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Alumni Sandstorm Archive ~ July, 2020
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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/01/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 3 Bombers and
5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Julie SMYTH ('69_)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob Craens ('60_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy OATES ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karl FECHT ('66)
Richland Bombers on Facebook
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Bombers_On_Facebook.htm
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
We should all join in on a chorus or two of "Born on the 1th
of July" in honor of a Bomber, and a Marine. I know there are
no "ex" marines, so what else can we call him. Just say "Happy
Birthday!" to George "Pappy" SWAN ('59). We trust all is well
with the former little mud puddle, the dogs, and you.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
The year I graduated from Col-Hi, I enrolled in Burnley Art
School on Broadway on Capitol Hill in Seattle. I looked up
to see what the area I lived in looked like now. I lived on
Bellevue Ave. on the 1500 block between Pike and Pine. The
building is still there, but it is no longer apartments
and the park like features have been built over. My studio
apartment looked out over the street. It was funky and pretty
back then. I lived on $125.00 a month; my rent (all utilities
included) was $86 and with the rest I paid my supply bill at
the school and bought groceries. I walked all over Seattle -
up and down Pike and Pine - down one street and back up the
other depending on which way I turned when I walked out my
door. That Christmas I bought everyone in my family a small
present from the basement of Frederick & Nelson with $25
that I had managed to squirrel away for that purpose. My
grandmother and uncle lived in Kent and would drive into the
city usually on a Sunday to take me to lunch or, if I had
nothing going on, I'd take the bus to their house and they'd
bring me back with enough food to last for the next week. I
made friends with a girl from Bremerton and sometimes I'd go
home with her on a Friday and spend the weekend. She rode the
ferry back and forth every day for school. I loved (and still
do) that ride on Puget Sound. Occasionally, I'd get homesick
and take the Greyhound home to Richland and someone would
drive me back on Sunday. After a semester, I left school and
moved back to help with caring for my siblings. I think the
death of President Kennedy put a pall over me for quite some
time. I'll never forget that awful day and weekend.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: 6/30 entry
I said "I grew up in the 1300-1500 blocks of Richland..."
I meant to say that I grew up on Cottonwood (not Richland).
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Julie SMYTH Moss('69_)
Re: Sewing Machine
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/200701-Sewing_Machine.jpg
Picture to go with my 6/29 Sandstorm entry about watching my
mother sew when I was a little girl.
-Julie SMYTH Moss('69_)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Happy Birthday
A big Happy Birthday to the best hunting, fishing, and
drinking partner anyone could ask for!!! Happy Birthday
George "Pappy" SWAN '(59), on your special day.. And many
more!!!
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in hot, humid Princeton, TX
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Richard HENDERSON ('62-RIP) ~ 3/11/44 - 2/22/05
Linda HANSEN Toth ('62-RIP) ~ 3/3/44 - 10/9/19
Randy GEORGE ('62_RIP) ~ 8/4/44 - 1/4/13
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/02/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
4 Bombers sent stuff:
Allan AVERY ('54), Jack GARDINER ('61)
Donna NELSON ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lyman CHRISTOPHER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jamie WORLEY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David SHERRARD ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan Donogh (Adopted '71)
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>>From: Allan AVERY ('54)
To: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
I'm writing belatedly about your Sad Loss; and the pictures
of Edna and her travels that you posted here at the time.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/McK/200629-00.htm
They are Wonderful. I will always remember number 11 of those
pictures; Edna and you together. I feel deep sympathy for you
in your heart breaking loss. I know you to be strong, and
caring for all, and I know you will reach an accommodation
that keeps her with you. To witness your devotion is truly a
gift to me and all others.
I didn't know of your loss earlier, as Merry and I were in the
middle of a stressful move then... from our house and home of
the last 20 years here in Sumner, WA into an Elderly Community
facility in Renton, where one son and his family live.
"Merrill Gardens."
New snail mail address is 104 Burnett Ave. S., Apartment 556,
Renton, WA 98057. No change in email or phone.
Maybe we'll see one another in Richland again at a Reunion (🙂)
-Allan AVERY ('54)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
When comes to the Village Theater, I can only remember paying
12 cents. Dick BOISONEAU ('61) got in for free because one of
his sisters worked there.
Once in a while I would go to the movie at Camp Hanford, but
can't remember what it cost to get in.
What is now known as Howard Amon Park had a wadding pool. I
went to what we called "The Big Pool" on Swift and I paid 10
cents get in.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
To: Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
I sew too (🙂) with the help of my grandmother Bolke and
my mom and I still love it and make fleece Seahawk shorts for
daughter-in-law in Maui. My parents had an old Singer machine
similar to your picture, Julie. It was in a blonde cabinet
with 2 drawers on the side of the cabinet stool that held
thread spools, seam gauge, seam ripper, pin cushions and
multiple replacement machine needle pkgs. Oh and pinking
shears, of course. Bottom drawer had the button hole
attachment and other junk! I made my Lanz look-alike dresses
with the ric rack at the neck, waist and hem and a gray
corduroy suit that I loved. Also sewed elastic waist pants for
my very young sons and made husband a shirt or two. Later he
came home with a Viking machine and sewed duck decoy bags with
heavy oil cloth. Today with the stay-at-home request, I'm
stripping a two drawer box I bought at a garage sale that has
to be an old sewing storage box. It has some gold decal
letters on the drawers that I uncovered with stripper but
can't make out yet and metal backplate drawer knobs that match
an old sewing cabinet I already refinished. Pretty exciting to
salvage someone's throw away and make it functional to store
more stuff!!! The paint I stripped off I put on a canvas and
calling it "Covid" or "Quarantined"
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
Re: Sewing
That is a "cool sewing machine."
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/200701-Sewing_Machine.jpg
I always did like the sewing machine in the cabinet better in
what the portable machine. Nice flat area makes it a lot
easier to control the fabric instead of that little area that
is raised up off the table. My machine was my mother's. I
don't know what happened to the one she had in the cabinet.
She had a portable that I took to get an estimate on what it
would cost to have fixed which was a little over $100. She
thought that was too much so we went to Wal*Mart and bought a
cheap one for about the same price. I don't like it but I
don't sew enough any more to buy another machine. I think
maybe I would rather even have an old treadle machine. Easier
to control. The foot pedal on mine is rather sticky and I was
trying to sew a curve in the mask I was making and couldn't
get it to slow down enough and made a straight line instead.
Don't anyone email me with an offer to sell or give me one--I
don't sew enough to be worth the space it would take up. My
wife had an appointment with the heart doctor Tuesday and the
lady doing the EKG etc asked if she had made her mask. She
said no, I had made it, and I said, "Yeah, I live in a house
with two women (wife and daughter) and I am the only one who
can sew."
About a year ago I heard about Project Linus--they make quilts
for kids. I rounded up something like 14 boxes of my mom's
left over material to donate. Fortunately I missed some light
blue material with little white flower pattern which was with
a little girls dress pattern, it had been cut out, but no
sewing on it. I can only guess this was a dress she was making
for my daughter and never finished. I used that material for
my wife's mask and my daughter will actually get to wear it as
I am going to make a mask for her out of it.
What you said about tightening that wheel without
thinking about it I think is an example of how the
subconscious works. When we are learning to do something we
are thinking about how we are doing it. Like driving a car we
are aware of every little thing, eventually the subconscious
learns it and takes over, and it does better than our
conscious did. Mostly in driving we are conscious of where we
are going, but someone pulls in front of you and you hit the
brake without even thinking about it. An example of this from
my life; I was a Navy Radioman, mostly a paperwork job. When I
first came aboard ship I saw these guys stapling messages, a
lot of messages have two or more pages. What they would do is
lay them out with the first as if you were going to read it,
then the next on top of it at a 90 degree angle with the its
left side right on the bottom of the first message, then on
top the first one, alternating as you go. Pick then up and rap
on the table so they are all lined up nice and square, hold
them with one hand like a fan and curl them a bit, staple the
bottom one first and using the stapler to hold the pages, move
back an forth stapling each one and letting it drop and on to
the next. I have my doubts anyone understands that description
but the important part is that I looked at what they were
doing and said to myself, "I will never be able to do that."
I learned and did it for four years, probably using enough
staples to cast a ship's anchor. So . . . some 15-20 years
later I had the occasion where I needed to staple a lot of
papers, I stacked them up, started stapling and about 1/4 way
through I thought, "hey, I'm doing it again!!!" Then . . .
just a few months later, needed to do it again. "I know how to
do this!!! Stacked them up and started with the stapler--and
couldn't do it!!! I could do it without thinking, but I
couldn't do it if I was thinking about it.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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Ron GILMOUR ('62_RIP) ~ 10/16/43 - 4/13/13
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/03/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 2 Bombers and
1 Bomber (ME!) sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray HALL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim OTEY ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry WILLIS ('65)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ~ 7/2/20
Best argument to wear a mask
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
245 days till start of 2021 Iditarod: March 6, 2021.
All KINDS of new stuff for the 2021 race... COVID19 has
changed lots of things... the fee schedule looks like this
now:
~ $2k from opening day (6/4) until midnight June 27 AKDT
~ $3k June 28 - August 31
~ $4k Sep. 1 - Nov. 30
~ $8k post-November 30
58 mushers have signed up
1 ~ Paige Drobny ~ Vet
2 ~ Jason Campeau ~ Vet
3 ~ Jennifer Campeau ~ Roo
4 ~ Martin Buser ~ Vet
5 ~ Riley Dyche ~ Vet
6 ~ Dan Kaduce ~ Vet
7 ~ Ryne Olson ~ Vet
8 ~ Sebastien Dos Santos Borges ~ Roo
9 ~ Joanna Jagow ~ Roo
10 ~ Dennis Kananowicz ~ Vet
11 ~ Jeff Deeter ~ Vet
12 ~ Michelle Phillips ~ Vet
13 ~ Matt Hall ~ Vet
14 ~ Ryan Redington ~ Vet
15 ~ Gunnar Johnson ~ Vet
16 ~ Brent Sass ~ Vet
17 ~ Linwood Fiedler ~ Vet
18 ~ Marcelle Fressineau ~ Vet
19 ~ Karin Hendrickson ~ Vet
20 ~ Lev Shvarts ~ Vet
21 ~ Wade Marrs ~ Vet
22 ~ Jeff King ~ Vet
23 ~ Aaron Peck ~ Vet
24 ~ Nicolas Petit ~ Vet
25 ~ Josi Thyr ~ Roo
26 ~ Gabe Dunham ~ Roo
27 ~ Cody Strathe ~ Vet
28 ~ Susannah Tuminelli ~ Roo
29 ~ Mats Pettersson ~ Vet
30 ~ Will Troshynski ~ Roo
31 ~ Chad Stoddard ~ Roo
32 ~ Ramey Smyth ~ Vet
33 ~ Anna Berington ~ Vet
34 ~ Kristy Berington ~ Vet
35 ~ Christopher Parker ~ Roo
36 ~ Thomas Waerner ~ Vet
37 ~ Dakota Schlosser ~ Roo
38 ~ Aaron Burmeister ~ Vet
39 ~ Hal Hanson ~ Roo
40 ~ Dallas Seavey ~ Vet
41 ~ Jessie Royer ~ Vet
42 ~ Richie Diehl ~ Vet
43 ~ Joar Leifseth Ulsom ~ Vet
44 ~ Paul Gebhardt ~ Vet
45 ~ Shaynee Traska ~ Vet
46 ~ Peter Kaiser ~ Vet
47 ~ Brett Bruggeman ~ Vet
48 ~ Matthew Failor ~ Vet
49 ~ Aliy Zirkle ~ Vet
50 ~ Travis Beals ~ Vet
51 ~ Alan Eischens ~ Vet
52 ~ Sean Williams ~ Roo
53 ~ Joshua McNeal ~ Roo
54 ~ Mille Porsild ~ Vet
55 ~ Severin Cathry ~ Roo
56 ~ Quince Mountain ~ Roo
57 ~ Sarah Stokey ~ Vet
58 ~ Brenda Mackey ~ Roo
47 vets
11 rookies
6 champions: Dallas Seavey (4 wins), Martin Buser (4 wins),
Jeff King (4 wins), Joar Leifseth Ulsom (2018), Pete Kaiser (2019),
Thomas Waerner (2020)
2nd, 3rd, or 4th at least once (but never won):
Aliy Zirkle, Jessie Royer, Paul Gebhardt, Ramey Smyth,
Linwood Fiedler, Aaron Burmeister, Brent Sass, Wade Marrs,
Ray Redington, Jr,
40 men
18 women
7 countries (US, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweeden, France,
Switzerland)
4 states (Alaska, Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin)
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 79° at 12:30am
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Margaret SMITH Davenport ('62-RIP) ~ 5/23/44 - 4/19/70
Carole PETTERSON Jollimore ('62-RIP) ~ 11/5/44 - 5/18/01
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/04/20 ~ 4th of July
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Steve CARSON ('58)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
John Wayne's God Bless America
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Penny MITCHELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gale WALDKOETTER ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim RICE ('75)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Re: Don't waste the Quarantine
Workout. I'm going to need a new T-shirt.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200704-T-Shirt.jpg
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Sewing machines
One Christmas my dad bought my mother a new sewing machine
(how romantic, how about some jewelry?). My mother was not
thrilled. She was an excellent seamstress and she liked her
old pedal-operated Graybar machine. He took the new machine
back to Sears and we went to Mr. Lemaster's studio on Harris
and Mom chose one of his watercolors that hung in our living
until they both passed away.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/05/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Pam EHINGER ('67)
Jim GEIER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon PANTHER ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike HUSKE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Danny WALKER ('71)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
To: Steve CARSON ('58)
Re: http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200704-T-Shirt.jpg
I Really enjoyed your Tshirt! You looked so Macho!
Hope you had a great 4th of July!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Jim GEIER ('71)
Re: Singer sewing machines
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Gei/200705-ChiangMaiSinger.jpg
With the recent talk about old Singer sewing machines,
I am reminded of my many yoga-focused visits to Chiang Mai,
Thailand. There I walked by a shop selling sewing machines,
including brand new foot-powered machines (see attached
picture). I was told by a Thai lady who sews that the foot
machines allow for fine control over the speed in delicate
sewing.
-Jim GEIER ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/06/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 2 Bombers and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Carol CARSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim BRUNELLE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marian HENNINGS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David BARGER ('72)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
To: Steve CARSON ('58)
Re: http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200704-T-Shirt.jpg
DELIGHTFUL T-shirt!
