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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/01/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Jo MILES ('64), Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol TYNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane SIMPSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy CARAWAY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maggie GILSTRAP ('74)
Richland Bombers on Facebook
MAREN's MALARKEY:
Get ahead of yourself. Send Sandstorm Stuff early.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
The time has come (once again) to wish Carol TYNER ('52)
a "Happy Birthday!" She's a nice lady and well deserves
the accolade.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: The smallest town in the U. S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOJfHwGJ1U
This is a short video that covers the subject quite well. If
you like it there are other YouTube videos about it and also
an book available at Amazon.
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Stick charts
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210130_Stick_Chart.jpg
I remember reading back in High School days, first asked as a
question; who were the greatest navigators? The answer being
the Polynesians. Makes sense, being able to sail across vast
amounts of ocean and find a little island. I can't fathom how
they did it. Then just a couple of weeks ago the same thing,
again asked as a question, who were the greatest navigators?
This time my first thought was the Vikings, then I remembered
the Vikings may have been good, probably second best, but the
Polynesians have to be number one in the navigation department.
Sometime, must have been before the year 2000 it was
announced that the Navy was no longer going to teach
celestial navigation. My thought was on the line of, has
some Admiral reached the "Peter Principle?" If we ever get
in another big war the first thing an enemy is going to take
out is those satellites. GPS, communications, spy satellites.
I did hear a few years ago they are teaching celestial
navigation again. I figure that is a good thing because it is
going to be a long time before any enemy is going to be able
to take out a star. Even the Star Wars Death Star can only
destroy a planet.
Re: Little Red Rented Rowboat, or sometimes the simplest
things are the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQsKRmPXKiE
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)
Re: Fort Simcoe history
Seventy-six miles west of the ancient village of Chamna,
(Richland, Washington) stands historic Fort Simcoe
established by the U.S. Army in 1856. The fort became a State
Park one hundred years after its founding, and is open to the
public every year from April 1st through October 30th. While
waiting for the park to open, folks can read about some of
the fort's thrilling history in a recent article published by
the Washington State Historical Society - COLUMBIA the
Magazine of Northwest History. The piece features Kamiakin's
brother Chief Skloom, and actions that took place near White
Bluffs on the Columbia River. The article was authored by a
local researcher from Richland, Washington who currently
writes and publishes old west history as a public service.
(COLUMBIA Magazine is included with a membership to
Washington State Historical Society, or a single issue can be
requested separately on line at WSHS.)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210201_CLMB_Wntr_2021.jpg
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: "Richland Washington Columbia River Exhibition of
History, Science and Technology by Don Havre" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/oMgNZy0z3i0
Hiya!
Maybe you've already seen this?
I stumbled upon it this morning and thought I'd share
it with you, just in case.
Re: Day Care
Okay, maybe you can help me with this.
When I was 4 or 5 years old, I went to a large day care
facility on the corner of Jadwin and Lee Blvd., across the
street from the C.C. Anderson department store. Rode the bus
back and forth with my sister Judy ('62-RIP) and neighbor,
John COONS ('63) every weekday. We were probably kind of
young to be riding across town like that, three little kids,
but that's the way I remember it; and, anyway, I wasn't the
one in charge of where I went and how I got there, back then.
My Sister and John and me.
So...
This day care center was huge, as I remember it,
surrounded by a white wooden fence there on the west Jadwin
corner. And there were more kids, at least a couple hundred,
swarming around inside the grounds and in and out of the
side-by-side quonset huts, than I'd ever seen before. But I
never knew any names. Just Judy, John and me. Gaynor DAWSON
('65) just recently came forward to tell me he'd been there
during that time frame too. And I remembered seeing a couple
familiar faces at Jason Lee and wondering if I'd seen them at
the day care center. But by then we were all caught up in the
swift current of 1st and 2nd grade, and there was no time for
seeking out old friends.
But tonight, snug within my 74th year, I gotta ask:
Does anybody else out there remember that place?
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/02/21 ~ GROUND HOG DAY
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Lynn JOHNSON ('63)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Yesterday (2/1):
Tedd CADD & Pam HUNT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob ECKERT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherri WARD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn BRASFIELD ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Len REDISKE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia BERLAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norman WOODLEY ('72)
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>>From: Lynn JOHNSON Andrews ('63)
Re: CREHST museum
https://youtu.be/oMgNZy0z3i0
Many thanks, Terry DAVIS ('65), for your link to the youtube
video about the CREHST museum in Richland.
At about 6:32 I was very pleased to see a photo of several
men with my Dad, Douglas Johnson, standing second from the
left. Several years ago when Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63)
and I were there, we saw this photo on display and I whipped
out my camera to take a picture of the picture! As I
remember, a sign said that the photo was taken about 1958,
which means my Dad was about 38 at the time.
-Lynn JOHNSON Andrews ('63wb)
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
My husband (RIP) spent some time on Kwajalein many years ago.
He worked for the Corps of Engineers, so it was a project
from work. Have a few souvenirs from there.
Weather here in Western Tenn bounces around. Lots of rain
which messes with my septic system.
On a good note I got an appointment for a vaccination.
I always read the SS in the morning with my cereal and OJ --
no coffee. Enjoy it very much. Thanks Maren.
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/03/21 ~ THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED - 1959
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Leslie AMES ('65)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gail DAWSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenda LATTIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzanne COWAN ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
My wife and I went for our usual morning walk yesterday
[Ground Hog Day]. During the course of that walk we happened
to see our shadows. Since neither one of us is a woodchuck,
I'm not too certain if that has any significance with
reference to the length of winter. Since the vernal equinox
is on 20th March, there is still about six more weeks of
winter left anyway.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Leslie AMES Murphy ('65)
I don't remember much of Richland except odds 'n' ends since
GE transferred dad to Cincinnati right after second grade.
I do remember tugging on rainboots so we could go into the
desert behind our house and go rattlesnake hunting. I think
we also looked for wild asparagus. I remember that from our
house on Cottonwood. I would walk on a sidewalk that ran in
the middle of the block and dead-ended at my school [Spalding
Elementary School]. I have not seen a sidewalk such as that
since!
We owned a German Short-Haired Pointer that my dad took deer
hunting with him. The very first time he fired his gun, she
shot out like a bat-out-of-hell straight to the car. He found
her there shaking to death and was totally disgusted by her
actions. I'll never forgot the day he looked out our kitchen
window and saw her standing in a perfect point facing
the desert from the backyard! He went outside and shot a
pheasant, then begrudgingly acknowledged she was good for
something after all. He used to go hunting all over the NW
including Canada.
After two years in North College Hill, a Cincy suburb, dad
was transfered to Lynn, Mass where we settled in Melrose,
Mass. That was then the end of his GE days as he made some
comment about GE that if it was "good enough for grandpa" it
was always good enough for GE. His boss wasn't appreciative.
Then he was on to Rawlings (Cumberland), MD. to a propulsion
laboratory.
I'm sure many of my fellow Bombers moved all over due to our
parents' occupations. My niece, thinking she would trick me
into giving her the correct answer, asked what my brother's
{Fred ('60)] and my hometown name was. I gave the same answer
as he... we didn't have one! Enough jawing...
'till next time,
-Leslie AMES Murphy ('65)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Richland Day Care Center
Coupe of responses to my 2/1/ Sandstorm post about that
huge day care center that once sat on the corner of
Jadwin and Lee, in the '50s:
From: Jim CASTLEBERRY ('58)
I also went that Day Care Center from 3rd grade thru
5th. Grew up in the trailer camp in North Richland. Mom
worked in town and dropped me off in the morning and picked
me up after her work. The day care folks walked us to and
from school (Lewis and Clark). The Center was initially in an
old track house on GWWay close to Lewis and Clark. They just
tore that house down a few years ago. Moved it to the corner
of Jadwin and Lee in about 1950. Well remember the large
playground, white picket fence, and lots of kids having fun.
Brings back great, pleasant memories.
Mrs. Ella Meyers was the lady who supervised us the
first few years. Taught all of us manly boys to crochet and
knit. Many different kinds of art projects. Was lots of fun
and she had a positive influence on me. Her grandson Dan
MEYERS is a Bomber grad and was an outstanding golfer at
Richland and Arizona.
Your story telling puts me back in the days we did
those goofy, fun things as kids in Richland. Take good care.
-Jim PS-My mom always called it the day care center.
Probably wasn't the real name.
From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Yes I do remember, Terry. The made me eat squash
(I called it squish). I was 30 something years old before
I ever ate it again. Still not fond of it. I don't recall
much else. Perhaps the buildings were Quonset huts. -Tom
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
After playing 36 holes (whew!) this past Saturday, I went to
my wife's family's newest property development in As Mahetus
on Saipan. Saipan is a matriarchal society, so property
generally passes down in each family to the next generation.
As a part of the political agreement (Covenant) between the
U.S. and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(CNMI), only the indigenous population can own property in
the CNMI. I'm a businessman, but I like this rule. A 55 year
lease scheme is good enough for investment purposes.
My wife's sister had cleared their 5,000 sq. meters, and we
all met to enjoy the inheritance. In the far upper left
corner of Lela's lot, next to Bobbie's, is a cement pad with
the structural remnants of walls of a long time ago. Not
modern hollow block, but solid poured bases for the walls
no longer there. We were standing on an old post-WWII U.S.
military foundation. No doubt used for CIA operations after
the war.
In 1948, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) closed off
half of Saipan, using the northern part of the island for
covert military maneuverings. When the CIA moved out of
Saipan in 1962, the Northern Marianas were finally opened to
visitors. The following year, the Trust Territory government
offices were moved into the CIA's old offices on Saipan.
I find the CIA operations more intriguing than the actual
Battle of Saipan in 1944, when Japanese forces finally lost
control of the islands, and the Enola Gay launched an
offensive to end WWII in 1945. This, rightfully so, now
politically unpopular discussion about the mass destruction
of lives in Japan is forever a part of my roots in Richland,
but what the CIA covertly did here to Chinese nationals flown
in with U.S. military planes was even more egregious. Chiang
Kai-shek's hand me downs were "interrogated" in those CIA
installations.
It was an eerie feeling to first visit the WWII Japanese
bunkers alongside ancestors of lives lost, and a war ended by
our father's and mother's work in Hanford, WA. I was as
solemnly respectful in 1980, when I first arrived in Saipan,
as I am now. I am quiet about those that object to the
historical accounts, and our Bomber name.
Find attached a photo I took today of the cliff line where
the U.S. forces, with the battleships USS Tennessee and
California, and cruisers USS Birmingham and Indianapolis
bombarded Japanese installations. You can see where the U.S.
artillery literally annihilated all things living. I became
very good friends with Guy Gabaldon, who further north almost
singlehandedly talked nearly a 1,000 Japanese soldiers out of
their foxholes and embankments into prisoner camps.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210203_Cliff_Line.jpg
Today above that same cliff line is one of Saipan's most
spectacular views, and home to a treatment center for drug &
substance abuse, where I counsel young Chamorro and Carolinan
patients.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/04/21
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Joe CAMPBELL ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon ANDERSON ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy BUCHANAN ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John BAILEY ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom CRIGLER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Merilyn SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry CROUCH ('71)
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>>From: Joe CAMPBELL ('67)
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Dick,
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer on Saipan from June 1971
through July 1973. I taught science and worked at the
District Ed office plagiarizing curriculum. I lived in
Chalan, Kona, and San Antonio [all on Saipan].
-Joe CAMPBELL ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/05/21
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60), Jo MILES ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Corey MORRIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim FUNK ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David MERRILL ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary DAVIS ('75)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Joe CAMPBELL ('67)
Re: Peace Corps
I wonder how many other Bombers were in the Peace Corps. I
was in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1965-1966. I taught English at
Zarghuna Girls' High School (one 8th grade, two 10th grade,
and one 11th grade class). I also directed the first girls-
school play in English, tutored Afghan teachers of English,
sang (not solo!) in an English/Afghan Hootenanny at an
orphanage and at a public concert, and worked in the Kabul
University (English) Library, straightening out numerical
errors (in Farsi the numbers are read right-to-left, and many
well-intentioned Afghan helpers didn't make the transition to
left-to-right very well).
