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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/01/21 ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Leoma COLES ('63)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb MILLER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna PARDEE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken DEERY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark PERKINS ('75)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
	Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)

Happy New Year to all and my wish is for 2021 to be the best
year of your life!! Take care everyone and be safe....

-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ Lincoln City, OR
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/02/21
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Terry DAVIS ('65)
Pam EHINGER ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary RALSTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PIIPPO ('70)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Leg infection!

For those of you who don't give a rat's ass, move on to the
next entry. 

Those who do care are probably mentally ill. But my leg is
improving. Not a lot, but I am no longer screaming at every
step. They plan to move the M.A.S.H unit out of my house on
Monday or Tuesday.

My cancer is still "sleeping", so no chemo at least till
March. 

My heart valve problem is next up sometime in February 

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ in lovely downtown Hanford, CA where the 
	metal collectors are busy this morning picking up all 
	the spent casing from the from the pseudo fire works 
	last night. (brass is expensive)
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>>From: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)

Hey, Sandstorm readers, Don't forget to send your yearly
subscription check to our faithful editor, Maren! She's up
early organizing the Sandstorm for us daily. We count on her
and I'm sure she's counting on us!

Happy New Year one and all.

-Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)

Re: New Year

I would like to wish one and all of your Bombers a great 2021
year. Stay healthy and safe.

I'm so excited to start year 2021

-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick  
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)

	Belated Happy birthday wishes (on the 1st) to 
Perry DANGERFIELD ('65), whose good buddy John FOSTER ('65)
just called to ask me to remind Sandstorm that Perry's 
birthday was yesterday.

	I mostly remember Perry from a particular afternoon on
Carmichael Hill in the winter of 8th grade--snow and sleds, 
kind of thing. I was cold and wet and giving up for the day, 
but Perry just kept dragging his sled up the hill for another
trip.

	Wishing you well, Perry.

TDK '65

-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)

Happy New Year to all Bombers everywhere!!

May 2021 be MUCH BETTER than last year!

Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/03/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Donna NELSON ('63)
Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Rick MADDY ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tobe ROBERTS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)

To: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)

Diane, 

About a year ago I suggested to Maren to post her address the
first of each month just as a reminder we might owe her for
our Sandstorm subscription. Her "get a head of yourself" is a
polite reminder for people to think about when they last paid
She dedicates time every day or night to have us receive a
daily Sandstorm. 

Thanks, Maren

-Donna NELSON ('63)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

Last night (1/2/21) I watched my Ohio Buckeyes defeat Clemson
to go to the national championship game on 2/11/21. They
will face Alabama. This is the same scenario as their last
national championship in 2014. I hope the outcome is also the
same. Coach Ryan Day will have to outsmart a very cagy coach,
Nick Sabin, and I hope the Buckeyes roll over the Crimson
Tide. The Tide are awesome, but anything can happen in a
football game - underdogs manage to muster wins in many cases
and I really, really hope my Buckeyes can pull off another
upset. Jason Fields did the Buckeye Nation proud!

	[Roll OVER Tide!! -Maren]

I like Clemson's Trevor Lawrence and felt for him as he
played his last game for Clemson. He seems like a good kid
and I hope he does well in the NFL. I teared up when they
showed him crying in the arms of his mother after the game. 
I know how it feels to console a loved one after such a
crushing loss.

	[Trevor is a great QB but no match for 
	LSU's Burrow last year... and I felt for 
	him last year. He's so good, I was scared 
	last year. -Maren]

-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in cloudy & rainy, but warmer
	 (50º) Richland with very little snow left in the yard
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: A Different Year

2021. Hope for all of us. I will be 72 this coming June. I
have outlived my father. My mother is a different story. She
lived to 83. I am truly inspired by the Bomber who lives
in Hanford, CA. God Bless. I am humbled by the misery and
ability to express the daily elderly mishaps. I am impressed
beyond words.

I do know quite vividly recall the misery of my youth. Too
live the pain again is my possible destiny. I live one day at
a time and each presents an unusual experience depending on
which prescription I am scripted by the newly educated doc on
a mission from God.

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210103_CaveWoman.jpg

Maddy ('67)

-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/04/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula Jill LYONS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria KENNEDY ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda HANSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen HORNE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nina BERLAND ('69) 

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: 
		Steve BOCK & Suzi O'MALLEY ('67)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

I hit the wrong key. The college championship football game
is on 1/11/2021 (January), not 2/11/2021.

Go Buckeyes!

	[Roll OVER the tide! Beat 'Bama!!!!!!!]

Marie Ruppert Hartman '63
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)

Re: 75

As usual, I'm humbled by all the birthday wishes I got. It
means a lot. Here's the sum total of my wisdom on turning 75
yesterday: dang, I'm old!

-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: Quest for Oxygen: Part IV

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Halle--lu--jah! We got oxygen! In 
my last post to the Sandstorm I said that my wife was 
admitted to the hospital on Christmas Day. On Dec 26, 2020 
I received an email from fellow Bomber Marian "Martie" WADE
Jenkins ('57) in Arizona stating that she had an oxygen
concentrator she no longer needed and she had friends who
were moving to Kennewick so she could send it to me with
them. I got a call from her friends Saturday and picked it
up, just a few blocks from where I live. As soon as I could
get it unwrapped I plugged it in and got oxygen to my wife.

I would like use this forum to give a big "Thank You" to
Martie WADE Jenkins ('57) for sending the oxygenator as she
calls it to us; and to also give a big thank you to Maren and
the Alumni Sandstorm for making this possible.

The hospital kept my wife for five days and at night and
other times did have her hooked up to oxygen. They sent her
home with a prescription for "portable oxygen" so I took that
into a medical supply company and they say they still need a
sleep study, so I went and got the prescription back. They
sent a nurse, and an occupational therapist to the house and
are going to send a physical therapist and a social worker.
We were wondering if the social worker can do something with
the portable oxygen prescription. They say Medicare will not
pay for both stationary oxygen and portable oxygen, but then
they say I have to pay for the portable if I want it. When
the nurse found out my daughter was taking care of my wife
(she does a lot better job of it than me) and was not
working, maybe she can get some wages as a caregiver. Wife's
doctor is getting ready to send her for a sleep study (which
he doesn't think she really needs to do again) but I am
thinking now we can cancel that. I may use some of this
stimulus money and have our machine repaired--that way we can
have a back-up.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Nice sunny weather in Kennewick, 
	temperature in the 50s. 
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/05/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCLELLAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Louise HARTCORN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam EHINGER ('67)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Enough problems!

Just found out that my life was not exciting enough. I suffer
from a very, very bad heart (due for a valve job.) I have
terminal lung cancer, (which I have fought for 4 years) not
gaining on it! A horrific case of cellulitis, rending me
almost cripple. 

20 minutes ago, I was informed that I also have a full blown 
case of Covid-19.

I suffer from Rex's round house medley of "Colds, molds, 
tight assh*les, Sh*ts, fits, freckles, and farts.

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from lovely downtown Hanford, cA where it
	was heard ringing thru the night "Holy Dump Trunk 
	Batman, where did all this guano come from!"
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

We have come to that time of year to wish Roger McCLELLAN
('54) a "Happy Birthday!" Let folks in the "Duke" City really
whoop it up for him.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)

Re: Black & White TV
 http://www.cglen.com/SendIns/PREV/200709/BW.htm

Brings back good memories for many of us...

-Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/06/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Steve CARSON ('58)
Susie DILL ('64), Betti AVANT ('69)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol BLACK ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lora HOMME ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia REDISKE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allyson SMITH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig WALTON ('75) 
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) 

To: Rex HUNT ('53)

Few Bombers have endured the mounting physical ailments of
Rex HUNT ('53), His attitude might help explain why he is
still alive - he is a skeptic and a fighter! My thoughts and
prayers will mean nothing to him, but I send them anyway.
COVID-19. begone! 

Bomber solicitations, 
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland watching an 
	unseasonably warm winter
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)

To: Rex HUNT ('53)

Sorry to hear you're suffering. Prayers and Blessings!

-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)

To: Rex HUNT ('53)

I am so very sorry to hear of your Covid-19 diagnosis. I
admire your ability to maintain an amazing sense of humor
amidst all your pain and suffering. Sending "get well" hugs,
wishes and prayers your way... 

-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

tp Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: forgot to save your email 

Hey Dennis,

I forgot to write your email address down. I've seen several
TV ads lately for Inogen oxygen (I'm assuming concentrators).
Several ads have also popped up in ads on FB. I know you said
you have something now but have you looked into it?

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/07/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol DuBOIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann HEDGES ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SCHAUER ('84)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Ailing!

I am always at a loss to explain to outsiders, the relations
and support of Bombers! I personally have been to TWO county
fairs and a Ladies day at MACY's and I never saw anything
like it.

My in-house care taker is isolated in intensive care at the
hospital with her version of Covid-19. So now I just have
outhouse care takers... make it what you will!

OOPs my semi-resident vampire is here to take a fountain of
blood. They took what looked like a quart and a half last
evening. I will have trouble drinking enough tea to replenish
my veins.

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from lovely downtown Hanford, CA where
	Dick Grayson was heard to exclaim to Bruce Wayne 
	"Gee Batman" who's gonna clean up all this guano! 
	So stay tuned Same Bat time same Bat station different
	bat guano.
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>>From: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

Re: Tri-City Herald Subscriptions

I always read the entries about the Tri-City Herald
subscriptions. 

I just sent them an email to tell them that my renewal date
is wrong, they say it is tomorrow and I say it is in March
2021. Plus, last year I paid $250.00 after going to the
office for a yearly subscription. The current rate on the
renewal notice is $468.00, an 87% increase in one year.

I don't even know if they have a local office anymore.

I told them that if they can't come up with a better rate, to
let my subscription run out. I will be surprised if I hear
anything back from them. I tried calling last week, but got a
girl who sounded like she was 16 years old and was no help.

I like the paper to find out about local news/information.
The national news is usually a day or two old and hardly ever
read it. I enjoy reading my favorite comics and sometimes
Dear Abby for a laugh or two.

Oh well, guess I will have to find other avenues for my local
news.

-Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/08/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy WEETMAN ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SINCLAIR ('77) 
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>>From: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

Re: Tri-City Herald Update

Surprise, I heard back from the email I sent to the TCH. They
did agree to change the expiration date to March.

Plus they offered me a reduced rate of $338.00, which is a
35% increase over what I paid last year, $250.00. That is
much better than the 87% increase on the renewal letter.

Seems like a lot of money and who knows how much longer the
paper is even going to be around. I will have to think hard
on renewing or quitting the paper.

-Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)

Re: Tri-City Herald

To: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

The local number for TCH is 509-582-1500 (there are two
offices in Kennewick according to Google maps). I just 
spoke to someone there two days ago to change my billing
information. I pay $120 yearly for my on-line subscription
which I can get anywhere I am in the world - which these 
days is in my own home!

-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/09/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Mike LEWIS ('60c)
Peter TURPING ('70)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan ECKERT ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pearl DROTTS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob CUMMINGS (?65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole FATUR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FUNDERBURG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam HUNT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lee BUSH ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edna SMYTH ('71_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Joe and Kristi MAGULA ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stefan SCHERPEREL ('97)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maggie PERRYMAN (`22)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)

Re: Tri City Herald

Lots of talk about the TCH lately.

Just curious... Back in the '50s, there was another paper 
available called The Villager.. Is it still around... ?

-Ken HEMINGER ('56wb) ~ Great Falls, MT T-Shirt weather at 44°
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>>From: Mike LEWIS ('60c)

Michael G. Lewis here. I was in class of '60. Cooled my heels
in physics with Michael WAGGONER ('60), Harry WINDSOR ('60),
Larson GRENINGER ('60-RIP), and other IQ junkies. 

Am in the Royal Columbian in Kennewick, Room 135... don't
like it here because it feels like a one-way trip and after
all, I've been happier on thumbing my way around. However, it
is civil. First thing when I got here from Seattle was to
purchase a geiger counter. I'm an ancestor!

I've two daughters and they have huge families, so extinction
is no longer a threat. They live in Coos County, Oregon and
in Ohio.

Am spending my time exploring implications of the equation
h*nu=m*c^2. One of those is the bright sun found in the
Hanford area, the other is the devil's darning needle. Both
are energy, and these energy ranges overlap neatly.

I do sudoku for something neurotic to do. 

Was a radar ET in Project Mercury, and was a sideboy for 
L. Gordon Cooper when he addressed the crew on the USS
Kearsarge, CVS-33, an aircraft carrier. Used to work on the
mast (though we were not supposed to).

Married a girl from Colorado, though things fell apart. She's
a good person. 

I was a sci-fi junkie and only recently came to understand
the bible fits neatly with evolution, only we did not have
the time scale to comprehend that from human experience.
After all, we were hung up for ten thousand years on what the
moon was, is and always will be. 

Visited Nagasaki twice. At first it was a flat valley covered
with neatly mowed lawns and a little memorial.. Second time I
was there it was filled with houses and people! Much better.

I understand love now; it is the harmony of the universe
among other miraculous phenomena. God bless you all, and Live
long and Prosper.

	-MGL

-Mike LEWIS ('60c)
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>>From: Peter TURPING ('70)

To: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

Re: TCH Pricing

I'm pleased the Tri-City Herald did get back with you and
changed your expiration date and pricing. I'm guessing it was
because you communicated that you were willing to let your
subscription run out. They played the expiration game, almost
a scam for years using the logic that the "special additions"
were more costly so your annual rate really wasn't for a full
year. I think they have stopped that practice. 

Even with the reduced rate I would contact them and ask for
$192.40 rate, at a maximum the $250.00 you were paying. I
know there are a number of Bombers paying the $192.40 rate.
Feel free to use my name so they can look up the account. 

I always find it interesting when the TCH promotes buying
local and the newspaper is published in Yakima, the payments
go to Seattle and the help desk is who knows where. I
understand the newspaper business is a difficult one at this
point so I get that they are trying to save costs wherever
they can.

-Peter TURPING ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/10/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Rick MADDY ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma CULVERHOUSE ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl FRANKLIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl DeMERS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary BUSH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandi Szendre ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy STEIN ('71)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Newspapers!

I have been relegated to persona-non grata status with 
this daily E-paper. I am sorry, I have found it to be more
enlightening, more comforting, more enjoyable than most!
Apparently I pissed in too many bowls of post toasties. 

Please ,,, those of you that can remain entertained by the
mundane, continue to enjoy! 

	[I believe what Rex is talking about 
	is I won't let him put politics in 
	the AlumniSandstorm. So it's the 
	politics that is persona non grata -- 
	not Rex himself!! -Maren]

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: Tri-City Herald

You know, it used to be a newspaper. I haven't subscribed in
many years' but still bought the Sunday edition and got the
TV schedule. I would buy a copy now and then when there was
something I knew about and wanted to read. Twice within the
last week I saw the TCH at a store and checked it out; looked
awful thin to me. Twelve pages, that is really three sheets
of newsprint with four pages printed on each sheet, then
folded together and folded once again to make it easy to
handle. Checked out the price; they wanted $2.00 for that!!!
They're out of their cotton'-pickin' mind if they if they
think I am paying that much for that little bit of nothing.

I know, they are having problems so they produce less to cut
costs and charge more, which causes more people to cancel 
and not buy, which leads even more cuts and to more price
increases and becomes a death spiral. I expect soon it will
be RIP for the Tri-City Herald--too bad.

Just a few days ago I ran across the receipt from just over
ten years ago for my mother's obituary. The obit wasn't all
that long, just 6 1/4 inches but it cost $96.68. I thought at
the time that was a high, wonder how much they would charge
today. I was very surprised I still had it but decided to
keep it and put it in the envelope with the laminated copy of
the obituary Einan's funeral home sent me.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: CAR 54 Where...

Re: 101 Lovers

I have a lot on my mind today.

I have been isolated in my Huntington Beach, CA apartment
since March 16, 2020. The last night that the Longboards Bar
& Grill could stay open.

