A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/15/22
Sunday. Whatever makes you happy, DO THAT!
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Carol CARSON ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Donna NELSON ('63)
Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Linda REINING ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
SENT: 4/14/22
Dunno if it is good or bad to be born on the Ides of April (gotcher taxes
done?). Well, Lanny WILSON ('54) was, so I'll wish him a "Happy Birthday!"
Sorry to hear about all the snow in the Tri-Cities; guess you don't live
in the "Banana Belt" any more
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where it has been
cold and wet, but no snow.
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
SENT: 4/14/22
I do miss...
My daily Sandstorm! Hope for someday it will be back.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
SENT: 4/14/22
Re: Maarch, 2022 entry
I had tried to submit an article last month, but since it didn't make it
in this last addition, I wonder where it ended up?
[There's an entry from you in the 3/5/22 Sandstorm. -Maren]
Re: Spring
Out here in SE Indiana we are having such a cold spring, with some severe,
and often brisk winds, and temperatures at night around freezing. But the
trees are blooming, and spring is showing up regardless.
I even did get to work outside in my garden one late afternoon this week,
when the rain stopped and the sun came out, and there was no wind.
Re: Maren's move
Yes, Maren, if you are moving to a mobile home in your area, I pray you
are close to a safe shelter, as your area seems to be close to these
dangerous storms we hear about in the news.
Re: Dr. Harville
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/220409-atomic.doc.jpg
I enjoyed reading the article about Dr. Harville and the early days of
being an OB-Gyn in Richland, when he delivered the first set of twins born
there, John and Pete BEAULIEU ('62). I always wonder at Pete's remarkable
memory and ability to arrange statistics in such an interesting way.
Re: Rihland Playeers
Sorry, I missed the Richland Player's latest production. Wish you would
put one on to run near September 10 and 11 when I will be attending the
60 year class Reunion for the class of '62.
Re: 60 years later
I am excited about seeing former classmates and being in Washington State
again, as I haven't been there for 3 years due to the pandemic and
babysitting duties for Marlee and Mason, my youngest son's two, who will
be 4 and 5 then. So Marlee will start kindergarten. Even though, I've been
blessed to see them every few days, I still can't believe she is 5 years
old.
Life continues to rush on, and we are blessed to be a part of it. Easter
Greetings All.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ In SE Indiana - in the house by the little lake
waiting for our one (thankfully) set of Canadian Geese goslings to
arrive and (thankfully again) leave as soon as they can fly.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Mark LEACH ('63)
Re: Dr. Harville, and more
I appreciate the linked 1948 article about Dr. Harville which reads in
part: "He delivered the first pair of twins on the project to Mr. and Mrs.
O.F. Beaulieu at the Hanford Hospital. The blond, blue-eyed boys elebrated
their third birthday last July where the Beaulieus now live."
Let me say this about that...
FIRST, the blond hair didn't last. Turned brown by kindergarten and then,
magically, in later years turned invisible. As for the eyes, they turned
green.
In a ninth-grade art class one assignment was to stare into a mirror and
produce a self-portrait. A vexing and perplexing ordeal! During which, I
inquired of my Dad: "Are my eyes green or blue?" To which he retorted,
"French green!" He could be most emphatic and this was one of those times.
My mother's eyes were blue. She was 100% German and he was 100% French.
And, they married on September 2, 1939, one day after the German
blitzkrieg rolled into Poland to trigger World War II. Not that such
doings had anything to do with our family chemistry, but I did get an
early clue about genealogy which in more recent years has become a global
preoccupation.
And SECOND, why born in Hanford? I think I've imposed this story before on
a Sandstorm captive audience...
After only three weeks in the area, and then upon arriving three weeks
prematurely at Kadlec Hospital in Richland, my parents were informed that
while the hospital was open, the maternity ward was not yet finished. A
race across the desert to Hanford ensued, in an ambulance and led by a
military jeep with siren whining. "We must have been doing sixty!" my
mother later wrote to her older sister in Illinois. The barricade guard
had been ordered to open the path because the jeep did not intend to slow
down.
