Alumni Sandstorm - AGAIN ~ 11/18/21
So Happy It's Thursday
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Connie MADRON ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
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FROM THE EDITOR
My new chair arrived. I'm still tickled cuz Jim MEFFORD ('54)
sent some extra funds with his subscription $$$ and said the
tra was for "sea belts for my new chair".
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/211113_MyNewChair.jpg
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: 11/11 Sandstorm Entry
I remember when this date was known as Armistice Day,
commemorating the end of the "War to End All Wars" at the 11th
hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Guess when all the
veterans of that one had passed on our wunnerful congers
decided to change the name to Veteran's Day. Surprised they
didn't make it a "Monday Holiday" to boot.
It is also a memorable date for Bev Coates ('52), Jack
SINDERSON ('53) and Bob JOHNSON ('54). Let's wish them all a
"Happy Birthday!"
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
Re: 11/10 Sandstorm Entry
So glad to have the Sandstorm back again just in time for
breakfast each morning. Thanks Maren. Stay healthy.
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ Nipomo, CA
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: 11/10 Sandstorm entry
I THOUGHT I had saved the address to send Carol and Gene Horne
(57) a card at their daughter's; but I can't find it. I am
hoping you will put it in the Sandstorm again.
In the 11/5/21 SS - from Annie PARKER Hoyle ('57)
Send cards to them
c/o Tracey Scadden
5263 South 3750 West
Roy, Utah 84067.
I FIRST MET Carol as my friend, Susie BISHOP ('62-RIP) 's big
sister, when their mom had our Bluebird group, a lot of years
ago.
And I'd like to send them a card.
Helen CROSS Kirk, a non-tech person is SE Indiana!! Thanks for
any help.
Re: 11/11 Sandstorm entry
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
I guess the play you were working on got lost in this [china
virus] drama and sadness Of the past almost 20 months.
The movie sounds interesting; we visited the remains of a WW11
PoW camp on the Canadian side of Lake Superior. They were well
treated by the local community too, and they were involved in
the local economy too. I forget what percent of them decided
to remain in Canada at the end of the war. Hope to see the
movie.
Don't know how long you'll be there in Iowa; in my brief
drives through there, I've found it can be very hot in the
summer and very cold in the winter.
Hope to make it to Richland for my class's 60th Reunion next
fall.
Welcome back, Maren, and take all the time you need to get up
to a comfortable speed.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in SE Indiana where we are expecting
a few snowflakes over the weekend.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Charles A. NEVINS ('65c-RIP)
Charlie Nevins and I met over my back fence as four-
year-olds and grew up together there in the backyards of our
Jason Lee neighborhood along Van Giesen and Perkins, and we've
been friends, close friends, all our lives. I'm not
comfortable yet saying "were friends," but that's why I'm
writing.
We're all losing more and more friends these days, and
of course each of those friends is special to us. What made
Charlie special to me and to our little gang of neighborhood
boys was the cheerful, passive charm he had about him. He
never asked to come along, but we never went anywhere without
first looking around to see if Charlie wanted to come. We were
drawn to him like that. There are children, I've since
learned, who are just like that--who through no deliberate
effort of their own, or even being aware of it, somehow become
everybody's favorite. The chosen one.
"Can Charlie come out and play?"
Remember how we used to say that?
I said that--we all said that--to Charlie's mom a
thousand times, growing up. He never came to our doors, we
always went to his. He had that gift.
"Can Charlie come out and play?"
Charlie Nevins. Never Charles. But sometimes Charles-A,
if his mom was calling him.
The A was for Audie, after the war hero/actor Audie
Murphy. But no hostile child's hand ever touched the brow of
our Charlie.
Years and years later, when be wrote me two letters from
Vietnam, from his bunk on a Navy Swift Boat, he signed them
"Charles-A".
But at our 35th reunion he was "Charlie" to everybody
again.
I got hold of him over in Beaverton a couple years ago,
and I'm glad I did.
Safe journey to you, old friend. We chose you and you
didn't disappoint. Not Ever.
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: 10/31 Sandstorm entry
This was a great week for my husband and I - we got our
Moderna vaccine booster shots. And since our daughter has
asthma, she's able to get her vaccine booster as well. Another
success!
Re: 11/10 Sandstorm entry
Yes! It was a great week for our family. I only wish my 44
year old son and his wife were able to get the booster but
they don't have any underlying health issues. I know of
quite a few Bomber alumni who have had the vaccine and
booster as well.
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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