Isolation. Other than jacking my jaw to the woman punching in
my grocery tab.

I have had a lot of time to reflect upon my short life span
and what feels like the young would not care if I departed
unknown... to them anyway. The only thing I would tell them
is our founding fathers, if the British had got there hands
on them, they would have been hanged. {Political sentence 
deleted. -Maren]

Okay. Moving on. First, I do not understand why any Bombers
past the 1970s do not write into our Alumni Sandstorm.

So, I started drinking Jameson shots to focus - I am 17%
Irish - good enough for me. And probably answers a lot of 
my post comments. Nevertheless, my alcoholism has me asking
questions.

I have been single for 25 years now. I was married twice to
the same woman for 24 years (Mary HOUGHAN '69 WB) & we do not
communicate. Two children, one granddaughter and a great-
grandson.

Divorced, children of legal age and in 1999 I moved to Maui.
I was there for a little more than 2 years. While there I met
young women half my age. And men too. Where there are young
women, there are young men. I was 50. We got along fantastic.
Why? We were all there for the same reason. Weather.
Adventure.

9/11 happened and I came home into Lynnwood, WA. Got my son
and moved to Huntington Beach, CA.

Bare with me. I am getting there.

The Alumni Sandstorm showed up and all of a sudden I am
reliving my awesome childhood in a town that Walt Disney
should have named one of his 'Lands'. Ever since I have lived
in SoCal I tell people I grew up in the glowing Disney theme
park; Rich Land".

I live 15 miles from Disneyland.

Moving on. In the past 19 years I have met several women 
who are half my age or more and befriended them (bartenders,
cocktail waitresses). And we talk now and then about love,
marriage, sex, rock & roll, the Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita and
all sorts of interesting subjects. Taxes is not one of them.

Now here is the crux. Why is it, here in our Alumni
Sandstorm, we do not hear from the younger Bombers. They are
mute. No life? Nothing interesting to talk about? Zip? Like
life ended in the Bomber world in 1980?

I just mentioned these young women... and men (18-35) I 
talk to a couple, one, on a daily, sometimes monthly basis -
before Covid 19 outbreak, but several still text me to see 
if I am still alive or if they feel the need to dial 911.

OK. Here is my opine to younger BOMBERS. Man and Woman. My
neighbor, Luis. 40. He tells me that nobody gets married
anymore. Nobody wants children. Too expensive. Birth control
and disease are NUMBA UNO. The women he meets, and I have
been intro'ed to several have had more than 100 lovers
because of this phenomenon. (Will you marry me?)

My women friends: Lea (28). Emma (35) and Amanda (33) say
pretty much the same thing. None have never married. Not sure
of long term love, but always aware and good to go if. And
are not too freaked because they really cannot afford a moron
leaving them with a child or two. Nevertheless, the quest for
love, affection, trust, is a never ending story.

Of course, our children still get married. My son, (42) never
married, but lives with my wonderful daughter-in-law of 12
years. My daughter married two years ago and has been with
her husband for 31 years. No children. My granddaughter 25
(from my son), never married and raising my great grandson
who is 2.

My Q. Where are you 1980 - 2019 graduates of Richland High
School, formerly known as Columbia High School? Do you not
have a life? Nothing to say? Seriously? No life in Richland
and cannot wait to move to WallaWalla? Try affording
Huntington Beach, CA. Nothing to talk about or say about
growing up in one of the most awesome places... you have 
no idea? Be careful what you wish for.

WHY DO YOU NOT WRITE INTO THE ALUMNI SANDSTORM AND TELL US
ABOUT YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES IN RICHLAND, WA????

Do you hunt Jack rabbits at night?

Keggers in the desert?

Or do you not do anything but type 120 words a minute trying
to impress the world that you exist, but are nothing more
than just one of the 101 lovers?

-Rick MADDY ('67)
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10 Bombers sent stuff: 
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Jim RUSSELL ('58), Steve CARSON ('58)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Dick PIERCE ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim RUSSELL ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kurt JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken FORTUNE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Len PARRIS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SMYTH ('73_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob LYSHER ('81)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)

Re: Newspaper

It is with interest that I read all of the comments about the
TCH and the cost of subscription, etc... I have always had a
paper delivered to my doorstep for many years now, and have
noticed the changing quality of paper, political leaning of
most of the papers, and the price, which seems to vary... I
believe that readership has been dropping like a rock for
several years now, and none - zero - of my seven G'kids take
a paper... they read everything on their phones. Even 3 out
of 4 of my kids do not take a paper... But I can tell you
where they still make money and that's the obits... in July,
testing the waters to do an obituary for my lovely Edna, I
checked 4 newspapers for price based on the obit that we had
done for her... The TCH, the Everett Herald, the Sacramento
Bee, and the Fresno Bee... all places that we had lived or
she had grown up and where she still had many friends... 3 
of them are McClatchy, and one independent... the Tri-City
Herald's price for the obit was $362, and the Everett herald
was $320... the Fresno and Sacramento papers were over
$1500... according to the person I talked to in Kennewick,
each one is independent and can charge whatever... he also
said that the obituary part of the newspaper is alive and
doing very well. I opted to do the TCH and the Everett paper,
and sent a copy of the obit to those in the other areas in my
Christmas card... I felt strange sending an obituary in a
Christmas card, but my kids said it was the only way to let
everyone know that Edna is with the angels.

-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ in beautiful Murrieta, CA... sunny, and 
	in the low 70s
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)

Re: My Daily Routine

I awake to my alarm its 06:20 time to get up. First because
I woke up I assume my rebuilt heart (triple bypass 6 years
ago) is still functioning. Because I think that I assume my
replacement aorta valve up to my brain is functioning (same
situation as triple bypass 6 years ago). Then I hop out of
bed and because i don't fall over I assume my stainless steel
leg (car wreak 50 some years back) is still functioning. Only
then do I open my eyes and sure enough my nice new manmade
lenses are functioning. Yea I'm alive so I hop in the shower
and prepare for my day at work (still am employed 40 hour
week), but when I get home (about 6:30pm) I'm pooped and
gotta rest a bit before taking the dog for a walk! Other than
that I'm ready to do it again tomorrow and glad I can!

-Grover SHEGRUD ('56) ~ from good old Lynnwood, WA where it
	is not raining today and I'm looking ahead to my 
	retirement in the future (maybe this year).
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>>From: Jim RUSSELL ('58)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: where are the "younger" Bombers?

I have a theory that Richland stopped being "special" when
the houses were sold and the City was incorporated. Why?
Because at that time we lost our neighboring compounds,
started to lose track of our neighbors, retreated to our
bedrooms and amused ourselves with TV and computer games
instead of building forts, playing ball in the shared
backyards, and chasing after 4-wheeled mosquito-killers. In
other words, Richland became just another Eastern Washington
city not unlike every other medium-sized city across America.
Nothing to write home about.

I'd be curious what the subscription demographics are that
Maren keeps. Is there as big a drop off of subscribers as
there is a lack of corresponders? Probably. But I think 
it's because the generations that have come since our
neighborhoods were fenced-in no longer have the shared
memories and strong ties.

(As an aside, neighbors to my right and neighbors to my left
included Bill BERLIN ('56-RIP) and Jimbeaux ('63). Those were
exciting and creative years.)

Cheers,
-Jim RUSSELL ('58) ~ Mountlake Terrrace, WA
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Interesting post. Most of my Grandchildren (12) are in
committed relationships and not getting "officially" married.
I don't understand this Cultural Shift and it saddens me. 
I too have observed the aging of the Sandstorm contributors 
and am happy to hear from those who do participate and for
Maren. The Sandstorm is always my first read of the day. I
agree with the no politics policy so we can maintain our
Cultural civility.

Thanks for sharing, Rick.

-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Quite a romp, yours. A good read. I'm not from 1980-2019, but
might have a clue to what you ask: "My Q. Where are you 1980-
2019 graduates of Richland High School, formerly known as
Columbia High School? Do you not have a life? Nothing to say?
Seriously? No life in Richland and cannot wait to move to
WallaWalla?"

It's all about induced amnesia! Maybe, but COUNTERVAILING
BACKATCHAS are solicited....

I'm reminded of the high school graduate who was asked if he
knew who our national capital is named after. No idea, but
then this: "I can look it up on Google!" Or, the Harvard
Ph.D. diploma holder in American Literature, who on the
street was asked (a Jay Leno video clip) if she could
identify the most famous American novelist, one whose
initials are S.L.C. with nickname M.T., and the added hint
that he wrote "Huckleberry Finn". Nope, never heard of him.
Too much trendy graffiti and "intersectionality" stuff to
dabble in. Lotsa neat footnotes awaiting publisher applause!

As with thought, writing also requires memory and
interconnectedness. Not enough to be wrist-linked minute-to-
minute to a smartphone. Not enough to be dexterous with
Neanderthal opposable thumbs. Not enough to totally discard
Liberal Arts core courses to make room for Bill Gates
marketers and STEM. Not enough for the industrial-educational
complex to upstage Eisenhower's warning about the quaint
military-industrial complex. But, hey, who's this dude,
Ike?...

At my dissertation orals, one member of the
(interdisciplinary) committee complained to the others that
his graduate students (!) in Political Science had no
awareness of history prior to the Korean War. This comment
was in 1975, and I kid you not. Another grad student (in
Urban Planning) was flabbergasted that the 50 state
boundaries on a map of the U.S. were not always there: "you
mean, it was not always like this???"

So, in days of old--prior to 1980--Bombers grew up in a town
that, for better or worse, was directly connected to the
weighty themes of at least modern history. None of this 
post-modern stuff. Along with dust storms and basketballs,
historical connectedness was in the air we breathed. The
North Richland NIKE base, too, more than millionaire-
endorsement shoes.

But, what now? Just Google and The Cloud! Electronic
tribalism, maybe. As you note so well, even the idea of
"families" evaporates into thin air, even if only 
nuclear families (nice play on words, that) instead of
intergenerational families, or nations, or societies, or at
least Richland High School alumni. Instead of other Bombers,
clip-art and emojis.

It's all about induced amnesia and contemplation of one's
navel. "Whatever..."

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, this ain't WallaWalla,
	WA, but it might be a blue-ribbon Curmudgeonville, USA
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

Re: 11 January 2021

Happy Birthday to Kurt JOHNSON ('63)... picture could have
been taken yesterday.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/210111-63LC0amKtgn.jpg
			-jimbeaux

-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: Quest for Oxygen: Epilogue

The oxygen concentrator given us by Marian "Martie" WADE
Jenkins ('57) has been sitting in the corner of the master
bedroom chugging away like a champ for nine days now. We do
have one of those thingies to put on a finger and test the
oxygen level. My wife uses oxygen with her sleep apnea
machine and sometimes in the daytime. She had been without
oxygen for 29 days, except for the five days she spent in the
hospital. I found out and checked several sites that it is
illegal, FDA regulations, to sell oxygen concentrators
without a prescription. Amazon and ebay will not allow them
to be sold. I don't understand why, I can buy marijuana
without a prescription, Oregon just voted that just about 
any drug possible is now legal, but oxygen is a controlled
substance. Vonda's doctor has set her up for another sleep
study in a couple of weeks. We are going ahead with it so 
she can have a prescription and a medical supply company
available to take care of the machine. If her machine does go
out we do not want to go through this again.and we will have
the one from Martie as a back-up. Martie's machine has a card
from the medical supply company showing maintenance two or
three time a year. Ours never had any maintenance. They must
have gone out of the oxygen business just after bringing us
this one. It was a brand new machine but they never left 
us with a instruction book, never said anything about
maintenance and never told us anything except wash out the
foam filter once a week, and never told us they were going
out of the oxygen business and that the equipment was now
ours.

Medicare did not want to pay for an oxygen concerator for us
so now they will have to pay for two trips to the emergency
room, five days in the hospital. several doctor appointments
with kidney, heart, and pulmonologist, home visits with a
nurse, and physical therapist, a new sleep study, and . . .
drum roll . . . another oxygen concentrator.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

To: Rex HUNT ('53)

Keep posting---I can't say that I enjoy reading about all
your health problems, but I like that you can use this forum
to vent your frustrations with your health---hang in there,
we Bombers are a tough lot.

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: younger generation writing into the Sandstorm

Wonder, too, why they don't write---think they use FB and
other media outlets to do all their communicating---hate to
think that when all "we oldsters" die off, that the Sandstorm
will no longer exist. I don't write in all that often, but I
look forward to it being in my inbox, daily, and I miss it
when it isn't there.

-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Re: Mr. Leonard Sauer, retired teacher 
 
Many of you probably have some great memories and stories
about Mr. Leonard Frank Sauer. Sadly he passed away at the
age of 90 on January 1, 2021.

May you rest in peace, Mr. Sauer.

-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland 
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Re: Photo from quarantine attached
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210111_Quarantine_Pic.jpg

Finished reading Phil Jackson's Sacred Hoops this afternoon
in quarantine in Saipan. That started me thinking about my
old Chief Joseph Warriors basketball coach, Toivo Piippo. His
green tie on game days, his hat we touched as we left locker
rooms from Richland to WallaWalla, the story of how he made
a shot from flat on his back, WWII, so much more. I read
about his life, but like so many other things I chose to
disregard and disrespect, I regret not continuing to be a
part of most of it. 

So that led to some self-pity, but it's never too late. Back
to working with addicts and alcoholics to keep growing, and
taking care of so much undone business. 

I read the latest entry from Rick MADDY ('67). I, too, wonder
where the post-1980 graduates are when it comes to Sandstorm
entries. Is it because I moved from the continental U.S in
1980? Right. My humor is just something else to apologize
for. Maren, may I ask how many subscribers does the Sandstorm
have? 

	[Readership is ABOUT 600 and includes the
	daily hits from the AlumniSandstorm website.
	The most who received it in their inbox was
	2,000 the day I first asked for $$$ and that
	has steadily dwindled since that day. -Maren]

Lest I go too far, Rick, let's commit to some badinage off
site. 

Respectfully,
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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5 Bombers sent stuff: 
Jo MILES ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Ray STEIN ('64), Rick MADDY ('67)
Betti AVANT ('69)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Annie PARKER ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HUNT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Earl BENNETT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charles KNOEBER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug STRASSER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim CORREY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCOLLEY ('71)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Free at last

Today I quit Facebook and have not felt this alive and
refreshed since dumping Twitter 4 years ago. I look forward
to continuing to visit with my life-long Bomber friends
through the daily Sandstorm.

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

One of the reasons I open up the Sandstorm every morning is
hoping to see another post from you. Your ability to express
your thoughts and experiences about real life are truly great
gifts my friend. Keep us enlightened, and I would love to
have your weather in California right now.

Re: Next trip to Richland

I booked my reservation to visit Richland on June 25 and 26,
and am looking forward to a great class of '64 celebration!

Re: In the meantime

I am happily working on my next book about the Old West in
Toppenish 1884 - 1914. It is rip roaring real history from a
reservation town just a few minutes west of Tri-Cities. A
"teaser" photograph is attached, just one of many I have dug
up during some really fun research. 

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210112_StagecoachRace.jpg

 Bomber cheers,
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

Re: Retired Look-Alikes in the movies 

This was sent by another Bomber, Darla WISE Kennedy('60)...
thought it was pretty neat and thought other Bombers might 
enjoy it, too.
 
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)

Re: Coach Sauer (RIP)

I turned out for Track at Chief Jo and Leonard Sauer was my
coach. He taught me to Triple Jump and I can remember him
saying, "Even out your 3 jumps, stay low on your 1st jump to
maintain speed, and explode on your last 2 jumps!" Triple
Jump was NOT an event in Jr. High Track, NOR an event in HS
Track, but it WAS an Olympic Event. I remember going to
Spokane with other Jr. High tracksters to compete in an AAU
Track Meet where Triple Jump was an event. The only time I
competed in the Triple Jump at that age.

