of the
unique White Bluffs formation running for miles along the
east shore of the Columbia River all the way to the Saddle
Mountains. This would mean that the photos were taken well
north of Richland and the barricade, and possibly (?) even
before 1944.
The bluffs look too much like the more moderate contours
near where I and others used to search for erosion-exposed
fossils, with some success. Still in possession is a verified
chunk of mastodon rock about 3 million years old and, from
the lowest strata, a perfectly shaped six-inch element of a
foot of some sort about 10 million years old (knuckle joint
and all). Identification was done by a Dr. Randy Brown,
collector/scientist member of the Hanford natural science
team. Never got most of our loaned specimen fragments back.
Unfortunate delay and then honest oversight. Harold BURGER
('62), two houses from where I lived, was reported to have
discovered part of a later mammoth skeleton, I think I recall
at least parts of a rib or two.
The White Bluffs were accessible via an unpaved river road
edging along the base, and well beyond the Ringold Fish
Hatchery, until huge washouts from above totally buried the
entry for maybe half a mile or more. Many decades ago
sometime shortly after 1960, and more washouts since. Today,
published trail guides do imply an access point from the east
and over the top edge. I do recall, too, again back in 1960
or so, climbing to the top to discover a single sagebrush
that must have been of Guinness World Book of Records
proportions (or maybe Ripley's Believe it or Not). The beast
was over twice as tall as any of us, so a single sagebrush a
full twelve feet in height. No camera, and long gone by now.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ nostalgically, in Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Keith HUNTER ('63)
Re: Rock and Roll Groups
Lately Ive been trying to remember any rock and roll groups
that came to Richland in the early '60s.
I remember Fats Domino, and Either the Wailers or Kingsmen
with "Louie Louie". What do you remember?
-Keith HUNTER ('63) ~ Still stuck in the '60s!
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Book update
Forecast for Feverish Fans. Well, I was prodded yesterday by
one of our '64 classmates for an update on the new novel,
and I realized it has been a while. So, here goes. The first
draft of the manuscript was essentially finished in late
January. I've never found it necessary to do re-writes, but
in the time since I've been over the entire thing at least
three times refining, plugging plot holes, looking for typos,
etc. All or part of it has been reviewed by two other
people, and I've been incorporating their suggestions. This
manuscript has been fussed over more than all my other books
combined (in retrospect, they should have had the same kind
of attention, but what did I know?). The manuscript will
go out to my formatter next week to prepare it for the
publisher. In the meantime, I've hired a cover artist who
lives in the U.K., and he's sent me initial samples of the
cover image he came up with. Though it needs a little
adjustment, it's going to be terrific! The book should be
ready for release sometime in June. But will it be released?
We in the writer community are in a bit of a quandary right
now as to whether we should launch a new book during the
virus pandemic. Book sales have actually gone up during the
crisis.I'm inclined to wait a little bit myself until at
least it seems like better times are ahead. Hate to
disappoint those who are waiting for it, but the time has got
to be right after all the effort I've put into it. So that's
where it stands now. Thanks to all those who are waiting for
it.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
The next All Bomber lunch for this coming Saturday, 9 May is
once again cancelled due to Governor Inslee's stay at home
order extending until at least 31 May.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: 8 BALL CLUB
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200504_00.htm
To: All Bombers
Anyone hear of the Behind the 8 Ball Club? Great shot of
Ganzels barbers and the person who shined shoes. Sorry I
can't remember his name {It's Otis. -Maren] I do know he has
roots back to the Manhattan Project and I wonder if he has
family still in the area? Any info would be great. Be Safe.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/05/20 ~ Cinco de Mayo
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10 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Karen COLE ('55), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Roy BALLARD ('63), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Irene WALDNER ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti COLE ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rance JONES ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janni WISE ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allison ALTMAN ('00)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
To: Dick WIGHT ('52),
Re: Ag Farm
I might be able to add a bit of information to the post
about the AG farm you and several others worked on.
I believe it was 1953, I got a job as a Lab Assistant in
300 area. We processed "sheep shit" (excuse the language -
it as actually pee - but that's what we called it) for
contamination. I think there were only 5 or 6 of us women
working on that particular project. Those indeed were not
the best smelling samples in the world (!), but I liked the
work. Didn't stay long. Got married and quit to go east (New
London, Connecticut) with Ray HUBBARD ('5- RIP) for his
Submarine school.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
A "Happy Birthday!" to Patti COLE ('52); who knew that
"Cinco de Mayo" was so important.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
To: Patti COLE ('52)
Happy birthday to sister Patti. So sorry we can't be there to
celebrate your special day. Between your kids and brother
John, I'm sure you will receive the attention you deserve.
They take such good care of you. Stay in, stay well,
We love you.
Karen ('55), Judie & Jackie ('63), and John ('66)
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Col-Hi Ag Program
We came to Richland in March 1949 and first lived on Atkins
St. I believe that one of our neighbors was Dennis Evans and
his father William Evans. Mr. Evans was the head of the Col-
Hi agriculture program. My dad drove me and my brothers out
to see the facilities there. He was on the Richland School
Board for many years, so that may have been the reason for
our field trip.
I remember the fields but not the animals, although I have a
vague recollection of some out-buildings that might have been
for animals. The fields were full of ground squirrels. Dennis
and his father were really nice and I always wondered what
happened to them after we moved to McMurray Street in the
fall of 1950. I think Dennis might have been in the Class of
'59, but I don't think they stayed in Richland.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Saturday I was able to escape the pandemic even if it was
only for 90 mins. TCM showed "Francis The Talking Mule" with
Donald O'Connor. It took me back to Saturdays at the Village
Theater. I think they made about seven of these movies. What
a wonderful and innocent time this was.
Then Sunday I watched the 1979 All-Star game play at the
King Dome in Seattle.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Sorenson photos
The second new set of Sorenson photos includes 08_369-49-neg-j.jpg)
which is--beyond any doubt--a view taken toward the northwest
and Rattlesnake Mountain (in the background), and overlooking
the Yakima River, from a point downstream of the Horn Rapids
bend.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200502_00.htm
As a fledgling in flatland Richland and ever on the lookout
for scenes that might be dressed up into more interesting
artwork, I several times sketched or painted Rattlesnake
Mountain. Still nondescript as artwork. . . but the subject
matter here is unmistakable. Photos tend to flatten what
the eye sees, but the overall contour of Rattlesnake in this
photo is certain, including the shoulder formation on the
left, the subtle notch halfway along the top ridge line,
the steeper front-side gullies facing into the Hanford
Reservation, and far distant, the faded rest of Rattlesnake
Ridge to the north (right).
And now, two tales about Rattlesnake.
First, on one occasion a group of us jumped the west fence
and climbed up the gentle backside to the top (exactly 3,531
feet!) where by eastern Washington standards the view is
fantastic, north and east over what is now the entire Hanford
Reach National Monument. The weather station was still up
there, but at some time was blown away by one of our
infrequent but famous windstorms. If memory serves, the wind
gauge read a gust of 120 mph. Also, there was a credible
account in the Tri-City Herald, I think, about a pickup truck
mysteriously found later a good distance down the east slope,
having been blown over the edge.
Second, the lower part of the east face of Rattlesnake levels
out into a gentler slope toward the flat lands. My thought is
that this odd contour is due to underwater slumping of the
original slope, during the Ice Age floods of 20-40,000 years
ago. Water that had backed up a half-mile deep behind ice
dams in Montana (Missoula area) repeatedly and dramatically
broke through for a two-week rampage on the way to the
Pacific-creating the Eastern Washington Scablands (the
such as the Grand Coulee, etc.). In the Richland area the
typically 500 cubic miles of water was still 800 feet deeper
than the trickling Columbia is today, reaching the tell-tale
distance up the east slope of our Rattlesnake Mountain.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA; and Richland--
connecting the Ice Age and Atomic Age
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
To: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
Frankie, Frankie, well you have now become part of the 3/4
[century] Club. Welcome. Anyway have a great day and don't
over do it. Still waiting for some place I can order
alligator (frozen) from also some of that circle sausage
from... Again. have a great day, ol' man...
-Roy BALLARD ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: OH OH... DISAPPOINTED AGAIN [5/3 SS - only 1 entry]
Oh oh... what happened to all the many posts this past
several issues? Of course, I can't talk as I've been very
neglectant in posting. We, here in Washington, were very
disappointed that the head guy said we needed to stay at
home at least another month. I'm so wanting the mall open up.
At least the book store. My grandson's birthday is coming
up on the 11th and they dearly want books. Went to Target
yesterday, but their selection is not good. They are reading
Chapter books this year.
Been busy with walking once again. Started a new puzzle as
well and of course, I'm going through books like they are
water. Haven't gotten any plants so far, but they are on my
list to buy. Church will be starting soon. I'm starting to
get used to watching church on line, but sure do miss all the
people. I'm a greeter and also hand out the bulletins. I miss
that.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
the wind blew in a cold front last evening
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: All is Right with the World
The Richland Spudnut Shop reopened today for take-out!
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
To answer Keith HUNTER ('63)
Re: Rock Bands that came to town.
You are a-speakin' my language! Oh, I was a frequent attendee
at the Rollarena! I saw Paul Revere and the Raiders more
than once. Yes, the Kingsmen. Maybe the Wailers. I think I
remember the Guess Who at the gym at CBC. I saw bands at the
Pasco Armory, also, but I don't know who. My hubby (Pasco
'72) remembers Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts coming through
town. As more folks speak up and answer, it will help me
remember more, too. Fun to look back...
-Irene WALDNER Russell ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200505-1949_Grazing.jpg
To: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) & Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Yes, it's the Columbia River and it is Wahluke Slope. The
farm, no doubt, belonged to a former Hanford resident. It
might even be the location of the stable where Hanford
workers could rent a horse to ride. The names of the people
in the photos, that's what I really want to know. To be able
to contact their family and provide information on what they
did. As everyone who reads the Sandstorm knows parents never
talked about their work. It's fun to put together a portrait
for them. I've done a few and it's been rewarding.
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
I believe I sent in a few photos of your farm. The research
farm you speak of was located in 100-F, the number
designation was 141. In all likelihood it was connected to
Hanford. I wonder if they donated a few of the sheep imported
from the UK?
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
I read a few site newspaper articles on Dr. Brown, I don't
know if he dates back to the Manhattan Project but he was the
expert on Hanford geology. I only saw him one time and that
was in a Kennewick care facility. Unfortunately I never took
the opportunity to speak to him. Going back to the bluffs, a
few years ago I read a wedding anniversary story of a couple
who carved their names in those bluffs, before the Government
take over, prior to their marriage. Did I ever tell you I
have two small labeled plastic bottles, your father's name
was on them. They were addressed to him while he worked at
222-S. Funny thing was I found them in the 235-5 Laboratory.
I tried to get them with the contents no luck there was a
witness. And no they weren't radioactive.
To All Bombers,
So staying with the farm theme apparently there was a grazing
area somewhere in The Village? Another note I have a photo,
not on my laptop, in my collection of some cows just a mile
or so away from 200 East area and it looks like the photo was
taken sometime in the late '60s, maybe??
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara KRAMER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwight BURKE ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Myrna BOLIN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leo BUSTAD ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brad PUGH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam CORRADO ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy PALMER ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leslie SCHILDKNECHT ('79)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Let us now take a moment to wish Barbara KRAMER ('54) a
"Happy Birthday!"
Keep safe.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Doctor Brown
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and Don Sorenson (NAB)
I believe that you guys have been referring to Don Brown,
geologist extraordinaire. If so, I worked with him in the
years 1980-1983 and maybe later. He was the head of Geology
at the Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP), and I was the
technical writer/editor and later publications manager there.
He did something that I have never forgotten. I went to his
office to ask about some aspect of geology on the Hanford
Site in regard to one of the many BWIP documents I worked on.
He was sitting at his desk and I was facing him from the
other side of the desk. To illustrate his point, he drew a
beautifully accurate map of Washington, the Columbia River,
and then the Hanford Site (I'm a lifetime Washingtonian
and studied geology at the UW, so I well understood how
accurate his map-making skills were). The part that was so
unforgettable is that he DREW THE MAP UPSIDE DOWN, so that
it was right side up for me! I have never seen such a feat
before or since. This is just a little vignette showing how
really skillful and accurate and dedicated to detail he was.
And such a mild and gentle man.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Scissors/Blade Sharpening
To Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
One of my father's hobbies for quite a while was blade
sharpening, and he had a serious collection of equipment
for it, so Mom never had incentive to use the travelling
practitioners. When Dad (Earl C. Bennett, Jr.) passed,
one of my brothers-in-law, Steve Hoffman (NAB), was more
interested than me in receiving that equipment (Mom, Bernice
"Beecie" Bennett - gave me first dibs). I assumed that it
would be a fairly time-consuming activity, and excess time
has never been very available to me, especially back then,
when I was full-time employed and a drilling Naval reservist
with several longer-term active duty stints during a number
of years. Even now, almost 8 years after retiring, I tend to
keep pretty busy most of the time.
Regards, ecb3
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
To: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: My age
Hey, Roy, thanks for the birthday greetings!! I'm not too
sure if hitting 75 is something to celebrate or mourn. I
told my wife if I wake up in the morning and something isn't
causing me a lot of pain, it would be the result of a miracle
or I'd know that I am probably dead!
Like everywhere else, most businesses except grocery and
drug stores and a few others are still closed. It saves a
lot of money from not eating out, but it has increased
spending on groceries and extra "stuff". Roy, look online...
type "frozen Louisiana alligator meat for sale." All kinds
of meat come up -- filets, sausage, nuggets and even a fake
3 piece alligator. They even have a real alligator head set
up with a remote for fun with wired friends at summer pool
parties!
Re: Ag Farm
I saw the Ag. Farm mentioned. I took ag. from 1959 until the
summer of 1963. It was the best learning experience ever!!!
FFA forever! Mr. Evans was a super teacher!! He took a bus
load of us to camp and fish in Yellowstone Park each year.
George BARNETT ('63 RIP) and Pitts ('63) (Jim ARMSTRONG) told
me that Mr. Evans ended up in a nursing home with Alzheimer's
where he eventually died. George said he visited him
frequently until the end. Sad ending for such a good man! He
and George are probably discussing experiences on the farm
behind the Golden Gates.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well and coping with this
Covid-19 mess.
-Frank WHITESIDE ('63) ~ Bayou Gauche, LA where I haven't
seen gators lately except a few "road kill" ones. Roy,
would you want some aged road kill alligator meat?
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Hi Maren, this is my first entry so not sure I'm doing this
correctly. I have been reading the daily Sandstorms, and want
to comment.
Entry:
Been almost 50 years since I jettisoned from Richland, ending
up in Seattle before being led by my "get me in trouble" nose
to Saipan, CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands) in 1980. Wouldn't change any of it.
I look forward to reading these daily entries. My dad, Leo,
started with GE in Schenectady, NY in 1942-'47, then with GE
in Richland in 1947-'48 where he met my mom, Sadelle, at a
Sadie Hawkins dance. That led to marriage, impregnation and
a move to GE San Francisco where I was born two weeks after
arrival in 1948. Brother Bob, was born in Berkeley in 1950,
then back to Richland in 1951. Dad worked with GE as an
electrical engineer all the way to 1965, then had turns with
Battelle NW, Douglas United Nuclear, Bechtel and Atlantic
Richfield Hanford.
Like I said, I like reading the entries. The pandemic has
given me time to slow down. Not unusual for me to find the
good in the bad. Who knows what will happen tomorrow, but I'm
sure my memories will be there always. The Sandstorm entries
bring my memories to the top.
Like today's about our beloved Spudnut Shop. I hope my
team photo still hangs there. We won the Little League
Championship in 1960, and always had milk shakes and Spudnuts
after every game. Mike SHEERAN ('66), Woody KESEL ('67-RIP),
the Brown brothers. City Champs. Then they' broke us up
for an All-Star team made of boys from the National League,
American League and the Columbia League. We never got out of
town toward Williamsport.
I recall lying in bed on Stanley Street next to the LDS
church listening to the Wailers play "Louie Louie" from the
old vacated grocery store at Uptown. 1965?
[That was the old C&H Foods. -Maren]
The huge ex-store front was between the NBC bank and the drug
store that sold us candy for a nickel for a receipt that got
us into the Uptown Theater's free show on Saturday mornings.