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in crazy-weather Tri-Cities. We
are still in Phase 1 of the COVID-19 mess. What a
bummer! If people would just WEAR MASKS in public, we
could advance to Phase 1-1/2, Phase 2... Phase 3! Wow,
think of it... FREEDOM!
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Sewing machines
I still have my grandmother's treadle sewing machine.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200706-Treadle_Singer.jpg
I've never used it but I also have never cleaned out the
drawers. Some really interesting stuff in there like an
electric bill from 1940!
Neither my son or brothers want it so I'll be passing it on
to a cousin.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ Lynnwood, WA where the weather
has finally turned beautiful
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Dan WAGENER ('84-RIP) ~ 8/5/66 - 8/30/91
Jim WILSON ('76-RIP) ~ 6/7/58 - 6/5/20
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/07/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Donna NELSON ('63)
Julie SMYTH ('69_)
NO BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
To: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: grandmother's treadle sewing machine
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200706-Treadle_Singer.jpg
Beautiful picture of your grandmother's sewing machine, Carol.
Cabinet looks like you've kept it very clean. "They don't make
'em like they used to".
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
To: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: grandmother's treadle sewing machine
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/200706-Treadle_Singer.jpg
Carol,
That's a beautiful machine. My sister-in-law has used a
treadle machine and she said once she got used to it, it was
ok but she had to get the rhythm right.
-Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/08/20
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty RUSSELL ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam DeVRIES ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tammy JANES ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna Sue LUKINS ('79)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
I phoned Curt at Solstice Retirement Home, Kennewick, after
being informed by Terry DAVIS ('65) that Curt has a private
phone in his room and would welcome a phone call. Curt's voice
is strong and his spirits are good. His phone number is (509)
572-0096. Curt's legs are too weak for him to move without
nursing assistance. He hopes to get some physical therapy.
Re: Rex HUNT ('53)
Too many people have been scared by doctors' predictions of
how long they have to live. Even Hospice isn't always a death
sentence. A classmate's husband (NAB) expected to lose his
wife within a few days, but she recovered and is back in the
nursing home! I would give her name, but I haven't asked
permission.
Re: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
My own cancer fight continues, but I've lightened up. Due to
the rising Coronavirus threat in Eastern Washington, I
canceled all of my doctors' appointments, blood test, and
mammogram. I feel no worse than I did last year and shall
continue to eat fruit, veggies, sardines and salmon.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland wishing you good
health and a blessed Summer
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
First off; a "Happy Birthday!" to fellow classmate Betty
RUSSELL ('54). Hope you have a good and safe time.
And a belated "Happy Birthday!" to all those Bombers born on
the 7th who haven't the foresight to get their names on the
Bomber Calendar. How else we gonna know?
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: Singer Sewing Machine
Okay, I thought I'd give my 2 cents in on the Singer Sewing
Machine.
I learned to sew at home on a Singer. It wasn't a treadle,
but the same for everything else. What I really liked was
the button hole attachment. It was a rather large and bulky
accessory, but it made the best button holes! All the other
sewing machines I've used don't stand to compare when it comes
to making button holes.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: electric bill from 1940!
My mother-in-law got you beat by one year. Not in her sewing
machine drawer, but with her sewing stuff; a set of sewing
needles in a rather large paper folder from the 1939 New York
World's Fair, with pictures of the Trylon and Perisphere on
it. Like this one on ebay.
Re: Sewing machines and dreams
About six months ago I heard my wife tell someone that her
mother made her wedding dress using the old treadle machine
because even though she also had an electric machine she had
more control with the treadle. I had not known that, I just
assumed she had used the electric. Our 50th anniversary was
last April and I had planed to use a glass cake topper I had
someone make for my parent's 50th. It had glass flowers on a
large glass heart with a "50" in the center of it. That did
not happen because everyone was supposed to stay home and wear
a face diaper when they were out. We couldn't invite people
over and couldn't even go out to eat. Ended up going to
Domino's to pick up a pizza--well, I guess that will be
memorable!!!
In grade school I remember a teacher saying that sewing
machine inventor (I think she said Singer, but it was Elias
Howe) could not get his machine to work, but one night he
dreamed he was being chased by cannibals throwing spears at
him that had a hole near the point. He woke up, went to his
shop and made a needle with the hole at the pointy end. If you
go to Singer's website it says that Isaac Singer invented the
first "practical" sewing machine. He saw one of Howe's
machines being repaired and thought he could build a better
one. He changed how the mechanism worked and added a foot
treadle (which was nothing new for powering different kinds of
machines) that way you could control the cloth with two hands
instead of one and use the other to turn the hand wheel. Howe
sued him and won so Singer had to pay him a lump sum plus a
percentage of every machine he sold.
When I was in the Navy I had what seemed like a long long
dream, it even had an end!!! I woke up and thought that would
make a great book. I did not have to get up for another half
hour so I went back to sleep. When I did wake up a half hour
later I had lost "the great American novel," I could not even
remember what the basic subject was. Years later I heard Paul
Harvey on his "The Rest of the Story" about Robert Lewis
Stevenson having a nightmare, woke up and started writing
before he forgot. Working constantly for days writing "Strange
Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
I have read that a lot of creative people keep a notebook and
writing stick of some kind by their bed in case they wake up
with an idea they can write it down. I mentioned that to
someone I was working with in the '70s as a mechanical
designer. He told me that once they were trying to come up
with a design and just could not figure out an answer. Then
one night he woke up with the perfect design, but
unfortunately he went back to sleep and could not remember it.
He said that they did eventually come up with an answer to the
problem, but he knows it was not as good as the one he had in
his dream. For awhile I did keep a note pad by my bed, but
never had occasion to use it. I have a few times woke up with
the answer to something I was trying to figure out. Being more
simple and not going back to sleep it was no problem
remembering it.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Doctors!
Back in 2006, my wife fell and hit her head a solid thump. I
rushed her to the local Hospital where a doctor told me
she was fine and was released to go home. 4 hours later she
lay dead on the floor. Due to brain hemorrhage. So much for
Doctors infallibility! Was as much as my fault as anyone's. I
did not insist the doctors do a better exam of the fall and
its results as I thought at the time they should. Was so
relieved she was ok. Now I double check every thing my doc
says. I grill them on details which spurs them to do stuff
needed done to be sure. I do not chastise them for lack of
care and concern! Which I can and do on a regular basis.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ From lovely downtown Hanford, CA where
doctors have stopped using chicken feathers and have
upgraded to turkey feathers... duck bones.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: sewing machines
On my father's side of the family, his mother happened to be
very ambidextrous and unusually gifted. Grandma B was able to
take a pen in each hand and then write simultaneously from
opposite margins toward the center of the page, one side the
mirror image of the other.
There wasn't much family money to be had in upstate and
backwoods Wisconsin, so to help make ends meet Grandma B took
to sewing. Those old-fashioned wedding dresses drenched in
lacework. . . she sewed these maybe all by hand. Especially
including the very elaborate and symmetrical lacework left and
right. Both the same, but in reverse, and this without the use
of patterns. Now that was one rare "sewing machine."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer ('64)
Re: Button Hole Attachment
Is this the button hole attachment you were talking about?
Those things make the best button holes, just like on store-
bought clothes, and very easy to do and get it right. I always
made a test of the material I was using to make sure I picked
the right cam to use in it. While in the Navy I saw these
corduroy bush jackets I liked, but never bought one because
didn't think practical due to lack of space on board ship.
When I got out of the Navy they were no longer being marketed,
so I bought a pattern and made one. I had bought a portable
sewing machine. My mother had a new machine and I thought
she no longer had that button hole attachment, so I used the
instructions that came with my machine on how to make button
holes. Then late in life I was surprised when she pulled out
that attachment and asked me to help her attach it to her new
cheap machine. I couldn't do it because the screw used to
attach the pressure foot was not long enough, and it should
have a smooth shoulder on it for the thing on the mechanism
that goes up and down. I was going to go the sewing machine
shop to see if I could get one that would work. I would like
to have taken a picture of it instead of using the above link,
but couldn't find it. I am not sure about it being Singer and
think hers was a bit more rounded, but is very much the same.
That bush jacket was my favorite coat ever. It was just a
single layer of corduroy with no lining and perfect for late
spring and early fall. I made a few modifications like putting
pleats in the pockets so I could stuff more in them. I
understand photographers like them because of the pockets and
photography was/is a hobby of mine. With digital cameras now
we don't have as much extra stuff to carry like film and
filters. I wore that coat until it was worn out. I got a
bigger pattern and made another, but it did not last as long,
think I got some cheap corduroy. Would like to make another
but don't know if I will.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dale McLEAN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith BEIERS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill RULON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HODGSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susie DILL ('64)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Doctors
Not to tarnish the very excellent and deserved reputation in
world-class cancer treatment center Seattle, but still to
respond to your related account of a medical mistake that
failed to protect and treat your wife.
In our case, Kristi was extremely sensitive and allergic to
medications (even Benadryl and don't even think about codeine
or morphine) such that her treatments and later hospice were
always precarious. Not routine. Emboldened partly by rough
patches in the Navy, I fully intervened more than once against
the routine, especially during the stem cell transplant. As
when the team misread the label and almost administered the
wrong stem cells. As when I then ended up helping a befuddled
nurse with the procedure itself (while at this critical point,
the supervisor was enjoying dessert in the cafeteria: "look, I
have a beeper!"). As when a different infusion was
administered incorrectly causing a grand mal seizure and I,
now alone in the room, was the only one to holler "code blue"
far down the hall. Everyone drops everything; hooked up and
injected in less than thirty seconds.
Later during another hospital stay, medical interactions plus
sleep deprivation (routinely awakened to take vitals!) were
causing apparent "dementia", and the team wanted to layer-on
yet another med, and was even speculating institutionalization
(!)-I calmly and bluntly diagnosed things quite differently
and discharged Kristi myself (out the door!) for a cautiously
permitted three days away from fragmented and cumulative
mistreatment; she finally slept, and recovered. A happy
surprise for the team when we returned to the scene of the
crime.
There's more. But maybe just this. At another time, said a
typically attentive registered nurse (RN) to me about patient-
specifics versus the routine and rotating specialist-doctors:
"you have to 'tell them,' because they won't listen to us."
THE POINT OF ALL THIS? Ask questions, notice details, be
heard, make a fuss, but in a respectful way that does not
trigger "professional" (and all-to-human) resistance. That's
all.
Even in those early days the Seattle hospital system was ahead
of the curve in mutual critique-real teamwork. And it was at
their insistence that family members were on rotation in the
room as "a separate set of eyes." But bad things still happen.
Even teams can become too routine. Later, a complete and
unprecedented "war room" step-by-step review of Kristi's long
case led to across-the-board adjustments in the routine,
especially permanence of team members for better case-memory,
plus rigorous screening of visiting doctors from other
countries.
Our life together with cancer extended over twelve years
(until 2001), all of them very bonding and most of them normal
enough and even very good times. But still a file "three times
as thick as any other." I am consoled to know that as an extra
set of eyes we helped make it that way. Family members
rightfully on board as part of "the team."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Dennis Hammer
Re: Button hole Attachment
Wow! There it is. Haven't seen one since I sewed on my mom's
Singer Sewing machine. It was big and bulky, but man, could it
make button holes. I could never make good button holes on my
sewing machine many years later.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: Singers
Somewhere around here is a picture of me at about four years
old taken while I was playing with my Great Grandma Schlamp's
treadle Singer. She would undo something that connected the
needle to the treadle and I had hours of fun running the
treadle and playing with the drawer full of buttons. Later,
when I had learned how to sew, she tried to teach me to use
it, but I couldn't get the rhythm of using the treadle. I
had learned to sew on a machine with a knee control which is
entirely different. I was supposed to get the machine at some
point but it got away from the family somehow. When I was at
the UW, I used grandma's more modern Singer that folded up
into a big blonde cabinet. I liked using that machine. It
had a button holer, too. It was a pain to attach, but did
make great button holes. My first machine was a Kenmore
that I bought with my first pay check. It had a button hole
attachment, too, but the product was not quite up the Singer
standard. I have graduated to a Viking which does a really
poor job on button holes made by moving the needle back and
forth. Some things haven't improved with age in the sewing
realm.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68) ~ staying at home in Richland
where summer hasn't hit with full 100° force yet.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/11/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rex HUNT ('53_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger MIKULECKY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pete CARROLL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John HEFFNER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara GILE ('67)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Lyle LAUGHERY ('66)& Pam DeVRIES ('67) '70
BOMBER/NAB ANNIVERSARY Today:
Rex DAVIS ('49) and Alice Davis
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Hey, it's time to wish Roger MIKULECKY ('54) a "Happy
Birthday!" So, go ahead a do it. I do hope he is keeping
alright.
How about yesterday's birthday list, seems like a reasonable
portion of the class of '64 was born on that day. Just wonder,
when they was kids, did they rotate birthday parties among
them?
[It is, after all, SUMMER. -Maren]
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: doctors
When I was going through my cancer treatments, my oldest
daughter became my "advocate" and made sure that she was there
for every treatment and doctor's visits---she has a 3-ring
binder that is full of any and everything that had to do with
my treatments; every phone call was logged; every name of the
nurse, doctor, physician's assistant that we talked to; every
medication that was administered; every time chemo and/or
radiation was administered, for how long and what type of
chemo and/or radiation. Treatments lasted from October '09
till March '10. she also has all the paperwork for follow-up
treatments and any and each time I spent any time in the
hospital----I was never left alone, during the day or at
night, to just the care of the nursing staff. I will admit
that I had excellent care from all those involved in my cancer
treatments, but I am also very thankful for the care that my
daughter gave me and made sure that she stayed involved in
the entire process. She also has a binder that is full of
paperwork for everytime I've been in the hospital---two hip
replacements; minor heart surgery, to repair a hole in my
heart (a "lead" from my pacemaker became dislodged and
poked a hole through my heart); and the replacement of my
pacemaker/defibrillator. All of us need to become more
involved in our health care---nursing staff is "taxed" to
their limits a lot of the time, so having family members
involved is almost becoming imperative.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
Clif EDWARDS ('68)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandra MILLER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Trudy SPILMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra BELLISTON ('74)
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>>From: Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
Re: How does this work
My daughter in law sent in a post from me to go to this
website. What needs to be done to get it posted. It was about
Raphael Mendez and his concert ar Richland high school and
music was they U Tube.. thanks..