Fast forward to the Spring of my Sophomore year at WSU. Jack
Mooberry (WSU Track Coach) asked if I would Triple Jump for
the WSU team. The deal was that I only had to show up for
home meets and jump. I had last jumped at that AAU Meet in
Spokane, but I remembered Sauer's words, "Even out your 3
jumps, stay low on your 1st jump to maintain speed, and
explode on your last 2 jumps!" I had some success at the 
home meets and Coach Mooberry asked if I wanted to go to 
the Conference Championships at Stanford.

I should say that in those days my Sauer technique was
unique. Most Triple Jumpers did a Hop-Step-Jump. A big hop, a
short step, and a big jump. What modest success I had was
because of the way Coach Sauer had taught me the triple jump.
When I finished jumping at the Championships, I was in 3rd
place. Since the top 3 got medals, I was very happy. The
Officials told us that there was only one jumper left who had
one jump left and he was at another event and might not even
take his last jump. All the jumpers left the area and later I
was surprised to learn that the remaining jumper had edged me
out of 3rd place. Oh well, 4th wasn't bad for a guy whose
only coach was his Jr. High Track Coach.

Fast forward again about 25 years and I'm a Track Coach at
Central Valley HS. I tell my Triple Jumpers, "Even out your 3
jumps, stay low on your 1st jump to maintain speed, and
explode on your last 2 jumps!" One of my Triple Jumpers wins
the State Track Championship. He goes on to BYU on a track
scholarship and is WCC Freshman of the year in track. After
graduation he becomes a personal trainer and helps track
jumpers. I bet he tells his Triple Jumpers, "Even out your 3
jumps, stay low on your 1st jump to maintain speed, and
explode on your last 2 jumps!"

Thank you Coach Sauer and may you rest in peace.

-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Mead, WA
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: What's That Number On Your Arm?

To: Jim RUSSELL ('58)

I had my assumptions about this 'where are the 1980's and
beyond Bombers? And you basically cleared my mind from the
fog. I believe you to be 100% correct.

In hindsight, you got me thinking about what was going on in
my life after high school. c1974 after my first divorce. I
was renting a room from Russell BROWN ('66) in Richland on
Willard. $50 a month. What a gouger. After two years renting
from him, Russell came home from work - Hanford pipe fitter -
I told him my rent was now $75. He said okay.

I hate slumlords.

Now, during these days, ball park, I was running around with
Ron "Race" HANSEN ('67-RIP) and Fred "Fast Freddy" MORSE ('63).
I can only say we were going to the bars looking for women,
Duh! Drinking a lot of anything. Playing a lot of pool, 8
ball, eating cross tops (the stuff jet pilots ate to sharpen
their whatever) to make the balls slightly fuzzy and the
angles sharper...and playing PONG on an electronic game that
was on a tube, like a 13" B&W TV. Amazing. The future. Right
in front of my face.

Ne'r a jingle in my rag. Stock options were not even a
thought. Where was I? Well, broke. I had both my arms almost
blown off in Vietnam and the citizens of the United States
were paying me around $425 a month. I am rolling in dough,
but, had child support and dealing with something I could 
not get a hold of; mental illness without the illness. Just
something war and death and watching Marines and the enemy
die dealt me. It was what it was.

Kids today ...they do not care one bit for my sacrifice to
this country. They could not show you Vietnam on a map any
more than I could in June of 1967. Nor care. Unless their
grandfather, father, uncle or whomever died or sometimes
worse, crippled there.

I loathe this today's young generation of naiveté. And not
that I was a genius at their age. Nevertheless, there was a
war on and I was totally aware of the consequences of my
actions. Today's teenagers do not. Today these teens have
their own still being killed in war and we hear NOTHING from
them. I despise them!! Ahhh, like we said of the dead in
Vietnam, 'better him than me.' Now that thought is pure 
PTSD waiting to happen when you become a survivor. Pure and
simple. Like today's peers of the war dead care?

We had no Dick Tracy, Detective, gear on us. No cams. No
facial recognition. Nothing going across any foreign or
homeland wires denoting race, creed, political persuasion, or
anything. No such thing. I was 50 years old before somebody
asked me what political party I belonged to. I told them the
one that had the free booze, a BBQ fired up and lots of women
attending the party.

AND, just as I said, drinking shots of too kill ya, smoking
weed, which could get you life in a pen in Texas, and a visit
in front of the judge - forgot his name - had a letter bomb
sent to him - Kennewick. He told my mother I was a POS,
basically. And eating 'reds' (secobarbital sodium) and
dropping acid (LSD - Purple Haze, Orange Barrel, - yes, they
had names - which the Feds are now using on VA PTSD patients)
and of which we could have spent the rest of our lives in a
pen. Where is Dylan? These Times Are A Changin'.

These kids today who abuse each other on social media, bully
each other, actually. Try too ruin each other's lives because
of their body, looks, anything they can up with that makes
themselves ...special. And the only place they have contact
with one another is in the classroom, which has now been shut
down.

Social media, the gazillionaires who own them and we all
know who they are, will drop you for speaking your mind.
These children today who text 120 words a minute, playing 
PS4 games all day long, abuse each other on the many 
platforms online there are and do not know their neighbor -
hang on to your chair and go read the life story of Paul
Joseph Goebbels 1897-1945. READ A BOOK.

You are about one minute from losing your speech and
everything you thought was just a daily right of abusing the
fat kid. The blind kid. The booger eater. The cripple. The
SPED. You are special. Yes you are. But, not for long. They
will soon be rounding you and your parents up.

Just kidding.

-Rick MADDY ('67)
	Hey, PIERCE ('67), you have a visitor's room (4 nights
	max) on Saipan? I always wanted to visit that island.
	Hope you are good. You sound fine?
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

Re: younger Bombers

Rick MADDY ('67) commented on the younger Bombers and not
writing into the Sandstorm. We have had the same trouble
getting them to join Club 40. When we try to get their class
roster list they won't provide it saying that's private
information. When I first joined the youngest one attending
was in the class of '70 and she is married to an "older"
alumni. We now have a member of the class of '76 on the board
as a class rep. as he had moved back to Richland and his
mother is on the board and a member of the class of '55.

Re: As to the TCH 

I was offered the on-line version for $8.99/month; 7 days a
week with the Sunday comics and Parade magazine. A few ads
scattered throughout but not all the ones that come in
Sunday's addition.

Re: Mr. Sauer (RIP)

Mr. Sauer's obit was also in Sunday's TCH and it looks like
the picture was from his teaching days at Chief Jo.

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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6 Bombers sent stuff: 
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Fred AMES ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Rob TURPING ('65), Mike FRANCO ('70)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill WENDLAND ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob MOORE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Luda STAMBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David WILLIAMS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat RUANE ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Sharon and Karen POLK ('76)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: exciting news!

I seen a newspaper as I walked past a vending machine. 
Didn't buy it nor read it.

-Rex HUNT ('53wb)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

For those of you who care about such things; a reminder that
Friday the 13th falls on a Wednesday this month.

In other 13th new, it's Bill WENDLAND's ('54) birthday. I
think I'll wish him a "Happy Birthday!". If you happen to 
run across him somewhere, you might do the same.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Fred AMES ('60)

Re: My Two Bits

Well, Sandstormers, hello! I recently joined this sorta-blog;
my family moved to Richland in '48 and left for Cincinnati in
'56. Obviously, I didn't graduate from HS there, but it would
have been in 1960 if we had remained. I have few memories of
the kids I hung out with then. In fact, the only two I
remember much at all are Lee BOND ('60-RIP) and Kent SINKEY
('57-RIP), and since both of them have passed on I don't
really expect anyone to have any/many memories that include
me. I do recall trading comic books with another kid, but his
name is long gone from me!

My wife has a good friend from college whose daughter moved
to Richland a few years ago to work on the forever-ongoing
cleanup at Hanford; her mother followed a few years later,
and my wife and I went out to visit with her a couple of
summers ago. We took the train in, so her friend gave us a
quick tour of the city (her preference was taking us on
winery tours, which we were happy with!). She breezed by 
the places I had once lived - I spent a year or so at 1510
Ferrell Lane, then a bunch of years at 1315 Cottonwood, and
the final two years in Richland at 1609 Jadwin. My sister 
is amazed I remember the addresses, when I often forget
everything else! The places certainly looked smaller that\n
my childhood memories said they were, and all of them were
showing signs of wear, especially the place on Cottonwood.
The house on Ferrell Lane had a massive tree in the front
yard that was not even there as a twig when I was there -
really took me by surprise! 

Much of what I have read seems to be about either people
having ailments or the lack of participation by the younger
folk. I guess that age (and perhaps a bit of plutonium blow-
by) would explain the health concerns; my opinion about
participation would be that younger folks are not interested
in older folks complaining or reminiscing, AND they are also
of a generation that was not part of a real company town, as
we once were. They grew up in eras when Richland was not a
town with a mission that everyone was involved with, one 
way or another - they grew up in a town with a major
environmental problem that they probably thought was
somewhere in the middle of nowhere - or even a couple of
miles beyond that. And they just felt like escaping. And,
anyway, the Internet has intervened, and everything is so
different, now.

Just my two bits. 

-Fred AMES ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

In your most recent trip down memory lane you mention a 
Tri-Cities judge who was mailed a pipe bomb, but could not
remember his name. Try "Judge James J. Lawless." 1974. 
Here's a link:

Tri-Citis Judge Killed By Pipe Bomb

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Rob TURPING ('65)

Re: 2020 - The Year That Wasn't

Dear All,

We are sure you all feel the same. How many times did you ask
your friends and family: "How are you? What are you doing?" 

How many times did you end a conversation with: "Stay well,
stay safe?"

After that there wasn't much left to say. Odd how we all
knew, no matter where you were, what you were doing.

In past years, conversations would have entailed latest
adventures, weddings, graduations, birthdays, trips planned,
group gatherings... all of which, more or less, abruptly
ended in March.

Italy's lockdown lasted 88 days and was one of the severest
from early March through May.

Now our lives in Italy are dictated by a kaleidoscope of
colors based on Covid cases rising and falling.

Everyone prays for GIALLA (YELLOW) when life is almost normal
except for the wearing of masks, use of hand sanitizers,
temperatures taken at the grocery store and other public
places and social distancing.

ARANCIONE (ORANGE). We are in this part of the wheel now when
your movements are limited to your town, the number of non-
family members you can invite into your home - two. Bars and
restaurants are closed except for take out. Most shops are
closed unless they are deemed essential: grocery stores,
pharmacies, banks and interestingly the tobacco shops.

We will change to ROSSA (RED) on December 31 through to
January 6 when you are expected to remain home unless out 
for necessities: food, medical reasons, pharmacy and banking.
From past experience and given the concern for New Year
gatherings, the police will be out in force checking the
self-authorization papers you must carry with you stating
where you started, where you are going, for what reason and
when you will return.

After that the government will let us know which color and
hence rules we'll follow starting January 7.

Fortunately, we technically have been in YELLOW all this time
but the changing colors and tighter restrictions are being
used to try to prevent a third surge after the New Year. 
We are hopeful that it will work. For now, it seems to be.

All in all, our lives [here in Italy] have not been
inconvenienced much. In fact, if we look back at the year we
can point to a number of positives that came with Covid:

We sold our house thanks to an uptick in the real estate
market in the summer when people were again able to travel
across borders. Most buyers were looking for a place in 
the country with gardens and the famous Tuscan landscapes 
they see in the movies. Having spent their time in small
apartments during the lock down in Milan, London, Dubai,
Copenhagen, etc., they were eager for open spaces surrounded
by beauty and a sense of calm.

Our buyer, an American living in Amsterdam, became a fast
friend. Sally planned on moving in the first part of November
but fears of the borders closing due to the virus caused her
to come sooner rather than later. So for the month of October
we were a family of four (that would include her sweet dog,
Boo.) We picked olives together, we cooked, drank wine and
talked late into the night. We discovered we had several
mutual friends in common. The fact that she is a fabulous
cook (check out her recently published cookbook "Just Cook
with Sally" and her blog justcookwithsally.com) was a real
bonus! Sally cooked, Sheryl was the sous chef and Rob cleaned
up. The only downside... we both gained 5 pounds!

Covid also forced us to pause and look at all the beauty
around us. We thought we understood 'living in the moment'
but it took on a new meaning when our days weren't dictated
by familiar routines but instead by new experiments: making
bread, trying out new recipes, watching the Food Network
shows instead of political rants and even playing games which
we both detest!

The olive harvest was the greatest ever and the summer of
2020 was the best one in all our years in Italy. Like Sally,
others made their way to Italy and Cortona for a variety of
reasons. Most involved trying to escape from where they were
to a better place in which to 'ride out the storm.'

Our close group of friends at Andry's Bar in Pergo, dubbed
the Center of the Universe, expanded threefold with new
"immigrants" arriving daily. An Alitalia pilot out of work,
an elephant conservationist from Kenya, two Cambridge
students hanging out with their grandmother, a Microsoft
executive and his wife from Belgium, an American
linguist/translator from Berlin with his German wife and
charming young daughters, a couple from England and Malaysia
who came to their Cortona home for 2 weeks and are still
here! Fresh faces and younger ones, and children of all ages.
Typically, the coffee hour went from 9-10 but during these
Covid days it often stretched to noon. Fortunately, the
summer was a beautiful one so social distancing outside was
not a problem.

Pre Covid short emails to friends and family turned into long
epistles with the latest joke that was circulating. FaceTime,
Skype, Zoom made a long afternoon seem short. Virtual
birthday and aperitivo parties filled calendars. Scheduled
weekly calls were eagerly anticipated and rarely missed even
if they started out each time with "how are you and what have
you been doing" and ended with "stay well, stay safe."

Depending on the Covid and the vaccine rollout, we will 
turn the page and take up residence in our floating home in
Seattle this spring... returning to Italy for the harvest
and winter months.

We'll end with wishing you a healthy 2021 in the arms of
unmasked friends and loved ones!

		-Rob and Sheryl

-Rob TURPING ('65)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)

Re: general comment about "kids today"

I am prone to really react to gross generalizations about
entire generations or demographics. I recently read that
"kids today don't care..." about fill in the blank. My first
reaction is always how many of the 35 million of "kids
today" have you actually discussed this with? My last years
at Boeing and since I was involved in interviewing many of
"kids these days". Since that time in the six years I owned a
small radio station again I came into direct contact with a
lot of "kids these days". Just as our generation I found
MANY, MANY well educated, sensitive, very aware "kids". And I
met some not so aware, etc.

I agree that awareness of the Viet Nam period of conflict,
death, and destruction is not what it could be. I have been
told by more than one of my generation that Nazi atrocities
were grossly overstated. But before we write of entire
generations ask yourself how many of us graduated from
college with $50 K + in student loans. When did we face a
pandemic killing 3,000 plus of our fellow citizens, family
and friends DAILY? Everyone has their challenges.

My experience with "kids these days" has been mostly very
positive. A lot brighter and more socially aware than I was
in the early '70s as a "kids these days". Young people with
the support our teachers are our future. It has been a tough
year or more but we owe it to ourselves to keep the faith. As
far "kids these days" if some aren't quite how we would like
then pitch in and contribute.

I strongly apologize for this somewhat serious message. I
will avoid it in the future!

-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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9 Bombers sent stuff: 
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Rex HUNT ('53)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Dick PIERCE ('67), Rick MADDY ('67)
Lance WILLIS ('70)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan BAKER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane ARMSTRONG ('66)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)

To: Mike FRANCO ('70)

I have to agree with you about the gross generalization of
"kids today..." Many are smart, hardworking people who care 
a lot about the condition of the world and the people in it. 

To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

So glad you got the oxygen problem figured out for your wife. 

The four of us in this household are staying well and happy.
Tomorrow is Richland Bomber Terry SHEGRUD's ('54, '55, '56)
birthday and Saturday is the birthday of my sister-in-law.
They will both be 85. On Saturday I will host a small party
with Kay's niece and Terry's son and daughter-in-law. The 4th
person living here is my niece Kathi (NAB), eldest daughter
of Terry De VINE ('52).

