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Alumni Sandstorm Archive ~ April, 2021
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/01/21 ~ APRIL FOOLS' DAY
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Mary Ann VOSSE ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Sharon DAHL ('66)
Gary HOFF ('68)
Ed MITCHELL ('69)
Steve MINOR ('73)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Richland Homes
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Perhaps, my friend, you have not bought a "2 x 4" for a long
while. 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" and sometimes after they are dried out
it's 1-3/8" x 3-3/8". TMI I know.
-Tommy HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Mary Ann VOSSE Hirst ('63)
Re: Tedd CADD's ('66) 3/31/21 Sandstorm entry
Tedd is correct. There is a section of houses in Richland on
the National Register of Historic Places, but it is not the
alphabet houses. The section was built in 1948-49 when the
cold war started a ramp up of plutonium production and more
technical and administrative employees were hired. It's called
the Gold Coast, although I never recall that name. Here's the
link, and it contains a map of the location
The Gold Coast
[Looks like Jefferson "territory". -Maren]
-Mary Ann VOSSE Hirst (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ in chilly,
but sunny Lacey, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Re: Memory exercise
Never owned one, and don't even know much about it, but could
that be the Hurst shifter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Performance
I remember for a while Oldsmobile built what they called the
"Hurst Olds" on the body of the Cutlass/442 with the 455 engine
(normally you had to buy a full sized car to get that engine)
with the Hurst Shifter and a special paint job so you knew when
you saw it that it was a Hurst Olds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Hurst/Olds
I used to belong to the Oldsmobile Club of America but never
joined the Puget Sound Chapter, although for awhile there I
went to their car show every year and to the all GM car show;
two shows I would go to in Wetter Washington. I had a 1957 Olds
S-88 convertible with the J-2 (three two-barrel carburetors) on
a 371 engine which was available in 1957-1958. At the same time
I was showing that convertible my regular car was a 1975 Olds
Toronado which was a big heavy front wheel drive car, (that you
could plow snow with) having the 455 engine which had plenty of
power and it lasted me until just about 500 miles less than
250,000 miles. I can imagine that engine in a much smaller
Cutlass size car would have plenty of performance.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Richland Bomber Football
The varsity team lost at Fran Rish Stadium to the Chiawana
Riverhawks by a score of 24-6 on March 30. The Riverhawks are
the Mid-Columbia Conference champions with a record of 6-0. The
Bombers finished with a record of 3-3 ending the 2021 football
season.
Re: Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament
The Gonzaga Bulldogs beat the USC Trojans on March 30 by a
score of 85-66 which placed Gonzaga in the final four for the
Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament. Gonzaga meets the UCLA Bruins
on April 3. The Baylor Bears will play the Houston Cougars in
the first game on Saturday. The National Championship game will
be played on April 5. GO ZAGS!!!!!
Don't fall for any practical jokes or pranks on Thursday,
unless you are an April Fool!
Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Alphabet Houses
I went by a "B" house several months ago that was totally
taken down to the basement and wondered what they were going
to put on the lot. It seems they just put a graveled area
over it, thought at first it was a parking lot extension for
the church next to it but it is now fenced off so not sure
what its purpose is now.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/02/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Robert SHIPP ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lloyd KENT ('54)
Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
Gail FRANZ ('64)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gotta wish Lloyd KENT ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" for the main
reason that it is his birthday. Go figure.
Oh, yeah, gotta thank Tommy HEMPHILL ('62) for up-dating me on
current lumber sizes.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
Re: Gold Coast
Having grown up in the "Gold Coast" area, I must offer a minor
correction to Mary Ann VOSSE Hirst's ('63) post. The houses in
that area were alphabet homes, designated "M" (two bedroom),
"Q" (three bedroom). "R" (slightly larger three bedroom) and
"S" (two-story, four bedroom). Some of the houses had a
screened porch off the living roomy and a half basement (like
the older alphabet houses), others had a full basement, but no
screened porch. All these houses had oil furnaces - a definite
step up from the coal furnaces in the older houses. There were
also houses of these designs in a couple of areas outside the
Gold Coast: a couple of blocks south of Hains and east of
GWWay, and an area south of Chief Jo.
[There was at least one "H" house which is
Charette's at 1822 Hunt Circle. -Maren]
We moved from an "H" house on Marshall to a "Q" house in the
Gold Coast when I was finishing first grade, and I lived there
until I left home. Some 20+ years later I bought an "R" house
just down the street from the house I grew up in. A few years
ago we significantly remodeled the house, including the
addition of over 400 square feet, and had no restrictions on
what we were allowed to do.
The houses in the picture accompanying Mary Ann's post appear
to be on Van Giesen, across the street from Jeffer
Gold Coast Historic District
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Historic Houses in Richland
I spoke with a person who works with the City. There are no
regulations about changing or destroying the Alphabet houses.
The City has no policy toward such (or much interest in). It
does NOT matter if a building is on the National Register of
Historic Places. They MAY (and have) be destroyed.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/03/21
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61)
David DOUGLAS ('62)
Duane LEE ('63)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Jeanene HOFF ('65)
Garry O'ROURKE ('66)
Linda HOLDEN ('66)
Pat GOBLE ('71)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Historic Houses in Richland
I"m guessing that maybe there is a difference between houses
and areas/districts on the National Historic Register. Maybe if
a house is on the list you cannot alter it, but if an area is
on the list, an individual house can be altered. Our family
lived in a "Q" house on McMurray from fall 1950 to spring 1958.
I liked the house, but do not think they are all that historic;
more likely the area, although I don"t really understand the
"historic" designation for it.
A year ago or so, our old "Q" house was offered for sale, and I
went through it during an open house. It was fun to see how it
had been altered. The biggest change was the bathroom and
bedrooms installed in the basement. The half closets in the
hallway and the heater in the living room where we huddled to
dress on cold mornings were still there. Coach Fran Rish bought
the house from us and put in a swimming pool so he could give
swimming lessons. He taught me at the big pool in the '50s and,
years later, he taught my kids in the '80s in my old back yard.
The pool is still there.
Now that I think about it, we moved from the Gold Coast to Pill
Hill. Gee, my Dad didn"t even work at Hanford. He just kept all
the guys well dressed!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Today is.....4-3-21
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: YouTube link - McDonald's
I"ve always enjoyed the occasional nostalgic emails and
attachments in the Alumni Sandstorm. In looking for things to
delete from my overburdened hard drive, I ran across a video of
McDonalds Hawaii commercials for their "Hawaii"s #1 Meal Deal"
promotion (59-cent hamburgers!). The date on the filming
clapboard looks like 12/19/91 and the commercials are dated
1/2/1992.
https://youtu.be/6jPxr1UBsGw
The first part is the auditions for parts in the commercials,
the second part is outtakes of the filming, and the third part
is two of the final commercials. My daughter is visible in the
light blue shirt and bushy black hair starting second 33. She
was chosen for the part of lead singer in the commercials. In
the outtakes, she cringes when she makes a mistake. The
singers" voices were dubbed in the final commercials.
My wife and I were extras sitting at a table, but we didn"t
make the commercials, although they did give us T-shirts for
showing up. In the commercial, my daughter can be seen at the
take-out window as well as other places. Filming the car going
up to the take-out window took a half hour, but only shows up
for 1-2 seconds in the final commercials. The commercials were
filmed at the McDonalds in Kailua, which was closed for the
evening to accommodate the cameras. It took until after
midnight to get the 30 seconds used in the final commercials.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
It appears that someone has a hoarding problem in Bomber Land.
This house is on Torbett across the street from where the
Adrians lived. It is next to the big water tower that we all
used to climb. Would hate to be a neighbor and have to look at
this mess every day.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Lee/210403_Hoarder.mov
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Teresa Knirck '64 Walks The Walk.
You knew her as Teresa DeVINE ('64).
All this talk about the Historic Gold Coast up on Hunt
Street got me thinking about the walking tours throughout
Richland Teresa and her group conducts.
There are three of them:
Mid-Century Modern
Wartime Houses
History Through Houses Post-War.
Teresa has always known a lot about a lot of different
things, just because she's Teresa. But she also seems to know
more than anybody else I know about the streets and houses of
our town. Seriously.
In five years of doing these tours, she has walked every
street of every neighborhood in Richland.
Here is a photo of the historic Hunt Loop on the Gold
Coast, sent to me from Teresa.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210403_1822Hunt_Circle.jpg
[The blue (gray?) house on the left is at
1822 Hunt Circle. It is the heavily remodeled
Charette "H" house. I don't think K ever knew
what kind of house the other one was. -Maren]
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
Re: House removals
To: Betti AVANT ('69)
Richland Lutheran Church purchased 3 houses bordering the
church's property several years ago with the plan that a new
building would be built to replace older building. The houses
were rented out until last year.
The houses were removed and unfortunately the new building has
not been started due to funding issues.
Therefore it is now just additional parking for the church.
Take care, and Blessed Easter,
-Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/04/21
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6 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Linda BELLISTON ('63)
Robert SHIPP ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Janice BOOTH ('54)
Susan SEEBURGER ('58)
Jan NELSON ('60)
Michael MARTIN ('66)
Marlene WALTON ('66)
Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
Reneé WALTON ('67)
Clif EDWARDS ('68)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just because it is her birthday, is probably good reason to
wish Janice BOOTH ('54) a "Happy Birthday!"
One thing I've learned from watching "This Old House" is if
the house is in an historic district, you can remodel the
interior to your heart's content but you should keep the
exterior as it was back when. But not always.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Maren, Editor Extraordinaire
Re: Walking the Talk
The house to the right of 1822 Hunt's Point is an "F" house.
Check out the website on "Houses that Hanford Built." Under the
"F" house
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/houses/f.html
click the "1954 Reverse Floor Plan" and then imagine
the first-floor additions shown in the color photo from Teresa
DeVINE Knirck ('64) and posted by Terry DAVIS Knox ('65). Two
stories, with the upper window and side door in exactly the
right places.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210403_1822Hunt_Circle.jpg
Wondering what we know about any so-called "tract houses"
possibly still intact, from Richland's pre-1942 population of
about 200 who live on original tracts of land that were later
folded into the new town layout.
Long gone, but whetting our interest is Martha Berry Parker in
her "Tales of Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford 1805-1943"...
On page 350 we find that "[t]he willow tree at the Demitruk
home was the oldest tree in Richland, planted by the
Rosencrance family when they moved to this location in 1890.
The house was known as the Breithaupt place (photo taken in
1943)."
From one of the Town of Richland maps (pp. 384-5), and with a
magnifying glass, we find that the Demitruk lot was 1.0 acres,
on the west side of "Orchard Road" and the south side of the
corner with 4th Street, wherever these might have been located
under today's superimposed street grid and names. From the map
scale, the lot looks to be 1,870 feet (!) due west, probably,
of the old downtown Columbia River "shorelands" boundary-where
there's an 8.75-acre parcel owned by the City of Richland (War
Department Hanford Engineering Works map, dated 6-18-43), my
guess annexed to the north end of the later-donated Howard Amon
Park. (All this as a portion of Section 11, T 9 N.R.28 E). All
the other several dozen original and mapped tracts in this
Section are also identified by owners' names. (A second map
with fewer tracts is on pp. 382-3).
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA with time on my hands
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: https://youtu.be/6jPxr1UBsGw
What a kick to have such a video of your daughter from back in
the day!
McDonalds note: In September 1966 and newly married, my husband
and I relocated to Lafayette, Indiana, where he spent 4 years
working on his PhD in mechanical engineering. I spent most of
that time as a junior professional librarian in the electrical
engineering building next door. Returning from Afghanistan and
a couple of post-wedding celebrations with our families (mine
in Richland, his in Smithtown, NY), we were too late to obtain
housing for some weeks. We lived in a little motel on the
eastern edge of Lafayette and bought dinner every night at the
nearby McDonalds. Burgers were 19 cents (sorry, no cent sign on
my modern keyboard) and we ordered 5 of them every night; three
for him and two for me. I think they were just meat, pickle,
and catsup. In that tiny motel room we had stuffed all of the
wedding presents and the luggage originally packed in Kabul,
Afghanistan. Boxes and trunks came later, but by then we were
mercifully lodged in an apartment in West Lafayette. Good thing
the burgers were so cheap!
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Charette house at 1822 Hunt Point
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210403_1822Hunt_Circle.jpg
Is the yellow house in the pic next to Charette's the Finch
house? (John FINCH ('58) and Danny FINCH ('62)).
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63)
Re: Tour of Richland
If you want to take a driving or walking tour of Richland, one
of the best books I've seen is "Richland An Atomic City" by
Richard Nordgren. He is a local expert on the Alphabet Houses
and has compiled seven self-guided walking tours of homes and
businesses. We drove it and was fascinated with all the
information in the book which included some names of who lived
in the houses in the early days. Lots of photos and historical
insights. It covers the rustic farmhouses of the early days
through to the mid-century modern style ranch houses. Our son
gave it to us, and bought it at Barnes and Noble.
-Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
Re: Hunt Point
We always referred to the bulge at the north end of Hunt as
"Hunt Point." When did "Circle" get added? Judging from the
placement of the upstairs windows, I'm guessing that the other
(yellow) house in Terry DAVIS' picture began life as an "F"
house.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210403_1822Hunt_Circle.jpg
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Richland Bomber Varsity Baseball Schedule
All times are Pacific Time Zone
Richland at Kamiakin at 4 pm on Friday, April 9
Richland hosts Hermiston at 4 pm and at 6 pm on Tuesday, April
13
Richland hosts Hanford at 4 pm and at 6 pm on Friday, April 16
Richland at Walla Walla at 3 pm on Tuesday, April 20
Richland hosts Chiawana at 4 pm and at 6 pm on Friday, April 23
Richland at Pasco at 4 pm and 6 pm on Tuesday, April 27
Richland at Southridge at 4 pm and 6 pm on Friday, April 30
Richland hosts Kennewick at 5 pm on Tuesday, May 4
Good luck, Bombers!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: found letter
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210404_found_ltr.jpg
To: All Bombers
First of all Happy Easter to all one of my favorite days of the year.
A few years ago I bought this letter on EBAY addressed to Mr.
& Mrs. Emmet Fleming (so glad we don't address married couples
this way) from John dated nearly 62 years ago. I've wanted to
share this since I received it. On a similar vein years ago a
former Radiation Monitor, R M for short, told me F reactor was
used to support the NAVY's nuclear program. I haven't found
anything to support that until a few weeks ago when during an
interview of a former fuels operator who told me, in another
part of the 300 area, work was taking place for Rickover who
had visited earlier. As long as I've researched Hanford history
one thing becomes clearer this site was so much more than
Plutonium production. A lot can be accomplished when you have
neutrons to play with.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/05/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Phyllis CUNNINGHAM ('64)
Clif EDWARDS ('68)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Mary MASSEY ('64)
Kathy TAYLOR ('66)
Pam RUST ('66)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Nitpicks to my posting of 4-4-21
Yesterday I asked about tract houses, and located the oldest
tree in town (planted in 1890) and the Demitruk property...