[Email sent to sandstorm@richlandbombers.com
goes into the Alumni Sandstorm. -Maren]
-Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Treatment Advocate
Having a person to listen, attend, take notes, ask questions,
and generally "Be There" for you during the often horrible
treatments involved with cancer and a few other almost
torturous illnesses is so important. I know I was not
cognizant of a lot of things going on with me; without my
wife and a special friend, I would have been a zombie. I
don't remember a lot of things in the winter of '89 - '90.
My wife, when we started the trip down cancer lane, worked
full time at a bank. That is when my special friend, Steve
Graeper, took over. He built a small (3 people) but dedicated
group of "helpers" who attended every appointment, took notes
or recorded the information, and passed that information on to
Linda. They also, it seemed, were always visiting me (this was
supposed to be a six week isolation hospitalization. I got out
in just under four weeks.) playing cards with me (Thanks for
beating me 19 out of 20 games of cribbage, Uncle Bob) reading
to me (couldn't get my eyes to work) waiting for me to wake
up, and holding the basin for me to empty my already empty
stomach in. I had several visitors I have no memory of, so I
learned later.
My sister, Vernita ('65) was my donor. Thank you for my life,
sis. She flew to Portland from George, TWICE, during my
treatment for procedures. What an incredible gift I have for
my sister.
I remember getting the news that I was being discharged that
day; it was a normal oncologist morning stop by. He said two
or three times, "You are making this look easy." Then he
said, " Well, there doesn't seem to be anything else to do but
send you home." I popped out of my chair, did a little happy
dance, and said, "Really?!" He said "Yes really. Get your
things together, the discharge nurse is just behind me with a
load of medications for you." THAT conversation I remember
word for word.
I called my wife, then Steve, then shot off a short, but oh-
so-sweet, email to my boss in Utah. Then started throwing all
my clothes into the "Patient's Belongings" bag and waited for
the discharge nurse.
Little did I know I had only started the trip cancer had
planned for me.
The point of this novel is that survival of a life-threatening
illness Is so often not just up to the patient alone. We
recently (two years ago) got the news that my wife of thirty-
eight years is in the early stage of Parkinson's Disease. We,
meaning Linda, spent eighteen years caring for me in cancer
odyssey. Now, it is my turn to return the care.
-Clif EDWARDS ('68) ~ Sunny, HOT AS HELL, Apache Junction, AZ
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Detailed Notes
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Being in the legal field for almost 30 years, I learned to
take very detailed notes. Even after I retired I still take
very detailed notes of everything. When I had rotator cuff
surgery in New Orleans, while my husband was on a 15 month
job, after my primary and secondary insurances paid their
portion, and I had paid my co-pay, that left the write-off
portion (the contract between the hospital and the insurance
company) WHICH IS TO BE WRITTEN OFF. However, the hospital
billed me for that write off portion. After a year and a half
of fighting with them (I always wrote down the date and name
of the person I spoke with and kept copies of every letter I
sent and received), and sending them the RCW proving to them
it was illegal for them to bill me that portion, they sent me
to collections. By this time, we were back in Washington and
I was done fighting with them so I contacted our insurance
company. The woman I talked to couldn't believe it. I faxed
over my entire file. She called me back in less than an hour
and said I would never hear from the hospital in New Orleans
again about the write off portion. I have no idea what she
said but I was so glad I kept such detailed notes! About 3
weeks later I got a letter from the hospital advising me that
after further review my account was zero. Yeah, right.
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/13/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 2 Bombers, and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack ALEXANDER ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary LAWRENCE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glen ROSE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry KLUTE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Katie VACHÉ ('66)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY;
Ken FORTUNE ('66) & Paulette KRAJCIK ('67)
Rick POYNOR ('68) & Cathy BURNET ('69_)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Edna (RIP)
I want to take this time to thank everyone for their support
during these past 3 weeks or so... so many Bombers, and so
little time to thank everyone. It's really amazing that this
kind of support is coming from a high school that really came
into existence only in the '40s... many people I have not met,
and, of course, many that I have known for all these years.
Edna's cremation was completed this past week and she is now
home again, and even though I miss her a bunch, there is some
positive feeling about having her here with me.
The finality of this is the part that hits me the most at
times, but I know that we just move on and cherish what once
was... again, thanks to so many of you.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ in 100+ Murrieta, CA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Bureaucracy and captive Patients and Doctors
Like the speed of light, which Einstein confirmed is constant
throughout the universe, there's also the universal 80/20 rule
about earthbound bureaucracies--even the medical system. Most
of their time is spent on internal system maintenance rather
than anything else more interesting. I've read that for every
doctor in the room, there are sixteen (16!) others in the back
or front room who are not doctors. . .
In 1998 the Institute of Medicine Report #1 found that there
were 90,000 medically related deaths each year in this
country. The last snippet I heard, recently, was that (while
the number of cases has edged up) this number is still about
the same (100,000)-and has not gone down. This 20-year outcome
after the Institute of Medicine responded with its probing
Report #2: "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System
for the 21st Century" (2001).
One of the Institute's summary recommendations identifies
six major aims for medics: treatment that is safe, effective,
patient-centered (!!!), timely, efficient, and equitable.
Who's on first; who's on third? Before the 1970s the
relationship was between "doctors" and "patients;" then it was
bureaucratized into one of "health care providers" and "health
care consumers." Today, in routine checkups we find ourselves
bulked in demographic categories, with a certain statistical
chance of some untoward event within, say, the next ten years.
Doctors now maintaining demographic cohorts.
And, at the same time, increasingly restricted into narrower
niches, programmed to manufacture referrals to hyper-
specialists who are also cared and fed by the managerial
class from down some distant hall or other. Same thing with
insurance companies-nothing can be reimbursed until it is
first classified into a lengthening list of acronyms on the
standardized check-the-box form sheet. Patients and doctors,
both, are branded, and especially the young are sometimes
type-cast for life. It's all about proliferating expertise
and system management.
Whittaker Chambers (author of Witness) was the one who in a
courtroom outed Alger Hiss, a Communist infiltrator who in the
1930s had embedded himself within the Secretary of State in
Washington DC. Later, sometimes living in hiding, Chambers
diagnosed all bureaucracies as "giant machines operated by
pygmies." Not sure what quick fix there is for either the
machine or pygmies, or in medicine for the universal 80/20
rule-but "patient-centered" patients and attention to detail
seem one place to get an old-fashioned grip.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA fit as a fiddle, but with
time on my hands and a keyboard at my fingertips.
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Bill TRUJILLO ('64-RIP) ~ 3/23/46 - 9/15/87
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/14/20
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Ed WOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley STREGE ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thora METCALF ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie FOSTER ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I notice on the Bomber Calendar that a fellow classmate is
having a birthday today. I'll step up to the plate and wish
Shirley STREGE ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" But I will not sing
a chorus of "I Wanna be Charlie's Girl", wouldn't be right.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
I've about had it with people who refuse to wear a face mask,
because their freedom is being taken from them. Most of us
wear a face mask a few minutes at a time. There are millions
of people who go to work every day with a face mask on for
8-12 hours a shift. The last I heard about 1000 Doctors and
Nurses have died of COVID-19. I am sure some of their patients
refused to wear a mask. Bottom line wear a mask when you go
out, or you might be fitted for a ventilator.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: The medical bureaucracy
Your justified complaints about our health care system remind
me of Churchill's comment, "Indeed it has been said that
democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those
other forms that have been tried from time to time." On one
hand we have the most advanced technologies, medications and
specialists to treat human maladies that the human race has
ever seen. Yet delivery of health care is replete with errors
(mostly human), incredible waste, fraud and incompetence. We
cure diseases today that would have been an immediate death
sentence just decades ago, yet our inability to understand
mental health deficiencies, how to deal with the Wuhan virus,
and how to ensure patient-centered compassionate treatment are
all devastatingly frustrating. The expense created by heaping
on well-intentioned bureaucratic controls makes many yearn for
a state-controlled delivery system. Then we see Canada's
Minister of Health coming to the US for kidney cancer
treatment unavailable in his own country.
So yes, it's frustrating. You describe the divide between
health care consumers and health care providers, formerly
known as patients and doctors. There once was a time when
those two were the only entities that mattered. It was like a
buyer and seller in any commercial transaction. The rules of
competition worked to optimize quality and cost. After WW2
that began to change and now there's a third entity. We now
have the buyer, the seller, and the payer. The payer being a
proliferation of state-controlled insurance companies and the
federal government. The rules of competition have not worked
effectively in a tripartite environment. Incidentally, the
same could be said of education but that's another matter.
Part of the reason for the growth in bureaucracy in health
care has been the insertion of the payer into the equation.
But another has been the expansion of necessary medical
knowledge well beyond the capacity of a normal human.
Specialists are needed to deal with that. Your general
practitioner of long ago simply can't keep up with all the
medical knowledge that expands daily. I don't know the current
status, but when I was working in the blood banking field,
doctors spent less than a day in med school studying blood
banking. Hematologists went well beyond that, for which we are
most thankful. But it certainly increased the health care
system complexity and expense. It's not just done to pad
someone's wallet.
Here's a thought to put it into perspective for those of us in
our class - the population of the world has tripled just in
our lifetime. That probably makes it unrealistic to return to
the simpler days of yore other than in Toffleresque enclaves
of the past.
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Morrison, CO
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Karen COLE ('55)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Anita FRAVALA ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Judie and Jackie COLE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick DENNIS ('67)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Gary DAVIS ('77) & Karen WHITNEY ('76)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just to be instep with their sisters and outnumbered brother;
here's a "Happy Birthday!" to Judie and Jackie COLE (both '63)
on their special day.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
[FROM MAREN: Welllll, there's supposed to be
an entry from Karen for the birthday girls today,
twin sisters, Jackie and Judie ('63)... I can't
find Karen's email, but wanted people to know
that Karen DID get an entry in... I just can't
find it. Sorry, Karen. -Maren]
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Ed Wood ('62)
Re: Moron Bureaucracy (so to speak)
We are of one mind on both the benefits and downside of
specialization and relentless bureaucracy, but let me add some
back-story from the days of yore. Dear readers, hold onto your
chairs...
First of all, the academic thing is not really a "different
story." The foresighted expert on "bureaucracy" (another
expert!) was the academic-the eminent sociologist Max Weber
(1864-1920). He actually wrote the book: "Bureaucracy" (and
very much else).
Looking ahead into the 20th century, poor Weber (pronounced
Vay-ber) became fixated on the coming world of sliced and
diced cubicles and regimented micro-responsibilities-the now-
familiar "giant machine operated by pygmies" (Whittaker
Chambers). Weber almost went nuts. At one point he was reduced
for two years of recovery in a sanitarium, a nice quiet
cubicle (!) where he was allowed to read only bird books.
Now, workaholic Weber contrasted the trapped and diminished
"bureaucrat" with what he called the "charismatic" leader in
days of yore. The charismatic leader was not yet the warlord
king, but earlier and first of all he was part of a
twosome-the voice of peace alongside the warrior chief. (Not
actually named by Weber, Sitting Bull was actually not a
chief, but a shaman who multi-tasked {!} at the Little Big
Horn.) But the pure charismatic leader eventually becomes the
king; kingship like King Arthur evolves from "charismatic
heroism"-but national kings then eventually become the more
remote and powerful kingpins of today's managerial class. The
cross-wired (and haywired) elitist heads of inevitable
bureaucracies--whether in academia, or government, or
business, or the business of medicine.
To put a ribbon on all this, let's now consider the ultimate
example of bureaucratic system failure: the failure to foresee
the unthinkable terrorist attack of 911 in 2001...
Weber sought the corrective to our malignant and closed-loop
bureaucratic predicament in the retention and
"'routinization' of charisma." And, the investigative 911
Commission actually borrowed his thinking! (Our own Senator
Slade Gorton was part of the team.) In the conclusions to
their Report on 911 (c. 2004), the Commission made a most
startling finding and recommendation. They found that no one
inside the intelligence community/system had the "imagination"
to even speculate the possibilities (even after a bomb already
had been set off in the basement of the Twin Towers, in 1993):
Hello! And then this recommendation: "Imagination {wrote the
Commission} is not a gift usually associated with
bureaucracies {quick, alert the press!!!}... It is therefore
crucial to find a way of 'routinizing' {Weber}, even
bureaucratizing {say what?!}, the exercise of imagination."
Not data-driven, but the resuscitation of stifled imagination.
Imagine a bureaucracy routinely (!) thinking outside the box!
Right, but maybe at least an "extra set of eyes" in the
corporate or union boardroom, or in gummint, or in academia
(versus the "data-driven" industrial-educational complex?)-or
maybe at least with a corner to sit in the individual hospital
room. . . as in Sitting Bull's teepee.
And so, let us "routinize" Chief Joseph, from days of yore and
our neck of the Wood, by adding a line to our Columbia Hi alma
mater: "as long as grass grows and wind blows, we will go with
the flow no more, forever!"
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA imagining the poster on
the Navy OCS classroom wall: "Attention to detail,
gentlemen, a collision at sea can ruin your whole day!"
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Masks
Re: Jack GARDINER ('61)
I totally agree with you. Here in the Tri-Cities we barely
made it into Phase 1.5 last week because so many refused to
wear a mask or there were large gatherings where there were no
masks in site. As you said, doctors and nurses wear masks all
day long. If my at-risk, single daughter can put on a mask
when she needs to run out for needed necessities, so can
everyone else. We need to flatten the curve and science proves
wearing masks does that.
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55), Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Ed WOOD ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don LYALL ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara ISACKSON ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Scott HARTCORN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet BENNETT ('71)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
[Found Karen's email for yesterday. -Maren]
Re: Twins' Birthday
Happy 75th birthday to our sisters Judie and Jackie ('63).
A special day for our sisters. I'm sorry we can't celebrate
together this year, but maybe next year at the cabin. Stay
healthy and know that you are much loved by your siblings.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Re: Club 40 ("State of the Union") Part 1 of 3
Programs
When Club 40 was formed in 1986, the Founders modeled the
organization after the Lincoln Lynx Alumni Organization
(Seattle). At first it was focused primarily on providing an
annual social gathering for Columbia High School classmates,
but this has changed over the years. A Scholarship Program was
begun in 2004 to award one academic scholarship to a Richland
High School graduate. That program has since grown where
we now provide up to four academic scholarships and one
Professional/Career Technical Education (PTC/CTE)(vocational)
scholarship annually. Our intent is to grow the number of
PTE/CTE scholarships we are able to offer as well. Last year
Club 40 was asked by the coach of the Richland High School
Cheer team if we would either sponsor or provide them with
financial assistance, which we did. So our program focus as
alumni is to provide support to Richland High School and its
students.