-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in sunny but windy Richland 
	where winter has not yet arrived in full. Dirt on 
	the windows surely shows up on a sunny day!
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Paper!

ever notice there is no tax when you purchase a paper in a
vending machine but 7-11 always taxs the paper?

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Mike FRANCO ('70)

You are not overly "serious," and surely right about the
error of airbrushing an entire generation of 35 million 
"kids these days." And yet, taking your illustration... 

The banking industry induces the educational industry to
front for massive student loans (a dehumanized market
segment!), creating the generation of indentured servants 
you mention. Student debt of $50 K and up, bloating
administrative budgets and campus building projects with
seductive corner-offices with windows. Old school economics
tagged this as "rent-seeking," in that the university balance
sheets simply adjust upward to absorb the tapped revenue. A
rising tide really does lift some boats, while casting others
adrift.

One positive anecdote I would point to is an industrious
nephew of the sort you mention. Has a place in Virginia, a
thriving built-in cabinet business, a family with the oldest
headed for Annapolis, and a herd of cattle on the side. But,
of his now-generation employees, he confides... 

"I watch them show up in the morning and then take off in the
evening. Almost like robots. They do 'thing A' and then
'thing B', week after week. I ask them, what is your goal,
your purpose? They do not seem to even understand the word:
'purpose'. Nomads. Totally 'ungrounded.' But, when they do
finally open up, they say it all... 'we feel abandoned'."

A generation abandoned? So, you conclude, "As far 'kids these
days,' if some aren't quite how we would like, then pitch in
and contribute." My inadequate contribution for the "some"
was a book using their title ("A Generation Abandoned", 2017).
The cover image shows a glazed over mob of nomads of all 
ages (not only "kids these days") packed into a Spanish
cathedral-all intent on, what, taking selfies! (Meanwhile
Turkey's President Erdogan converts Constantinople's historic
Hagia Sophia cathedral (537 A.D.) from a public museum into
an Islamic mosque. Signaling another rising cultural threat
to future generations in Europe and the West.)

None of what might be said here, back and forth about all
this, need be censored as "political." Instead, politics is
downstream from culture and much of the culture is pretty
unfriendly, especially for "kids these days."

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

The Sandstorm post today (1/13) by Mike FRANCO ('70) hit the
nail on the head! The younger generation is indeed a good one
and not uncaring as has been portrayed by some.

I'm very proud of the young people that I have come into
contact with over the years through my grandkids: Cameron
JENKINS ('16) and Sydney JENKINS ('19).

I know I never had the drive to succeed at the level these
young people have set for themselves. I feel that the world
is in great hands as we older generations hand over the reins
of responsibility to the upcoming youth.

-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in warm and blustery Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Mike FRANCO ('70)

Re: "kids today"

I have been hearing the term "kids these days" since I was a
kid.

Yep things change, today's kids don't have any idea what bits
are in relation to money, they don't know what the term
"sounds like a broken record" means, and I remember someone
posted in the Sandstorm years ago something like when her
grand-kids come over they would ask if they can play
grandpa's big-CDs.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)

Re: "Kids today..."

Here is one example of "kids today":

In the 6th grade, our granddaughter was studying formal logic
and reading books like "The Bondage of the Will" by Martin
Luther (16th century), "On the Incarnation" by Saint
Athanasius (4th Century), and "Saint Augustine's
Confessions" (also 4th Century). That among other fairly
rigorous subjects.

It's quite something to sit with a 6th grader while she
identifies the formal logical fallacies of the person
speaking on the news.

She and her school may not be typical but they give me some
hope.

-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Re: Smartphones, youth & the Sandstorm

I have claimed residency in the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, USA, on the capital island of Saipan, for
the past 41 years. The photo in the 1/11/21 Sandstorm
 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210111_Quarantine_Pic.jpg
was taken from the balcony of a tourist resort hotel which is
currently being used as a COVID-19 quarantine site. In that
photo, in the upper left corner, is the neighboring island of
Tinian in the distance. Four miles away. As those familiar
with Hanford's history know, the island of Tinian was where
the Enola Gay B-29 departed from Runway Able on its mission
to Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. I met the Enola Gay's
pilot, Paul W. Tibbetts, at the same runway in June of 2004
during an anniversary dedication.

	[Runway Able story . -Maren}

So goes interconnectivity?

That said, I recall being on a ferry one morning from
Bainbridge to Seattle. I bumped into a white haired lady,
maybe 15 years my senior. I apologized and said I was just
like a kid with my smartphone attached to my face. She said
(more, or less), "If it weren't for those phones our economy
would collapse, and it's what keeps the world spinning
around", with a big smile and a twinkle.

And, just like my mother used to yell at me from downstairs,
"How many times are you going to listen to that song
(Beatles)?", I recall hearing how unnecessary all the rest
of newly emerging technology was. I suppose, in a way, it was
the same frustration we have about the "strange ways" of the
young now. I remember a creative writing course's instructor
laying into our class, "Everyone is so me, me, me these
days."

I mean, we were given Huxley to read. Isacc Asimov, Clarke,
Heinlein. 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, Planet of 
the Apes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, let alone War of 
the Worlds, Close Encounters, Clockwork Orange, Robocop,
Terminator, The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Blade Runner, 12
Monkeys (watched it last night for the first time)... (I am
much more fascinated by science fiction than historical
accounting.)

Be patient.

One trip into mainland China in 1997, I went as far north as
the Ice Festival in Harbin, returning to Hong Kong. I was
inspecting factories for recruitment purposes. My lady friend
said we had to backtrack to receive a passport as hers had an
error in processing (I asked no questions). We took a rickety
train from Shenzhen to Guangzhou (the most polluted city 
in the world). I could not believe my eyes. We would pass
through, in a blink of those eyes, the world's largest
squalor and hellholes, then suddenly be in the most modern 
of structures and cities. Rapidly. How could there be such a
difference within the same country. After that trip I wished
many times I could live another 50 years to see what would
be. 

The point: I suppose I am an optimist as a matter of
necessity. While I immerse myself in Native American
cultures, practices and principles, and Zen to make Zense of
it all, I am fascinated by the youth of today. Our son and
daughters are way ahead of me in so many ways. For every time
I get frustrated with them and their noses in their phones, I
realize they will do things I have never dreamed of. I get
frustrated, too. On a number of occasions I've said to others
if there was interplanetary travel I'd be out of here. And,
you know, there will be. Not for me, but for them. Surely,
they will have a better sense of perspective? That's another
science fiction movie!

So I should know this. I am from the Atomic City. I grew up
and lived in what would precede what our parents had a hand
in. This may have a lot to do with why the younger Bombers
don't participate in the Sandstorm... here goes: Just like
they changed the name of my junior high school from the Chief
Joseph Warriors to the Eagles, someday the Bombers will no
longer ring relevant. Or, the pressure will be too much. Here
in Saipan and Tinian, now younger tourists come from Japan
and Asia not to witness WWII sites, but for the sun, beaches
and shopping and to see a part of America (they think). 

I could say, "There for the grace of God go I", but I prefer
to be a part of what will be because there is One.

Rick Maddy ('67), you are more than welcome to visit me. I
hope you do. I'd wait for this pandemic to clear, but you are
welcome.

Respectfully,
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: Yada Yada

First Up To Bat

My heading for the last post: 'Whats That Number On Your Arm'?

Maren asked me about that, so, I will explain that. - Had
nothing to do with Nazi's. Just one of those days of which I
have had too many (days, not shots). I was angry. In Seattle
downtown and walked into a tattoo joint. Told the artist I
wanted this number tattooed on my forearm. He did not want 
to do that. So, he had me sitting there for a good hour and
started work on another customer. I bet he asked me three
times if I was sure.

I told him I was not a name, just a number the government
threw into a garbage can upon our death. He put the number on
my arm. I had been home for a year. I was 19. Tattoo is on my
right forearm. I have been asked many times if I am a Jew.
Was I in the camps. Mind-blowing moments in my life of plain
stupidity. Not mine. I tell kids it was my third wife's phone
number. It is actually my name when I was in Vietnam - my
USMC military service number. Marine Corps stopped using
service numbers in July 1969. I have heard they are back, but
not totally sure about that.

Moving on.

To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Judge Lawless. That is him. He had not one good comment for
my mother or I in his courtroom - I was a junior at Col. Hi.
Summer '66, I believe. I could not say he was wrong. And I
felt the same way about him.

That was a tragic ending for Judge Lawless. Incomprehensible
act upon his life.

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I have to agree 100% with Mike FRANCO ('70). Generalization
of any group is probably not a good way of describing the
realities of children or just about anything.

I do fall into that mistake now and then, and probably would
be a good idea for me to use words like, one, two, three, a
few, many, most, a lot ...the word all; never.

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I will beat a drum now for a bit. I graduated from EWU in
1995 with a BA Education, Special Education. That is what the
diploma says. I was 45. My classmates were half my age and we
had a very healthy mutual respect of one another. And the
young women were way prettier than I recalled in high school
(Rick, you just said a joke.)

Prior to going back to college (something Gary NELSON ('67-RIP)
strongly advised) I had coached girl's basketball 1982-1992.
One year as assistant and the rest as the head coach. Fifth
and sixth grade for two years. Seventh and eighth grade
combined for two years. Fall 1990 I went back to college at
Wenatchee Valley College for two years. My daughter had
graduated from there in June 1990. She was a basketball
player since fifth grade and my assistant coach in my final
year of coaching in 1992 after four years with the East
Wenatchee - Eastmont Jr. High Freshman girl's teams.

The Freshman girls, I found it quite rewarding to coach
girls that were very high functioning in the classroom and 
on a court of basketball. I also coached the 15 and under
Wenatchee High school girls in the summer for two years in
the AAU program.

After graduation from EWU, I started subbing in the
Northshore School District in Snohomish County. I lived in
Bothell with my son. An EWU college buddy asked me to sub in
his severe and profound special education class. I started
that and could pretty much work as much as I wanted with the
other SpEd classes in the district. The severe and profound
classes were challenging. I subbed until Sept 1999 and moved
to Maui.

When I start describing how I 'feel' about kids it is the
ones over 12 years of age on the most part, but even the
younger ones can also be very cruel. The 13-35 group is the
one than I particularly like to complain about. The 18-35 are
the one's I have a lot of issues with. I only call them kids
because I am 71. I was wounded in Vietnam at the age of 18 &
9 months.

I still talk and visit with my very good friend of thirty-
eight years and my daughter's (she will be 51 in March) 6th
grade teacher. He lives in NC out in the woods about a mile
from SC border and makes great moonshine. Steve taught sixth
grade for 25 years in WA and then moved back East. In his
years at Rainer Elementary he would call me when his class
was going on a field trip (who does that any more?). I was
coaching at the time. Steve is who got me started in my
coaching b-ball.

We would head out into the woods looking at fauna and flora.
Crawdads out of a stream. Boil them in a coffee can. Eat
them. That was fun watching. I was tail end Charlie. The
children who were the outcasts and friendless, so to speak,
would usually gravitate to the end of the trail where I 
was. Those special needs kids are not always in a special
education class. They would not say much, but many would 
hang onto my arm or hold my hand. And none were ever bullied
in front of me.

I did this for six years and moved to Wenatchee.

I will stop with this. I will try harder to use all those
one, two .... words more often when I post.

Steve told me one day most teachers can pick out the kid
headed to the penitentiary by the fourth grade.

-Rick Maddy ('67)

One Photo: The King (name unknown) and Queen (Kathy Brown)
Seattle Seafair. This is a US Navy photograph taken by HM1 W.
H. Hardman USN. Bremerton Navy Hospital 31-Jul-1968. I had
been wounded 28-Feb-1968. They had finally attached my
forearm (fused) to my upper arm. I have not touched my face
in 52 years with my left hand. Nevertheless, I can feel a
woman's boob and hold a can of beer with it. And it is better
than plastic and metal.

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210114_USN-Hosp1968.jpg

-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Lance WILLIS ('70))

Lance here

I think it would be great if we could "like" a post by a
classmate. Show we read it. Maybe not a "like" but something
similar. Just a thought
	-L

-Lance WILLIS ('70)
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5 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54), Marc LEACH ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Jo MILES ('64)
John FLETCHER ('64)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron RICHARDS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Les TADLOCK ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ronna Jo LYNCH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patty YARGER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FREEMAN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy SCHILDKNECHT ('71)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED: Wendy CARLBERG ('64-RIP)
 http://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/WendyCarlbergRemembered.html

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: 
		Roger FISHBACK ('62) & Sandy JONES ('65)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

All this talk about what is "wrong" with today's younger
generations reminds me of a song from the musical "Bye-Bye
Birdie": "Kids, what's the matter with kids today?" Think
this sort of thing has been going on since there were
generations. Never could see all the hoopla over Elvis.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)

Re: Remembering Leonard Sauer (RIP)

Leonard Sauer did me a solid in 8th Grade by advising me not
return to football unless I gained some weight. I think I
only got off the bench twice in a game but got slammed around
plenty in practice by the likes of Darrel RENZ ('63-RIP) and
Frosty BERG ('63). I had only gone out for the team [pic #3]
in hopes of getting close to a particularly sexy majorette
{pic #2]. I took his advice and it was the end of my football
career and romance but he did hand me a letter [pic #1]
(minor class). Probably saved me a lot of joint pain later on.

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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Fred Ames ('60)

Re: Two bits

I remember when was a kid it was quite common to refer to
bits as money. There were eight bits in a dollar so each bit
is 12 1/2 cents. This seemed to only be used by old fogies,
you know, our parents' age, you know, people who were younger
than we are now. Then there is the old cheer, "Two bits, four
bits, six bits, a dollar, all for (insert school name here)
stand up an holler." I always thought that was a clunky way
of doing things. If someone said it was six bits you had to
think, two bits to a quarter, so six bits in three quarters,
which is 75 cents. Why not just say "75 cents?"

Spanish dollars made of silver were minted starting in
the 15th century and used by the Spanish empire. They were so
widely circulated throughout the world.and were even legal
tinder in the United States until 1857. One Spanish dollar
was worth eight reals and were scribed on the back so it
could be broken up into as much as eight pie shaped pieces.
That is why they were called pieces of eight. It seems to
have fallen out of the lexicon, except that two-bit is used
so say it is not of much value, although back in the day 
they were worth a lot more. Two or three years ago I asked 
a twenty-something teller at the bank if she knew what bits
were in relation to money. She had no idea, but the twenty-
something male teller at the next window did know about
breaking the coins up.

To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: Judge Lawless

I only remembered his last name. I remember hearing about 
it while sitting on a couch on Barth street in Richland
listening to a little transistor radio. I don't know why I
was listening on a transistor radio when in the same room I
had my stereo setup with a great receiver. What amazed me is
that it was not local news, it was national news I heard it
over. I always thought, a judge named "Lawless," I bet he
took some ribbing over that. Just thought I would put my two-
bits in.

Re: Wendy CARLBERG ('64-RIP) (1946 - 1996)

Wendy was chosen "Girl of the Month" article in the Columbia
High School SANDSTORM front page (2/28/64)

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-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Girls' Basketball

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Like you, there are few joys greater than having coached
girls' basketball. Thank goodness we have team photos to
remind us. When you look at the picture, don't let those
harmless looking smiles fool you. On the court and on the
soccer field yesterday's "youth" were fearless young women
who shed their blood, sweat, but not tears all the way to the
state tournament (my daughter is in the back row, far right
on the end - her son is in college now).

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210115_Girls_Hoops.jpg

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: John FLETCHER ('64)

Re: Newspapers, utilities & 

We subscribe to the Oregonian, home delivery with on-line
access. It comes on Wednesday and Sunday. We pay monthly, 
but it comes to $307 per year. Newsstand is $3.00 week-day, 
which is what our delivered paper costs. We subscribe to the
Gresham Outlook, also 2 times a week delivered in the mail
for $44 per year. Both are good papers. I rarely read the
Oregonian on-line, but do print off the puzzles on the days
we don't get the paper. I also print puzzles from the USA
Today website, which is a freebie.

