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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/01/20
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia KEENEY ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura CALLEN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy RICE ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kelly LYNCH ('78) ~ '65 Drill Team Mascot
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eric LUKINS ('81)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Who was that masked man? (part II)
Yesterday my daughter and I went out to forage for food at
Wally World and she noticed this sign on 27th Ave as we drove
by. This morning I went out to take a picture. I had also seen
a shrub with two eyes and a mask on it, so I was also going to
try to get a photo of it, but it is no longer there. Some
shrubs have been sculpted and it could have been one of them.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200901-Mask_In_A_Bank..jpg
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Timely Cartoon
My favorite cartoon strip is MUTTS by Patrick McDonnell. I
have it sent to my email daily. It is humane. On Friday the
two main characters (Mooch the cat and Earl the dog) were
lying, sunning on the beach. Mooch asks "what day is it?" Earl
says "what month is it?" Mooch asks "what year is it?" They go
to sleep. They are more sanguine than I. I feel that way
everyday, now, in a lost way. I purchased a framed copy of the
cartoon.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: C & M Landscaping
After 55 years, C & M Landscaping/Garden Center Gift Shop
will have new owners as of September 1, 2020.
Bev KELLER Marcum-McMullen ('49) and her husband, Brownie
McMullen, are retiring and have sold the business.
Best wishes to Bev and Brownie in your well-deserved
retirement!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/02/20
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Tedd CADD ('66)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda LESTER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan FOLEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gordon MUMFORD ('72)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Chuck JERMAN & Judy SIEMENS ('66)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Yes! Mutts is one of my favorites. I have it on my initial
computer startup. One of my recent favorites is where Mooch
carries a sign into the yard as a gift to Earl. He pounds it
into the grass and only then do you see the "Beware of Dog"
lettering. With a broad smile, Earl says, "I've always wanted
one of those."
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/03/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Michael WAGGONER ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie KELLY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike PETERSON ('64)
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>>From: Michael WAGGONER ('60)
Re: ARE RADIOACTIVE DIAMOND BATTERIES A CURE FOR NUCLEAR WASTE?
"ARE RADIOACTIVE DIAMOND BATTERIES A CURE FOR
NUCLEAR WASTE?
Researchers are developing a new battery
powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed
nuclear waste. If it works, it will last
thousands of years."
Several quotes from Lance Hubbard, a materials scientist at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
-Michael WAGGONER ('60) ~ Boulder, CO
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Cartoons
My favorite cartoons have been The Far Side, Pearls before
Swine, Peanuts, and Dilbert. Especially Dilbert...
In my place of career-employment I was SUMMONED more than
once to the front office to explain myself. On one particular
occasion, my public-agency job was probably on the line. I was
asked to deny that I had been feeding ideas to Dilbert-artist
Scott Adams-based on identical run-ins I was experiencing with
management. Was I working with Adams to mock management to a
national audience? "Nope," said I, but the new possibility
intrigued me. (Adams listed his email with his strip and
solicited suggestions.)
For his part, Adams originally worked with Pacific Bell, I
think in California. Did his cartoons in the wee hours before
heading to the office, and ideas clearly came from the local
office culture. The story at the time was that he was invited
to think about staying home and doing cartoons full-time.
Sometimes I also did break-time cartooning about local
political events, and once at a time when local (Seattle area)
fiefdom politics was at its worst. At that poised political
moment, a really big cartoon showed up on the editorial page
of the Seattle Times newsprint monopolist. In etching-quality
detail it depicted the many disputing local governments as a
collection of Medieval castle turrets with knights in armor
all doing battle with one another. Great and explosive sarcasm.
Again, I was summoned to the front office for interrogation,
and this time to possibly deny that it was I who had done
the unsigned cartoon. "Not me," says I, "wish I had, but the
artistry is above my skill set." Off the hook, and yet feeling
quite flattered. And to this day I still wonder about and
admire whomever it was.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA now retired on a state
pension. "Illegitimi non carborundum!" My graced wife,
Kristi (passed very early in 2001), sometimes said to
me about my office cartoons: "Peter, if you keep doing
that, they'll never take you seriously." Hubby should
have listened.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/04/20
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Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
1 Bomber sent stuff:
Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard JOHNSON ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray KELLY ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandee MILLIUS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark DeVOSS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shelley HANKINS ('74)
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and Dilbert
I, too, have always been a big fan of Dilbert. Back in the
'90s when I accepted a leadership role with my company one of
the first things I did was to put a "Dilbert Box" next to my
assistant's cubicle (not my idea... I stole it from one of
my counterparts in the Bay Area.) The idea was to allow my
team members to anonymously let me know when ever I did
something that could become fodder for a Dilbert strip. They
enthusiastically filled it, often with the usual gripes that
all employees have (I certainly had the same gripes with my
leadership!) but occasionally I got a solid slap upside
my head and had to acknowledge that I was on the verge of
becoming the pointy-haired boss of Dilbert fame if I didn't
rethink what I was doing!
It turned out to be a very popular idea and a great way to
hold everyone (especially me) accountable.
-Gary TURNER ('71)
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Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) has created for:
Vera BOISONEAU Henry ('48-RIP) ~ 10/5/30 - 9/28/55
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/05/20
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Ray STEIN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carolyn HALSTEAD ('61_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanie HUTCHINS ('62)
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: Cartoons
All this talk of cartoons reminds me of an amazing
coincidence.
"Pook" Smith ('63-RIP) passed away on October 9, 2005 after
being in a coma since, I believe, 10/6/05. The next day the
attached B.C. cartoon appeared in the newspaper. The cartoon
showed a character staring at the sky saying, "star light",
"star bright", "WELL . . ." The second to the last panel has a
star popping out with the word "POOK". The last panel says ,
"First star I see tonight".
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ste/200905_BC_Pook.jpg
I believe the distribution date of the cartoon was Oct. 9th,
the day Pook died. I believe (please correct if I'm wrong)
that someone from the class of '63 contacted the cartoonist,
Johnny Hart, and found out that he did not know Pook Smith.
What a coincidence!!!
-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Mead, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/06/20
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Helen CROSS ('62)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Terry DAVIS ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl VOLMER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy STULL ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thomas HANN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bobejo SANFORD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol VON OLNHAUSEN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janell JOHNS ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
John HEFFNER ('66) & Melanie DUKES ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Take a moment of your time to help me wish fellow classmate
Carl VOLMER ('54) a "Happy Birthday!? Why? You ask, basically
cuz he's worth it.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Happy Birthday, Linda LESTER on 9/2 and Jeanie HUTCHINS on 9/5
(both class of 62).
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana, where all I'm allowed to say here is
everyone, please cast your vote in this next
presidential election.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
I guess I now have to admit to being 'a little old lady' and
here's why:
I'm 4 inches shorter than when I left Col-Hi in 1963.
I have to ask for someone to reach items on the top shelves
in stores.
I need a shopping cart so I don't get too tired when making
my way through the aisles.
The clerks call me 'Dear' when checking me out.
I can't pick up a watermelon - and that pisses me off!
I know how very lucky I am to have lived the life I have, to
know the people in it, to value my friends, and to love my
family dearly. So I guess I'll embrace being 'a little old
lady' for as long as I can!
See what 'social distancing' can do to one's mind?
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Watch "A SIMPLE explanation of the Simple Hybrid Model."
https://youtu.be/JwfMskzRBEM
Re: Hans' Pavilion
There's a large circular building on top of old Flat-Top
that sits empty and unfinished, looking down out over West
Richland as far as Benton City in one direction and clear
across the Columbia River in the other. Look up when you're
out along Van Geisen sometime and you can't miss it. Just
sitting up there.
It was built by a man, an older man who knew how to
build things, for a young woman in his life who knew how to
paint and needed someplace to hang the pictures she painted.
First he built her a fine, glass-walled studio onto the back
of his large house just down the hill on King Street there in
West Richland, but pretty soon she needed more space so he
began construction on that circular pavilion up on Flat-Top.
This was about 25 or so years ago. At the time, there was only
a water reservoir up there and of course the large white cross
that you might remember from when you were a kid and you'd
look out the back window of your folks' car as you passed
below on Van Giesen and see that big white cross sitting up
there on the hill.
That was a long time before the pavilion.
When I moved out to King Street in West Richland about 7
years ago, the house I rented belonged to Sandy, a
classmate from '65. Very nice place. Large, up on a hill,
with long, sloping lawns and a perfect view of the Yakima
River below and Flat-Top rising off to the left. The house
over on the property next door was also large and lovely--
splendid, really--with a view that was the envy of the
neighborhood. But it stood empty, abandoned. The once-sculpted
shrubs had gone wild, and the two-tiered lawn was scorched and
dead. The row of high studio windows all across the back of
the house, opening onto a commanding view of the countryside,
were clouded over and darkend with dust and grime. If it
didn't look spooky, it at least looked sad in the way deserted
houses in rural settings can look.
"Who lives over there next door?" I asked Sandy as she
was showing me around the property my first day as her tenant.
"Looks like it used to be a pretty nice place."
"Oh, it's a beautiful place," she said. "You should see
the inside. I mean, it's a mess now, but the fella who built
it really knew what he was doing."
Then she pointed off towards Flat-top in the near
distance. "See that round building on the top of flat-top over
there? He built that too--or started to. He was building it
for his girlfriend. She was an artist. Really young. He built
her a studio in the back of the house here also,"
she said, pointing across the wooden fence towards the
empty house, "and then he was building her that big gallery
thing up on the hill where she could show her paintings, but
before he could finish it, she went away and never came back."
"Went away?"
"Yes, just moved away. Back to New York, I think. Maybe
she had family there. I don't know the whole story, except
that he stopped working on that building and just left it
sitting there."
"What about him?"
Sandy looked at me like she didn't understand what I'd
said. " What happened to him?" I repeated.
"Your neighbor here."
"His name was Hans. He kept on here for a couple years
or so after she left, then he got real sick and died a little
while after that. The house has been sitting here like this
for about 5 or 6 years now. I'm not even sure who owns it, but
I heard it's up for sale."
So I moved into Sandy's house on King Street, and
sometime during my second year there a very nice fellow named
Craig moved in with his family and over the course of the next
couple years undertook the complete restoration of the
property, top to bottom.
Hans would have been proud.
But the unfinished pavilion is still sitting up there on
Flat-Top. There is no window glass in the openings. And no
sign of life.
Yet.
I've recently heard rumors a local tribe has purchased
the property, and that sounds to me like a perfect fit. Maybe
Han's pavilion will finally get finished.
In the meantime, I'll keep looking up the hill there
whenever I pass by.
TDK '65'
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
ToO: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: leadership lessons come in many forms
When I joined the Coast Guard, I was a Storekeeper 3rd Class
(prior service up to E5 in the Air Force) and the lowest
ranking member of the unit. After a few months, the CO, CDR
Sam Volpentest, Jr, "volunteered" me for OCS.
For reasons known only to the upper brass, I was reassigned to
the same unit contrary to usual good order, now as an Ensign
and the third highest ranking member.
One of my leadership lessons came when I and 4 or 5 other
members of the unit attended a port security training week in
Seattle. The others were enlisted. During a break, we were
joking around about something and I made the remark-in
jest-that something that one of them had said was going to be
reflected on their next performance report. It was obvious
that it was not a real threat-I thought.
On the next break, one of the men took me aside and said, "We
know you were joking, Mr. Cadd. But you need to remember that
you now have the power to do that."
We had been shipmates, plank owners together even. But their
expectations of me had shifted and I had to adjust. I had to
become an officer in more than just the insignia on my
shoulders. I had to become a servant to these men so that they
could accomplish the mission for which we served together and
for which I was now responsible.
I am very grateful that man had the courage to take me to task
and be a part of my becoming a real officer.
By the way, if you think that the use of the word "servant" is
out of line, then you really don't understand the military.
LCDR Tedd Cadd, USGCR Retired
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/07/20 ~ Labor Day
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
Carol CARSON ('60), David Robertson ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Al PARKER ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Alan STEPHENS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara BLANTON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol PETERSON ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jake TATE ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa PETERSON ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
A moment to wish Al PARKER ('53) a "Happy Birthday!" Only a
moment cuz this is a holiday (other than a birthday) and we
isn't supposed to work on holidays; unless its for double-time
and a half.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Hans' Pavilion
I totally totally concur with what you have said.
Please send us a picture meaning photo of the old house you
described
To: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Shrinking
I was 5'11" and 155 pounds when I graduated in 1955
Today I'm 5'7" and weigh 138 pounds... need to take water
pills for Endiama (however it's spelled) and had several bad
falls but totally concur with what you have said.
-Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Shrinking
I had to smile at Marie RUPERT Hartman's ('63) post. It must
be common to shrink. I was 5'9" when I graduated high school
in 1960. Today I am just a hair over 5'6". Must be all that
knowledge in our heads weighing us down! Although some days I
feel like I've been rode hard and put away wet.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ Lynnwood, WA where the weather
is beautiful and we are far enough away from Seattle
to avoid the ugliness.
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>>From: David Robertson ('60)
Re: Leadership lessons come in many forms
Thank you Tedd CADD ('66) regarding leadership lessons come in
many forms
I served in the US Navy as a Ltjg from 1966 to 1969 on a radar
picket ship homebased at Pearl Harbor. We did three Westpac
cruises and spent 13 months off the coast on Vietnam. Our
executive officer served 10 years as an enlisted sailor; the
Navy then sent him to college and then to office candidate
school. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. I
remember him saying that. "We could either let the bars (our
insignia) carry us or earn the respect befitting the bars".
I look forward to the many leadership stories from our former
military classmates.
Ltjg David Robertson, TS, USNR Retired
-David Robertson ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Leadership Lessons
Of his advancement from enlisted to officer, Tedd CADD ('66)
writes "I had to become an officer in more than just the
insignia on my shoulders." The leadership thing in a military
setting is a bit of a challenge, but there does come an
epiphany when the officer finally discovers that he is wearing
the uniform, rather than the other way around. If I had a
special such moment, it goes like this...
One of my assignments, for over two years, was as a Weapons
Department Division Officer on an aircraft carrier, for a
"deck division" of up to sixty men. Low-skill maintenance like
unending chipping and painting, manning of a large gun mount,
and equipment operation. And personnel issues. A lumpy racial
mix from all over the United States and the Philippines (in
those days the way around the immigration quota was to first
join the Navy), in stature from large to small, many high
school drop-outs, and more than a few from off the streets
and ghettos. My leading enlisted man (my number-two, named
"Wallace") was old-school Navy-a natural knack for getting
things done, but finished the seventh grade in Mississippi
only because the principal was also the basketball coach. Now
Wallace was a wiry six-foot two-inch "no-shit" Navy man's Navy
man, and a former winner of the heavy-weight division in Navy
West Pac (Pacific) big-ring boxing competitions.
Wallace and me, somehow it was good chemistry, but my
recurring self-questioning -as a "90-day wonder" (actually 120
days) from the notepad classroom and now thrown in the deep
end-was still "am I doin' okay?"
Things happen every day. After over two years of such things
in all kinds of weather and assignments, the ship was now
almost totally decommissioned in Bremerton Naval Shipyard. For
a moment, Wallace and I cross paths in the Weapons Department
Office. Seeing that we were alone, Wallace eyeballs me and
then ventures, "Sir, there's something I've been want'n to say
to you for a long time... " Says I, "What is it?" Says he, now
sinking a bit in his chair with a first-time-ever sheepish
look on his cast-iron face: "You ain't gonna f---'n court
martial me, are yeh?" Says I, now fully engaged, "Negative,
speak freely, Wallace, what is it?"
He blurts it out like a cat expelling a hairball, "Sir, you
are one tough sunovabitch!!!" Unaffected on the outside, but
feeling fully affirmed and euphoric on the inside, all I can
say is: "Wallace-coming from you-that's the highest honor I've
received since I joined 'this man's navy'!" And, it was.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62), honored SOB in Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Earl BENNETT (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Leadership Lessons
Very good story and explanation, LCDR-R CADD (66)! The
plateau south of there is where Dad taught me to drive.
Earl C. Bennett, III - CDR, USNR-R
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/08/20
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Bob LeCLAIR ('65)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Adele PAULSEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim MATTIS ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert LOVE ('66)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Military Leadership
Lately there have been some interesting entries about military
leadership. I may as well throw in my 2 bits' worth.
I enlisted in the Coast Guard at age 17, and in the course of
a 32-year career I held 13 pay grades - E-1 thru E-7, O-1 thru
O-6 (captain). I commanded 2 ships along the way, was exec of
2 others. In considering the single most important thing I
tried to do regarding being a leader, I think one emerges: I
tried to respect my subordinates. But I suggest that the best
military leader Columbia High ever produced was GEN James
MATTIS ('68) [today is Jim's birthday. -Maren], whose record
makes the rest of us look like "rank amateurs" (pun intended).
I recommend reading his book "CALL SIGN CHAOS".
As a postscript, after I retired from the USCG I spent ten
years or so in community service and volunteer work, and
leadership in THAT arena was a whole different "ball game".
In some ways, it was much more difficult!
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ hunkered down in smoky Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
For those of you who seem to be shrinking in height, and for
those of us who may be sometimes seemingly forgetful; I am
reminded of the phrase attributed to Bette Davis: "Old age
ain't for sissies." I am finding this to be truer every day.
And for the OCS grads; what wisdom you got from an enlisted
man was probably from a Chief or 1st Class with some
experience.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54), GMTCS USN (Ret.)
~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Leadership Lessons
I am not sure if this fits in here, but I will go ahead with
it.