I only joined as a means of getting to Afghanistan, but
couldn't have chosen better. I loved learning to speak Farsi,
and living in Kabul was a truly wonderful experience; I
seemed to be admired by my students for my bravery and
independence in leaving home and traveling so far to help
others. One of my students and one of my teachers had been
to the US; for everyone else, I was demonstrating new
opportunities for young women. My school was the most elite
of the girls' schools, except for the French Academy that
the royal family attended. My students were the daughters of
ministers, other politicians, company owners and managers,
and other "privileged" families.
In the 1950s, the King had started a social revolution from
the top down, encouraging women to abandon the veil or
chadari or burqa and to complete high school and consider
college, putting off marriage and getting to choose their
eventual spouses. The later troubles experimenting with
communism and fighting off the Taliban and more orthodox
versions of Islam likely stifled many of our efforts for
good, but also gave hope and courage to some. I have learned
that a number of my Afghan acquaintances and students made it
to the West and are strong, educated women and role models.
And I know that many women living in Afghanistan work quietly
to improve the lot of all women. Maybe some of them are
daughters and granddaughters of my students!
Any other Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV) out there?
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)
Re: Kindergarten 1952
Kindergarten kids in 1952 received excellent preparation for
life as senior citizens in 2021.
1. Work for a while in the morning, then lie down for a nap.
2. Take cover from a possible Russian attack.
3. Wait for the vaccine (polio shots didn't start until
October 23, 1956)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/64Jeff0K-Mrs.Warren.jpg
Re: Mrs Warren's 1952 Jefferson Grade School kindergarten
BACK: 1. Harvey Irby 2.______ 3.Andrea Nelson 4.______
5.Jo Miles 6.______ 7.David Miller 8.Randy Smith
9.______10.___ Evans.
MIDDLE: 11.Byron Shaw 12.______ 13.Jimmy Figginshaw
14.______ 15.___ Evans 16.Jim Hodgson 17.______
18.______ 19.______.
FRONT: 20.Patsy Hilgeman 21.___Evans 22.______ 23.______
24.Dick Lindgren 25.______ 26.Diane Hill
27.Rebecca LaFollette.
Numbers #10, #15, and #21 were the Evans sisters. Evelyn was
9 months older than Twins, Helen and Carolyn.
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Letters to the Sandstorm
https://terenceknox.org/stories/cathy.html
You can skip to the bottom to see the letter from
Cathy MOUTON ('65)
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: "Ancient History"
On February 1, Pam HUNT Cadd ('66) and I celebrated our
52nd anniversary!
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Saipan
I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying recounting past
and present events here on Saipan. It has been my wish to
reconnect with classmates, and that has been the case. I do
look forward to seeing many when this pandemic finally ends.
To: Joe CAMPBELL ('67)
Chalan Kanoa is now the most populated village in Saipan.
During Japanese times it was Garapan. San Antonia, for me,
brings back memories of intense basketball games that I
officiated in the '80s and '90s. I never knew the amounts of
livestock that were being wagered when San Antonio played
Tanapag. The San Antonio coaches had a way of getting first
crack at the ex-pats from the Peace Corp and the Coast Guard.
Most believe it was the Peace Corp that first introduced
marijuana to Saipan!
To: Pam EHINGER ('67)
Thank you for your wonderful messages about your dad. I
cannot tell you how much fun it is when my wife, Marian, gets
to meet U.S. armed forces members that were actually out here
in WWII. They always "light up" when they see a Chamorro who
is a son or daughter of parents they helped liberate from the
Japanese in 1945.
There are many misconceptions and folklore that still
circulate about those horrific days 75 years ago. It was the
Japanese and their families that plunged to their deaths off
Suicide Cliff and Bonzai Cliff when the Americans took the
islands, not the indigenous populace. The Japanese soldiers
and their families were told by their superiors that the
Americans would literally eat them when captured. My father-
in-law (RIP) was a messenger boy for the Japanese when he was
8 or 9 years old. He was taken to Japan for education, and
finished his 9th grade there. Joe "Ping" Tenorio was his
name. He recounted how he and a friend smuggled in food to
two Americans that had their plane crash and were being held
in captivity. They never got caught, but the Americans
eventually disappeared. Joe taught me of the influence of
the early Spanish days, the German days and the Japanese
occupation.
The most dramatic event of the WWII period in Saipan was when
the U.S. dedicated the American Memorial Park, funded by the
U.S. Interior Department, on the 50th Anniversary of the
liberation of the islands. This was on June 15, 1994. The
Memorial Court of Honor is there and is a U.S. National Park,
complete with a beautiful museum of its history.
On that day I was there. I sat in rows of American veterans
to listen to Allen Stayman (DOI) dedicate the new memorials.
Towards the middle of that ceremony began to arrive 20 or 30
Japanese veterans who came also for the ceremony. There were
rumblings from the U.S. vets about those "damn Japs" showing
up. I can honestly say that by the end of the dedication,
grown men were in tears and they were all hugging and crying
together. What a wonderful thing in life to witness. Peace,
at last, for so many.
The citizens of this Commonwealth are proud to be Americans.
I was startled when my wife told me she did not want to get
her U.S. passport because she got married to this Bomber in
1984. She wanted to wait until 1986, when President Ronald
Reagen signed the law that bestowed American citizenship to
the legal inhabitants of the Commonwealth at that time.
3,000 Americans did in the few days of Operation Forager, and
17,000 were wounded. It is estimated 27,000 Japanese lost
their lives.
Link (below) you can see a photo from the top of the highest
hills in Saipan that the U.S. forces bombarded.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210205_Saipan_Highest.jpg
The other day I sent a photo from the bottom showing the damage,
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210203_Cliff_Line.jpg
Today's picture is the view from atop. Almost 75 years since
the invasion, after a heavy typhoon recedes, you can still
find empty shell casings washed up onto the shores up north.
About once every two months now, the residents are warned to
stay away from a designated area in the north where
accumulated live ordinance is detonated.
Peace and honor to those who served.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/06/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55), Susie DILL ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Mike DALE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky SKARSHAUG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John COLE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gene DUMLER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy BURNET ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary BENNETT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa RICCOBUONO ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lori RAEKES ('81)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erin HASKINS ('86)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Happy birthday brother John ('66). It's really shocking how
old you are. It seems only a short while ago that you kept
the whole family in stitches with your antics. Only one time
did I get the best of you. You kept getting out of bed (You
were five or so) and running around. After putting you back
to bed several times, I punched in the numbers to make our
phone ring. I loudly said "Hello Santa, yes Johnny has been a
good boy except he won't stay in bed, and it's getting very
late." I could hear you running back to bed. It was July.
Have a wonderful day John, and know that your sisters love
you a lot.
-Cole Girls
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
Just wanted to give a shout-out to Dick PIERCE ('67)...
I am really enjoying your posts about living on Saipan and
its history, especially relating to WWII. Until I looked at a
map, I also didn't remember how close Saipan is to Tinian. My
uncle was on Tinian during WWII and was there when the bombs
were put on the Enola Gay and Bockscar to end the war. Thank
you for sharing!
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Jim CASTLEERRY ('58)
Re: Your little brother ('63)
Jim,
Your little brother Joe ('63) was always one of the
good guys. You were probably already off at college when I
hung around your yard that summer of the accident, but Joe
Castleberry was one of the rare 9th graders who'd tolerate
the company of 7th graders.
Easy guy to be around. And funny.
I saw your dad a couple of times, too.
And I could be wrong about this, but I swear Joe and
your dad had built a perfect soap box derby car a year or so
earlier, and it was still there in your garage.
I THINK
But I remember clearly as yesterday the week when the
story swept through our safe little world along the Columbia
River there that our much-liked Joe Castleberry had gone off
the flumes over in Pasco on the dangerous left-hand side of
the chute and landed down on the rocks.
And then spent the summer in a body cast.
I know I ain't wrong about That part.
Over the next couple of summers, every single one
of us who ever ventured over to Pasco to slide down those
flumes, did so with the Castleberry Caution foremost in
our minds:
STAY TO THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE FLUME.
We did, and we have Joe to thank for that.
I think the story of two legendary coaches/players from
Columbia High coming out of retirement in order to instill
sound basketball fundamentals among the 9th and 10th graders
is the REAL story.
I watched you play when I was in 5th grade in '58, and
Ray showed us the DVD last year of your championship game.
Phill NEILL ('66) was a true stylist, with that nifty
little two-hand forehead set-shot that I think he fashioned
after Bob FRICK ('60), back when we were at Jason Lee.
I couldn't play for crap, but I'm grateful for being
able to watch you guys.
My best to ye,
TDK '65
Re: Email from Rick REIL ('70)
"Terry:
Thanks for sharing. We got some nice
comments about the day care center. I remember
that the grocery store, Wild Bill's, was across
the street from Anderson's. It was really
between Anderson's and the new Safeway. My
mother, who was the world's greatest penny
pincher, did a lot of her shopping at
Safeway. But bananas were always a penny or
two cheaper at Bill's, so that's where we
went. I always wondered why Wild Bill's was
alone, surrounded by vacant lots. Thank you,
Terry for filling in a piece of that Richland
puzzle. My oldest sister is still living and
will be 80 in August. I have tried reaching
her to see what her memory holds. She lives
in Snohomish and hasn't been home for a
while. As soon as I hear I will let you know
what she remembers.
My mom often shopped at Anderson's, one
of her best friends, Mary Caldwell worked there.
She and her husband Chuck had about 5 boys,
I'm sure you attended Col-Hi with some of
them. The youngest, Tim, was a year younger
than me and graduated in 1971. I remember two
of the others were named Chuck and Mike ('63).
Interesting story about your early St.
Elsewhere days. Hollywood sure paints a
different story from those that actually
happened. I think it's the challenges in life
and how we deal with them that makes things
interesting. At this point I won't share this
story unless you wish me too. I'm sure you
could write a book about the realities of the
TV and movie industry. I'm also sure it would
be a fun-filled read.
BTW, I asked Scott Armstrong to give
you a copy of my novel, "Roll Back." If you get
a little time you might want to take a crack at
it. It's full of many memories that I'm sure
you will enjoy. Surprisingly it has done
quite well. The reviews have been many and
very positive. I regularly get calls from
readers, like I did tonight, that want to
talk about it.
Rick's Book, "Roll Back" on Amazon.com
Thanks again, and don't forget our, sort-of-
planned lunch date.
Rick"
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Mike DALE ('66)
Re: Saipan
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
My father, Herb Dale, and uncle Elwood Dale, were on Saipan
during World War II with the 2nd Marines. Per my father my
uncle was killed by a sniper during cleanup after the battle
had been won. His burial flag with the 48 stars flies on
Memorial Day at the cemetery off the bypass. Thanks for his
ultimate sacrifice!
Ellen HORNE Dale ('67) and I will be celebrating our 54th
anniversary on Feb 12Th.
-Mike DALE
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Burt PIERARD ('59)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry RICE ('71)
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
To: Terry DAVIS ('65)
& all the rest commenting on the "Huge Day Care Center"
Re: The Richland Nursery School
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Nurs00.html
To help hone your memories, I have included 18 Robley Johnson
pics taken at the Richland Nursery School which fronted on
Goethals, not Jadwin (the name change is interesting by
itself - I'll talk about that tomorrow).
Pic #1 (the only dated negative I have, 8Feb45) is a view
looking NW, presumably, when construction was completed but
not yet open. I do not know why the south picket fence did
not extend to Lee, possibly to allow for Drop-off & Pick-up
Parking. Also notice the tree on the far right (behind the
car) as it will be featured in my tale later. Pics 2-18 were
taken in warmer weather (note foliage on the trees) possibly
shortly after opening in the Spring. Pic #2 shows an
excellent view of the aforementioned tree. Please look
closely at the kids to see if you can identify anyone and let
Maren know (it could help date the whole series).