I find now that, as a reference point, Howard Amon Park was
donated to the city in 1911. So, the Demitruk tract shown on
the 1943 map, bordering the east-west 4th Street, would have
bordered on the south of what is now the renamed Lee Boulevard.
About a half mile-also corrected-straight west from the river's
edge and the donated portion of the Park. The north-south road
(Orchard Road) fronting the Demitruk tract on the east then
would be today's Stevens Drive, probably, placing the tract
house near ye olde Bye's Burgers and diagonally across from the
site for what became the Romeri Ford dealership.
Thanks, too, to Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63) for the hedzup
on Richard Nordgren's book, "Richland an Atomic City."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
Re: Charette house 1822 Hunt
Every Christmas afternoon we gathered at the Charette house
with a few other families, namely Byrons, Yelligs... for a
Christmas celebration. We sang songs and then played football
in the Hunt "circle" area. Mrs. Byron's father ("Dad Boudreau)
played his fiddle. Great memories. My siblings also have fond
memories of our Christmas celebrations there.
Charettes were a wonderful family. We went out on their boat a
lot.
-Tim SMYTH ('62) ~ no longer in Florida, back in New York.
Damn it's cold!
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>>From: Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
Re: 75th Birthday Party
Cool Desert Nights has moved the event to the weekend of
September 30th. The combined classes of 1963-1964 have decided
to move their birthday parties to that weekend as well. We
have reserved the night of October 1st for the party and
program for the class of '64. The party will be held at The
Senior Center at Howard Amon Park. After the program the class
of 1963 is welcome to join us for some good old fashioned fun
and "catching up." On Saturday night the class of '63 will hold
their party and program and we are welcome to visit and catch
up with their class as well.
Days can be spent joining in all the fun activities that Cool
Desert Nights has to offer. We hope to see you at the end of
September for this milestone birthday.
-Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
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>>From: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
Re: Hunt Point
I was surprised to hear that the North end of Hunt Street was
called "Hunt Point." We always called it "the end" or "the
circle" of Hunt.
We lived at 1714 Hunt from the early '50s ('53?) until both my
sister and I left for college. I remember running my '57 Healey
100-6 home from Kaiser's grocery store late at night. When I
stopped for the sign, there were many times I decided to do a
couple loops around the point, all in the lowest gear and
highest RPM. I loved the sound that bounced off the houses!
If I woke you or your parents up I am sorry. (Not sorry)
Living on Hunt, we had the luxury of parking behind our house
on Gailard Place. Neil WOODS ('67) and Mark WARNER ('68) both
lived on that short street. My best friend for life, Ken MEEK
('67) lived at the South end at 1712 if I remember right. We
all had such a blast every single day in the summer. If it was
hot, we traipsed over the dike and jumped in the river. Later
on, we skied behind the Woods' boat.
Every time my sister Vernita ('65) and I get to Richland
together we take a couple pictures in front of our "B" (?)
house on Hunt.
-Clif EDWARDS ('68) ~ Apache Junction, AZ where it was 96°
today and is going to be 100° for the first time in 2021
on my birthday and Easter, this Sunday [yesterday].
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/06/21
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Dale ENNOR ('59)
Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Jim GEIER ('71)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Barbara BERKELEY ('63)
Randy DYKEMAN ('69)
Steve KING ('73)
Cindy RAEKES ('82)
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Tract house
You mentioned a tract house in the vicinity of By's Burgers;
the only tract house I recall while living in the south end was
north, across Gillespie from Delafield Avenue where now exists
a boulevard park traversed by a concrete sidewalk. I have a
vivid recollection of the property which had a very dense, east
facing hedge enclosing the front yard. On at least one occasion
Dean ARMSTRONG ('59) and I had a contest to see if we could
traverse the entire yard without setting foot on the ground. It
was tough going for a couple of second graders.
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Hunt Circle???
I thought the same thing as Robert SHIPP ('64). When I read
Hunt Circle, I wondered where did Hunt Circle come from? We
always called it Hunt Point. I am almost certain the street
sign said Hunt Point.
Re: 1944 Map of Bus Stops
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210209_01-5-29-44.html
[This map CLEARLY says Hunt Point. -Maren]
Re: MapQuest map of Hunt POINT
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/210406_HuntPOINT_map.jpg
[We all know this isn't accurate, but... -Maren]
-Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Clif EDWARDS ('68)
O man! Clif, you woke me right up just now with that
reference to your '58 Austin-Healy. Never was and never will be
another car as nice as the Austin-Healy. Or that sounded as
nice--even late at night.
When I had to sell my '65 Mark III during the Writers'
strike, sometime late '90s, I wept. I'm weeping now at the
memory. (But then, I've always been an easy weeper).
I saw a Healy at the Cool Desert Nights Saturday morning
gathering a few years back, and somebody had actually taken out
her splendid little classic motor and crammed in some kind of
Ford V-8, along with a custom rear end and the bigger wheels
and wide tires.
How could somebody DO that?
I waited 45 minutes for the owner to show up so I could
give him the finger and walk away real cool-like, without
saying a word, kind of thing. But he turned out to be younger
and bigger than I was, and so I just slunk away into the warm
Richland morning, muttering and eating my Spudnut, another old
man wearing a flowered shirt and socks with his sandals.
But congratulations on that Healy of yours, Clif, and
hello to your good sister, Vernita ('65), a friend from our
Chief Jo hallways.
I think I'll lie back down and try to sleep.
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
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>>From: Jim GEIER ('71)
Re: Goodbye to John ADKINS ('62-RIP)
I learned today [4/5/21) that my long-time friend John ADKINS
passed away last night (4/4/21). Thankfully, his passing was
peaceful and pain free. He was with his wife,M ary, and their
children.
I first met John when I was working at the computer center in
the basement of the Federal building in about 1973. We became
friends, and even carpooled to work often as we worked on the
same rotating shift. Outside of work, I was getting involved
with bicycle racing, and John had a similar interest. We became
training partners, going for very long training rides. One of
our favorites took us from home out to Kennewick, through
Badger Canyon, through Benton City, and across Horn Rapids
Road, then back home. Some days training was not so good, and
John was always an understanding friend.
I cannot cite an incident or event, but John was always
understanding, and always supportive. I was younger and a
bit cocky, John helped mellow me and see things from a
larger perspective. In recent years, we communicated less
unfortunately. I am forever grateful for his long friendship
and his caring and support. My heart is broken today... I miss
you, John... you were a great friend and all-around great guy!
-Jim GEIER ('71)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Tract Housing
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210406_Tract_Housing.jpg
To: All Bombers
So the subject tract houses came up. I found this while going
thru the Hanford History Projects files a few years ago. If you
want the full size image email and I'll forward it.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Sharon PANTHER ('57)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Abe DUNNING ('64)
Harry MANOLOPOULOS ('66)
Mary Lou METZ ('67)
Kelvin SOLDAT ('71)
Mary Anne LAUBY ('73)
Linda PHILLIPS ('76)
Scott CROSS ('88)
Melissa DYKEMAN ('98)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Jack ALEXANDER & Ginger ROSE ('55)
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>>From: Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
Re: Tract Houses
To: Dale ENNOR ('59) & Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
If my 4th grade memory serves me right, Dale Preninger lived in
the tract house across the street from Lewis and Clark that you
are referring to. We lived at 1210 Fitch for a short while
before moving to Cottonwood where I went to Marcus Whitman for
5th and 6th grade. I attended kindergarten at Marcus before we
moved to Spokane for two years.
-Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: Tract Houses
You mention the tract house on the (southwest) corner of
Delafield and Gillespie. I also recall walking past that place
every school day on the way to Lewis & Clark elementary...
A rectangular floor plan with a projecting front roof and porch
facing east, and screened in. Regarding that other 1943 site I
mentioned, near the later By's Burgers location, by the words
"long gone" I meant the house and historic tree were gone
really early, before we would have seen and remembered
anything. Possibly in 1943-4 (?) when 4th Street was widened to
become Lee Boulevard.
Another tract house I recall was located immediately east of
Jason Lee Grade School in the northwest corner of town. I think
this was bike-rider "Sonny's" ("Muscles") house, not sure. And
another was at the north end of (I think) Barth, not far from
the Richland Theater, and later was used by the Red Cross.
As you surely recall, we lived at the southwest corner of
Douglass Street (and Benham), the opposite end from your house
one block north. Your father was our Stag Patrol scoutmaster in
Troop #38. The Troop as a whole met in a hutment on the
southwest side of the Lewis & Clark site, I think Mondays. Our
last outing before my family moved away to the north end was
along the Yakima River, a bit south of the West Richland
bridge. The water rose that night and almost isolated us on a
high mound in a large grove of trees. Upended icebergs along
the banks were still intact in a jagged and solid wall and
slabs three feet thick. One of the scouts lost control of
breakfast campfire sparks and a fire truck had to be summoned
to douse the spreading grass fire. No end to the excitement of
scouting.
The Parker book mentions the early days when the frozen Yakima
routinely took out the originally wooden railroad bridge south
of Richland (1905, '06, '07, '10, '17, and '20). The Columbia
is reported to have frozen over in 1907, '09, '16, '22, '29,
'30. '36). In our time no such luck, but 1948 still brought a
big local snow and the highest ever Columbia basin flood. The
trees in Howard Amon Park were inundated (highest water at
355.80 feet, at 7:00 a.m., June 9); and this was before McNary
Dam was built and its reservoir raised the permanent river
level to what it is today.
As for By's Burgers, my questionable memory is that it was
shuttered, possibly as early as the late '50s (?), when it was
found to be doubling as a drug distributor. If so, model-city
Richland was not exempt.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/08/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Wayne MYERS ('62)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lorna SHAW ('64)
Kathleen KINNEY ('66)
John WINGFIELD ('66)
Lori BROWN ('71)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Saw in the 4/7/21 Sandstorm it's my cousin, Scott CROSS ('88)
birthday. Happy Birthday late, Scott. Hope you had a good
day!!
I am going to get my OK Check up hopefully Friday on my 2nd
cataract surgery, so I can get new reading glasses, as this
last month things have been rather confusing to read. What a
bLessing to be able to see so much better in the distance.
It's getting into the low 80s today, and spring is busting
out all over. My husband mowed our acre (thankfully not more)
yesterday for the first time.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in SE Indiana by the little lake.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: More on "tract houses"
The memory juices never rest. Five more tract houses...
First, many from the north end might remember the view north
from Chief Jo. At the north boundary of the athletic fields, in
the '50s and maybe later, there sat an isolated tract house.
Used as a dog pound. Now the entire area is covered by two-
story apartments.
Second, a hundred yards or so north of the new water treatment
plant (dedicated in 1964) another tract house is probably still
standing. Also served as a remote dog pound before the new
housing moved north. A square floor plan and the outside was
redone long ago with a two-story wrap-around deck.
A third and more prominent tract served as the prestigious digs
for W.E. Johnson, on Harris three or four lots south of Park
St. In 1952 W.E. Johnson moved up to be the general manager of
the Hanford operation under General Electric, and when he moved
(sometime) to this large estate, he succeeded in getting a
variance to could keep his horses in town on the large north
lawn (abutting the Knox home and tennis court). In 1966 Johnson
was appointed a commissioner on the Atomic Energy Commission.
Then, fourth, still on Harris and across Park St. on the
northeast corner was a tract known from the old days as "the
bachelor house." It must be there still. It was said that in
earlier years five bachelors had shared costs there, and the
name stuck. Farther up Harris, probably less than a mile, on
the rise north of the ferry landing (opened 1955) and short of
the graduate center site was a vacant, green bungalow
overlooking the water. A couple large leafless trees. Long
deserted, and the site of some scout jamborees and then of the
earliest launches of the Richland Rocket Society in 1959 or so.
This was known as "Burlin Camp" on Burlin Road, before 1961
when the road was renamed as the extension of Harris Ave. Still
flexing their power, the elected city council, after the
government town was incorporated in 1958.
Fifth, a bit to the west and near the corner of Davison and
Park St. there used to be a pump station and large settling
pond-"the reservoir"-that usually froze over in the winter. No
trouble getting through the cyclone fence to romp. At the
corner was another tract house, one story. I met the owners
once for about ten seconds, in the early morning of July 23,
1965. The day before had been my 21st birthday, and the
celebration involved dropping anchor beneath Orion and the
other constellations and the Yakima River bridge, with a radio
and a six pack and two fishing poles.
Spent most of the night spinning yarns and fishing for catfish,
I and the reputed fishing czar and unconventional Jeff DAWSON
('62). Mine was the only catfish caught, although we did bring
up a few sturgeons-all too small to keep and with exquisite
ruby red eyes in the beam of a flashlight. As morning hinted an
appearance, we headed home looking for a place to dump my
catfish. Jeff thought of the tract house on Park St., so we
knocked on the door and left the prize-winning specimen for the
elderly couple to skin, clean and bake. Turns out they were
lovers of catfish and very happy campers... But not Jeff. In
driving the three miles home up George Washington Way he
decided not to bother with the trailer lights, so along with
the seaweed around the back axle we also snagged a patrol car.
The sky was light, but the sun was still low below the horizon,
so, a traffic ticket and some paperwork.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, Mark Twain on the
Mississippi, eat your heart out.
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>>From: Wayne MYERS ('62)
Re: Tract House Living 1602 Van Giesen
According to a Sandstorm exchange some years ago, I was the
last baby born in Hanford Hospital, July 30, 1944. A "blue-
collar" worker, my dad was one of the temporary Hanford
construction workers, having arrived in early 1943, who was
selected as a permanent employee and was offered housing in
Richland as soon as it was available for workers with his
importance and family status.
In August of 1944, my dad, mom, 3-yr-old sister Rose ('59-RIP),
& new-baby-me, moved from a tiny Hanford trailer into a 3-
bedroom prefab at 912 Wright Ave. All Richland housing was
owned by the "government" (Atomic Energy Commission?) and
rented to Hanford workers until the government sold all the
houses with each resident offered first right to purchase. I
think that was in 1957 when the government turned over city
management to the newly incorporated City of Richland.
Before 1957, the "Housing Office" assigned Hanford workers to
houses in Richland based on seniority, job status, and family
size. Every Hanford worker with a family, had a place on the
housing list. As one of the earliest "Hanford-blue-collar-
worker" residents of the new Richland, my dad was high on the
housing list.