In Radio division I worked in the message center. We always
had a junior officer in charge called the CWO (Communications
Watch Officer). For about the first half of my first cruise we
had three. Two of them seemed to always be uptight and worried
all the time and the third was very easy going. I think we had
gotten one or two more officers when the easy going one got a
message that they were sending him stateside for separation
from active duty. A Marine, the captain's orderly, always
picked up the messages for the CO and XO; both of them were
Mustangers. I guess that was when they found out he was being
transferred, and called him to the bridge. Turns out they
wanted to thank him and compliment him on how smooth his
watches always ran. The other two uptight ones always seemed
to have problems happen on their watches. One of our officers
said, "Even though he seems to have a blasé and don't-give-a-
rip attitude, his watches always ran smooth."
A couple of our officers thought I should go to OCS and become
a Mustanger too. Back in the states a couple of people came
aboard you might call career counselors and they sent me
to talk to them. I don't think I would have done well in a
leadership position. I do like to work alone. Assign me a
task, or even on a project of my own choosing, and I will do
it to the best of my ability... if I do a job, I want it to be
done right, have always been that way. My evaluations on both
ships I served on say "works well alone."
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Bob LeCLAIR ('65)
Re: Book on Hanford/Richland
A new book came out in 2020 by Steve Olson, who was raised
in Othello, WA. It is "The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and
the Making of the Atomic Age." It does not try to sell one
viewpoint or another on nuclear energy. The book starts out
with an excellent scientific (but understandable) history
of the development nuclear energy. It then goes into The
Manhattan Project and then into the building of Hanford. The
decision of whether to drop the two bombs on Japan is covered.
It then covers Richland and post-WWII activities.
My family didn't move to Richland until 1948 and my parents
both worked in the Richland Public School system. I didn't
grow up with much understanding of the unique history of
Richland. The book is available on Amazon in both hard-back
and Kindle. I recommend it for all of us RHS Bombers!
-Bob LeCLAIR ('65)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Yikes!
As I was sitting by the window in the living room at 10:30
this morning (Labor Day), suddenly, the light coming in turned
yellow - like when you put on those weird sunglasses. We've
been under a bad air quality warning for a few days, now,
because of fires north and south. So visibility is restricted
and the sky is brown. Strange.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erlynn BELLISTON ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Ann VOSSE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda NORWOOD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill BAZEMORE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra DUHON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed CHAPPELL ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARIES Today:
Frank HAGGARD ('55) & Evelyn BUBNAR ('55)
John MYERS ('56) & Roberta KIRK ('57)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Interesting posts in the Sandstorm today as always; I've added
a few more books to my want to read list. I've tried and can't
bring up any real information about the fires burning in
Washington State, so I have to believe they are not real bad.
As a displaced Bomber out here in the Midwest, I would like to
add It would find it interesting if people could add their
current city to their posts.
I was happy to see a post from a former Olympia Street
neighbor, Bob LeCLAIR ('65) on 9/8/20, but I am wondering
where he is living now; Hawaii? or Seattle? Or?
...and where was the sky that weird yellow color?
[Weird yellow sky was smoky Richland. -Maren]
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ by the little lake in SE Indiana
where we are having wonderful cooler days with a high
of 85° for about an hour late in the day
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: THE APOCALYPSE FACTORY - Plutonium and the Making of the
Atomic Age ~ By Steve Olson
This is the book that Bob LeCLAIR ('65) mentioned. I bought a
copy a few weeks ago. From the reviews I have read, it sounds
to be a very balanced, insightful book. I'll be getting it
read very soon. I believed my father arrived at Hanford on
New Year's Day, 1944 - but it may have been earlier. He worked
for DuPont and drove out from Tulsa. My mother and brother
followed by train. I was born at Kadlec near the end of 1946.
I am very proud of what they accomplished.
Re: A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project
[I'm reading now. LOVE the story of the
time a cook put sugar instead of salt
into the meatballs. Some Hanford workers
stood up on the benches and threw meatballs
at the cooks.. apparently it was like
being hit with a golf ball. -Maren]
Re: Hanford Construction Camp Stats
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/10/2
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Bill SCOTT ('64)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doreen HALLENBECK ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie DEAN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lee UPSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna FREDETTE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeri COLLINS ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet DEVINE ('69)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Hanford Construction Site Stats
The link attached to Patti McLAUGHLIN's ('65) entry shows in
the third photo some barracks.
These barracks remind me of a two-story version located inside
Richland, possibly somewhere east of GWWay, I think. Maybe
behind what is now the Red Lion. Does anyone recall the
location for this housing for unmarried Richland people, men
in some buildings, women in others?
My 7th-grade homeroom teacher at Chief Jo (1956-'57) was one
of these residents, Mr. Worley, a law school student who was
doing two years of student teaching. A few admiring stories
can be told about this formative teacher and mentor, and the
student reactions. Often three hours of homework. There was
also the music (?) teacher, Miss Twing, young and attractive
with a dark beehive hairdo. Students thought they would be a
good match.
Worley's teaching method offered a huge incentive for early
achievement. His tests were often given several times-the same
test until everyone in the class achieved a B or an A. If you
got an A on the first try, then you were exempt from all the
following efforts and received a string of automatic A's in
the grade book. Good for balancing out the quarterly average.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Military Leadership
We were without power here for almost 36 hours in the
aftermath of a ferocious windstorm that must have knocked down
trees all over the county, so I couldn't respond in a timely
manner to the stories that have come in about military
leadership experiences. I have my own story.
The greatest lesson in leadership I ever saw was in basic
training. In basic, we had a TI (they didn't call them DIs in
the Air Force), and he had an assistant. Our lead TI, SSgt.
Hill, surprised us all by treating us like human beings. He
never raised his voice to us, but spoke in a calm, clear
manner. When we screwed up that didn't change. He never got
in our face about something. He was firm in his standards
but recognized us as adults capable of learning our lessons.
Judging from the screaming we heard from other TIs, we knew
we were extremely lucky to have him. Recognizing this, we
got together and agreed we'd all do our best for him for the
remainder of the training. And to this day, if he showed up
at my door and said, "Bill, I need your help", I'd say "Sarge,
I've got your back."
On the other hand, our assistant TI fancied himself an early
version of R. Lee Ermey. I swear that man was angry at us
before we arrived. A permanent scowl was fixed on his face
and he looked forward to the next poor guy to screw up. He
was what we expected-angry, in-your-face, perpetually unhappy.
And if I saw him at my door tomorrow, I'd tell him to get the
hell off my property. That was the kind of guy that might
get fragged over in the 'Nam. He didn't earn our respect,
admiration, or anything else.
I have never understood why so many leaders choose fear and
intimidation as a management style. It doesn't work on me and
only creates an "us vs. them" mentality among staff. My last
boss was like SSgt Hill, and she earned my unswerving loyalty.
I wanted to do good for her. More people should try it.
-Bill SCOTT ('64) ~ from fire smoke-choked Rockaway Beach, OR
where I had to use the headlights to drive today, where
a forest fire is burning in the hills just north of
Tillamook 14 miles away, and Lincoln City, an hour down
the coast, is on fire and undergoing evacuation.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Washington Fires
We've had several fires around the Tri-Cities... small ones
The worst fire that I know of is around Omak. 5 fires burning
on the Colville Reservation in Omak and Inchelium, 13,000
acres. Cold Spring Canyon Fire is the largest of five fires at
67,000 acres. The Omak fires moved to Malott. 85% or so of
that town is destroyed by fire. So sad! This is from Monday's
report. Today so far the Cold Springs Fire is estimated to be
burning 163,000 acres and is 0% contained. The Pearl Hill Fire
is south of the Columbia River in Douglas County. The Cold
Springs fire is north of the Columbia River in Okanogan. Fire
around Spokane by Fairchild as well. It's hard to keep up with
them all.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick the
smoke is gone for now
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/11/20 ~ OF COURSE WE REMEMBER!!!!
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Richard ROBERTS ('49), Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Janet TYLER ('61), Mac QUINLAN ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Walt MORGAN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patsy LOMON ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan WINGFIELD ('68_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John INGRAM ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: JoAnn MALLEY ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Heidi DAVIS ('00)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Stan McDONALD & Dorothy McDONALD ('53)
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Re: Women's Dorms ~ Hi-Spot
One of them [#17] was remodeled and became the location of the
first Hi-Spot. Good memories there; I finally got up enough
nerve to ask an upper class girl to dance. It was pretty easy
from then on and a lot more fun than playing ping pong.
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Fires!
Hanford, CA is engulfed with thick smoke like a medium heavy
fog. With my lung cancer I am having a hell of a time.
Sh*t! I just had a phone call letting me know my wife passed
away a few minutes ago. She was in hospice care at a local
hospital... not able to come home to die!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just like to wish Dorothy and Stan McDONALD (both '53)(both
same last name) a "Happy Anniversary!".
And a thought for those who didn't survive 9/11.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Hanford Construction Site Stats
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/1940s/44HCC/1944HCC.htm
Re: 2-story barracks for single men and/or women:
I remember those barracks all along Jadwin. Mary, the mother
of my friend Judy BOWEN ('60-RIP) used to live in them before
she met and married Wally Bowen, the manager of the Desert Inn
Hotel.
[On Jadwin, those were DORMS, not barracks.
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/misc/jk.html
Barracks were moved (barged) to The HEW Const.
Camp (See project map below). -Maren]
Re: Project map
[Perhaps someone can help me add the railroad
to the above map. -Maren]
Re: the Hanford trailer camp
Shortly after we moved to Richland in March 1949, I learned
that my former neighbor and best friend from Vancouver,
Washington, Susanne Carol Hardesty, parents Fred and Edith,
and little sister, lived in one of those trailers, and my
parents drove us out to visit a couple of times. I couldn't
believe how large the trailer park was, and I was astounded at
how small the trailers were and that they had to go to another
building for bathroom, showering, laundry, and washing up.
What a challenge on cold winter nights, hot summer days, and
any time the sagebrush was flying waist-high during the
termination winds! The conditions must have been a shock to
many of the adults, but then I suppose after living through
the Depression and one or two World Wars, it was just another
patriotic sacrifice.
Re: Hanford mess halls
Those statistics about food supply quantities remind me of a
very cool tour I got to make one evening in 1988 on the USS
Alabama, located in Mobile. We were there for a National
Society of Professional Engineers annual meeting, and our good
friend and former Naval Officer personally conducted us on a
tour of nearly the entire ship, describing all the stats and
living conditions while at sea. Similar to Hanford but on a
somewhat smaller scale, the quantities of food and drink
served at least 3 times daily were astounding. Question: How
in the world were all those supplies brought to Hanford
daily/weekly? Were the roads full of trucks, was the river
full of barges? Or did it all come by rail? The statistics are
staggering!
[I BELIEVE most everything came in by rail.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. -Maren]
Re: Chief Jo teachers marrying
I believe that Barbara McMurray, my music teach (1954-'57),
later married the band teacher Mr Rickey. Ah, the memories!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60) ~ in West Richland, where the
dust and smoke were so bad on Labor Day that I could
not see beyond my balcony. Outside, it looked like a
snowstorm. And inside, the house smelled like there was
a campfire in the living room! Oh well, with a severely
sprained ankle, I wasn't going anywhere anyway.
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>>From: Janet TYLER ('61)
One-day late: Happy Birthday to Lee UPSON ('63)
Hope life is treating you well!
Your friend, Janet
-Janet TYLER ('61) ~ Pasco
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>>From: Mac QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Military Leadership
Bill SCOTT's ('64) reminiscing about Air Force boot camp
brought back a memory I hadn't thought of for a LONG time.
In the Navy the boot camp instructors are RDCs (Recruit
Division Commander). It sounds like someone trying too hard
to make themselves sound important.
I had three while I was in boot camp. The first two were
relieved of their duties. They were mentally unstable... it
was that obvious. The third one even hinted to that. He turned
out to be your typical boot camp instructor, always trying to
create as much chaos as possible while yelling as loud as he
possibly could.
There was one black guy in our class who was constantly
getting in trouble. Defiant!!! He did not like being told what
to do! At the same time he was super witty and had a great
personality, but HE wanted to be the one in charge!!!!
One day after being screamed At for a good three minutes he
accused the RDC of being prejudice. He was immediately grabbed
by the collar and slammed up against the lockers. "I am not
prejudice you SOB, I HATE EVERYONE."
I've always admired someone who can think of a come-back that
quickly. Me, I always think of a good come-back a day or so
later.
-Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
175 days till start of 2021 Iditarod: March 6, 2021.
The list of mushers has grown to 62.
Brett Bruggeman, Veteran from Great Falls, MT has withdrawn.
Re: Barracks vs. Dorms
Pete BEAULIEU ('62) mentioned the Barracks in the 10/10/20
Sandstorm:
richlandbombers.com/gallery/1940s/44HCC/1944HCC.htm
The link in Patti McLAUGHLIN's ('65) 9/9/20 entry
shows in the third photo some barracks.
These barracks remind me of a two-story version
located inside Richland, possibly somewhere east
of GWWay, I think. Maybe behind what is now the
Red Lion. Does anyone recall the location for
this housing for unmarried Richland people,
men in some buildings, women in others?
Pete is remembering the DORMS for single workers. They were
located on Jadwin (a block or so west of GWWay) and they
started downtown near the Administration (700) offices and
the cafeteria (later The Mart) and went all the way north
to Williams.
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/misc/jk.html
Each dorm held 38 men or 37 women and there were 22 women's
dorms and I don't know how many for men. I remember someone
talking about delivering newspapers to the dorms.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 77° at midnight
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Women's dorm Richland 1950s
Re: Dorm - An even better reference
Re: Dorms - On our own website:
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/misc/jk.html
As you said, there were at least two buildings: one for men
and one for women.
[Initially there were 11 women's (later 22)
and 3 men's dorms. There were also 1-BR
Guyer Apts and 2-BR Gribble/Gilmore Apts. -Maren}
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/misc/Apts.html
A few years ago, I was searching through old (mid-'50s) Tri-
City Herald police blotters trying to track down a particular
wrong doer. I ran across one where a man was arrested in the
women's dorm dressed in women's clothing. (Yes, unfortunately,
there were predators in Richland in those days.)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: here's my TI story.
I was assigned to photo intel training in Denver, Colorado
right after Basic. My wife came to be with me and we lived off
base-quite unusual. Each morning, my classmates would gather
in a rec room ready to form up to march to class, polishing
our boots, getting squared away. We sat in chairs around the
perimeter of the room
One morning, our TI came in and slowly made his way around the
room casually inspecting us from a foot away. On his second go
around, he stopped in front of me. I was looking down buffing
my boots. I looked up at him and he said, "Cadd, you're an
exception and I HATE exceptions" and turned and walked out.
When my wife went into labor (Fitzimmons General was a
nightmare), I had to get permission to go be with her. He
actually said, "If the Air Force had wanted you to have a
family, they would have issued you one." I had to go over
his head to be with her. I'm quite sure he hated me even
more after that.
After I graduated, I heard he'd gotten into a brawl at a
bar and had been shot (survived). I thought it was in
keeping with who he was.
If he showed up at my door? I think I'd be cautiously
charitable but I'd forcefully remind him that I am an
exception. It must be a lonely life living with that kind
of rancor.
Certainly no leader there. Bullies can wear all sorts of
rank insignia or office.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/12/20
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11 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Manny MANKOWSKI ('55), Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Keith ARNDT ('60)
Mary ROSE ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Susie DILL ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill BAIRD ('46)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: Club 40
Well.. Normally this would be the weekend for our annual Club
40 celebration!! Unfortunately, because of Covid virus, we are
restricted from gathering a lot of people in one place!! We'll
keep our fingers crossed for a big celebration in 2021!!
Hopefully our membership list will grow in the meantime, since
the rules have changed and instead of alumni who graduated 40
or more years ago, we now have opened it up to all Bomber
alumni who are at least 21 years of age!! Please go to
RichlandBombers.com website and click on Club40 near the
top of the page... then download an application. It's only
10$ a year for each Bomber household! 🙂
Re: Fires
Sad. Stay safe and if you're in an area with a lot of smoke,
please stay in and wear a mask if you have to go out. I'm sure
you're all aware of this!
Washington, Oregon and California have really been hit hard.
Other states, I'm sure are suffering, too. Our brave and
courageous firefighters and officers deserve our support and
appreciation!! Thank you all for your sacrifice!! 💙
Re: classmate '54
Condolences go out to classmate, DiAnn SCHUSTER Bresina ('54),
for the loss of her husband, Tom BRESINA ('53-RIP)!!
ALSO...
Don't fall for scam call from Social Security that your number
has been compromised!! Do not press #1 for help!! 🙂
Happy thoughts... Awaiting the arrival of my 23rd g-grandchild
first part of October. Its a BOY!! 🙂 💙 🙂 🙂 💙
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Alive and well here in
Pasco keeping in touch with as many friends as possible!
Missing our monthly gals of '54 lunch. We'll meet soon!!
🙂 ❤️
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Dorms
As I recall, the men's dorms were located along the north side
of the 700 area on Swift Blvd.
The women's dorms were on the south side across the street
from the 700 area and not quite all the way to Lee Blvd.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
Oktoberfest will begin Oct 1, in a virtual mode.