Now to my favorite tale from "Doin' Hard Time at Richland
Nursery." It was the Summer of 1946. I was 5 1/2 years old
(my birthday was 12 days after the Dec. 1st cut-off to start
Kindergarten in 1945). My 12 year old brother, Dick ('52),
was off on his great adventure to Indiana for the summer. GE
had taken over from DuPont and was hiring. My Mom decided she
wanted to go to work for the Project. My Dad was working at
the 700 Area so he could conveniently Drop me off and Pick me
up, thus I was doomed. My Life wasn't too bad except at Nap
Time. They made us take naps in these cribs, with barred
sides, for little kids. I kept getting hassled by the Screws
because I couldn't (or wouldn't) sleep that way. Anyhow, one
day another kid (name forgotten, if I ever knew it) and I
were playing at the East End of the play area when I spotted
the aforementioned tree and noticed the lowest branch
sticking out across the fence. I had a plan and I got
the other kid to help me skinny up to the branch. I was
concentrating on my hand movements until I got across the
fence and out over the sidewalk. then I looked down and
freaked. It seemed so far down but there was no going back
now. I let go and fortunately I didn't lock my legs but it
did sting my feet through my shoes. Then I just froze. I
thought, "What the heck do I do now?" I just stood there
until the Playground Screw came over and nabbed me. So much
for my "Great Escape!"
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: "Roll Back" by Rick REIL ('70)
Roll Back" on Amazon.com
I just bought the book on Kindle. I love the books on time
travel and am looking forward to reading this one.
[I sure liked it -Maren]
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
is so windy!!
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: from Mary Lou WATKINS Rhebeck ('63)
"I went to that same nursery school too...
my mother went back to work at GE for a short
time. My parents didn't have a car when they
moved to Richland in 1949, so my mother
worked as a secretary until enough was earned
to buy a little gray 1950 Chevrolet. Our
family was so excited to have a car that we
set up a card table in the living room so we
could look at the car while we had dinner!
I remember some from nursery school..
lots of playing, naps, and also having some
hideous oil in our morning OJ... what was
it? We all choked it down, gagging all the way!
Thanks for the memory trigger...
❤️ml"
Sent from my iPad
Re: Gaynor DAWSON ('65)
"This is good. I too went down the flume
\ a few times and was fortunate enough to have
done it when the flood waters made the pool
deeper than normal, so there was less risk,
but it was still a right of passage into
"manhood"."
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Burt PIERARD ('59), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Leslie AMES ('65), Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
Dick PIERCE ('67), Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janice PIERCE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Christy WATSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: MaryAnne GRENINGER ('67_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy LEMLER ('74)
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
Re: Street Name Changes entry
Entry for today on the above subject is delayed till
tomorrow. Doing research.
Bomber cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Oil in the OJ
To Terry DAVIS ('65)
That oil in the orange juice probably was cod liver oil.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Richland Nursery School
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Nurs00.html
from: Mary Lou WATKINS Rhebeck ('63)
I'm thinking that that awful tasting oil in their orange
juice could have been Cod Liver Oil. It didn't taste good,
but for some reason our folks thought it was great to give
us. Can't remember the reason they thought it was so good for
us. When I was pregnant with my son, I heard it was good to
start labor. Don't know as I never took it.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick So
far, it's a very nice day and last of the warm temps.
Suppose to be in the 30s for a high come the end of
this week.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Mary Lou WATKINS Rhebeck('63)
Re: oily stuff in orange juice
Could it have been "Vi-Dayln"----it was a liquid vitamin. My
mom gave my brother (Tim '72WB, RIP)and me a large spoonful,
every morning. Am thinking it might have had cod liver oil in
it, but not sure. I bought some when my daughters were little
and tried giving it to them, but they immediately spit it
out---thank goodness for vitamin tablets. *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Leslie AMES Murphy ('65)
Re: Richland memories
I really enjoy reading all the items in the Sandstorm, but
especially re the nursery school. I remember attending a huge
one when I was five years old. I also remember my parents
being very upset when they went to register me for public
school since I too missed the cutoff of December 1st as my
birthday was December 10. After leaving Richland, I was
always a year older than the rest of the kids in my class due
to the other states' end of the year cutoff.
Was the nursery school mentioned in yesterday's Sandstorm the
only one at that time. From the photos, it seems large enough
for that to be so.
I'm not sure of any pertinent info concerning the one I
attended.
Thanks for all the info in the newsletter.
-Leslie AMES Murphy ('65)
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>>From: Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
To Burt PIERARD ('59)
Re: The Richland Nursery School
http://richlandbombers.com/gallery/0000s/Nurs00.html
Great pictures Burt. Picture #8 the boy standing is Roy
BALLARD ('63). Someone had made a copy of that picture and
gave it to Roy. Memories of old times are fun. Thank you,
-Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Slightly overcast in Saipan this morning. Photo shows the
military preposition ships a bit closer to shore due to
hazardous surf warnings.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210208_Saipan2-7-21.jpg
There's a popular expression here, and in Guam; Saipan (Guam
for the Guamanians) is where America's Day Begins!
For instance, right now it is 8:40 AM, Monday, February 8,
2021, while in Richland, WA it is 2:40 PM, Sunday, February
7, 2021.
So we call it Superbowl Monday. Game time in 50 minutes. Go
Bucs for the people of Tampa Bay. It's their turn.
Saipan is currently 81°, and has not had a COVID-19 community
transmission in 132 days, and only two deaths since counts
began. Guam, on the other hand, only 129 miles away, had
another death this morning, their 132nd. Bubble flights will
begin later this month from Korea.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: teacher's obit
I saw an obit in today's paper for a former teacher at Chief
Joe Junior High School, Richland, and Hanford High Schools. I
had him for 8th grade home room at Chief Joe. His name is
Donald Staringer. He was a great teacher.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/09/21
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Ron HOLEMAN ('56), Burt PIERARD ('59)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Tedd CADD ('66)
Pam EHINGER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl WEIHERMILLER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim PATTON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen MOORE ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Yvonne LING ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob HAUSENBUILLER ('93)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY TODAY:
Carl DVORAK ('58) & Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
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>>From: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
The November 11, 2020 Sandstorm had some articles regarding
Richland streets (i.e. Goethals alignment, etc.). I intended
to submit an article entry to add to the information so
better late than never it is being offered here for your
interest.
I used the maps submitted by Tedd Cadd '66 (Richland 1953)
and Don Sorenson (NAB) (1954) but using Don's map is easier
to read.
[http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210209_00.htm
see Burt's Map #3 -Maren]
I do not have any documentation to back up my info, just my
memory and then trying to apply in retrospect what was going
on in the world at that time. What I would call "old"
Richland with the west boundary at Wright Street, north
boundary at Van Giesen with the exception of those houses
between George Washington way and the Columbia River (maybe
ending a little north of McMurray). That by my memory was the
town that I came to in October 1944 and through the remainder
of the Second World War period. The reactors on the Hanford
Project included "B", "D" and "F" reactor and the farm near
the old town of Hanford site. Following WW II, we entered the
Cold War era and the beginnings of the nuclear war standoff
with the USSR. I suspect that was the catalyst to decide that
the US Army created town of Richland needed to not only
remain but expand to house more workers. Several things
happened (again I have no documentation just memory and
guesswork) the prime contractor for the Army at
Hanford/Richland during WW II was Dupont, and they had
contractually agreed to be released as soon as possible after
hostilities ceased. Thus entered the General Electric Company
1946 to be the prime contractor and at the same time it was
determined (I think) to begin the process to change Richland
from a government town to a regular community. This included
additional housing, the ranch houses west of Wright Street
and Bauer-Day houses some west of Wright and a few near Chief
Jo, the concrete block homes on Goethals, Judson, Johnson and
Jadwin north of Van Giesen. Schools were added including
Chief Joseph as a junior high school and Spalding grade
school.
Out on the Hanford Project more reactors were built. "C",
"DR", and "H" were first. In the early 1950s they added "K-
east" and "K-west" that were downstream on the Columbia River
from "B" and "C" reactors. Later they added "N" reactor which
was located downstream of "K-east". Again Don Sorenson would
know more about that and would also know if there was even
added another reactor. Those were the only ones I remember
and I never did work out at the reactors with one exception
(which can be a later story). I either worked at 300 Area,
downtown in one of the "old" 700 Area office buildings or at
the Battelle buildings in North Richland after they were
built in the mid-1960s. Anyway, more workers because of more
reactors and expanded process facilities meant more people,
so more housing was needed and more shops and stores to
support a larger community.
Now let me switch over to the street changes and other
development. Goethals Drive used to "Y" off of Stevens Drive
(across from the bus lot) and proceeded south as shown on the
1954 map (without the little break at Williams Blvd.) all the
way south to Abbot Street. At the same time (1948-1949) the
ranch houses and other residential areas were being
constructed, the Uptown shopping area was also begun. But
before Uptown was begun Jadwin Street ran from Van Giesen
south past Symons and then turned west to join Goethals. On
the 1954 map, that turned section of road was called West
Jadwin (incidentally that one-block street is now called
Stanley). I should also mention that eastbound Symons stopped
at Jadwin and restarted on G-Way and that section of Symons
by Uptown and the extension of Jadwin to Williams were
created as Uptown was planned and then being built. As a
matter of interest, where the Uptown is now, there used to be
a grove of trees, either cottonwood, elm or another species,
with a shallow creek running through. The creek was not wide
nor deep but I used to float on an inner-tube and my mother
would sit in the sun or shade of the trees and read while I
played. I do not know the source of the creek, whether it was
natural or run-off from irrigation ditches. The ditch that
runs from behind the "former" Texaco service station
(southeast corner of Williams and Jadwin) and then turns
toward the Columbia River and exits into the red brick pump-
house by the dike is the outfall of that creek. So back to my
story; the Uptown was built over a span of a few years as
stores were added. Jadwin Street had been extended from what
is shown on the map as West Jadwin to just south of Williams
by creating that little jog in the road. Of course that
intersection then had added service stations on three of the
corners and the area between Goethals (which now ended at
Williams) and Jadwin and south of the LDS church remained an
undeveloped field through the fifties and into the early
sixties.
The sixties. Remember that from the 1940s through the
fifties there used to be the fenced 700 Area bounded by
Knight St on the south, Stevens Drive on the west, Swift
Boulevard on the north and Flagler Avenue on the east (I
suppose you could say Goethals on the east because I think
there were just parking lots between Goethals and Flagler.
Anyway the present Federal Building was constructed in the
early 1960s and the fenced area and buildings within that
fenced area were removed over time. That included the large
Quonset hut type building that became the Richland City shops
for a time after the 700 Area fencing was removed. I have
always wondered if the large Quonset type hanger at the
Richland airport is that one from the 700 area or was a
second one built earlier when the Army had a few fighter
airplanes based there during WW II. So after the WW II
buildings were removed from the 700 Area (which included
tearing down the coal-fired steam plan next to Knight St and
the railroad tracks where the coal was delivered) then some
more street alignments and names were changed. I should add
here that the steam plant provided heat for the 700 Area
buildings as well as the building on what is now the Parkway
and the other "downtown" stores, movie theaters, etc.. Just
south of West Jadwin (or now Stanley St) Goethals was
realigned closer to the Richland Cemetery so that it lined up
with Guthrie Avenue. So that street became part of an
extension of Goethals south of Williams. A new segment of
street was added between Swift Avenue (where Guthrie had
ended) and continuing south to Lee Blvd. Which (magically)
just happened to line up with Duane Avenue. So Duane Avenue
became Goethals and Goethals Drive from Williams south to
Abbot became Jadwin.
[http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210209_00.htm
see Burt's Map #5 -Maren]
So that explains how the Goethals Drive name got shifted
around and of course there were some other realignments of
that street for traffic flow. I don't recall the exact timing
of the Goethals realignment and street name changes, but I
should mention that when Goethals was shifted as I have
described, then what had been Goethals Drive from Williams
south to Abbot Street was renamed as Jadwin Avenue.
Up on the north end of town, when the bus lot between Thayer
and Stevens was being used, the busses entered the lot off of
Thayer and exited onto Stevens which gave them a straight
shot north out to the Hanford Areas. The bus lot was later
moved from the area one block north of Van Giesen to the
Central Stores 1100 Area further north as described by Don
Sorenson in his November 11, 2020 email. Following the bus
lot removal, McMurray Road was realigned from just west of
Stevens Drive and bending around to line up with Wright
Street at Van Giesen and the residential area of West Gate
was developed in the 1960s and Jason Lee grade school was
constructed.
I hope this answers some of the questions you and others
raised about the street development and name changes.