The Housing Office kept a list of the housing upgrade-to-
preferred-alphabet-house desires of each worker/resident. When
someone moved out of an "alphabet" house, the housing office
would start calling from the top of the list. A few of the
original homes, called tract houses, had been left standing
with rentals also managed by the office.
In 1952, after eight years in the prefab, my parents were still
many more years away from being offered their preferred "H"
house. However, they were offered 1602 Van Giesen, a 3-BR, 2-
story, 1-B, tract house on the big corner lot situated on the
northwest corner of the intersection of Van Giesen and Perkins
adjacent to Jason Lee elementary school where I attended grades
3-6. Like most of the alphabet houses, 1602 VG is still there,
but massively remodeled.
This tract house at 1602 Van Giesen was a significant upgrade
from the prefab. The house was two stories, with screened
porches front and back and a full basement. As you can see on
the Jan 31, 1950, plat map of Richland (H-11-4816 Sheet 6 of
22), the area was an orchard (the 1953 Richland map shows Jason
Lee Elementary had replaced the orchard).
In our 1950s yard, we had nine cherry trees and one peach tree
left from the orchard. Every year we kids earned money with a
fruit stand, selling cherries for 10 cents per pound.
The beloved, memorable town character, "Muscles," lived across
Perkins from us in another tract house. Jim HEIDELBAUGH ('65)
lived across the street and Terry DAVIS ('65) lived half-a-
block away on Turner. We made trouble until David RIVERS ('65-RIP)
moved to the neighborhood around the time my family finally
attained the "H" house promised land.
After 12 years on the housing list, in 1956 or '57, my parents
were finally offered an "H" house so we moved to 1510 Hunt,
across the street from Jefferson Elementary.
My dad was so concerned about this move toward the "higher-
class" north end of town that he gave the family dog away to a
farmer friend. Ol' Spot had never been tied or fenced--a free-
range Lord of his territory, well-known for chasing off dogs
twice his size. For a few years, his companion was a drake
Peking duck, creatively named Quack-Quack. (Terry DAVIS: I
finally found pictures of the duck.)
Re: 1. 5Jul54 Wayne Myers Kiddies Pet Parade
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mye/210408_01_Pet_Parade.jpg
Does anyone remember when Richland implemented a leash law?
1. 5Jul54 Wayne Myers Kiddies Pet Parade: Here is the text from
the sticky note I put on the pdf. July 5, 1954: Wayne Myers,
Spot, Quack-Quack, & Speckles (guinea pig in cage) after the
annual 4th of July weekend kiddies' Pet Parade. The sign says
Mr. Duck captures wild boar. Note Wayne's Mohawk haircut. Mom
cut our family hair--she resisted this fashion trend for
months, finally caving to Wayne's whining during summer
vacation. I went to a professional barber for the first time
when I was 14, the same year we got our first TV.
The kiddies parade, costumes and pets, was an annual part of
Richland's July 4th celebration. My tall big sister, Rose ('59-RIP)
marched as the Statue of Liberty. Little sister Carol ('65) wore
pioneer woman costume.
Big sis and I received silver dollars. I can't remember
whether each parade participant was given a silver dollar, or
the silver dollars were competitive prizes
Re: 2. 1944-'45 prefabs
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mye/210408_02_Prefabs.jpg
2. 1944-'45 prefabs. Bottom picture has Wayne the toddler
racing for the street in front of our 912 Wright Ave. prefab.
My not-quite 4-year-old big sister, Rose ('59-RIP), was
responsible for keeping me out of the street. I suppose even
then I delighted in tormenting her and getting her in trouble.
The other picture shows sections of prefabs arriving by truck
to their neighborhood.
Re: Mrs. Brown's 6th grade Jason Lee class with names
[Will be added to the '62 website laer. -Maren]
Re: 3. Wayne's crib Hanford '44
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mye/210408_03_Waynes_Crib.jpg
3. Wayne's crib Hanford. Encapsulates the historical moment.
My parents brought me (last baby born in Hanford) home to this
cardboard box. Imagine two adults, a new baby, & my 3-yr-old
big sister living in a 8-10' trailer until their prefab was
completed. A dirt-poor family from dust-bowl farms in Eastern
Colorado moved to the opportunity offered by the big, secret
war-construction project in Washington State. My dad was draft
status 4F. In 1942 & early '43 he made bullets in the Remington
Arms factory in Denver. I still can't believe that
-Wayne MYERS ('62)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: neighborhood tract houses
Three tract houses all pretty close together. "Muscles", and
later the Coyne's. house, and just west across Perkins the
Myers' house, and then just west of Jason Lee another nice big
tract house. The boy who lived there was named Arthur.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Gary SETBACKEN ('64)
Tere SMYTH ('65) - my very first (of 4) little sister
Cathy WEIHERMILLER ('66)
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>>From: Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Tract Houses
Another tract house was out near the By-Pass off Jadwin. That's
where Beth PEDERSON ('61) lived. That location is totally from
my feeble memory so is subject to question.
There was another tract house close to where I grew up. It's
near the northwest corner of Davison and Newcomer, one house
in from the corner. It's still there and doesn't appear to have
been remodeled at all.
The referenced Bachelor house was owned by Mr. Windsheimer. He
was a manager for GE. I don't remember what he did. I used to
mow his lawn in the middle '50s. There was a real neat cast
brass plaque to the left of his front door with WINDSHEIMER
in big letters.
-Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I am really enjoying reading all the information about the
alphabet houses we grew up in in Richland.
I can't help but marvel at Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and Wayne MYERS
('62) memories of these houses, and other memories of growing
up in Richland. And the details so many other Bombers seem to
remember.
I grew up in a ranch house on Olympia Street; didn't know it
had a letter assignment also til About 2000. I have the little
book about the alphabet houses, bought from the museum In
Richland, but I'm not sure where it is right now.
Another lovely spring day with more trees flowering out around
here, as we enjoy our "above average" temperatures up in the
70s according to the local weather girl.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana.
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>>From: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Re: Another tract house
For 2-3 years my family lived in a tract house on Hunt near the
south end of the street and not too far from the newly opened
Spudnut Shop.
I remember that there were old trees in the back yard so we had
shade on summer days.
-Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Wayne MYERS ('62)
The first leash law was probably 1950. The new Community
Council had five major items on their agenda that year:
getting library service, traffic and parking,
street extensions and designation of arterials,
garbage collection-and dogs. Grover Dawson was the
elected president of the council. The Spudnut Shop opened
the same year on March 4.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
To: Wayne MYERS ('62)
"H" house at 1306 Hains Avenue, 1950-'60, then an "A" house at
516 Stanley St., 1960-'67, guy here. In 1948 GE sent my parents
to San Francisco, after my dad was in Schenectady in 1943, then
Hanford in 1945. I don't know where my dad was housed before
going to the bay area in '48. David ('65-RIP) and Michael ('68)
Rivers lived right across Hains from us.
My best guess regarding Richland's new leash law implementation
is maybe 1963? I do recall writing my first and only letter-
to-the-editor to the Tri-City Herald concerning that new law.
Pal, our trusty bird dog, who had wandered his entire life as
any dog would do, could not stay out of jail. My dad, who had
to have Pal for pheasant and chukar duty, and who was as law
abiding as any man I've known, was constantly bailing him out
of the dog pound. The pound master got so acquainted with Pal
he'd call the house so my dad could go down and pick him up. He
stopped giving Pal citations when he understood the seriousness
of Pal's unstoppable need to be a dog.
We never kept him tied up, but Pal had serious issues when he
took a nip out of Mr. Poundmaster one evening. I do recall my
dad talking to the five of us about Pal's deceptive practices,
as any dog would/should do, when he'd wait for the back door to
come open. Good dog.
I don't have that letter to the Herald any longer, but I do
remember using Einstein's "Nothing is more destructive of
respect for the government and the law of the land than passing
laws which cannot be enforced." Right after that letter Mr.
Poundmaster started charging my dad again to spring Pal.
Does anyone know who Stanley Street was named after? The
Sandstorm website has a link for street name derivation under
the "Houses that Hanford Built" link, but no mention of Stanley
Street. There are still only four houses on Stanley St., but
that can't be why.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/10/21 ~ NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Norma CULVERHOUSE ('49)
Sharon BENEDICT ('71)
Doug PAYNE ('73)
Liz SMITH ('97)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY today;
Mike CROWLEY ('66) & Debbie SKARSHAUG ('64)
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
To: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re; Stanley Street
In a memo dated Jan. 22, 1947 from Norman Fuller, Head of the
Community Management Branch, US AEC to George Houston at GE,
Hanford Engineer Works is a list of U.S. Engineer officers who
died during recent war and whose names should be used in naming
of roads in the Richland Area. The attached memo shows the name
Col. Thomas H. Stanley. I also see the names Kadlec (Hospital
named for him) Davison, Bradley, Hyde, Jones, McMurray,
Newcomer, Park, Saint, Snyder, Spangler which were used for
street names. There may be others on the list that I'm not
aware of.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/210410_Street_Names.jpg
It has been interesting seeing my classmates Pete BEAULIEU
('62) and Wayne MYERS ('62) detailed recollections of growing
up in Richland. They must be getting double doses of Prevegen
since I can't remember last week most of the time, let alone
something 60-70 years ago.
Its a lovely spring day and I think time to break out the
riding mower. Will get covered in pink blossoms from the
weeping cherry and yellow flowers from the forsythia as I
cruise under them on my mower. Blue skies and gentle spring
breeze... I love living in Richland!
Although I didn't know him well from school (different
friendship circles, you know) I was sad to learn of our
classmate John ADKINS ('62-RIP) recent passing. I have gotten
to know him a little working together on the class reunion
committee the past few years and we will sure miss him going
forward as we begin to plan our 60 year reunion next year.
Rest in peace, John.
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dick PIERCE ('67), Mac QUINLAN ('62), Jean BRUNTLET ('62)
Re: Tract houses, and Street names
Great additions to the SS thread on tract houses. I surely
recall the house on Davison near Mac QUINLAN's ('62) house. I
think the owner might have been a small-scale bee keeper. The
Jean BRUNTLET ('62) house is familiar, too. Our family used to
turn there a short block east to Haupt St. to visit the only
relatives in town that we had. Fifth cousins. We used to swap
Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners. Richland was quite a
sociology experiment, with all those young nuclear families
assembled from all over the country, and with no extended
families at all.
Here's a street-naming clue from Wikipedia:
"Richland's link to the Army Engineers is suggested by its
street nomenclature; many of the streets are named after famous
engineers. The main street (George Washington Way) is named
after the first president, who was a surveyor; Stevens Drive is
named after John Frank Stevens, chief engineer of the Panama
Canal and Stevens Pass; Goethals Drive is named after George W.
Goethals, designer of the Panama Canal; and Thayer Drive is
named after Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent of West Point and
later founder of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
College. The rule is that if alphabet houses reside on a given
street, it is named either after an engineer or a type of
tree." Kadlec Hospital was named after Lt. Colonel Kadlec, the
first person to pass away in the new hospital.
Which brings us to Dick PIERCE ('67) and the naming Stanley
Street. One possible bet is Claude Maxwell "Max" Stanley (1904-
1984)-a civil engineer-also described in Wikipedia:
"... an American civil engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
peace activist, author and world citizen. He founded Stanley
Consultants, an engineering and consulting firm, in 1939 with
his younger brother Art. [... ] with his wife Elizabeth, created
and endowed the Stanley Foundation (now the Stanley Center for
Peace and Security in 1956, which is a global policy
organization which focuses on mitigating climate change,
avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, and preventing mass
violence and atrocities."
In a book review for his bio, we read further: "... an economic
conservative and a staunch defender of laissez-faire, Stanley
was to achieve his first financial success as an engineer in
pushing rural electrification projects under New Deal auspices,
and his first political victories came in his battles with
private utility companies." Maybe Stanley had some local
notoriety, worthy of a short Richland street, in connection
with the Grand Coulee Dam project and rural electrification in
eastern Washington-surely including the electrical needs of the
reactors in the Hanford Project.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
There was another tract house, not sure if it has been
mentioned . Seems like it was in the "thumbnail" area south of
the bipass. Mr/ Ed Peddicord, the Richland postmaster, and his
family lived there. Pretty sure the house is gone now, havn't
been down that road lately.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Marsha LAWELL ('60) & Judith JASCHEK ('60)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Rick MADDY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha FELTS ('66)
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>>From: Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60)
>>From: Judi JASCHEK Smith('60)
Re: Class of 60+1 reunion
Hello '60 classmates.
It was really disappointing we weren't able to celebrate our 60
year reunion last fall.
Before we were shut down because of Covid 19, we (Judi and
Marsha) had put together a small committee to plan our reunion.
Now it looks like we may be able to have our Annual Club 40
meeting this year. If enough '60 classmates are interested in a
60+1 reunion celebration in conjunction with Club 40 this fall,
please let us know.
Hope to see you in September!
-Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60) & Judith JASCHEK Smith ('60)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Okay okay okay,
I've been sitting here reading entries from car snobs
like Jo MILES ('64) for a few weeks, so I called a guy who
called a guy who knows the guy who owns the car I had in high
school. And first 2 years of college. I swear it's the same
dang car.
'56 Chevy 210, 265 V-8. 3 on the tree.
Looks a little cleaner than the one I had, and they
probably took off those $20 slip-on seat covers I put on.
But that's her. I swear. I'd know her anywhere.
(Actually, it belonged to my mom, and I'd get to drive it
Friday and Saturday nights, as long as I was home by 1 AM. But
I told everybody it was Mine.
Don't say anything to Mills).
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210411_56Chevy210_265V8.jpg
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
As a follow up to the entry made by Wayne MYERS ('62) on
April 8, 2021, the link to the Mrs. Brown's 6th grade
Jason Lee class:
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/gs/62JL6th-Brown.html
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Richland Streets
This is some names on the last pages of this booklet
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210411_01.jpg
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210411_02.jpg
[Too small for me to read. Are any streets
listed here. -Maren]
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/streets.html
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Carol CARSON ('60)
John FLETCHER ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Monita McCLELLAN ('58)
Patricia HUTCHINS ('60_)
Aaron HOLLOWAY ('64)
David MASON ('66)
Joan BELLISTON ('66)
Sherrie SMITHWICK ('68)
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Class of 1960+1
To: Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60) and Judi JASCHEK Smith('60)
Count me in if the reunion gets a go. As far as I know at this
point, I'll plan to be there. Attended my brother's (Steve
CARSON ('58)) with him and it was great.
Cheers.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ from North Lynnwood, WA where
"they" are promising warm and sunny weather!