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>>From: Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
My condolences to you Rex HUNT ('53). It is always tragic to
lose someone dear to your heart but imagine it is most sad to
loose a spouse, My heart goes out to you. One thing I could
recommend is to Google a book available from Amazon for free
entitled "To Heaven and Back". It's a true stores written by
a surgeon. You will love it. I read it cover to cover in one
night and cried like a baby when I lost my youngest sister
March 23rd of this year, I'm so sorry to also hear of your
lung cancer and hope medical doctors are on top of it,
-Manny MANKOWSKI ('55)
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Re: Men's dorms
The dorms were between my house (1320 Stevens drive and the
old swimming pool. I would cut through Sacajawea grade school
grounds down across the ditch and walk through one of the
men's dorms where I would collect 5 pop bottles and turn them
in at the store... then with my 15 cents head on foot to the
old swimming pool. I would pay 10 cents for a locker... then
I would swim for an hour then back in line for another session
for an hour... then back in line till dinner time. Then walk
home by way of Spudnut shop and a 5 cent icecream come. Next
day same routine all summer!!!
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Men's dorms
I delivered the Spokesman Review to residents in the men's
dorms, I lived down on Douglas Avenue and had to ride the bike
loaded with papers up to the men's dorms. One customer always
gave me a hard time when I was trying to collect, one morning
I just pounded on the door like mad and about seven or eight
other dorm residents opened their doors to see what the heck
was going on and gave this guy a really bad time... I never
had to worry about collecting from him again he always stuck
payment on his door.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: North Richland
When I lived in North Richland I was given the opportunity
of a young life - selling the Tri-City Herald at the North
Richland post office. I'm quite sure the job was passed on to
me by Jim CASTLEBERRY ('58). At the time, a large number of
workers had post office boxes at the post office and would
check nightly. As they walked past me on the way in they would
mutter words like "scab newspaper", etc. On the way out they
would buy a paper. You can't beat capitalism.
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: Birthday
Happy Birthday Walt MORGAN ('60) on 9/11, and many more!!!!
Lost your email address again!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Leadership Styles
Bill SCOTT ('64) recounts his experience in the Air Force with
TWO opposite kinds of "leadership" styles-the effectively
respectful versus the perpetually angry and infantile. Sounds
like there might be a best-seller book in there somewhere. And
it might even be that some Bomberville-types would have a good
author in mind...
I'm reminded of Admiral Zumwalt who was a deep-dive selection
for Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in 1970 (the youngest
ever). He loosened the standard chain-of-command leadership
structure, just a bit, by his personal accessibility and by
challenging long-standing procedures. In one instance he
authorized sailors to wear beards. Later rescinded-a death
trap for sailors in any shipboard fire since gas masks don't
form a seal over stubble. DETAILS MATTER.
Part of the rigor in boot camp or OCS is simply that details
matter-even and especially under stress. "We do X 'this' way
because someone got injured or killed doing it the other way."
And part of "leadership" is sometimes acting on the personal
details of your men...
Take the case of one ordinary sailor (Frank Cook), a quiet
and good worker (etc.), who was handing over ALL of his
meager earnings to a civilian detective. (In those days an
astronomical $1,500 by the time I heard about it.) He was
searching for his only blood-relative, a brother. When coaxed,
he confided that they were four and five years old when a car
crash killed both of their parents. They were split up and
separately adopted, and had been totally out of touch for the
next twenty years and counting.
FACTOID #1: at that very young age (!) they had promised each
other to go into the military in the hope that they then might
cross tracks again.
FACTOID #2: by the late '60s the military was mostly moved to
new-fangled computers...
Deployment of most of a year goes by, and Cook is now
scheduled to be discharged just two weeks after we return
to Long Beach. But... connect the dots... the light goes on! The
ship's Personnel Officer agrees to stick his neck out and send
a rare top-priority message (I think called "red flash") to
the Pentagon. Filter ALL of the over three million names on
computer files in all four branches of the military-to
possibly find another man, age 25, possibly using his birth
name of "Cook," AND possibly identified by the ABSENCE of
info in his file (no birth parents, no relatives but one
sibling/address unknown). Sherlock Holmes' "the dog that
didn't bark"!
Literally one hour before Cook's discharge a notice comes to
the ship. The brother is an officer in the Navy, stationed in
Virginia, and today has arrived at Los Angeles International
Airport to claim his brother, and has two return tickets.
"Sir, they found my brother!"
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA; details matter, but
there's no reason to get mad about it.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Boot Camp
In the Navy we didn't call them DI or TI, they care called
Company Commander, or CC. Then we had someone I think called
an Adjutant, to teach us how to march, etc. and be in charge
when the CC was not there. These were guys who had just
finished Boot Camp and were assigned to help in Boot Camp for
a short time. I was assigned to company 621 and our Adjutant
was a black man who did not yell at us any louder than so
everyone could hear. If someone was doing something wrong he
would come up an tell him you're doing it wrong, here is how
it is done, then would show him how it was supposed to be
done. They were only with the company a couple weeks or so,
then the recruit put in charge would take over. On the second
day we were in some sort of a make believe physical and four
of us made the mistake of answering a question wrong and they
took us out of that company and said we had to see the doctor.
Doctor saw all of us and said nothing wrong here, but because
THEY messed up WE all got to spend another week in Boot Camp.
Then all four of us were put in company 633, which turned out
to be the foul up company. Our CC wasn't too bad, but the
Adjacent was one who liked to yell and was and a first class
jerk. He seemed proud of getting only one demerit in Boot
Camp. If I saw him again I'd like to yell at him, "You are
really stupid aren't you? You got a demerit in Boot Camp, I
didn't get any!!!" I know, just a fantasy, I would never do
that. If I even remembered their names would like to find out
how successful each were while in the Navy, or life for that
matter. I got a feeling I already know the answer to that one.
Our 633 CC said the CC of my old company was called "Brigade
Alexander" because every one of the companies won all the
flags for each one of the areas of training. One day we were
all standing in formation waiting to go into the chow hall and
for some reason things were moving slow that day. Then I saw
my old company 621 march in with all their flags flying. Win
enough and that company doesn't have to wait, they go right
in. I watched them go in, eat, come out, form up and march
off, and we were still waiting. That would of been my company
if only I had answered no instead of yes to a question and got
stuck in the foul up company. It seems that at least half of
the training was actually practice for the graduation day
parade. When graduation day came we had the most beautiful
weather possible--it was pouring rain, only day it rained I
was there, and the parade was canceled. Next day we decided as
a company, since we were last in everything, we were going to
be the first to leave the camp. The bus a lot of us got on,
including myself, the driver had trouble getting the motor
started and we were still the last ones out the gate.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in smokey old Kennewick ~ Flew my flag
for Labor Day in the wind and dust and smoke and it got
so dirty I had to wash it. Flew it again today with the
air full of smoke and when I bring it in an hour from
now I will have to wash it again.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Rex HUNT('53)
So sorry to hear about the passing of your wife. Take care
and stay safe. Bomber hugs
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, Idaho
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
I am so sorry to learn of the passing of your wife. May my
condolences bring you comfort and may my prayers help ease the
pain of your loss. I also send prayers for your health and
hope the smoky conditions improve so you can breathe easier.
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Dorothy KEYS ('52), Rex HUNT ('53)
Carol CARSON ('60), Keith ARNDT ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Leoma COLES ('63), Roy BALLARD ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leon HOWARD ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy CLUGSTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy STANDEFER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul HODSON ('05)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steven ADAIR ('08)
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>>From: Dorothy KEYS Harding ('52)
I lived in a woman's dorm when husband was overseas with the
Navy. It faced Lee Blvd. and was approximately where the old
Payless was. No men permitted but I know there were a few
sneaked in. We couldn't cook in our rooms but a lot of us had
hot plates where we could at least make coffee or heat soup.
-Dorothy KEYS Harding ('52)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Condolences!
I am overwhelmed by all the condolences from Bombers! Most I
do not know. Only Linda REINING ('64) thus far... Oh and
Maren. whom I met at the 2004 reunion.
I find it so unique that total strangers will go out of their
way to offer condolences, support, blessing and a sense that
they care. Here among "friends, co-workers, neighbors", I have
received far fewer responses.
Thank you all for a memory flogger, that Columbia High School
was and is so unique and special!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: North Richland
When we first moved to Richland in 1952, we lived in a 27'
trailer at 502G Street, next door to the McDonalds (Paul,
Chuck, Dorothy and Doris) on one side and the Thompsons
(Erleen and Earl) on the other.
When I was in John Ball grade school, I too sold newspapers on
the steps of the Post Office. Every evening I would take all
the change home and count out how much I needed to pay for the
papers I had sold and the rest was mine. My Mom took a coffee
can, cut a slit in the lid and emptied out all of the coffee
grounds. That became my Piggy Bank, one that I couldn't sneak
money out of.
When we got ready to go to California on vacation, Mom used
the can opener and I got to see how much I had saved. I don't
remember how much it was but I spent almost all of it on post
cards I bought along the way. I still have the album that I
mounted all those post cards in. I keep it in my cedar chest
along with my annuals from high school and other treasured
memories.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ from (cough, cough) smoky
Lynnwood, WA
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Military Training
I'll add my comments to memorable military moments. While
attending Navy OCS we were billeted in a new barracks/dorm
with spartan two-man rooms. My roommate and I had heard the
rumors about how difficult the first room inspection was as
well as receiving tips on how to prepare, i.e, after waxing
the "deck" take a blade and cut around each square tile, dust
the light bulbs.. Our Company Chief Petty Officer was a salty
ol' Boatswain Mate (in charge of anchors, mooring lines,
painting, etc.). He even had tattoos on his ear lobes. We all
had a love/hate relationship with him. On inspection day we
were confident he would find no flaws. The Chief walked into
our room as we stood at attention with great anxiety. He
immediately walked over to a desk lamp, unplugged it from the
wall, took a finger and ran it between the prongs, shook his
head and said "attention to detail, gents" and walked out,
never inspecting anything else. We failed the inspection but
learned a valuable lesson that I used throughout my career, as
well as ensuring that Chiefs are treated with respect that
they've earned.
-Keith ARNDT ('60), Captain, USN, Retired
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Walt MORGAN ('60):if you are out there somewhere, contact me.
509-375-4797. You must have changed your E-mail address.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
My husband, Lance ('60) (MSCM SS USN Ret.) was a Company
Commander in Orland for three years, 1974 thru 1977. He pushed
six companies and two made top honors at graduation. We used
to hear from some of the recruits even after they went on to
their careers. Orlando was a great duty station and the kids
and I loved all of the attractions that were coming into the
area. He made Chief (E-7) just before we left for Hawaii and
the Teddy Roosevelt (SSBN 600).
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in socked-in, unhealthy air
quality Richland covered in a thick blanket of smoke
from the fires surrounding our area
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
So sad today as my 18 year old granddaughter and I fly home to
Oregon. We had planned a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate her
birthday. When we left Lincoln City. Oregon last Tuesday there
were fires East of our town. We had to drive North to
Tillamook to get to Portland airport!
Flying over northern Oregon and California it was horrible to
see all the fires and smoke in the sky. The power was out in
our town when we left, and didn't come back on for over 24
hours. On Thursday the fire was headed towards town and all of
the city was evacuated! My daughter and family and cat had to
stay in Coos bay because everywhere else was full. Medford was
also evacuated and those people also headed to the coast.
Power went back out the next day and the town is still on
level 3. They hope to go home tomorrow. All our food will be
lost, but hopefully the house will still be there. Many of our
friends that live East of town have lost homes and all their
belongings. Never have experienced such a tragedy like this
before. So sad! This on top of Covid19! My granddaughter
missed her final months as a senior and now all this tragedy!
Hope everyone out there is safe and that 2021 is a better year
for all!!
Take care,
-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ Lincoln City, OR
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: FIRES
One wonders if all theses fires are from the head man
above?????
[Yup... He's SICK of all this COVID19/political
stuff... that will end on 11/4/20 -Maren]
-Roy BALLARD ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Beards
I was reading a few years ago about why the Amish, the married
ones anyway, wear beards that do not include a mustache. If
you were in the Army in Europe, or was it mainly England, you
were expected to have a mustache. The Amish, being pacifist,
wanted to distance themselves from the military so they wore
beards without the mustache. WWI and the use of chemical
warfare caused the mustache tradition to go away so the gas
masks would seal around the face. Also, I had always thought
shatterproof glass was first used in cars, but now I find the
first use of it was the lenses of gas masks. Gas masks in
combat could get some rough treatment, and if a lens is
broken, the gas mask is useless.
Re: Boot Camp Story
We may have been the foul up company, but we did one thing
that lasted for many years, in fact, it still may be going on.
We had one guy who looked to me a lot like Bill Cosby. I never
said anything, but then someone else said it, so others must
have seen the resemblance. You could say this guy was like the
"class clown" and I don't mean he was a dummy; in fact you
have to be pretty smart to think up all the funny things he
did. One day during some down time he and a group of guys not
too far from me were making up a song. It was a parity of "The
Twelve Gifts of Christmas." I know, it has been done 700,000
times before, but they were applying it to Boot Camp. What I
remember of it is:
On the fifth day of training my CC gave to me;
five de-mer-its.
Four white hats,
Three skive shirts,
Two something-or-ever
And a hair cut that wasn't worth s**t.
In 1992 I worked briefly with someone who was recently out of
the Navy and I told him about it. He said it was still out
there, it had some different words, but still out there.
The barracks we were in were two story with rooms on each end
for four companies and a hallway connecting them with other
offices and small rooms on each side of the hallway. In the
rooms where our bunks were steel pipes a part of the
structure. There were vertical pipes running from the ground
to probably the peak of the roof and just two or three feet
from the ceiling horizontal pipes welded to them. One evening
our "company comedian" climbed up there and was laying on his
back on the horizontal pipe with his legs wrapped around the
vertical pipe to hold him on. He had a tablet out and was
writing a letter. Then a Chief Petty Officer walks in and
someone calls "Attention on deck!" Everyone is standing at
attention, but it took this guy a little time to climb down
and come to attention. The Chief walks over to him and asks,
"Were you comfortable up there?" . . ."Yes sir." . . . Chief
turns around, walks through the door into the hall, and as he
is walking through the hallway is saying rather loudly, "I
don't believe it!!! I don't believe it!!!"
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Phone Scams
Yesterday, I received a robo-call from "Amazon" telling me
that my account had been charged for over $100 that morning.
If that was not a purchase I had made, I should call this
number. Well, I knew the whole thing was hooey - but for
entertainment, I called the number. A fellow with a very
heavy foreign accent answered. I said, "I know this is a
scam, but..." and he started yelling in broken English,
"If you think this scam, why you call me? Why you call ME
if you think this scam?" I was laughing hard as I hung up
on him!
I'm enjoying reading the stories people are recounting of
their childhood experiences in the early Manhattan days of
Richland. Thanks for sharing.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/14/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
5 Bombers sent stuff:
Richard ROBERTS ('49), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donna NELSON ('63), Anita FRAVALA ('73)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma MYRICK ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue BRIDGES ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila RAMERMAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki OWENS ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Treva MILLER ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melissa HOLMES ('92)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Rob DAVIS & Toby WHEELER ('66)
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Re: Hanford Dormitories and Trailer Park
Hanford Dormitories: My mom and dad lived in the dorms in
Hanford, I lived with my grandma in Boise, ID. In the summer
of 1944, they sent for me by train and I lived with my dad in
his dorm room. His roommate worked the night shift so I slept
in his bed at night. It was a glorious experience, eating
with all of those construction workers in that huge cafeteria,
family style; playing ping pong, going to movies and drinking
chocolate malts in the downtown Hanford area and fascinated
watching a huge ring of men, in overalls and fedoras,
underneath a central street light, shooting craps in the
middle of the street with dollar bills fluttering in their
hands. I even watched the Kay Kaiser band perform in the
huge downtown auditorium; including the comedic antics of
Ish Kabibble.
Hanford Trailer Park: Touted to be the largest trailer park in
the world ever. With my parents, I lived in a homemade shackle
of a very small trailer with a bed, couch where I slept and a
pot bellied stove that was either too hot or too cold. In the
winter, I played and read in the across-the-street utility
building, toilets, showers, laundry, etc., where it was warm.
I attended the eighth grade in the old Hanford High School.
Became a patrolman with the school patrol, safety belt
across my chest, tin badge and a stop sign for traffic
control. During that time, families were rapidly moving from
Hanford to permanent houses in Richland and I quickly rose
from Patrolman to the highest rank of Captain which lasted a
couple of weeks and then, I too, with mom and dad, off to
Richland where I finished eighth grade at Lewis & Clark.
GREAT MEMORIES!
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Hey! Let's get together and wish Norma MYRICK ('54) a "Happy
Birthday!" Just keep on having them, and everything will be
hunky dory in the Tri-Cities.
Also, belated, a remembrance of Dave Koeppen ('54-R.I.P.) on
this anniversary of his birth (9/13).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
weather guessers are promising the fog/smoke to lift
and there may be rain.
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Air quality was 489 Saturday night. I'm Wenatchee and 500 is
top number on the air quality chart. A few neighbors and I had
a garage sale but quit at 1. Smoke got worse although we were
wearing masks for Covid. I'm very thankful to have a roof over
my head after watching the news and all the devastation in
Washington, Oregon, and California.
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: COVID 19/Politics ending on 11/4/2020
Maren, thank goodness the political crap will end on 11/4/2020
(I wish the United States was like the European & Canadian
countries where they can only campaign for 6 or 8 weeks);
however, COVID-19 will NOT end on 11/4/2020 (FAKE NEWS). Dr.
Fauci, Director of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, as well as
the Centers for Disease Control, are now advising that eating
out at indoor restaurants is the number one place to get the
virus and with winter coming this is very concerning. Benton &
Franklin Counties are still in Phase 1.5 although our numbers
are slowly coming down only because Governor Inslee has
mandated that all businesses require masks be worn by staff
and customers. I never leave my house without a mask and have
only shopped at Costco during the senior hours (9:00 - 10:00)
and have barely gone into Yoke's for groceries. Our daughter
is an at-risk person and if we ever want to see her we have to
be very careful so we don't socialize with anyone. My father-
in-law and his wife are in an assisted living home on the west
side and they got the virus. Fortunately they survived.