-Ron HOLEMAN ('56) ~ Richland
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
References:
Map 1 - Richland 05-29-44
Map 2 - Your 1949 Downtown Detail
Map 3 - 1954 Bus Routes
Map 4 - Plat of Richland
Map 5 - Richland 2020-Goethals-Jadwin
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210209_00.htm
To: Terry DAVIS Knox (65)
Re: Mystery of Goethals to Jadwin change and other stories
Before we jump into the Goethals-Jadwin thing, check out Map
1 (the oldest map I have) for a starting point. Note that
Goethals runs diagonally from the north, across Williams and
then down through the Downtown area, south to Abbot. Jadwin
runs south from Wilson to just south of Symons and then west
to connect to Goethals.
As an aside, also note the 2-1/2 block long N-S street
between Kimball and Stevens Dr., named Kosciuszko. According
to Bob FRICK's ('60) parents (original and continuous
residents in their "B" house on Kosciusko Ave. until they
passed away), that all the residents on the street banded
together and complained to the government that nobody could
pronounce or spell their street and it caused confusion in
mail deliveries from relatives and friends. So the govt.
changed the name to Farrel Lane (only name change I knew
about in Richland until the G to J episode).
Next note Map 2 where Maren filled in the businesses
surrounding the Nursery School to get your bearings on the
1949 Map from aerial photographs.
Map 3 shows the effect of the Uptown development by extending
Jadwin south to intersect Williams and the changing the name
of the one block hook to West Jadwin. This caused essentially
a 5-Way intersection.
Map 4 is an undated Plat map for submission for the City's
Incorporation and it shows the solution to the intersection
problem, i.e., putting a "Dog Leg" in Goethals south of West
Jadwin bringing it directly south to Williams, about 200 feet
west of the intersection. Goethals then magically jumped over
to the intersection to continue south. (Note: Maren says they
should have put in a "Round - A - Bout," as if they had such
a thing in the late 50ies.) Jadwin was also extended north to
Stevens and the By-Pass.
What happened next I can only speculate since it was in that
shape when I left for the U.S. Navy in 1961. When I returned
in 1965, I was surprised to find the 700 Area mostly gone and
Goethals punched through, changing the names of both Guthrie
and Duane, and continuing south to Abbot. Also, the Federal
Building had been completed and Goethals had been re-named
from Williams to Abbot as Jadwin.
See Map 5 for how it fit together except for the chunk north
of Swift that was snatched by Kadlec.
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Cod Liver Oil
I remember my parents gave me cod liver oil, they would take
the little dropper out of the bottle and squirt it into my
mouth, but I don't remember the taste of it at all. Or maybe
it was just so horrible my mind shut down and will not let me
remember.
To: Leslie AMES Murphy ('65)
Re: Starting School "Late"
I was born January 31 and my parents, or at least my father
tried and tried to get me registered. I know he talked to it
seems like several people to get me started it school earlier
in the small town of Athena, OR. I remember once he left me
in the car and went into a house to try to convince someone
to let me start school. I don't know how much time passed,
but to me, a kid, it seemed like forever. In the end he was
unsuccessful and when I did start a year later I was the
oldest. I was always "the old man" all the way through
college, I hated it. In the Navy I was still older than most
(enlisted and officers) who were not lifers. Then I went to
work for Vitro Engineering and all of a sudden I became "the
young kid."
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Street name changes...
I wonder at why but there were several in the south end. I
was looking for an address to verify the man's time at the
address I knew the house was on Goethals; so imagine my
surprise when I saw that he lived on Duane during those years
(1956-1957).
Problem was solved when I went to the map in the front of the
phone book and found that Duane had been renamed Goethals
some time between now and then and another street name
changed to Duane.
[I don't think there is currently a Duane
Street in Richland? -Maren]
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: the Oily stuff in OJ
It could have been Caster Oil also. Now the Large Bottle of
Vi-Daylin Vitamins, call me Crazy but I liked it! I too gave
it to my kids & they liked it!
[I liked it, too, Pam. -Maren]
Go Figure!!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harold KENITZER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda WOODS ('61_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane HUFF ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, golly gee, the time has come to wish Harold KENITZER
('54) a "Happy Birthday!" Certainly hope that he doesn't make
Marla ('55) cook him an elaborate meal.
Sorry, no insights on renaming streets in Richland. I thought
it began to get out of hand when they started using trees to
name streets.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
For the Asking... No cost to you.
1966 Tyee Yearbook ~ University of Washington
1967 Tyee Yearbook ~ University of Washington
1968 Tyee Yearbook ~ University of Washington
News Note ~ March 4, 1968 ~ Don PARSONS ('64)
Parsons, Johnston honored at game; Nase Rhinehart, Beers incl
(This may take a few minutes to load?)
[Never did load for me. -Maren]
Searching for the following two ladies from the Class of 1964
(1) Elaine Stanfield Hill
(2) JoAnn Powers
https://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/joannepowers.html
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
Re: Recollections
Have enjoyed a number of the recent posts in Sandstorm.
Saipan pictures, Viet Nam veterans sharing memories, and that
series of "what's up with those kids these days".
Mike FRANCO ('70) was a few years ahead of my class of "73 in
Richland; I shared a number of classes in Jefferson and Chief
Jo with Mike's younger sister Janet FRANCO ('73) and her best
friend and neighbor Pam CAHN ('73). I always enjoy Mike's
posts and agreed with his shared thoughts that today's kids
are much like our generation. They have much more access
to information and different music but so many are high
performing contributors. My three kids all made it into their
adult years and careers without making many of the mistakes
that I stumbled through. The friends they brought home were
interesting people that we enjoyed. So true that you can't
paint a complete generation with one brush, but the kids
we met were overall a great group of kids that Juli and I
enjoyed in our home and at the many different events we
attended including swimming, scouts, soccer, baseball,
skiing, equestrian events and such. I'm not good with knowing
the years applicable to all the different names applied to
the generational groups. Gen X, Y, and Z, Millenials, etc.
but that set of kids we know are now teachers, doctors, IT
whizzes, and raising their own families. Many are still a
joy in our life.
In the memory lane area, the discussions on flumes and street
names and such bring back many memories that Bombers share.
Mosquito fogging jeeps that we rode behind on our bikes (I
probably lost twenty IQ points from that practice), waiting
at bus stops for dad to come home for dinner, free movies
Saturday mornings at The Uptown followed by an afternoon
at The Big Pool, climbing up inside the flumes on the dike
between times they discharged (another simply brilliant
action), Art Dawald gym and all the years of Bomber
basketball. The '72 team with '73 contributions from Dave
Emmons, Dick Cartmell, Nestor Mitchell, and Keith Pritchard
(RIP Keith) was our state winner (forgive me if I forgot any
other '73 folks on that Teverbaugh crew). Football with John
Richardson, Steve Cassidy, Butch Meeks, Spud Feaster, and
Buzzy Randow. I still go by The Spudnut Shop to see Val ('72)
anytime I am back home. That was my first job with a W2 -
standing in that window rolling out and frying Spuddies.
Barlow made me cut my hair - twice - to get the job. Skiing
with the Bierlein family at Anthony Lakes and cracking a leg
when Ted was telling me to just take it "easy" on our last
run of the day. Ted wanted to kill me after I went airborne
and they carted me off the mountain in a basket, but I was
already pretty banged up and Ruth wouldn't let him.
Growing up in Richland was a treat. So many great families
and opportunities. Little league with Floyd Gates and Mills
Muser, the annual pancake breakfast with Pat Hardy's dad
cooking, playing football for George Sauer, fishing, hunting,
skiing water and snow, Umbra dances and keggers in the
desert. I moved up to Spokane after my sophomore year, but
always knew where home was. 40 or 50 years later I still make
it home a few times a year to stay in touch, to visit my
friends, and stop by my parents' grave site at the old
cemetery in town.
-Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Bruce STRAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joann BUSHNELL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda CARTER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: John and Paul WAGGONER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HAUN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Drew COUGHREN ('86)
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Here Maren,
,
I was able to load Gary BEHYMER's ('64) link about Don
PARSONS ('64). Took a couple times, however. I saved it as
the attached PDF and it should work. I does for me&
[OK, I opened the pdf file, BUT the
text was too tiny to read and the 2nd
page was all darkened and I couldn't
read that either. I have NO faith in
.pdf files, but here it is. Hope it
works for somebody. -Maren]
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Str/210211_Behymer_File.pdf
Cool...
-Bruce STRAND ('69)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/12/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
Rick MADDY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shanon LAYBOURN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: James Hodge ('71NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janeen THORNTON ('73)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY TODAY
Mike DALE ('66) and Ellen HORNE ('67)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
A couple of days ago I was talking with Curt GORD ('61) who
now lives in Utah. We were talking old times and we could not
remember the name of the Drive-in on Stevens. It would have
been close to the Roller Rink. Any Help!!
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Saipan and Tinian
Jumped a boat to Tinian for the annual Pika Festival this
weekend. "Pika", in the local language (Chamorro), means
spicy hot, as in red chili peppers. And, I mean hot, but
really flavorful. There are no tourists here now thanks to
the pandemic, but when there are the folks on Tinian get a
big kick out of watching unsuspecting tourists blow a gasket
with a mouthful on fire. I'll send some photos of the local
cuisine 2 days from now.
Two photos:
One of my wife, Marian, like a little kid on the boat ride to
Tinian 4 miles from Saipan.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210212_Wife_Boat_Ride.jpg
Marian's excited about seeing all her cousins on Tinian, the
Aldans and the Flemings. Her father, Francisco (RIP), was
part Yapese, and the ferry boat captain from Tinian to Saipan
many, many years ago. Before my arrival 41 years ago.
The second is an advance firework display for the Chinese New
Year, February 12th. The owners of the casino here, Imperial
Pacific Int'l, will be igniting these armaments for 3 days
straight, just above our place on the side of Capitol Hill.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210212_Fireworks.mp4
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Don Parsons ('64)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210212_Don_Parsons.jpg
[Thanks, Rick... I lightened it WAY up
so I could read it!! -Maren]
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/13/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
Karla SNYDER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff CURTIS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kenny WRIGHT ('63)
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>>From:Jack GARDINER ('61)
I found out the name of the Drive-In on Stevens. It was
called Skip's.
Jim MULROY ('60) told me, I knew I hadn't lost my memory even
though other parts of my body have started to turn on me. I
can still remember Alva NEVILLS ('54-RIP) at Skip's. I
believe he had a '59 Pontiac that had Hydraulics and would
raise the body on it up & down, boy did he ever impress me.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
Re: Large Quonset Hut
You wrote in the 2/9/21 Alumni Sandstorm about "... the large
Quonset hut type building that became the Richland City shops
for a time after the 700 Area fencing was removed. I have
always wondered if the large Quonset type hanger at the
Richland airport is that one from the 700 area or was a
second one built earlier when the Army had a few fighter
airplanes based there during WW II."
I cannot shine a light on that subject, but perhaps I can
light a candle on it. I am not absolutely certain, but I
believe both of those buildings existed in the 1970s and
1980s. In 1991 or '92 I heard someone (maybe a Richland city
councilman) say the city bought that Quonset Hut used for the
Richland City shops from an Air Force base. I don't remember
the name of the base and he did not say a year. I had assumed
that it was after the city ceased being a government town. I
think it was torn down a year or two or three later.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ In snowy Kennewick, just a few days
ago it was 65°. Hope this is not going to be a repeat
of Feb, 2019 when we didn't have any snow until the
second week, then it just kept snowing and we set a
record for snow in February. Then on March 1st we set
another record for snow in March.
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
To: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Me first, me first. You are talking about Tastee Freez on
Stevens near the old roller rink. It was kind of like a Dairy
Queen, and a harbinger of the newer Baskins Robbins later
built across the street. I always ordered that terrific
Welch's grape drink with perfectly squared ice cubes. They
also served dip top ice cream cones. I wasn't so much into
the chocolate dip top, though. I liked the regular vanilla
ones. They were so good and so symmetrically drawn out of the
ice cream machine. Ate a few Cheeseburgers there, but they
were more about ice cream and cold drinks, for me.
You really jogged my memory. That was one of my formative
fast food hang outs. Okay, you got me started.