I am not enamored of sitting in front of the computer. I
wrote consulting reports for 20 years and drove and flew all
over the greater northwest. Driving and computers are in my
rear view mirror. 

Re: Kamiakin Country

I do read Kindle books when a hard copy is not available,
such as KAMIAKIN COUNTRY by Bomber Jo MILES ('64). This is an
excellent historical book and recommended reading. I do have
a question for Jo: How many file cabinet drawers of notes and
references do you have for this book? 

Re: Water/sewer costs. 

Here in Gresham, OR our water/sewer bill averages $90 per
month (small house, small lot). How does this compare to
other areas?

Re: One other mention on newspapers: 

Beloved Col-Hi journalism teacher Mr. Madden taught us the "5
Ws and 1 H" -- Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. Read some
short articles in your paper and count 'em off. You might
typically get 4 and be left Wondering (which is not one of
the 5 Ws). Sometimes it's the fault of the copy desk whacking
on an article to make it shorter to fit the shrinking paper.
I hope so.

-John FLETCHER ('64)
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Jo MILES ('64), Anita FRAVALA ('73)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TRACY ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barry BYRON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary TELFER ('61) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean SCHWINBERG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich SNIDER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue FOSTER ('67) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lucinda BARR ('69)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Re: Newsprint Prices And Culture

As one would expect, the newsprint price in big-city Seattle
is outa sight. $188.50 per quarter, not counting the tip to
the delivery guy/guyette. Some time ago I negotiated to find
that the price could be reduced clear down to $176.00! A lot
thicker than the Tri-City Herald, especially with the daily
and Sunday wads of ads that went directly to the dumpster.
Dropped it all for on-line at $3.99 per week.

As for the our modernday "culture", and the industrious
"kids-these-days" and the nephew I mentioned a few days ago:

There he was, still holed up a short piece outside o' yonder
township of Cottonwood, on the forested-gully Camas Prairie
in north central Idaho. The spur line railroad folded 
for good in 2000, and the place has stayed at about 900
population even since I first visited, earlier in 1973. When
I was immediately smitten and entered into one of the finest
marriages in all of human history. (Terence Know, aka Terry 
DAVIS' ('65) real High Country Marriage Proposal!). After not
quite 27 years my Kristi was taken by cancer in 2001...

But, back to the "culture" thingy. It seems a city-slicker
from Seattle (!) weaseled a business permit outa the
overalls-and-business-as-usual Cottonwood town council. But
then the ship hit the sand-the town folk caught wind o' the
deal and didn't take to it too kindly. The tax-generating
business, slated to fill a vacant store site on the boardwalk
smack dab in the middle of main street (almost the only
street), was to be a sorta evening social hall... with extra
rooms upstairs. The outa-towner already had in tow a "stable"
of "hostesses" from the big city.

'Bout this time my grow'd up nephew (now the Virginia cabinet
maker and rancher mentioned a few days back) an' one o' the
four grow'd up brothers of his'n moseyed up to the front door
of the refurbished streetfront the week before the grand
opening. And had words with this 'ere new proprietor in 
suit-and-tie and not yet many whiskers. A diminutive sort 
who didn't quite get the complex local culture in Big Sky
Country. Cottonwood is a roster of sturdy and intergenerational
family histories, and is overlooked by a massive stone
monastery (fronted with two lofty and red-capped "twin
towers).

A polite chit-chat ensued. The smooth-faced interloper said
his piece: "off the top I make $500,000 a year." Mused the
two brothers, in sleeves rolled to the elbows, that since he
was such a smart dude, maybe he could succeed in some other
line of business, and maybe somewhere else? On the bannered
opening night, the piano was silent, the tables and chairs
were empty, the sarsaparilla and other libations stayed
corked, and the only stable in town was still he one in 
the lore of proud town history. No one came, not one. The
outsider blew town shortly before midnight. Left the key in
the door.

A mystery, this, to the really soft-spoken and deep-throated
two brothers, my nephews. Couldn't figger out what they might
o' said to the slicker who already had so many chips in the
pot. "Just look at yourselves," I suggested.... bacon, beef and
corn fed since birth; both over six feet tall and the smaller
of the two weighing in at 250 pounds, the larger at 280. No
fat. Wedged between these two, the slicker had to get outa
Dodge jest to find a gulp of air. H'ain't been back in
fifteen years, not here nor anywhere else on the Prairie.

Moral: Even in our culture of emails and texting, in-your-
face body language still communicates.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA but "my heart is in the 
	highlands a-chasin' the deer" (Robert Burns). For a 
	good look at the awesome railroad trestles winding up 
	from the Lapwai Indian Reservation (part of Chief 
	Joseph's band) near Lewiston to the high-country Camas 
	Prairie, take another look at "Breakheart Pass" (1975) 
	with Charles Bronson and his real-life wife Jill 
	Ireland.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Re: "kids these days"

I never thought of that song from the play/movie "Bye-Bye
Birdie" with its song "Kids, what's the matter with kids
today." The Thespians did that play when I was in High
School, although I have been unable to find the year by
looking through the "Columbians." In the play version Conrad
Birdie does not appear until nearly the end. When the actor
came out on stage I heard an adult lady sitting behind me
say, "Is that Elvis or is that Elvis." I remember thinking,
no, that is not Elvis, but I couldn't think of why. He wore 
a gold suit although it was a dark gold not the bright gold
like the one Elvis had, also imitated his moves, but it just
was not Elvis to me. I wasn't until after I got home that I
realized his suit had baggy, and I mean really baggy pants.
Elvis was known for wearing tight pants.

The play is more about the Dick Van Dyke part while the movie
is more about the Ann-Margret part. This made Dick Van Dyke
very unhappy; I can understand that because he had played
that part on Broadway. I do have a 45 with Ann-Margret
singing the theme song with her picture on the slip cover.
Need to figure out how to use ebay and see if anyone wants to
buy it.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

To: John FLETCHER ('64)

Re: Kamiakin Country

Thanks for asking,"How many file cabinet drawers of notes and
references do you have for this book?" Answer: Twenty-three
banker boxes, fifteen original history volumes (1889-1910),
12 microfilms from the National Archives, and a 20 page index
to catalog everything. (All to publish a 200 page book and
six journal articles.)

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210116_Kamiakin_files.jpg

Re: Utilities

In Yakima it costs about $110 per month in July for water,
sewer, and garbage in a 1900 sq ft house with a modest yard.

Re: Newspaper:

We get delivered in Yakima a daily paper 7 days per week for
$325 per year plus I tip our carrier $50 per year and I am
darn happy to pay it to receive a legitimate free press
written by real journalists.

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)

Re: Ramblings

Even though I sat in front of a computer my entire career
(attorneys pump out those briefs all day long), in retirement
I still drink my two cups of coffee every morning while
reading the newspaper and catching up with friends on my
computer - then it's turned off for the day.

I also read my Kindle daily. Did you know you can "borrow"
ebooks from the library that download directly to your
Kindle)? When we traveled (before COVID-19) my Kindle fit
nicely in my backpack and went all over the world with me!

I do have a pet peeve with anyone who writes articles for
newspapers, magazines, posts on-line, etc. I don't know if
they don't care, if they really haven't learned it in school,
or if there just isn't any QC anymore. Do people really not
know the difference between there, their, or they're; here or
hear; to, too or two; etc.? I had to get after my 42 year old
son when he posted something on Instagram and used one of
these words wrong. I know computers change spellings of words
sometimes but don't people check their work before sending/
posting anymore?

My 45 year old daughter is a director at the company she was
recruited from college in 1996. She prefers to hire older
people as they have the same work ethic she was raised with.
She says the younger people she has come across, and worked
with, don't have it. She was disgusted when a group of
interns came into the lunch room barefoot. She asked them why
they thought it was okay to walk around an office barefoot,
much less come into the lunch room barefoot where everyone
was eating. They said they do it at home. She had to explain
to them that it was an office and what they do at home and
what they do in a professional office are two different
things. These were adults about to graduate from college
after 4 or 5 years. Are they not being taught this at home,
or even at school?

I don't post much but read the Sandstorm daily. Everything I
read about from the older generation we did as kids, too! One
of my best memories as a kid was riding my bike to the big
pool the minute it opened every single day of the summer but
I had to be home by 5:00. When I was in high school we
stopped going to the big pool and instead went out to the
lagoon! Those were the days!

My fondest memory was running across the street to visit with
my grandfather (Maynard Edens) when we was driving the bus
out to Hanford or to one of the Areas! He drove those buses
his entire career. He would park on Basswood right across
from our house on Duportail and wait 5 minutes for
passengers. I always knew it was him because he honked 
before he made the turn!

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-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62), Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
Jo MILES ('64), Winston McCULLEY. (74)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denis SULLIVAN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teresa HOLMES ('93)
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>>From: Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)

Re: Kids these days

With all the "kids these days" comments I started thinking
about what Socrates was supposed to have said: 

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt
for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love
chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not
the servants of their households. They no longer rise when
elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter
before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates (469-399 B.C.) 

Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato

I know every generation thinks, "I wish kids nowa days were
more like we used to be". Maybe society really hasn't changed
all that much after all? But since the incident at the
Capital I've been thinking maybe it has. And why? The only
thing I've been able to come up with is "The Draft". 

Before '73 all young boys (well almost all) out of high
school were drafted. War aside, that experience helped form
us into the person we each eventually became. I know for
myself growing up in a fairy book city, I was never exposed
to life in the real world. The military changed all that in a
hurry. Not only was I exposed to people and ideas I'd never
even thought of, I was taught (shown) how to "accept and
work" in an environment completely different than I was used
to. Maybe I didn't believe in all of it, but it worked and it
was something I could accept.

After giving this a lot of thought I've come to the
conclusion, bringing back the draft might not be such a bad
idea for our country.

Hopefully it would make our nations young think differently
about themselves and their future.

-Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)

Re: Wars

I assume you have read Pacific Northwest Indian Wars. I have
it. There is another good book about northwest manhunts.

Best Regards
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re; Mr. Sauer

One of the teachers that made a big impact on my life was
Leonard Sauer at Chief Joseph Junior High. We used to watch
color slides of him and John Meyers in the wilderness back-
packing throughout the Cascade Mountains. That sparked a
life-long passion in me that led to many back-country hikes
and campouts in Washington and Oregon including segments of
the Pacific Crest Trail.

Mr. Sauer's mechanical drawing class taught me how to make
conceptual drawings that real architects and engineers were
able to understand during a 35-year career in public
administration.

Seriously, I kept all the drawings from 1960 - 1961 including
his corrections. (My desk is #26).

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210117_Desk_In_Scale.jpg

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Winston McCULLEY (74)

Re" Letter of hope

My life long friend Mike DAVIS ('74) is in need of kidney 
donor. Below is a letter he has written. This is the 
beginning of what I hope is a short search. 

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/McC/210117_Davis_Hope_Ltr.jpg

-Winston McCULLEY (74)
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tedd CADD ('66)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Missy KEENEY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeannie SHANKS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy O'NEIL ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob DeGRAW ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila DAVIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie MARSHALL ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eric HOLMES ('90)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Mac QUINLAN ('62)

Re: Culture drift and the Draft

There's much to be said for your proposal that the Draft
would JUMP-START maturity in many members of the younger
generation. One need only compare a skateboard 18-year-old of
today to the landing craft 18-year-old at Normandy... 

On the other hand, can one really sew a new patch on an old
wineskin? Consider that today the mandatory CULTURAL
requirement would be that all women also register for the
draft. This under the slogan of "equality"-when women are
already equally free to volunteer, or not. (Lest I be branded
a male chauvinist pig, this writer fully supports the recent
appointment of the qualified [and volunteer!] lady-type Capt.
Amy Bauernschmidt to command the nuclear aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln, CVN 72.)

But, again, one-size-fits-all UNIVERSAL CONSCRIPTION is a new
cultural invention, dating back only to the Reign of Terror
in France (which amputated all of Western Civilization 
prior to 1789), and then was totally imposed under Napoleon, 
who surmised that in Europe all nations great and small,
especially Germany and then even Russia, should be French
fried. Said the English critic, Edmund Burke, of 1789: "those
who destroy everything likely remove some abuse."

In EARLIER TIMES it was only dynastic houses and the warrior
class who went at it, with the rest of society-the butcher,
the baker, and the candlestick maker-not directly involved
except as likely road kills. Of today's kitchen-blender
social collectives, with ALL of society mobilized, is
anything else even thinkable anymore? ("Thinkable!": more 
on this below.)

True, with boot camp a real personal transformation begins
even in the first 24 hours... 

But how does one undo what today ails SOCIETY as a whole-if
there still is a "society"? Universal conscription: part 
of relentless cultural assimilation into a centralized
Administrative State? More recent than Socrates or Plato, an
equally(!) sober or pessimistic American observer had the
following to say about our own history:

"It is idle to talk about the wreck of Western civilization.
It is already a wreck from within. That is why we can hope to
do little more now than snatch a fingernail of a saint from
the rack or a handful of ashes from the faggots, and bury
them secretly in a flowerpot against the day, ages hence,
when a few men begin again to dare to believe that there was
once something else, that something else is thinkable (!),
and need some evidence of what it was, and the fortifying
knowledge that there were those who, at the great nightfall,
took loving thought to preserve the tokens of hope and
truth." (Whitaker Chambers [Communist turned Quaker, and
author of "Witness," Random House, 1952], in a letter dated
August 5, 1954, in "Cold Friday," Random House, 1964).

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA with an activated draft 
	number; and half French, but also half German.
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)

Re: Military Draft

A search of Draft statistics during the Vietnam War era 
found that there were 27,000,000 eligible for the draft 
and 2,215,000 were drafted. I was surprised at how many
volunteered.

I'm not sure how I would be counted. I got a draft notice
from the US Army in the early fall of 1969. I had the
physical in Spokane but was not inducted at that moment. The
Army was desperately looking for cannon fodder as that was
the year of the infamous Tet Offensive. But I "volunteered"
to join the US Air Force. "Volunteered" is in quotes since 
I was attending school at WSU, newly married with a child 
on the way. But joining the Air Force seemed a better
alternative to the US Army at that point.

The percentages for ground troops over there were not very
good. So, I went looking for another service. The USAF 
sent me to Vietnam in 1972. But I was working in photo
intelligence identifying tactical targets to protect our
troops on the ground. Not in combat but taking cover when
rockets came in.

Why was I, a married college 0''''''''''student, drafted?
During my Freshman year, I attended CBC for one quarter in
the fall of 1966 then transferred to WSU in January.1967. I
was full-time at CBC and at WSU. But in my Junior year, the
draft board decided to recalculate my hours at CBC at a
semester rate rather than a quarterly rate. They decided that
my 17 hours of CBC course work translated to 11 1/3 semester
hours-2/3rds of an hour short of full-time. And I lost my
student deferment.

Why the transfer? I found out that I could spend 2 years at
CBC and still have 3.5 years to go at WSU. CBC just didn't
have the courses to work towards my undergraduate degree in
Math and Physics. Nobody thought about what that would look
like to the draft board.

Maybe if I'd known about the Coast Guard, I would have done
that instead. I suspect the service had all it needed anyway.
In a bit of irony though, I spent the last 18.5 years of my
military career in the Coast Guard.

-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/19/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike LEWIS ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna BOWERS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan LAWSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ARMSTRONG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne WILSON ('81)
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>>From: Mike LEWIS ('60)

Re: A little intel on covid-19

Covid-1 through Covid-17 was an American spy-in-the-sky
intelligence satellite designed to be able to identify
individual people from orbit. It was highly successful. The
project disappeared, went officially extinct though it had
never been made public, There was no COVID-17 to speak of.
A year went by and COVID-19 was launched, and like the
influenza of the 1940s and '50s, everybody had to have a
vaccination of some kind. 