Mr. Stiles, Uptown's manager, kicked me & Stan KAVECKIS ('67)
out of the theater FOR LIFE (1964) for plugging up the
toilets. Harry WALKER ('67) and I used to smoke a joint and
walk in the exit backwards when the early show was getting
out (1971).
Had lunch in 1999 with Michael Heyman, the Smithsonian
Institute's Secretary. The controversial Enola Gay exhibits
did not end my life as a part of the bomb story. When I moved
to Saipan in 1980 it was eerie going into WWII Japanese
bunkers, when Japanese tourists visiting the sites, were
leaving sake and incense at the site of where a dad or uncle
died. I recall thinking how strange it was; them from Japan
and me from the Atomic City.
Goodness, I do go on.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
EMBO
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Pam EHINGER ('67), Lee BUSH ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff HARTMAN ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diana BENNETT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick STEPHENS ('66/'67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathi CLARK ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dorothy BUSH ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laverne VANDENBERG ('76)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: The Geology thingy
Reference has been made to the eastern Washington Scablands
left over from the Ice Age floods, and to Dr. Brown, the
Hanford geology expert, and so on. Two added memories, here:
First, as some of us were going through high school (early
1960s), the scientific world finally admitted to the
biblical-like floods, first proposed in 1922-amidst much
ridicule from the prevailing scientific consensus-by one
Harlan J. Bretz (d. 1981), ergo, the "Bretz floods". The
science of geology graduated from a cyclops mindset to a
perspective including both "uniformitarianism" (slow geologic
changes) and abrupt "catastrophism." Seafloor spreading,
continental drift and plate tectonics soon found a placed at
the table as well. An exciting time for science-town students
to get hooked on the earth sciences.
Second, long before this paradigm shift, in the late 1940s
there was an even more momentous discovery of both geologic
and human interest. When I and identical twin brother John
were not more than four years old, we became concerned at
the overheard post-World War II and parental expression
that "the world is shrinking." (Something about daily news
and air travel, but that was not explained.)
So, the two of us ventured forth to test this disturbing
hypothesis. In our south end of town, we inspected our front
and side yards, the nearest neighbors' yards (even across the
street!) and especially the seal-coat gravel roadways and
sidewalks.
Our theory? We were quite sure that we would discover tell-
tale cracks beneath our feet, somewhere. We looked closely.
After evaluating our random sample, we arrived at the
unanimous consensus that there was not even a single crack.
Returning triumphantly through the front door we announced to
our very relieved mother that there was nothing to worry
about after all-the earth was not shrinking.
With this early interest and new expertise, brother John did
a Science Fair project or two, and eventually went beyond the
neighborhood to the University of Washington and Stanford
to pick up a Ph.D. in geology (researching the San Andreas
Fault, a big crack after all!), and in later years to become
the head the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral
Industries.
I, for my part, had already exceeded my pay grade for any
such skills and drifted into the Navy for three years.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ now straddling land and sea in
Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY: 5/7/20
Re: Sorenson's picture of Barbers and Otis
My question is this: Does anybody know how much it cost to
have Otis shine shoes?
I must have watched him shine shoes. I remember being in
Ganzel's once... I can hear the "pop" of the shoe shine
clkoth... and I had to be young... I'd say younger than 10.
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
OH MY! THIS IS NEWS...
Four-time (and youngest) winner, Dallas Seavey will enter the
2021 Iditarod... his dad, three-time (and oldest) winner,
Mitch, will NOT race next year... They are combining dogs for
Dallas to train. 2017 was the last race for Dallas... Mitch
came in 1st and Dallas came in 2nd in 2017. As Dallas likes
to say "In order to finish first, first you must finish."
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 74° at midnight
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Perry GRUVER ('52-RIP) Obituary
It did not show up on the link that was sent. Perry was a
good friend of my dad's, Max Ehinger. My Dad is 93 now &
doing good! Daddy & Momma, shes' 93 also, both alive & well!
So if you could send me the Obituary of Perry, that would be
Great!
Stay Safe!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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[Sorry... sometimes there's not even that much
information when I post in the "Heard About"
section... the link was supposed to go to the
TCH's death notices for thata day... You hadda
scroll to find Gruver's. No idea when (or if)
the TCH will post an actual obit. -Maren}
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>>From: Lee BUSH ('68)
Re: Birthday Wishes to Dorothy BUSH Vowels ('72)
I hope this makes it into the May 7th issue of the Alumni
Sandstorm; but, if not, it's never too late to wish our Baby
Sister "Dorth", Dorothy Anne BUSH Vowels, age 66, Happy
Birthday from her two loving older brothers, Gary & Lee.
Dorth's journey began in May, 1954 being born at the
"original" Kadlec and being brought home to 1310 Haupt Ave.,
where we lived. December, 1956 we moved to 218 Atkins Ave. In
April, 1973, she married Chris Vowels ('71-RIPin'17), made a
life together, ended up living in Richland and had three non-
Bomber daughters. Dorth still resides in Richland.
Be sure to call her & wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday DOROTHY!
Love from your Brothers Gary BUSH ('66) & Lee BUSH ('68)
-Lee BUSH ('68)
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Dwight CAREY ('68), Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty BELL ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim McFALL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis BARR ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug RATHBUN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patty DE LA BRETONNE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michael R. HOGAN ('70)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Rick DENNIS and Ally SMITH ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gotta take a moment to wish fellow Thespian Jim McKEOWN ('53)
a "Happy Birthday!" Keep on having them and defy all odds.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Ken Russell, retired teacher (RIP)
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/misc/63RussellKen.jpg
Einan's website - Mr. Russell (RIP)
Mr. Ken Russell spent 30 years teaching grades 6 through 12
in the Richland School District. He was the lead math teacher
at both Chief Jo and Hanford High School teaching 7th grade
pre-algebra, 9th grade Geometry, and Advanced Algebra,
Trigonometry, and Calculus in high school. Also, he was the
golf coach at both Chief Joseph and Hanford High schools.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Russell.
Re: Ernest Unruh, retired teacher (RIP)
Mr. Unruh passed away April 10, 2020. He taught at Col High
in the late '60s and then transferred to Hanford High School
when it opened until his retirement in 1984.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Unruh.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
Re: Otis
Maren -
I don't know how much it cost to have Otis shine shoes, but
he must have been very wise beyond what most people realized.
I bought my first piece of property from him.
It was Lot 45, Section 6 Badger Heights, West Richland.
Situated directly above the Burnett Junk Yard above Van
Giesen with a terrific view North. (Not so much below)
This lot was 1.6 acres, and I bought it for $3,000, payments
of $60 a month to Otis. He told me the story of how he got
that lot... The Government held drawings for each lot in that
section of land... Most lots were 2.5 acres.
The would-be purchasers put their names in a hat, and someone
pulled the lot numbers and names... Sold for $50 a lot. This
one was on the edge of the section, and all the edge lots
were 1.6 acres.
I believe he had more than one. When his health started
failing him, I paid him the balance owed. I sold it later for
someone wanting to build a house on it. Otis ended up being a
good friend of myself and my Dad.
-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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>>From: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
Re: Barbers and Otis
I don't know how much Otis charged to shine your shoes, but I
did have many encounters with Otis.
Prior to graduation ('70) I made all my money mowing lawns
all over Richland. One summer I mowed the grass at Ganzel's.
Otis was in charge of the lawn. After I mowed the grass, Otis
would come out and check my work. If I didn't put his hose
back exactly the way it was, I heard about it. After fixing
it (if needed) we would go back inside and he would pay me,
can't remember how much I got, but was probably 2-3 dollars.
Sometimes I would spend it right then and get a haircut from
Mr. King.
Sometimes I would mow the grass early before the barber shop
opened, as there was a strip of grass out by the street in
the back (Jadwin) and if cars were parked there, I couldn't
mow everything and Otis didn't like that either. So, I would
mow early and unless Otis came outside to check on me, I just
came back later to get paid.
Now I don't think there is any grass at Ganzel's.
Summers were great in Richland, always had lots of lawns to
mow.
-Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Going back to my May 1st post and looking at photo
5/2/20 pic #08 -- j That photo was taken in the potato field
and the angle shows a view further North towards the reactor
areas. A couple other points why its not the Yakima, the East
side of it, was A E C property, there wasn't a farm there.
Look closely at that picture -- way in the background, to the
right and in the haze you will see Rattlesnake, the mountain
in the fore front is Gable Mt. The river is wide and could be
attributed to the '49 flood but unlikely.
Re: Maren's Comment
5/1/20 pic #3 and 5/1/20 pic #7
The comment Maren made about the potatoes means they were
harvesting them, a few months after the '49 flood.
Going back to Gable, on the other side of it was a Plutonium
storage vault. Big Simpson's crew used to load containers of
Pu out of it and transport them to Los Alamos.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Karen COLE ('55)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry LUKINS ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Bill & Mary BAILEY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TEEPLE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Val TRENT ('70)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Don Sorenson (NAB) pics
n the pics of the ladies in the shade of a tree cutting
potatoes, appear to be cutting for planting! being sure to
have at least one eye on each slice. It had to be for a small
field as they were far to relaxed for a decent size potato
farm.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from sunshiny Hanford, CA where all I
know about potatoes is that they come in the form of
French fries!
Monday, 6/11/20, we will find out just how bad my
wife's cancer really is. been 3 months getting this
far. Hanford, CA medical is on Island time. tomorrow
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Happy birthday to you two. Sorry not to see you this year
Mary. Bill always cooks something special for you and his
daughter Judy born on your special day. Maybe we can
celebrate later when we are set free. Until then, have a
wonderful day you two.
Love, the Cole Clan
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
I cannot figure out your description of the photo regarding
Gable Mountain and Rattlesnake unless the photo is taken from
across the Columbia in Franklin County, north northeast of
Gable Mountain, looking south southwest. The mountain to the
right, off in the haze, almost looks more like the western
end of the Saddle Mountains across the Columbia toward
Wanapum, rather than Rattlesnake, but I guess you are right
about it being Rattlesnake.
I spent 27-1/2 years editing and managing documents on the
Hanford Site and looking at maps of the entire area, and I
actually toured the inside of the Near-Surface Test Facility
(NSTF) inside Gable Mountain when it was part of the Basalt
Waste Isolation Project (BWIP). The NSTF has been gone since
restoration of Gable Mountain several years ago.
Some of your submissions to the Sandstorm really get my
pseudo-geology juices going!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
With regard to the recent farm photo, well, I got that
wrong; not an entirely new experience. . . But as for the
background, I took the structure and trees to be the two-
story farmhouse at Horn Rapids Dam (removed only recently),
and the seasonal harvesting convict labor camp on the north
side of the bend. But, Rattlesnake is recognizable enough in
the far distance now that you point it out.
As for the collectors-item plastic bottles (radiation
detection samples) with my father's name on them, he spent
a lot of his career at both 200W and then 200E "canyon
buildings" (PUREX and REDOX), before retiring in 1973. I
seem to recall (?) in the earliest years versions of these
mysterious bottles coming home from time to time (monthly?),
wrapped in brown paper and periodically left on our porch in
a metal box for pickup. Does that ring a bell? Ours was a
corner house, so the mailman would always leave a collection
of magazines on our porch tied together with a leather strap.
For us little kids it was "hands off;" with his lightened
bag he was coming back to make a second round in the
neighborhood.
Offices in the canyon buildings had no windows (eight
stories of bleak concrete and I think 800 feet long), so my
privileged task while still in grade school was to do my best
artwork to be taped to the wall "at work" as a substitute.
Dad recalled, too, on one occasion in the early 1950s when he
caught a glimpse of Enrico Fermi in the parking lot during a
Hanford visit. (Fermi conducted the first successful self-
sustained nuclear reaction in late 1942, under the bleachers
at the University of Chicago--the beginning of the Manhattan
Project which he helped lead.) Also recalled was the
spectacular view from the rooftop during night overtime--a
lightning storm with dozens of small lightning-strike grass
fires in all directions.
Then there was the business of being "on call." No cell
phones, so there was a rotation of hanging around the house
all weekend to handle any trouble over the landline. I recall
being wakened often by the phone in the kitchen, and then
muffled phone conversations sometimes lasting an hour or two.
The longest call was for a fire sweeping through a large part
of the basement level. Just "another day at the office" (!),
or what we today call "working from home."
Also, at home in the early years we had milk delivered to
the porch in those solid-glass quart bottles. The lids were
innocently pre-tamper-proof with only a thin, pull-top
cardboard lid. In the wintertime a tendency to begin to
freeze. We seemed to have more snow back then, and hotter and
drier days in the summer. Only a few annual inches of rain
prior to [micro] climate change [!] from all the irrigation.
Even in that, we were ahead of our time.
[Our Darigold milkman, Jerry, would actually
enter the house through the back door -- often
times during breakfast -- and put our milk in
the fridge... -Maren]
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA recalling the good ol' daze
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Karen COLE ('55)
Ron HOLEMAN ('56), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Linda REINING ('64), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck LOLLIS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don ANDREWS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon NELSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: LeeAnne HARDING ('83)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzanne CHRISTENSEN ('85)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne BUSSMAN ('98)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Taking a moment to thank all Bomber Mothers: past, present
and future, for their invaluable service.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
I TALKED TO A MAN TODAY...
I talked with a man today, an 80+ year old man.
I asked him if there was anything I can get him
while this Corona virus scare was gripping America.
He simply smiled, looked away and said:
"Let me tell you what I need! [pause] I need to
believe, at some point, this country my
generation fought for [pause] I need to believe
this nation we handed safely to our children and
their children [pause]...
I need to know this generation will quit being
a bunch of sissies... that they respect what
they've been given... that they've earned what
others sacrificed for."
I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or
if it was going anywhere at all. So, I sat there,
quietly observing.
"You know, I was a little boy during WWII. Those
were scary days. We didn't know if we were going
to be speaking English, German or Japanese at the
end of the war. There was no certainty, no
guarantees like Americans enjoy today.
And no home went without sacrifice or loss. Every
house, up and down every street, had someone in
harm's way. Maybe their Daddy was a soldier,
maybe their son was a sailor, maybe it was an
uncle. Sometimes it was the whole damn family...
fathers, sons, uncles...
Having someone, you love, sent off to war... it
wasn't less frightening than it is today. It
was scary as Hell. If anything, it was more
frightening. We didn't have battlefront news. We
didn't have email or cell phones. You sent them
away and you hoped...you prayed. You may not hear
from them for months, if ever. Sometimes a mother
was getting her son's letters the same day Dad
was comforting her over their child's death.
And we sacrificed. You couldn't buy things.
Everything was rationed. You were only allowed so
much milk per month, only so much bread, toilet
paper. EVERYTHING was restricted for the war
effort. And what you weren't using, what you
didn't need, things you threw away, they
were saved and sorted for the war effort. My
generation was the original recycling movement
in America.
And we had viruses back then... serious viruses.
Things like polio, measles, and such. It was
nothing to walk to school and pass a house or two
that was quarantined. We didn't shut down our
schools. We didn't shut down our cities. We
carried on, without masks, without hand
sanitizer. And do you know what? We persevered.
We overcame. We didn't attack our President, we
came together. We rallied around the flag for the
war. Thick or thin, we were in it to win. And we
would lose more boys in an hour of combat than we
lose in entire wars today."
He slowly looked away again. Maybe I saw a small
tear in the corner of his eye. Then he continued:
"Today's kids don't know sacrifice. They think
sacrifice is not having coverage on their phone
while they freely drive across the country.
Today's kids are selfish and spoiled. In my
generation, we looked out for our elders. We
helped out with single moms whose husbands were
either at war or dead from war. Today's kids rush
[to] the store, buying everything they can... no
concern for anyone but themselves. It's shameful
the way Americans behave these days. None of them
deserve the sacrifices their granddads made.
So, no I don't need anything. I appreciate your
offer but, I know I've been through worse things
than this virus. But maybe I should be asking
you, what can I do to help you? Do you have
enough pop to get through this, enough steak?
Will you be able to survive with 113 channels on
your TV?"
I smiled, fighting back a tear of my own... now
humbled by a man in his 80s. All I could do was
thank him for the history lesson, leave my number
for emergency and leave with my ego firmly tucked
in my rear.
I talked to a man today. A real man. An American
man from an era long gone and forgotten.