However, we aren't allowed to see them due to quarantine. So
for those of you who say it will just go away on 11/4/2020
because it's FAKE NEWS and there is no virus, I've seen it
first hand and the families of the 197,000 who have died have,
too.
Bomber apologies, Anita! I was not NOT
suggesting there is no virus. It's the
HYPE that will end on 11/4. -Maren]
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: "Bullies can wear all sorts of rank insignia or office."
I sure have to agree with you there. It always amazed me how
some people, not many though, let it go to their head when
they get promoted to E-4 then try to throw their weight
around. Well, in The Navy you get to wear a chevron with an
eagle sitting on it, commonly called a "crow," and people
would say "that crow is weighing heavy on their sleeve."
Fortunately that only lasted a couple of weeks for most. I
looked it as, not counting warrant officers, you have nine
enlisted pay grades, and nine officer pay grades. What is
there to be arrogant about being on the fourth rung of an
eighteen rung ladder? That is so far down on the totem pole
you still have to look up to see topsoil.
I have worked for some great people, and some real jerks, and
a lot in between but the two absolutely worst were one in
the Navy and one in civilian life. These two were universally
hated by everybody. (I know, I repeat myself but it deserves
repeating). Lt. S____ was the communications depart head which
was radio and signalmen. I had only been aboard ship 3 1/2
months, the first two as mess cook, so less than 2 mos
actually working in radio. It must have been during morning
quarters, I knew where the Captain and the department heads
met, actually just one ladder down from where radio met. I was
given a message to deliver to one of those officers, the
Captain maybe? Anyway, I did that and our Lt. S____ started
yelling at me, "Go back and find out what you did wrong."
I am going back thinking, I was handed a clipboard by someone
who had more power on his sleeve than I do, and told to do
something, I did it, and I can't imagine anything I could have
possibly done wrong. I told the guy who sent me, probably a
RM second class and he talked to an officer saying he didn't
see any problem. The officer said that we were not going to
Vietnam so it was not a priority. We were getting underway in
a few hours for Korea to join TF 71 when the North shot down
that radar plane. Later in the shipyards each division got
their spaces ready for paint and a crew managed by the ship's
Bo's'in would come in at night and spray paint it. Somehow,
S____ made the Bo's'in mad and he refused to paint any of the
communications spaces. Did you see Lt. S____ with a paint
brush in his hand? No, those of us wearing dungarees had pay
the price and hand paint those compartments. When the long
lists of "Officers Orders" came in, we knew he was up for
promotion. His name was not on it meaning he had been passed
over. First class radioman looked through it and said, "Let's
get it to him right away, if he had been promoted we might
sit on it for awhile." In 1998 the ship's association had a
reunion in Seattle. I was talking to the Captain of the
Marine detachment we had on board and said I was in radio or
something and he said, "You mean you worked for S____?" I
said yes. "Boy, I feel sorry for you!!! I'm the one who gave
him that fat lip." I had a vague memory that something had
happened but never knew what. He said he was on the pier
and S____ said something to him. Someone with him, probably
another Marine, said, "Are you going to let him get away with
that?" So he punched him out. He said the OOD was going crazy
running back and forth on the quarterdeck yelling, "There's
officers fighting on the pier! There's officers fighting
on the pier!" Capt N___, the ship's captain had them both
confined to quarters for a few days, then called them in and
asked each it they wanted to press charges. Both said "No,
sir." I don't know if both got chewed out, but the Marine did.
Captain said if he ever had one problem more coming out of
that Marine detachment the next time in port he would but that
whole detachment on the beach and leave them. He thought there
goes my reviews and any further chance of promotion, but he
never heard a word. He says, "Captain N___ must have known
that S____ was a . . . (I can't remember what he said here,
but even if I could Maren couldn't publish it).
You have probably have heard the saying "Be nice to people on
the way up because you will meet them again on the way back
down." I never thought I would actually see that happen, but I
was even part of it. This guy was in charge of a small group
in one location, then another location, then another out of
town, leaving me in charge. I did not want the job, but I was
the only one at the time even remotely qualified. The guy had
to quit his job in that third location for reasons I don't
fully know but not related to his job there. Then the manager
of the job in the first location got fired. So this guy
applies to go back to his original position. The second in
charge there and the one who had the number two position in
my location also applied. Thing is, people who were low level
at that location when he was there were now higher positions
and they voiced their opinions, one lady was the personnel
person and she said if he got hired she was moving over to
the second location. The man from regional was going to do
the interview and asked me my opinion and I didn't want to
say, but he talked me into it and I told him the truth. Well
he didn't get hired; the one they did hire had also worked for
him, but had to quit to be caregiver for his father. So then
he contacted both of us to come back as just a worker, and
neither one of us would hire him. I wouldn't hire him because
first off everyone would hate me for bringing him back, and
knowing him, he would be out to replace me. They said at
location one he got to be in charge by back-stabbing his way
up the ladder of success. I didn't care for being in charge,
but what I really I didn't want was to work for this guy
again.
On leadership, or lack of it. "that's all I got to say about
that." -Forrest Gump
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in smokey old Kennewick, so dark at
one time my car headlights came on in the daytime.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/15/20
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Roy BALLARD ('63) and Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill GOODENOW Terry ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich DALL ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy VANDENBERG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peter TURPING ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie HOFF ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phil OWEN ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Time to say "Happy Birthday!" to Bill and Forest (R.I.P.)
GOODENOW Terry (both '54). Hope things are going reasonably
well.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Moron Leadership (skip this entry if not interested!)
Yo, Dennis (HAMMER, '64), ever do a word count? Man, you're
even worse than I am. But, here goes... Three tales of woe
plus a short one of great rejoicing...
FIRST, regarding leaving a crew member on the pier, what
happens when two sailors are still saying final goodbyes to
their wives and families on the San Diego pier (20 feet above
the water) when their carrier is now beginning to be tugged
away from the pier? Thirty feet out from the pier, now
forty... The enlisted man, in his dress-white uniform, takes a
running jump and drops into the drink, and the ship is obliged
to stop and drop the lifeboat to fish him outa the murky
depths. Didn't actually miss ship's movement, technically, so
no Captain's Mast or even Court's Martial (in a time of war).
SECOND, the other sailor was an officer, ensign "X," hatched
from OCS only a month after I was... in his dress-whites he
fails to follow the quick-thinking enlisted man's (!) lead. As
frozen as a snow-covered stump in winter. Ends up hitching a
ride the next day with the air wing when the planes are flown
out to the ship, now well enroute to paradisiacal Hawaii.
So, the need from leadership for a creative punishment that
both keeps the team together, but also communicates to all
aboard that our Napoleonic captain (small stature, bit
presence) has a tight grip on things. (Bob was from the Combat
Information Center, CIC.) So as we cruise into Pearl Harbor on
a more-than-glorious autumn morning, Bob receives his orders
to now compose a 5,000-word essay on why missing ship's
movement is not a good idea. Handwritten, no scratch-outs. Due
the day we depart Pearl for Japan. An exciting five days
confined to the junior officer bunkroom hearing from others
about the pineapple fields and waterfalls.
THIRD, another junior office (Communications Department, and a
great guitar player!) stumbles back to the ship drunk in the
early morning hours, and right in front of the Quarterdeck
loses his evening's enjoyments over the side. A few enlisted
onlookers are on the mid-watch team, and "word" passes among
the entire enlisted crew "faster than crap through a goose"
(as George C. Scott said in the 1970 movie, Patton). But,
it doesn't take long before a routine fleetwide notice
arrives-this time asking if there are any junior officers
"self-nominated" to be assigned to another most undesirable
post. The new "word" is that Lt(jg) "X" is reassigned as the
new communications officer at a remote station somewhere in
Iceland. His only options were to go either for twelve months
alone, or eighteen months with his wife.
THIRD, as for the Personnel Officer (mentioned in an earlier
word pile; a W-4 "warrant officer," actually the highest
enlisted rank)-his goal for his last assignment before
retirement was to be as far from brass as possible. His pick,
a small station in the Aleutian Island chain, Adak, Alaska. A
happy camper, he got his request.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA (529 words!)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63) and Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
Re: Fires - 9/11 Sandstorm Roy said: "One wonders if all
theses fires are from the head man above?????"
Maren, I was not talking about the Pres. on what I said about
the fires, I was talking about the LORD...
-Roy
Maren: Roy was making a religious possibility and not a
political one.
-Nancy
[Yes, I knew that "The Head Man Above" wasn't
the prez... and I still think that perhaps He's
Note the upper cased "He" -- is NOT the pres...
SICK of all this COVID19/political stuff... that
will end on 11/4/20. -Maren]
-Roy BALLARD ('63) and Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: "Bullies can wear all sorts of rank insignia or office."
I sure have to agree with you there. It always amazed me how
some people, not many though, let it go to their head when
they get promoted to E-4 then try to throw their weight
around. Well, in The Navy you get to wear a chevron with an
eagle sitting on it, commonly called a "crow," and people
would say "that crow is weighing heavy on their sleeve."
Fortunately that only lasted a couple of weeks for most. I
looked at it as, not counting warrant officers, you have nine
enlisted pay grades, and nine officer pay grades. What is
there to be arrogant about being on the fourth rung of an
eighteen rung ladder? That is so far down on the totem pole
you still have to look up to see topsoil.
I have worked for some great people, and some real jerks, and
a lot in between but the two absolutely worst were one in the
Navy and one in civilian life. These two were universally
hated by everybody. (I know, I repeat myself but it deserves
repeating). Lt. S____ was the communications depart head which
was radio and signalmen. I had only been aboard ship 3 1/2
months, the first two as mess cook, so less than 2 months
actually working in radio. It must have been during morning
quarters, I knew where the Captain and the department heads
met, actually just one ladder down from where radio met. I was
given a message to deliver to one of those officers, the
Captain maybe? Anyway, I did that and our Lt. S____ started
yelling at me, "Go back and find out what you did wrong." I
am going back thinking, I was handed a clipboard by someone
who has more power on his sleeve than I do, and told to do
something, I did it, and I can't imagine anything I could have
possibly done wrong. I told the guy who sent me, probably a
RM second class and he talked to an officer saying he didn't
see any problem. The officer said that we were not going to
Vietnam so it was not a priority. We were getting underway in
a few hours for Korea to join TF 71 when the North shot down
that radar plane. Later in the shipyards each division got
their spaces ready for paint and a crew managed by the ship's
Bo's'in would come in at night and spray paint it. Somehow,
S____ made the Bo's'in mad and he refused to paint any of the
communications spaces. Did you see Lt. S____ with a paint
brush in his hand? No, those of us wearing dungarees had to
pay the price and hand paint those compartments. When the long
lists of "Officers Orders" came in, we knew he was up for
promotion. His name was not on it meaning he had been passed
over. First class radioman looked through it and said, "Lets
get it to him right away, if he had been promoted we might
sit on it for awhile." In 1998 the ship's association had a
reunion in Seattle. I was talking to the Captain of the
Marine detachment we had on board and said I was in radio or
something and he said, "You mean you worked for S____?" I
said yes. "Boy, I feel sorry for you!!! I'm the one who gave
him that fat lip." I had a vague memory that something had
happened but never knew what. He said he was on the pier
and S____ said something to him. Someone with him, probably
another Marine, said, "Are you going to let him get away with
that?" So he punched him out. He said the OOD was going crazy
running back and forth on the quarterdeck yelling, "There's
officers fighting on the pier! There's officers fighting
on the pier!" Capt N___, the ship's captain had them both
confined to quarters for a few days, then called them in and
asked each it they wanted to press charges. Both said "No,
sir." I don't know if both got chewed out, but the Marine did.
Captain said if he ever had one problem more coming out of
that Marine detachment the next time in port he would put that
whole detachment on the beach and leave them. He thought there
goes my reviews and any further chance of promotion, but he
never heard a word. He says, "Captain N___ must have known
that S____ was a ... (I can't remember what he said here,
but even if I could Maren couldn't publish it).
You have probably have heard the saying "Be nice to people on
the way up because you will meet them again on the way back
down." I never thought I would actually see that happen, but I
was even part of it. This guy was in charge of a small group
in one location, then another location, then another out of
town, leaving me in charge. I did not want the job, but I was
the only one at the time even remotely qualified. The guy had
to quit his job in that third location for reasons I don't
fully know but not related to his job there. Then the manager
of the job in the first location got fired. So this guy
applies to go back to his original position. The second in
charge there and the one that had the number two position in
my location also applied. Thing is, people who were low level
at that location when he was there were now higher positions
and they voiced their opinions, one lady was the personnel
person and she said if he got hired she was moving over to the
second location. The man from regional was going to do the
interview and asked me my opinion and I didn't want to say,
but he talked me into it and I told him the truth. Well he
didn't get hired; the one they did hire had also worked for
him, but had to quit to be caregiver for his father. So then
he contacted both of us to come back as just a worker, and
neither one of us would hire him. I wouldn't hire him because
first off everyone would hate me for bringing him back, and
knowing him, he would be out to replace me. They said at
location one he got to be in charge by back-stabbing his way
up the ladder of success. I didn't care for being in charge,
but what I really I didn't want was to work for this guy
again.
On leadership, or lack of it. "that's all I got to say about
that." -Forrest Gump
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in smokey old Kennewick, so dark at
one time my car headlights came on in the daytime.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/16/20
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mac QUINLAN ('62), Donna NELSON ('63)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzie GUNDERSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen KLEINPETER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian HERTZ ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy MOORE ('80)
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>>From: Mac QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Short Sea Story
There is a traditional beginning to every sea story. Being the
Sandstorm, I can't begin my story that way, so...
Three years of my enlistment was spent in the Caribbean,
nothing north of Savanna Georgia. Nice duty, but HOT.
Like Dennis, we also had a Lt. S____ with an ego problem. His
real name was Lt. Parker but the enlisted guys always referred
to him as Lt. S. The "S" was for Sycophant.
One night an incident occurred at sea and after getting all
his facts wrong Lt S. ____ tore into our Chief... Big time.
Not a good thing to do when the Chief is well respected.
Shortly after this happened, there was a period of time where
the steam heat came on late each night in Lt. S____'s stateroom.
Despite all the yelling and threats, it was three days before
anyone could figure out what was causing the heat to come on
each night and were finally able to fix the problem?
He was transferred a few months later. Small ship, exceptional
Captain and a tight bunch of guys (Officers & Enlisted) all
worked well together. A great three year period in my life.
You can't stop someone from doing something, but you can sure
make them wish they hadn't done it.
-Mac QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Maren
You Silly Girl!! You make me laugh! You really believe "all
the political stuff" will be over 11/4?
Stay Safe
[The HYPE. YES! You watch. -Maren]
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
I'm somewhat fascinated by the sea stories we've had in the
last few issues. Here are a couple more.
As a Lieutenant in the Coast Guard, I went back to DC for a
War College course. I was Reserve and my roommate was Active
Duty. Over the time there, I was keenly aware that he didn't
have much use for Reservists. One day, he was asking about
what my unit did. There was no active duty command at our unit
in Kennewick at the time. We were responsible for the Aids to
Navigation for a large portion of the Columbia river. (buoys,
ranges, marine casualty investigations, and law
enforcement-boardings mostly).
Somewhere during that conversation, I mentioned that our
Training Officer was a Chief Petty Officer. He was aghast at
the thought. At least until I mentioned that the Chief had a
doctorate in education and was the head of a local school
district.
He also questioned how wise it was that we used our petty
officers as armed boarding teams. It seemed unsafe to hand
a gun to a person who only had one weekend a month to
"practice." Again until I told him that every one of our
armed boarding officers were police officers in their day job.
I didn't bother him with my Masters Degree in Business
Administration.
One other situation (comedy?) is worth mentioning.
I was assigned as a Marine Casualty Investigator at Marine
Safety Office Portland. And I was the senior officer on duty
during my weekends. One weekend, the Active Duty command
informed me that one of the 42' boats had been having some
engine trouble. One of our Reservist engineers told them he
had his tools in his truck and could handle it. They politely
declined, expressing a desire for the professional Cummins man
to do it instead.
So, Monday morning our Reservist engineer showed up in his
Cummins uniform to fix the engine - at a considerably higher
charge out rate.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/17/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Rick MADDY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry BELT ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marvin McDONALD ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dena ANS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha POLK ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jody WHEELER ('73)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I'd better take this time and wish Larry BELT ('57)) a "Happy
Birthday!" or a certain red-headed classmate may do something
untoward.
Try to be safe out there, and don't inhale too deeply.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: "Bullies can wear all sorts of rank insignia or office."
I sure have to agree with you there. It always amazed me how
some people, not many though, let it go to their head when
they get promoted to E-4 then try to throw their weight
around. Well, in The Navy you get to wear a chevron with an
eagle sitting on it, commonly called a "crow," and people
would say "that crow is weighing heavy on their sleeve."
Fortunately that only lasted a couple of weeks for most. I
looked it as, not counting warrant officers, you have nine
enlisted pay grades, and nine officer pay grades. What is
there to be arrogant about being on the fourth rung of an
eighteen rung ladder? That is so far down on the totem pole
you still have to look up to see topsoil.