Before I got my 1959 jet black Chevrolet Impala with dual
spot lights, air conditioning and a 348' engine, I was
already hooked on the Salad Burgers at Zip's. Remember when
someone spray painted "Dead Man's Curve" on the cement wall
as you circled the cars parked at the drive-in? I remember
Jerry ROGERS ('67-RIP) worked there. Jerry also worked at
another drive-in, Arctic Circle, across the parking lot from
the Spudnut Shop. Remember that goofy looking Acey bird
mascot? Jerry would take the lettuce worms out of the huge
boxes of lettuce they received and drop them into the deep
fat fryers where they exploded after swelling up. Arctic
Circle was home to that delectable "secret sauce" (I think
the recipe is on the Bomber site) for globbing onto their
decent fries. When Jerry wasn't working, we'd go there and
eat outside in the car. He'd sling the little cup of secret
sauce out the window for the artistic smear it left on the
pavement. I always thought he knew more than we did, and
that's why he did it. I remember they always had package
deals on their hamburgers on the weekends. Best I ever recall
was 13 for a $1 displayed on the sign board. It would end up
where my brother Bob ('68) and I would eat three apiece of
the 13. That would leave seven burgers for my Dad, Mom and
three sisters. Let 'em fill up on the copious amounts of
fries and secret sauce!
Before I "graduated" to Zip's, and "tooling" in my '59
Impala, I was an A&W Root Beer kid. We went there as a family
and I got the Mama Burger. I felt better when I grew big
enough to order the Papa Burger. That was a burger! They
served a Baby Burger that my little sisters got until they
grew into the Mama. Remember the newest "Teen Burger" A&W
introduced. Great Madison Avenue scheme. They had the best
root beer floats, and we'd take our gallon jug back for fill
up over, and over and over. My Mom always was embarrassed
when my Dad would order our meals on those metal drive-in
order boxes because he would enunciate so loudly into the
gray aluminum speaker box in our individual parking slot that
you could hear it all the way to Zip's. I recognized he would
talk loudly and clearly because he was fed up with them
constantly screwing the order up, where we'd have to reorder
until they got it right.
I'll discuss Atomic Lanes, and those ridiculously color-dyed
baby chicks Newberry's sold at Easter, later.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Karla SNYDER ('69)
To: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Re: Drive in near the Roller Rink
It was the Tastee-Freeze. My dad's office and warehouse
(Ballard Storage and Transfer) was right behind it. My
brother, Art ('71), and I would go down there with my dad
sometimes and go over to the drive in for ice cream. The name
changed to Bombers, and now, it's a coffee and sandwich
place. When I moved back to Richland in 2001, it was the
first place I went to for 'old time's sake'.
-Karla SNYDER ('69)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52)
Annette VERELLEN ('56)
Floyd MELTON ('57)
Mary ROSE ('60)
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill GRIFFIN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill ROE ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki MOSLEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ivy WILLIAMS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Esther "Deon" HOLLIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Val GHIRARDO ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane CARPENTER ('72)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: quonset huts
Dennis HAMMER ('64) mentioned he thought the city of Richland
may have purchased a Quonset hut from an Air Force base.
Could have been the one at Pendleton. My father was fire
chief of the Pendleton Army Air Corp Base during WW II (and
later was Richland fire chief). It was a busy base during the
war, quite large. Training and repair were it's missions, I
think. P-38, B-25 and B-17 aircraft are among the ones I
recall flying in and out. I saw two crashes near the base...
a P-38 augered in at high speed during training... an inbound
B-25 belly-landed short of the runway in a plowed field
(HUGE) plume of dust!. All 3 men onboard were o.k. Also
visited recent crash site of a B-17. Fire was so hot aluminum
alloy melted and ran down the slope.
Re: the Quonset
There was another Army Air Corp base at WallaWalla.
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in snowy Richland. Winter finally arrived
(dang it!)
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>>From: Annette VERELLEN Parnell ('56)
To: Class of 1956
Dear classmates of class of '56,
Hopefull,y we will be celebrating our 65 year reunion
September 11, 2021 at Best Western Plus, 1515 George
Washington Way, Richland. This is in conjunction with the
Club 40 meeting September 10-11.
Due to the circumstances relating to Covid-19, at this time,
we are unable to make definite plans for our reunion.
However, we have tentative plans for our class only, brunch,
photo and socializing from 10:30-2:00. More information will
come as it becomes available.
We are giving you this information so you can save the date
and join us.
-Annette VERELLEN Parnell ('56)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Memories - Richland Hang Outs
http://richlandbombers.com/HOs-ThruTheYears.html
I agree with most of the memories that have been posted this
past week or so ... some I don't agree with but that's OK.
Memories of the Richland days are always wonderful.
Zip's was south of the roller rink and that's where in the
mid '50s kids would put their car tires lined up with the
railroad track and ride the railroad track around to Lee
Boulevard.
Not much has been said about By's burgers. That's where we
all hung out in the mid '50s.
Tasty Freeze had the best Brown Cow drink in the world.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
To: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Re: Tastee Freeze near the roller rink
Tastee Freeze was my favorite place for a cheeseburger and
fries in the late '50s. When you would go around the building
to exit, on the right side of the driveway, they constructed
a small building and that was where you got the hamburgers
and fries. Howard DAVEY ('58-RIP) worked there during the
period I am thinking of and he made up the best burgers and
fries!! We never went up to Kennewick, but I heard for years
that they had the best hamburger place around, even many
years later I heard they were still there. My favorite
subject these days, food!!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: Skip's
Skip's served "Tater Dogs". Spiced potato dough. Way better
than corn dogs. Still wish I could find them again. Anyone
know where to get them?
-Pitts (63)
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Tinian Pika Festival
Back home in Saipan after 2+ days in Tinian at the annual
Pika Festival. As earlier, "Pika" is a Chamorro word for
spicy hot, as in red chili peppers.
Photos of (1) a booth at the festival
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210214_01.jpg
And, another (2).
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210214_02.jpg
(3) Then one during the evening when folks started to show up
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210214_03.jpg
Tinian had a population of 3,500 in the 2000 Census, but now
I would say it is 2,500 with a shrinking economy. During
WWII, there were over 16,000 Japanese there. At the festival,
I'd say hundreds came from neighboring Saipan. Photo (4) of
landing back in Saipan this morning about noon.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210214_04.jpg
Tinian Mayor is my wife's nephew. Here's a photo of the gang
whooping it up. Video (5).
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210214_05.mp4
I used to dance under the influence, but now I do my dancing
on the greens.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty Jo ROSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erin OWENS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patt WELCH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Alastair COCHRANE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Abby PERRYMAN ('15)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
To: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: Tater Dogs... Yum!!
I've been looking for a Tater Dog for 60 years. I think the
last one I ate was in 1960 at Tri-City Braves game at Sanders
Field. Every time I'm at the fair I look for them.
[I googled "tater dogs" and found a whole
bunch of different recipes for them. Guess
you would have to figure out which recipe is
closest to what you ember. Like one calls
for red potatoes and another called for one
Idaho potato - scoop out potato and insert
hot dog in the potato. -Maren]
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: TINIAN WWII SITES and history
Going to Tinian with my wife and her family visit wasn't all
just hurting myself with red peppers. We visited some of the
WWII sites, including the runways where the B-29s left for
Japan in 1945 carrying "Little Boy" in the Enola Gay, and
"Fat Man" in the B-29 Bockscar a little while after that
first mission.
Tinian was taken by the American forces only days after
Saipan was liberated by the same U.S. military forces in
July-August 1944. Seabees arrived almost immediately and
began reconstruction of what was known as Ushi Point Airfield
which had been built and held by the Japanese until the
Americans captured it.
First three photos are of Field One's administrative
buildings and air raid shelters. Runways Able and Baker are
still clearly visible, and were recently (2003 and 2013)
refurbished for U.S. military exercises.
The 4th photo was taken yesterday at Bomb Pit No. 1. It's
where "LIttle Boy" was loaded aboard its Enola Gay B-29.
The 5th is some old Japanese shrines built before the
Americans liberated the islands in WWII. These sit on some
property my wife and her sisters and brother own as passed
down by her great grandfather, and then her father, Francisco
Aldan, on Tinian, where the Mayor's family name is Aldan.
Imagine.
It's always fun watching my wife have so much fun with her
cousins she misses that are a boat ride, or little plane
trip, away. When I moved here in 1980, I admit, I was a
little intimidated by how close the families really are to
this day. How can you have such real problems, within a
culture based upon relationships, then get together when the
sun goes down, to eat, laugh and make up again? It seemed so
different from what I had experienced in the detached world
and hurried life in the city, Seattle, from where I made the
hop 41 years ago.
Sometimes I think they must smile at us Americans from the
States. We're a mix of technical thinking similar to the
Japanese they recall, with some ideological traces similar
to the Europeans who came in the early 1900s, and a sensual
culture like theirs that is too distant in my past. Americans
are a mix of it all, I believe. I've always been a people
person, so I find this now like some find playing golf, or
poker. It brings out both the best, and the worst, in me
sometimes. Then again, I've come to be grateful for the
roller coaster ride my family put into me.
Last shot is landing on the south end of Saipan, looking
north at the reefline and hotels built by the Japanese and
others who have found the Northern Marianas a jewel in the
rough.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210215_00.htm
Re: Most Historical Runway - Runway Able
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/16/21~ MARDI GRAS DAY - CoVID cancelled
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim CLATWORTHY ('46)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thurman BOWLS ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gaynor DAWSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toby HUFF ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Esther DAWSON ('73_)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I would have sent this last Saturday (13th) but ice and
fallen power lines got in the way. Here's a "Happy
Birthday!" to Bill GRIFFIN ('54); and a "Happy Valentimes
Day!" to the rest of you all on the 14th. If you really want,
here's a President's Day greeting, although we know this is a
"made up Monday" holiday.
Think the Quonset hut in the 700 area and the one at the
former AEC airfield are two different buildings. Of course,
with Quonset huts, if you seen one... well.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ at ice free (for the
moment) Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Having grown up in Richland and knowing our history, I found
your pictures and commentary fascinating. We need to remember
our history -- all of it. If we don't like it -- all the
better -- we won't want to repeat it.
I enjoy telling a little of our hometown history now and
then. Starting with I grew up in the desert part of (the
evergreen state) Washington! What fun.
I am in frigid E TN. Ice and snow and more coming. Hight (if
we get there) will be in the 20s. All week. My son is stuck
at work -- they are putting their workers up as driving is
impossible. Only the most main roads will get treated. Mine
is not one tho it is a fairly busy road.
Stay home it is. Have had my first shot -- right before all
this started. They announced this weeks appts for shots are
moved to next week. Spring --- where are you?
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Here's just a few last photos pertaining to Saipan's and
Tinian's part in WWI history.
Back on Saipan, this is a photo taken at the U.S. Memorial
Park's Court of Honor and Flag Circle in Garapan, Saipan.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210216_01_FlagCircle.jpg
2) The second shot of the flags was taken so all are
readable.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210216_02_FlagsClose.jpg
3) The third being a shot at the base of the flags where
those servicemen and servicewomen killed in the battles of
Saipan and Tinian are listed on carved stone markers. The
markers list members of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corp, U.S.
Army & it's Air Corp and U.S. Coast Guard.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210216_03_RIP.jpg
If there's anyone related to an Armed Forces member that
would have their name displayed, and would like a photo of
that, please let me know. I would be honored to drive down to
the Park (only 2 miles from our residence) and capture that
history for you. Give me their name, which service and unit,
and I'll do the rest.
4) And, oh yea, ain't it right! Guess who won the red hot
chili pepper eating contest in Tinian this past weekend. Yep,
a Navy Seabee from Nebraska just assigned to Tinian. Copy of
the Marianas Variety front page article attached.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210216_04_Hot_Winner.jpg
Re: Moving on
To: Jack GARDINER ('61)
You've jostled my memory banks again about my Sanders Field
days. My dad, Leo, would always take me to games there for
years. One of my, rightfully so, most dramatic memories of
those games with the Tri-City Braves was a night where they
were playing a Canadian team (??). It was on Nickel Beer
Night (can you imagine beer for 5 cents!). I was way too
young to be drinking, but the thing I remember was at the top
of each inning, when the Canadian team took the field, some
of the Braves' fans would toss Canadian nickels from the
stands. Might have had more to do with Nickel Beer Night than
any animosity toward the opposing Canadian team. But, you
never know.....