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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>>From: John FLETCHER ('64)
Re: Memorial for Rebecca Fugate
Monday Sunday, April 18, 2021, 1:30pm
in Onalaska, WA near Chehalis. Bombers are welcome. If any
friends of Rebecca's parents, Jim ARMSTRONG ('63) and Linda
WERSEN Hoffman ('66), wish to attend please contact me and I
will provide venue information.
The legacy photo is Linda WERSEN Hoffman ('66) with 4 of her
children. L to R: Rebecca, Joe, Linda, Zach & Maggee.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Fle/210412_Rebecca_plus.jpg
-John FLETCHER ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
To: Bobby CUMMINGS ('65)
Re: The car
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/210411_56Chevy210_265V8.jpg
Okay okay okay,
I lied and I'm sorry. That car in the picture was not
the exact same car that I owned--the one I told everybody was
my car but really belonged to my mom. My mom's car looked just
like it and was a pretty nice car, but not nearly as nice as
this car in the picture. This car in the picture belongs to a
friend of a friend. I saw it and couldn't help myself.
I'm sorry I lied, and I promise to do better.
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Bill BERLIN ('56-RIP)
To: All Bombers
I was reading stories from Bombers about the '48 flood. One of
the submittals was from Bill BERLIN class of '56 which got me
to wonder is he any relation to Bill Berlin the creator of
Sandy Sage a cartoon character that appeared each week in the
Sage Sentinel. Any info to share?
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today:
Dave BURNHAM ('71)
Dave FOWLER ('76)
Nicole FILKOWSKI ('93)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY TODAY:
Harvey CHAPMAN & Sally FOLEY ('56)
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
Re: Memories
I think Richland has a unique history. More than any other
place -- even other Nuclear towns (no prejudice here!). My Dad
came to Richland (maybe Dec. '44) a few weeks before my Mom.
Don't know where he lived. Mom came a few weeks later (Maybe
Feb. '45) after my brother David was born. They lived in 2
bedroom prefab at 93 Casey (south end of town - south of
Lee. They got a 3 bedroom precut when I was around 2 -- right
before or after my brother Jesse was born. It is fun to tell
folks things like you had to have a certain # of people in your
family to qualify for a bigger house (and get on a list). Also
that we didn't know what our Dads did (at work). Then there are
tumbleweeds (size & number of them). Also that I grew up in the
desert part of WA. If you are east of the Mississippi river
you have to say you mean Washington STATE, not Washington D.C.
People talk about out west and mention Colorado (?). That is in
the middle.
Well enough rambling for now.
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ in W TN where (at the moment)
it will be near 80° today -- then cooler rest of the
week. at least low chance of rain
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>>From: Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
Brothers Bill ('67) & Rich ('69), their wives, and I are RV
road tripping to Florida. Stopped at Alamo in San Antonio, now
in Austin. Planned to head to New Orleans tomorrow (4/13). Then
to Jacksonville, FL to meet with cousins and to the Keys. What
are the best sites to see in New Orleans? Plan 2 nights at RV
park. We'll be sick of each other by the time we get back in AZ.
[Do the French Quarter. Jackson Square (statue
of Andrew Jackson) nearby Cafe Du Monde for
beignets and coffee. Tour of the French Quarter
by one of the horse drawn carriages parked at
Jackson Square. There's an Oyster House in
the Quarter... IF you like oysters. Have a
Hand Grenade at the Tropical Isle, a Hurricane
at Pat O'Briens, and/or a margarita at Jimmy
Buffett's Cafe. Supposed to be high of 78°
with a good chance of rain the 13th & 14th.
Hot & muggy. Jeans & T-shirts. -Maren]
-Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/14/21
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Steve CARSON ('58)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Duane LEE ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Linda REINING ('64)
Pam EHINGER ('67)
Mike FRANCO ('70)
Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Bonnie MOTT ('64_)
Myra WEIHERMILLER ('67)
Robin CORLEY ('69)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Maren provided a great list for New Orleans. I have a couple of
restaurant adds; the restaurant NOLA and THE COMMANDERS PALACE.
If a young person on Bourbon Street wants to bet you $5 that he
can tell you where you got your shoes, don't bite like I did.
You got your shoes on your feet. It was worth the $5.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
You're onto something when you say Richland has a "unique
history." Early Richland was nothing less than a full-scale
sociology experiment conducted on a sterilized desert Petri
dish...
A blend of the "military-industrial complex" (later warned
against by outgoing President Eisenhower) with today's new
industrial-educational complex; nuclear families mostly
college-educated and all the same age (no old people); from all
over the country and with no extended families or other
relatives; all regimented into very inexpensive alphabet houses
lined up on streets named after military leaders and engineers
(or non-existent trees); a fully planned town coalesced around
elementary schools, all the same design...
Boom town modernity displacing home-grown local history, and
all but a few tract houses as misfit reminders; even displacing
the Wanapum Indians from the Hanford Reservation, a clan that
had never before been placed on any other "reservation"(!)... the
Stone Age meets the Atomic Age (!); buses hauling dads to "the
plant" behind a barricade of secrecy prefiguring Big Tech
censorship today(?); and at the ground-zero center of town a
single high school excelling especially in math and science
(but also languages)-All this... STEM-city more than a half
century ahead of its time.
At first a culture-free and brittle mix of strengths and
weaknesses. But, for all that, and under these lab-controlled
conditions, in the first three years Richland's low crime
record already attracted national attention (back in the day
there was a National Safety Council) as the safest city in the
nation: no murders or major crimes of violence, only one
traffic fatality (a four-year old child), and juvenile
delinquency 70 percent below the national average. The two jail
cells had never been used. No one was on relief roles. No
unemployment. No vagrants and only two suicides. Given the
selective population, the birth rate was the highest in the
nation, and the death rate the lowest (in 1946: 451 babies
compared to 46 funerals). Doors remained unlocked.
Gasp, I feel like a cat that just coughed up a giant hair ball.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, in the orbit of STEM-city
writ large: the Soviet of Seattle with Microsoft, Amazon
and Boeing all doing their big-techy thing, but also
with this here PC, and trees and lakes and mountains,
and non-alphabet house prices outa sight, and locked
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
This is for anyone but probably mostly for Don Sorenson, Sr.
Anyone have any pictures of the huge bon fires that they used
to light on the empty lot across Swift from the police station?
They used to burn piles of Christmas trees there, also had
fires for Homecoming, pep rallies, and Atomic Frontier Days.
Also, reference Maren's sights to see in New Orleans - better
hurry to see statue of Andrew Jackson before some group tears
it down!!!
[Thought about mentioning that. -Maren]
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
What's another word for Thesaurus? -Stephen Wright
Re: SINCLAIR brothers: Duncan ('65), Bill ('67) and Rich ('69)
Duncan and I texted back and forth throughout the day. They
didn't quie make it to New Orleans, but the weather cas rainy-
poo all day the 13th and supposed to be the same all day the
14th.
Duncan is with Rich (and his wife, Marilee) in a motor home.
Bill (and his wife, Sherry) are pulling a tailer
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 69° at midnight
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: things to do in New Orleans
Have never been, but I "knew" all the places Maren mentioned,
from watching "NCIS: New Orleans". *grin*
Love when they show scenes of Mardi Gras and jazz musicians
that are native to that town---even enjoyed their showing of a
funeral procession down the street---what a neat way to say
"goodbye" to a loved one.
To: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
When my folks first came to Richland, they were both single
and lived in the dorms---my mom and her two sisters came
from Minnesota and my dad was right out of the Marines.
Re: tumbleweeds---My mom would spray them with sliver paint and
put them in the yard, at Christmas. We first lived in a two-
bedroom prefab, on Rossell ('45-'53), then, when my brother,
Tim ('71-RIP) was born in '53 we "moved up" to a three-
bedroom Ranch on Elm. People think I'm "nuts" when I say there
were waiting lists for housing and depended on how many were
in the household as to how big a house you could move into.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: SINCLAIRs ('65, '67, & '69) Family
I Hope you have Your own RV! With 6 people in One RV... after
4 days I think you'd all would be at each other's throats!!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
To SINCLAIRS Rich ('69). Bill ('67) and Dunc ('65)
For your cross country road trip,
In the 1413 Thayer tradition I assume you packed a dozen+ cases
of Schmidt 16 oz. cans!
In N.O. take a swamp tour. A little different than the Columbia
but pretty cool.
Trip sounds cool!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
Re: New Orleans
To: Duncan ('65) and the SINCLAIR Brothers ('67 & '69)
Maren's list for things to see and do in the Big Easy was
pretty good. I would add The House of Blues one night in the
quarter for some music, and dinner at Commander's Palace for a
memorable evening. Great place for a few days.
-Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/15/21
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9 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Floyd MELTON ('57)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Ed WOOD ('62)
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
Linda REINING ('64)
Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lanny WILSON ('54)
Sandy CARPENTER ('61)
Mickey LYNCH ('66)
Cindy DeHART ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
It is time to wish Lanny WILSON ('54) a "Happy Birthday!"
It is also time to remind some that this is "National Tax Day."
And has it ever been resolved what is the name for the north
end of Hunt? Is it a Point or a Circle?
Personally, I've never heard it called either.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Housing in Richland
I don't know how my dad did it but he came down from Spokane
applied for a job, got a job as a janitor out in the area,
and a 3 bedroom "A" house on Hunt Avenue 1314 and it was just
myself my mom and dad. It was no waiting or anything he came
and got us and we moved in January 1945.
[And how did we get a 4 bdr "L" house when
(at that time) there were only 2 kids. Sister
Tere was born AFTER we moved from a "B" to
the "L"... and our next door neighbors also
in an "L" house, only had 3 kids.. we ended
up with 7. -Maren]
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: New Orleans:
Is Preservation Hall still there and does it still have great
jazz? Is Pete Fountain's still there without Pete and with cool
jazz?
Remember the saying, "Breakfast at Brennan's and Dinner at
Antoine's"? How about Landry's Seafood? Don't forget to have
beignets one morning!
Ahh, memories of Mardi Gras in the early '80s.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Commander's Palace
Several Bombers recommend the highly regarded Commander's
Palace for dining while visiting New Orleans. I'm sure that in
the days of Covid, things have changed, but last time I went to
Commander's Palace the tables were very close together making
the restaurant so noisy that it was not only uncomfortable, but
painful. We had to shout to he heard - and everyone was doing
so. I published a scathing review of the restaurant on Trip
Advisor which earned me a back-and-forth conversation with the
restaurant's manager, also published on Trip Advisor. His
rationale for the crowded conditions was that the restaurant
was popular, and I should just get used to it. I retorted that
fine dining requires good food, good service and good ambiance.
If he can't furnish the latter, the first two don't matter.
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Tucson, AZ
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: Richland
A type of Socialism? Need a plumber, electrician, or carpenter
call downtown. Need coal or your house painted (pick out a
color combo).Rent for an "H" house was $50 a mo.
My Dad told me of a guy who couldn't take the sight of the
geese flying low over Hunt Pt. So he dropped one in the middle
of the street!
Happy Hunting!
-Pitts
Regards
-Jim ARMSTRONG ('63) ~ 1411 Haupt - ph73737
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Laughed when you said "families mostly college-educated and
all the same age (no old people)... . my grandparents (my mom's
parents) came to Hanford the same time my mom and her sisters
came (1944) - my grandfather also worked at Hanford. They had
been working on the Al-Can Highway, and had left the farm in
the care of their three daughters, but, when their daughters
decided to leave for "greener pastures", they left the highway,
sold the farm and followed.
[Linda, MOST Richland famililes were not
like yours. Smyths had o grand parents,
aunts, uncles, or cousins. -Maren]
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
Re: Sinclair brothers ('65), ('67), and '69)
Re: New Orlenas
Would recommend The World War Two Museum.
Don't know if it's still open but Crabby Jack's on 428
Jefferson Hwy for Po'Boys (shrimp or crab).
-Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Maren's 4/14/21 question:
What's another word for Thesaurus? -Stephen Wright
Ha! Ha! Maren, that's a good one! Roget suggests "wordbook." I
would suggest "Roget's." There is none better.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
In response to Duane LEE's ('63) question regarding a picture
of the huge bonfires I found one in the 1965 Columbian of the
Homecoming Bonfire.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Col/210415_bonfire_65CLMBN.jpg
Bomber cheers ~
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Christrmas Trees and Bon Fires
To: Duane LEE ('63)
I've seen pictures of Christmas trees piled high and set fire
by the Fire Department. But just that one year and I don't
quite know where in my files to look. Give me a bit of time and
I'll find them, perhaps other Bombers have some in albums.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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lumni Sandstorm ~ 04/16/21
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Carol CARSON ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61)
Dave HANTHORN ('63)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Tony SHARPE ('63)
Greg JOCHEN ('76)
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Commander's Palace
My husband was from New Orleans and years ago we used to go
2-3 times a year to visit his Mom and Aunt who lived together
there. John's Mom had been a teacher at an exclusive school
in NO and her favorite restaurant was Commander's. We would
go there often (as well as the Ponchetrane). When entering
Commander's, the Manager would rush over and say "Well Hello
Ms. Renaud honey, welcome back. Here, let's put you at your
special table." Evidently, she had been his teacher for years.
Often my Mother-in-Law wouldn't see something on the menu that
she was fond of and the Manager would say, "Don't worry honey,
we'll make you anything you want." We were always treated like
Royalty. The Manager even took me on a private tour of the
kitchen during one visit. What fun!
My husband, his Mom, and Aunt are long gone but I'll be sure
to visit Commander's Palace if I'm ever in NO again.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ warm and sunny North Lynnwood, WA
where the deck is OPEN!! Yay
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
I was driving on GWWay around 7:30 this morning and happened
to look up and I saw a Bald Eagle perched on top of a tree.
Nice!!
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Dave HANTHORN ('63)
All these Sandstorm entries about Richland in the "good ol'
days" have stirred some memory cells for me. I remember when I
was "just a kid" I thought those ol' "tract" houses were kinda
weird. It wasn't until years later when I was "all growed up"
that I came to realize that the tract houses were normal, and
it was our forever beloved "alphabet" houses that were weird!
And I am wondering where all these "rules" for living in the
alphabet houses came from? I never heard of them (the rules)
before, and my family seems to have "broken" several of them.
When we moved to Richland from Ohio in late 1946 (I was all of
a year old), we moved right into the "L" house at 1107 Perkins
Avenue (no waiting list) even though our family was us three
kids, our mom and dad, AND my grandmother! Dad changed the
fuses and the light bulbs and painted the house himself (inside
and out). The "government" did plant a couple of straggly trees
in our front yard that my dad was none too happy about. He was
always threatening to "dig the damn things up" but never did.