We will never understand the sacrifices. We will
never fully earn their sacrifices. But we should
work harder to learn about them... learn from
them... to respect them.
~ Courtesy of Craig Dew
Great lesson and message. Stay safe!
Dr. Rob Quesada
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
For: ALL Richland Bomber Alumni
We invite you to check-out the "new look" Columbia
High/Richland High School Alumni web site which Maren has
linked up in the Sandstorm. To access the web site, open the
link http://RichlandBombers.com located near the bottom of
each Alumni Sandstorm, and then very close to the top of that
page click the Club 40 link.
Our new web master is 1970 Columbia High School graduate,
Daniel LAYBOURN. A big thank you to Maren for recommending
and connecting us to Daniel.
Bomber Cheers!!
-Ron HOLEMAN ('56) ~ Richland
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Enrico Fermi
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Not only did Enrico Fermi visit Hanford, he stayed awhile and
worked in the 3706 Building. When I worked in that building
in the '80s and '90s, there was a lab at the back end
(southeast corner) that we called the Fermi Lab. I don't know
how long he actually worked there, but I do know that it had
contained "hot stuff" and the walls of the room later were
covered with some kind of fixer and special paint. No one
was allowed to chip or put holes in the walls (no picture
hanging) because of the possibility of breaking through to
the "hot stuff."
Several places in the halls of the building had big heavy
metal doors with elaborate lifts that could be closed in case
of radiation emergency. I'm sure that many Hanford buildings
had such doors. Those doors were a constant reminder to
people who worked there (I was in a publishing group,
nothing "hot") that we were in the middle of truly dangerous
substances and that we needed to respect and obey the rules
for alarms and emergency events, for which we sometimes had
drills. As contractors changed over the years, I observed
that incoming employees didn't always understand the real
importance of following all the safety rules and guidelines.
I always wondered if someday some newer person might dismiss
the cautions and cause a problem! Never happened when and
where I was, however.
When I moved out of the 3706 building for the last time,
my 26 boxes of files and materials had to undergo a
strict surveillance to ensure that nothing registered as
being radioactive. But, hey, they didn't survey me for
radioactivity, just the boxes of papers. And that was after
they took away our dosimeters as not being necessary. Go
figure!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62) mentioned milk being delivered in glass
bottles and left on the porch... I remember those bottles,
too. Does anyone remember having milk delivered from
Darigold?? (or Carnation, I can't remember which), in the
1970s? Loved being able to order milk and yogurt... the
milkman would leave them on the porch in a crate... I
remember rinsing out the milk bottles and putting them back
in the crate, for him to pick up, on the next delivery...
wonder how many years that continued? When we lived in
Bakersfield, CA we had a local, drive-thru dairy... bought
milk, in either quart, half-gallon or gallon cartons (always
thought milk tasted much better in glass), yogurt, butter and
any other dairy products you wanted.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
You're right... they are getting potatoes ready to
plant, good eye! I wonder if the relaxed look is at
the photographer's request?
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Good point: mentioning it was on the Franklin side of the
river would have helped with the description. Near Surface
Test Facility (NSTF). Wow what a project! I remember when
Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) started. They put a
single wide trailer next to 222-S for some of the scientists
and presumably management. We lost a few Chem Techs to
that project it was a raise in pay and the overtime was
like drinking from a fire hose. I applied for one of the
positions, unfortunately it didn't work out or was it? After
a few years the project was canceled and folks were moved to
other positions or simply laid off. I was never lucky enough
to visit the tunnel, the photos I have of it show some
spectacular work. Too bad Nevada was picked but would it have
stood a chance in Olympia?
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
The bottles contained metal shavings to use as a standard.
The canyon buildings very impressive structures and the view
is spectacular from the roof I can imagine what it was like
for your dad. I'm sure there were plenty of others who took
in the view.
Going back to the once-a-month bottles on the porch, I think
that was standard for Plutonium workers in the '50s. If you
had an accident involving Pu, you received them more often.
In the early years at Los Alamos the doctor would prescribe
beer to quickly gather liquid for analysis after wards. To
my knowledge that wasn't done here. The leather strap? Hmm
wonder what that was. Long phone conversations about process
problems were common place. I spoke with an engineer who had
a set of process drawings at home. Definitely a one off!! I
wonder how security handled that, phones were tapped from
time to time. Interesting Fermi was in town. The fire in the
basement if he was referring to one of the canyon buildings
it was called the storage gallery in the originals. REDOX did
have a few fires in the early years... could have been one of
them. At some point I'll have to send in some photos of REDOX
and PUREX.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Don LYALL ('52), Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Vicki OWENS ('72), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill McCUE ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stan HICKS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Colleen BROWNE ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob DANA ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave DORAN ('72)
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>>From: Don LYALL ('52)
To: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Karen, loved your 5/10/20 entry about us 80 year olds.
-Don LYALL ('52)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Milk!
I do not recall Darigold... but Carnation was the one we got
milk from. I also had a small part time job with them in 1951
or 52. I also played third base for the Carnation soft ball
team in 1954.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ in lovely Hanford, CA where today I no
longer play third base and am thinking of moving from
2nd fiddle to 3rd dozer on the left.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
When I started at GE following graduation, I worked in the
700 area as a classified messenger. That meant a lot of shoe
leather walking around the 703 building. In September, the
guy who was doing the same job in 2 West was either going
to o college or he got drafted; so I took over his job.
About a week or two after I started out there, the empty
glass beakers started showing up on the front porch. Although
I did make deliveries and pick-ups in the big building and an
occasional trip to the "B" reactor don't think I came too
near the "product". Never-the-less, I made my contributions
to GE's latest plan of "better living through urinalysis."
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Well, now we're really getting into it. Regarding the routine
of being "on call," you write that you "spoke with an
engineer who had a set of process drawings at home."
Absolutely forbidden and compromising security violation!
So, here's an untold story about a best-friend neighbor lady
who actually figured out Hanford well before Hiroshima and
Nagasaki...
Across the street from us on Douglass Ave. was the family of
I.S. (his initials). Two boys (Steve, and David my age) and
later a baby girl (Jackie). (When I was seven, they moved to
Wheatridge, Colorado, in 1952.) I recall, in the latter
1940s, I.S. used to visit early on Sunday morning, still in
his bathrobe, to read for free our Sunday paper on the living
room floor, especially the funnies.
Decades later my mother recalled the day in early 1945 or
before, when I.S.'s wife (Lucille) confided that what was
being put together at "the plant" was none other than an
atomic bomb. This discovery at least six months before the
story exploded onto the global landscape and every front
page.
How did she know this? It seems that I.S. had nothing more
than an advanced chemistry book laying around the house.
Lucille absentmindedly flipped it open and cruised across the
pages and columns of microscopic chemistry equations. But,
what's this? A single and very light pencil mark in the
margin next to the telltale equation. She "got it."
(The only alternative clue came in Rick Donnell's priceless
Dupus Boomer cartoon series, where Dupus smuggles home from
Hanford a roll of toilet paper in his lunch pail. His alert
wife asks if that treasured product is what's being secretly
produced at the plant.)
An isolated pencil jot undoes the greatest military secret
of all time! No Enigma Machine needed. A lesson in there
somewhere. Arthur Conan Doyle would be jealous.
A second tale, shorter. While a second-grader, at family
Friday-night out (the public North Star Theater in Camp
Hanford and managed by a Mr. Honeywell), I had taken in a
black-and-white thriller mixing a getaway car with the first
atomic bomb test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The car and
passengers are caught in the zone and blown away like a leaf
in a tornado. Then, in a class assignment (Lewis & Clark
Elementary), we were to draw a picture having anything to do
with "safety."
I fitted a mushroom cloud in the upper left of the page, some
damaged buildings, a fire truck in the lower left and in the
lower right an overturned truck-not even airborne, but simply
overturned. The lad seated next to me scoffed at my upside-
down truck: "nothing could ever do that... " It is said that
one reason we back into so many bad things is that we refuse
to imagine what we know.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA keep on truckin'
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Question for "Stormers
Where is Tim?
Little sister, Julie ('69wb) sent this picture to Smyth
siblings. We wee brother Tim ('62) and our turquoise '59
Studebaker Lark, but we're having trouble deciding where he
is. It's GOT to be Richland, but it's NOT our Perkins Street
front yard... the background behind Tim's head isn't right
for it to be Perkins. Can anybody tell us where Tim is in
this picture?
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 71°F at 1am
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Milk door
I remember milk being delivered to the front step or porch if
they had one. Lot of houses still had a porch in the '50s. At
the time the '50s turned into the '60s we lived on an orchard
out in the country and I don't remember seeing any milk being
delivered out there, and we didn't have a cow. (although my
wife accuses me of having a cow now and then) In 1961 we
moved to Richland and it may have been still being delivered,
but I don't remember ever seeing it. In 1955, about a month
after Disneyland opened the family made a trip to California.
I had two sets of Aunts and Uncles living there, one in Santa
Monica. They had a house that if you go in the front driveway
then on the side of the house past the living room and maybe
there was a family/dining room, then the kitchen. In the wall
just a little above the kitchen counter lever was a little
door. At least one side of it was stamped metal with louvers
stamped in it. The milk man could open that little door and
leave a bottle of milk there from the outside and those on
the inside could open the little door and take the milk. I
don't know if it was ever used for milk, but that is where
they hid a key to the house.
In 1970, while in the Navy I was moving my "new" wife to San
Diego. Well, we had been married six months, but the Navy
sent me on a six months cruise, sans wife. We were getting
close to Los Angles and it was getting dark and raining.
(This was November, just a couple days before Thanksgiving)
Seems we were on a hill and there was a rest stop there, I
could see the traffic was backed up and stop and go, so I
pulled into the rest stop to wait. Seems we waited there
quite awhile and the traffic was still backed up to the same
point, so I started the car and got "on the road again." Stop
and go forever, I don't know how many miles and how much
time. Then I saw an exit sign for Santa Monica and thought,
I've had enough of this, we will stop at their place. (I had
stopped by two years earlier coming back from Boot Camp
leave) No answer at the door so I thought, after 15 years
they still keep that key hidden. We let ourselves in and
watched TV. Then they rang the bell, said they did not know
who the strange car was and wanted to be cautious about
coming in. Uncle explained to me that reason for all the
backed up traffic was first rain since Spring or so and
because of oil and rubber on the streets made the roads
slick.
Wondered if anyone has seen a Milk Door, or whatever it is
called. That is the only one I have ever seen or heard tell
of. It was just the width of the wall and not very big. Don't
know if it would take 1 or 2 qts, of maybe a 1/2 gal.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ LA Freeway, aka World's Longest
Parking Lot
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>>From: Vicki OWENS ('72)
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
I'm loving your memories! Having never worked at Hanford and
learned young not to ask questions about "The Area", it's
great to hear your experience.
A question for my Sandstorm elders, but first the back story.
My parents were among those who responded to the newspaper
ads to join the war effort in the Central Washington dessert.
Mom boarded the train in Louisiana with a chum in 1943, at
the age of 20, expecting to spend the minimum time to earn
her return ticket home. Fortunately or unfortunately she met
Dad at the Thanksgiving Day Dance soon after arrival, they
married exactly seven months later, and Richland became her
home. I've heard that if you worked six months you got your
return ticket paid, and I've also heard three months. How did
that work? How did you sign up and what happened upon
arrival? I'd love to hear this story!
I remember reading in one of the books about WWII-era
Hanford, I forget which, that Enrico Fermi worked in Richland
for a season, but it was so extremely Top Secret that even
his paychecks were made out to "Eric Farmer".
-Vicki OWENS ('72) ~ in lockdown in Kampala, Uganda
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To; Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
3706 was a research laboratory used to solve process issues
in the 200 Areas. I suspect for only the bismuth and
lanthanum process. The "hot" walls are from those research
issues. Like the 222 buildings most of the work was done
on bench tops and hot solutions were splashed from those
benches to be sure. Removal of old equipment is another
source of contamination spreads. About 25 or so years ago I
attended a luncheon with many members who were part of the
early years. I wished I had a tape recorder while I listened
to their stories, it was cool. One in particular came to mind
from a rather tall fellow who was involved with the early
years of the REDOX process. There were glass columns packed
with glass racheing rings. An organic solution was introduced
at the bottom so it could pass thru the aqueous solution. The
glass rings posed a problem, the organic would get hung up by
them. The solution, use a rubber mallet and "tap" the sides
of the columns. The solution was mildly radioactive with
mixed fission products and plutonium. Maintenance painted the
floor before the apparatus was setup, if I was a betting man
I'd say it was to cover contamination from previous accidents
or equipment removal. At one point the organic was really
stubborn and the person who was to "tap" must have been
exasperated with the lack of progress moving the organic to
the top. The organic solution removed the paint, it and the
organic went down the floor drain. The heavy doors were fire
doors, just like those in Richland grade schools. 3706 was a
cool building. I had the opportunity to go into the attic to
look for Plutonium in the vacuum lines. There was a copper
still used to make distilled water. I tried to get the still
out of the building but the Radiation monitor group wouldn't
hear of it, they just didn't want to be bothered. I did
procure the lock used to lockout the operation. Yes it's
clean, just like that still. Stephanie if you remember on the
south side there was a large room where the walls were
thicker and if I remember correctly the entry was like a
labyrinth. That was the counting room. Photography lived in
3706 and there was a 1st aid station on the East side in the
late '60s or early '70s. 3706 a storied place in Hanford
history.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
David DOUGLAS ('62), Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Linda BELLISTON ('63)
Carol REDISKE ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve BOCK ('67)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Milk!
After my short sprint thru the navy! 1953/'54, I lived in an
apartment building! The Saint Francis Arms, in L.A. near the
Wilshire district. We called it the "broken arms". There was
a Milk door. A small 18 by 18 inch door in the hall way to
each apartment. about 14 inches thru the wall was another
door that was secured with a latch. You would have your milk
delivered thru that passage, but we used it for a more
serious problem. Our morning News paper was also placed in
there. In hopes to prevent some neighbor from liberating it.
Some mornings the milk bottles would be rather wet due to the
ice placed over the cartons in the milk truck. The news paper
being delivered earlier would be on the floor and the milk
would be placed on top. frequently leaving a large soaked
spot right thru the center of the paper. Making it hard to
read due to the now delicate wet paper. WE had to switch
papers to an afternoon delivery of the now defunct L.A.
Examiner. (only marginable better than the S.F. Call
Bulletin). Ah the memories the Sandstorm generates).
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ in lovely downtown Hanford,CA where I
day dream that the Sandstorm can not only recall
your youth, it can restore it!
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Milk in glass bottles left on the porch.
Yes I remember the milk truck coming down our street and
leaving quart jars of milk on our porch early in the morning.
I also remember one very cold day finding the broken glass
all over our porch and the frozen solid milk standing upright
on the porch. I also remember my mother pouring the cream
from the top of the milk bottles into a small jar and then
shaking it hard for long periods of time to get clumps of
butter during rationing before the end of WW II.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: Milk
My home had milk deliveries to the front door, but I also
have vague memories of a milk bottle dispensing machine
located (to the best of my memory) near Dietrich's Market on
Duportail and Wright. The cost, as I recall, was fifty cents.
You deposited two quarters and the machine gave you a gallon
of milk in a glass bottle. I don't know what one did with the
empty bottle, but I'm sure it was recycled some way. If
anyone else remembers this, perhaps they can fill in the
details.
Re: Another subject
I spent five days in the hospital due to an infection of
unknown origin. It began with tremors throughout my whole
body. When they didn't display any sign of going away my
wife called the ambulance. I only recall a fire truck with
paramedics showing up, but don't remember what they did, if
anything. Then I recall the ambulance arriving and I was put
on a gurney, but the next thing I remember was being in the
emergency room. I had a fever over 103 and was admitted to
the hospital. Neither blood or urinalysis tests showed
what the infection was, so I was put on two broad-spectrum
antibiotics. My fever went down and white blood cell counts
reduced from 22 to 11, the high end of normal. With no other
ideas about the infection, the doctor ordered a Covid-19
test, even though he didn't think I had it. The test was only
done in ICU, so I was transferred there. It took four days to
get the results back - negative. My left foot and leg were
swollen, so the doctor decided it might be cellulitis.