A few minutes later at around 6:30 a.m., now in the hospital, the whining
came from brother John and me (July 22), without anesthetic and in the
middle of 105° without air conditioning. (My personal memory of these
dramatic events is a bit vague.) But with three little ones now in the
family, we suddenly moved up the pecking order from a dumpy motel in Pasco
into a "big" three-bedroom "H" house on Douglass St. (1250 sq. ft., one of
250 eventually built, and renting at $50/month; now priced at, what, $250k
in fiat paper? Shoulda stayed on the gold standard!).
The last Bomber born in Hanford Hospital (July 30) was Wayne MYERS ('62),
now a rose garden specialist in St. Augustine, Florida (American Rose
Society Master Rosarian & Life Member, etc.); and the first Bomber born in
Richland's Kadlec Hospital (August 2) was Ed QUIGLEY ('62-RIP).
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA Now, about the twin thingy; there are
two schools of thought. On the one hand, brother John in Portland
has long maintained that due Hanford exposure a mutation took place,
and that I'm actually his clone, but that he lets me think I'm a
twin because it makes me feel better. On the other hand, I am
convinced that "we" were set up to be a single idiot-savant, and
that when we split, I became the savant whilst John ended up with
the rest. We report, you decide.
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
SENT: 4/14/22
Re: Spring April 14, 2022 on my deck East Wenatchee
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Nel/220414_Wenatchee_Snow.jpg
-Donna NELSON ('63)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
SENT: 4/14/22
Today (4/14) I saw the surgeon that put in the implant device to control
my lower back pain. It's been 2 months since the surgery and he has
released me to start to resume the mobility that I have been denied while
I heal. I still have to watch how I move and can't over-extend my body,
but as long as I take it easy I can start to resume my daily activities.
Still no swimming pools or bathtubs; after the next month I can do
anything except scuba dive or sky dive. Neither one has never been on my
bucket list! The settings on the implant device have finally reached a
point that I am getting a lot of pain relief and that has only happened in
the last 2 days. I was getting very discouraged, but this means I will
continue with the program and the techs that call me each week will
continue to monitor my progress.
Hopefully my class will resume our monthly lunches - I have really missed
them.
Snowed here again this morning, but appears to be melting and starting to
rain now.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in cold, snowy Richland
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
SENT: 4/14/22
Re: Dr. Harville
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Lea/220409-atomic.doc.jpg
He was my "baby doctor" in 1971 when I was pregnant with my second
daughter.
Re: April Fools?
IF I didn't know any better, I'd think this last week was "April Fool's"
... ..we have had snow in Kuna, Idaho, for a couple days and more is
predicted. It doesn't "stick", but it's fun to watch it coming down. Love
it.
Re: Jury Duty
Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) mentioned being "on call" for jury duty... . have
never had that opportunity, but I did have to sit in a trial as a
witness... was an experience I NEVER want to repeat---being "cross-examined"
by a District Attorney is a nerve-wracking time! only thing worse, to me,
was going through my second divorce and listening to my ex-husband's
attorney ask personal questions and knowing that EVERYONE sitting in the
gallery, could hear every intimate detail of our lives for the past 20
years! It was my first experience being in a courtroom and I had NO idea
that all hearings were open to the public---definitely need to be "thick-
skinned" for that.
Re: Daily Sandstorm
I miss the daily Sandstorm and am hoping that it doesn't "die a fast or
slow death". Sadly, I think most that used to write in, use FaceBook as a
way of keeping in touch.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
SENT: 4/14/22
Re: Snow in April
Yes, we had real snow in April on Monday. Portland recorded its first ever
April snow in its RECORDED HISTORY.
Today I had to take a friend to WallaDitto. I drive her there every six
weeks to get injections in her eyes. She has macular degeneration. While
we were enjoying lunch at TMac's, there was a torrential SLEET storm
outside! It really pelted down. We were lucky to be inside at the time. It
fell for quite awhile. While she was in the doctor's office, I was able to
buy a couple chocolate Easter baskets for friends at Bright's chocolate
shop. I look forward to our trips to WW every 6 weeks, their downtown is
so much fun - good stores of all kinds, tons of wine tasting outlets, and
lots of shoppers on the street. I subcribe to the WallaDitto Symphony and
enjoy the WW Chamber Music Festival every June.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
SENT: 4/14/22
Re: Snow in April
Given that it's two weeks into April and snowing hard (for the fourth time
this month): I hereby officially christen this month as Apruary. Our
tulips are bent over with snow caps.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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