In 1962 we moved to Hood Avenue in what I "think" was called
the Richland Village (need some help with that memory) and a
year later (1963) we moved to Hunt POINT on the Columbia River.
I never heard it called Hunt "Circle" until just recently in
the Sandstorm. "Back in the day" I knew that we lived in an "L"
house and that the other styles of houses had other letters,
but I never knew what other letters went with which houses (and
I STILL DON'T). I have no clue which letter our house on Hood
was, nor our house on Hunt Point. I need some kind of reference
guide (with photos and floor plans) to figure it all out. Any
suggestions?
{David, how could you miss this site. I put
this online YEARS ago. -Maren]
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/
-Dave HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63)~ from sunny and
(almost) warm Mercer Island, WA
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
To: Duane LEE ('63) and Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Bonfires
I swear I had absolutely nothing to do with the
introduction/depositing of one or two portable toilets upon one
of the graduation bonfires in 1966 and/or 1967.
-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: College educated?
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
You said in reference to early Richland as a sociological
experiment that it comprised "nuclear families mostly college-
educated". It certainly was a sociologically unique situation,
which reminds me of a series that one might see on Netflix or
the like. But I take grave exception to your assertion that
most people were college educated.
Most people who made Hanford "go" were blue collar laborers;
working-class folks. My Dad's education ended after 6th grade,
when he went down (at age 13) into the coal mines of Colorado
to work with his father & older brother. Stories similar to
his were not at all uncommon.
High school graduations of our generation (the kids of those
who moved to Richland en masse) were a very big deal to so
many/most families. Often those in our generation were the
first in the family to accomplish that educational milestone.
No, I seriously doubt that most who came to build Richland &
work at Hanford were college educated. To me, that makes the
sociological experiment all the more rich & meaningful. Look
what they did. I am so proud to be a "product" of that
experiment and experience.
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Back in Richland since 2018
where April has been more like a typical March - dang
wind won't stop blowing!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/17/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Keith ARNDT ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Duane LEE ('63)
Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Mary JONES ('56)
Lance HARTMAN ('60)
Bob THOMAS ('64_)
Jim VACHÉ ('64)
Shari NAPORA ('67)
Mary Jane SMITH ('70)
Twins: "Jumbo" & "Wig" DAVIS ('82)
Jeff JANICEK ('88)
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Richland Bonfires
The recent discussions regarding the community bonfires jogged
my memory. At one bonfire held in the mid-fifties, there was
a Boy Scout contest held to see who could start the fire most
quickly using the wood bore hole method. If memory serves,
the contest was won by Fred PHILLIPS ('60) who has gone on
to become quite a renaissance man -- nearly a pro bowler,
helicopter pilot in Vietnam and rescues during the Mt St Helens
event, attorney, author and legal instructor. Probably more
accomplishments that I'm not aware of. Quite a Bomber.
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
I stand very much corrected. I should have written that a
larger-than-typical proportion were college educated. Whatever
the ratio was at the beginning, now 75 years later and a much
different world, the much higher ratio is 76.4% college (43%
with BA or more and 33.4% some college or an associate degree),
then 19.6 % high school or GED, and 4% less or no schooling).
I was raised first in a predominantly blue-color section of
town (1944-1956) and then later in the Gold Coast (1956-),
both. Nordgren, in his book ("Richland, the Atomic City," pp.
27-29) stresses the "low social gradient in the City Plan,"
meaning that the three classes of houses for different work
classifications were differentiated mostly by square footage
and much less by appearance. All used the same materials. And
in each section of small-town Richland, he writes, there was
always at least some mixture of housing class.
So, I was clueless about blue collar/white collar. All I knew
at first was that dad wore a necktie to work. My first real
inkling that there was much of a class structure in the
homogenous atomic city came in high school. The novelty of a
"strike" in our one-industry, company town came in '60 or '61,
likely for good reasons, but this divide was new to me. Many
dads went to work with a suitcase not knowing when they might
come home again. The picket line thing.
For me this was a wakeup call, that underneath our high school
friendships and between our families there was a class
structure based on blue collar/white collar. Many of my friends
showed a visible resentment against me and kids from the
necktie class. Of course, not many of us really noticed, then,
the different racial divide, that Blacks were largely confined
to Pasco across the river.
(Curiously, one day the diminutive and gregarious Maurice
Wallace ('62) still showed up at Lewis & Clark in the sixth
grade (1955-1956), and my impression from the lunch line was
that he was the most popular kid in his classroom group (there
were three sixth-grade classes). In high school,Vivian Gericke,
our foreign exchange student from South Africa (still with
Apartheid) took note of Mo and stellar brother Theartis ('63)
on the basketball floor, but seemed to get over it.)
Other than basketball and the high-tech (high education?) and
problematic mushroom cloud as unifiers, much of the school
system seemed oriented toward STEM and, even beyond graduation,
to college. With the most predominant and lasting social divide
of all being between those headed east to WSU and those headed
west to the UW.
Does anyone recall the strike, and precisely what it was about
and how it was resolved?
[I remember a guy with a "sandwich board" walking
back and forth on the Parkway. I was in the car
waiting for my dad who had gone into the liquor
store. I THINK this may have been the Herald office
but I'm not sure... neither do I recall how my dad
explained it. -Maren]
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
Re: Bonfires
Thanks Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) for the picture of the
bonfire (4/15/21 entry). The '65 yearbook isn't on line yet so
glad you had one.
I guess we weren't as camera happy as we are now because
neither I, nor any of my family, ever took pictures of the big
bonfires. Was relating those stories to some younger peeps and
they could hardly believe that those huge fires could be set
in the center of town.
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
The 3 older Sinclairs ['65, '67, & '69] are headed to
Jacksonville, FL. We got to see the extremely wet season
along Interstate 10 from NO East. Had wonderful dinner at
Mongo's on Bourbon St. & Cafe du Monde with Beignets at
French Quarter. Tried to get visit with Maren, but Bill's
trailer wheel incident & the heavy rains, prevented a visit
with Maren. We proceeded to Navarre, FL. Bill got his new
wheel & we rested, no elaborate dining.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sin/210417_Sinclair_Bros.jpg
Next stop with cousins in Jacksonville, FL. Visit 2-3 days,
then off to the Keys. Might even swim in Atlantic cuz it's
warm. After the Keys, we'll plan the trip back on a Northern
route to AZ. Thanks again Maren & really sorry we couldn't
connect.
[We tried!! Maybe next trip! -Maren]
-Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/18/21
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Fred PHILLIPS ('60)
Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Donna BOWERS ('63)
Donna NELSON ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Jo MILES ('64)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Ray STEIN ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Steve SHOCKLEY ('67)
Cheryl BARBER ('71)
Gilbert BLANKENSHIP ('81)
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>>From: Fred PHILLIPS ('60)
Re: Richland Bonfires
Keith ARNDT ('60) remembers the good times we had in the Boy
Scouts where we learned how to start fires without matches, a
skill most of us have never needed. But in January, 1956, I
won a contest and the right to start Richland's annual bonfire.
Lighting the huge pile of Christmas trees was fun, but the best
part was being assisted by the reigning Miss Richland, Nancy
WINGFIELD ('55-RIP).
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Phi/210418_1956-TCH_Bonfire.jpg
-Fred PHILLIPS ('60)
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>>From: Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Strike
Thanks Pete BEAULIEU ('62). I'd forgotten about the strike. You
brought back a memory I'd totally forgotten about.
My dad was a metallurgist and worked in the 300 area. They had
a vat of molten salt they used for heat treating metals. If the
power was turned off and the salt hardened it would take months
to repair and he was in the middle of an "extremely" important
project. Typical of most of our dads' work, he couldn't tell me
any more than that.
I remember he said the gate was manned by strikers and he had
tried to get in to check the vat but wasn't allowed to get
through the gate. The next part I remember because my dad was
visibly scared. I'd never seen him like that before.
Re: Circa '60 to '61 sounds about right...
That night we both drove out GWWay and pulled off the road
quite a ways before the gate. We walked through the sage brush
until we were about 50 yards from the east corner of the fence
down by the river. He planned to climb the fence and go up to
the building where the vat was located and make sure everything
was ok. He was going to blink a flashlight when he was ready to
come back and I was to blink mine if there was no one around.
Turns out everything was ok. On the way back to town he thanked
me for helping him and asked me not to tell my mother what we
had done. He never mentioned this again, ever. Typical of most
of our dads at the time, they took their work very seriously.
I often wondered what he was doing that was "that" important.
-Frank "Mac" QUINLAN ('62)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Nordgren readers
Richard Nordgren, in his "Richland: An Atomic City," has a
piece on "The Flood Plain" that once was along Wellsian Way
and Goethals, a wide half-mile stretch running north and south
between Aaron to the south and Gillespie to the north (pp. 56-57).
As a recent American president once said, "let me say this
about that... " (I've received several back-channel notes to
keep writing; and my apologies to others for not eschewing
unneeded prolixity.)
Not sure this was really a flood plain, but there was a local
high-water table. Yes, there were concrete pump houses, at
least three, as part of the Richland WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM. The
ponds fluctuated in depth, running dry in the late summer. The
east end of each was controlled by a concrete outlet structure
and horizontally-stacked boards (3" by 8", I think, or some
would say 2-1/2" x 7-1/2") to regulate the pond depths. Hooligans
sometimes "pulled a board" which then lowered the depth and
flooded the drainage ditch outlet. Police cars were summoned.
Sometimes the cattails caught fire, then fire trucks.
Now, more about the ponds themselves as a huge BACK YARD
recreational zone. In crime-free Richland we were given free
rein for all day, with backpack lunches, at the age of nine.
When the water was down and gone, a great place for pioneering
passageways through the cat tail forests and for fluffy cat
tail fights. A place, too, to scoop up pollywogs to keep in a
fishbowl at home until they magically grew legs. In the summer,
all night long, the pitched and squealing hum of millions of
frogs.
At the north end, below Carmichael Junior High School
(originally named Robert Gray, and now a middle school) was the
largest and cleanest pond of all-Wellsian Lake. Lewis & Clark
kids spent their last day of school-party time!-on a combined
classroom FISHING EXPEDITION to this lake. At other less
crowded times a lucky catch was more likely. (The red spinner
with a diagonal white stripe seemed to work well.)
Nordgren mentions the two northbound railroad tracks
paralleling and east of Wellsian Way, one extending to make
COAL DUMPS at the 700 area in the middle of town. Dumps were
also made at the south end for pickup by trucks that then
supplied basement "coal bins" in the alphabet, coal heated
houses. In early grade school, I recall in bed hearing the
distant train whistle along the Yakima River at 7:15 in the
morning, and sensing that there was a big world out somewhere
outside of Richland. One of the great elementary school
discoveries was how pennies flattened when left on the rails.
Behind the Wellsian wonderland and on top of "the hill" was
located one of the several elevated air raid SIRENS surrounding
Richland, and that did its thing for fifteen minutes on the
first Monday of each month, I think, at 10:00 a.m. The great
excitement was to hike up there during non-school days and take
it all in at close range.
And west across the Yakima River was Badger Mountain. A
treeless and brooding shadow under the solitary Venus in the
early twilight. In the good ol' days of frontier Richland, it
was not uncommon at the south or west end to hear the howling
of COYOTES at night. And one howl usually got a response. But
then there was only one, and then none at all.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA where we often have
coyotes right here in town, especially during hot summers
when displaced by mountain lions drifting down out of the
Cascades. Lots of posters on telephone poles, then,
reporting missing cats and small dogs.
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Hanford was on strike in 1970 over wages + safety. Mike's dad
as a Captain in the Fire Dept + later Safety Engineer for
Hanford could not attend Mike's graduation from EWU in
Bus/Statistical Analysis that Dec.1970. He had to stay on
sight. Mike went back to school after being drafted + training
medics in the Army during Viet Nam. We sure wanted him to be
there. Could have been strikes in other years, just don't
remember them as well.
-Donna BOWERS Rice (GMC '63)/L. Mike RICE ('60) ~ St Louis, MO
where spring is sprung + trees + flowers all are blooming
[cute tiny pics of 3 flowers]
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Re: Additional blue/white collar conversation
I included a photo of my dad's ties I put on his HEW
"underwear" chair cuz he always threw it there... not across
the hall into the bathroom hamper where the rest of us put
dirty clothes upstairs in the F house.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Nel/210418_Dads_ties.jpg
He was the first child of immigrant parents from Sweden, raised
on a ND farm, college graduate, came home from WWII to Yakima
where my grandpa commuted to Richland as a firemen. He was
hired at Hanford and we moved to Judson in 1945. He wore a tie
and sport coat as long as I can remember and never talked about
work.
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Strikes
After ommunicating with several Bombers, I've come to the
conclusion that the "sandwich board" guy walking back and forth
in front of (possibly) a newsaper office circa 1955 or so was a
different strike. This strike in particular happened AFTER they
changed from The Greenway to The Parkway as my dad had to leave
kids in the car when he went into the liquor store. Perhaps a
newspaper office very close to the liquor store? Somehow I
think it wasn't the TCH... maybe the Columbia Basin News?
And the HANFORD strike(s)...
Any Hanford strike had to be AFTER 1964 when we left Richland.
My dad was a labor negotiator for G.E. and prided himself in
the fact that there was never a union while he was on the job.
He always said if you treated people right, they didn't need
any union.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 63° at 3am
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)
Re: The labor strike
I remember that I was working at Wascher's Mobil service on
GWWay when the strike broke out in 1966 or 1967. That was
about the time that Battelle Northwest and Atlantic Richfield
Corporation took over operations, and HAMTC complained that
AEC allowed more union members to be laid off than management
employees during diversification downsizing. (Findlay and
Hevly, "Atomic Frontier Days", UW Press, 2011, pp 183-4).
From my point of view it created waves of never ending tire
repairs caused by nails strewn upon the road to Hanford by
protestors wishing to punish drivers willing to break the
picket line. I've disliked tire repairs and labor unions
ever since.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mil/210418_Jo-Mobile.jpg
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
Re: strike and more
I remember the strike. My memory was that it was technically
against only one group at Hanford, but all workers belonged to
the same union and were expected to (sympathy) strike. My Dad's
group was not on strike. Can't remember if he went on strike
any, but know that he (and others) did go back to work while
the strike was still on. Kids at home cost $$$ to feed and
only those technically on strike got a stipend from the union.
I heard (during that time) that on the road to Hanford (not
sure where) they parked a pickup and had a dancer on it
(distraction). There were a lot of hard feelings between
strikers and nonstrikers. Some folks quit speaking.
As to college educated my Dad had a HS diploma (earned late, I
think) as he had to work as a young person. I know he valued
education and would have loved to go to college. Some of his
kids made it to CBC, but no further. He was also in CCC camps
for a time before marriage and working at Hanford.