My wife was tired of the doctor not being able to identify
what was wrong, so she insisted I transfer to Banner Gateway
hospital. My son was in Banner hospitals for his liver
treatment and transplant, and I had my heart bypass surgery
at Banner Heart Hospital. When I told the doctor I wanted
to be discharged, he checked all my vital signs and said
everything was normal, I could just go home, I didn't need to
go to Banner. He called in prescriptions to a local pharmacy,
including two antibiotics to complete my 10-day regimen.
Unfortunately, instead of two different antibiotics, he had
sent two prescriptions for the same antibiotic, with two
different amounts. The pharmacist and I both called the
hospital to get one of the prescriptions corrected, but the
doctor never responded. So my wife says I'm going to Banner
next time (if there is a next time).
I saw my PCP shortly after being discharged, and when I told
him my wife had called the ambulance, he said, "You have a
good wife. You could have died." I knew the first part, but
not the second.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where the swimming pool is
maintaining a comfortable temperature
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Hope everyone had a nice quarantined Mother's Day!! I got
calls from my kids, and my son here brought my grandkids here
over for a few moments, but the wind came up and it got too
cold for a driveway visit.
I enjoy reading about all the history of what happened at the
area and around Richland when I was growing up, before and
after.
Richland provided those of us who grew up there a very safe
secure childhood. And we were probably blessed not to have
had much TV and other social media to work into our busy
schedules.
Maybe someday before the summer is over I can actually visit
my grandkids in Nevada and get in a visit with my brother,
Roy CROSS ('65) in Kennewick.
Bomber Cheers
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house by the little lake
in SE Indiana where the goslings are getting bigger so
quickly. Their parents don't allow them out of their
sight and I was worried about them as I hadn't seen
them since last Sunday until tonight.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/200512-Goslings.jpg
see previous picture sent:
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Vicki OWENS ('72)
Re: return train tickets
On the question about the free return train tickets, whether
for three months work or six, the underlying reason for any
such promise might have been as an incentive for workers to
suck it up during the famous dust storms. The tickets-a
reason to stick around through the summer.
On Monday mornings after a dust storm, the Hanford
construction sites would discover that as many as 500 workers
had just grabbed their bags and headed back east without even
waiting for a pay check. Terminated. The "termination winds,"
became the subject of a later folk song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPb1KQHgGU4
I do recall that somewhat favorable conditions still occurred
once or twice in later decades. Sometime in the 1960s, it was
reported in the Tri-City Herald that the darkened afternoon
in some spots was so total that columns of drivers came to a
short stop right in the highway, unable to see beyond their
windshields. Headlights worthless.
One old timer had been standing next to his car in the Horse
Heaven Hills when his hat suddenly blew off. He went a few
steps to retrieve it, but then no longer could even see the
direction back to his car, so he hunkered down. Went missing
overnight... When a search party found him the next day, he
was still fast asleep and half buried in a ditch, only ten
feet from his car, so it was said.
I do remember a few other times when the sky was still at
least yellowish-for several days-with airborne dust. Remotely
related to which, the huge Yellow River in north China is so
named because of the history of yellow dust blowing in and
settling from the Gobi Desert. (For the ever-curious, the
Yellow is one-third the volume of the Columbia at their
mouths, 91 thousand cfs versus 265 thousand cfs.)
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ dusting off memories in Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63)
Re: Milk Door
Dennis HAMMER ('64) mentioned a milk door.
November of 1961 when I was a sophomore in H.S. we moved into
a new house that my folks had built on Westwood Court just
off of Thayer. We had a milk door. We opened a drawer in the
kitchen to get the milk out that was delivered. Asked my Mom
today how long they used it and she said she wasn't sure, but
knew that after awhile it just became cheaper to go buy the
milk herself.. My brother lives there now and said the door
is still there.. We also had a Bomb Shelter in that house.
-Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Maitri Sojourner, aka Carol REDISKE ('69)
Hi, Richland Bombers--
This is Maitri Sojourner, aka Carol REDISKE ('69).
I'm wondering if anyone has any information related to cancer
in Hanford workers. My dad has breast cancer, and worked at
Hanford for many years. We are in the process of filing a
claim with the federal government, but any information anyone
out there has about where to look, databases maintained,
etc., would be greatly appreciated.
I hope you are all staying safe during the current pandemic,
and learning new ways to stay connected with family and
friends. Maybe you are learning a new language or a new
skill! I'm taking an on-line writing class, and doing some
portrait painting. Also enjoying working outside in our yard,
and just finished planting veggies in our garden.
Be well, and live long and prosper. May all beings find
peace.
-Maitri Sojourner, aka Carol REDISKE ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
That was the 1st thing that came to my mind but in his case
an exception was made for him. He came from the General
Electric Engineering Laboratory in 1948 for the 432 project
as a contact engineer. He was also involved with the
production of tritium called the P-10 project, that material
was used in the 1st thermonuclear device called Mike but the
men on Elugelab, an island in the Marshall Island chains,
referred to it as "Shrimp". Anyway back to Hanford. Yes that
is pretty cool someone figured it out. Clyde Bergdahl also
guessed Hanford's purpose, his courses of chemistry and
physics at WSC lead him to the conclusion. Clyde told me "Don
when I deduced what was going on I dared not breathe a word
of it to anyone." I think there was more talking than what we
have been led to believe. Monty ? got a letter from someone
in New Mexico clipped to it, a small article reporting a
large explosion the eve of July 16th. The note said "this
is related to what you are doing at Hanford." Hmmm. I found
something for you it's attached to this post. Apparently your
dad was involved with the 432 Project.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200512-For_Beaulieu.jpg
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
I've seen those milk doors, when I lived in Bend, Oregon a
neighbor two doors down had one in the back of the house. Of
course being a nosey 6 year old I opened it and discovered
the glass bottle. I made a few too many trips to the door and
was caught when the wife of the house opened the other end.
I left so fast I don't think she saw me, but I definitely
stayed away from that home for quite a while. It still makes
me nervous just retelling the story.
To: Vicki OWENS ('72)
I have your answer on Hanford's' return policy, give me a few
days and I can tell you a tale.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy STULL ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwight CAREY ('68)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: Infection
I'm sorry to hear about your infection problems. My first
thought as I read this was that perhaps you had a MRSA
infection (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
About 13 years ago I landed in the infectious unit of a
hospital with cellulites of the face and head and it was
thought to be a MRSA infection. They couldn't isolate it
but they gave me a very strong antibiotic for MRSA and I
eventually recovered. I don't remember the name of the
medication they gave me as I was pretty much out of it, but
it was so corrosive that they had to change the needles and
any associated metallic components once every couple of
couple of days. This Staphylococcus was known to be very
resistant to most antibiotics for Gram + bacteria.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Dust Storm Terror
My terrifying dust storm occurred some miles from here in
the early 1990s. My daughter Jennifer JANICEK Ellison ('90)
graduated from WSU in 1994. She sang opera there for 4 years
(contralto, although she could also sing the high soprano of
the Hallelujah Chorus). About once a month for most of those
4 years she sang in something, a performance, competition,
etc. And so, being a devoted Mom totally amazed by her
talent, I took time off from Hanford nearly every month and
drove to Pullman (once to Lewiston) to hear her sing, usually
slept over in her apartment, and drove back the next
day. Most of the time my husband George came, too, but
occasionally I drove by myself. This was an act of complete
devotion for a dedicated Husky!
One morning in around 1992, I began driving home from Pullman
in a really fierce windstorm. My usual route was Pullman to
Colfax to Washtucna to Kahlotus to Connell and down US 395 to
the Tri-Cities. The last time I ever took that route was in
1994 for her graduation (new Senator Patty Murray was the
commencement speaker). As far as I know, the roads have never
been particularly improved and are still narrow and windy
(the road winds) and windy (the wind blows).
So this one day I was going west after Colfax on State Road
26 and was driving in an area where the land was very high
on the south side and mixed on the north side. It was the
plowing season and the fields were pretty much loose dirt.
The wind picked up and blew so much dirt that soon the
visibility for driving was zero. I didn't know what to do. I
saw no other traffic. There was no place to pull off on the
right, but I knew that if I kept going I likely would drive
off the road and either I would hit something or someone
would hit me. I drove slower and slower, desperately trying
to see the road or the painted center line or side line. Of
course, I had failed to charge my cell phone, and it died.
Finally, just as I was at my wits end and truly terrified, a
State Patrol officer drove up (God Bless him!!) and said that
I had to turn back. By following him closely, I could see his
tail lights, and I followed him back to a little town off the
road, where I spent some hours and my last dollar on coffee
and soup. And I borrowed a phone to call George and let him
know where I was. I don't know how that officer was able to
see anything at all!
Several hours later, a couple of drivers similarly stranded
at the café decided that it had cleared up just enough to
head out. I had planned to be back at work at Hanford by
noon, and it was late afternoon already. I didn't want to be
driving home in the dark, so I followed them. By sticking as
close as possible without actually tail-gaiting, I was able
to see the taillights of the second car all the way back to
clear skies near Washtucna Boy, was I relieved! The whole
experience reminded me of heavy fog coming from the Columbia
River and days when I could not see my way to drive up
Stevens to the 300 Area because visibility was nonexistent.
Here's the thing: the name of the town that I was stuck in
for those terrifying hours was Dusty, WA! Sounds like a
story in the old Readers Digest!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Milk Doors And Other Stuff
This coincidentally from aol.com this morning (May 12),
regarding ye olde residential milk doors:
Residential Milk Doors
Wondering if anyone graduating in the mid 1950s remembers the
fire at Lewis & Clark Elementary School in the late 1940s? I
remember at the age of maybe four or five seeing across the
grounds the new wing with an ominously blackened and gutted
classroom or two on its west face. The L-shaped wing was
wooden, painted white, to handle 4th, 5th and 6th grade
classrooms.
This new wing extended south from the original brick building
which opened in 1939, still prior to the influx from
Manhattan Project families. In the original building the
high-ceiling suspended globe lights were replaced with
fluorescent in 1952.
A new brick wing and cafeteria were added to the north end in
1953. I was then in the 3rd grade, when our classes in the
early Spring marched single-file up from our three surplussed
military Quonset Huts into the upscale new digs. Polished
linoleum floors, fountains, restrooms, new desks and even
hall lockers! And heating from more than two primitive, plug-
in, reflector heat coils!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut
The school since has been completely replaced twice.
Something like Mark Twain's "favorite" pocket knife with its
two replaced handles and three replaced blades. Does anyone
remember anything about the fire? Was school in session?
Arson, or not?
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: Milk Delivery
I don't remember us ever having any door to door delivery of
milk when I was little, but do remember Stiller's... next to
Zip's on Lee. It was a drive thru and we always stopped on
our way home from shopping at the Old Safeway (now Post
Office.) Always a line-up... just drop off the empties and
get full bottles.
-Gary TURNER ('71)
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Sharon PANTHER ('57), Helen CROSS ('62)
arol CONVERSE ('64), Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob SWAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randal SOUTHAM ('82)
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>>From: Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
Re: Lewis & Clark Fire
I remember the fire but not many details - I was in 4th
grade. We did have classes - they doubled us up in rooms
unaffected and we sat 2 to a desk. The desks were the type
with bench seats and several were screwed to boards in a row
front to back of the room.
One memory that stands out was the time other classes came in
for a movie and my "girl friend" chose to sit with a boy. I
was really upset that she would do that - choosing a boy over
me. Next year I understood the attraction to the opposite
sex.
-Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57) ~ from windy Richland
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I am glad to hear you have recovered from the terrible
infection you had, David DOUGLAS ('62).
Pete BEAULIEU (also '62) I marvel at your clear memory of
what happened at such a young age. I have few clear memories
of life at my elementary school (Spalding). Maren, my
spellcheck says this is wrong, but I think it is correct; I
remember you telling me I had spelled it wrong adding and
"u" in it in one of my first submissions to the Sandstorm.
[That's true... it is Spalding. Lots of people
try to spell it like the Spaulding on all the
sports equipment, but I checked my report card
when I was corrected many years ago.. and
Spalding is correct. -Maren]
But I do remember starting 7th grade and having my home room
with Mrs. Lenore Bern in a Quonset hut set across Lee from
Carmichael Jr. High.
I also remember having to come and go to other classes from
there that year, and maybe in other years, I don't really
remember.
My husband and I REMEMBER those roads to WSU well, Stephanie
DAWSON ('60) having both graduated from there in '66 and '68.
No I don't think the roads have gotten any wider or been
straightened at all. We last drove it in 2006 when we went up
for a game and suddenly out of the dark a deer appeared in
front of our car. We hit it (only time we ever hit a deer
while driving fortunately) and tried to find it in the dark
and also the next day when we were coming back.
My dust storm story goes back to about 4th grade when we
walked to and from school and girls had to wear dresses. One
time we didn't make it home before the sand storm winds
picked up and my girlfriend and I laid in the grass to try to
protect our bare legs from the sand.
Lots of memories from growing up in Richland, including
getting our milk left on our ranch house front porch in
glass bottles. BUT I don't remember when that stopped.
Bomber Cheers,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house on the little lake
in SE Indiana where I heard Dr. Oz say on the TV we,
ho are older may have to wait longer to see our
grandchildren, even after we reopen.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: Milk Delivery
I don't remember a milk door in our "B" house at all. Milk
was delivered to the front porch. Don't remember if it was
just once per week or daily. We also got cream. Both were
glass bottles. I don't remember just how many years we had it
delivered. Someone mentioned Darigold verus Carnation. For
some reason, I always thought it was Darigold. I can picture
just where the building was located. Think it was Carnation
instead of Darigold.
Re: Lewis & Clark Fire
I didn't start school at Lewis and Clark until '52/'53. This
is the first I've heard of a fire. I do remember when they
built the new wing. We were all so excited. Don't remember
the year that happened though. When we got a tour of the new
wing, I was afraid that I would get lost.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Will the wind
EVER quit blowing!?
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: Milk deliveries
For a while we got milk delivered from Twin City Creamery in
Kennewick to the front porch. No milk doors in Ranch Houses.
I can't remember if the milkman just put the milk on the
porch or if there was some sort of container. I always
thought we needed a milk box like my grandparents in Seattle
had. It was a silver-colored insulated box from, I think,
Carnation. I remember going on a field trip to the Creamery
one time and having an ice cream cone at the end. It was
either Brownies or one of mom's efforts to have us kids do
something educational during the summer. At least she didn't
make us write a report! We also went to the drive-in dairy
marts. There was also one next to Resthaven Cemetery. It was
called Thomlinson's, I think. One of the two had a fiberglass
cow on the roof that went wandering occasionally with help
from friendly high schoolers.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Travel in the United States 75 years ago wouldn't be
recognized by today's society, households generally had one
vehicle and in most cases didn't take children to school or
make many trips to the grocery store, even before the war.
For those who were traveling to South Eastern WA the train
was taken in many cases. Extra gas and tire rations were for
those who traveled by car towing their trailer, at 35 mph.
During the war many men who chased war projects across the
country used trains, especially those who were bound for
Hanford, Pasco was their destination either by rail, bus, or
private vehicle. In the early days life at the camp was
difficult... there weren't the square miles of barracks,
Quonset huts, and endless food to eat in very busy mess halls
like the ones in the photos you have seen over the years.
Instead it was large tents and meals served from an original
structure and perhaps worst of all (tongue in cheek) the only
alcohol was across the river in Pasco. At quitting time tools
were put away and card games began, so not much to keep you.
Because of that problem an induction program was started to
keep them enthused about being here. An incentive program
providing transportation payments to employees, a "Stay on
the job" program designed to rapidly put together
entertainment improved living conditions all without slowing
down construction. Getting back to Pasco many arrived in the
middle of the night with no one to provide direction or
accommodations was a big problem. The transportation
incentive specifically rail fare was up to 100 dollars from
his or her point of recruitment provided they stayed 4 months
and their attendance was satisfactory, meaning no more than
two absences a month. If they worked 3 additional months they
were given the same amount after 4 months. The records do not
show if every 3 months another payment was made but I've
heard from a number of former resident they received them.