For those class years that still enjoy having individual
reunions or for those class years that do not, you are always
welcome to join in the Club 40 social activities held in
September on Friday and Saturday evening, of the first weekend
following Labor Day, as part of the our Annual Meeting. Some
of the classes have their own get together during the day such
as meeting in the Park, or for lunches at one of the local
restaurants and then attending the big event that evening with
all gathering for dinner one or both evenings. The Annual
Meeting is a great greet and meet for all ages and classes.
We keep in touch with our twice yearly [paper] newsletter
called the Dust Storm, which is mailed to all members. We
welcome comments and stories to be included in the newsletter,
telling us about your experiences growing up in Richland.
Membership
You do not have to live in the Tri-Cities to belong to Club
40. Club 40 presently has about 380 members from 32 states.
The class year distribution of those members is as follows:
Class Year - Members
1944 - 1
1945 - 2
1946 - 3
1947 - 1
1948 - 4
1949 - 25
1950 - 6
1951 - 11
1952 - 19
1953 - 22
1954 - 49
1955 - 29
1956 - 35
1957 - 25
1958 - 46
1959 - 14
1960 - 26
1961 - 15
1962 - 11
1963 - 4
1964 - 6
1965 - 1
1966 - 1
1967 - 1
1968 - 4
1969 - 7
1970 - 1
1971 - 0
1972 - 0
1973 - 0
1974 - 2
1975 - 3
1976 - 1
1977 - 1
1978 - 0
1979 - 0
When Club 40 was first formed, it was decided to allow
membership for classmates of Richland's Columbia High School
whose class graduated at least forty years prior. What Dick
McCOY ('45-RIP) and the other Founders envisioned was the
membership count would continue to roll through the years like
a wave. As the older members died, there would be a like or
increased number of new members join, so that the total
membership would stay even year after year or possibly
increase. As you can see from the class year distribution list
that is not what has happened. At the October 2019 Board of
Directors meeting, in hopes of increasing the number of
members, it was decided to change the requirement to allow
any Richland High School classmate to join who is at least 21
years of age. So we are now able to encourage classmates to
join with us whose class graduated as late as 2017.
(To Be Continued)
Bomber Cheers!
-Ron HOLEMAN ('56) ~ Richland
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Progress?
Loved your comments yesterday, especially quotes from the 911
Commission report. Really makes you wonder about our future,
doesn't it?
I'd love to hear your comments on the fact that the world
population has tripled in our lifetime and what the portends.
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Morrison, CO
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: "Attention to detail, gentlemen, a collision at sea can
ruin your whole day!"
In my case it was nighttime, and as collisions at sea go, it
was a minor one. I have always thought of it as a "comedy of
errors," although I have never seen or even read the play.
After that heavy cruiser I was on was decommissioned (the one
on which I took that photo of the time traveler with his smart
phone) I was put on this crummy old oiler. Actually only the
bow and the stern section, with the living quarters, galley,
boilers, engine room etc. were old, the center section was new
at the time so although it kept the AO designation it was
really an oiler, ammo, and some supply ship.
As 1971 was coming to an end, there was a war that ended with
Bangladesh separated from Pakistan; the U.S. Navy sent a bunch
of ships into the Indian Ocean. Instead of sending us back to
Vietnam, we were to go into the Indian Ocean to supply the
task force; and take them their mail. We went by Singapore and
thru the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and the Malay
Peninsula which is a very busy shipping lane. I'd never seen
so many ships of all sorts underway. We had just gotten into
the Indian Ocean and with the war concluded, it was decided we
no longer needed a task force there so we rendezvoused with
the ships coming back. We were going by Singapore at night,
you could see the city lights off the port side. I was on
watch in radio and one of the circuits we had was called "Hi-
Com" (sp?), it was a voice radio in the center room office.
Everyone is on it but it is not used much and when it is it is
mostly about communications. They keep changing the frequency
based on which frequency they think works better at the time.
I had received a teletype message with the new frequency and
the time to change. I made a copy and put it out where the
transmitter was. Thirty minutes before it was time to change
it, The guy in charge of the watch section, a newly promoted
E-5 radioman, came in and started to change the frequency. I
told him that was not supposed to change for another half
hour. He said it didn't matter and preceded to change it.
Fifteen minutes later I was standing if front of the ditto
machine getting ready to run off copies when I heard two short
whistle blasts. I stopped and just stood there, waiting, then
two more short blasts. I stood there because I knew something
was going to happen. Then I felt it and I knew we had hit
another ship. "General Quarters General Quarters, All Hands
man your battle stations!!!" Then the OPS officer came in to
use Hi-Com to report that we had been involved in a collision
at sea. Of course we were on the new frequency and everyone
else was still on the old frequency. I asked those guys
working on it if they went back to the old frequency and they
said no, they just messed around with it until everybody else
changed to the new frequency. It was a Thai Destroyer Escort
coming the other way, normally ships pass meeting each other
each passes to the right, but we would have run aground if we
turned to the right; those two short whistle blasts means go
left instead. The Quartermasters (for you Army types in the
Navy Quartermaster doesn't mean supply, they are the ones who
navigate the ship) told me that the Thai DE had at first
agreed to it, then changed their mind and cut in front of us.
One of them said it looked like they were almost trying to get
hit. We punched a big V-shaped hole in their side just aft of
the bow going down to the waterline. We lowered the motor
whaleboat to go over and render assistance. The motor
whaleboats have drain holes in the bottom so rain water will
drain out, and In the excitement they forgot to put them in; a
hole in the bottom of a boat that lets water out also lets
water in, so they had to be pumped out by the ship they went
to render assistance to. Eventually they did get underway on
their own power and headed into Singapore, which like I say,
was in sight, and we got underway for Vietnam. We were
supposed to cross the Equator the next day but that got
canceled.
The next couple days we started getting communication
testmessages from various commands. I think "Red Rocket" came
from Washington D.C. and "Beard Iron" came from Hawaii. Don't
remember others. They send it, you receive it and get on Hi-
Com and give them a time, so they see how fast you respond.
They did not do good with those either. "Didn't happen on my
watch!!!" We got called into a meeting and got our collective
posteriors chewed out. They also complained that when they
needed Hi-Com they couldn't get out on it. If they knew that
the frequency was changed a half hour too early that new E-5
radioman would probably be back at E-4.
So then they send an Admiral to investigate and he took the
Captain's stateroom, who took the Executive officer's state
room, who took some one else's state room. When we had a
message to deliver to the bridge we went through a door,
turned left and took a ladder up to the bridge, but that
passage went by the captain's cabin and as the Admiral was
there we were not allowed to go that way, so we had to go
outside, use a ladder up to the bridge wing, then to the
bridge. When you are out at sea, no moon, no stars, and no
artificial light, you would not believe how dark it gets.
Before electricity would have been the same on land. When the
Admiral was ready to leave we let him off at Vung Tau, which
is near Saigon but on the coast. Judging from all the nice big
houses on the hill that must be where the rich folk live. They
put the accommodation ladder down, which is really a stairway
going down the side of the ship to the water. They lowered the
captain's gig and while there were not much in waves there was
a pretty big swell going on and when the gig was in the water
it was going up and down and the big ole steel block (pulley)
used on the rig to lower it was banging on the cabin of the
captain's gig. The coxswain was yelling, "Get it off, get it
off!!!" Well they got it loose and away from it or got it
pulled up. I was shooting movie film and right about now ran
out of film and no extra Super-8 cartridge. The accommodation
ladder normally has a flat platform at the bottom and a couple
of bumpers for the boat to rub against. Maybe because it was
for one guy, but that was left off. With no bumpers the boat
come up under the ladder, lifted it up, then dropped it,
breaking something so the bottom was now lower and the Admiral
was either on hands and knees or in a crouching position. He
managed to jump onto the boat, landing flat and holding onto
something in the center of the boat's cabin. I'll bet he was
not impressed!!!
A few weeks later we heard four short blasts of the ship's
whistle. Now that means danger!!! A bunch of run up to the
bridge wing; the last time was night, we're gonna see this
shipwreck!!! There was a merchant ship forward and 90 degrees
to the left of us and definitely on a collision course. We
were on the right so we had the right of way. We blew four
short again at least one. It was a nice bright clear day and
we were actually quite close. Couldn't they see us? I was
wondering what the heck are they doing, is anyone on that
bridge? If so, what are they doing? Playing cards? We were the
ones that gave the proper signal and turned.
Later, going to Singapore, we did cross the equator and I
earned the right to get a turtle (shellback) tattoo. Probably
for as long as sailors have gotten tattoos, a lot of those
tattoos mean something. Only other one I remember is if you
round Cape Horn you can have a tattoo of a fully rigged ship
(three masts with square sails). I hate tattoos so I have not
exercised my rights to have any of them. We did have one
enterprising deck force sailor go to a newspaper in Singapore
and get six photos of the damaged Thai DE, sent them in and
had a bunch of prints made to sell them around the ship.
Captain even bought a set. I'll just send in one. It is a good
thing they were hit with that oiler, it had a rounded bow that
plowed through the water, if they had been hit by that cruiser
I had been on, it had a sharp bow that cut through the water,
we would have gone all the way through that ship.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200716_Thai_DE.jpg
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Ron HOLEMAN ('56), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dean AN SON ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denny LYE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stephanie MACAW ('71)
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>>From: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Re: Club 40 ("State of the Union") Part 2 of 3
CLASS REPRESENTATIVES
Class Representatives are your classmates that have either
volunteered or been elected to serve as your Club 40
representatives. They also serve on the Board of Directors and
as such help direct the path and activities of Club 40. Our
current list of Class Representatives includes:
1949 - Ann WANN Thompson
1950 - vacant
1951 - Betty BELL Norton
1952 - Terry De VINE and Helen BARTLETT Mowery
1953 - Norma LOESCHER Boswell
1954 - Marilynn WORKING Highstreet and Jim MEFFORD
1955 - Billie LAWELL Neth and Sharon TEMPLEMAN Watts
1956 - Karol BRIMHALL Smith and Ron HOLEMAN
1957 - Dan HAGGARD and Sharon PANTHER Taff
1958 - Joyce COWGILL
1959 - Pat CRUZ Hodges and Leslie SWANSON Holeman
1960 - Connie DEAN O'Neil and Marsha LAWELL Hathcox
1961 - Jack GARDINER
1962 - vacant
1963 - Marie RUPPERT Hartman
1964 - Kathy HOFF Conrad
1965 - Pat DORISS Trimble
1966 - vacant
1967 - vacant
1968 - vacant
1969 - Betti AVANT and Duke MITCHELL
1970 - Chris NEYENS Coburn
1971 thru 1975 - vacant
1976 - Kerry WATTS
1977 thru 2017 - vacant
There are three Board of Directors meetings each calendar year
to take care of Club 40 business, spring (usually April),
Annual Meeting in September and fall in October. Our last
Board meeting was held in May as a teleconference because of
the corona virus issues and group gathering limitations. The
teleconference, which was a first, worked out quite well.
OFFICERS
Club 40 is guided by four elected officers: Treasurer,
Secretary, Vice-President and President. They are each
elected annually at the September Board Meeting. There are
also appointed positions: Web Master, Data Manager, Dust Storm
Editor, Publicity Chair and so on.
It needs to be emphasized that you do not necessarily need to
live in the Tri-Cities in order to actively serve as a Class
Representative, as one of the appointed positions or as an
Officer. The first President, Dick McCOY ('45-RIP) lived in
the Puget Sound area and since then there have been at least
two other Past Presidents who also lived out of the Tri-Cities
area; Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) in Mt. Angel, OR and
John ZIMMER ('66) in Tacoma, WA. The current Treasurer, Ann
Thompson has lived In Bothell, WA for many years. I mention
this so that those of you who do not live in the Tri-Cities
can be made aware that you can take on a more active and/or
leadership role in Club 40. The availability of electronic
communications provides the means to effectively participate
and serve Club 40 without the need to live locally.
(to be continued)
Bomber Cheers!
-Ron HOLEMAN ('56) ~ Richland
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Navy Talk and talk and talk
Hey, Dennis, why didn't you include an index at the end of
your magnum opus? Seems like it's true that Navy guys like us
just don't know when to turn it off! But, as the discredited
former President Nixon used to say: "Let me say this about
that!" The below take-home lesson, again, is simply that
details matter. . .
During my very first five minutes as a very green stand-in-
the-corner observer on the bridge of my new ship (the aircraft
carrier USS Hornet) I, too, was privileged to experience a
real live collision at sea. These are supposed to be very
rare. The captain's fault, plus the failure-in not more than
a second or two-of the uncertain, intimidated and equally-
responsible Officer of the Deck (OOD) to contradict and
nullify his slightly-mistaken rudder command (a detail!).
We had been refueling at 20 knots alongside a tanker,
separated by an adjusting average of 25 yards and now all the
sirens and whistles were going off; the suspension cables were
already dropping and the several flexible refueling pipelines
now were dragging loose in the water. The oiler (some 600 feet
long) did a 90 degree turn to starboard with the fantail fully
aflame and totally obscured by a dense column of black smoke
against an indifferent Pacific blue sky.
Astern could be seen the "plane guard," an ever-present
destroyer positioned 2000 yards back to assist as
needed-retrieve a downed pilot, or maybe a man overboard. But,
hey, this stuff is not rehearsed and the Hornet is a potential
holocaust possibly waiting to happen-loaded to the gills with
munitions as well as 1.8 million gallons of fuel and 319
thousand gallons of one kind of aviation fuel (avgas) and
another 475 thousand gallons of another (JP-5). More details!
(To stay alert on the bridge mid-watch, the routine was to
memorize and quiz each other on this stuff; and much else too:
the Canadian Baffin Island if the 5th largest Island in the
world and Madagascar the 4th, etc. etc.!)
So, to my scanning eyes the destroyer has turned tail (what!),
cranked up speed (a visible plume of smoke from the stack) and
is headed for the horizon. Not much help there. But the
excitement was mostly over. No injuries, our hull puncture was
above the waterline, and scratch another four-striper who need
not fantasize about being advanced to admiral.