I was not aware of different classes of houses only that you
had to have a certain # of people in your family to get on a
list for a 3-bed house.
So many memories!
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ In W. TN where it is cooler and
may rain today (or not)
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: "mostly college-educated"
I too picked up on the term "mostly college-educated", as my
father certainly wasn't in that category. In HS I discovered
that my father worked "for" a classmate's father. My Dad worked
at the "plant" just like everyone else and it never occurred to
me that he worked "for" anybody. My classmate said her father
told her that my Dad was a "good man". I'm sure that comment
was meant as a compliment, but somehow I took it differently.
Re: Unions
I played for a Union-sponsored Little League team, H.A.M.T.C.
(Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council). Whether the coaches or
players had any Union connections, I'm not sure. I guess I was
aware of strikes at Hanford, but since my Dad never talked
about work, I never knew any details. I guess my Dad worked his
way into a supervisory position because I had a small savings
account at GESA {General Electric Supervisor's Association).
Again, my Dad never talked about his work so I'm not sure about
whether he was a supervisor.
Re: Vivian Gericke ('62 foreign exchange student)
I remember Vivian came up to me before a basketball game and
said, "Ya gif dem hell!". I don't remember the game, but I
remember her comment. Years later, Vivian tracked me down in
Wilmington, NC on one of her visits to the States. We talked
about the S. African situation, but my lasting memory of her
visit was that her family in S. Africa owned a business that
either made or installed those tiny plastic "tubes" that go on
the ends of shoestrings.
-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Mead, WA
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Richland Bomber Varsity Baseball
The Bomber Varsity Baseball team is now 5-1 overall and 5-1 in
league.
On April 9 Richland had a double header at Kamiakin. Richland
lost 11-10 in the first game and won 11-5 in the second game.
On April 13 Richland hosted Hermiston in a double header.
Richland won 10-3 in the first game and won 16-1 in the second
game.
On April 16 Richland hosted Hanford in a double header.
Richland won 6-2 in the first game and won 8-2 in the second
game.
Richland will travel to WallaWalla on April 19 for the next
game.
Bomber cheers ~
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/19/21
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8 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Mike RAGLAND ('57)
Connie MADRON ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Vicki OWENS ('72)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
YESTERDAY IN HISTORY:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the EIGHTEENTH OF APRIL, in '75;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year... .
https://poets.org/poem/paul-reveres-ride
RIP Paul Revere's Ride
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lila JENNE ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Richard CHARETTE ('64)
Linda SWAIN ('66)
Mark ROHRBACHER ('66)
Peg WELLMAN ('66)
Deb BOSHER ('67)
Mike TESKY ('67)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today
Jeff LARSEN & Barbara GILE ('67)
TODAY IN HISTORY
1775 American Revolution began "shot heard 'round the world"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_heard_round_the_world
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Happy Birthday, Maren! Hundreds of loyal Bombers count you as
our friend. I wish you love, health, fellowship and joy today
and every day of your life. God willing, we'll meet again in
person in September.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ in sunny, warm Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
By the way, "Happy Birthday!" Maren. Don't eat too much gumbo.
To: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
here was a newspaper strike in the mid Fifties. It seemed that
unionists wanted the workers at the Tri City Herald to join
their cause. Owner/Publisher and Editor of the TCH (Glenn Lee)
wanted nothing to do with unions. In retaliation, the union
started their own paper known as the Columbia Basin News. If
you were union you subscribed to that paper and boycotted the
TCH.
To be honest about it, I never liked the CBN (or Washbasin
Wipe). Poor writing and reporting and very bad comic strips.
However, both papers had one thing in common, they did not like
Richland which included all Bomber sports and other activities.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Mike RAGLAND ('57)
Mr. Pete BEAULIEU ('62) seems to have grown up in a very
different Richland than I did. I found the city to be made
up of real people. Most were not college educated, but were
laborers and craftsmen and women. Our police were "security
patrol" for years, backed up by the FBI who had a large
presence due to the security of the project. The school system
was all new and, in some cases, had better facilities than
Washington colleges.
There was no need to lock doors and often people left their
keys in their car so they would always be easy to find. If a
kid screwed up at a neighbor's house, or some friends, he would
likely be punished there and again when he got home. The
street lights were a signal to go home and get ready for bed.
Television was not around until after I was in High school,
although I did see one in Seattle when Mike MILLS ('57) and I
went over there to see his dad.
While a good many of our graduates ended up in college and
graduating, a lot of us went into the military or just found
jobs. A lot of the kids went to work in the "areas" and
followed in their fathers' footsteps.
There was a lot of drinking while we were in high school, not
much before that. Drugs were pretty much unknown a few found
Grass to be a pleasure. It was not widely used then, however.
Drag races were the thing, mostly in what is now Columbia Park.
The party generally broke up to the wailing of State Patrol
sirens and everyone would scatter. We used to float the Yakima
River from the bridge to West Richland down to right below what
is now the Enins facility.
There was not a lot of class distinctions, except for the few
whose dads did not ride the bus to the areas (one of my friends
was embarrassed that his dad did not ride the bus). These were
often people who ran the businesses in Richland, but some
worked downtown. Hunt Point (never heard circle) was doctors,
upper management, business people and the like. For the most
part, just plain good people working together.
Summers were spent at the big pool or on one of the Rivers,
with some hunting rabbits and general fun stuff. No pressure in
the summer. It was just small town America. For awhile we even
had a police officer nicknamed "Barney one Bullet".
I came back about 18 months ago when I could no longer stand
the Seattle area. Bought a Ranch house between the Ranch house
and "E" house where we grew up. Love being back, but it is not
the same town I left in January of 1958.
-Mike RAGLAND ('57)
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
Re: Bomber Reunion in Arizona, 2004
My IPad sends me "Memories" every once in awhile. This one came
in this morning. John and I put it together at a golf course
near our house. Bombers came from miles around! We were much
younger then. Sigh!
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Mad/210419_Golf.mp4
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ Nipomo, CA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Oops.
Just checked with the Burt PIERARD ('59) maps of Richland...
The "floodplain" area boundary-labeled by Nordgren was actually
between Thayer Drive to the west and Goethals to the east, with
the bisecting Wellsian Way running north and south down the
middle, and then with the string of settling ponds between
Wellsian Way and Thayer on the hill. And, all this was more
like a mile long (not my "half-mile"), ending at the Bypass
Highway to the south.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/210209_00.htm
The east-west roads, especially the curved Duportail link with
Stevens Dr. to the east, did not exist back in the day. On that
point, I recall that on a local "student government day"
(1961?) Dave WAGGONER ('62) played his part as the city planner
and (in suit and tie!) proposed to the council that a "complete
street grid" was needed, and that this would require what later
became the Duportail east-west link, more or less as he mapped
it. I hung around that day in a lesser role, as an assistant
city engineer to Jeff DAWSON ('62). Using his well-honed
geometry skills, Jeff solved a real-world math problem for the
city. Probably the total square-footage area of an oddly shaped
piece of city property.
Might as well mention here the giant Cottonwood tree at the
south end of the Wellsian Wonderland, at the bottom of a
concrete-lined spillway that dropped east from the upper
irrigation canal. The tree was three feet in diameter (nine-
foot circumference) at the base and must have dated back to the
days of Yakama Indian council fires. Elsewhere in his book, we
learn from Nordgren that the irrigation canal was the same one
that began up north at the Horn Rapids dam (1908). It snaked
through Richland, mostly above ground but also in culverts.
Often wondered about that.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
If memory serves me correct, the fellow picketing Downtown with
the sandwich board was across the street from C.C. Andersons.
He was picketing the Tri-City Herald which was non-union, and
had their office in the south end of the building. I used to go
there once a month to pay my bill for Route 306. That building
also housed the Lucky Five Tavern, aka. The Teen Time Tavern.
They were somewhat careless in checking IDs. If you wore your
letterman's jacket, schooners were on the house.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Vicki OWENS ('72)
Re: Strike and College
My dad worked at Hanford on a team of linemen for many years,
and eventually become a manager. (The only reason I knew
anything had changed with his job "in the area" was that he
started wearing a tie to work!) Then came the strike. Dad found
himself on the opposite side from many good friends, and it was
a very hard time for him and rather scary for many. I recall
one particular photo in the Tri-City Herald of a neighbor on
the picket line whose face was absolutely livid. I couldn't
grasp why people were so angry. My best memory of that time was
the relief we all felt when the strike was settled!
Dad graduated from Lewiston High School in the mid-1930s. Most
Americans of that era didn't finish high school. He came to
Hanford in 1943 to work construction, after learning his trade
as an electrician then a lineman mostly on the job. When he
retired (close to 1980?) I drove over for his retirement
party. There were a lot of nice speeches about what a good,
hardworking and honest man he was, and it made me proud.
That's the first I heard that he was a "Electrical Maintenance
Supervisor". Yet the part I can never forget is that the
man who replaced him had a master's degree in Electrical
Engineering! For a high school graduate to hand over to a
master's holder is a lot of change in one generation.
-Vicki OWENS ('72) ~ Kampala, Uganda
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Unions
I'm very thankful for unions. My husband retired after 35 years
in the Ironworkers union after following his father, brother,
& uncle into the same union. The unions did so much for our
country: fought for better wages and reasonable working
hours/work week, safer working conditions, led efforts that
stopped child labor and provided health benefits as well as
aid to workers who were injured, and the list goes on. Suffice
it to say, I'm glad I married into a strong union family!
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Gators or Crocs
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/220419_Gators-Crocks.jpg
To: All Bombers
Several posts ago someone asked about alligators or crocodiles
at Hanford. Yes its true a couple escaped, how hasn't been
explained to my knowledge. There is one story I heard in 2019.
One was found downriver from 100-F where the lab was, it was
dead and the "lucky" recipient took it to a Pasco taxidermist.
Sometime after wards a lab worker saw it in the window ran in
and grabbed it and ran out. That's all I know about the stuffed
"Wally"(Hanna Barbera reference).
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Ed WOOD ('62)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lan FUSMAN ('66)
Dianne DICKMAN ('67)
Chuck SHIPMAN ('71)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Bonfires
From an anonymous Bomber (not Stephanie): "We had bonfires on
the lot in front of the old main fire station (now John Dam
Plaza) for Homecoming." (Stephanie's NOTE: I don't think we
had those until after I graduated in 1960.) "The typical
arrangement was that juniors hauled wood and built it while
seniors tried to light it early. As you might expect, juniors
had to guard it to prevent the premature lighting. At
Homecoming 1965, they had a major fight and lost all
possibility of future bonfires."
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Memories
I grew up around the corner from Mike RAGLAND ('57), which may
explain why I saw Richland much as he described it, full of
real people. Mike contrasts his memories with those of Pete
BEAULIEU ('62), whose view of class distinctions differed from
Mike's. I've always been in awe of Pete's perceptive abilities
and memory, neither of which I can match.
Many years ago I had a wonderful reunion with a Kindergarten
classmate who is no longer with us. I've always put her on
a pedestal in my mind, and as we grew up together through
Carmichael and Col-Hi, we remained good friends. I even wished
we could have been closer. When we had lunch together 40-
some years later she told me she had always been somewhat
intimidated by me since my father wore a tie to work, and her
father was a plumber. Although I vaguely remember her father
being a plumber, I had no idea until she told me that there
was a class divide between us. The fact she felt comfortable
telling me this indicates that whatever divide existed had
evaporated by then, for which I was thankful.
People see and remember things differently. And things may not
always be what they seem.
[I knew what my dad wore to work and
have no recollection of what any other
dad wore. -Maren]
-Ed WOOD ('62)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: strikes, going over fences and gas stations
To: All Bombers
Interesting stories on Hanford strikes I only know of three one
in the mid '60s, late '60s or early '70s and the other in '76.
To my knowledge the big greiveance in the '60s had to do with
how radiation records were kept. Strikes are something I've
never read much about, its true strikes are hard on co-workers
and management alike. You might be surprised to know parts of
management agreed with the union's position but could not speak
of support and risk loosing chances of advancement or raises in
pay. When Patrol was looking into unionizing, the company sent
spies to their meetings. 13 or so years ago we had a plant
manager who worked in the 300 Area in the '70s. Since private
vehicles weren't allowed in, workers parked outside the fence,
Well at the time it seemed like a good idea to climb the fence
to get to his car, after all it was right there and it would
save several minutes travel. Patrol, however didn't see it that
way. Needless to say he lost way more time than he saved.
Unlike Frank "Mac" QUINLAN's ('62) father it wasn't under cover
of darkness.
Re: Wascher's Mobil
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210420_Waschers_Mobil.jpg
Wascher's Mobil great looking station a fellow I know worked
there in the '50s C. C. "Kip" Jones. he told me Wascher's and
the business next door liked to play pranks on each other, one
about a cow? I have a 1954 11 x 14 photo of that station that
Kip signed for me.
To: Jo MILES ('64)
Would you mind adding your signature? By the by loved the
photo of you in the work shirt. My 1st gas station job was in a
Mobil station, in fact I only use Mobil 10w 30 in my '61 Buick.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210420_4thJuly_Buick.jpg
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/21/21
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Duane LEE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Bonnie ALLEN ('59)
Katie SHEERAN ('61)
Judy MANNING ('65)
Jane SMOLEN ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
For all Bombers who have been, are, or thinking of becoming
one: "Happy Administrative Professionals Day!" For us older
folk, we remembered this day as "Secretaries Day"; which some
thought offensive. However, in the late 50's and early 60's,
men were entering the field. Perhaps it was they who objected
to the name. Just sayin'
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
things like this pop up on the calendar that comes with
the computer.
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: Work clothing
Several people have commented on there being a difference in
"class" by what our parents wore to work. I don't know if Dad's
work wear placed him above or below others... guess it would
depend on how you felt about someone wearing a uniform and a
gun. Dad served on Hanford Patrol... from 1944 until 1977 when
he retired. as Chief. He wore a uniform to work most of the
time as I recall. Maybe that is why he was such a snazzy
dresser off the job and loved to wear good looking suits and
shoes off duty. I do remember being scared of the gun and
when Dad would get off the bus on the corner of Birch and
Sacramento, I would hide in the back bedroom until he came in
and put his gun away on the top shelf of the closet then I
would come to greet him. It's strange now that we had a loaded
gun in our house and no one worried about it.
Mostly I remember that people in Richland seemed pretty
friendly and got along well together. Our neighbors seemed to
have similar thoughts on child rearing, care of their homes,
concern for others. I felt safe going into any of our friends'
and neighbors' homes and knew that if I misbehaved or did
something wrong, Mom and Dad would hear about it pretty
quickly. Was it 100% idyllic, of course not but I'm so glad
to have been raised in this particular government town. I'm
blessed to call many of those I was raised with as friends 70
years later. I'm not sure that is true in many other places.