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Susie DILL ('64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Floyd MELTON ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck MEYER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Holley ANDERSON ('64)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about..
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I'd like to take this time to wish Curt DONAHUE ('53)) a
"Happy Birthday!? Just hope the vagaries of age aren't too
much in the way.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
Re: Thanks again to Dick PIERCE ('67)
Again, I want to thank you for the stories about your life on
Saipan and nearby Tinian. I am really enjoying your photos,
especially those of "markers? of historic events on those two
islands. As I mentioned previously, my uncle served on Tinian
in WWII, but was one of the fortunate ones to make it home.
Given the devastating battles that took place over 75 years
ago, seeing stories and photos of happy, present-day life on
these two islands is very heartwarming.
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: Quonset Huts
So after reading the 2/14 post about the Quonset huts in
Richland and the old A E C Airport I did a bit of digging.
Neither hut existed during the war nor a few years afterwards
the Richland hut does show up in Federal building
construction photos from the '60s so it at least existed
then. But something I remembered getting from the building
tells me it was built in the '50s- exactly when I don't know.
What I retrieved was an old energy saving sticker that was
above a light switch. There is a '50s G.E. News article
outlining that program with the sticker's artwork. I seem to
recall the artist who drew it but it's not coming to my so-
called mind. When Richland sold the building to a reclamation
business from Spokane I took the opportunity to ask for a
tour to look for artifacts for the defunct CHREST Museum.
Connie Estep, their curator, took a few the rest I have in my
garage, the coolest one is 76 years old.
So on to the airport hut the early photos only showed a large
awning and a tower with three aircraft what looks to be two
Piper Cubs and one Biplane. I wonder if any of the pilots who
flew them had their license signed by the Wright Brothers?
Interesting fact, the airport was home to Hanford's couriers
after the war and thru the '60s. I think I've posted before
all surveillance flights for Hanford flew from there using
two piper cubs painted alike. I have two Piper Cub models
made by the modeling department that started sometime late
'49 or early 1950. Funny thing is the models have the same N
number, perhaps each one went to upper management? I would be
remiss to not give Don Rokkan credit for hanging on to them
for so long and allowing me to use for future displays. As
far as fighters based there, they were not. During the war
Pasco's Naval Airbase would have provided protection and
Moses Lake afterwards. The hut was definitely there in the
mid 6'0s as shown in a picture taken with a flight of two
F-101 Voo Doo fighter bombers, which had a Hanford
connection, over the airport what looks like an air show.
I would think someone who works there might know where it
came from and when it was built.
Re: Skip's
Lastly Skip's was where Knight Street intersects with
Stevens. I think either I sent in a Skip's photo or another
Bomber did.
Bombers, you have a terrific history I've been fascinated
with for nearly 40 years it would behoove more former /
current students to pour over the excellent info provided by
you and put together so masterfully by Maren over the years.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff Today
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich GREENHALGH ('59_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David BELLISTON ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patty STORDAHL ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen THORNTON ('74)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: More on the Hutment and Richland Streets
Well I was mistaken, the Richland hutment was built prior to
1950. The photograph of it, I'm guessing, was taken ~1948. It
would be interesting to know if it was Air Force excess like
its smaller cousin. Along with that photo I found one of the
corner of Duane and Lee date 8/11/54, incidentally the 1st &
last name of a Bomber alum and father of one of my co-
workers.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210218_Duane-Lee_1954.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/19/21
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Tedd CADD ('66)
Dwight CAREY ('68)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joretta "Sue" GARRISON ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy WARREN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peter CROWLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken STALEY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn NOBLE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian BIDDLE ('80)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Katie and Diana POWELL ('02)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Mike HUSKE & Carol HARSHMAN ('64)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Ford
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210218_Duane-Lee_1954.jpg
The Ford Agency (on the corner of Lee and Stevens) opened in
May or June of 1959; which should date the picture to the
late '50s or early '60s. The building behind the car lot
looks a lot like the skating rink. Not sure if it was a
Quonset hut or a modified CofE theater plan (roof similar to
Village or Richland theaters). It was there before the Ford
place opened.
Remember, also, that John Ball Elementary school in North
Richland was a series of small (regular) Quonset huts with a
big hut as the gym.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Impromptu reunion
This was back in 2002 when I met Tim (SMYTH, also '62) and
his wife, Terry (NAB--RIP), for dinner in Burlington, Vermont
which turned out within driving distance from his then home
town of Glens Falls, New York. I had mentioned in the
Sandstorm we would be visiting an uncle near there. It was a
miracle I found my way back home, as my phone wouldn't work
in the mountains once I got off the main road.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/210219_Helen-Tim.jpg
Fun memory.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from very snowy, cold (20° colder
than it usually is) SE Indiana. We are hoping the
temperature will go up above freezing on Sunday, for
the first time in 2 weeks.
But looking at the bright side, we do have heat and
water in our homes. Heard even Louisiana got hit with
the cold; hope it didn't get as far south as Gretna,
Maren. [It did... "feels like" temp was below freezing
a couple of days. Brrrrr -Maren]
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Birthday
day (February 19, 2021 is the 80th birthday of the US Coast
Guard Reserve. I am grateful to have been a part of that
excellent organization for over 18 years.
Re: PS and more
There is often some confusion over the terms USCG Auxiliary
and USCG Reserve.
Originally, the USCG Reserve was formed in 1939 as a civilian
arm of the Coast Guard. But with the passage of the Coast
Guard Reserve and Auxiliary Act of 19 February 1941, the
civilian branch was named the USCG Auxiliary and a true
military reserve was formed.
It functioned like any other reserve component with an
exception. Since the USCG has both war and peacetime duties,
the reserve units had the same sort of jobs you'd expect from
an active duty command.
The Spokane unit was responsible for servicing the markers,
buoys, and other aids to navigation (ATON) on Lake Roosevelt.
The same could be said of the Kennewick unit. When we came
aboard, the active duty people went home. We did the ATON
work and rescue work and boarding functions. I got to
participate with the security at the races and even took part
in a rescue.
When the Kennewick active duty unit was disestablished, the
reserve units took over the complete operation. (We had 4
units at the time.)
In an unusual step, around the year 2000, the reserve units
were disestablished and the reservists were assigned directly
to the active duty command (the Kennewick active duty unit
had been reestablished).
At that point, I was assigned to Marine Safety Office
Portland doing Marine Casualty Investigation and disaster
contingency planning. I was the first responder to accidents
upstream of Bonneville Dam and up the Snake River.
I had the privilege of investigating two oil spills (one
accidental and one that cost a mariner's license. I was also
the initial part of the team that investigated an incident on
the Snake River where a group of barges got stuck in the lock
at Lower Granite Dam and capsized. 950 tons of wood chips
went to the bottom, a number of cargo containers into
the.lock.The lock was shut down for weeks as they cleared
that up. Cause? There is 24 inches clearance for the barges
in the lock. A 30 inch log was a very effective locking
mechanism. Once the water level started to drop, the operator
couldn't stop it fast enough to prevent the disaster.
The wood chips were the worst. They waterlogged quickly and
they couldn't flush them out downstream for fear of damaging
the fish screens. So, they had to very gradually lower the
water level. Once it was empty, they lowered a front-end
loader in and, scoop by scoop, extracted the soggy chips.
It took a bit for the active duty command to understand what
they had in their "part-time" employees.
Was it a good idea to assign a Chief Petty Officer (CPO) as
our Training Officer? Is it safe to have our boarding
officers carry weapons when they're only there once a month?
They understood a little better when I told them the CPO had
a doctorate in education and was a school district
superintendent. They were satisfied that our boarding teams
were ok when they found out that all our boarding officers
were police officers in their day job.
One incident stands out for me. One of our 42' boats had a
problem with one of its Cummins engines. Our Machinist's Mate
(MK) offered his services since he had his tools in his
truck.
They refused, insisting on having the certified Cummins
mechanic do the work on Monday. Our MK came back the next day
wearing a different uniform that said "Cummins Master
Mechanic."
-LCDR Tedd CADD ('66), USCGR Retired
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210218_Duane-Lee_1954.jpg
I believe that picture you showed us, was one of the hut that
burned down around 1990, taking the life of Tom GORE ('69-RIP)
who had a baseball card shop there.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics/RIP69GoreTom93.htm
He went back in trying to get some valuables, or his pet dog,
I think. I know his shop was a Quonset Hut.
In that picture, it looks pretty close to the dealer, so I
may be off a little... .. The lot remains vacant today - next
to the New City Cleaners.
I also bought my first new Truck at that dealership - Lorne
Bangert - in 1977.
-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Received an email from Pam EHINGER ('67) whose father worked
in the airport control tower. I had a great conversation with
Pam and her husband earlier today about her dad and some
interesting stories from her husband as well. From Rocky
Rokkan's scrap book I had a photo of Pam's dad who is 93.
The airport was a 24/7 operation, something that hadn't
occurred to me but makes sense given the nature of what they
were supporting. Makes me wonder who was spirited in and out
in the middle of the night. In Pam's email she recalled an
interesting event copied from her email:
"I can't remember when, but dad called to
tell us we were dead! (We lived on the corner
of Thayer and Wilson. The old Hanford bus lot
was behind our house.) There was a large
White Spot of Flour in our back yard. Pretty
good aim from the air I'm thinking.
Again more tantalizing detail. Attached is a photo of Max
Ehinger, Jr. in the control tower.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210219_EhingerMax.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/20/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52)
Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy PIERCE ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann COFFMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenda GRAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn HERIFORD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie MUDD ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don DASCENZO ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Winston McCULLEY ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michelle LEE ('79)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Ford dealership
Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) talked about a photo of
the Ford dealership on Lee Blvd and stated that it opened in
1959. My memory "ain't what it used to be", but in July, 1955
I was home on leave (USCG). I had a pocket full of money as
I had just re-enlisted and was enroute a training assignment
in Connecticut. I had it in mind to buy myself one of those
fancy Ford Crown Victorias, and went to the Ford dealer
downtown. In trying to make a deal, the "high-powered"
salesman frustrated me greatly and I walked out. I went
across the street (at least that is my recollection) to the
Chevrolet dealer. I bought a new 1955 Chevrolet Bel Aire - my
first new car - and broke it in driving across the country.
Again, that was July 1955...
-Dick WIGHT ('52)
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Ford Dealership
I seem to remember going to the Ford dealer showroom in
Richland to look at the new 1955 Fords with seat belts
(available at extra cost for the first time). That would
have been late 1954 or early 1955
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Dwight CAREY ('68) & Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Ford Dealership
I remember in the late 1950s when the Ford Dealership in
Richland was Romeri Ford. It was owned by the father of
Sandra ROMERI( '60-RIP).
I think it's the same building that was once Anderson
Chrysler (maybe earlier in the 1950s). The Andersons lived on
Howell or near it, and I babysat their kids a couple of
times.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/21/21
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55)
Floyd MELTON ('57)
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug LONGMORE ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan SCHIER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tresha HUNTER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue SHIPMAN ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gil GILSTRAP ('79)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie VINING ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David KELLER ('82)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
To: Vicki MOSLEY Cole ('66)
Happy birthday on Valentine's Day. I hope brother John('66)
made your day special.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Chevrolet Dealership
I bought my first car - a 1951 Chevy - at the Chevrolet
dealership there next to the boulevard in 1955. I paid $600
bucks for it and in 1958 I bought a '56 Chevrolet from the
same dealership and paid I think something like $2500. 16
and 19 years old respectively.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
The Ford dealerships on Lee & Stevens were Romeri & Bell
Bangert. If I remember correctly Anderson Motors was also on
Stevens, but further north, but up near Swift. My dad bought
a 1953 Dodge Meadowbrook. there.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
It was very thoughtful of Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) to post the
picture from our delightful 2002 visit in Vermont.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/210219_Helen-Tim.jpg
Helen probably looks the same but I look much older. We are
both very lucky to still be able to enjoy the Sandstorm and
write in once in a while. That visit was before GPS and we
did have difficulty connecting. I think we go back to
Spalding kindergarten. A very thoughtful and sweet person..
-Tim SMYTH ('62) ~ in Holmes Beach, Florida escaping from
the NY winter.