Now the millennium has rolled over and everyone has to get a
Covid-19 vaccination. The suspicion is that the 19 refers to
the entire 1900s century. The best thing is to just play
along with it, and keep your cool knowing the Great White
Father is in the sky watching over and protecting his and her
children and chicks down on the ground. They never found any
space aliens and it appears to be the case absolutely that
the things in space are all of human origin. That will be
perfected in the coming generations, whether there are any
kinds of life in the solar system. There appears to be an
organic component in the active clouds of Jupiter although it
is possible those are inanimate and anyway they do not appear
to be a strategic concern. It appears to this observer that
the Russians, Chinese, Europeans and even Arabs are in on it.
Live long and prosper.

-Michael Lewis ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: John FLETCHER ('64), Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Utility costs, and more

John reports an average monthly bill of $90/month for water
and sewer in a small house and lawn in Gresham, Oregon. Jo
reports a July cost for water, sewer and garbage of $110 in
July for a 1900 sq. ft. house in Yakima.

So, what about Shoreline, Washington for a 2000 sq. ft. house
on 1/4 acre?

Total is $122/mo. (garbage $30, water $32, and sewer $60).
Water could be much more but I don't water the lawn. Reduced
mowing, and turns green later when it rains. Sewer is
mostly local but includes wholesale hookup with the almost-
countywide regional system discharging into Puget Sound.
Heating is by gas (not electric) and comes in at $85/month,
with a variation from about $170 (winter) down to $30 (hot
water heater). Property tax is outa sight.

Back in early graduate school days (1971-3), three of us guys
split costs for a very modest house northeast of the campus.
The cost back then was $92/month for water, sewer, lights,
garbage AND food AND rent from two of us to the third party
who owned the house. Later I moved into a humble little 1-1/2
"room" hole-in-the-wall, the worst of ten units carved from
the three-story house originally owned by the president of
Pan American Airways. Total rent for everything was
$80/month. A tough and funky find in the tight University
District. The old-fashion steam radiator was rusted solid
such that the milk froze on the kitchen table overnight.
Maybe 250 sq. ft., bathroom down the hall. The "bedroom" was
a walled-in and uninsulated sun porch with a sagging floor.
Nothing else available. (Still, this was plush compared to
two years in the 27-member junior officer bunkroom on a
modified WWII vintage aircraft carrier.) Spent a lot of time
on campus. Lived on the G.I. Bill of $230/month and some
Teaching Assistant scraps. The third move, by now married,
was much better (1974-5).

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, some decent units with
	one bedroom in the University District go for $600 
	(tight, with shared bath and kitchen) to $1,800/month 
	today.
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Jo MILES ('64)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don RAY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene MANESS ('57_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack EVANS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Audrey CHAMBERS ('74)

We all remember David RIVERS ('65-RIP)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

It was just a year ago that we lost our friend David RIVERS
('65-RIP). Some days I still think about picking up the phone
and calling him, just to hear his two pack giggle. Like the
plaque on his bench reminds us, "The friend you always wanted
and the friend you always wanted to be". Take a minute today
and reflect on what David meant to all of us, and just for
grins thrown in a couple dozen exclamation points.

I've said it before, but the beer will just never be as cold.

			-jimbeaux

-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Sports

Some of the best memories are about watching Bomber
basketball during the 1960s and chanting "shower up
sophomore!" when Davis High School great Ted Wierman fouled
out of a game. Why did the conference place Richland's
student body on probation for shouting "BFD" in unison? All
it meant was, "beat fierce Davis".

People watch fewer sports broadcasts on TV these days
probably not because of the athletes so much as the
sportscasters. Really, who can watch a Pac 12 basketball
contest without using the mute button? I'll just say that one
of my favorite people, Luke Walton, must dread going home for
the holidays.

Remember when football games could be played without a
running back being "really good in space". What? Isn't the
whole purpose to keep space from the defender? Everyone is
good when they're in space, except John Denver, he got killed
trying to fly into space.

The sportscasters nowaday, they're in "real time". Really?
Did it used to be just pretend time? 

Gotta miss Keith Jackson and Dandy Don Meredith more than
ever.

Like Sam Snead once told a student, "Why don't you just lay
off golf for a couple of weeks, and then give it up
altogether."

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210120_Bomber_Gym_63.jpg

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)

David RIVERS ('65-RIP) has been gone a year today. R.I.P

-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Betti AVANT ('69)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Claris VAN DUSEN ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony DURAN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judi WILSON ('65) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janey ZWICKER ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Guess I must have been asleep at the switch. A belated "Happy
Birthday!" to fellow classmate Don RAY ('54). Missed saying
"good bye" to my favorite Junior Gyrene.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

Re: Ted Wierman

As I recall growing up Ted Wierman should have been a
Richland Bomber rather than a Davis Pirate. I've heard he
grew up in Richland but his family moved to Yakima I think
probably while he was still in grade school. Can you imagine
he and the great Ray STEIN ('64) playing together on Daddy
Dawald's Bomber teams? They did meet up and played at WSU
though.

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland where we may get some snow in 
	the next few days.
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Rick MADDY ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deedee WILLOX ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony RHEINSCHMIDT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SCHODT ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul BOEHNING ('85)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sarah AVANT ('94)

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: 
		Randy RHOTEN and Kathryn SANT ('79) 
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Jo MILES ('64)

Jo mentions the game when Davis's basketball center Ted
Wierman (6'7") fouled out. Do I misremember this as being
the first game played in the new Columbia High gym? For the
opening night game, I and others (one from Tacoma, another
from California) drove in two cars from the UW in Seattle to
take it all in. The crowd outside of the 6,000+ capacity gym
was oceanic and sardine-packed-so tight that the glass ticket
office window a few heads in front of me was smashed by the
pressure even before the doors opened. A wide-eyed visitor
blurted that he was from faraway Moses Lake.

As for the (same?) game where Wierman foul-out, I remember
distinctly that one Ray STEIN ('64) cut through the key from
the left side and with a fakey underhanded lay-in to collect
the first foul from Wierman. A misguided slap across the
wrists. I think it was the Davis coach who called for a
time-out. "Daddy" Dewald huddled with his magicians and that
much shorter blond Richland guard (5'10")... In the next 45
seconds (I actually noticed the clock) the cutting maneuver
was executed two more times. A quick three fouls early in the
contest, I think the first quarter. Final score was 72-65.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA with no sign of dementia
	yet, and as I am counseled: "If you even think you're 
	getting dementia, just forget about it.
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)

Re: Yada Yada #6

To: Tedd CADD ('66)

Been busy and trying to catch up, Tedd.

Re: Military Draft - you say, 'The Army was desperately
looking for cannon fodder as that was the year (1969) of the
infamous Tet Offensive.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive

The Tet Offensive (Vietnamese: Str kien Tet Mau Than 1968),
or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of
Tet Mau Than 1968 (Vietnamese: Tong Tien cong va Noi day Tet
Mau Than 1968) was a major escalation and one of the largest
military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was launched on
January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong (VC) and North
Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the forces
of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam
(ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies. It
was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and
civilian command and control centers throughout South
Vietnam.

The name of the offensive comes from the Tet holiday, the
Vietnamese New Year (which happens every year), when the
first major attacks took place.

The term "Tet Offensive (CAMPAIGN)" usually refers to the
January-March 1968 offensive (depending on who is writing the
info), but it can also include the so-called "Mini-Tet"
offensives that took place in May - Phase II - and the Phase
III Offensive in August, or the 21 weeks of unusually intense
combat which followed the initial attacks in January.

*I have two campaign ribbons on my uniform - one is from the
Tet Offensive Campaign - Phase 1.

Phase 1: January 31 - March 28, 1968
Phase 2: May 5 - June 15, 1968
Phase 3: August 9 - September 23, 1968

I joined the Marine Corps on June 24, 1967, my eighteenth
birthday. I was the 'cannon fodder' you refer to.

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In boot camp we had sixty-nine (69) recruits. Nineteen (19)
were drafted. And they did not have a good time. Our drill
instructors were without doubt those who thought the Marine
Corps should be only those who join this outfit. DI SSGT
White called them 'his draft dodgers' and throughout our time
in boot camp he made them suffer a little more than the rest
of us slime.

Out of the sixty-nine of us, nine died in Vietnam - at least
that is how many I have found. Wounded, hard to count -
unknown. Only four I know of, Keller and I included, but I
can assume a lot more.

I arrived in Vietnam on Dec. 31, 1967. I became a PFC. on
Jan. 1, 1968. The Marine Corps had zero 0300s (I was a 0311,
Rifleman, Pond Slime, the Marines doing the hunting) in
Vietnam. I had gotten in a bit of trouble with Pvt. Keller 
on our last leave. We came back from L.A., CA three hours 
late. Therefore. we were the only Privates I can attest to 
on the Continental Airline flight to Okinawa (Camp Smedley
Darlington Butler 1881-1940).

On Jan. 1, 1968, I became a PFC, as did PFC. Keller, upon our
arrival in DaNang. We got off the plane and marched to a
disembarkation point. Keller/Maddy, we had been very close to
each other since day one boot camp because of the alphabet.
COLLINS ('67) and I joining on the buddy system and saw each
other rarely after the first day of boot. So goes the buddy
system. Keller and I actually came home on leave together and
hanged out with each other's families before heading back to
San Diego for AIT. And then off to Nam.

Keller and I spent four days in Okinawa. Going from class to
class. And playing in the town outside the gate for twelve
hours. Hanky-Panky. These classes were abstract from anything
we had seen stateside. One class was a Gunny holding a cute,
living, white rabbit (bunny for you girls) with pink eyes.
You know what I am talking about. The Gunny took the rabbit
and holding it's feet, head down, did a karate style chop on
its neck. Blood splattered all over. Skinned it. And showed
us how to (is this the correct 'to' - to the AS syntax
spelling monitor - don't want you to have a seizure over 
my syntax or to/too ...I know two) make a shoe.

I had many nightmares in the early days of my after Nam life
of being lost in Vietnam with only a loin cloth (Tarzan) for
warmth and one rabbit shoe on, looking for another rabbit
shoe, all the while looking for Marines to save me from my
predicament (lost).

One other class, I only tell you this for historical
purposes. And not the revisionist history that seems to
(too?) be rampant these days. We were moved into a screening
room where we were subjected to a slide show of dead enemy.
All sorts of blood and guts stuff. Sobering things that I was
totally aware of with the killing of the many jackrabbits in
my youth, but not human beings. Welcome to Vietnam. If they
had shown this slide show in the states, the government would
still be looking for me and I would today be a Canadian
divorce lawyer.

Keller and I fly into DaNang on Jan. 1, 1968. We are escorted
to a desk near the airport. Keller walks up to the desk and
is ordered to the Third Marine Division, 3rd Bn., 26th
Marines. I am ordered to First Marine Division, Kilo Company,
3rd Bn. 5th Marine Reg.

We look at each other and salute each other. And move out. A
very sobering, sad moment in both our lives. We were more
brothers than most brothers by DNA.

Keller will be wounded at Khe Sanh on Feb. 22, 1968 (Siege of
Khe Sanh - 21 January to 9 July 1968). Mortar shell shrapnel
hit him in the knee. Has had 'drop-foot' - cannot point his
toes to his face - all his life. Lay (? - one of the 73
variants of the definition) wounded for two days before they
could get him out of the stink hole; Khe Sanh. Rarely talks
about the war unless I am there with a bottle of Irish
Whiskey. His lovely wife has jumped in many a fighting holes
with this man for many years. God bless her.

On Feb. 28, 1968 I am hit by a booby trap, killing three and
wounding four while hunting NVA mining the road (Hwy 1) to
Hue City (Siege of Hue City; 31 January 1968 - 2 March 1968)
and sniping trucks carrying men and material to Hue City
during that battle approximately 35 miles north of Phu Gia
Pass, my 'home' north of DaNang (Phil COLLINS '67 Motor
Transport on this highway at the time).

April 1968 I am lying (?) laying in a bed at Bremerton Navy
Hospital and some Marine in a wheel chair abruptly pulls 
up next to my bed and says 'Hey, Mo*Fo*' It is LCPL Keller.
Together again to raise hell. We still today talk on the horn
and after this Covid I will again go visit him in Idaho.

And I will mention LCPL Gilbert "Fifer The Lifer" Fifer 1949-
2013 who was Keller's friend since 4th grade. 3rd Marine Div.
3rd Bn 9th Marine Reg. A wonderful human being. Point man for
nine months up around the DMZ area of operation. Third Marine
Division in Vietnam was a rough go. Drank himself to death.
We could not get this man to go to the V.A. "I joined that
outfit!!" I talked to his widow last night. We all miss
Fifer beyond beyond. A decorated Marine. One of my very few
heroes of the war.

Probably the last time I will mention Vietnam in the AS.
Maybe not. I do not want to let any of you 1963-1974 grads to
forget it!! And those who ran to Canada and were given the
free pass to come home without any retribution. Those who
ever spit on the uniform of an American service member that
had the choices of five years in the pen or flee to Canada.
Or called us baby killers. Or any other BS you came up with
too escape the war. ETC. ETC. And those of you who thought I
hate 32 million children.

-Rick MADDY ('67) ~ WARNING - If you do not like my post, 
	then scroll on by because when we start grading with
	*Liking ...or *Not Liking posts, then you all are going
	to be subjected to me being the only one that ever 
	posts anything ever again.
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Ray STEIN ('64)
Dwight CAREY ('68)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann McCUE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra HARDING ('77_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt HASKINS ('81)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

Two possibilities that might add to peace of mind. First, the
war might not have been lost on the ground after all or on
your/our watch; and second, the proxy war in Vietnam possibly
helped dismantle the sponsoring Soviet Union itself, in 1991.
(Remember how we were warned in high school government
classes that the Soviet Union threat would be around as long
as wind blows and grass grows?)

FIRST, this alternative view:

"Myth II: The Vietnam War was Unwinnable. This was a favorite
argument of those who did everything in their power to
prevent the United States from winning. They reasoned that if
the Vietnam War was proved to be unwinnable, then all wars
against totalitarian 'wars of liberation' were unwinnable. 
If we concede their point, we are giving a green light to
communist aggression throughout the Third World.

"The Vietnam War was not unwinnable. A different military and
political strategy could have assured victory in the 1960s.
When we signed the Paris Peace Agreements in 1973, we had won
the war. We then proceeded to lose the peace.

The South Vietnamese successfully countered communist
violations of the ceasefire for two years. Defeat came only
when the Congress, ignoring the specific terms of the peace
agreement, refused to provide military aid to Saigon equal to
what the Soviet Union provided for Hanoi" (Richard M. Nixon,
book: "No More Vietnams," 1985).

SECOND, Vietnam was a tremendous drain on the artificial
Soviet economy; and another nail driven in the coffin was the
costly Soviet invasion into Afghanistan (1980-1989). On the
big screen, as a proxy war, did Vietnam actually contribute
to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-91, an event in a
few years comparable to the fall of the Roman Empire over a
course of centuries?

True, the Evil Empire fell to the pressures of President
Reagan (deployment of battlefield-scale Pershing Cruise
Missiles in Europe (1983), and then the cost of matching our
proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (1984)), "iron lady"
Margaret Thatcher, and the new Pope John Paul II (who
triggered a reverse Domino Theory (!) with his Solidarity
movement in Poland (1980) and maybe only a dozen casualties
overall).

But the Soviet economic vulnerability was also crucial. 
Too many Soviet supplies lost in Vietnam, including trucks
produced at the massive Kama River Truck Plant in Siberia (a
state-of-the-art facility and, very troubling, with 700
international suppliers including Rand Corporation (also the
inventor of the mindless body-count metric as the measure of
weekly success) and IBM who supplied the mainframe
computers).