Trains bringing workers or their families to live with them
always arrived early in the morning. Those trains were
frequently on sidings to make way for those that were war
related. One story of a mother with 3 small children from the
South all of them ill and in one sleeper traveling. A trip
that should have taken two days took 4. She was fortunate, a
kindly conductor helped with the children bringing food and
watching over them while mom took a break. Her husband picked
up his family around 4am to take them to Hanford. As it was
late October or early November it was dark and she couldn't
see the Evergreen State. Her husband had to work and couldn't
stay to help get things settled in the farm house he was
assigned. Great start for a young mother who had nothing to
cook let alone nothing to cook it on. When the sun came up,
she saw sagebrush and dust in the air. All her children grew
up to be Bombers.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Rich BAKER ('58), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Ed SULLIVAN ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Clif EDWARDS ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat HARTNETT ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan BIRGE ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam ROBINSON ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn SWAN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steven McCOLLEY ('64)
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
Re: Arrival in Pasco
Don Sorenson's (NAB) entry about families arriving at the
Pasco train station brought back memories of my arrival. My
dad had arrived by train in 1943 and we arrived in 1944 on a
train from our previous home in Denver. The entire train was
made up of families headed to Pasco to join their husbands. I
remember the sleepers. Behind the passenger cars were flat
beds containing the family automobiles (because of gas
rationing). So, when were arrived in Pasco my dad was
reunited with both his family and car.
Another interesting train story. In November of 1958 I joined
the Navy with John BAXTER ('58). We travelled to Spokane for
our physicals and then by train to San Diego for boot camp.
Following boot camp and home leave, John and I travelled by
train from Pasco to Norman, Oklahoma for Airmen Prep School.
The interesting facet of this train trip was that when we
arrived at the Kansas border, the club car was removed and
when we exited Kansas, a club car was reattached because the
entire state of Kansas was dry.
-Rich BAKER ('58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: travel in olden times
You report on travel to Hanford back 75 years ago...
My parents arrived by car in early July 1944 and spent the
first month in a stucco roadside motel in Pasco. Then
qualified at the head of the list for a three-bedroom house
("H" house on a Douglass corner lot) when twin brother John
and I were born three weeks early, fleshing out a family now
with the qualifying three kids (brother Tom ('59) was two
years old). The births came barely twenty minutes after a
siren race north to the military hospital at Hanford town,
and without anesthetics. The maternity wing in the new
Richland hospital was found to be not yet plugged in.
No, Helen CROSS Kirk ('62), I do not remember these earliest
trips, but tend to "believe" the family travelogue, plus the
story that I was actually born at a point in time, and in a
place in the middle of nowhere. Einstein's theory of
Relatives, or is it Relativity? Or nuclear reactions, or
nuclear families? Whatever.
I do recall our first car. My parents had been lucky enough
to buy it in the early 1940s before wartime steel was
directed away from auto production. A green Plymouth adorned
on the back with a centered chrome trunk handle, molded
around a triangular back light featuring a translucent red
relief of the Plymouth Mayflower (the car was actually named,
instead, after the town binder-twine factory).
What could be more memorable to a tyke than that opulent and
caressed trunk handle light! I also can still see that a
neighbor family (the Fleischers, diagonally across Benham in
an "A" house) got around for a while in a less fortuitous
1930s black two-door with running boards and a fold-back
rumble seat.
Our next car was a 1949 Frazer, good enough for our first
return trip "back east" to Wisconsin, still on vintage
highways. Eager to return after five years away, Dad drove
the 2,000 miles non-stop in two days and two nights, keeping
awake on cigars and Coca Cola. We kids slept both nights on
the back seat and floor, and while awake we twins were
usually car sick and unloading (also non-stop) into a lidded
coffee can. Road stops were mostly for gas, but I remember
well the breather in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
As for coffee cans, does anyone remember the sonorous radio
ad: "When I say coffee, I mean Folgers"? Would recognize the
name if I heard it, so whose was that morning radio voice?
(LATER: Oh yeah. It was Paul Harvey, "and now you know... the
rest of the story!")
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Ed SULLIVAN ('65)
My sister, Mary SULLIVAN ('63 & '64) has been diagnosed with
stage IV liver cancer and is not expected to recover. She is
at peace with her situation and she spends time reminiscing
about the old days in Richland. If anyone would like to share
memories of her with her, please feel free to write me, and I
will share them with Mary. She would also welcome any prayers
to help her on her journey to the next plane of existence,
heaven.
-Ed SULLIVAN ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Roads to WSU
They weren't exactly interstate highways, right?
The worst transit Pam HUNT Cadd ('66) and I had from WSU to
Richland was on January 31, 1969. There was a huge snow storm
hitting the state. The highway to Richland was closed but we
simply HAD to get there. You know how it is. If you're young
enough, you're invincible.
I think Gary BUSH ('66) was with us and maybe even Peg
WELLMAN ('66)
We waited for I don't know how long before they let us
through. While we were waiting, we saw a car being towed in.
It had its hood open and the engine compartment was packed
solid with snow. It seemed that the snow was so bad that it
cooled the engine down until it quit.
We finally made it to Richland about 3am.
We had the wedding rehearsal at noon and were married at 7pm.
Our honeymoon was scheduled to be in Spokane but all the
roads were closed. We had a pleasant honeymoon at the new Red
Lion in Pasco.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
To: Maitri Sojouner aka Carol REDISKE ('69)
Maitri, (what a great name, by the way.)
Many, many, many of us who lived in the Tri-Cities had
our parent(s) affected by the radiation we all bathed in
every day. It took the government many years to admit there
was a real danger to working at Hanford, and even longer to
come up with a compensation plan.
When they finally did, go figure they would name it something
no one could remember. It was officially the Energy Employee
Occupational Illess Compensation Program Act. The people who
came up with that name preferred to call it by the acronym,
which just rolls off the tongue: EEOICPA. Here is the site
address for the program: www.hanford.gov. Check it out,
and look carefully for another site that is a nonprofit
organization that helps you to not only apply, but helps
all the way through the system.
[I googled EEOICPA and found this website:
https://mealsandtolar.com -Maren]
The only other thing I would like to suggest is: DON'T GIVE
UP! We almost did; got turned down the first time, then met
a classmate at our 40 year reunion who told us he had applied
three times! They awarded him on the third try. We got ours
on the second try.
If there is anything I can do to help you further, please
email me.
Good luck,
-Clif EDWARDS ('68)
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3 Bombers AND Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Linda REINING ('64)
Clif EDWARDS ('68), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy JONES ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave McDANIEL ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy KLEINPETER ('67)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: EEOICPA
My mother, Dora Ruppert, worked for AEC and later GE at
Hanford. She died at 44 years of age on 12/14/1961 of cancer
(breast and ovarian). I was 16 and the oldest of six, my
baby sister was 5. She had been in and out of the hospital
(Kadlec) numerous times since the birth of #6 when the cancer
was discovered. She returned to work after each surgery for
the next 5 years until the last surgery kept her in the
hospital until her death.
She had worked for the federal government from the time she
graduated from high school in Ottumwa, Iowa and moved to
Washington, D.C. to work as a secretary. That's where she met
my dad (Bernard aka Bernie and Barney) from Kent, WA. They
married in Maryland and were building a house on a piece of
property in Maryland when the government seized the property
in order to build a government facility, which later became
Andrews Air Force Base.
After the war and the birth of #4 we moved to a piece
of property on the north side of Red Mountain that my
grandfather had purchased in 1919. While my dad built a
farm there, my mother worked for AEC and later GE.
When I learned of EEOICPA it had just opened and I was
jumping through various hoops over and over again. It took
over 7 years of re-submitting all the documents over and over
again. At the last denial of benefits I had enough and quit
re-submitting the required information.
About a year later, I was asked to attend a meeting at the
Hanford House of people who had submitted claims. At that
meeting I was handed a packet with lots of documents and told
that my claim had been validated. All of us at that meeting
received an apology for the ordeal we had been put through.
Congress had approved the program, but hadn't put the
directives in place so it took a while for bureaucracy to
come together with criteria for implementing the program.
I was lucky that all of my mother's medical history was
archived at Kadlec and that she had been a federal employee
for so many years so obtaining the needed documents was
relatively easy once they realized that she worked outside
of Social Security for so many years.
Yes, she was a secretary, but remember they didn't have the
devices they have now for recording the many meetings that
occurred out on the project. She accompanied many managers
out to various sites to take shorthand notes and later
type up the reports. She had a very high clearance, wore a
radiation detection device and peed in a bottle. She was as
exposed as any of the hard hat workers.
So, anyone who is just now starting the process, take heart
and persevere.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Interesting US Maps
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Rei/200515-USA-00.htm
Got these maps from Ray McCAULEY('65)-
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
Re: EEOICPA
That, I believe, is the non-profit I mentioned in my post.
They help people with the application and the dose
reconstruction (how much radiation the employee had been
exposed to?), as well as expediting the process.
That is a much better site than www.hanford.gov. I went to
that site when I was looking for info for Maitri. Whether I
didn't put the address in correctly or not, I found a
different site entirely.
I apologize for the inaccuracies.
{No problem, Clif. Sometimes I think the
government makes things difficult -- hoping
that fewer people will apply for the $$$.
I helped a guy who actually got his money,
too. He jumped thru lotsa hoops and sent
lotsa documents. His dad died when he was
just 7 years old. that's sad. -Maren]
-Clif EDWARDS ('68)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Carol REDISKE ('69)
Did your father or grandfather work in the 100 areas as
an instrument tech?
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62), Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Garth WHEELER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike BRADY ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betsy FOX ('63)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Rediske
We lived on Acacia, back in the day, and, I believe the
Rediskes lived next door... they were the first ones to have
a TV on the block and I can remember looking thru the window
and seeing it... very small as I remember... I left in the
fall of '53 to go to Wazu, married in '56 so lost track of
the neighbors... good time to be a Bomber.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from very sunny Murrieta, CA where my
wife had another seizure yesterday, and is currently
in the hospital... of course I cannot see her
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
By jingo, that time of year when I get to wish "Happy
Birthday!" to fellow classmate Garth WHEELER ('54) has
rolled around.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Prevalence of natural amenities making each county a
nice place to live
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/200517-USA-NicePlaces.jpg
[There was NO TEXT that came with this picture,
so we don't know why Helen sent this picture.
-Maren]
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: EEOICPA
Congratulations to all of you who were able to withstand the
claims process! My dad was a millwright on the site and
eventually died of cirrhosis. He didn't drink much at all,
maybe a beer once a year. I had hoped that Part E of the law
would cover him so I have applied a number of times hoping
the rules have changed. I have been told that every time that
since he didn't die of a cancer, there was nothing available
and that Part E, which covers his illness, was designed for
people who had children still living at home at their death.
It is frustrating, to say least. We may have all been grown
but we still lost our father before his time. I keep hoping
that someday someone will see that many of the diseases Part
E comes take a long time to manifest.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/18/20 ~ MT. ST. HELENS DAY
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Fred PHILLIPS ('60), Margaret EHRIG ('61)
Helen CROSS ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack KEENEY ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry PITMAN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lyman POWELL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vic DAY ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Caroline STANFIELD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thor CULVERHOUSE ('81)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Michael PETERSON ('64) & Judy KLEINPETER ('67)
05/18 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Mt. St. Helens Erupts - Minute By Minute on A&E (45:42)
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>>From: Fred PHILLIPS ('60)
Re: Where were you when the mountain blew?
A lot of Bombers remember the eruption of Mt. St. Helens on
May 18, 1980 - 40 years ago today. I wasn't far from Richland
when it went off and, before the day was over, I got a lot
closer to the mountain. Scary, to say the least.
My story was published a few months later in Air Progress
magazine. Here it is.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Phi/200518-00.htm
[I added a graphic to Fred's story of
where the ash fell. -Maren]
-Fred PHILLIPS ('60)
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
To: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
My mother also died of cirrhosis in 2002. She never had any
alcohol other than the sherry she put in her fruitcake at
Christmas in the '40s. When she was diagnosis 6 weeks before
she died she was told that they were seeing a lot of similar
cases from undiagnosed hepatitis in the 1950s.
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
[Here's the picture from yesterday's SS...
and the text to go with it today. -Maren]
Re: Prevalence of natural amenities making each county a
nice place to live
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/200517-USA-NicePlaces.jpg
As I was reading an article in the current Reader's Digest, I
noticed this brown spot in SE Washington on a map indicating
that that area doesn't have many of the features that make it
an attractive place to live. But as we all know Richland and
the surrounding area was a great place to live and grow up.
(feel like I should add an "in", but you aren't suppose to
end a sentence with a preposition I seem to remember.)
Anyway, I always thought we'd return to Richland after we
retired, and even looked at condos there on the river, until
I realized none of my 4 grandchildren would be living there,
and no one in my son's families even want to visit there. So
my dream of moving back "home" won't be happening anytime
soon.
Incidentally the area where we now live in Indiana is on the
edge of a brown area going into blue, and we love it here,
except I do miss the mountains, we don't even have a mountain
as high as Badger mountain around here.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ In SE Indiana where on the 15th the
weather suddenly left the 50s and is in the 60s going
toward 70 and 80, we are trying to get our gardens set
for summer before the hot weather really gets here.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: 40 years ago today--the eruption of Mt. St. Helens
I was living in a "B" house in the 1400 block of McPherson
Ave., Richland. My wife and I had been up way late Saturday
night when I woke up I saw it was dark, looked at the clock
(I don't remember what time it was) and thought, "have I
slept all day?" Wife and daughter, not quite two years old
were also asleep. Went to the bathroom window and looked out
and could see that it was dark, but light near the horizon,
"that is weird," then I looked out the window of the front
door and again it was dark but light on the horizon, "that
sure is weird." Got dressed in a hurry and went out the
front door, looked at the sky and thought "that is really
weird!!!" Went back in the house and grabbed my little
"Japanese transistor radio" and went back outside while
turning it on. What I heard was just regular stuff you
normally hear on a radio, so I turned the dial and heard the
words. ". . . Mt. St. Helens . . " Those were the only three
words I heard when I turned the radio off thinking something
like "That's It." Ran in the house and grabbed my "Japanese
SLR camera" and took four pictures. The fourth one was more
like streaks instead of puffy, being at the trailing end of
the ash cloud. It really passed over soon after I first saw
it and for some reason it seemed really quiet. I woke up my
wife, but don't remember if it was when I got the camera or
after. It took about 30-45 minutes after the cloud passed
before the first little bits of ash started showing up on the
ground. I don't know why I didn't think of the volcano right
off, it had been in the news for a month or more.
In my left top desk drawer, right next to a pair of navy sox
still rolled up since boot camp 51 1/2 years ago, are two
plastic bottles of Mt. St.Helens ash. One I took off the hood
of a car with a paint brush. The other I scooped up in a
coffee can at the side of the parking lot of Spike's drive in
in Ritzville about a month later (I miss that place). The
Richland sample is darker gray and more gritty than the
Ritzville sample; that sample sure did rust up the coffee
can.
On that trip to Cheney I added extra filters to the car. I
made a pre-filter for the engine air filter and felt over the
air inlet to the car, that screen in front of the windshield.
Then as I didn't need the air conditioner I ran the vent fan
which pressurized the inside of the car a little and kept ash
from coming in. Worked great, when I got back and took the
extra filters off you could sure see the ash they caught.
Next winter we went to a funeral in Spokane. In Spokane you
could not see any ash, but it was raining and it must still
be a lot around because our car was blue when we drove up
there, but gray when we got back.
This photo is different than the one I submitted to the
Alumni Sandstorm before. They have faded since I scanned the
other one. I tried to restore the color, but don't think I
got it right. Some day I hope to find the negatives and scan
them as negatives do not degrade as fast as prints do. The
earlier scan can be found in a google search and 11 years ago
I submitted it to a local TV station for a weather picture. I
found that two TV stations, one in Spokane and I think the
other from Yakima, have it and other St. Helens photos on
their website identified as taken form Moses Lake. I emailed
them informing I took that photo and it was taken from
Richland. I was promptly ignored and last year at this time
they added more pictures and still said it was taken from
Moses Lake. I don't mind their using the photo, it just would
be nice if I were given the credit, and even more so I wish
they would get the location correct.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200518-StHelensCloud.jpg
Re: Beverly C. WETHERALD ('63-RIP)
More important, we should remember fellow Bomber Bev
WETHERALD ('63-RIP) who died in the eruption. I contacted
the lady who created her memorial page on the Find a Grave
website a few years ago and got her to change the spelling of
Bev's last name. That bronze plaque at Mount Saint Helens
Memorial Grove has her name miss-spelled, also told her that
the high school was called Columbia High when she graduated.