But, a valuable learning experience for later ("Attention to
detail, gentlemen, a collision at sea can ruin your whole
day!"). Dennis, today let's spare the captive audience any
further tales and rolling eyeballs-only to say that the best
things that happened later on my watch were the things that
did not happen. Unlike a few months later when an Australian
destroyer got confused during a joint exercise, cut broadside
in front of an American carrier, and was sliced in half and
sunk in less than two minutes with no survivors. A damn sad
day.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, beachcomber
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Since we all are now required to wear a face mask, I was
wondering if anyone knows if we can purchase cloth ones
depicting our Bomber logo?
I am waiting for a couple of Buckeye ones, but they won't
arrive until next month. I have plain cloth masks and
disposable ones, but I'd like to have a variety of logo ones.
I'm also looking for ones of my grandkids' colleges, but since
they are NAIA and not NCAA the sports merchandisers don't
carry that gear.
[I suggested Marie contact my fiend, Arlene, at
tyedye-everything.com in Moscow, ID.
Arlene made two for me... one rainbow and one LSU
colors (purple and gold -- could be Husky colors).
She dyed the material in whatever colors I wanted
and even put a little pocket in the mask for a
paper towel or other filter. She also made a
Bomber color t-shirt for me. Tell her I told you
to call .. (208) 883-4779... she knows what
colors are Bomber green and gold! -Maren]
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in hot and getting hotter Richland
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: My new novel - "Reach for the Sky"
The day is finally here! My new novel, "Reach for the Sky",
debuts on amazon TODAY, July 17th, in paperback and ebook.
Those of you who pre-ordered the ebook should receive your
automatic download today. "Reach for the Sky" is my largest
novel (for those of you who were sad my books weren't longer)
- 434 pages of action, adventure, and romance! It's built
around a young Irish-American girl full of (as all my female
protagonists are) spunk and don't-mess-with-me.
I'll be part of a multi-author book launch party today on
Facebook. Tune in and post for a chance to win a signed
paperback copy or an amazon gift card. Here's the link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/271141440658259. I'll be on
from 3:00 to 3:30 (Pacific Time Zone).
Among we writers, it's said that a writer writes first and
foremost for himself or herself. I believe that's true, but
the second reason is for our faithful readers. Without you, we
wouldn't have a forum for our books at all. I have a lot of
long-term fans here, and I worked long and hard on this novel
for you almost as much as me. I humbly ask a favor in return:
if, when you have read "Reach for the Sky", you like it,
please go on amazon.com and write a review. We independent
authors depend on them. When you do, bear in mind I write as
James Scott now, and that there are several works listed with
the same title. Keep scrolling and you'll find it. I'm excited
to turn my new child over to you. Happy reading!
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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12 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Manny MANKOWSKI ('55), Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), Susie DILL ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Len REDISKE ('66)
Betti AVANT ('69), Julie SMYTH ('69_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann BOREN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy LAWSON ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike LANGE ('67)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: wife!
Well I find it hard to explain such a situation with so much
emotions and drama. But my wife of almost 4 years had lung
cancer as I before discussed. But it has really exploded in
just a couple of weeks. in just over two days her speech has
deteriorated from robust intonation to an almost garbled
slurring, from being able to do some house work and mild
cooking to being incapable of making her morning coffee. I am
pretty well stove up by my own version of Lung cancer so I am
of little assistance. She is frightened to death by hospitals
and is fearful of going to an assisted living facility. So we
will just have to make do.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from downtown Hanford, CA where we have
had a few days over 100° but for the most part the
weather is comfortable and spring-like.So regardless
of what some say, the weather is changing!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Another classmate is celebrating a birthday today, so "Happy
Birthday!" to Ann BOREN ('54).
Sorry no tales of collisions at sea and/or mid-airs; the
latter can really ruin your day. Did sail with one captain who
had a penchant for going after white whales, or was it great
white sharks.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
My daughter-in-law sent an entry to you about a week ago. Her
name is Heather Mankowski. It was about the passing of my
youngest sister Mary who would have been class of 1960 but
moved to Spokane when my parents split. My mother was s
brave soul as in those days few women left their husbands, We
lived at 525 Van Glisten and have no idea if those apartments
still exist. Mary('60_RIP) went to Chief Joseph junior high
school and was the youngest of my three sisters. Vera who
lives in Bethesda, MD never went to school in Richland and
Aida ('57). Why would the last born be the first to leave the
planet is beyond my comprehension but is determined by a power
greater than ourselves.
{I don't know when your daughter-in-law sent
her entry, but I can tell you she did NOT send
it to sandstorm@richlandbombers.com -Maren]
P.S. This is the entry I sent my nephew Brent Hewitt who was
Mary's only son and he was a single child. Mary passed away
March 23 and I will never forget that day. There is much more
to this story but won't go into it all.
I wrote Brent the following but he never has answered and even
though I found I was blocked. Here is my letter to you:
As I take my walks on bright sunny days I see your mother's
spirit in the clouds; and she tells me she is in a safe place
and that she has found her own freedom. She asks me to tell
you that she hopes that you can find yours.
We both know the events in our lives and the pains we go
through and asks that I can find forgiveness in my heart for
all that transpired in her last few months living on this
planet.
I have heard it said that we must be the change we wish to see
in the world, so I want to send you a book entitled "To Heaven
and back" which is a true story written by a Dr. Mary C Neal.
Interesting she has the same first name as Mary Hewitt.
As Mahatma Gandhi has said "We must be the change we wish to
see in this world " and Martin Luther King has said... "Free
at last. Free at last".
Notice Mahatma, Martin, Mankowski your mother's maiden name,
Mary and Manny all start with the letter M. I just noticed as
I was keying in this letter.
So if you haven't read the book I will buy it online and send
it to you. So send me your address. I cried tears reading it
through but they were tears of sadness and joy that I would
want to share with you.
Again let bygones be bygones and that starts with two Bs as
does B for Brent and H for heaven where we both will be one
day.
-Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
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>>From: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Re: Club 40 ("State of the Union") Part 3 of 3
So what is the purpose of this dissertation you may ask?
First, it is to inform those of you who are unaware of or know
very little about Club 40. Second, it is hoped to encourage
those of you who are already or become new members to step
forward and provide representation for your class particularly
for those years where there is no representation. Third, it is
hoped that those of you who are not already members would give
strong consideration to joining Club 40 in order to allow the
Scholarship Program and other Richland High School support
commitment to continue. And lastly, it is hoped that each of
you would give strong consideration to taking on a leadership
role for one of the appointed positions or as an Officer of
Club 40. Without membership growth and attracting Col-
Hi/Richland High School classmates to become active as Class
Representatives, or function in an Appointed Position or as an
Officer, it does not look good for Club 40's future.
So where do you start? You can find membership registration
forms by logging on to the Club 40 web site:
Go to RichlandBombers.com and click the Club40 link towards
the top of the page.
Annual membership cost is $10.00 and that cost includes your
spouse, if a Richland Bomber and living in the same household.
For those of you whose class already has a Representative, you
may contact them to get further information about Club 40. You
can find their contact information on the web site under the
"Administration Info" heading. I am also available to provide
you with contact or other Club 40 information. Thank you and I
look forward to hearing from you.
-Ron HOLEMAN ('56) ~ Richland
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Exponential Curves
Ah, you ask a multidimensional question reduced to a curve on
two-dimensional graph paper. Short answer: exponential curves
(e.g., as measured from when we were in high school) don't
last, except in Calvin Gentle's calculus problems.
In answer to your question, then, about seeming human
lemmings, three comments from others smarter than I-two of
whom actually wrote while you and I exchanged witticisms in
the back of Mrs. Macy's senior English class!-and still worth
considering: past, present, and future...
First, there's the population meltdown of both Greece and
Rome: "Late marriages and small families became the rule, and
men satisfied their sexual instincts by homosexuality or by
relations with slaves and prostitutes. This aversion to
marriage and the deliberate restriction of the family by the
practice of infanticide and abortion was undoubtedly the main
cause of the decline of ancient Greece, as Polybius pointed
out in the second century B.C. And the same factors were
equally powerful in the society of the Empire. . ."
(Christopher Dawson, The Dynamics of World History, 1962).
Second, also back when we were in nuclear-age Col Hi, the
cultural and urban historian Lewis Mumford proposed this: "As
of today, this resurgence of reproductive activity might be
partly explained as a deep instinctual answer to the premature
death of scores of millions of people throughout the planet.
But even more possibly, it may be the unconscious reaction to
the likelihood of an annihilating outburst of nuclear genocide
on a planetary scale. As such, every new baby is a blind
desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable
to register an effective political protest against
extermination do so by a biological act" (The City in History,
1961).
Consider that Carl Sagan's warning of Armageddon and "nuclear
winter" is now replaced by an equal-and-opposite "climate
change". (In 1996 I actually sat with Sagan in Seattle's
Hutchinson Cancer Center, shortly before he moved on to a
better place.)
Third, for the future, current European fertility, for
example, has dropped far below the replacement level (an
average of 1.58 children in a woman's lifetime compared to a
replacement level of 2.1). Using even its more optimistic
assumptions, United Nations demographers still predict that
the European population will drop from 451 million in 2000 to
400 million by 2050, while migratory Muslim North Africa and
West Asia will double from 587 million in 2000 to 1.3 billion.
Like geologic plate tectonics, the ground is shifting, and the
plot thickens.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA recalling Blaise Pascal
who noticed the important detail that, "Man is but a
reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a
thinking reed."
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Collision At Sea
I think you mixed up the nationality of the carrier and
destroyer. You must be talking about the collision of American
destroyer USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) and the Australian
carrier HMAS Melbourne early in the morning of June 3, 1969
(still dark) during SEATO exercises. The bow section sank
quickly, but the stern section remained afloat. Seventy-four
died, including three brothers, and 199 survived. They did
pull 60-100 out of the water. With the history of the
Melbourne it could be easy to confuse the destroyer with an
earlier incident February 10, 1964 the Australian destroyer
HMAS Voyager was cut in half by the same Melbourne with the
bow section sinking quickly, and the stern section staying
afloat for half hour or so. There were 314 on board and 82
died. There was a book written about the earlier incident and
I have seen a copy at the Subic Bay library. The night of the
Melbourne-Evans collision we had just left Bangkok and I had
the mid-watch. Because we were a flagship, we started getting
a lot of messages about it.
Re: Psychic - stuff
I did not include in my time that when I heard that whistle
blow I knew something was going to happen, I don't mean I
figured that out, I knew, I mean the feeling came over me and
just I knew something was going to happen. I don't really
believe in this psychic stuff, but it has happened to me
several times.
I was in Spokane and tried to call someone I went to WSU with.
The number I had was not working, but I still had his parent's
number so I called that. As soon it started to ring on the
other side the feeling came over me and I knew, 100% certain,
he had died. Talked to his mother and that feeling was
confirmed, he was only about 30 years old.
Probably the most amazing time was, I am the one who told my
wife she was pregnant. She wanted a child early on in the
marriage, I said not while I'm in the Navy. I didn't want a
child to be born when I was overseas, and I also wanted to be
making more money. Six years after I had gotten out of the
Navy we had both came to the conclusion we were just not going
to have any children. When I told her she was pregnant she
said she was not. I told her several times and I think we even
argued about it. She finally had to admit that I was right.
Wish I could remember what month I first told her so I could
figure out how early I was with the prediction.
Have not had any of those feelings in the last 35 or so years,
but I have said if I have a feeling I was going to win the
lottery I would buy a ticket. Until then I operate on the
premise that you can't beat the house because the house
doesn't gamble. They just let enough people win enough money
to make you think you can win.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Bomber face mask
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Rei/200718-Bomber_Mask.jpg
This was on Facebook on the Col-Hi page... it's a green face
mask with the words, "RICHLAND BOMBERS"... in the center is
the mushroom cloud.
Click for link to zazzle.com
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
To: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Bomber Masks
You inquired about Bomber face masks for COVID-19. I am
attaching a clip I took from the Richland Bomber Boosters
Facebook page that shows masks that were for sale. I don't
know if they are still available or not; but you can email the
individual mentioned in the snip to see. (His name is Adrian
Ochoa; and his email is: adrian.ochoa@rsd.edu)
I have one, and I love it!
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Dil/200718_BoosterFaceMask.jpg
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
to: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Ah, yes. Nicely done. You know how to tell a story, sir.
This Hammer guy is pretty smart too, eh? I got to
know him through conversations about Tarzan Movies. I was a
personal friend of one Tarzan, Denny Miller (RIP), Tarzan in
the early sixties, and once sat in a studio hallway before an
audition with that Okeef kid, who played Tarzan to Bo Derek's
Jane in the '80s.
Hammer knew all about all of them.
I mean, your Navy stuff is pretty cool, but Tarzan
expertise goes Deep, man.
Terry
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Len REDISKE ('66)
Re: Bomber Dad Art Rediske passed away
Our wonderful Dad passed away yesterday from a continuing
fight with cancer.
He was the best Dad that anyone could have, a teacher, a
confidant, a mentor, a role model and so much more
He will be sorely missed by his children:
Pat ('63), Len ('66), Claire ('69), and Carol ('69)
-Len REDISKE ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Bomber masks
I sent this note to Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) but will share
it with the readers of the Alumni Sandstorm. There is a site
in California called Zazzle that has a Bomber mask. Someone
must have sent the design to them and they are on their site.
Each mask is $12.95+tax and shipping. They don't keep them in
stock and only make them as you order them. You can also for
free design your own mask and then it will become available on
their site. I ordered a couple at the end of May and decided
to get 3 more yesterday. They have hundreds of designs to
choose from. The masks also have a pocket between the layers
that you can add a disposable mask or filter to.
[See entry (above) from Linda REINING ('64) -Maren]
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Rei/200718-Bomber_Mask.jpg
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ from hot old Richland where next week we
are to see triple digits
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>>From: Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
Re: Impure Thoughts & All
In my two years of confessional time, I figured it was the
safest sin to admit. I found out soon enough that two years
experience in the confessional isn't sufficient time to be
messing with "IMPURE THOUGHTS".
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two weeks
since my last confession. I have told four lies, sassed my
mother, hit my little sister, and had two impure thoughts."
Impure thoughts at the age of ten.