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, war correspondent 
	Dan Rather got some behind-the-back laughs during the
	Apollo XI lunar recovery mission (July 1969), when he
	was instructed that he would accept the crowded 
	stateroom assigned, and would not be receiving room 
	service on what was a military mission, not a joy ride
	for celebrity newscasters. Maren, no politics here:
	"just the facts, mam, just the facts."
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)

Re: Jim HOUSE ('63 RIP)

I received this poem from Gaynor DAWSON ('65) and I got 
permission from him to put it in the Sandstorm.

Enjoy.

	"In Memoriam: Jim House
	By Gaynor Dawson

	When I grew up in Richland, basketball was king
	But coaches soon decided that it was not my thing.

	In quiet desperation as I dealt with that
	I let Coach Bob entice me to the wrestling mat.
	I lacked both experience and muscular physique
	So stamina became my cure for poor technique.

	In time I learned to row, to pull a twelve-foot oar
	And then I earned the pride that I'd been searching for.

	Now there are some photos and ribbons on my wall
	That chronicle my journey since trying to play ball.

	But they were not the treasure that I hoped to find
	As I endured the pain to cross those finish lines.

	I would think of lessons learned watching Jim play ball:
	The race is not worth running unless you've given all

	I'm sure somewhere in Heaven they have vacant lots
	Where Jim is crashing boards and practicing his shots.

	Perhaps I'll see him there when I rejoin the fold
	And relive all those games when he wore green and gold."

-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Mead, WA
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)

To: Rick MADDY ('67)

I, for one, do not tire of your posts. I read them intensely.

And I agree... We cannot let the Vietnam War be tucked way
far back in people's minds.

It was nasty, and we cannot let our sons, grandsons, or
great-grandsons be pulled into something like that rathole
again!!

Our friends... Nations... Are out for themselves, but with
the amount of aid we give them, We think they care for us. Not!!

-Dwight CAREY ('68) ~ Winter day with some sun in Richland.
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Jo MILES ('64)
Tedd CADD ('66), Dick PIERCE ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Fred AMES ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edith McLENEGAN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy LEY ('67)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) 

Re: Another use for recycled plastic

 https://www.byfusion.com/byblock/

	[Buy these at Home Depot? -Maren]b

-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Jim HOUSE ('63-RIP)

Tucson, Arizona - 1966. The University of Arizona hosted BYU
in a college basketball game. As the visitors from Utah ran
out onto the floor, the announcer called out their names one
by one until he said over the loudspeaker, "Jim House."

I jumped up from my seat in the middle of a crowd full of
Arizona fans pointing and yelling, "It's Jim House. I know
him. He's from Richland!" My roommates (from Los Angeles)
looked up at me impatiently and responded, "Sit down, Miles.
We can't see." And I'm like, "But that's Jim House!"

I don't remember which team won the game that night, but I
remember who was there.

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)

Re: Vietnam Myth...

Serving in Vietnam in an intel capacity, I was disillusioned
to learn how our government had seriously shackled our armed
forces' ability to wage war. There were restrictions on where
we could attack, when we could attack and how. Significant
supply corridors were off limits. Often, targets of
opportunity were off limits and more.

-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Re: Tuatara

At 331 mph I'm not surprised I missed it. The Tuatara is by
SCC NorthAmerica, and it's factory/facility is in Richland!!

How did I not know this? 

 https://www.sscnorthamerica.com/news/2020-tuatara-debut

-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/25/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
David DOUGLAS ('62)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue FARLEY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack ARMSTRONG ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Scott FULCHER ('81)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

I knew if I missed this one I might be drummed out of 
the job. That being said; let me that this moment to wish 
Sue FARLEY ('54) a very "Happy Birthday!"

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

To: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Thank you for your pictures of departed alumni. I look at all
of them, even though I don't know them. Each one represents a
loss to the Bomber alumni family. I'm especially saddened
when those younger than I am are gone. Keep up the good work.

-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where I'm recovering from my 
	third hospitalization in less than three months; three 
	COVID-19 tests all came back negative.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/26/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Leoma COLES ('63)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doris VAN REENEN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron HOGLEN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry FORSYTHE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Greg and Sharon MARKEL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ben JACOBS ('69) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert MILLER ('96)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

Want to send David DOUGLAS ('62) prayers and best wishes for
a good recovery from these hospitalizations. Take care of
yourself, it seems more critical as we get older.

I recently ran across Doug HAWKINS (62) posts on FB and was
floored as I actually agree with his comments. Finding myself
referring back to what I learned in the Richland public
school system about the formation of our American government.

We are facing a winter storm watch now, but I was glad to 
see heavy snow predictions for the Sierras which will help
California and Nevada with their need for water, sadly it may
bring ground destabilization also with so much rain and snow.

We got out first Covid vaccines, and I am hearing many 
others across the nation are, too, plus our second ones are
scheduled for next month. So hopefully our numbers of cases
and deaths from this disease will lessen, so we can open up
our economy and resume our lives as normally as possible!!

Bomber Cheers, .
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house by the little 
	semi-frozen lake in SE Indiana 
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Tedd CADD ('66)

Re: Vietnam myth

You got that right, operational restrictions and all. Lot's
of sensitivities about ticking off too much the Russians, or
Chinese by accidentally violating airspace (missing a border
turn at 700 mph), and adjacent nations, yet we were in
Cambodia long before it was ever admitted. But, on your
larger point... two big examples.

FIRST, it was civilian Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara,
who countered the Joint Chiefs of Staff who wanted a larger
and decisive commitment as an alternative to the drawn-out
battle of slow escalation and attrition that unfolded. And,
who in 1995 penned his book, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and
Lessons of Vietnam," where he notes with regret his failure
in 1967 to simply tell truth to power, to tell President
Johnson to his face that the current path was fruitless. I
think he said he was intimidated. The high cost to others of
being on the inner circle and then keeping your mouth shut.
Possibly because such a visible rupture-remember the media!
-was also a disaster waiting to happen.

McNamara, first the Ford Motor Co. guy who gave us the much-
touted 1957 Edsel which lasted only one year, and then in
public service a disastrous "Project 100,000" which ushered
that many incompetents from the streets into every unit in
the military--giving them a chance in life and at the same
time contaminating the entire barrel. A man of considerable
achievement, even a Harvard MBA (woohoo!), but also cannon
fodder for those who resent elites such as that White House
"brain trust" (instead of follow "the" big-shot management
paradigm, "follow 'the' science"?).

SECOND, as for alternative strategies in Vietnam, one
proposal, rejected forthwith by President Johnson and not to
be found in any history book, was a very early proposal 
by General Westmoreland (head of U.S. forces, 1964-68)
Recommission the USS New Jersey and park in a few miles north
of the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ, 1954) where it could totally
control the Ho Chi Minh Trail as THE Viet Cong supply line to
all that followed until 1975. At this point, the trail was
geographically restricted (a precipice down on the west side,
with three major mountain passes), all within range of the
16" guns (projectiles of 1,900 pounds each, with a range of
19 miles and 25 miles with RAT-rocket added thrust), no
danger to pilots, no vulnerability to anti-aircraft fire. Cut
the head off the snake. But in D.C., no takers, although the
same USS New Jersey was later recommissioned for much less
effective shore bombardment at the dispersed far end of the
trail supply line, and the USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri
provided ground support in Kuwait in 1991.

This tale came to me-an all-ears, public-sector peasant
staff-person-in the early 1980s, from the still-lanky and
mild-mannered Mayor "Dick" Rainforth in a small suburban Lake
Forest Park hamlet north of Seattle, aka Marine Corps General
Rainforth, and earlier aka Colonel Rainforth when her served
as Westmoreland's courier in the mid-1960s. Flew between
Saigon and DC with a locked attache' case handcuffed to his
wrist. When he returned to Saigon with the bad news-and the
future of a surely draining war of attrition well in view-he
and Westmoreland spent the rest of the night until sunup in
tears, relieving their lonely grief with Japanese rice wine
(sake: sah-kee). At least, that's how he told it. A much-
decorated Marine pilot in World War II (Silver Star and three
Distinguished Flying Crosses) Rainforth passed on in 2009 at
the age of 87.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/210126_Ho_Chi_Minh_Tr.jpg

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA armchair non-expert just
	keeping the candle lighted.
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)

To: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Re: Bomber Memorial Pictures

I agree with David DOUGLAS ('62), and I also look at all the
pictures of our departed alumni. Thanks for keeping us all
part of this iconic City of Richland, Washington! 

-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ from cold and rainy Lincoln city, Oregon
	where the tourists have been flocking to our county
	because we are the only county on The coast not 
	currently shut down due to Covid19. Just staying home, 
	and staying safe!!
Sent via the Samsung Galaxy, powered by Cricket Wireless
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Bob JOHNSON ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Jo MILES ('64)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty CONNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura PARKER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob TURPING ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara KESTER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg POYNOR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay SCHAFER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg GRADY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norm ENGLUND ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darcy FORSYTHE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darwin PERKINS ('69)
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>>From: Bob JOHNSON ('54)

Re: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) enlightening posts

This gent knows whereof he speaks. I appreciate the crows'-
nest view inherent in all his posts. Put them together with
other perspectives - also thanks to the Col-Hi Sandstorm, so
ably edited and administered by Maren SMYTH - and we have an
institution born informally - of some of our nation's most
erudite voices from every walk of life. Would anyone ever
have imagined Richland Washington as a "Crow's Nest" from
which to survey the rest of the globe? Fascinating!

All best to all,
-Bob JOHNSON ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

In keeping with a non-existent policy of saying: "Happy
Birthday!" to Bombers I've never met except on these pages
and through other means; I'll do that now. "Happy Birthday!"
to Mary Lou "ML" Wadkins ('63).

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Re: Vietnam

Regarding Sec of Defense Robert McNamara, one of JFK's "whiz
kids," a title brought over from Ford Motor Company's "whiz
kids". I have always thought of McNamara as proof that "The
Peter Principle" is wrong; you actually can rise beyond your
"level of incompetence." I have not read his book, but when
it was published the media (for however much you can trust
the media on the subject of Vietnam) said he admitted he knew
we could not win in Vietnam. I take exception to that because
militarily we did win that war. Nixon did not get serious
about it until about 3 1/2 years into his first term when he
mined Haiphong Harbor and things really heated up. I was no
longer on that heavy cruiser, but a replenishment ship that
supplied black oil, bombs, and jet fuel to the carriers. We
were just about to complete our six month deployment, but
instead got to stay an extra four months. Some ships left the
East coast with just a couple days notice. We were working
around the clock, bringing on bombs or fuel by day and
sending it off to carriers and their escorts by night. When
the North walked away form the negotiating table, Nixon
really stepped up the bombing and we got the peace treaty.
Thing is they never lived up to it (big surprise) and we
would not enforce it. Leading to the fall of South Vietnam,
Laos, and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. I have heard 
many years later that Nixon had promised the South Vietnam
president if the North ever violated the treaty and invaded
the South we would come back in. He was not able to do 
that because of Watergate. I remember being off Vietnam and
hearing over Armed Forces Radio George McGovern had gotten
the nomination. I think everyone including McGovern knew he
was not going to win. Watergate was stupid, someone else who
proved the Peter Principle wrong, it was like GM breaking
into Ford to steal plans for the Edsel.

"Project 100,000," got to admit I never heard that title,
just heard of it as "McNamara's Morons." The real moron is
whoever came up with the idea, or, "An idea so stupid it
could only be thought up by an intellectual." A saying I have
heard attributed to Sir Winston Churchill.

Actually the Edsel was in production for just over two years
and had model years for 1958, 1959, and 1960. Production
stopped in November before the year 1960 even started. What a
horrible tribute to Edsel Ford who was known his talent as an
automobile stylist. The ugly "horse collar" grill has been
described as looking like "an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon."
That may just sound like a funny statement, but if you look
at the grill of a 1957 Oldsmobile, it really does look like
an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.

Re: Picture of the 1957 Oldsmobile I used to own.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/210127_1957_Olds.jpg

While McNamara has been blamed for the Edsel, Ford vice
president Ernest R Breech has said, "Mr. McNamara ... had
nothing to do with the plans for the Edsel car or any part of
the program." McNamara is also blamed for turning the two-
seat Thunderbird into a four-seat car, thus ruining the car.
I gotta come to the defense of the whiz kid on this one.
Ford Motor Co. is not in the business of making cars for car
collectors, it is in the business of making cars to sell to
people for regular use, and the four-seat T-Bird sold a lot
more cars than the two seat-ones did.

My 1970 Vietnam cruise was cut short by a month so the ship
could be decommissioned. We were only about six months out of
a refit in the shipyard. Not only us but the USS Camberra and
the USS Boston, which also had 8" guns. Only kept the USS
Newport News which had a rapid firing 8" guns using brass
shell casings instead of powder bags like the others. Someone
else succeeding in proving the Peter Principle wrong. When we
got the word we were being decommissioned we were in Japan
picking up thirty rocket assisted projectiles. This was
brought on by us being way down South and on the small West
coast of Vietnam and there was a nest of Viet Cong we could
not reach. It was only really a test and we reached the
target 30 miles away. Naval gunfire is more accurate than
bombing from an airplane and without risk to the pilot or 
the plane. Theirs were the only rounds of that type fired 
in combat, don't know if more were later or not; and they
decommissioned the ships that could fire them. I don't know
if the Newport News could fire them; I suspect not because
they were shaped different than the regular projectiles and
they had the automatic loading mechanism.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) World's foremost expert on my own opinion
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: English Teachers

A shout out this week goes to 3 former Richland High School
English teachers back in the day when JFK was president;
Julia Davis, Arlene Macy, and Genevieve Luckey. (The third
one often walked around wearing a shocking orange and green
waistless gown and sandals.) These remarkable women taught
students respect for language while inspiring creativity, 
and setting a high bar for students. The teachers were so
effective it is often hard today to accept new words and
phrases that did not exist in the mid 1960s. For example,
modern writers need to stop using terms like "new normal" 
and "unprecedented times", (gag!) Come on, like all times 
aren't unprecedented? What about 1968? Watergate, John Lennon
getting shot, the Iraq invasion, 100 year floods every 5
years, and two impeachments - nearly everything is
unprecedented.

Also, there are words the English language got along just
fine without for hundreds of years, until "nuanced" suddenly
popped up as a favored expression. "Nuanced"? Seriously? No
one even wants to know what that word means. "That said",
(please never say those two words together).

Mrs. Luckey had a style where she would read aloud to the
class fine literature such as poetry by Walt Whitman, 
and students received extra credit for drawing creative
impressions inspired by the words. One day she read to us
poetry by Edgar Allen Poe, and I happened to keep a copy of
the drawings (cartoons) from that day. We were only teenagers
in 1962, and I managed to make it into adulthood with only
one arrest prior to becoming an obscure non-fiction writer.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210127_English_1962.jpg

-Jo MILES ('64)
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
David DOUGLAS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Walker DOUGLAS ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ferna GAROUTTE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty NEAL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DURBIN ('62_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe FORD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Beth MEYER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vince DONIHEE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy GOBLE ('69) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jennifer HASKINS ('91)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Josh JANICEK ('93)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

To: Jo MILES ('64) 

Re: English Teachers

I remember vividly having to draw a picture while Mrs. Luckey
read to us. I've always hated drawing pictures. In elementary
school I consistently got Ms (for Mediocre, I assume) in art
on my report cards. The picture I drew for Luckey earned a C
and a remark that I missed the spirit of what she read.

	[Always thought the Ms on report cards meant
	 Medium. -Maren]

To this day I still draw stick figures. When I was in China
trying to buy a DVD, I wanted to know if the soundtrack was
in Chinese (Mandarin) or English. I drew two stick figures
and put a balloon over each one. In one balloon I copied some
of the Chinese characters from the DVD cover. In the other I
wrote some English words. The vendor stared at the drawing
for a couple of moments, frowning, then figured out what I
was trying to communicate. She pointed to the English words
and I bought the DVD.

Thanks for the memory, Jo.

