Alumni Sandstorm - AGAIN ~ 12/24/21 ~ XMAS EVE
RED SHIRT FRIDAY - till ALL our troops come home. SF!!!
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Dale ENNOR ('59)
Connie MADRON ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Bruce STRAND ('69
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
I'm so glad to know you are doing better, Maren!
Time to send all in "Bomber Land" wishes for each of you to
have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR and a STAY SAFE in
this darn pandemic and "slick streets/highways" winter weather!
Loving regards to each and all!
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) and Terry SHEGRUD (classes of '53,
'54, '55, and '56). Which is ridiculous if you ask me.
Says he should have graduated in '56 but quit school
and joined the Air Force so he could qualify for the
G.I.Bill. It worked! Spent his military time in England,
lucky guy!
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: How Does Santa Do It?
(This sounds like something the Beauleau "boys" would have
worked our one rainy day the U-dub.)
There are two billion children in the world, but since Santa
doesn't service the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist
children, that reduces the workload to fifteen percent of the
total. At an average census rate of 3.5 children per household,
that's 91.8 million homes. Santa has thirty-one hours of
Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and
the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west.
This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that
for each Christian household with good children, Santa has
1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down
the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining
presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left,
get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on
to the next house. This means that Santa's sleigh must be
moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element.
Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized
lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not
counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. Even
granting that "flying reindeer" could pull ten times their
normal amount, Santa would need 214,000 reindeer. This
increases the payload to 353,430 tons. 353,000 tons traveling
at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This
will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts
re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer
will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic
booms in their wake. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to
centrifugal forces 15,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-
pound Santa would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by
4,314,015 pounds of force.
Notwithstanding these difficulties, Santa delivers all his
gaily wrapped presents every year making children happy.
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
Re: Old Bomber Friends Meet Again
I wrote into the Sandstorm a month or two ago, and lo and
behold I got an email from Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60). Turns out we
live about 10 minutes from each other. Due to rain and holiday
plans, we hope to get together in January. What a fun lunch
that will be! To be continued in 2022... Happy Holidays
everyone.
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ Nipomo, CA
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I was so happy to see the 12/21 issue of the Sandstorm. So many
touching articles, especially Rex HUNT's ('53) about being able
to participate in his Masonic Lodge and have them accept his
program so well.
Also, Linda REINING's ('64) article about the Rudolph the Red
Nose Reindeer brought tears to my eyes. I had heard it before,
but it is a true Christmas feel good story.
Re: 1957 Spalding Evacuation
And Don' Sorenson's (NAB) photos of the '57 evacuation of
Spalding (I keep spelling it without a "u" and autocheck puts
it in. [I took the U out for ya Helen!! -Maren] I have fond
memories of Spalding and looked for someone I knew, when I
realized I was in Jr. High by then. But I was looking for me or
Barry STEVENS or Ricky HILL ('62), or Carlton Cadwell('62).
Memories of long ago. Which reminds me, no, I haven't heard of
Pearl DROTTS ('64) in a long time.
I missed the Sandstorm that said Maren needs 5 articles to
publish, or I'd have written in something. Glad you are feeling
better, Maren.
[I think I said that in the 12/12 issue... I
wanted an entry from 5 BOMBErS. AKA sends a happy
bithday to somebody at least every other day. -Maren]
Maybe your big brother, Tim ('62) will even write in.
Merry Christmas to all in Bomberland.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ by the little lake in SE Indiana
where we will see almost 50° on Christmas Day, no white
Christmas for us this year.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: 1957 Spalding Evacuation
Thanks Don Sorenson (NAB) for the pics of the Spalding
Evacuation of 1957. I remember that event and I think that I
am in one of the photos. The pic with kids lined up for the bus
and the second from the left resembles me (I was tall for my
age; Mona STACK ('69) was the tallest in our class). The
teacher shepherding the kids onto the bus looks like Mrs.
Saunders, my first grade teacher.
I don't recall if it was part of this evacuation event or
separately but when I was in 1st grade at Spalding we did take
a bus trip up Rattlesnake Mt. We got to view the Nike missile
site and missiles that were located on Rattlesnake at the time.
Why take a bunch of kids to a secure missile base, I don't know
but we thought it was awesome.
[I remember doing that as well. -Maren]
Cool...
-Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ Enjoying NO SNOW Tempe, AZ
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