I have worked for some great people, and some real jerks, and
a lot in between but the two absolutely worst were one in the
Navy and one in civilian life. These two were universally
hated by everybody. (I know, I repeat myself but it deserves
repeating). Lt. S____ was the communications depart head which
was radio and signalmen. I had only been aboard ship 3 1/2
months, the first two as mess cook, so less than 2 months
actually working in radio. It must have been during morning
quarters, I knew where the Captain and the department heads
met, actually just one ladder down from where radio met. I
was given a message to deliver to one of those officers, the
Captain maybe? Anyway, I did that and our Lt. S____ started
yelling at me, "Go back and find out what you did wrong." I
am going back thinking, I was handed a clipboard by someone
that had more power on his sleeve than I do, and told to do
something, I did it, and I can't imagine anything I could have
possibly done wrong. I told the guy who sent me, probably a
RM second class and he talked to an officer saying he didn't
see any problem. The officer said that we were not going to
Vietnam so it was not a priority. We were getting underway in
a few hours for Korea to join TF 71 when the North shot down
that radar plane. Later in the shipyards each division got
their spaces ready for paint and a crew managed by the ship's
Bo's'in would come in at night and spray paint it. Somehow,
S____ made the Bo's'in mad and he refused to paint any of the
communications spaces. Did you see Lt. S____ with a paint
brush in his hand? No, those of us wearing dungarees had to
pay the price and hand paint those compartments. When the long
lists of "Officers Orders" came in, we knew he was up for
promotion. His name was not on it meaning he had been passed
over. First class radioman looked through it and said, "Let's
get it to him right away, if he had been promoted we might
sit on it for awhile." In 1998 the ship's association had a
reunion in Seattle. I was talking to the Captain of the
Marine detachment we had on board and said I was in radio or
something and he said, "You mean you worked for S____?" I said
yes. "Boy, I feel sorry for you!!! I'm the one who gave
him that fat lip." I had a vague memory that something had
happened but never knew what. He said he was on the pier
and S____ said something to him. Someone with him, probably
another Marine, said, "Are you going to let him get away with
that?" So he punched him out. He said the OOD was going crazy
running back and forth on the quarterdeck yelling, "There's
officers fighting on the pier! There's officers fighting
on he pier!" Capt N___, the ship's captain had them both
confined to quarters for a few days, then called them in and
asked each it they wanted to press charges. Both said "No,
sir." I don't know if both got chewed out, but the Marine did.
Captain said if he ever had one problem more coming out of
that Marine detachment the next time in port he would put that
whole detachment on the beach and leave them. He thought there
goes my reviews and any further chance of promotion, but he
never heard a word. He says, "Captain N___ must have known
that S____ was a . . . (I can't remember what he said here,
but even if I could Maren couldn't publish it).
You have probably heard the saying "Be nice to people on
the way up because you will meet them again on the way back
down." I never thought I would actually see that happen, but I
was even part of it. This guy was in charge of a small group
in one location, then another location, then another out of
town, leaving me in charge. I did not want the job, but I was
the only one at the time even remotely qualified. The guy had
to quit his job in that third location for reasons I don't
fully know but not related to his job there. Then the manager
of the job in the first location got fired. So this guy
applies to go back to his original position. The second in
charge there and the one who had the number two position in
my location also applied. Thing is, people who were low level
at that location when he was there were now higher positions
and they voiced their opinions, one lady was the personnel
person and she said if he got hired she was moving over to the
second location. The man from regional was going to do the
interview and asked me my opinion and I didn't want to say,
but he talked me into it and I told him the truth. Well he
didn't get hired; the one they did hire had also worked for
him, but had to quit to be caregiver for his father. So then
he contacted both of us to come back as just a worker, and
neither one of us would hire him. I wouldn't hire him because
first off everyone would hate me for bringing him back, and
knowing him, he would be out to replace me. They said at
location one he got to be in charge by back-stabbing his way
up the ladder of success. I didn't care for being in charge,
but what I really I didn't want was to work for this guy
again.
On leadership, or lack of it. "that's all I got to say about
that."--Forrest Gump
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in smokey old Kennewick, so dark at
one time my car headlights came on in the daytime.
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Rank in the Marine Corps
I have no idea why Marines do not respond to rank and what
happens with that rank. I miss David RIVERS (RIP '65). Maybe
it is because I had not been in the Marine Corps long enough
to gather any respect from my fellow Marines for being as
outspoken as I am. (??). And a drunk.
Let me start with boot camp Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San
Diego (MCRDSD).
My drill instructors, Gunnery Sgt. DuVall (Silver Star
recipient - Vietnam War) whom we regarded as a 'god' and he
called us 'girls'. "You Girls will pay!" Sometimes we would be
marching and the Gunny would yell, Pussy Cadence. And we would
in a girlie high pitched tone spill out his commands with 1 2
3 4 1 2 3 4 left right left right as we marched. He was DI
mild other than his love of marching and running us into the
ground with him next to us complaining.
SSgt. Bailey was probably 5'4" at best. His wife was a very
pretty 6' blonde woman. I had just turned 18 six weeks before
the first day of boot. Just about all girls/women were pretty
enough. The day we graduated from boot camp I was put in
charge of saving two seats for DI Bailey and his wife. I stood
at attention for about twenty minutes before the DI and his
wife arrived. I was relieved of duty from the two seats. "Sit,
puke." "Sir, yes Sir!" I was so happy to not have dealt with
other DIs and their wives and dealing with the orders in
consecutive order. SSgt. Bailey called us "pukes" "maggots"
and "slimy turds". He was a delight beyond belief. I could go
on and on about SSgt. Bailey.
SSgt. White called us MF'ers. He was single, in his early 30s
and would come on duty around midnight. Three DIs, eight
hours, three shifts. Twenty-four hours around the clock of
constant harassment and hell.
One o'clock in the morning on the rifle range, Camp Edison,
Camp Pendleton, SSgt White, drunk, of course, yells at us for
a Kool cigarette. Nobody shows up at the front door of the
duty hut. In a drunken rage he comes into our sleeping area
and tears into the barracks. Mattresses, bunks torn apart
looking for a Kool cig. A serious mess. We get up early the
next morning after spending the early hours putting ourselves
back together. And we go for a hump. A run. Before breakfast.
And then quiet.
Several days later, we got back to MCRDSD and SSgt. White asks
for a Kool cigarette at 1:00 am and he has been drinking.
Again. Sixty-nine a*holes and elbows show up in front of the
duty station door (these were Quonset huts on the base in
San Diego) which during his hours to God and Corps his duty
station is known as the "Torture Chamber" as he had ordered
the next time he needed anything. DI White had marched us a
couple days prior to the 'store' and ordered all to purchase a
pack of what we smoked and a pack of Kools. Those that did not
smoke bought one pack of Kools. I am sure this is no longer
in the DI book of proper etiquette and showing dignity and
respect for the recruit you are in charge of.
SSgt. White we hated. Matter of fact we hated them all. Found
them to be sadistic at any time they desired within the 24
hour clock.
Vietnam. No real sleep. In and out. Falling into deep snooze
only to jar heavily out of it. Never sleeping like a baby. Not
for a 0300's. And then you think of SSgt. White and what he
was up to with us. And he had the midnight shift. Little to no
sleep for nine weeks [former boot camp was 12 weeks. Collins
('67) and I had it shortened to 9 weeks because Nam needed
fresh meat]. Live and learn.
If it were not for the language, the physical and mental abuse
of the era and DIs like SSgt. White and their crazy training
process of mental breakdown... I would bore you with what
happens to Marines in combat and those officers and men who
do not fit in. This is a bunch of kids 18-21 with machine guns
and possibly minutes from being dead. Try being a new E4 with
these Marines. SSgt White's message was branded into our
psyche for eternity. He told us before we left the bucket of
S* was only going to get bigger and deeper after him.
My good friend and fellow Marine, I will call Sgt Mac (NAB). I
was in 3rd platoon. Sgt Mac was a squad leader in 2nd platoon.
2nd platoon was coming the other direction when I was wounded.
They actually heard the traps go off on us and then received
confirmation on the radio. A fail. We were trying to trap
Vietcong between two platoons coming in opposing directions.
A common Vietnam War trap. Like since the Greeks.
Sgt. Mac survived the war. His DI at San Diego was R. Lee
Ermy. We asked him one time how DI Ermy was in real life
compared to the Full Metal Jacket movie. Mac said he was a
helluva lot worse. Not sure what that meant other than twelve
days with a DI on a movie set compared to reality at MCRDSD. I
do not need to explain this to any Marine. Trust me.
Mac was awarded a Bronze Star w/device for attacking a Viet
Cong machine gun that had them penned down. Ga Noi Island.
April '68? I had been wounded prior and was long gone. I
asked him why only a Bronze. He said, "Maddy, you know the
Corps. Depends on the body count." Uhhh. Okay.
Mac's father was a WWII Marine Corps fighter pilot and then a
Korean War pilot. When Mac was seven years old his father was
landing an F-86 fighter in Japan (I think it was an F86) when
it just completely went out of control and crashed, killing
Dad. When Mac joined the Marine Corps in 1966 his mother quit
speaking to him.
Mac is still alive and kicking, so, I want to leave you with a
quote I received from Mac years ago... if Maren will publish
it. A very personal quote from Mac to me.
"I guess the biggest thing I am pissed about is
that it took me this long to get this smart and
figure out the scheme of things and how it all
works. That means those draft dodging f*s that
went to Canada were smarter then me and had a
life of care free - 'I don't have to fight for
freedom, let the dumb s**t patriot do it so I
can enjoy that fruit while he stews in his own
juices and re-fights his war time after time
forever and stays on the bottom rung of society
blues.' About now is the time for a Semper
Fidelis or some such s**t that is traditional
in my ratings and ravings, but it all seems
hollow and empty, without any meaning at all."
-"Mac" - Sgt. USMC, 1st Div., Kilo Co.
Third Battalion, FifthMarine Regiment,
2nd Platoon Squad-leader, Vietnam War
1967-1968, Bronze Star recipient venting
on the workings of the American government;
my comrade in arms; my friend
Rick Maddy ('67) ~ Huntington Beach, CA -
My father (1919-1989NAB), a WWII Marine Corps veteran
warned me of when I salute an officer I was saluting
the Marine Corps uniform and where it had been, not
the man wearing it.
Photo: 2Lt Ruggles was my platoon commander and Capt. Fred
Smith was my company commander
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-Rick MADDY ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/18/20
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Spencer HOUCK ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve SHOCKLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl BARBER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed SMYTH ('77_)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
The Big 10 is back!
So glad that I'll get to see my Buckeyes [Ohio State] play
this season. Hopefully Justin Fields will be able to redeem
himself after the loss to Clemson in last year's playoffs.
Now, if the Pac 12 comes back we can have a somewhat more
normal college football schedule and playoffs.
Tonight (9/17) the Bengals (and Joe Borrow) take on the Browns
and I'll actually try to watch an NFL game that doesn't
involve the Seahawks.
I finished 'The Apocalypse Factory' last night. I am still
trying to decide how I feel about it. I learned things I had
never considered before, but there was a lot of glossing over
key elements to the story. I recognized many of the names in
the Richland stories and wonder if I went to school with
relatives of those. Lance's Aunt Margaret Wellman (teacher and
principal at Marcus Whitman) was briefly mentioned in a couple
of instances. I bought the hard cover and sent it to my
brother, Gene ('65), but I read it on my Kindle. I'll be
waiting to learn his viewpoint as he reads everything he can
about this area.
This morning (9/17) the smoke has cleared somewhat and our air
quality has moved from hazardous to very unhealthy. Hopefully
the predicted winds will come tomorrow and blow this nasty
stuff away.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in smoky Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Adak!!! Adak, Alaska?!?!?!?!
Why in the world would anyone, even if he did want to get away
from the brass, want to be stationed on Adak???
I usually worked in the front room where we processed the
messages after they were sent or received, but for a short
time they made me a tape cutter. When a message came in to be
sent out I would type it up making a tape. The tape is a paper
strip with holes punched in it telling the teletype what to
print and/or transmit; think of it as a primitive thumb drive.
After the proof reader signed off on it I would foot peddle my
chair, Art Dawald style, to another teletype behind me that
was hooked up to a circuit connected to Naval Communication
Station Adak, Alaska. Most of our circuits were connected to
Guam or the Philippines and I never had much to send. In the
op-to-op talk with Adak they kept saying stuff like, "please
send more." I got the impression that they were so bored they
were begging for more work. SNAFU, I got stuck on Guam when
they sent me from the states to meet a ship that was never
going there, it took them one week to figure out what to do
with me, and three weeks to get me a flight back to the
states, where I reported aboard one week later than if I had
never left the states in the first place. Four weeks on Guam
is equal to about three months almost anywhere else. I would
still rather be stuck on Guam than Adak.
Re: Ray Stevens - "The Quarantine Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjceaknzHQ
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Linda Gail SPLATTSTOESSER Hunsaker ('66)
January 6, 1948 - September 9, 2020
A funeral service will be held for her at noon on Friday,
September 18, 2020, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints located at 3015 S. Kimball Avenue in Caldwell, ID.
Funeral services are under the direction of Zever Funeral
Chapel in Nampa, ID.
Posted by her daughter, Breanne:
"For those family and friends who are unable
to attend mom's funeral on Friday, September 18,
2020, a Zoom meeting has been set up and here's
the information:
If you don't have internet you can dial the
number on the bottom and listen to the service.
To watch on Zoom all you need is the meeting
ID number. Here is the Zoom link for the funeral.
We'll have it setup with audio and video. I'll
share the link with the ward and encourage all
that can to watch it remotely. There is no
password. Feel free to share it with all that
need it.
Topic: Linda Hunsaker Funeral Service
Time: Sep 18, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time
Join Zoom Meeting zoom link.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82076655347
Meeting ID: 820 7665 5347
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,82076655347# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,82076655347# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location
+1 301 715 8592 US"
Express your thoughts and memories in the
online guest book
May you rest in peace, Linda.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where it is 66°
with unhealthy air quality at 7:30 pm Thursday.
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>>From: Spencer HOUCK ('71)
Re: Time for the Air Force chime in
I was stationed in Great Falls, MT and just made E-4 and was
assigned to be a maintenance dispatcher. This particular
morning it was our visit from the SAC inspector general. I
was excused as I had a major test for promotion that morning.
After the test we were informed that we were to report to our
work location and if we were not needed they would let us go.
I reported and my partner was giving a briefing to some of the
IG people and I was in the back of the room listening. Our Lt.
S. was in charge of the briefing and there was a break in the
speaking and our maintenance Captain asked if there were any
questions. One of the IG people had a question about procedure
and the Lt. could not come up with an answer so I raised my
hand which the Captain saw and asked me to respond which I
informed the group of the correct procedure. After the
briefing the Captain pulled me aside and gave me an atta boy
tap on the shoulder. Our Chief of Maintenance was a Major who
thought it was his idea to down grade our performance reports.
Highest number was 9 for enlisted. He said no one deserves a 9
and would down grade everyone to an 8. The final days of the
visit after all was said and done the maintenance crews were
finishing up and we had the out briefing where we were
informed that the entire maintenance unit received a 67
percent fail rate. Needless to say the Major did not last in
his position after that. He was replaced by a fairly new
Captain and just so happened to be someone from West Richland.
He did not graduate from here his parents just moved here
after he graduated. Within a year I was reassigned to Lajes
Field in the Azores which is 900 miles from Portugal in the
Atlantic Ocean. Finished up my enlistment there.
-Spencer HOUCK ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/19/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
3 Bombers sent stuff:
Rich BAKER ('58)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rafael ALCAZAR ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Douglas CAREY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike LONERGAN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chris BOLKAN ('72)
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
Re: Guam and Adak
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64) and Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Seeing Guam and Adak mentioned in the Sandstorm brings back
memories.
I was stationed in Guam from 1959 into early 1961. I was an
Air Controlman Early Warning attached to VW-1. We flew WV-2
Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft which had 250-mile
search radar, height finding radar and electronic counter-
measure equipment. At that time Guam was under marshal law
which meant no one was allowed into Guam without Naval
permission. So, unlike today where Guam is a tourism mecca,
the largest non military building on Guam while I was there
was a two story Quonset hut that housed the Agana department
store and the only people on the island were U.S. military and
locals. We had a saying, "Guam is good". And indeed, it was.
We had secluded beaches all around the island, a great golf
course and the local population loved military personnel. We
deployed from Guam every 5 to 6 weeks. We flew early warning
coverage for the fleet. So, we would deploy to locations in
close proximity to the fleet including Atsugi Naval Air
Station in Japan, Naha Naval Air Facility in Okinawa, and
Sangley Point and Olongapo in the Philippines.
From Guam, I was transferred to Naval Air Station Barbers
Point, Hawaii. We deployed to Midway Island 18 days out of
every month during which time we flew eight 14-hour early
warning barrier flights north from Midway until we picked up
the Aleutian Islands on radar where we turned and flew back to
Midway. There were 4 aircraft on the barrier 24 hours a day,
365 days a year. Once a year at the top of the barrier we
diverted to Adak so the pilots could practice touch and goes
to become familiar with the airfield in case we had trouble
and were unable to return to Midway. After each pilot had
completed his touch and goes, we landed at Adak for refueling
before returning to Midway. Once, while stretching my legs
while the plane was being refueled, I asked one of the fuel
handlers what he did for entertainment on this god forsaken
island. I said he must drink a lot. He said no, I cannot
because I am not 21. The drinking age on Adak is 21.
-Rich BAKER ('58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Adak attack
Such disdain! You ask "Why in the world would anyone, even if
he did want to get away from the brass, want to be stationed
on Adak???"
Better yet, why would anyone want to leave the camaraderie of
an aircraft carrier and a jumble of 3,000 happy faces and
striped shoulder-boards for liberty-town Adak, today surely
an exciting weekend getaway but now with only one-tenth this
number (by 2010 increasing its head count to 326 from 316 only
ten years earlier)?