I sent that newspaper article on the death of her sister
Debbie, but did not think she was going to add it to Bev's
page.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28488514/wetherald
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/19/20
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Jim COYNE ('64)
Dick PIERCE ('67), Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob CROSS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula FRISTER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam EMMONS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan THORNTON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy THORNTON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb BELCHER ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David CARSON ('76)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Happy Birthday to my cousin, Bob CROSS (also class of '62);
wish we didn't live so far apart so we could have you over
for dinner tonight to celebrate, social distancing of course;
and I would cut the pieces of cake before we put candles for
you to blow our; probably a 7 and a 6!!
We are looking forward to opening up and saving our economy;
I have a hair cut appointment this week, so exciting.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana where it's been raining all day so I can't
get the last of my plants in the ground.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
About the absolutely prohibited use of dangling prepositions
at the end of a sentence... when Winston Churchill, master of
the English Language, was criticized for sometimes ending a
sentence on a preposition, he retorted, "This is the type of
errant pedantry up with which I will not put."
For violations of errant pedantry, I can't remember if we
were always red-marked in the margins of our compositions
in Col-Hi English classes. But, marginally, sometimes a
preposition is a good place to stop (at!).
Re: MOUNT ST. HELENS (NAB!)
Some buzz on these pages about where Bombers happened to be
at the time Mt. St. Helens blew her lid, all 4 billion cubic
yards. Of possibly equal interest might be where some people
were NOT...
I write of a family member. By 1980 geologist identical-
twin brother John for ten years had been with the Oregon
Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. For the
morning of May 18, 1980, he had been invited by a USGS
(U.S. Geological Survey) colleague to join him to check the
deformation monitors on the slopes. Decided to hang around
the house that weekend.
On that placid Sunday morning he took-in the eruption from
the front porch of his Portland home. The colleague was alone
and vaporized, one of the 57 fatalities (rather than 58).
Now, for the rest of the story: One would think that the
Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) would jump
on the chance to do funded research on such a rare event as a
volcanic eruption in the continental United States, right in
their own back yard.
Didn't happen. Instead, there was a politically incendiary
moment in Oregon across our Col-Hi alma mater River. John was
commandeered to produce a landmark (so to speak) approach and
application of "risk assessments," complete with tweaked,
techy equations and mathematical probabilities and text.
The issue was Oregon's Trojan Nuclear Plant (later
decommissioned) on an island not far west from St. Helens
and suspected to be on a common earthquake fault line (etc.).
Here, thirty years ahead, was a likely/potential/unlikely (?)
2011 "Fukushima" Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan (the tsunami
following an ocean-bed earthquake). One of the complicated
causal factors, institutionally, in that much later case was
a weakness in risk assessments.
So, based on the historical records and such-what are
the probabilities of an eruption, or a lava flow, or an
earthquake, or a pyroclastic mud flow (moving at 120 mph,
for example from Mt. Rainier as once-upon-a-time created the
entire upland Enumclaw Plateau on its sprint toward Seattle)?
And, more novel, what is the likelihood of more than one
these events at the same time?
I soberly report that at first this innovative analysis was
cold-shouldered by the scientific community, but then I
humbly report that it was soon fully accepted-and became a
respected risk assessment model used in university classrooms
for many years.
More on the "respect" thingy-it also turns out that in 1980
an ex-Boeing researcher (Doug L.) once shared a hole-in-the-
wall office with me at the interlocal Puget Sound Regional
Council. After two years of working with a university panel
of scientists, he had produced a multi-volume report on
"disaster mitigation" scenarios for the greater Seattle
region. Even tsunamis. In the 1978 report, again based partly
on historic records, he actually predicted that there would
be a major volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range before the
end of 1980!
What!?! A predicted eruption with a precisely forecasted
date!! Now that is one professional "risk." But after St.
Helens fully cooperated with the warning, there was still no
praise to be had from the board or the front office. After
all, Doug had neglected to add a chapter explaining what to
do about a blizzard of volcanic ash downwind in faraway
Yakima.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ in Shoreline, WA with a wall of
Seattle high-rises as a buffer between my front porch
and any Mt. Rainier mudflows.
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: the map of best counties in the US
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/200517-USA-NicePlaces.jpg
When looking at the map, I found that places where we had
lived deemed best were anything but. And some of our best
were in the areas marked as worst.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in cloudy Richland
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>>From: Jim COYNE ('64)
Re: May 18, 1980
The morning the Mt. went off I was fishing on the Cowlitz
River. It was a different morning... no birds... nothing...
was just quiet and strange. After the Mt. went off {which we
didn't know at the time) the sheriff came down the river in
their boat telling everyone the mt. blew and to get off the
river as fast as we could. Long story short... it wasn't long
and the Cowlitz was so full of logs, homes, cars, ice boxes,
chairs... fish were jumping out on the bank trying to get
out of the hot water. The river was a mess as was the area
around. You could walk across the river and never get wet.
That day we didn't get any ash... that came later.
This is a short Version of the story. Living close to the mt.
I have several stories. If you post this thank you.
[Send more stories, Jim. Love it. -Maren]
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>>From:Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Mount St. Helens eruption
I was living in Seattle when Mount St. Helens erupted on May
18, 1980. Seattle is 175 miles from St. Helens.
I left for Saipan two weeks before Thanksgiving Day that
year, and I recall the Continental Airline pilot traveling
south out of SeaTac and banking west so we all got a view of
St. Helens still spewing its gray.
I remember watching the New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta
Falcons game the day I left, then watching the same game in
Hawaii a week later, then for the third time in Guam the day
before Thanksgiving. Canned programing made its way across
the Pacific.
On May 15, 1981, almost a year after St. Helens erupted, I
awoke to a darkened sky in Saipan. Mt. Pagan, 175 miles from
Saipan, erupted in the night. It covered us in ash similar in
every respect except the wind direction
All of Pagan's inhabitants were evacuated and relocated to
Saipan. One of them I got to know well. Jess Wabol, who stood
about 5' 6", had a crossover grip but could hit a golf ball
over 300 yards.
Then it all made sense.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: Cirrhosis
To: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
I wonder where people would have picked up hepatitis in the
'50s. Our parents were in a pretty closed environment as far
as what we know about the disease today. I have been told by
a person who also worked on the site later than my dad that
the chemicals that millwright would have used were known to
cause liver problems. Maybe the same was true with cleaning
products in our homes.
Re: Mt. St Helens
I just asked my daughter, a 96 Bomber, if she remembered what
happened 40 years ago. She reminded me that she was only two
but knew that this was the anniversary. She only remembers
what we have told her. My husband was working at the family
cabin at Lake Cushman, above Hoods Canal that weekend. My
brother called me to see how we were doing and told me that
the mountain had blown as we hadn't had the TV on. I tried to
call my mother-in-law in Steilacoom but couldn't get through.
My mom called me later in the afternoon to tell me that she
had gotten through and the work crew had made it back to
Steilacoom but Hubby was stuck there because all the passes
were closed. Later that week he made it home by going south
on I-5 and heading east through the Gorge. That was the only
East-West route available, according to AAA.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68) ~ in Richland and still in the
same house 40 years later.
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>>From: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
Re: Mount St. Helens
When Mount St. Helens blew it's top off, I was off in
the Navy. I was stationed at Naval Station Subic Bay,
Philippines. I remember reading about it in the Stars and
Stripes Newspaper. It took a week or two, but then I started
getting all kinds of information on the eruption from my Mom.
She sent me quite a few pages of the Tri-City Herald. I
remember reading that the Post Office requested that no one
send ash in the mail, because if the container broke it would
really mess up their equipment. My Mom must not have read
that, as the next day I received a small container of ash
from her.
I transferred from the Philippines to Bremerton, WA, arriving
with my wife and two kids at SeaTac on October 15, 1980.
After treating the kids (2 & 4 years old) to McDonalds, which
they had never seen before, we headed out to find my pickup
that I had shipped from the Philippines. After many missed
turns and saying haven't we been this way before, we found
our truck. Then we headed out to Richland. I noticed all this
white stuff on the side of the roads and asked my Dad about
it at the next rest stop. He said it was ash! I said wow, it
blew in May and it is now October.
My parents had bought a cabin that was about half way between
Packwood and Randle off of highway 12. They were eager to
show it to us and hoped the grandkids would enjoy it. I was
surprised that there was ash all over the place, mostly
looked like mud and it took many years before it was all
gone.
We were in Bremerton for four years and usually met my
parents at their cabin once a month on my Dad's long change.
Several years after the eruption we drove up to look at Mt.
St. Helens. All of a sudden you went from being in the woods,
to what looked like a war zone, all the trees were on the
ground and hardly anything was growing. Kind of a scary
place. I hear it is all green now has made a great recovery.
-Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
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There is a Bomber Memorial jpeg for 8 Bombers, and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allan AVERY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John KENNEDY ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron ARMSTRONG ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anne HODGSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug CONRAD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane DeGOOYER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carmen MAFFEO ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Another classmate has reached a milestone today; so let's all
wish Allan AVERY ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" As they say: "Keep
on keepin' on.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Jess Wabol
OK, Dick PIERCE ('67), you made me look (look up Jess Wabol).
For most of my nearly 53 years of marriage, and especially
since we retired in 2005 and 2007, I was subjected to golf
24/7 on TV, unless the Seahawks, Mariners, Notre Dame, or the
Huskies were playing something. But I never had heard of Jess
Wabol. He was difficult to find on the Internet. Most of the
write-ups were in (expired) newspapers from Saipan and the
Marianas, but finally I found something.
He was a talented professional golfer from Saipan and a
member of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(CNMI) Sport Hall of Fame Class of 2009 (think Pacific Ocean,
if you don't know what/where that is). He was instrumental in
founding and supporting golf activities in the islands and
represented the CNMI at the Pacific Games 9 times. He also
coached Little League teams and was active in community
service. I think he was a police officer of some sort. He
died in 2013 at age 55 from complications of kidney failure.
Re: Mt. St. Helens blow
On Sunday, May 18, 1980, we exited Christ the King Roman
Catholic Church around 9:00am, and everyone was saying that
the volcano had erupted. Driving down Thayer Drive to our "A"
house between Torbett and Van Giesen, we could see all these
small puffy white clouds filling the sky. It looked like a
giant collection of cotton balls. As the news spread about
ashfalls all over the state, we marveled that the ash seemed
to turn north just as it reached the Tri-Cities, and we got
very little ash in our yard. Friends west of Richland and
friends on the highway around Ritzville were covered with ash
and had to pull off the road, and many of their car radiators
were ruined from the ash, but we got very little in our part
of town; not enough in our yard to collect, so later in the
week or month we had to drive north to find enough on the
side of the road to collect in a small spice jar. I always
wondered if maybe the air currents over the Columbia
influenced that turn to the north.
My aunt, uncle, and cousins have always lived in Castle Rock,
Washington, on the bank of the Toutle River. Later they
described to us all the logs and "stuff" that washed down the
river right past their house. The river happened to turn just
as it got to their place, so everything in the water washed
to the opposite bank of the river and their land didn't get
any flooding or deposits at all. It was hard to believe,
considering how much damage the flooded Toutle and Cowlitz
and other rivers inflicted on homes and property along the
river banks.
I highly recommend that anyone who has not been to the Mt.
St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (a short drive east of
I-5) go to see it the first chance you get on a clear day.
Once you have viewed the short film and they open the curtain
on the window facing the mountain, it is so spectacular a
sight that you will be stunned. The mountain is so close that
it fills the whole huge window, and It feels like you are
right on the mountain. Just don't go when the wind is blowing
(it will blow you off the ground in the parking lot) or when
a storm is passing overhead (the lightening strikes are
slightly terrifying).
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: David's Bench
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/200520-Davids_Bench.jpg
Hiya,
I was over by Uptown today and stopped at David's
bench. A lady from the shop came out and told me "amazing
how many folks get their picture taken sitting there."
"Really?"
"Really."
Hmmmm...
So, if you happen by the bench, maybe have somebody
snap a shot of you and your people sitting there and send it
in.
Might eventually amount to a cool little tradition--
with a small t.
TDK '65'
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Tony WARD ('75-RIP) ~ 8/4/57 - 12/7/96
Jack KEYS ('60-RIP) ~ 12/16/41 - 4/23/20
Roger DeWITT ('60-RIP) ~ 3/8/43 - 4/30/20
Jack GROUELL ('61-RIP) ~ 10/22/43 - 4/16/20
Perry GRUVER ('52-RIP) ~ 6/23/33 - 4/12/20
Rick NEILL ('61-RIP) ~ 12/24/42 - 5/13/20
Dave ROOHR ('68_RIP) ~ 5/4/50 - 5/4/20
Jim COX ('64_RIP) ~ 2/8/44 - 3/3/20
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/21/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 6 Bombers, and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara DeMERS ('66)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I was watching reruns of "Murder She Wrote" last night, and
was just ready to switch off the TV when I saw that Terrence
Knox was appearing in the episode just starting; called
"Murder in the Bus", filmed in 1985.
It was interesting; Terry DAVIS Knox ('65) did a good job
playing a young husband with his wife on the bus. (My we were
younger back then!!
Don't know if you remember being in the episode, Terry; but it
was fun watching someone I know on a TV show.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house by the little lake
where it's cold and breezy outside, but not raining,
so I want to get out and get the rest of my plants in
before it starts raining again.
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ~ 5/21/20
Re: Yesterday's Alumni Sandstorm (5/20/20)
Was kind of an experiment to see if I could get the html
coding right... weird looking links in the 5/20/20 Sandstorm,
but they all worked right... Hoping today's will be better.
We've added an "unsubscribe" link at the very end... I don't
want anybody to USE it *GRIN*, but maybe it'll make some of
those ISPs happy and they will stop thinking the Alumni
Sandstorm is SPAM... I think that missing "unsubscribe" link
is what has been causing gmail to dump the Sandstorm in the
SPAM folder. *cross your fingers*.
To: Tony SHARPE ('63)
My friend, Edgar (you bought our Spudnuts - thanks again for
that!!) doesn't quite understand all this Bomber stuff, but he
hears about it from me! He asks every now and then if I've
heard from Tony... I tell him NO, but you read the Sandstorm.
He said to tell you "Hi!" in the Sandstorm.
Re: Something else
Somehow I managed to delete every email on my iPhone
yesterday. I got them back, but I think that when I delete
them from my iPhone, that also deletes them from my laptop. At
least some of them never get to my laptop once I delete them
from my iPhone.
That's an explaination of why your entry MAY not have made it
into the 5/21/20 Alumni Sandstorm.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 75° at 10pm
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Ruth RUSSELL Pierson ('71-RIP) ~ 12/16/52 - 12/24/19
Walt BURKS ('59-RIP) ~ 12/12/40 - 11/27/19
Susan McGAHEY Taylor ('62-RIP) ~ 6/20/44 - 10/23/19
Fay APPLEBY ('63-RIP) ~ 11/20/45 - 9/22/19
Bob MOORE ('63-RIP) ~ 11/1/44 - 6/5/19
Carol WILEY Wooley ('63-RIP) ~ 6/30/45 - 3/16/19
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/22/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 9 Bombers and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rose NORDERHUS ('56_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda HESS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nicole BLOWE ('05)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Maren & SandStorm
1st with this new edition I no longer get the normally
included addresses located at the bottom of the last entry .
Before I could just click on the submission to the glorious
news paper we so eagerly await for each morning. Now I have
only your (Maren's) address.
{Should be fixed now, Rex. -Maren]
I must apologize to Terry DAVIS Knox ('65) for never
mentioning how I enjoyed his Vietnam series ["Tour of Duty"].
Was then and from what I hear is still a damn fine actor.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from lovely downtown (almost a Ghost town)
Hanford. CA where just this past weekend some of the
wild animals of the area emerged and threw one heck of
a fandango and taco binge just 4 doors down from me. I
saw my neighbor struggling to collect all the Dos XX
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ' 5/22/20
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
CHECKPOINT PROTOCOL AND DOG CARE
by Stuart Nelson, Jr., DVM
Of a total staff of approximately 50 veterinarians, most will
serve as "trail" vets. These individuals will have a number
of responsibilities at checkpoints along the race route. Of
course, their primary focus will be on the examination,
evaluation, and treatment of the canine athletes.