I always watched to see which priest's line I was in, of
course. Father Sweeney didn't pay attention to what I said
anyway, because he was the Pastor of the Parish and had more
important things to think about. If Father Hannick knew about
my sins, I would be too embarrassed. He was nice, and he
always took a genuine interest in my sins. Being straight from
Ireland, Father Hannick had an easy smile and was the best
priest ever. It shouldn't have surprised me, then, to hear
Father Hannick ask: "What type of impure thoughts, my child?"
OH gees... my quick witted, almost true answer was: "I
wondered if Jimmy Parsons had a bellybutton.
It started at the park across the street. I saw some new
kids. Living right across the street from the park gave me
proprietary rights to it. No new kids could come in there and
take over unless I liked 'em. There was a boy over on the
swings, and two girls on our teeter-totters. One girl looked
about my age; the other was younger. I went straight to the
older one and asked in a most officious way: "What are YOU
doin' here?" She immediately said "I'm Mary, and I'm
babysitting Jimmy Parsons, who doesn't have a bellybutton."
"What? In SMYTH park? No bellybutton? I don't believe it! You
show me!" was my response.
Jimmy was swinging furiously. He was red-headed. And fat. I
was beginning to wonder about him... me and Mary stopped
his swinging, and sure enough, there was no bellybutton!
NO BELLYBUTTON! It was right then and there, in that most
shocking instant, that I committed the most grievous sin. A
real live devil-induced impure thought came to me: "Does Jimmy
Parsons have a boy thing in his pants?" was the exact thought.
"I bet he doesn't. If the boy doesn't have a bellybutton, he
probably doesn't have one of THOSE either."
This was the first real impure thought I had encountered. And
all that time I was confessing impure thoughts right and left.
The only thing I could do was get these new kids out of Smyth
Park. Especially that little weirdo Jimmy Parsons who didn't
have a bellybutton. I instructed Mary to take him home
immediately, and she disobeyed me. These kids were little
sinners, and I defended Smyth Park by having a fistfight
with Mary.
The next time I saw Mary at the park, she was without little
Jimmy. My sins had been forgiven by then, and I invited her to
see-saw with me. I forgave her for disobeying me the same way
I'd been forgiven for having an impure thought. We became very
best friends after that--the way little 10 year old girls do.
The next time I got in Father Hannick's confessional line, I
steered clear of any admission of impure thoughts.
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two weeks
since my last confession. I told a lie about my sister, I had
a fistfight with my friend, and I disobeyed my mother when she
told me to clean the bathroom."
-Julie SMYTH Moss ('69_)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
David DOUGLAS ('62), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Susie DILL ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rod PETERSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karla SNYDER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Fred GRAZZINI ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mandy WALTMAN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mollie RUTT ('71)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Art Rediske (RIP)
Sorry to hear of Art's passing... our next door neighbor for
all of our years on Acacia... first family to have a TV on the
block, and just a nice guy... I'm sure he will be missed by
everyone who knew him.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Loved your exponential curves post on the Sandstorm. What an
honor to have been that close to Carl Sagan. I would have
loved to have bombarded him with all kinds of questions if
I had that opportunity. I have one comment about Pascal's
observation: Man may be a reed, but I'm not convinced that
is always a 'thinking' reed.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Psychic Stuff
I had one definitely psychic experience. After church one
Sunday we were going to my in-laws for dinner. After getting
off the freeway in Waialae (a subdivision of Honolulu), I was
on 8th Avenue, a one-way street, when I stopped for a red
light at Waialae Avenue, the main thoroughfare (two lanes in
each direction) in that part of town. When the light turned
green for me, I had a sudden knowledge that a car on Waialae
was going to run the red light. A city bus in the right-hand
lane had stopped on my left, blocking my view of the street in
that direction. My wife said, "The light's green." I didn't
reply; I kept my foot on the brake, waiting for the car to run
the red light. Sure enough, it appeared from behind the bus
and didn't even slow down. It would have hit my side of the
car if I'd gone when the light turned green. I definitely have
no precognitive ability; I only know one person who does. I've
never had another experience like that.
I almost never remember dreaming. I had a test for sleep
apnea; the only anomaly the doctor found was, I had no Stage 4
sleep, the deepest level of sleep. In my whole life, I only
remember the content of two dreams, both related to females.
Maren won't let me tell you the first one, but the second one
occurred a few months before I graduated from Whitman College.
I was contemplating asking a young lady I'd met in Honolulu
two years before to marry me. We'd been pen-pals for the two
years, which may not be the best way to get to know someone.
I'd broken off one engagement to a young lady in Rockford,
Illinois, whom I'd corresponded with for only six months and
spent a week with for Christmas. I decided that wasn't long
enough to learn if I wanted to spend the rest of my life with
her. Anyway, I was debating the issue with myself when I had a
very vivid surrealistic dream one night. The young lady in
Honolulu and I were walking on a path next to an underground
stream. Colored bulbs strung on the wall provided the only
light. In the semidarkness, I lost track of her. When I
finally found her, I asked, "Why did you get lost?" Then I
thought that was the wrong question. I changed it to, "Why did
I let you get lost?" I called her long distance and proposed.
Our parents thought we were nuts when we told them we were
getting married. We celebrated our 54th wedding anniversary
June 18.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ with temperatures over 110
lately, Richland was good preparation for the AZ desert.
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Thank you, Maren, Betti, Linda, & Susie for the info on
ordering Bomber face masks. The Zazzle design is just what I
want, so I've ordered two. They should arrive next month about
the same time my Ohio State ones do.
Until then, I'll use the plain ones I have and hope everyone
is following the guidelines of social distancing and wearing
theirs, too.
We are REALLY all in this together!
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in HOT Richland (It is summer,
after all.)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: population stats
Your entry caught my interest because of an unforgettable
article I read several years ago on the same subject. It must
have been about 5 or 6 years ago now that New York Times
columnist David Brooks published an article entitled, "The
Worldwide Fertility Implosion." I still have it. Brooks
reported that fertility rates were declining all over the
world, precipitously in some places, including the Arabic
countries. So I'm not sure we'll see the explosion of Muslim
populations predicted in your reference article. The stats
I have for irreversible population decline are a little
different than what you mentioned. I read that 2.4 births per
family is the low point to maintain a population, and at 2.1
births per family, the population decline will be irreversible
and that society will eventually disappear. I gather that some
European countries are already at that lower mark. It occurred
to me when reading Brooks' article that if the decline was
worldwide simultaneously, could there be some universal
unconscious connection between humans that says, "there are
too many of us, we need to slack off on births", and it
actually goes into effect? I know it sounds like psychobabble
but I don't know what else to attribute a simultaneous
worldwide birth rate decline to. Whatever the cause, we
desperately need it. Because right now nobody is paying
attention to the elephant in the room?the burgeoning
population of Earth. It's going to cause a catastrophic
disaster in the not too distant future unless we get a handle
on it. I'm betting, that left to ourselves, we never will.
Low-population countries will scream "genocide". It may take
nature's will to arrest it.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: population growth as seen through the eyes of a science
fiction writer 49 1/2 years ago
My wife just received a newsletter from the Friends of Mid-
Columbia Libraries. In it they explain what they will and will
not accept for donations for the book sales. They will not
take magazines older than one year. I thought that's funny, I
find the older magazines more interesting. I recently unpacked
a "True" magazine from Jan 1971. It is not a magazine that I
normally read but the cover says, "Three in a balloon--Lost at
Sea" which sounds like an article I would be interested in.
It as the word "lounge" written on it with magic marker and
looks like someone has put a sticker over that which has been
ripped it off. I assume that was the price and I picked it up
at a secondhand store or yard sale. What caught my attention
this time was on the cover, "Isaac Asimov predicts: Man has
only 30 Years to Live"
After reading Pete's exponential curve post today I read the
article. Maybe it's just me but I find his article to be
mostly 3.3 pages of dribble. My summary: We need to give up
the idea that there is a better world and it is God's will. We
wouldn't give up the police saying it is God's will if we get
mugged. (Giving up police . . . that sounds somewhat vaguely
familiar to me). We might make it to 6 billion population by
2000, but we can't maintain it. (Just checked and we are now
at 7.8 billion) A woman with more than two kids is actually
causing genocide. We need to slide population down to one
billion. We now send our children for education for work, but
we need to educate them for leisure. Never knew I had to be
educated in having fun. There will be enough people to do the
serious work. I was a child prodigy at having fun!!! I could
go to the beach, set in an Adirondack chair with a glass of
lemonade on the armrest and enjoy the sunset. But who is going
to pay for me to just have fun? I have also become so accustom
to eating that I don't think I could live without it. And who
is going to decide who has to work and who gets to have fun?
(I think I saw that in the 1927 silent movie "Metropolis")
He ends with: "Do you think we can learn to abandon the world-
after-death, the sacredness of motherhood, the holiness of
sex, the intoxication of national patriotism, the itch for
infinite freedom, and the respect for industry, in favor of
man-centered population restriction involving sex-for-fun and
implying world government, managed ecology and education for
leisure? And do it all before the 20th century has run out?"
"We don't have to, you know."
"It's just that if we don't, our civilization will be
destroyed in 30 years"
Isaac Asimov--1971
I think Ray Bradbury is a much better writer anyway. Maybe in
these days it would be much better to read/reread his book
"Fairenheit 451" and Orwell's "1984." Events going on today
look like we are moving in the direction of living in these
two books.
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If anyone wants to read this stupid article, I bet I could
scan it and email it to you.
Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
I'm so very sorry to hear of your wife's medical struggles.
I'm sure you are a huge comfort to her simply by being there
to encourage and love her. I am thinking of you and sending
prayers to you and your wife to help see you both through this
difficult time.
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
4 Bombers sent stuff:
Ed WOOD ('62), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barry DILL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry WERNER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Geoffrey ROTHWELL ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Population and Isaac Asimov
There's a great unevenness in both historical and projected
population growth. During our lifetime the world's population
has tripled, while that of the US has "merely" doubled (OK,
2.3 times). Italy barely budged in that time period (up 27%)
and figures now show a declining population. Japan is similar,
showing a year-on-year decline for more than a decade. Yet
Egypt and Nigeria's populations have increased by a factor of
five in our lifetime! Much of the world's population growth
today comes from Africa with many countries showing a 3%
population growth or even higher. Egypt is a bit of an anomaly
in the Middle East in that its population growth continues
unabated whereas Iran's galloping growth reversed in the 1980s
and has been fairly flat for the last several years.
Statistics in other Middle East countries may be of interest
but since their populations are so small, are not highly
material to world population data.
These dynamics portend not just a more populated world in our
future, but one with possible dramatically shifting culture,
economics and opportunities. Get out your crystal ball!
Dennis, you quoted from Isaac Asimov who had brilliant mind.
He's known for his science fiction but he also wrote science
textbooks and even some well-regarded histories. So perhaps
it's not too surprising that, based on the quote you found, he
may have had a hard time separating science from fiction in
his mind.
I wrote a letter to another science fiction great, Robert
Heinlein as an assignment for Mrs. Macy's class, as I recall.
I pointed out some inconsistencies in some of his novels. He
actually responded, saying, in effect, "Get over it kid, it's
just fiction."
'Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Morrison, CO
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Multiple Bombers
Ah, we're beginning again to populate these pages with lively
commentary, and that's a good thing. Here's a four-in-one
response.
To: Diane AVEDOVICH ('56)
Regarding Carl Sagan, in our brief encounter in the Seattle
cancer ward he was quiet and Lincolnesque in appearance and a
man of kindly voice and eyes. He was intermingling his reading
of two books at once, one on the Nixon presidency and the
other on race relations in the United States. As for questions
one might "bombard" him with (a fitting word), Sagan was not a
scientist, but a lesser popularizer of science, and much of
the science community questioned even that.
In his popular Cosmos TV series he tended to intermingle
science and Hinduism, and he published his "nuclear winter" in
advance of peer review (Parade Magazine!). The "modeling" of a
total atmospheric blackout/freezeout after a nuclear exchange
was driven in part by contested assumptions (the behavior of
dust storms on Mars which has very little/and a uniform
atmosphere incapable of storm rinsing). The weakness of
computer modeling of complex systems reminds me a little of Al
Gore (self-proclaimed "inventor" of the Internet!) and his
apocalyptic and fully man-caused "global warming"-now amended
to a (still-serious) "climate change," but with multiple
aspects and causes, and more relaxed timing ("flatten the
curve!"). For whatever it's worth, the bomb count is one'
fourth what it used to be, but still excessive a hundred times
over.
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Sorry you don't remember your dreams. As for premonitions, one
was like yours and averted a highway collision. In another
intuition I knew with absolute certainty that Apollo 13 was in
trouble the hour before it was announced. Had been involved in
the earlier Apollo XI and XII lunar capsule recoveries, and
suddenly had this jolt-I can still point to the exact spot
where I was standing when it hit me.
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
You are correct, of course, about the ill-fated USS Frank E.
Evans (DD-754). As for science fiction writer Asimov, he said
something more engaging than your quote: "I believe that
scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter
how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may
seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start
with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe."
On two other readings, even in our dotage some of us remember
Paul Ehrlich who's graph paper (The Population Bomb, 1968) led
him to apocalyptic-and unfulfilled-predictions for the 1970s.
Sold a lot of books. As for the value we place on "leisure,"
there's Josef Pieper's "Leisure: The Basis of Culture" (1952).
As a philosopher he still set the table for Asimov (philosophy
as the act of "marveling," he calls it, alongside and above
Asimov's fractal calculations). Pieper says "No philosopher
has ever been able to grasp the being of a single fly"
(quoting a renowned philosopher from the 13th century!). In
the 20th century, philanderer Billy Boy Clinton got away with
"it all depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is," but
actually the IS-ness of things is a consuming question. WHY is
there anything rather than nothing at all?
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
With David Brooks, while the Muslim population rate of
increase has declined (now down to 2.9 children per mother),
the most optimistic (least overwhelming) forecasted actual
increase (relative to Europe at 1.58) is tuned in (again, the
non-average North Africa and West Asia from 587 million in
2000 to 1.3 billion in 2050).
But, even in front of the curve in global numbers, turbulence
is on the rise for other reasons. China with its engineered
sex imbalance already has a stagnant working-age population,
plus a large male military, and a future of declining numbers
overall (from 1.43 Billion to 1.0 Billion in 2100). Government
responses to domestic turmoil often center on an aggressive/
distracting foreign policy. In the South China Sea,
expansionist China is already building artificial islands with
military airstrips (the counterbalancing aircraft carrier USS
Roosevelt [a mobile airstrip] was recently absent due to the
onboard Chinese coronavirus outbreak-if it's not one thing,
it's another!).