But, as for its heyday in years past, Adak's long-deserted
military accommodations nostalgically duplicate those of,
what's that closer-to-home place again, oh yes, the former
Camp Hanford, Washington.
Adak Army Base/Naval Operating Base is now a National Historic
Landmark, every bit as prestigious as our own Columbia Reach
National Monument. Take a look... what's not to like? Pictured in
the closeup are the more luxurious and carefully preserved
officers' quarters. Notice the palm trees.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200919_Adak.jpg
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Arrr! Arrr! Shiver me timbers!
Avast me hearties! Heave to! Ye be lubbers now, but join me
scurvy crew of bilge rats sailin' under the Jolly Roger! We be
bound fer treasure . . . Booty aplenty, Gold Doubloons and
Pieces of Eight ye be bringing back fer ye buxom wench! Many
casks of Grog stowed aboard. Edward Teach . . .Ye knows him
better as Blackbeard . . .anyway, Ned tells me they dug a big
ditch across Isthmus of Panamar . . . no need be goin' 'round
the Horn where we may end up in Davy Jones' locker. Sail
smartly across Panamar into the Caribbean bound fer treasure
in the Triangle of Bermuda . . . but beware . . . keep a sharp
lookout!!! Thar be Dragons!!!
Happy Talk like a Pirate Day, September 19, 2020
Re: Correction to yesterday's post
I said I would heel-power my chair from one teletype to
another "Art Dawald style." I have got to be wrong. While I
remember doing this, it has to be somewhere else. NOT a good
idea to have chairs with casters on them aboard ships.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) (Armchair Swashbuckler) ~ Yo Ho Ho and
a bottle of rum!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/20/20
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber, and
7 Bombers sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55), Marlene LARSEN ('56_)
Rich BAKER ('58), Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FOSS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda FISHER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bruce KILLAND ('71)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Adak and Rich BAKER ('58)
After flying the same 18 day Barber's Point, Hawaii AEW 1961-
1963, my husband Gary (NAB) went to Atomic Weapons school,
then to VP46 Moffett and deployed to Adak. As one of his six
jobs as an officer, he was in charge of making a "Party Hut."
It was made of an abandoned quonset hut, and was built at the
submarine base, with a view of Mt. S**** (Sickin) It was an
entertainment place for the flight crews, and was painted
International orange. It could be seen from 25,000 feet.This
was in 1964. In 1966 he left the Navy to fly for Pan American
Airways, finally back to flying jets.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56_)
Do you [send] the Alumni Sandstorm to a gal who used to go to
John Ball School in North Richland whose name was (or is) Mary
Helen ABLE? ('60wb) She was our next door neighbor years ago
when we lived in North Richland when my father worked at
Hanford.
If you have her e-mail address, please forward it to me
because my sister wanted to contact her.
You can tell her my name was Marlene LARSEN ('56wb) and my
sister's name was Linda LARSEN ('60wb). We lived in 1/2 of the
duplex in North Richland. Our address was 901 "B" Street and
they lived in the second half of our duplex. Tell her that my
sister wants to contact her so please get her e-mail address
if you can.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56_) ~ Modesto, CA
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
To: John BAXTER ('58)
I was remiss yesterday when describing my time in Guam by not
to mentioning my good friend John BAXTER ('58). John and I and
Leroy ARMSTRONG ('58) joined the Navy together in November of
1958. We all went to Boot Camp together in San Diego. After
Boot Camp we lost contact with Leroy, but John and I went on
to Airman Prep School in Norman, Oklahoma and AEW School in
Brunswick, Georgia. After graduating from AEW School both John
and I were assigned to VW-1 in Guam. John was assigned to a
different flight crew than me but occasionally we were both
deployed at the same time. I have great memories of hitting
the beach with John in Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines
most of which would fall into the category of what goes on in
Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines stays in Japan, Okinawa and
the Philippines.
Hope all is going well with you and your family John.
-Rich BAKER ('58)
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>>From: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
Does anybody from the Class of 1962 have contact information
for Michael Wiater?
Many thanks,
-Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Adak, Alaska
Some 20 years or so ago I saw a program on PBS about them
building an airbase on an island in Alaska. The runway was
not concrete or asphalt, but those big steel plates with holes
punched in them that hooked together. A few years later I
watched it again. They did not say, maybe because it was
filmed during WWII, but I got the impression it was Adak.
They were using the airfield to attack those two islands the
Japanese held for awhile. I think I would like to visit Adak,
and more so Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, and the Galapagos
Islands, but I would not like to live on any of them. Heck,
I've said the same about Seattle and Portland; lots of good
places to visit and things to do in each city, I said that
decades before the continues riots.
Re: Pb or Pu ?
Posts on moron management lately led me to remember something
that happened at Hanford. I was working on "jumpers" for the
PUREX building which has a canyon with tanks in it; the tanks
and walls having pipe connections on them called nozzles. Pipe
sections make connections between the nozzles and can be a
little complicated. That way they can change jumpers and
change the way they route stuff between the tanks; I don't
know how that works, I don't need to, all I have to do is
design the jumper. The connectors look like a gear puller so
that when put in place they hook onto the nozzles and are then
tightened. This is all done with a gantry crane operated
remotely. We would have to calculate the weight of every part
of that jumper and the moment arm of the weight to make sure
it was balanced and put a lifting lug, or bail, whatever we
called it at the center of gravity so it would not tip when
the crane picked it up. If it balanced great, but if not we
had to add more weight and calculate how heavy and where to
place it to make it balance. Usually we used a section of pipe
with lead in it for the weight.
I and four or five others worked on this for about a year,
then I left. Six months later the company put me back in that
same building, I think I even had the same drawing board. I
didn't work much on jumpers this time but one of the first
things to happen was the supervisor came over to tell me. "You
can't use lead anymore, it has been decided lead is too toxic.
Never mind the whole thing is going to be contaminated with
plutonium."
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick where most of the smoke
finally moved out so I finally got out to mow the yard.
Front yard is small and I usually have to empty the
grass twice, but this time I emptied the bag 6 times.
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Adak, Alaska
I heard a story a long time ago about a flight of some kind
that put in there for refueling.
One of the air crew happened to ask one of the ground crew
what time it was.
The answer was, "April."
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Ok, I think every veteran has a story about something they
experienced while in uniform, and usually pretty funny stuff.
I agree totally with everyone who has said "bullies come in
all ranks"!!! I might as well throw my "in your face"
experience.
We had an officer who was prior enlisted, he was a pompous
ass, and of equal rank. The Battalion wives hated this guy,
primarily because he was 32, and his blushing bride was 16.
Ah, yeah, I'll just say odd. Most of the fellow officers
disliked him, ok despised him. Not because of his wife, but
because was so pompous.
After several years of dealing with him as an equal, he was
promoted to Captain (O-3). He would enter a room and was Jack
Webb "The DI", on your feet when a superior officer enters the
room!!! Not "senior officer" but superior!!! Go figure. Two
weeks go by and I'm promoted to Captain. Enter Bob Morgan,
ranting on your feet a superior officer has entered the room.
Some of you know me personally, I'm probably not a good role
model as I'm so flippant. I was in my "greens" trousers and a
t shirt. "Bob, you need to lighten up, chill dude!" He went
apoplectic, I thought he was going to stroke out. "I'll have
you courts martial for insubordination!!" I picked up my
blouse (shirt in Marine lingo) with my new bars on the collar.
His eyes bulged out of his head trying to comprehend I was
again his equal in rank. My parting comment was "You're right
Bob, a superior officer has entered the room!" Pompous ass.
Respect the rank, not necessarily the man.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in cool Princeton, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/21/20
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), John BRUNTLETT ('54)
Mike CLOWES ('54), Marlene LARSEN ('56_)
Rich BAKER ('58), Jack GARDINER ('61)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66), Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann CLATWORTHY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Treasure ELDER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ned BARKER ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike WAGGONER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dean HEILING ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob McCOULLOGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy GEIER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen ROW ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stephen FORTE ('66)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Adak et al
Dennis HAMMER ('64) commented about a film describing building
a runway on an Aleutian island in WW II. That was likely Umnak
Island. I went ashore there in 1973 or so when I was CO of
USCGC CONFIDENCE. The remains of the Army Air Corps base were
interesting... quonset huts dug into embankments, etc, and the
remains of a runway made of metal mesh, abandoned equipment
all over the place. B-17s flew out of there in the war.. An
interesting book "The Thousand Mile War" has info about the
construction and operation of the air base. It was constructed
as an initiative by Major General Simon Buckner who commanded
our forces in the Alaska area. He built the base on his own
initiative, to be able to reach Japanese territory on bombing
missions. Buckner was killed in battle later on in the South
Pacific.
As for Adak, I took my ship in there a few times... pretty
bleak place! A Navy ASW air squadron (I guess) operated there,
keeping watch on Russian activities. They flew P-3s, I think.
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ Richland where the skies are blue and not
smoky! Hoorah!
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>>From: John BRUNTLETT ('54)
Re: Babb Wildfire
Last month celebrating my birthday we were in Pine City, WA
Our younger daughter, Heather, and her husband Scott, had
purchased a weekend home in his father's hometown. As I was
going through his father's yearbooks from Eastern Washington
College of Education I noticed a math teacher from my days at
Carmichael, Roland Jantz. I remember I was in both his algebra
and trigonometry classes. Scott had collected many documents
and pictures related to the house. They were evacuated on
labor day and all was lost as the winds blew flames through in
the Biggs Road Fire. Their barn and garages were saved by the
fire department, but the house was a total loss. They had
insurance, but many in the city of Malden and the community of
Pine City did not. As I understand it, the stone church that
adjoins their property, where our granddaughter was married,
will also be rebuilt with funds supplied from several
foundations. Many thanks go to the volunteer fire fighters
from Whitman County.
-John BRUNTLETT ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Here's a "Happy Birthday!" shout to a pair of classmates Ann
CLATWORTHY and Treasure ELDER (both '54). Hope you have a good
one. Especially if Ann keeps the training wheels on her bike.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56_)
Re: Found John Ball School photos
Hi Maren:
See the attached picture of a huge Quonset Hut room taken at
John Ball School. A friend of mine (and me, too) do not
remember any of the Quonset Hut rooms being this large.
Could you tell me where this room was located and what it was
used for? Thanks.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lar/200921_Big_Quonset_Hut.jpg
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56_)
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
A final note on Guam. I turned 21 on Guam and had my first
"legal" drink at Bob's Whispering Palms Bar in Agana. Prior
to that time when we would drink at the Whispering Palms, the
bartender would keep glasses of coke under his side of the
bar. If he noticed the Shore Patrol pulling into the parking
lot, he would exchange our drinks with a coke. When they left,
he reversed the drinks. As I think of this today, I am
quite sure the Shore Patrol were well aware of the exchange
practice. The other day I Googled Bob's Whispering Palms and
it is still in operation. I sent them an email and included a
picture of a Bob's Whispering Palms match book cover I still
have. I got a nice email back thanking me for sharing the
memories. Agana is no longer Agana. The name was changed to
Hagatna in 1998.
It is amazing how modes of communication have changed over
the years. On Guam, I had two methods of communicating with my
wife who was in Wichita, Kansas at the time (I was an E-4 and
you had to be an E-5 to bring your wife to Guam). One was
writing letters. The second was once every couple of weeks I
could stand in line outside the amateur radio HAM Shack and
wait until it was my turn to be connected with my wife and
talk to her for two minutes while the HAM operator and the
guys in line behind me listened to our conversation.
-Rich BAKER ('58)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Yippee... I can stand in my front yard again, no smoke from
the horrible fires.
Doing OK when it comes to Covid 19... you have to listen to
what the scientist tell us to do. I don't really miss eating
in restaurants, I can't remember ever going to a restaurant
for dinner growing up. Going out to dinner was in a family
friend's back yard. Once in awhile lime phosphate at the Green
Hut in Densow's, or a tator dog at Sanders Field. I do miss my
sports though, I was in 3 bowling leagues that got cancelled
in March. Softball was about to start up again I started
playing organized baseball or softball in 1952. In past 68
years this only the 3rd year I haven't played some kind of
organized ball... what a bummer!!
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Adak, and moron leadership
For: Dennis HAMMER ('62)
Comparing Seattle to the Galapagos, one could say that the
former Emerald City is either evolving or mutating, probably
the latter. The mayor and a city councilwoman (a card carrying
Socialist), both, are now subject to court-approved recall
petitions and likely future ballot outcomes, up or down. As
for the city streets, at last count some 65 businesses in the
CBD have closed down for good, and compounded by COVID, a full
90% of the 47 million square feet of office space are now
dormant. Amazon, for one, is moving some of its tens of
thousands of recently-located Seattle employees out of the
city.
To: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Below is a view of Great Sitkin, elevation 5,710 feet, as seen
from Adak, AK. Like the morphing city of Seattle, it also has
a crater.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200921_Great_Sitkin.jpg
To: Brad WEAR ('71)
As for "bullies come from all ranks," we might as well take a
look at history... Machiavelli comes to mind: "It is more
necessary for all princes, except the Turk and the Sultan, to
satisfy the people than the soldiers, for the people can do
more than the soldiers" (think the recent pandemonium on
Seattle streets, at least when enabled by a leadership
vacuum). Or this: "it is much safer to be feared than loved."
Or, most famously: "in the actions of men, and especially of
princes, from which there is no appeal, the end justifies the
means." That must be why in boot camp so many "ends" get
kicked.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, downwind of Seattle
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>>From:Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Pete's Adak photo
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200919_Adak.jpg
I can't see the palm trees - but I see Rattlesnake Mountain -
tee! hee!
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Something about the reference to a "pompous ass" reminded me
of the Coast Guard Correspondence Manual. There was a chapter
dedicated to good writing (active voice, avoiding cliches and
the like). An addendum to that chapter had a long list of
terms to avoid and the terms they suggested for better
writing.
It had things like instead of "in accordance with" use "per."
My favorite was instead of "fatuous numbskull" use "jerk."
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: basic training
All this talk about the military got me thinking. I was doing
basic training at Ft. McClellan, Alabama in early 1974. I had
sprained my foot during a physical training class and was
close to graduating. It was decided I should see someone for
perhaps some physical therapy so I could graduate on time. I
had a daily appointment at the base hospital every day for
about a week to strengthen the muscles in my legs. I usually
took a military taxi as it was on the other side of the base
from my barracks. One day while standing outside waiting for
my ride back to the barracks a car passed by waving flags
saying an officer was inside. Being the thing to do I saluted
it like we had been taught. All of a sudden it started backing
up and a window was rolled down. Seems the Inspector General
was on post for some sort of inspection and he asked if I
needed a ride. I tried to turn him down but he insisted the
driver take him to where he was headed and then take me back
to my barracks. Well, word got out that Avant had a ride
with the IG and it spread like wildfire. Of course my Drill
Sergeant got word of it and I had to explain myself as we
weren't supposed to accept rides with anyone. Thankfully I
didn't get into trouble but sure could have.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland where the smoke is gone for now
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 1 Bomber and
4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Keith ARNDT ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Linda REINING ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charlotte NUGENT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy COPPINGER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toni SHEPARD ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: JoAnne BUCHOLZ ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Christy SPENCER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brad ANDERSON ('93)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Amanda SCHMOKER ('03)
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Large Quonset Hut
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lar/200921_Big_Quonset_Hut.jpg
The big Quonset hut may have been the cafeteria/auditorium. I
recall "performing" a Christmas duet in sax and trumpet with
Don SMITH ('60-RIP) there.
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Palm Tree on Adak
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200919_Adak.jpg
Thank you kindly; you're not the only one who pushed back
about my "palm tree" comment re: Adak. Simply a bit of satire
on my part, or at least an unforgivable insider Navy joke -
comparing barren Adak to the luxurious and palm-treed Pearl
Harbor Navy Base.
But as for your added comment about Rattlesnake Mountain. . .
this triggers a remotely-related story.-
Back in our high school days it was reported that the long
Rattlesnake Ridge (and 3,600 feet elevation) is the largest
"mountain" in the continental United States without a tree on
it. The story broke when there were proposals to plant apple
orchards on the west slope, then reputed to be the best unused
apple climate anywhere in terms of sun, precipitation and
elevation. Not sure about the status of treeless Rattlesnake,
but it adds to our local lore.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Rich BAKER('58)
Re: HAM radio
When my first husband, Dale GRAY ('58wb-RIP) was in Viet Nam,
'67-'68, he got to call, once - thanks to a HAM operator...
we talked for no more than two minutes and I had to keep
remembering to say, "over" when I was through talking... was
a little embarrassing realizing that everyone else could
hear our conversation.
Have enjoyed all the stories about boot camp and other
Military experiences... keep them coming.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ skies have cleared in Kuna, Idaho...
we got lots of smoke from the fires in Utah and Idaho...
nothing like WA, OR and CA, but enough to make breathing
uncomfortable.
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Ramasun Antenna
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cad/200922_Ramasun.jpg
Here's a shot of the antenna I mentioned. There are some
vehicles in the shot for scale. Three hundred yards is
probably accurate give or take a bit.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
I worked at PUREX from '83 to '86 in the laboratory and had a
great time there. Fabricating jumpers takes a certain skill
to pull it off. Indeed they require very close tolerances. I
don't have any pics of the jumpers but i do have a picture of
the different connectors. I believe steam was used to transfer
solution from one tank or cell to another. Just like the steam
locomotives from years past.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200922_1-connectors.jpg
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200922_2-what.jpg
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200922_3-Canyon_View.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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a Memorial jpeg today, and
3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George ZIELINSKI ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Loren HOLLOWAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen STRAND ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert POSENAUER ('73)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, it is the first full day of Autumn, and we haven't heard
from Storm Omega, yet.