A "senior" vet is selected at each checkpoint and is usually
the most experienced of the group and has demonstrated a high
level of expertise in previous races. Responsibilities of the
senior vet include the following: 1) inventory meds and
supplies; 2) supervise the care and feeding of dropped dogs;
3) organize dropped dog paperwork and coordinate their
departure from the checkpoint; 4) schedule staff so all share
the workload equally; 5) work with communications personnel,
race judges and checkers in efficiently managing a
checkpoint; and 6) immediately notify the Chief Vet of any
problems or crises that may develop.
It is absolutely essential that mushers and vets work
together in behalf of the dogs. Excellence in dog care
requires a team effort. In a race scenario, mushers are with
their animals 95% of the time and have specific knowledge
about their individual dogs. Vets are engaging those dogs
about 5% of the time, but have advanced medical training and
expertise. Only when mushers are properly informed of
specific abnormalities to watch for, and actively communicate
observations of such to checkpoint (trail) vets, can the best
care be provided for our canine athletes.
A systematic examination protocol will enable the most
efficient use of staff time. Vets are instructed to first
observe a team that he/she will be examining, as it moves
into the checkpoint. Other important visual observations can
also be made at this point, such as attitude, respiratory
rate and condition of booties.
When a musher stops to rest their team at the checkpoint,
individual "hands on" examinations are next on the agenda.
These are best accomplished soon after the arrival of a team
for several reasons. First, any disorders can be addressed
and treatment begun to allow for maximum recovery time and
appropriate rechecks while at a particular checkpoint.
Second, longer periods of rest can be achieved without
interruption to the animals. Finally, it is more efficient
for busy mushers and vets, rather than trying to routinely
coordinate schedules and rendezvous at later times.
The Iditarod Trail Committee has for many years required
mushers to carry Dog Team Diaries (Vet Books) as part of
their mandatory equipment and they must be presented to a vet
at every checkpoint. The vet who examines a team at a given
checkpoint is responsible for making notations relevant to
the medical status of team members and signing the diary
prior to returning it to the musher, who must also sign it.
This system has been very helpful as a communication and
reference tool for vets and mushers alike.
There are a number of criteria utilized when performing the
examinations. Included are the following: mucous membrane
color (pink); capillary refill time (less than one second);
heart rate (120 beats per minute or less) and rhythm;
respiratory rate (10-15 breaths per minute) and pattern;
hydration; bodyweight; attitude; posture; response to
shoulder, carpal, hip, stifle and tarsal flexion; muscle and
tendon palpation and; appearance of the feet. In severe cold
and wind, it is also important to check for potential
frostbite in the following areas: harness and bootie rubs,
teat, prepuce, vulva and flank fold regions. Any signs
described by the musher, such as coughing, diarrhea, fatigue,
gait changes, etc., in addition to any abnormalities detected
on routine evaluation, would necessitate further
investigation.
It is essential that we focus on our priorities when the
teams are coming and going in rapid succession. Potentially
life-threatening abnormalities are our greatest concern. The
following acronym, "H.A.W/L," although not perfect, is easy
for mushers and vets to use as a guideline when things are
happening fast and human fatigue is setting in ("HAW" is a
voice command to go Left): H = Hydration and Heart (rate and
rhythm); A = Attitude and Appetite; W = Weight (bodyweight)
and; L = Lungs
Mushers may finish with only tho dogs that started the race.
Although none may be added to the team after the start, they
can be returned at any checkpoint and for any reason. If team
member numbers are reduced below the predetermined minimum, a
musher cannot officially finish.
A highly organized system is in place to care for returned
dogs and appropriately attend to their needs. Mushers must
complete a Returned Dog Form before releasing a canine from
competition. On this form, an explanation of the reason(s)
for returning is requested along with the musher's signature.
Typically, if an illness or injury is present, a vet has
already examined the animal. In the event that this has not
taken place, an examination is performed as soon as possible.
Previous relevant meds administered and current treatments
are also recorded on the form, in addition to the name of the
veterinarian completing the exam. Included on the returned
dog form is a box to indicate "Condition Status." Dogs with
potentially life-threatening conditions are designated "Red"
and are identified by red flagging placed around the neck.
Every effort is made to safely expedite their travel to an
appropriate vet facility. Dogs undergoing treatment for less
serious disorders are designated as "Blue." Dog Care
Agreement Forms are completed prior to the race and specify
which vet hospital a particular musher's dogs should be
taken to, if necessary. All remaining dogs are officially
considered to be "White," merely waiting to return to their
home kennel.
Dogs returned East (Yentna, Skwentna, Finger Lake, Rainy
Pass) of the Alaska Range fly directly back to Anchorage with
the Iditarod Air Force (IAF). Upon their arrival, they are
once again evaluated by vets to assess their health status.
For those returned farther down the trail, they typically are
flown by the IAF to the hubs of McGrath, Unalakleet or Nome,
where they are rechecked by vets at those locations. Once
again, they receive another examination by vets after landing
in Anchorage.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 79° at midnight
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Jack GROUELL ('61-RIP) ~ 10/22/43 - 4/15/20 (corrected DOD)
John THOMPSON ('82_RIP) ~ 10/30/63 - 6/4/18
Pauline HUTTON Roberts ('84-RIP) ~ 4/15/66 - 9/28/18
Steve LEINGANG ('99-RIP) ~ 8/27/81 - 10/4/18
Sandy JENKINS McVeigh ('63-RIP) ~ 6/15/45 - 10/25/18
Ed HARDING ('63-RIP) ~ 5/9/45 - 6/22/18
Jill BUTLER Hill-Candler ('63-RIP) ~ 7/1/45 - 10/8/16
Todd WILSON ('84-RIP) ~ 8/23/66 - 8/9/17
Jodi DURFEE ('99-RIP) ~ 7/7/81 - 11/28/17
Reuben LINN ('58-RIP) ~ 2/27/40 - 6/10/18
Glenda MOYERS ('63-RIP) ~ 10/20/45 - 7/8/17
Barb HOWE Gubens ('63-RIP) ~ 8/4/45 - 6/10/17
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/23/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Don LYALL ('52)
Doreen HALLENBECK ('51)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terri ROYCE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry MATTHEWS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cliff CUNNINGHAM ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul FELTS ('69)
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>>From: Don LYALL ('52)
What the he*l was all that stuff in today's Sandstorm?
[See my entry today. Some others asked,
but didn't send an entry. -Maren]
-Don LYALL ('52)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
Maren, my Sandstorm arrived in very tiny print. I change the
size to 175 for larger print. Any thing I'm doing wrong?
[No, nothing wrong with you, Doreen... and you
can actually thank gmail for FORCING me into
this html version of the Sandstorm... They are
the main ISP that keeps putting the Sandstorm
in your SPAM folder. -Maren]
-Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ' 5/24/20
Re: The new Sandstorm format
So, the OBJECT of the new format is to stop various ISPs from
thinking that the Sandstorm is SPAM ...
Basically, for 21 years, I've been sending a "plain text"
Sandstorm, but starting 5/21/20, I went to an html version. I
THINK I may even in the future be able to add some of those
happy face icons using html.
So, NetAtlantic (the outfit that actually emails the Sandstorm
- after I give it to them for distribution) adds the footer at
the end of every Sandstorm. It wasn't there on the first try
(5/21) and what came thru at the end on 5/22 was stuff I
didn't even understand.
I'm gonna add them to the 5/23/20 Sandstorm myself... and see
if NetAtlantic gets the footer on there... there MAY be two
footers?
If the text is too tiny to read, click CTRL + (the plus sign)
to increase the size till you can read it. In the meantime,
I'll have to wait till Monday - maybe Tuesday because of the
Memorial Day Holiday - to see if I can get some help with that
to make it bigger for everyone.
Re: Bomber Memorial JPEGs at the end
Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has been creating the memorial
jpegs for deceased Bombers and I decided to put a link at
the end of the Sandstorm - along with the "Heard About" add
"Memorial Info" sections - so everybody can see what a nice
job she's been doing... and maybe get a little information
about deceased Bombers.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 87° at 1:30am
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Grace ZANGAR Cameron ('55-RIP) ~ 12/17/37 - 11/25/14
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/24/20 ~ National Brother's Day
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 3 Bombers and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Daniel LAYBOURN ('70)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ' 5/24/20
Re: The new Sandstorm format
I'm innocent! I did NOT put all that stuff at the end of the
5/23 Sandstorm... Everything that I did ends with:
All Bomber Alumni Links website:
RichlandBombers.com
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All the crap after that... is (I think) SUPPOSED to be the
"footer" that NetAtlantic adds to what I've put together.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 75° at 12:30am
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
The King of Willis Street had a birthday yesterday???? Paul
FELTS ('69), you don't look a day over 69. Hit em long and
straight. If you struggle, just ask Stubby, He can straighten
you out!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Maureen DOYLE Neidhold ('56-RIP) ~ 7/24/38 - 5/20/20
Monty FRANKLIN ('63-RIP) ~ 3/24/45 - 4/20/14
Shawn CARLSON ('84_RIP) ~ 12/23/65 - 7/4/14
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/25/20 ~ MEMORIAL DAY
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
6 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Tony DURAN ('55)
Shirley SHERWOOD ('62), Vernita EDWARDS ('65)
Rick MADDY ('67), Jeff CURTIS ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
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MEMORIAL DAY
Marine Corps Band steps off at 2:01 in the video
Halls of Montezuma
Memorial Day Stuff
Memorial Day, 2020
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pete BOWMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shelly BELCHER ('74)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Gene HORNE ('57) & Carol BISHOP ('60)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Looked at the new (an improved) Club 40 (aka Richland Bomber
Alumni) Web Page.
[Go to RichlandBombers.com -- click on the "Club40"
link very close to the top of the page. - Maren]
After reading the latest minutes of the board meeting, I am
confused. If there is an annual meeting of the Club, where
will it be held? One place says the Hanford House (ex Dessert
Inn) and another says it will be at what ever the latest
incarnation of the original Holiday Inn on GWW.
At any rate, have a save and sane Memorial Day.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Tony DURAN ('55)
Re: Memorial Day - Mansions
Mansions
-Tony DURAN ('55)
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>>From: Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
Re: Nellie O'BRIEN Davis ('62c-RIP)
I'm so sorry to hear of Nellie's passing. She was too young to
leave this world. I hope she had a peaceful passing. We were
really good friends and I have thought of her (& her family)
many times over the years. Nellie & I looked like Mutt & Jeff
when we stood together. I was 5'8" & Nellie was probably 4'8".
Nellie was so much fun to be around; she was always bubbling
over about different things.
Her family was special as well. I was always in awe of
Nellie's mom & sisters.
I am really regretful of the events that took us miles from
the friends we made in high school but unfortunately that is
probably inevitable in life.
-Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
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>>From: Vernita EDWARDS Loveridge ('65)
Re: "Hiroshima" by John Hershey
My brother, Clif ('68), read an article about John Hershey
recently, and asked me if I had read any of his books. I
replied immediately with "Yes! 'Hiroshima' in Junior (?)
English." I was surprised Clif hadn't read it in class, and my
sister-in-law, Linda, lived in Japan and had never heard of
it either. I still remember being profoundly affected by the
novel, especially living in Richland and knowing where the
plutonium used in Nagasaki was made. They both wanted to
read it, so I did my dutiful search on Amazon, purveyor of
everything. I did find it, but some of the reviews noted it
was a photocopy of the original and difficult to read. As
I had already verified that the library didn't carry it, I
ordered a paperback copy. Linda chooses to still read paper
books. I know they will read it, and I will reread it, and
can only imagine the conversations we will have.
It still surprises me that more people haven't read it and
that the Library doesn't carry it. Maybe because it was the
'60s, and everything was being questioned. I'm sure the
teacher had it approved for class, but as meaningful as it was
to me, just three years later, Clif's class never heard of it.
I am extremely proud to be a Bomber, and if schooling or
origin ever come up, I gladly tell the story of our
"government" town. I know one of the main reasons I've had my
education and life is because of being raised in Richland.
Enough nattering on...
-Vernita EDWARDS Loveridge ('65) ~ still in Apache Junction,
AZ and we'll see 110° by Thursday.
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Memorial Day Rant
Memorial Day 2020. Hmmmm. An unusual Memorial Day holiday this
year too say the least because I am soon to be 71 in June and
I did not think I was going to live to see 19. AND, a single
man living in Huntington Beach, CA; Surf City. That statement
would have bug-eyed a few of us at thirty-two. At 32 (can I
start a sentence with At?) I was in Rainier, WA with a wife
thinking I needed psychiatric help from the V.A., a dog,
hungry chickens, a garden needing a hoe and children.
Different story w/Covid-19. Anne Frank spent two years in a
small hole in the wall in Amsterdam before Covid-19 found her
and put her and the family in an oven.
I have NO desire to walk among young people who wear no mask
because of their invincibility and not care one bit of what
generation I come from. Under 50 could care less of grandpa's
wisdom (not talking about yours, of course). I came from a
pile of WWII uncles and a father. Every generation gets to pay
for stupidity because what grandpa believed went into one ear
and out the other. I guess the absolute truth is 'There is no
truth." Good luck with that construct. With (can I start a
sentence with With?) both truth and luck.
Nevertheless, for not visiting, calling, forgiving, nor
doing anything... those unknowingly close to my heart will
possibly in the end pay contrarily for their stupidity and
indiscretions like I have. Or, (can I start a sentence with
Or?), possibly prosper from my forgiveness for a very short
while. I have a will. A very short while.
I wonder if I say I came from 'NUKE TOWN' among the living
before checking out. Will they move way way way farther than
six feet. I glow in the dark. And I can change the will before
'THOSE' get to me with the 'DEMINTIA' card. Small warning.
'He is wearing a diaper. 'BEWARE'. (is the comma in the
correct place? Inside or outside the ? ?)
I know, most of you are sick of hearing my Vietnam War
verbiage, and just scroll on by, I do not blame you, AND I do
not care. This is my writing therapy. Venting. Doctors orders.
Okay. I have a 15 month old great grandson whom will listen
to my every word. He just will not remember a word of it. Ken
WEBB ('67) told me to get a piano when my daughter was seven
(now 50)... I now know what he meant. I was just a bit less
intelligent then the brain (WEBB) of our gang (Phil COLLINS;
Alton SPENCER; and Muuaaahh - '67).
For all of you who came from wealth (can I begin a sentence
with For?). Or, should I say, wealthy parents. We did live in
Richland. Paid for your college? Most probably? Some with a
major/minor bank loan just because parents love giving a child
a $ lesson, of course, and/or the grades, etc. etc. Exception
would be those who scored high on the 'tests'. ML ('67)
needed a straight edge too mark his test scores. ML was our
class inspiration. I am sure the word genius coming from me
would inspire him to work harder (just kidding, ML).
Only non-quals got drafted; on the most part. BUT, not always.
There are exceptions. Some of us joined before being drafted.
If you had superior grades in science and math, or maybe
soupier... and not just beer and girl, minus education like
me... you were on your way to greatness. My company commander
in Vietnam was Fred Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx. Wikipedia
that man and you will see where I was at in Vietnam. The
Skipper was an honorable man and did NOT need to be there.
He was an exception.
I saw the writing on the wall, graduated June 11 and joined
the Marine Corps on June 24, 1967, my 18th birthday. Myself,
I had a father with a sixth grade education who loved plants
more than human beings and a mother born in the Missouri
Ozarks. After about the sixth grade I had zero help. My mother
helped me with spelling words that were coming up on Fridays
in Mr. Lester's (??) 6th grade class at L&C. After that, it
was beer $ on weekends from mom who thought I was dating
until I graduated.
No man or woman stands before my father or mother.
So, in honor of those who I was with in Vietnam for a short,
but a horrific time, and those I spent a year in military
hospitals in DaNang, Japan and Bremerton Navy Hospital. I will
end with a stanza from a poem I have been working on for
several years. Been having trouble with what rhymes with Greek
other than Geek. The BC hacking and whacking Greeks wrote
about PTSD, but there was no conclusion amongst their
scholars. Not comprehending what was going on with their
comrade after several engagements, the combatants would look
at each other and ask; "What's with Ares?"
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'PTSD' (partial) - still working on it
The days crawl slowly by and by and by.
One day is a lifetime and only a second to die.
Longer than a second becomes misery for the living.
The memory becomes life long and unforgiving.