Reaching far beyond my depth, is it fake news-the
Enlightenment assumption of a personified and benign "Mother
Nature," and of a benevolent trendline of evolutionary and
technocratic human Progress? We might "marvel" on what we've
culturally forgotten along the way.
'Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA in any event, if we think
we're getting dementia, just forget about it.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Bomber mask
I also ordered a couple masks from Zazzle. Can't wait to get
them in the mail!
'Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick It's
getting hotter and hotter.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: psychic stuff
Did you write about that car running the red light experience
in the Sandstorm before? If not, I am sure I have heard almost
the same experience somewhere from someone else.
Re: pen-pal marriage
I also would think that being a pen-pal would not be the best
way of get to know someone, but I knew a couple who I thought
were two of the most perfectly matched people I have ever met
who carried on their romance via mail. I met him when we both
worked for Vitro Engineering in the Richland Federal Bldg. He
also owned a bicycle shop in downtown Kennewick. To say this
guy was a bicycle enthusiast would be putting it very, very
mildly. We became very good friends. He moved to Portland in
the 1980s and I did get one letter from him postmarked 22 Jan
2004 (it's in my center desk drawer) but I never got around to
answering. When I retired I thought it was time to contact him
and make a trip to Portland.
He was telling me that when his wife died he got to thinking;
someday people in his family are going to wonder how this
"half-bread Indian," as he called himself got together with
this beautiful girl from Finland. So he wrote up the story and
it was 18 pages. Then he went looking for pictures to add to
it and discovered that "through all these moves" his wife had
kept all their letters. When he finished the book two copies
printed and bound. It is bigger and thicker than a Sears &
Roebuck catalog, although I think the pages are thicker than
the catalog. It is available online in .pdf form and I
downloaded it on a thumb drive. I have read parts of it.
It is not uncommon, but I am amazed at how one little seeming
insignificant thing ends up making a huge change in a person's
future life, but this guy's string of little things leading to
his marriage takes the cake!!! When he graduated High School,
Korea was still going on. He was ten years and about two weeks
older than I so it must have been at the very end of Korea.
He was interested in airplanes and used to make model jets of
his own design, carving them out of wood, so he thought he
would enlist in the Air Force. (1) He went to the Air Force
recruiting office and waited. Those quys were in the back room
and never came out to talk to him so he said this is silly,
the Navy has aircraft carriers so he walked out and went to
see the Navy recruiter. (2) He went to torpedo school and
finished second in his class. They had a list of duty stations
and they got to pick which one they wanted in the order of
their position in class, so he had second choice. He picked a
destroyer for no other reason than it was within walking
distance. (3) That destroyer and one other tin-can happened to
be the first U.S. Navy ships to visit Finland since WWII. (4)
On the third and last day of liberty he decided to go back
to the ship early and maybe watch the movie, but diagonally
across an intersection saw two sailors and he went over to
talk to them. (5) When he got there they had disappeared, but
he heard music and remembered he had heard about a dance for
US and Finland sailors. This is where he met her. She worked
for a newspaper and lived in another town and was there with
her sister. After leaving the dance he and another sailor
escorted them to the train station. (6) As they got there it
started to rain so she gave him her umbrella saying she would
see him off the next morning and get her umbrella. (7) Not
sure this one counts because it might have worked out the same
anyway. She couldn't make it the next morning so sent someone
else to pick up her umbrella, he wrote her a quick note with
his address. I don't know how long it went on, but they
carried out the entire romance by mail, including his proposal
and her acceptance. The ship's XO arranged it so he got his
separation from active duty in Europe instead of the US, so he
went to Finland and they were married right away.
Two years later I decided to make another trip to Portland and
called him, but got a recording with a woman's voice which I
assumed was either his daughter or his oldest son's wife.
About 24 hours later I had not gotten a return call so I got
on the internet and found that he had passed away. It did not
really surprise me because I knew that the day after I saw him
he was going into the VA to start radiation treatments. I am
so glad I made that trip and got to see him one more time. I
have kept in contact with his oldest son and twice stopped by
to see him.
'Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Connie MADRON ('60), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phil GROFF ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet VOORHIES ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jackie HANSON ('67)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
Re: Enough is Enough!
Alright Ed, Pete, Dennis, David and Bill! I only have so much
to read the Sandstorm these days which is about the length of
time it takes me to eat breakfast! Why don't you boys get
together and write a book or two?! Just kidding. You're long,
but very interesting.
Still waiting to hear if the Class of '60, 60 year reunion is
cancelled.
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ Nipomo, CA
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Coincidences Leading to Marriage
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Those little things that add up to a really big difference--
(If I already recounted this story some years ago, I
apologize, but maybe your memories are just as loose as mine
and this is news to you all!)
Question: How does a girl from Richland who graduated from the
UW and went to Europe but never got to the Eastern US, meet
a guy from New York who graduated from Notre Dame? Never
happen, right? Answer: she meets and marries him in Kabul,
Afghanistan. I had to fly 4,000 miles to find him!
After college and 100 days in Europe, I wanted to go to
Afghanistan so badly that I joined the Peace Corps. They never
before had such a bizarre request! After 3 months of training
in Vermont, I was greeted at the Kabul airport by a volunteer
I had known in Richland (we knew her as Rae Ann LEE ('59 WB?),
but she moved to Utah before graduation, and became Rae Ann
Wright (stepfather?). She was thrilled to have a fellow
volunteer from home and couldn't wait to tell me all about
this guy she was dating.
A few months later I met him (George Janicek), an ND grad and
instructor who was on a joint ND-government program teaching
engineering at Kabul University. Amazingly for how few
Americans were in Kabul then, the guy he replaced and met at
the airport to receive the apartment keys and bicycle lock was
our own Walter PILKEY ('54-RIP), whose name I recognized from
working at Dawson-Richards, where his dad bought all their
clothes. Gee, that made 3 of us from Richland in little old
Kabul!!!
Well, I didn't steal him, but George and I had our legal
marriage in an Afghan sheriff's office the following January
and our religious ceremony in the chapel of the Italian
Embassy 11 days later. Later at a bar on the Peshawar,
Pakistan, US Air Fore Base, we discovered that the bartender
was a guy who had tended bar on Long Island, and George knew
him. Of all the places to celebrate old home week---!
Anyway, George and I had nearly 53 years together, and all
because I had this really big itch to go to Afghanistan
(courtesy of classes at the UW).
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60) ~ in Richland where it's
finally HOT like in the good old days when there was
no air conditioning at Col-Hi and we were dripping in
all our classes.
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Some fifty odd years ago when the forever young and always
lovely Miss Nancy ('65) was but a blushing bride, and I was
officially the greenest 2LT that Uncle Sugar had rolled out,
we were sent to Italy. Crosswalks were but a faint suggestion
and crossing the road was a challenge. We soon found that if
the driver could see your eyes, you we're fair game. If,
however, they couldn't, they assumed you couldn't see them and
they might stop. Our favorite ploy was to poke our finger thru
a newspaper, hold it up in front of us peering thru the hole
and go boldly where no man had gone before. If you lost your
courage in the process and looked over the paper, they were on
the gas instantly.
Crossing the street in China thirty years ago was also a
challenge with eleven lanes of cars, trucks, bicycles and
motorcycles making your knees week. It's not always five lanes
this way and five lanes that, more like two this way, three
that way, another couple that way, rinse and repeat. Our
Asian gambit worked flawlessly, when we realized that crossing
downstream from an elderly person and staying in step with
them was perfect. We rightly assumed that their having fifty
or so seasons of experience put them in some kind of a master
class and we are here to tell you that a it worked. Again,
you've gotta keep their pace and stay alert as the
"downstream" was constantly changing. If you snoozed, you
became the bullseye on the front of one those scooters.
I ran out of ESP and premonitions a long time ago, but I do
subscribe to the 17th Commandment, "Thou shalt not be the
first person thru the intersection".
-jimbeaux
Andrà Tutto Bene
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
I take issue with your characterization of Carl Sagan as "not
a scientist and a lesser popularizer of science. I can't
imagine where you get such a notion. Save that for Bill Nye
the "Science" Guy. According to Wikipedia, Sagan was an
astronomer, planetary scientist, astrobiologist, and is best
known as a science popularizer and science communicator.
According to the website biography.com he obtained a PhD in
astronomy and astrophysics and landed at UC Berkeley as a
fellow in astronomy. He did work at Harvard in the 1960s, and
became the Director of Cornell University's Laboratory for
Planetary Studies. He was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize,
received NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal and the
National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal among
dozens of other awards. His best known scientific contribution
was research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental
demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic
chemicals by radiation. Is that enough science for you? And
anyone who's read his "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a
Candle in the Dark" knows he was an original thinker and had a
unique gift for applying science to sociological issues. It
was my distinct pleasure to hear him present a talk in Santa
Barbara in the mid-1970s, and I was thrilled to actually get
to ask him a question (something on the orbital mechanics of
one of the Martian moons). He was one of a kind, and I believe
is sorely missed today.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Apollo 13
Wow!!! Now we know premonitions are not limited to being on
earth. I seem to recall that Jim Lovell's wife Marilyn in an
interview about the time the movie came out said she had
premonitions also.
Re: The Asimov quote
"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties;
that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however
small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the
whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the
Universe." I do understand something about fractals in the
physical world like tree branches, and that they can be used
in computer generated illustrations, such as making an image
of a mountain that looks real. I saw the NOVA program 2 or 3
times, and I made an indoor fractal TV antenna, but fractals,
when it comes to scientific knowledge, that is going to take a
lot of thought and research of my part to (using a worn-out
phrase) get my mind around.
Re: Paul Ehrlich & Space
Every time I see that "The Population Bomb" was published
in 1968 I think, "that can't be right." Maybe he did not
originate the title, but it sure seems to me that I heard the
phrase "population time-bomb" in High School, maybe even
earlier. The question, "WHY is there anything rather than
nothing at all?" That is something I have pondered. Don't know
where the quote came from, but have heard, "The greatest
mystery of the universe is that it exists."
Re: The mystery of females
Your mention of our former philanderer-in-chief who had a
problem with the word "is." He seems to be the grown up
version of that kid in school who gets all the girls. Why do
the girls always reject the ones who would treat them nice and
with respect, and go for the ones who lie to them, cheat on
them, and treat them like dirt? In college days I was at a
party and there was this girl by the pool table. I got a pool
que and went over to ask about playing pool with her. She
looked up, said, "Oh no, please," and I could see tears in
her eyes. I knew it had to be because of her crappy on-again
off-again boyfriend. Someone long ago said to me, "You treat
them like gold, they will treat you like dirt, you treat them
like dirt, they will treat you like gold." Not too long ago I
worked in the same building as a young lady, (You know you are
a geezer when you call someone around 40 young) who was in the
market for a husband. I mentioned this phenomenon of why do
the women seem to go for the jerks instead of the good guys.
She said two words to me, "It's true." Answering that question
is a lot harder than anything in quantum physics, fractals,
and string theory. I know that not all girls are that way, but
it sure seems like a high percentage are.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick, WA 6:30 pm - 98º and my
daughter just pulled the solar cover off the cement
pond and the water is 97º, but it is supposed to get
hot tomorrow, like about 105º so she is leaving the
cover off tonight.
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Allan AVERY ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: John & Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary GREER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck CRAWLEY ('67)
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>>From: Allan AVERY ('54)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
I Second your Motion (and Call for the Question) to recognize
Carl Sagan as the Scientist, and the magnet attracting folks
to Science, that he was. He and others like him have never
been so needed, for our and our tiny Planet's "Survival as we
know it," as he is now. It's highly probable that something
equivalent to him exists in other(s) of our infinite
Universes. How to re-create more like him here? Hey, that's
part of our problem. It seems to me that a reasonable
conception of our universe allows us some choices, if we
recognize them and choose to act upon them.
-Allan AVERY ('54)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
The citation from Wikipedia adds. Thank you, I misworded
(hasty hyperbole, perhaps? What I should have said was "but
more of a popularizer of science," rather than a "lesser
popularizer of science"), but back to the point-even Sagan
overreached beyond the scientific method.
He gift-wrapped his Cosmos with this: "the Hindu religion is
the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to {reduced
to?} the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,
indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the
only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of
modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary
day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years
long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about
half the time since the Big Bang."
Big Bang? Time scales? In 2018 the scientific community (the
thousands of members International Astronomical Union, IAU)
renamed the Big Bang as the Hubble-Lemaitre law, in
recognition of the one who actually made the discovery, in
1927 (two years before Hubble, and on the books a half century
before "Cosmos"). Lemaitre was a Jesuit priest, not a Hindu. .
.WHAT!!
As for the irreducible domains and the overlapping boundaries
between science and, say, PHILOSOPHY (distinct from "religion"
not on Sandstorm), the enduring philosophical question is not
how the universe of stuff as a whole works, but the more
radical riddle, still--the chasm between the non-existence and
the actual existence of any and all of this stuff. The meaning
of zero? Does the physical universe as a whole, at whatever
stage, appear spontaneously out of no-thing (ex nihilo)-as
once was expertly thought of maggots?
Sagan misspoke, based on a thought which (he says elsewhere)
stuck with him since grammar school. Just as well to be stuck
with curiosity about a logically non-physical origin (more
than an "idea")-not confined to space-time with a presumed (!)
self-sufficient/recycling "universe." Fearing such inborn
inquiry beyond elementary school, modernday guru Karl Marx
simply canceled it (the cancel culture!): "the question of
contingency {he said}, this question is forbidden {!} to
socialist man."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA on the edge of a really
big ocean, both broad and deep, and with apologies to
Connie MADRON Hall ('60) for running on so, again.
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64) and whoever
On the subject of why girls go with "jerks" -- can't really
answer as I would rather have stayed single forever than marry
a jerk. I did, however observe a number of girls who were so
desperate and afraid they would be alone (never marry) that
they were willing to go with and marry the jerks of the world.
Sad. On the other side of the coin why did all the guys want
the "cute" and popular girls (who may or may not have been
pretty all the way through)? There were lots of non pretty,
not popular girls who would have liked to go out with a nice
guy. I remember someone back in the day (maybe a preachers
wife) who told us girls not to date anyone we would not marry
as you never knew when a relationship would get to that point.
BTY back in the day guys were expected to do things like open
your car door, etc.