Beside the point. That being to wish a "Happy Birthday!" to
someone I've only met through these pages: Jimbeaux ('63).
Have a good one with the forever young and beautiful.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the leaves have definitely started changing color and
falling from their respective trees
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Re: Carrier Navy Pilots
A few months ago I received the attached one-minute video of
a carrier landing, from a well-connected bunk-room junior
officer of 50 + years ago. Fun to watch, but word from the
very top is that the pilot was not totally up to snuff since
he stayed in the groove too long before the actual landing.
Too far above my head or pay grade for me to comment. I am
encouraged by a few Sandstorm readers to submit the video to
the wider Sandstorm readership.
AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/Carrier landing F_A-18F.mp4
My only experience with a carrier landing was not with a jet,
but only a lowly propeller plane. For cross-training I was
simply a passenger to Cam Ranh Bay Army/Air Force Base (200
miles northeast of Saigon) to pick up the mail, and then had
the second thrill (after a catapult launch) of a carrier
landing at dusk.
In the video, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (only coincidentally
the name of carrier I served on) is a post-Vietnam War, one-
or-two seat fighter/bomber, costs $66 million apiece, weighs
7,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds fully loaded, and has a max
speed of 1,109 mph. Note that at touchdown the pilot is
already at full throttle again, just in case he misses the
arresting cables, so as to have enough lift to not end up in
the drink.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA now under the revised and
rotated pattern of low commercial airline flight tracks
into Sea-Tac Airport, a full 25 miles to the south.
Interferes sometimes with my zero-cost antenna TV
reception
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Palm Tree on Adak
Always did think it was a joke on the lines of the old joke
about "a girl behind every tree."
When my dad retired my parents moved to WallaWalla, WA. If
you took the exit into town on Clinton St. you immediately
went down a hill and I think there was a railroad track there,
but the first house on the right had a palm tree near the
street. Every Fall they would build a square framed structure,
looked like scaffolding, around the tree and cover it with
clear plastic. Apparently they moved away and the new owner
didn't want to mess with covering the palm tree, so it died
and was no longer there. I missed seeing it as I drove by, but
if a palm can't withstand a WallaWalla winter, it sure can't
survive an Alaska winter.
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Jumpers
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200922_1-connectors.jpg
I worked on those jumpers in '81 and '82. I recognized the
nozzle and connector in the upper left side of the photo. The
one in the upper right corner I don't know anything about.
Looks like some spring loaded contacts, electrical maybe? The
thing on the bottom of the photo took me some time to figure
out. It is the impact wrench used to install and uninstall the
jumper connectors. If you look closely at the right side of
the photo you can see the hex socket. I think you posted a
photo of one years ago, I recognized that one right away. This
one is taken from a much different angle. I have never seen
one, just drawings like those used in illustrations. Even then
only saw it in the vertical position. I had assumed they had
two of them, one for vertical use on the tanks and another
for horizontal use on the walls. I can see now that from the
design on the (bail?) on it the crane can hook on to it from
two positions so it can be used both vertical and horizontal.
The jaws of the gear puller looking thing on the connector are
tightened by a large hex head bolt which is out of sight the
way the connector in this photo is positioned. The hex head is
deeper than a regular bolt with a cone on the top of the hex
head. That way the impact wrench in easier to guide onto the
hex head and will stay there a lot better. Good thing to have
when it is being used remotely, and the wrench, like the
jumpers, would have to be balanced.
They had at least two and I think three buildings that used
jumpers. By the time they were getting ready to reopen PUREX
there were very few people left who knew anything about
designing jumpers. They got three, who were getting ready to
retire, together and they literally "wrote the book" on jumper
design. It was in three ring binder and was great. It showed
how to design it, the weights of the materials used, and how
to calculate the balance. Once you knew from which connector
to which connector and figured out a route, you might need
avoid another jumper, you could sit down at your drawing board
and with that book alone, design that jumper.
Re: Childish behavior of intelligent people
In my Senior year GE announced they were leaving Hanford. AEC
announced instead of just one company running the whole thing
they would have several, it was called diversification and it
was "going to be better." Then in the late '80s DOE decided
they wanted only one company instead of several, called it
consolidation and it was "going to be better." I was working
on a project there was a big push on for and we had three
drawing checkers. They had been from three different companies
and each one insisted things be done like they were at their
previous company. I wanted to go in and suggest the company
could save time and money if they would just assign a checker
to each drawing before we started it and we could just draw it
the way they wanted instead of having to change it. The three
checkers were not social distancing, their desks were in a
line shoved up against each other. One of them said I had done
something wrong in the little box where other drawings were
referenced. The checker on the right said I had done it right.
The first guy explained and said that is how it is done,
second said, "No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't." . . . .
I'm standing there with my mouth open wondering if I had been
transported back to the playground in 2nd grade. One of these
guys was getting ready to retire and if the other probably no
more than 10 years behind him. I have never understood why
AEC/ERDA/DOE didn't have their own drafting standards, and
tell the contractors they are our drawings, not yours, these
are the standards you will use.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To All Bombers,
I managed to find pics of jumpers fabricated in the West Area
Pipe Shop and process tanks with jumpers attached inside the
T Plants cells. For those who might not know these tanks and
jumpers were installed remotely to provide practice for
process crane operators. Which on further reflection was the
only way it could have been done, duh. Yea I know what you
mean about the lead, I miss having access to bricks of it
myself given the type of work I do. Back to the jumpers,
this was the best practice to perform the work and to avoid
needless exposure to maintenance personnel in case of break
down. Originally they used teflon gaskets to prevent leaks
however when the cam lock was tightened it would squeeze out
and leaks became a problem. They went to what they call a
koroseal type gasket to solve the problem. You'll notice there
are more nozzles than jumpers, this was done to provide spares
and flexibility to the process. In fact T Plant was able to
double its production because of it.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200923_1_D5123_221T.jpg
(D5123, 221T Canyon Cell Jumper Hanging Off Crane to
Check Proper Balance Prior to Installation in Process
Cell, Jumper T-26-53 & 54, Separations.jpg)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200923_2-D5928_221T.jpg
(D5928, Process Cell 28, 221T.jpg)
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55)
Keith ARNDT ('60)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roy CROSS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Andi BISCHOFF ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dina SPANJER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John RECK ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Reneé NOWAKOWSKI ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Alan LOBDELL ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron FRYMIER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim PERRYMAN ('86)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Carrier Landing
My husband, Gary (NAB) was in jet training in Kingsville, TX
and after completing the carrier landings, we had a small
party. At that time, money was pretty tight, and I had saved
dimes and for his birthday, bought him a Heathkit, Hi-Fi kit
to build. It included a phonograph. I tried to help by being
the wire cutter. After he told me he needed four inches of the
gray wire... snip... with the yellow wire inside, I quit.
Anyway, he finished the project and we bought a demo record.
At the party, six of us sat around the Hi-Fi set listening to
an oncoming train go past, and off into the distance, etc.
Yes, there were adult beverages involved, and lots of talk
about the day's landings. The set still works, and is in his
shop 60 years later.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA Fall is here
too soon
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Navy Carrier Aircraft
I served on the staff of a Carrier Group Commander (Admiral)
and made two deployments on Ranger and Constellation (both
fossil fuel ships and now decommissioned). Had the privilege
of landings and catapult shots with C-2s (propeller) and S-3s
(jet) multiple times. The Super Hornet was introduced to the
fleet in 1999, eventually replacing the original Hornet. The
Blue Angels are currently transitioning to the Super Hornet, a
larger, more powerful aircraft after flying the Hornet for 34
years!
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Hanford Camp Adventures
To: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Ish Kabbile performed on two different occasions. If I'm not
mistaken he appeared in a couple tv shows doing his famous
parralel act. Pretty funny to watch. You mention drinking
chocolate malts... did you ever get popcorn from Sangers
Popcorn Shack? Sangers was close to the roller rink. You
wouldn't happen to be local?
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200924_D7262_Sangers.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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a Memorial jpeg today, and
1 Bombers sent stuff:
Richard ROBERTS ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann LINK ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Hector ALVAREZ ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frani BROWN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim PARVIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy NELSON ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard McALLISTER ('69)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Deedee WILLOX ('64) Armand Loiseau ('53 Bulldog)
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Hanford Camp Adventures
I don't recall Sangers and popcorn, never my favorite; maybe I
got those chocolate malts from Sangers. I do recall the roller
rink. When I was in the 7th grade, (1943?), I had a job at the
Boise, ID, Roller Rink installing/adjusting clamp on and lace
up skates, mostly clamp ons for the soldiers stationed at the
nearby Mountain Home Air Base and lace up for their girl
friends, young, pretty girls. The soldier boys tipped very
well and I became a pretty good skating partner with the young
ladies who were glad to skate with this harmless youngster.
Thanks for the recall.
I live in Grover Beach, adjacent to Pismo Beach on the central
California Coast. We have had a fairly cold summer, just now
beginning to warm up to the middle seventies.
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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Memorial INFO for 1 Bomber,
4 Bombers sent stuff:
Pat UPSON ('49), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat UPSON ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Helen & Carol EVANS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shisla ANDREW ('66)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Larry HARROLD & Lois WEYERTS ('56)
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>>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
Re: Informative info
First of all, let me thank you for all of the informative
and interesting stories from those of you who served in the
service of our country! THANK you for your bravery and your
service! I for one was happy to be home and able to take care
of a baby for seven months while my husband (an engineer and a
1st. Lt. in the army) served during the end of the Korean war.
When I was attending WSU my mother remarried a pharmacist in
Richland. One of his children grew up to become a pilot on the
carrier the Midway. Ron said that on landing (in the dark) on
a rolling sea - you were dependent and had to have full trust
in a man giving you signals from a small area to the left of
the deck. He said, "under these circumstances any pilot that
tells you he didn't wet his pants once in awhile was lying!!)
Well, today is my birthday (89) and as a 5 # preemie whoever
expected that!! Pete and I celebrated 68 years of marriage on
the 14th of September and hooray for that too! So with all
of the horrible fires that have been going on in Oregon and
California we have had a lot of hazardous smoke here in Oregon
but now can really know what it is to really appreciate blue
skies, sun and be able to breathe good air again and really
appreciate we still have a home, food and each other. AMEN God
bless and stay safe. WEAR YOUR MASK for the sake of yourselves
but for the sake of the elderly, parents and those with
illnesses!
-Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, it would seem that on this day Lois WEYERTS ('56)
married Larry HAROLD ('56). Seems to have worked so far.
"Happy Anniversary!"
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Keith ARNDT ('60), Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Carrier landings and launches
FIRST: Regarding carrier landings, a ship's personnel transfer
from the USS Hornet (the ship's "bos'n", enlisted W-4)
reported back about his new life on I'm sure it was the USS
Ranger (but may be corrected). This would have been in early
1970 at the latest. During an underway fuel replenishment (for
a typical event on the Hornet, see link) the Ranger had
neglected to raise the #3 elevator (on the starboard (right)
aft section of the ship, one of three elevators used for re-
positioning planes from the enclosed hangar deck to the flight
deck). And, a jet was still resting on the elevator, not
strapped down...
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200927_Hornet-Refuel.jpg
The report was that during an underway refueling a heavy wave
pushed the Ranger and the oiler (on the right) together. When
the hulls separated, untouched and undamaged, the jet had
rolled off the elevator and onto the fantail deck of the
oiler. Not a good landing. This freak transfer-at-sea must
have made an interesting photo op back at the pier.
SECOND. Meanwhile, now regarding freak launches, back on the
Hornet we were handling routine pilot qualifications. The
connecting device between the nose of one plane and the
catapult was incompletely attached. (Never happens, except
this once, of course!) The connector pulled loose before
catapult tension was fully engaged. The plane pulled forward
too-slowly and instead of straight ahead on the starboard
(right) path, it angled toward the opposite, port (left)
corner of the flight deck and after a second or two pitched
over the bow out of sight.
At that moment the pilot ejected, only 60 feet off the water.
Now, even for this kind of eventuality there's a pre-ordained
procedure, in this case to shift the ship's rudder to the left
(port) so as to swing the hull and ship's propeller suction
away from the downed plane and pilot.
However, in that split second, the CO gave the opposite and
"incorrect" rudder command...
But, in this case, had we followed the cookbook the weirdly
ejected pilot and his partly-opened chute likely would have
come down on top of the ship's "island," to be impaled and
electrocuted in our radar complex, still some 200 feet above
the water. (This was the later assessment.) Instead, he came
down fast into the drink, and none the worse except for a
bruised disc.
A few seconds after this "launch," said the captain to me (I
shared the bridge as the Officer of the Deck), "...sometimes
you just go with your gut." On the leadership thing, Von
Clausewitz, the military strategy/history guru (On War),
has a chapter or two on what he calls "genius," meaning not
IQ but the simple ability to react quickly to changing and
novel situations.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ sedentary in Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re; One Hit Wonder Day (9/25)
Here's my pick for 2020.
https://www.last.fm/music/The+Hollywood+Argyles/_/Alley+Oop
Enjoy!
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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A Bomber Memorial jpeg for 2 Bombers and
5 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol CROSE ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve JOHNSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Elaine QUIGLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Andy MILLER ('71)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: warrant officers
I enjoy Pete BEAULIEU's ('62) stories. One small technical
point: Chief Warrant Officers are in all the services except
the USAF, and W-2 and above are all commissioned officers,
technically commissioned by the President. W-1 warrant
officers are technically not commissioned,and are appointed
by "warrant" by their service secretary. Nearly all warrant
officers are selected from enlisted status and are, of course,
specialists. Aboard ship, they live in officers' quarters and
are members of the officers mess. In the USCG, they often
command smaller cutters and some shore stations. I found
them to be consistently valuable - knowledgable, dependable,
skilled, etc., etc. However, I think the Army still appoints
some helo pilots etc. as warrant officers right out of pilot
training. Perhaps another Bomber has better info on that. The
bottom line, though, is that warrant officers are officers -
not enlisted.
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in sunny and cool Richland
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Yesterday's entry - first paragraph
missing link
FIRST: Regarding carrier landings, a ship's personnel transfer
from the USS Hornet (the ship's "bos'n", enlisted W-4)
reported back about his new life on I'm sure it was the USS
Ranger (but may be corrected). This would have been in early
1970 at the latest. During an underway fuel replenishment
(for a typical event on the Hornet, see link) the Ranger had
neglected to raise the #3 elevator (on the starboard (right)
aft section of the ship, one of three elevators used for re-
positioning planes from the enclosed hangar deck to the flight
deck). And, a jet was still resting on the elevator, not
strapped down...
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200927_Hornet-Refuel.jpg
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: One Hit Wonder Day
https://www.last.fm/music/The+Hollywood+Argyles/+wiki
Dick Clark "World's Oldest Teenager" used to have an either
Saturday or Sunday radio show called "Rock, Roll & Remember"
(I think). A lot of times I would tape them on a 7" reel to
listen to later. Too bad I taped over them, but I did keep one
and later put in on cassette tape which I have been on the
lookout for years for among my junk. If I find it now I
suppose I will then need to burn in on a CD, or those out-
dated now? He didn't call them "One Hit Wonder" like we do
today, but "The Shooting Stars" and that week it was all about
them. He said he had the Hollywood Argyles on his "Bandstand"
TV show and everyone hated it!!! No one liked Alley Oop and it
went on be become a number 1 hit.
Re: "Hawaii" & "Alaska" overprint money
I have known from grade school that some paper money had
"Hawaii" or "Alaska" printed on them front and back and with
a brown seal and serial numbers instead green. I thought it
showed up much more on the back. I had always assumed that was
because Hawaii and Alaska were territories not states. I never
found out the real reason for the issuing of this overprint
money until, oh maybe, ten years or so ago. If Japan had
invaded either Hawaii or Alaska they could have captured a lot
of our money, and in those days they were backed with gold and
silver. Japan would have had to go through some back channels,
but they could have traded them for gold and silver, and
the US was not interested in helping to fund the Japanese war
effort. So if Japan had ever invaded Hawaii or Alaska we would
have declared them worthless.
I got a Hawaii $1 bill in circulation probably while in high
school; possibly a little before or after. I had put it
in my safe deposit box and decided to bring it in to show my
daughter. To my surprise, she already knew about them. Asked
her how she knew and she said it was on "Hawaii 50." I asked
if it was the new one and she said "yes." I have never seen
the new one. I did find a site that said the value on a $1
bill is $100 if in perfect condition and $20 if in average
condition. Judging from that, I would have to say mine might
fetch $2; it is not torn, but really worn condition. This site
does not show values, but has a pretty good write up about the
overprint money and how they had to burn the regular money.
Money 101 - The Hawaii Overprint Note
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick ~ How would you like to have
the job of burning $200 million in 1942 value money?
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Novelty Songs
OMG, Jim ARMSTRONG ('63), I hate to admit it, but I could sing
along with "Alley Oop"! There were no lyrics on the screen and
I was singing every word. Jeesh!
There were so many ridiculous, fun, dumb songs in the '60s,
like that - "Purple People Eater," "Ahab the Arab," "Itsy,
Bitsy, Teeny, Weeny, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," etc. I can
still sing the theme song to "Rawhide," too. I don't know if
I should thank you for the memories or not. From the early
2000s, I like "I'm Too Sexy" for my shirt, my car, my hat . ..
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
I'll take a moment to describe a Navy incident a friend
related to me of something he was involved in as a junior
officer on the bridge of one of the ships.
Sometime in the middle of the night, the radar picked up a
return that was on a collision course with their ship, a
destroyer taking on fuel. As is protocol, the radar folks
kept reporting to the bridge every 15 minutes about the other
vessel still on a collision course.