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: Cahoon Motors and Linn Motors
The Ford dealership was originally a Studebaker deal called
Cahoon Motors. The structure to the South, across Lee, was
opened as a Dodge store and I think was called Linn Motors.
It then became a Chevrolet point for Murphy Motors in Pasco.
Had a Texaco station on the Lee side that was run for a while
by Norman HIll's Pop.
An interesting fact about Cahoon/Romeri Motors was the floor
was heated. During my time as a "Factory Dink? for the Ford
Motor Company I called on them when it was run by Lorne
Bangert and he used tell me about the floor to break the
conversation when I was trying to sell him one of our "C.S?.
programs.
Anderson Motors was the Chrysler/Studebaker shoppe, just
North of Tastee Freeze on Stevens.
-jimbeaux
Andrá Tutto Bene
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Mischief
One of the greatest things about receiving the Sandstorm is
that it helps me to recall all those memories I'd tucked away
in, as Freud called it, the last great frontier. Perhaps some
of those recollections would be better off left in the dark,
but I'm a believer in the truth setting us free. I'm not
going to confess to anything like when I used to phone in
bomb threats (which I never did), but there were, I'll call
them, moments of mischief, where not much harm was done and
it ended up just being a part of growing up in Richland.
If no one minds, and I'll have faith that Maren's hands of
propriety trumps anything too "unshareable", may I start a
confession of sorts. I'd like to hear others' antics, as
well, and who knows. We may solve some mysteries along the
way.
There have recently been Sandstorm entries where mention has
been made of the Ford Dealership at the intersection of Lee
Blvd. and Stevens. I remember where a few of us adventurous
young adults would head to what ended up being a hangout,
Atomic Lanes, to play pool, or go bowling, or look for
things that only young boys could possibly think of, for
our evening's entertainment.
One night, one of my oldest good buddies, Jerry Rogers (RIP
'67), and I came up with a grand idea. We "borrowed" a couple
bowling balls and spirited them up to the top of Carmichael
Hill. We would always wait until there were absolutely no
cars, or bikes, or people coming up the hill (usually after
midnight) then we would bowl a bowling ball down Lee Blvd.
in the general direction of the Columbia River. We knew the
bowling balls would never get there, so the 4 or 5 of us
would go into silent listening mode to hear whatever got
in the way. What a thrill!
So if anyone ever found a black Atomic Lanes bowling ball at
Zip's, or A&W, or wherever, you're more than welcome.
Re: Saipan Boat
This is a photo of one of the nuclear submarines we see
often at Charlie Dock, Saipan. When I was the Chamber of
Commerce President for a few years, we'd greet the guys
coming in on U.S. Navy submarines and give them the tour.
They would break out their stashed cigars from Diego Garcia,
or Cuba, and off we'd go golfing. We got quite a reputation
that way, so it got out the submariners preferred us over
Guam port of calls. The Garapan night club scene is within
walking distance of Charlie Dock, and the service men and
women could all overnight in Saipan, as opposed to some
having to stay aboard in Guam.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210221_nuclear_sub.jpg
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/22/21
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1 Bomber and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darlene PICKLES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan NOBLE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe CHOATE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave SIMPSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn BERRY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve GALLOWAY ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis LYNCH ('75)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Let's hear a big "Happy Birthday!" shout out to the Father of
Our Country George Washington.
And an even bigger "Happy Birthday!" to Darlene PICKLES ('54)
because she's a Bomber and a fellow classmate.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: Wrong label
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210218_Duane-Lee_1954.jpg
So thanks again to Maren, one of my submitted photos was
labeled as the intersection of Lee and Duane, wrong. Duane
was several blocks East of there.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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1 Bomber and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Rick MADDY ('67)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Myrna BRANUM ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom SOMMER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb COLLINGS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane BROWN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy STANFIELD ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jil LYTLE ('82)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: The Corner - Stevens and Lee
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210218_Duane-Lee_1954.jpg
To: Don Sorensen (NAB)
You have given us much. No apologies necessary. We can figure
out your simple mistakes soon enough. It is the rest of what
you give us that is very interesting. So, do not stop with
the onslaught of everything I knew nothing about.
[I renamed the picture. -Maren]
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210220_Ford_1954.jpg
Summer of 1965 I get my drivers license. I get a job (washing
the automobiles) on the lot of Lorne Bangert Ford (Sr.)
(Stevens & Lee?). I am 16. A couple times going somewhere and
picking up an auto and driving it back to the dealership. I
recall a new ('65?) Ford 4X4 pickup. What a ride. The only
thing missing was the 90mm. I just do not recall where I went
to get the truck, which happened only a couple times because
somebody did not come to work that morning.
I also start bumming Camels from one of the mechanics. Camel,
non-filter, the number one killer of Americans, preceding all
the other serial killer cancers, the flu shot, automobile
wrecks, overdose and I cannot take this thing called life
anymore. After about a month, the mechanic tells me I need to
start buying my own. Hmmmmm. Bummer. The very same summer I
went from baseball and girls to beer and girls. So, just
keeping cool, I was now smoking Camels, drinking beer
procured from Luckys in Pasco (Collins, Spencer, Webb '67)
and the rest of the evening I do not recall.
I cannot say enough about Mr. Lorne (Sr.) giving me my first
job.
I finally got rid of the nasty habit of cigs at the age of
63. Anyone smoking cigs after the age of 60 should probably
be shot ...just kidding. Why wait for the inevitable? And
perfume!! Women, never let your perfume arrive before you
do. Just saying. In HB it is the suntan lotion. We already
have this poor air quality in Los Angeles/Orange counties.
SMOG. Tire dust from millions of automobiles, the designer
dog crap fumes, second hand cigarette smoke, vegan and keto
farts ...and all of the rest of it!! I am 71. Just how much
longer do you want to live burning everyone's ears with your
Hippie Days, few care at this point in life, burned out,
CAUSE bumper sticker? It's Over. Lets go to Mars. Maybe there
is a beach on the dark side.
Sorry, I forgot where my post was going.
Lorne BANGERT (Class of 1967) is the son of Senior, and a
classmate. Now, I cannot speak for Lorne, but I believe he
went on with his father's trade and had a dealership at the
Y, where his father had much earlier in our day started? Have
not talked to Lorne ('67) for many years. Curd ('67)? You
know?
Lorne Bangert, Sr. obit
Lorne Bangert (Sr.) gave me my first job. I will never
forget that. I was trouble. I will also never forget that
he elieved I could do better.
The roller rink in the photo that had music venues in the mid
and later '60s ('70s?). I met the mother of my children in
that building during one of those venues. July 1966. I was
headed to my senior year and Mary ('69) was going into her
sophomore year. She was beautiful.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210223_Rick-Mary_1967.jpg
I left for the Vietnam War and was wounded. Mary was 17 and
came into the Bremerton Navy Hospital visiting me. This was
a hell hole. We divorced after 24 years of marriage (two
marriages). Two children. A granddaughter and a two year old
great-grandson (the light of my life). I have been single for
27 years. We just could never put our socks on at the same
time. Unfortunate. S* Happens. So, here I sit suffering in
Huntington Beach, CA.
Finally, if you have a 17 year old hanging out in your midst,
one piece of advice. My grandfather was 21 and grandmother 16
when they married. My great grandfather was 19 and g-
grandmother was 14 when they married. Give the under aged a
bit of leeway. They are far more capable and resilient than
you want them to be or believe them to be.
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
The Quonset hut that burnt down I believe is where Tri City
Vault was started over 35 years ago by the Hulse brothers.
And wasn't that a small theater at one time? Or was it just
close by? The pic of the mislabeled Lee and Duane streets is
one of many mistakes I've discovered (and for some reason I
didn't double check this time) made by those who scanned the
old negatives. In fact I've given up sending in corrections.
I just need to remember to carefully review them from now on.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210220_Ford_1954.jpg
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Are there any of the Anderson family left in Richland? I've
always wondered if there were any family left of the old
dealerships from the '50s and other businesses of that era.
I've attached a couple '50s era pictures of the Flying A on
GWWay. I've always thought the Flying A was a cool logo.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210223_Flying_A.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dorothy CAMERON ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank HAGGARD ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol CONVERSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy WICK ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan MORRIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann Marie NICKLASON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron BRUNKE ('71)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB
Re: Quonset hut
The fire that took the life of Thomas GORE ('69-RIP) was not
a Quonset hut as can be seen in the newspaper article about
the fire previously posted in the Sandstorm. The location was
777 Stevens and a look on Google Maps shows that nothing has
been rebuilt on that spot. His business according to the 1991
Polk's City Directory was called "The Coin House."
https://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics/RIP69GoreTom93.htm
When I learned on the news about the fire I remembered that
as the building that had the small movie theater. I am sure
that was a previous owner because I believe he was older than
me. I think at one time it might have been a dance studio. I
don't remember what the front part of the business did, but
he put in a small movie theater in the back to show old
movies. At that time, before video tape players and the
ability to get 500 channels on satellite and cable TV with a
number of them showing old movies it was hard to get to see
an old movie. I believe I was there opening night. I do
remember one time, had to be last half of 1978, holding my
daughter in one of those plastic things that looks something
like a tray to carry babies in, watching Bogey in "The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre," and every time she heard a gun
shot she would jerk a little. It was the first time I noticed
her react to a sound, although she was quite capable of
making sounds of her own that my wife or I had to react to.
Today I went to Richland taking a copy of the photo with me
and tried to position myself at the same angle. Turned out to
be impossible because the street had been moved some distance
to the West and it had to be in the parking lot of a Subway
shop where there were too many large vehicles in the way so I
did the best I could. That curved roof building behind the
Ford dealership is in fact not a Quonset hut, it is just a
regular building with a curved roof, and is still there as
the New City Cleaners. The Ford building has a sign on it now
that says "Richland School District Support Services"
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/210224_StevensThenNow.jpg
Re: The "Flying A"
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/210224_Flying_A.jpg
A lot, if not all, of the Navy's fleet oilers have a flag
they fly only during underway replenishment of fuel to other
ships at sea, call "unrep" for sort. A lot of them have the
logos of gas companies. I remember seeing one of with a large
orange 76 ball mounted on it near the stack. I imagine the
companies donate them just as advertisement. While off
Vietnam my ship was refueled by the USS Ashtabula. I knew my
ship was going to be decommissioned, but I did not know that
the ship I would be going to was the Ashtabula. We were known
as the "Flying A," as a Radioman I have even sent messages
out to other ships in the area with our schedule and
referring to ourselves as the Flying A. Also, it seems that
the character Fonze from "Happy Days" sometimes wore
coveralls with a Flying A patch on them.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Yes, I do have a near brand new 1991
edition of the Tri-Cities City Directory. I would like
to donate it to a library or something thinking it
might be a better copy than the one they have, but the
one in Kennewick it is quite good condition, haven't
been able to check the one at the Richland Library yet.
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65) aka Terence Knox is seen here with
Linda Blair (Exorcist Star).
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Beh/210224_Knox-Blair.jpg
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/25/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy MITCHELL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn MILLIUS ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rochelle SEHOLM ('97)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
to: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Murder She Wrote
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Beh/210224_Knox-Blair.jpg
I remember seeing that rerun of Murder She Wrote quite
recently, and being sort of thrilled, that I actually knew
a member of the cast. Terry DAVIS Knox ('65), of course.
It's thawing like mad here, getting up to 50° today; feels
so good, looking forward to spring flowers!!
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ In the house by the little lake
in SE Indiana.
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Quonset Huts
There are three old buildings in South Richland that may be
Quonset Huts. Currently still in use. Look up 516 Warehouse
Street in Richland. What do you think?
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/26/21
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betsy COFFMAN ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis LOVE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie LUKINS ('78)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Card Shop on Stevens
Was the card shop on Stevens that burned down in 1971
formerly a small movie house? And was it owned by the
Langlois family?
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
47 teams have signed up for the 2021 Iditarod.4-time Champ
Dallas Seavey is one of them. Dallas was the youngest to win
in 2012... and went on to win '14, '15, and '16.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/210226_Dallas-2016.jpg
Re: 2021 Race route changes because of COVID
Only about 860 milles - instead of 1000 miles. Several teams
have withdrawn. The route begins (and ends) at Deshka Landing
(near Willow, AK) and goes the traditional southern route to
Iditarod, AK - the half way point of the southern route.