Stay safe everyone -- wear a mask.
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ Here in W TN it is hot -- heat
index is in the triples -- yuk
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/23/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill MURRAY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry EVANS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith GOSNEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy ADAIR ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mickey JANES ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Aric BUCK ('95)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Agnes Hughes ('02BBA)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY:
Mike CALDWELL ('63) and Barb MILLER ('65)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
First off, I missed Skippy's ('54-RIP) birthday on the 19th;
punishment for which is 15 lashes with a wet flat noodle.
Secondly, this is the birthday of the "real" Bill MURRAY ('54)
and not that hot-shot Hollywood guy that uses the same name.
So, "Happy Birthday!" to both
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Girls dating jerks
I kissed a few frogs (all jerks) in my singlehood with nary a
prince showing up. I always knew that I would not settle for
less than someone I could live with when we were both old and
doddering. When I met that guy in Afghanistan, we faced an
interesting question. Would you look as good to me (would I
look as good to you) if we were at home amid family and
friends (mine in Richland and his in a very different New York
culture and religion), or is this just the best we can do in
such a limited dating pool (few singles in our age group and
even fewer Americans)?
After some thought, both heads and hearts agreed that the odds
were good that we still would feel the same, so we went ahead
and got married. It was weird, however, to meet each other's
parents and families for the first time six months after we
were married (too late, Mom and Dad, your opinions don't
count any more). It turned out well, however. First we had 2
weddings (Afghan and Roman Catholic) and 3 wedding receptions
(Kabul, Richland, and New York; great prezzies!). And we gave
his parents 3 of their 5 grandchildren and my parents 3 of
their 8. We always said that our marriage was a work in
progress. It progressed for nearly 53 years. A college
counsellor once told one of our kids that they had no idea how
unusual they were that their parents were still married, that
all 3 siblings shared the same 2 biological parents, and that
they all were born more than 9 months after the wedding. How
sad that he was right!
Ironically, when my Dad took me to the airport for my flight
to Afghanistan (where is that?), his parting advice was, "Now
Stephie, if you meet someone you want to marry while you are
away, go ahead and do it; don't wait for our approval." I was
flabbergasted! Did he think my prospects were so unlikely that
I should jump at any offer? Or was he merely demonstrating
his opinion that I would use good judgement without parental
counsel? And how surprised was he, really, when we called
from Afghanistan (a peculiar and frustrating process with an
overseas operator switching back and forth when he/she thought
we were finished with a sentence) to announce that we were
getting married, especially when I had been much too busy to
write very often? Other than Sean Connery and Kevin Costner
and maybe Pierce Brosnan in a memorable role or two, I never
came across anyone else that I would have considered marrying,
so I guess I did well!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60) ~ in West Richland where it
was 105° on Tuesday and there's way too much Covid-19
in the Tri-Cities. Mask, anyone? Well, at least the TP
is back on the store shelves. Some people won't run out
for six months or more!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/24/20 ~ Nat'l Cousin's Day -
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 8 Bombers, and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilynn WORKING ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Ray STEIN ('64)
07/24 ~ National Cousins Day
https://nationaltoday.com/national-cousins-day
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gay EDWARDS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David DERBY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob PEARSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick ALLEN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy HARTNETT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill AYOTTE ('71)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: Classmates of 1954
Sad to hear that Marlys SCOFIELD ('54-RIP) passed away!
Received word that another classmate, Joan KNIGHT Lusty
passed
away on July 17, 2020! Too many! 😢 Joan was born
November 17, 1936. Was not the Covid-19 virus, but a fatal
stroke!! Her obituary has not appeared in the Herald yet.
Family said it may not be done. Condolences to all of them,
too!
With all this seclusion for safety sake, I am trying to keep
in touch with friends and classmates as much as possible via
phone or Facebook. Good to hear other's voices besides mine
and my husband's. I do have a poodle and cat who love on me
and bark and purr, so that feels good!
Update... Norma MYRICK Nunamaker ('54) is doing great. After
her diagnosis of lung cancer, she has outlived the prediction
the Dr gave her! 🙂 ❤️ Bless her heart, she has put boxes
of treats and toys for the K9 dogs together and this week
delivered them to Kennewick PD, thanks to her caregiver who
drove her there! Norma is a trouper!! If anyone wants to call
her, she usually sleeps most of the afternoon after lunch!
Gets tired easily. Which is understandable!
Speaking of lunch... Ginny WEYERTS Wendland ('54) and I,
along with Norma are talking about meeting on the patio at
Applebee's in Richland next month for lunch! Providing it's
not 100° like we have now. I'll put notice in Sandstorm if we
do!! We are so anxious to get together again! Franklin and
Benton counties are still in 1.5 phase with cases of viruses
so high.
Was good to talk to Bob JOHNSON ('54) in NY, Betty RUSSELL
Kent ('54) at their cabin in mountains (BTW.. she had a heart
attack in June and is doing great after 3 stents), Ginny,
Joanie PHILLIPS Wile in Idaho, Sandra STURGIS George ('54) in
Richland by text, and of course Norma 2-3 times a week! Been a
month since I talked to Dona McCLEARY Belt ('54), and she was
doing well. I have more on my list to call, so will pass
things along again later.
Happy occasion to look forward to in October... Birth of 23rd
great grandchild... A Boy!! They live here in Tri Cities, so
another one to spoil!! 🙂 I'm way ahead of Bob JOHNSON
even though he's expecting 2 great grandchildren this year!!
Congrats again, Bob!
Rambled enough... Bye for now. Stay safe everyone!!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Staying cool inside at
home in the 100° heat in Pasco. Trying not to get
depressed with World events and escaping this virus.❤️
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Let me wish my Bomber cousins Happy Cousins Happy Cousin's
Day, Bob ('62) and Duane Cross ('79). And my husband, NAB,
wants to wish the Bohringer girls: Ellen ('66), Linda ('67),
Debbie ('72), and Carol ('??)?, Happy Cousin's Day.
Know I've missed some birthdays; the only one I can remember
is Pete BEAULIEU ('62) recent One.
I enjoy the scope and creativity of reading, We are fortunate
to get to share in from Pete ('62), Ed Wood ('62), and Dennis
Hammer ('64), along with several other written very
interesting observations of life.
Re: VOTE
I know we can not be political on the Sandstorm, but I do
hope Maren will allow me to urge everyone to exercise their
privilege to vote in our upcoming Presidential election. It's
only been 100 years that we women have been able to vote,
thanks to 70 prior years to 1920 of marching and picketing for
the right to vote For women in future generations. females, we
are that future generation; do not let their efforts be in
vain.
[Just says to VOTE... that's not political
because you didn't try to suggest how anybody
should vote... just that they should vote. -Maren]
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house by the little lake
where thankfully we are having our 2nd rainy day.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: May, 1957
Re: Shirtless Bombers
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ste/200724_Shirtless.jpg
Thought I would spice up the Sandstorm a bit with a photo of
some "shirtless Bombers" way back when.
FRONT ROW L-R: Terry WALTMAN ('64), Ray STEIN ('64),
John GILL ('64), Bruce BROWN ('64)
MIDDLE ROW L-R: Marc LEACH ('63), ______________,
Bill REDMOND ('63)
BACK ROW L-R: Steve DENLER ('64), Mark REITAN ('63),
______________.
As to where, why or when, all I can say is the date stamp on
the photo says, "May 1957".
-Ray STEIN ('64)
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Marlys SCOFIELD Kinne ('54-RIP) ~ 2/1/36 - 7/20/20
Mike ENGLAND ('76-RIP) ~ 2/7/58 - 4/11/12
Steven COOK ('76-RIP) ~ 2/16/58 - 9/15/81
Ron FLODIN ('76-RIP) ~ 6/22/58 - 5/21/82
Rick SLATER ('76-RIP) ~ 3/3/58 - 5/27/85
Kevin HUFF ('76-RIP) ~ 8/8/57 - 1/1/93
Jeff HOLBROOK ('76-RIP) ~ 1/19/58 - 9/16/12
Kenton HANSON ('67-RIP) ~ 9/11/48 - 11/19/94
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/25/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
Marc LEACH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna CASE ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam BUCKNER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty NOBLE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn DAVENPORT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PORTER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark McALLISTER ('74)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
To: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
I was sad to read that Joan KNIGHT Lusty ('54-RIP) died. She
was one of Mom's (Ivamarie EDENS Douglas ('54-RIP)) good
friends. If you see, or talk to Jan Decker, tell her Hi for
me!
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)
To: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: Shirts vs. Skins
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ste/200724_Shirtless.jpg
Thanks for the photo, Ray. In the middle row on the right
the four eyed guy is Bill REDMOND ('63) [not Stan HOSACK
('64-RIP)]. Can't quite come up with more for sure but it
might have been church league bball. Bill and I look a little
overdressed.
-Marc LEACH ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/26/20
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
David DOUGLAS ('62)
Pat DORISS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: DiAnn SCHUSTER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Virginia WEYERTS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria FALLS ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SHARP ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jill LANGE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank BOLSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sarah HICKAM ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy MOYERS ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Taking a moment to wish "Happy Birthday!" to two fellow
classmates: DiAnn SCHUSTER and Virginia WEYERTS (both '54).
As they say on Vulcan Live long and prosper.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Happy one-day-late birthday greetings to Lynn DAVENPORT ('63).
I don't know if I ever met you. although I think I'd recognize
you anywhere, but your barely older sister Diane ('62) was one
of my best friends from kindergarten through high school, and
I still count her as a good friend. Hope yesterday was a
special day for you, Lynn.
-David DOUGLAS ('62; no relation to the hurricane headed
toward Hawaii) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
Re: Bomber Face Mask Orders!!
I'd appreciate it if someone would tell me how to get in
contact with a representative of the Bomber Booster Club.
Preferably, someone who's handling orders for the Bomber face
masks.
I saw an ad on Facebook last month (around the 15th) posted by
Tom Ammerman. He was advertising Richland Bomber face masks.
The mask shown in his entry was solid black with a Green "R"
inset on a gold mushroom cloud centered in the front. I called
and spoke to Tom later that week and ordered two (2) masks for
$6.95 each. Tom stated he'd be submitting the orders the
following week to someone in the Bomber Booster Club.
When I didn't hear back from him or a Booster Club
representative by July 16th, I called him and asked what was
going on. He said he'd submitted the orders but hadn't heard
from anyone, but assured me I'd be contacted soon!... Guess
what? I haven't heard anything from anyone since then!
I'd appreciate it if a Booster Club representative would
contact me and tell me the status of the two Bomber face masks
I ordered last month -- if Tom actually submitted the orders!
And, if he did, when I can expect them to arrive so I can pick
them up!
Thank you!
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) ~ West Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/27/20
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SOEHNLEIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen BOHRINGER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: TWINS: Richard & William RATHVON ('71)
BOMBER LUNCH Today: '40s/early '50s (Last Mon) - CANCELLED
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Mask!
To: Pat DORISS Tremble ('65)
Should you ever get your order straightened out and receive
your mask please relate how you managed it as I would like to
order several!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA where this past week, I was
informed by my oncologist that I had responded to 3
years of chemo that I am being removed from said
treatment. I have apparently beat hell out of non-
curable non small cell lung cancer. Where as my wife
is in deep trouble with her version of non small cell
lung cancer. Life is a bitch then it gets worse. or
is that the natural state of things?
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/28/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
1 Bomber (ME!) today:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Perry MOORE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon McDERMOTT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark GERKEN ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melanie LEE ('93)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
MAREN'S MALARKEY ~ 7/28/20
Re: Tree - sneaking out of the Lake
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/200728-Sneaky_Tree.jpg
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
220 days till start of 2021 Iditarod: March 6, 2021.
Iditarod fee schedule:
~ $3k till August 31
~ $4k Sep. 1 - Nov. 30
~ $8k post-November 30
58 mushers have signed up
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 78° at midnight
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/29/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vern McGHAN ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dixie TROUT ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff LUKE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Christine SIMEK ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Calvin SHIRLEY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt WAGNER ('06)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Important things first. It is time to wish Dixie TROUT ('54)
a "Happy Birthday!" with the hope that she is able to
celebrate in a proper manner.
Secondly; for Rex HUNT ('53), recall the statement allegedly
made by Bette Davis (NAB) that "Old age ain't for sissies."
More and more, I'm beginning to believe that.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Thanks for the shout out on 7/26. Yes, we were good friends
for many, many a year and I still look forward to your posts.
You are in Arizona and I am in California... both having escaped
Richland for other warm climates!
-Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/30/20
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1 Bomber today:
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dee WALLACE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wayne MYERS ('62) (last baby born in Hanford Hosp)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gregor HANSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marti Jo DREWERY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol BOYD ('72_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane HARTLEY ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kim RICHEY ('74)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: '62 grade school pictures
While making updates to the '62 grade school pictures, I have
a question about a teacher. Are all of these teachers the same
person, and if so what is the correct spelling of her last
name?
The teacher in this class of '63 picture says Miss June
"Duphorne", but the name in the link is "Duforn".
http://rhs63.tripod.com/gs/63Spa0pmK-Duforn.html
The teacher in this one is spelled "Duphorne".
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/gs/62Spa0xK-Duphorne.html
The teacher in this one is spelled "Duforn".
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/gs/62Sac0pmK-Duforn.html
If any of you have kids' names to add to any of the
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/62gspics.html
please let me know.
To: All classmates of 1962
Please check your email address on the new '62 class website.
Please make sure I have your correct email address.
Bomber cheers ~
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where it is 99° at
7:30pm Wednesday evening
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/31/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
2 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry BOYD ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stan McDONALD ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn STEWART ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim OTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marvee HUXOL ('66)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Want to wish Wayne MYERS ('62) and Gregor HANSON ('65) Happy
Birthday on 7/30!! Sorry, I know I've missed others.
To: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
My email is correct on the new '62 website.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana where we have enjoyed a day of steady rain
all day with a promise of a week of temperatures above
80... my plants are so happy.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
Re: Birthday 7/31
Want to wish me brudder Tom HEMPHILL ('62) a very Happy
Birthday today. Good grief, you are 76 years old!! ... Who
would have believed we would live long enough to see this
day? Hoping you have a great day and that the argyle socks
fit? Now we start making plans for our safari in October.
Love ya, Brother,
-Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
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Bob SWAN ('66-RIP) ~ 5/14/48 - 7/29/20
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June, 2020 ~ August, 2020