The command on the bridge eventually told them to quit
reporting-that they had the right-of-way (UNREP vessels as
vessels restricted in their ability to maneuver).
When the fog cleared that morning, he told me the other
"vessel" was actually a carrier taking on fuel on one side
and munitions on the other;
5 warships within a nautical mile of one another.
All sorts of emergency procedures went into place, fuel hoses
cut, bombs dropping into the ocean and evasive maneuvers in
very tight quarters.
They managed to avoid any collisions but he told me you could
have jumped from the deck of the carrier to his ship's bow at
one point.
I wonder if this was the reason he decided to become a
Chaplain ;-).
This goes back a number of years. I'm wondering if any of the
Sandstorm's Navy people heard of this one.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/28/20
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim JENSEN ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn GULLEY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darlene NAPORA ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randall MONTGOMERY ('92)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toni HAUSENBUILLER ('98)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just want to take a moment to wish fellow classmate
Marilyn GULLEY ('54) a Happy Birthday!" She deserves it.
No war story, but it is disconcerting to see to aeroplanes
attempt to be in the same piece of sky at the same time. It
will not make your day.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Warrant Officers
I misspoke, sort of, yes, warrant officers are commissioned
officers, but they also come up from the enlisted ranks,
because of their specialties. As for Warrant Officer D.H. or
whom I wrote earlier, he was a wardroom buddy, and served
as a role model and a sought-after confidant for many of the
enlisted men, almost as a third chaplain onboard. But, sadly,
after he left the Navy, he was among those who felt totally
disoriented, became an alcoholic, divorced, and watched his
family disintegrate. Was from Everett. I had dined with his
tight-knit family while he was still overseas.
Back onboard the Hornet, here's another warrant officer story.
We were part of Task Force 71 assembled on the run to deal
with an incident off the coast of Korea. The April 1969
downing of an EC-121 surveillance plane in international
waters, with the loss of all 30 American lives. Dozens of
ships were assembled, including Dennis HAMMER's ('64) cruiser,
the USS St. Paul. The intelligence report: a "50/50 chance of
a tactical nuclear attack within 24 hours."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_71
The after-the-fact Wikipedia account is a bit smoothed over
and watered down. Instead, the event was more as the carrier
admiral in "Hunt for Red October" said to CIA agent Eric
Baldwin: "things are likely to get a bit dicey around here!"
Very cold arctic weather. A "condition of readiness" one notch
below General Quarters, meaning manned large gun mounts all
around 24/7 (etc.). (A lot of good these would have done.)
At this point, another warrant officer, very business-as-usual
in the Supply Department, now comes into play. Yours truly
arrives with some crew at the padlocked supply lockers only to
hear that W-4 E.P. isn't willing to release a few crates of
long underwear (serial numbers, paperwork, and all that kind
of thing) until morning, and that he's to be found somewhere
at the other end of the ship, probably in the wardroom sipping
coffee.
I pulled rank-a most dastardly deed (!)-but having something
to do with "situation awareness"-and gave the order, and we
were soon gone with enough crates for the three deck
divisions-lowly "deck apes" already manning the gun mounts in
a "dark and stormy night".
As it turned out, after about a week the larger "incident"
came and went, and the long underwear also came and went, back
to Supply, unwashed probably. I had half expected a complaint
to be logged and to be reprimanded from the top, but by the
silence later came to suspect that there was a reprimand, but
not for me.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA readers with extra change
in their pockets might consider this:
https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: And now for something entirely different
In a conversation we were trying to recall the Richland Little
League Teams in the middle to late '50s.
The National League included:
Auto Supply
N&H
Spudnut Shop
Thrifty Drug
The Columbia Little League included:
BB&M (?)
Densow Drug
National Bank of Commerce
?
The American Little League included:
Dawson Richards
Desert Inn
HAMTC
?
Hard to believe there were only twelve teams.
I am pretty certain that Richland was one of the two earliest
Little Leagues in Washington, the other be Kirkland. I think
they were chartered the same year but one obviously started
play earlier. Kirkland was probably a rain out.
-jimbeaux
Andrá Tutto Bene
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Tedd Cadd ('66)
Re: Emergency Breakaway
I know nothing about this particular incident, but I do know
that collision between ships during underway replenishment is
not all that uncommon. I watched it nearly happen once. I
made two Westpac (Vietnam) cruises on a heavy cruiser and one
on a fleet oiler. The oiler was still designated AO, but had
been modernized where they kept the bow and the stern section
which had the boiler and engine room, galley, and some of the
accommodations and built a brand new mid section between the
two original parts. It was longer and of a more modern design
and carried not only black oil and JP-5 jet fuel but also
carried ammo, mainly bombs. At the time I was in they were
phasing out ships that just carried fuel or ordnance, and
building ships that carried both.
Maybe in the early morning fog your friend did not clearly see
what was actually going on. You say "a carrier taking on fuel
on one side and munitions on the other." This just cannot
happen. Aircraft carriers, battle ships, and cruisers UNREP on
their starboard sides, while destroyers UNEREP on their port
side. Maybe during WWII but I doubt it. The WWII carriers had
the elevators from the hanger deck to the flight deck in the
middle of the flight deck. After the war they built carriers
with the canted deck and even modified some of the WWII
carriers by adding it. (That has got to be scary--landing a
plane on a diagonal runway that is moving away from you.) That
canted deck would be in the way, and a carrier's island is
always on the starboard, so it would reduce visibility to the
port side. Elevators on the post WWII carriers were placed on
the starboard side and have to lowered to take on freight or
bombs. The cable rigged near the top of the hole in the side
of the ship, big enough to push a plane through--because that
is what they made for. The cargo or bombs were then high-lined
to the elevator where the carrier crew moves them into the
hanger bay. The carriers liked to be UNREPed by a ship like us
so they could be refueled and rearmed at the same time. It
would take hours and hours just to UNREP a carrier. Off
Vietnam each carrier had two destroyers as escorts and while
one destroyer would come on the other side of us and be
refueled the other would follow way astern. When they were
finished they would switch places. That is what he may have
actually seen, a carrier with a replenishment ship to the
starboard and another ship to its starboard side, which may
well have been another replenishment ship. This was what we
called a CONSOL (consolidation) where two replenishment ships
may be each half full and one sends whatever fuel or ammo over
to the other, then heads back to port. I believe I have seen
this done while we had a carrier alongside, I know I have seen
it done with other ships where we are bringing it on one side
and sending it off the other.
As for the emergency breakaway, I don't doubt that bombs being
transferred between ships were dropped in the drink, but I
don't think he means literally cutting the fuel lines. I think
the hoses and cables can be quickly released, although fuel
would be spilled. Even easier when they started using the
probe connectors, which look like a large version of the fuel
connectors used to refuel airplanes in flight. Also when they
started installing them, they put them on both sides so most
ships (not aircraft carriers) could take fuel on either side.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200928_refueling_rig.jpg
Above link is the probe refueling rig, I have movie film of
the probe coming down the cable and locking in. To bad I can't
show that here. This is a CONSOL where we are taking it on
from another replenishment ship.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200928_bombs_on_deck.jpg
Above link: Got a lot of bombs out and on deck, waiting to
send off to a carrier.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/29/20
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Jimmie MEFFORD ('54), Jack GARDINER ('61)
Robert SHIPP ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Dick PIERCE ('67), Betti AVANT ('69)
Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack GARDINER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donnie GESTON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HOWARD ('66)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: replenishment at sea
Good sea stories! Coast Guard ships do/did lots of UNREPs as
well. One memory: I was executive officer on a ship (1969 or
so) and we were relieving another ship on ocean station duty
halfway between San Fran and Hawaii. We had new commanding
officer, his first patrol since he reported aboard. We were
doing a routine UNREP to trade movies, give the other ship
some fresh lettuce, milk, eggs, veggies etc. (they had been at
sea for a month), deliver some outgoing mail. I had "the
conn", and made the approach on the other ship. First line
over was the "distance line), which had colored marker
pennants on it every ten feet, Once stretched out between the
ships, we used it to help us maintain a distance of about 100
feet between us. After getting "hooked up" and settled in
position, the new "skipper" leaned over and quietly asked me
how I judged the distance between the ships on our approach
before the distance line was rigged. I frankly didn't
know how to answer... seaman's eye, I guess. The conning
officer/underway OOD usually had binoculars hanging around his
neck during ops with other vessels and in restricted waters
etc. so I told the CO: "Captain, I hold my binoculars firmly
in both hands. When my sweaty palms make it difficult to
clutch them, I figure we are close enough." He wasn't amused.
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in sunny Richland
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Little league
I coached a little league team right after my marriage in
1956... I can't remember the name of the sponsor, but it was a
small gas station owned by the brother of Jones, the fabulous
softball pitcher in those days... can't remember his first
name... maybe jerry... his brother committed suicide years
later... I remember Daryl RENZ ('63) was a pitcher and PUGH
('62) was the catcher... one incident that i vividly remember
was a game where my right fielder, name like everything else
forgotten, was a ten year old, a little on the heavy side, and
he and the second baseman collided chasing a fly ball... the
second baseman was hurt, and the opposing team's parents were
making fun of my right fielder... out of the corner of my eye
i saw this figure leap over the fence, run across the field,
pull one of the parents roughly over the fence and threaten
his life... was my brother Tom ('53-RIP) back on leave from
the army... those who knew Tom knew he was a scary dude when
riled... needless to say, calm prevailed and the game went on,
but Tom had to leave the area... inside, i was clapping what
he had done... some parents were difficult in those days...
when I think back about those couple of years I coached, I
wonder how I ever had the time with a new wife, child coming,
actually 4 in the first 5 years, and working all those days
and hours at C.C. Andersons... great memories, though.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from sunny Murrieta, CA
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>>From: Jimmie MEFFORD ('54)
Re: Roger MIKULECKY ('54-RIP)
Roger passed away on 9/13/20. He was my friend for over 70
years. We lived in the south end of Richland. We first met in
the 6th grade at Lewis and Clark school. We both enjoyed
playing baseball and were on the same team in grade school,
junior high and high school (Bombers)
In the last few years we did not get to visit with each other
in person. We did talk on the phone a lot. I would be thinking
I should call Roger and the phone would ring and it would be
Roger...
I will miss him.
-Jimmie MEFFORD ('54)
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>>From:Jack GARDINER ('61)
To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
The other team in the Columbia Little League, was Columbia
Oil. My brother Chuck ('63-RIP) and I both were both on that
team. In 1959 the Richland Colt League All Stars, which I was
part a of went to Ontario, California to play in the Colt
League World Series. I don't know for sure, we may have been
the first youth baseball team from the Washington State to
play in a World Series.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
To Jim HAMILTON ('63)
The fourth team in the American Little League was Ganzel's
Barber Shop, which later became J. A. Jones Construction.
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
I trust that your understanding of the kinds of ships is
factual. It is a story I heard more than two decades ago and
it's not surprising that I got those details wrong. I think,
though, that the issue of five ships in close proximity is
accurate.
Regardless of what was being transferred where, I'd rather not
have been on the bridge of any of those vessels.
Have you seen the video of a US Navy ship that was hunting
pirates in the Gulf? The helicopter found a target and, with
permission, fired a number of volleys of 50 cal across the bow
of the pirate boat to no avail. The pirates kept running.
The long skiff was not going to stop and was headed as fast as
possible to safe waters where they knew the Navy couldn't go.
The Captain orders full speed and the helm hard over and
starts turning a very tight circle around the boat. The
immense wake swamps the boat and floods it's engines.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: Little League teams
I played for Spudnut Shop in 1959 (?), 1960 & 1961. I know the
last two years in the National League were Spudnut, Auto
Supply, Nevin's Flying A and Thrifty Drug.
I believe those same years had Bell Furniture playing in the
American League, and I think the Columbia League had a team
from J.A. Jones.
Loved those years and those Spudnuts.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Warrant Officers
I did my Radiographic Procedures schooling at Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas. There were certain areas of the campus that the
enlisted personnel had to salute the officers. While there
was a class of Physician Assistant students who were
while in school WOC or Warrant Officer Candidates. Their
rankings were shown as WOC that from a distance looked like a
lieutenant's bar but we didn't need to salute them. There was
one lady who everyone enjoyed giving a bad time to since we'd
space out when she was approaching us and salute her to get
her to return it. One day she was carrying things in her right
hand or salute hand and she was fumbling to move them to her
left hand. She had her keys still in her right hand and went
to salute the first one to return the salute and about put her
eye out with one of the keys.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: Richland Little League Teams
Columbia Little League also included Bell Furniture and NBC
(National Bank of Commerce). Albertsons also sponsored a team
starting in the early '60s.
-Gary TURNER ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/30/20
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Gregor HANSON ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Millie BRESINA ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rita DIDWAY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike BECHARD ('66)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Kevin WINKELMAN ('84) & Tracie KENDALL ('87)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
A moment to wish Millie BRESINA ('54) a "Happy Birthday!"
with the thought that things will get better eventually.
Re: UNREP
As I recall, most "birdfarms" (carriers) had refueling
stations on both sides. The starboard side was used when
taking on fuel and stores from a replenishment type ship.
Basically because the island (bridge) was on the starboard
side and the "driver" (OOD) had a better view of things as the
carrier had to keep station with the other ship.
Port side was for refueling destroyers of the screen as they
were the ship which had to keep station with the carrier.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Carriers
Two quick points. First, an emergency breakaway (during
carrier refueling) might well have involved cut hoses. One of
my duties on the USS Hornet (CVS-12) was as supervising
officer for the refueling station, starboard side forward. I
always had a designated cutter on station equipped with a fire
ax, just in case the mechanical connection got jammed during
any possible breakaway. (Redundancy: standard operating
procedure, SOP).
Second, here's a look at the elevator configuration for the
Hornet (actually, the USS Kearsarge [CVS-33], an exact-copy
sister ship), showing three elevators: one on the centerline
forward, one on the starboard side aft (where, incidentally,
the Apollo XI and XII astronaut command modules were connected
and hoisted aboard the Hornet, 1969), and one on the port
side, at the front end of the angled flight deck.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/200930_CVS-33.jpg
Both ships were completed for the last year of World War II,
and later were upgraded, in 1956 or so, with addition of the
angled flight deck and the fully enclosed "hurricane bow"
(etc.).
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: replenishment at sea
An assistant manager where I worked some 15 or so years
ago once said he recommended that if you are going in the
military, join the Coast Guard so you won't have to leave
the United States. I informed him that the Coast Guard was in
Vietnam. He says, "I don't believe you." To which I replied,
"I have seen them." We refueled a Coast Guard Cutter and I
have taken pictures of smaller craft off the coast of Vietnam.
When you're used to seeing haze gray ships alongside all the
time, sure looks different to have one that is white with a
big red diagonal stripe near the bow. Also refueled the HMAS
Swan, a destroyer escort. The Aussies paint their navy ships a
light green, which I think looks better than our gray.
Your comment about your CO asking how you judged distance
while making an approach on the replenishment vessel and your
explanation of it being how sweaty your palms holding the
binoculars were was great. Most ships making their approach
would cut their speed and make a slow gradual approach. Who
ever had the con on the USS Davidson DE-1045 had a different
approach and knew exactly what he was doing. They would come
in at a high rate of speed and knew just when to cut power so
they instantly matched our speed and were ready for the shot
lines. When the UNREP was completed they would play the theme
from the movie "Patton," then blow the whistle and (don't
remember if it was just the OOD or the whole crew) give a hand
salute, "put the peddle to the metal" and take off at a high
rate of speed.
They were so cool I watched the messages for when their next
UNREP was and shot a roll of movie film of them. Shot a roll
of the UNREP of the HMAS Swan also. Someday I hope to get
those two rolls of film in digital form and put them up on
YouTube.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ All three of those ships are now
resting, or rusting, in Davy Jones Locker. My ship USS
Ashtabula was sunk as a target off San Diego, CA, the
HMAS Swan was sunk in 98 feet of water off the West
coast of Australia to form an artificial reef and dive
wreck, and the USS Davidson was sold to Brazil. It sank
in 2005 while being towed to India for scrapping.
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>>From: Gregor HANSON ('65)
In answer to Jim HAMILTON's ('63) post
Re: Little League team sponsors in the '50s
Columbia Little League majors team sponsors
National Bank of Commerce (NBC)
Perce Locey's Sporting Goods
(which then became BB&M Sporting Goods
Densow Drug
PALS (Police Athletic League)
which became the Bell Furniture team in 1959.
Albertsons was added as a team in the Columbia League in the
'60s.
The "minor" league teams all had the same sponsors as the
majors, while they all have different sponsors now for each
level of play (majors, minors, coach pitch, t-ball, etc.).
-Gregor HANSON ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: 1962 Class Website
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/
Thanks to Pete BEAULIEU ('62) for his donation to increase the
amount of storage on the '62 Class website for a three year
period. Also, thanks to Roy BALLARD ('63) for loaning his 1962
Columbian to me.
Re: '62 Memorial page
With the extra amount of storage on the website I was able to
make memorial pages/or updated pages for all of the 1962
deceased classmates. Using the annual, I was able to scan
better senior pictures. Some of the memorial pages include the
actual obituaries which I found online. Other pages include
information I found using Ancestry.com. If anyone has
additional information to add to any of the memorial pages, I
will make updates.
Re: '62 Military page
In making the memorial pages I found a few more classmates who
had served in the military. If you are a 1962 classmate who
served in the military, and your information is not added
please email me.
Re: '62 Grade School Pictures
If anyone has additional grade school pictures or is able to
help identify classmates in the pictures please let me know
Bomber cheers ~
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where it is sunny
and 70° at noon on Tuesday
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