The most vivid memories I have of Dad's work was that he worked
shifts. After Jan 1949, when we moved into the 4 bedroom ranch
and way before central air-probably mid '50s- we acquired a
swamp cooler and it was in the bedroom of Mom and Dad's room.
Of course when Dad was on graveyard shift, he slept all day
with the door closed and the cool air only in the bedroom. The
rest of the house could be in the 90's and Dad slept like a
baby in his nice cool and quiet room. We were pretty excited
when we got another unit in the utility room to "cool" the rest
of the house.
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: "Richland: An Atomic City"
I've been dipping more into Nordgren's book. Two stories, now,
about the "T Houses" (1947-198?) on page 41. (1948 was also the
First "Atomic Frontier Days," and the year of the first arson
in town which took out one third of the new wing at Lewis &
Clark Elementary.)
Re: "T" Houses - Five "T" houses built
http://hanford.houses.tripod.com/houses/t.html
STORY #1. These five duplexes filled a gap along Goethals
[THEN Duane Ave], the last row of houses east of the Wellsian
wetlands, diagonally to the northwest through the block from
where we first lived (the corner house on the parallel Douglass
St.). I must have been about three or four years old when our
parents cautioned us to stay away from the construction of the
new "Tertelling Houses" (for years, I thought "turtle-ing").
Along Douglass the kids were also warned to even avoid our
facing back yards. All that new digging on the edge of town ran
the possible risk of stirring up a rattlesnake nest or two.
The kiddy crowd in the Douglass neighborhood? That would be the
three BEAULIEU boys in an "H" house (Tom ('59), John and Pete
(both '62)), then moving north in the next three houses, the
three Novinger boys in an "E" house, (John, Bill, and Kent);
then the one Lewis boy in another "H" house (Ted; his dad
was a weight lifter and later built a basement concrete bomb
shelter); and then the three Work girls in either an "H" or "E"
house (Susan, Sally [?], Shawn; their dad, Joe Work, was one of
the many Hanford Ph.D.s and later moved up and out, to Oak
Ridge, I think. They owned a piano.).
STORY #2. Later, at the age of five or six (John and I, and
David Smith from across Douglass Street, an "H" house), we used
to shout up the neighborhood. A perturbed lady appears on the
steps of a Tertelling duplex ("T") and stops us in our tracks.
"Can't you boys read?" Answer, and proudly: "A little, we're
going to school!" She points to a square placard in the window.
These mysterious window signs were part of the mix in around-
the-clock, white collar/blue collar Richland.
"What's this word on top?" We got that one right away-together
and excitedly, "Day!" "And what about this other word?" Not a
clue; too many letters. She covers the last two letters. "Hey,
is that first part 'sleep'?" "Yes," she uncovers the last two
letters. "Oh, is that 'Day Sleep... purr?"....(long pause) "Does
that mean someone who sleeps in the day time?" On a sunny day,
hard to wrap our minds around that... "Yes, maybe you boys can be
quiet in this yard."
So, that was the day that we boys learned that reading and
writing were meant to communicate, and could even unlock
neighborhood mysteries. We scurried home to report our new
discovery.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
I guess RHS wasn't always a basketball power house.
1944 RHS Basketball Team Photo
Check out these scores from the 1944 Columbia:
http://richlandbombers.com/classes/1911-1945/1944sports.html
Just wonder how many of these fine lads got drafted and had
to head off to war. WWII was still raging.
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/22/21 ~ EARTH DAY
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1 Bomber & 1 Bomber spouse sent stuff:
Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
Mary, wife of John ADKINS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Ellen WEIHERMILLER ('63)
Jim COYNE ('64)
Nancy METZ ('69)
Meg CONE ('70)
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>>From: Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
To: Mike RAGLAND ('57)
Mike,
Comments on your early Richland memories are spot on. I missed
the gentleman's commentary you were referring to (thankfully).
Anyone who actually grew up in Richland during the time you've
referenced and thinks there was a better place to grow up just
grew older here but still hasn't grown up!
-Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
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>>From: Mary Adkins (NAB), wife of John ADKINS ('62-RIP)
Re: John's Honor Flight in 2018
Read John's entry about his Honor light in the May, 10, 2018
Sandstorm:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2018/2018-05-May.htm
Click on the 10th
If anyone wishes to make a donation in memory/honor of John
Adkins he/she can send a donation to:
Inland NW Honor Flight
608 W 2nd Ave Ste 307
Spokane WA 99201
Include a note saying that it is in honor/memory of John
Adkins. He was on the May 2018 Honor Flight to Washington D.C.
If one wishes to donate by Debit or Credit card it can be done
through Paypal at:
www.inwhonorflight.org
They say that they will send you a card acknowledging your
contribution.
That flight was the highlight of John's life and we would like
to support it in his name.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Adk/210422_Adkins_Honor_Flt.jpg
-Mary Adkins (NAB), wife of John ADKINS ('62-RIP)) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/23/21
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Rita ECKERT ('61)
Gary WEBB ('64)
Ken DAME ('68)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
Re: Mike RAGLAND ('57)
You write: "I missed the gentleman's commentary you were
referring to (thankfully)." I missed it too, and I'm named as
the one who supposedly wrote it!
But, to not be falsely accused, and as a "real people," I add
here part of the technocratic national euphoria of the day,
still at the front end of the more nuanced Cold War.
"Instead of filling the gas tank of your automobile two or
three times a week, you will travel for a year on a pellet of
atomic energy the size of a vitamin pill . . . Larger pellets
will be used to turn the wheels of industry and when they do
that, they will turn the era of Atomic Energy into the Age of
Plenty . . . . No baseball game will be called off on account
of rain in the Era of Atomic Energy. No airplane will bypass
an airport because of fog. No city will experience a winter
traffic jam because of heavy snow. . . ." ("a newspaper science
writer of the time" [not from Richland], quoted decades later
in The Pacific Magazine, Seattle Times, July 28, 1985).
What could be better than that?
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ fondly remembering most of the "Atomic
Frontier Days" get-togethers in Howard Amon Park, and
even the rerun parade on Jadwin in August, 2019.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/24/21
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Leslie SWANSON ('59)
Denny CASTO ('63)
Karen ROTAN ('66)
Ben HAUSENBUILLER ('98)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Want to take a moment to wish fellow classmate Pat "Rex" WOOD
('54) a "Happy Birthday!"
Not sorry to interrupt the history lesson arguments. While they
are interesting it is beginning to sound like "he said, she
said".
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/25/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Rich BAKER ('58)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Don WINSTON ('63)
Carla BOSHER ('64)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Jerry SPEARS & Cathy CLUGSTON ('64)
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
To: Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
Harvey, it was great seeing your entry about Mike RAGLAND ('57)
in the 4/22/21 Sandstorm. Seeing your name brought back many
good memories of the Gaslight, especially those times when I
used to return during breaks at WSU. Used to wait in a booth
until friends got off of day shift out in the areas. Enjoying
friends while having a pitcher or two along with a great Tommy
Norton pizza. Those were the days, Harvey. We grew up during
the best of times. No one will ever experience them again. Hope
all is going well with you and your family.
-Rich BAKER ('58)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Young Men And Fire
All this talk about Homecoming bonfires lately got me
thinking about my old friend Bill KNIRCK ('65-RIP). Knirck. A
thoroughly decent fella. As easy to get along with as anyone
I've ever known, then or since. And honorable at a time,
growing up, when notions like honor could get a little tricky.
He was a good guy, a great friend, and I'll just leave it at
that.
Except to say that Bill Knirck was also, it turned out,
and to our surprise, a lot braver than the rest of us.
KaaNURRRRKK!
(Shout that loud and long, with a single deep breath,
like the holler of a high school kid standing at one end of the
empty hallway in Mac Hall and shouting to his buddy Knirck down
at the other end). KaaNURRRRKK!
So yeah, I think it was always called the "Junior
Bonfire," wasn't it? Homecoming week-end. Yes. That's because
the juniors were always in charge of building it---of driving
around town to junkyards and construction sites and gathering
and scavenging, and then piling scrap wood and boards and
stolen lumber onto a shambled, jagged mountain there in that
parking lot right across the street from the police station on
Swift. And then, on the Thursday night before the Friday night
when the Homecoming bonfire was SUPPOSED to be lit, the seniors
and some older guys from around town would try to sneak up and
burn it all down and ruin the juniors' fun.
This was fall of '63, Homecoming week for the class of '64.
It took a couple week-ends of driving around in Bill's
old green (Plymouth?) for us to add our share to the pile. Hard
work and a lot of time. And a lot of miles on his old car. And
all the other old cars out there. Our junior year.
Anybody who knew Knirck won't mind me taking a moment
here to remind them of his laugh-- not so much a laugh, really,
as a giggle, an abrupt burst of glee that would sputter out of
him sometimes, suddenly, and cause us all to turn and look at
him, and the grin on his face. That grin is an easy thing about
him to remember.
So...The fall of '63? You should remember this because
it was a pretty big deal that night. And pretty dangerous, too,
looking back. Big big BIG pile of wood, about 20 or 30 feet
high. The group of us juniors at its base, protecting it, and
the larger group of seniors and older guys trying to burn it
down.
Absolutely. Without. A. Cop. In. Sight.
Every now and then, one of the seniors would run up
with a burning make-shift torch of some sort (a stick with a
gasoline-soaked rag tied to its top) and toss it up on the
pile. And one of us juniors would scramble up the pile and toss
the torch back down. Back and forth like that, all evening
long.
And then a couple hours longer until it was past
midnight. No REAL violence yet, but some pushing and shoving,
and as the night wore on, I began looking around for some
way to just slip away unnoticed and go on home. Cowardice
unwitnessed is much easier to live with afterwards than the
other kind.
Finally, somebody from somewhere got a very long ladder,
and a bunch of the older guys ran forward carrying the ladder
between them and flopped it down at an angle running up the
side of the pile.
In the movies when the guys who are trying to climb
the castle wall get a ladder up the wall like that, it usually
means the guys with the ladder are about to win. And now here
came Hector ALVAREZ ('64), walking up to the base of the ladder
with a small, lit torch in his hand. I was surprised to see him
there like that. And a little worried. Because Hector ALVAREZ
was a man among boys. Literally. He was the closest thing to a
professional body-builder that any of us had ever known. He
wasn't a bad guy or anything, but still. There wasn't anybody
there in our little cluster of juniors guarding the pile who
could take him on.
We all sort of backed away from the ladder as he stepped
forward and got one foot up on the first rung, holding the
torch in his far hand. We just stood there. We didn't know what
else to do. And then out of nowhere somebody in a grey hooded
sweatshirt bumped my right shoulder and knocked me to the side
as he blew past me in a blur, and with the smacking sound of
two faces colliding, he dove full-out into Hector ALVAREZ and
knocked him off the ladder.. A perfect tackle. They sprawled
onto the asphalt in a tangle and the torch skittered away and
stopped against somebody's shoe. A couple of the older guys
reached down and grabbed the kid in the sweatshirt and jerked
him up to his feet.
Hector got up too.
"Who is it?" he asked. "Who is he? I don't know him." And
a head like an angry snapping turtle poked up out of the hooded
sweatshirt.
"KaaNURRRRK!" he shouted. "I'm KNIRCK!" And, in fact, it
was. But it was Bill like I'd never seen him.
A few minutes later, a 22 year-old man named Jerry Stull,
calmly climbed up the ladder with a gallon can of gasoline and
set the pile on fire. And the whole thing burned to the ground.
His shirtsleeve caught on fire for a little bit there, and he
toppled off the ladder coming down and hurt his leg pretty bad.
57 years later, meeting him by coincidence at Henry's in West
Richland, I asked him about that night and why he had been
there at a high school bonfire in the first place, instead of
answering my question, he answered me by saying somebody had
shaken his ladder that night and almost killed him.
After all these years, two old men snarling at each other
over their toast and eggs.
So when I came up for Bill's memorial several years ago
at the Catholic church there on Stevens, I was proud and
overwhelmed by how much so many people loved Bill KNIRCK.
People came from everywhere. Did him proud. Packed to the
rafters. And I realized that there were a lot of people there
who actually knew my friend better than I did. But I didn't see
too many who liked him better.
I didn't speak at the service, but I have this fantasy
what I did instead. In my fantasy I'm standing at one end of
the hallway in Mac Hall and Bill is at the other. Completely
empty. I can hear the echo of his shoes clear down there at
the double doors.
I take a deep breath and call out, long and loud...
"KaaNURRRRK!!"
Then again
"Knirck"
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/26/21
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
Steve CARSON ('58)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Lou Ann BINNS ('52)
Rosalie LANSING ('63)
Allen STREGE ('65)
Melanie DUKES ('67)
Sydney PERRYMAN ('19)
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>>From: Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
To: Rich BAKER ('58)
Rich,
Thanks for the kind words. Tommy Norton lives close by and I'll
see he hears your comments about his Pizzas. So far I've tasted
none close to his creations.
All is well with me and family. Were still here in Richland
praying our grandchildren will one day experience the Richland
we once knew.
-Harvey CHAPMAN ('56)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Great story on 4/25/21.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I thought I always read the Sandstorm every day; but I was
shocked to see John ADKINS ('62-RIP) in the notices posted by
Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) today.
John was always very kind to me as an out-of-town class of '62
member. I remember he helped me register for our first class
reunion via computer. (I remain hopeless despite my youngest
son's many attempts to enlighten me on the computer.). And John
was very kind in his comments to me; sometimes my son's
comments to me haven't felt very kind to my ears.
My condolences to his family.
There are many things I've enjoyed reading about in the
Sandstorm; I continue to marvel at the memories of some avid
writers who share on our pages. I agree with the statement
that we all have separate, but solid memories of what growing
up in Richland was like.
My parents were not college-educated, nor were any of my aunts
and uncles, except one, my uncle Len, one of my dad's 11
siblings.
And I didn't know what my dad or other dads did at the area
period. I do remember knowing one of my best friend's dads was
a physicist. I didn't have any idea what that meant at age 8,
and except to say, he was a skilled scientist who worked in a
lab, I'd still have a hard time defining what he did.
My dad worked with budgets was all I knew, and I'm not sure
what I thought that was at age 8 or 9.
The thing I got out of attending school in Richland was that
I could achieve whatever I was willing to work for. (Except
I was too short to be an airline stewardess, was that
discrimination or reality?)
And I agree with everyone we had a great safe place to grow up
in. Yes, there were difficulties we, as kids didn't understand
or were not aware of.