THIS YEAR ONLY, from Iditarod, they go just 7 miles SE to the
abandoned gold mine town of Flat, AK... then turn around and
head back to Iditarod. There's no check point at Takotna
this year and the final mandatory 8 hour rest checkpoint is
at Skwetna.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/2021Map.jpg
Re: Aliy Zirkle's "sunset Ride"
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/Zirkle-Sunset.jpg
Aliy, 50, will retire from competetive mushing after the 2021
Iditarod. Aliy came in 2nd three years in a row ('12, '13, &
'14) and is the only woman to have won the 1000 mile Yukon
Quest. I'd love to see her win this year.
Re: Do sled dogs' feet get cold?
Do sled dogs' feet get cold from running in the snow? Posted
by IditarodTeam in Dog Care Information, General Health Care,
Genetics, Iditarod, Training and Conditioning Date: January
19, 2021 5:45 pm
A penguin, a sled dog, and a manatee walk into a diner...
Well, maybe not. But even if they don't frequent the same
restaurants, they do share similar adaptations that help
them overcome the challenges of life in cold environments.
As veterinarians, we're often asked how dogs can tolerate
walking barefoot on snow and ice. Accomplishing this is
actually a two-part challenge: keeping the feet warm enough
to prevent tissues from freezing but also minimizing heat
loss so the body's core temperature doesn't drop. While there
is an insulating layer of fat under a dog's foot pads (think
blubber on whales and seals), their key feet-feature is a
specialized circulatory mechanism called a countercurrent
heat exchanger.
Arteries, the type of blood vessels that carry blood away
from the heart, transport heated blood to the extremities.
The veins, which flow in the opposite direction, carry cooled
blood back to the heart. Unlike other parts of the body where
these vessels run separately, in cold resistant extremities
(like a dog's paw, a penguin's foot, or a manatee's tail)
these vessels are tightly entwined, allowing heat to be
exchanged by blood flowing in opposite directions (hence the
term, countercurrent heat exchanger). As a result, heat from
the arteries can be transferred directly to the veins to
buffer the overall temperature of the foot and prevent
freezing. Furthermore, while the normal physiologic response
to cold is to decrease blood flow to the extremities to
concentrate heat in the vital organs, because the venous
blood returning to the body's core gets a temperature boost,
this arrangement allows maintenance of blood flow to the
feet while decreasing impact on overall core temperature.
So what then of the colorful booties the dogs wear? In
reality, their primary purpose is for protection rather than
retaining heat. While the booties are useful to keep ice
from building up between the dogs' toes and to prevent foot
abrasions from rough trail conditions, it is the extra warmth
created by the countercurrent heat exchanger that allows them
to travel comfortably despite the cold temperatures. So the
next time you see a sled dog, a penguin, or a manatee, you
can truly appreciate the incredible adaptations they have
developed to survive and thrive in their unique environments.
March is coming... stay tuned...
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 60° at 3am
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: "I've Got A Secret"
Remembering an old "I've Got A Secret" program with Gary
Moore. A contestant came on indicating one of the panel
members borrowed $1.00 MANY years ago (1931) & that dollar
was worth a million at the time of the program. (Hindsight
being 100%) What he had done was to make 'paper' trades in
the stock market IF he would have had that dollar he loaned.
It was humorous at the time. (1960 or so)
Speed up 3 years to 1963. Shopping with Mom Behymer at what
was or was to become Mayfair Market, I spy the delivery man
making his rounds to the magazine shelves. I noticed him
puting down a number of Marvel/Atlas comics...Bottom Line...
I purchased 5 copies of The Avenger #1 and 5 copies of
X-Men #1 = Total of 10 comics at 12 cents each = $1.20
total cost + tax
Today's Value:
(5) Copies of The Avenger #1 = $225,000 Near Mint
(5) Copies of X-Men #1 = $310,000 Near Mint
(Total) + $535,000.00
Sorry to say that I sold all 10 mint issues in 1963 for $1.00
each or $10.00. I did purchase other copies later in the '60s
and '70s but not in that nice of condition and not for 12
cents or a $1 each. My collection of 50,000 (1938 to 1971) or
so comics were mostly gone before 1975.
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: MATTHIAS ARTICLE
A couple years ago i was introduced to General Groves'
grandson. He sent me images of an article written by Colonel
Matthias for Engineering and News Record, December 13, 1945.
Be Safe.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210226_Matthias00.htm
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donna NELSON ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shannon CRAIG ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilynn WORKING ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Grant RICHARDSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jon ERLANDSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick HUMPHREYS ('76)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Dick ROBERTS ('49) & Carol TYNER ('52)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
It is the exact date to wish Marilynn WORKING ('54) a "happy
Birthday!"
It is also a day to say "Happy Anniversary!" to
Dick ROBERTS ('49) & Carol TYNER ('52). Hope you guys are
still strumming those ukes.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Re: Iditarod.com
Thanks for the sled dog info, Maren. A friend went to
Alaska a few years ago to work as a volunteer during the
race. It was a bucket list thing
To: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
And Gary, some of us have stories like yours selling or
throwing things instead of saving them forever. Had every
Katie Keene and Archie comic and just realized Riverdale is
based on Archie comic characters. And my baseball card
collector son cringes when I tell him I clothes pinned
multiple Mickey Mantle baseball cards to my bike spokes.
Older son sold his Alien figure at a garage sale along with
Evil Kneivel and my twins shopped White Elephant in Spokane
after every birthday for all the original Star Wars figures
and ships and played with and lost... most Anyway
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
47 teams have signed up for the 2021 Iditarod. 4-time Champ
Swiss born Martin Buser is in the race -- something like 36
races for Martin. His win in 2002 was his "Citizenship
Race".. He took half the oath to become a US citizen in
Anchorage before the race and the rest of the oath after he
won in 2002. Picture is Martin arriving in Nome -- in first
place.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/Buser-2002-flag.jpg
Martin set a record that year that stood for many years:
8 days, 22 hours: 46 minutes: 02 seconds.
Martin is one tough cookie. He darn near cut his finger off
with his table saw just before the 2005 race.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/Buser-2005-splint.jpg
He was in so much pain that he had the checkpoint vet cut
it off... and still finished the race!! in 13th place.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/Buser-2005-finger.jpg
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 62° at 3am
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Col. Matthias article
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210226_Matthias00.htm
I wish SOMETHING (recognizable) in Richland was named for
Col. Franklin Matthias. He worked conscientiously for us in
those early years. He lived here, he was not a visiting
dignitary.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/28/21
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry GROSS ('65)
LEAP YEAR BABIES --- NEXT LEAP YEAR DAY, 2024
2/29 BOMBER BIRTHDAY: Don STORMS ('66) - celebrates 2/28
2/29 BOMBER BIRTHDAY: Sharon CHAMBERS ('70) - celebrates 2/28
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Anniversary
Thanks for the greetings, Bob, we have been married 67 years,
then add a few dating years and it all adds up to some
wonderful times, experiences, challenges, bonding, family,
etc. that I wouldn't want to miss.
Bomber cheers,
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gotta do this before the month runs out: "Happy Birthday!"
to Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60). You made it just in time to not
be a "leap" baby.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
To: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
I started buying US Proof sets in the late '60s for
retirement investment. Now that I'm getting near retirement,
I checked on their value.
If I sold them now, I would show a whopping $10,000 loss.
Poor investment!! The rolls of old silver dimes and nickels
and quarters I saved
from pre 1964 on the other hand, were a far better
investment.
Looking to retire later this year and will be moving to
Virginia.
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
7 days till start of 2021 Iditarod: March 6, 2021.
Re: Martin Buser 2016 race
Martin pulled his hamstring... still finished... #37.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/Buser-2016-hamstring.jpg
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 73° at 3am
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Richland Varsity Footbll
The Richland Bomber Varsity football team opened its season
against the Kamiakin Braves at Lampson Stadium February 26,
2021. Unfortunately the Bombers lost to the Braves 13-21. The
next game will be at 7pm on March 5 in an away game against
Kennewick.
The Hanford Falcons Varsity football team opened its season
against the Chiawana Riverhawks at Fran Rish Stadium February
26, 2021. Unfortunately the Falcons lost to the Riverhawks
14-32. The next game will be against Hermiston at 7pm on
March 5 at Fran Rish Stadium.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where it is 52°
at 1:30pm Saturday afternoon.
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BOMBER MEMORIAL JPEGS for this month
created by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Sharon MACK Liddell ('55-RIP) ~ 11/11/36 - 1/25/21
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Mike ROMSOS ('79-RIP) ~ 4/19/61 - 2/19/98
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Jim KRINER ('79-RIP) ~ 11/11/60 - 11/15/04
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Martha GUSTAVSON ('65-RIP) ~ 10/10/46 - 1/28/21
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Henry KOSKI ('81-RIP) ~ 10/8/62 - 2/1/21
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Larry CORYELL ('61-RIP) ~ 4/2/43 - 2/19/17
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Nick REITEN ('24-RIP) ~ 6/23/06 - 1/18/21
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Vicki SMITH Adkins ('63-RIP) ~ 10/9/45 - 2/7/21
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Billy CLAPHAN ('58-RIP) ~ 1/16/40 - 4/16/20
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Kay CONRAD Johnson ('60-RIP) ~ 10/2/42 - 1/29/21
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David NIELSEN ('66-RIP) ~ 6/9/48 - 1/26/21
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Raideen PORTER Roy ('50-RIP) ~ 6/14/32 - 2/5/21
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Jim CRANMER ('61-RIP) ~ 1/8/43 - 8/17/89
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Bill KANEHL ('77-RIP) ~ 4/8/59 - 1/28/21
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Lee SEAMAN ('61-RIP) ~ 6/4/43 - 3/27/75
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Shirley SITLER Jarrel ('61-RIP) ~ 9/10/43 - 2/4/17
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Barb RHYNEER Ownbey ('61-RIP) ~ 5/25/42 - 11/20/16
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Irene DeLaBRETONNE Hays ('61 honorary) ~ 7/7/43 - 5/8/17
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MaryMike HARTNETT Peters ('61-RIP) ~ 4/13/43 - 8/2/16
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Penny AMOS ('61-RIP) ~ 12/1/42 - 7/19/91
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Joe BERRY ('61-RIP) ~ 4/23/41 - 12/24/90
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Sharon CALDWELL Cozad ('61-RIP) ~ 1/22/43 - 11/15/89
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Sharon CHAPPELL Skelly ('61-RIP) ~ 9/11/43 - 3/13/88
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Buzz OCONNOR ('61-RIP) ~ 4/3/43 - 8/1/95
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Marlene CHISOLM Fink ('61_RIP) ~ 11/25/42 - 2/1/20
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Dave SIMMONS ('61-RIP) ~ 7/2/43 - 9/22/91
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Mike COLLINS ('82-RIP) ~ 9/2/64 - 2/6/21
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Bert HAMMILL ('70_RIP) ~ 9/22/52 - 6/9/19
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Jim DeCONINCK ('69-RIP) ~ 11/5/50 - 2/6/99
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Claudia KINNEY ('71-RIP) ~ 5/25/53 - 1/??/21
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Dumas GAINES ('61-RIP) ~ 12/25/42 - 1/25/74
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Russ BURKS ('57-RIP) ~ 9/28/38 - 2/15/21
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Eric NEWHOUSE ('91c) ~ 2/27/73 - 12/3/18
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Ross RICE ('87-RIP) ~ 12/17/68 - 7/15/19
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Kristi PEPIN Skaggs ('86-RIP) ~ 3/19/68 - 1/19/19
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Mike FORD ('76-RIP) ~ 4/11/58 - 11/27/16
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Mike HOWELL ('68-RIP) ~ 11/29/48 - 11/17/16
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Mike Humphreys ('76c) ~ 2/27/58 - 9/30/16
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Kay BENJAMIN ('62_) ~ 3/31/44 - 8/19/19
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Billy EASTERWOOD ('93-RIP) ~ 7/29/75 - 12/17/19
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Dirk VANDIVER ('86-RIP) ~ 9/7/68 - 5/20/19
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January, 2021 ~ March, 2021