-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Re: "the Peter Principle"

In 1969 alone, some thirteen printings of a new and
delightful little book became a #1 national bestseller: 
"The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong," by Dr.
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) and playwright Raymond Hull.
Peter was Canadian-born but-listen up!-he received his 
Ed.D. from (drum roll... ) none other than Washington State
University! (Same stomping grounds as for the Far Side
cartoonist, Gary Larson).

Hence, we have the Peter Principle: "In a hierarchy every
employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence"; the
Peter's Corollary: "In time, every post tends to be occupied
by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties;"
and the Peter Paradox: the hierarchy does not completely
self-destruct, because: "work is accomplished by those
employees who have not yet reached their level of
incompetence."

The organization-chart phenomena are sliced and diced, and
Hull (in his introduction) offers three real-world military
illustrations. Among them:

"Wellington, examining the roster of officers assigned to him
for the 1810 campaign in Portugal, said, 'I only hope that
when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as
do I."

"Civil War General Richard Taylor, speaking of the Battle of
the Seven Days, remarked, 'Confederate commanders knew no
more about the topography... within a day's march of Richmond
than they did about Central Africa."

"Robert E. Lee once complained bitterly, 'I cannot have my
orders carried out."

As for myself, having spent a career in a dime-a-dozen
public-sector bureaucracy (actually, a rewarding and
challenging career), I was occasionally lured out of my
cubicle into a personal inquisition. Once to deny that I had
drawn a large and unsigned political cartoon mocking local
wannabe politicians and published on the Opinion page of the
watchful Seattle Times. And the other to deny that I was
feeding incriminating first-hand ideas to Scott Adams for his
"Dilbert" cartoon series (included on the Adams strip was his
email soliciting ideas).

As an invited speaker at a Seattle University political
science class, I once was asked by the professor to explain
the secret of my middling survivability-he calculated from
the local history that my chances over the years had been
"less than one in one thousand."

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA retiree; illegitimi non 
	carborundum.
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2 Bombers sent stuff: 
Jo MILES ('64)
Dick PIERCE ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda STEWART ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl BEYER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robin FRISTER ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheryl ROMSOS ('76)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)

Re: Fishing in Richland

By the 1950s proper sewage treatment plants had been
installed upstream at Yakima, Toppenish and Prosser, enough
to clean up the Yakima River so Richland kids could go bass
fishing, and jump off the railroad trestle bridge downstream.
Youngsters headed out the door in the morning with a fishing
pole and a can of chili, spent most of the day on the river,
and arrived home in the evening in time for baseball
practice. Other trips to the "big pool" or down to the docks
on the Columbia River were accomplished by riding a bicycle
or on foot. In kindergarten we walked a mile to and from
school by ourselves. Stores were closed on Sunday. Kids were
tough and lean. I could go on.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210129-Goin_Fishin-61.jpg

-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: '57 Olds
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/210127_1957_Oldsmobile.jpg

I really liked the photo of your '57 Oldsmobile. My first
years as a "licensed" driver in the state, I drove my dad's
'57 Oldsmobile station wagon. Huge engine with the column
shift automatic. Same color as yours; a robin's egg blue, I
think is what they called it. At least my mother did, as she
got to pick the color. My dad, Leo, an engineer with GE from
Schenectady ('41) to Hanford ('42) to San Francisco ('48) and
back to Hanford ('50), took the bus to Detroit to get the
Olds and drove it back to Richland in 1957. I got my own car
as a senior, a '59 Chevrolet Impala. 

Re: Another subject

I read a while back about David RIVERS ('65-RIP), and the 1st
year anniversary of his passing. There was a photo of a bench
in front of the Spudnut Shop. (My team photo of the Little
League Spudnut Shop City Champs still hangs between booths
there.) Anyway, I've only been receiving the Sandstorm for a
couple of years, and it didn't ring a bell the first time I
saw his name over a year ago. David and Mickey RIVERS lived
across the street from my family on Haines Street in the
early '50s. I was envious of the Mohawk haircuts David and
Mikey always got in the summertime. We lived at 1306 Haines,
and moved to Stanley St. on the other side of Uptown in the
middle of my 5th grade class. I just lost touch with the
RIVERS, as happens, while my brother, Bob, kept up with Mikey
throughout junior high until they moved to Las Vegas.

I'd sent a photo of me and Mikey standing bareass naked on
Haines in 1952 (?) to Maren. Maren said she'd have to
pixelate the shot lest the gov't swooped down on the
Sandstorm, but I decided not to pass it on as I thought it
seemed inappropriate with the anniversary of David's tragic
passing. Thanks to Maren, Mikey and I hooked up and he sent
me a couple of photos (links below) he had from those days.
More than anything they remind me of the way it used to be.

Such a warm feeling I have when I see old photos like these.
It just makes you wonder how times have changed so much in 70
+ years. What'll it be like in 2091?

Re: the Haines Street gang
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210129_Haines_St_Gang.jpg

Why did we all have names that ended with a "y"? 
The neighborhood gang, at least for this picture,
BACK: Johnie Reed, Davic RIVERS ('65), Judy d ('64), 
	Dickie PIERCE ('67), 
FRONT: Michael West RIVERS ('68), Bobbie PIERCE ('68) 
	and Duke(y), our dog

Re: Haines Street Boys
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210129_Haines_St_Boys.jpg

Michael West RIVERS ('68) and Dickie PIERCE ('67). I love
this photo of me and Mikey again at 1309 Haines. What a
caption! I believe that's my mom's handwriting. Don't know
whose dog it is.

-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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5 Bombers sent stuff: 
Stephanie DAWSON ('60), Gloria DAVIS ('61)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Steve DENLER ('64)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave RHODES ('52_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vikki LYTLE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: April MILLER ('92)

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: 
		George BRINKMAN ('60) and Betty NEAL ('62)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)

Re: The Good Old Days

Swimming in the canal with your babysitter holding onto your
arms; watching the world's most awesome display of the Aurora
Borealis one summer night when we were playing Anny Anny Over
(spelling?); jumping on the Shanks' big old red circus net;
sitting on the floor of Johnson Drugs and reading comic books
without having to buy them; cars and houses that NEVER were
locked except maybe when Dad went to bed; popsicles for a
nickel; gum ball and jaw breaker and mini Hershey bar
machines at Wascher's Mobile, where you went after turning 
in pop bottles for the money; collecting polliwogs in the
Richland ditch; daring to drive out to the North Richland
barricade and then turning around quick before you were
arrested (we thought); eating peanuts and drinking Green
Rivers at the Little League field; watching John MEYERS ('58-RIP)
break the bat with most of his home runs; sitting on the curb
of GWWay for the Atomic Frontier Days parade with our trusty
bicycle wheels sporting crepe paper; milk bottles on the
porch in the morning and coal dumped down the basement chute
later in the day; wading in the kiddie pool at Riverside Park
(now Howard Amon) before the big pool was built; watching
Paul Beardsley set off the fireworks display at the Bomber
Bowl on the 4th of July; laughing at our dads growing beards
for the Atomic Frontier Days contest; square dancing at the
Rec Hall on Friday nights; quarantine signs in the windows
when someone in the family had measles or mumps or other (and
the doctors made house calls!).

-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Gloria DAVIS Tinder ('61)

To: Jo MILES ('64)

I appreciate your writing about several English teachers at
Col-Hi at the time you were there. One of those teachers is
my mom, Julia Davis. She would so enjoy the fact you still
remember her. She was not only my mom, but my mentor and
inspiration for my decision to become a teacher-a career I
loved. Mom passed away in 2005, and she is missed immensely!
Thank you, Jo!!

-Gloria DAVIS Tinder ('61)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

Has anybody else having trouble finding their favorite diet
cola drinks? 

Diet Rite soda has been my favorite since the early '60s.
Once Diet Coke was introduced I loved it and would switch
between the two depending on what I could find in the areas
where we lived.

Now I'm having trouble finding either when out shopping.
First it was Diet Rite, but yesterday I wanted a 12 pack of
Diet Coke (in cans) and neither store I was in had it. The
shelves were over stocked with the regular sugar drinks, but
no sugar-free items except for a few in bottles (which I
don't like). There were a few Diet Pepsi packs, but I only
like Diet Pepsi at a fountain (yes, it does taste differently
out of the fountain than in a can).

I first noticed that the stores I frequent didn't have any
Royal Crown (Diet Rite company) products on their shelves and
thought that they were more concerned to have the 'big boys'
products than the 'little guys'. Now I'm not so sure.

I've just learned that there is an aluminum can shortage
(beer lovers take note) and also a possible shortage of
artificial sweeteners. That may be the reason for my failure
to find either of my favorite cola drinks. Luckily, I like
iced tea and flavored water. It's just that occasionally I
want something bubbly and cola flavored.

-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in spring-like Richland with 
	primroses blooming in my yard and daffodils about 3" up.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Re: '57 Olds

After reading the ad in the Giant Nickel "robin egg blue" was
the color described to me. Oldsmobile called it Banff Blue,
and the darker blue trim between the chrome strips I think is
called Sapphire Blue. The windshield was cracked and I bought
one out of a Buick 2 door post which would fit. Had an
elderly man replaced it with my help. Other than that I did
all the work myself. Rebuilt the engine, hampered some by the
Eruption of Mt. St. Helens and machine shops being shut down
because of the ash. Repainted it and put in carpet and padded
dash. The padded dash was a job. Seen a couple others done at
car shows and one owner told me the guy who did it said he
never wanted to do another one. It had a blue convertible top
and I replaced it with a white one. Not too thrilled with the
way that came out, but then I had zero experience installing
convertible tops. That was the big jobs, I also did smaller
things to it. It had the J-2 option; that is the three 2-bbl
carburetor setup.

Question is, was the '57 Oldsmobile station wagon you drove a
Fiesta? That was a 4 door hardtop version, no post between
the front and rear doors. Those are the rare and expensive
now because no body wanted to save wagons. The only 4-dr
hardtop station wagons ever built were the '57-'58 Oldsmobile
and Buicks. I was given the name of someone in Kennewick who
had one. I called him up and he said his was unusual because
of not having that post, so I went over to see it. It was the
same color of blue and had the J-2 3 carburetors. Could it
have been the same one you drove?? It was in very good shape,
don't know how much restoration work would be needed but
would have to be repainted because the paint was very badly
oxidized. He wanted to sell it, and I would like to have
bought it and driven them both to car shows, but I just did
not have room for another car.

Here is another picture showing the some of the interior. The
car was stored backed into a shed with most of the the front
end sticking out so most of the interior was still in good
condition.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/210130_57_Olds_Inside.jpg

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Steve DENLER ('64)

Re: Long time ago

Could have been Richland?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nSC7SXQpInM?rel=02

-Steve DENLER ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/31/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
David DOUGLAS ('62)
Dick PIERCE ('67)

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gene BARFUSS ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tina FRASER ('89)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Guess it must be time to wish Gene BARFUSS ('53) a "Happy
Birthday!That is, if the calendar is right.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

Re: long T:ime Ago
 https://www.youtube.com/embed/nSC7SXQpInM?rel=02

Thanks to Steve DENLER ('64) for his YouTube link, Long Time
Ago. 

I'll be forever grateful for growing up in a small, close-
knit community.

-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Re: Oldsmobiles 

To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

You certainly know your Oldsmobiles. Yes, our '57 Olds
station wagon was a 4-door Super 88 Fiesta without the post
between the front and rear windows. Those windows and framing
were so sturdy. It did not have the set of three 2-barrel
carburetors, but a single 4-barrel. I used to enjoy taking
off the air filter to listen to the carb suck air (didn't
tell dad). 

We were an Oldsmobile family. See photo (link below) of my
mom, my brother, Bob, and I eating Hermiston watermelons in
the back of our Greyhound wagon. Notice in the background our
1948 Oldsmobile convertible. My dad traded in the '57 wagon
for a 1965 Oldsmobile 442. What a monster. A pale yellow with
white top. Boy, do I wish I had those three automobiles now. 

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210131_1948_Olds.jpg

	[Wrong picture? I don't see a car of 
	any kind in this picture, When I asked, 
	Dick said "It's obscure, but in the 
	background. You can see the rear fender 
	markings". -Maren]

Re: Kwajalein & Stick charts

When this old Bomber went west to the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands in 1980, I flew on Continental
Micronesia's "Island Hopper", a Boeing 707. My first stop
after leaving San Francisco was Hawaii, then Kwajalein in the
Marshall Islands. Kwajalein is the largest atoll in the
world, while only having a land mass of six sq. miles. The
Bikini atoll, where the U.S. did nuclear testing from 1946-
1958, and Majuro, the Marshall's capital city, had/have
navigators who still use stick charts to travel ocean waters.
(See the stick chart link below.) In Kwajalein, we were not
allowed to deplane as it was a U.S. military installation at
that time.

 http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210130_Stick_Chart.jpg

Next came Pohnpei, whereupon landing on a coral runway I was
allowed to deplane for 45 minutes. Island residents stormed
the plane to sell the world's finest black peppercorns. Then
Chuuk, where we were allowed another 45 minutes off the
plane. I bought huge Hawksbill tortoise shell backs that hung
from the ceilings of thatched huts. They measured three feet
long and weighed an average of 180 lbs. when alive. I have a
half dozen of them, but they are forever here in Saipan as
they are now an endangered species, and restricted from
entering the U.S. without forms declaring you owned them
prior to 1970. I bought them all in 1980, and despite them
being endangered in 1970, I was allowed to transport them to
my final destination, Saipan, as the CNMI is outside U.S.
Customs territory. 

Guam was next, then Saipan, 130 miles away. I've resided here
for 41 years, but can't wait for the next Bomber Class of
1967 reunion.

-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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 BOMBER MEMORIAL JPEGS for this month
created by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) 

Rick CHAPPLE ('72-RIP) ~ 5/27/54 - 12/30/20
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Deanna POSTON Enzweiler ('72-RIP) ~ 6/10/54 - 12/25/20
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John TRIMbLE ('2-RIP) ~ 5/8/33 - 7/18/84
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Bonnie MILLS Trimble ('2-RIP) ~ 2/6/33 - 3/6/06
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George GILLETTE ('47-RIP) ~ 11/27/29 - 12/3/20
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Bob KEPLINGER ('47-RIP) ~ 11/4/28 - 1/3/21
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Steve CHALCRAFT ('79-RIP) ~ 7/9/60 - 1/7/21
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Dave BIGGERSTAFF ('76-RIP) ~ 7/24/58 - 11/20/18
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Bill CODINGTON ('79-RIP) ~ 9/17/60 - 2/3/18
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Kerry SULLIVAN ('68-RIP) ~ 11/27/49 - 12/19/20
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Clyde ENGEL ('54-RIP) ~ 4/9/36 - 2/12/98
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Steve WITECK ('67-RIP) ~ 12/12/48 - 1/8/21
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Heather KOEHLER ('95-RIP) ~ 6/7/76 - 1/11/21
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Sally SHEERAN Heath ('58-RIP) ~ 10/26/40 - 1/12/21
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Jeff THOMPSON ('60-RIP) ~ 5/20/42 - 1/8/20
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Trisha WINGFIELD Harden ('97-RIP) ~ 3/19/79 - 1/14/21
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Bruce DURKIN ('79-RIP) ~ 6/29/60 - 2/15/89
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Mari ECKERT ('65-RIP) ~ 1/21/47 - 4/21/20
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Dianne TERRY Potter ('66-RIP) ~ 11/1/48 - 1/12/21
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Mike McELROY ('79-RIP) ~ 2/24/61 - 7/17/17
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Marian HALL Collins ('56-RIP) ~ 1/4/38 - 1/19/21
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Paul DUDLEY ('68-RIP) ~ 4/26/49 - 1/24/21
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Mike DALING ('68-RIP) ~ 6/9/50 - 1/26/21
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Sharon MACK Liddell ('55-RIP) ~ 11/11/36 - 1/25/21
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     December, 2020 ~ February, 2021