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-Rick MADDY ('67) ~ I would thank you all for your service,
but since I did not go to Canada, jail for five years
or be drafted into the Boy Scouts for not showing up
at the post office and had no wealthy parents and
instead chose the Marine Corps to witness Marines die
so our grandchildren would start speaking of a socialist
government over the wishes of our fore-fathers -
PFFFTTT. -- I will be watching your grandchildren on
TV like my generation watched me in Vietnam.
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>>From: Jeff CURTIS ('69)
I dusted off the poem I wrote - Memorial Day, updated it a bit
and added a preface regarding the Bomber alum who inspired it.
I thought you might like to repost this version with the
background information.
"Memorial Day" by Jeff Curtis
-Jeff CURTIS ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Memorial Day thoughts
To: All Bombers
Memorial Day, time set aside for reflection and remembrance
of service rendered by women and men who we know and those we
will never meet. I've been blessed to meet many and hear their
stories and feel incredibly lucky for what I have in this
country. To those Bombers who post their experiences, I feel
honored to read them. Thank you for pulling back your curtain
a bit, those words increase my gratitude.
Several months ago I had the express opportunity to meet the
children of the men who flew the DAY'S PAY. While searching
for other crew members I came to know Robert Max Neal, DAY'S
PAY co-pilot, family members. Robert Jr's sons granddaughter
put together a mural to share with her class mates what her
great grandfather did to serve. Attached are two photos of her
and the mural. The family says thank you for the "lucky" plane
bought so many years ago by former Hanford workers who became
future Bomber parents and grandparents.
Robert Max Neal, DAY'S PAY co-pilot
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 3 Bombers, and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Tedd CADD ('66)
Bruce STRAND ('69)
Marlene STRAND ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dolores MOODY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cecilia BENNETT ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rod BREWER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria STEWART ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pattie NEWELL ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul KOOP ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul McNEILL ('74)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Jeff CURTIS' ('69) memorial poem
Wow! I am blown away by Mr. CURTIS' ('69) poem. Can you call
something so difficult beautiful?
Tony DURAN ('55)'s video was great as well.
As to Mr. MADDY's ('67) notes on drafted vs volunteering: I
had a wife (Pam HUNT Cadd ('66)) and a child on the way when
I got my draft notice. I was a full-times student and married
in 1969 with approved deferments. But the army, looking for
the ones who would join Mr. MADDY in the jungles of Vietnam,
they chose me. I did manage to join the USAF instead. I went
to Vietnam in 1972 as a Photo Intel specialist.
I was not in combat. I had two M-16s assigned to me-both of
them locked up in a CONEX, one outside my barracks and one
outside my workplace. I never knew who had the keys. My
barracks was 30 feet from where the VC came over the fence in
Tet '68 and my work area had a VC machine gun nest on the roof
during that offensive. I doubt I could have reached either of
them in time.
The VC/NVA (not sure which) launched their 5" rockets at our
base once in a while. The morning of the cease-fire, they
threw a few at us 2 hours prior to the 8am cease-fire.
The military had an immediate impact on my family: Poverty.
But I'm very grateful for my time, 25 years altogether. But it
was a rocky start. When our first child was being born, my
request to be with my wife at the hospital was literally met
with, "If the Air Force had wanted you to have a family, they
would have issued you one."
The Air Force gave me some good skills (6.5 years active) and
a couple life-long friends. The Coast Guard (18.5 years) gave
me good investigative skills and the opportunity to make our
rivers safer/cleaner as well as actually rescuing people from
the water at the hydroplane races.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: Jeff CURTIS' ('69) memorial poem
Thank you, Jeff, for your "Memorial Day" tribute and story of
your buddy Danny WAGENAAR ('67-RIP)! Especially thank you for
this tribute to all the "Buddies" who served and died for our
country.
-Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ from sunny Tempe, AZ where we're in for
another heat wave, 112° forecast for Thursday.
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>>From: Marlene STRAND Brennan ('76)
Jeff CURTIS ('69) writes a beautiful tribute. It gives you
pause about timing, life, war, and the blessings on some but
it all.
I also read his story about the bear & The big pool. He
captures the Richland life in the '60s so well.
Jeff CURTIS ('69) writes
-Marlene STRAND Brennan ('76)
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April PRESTON ('89-RIP) ~ 4/8/70 - 4/11/20
Skip FOWLER ('67_RIP) ~ 2/23/48 - 5/15/20
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/27/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
5 Bombers sent stuff:
Grover SHEGRUD ('56), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Ed SULLIVAN ('65)
Rick MADDY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thomas PERL ('71)
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Re: Maureen DOYLE Neidhold ('56-RIP)
Was saddened to hear of her Passing... she was ONE CLASSY
LADY!!
Re: Mount St Helens Memory
My dad was visiting us in Renton (annual birthday get-
together) when the mountain blew... we got just a light
dusting of ash. Because of the ash in Richland he had to stay
over a few days more. He missed his ride home so he caught a
plane at SeaTac and flew home when the airport opened in
Pasco. I think it was his first commercial flight and his
only.
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56) ~ in Mill Creek, Martha Lake, Bothell,
Lynnwood, WA where its raining but headed for some nice
days ahead
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Vernita EDWARDS Loveridge ('65)
Re: "Hiroshima," by John Hersey
The book (by Hersey, 1914-1993; not Hershey) is a sobering
118 pages of on-the-ground, non-fiction journalism; it is
not a "novel." Originally published as the entire issue of
New Yorker on August 31, 1946.
Order on Amazon.com
From part of the dust jacket for the 1946 hard copy (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf):
"Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who
lived through the greatest single manmade
disaster in history. With what Bruce Bliven
[1916-2002, New Deal journalist and editor of New
Republic] called 'the simplicity of genius', John
Hersey tells what these six-a clerk, a widowed
seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a
young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest-were
doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when
Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb
ever dropped on a city. Then follows the course
of their lives hour by hour, day by day, building
up with sure, quiet artistry the already classic
piece that Lewis Gannett [1891-1966, author and
book reviewer for the New York Herald] called
the best reporting to come out of this war' [... .]"
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: Vernita EDWARDS Loveridge ('65)
Re: Hiroshima
One of the books my father left me after his passing is a
hardbound copy of the original 1946 edition of "Hiroshima" by
John Hersey (note the spelling). So it's been around all my
life, and it amazes me that it wasn't until a couple of years
ago that I finally picked it up and read it. To say it was a
sobering experience would be a vast understatement. This book
should be required reading in Richland schools.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Ned SULLIVAN ('65)
Re: Mary
Our sister, Mary SULLIVAN ('63 & '64-RIP), passed away on
Memorial day at 0345. Her sisters, Terese ('66) and Maureen
('76) were able to be with her and surround her with love as
she moved on. Brothers Denis ('62), Ed ('65), and Kerry ('68)
are grateful that her last days were spent reminiscing about
all the growing up in Richland on Craighill and Marshall
streets. In addition to her siblings, she is survived by her
son, Neal, and her grandson Rhys.
Thank you to all the Bomber faithful who offered prayers to
help her on her journey.
Mary's Bomber Memorial jpeg
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
To: Jeff CURTIS ('69)
Re: Dan WAGENAAR ('67 RIP)
Jeff,
For some reason, I cannot get an email address for you on the
AS or online in your class pages. Therefore, I will go through
the AS.
In the mid '70s I was living in Richland. The war over,
several Vietnam War vets got together and tried putting
together a 'post' for the Vietnam vets living in the Tri-
Cities. The concept coming from the ride we all got to take
fighting in an unpopular war and therefore get one of our own
posts, is what I recall, but that can be a skewed memory of
mine today after too many years of empty whiskey bottles. Of
which you all have been subjected to more than once.
The group was going to name the post in honor of Dan and one
other, I believe. Dan, for sure. I came into the scene after
everything was already in the works. The 'real' veteran's
organizations, said no. You could not put an organization
(i.e., VFW, DAV) together for only one group i.e., Vietnam War
Veterans. A legitimate organized group would have to allow
vets of all wars. So, the original idea at the time ended in
a fail.
Now for the reason I write. Dan WAGENAAR's ('67-RIP) mother
(Elaine). I believe this is his mother. His parents kept his
letters and also received letters and his diary later from the
Army. Somebody, anyway. His mother put together an 80 page
'booklet' with Dan's letters and diary. Letters from Nam.
During one of the very early 'so-called illegal' meetings at
the Vietnam War post, we all had received a copy of this
booklet in honor of Dan's sacrifice to our Nation and namesake
of the post. I have a copy. Second printing, 1976. The first
printing was 1971 while the war is still raging. I have had
it among all my Vietnam War memories for all these years.
Maybe you already have a copy, Jeff, but if not and you would
like to have it, please write with your address and I will get
it to you. Dan was my classmate. You are his friend.
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-Rick MADDY ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/28/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 7 Bombers and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike CLOWES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Bob & Roberta GROUT ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul HOWARD ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tracy WRIGHT ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lori LYSO ('78)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY TODAY
Joe BOMBINO ('74) and Elizabeth KOSKI ('77)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: RHS 2020 Graduation Party
[Below Shirley used a DIRECT QUOTE that came
from the GoFundMe website link above. -Maren]
"The seniors at Richland High School, like many
other graduates, are pretty devastated about
their high school graduation ceremonies and
festivities being severely delayed and possibly
cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. High
School graduation is a real right of passage that
most students look forward for almost all of
their educational lives and for the Class of 2020
this just isn't happening on any kind of normal
level.
The committee of parents who was working so hard
to put together the RHS Class of 2020 Graduation
Party is now seeking donations to help celebrate
these seniors in some magnificent and celebratory
way. Normally we would have been actively
fundraising during these past several months to
help cover the costs of the party with food,
games, decorations and prizes fitting of a high
school graduation but that has obviously not been
an option. Instead, we have decided to are reach
out to the family, friends, neighbors and
community members of these students to try and
help fund raise for a truly spectacular
graduation party, now scheduled for August 1,
2020. (More information regarding this party will
be coming to our graduates and parents through
emails and on Facebook.)
Please consider giving whatever big or small
amount you can afford to help celebrate the RHS
Class of 2020.
If, for some reason, the graduation part now
scheduled for August 1st is also cancelled, any
money received will go toward honoring the
seniors of the Class of 2020 in a very meaningful
way."
The RHS class of 2020 virtual graduation will be June 5 at 7:30pm.
Watch at the link above
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: First Responders
Here's an example of what further dangers our First Responders
face in this time. This time is the US Coast Guard: A cocaine
bust where some of the bad guys tested positive for Corona.
Bad Guys Test positive for Carona
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Nancy MARSHALL Foss ('63-RIP) ~ 8/17/45 - 5/22/03
Pat WATT Hill ('63-RIP) ~ 1/20/45 - 2/8/01
Dave HENRY ('62-RIP) ~ 3/21/44 - 1/23/19
Jerry HURLEY ('62-RIP) ~ 2/24/44 - 12/25/13
Bob BERGDAHL ('62-RIP) ~ 10/27/44 - 12/21/16
Floyd HUNTER ('64_RIP) ~ 6/30/45 - 12/17/10
Laurel NIELSEN Fleck ('62-RIP) ~ 4/19/44 - 8/8/16
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/29/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 2 Bombers, and
4 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Jeanie WALSH ('63), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick PIERARD ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry HARROLD ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bruce BROWN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike DALE ('66)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Corona Benefits!
So today I went down to the [CA} Kings County Department For
The Aged! They are still dropping off boxes of groceries...
I was told that during the "lock-down" they were increasing
the allocation in most cases. I begged off apparently to no
avail. Then this afternoon My wife got a call from her
connection at The Senior Aid Group And Clinic For The
Partially Bald. She was notified that we are now the proud
owners of a $700.00 food stamp card. I was also informed, It
cannot be used to purchase beer or wine so I have yet to find
a need for it. My wife plans to fill our heretofore unused
chest style freezer with meat and let it go at that. I have my
eye on several nice prime rib roasts. Gotta keep her away from
the Hamburger. That's her specialty. That and Jimmy Dean
sausage.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from downtown Hanford, CA where it is hot
enough to roast your post toasties
PS also found out today-we are getting a "FREE" <<<---
Free solar panel on our roof. Courtesy of Kings County
council for the aged... will cut out most of a 150 buck
a month contribution to So. Gal. Electric. Only we have
to wait till the lock down ends to get it installed.
Will that happen in my life time?
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
There is a moment in this day to take time to wish Larry
HARROLD ('56) a "Happy Birthday!" Not too sure when that
moment will be, but there you are.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH (GMC '63)
Re: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
I really appreciate Shirley's addition to our Sandstorm. Thank
you very much.
-Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Simi Valley, CA
(Home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) where
yesterday it was 94° here
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Well, today I found my Sandstorm in my JUNK folder! I'm sorry,
Maren, but it looks like even using your new protocol,
something must have gone awry.
[Marie -- I THINK the problem is that
Charter will continue to think it's junk
until there is an "unsubscribe" button at
the end of the Sandstorm. That's what
we're working on. I will call tomorrow
if it still isn't there. -Maren]
There was a story on our local news last night about the
Bomber class of 2020 having a picture taking session in cap
and gowns at the high school. The kids lined up in their cars
around the school and took turns going into the auditorium to
walk on stage and have their picture taken. I'm not sure of
the class size, but it looked like a real traffic jam! I
can't imagine how hard it is for these seniors, but everyone
is trying to do things to make this year's graduating class
memorable in good ways.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland supposed to hit 90s
the next few days
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Jim POWERS ('71-RIP) ~ 9/22/53 - 5/26/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 4 Bombers and
1 Bomber sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy NIELD ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teri SCHUCHART ('70)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Something must be working right, as yesterday's AS was back to
its previous format.
Which is entirely beside the point. That being it is now time
to wish Judy NIELD ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" Enough said.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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Todd ADAMSON ('79-RIP) ~ 8/5/61 - 9/1/91
Brock ERICKSON ('63-RIP) ~ 8/18/45 - 4/2/90
Gary RROBERTS ('63_/64KiBe-RIP) ~ 10/13/45 - 8/5/09
Cappy HAINES ('63-RIP) ~ 4/14/45 - 1/20/99
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/31/20
Sunday. Whatever makes you happy, DO THAT!
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 6 Bombers and
1 Bombers's stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim ALBAUGH ('68)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ~ 5/31/20
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
278 days till start of 2021 Iditarod: March 6, 2021.
Re: Lance Mackey disqualified from 2020 Iditarod
The Iditarod has announced that, due to a failed drug test,
Lance Mackey's 21st place finish at the 2020 Iditarod will be
vacated. Mackey's urine sample taken in White Mountain, a
standard operating procedure for the first thirty mushers
arriving at the checkpoint, tested positive for
methamphetamine.
Lance said: "Some may have expected, known, or like myself,
denied where I am in my life right now. I'm tired of lying to
myself, friends, family, and fans, who have all supported me,
rooted for me, or been inspired by me. I apologize to all of
you. The truth is that I need professional help with my latest
life challenge. I am in the process of making arrangements to
go to a treatment center where I can get the professional help
and real change I need. I'm ready to confront this with all of
my focus and determination."
He even had to give back the $1,049 in prize money for his
21st place finish.
Iditarod Board President Mike Mills said "While this is a very
unfortunate event, we hope this disqualification will be a
turning point in spurring Lance on the trail to recovery. The
health of Lance is our top priority. He is one of our Iditarod
heroes who is going through a tough time in his life. Most of
us have been touched by addiction in some way, and we realize
how painful it can be on friends and family and how very
difficult addiction can be to overcome."
Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach noted that, "A repeat cancer survivor,
four-time Iditarod champion, and truly great dog man, Lance is
about to take on another challenge, and our first concern is
that he finds the support and treatment he needs to get
healthy and hopefully finish his most important race."
The Iditarod asks that Mackey's focus on his recovery and need
for privacy for him and his family be respected at this time.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 78° at 3am
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Lane MERRYMAN ('63-RIP) ~ 5/9/45 - 5/28/20
Ed LANGE ('63_RIP) ~ 8/14/45 - 9/4/02
Rick JOHNSON ('63-RIP) ~ 9/23/45 - 11/24/92
Ross PETERSEN ('63-RIP) ~ 8/29/45 - 10/2/89
Lisa BOAK Hogan ('74_RIP) ~ 6/29/56 - 10/1/84
Chuck GARDINER ('63-RIP) ~ 10/9/44 - 1/3/84
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April, 2020 ~ June, 2020