I see so many last names of kids I remember in the birthdays,
and am always thinking so that must be that person's in my
class Kid brother or sister.
While we are on the subject of birthdays, sorry I miss wishing
Happy Birthday to so many I see in the Sandstorm. The last ones
I've missed were Katie SHEERAN ('61) on 4/21 and Maren SMYTH
('63 & '64) on 4/19.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Greetings from SE Indiana in the
house by the little lake where we had over 2" of snow
this past week, but it's warming up, and we expect an 80°
day this week. Fortunately many blooms survived the
multiple snow bursts we had on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Suits and Ties, Trousers and button down shirts
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210426_00.htm
To: All Bombers
Going back to posts talking about fathers who wore suits to
work and those who didn't I remembered when I reported to
Hanford in '76 most if not all the "older" workers didn't wear
jeans or T shirts. All the men were in casual pants with button
down shirts and women wore nice slacks and blouses a few wore
dresses. In the summer you never saw shorts on either. I got my
first pair of jeans my sophomore year and never looked back,
but enough about me. As many of you know folks weren't sloppy
in their dress. I suppose the '60s gave a nudge to break away
from the norm, of course that's a loose guess on my part. I
will admit it's kinda cool how folks dressed back in the day
more professional I think.
Of course I have no idea of the time it takes for make-up,
hair, hose and time to iron clothes for the day women need to
prepare. Marge Nordman DeGooyer told me women were expected
to wear a dress to work, in fact she was approached by her
supervisor about the pant suit she wore to work. In Feb or Mar
of '45 Marge started out as a lab worker on shift. Her work
clothes were coveralls zipped in front with a drop down
backside. In those days hose were still hard to come by so
Marge wouldn't wear them in the lab to make them last longer.
Besides we used a lot of acetone, a few drops of that on your
leg and "bye bye. hose".
I've told this story years ago but I'm telling it again because
I like it, Marge was a very curious person she loved learning
this very new field of work. One shift she was so engrossed
time got away from her. In a rush to make the bus Marge just
threw on her dress, shoes and the rest went into her lunch box.
Now the guard shack was a little more than a football field
away and while running towards it she remembered the patrolman
searched all lunch boxes!! She was so late the patrolman took
pity and never checked, last time Marge was late.
On a personal note I prefer being the worker in the field while
a lot of what I do is routine there were and are cool things
I've been involved in over the years it's a big reason I love
my job. We need those women and men in suits to support those
without them (I know that sounds wrong but you know what I
mean) One last thing men who worked in radiation zones were
expected to be clean shaven everyday, and that was enforced
too. I saw that 1st hand decades ago.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/27/21
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Mary ROSE ('60)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Bill CHAPMAN ('53)
Jim TADLOCK ('58)
Steve UPSON ('65)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Re: COVID Mask
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Hem/210427_COVIDmask.mov
If you don't laugh at this one, check your pulse
-Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
I have talked with you several times regarding my mother, Vona
Rose, who worked at 2-West where you did. I remember her very
clearly dressing up with heels and nylons and pretty skirts,
blouses, and dresses. She worked shifts and it didn't matter
what shift she was on, she always dressed beautifully. She
would walk to the bus on the corner of Symons and Thayer to
ride through the heat of summer or cold of the winter to 2-West
and then change into lab clothing. No way would she ever have
gone dressed the way we do today.
Another place I have noticed the drastic change in clothing is
church. We used to dress in our finest clothes and wore hats,
or some sort of covering on our heads, and gloves. I loved
getting dressed up for church, but must admit the more casual
atmosphere we have now is nice too!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Shanon LAYBOURN Smith's ('65) Backyard
Ooooohhhh Shanon Shanon Shanon..
Your lilacs smell so fine.
So very very fine.
Your yard
with its groomed and careful corners
and stuffed pots of plump plants,
whose splashes of sudden yellows
and bold reds and even a shy blue or two
stopped me in my tracks there
alongside the white splendor
of your lilac bush.
Thank you for its snipped-off handful of perfect
blossoms,
white and mine,
now here in my window
smelling so very, very fine.
TDK65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/28/21
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Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Betty WHITTEN ('54)
Marilyn SIMMONS ('63)
Dale HOSACK ('69)
Linda ABBEY ('71)
Rachel MacINNIS ('04)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Suits and Ties Trousers and Button Down Shirts ('58 con't)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/210428_00.htm
To: All Bombers
Mary ROSE Tansy ('60) and Rich BAKER ('58) sent me notes about
my last post. Mary told me her mom dressed up to go to work
even on graveyard and Rich recognized father in one of the K
reactor control rooms. So I thought I'd send some more out from
1958, a few are wearing respiratory equipment.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/29/21
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Phyllis BENJAMIN ('49)
Dan WARNER ('65)
Nora SZULINSKI ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Yet another "egg on my face" entry, as I forgot to wish fellow
classmate Betty WHITTEN ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" yesterday.
Hope I didn't loose too many points.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Of hats and shoes and sealing wax, and cabbages and things
The earliest arrivals in Richland, even as tykes, recall the
women's hats, and elbow-length gloves, and nylon stockings with
the seam up the back. And high-heeled shoes...
My early recollection is that Mrs. Mary Fleischer (mother of
Chris ('66) and Pamela ('67)) had a hand in those gloves and
hats... Story is that she insisted that frontier-town Richland
would show some class, and it was up to the womenfolk to make
it happen. Even in the daytime, lots of women didn't venture
forth without a hat and gloves. She also was a guiding light
in planting a deeper town culture, an early and longstanding
member of the Richland Players, as a graduate of the
prestigious Pasadena Playhouse and who patterned herself a bit
after Kathryn Hepburn. Lived in an "A" house on Benham across
the street from us on Douglass in an "H" house. Her husband was
a 6'6" security guard who favored the graveyard shift.
Next door to us was the Novinger clan. The mother was a maker
of sought-after women's hats. Often applied a layer of bird
feathers of all colors, especially from pheasant. The claim
to fame of the father was that, as a really short guy, he
nonetheless had won a quarter-mile sprint while not swallowing
a mouthful of water. There was a trophy in the living room.
Now, the women, usually young mothers, found time to "go
visiting," which meant dropping in on neighbors who also had no
idea what hubby was doing at the "plant"-with their own little
ones in tow to wait patiently for the hour of chatty stuff to
run its course. One of my few memories of these outings is that
the Work family, the next house up (either an "H" or an "E")
had a real piano which I was not allowed to hammer on.
There were also the once-a-month evening bridge clubs, howling
up a storm in whatever house was victimized on the rotation.
Some continued for several decades.
Richland dial phone service began on October 7, 1949. Our five-
digit number, still engraved in my frontal lobe of my cerebral
cortex, was 72807. Shared lines were part of the picture for a
while. Also, in the summer of 1949 (I turned five) we left our
giant black Labrador with the dog pound down somewhere near the
sewage treatment plant, for two weeks...
When we returned from a long-drive vacation to Wisconsin to
visit the rest of the left-behind family, we discovered that
"Bob" (that was his name) had been forgotten and not been fed
for two weeks. Dad nursed the creature back to health, with a
baby bottle at first. Eventually we sold or gave the dog to a
resident "on the hill" on Thayer Drive or farther west. I can
still see him leashed onto the back of a flatbed truck of
1940ish vintage, heading out to the bypass highway.
Now Bob had become just a little impaired in the head and never
fully recovered whatever meager civil manners he once had. He
had always been the neighborhood barker. We heard within the
year that on a stroll ol' Bob had spied a cat on the window
sill in the living room of a prefab house. From the street he
went after that cat, right through the window into the house.
Must have rearranged the furniture a bit. We kids were
reassured to hear that Bob was okay.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA with no dog, but rabbits
and squirrels taking over the small back yard.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/30/21
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Steve HAGGARD ('65)
Linda LEE ('66)
Karl SOEHNLEIN ('68)
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)
Re: Hats, gloves and beauty queens
My mother, Sadelle Pierce, was an accomplished milliner. First
thing my father, Leo Pierce, would do after returning from
pheasant hunting was to make sure all those long pheasant
feathers were neatly and safely sorted for the work she'd do in
her next creations. She eventually opened the most successful
bridal shop in the Tri Cities, Sadelle's, over on Clearwater
Avenue in Kennewick. I still have one of her business cards
with a black silhouette of a lady's hat plumed with pheasant
feathers.
I cannot remember going to church without my mom, and all three
of my sisters, Melodie, Teresa and Kimberley, in petticoated
dresses, and all wearing white gloves. It was the norm in the
'50s.
I recall my mom being very active in the March of Dimes. She
also was a beauty pageant contestant, and winner, in Arkansas,
and for years helped the contestants vying for Miss Richland,
Miss Frontier Days and Miss Tri Cities. I went and watched
while she taught the young ladies how to walk on stage, pose
and perform for the judges. I do remember her talking about
instructing Sharon TATE ('61wb-RIP), Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62)
and lots of others.
Mostly I remember her talking the driver of the Miss Budweiser
in 1966 into letting my brother, Bob ('68), and me board the
Miss Budweiser and actually cruise out and under the bridge and
back into the pits. I liked the sound of the Miss Pay 'N Pak's
twin 426 cubic inch supercharged Chrysler hemi engines better.
In 1966 you could sit on the bank of the Columbia on the
Kennewick side next to the pits, hang your feet in the water
and feel every one of the 852 cubic inches translated into
thunder. Poor Miss Oh Boy Oberto.
Dick PIERCE ('67)
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BOMBER MEMORIAL JPEGS for this month
created by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Alvin KECK ('74-RIP) ~ 2/2/56 - 3/23/21
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Tom GAINES ('65-RIP) ~ 2/26/47 - 3/30/21
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Ryan GERARD ('04-RIP) ~ 11/4/85 - 3/27/21
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Ron STEPHENS ('82-RIP) ~ 8/10/64 - 3/30/21
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Bill BLANTON ('60-RIP) ~ 6/12/42 - 1/16/18
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Nancy BUCHANAN Douglass ('60-RIP) ~ 6/19/42 - 10/4/83
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Don TUTTEL ('75-RIP) ~ 10/14/56 - 3/6/21
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Ray BELL ('60_RIP) ~ 10/1/42 - 2/8/19
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Mary MANKOWSKI Hewitt ('60_RIP) ~ 12/1/42 - 3/23/20
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Dale ADKINS ('67-RIP) ~ 7/4/49 - 3/xx/19
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Bob ISAKSON ('60-RIP) ~ 11/21/40 - 11/30/11
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Janet FORBY Padgett ('60-RIP) ~ 1/1/42 - 9/8/16
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Harriet FISCHER Haugen ('60-RIP) ~ 7/2/42 - 3/13/98
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Ken HOLLINGSHEAD ('60-RIP) ~ 4/30/40 - 10/21/78
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Gary CHAPPELL ('60-RIP) ~ 1/28/42 - 10/15/91
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Jaci COWAN Kopetski ('60-RIP) ~ 4/4/42 - 9/1/98
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Noel HENRY ('60-RIP) ~ 7/20/42 - 2/16/09
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Larson GRENINGER ('60-RIP) ~ 1/1/42 - 2/17/19
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Robert HOLLINGSHEAD ('60-RIP) ~ 2/11/42 - 4/6/91
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John DAY ('60-RIP) ~ 11/19/42 - 1/20/17
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Larry DIZMANG ('60-RIP) ~ 8/27/42 - 5/31/08
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Roger KOFORD ('60-RIP) ~ 1/10/41 - 12/21/01
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Gene JOHNSTON ('60c-RIP) ~ 11/13/42 - 3/25/17
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Merrill OATHES ('60-RIP) ~ 9/1/42 - 9/4/76
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Sharon OTEY Hoff ('60-RIP) ~ 6//24/42 - 12/15/91
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Gary LYSHER ('60-RIP) ~ 10/14/42 - 12/4/86
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Dennis POOR ('60-RIP) ~ 1/17/41 - 9/5/98
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Chris ROMANELLI ('60-RIP) ~ 4/8/42 - 1/2/78
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Jack RUSSELL ('60-RIP) ~ 1/10/42 - 7/21/98
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Dale MOORE ('60-RIP) ~ 2/2/41 - 1/26/58
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Shari THOMPSON Soderquist ('79-RIP) ~ 7/22/61 - 3/25/21
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Johnny McCABE ('60-RIP) ~ 11/24/42 - 8/22/88
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Katie RIGGINS Richardson ('60-RIP) ~ 10/3/42 - 8/19/18
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Dennis ROWE ('60-RIP) ~ 10/4/41 - 7/31/62
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George SHEARD ('60-RIP) ~ 7/13/42 -7/25/89
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Lynda NORTHOVER Allen ('60-RIP) ~ 9/12/42 - 6/6/81
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Sandie ROMERI Rutherford ('60-RIP) ~ 3/18/42 - 12/6/02
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Rusta STEPHENS Watt ('60-RIP) ~ 12/5/41 - 2/15/15
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Bob VOLKMAN ('60-RIP) ~ 3/17/42 - 12/18/84
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Melva MOORE Ritzler ('60_RIP) ~ 10/22/42 - 2/21/03
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Denny McDANIEL ('60-RIP) ~ 11/7/42 - 1/22/17
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Derrith PERSONS Dean ('60-RIP) ~ 9/15/41 - 7/22/15
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Dennis JENSEN ('60-RIP) ~ 11/11/42 - 10/19/11
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MLou WILLIAMS ('60-RIP) ~ 11/25/42 - 5/30/18
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Chuck WILEY ('60-RIP) ~ 4/28/42 - 2/13/17
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Jim WEAVER ('60-RIP) ~ 9/19/41 - 11/2/89
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Richard WILSON ('60-RIP) ~ 9/18/41 - 9/8/08
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Dale GRAY ('60-RIP) ~ 11/25/40 - 3/30/77
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Ute RICHTER ('60-RIP) ~ 2/24/41 - 9/24/03
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Linda WALSH Burkhead ('60-RIP) ~ 1/21/42 - 3/20/19
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Mark WEEDEN ('56-RIP) ~ 2/19/37 - 4/18/21
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Mike BRADLEY ('56-RIP) ~ 4/23/38 - 4/19/21
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Chris OTTERBEIN ('75-RIP) ~ 5/23/57 - 4/13/21
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John ADKINS ('62-RIP) ~ 3/2/44 - 4/4/21
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Denise PIETZ Myers ('76-RIP) ~ 7/7/58 - 4/21/13
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Todd MOORE ('79-RIP) ~ 12/31/60 - 3/11/21
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Nickie BROWN Blanford ('67-RIP) ~ 9/29/49 - 5/3/18
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Diana STEMEN Shields ('67-RIP) ~ 6/9/49 - 9/20/11
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