A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/03/22
	So Happy It's Tuesday
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Marc LEACH ('63)
Phyllis CUNNINGHAM ('64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
	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: 5/2/22

In case you were wondering why I missed birthday greetings for the last
two weeks of April; well Karyl (NAB) and I went to Scotland. Yes, I know
that the internet is every where, but when you have a laptop that would
connect to a WiFi network, it wouldn't connect with the good old interweb.

So, "Happy Birthdays!" to the following:

Ellen WEIHERMILLER ('63) on 4/18

Pat "Rex" WOOD ('54) on 4/24

Lou Ann BINNS ('52) on 4/26

Dick WIGHT ('54) and Betty WHITTEN ('54) on 4/28

And to get caught up:

Jack NICHOLS and Joan PHILLIPS on 5/2

	[And MME!!!! on 4/19... -Maren]

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ back at Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)

SENT: 4/24/22

Re: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) and the Undated Brochure

"When construction of the plant facilities were completed in 1945, both
the camp (the 51,000 workers at the Hanford construction site) and the
town were abandoned as living areas" (undated brochure, no publisher or
date identified, c. 1967).

We moved from Vancouver, WA to Richland in March 1949 when I was 7 years
old. One of my Vancouver friends was living in the construction (?)
trailers, and we visited her and her family there. They lived in a huge
trailer camp north of Richland. Maybe her father Fred Hardesty was not
there for construction, but a lot of trailers were still there in 1949 or
later.

-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

SENT: 4/24/22

Re: History and ye olde memories

To: Don Sorenson (NAB)

Thanks for the linked floor plan and organization chart for the Hanford
Hospital. The first I've ever seen of these. Very informative and to be
highly valued. In answer to your question, Dad spent most and maybe all of
his time in the 200 East and West Areas, Redox and Purex (1944-1972). His
degrees were in mathematics and chemistry. Adding to my earlier comment,
in addition to the F Reactor which was fired up in February 1945, the two
earlier reactors were B in Sept. 1944 and D in Dec. 1944. All the others
(H, DR, C, KW, KE, N) came between Oct. 1949 and Dec. 1963.

To: Nancy HARVILLE ('71)

Your note recalls to me that your home on Harris Ave. was on the next lot
next north of the DAWSON home (Stephanie '60, Jeff '62, Gaynor '65). Their
expansive driveway served as the very well-used neighborhood basketball
court, and the bouncing did reverberate into the evenings. A complainer
from down the street aired her grievances to "Dear Abby." The detailed
letter was unmistakable. The dribblers were delighted by Abby's surprising
answer-she advised the writer to take a hike, and be glad the local teens
were shooting hoops instead of slashing her tires.

I do recall, too, one mid-afternoon when Dr. Harville's little ones (Dan
and Nancy!) ambled over to check out the next-door basketball scene with
the big kids. Years later, Mrs. Dawson couldn't figure out how after
several years her row of boxwood trees bordering the driveway suddenly
started to grow, after we all took off for college. The trampling and
pruning of former years was a thing of the past.

To: Kathy RATHVON ('63)

With others, I'm sorry to hear of your eye problem, with luck only
temporary.

You and your mother bring back a happy memory, or six. It seems your
professional mother agreed to teach a dance class for some of the north-
enders. (Our mothers had conspired.) She taught a series of six evening
classes (last Friday of each month, from October through March) in a
sequence of six north-end homes. The likely and unsuspecting guys were:
Rick SMOLEN, Doug BURNS, Jeff DAWSON, Henry PARKER, and Pete and John
BEAULIEU (all '62).

More pleasing were the selected debutants (!) from the neighborhood and
around town: Linda BROMLEY, Anne KORNBERG, Dianne DAVENPORT, Nora LIH (all
'62) and, robbing the cradle for the other two, Dianne KORNBERG ('63), and
one Kathy RATHVON ('63, with those exquisite blue eyes!). Especially
enthralled with the instructor's petite daughter, as you might or might
not have noticed, was the contrasting and generously proportioned football
tackle Rich SMOLEN).

In all those dance steps, the rumor that yours truly might well have been
replaced with a broomstick is very diminishing, but possibly true. We were
most fortunate to receive your mother's lessons, she who later went on
deservingly to run the prestigious talent institute in Seattle now known
as the Cornish College of the Arts.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA still with wistful memories of the 
	whole neighborhood in those good ol' daze. 
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)

To: Kathy RATHVON ('63)

Hello Kathy:

When I was 13 an accident with a bb gun caused a cataract to form in my
right eye. After a couple of years the cataract self absorbed as often
happens with young people leaving me lensless. At that ancient time lens
implants were not being done. A laser surgery cleared the debris and until
I was 45 I wore a contact lens on the eye that restored 20/20 vision and
gave me perfect depth perception.

Then things changed, left over debris in my eye plugged up the works
causing glaucoma that had to be surgically dealt with. The result was that
I could no longer wear a contact, and I had a lens implanted and sutured
in place. Unfortunately while doing this the iris was damaged, messing up
my good vision with a non functional torn iris. I still get a pretty good
correction with glasses but no more 20/20. 

Only my experience, but a second or third opinion is never a bad idea. You
might find a contact would serve and not entail the risks of more surgery. 

Maren, i don't think a corneal transplant involves a lens but I ain't no
doctor. 

	[I'm no doctor either. It's my understanding that the 
	cornea is the eye's outermost lens. Google it. -Maren]

-Marc LEACH ('63)
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>>From: Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)

SENT: 4/27/22

Re: Class of 1964's 75th birthday party

The Richland Bombers do not give up! No sirree!! If at first you don't
succeed try, try again. Therefore, our 75th birthday party has been
rescheduled to September 10th, 2022.

Our birthday party will be held at The Hampton Inn in Richland next to
Howard Amon Park with beautiful views of the mighty Columbia and the
beautiful park right outside your door. We will celebrate 75, 76,
77... whatever age you will be in September.

As you recall, we cancelled our party in early September 2021. China virus
numbers were high and many classmates felt uncomfortable and decided not
to attend. The deposit on our food order was nonrefundable but we were
told that, if we rescheduled the event in 2022, we would not forfeit our
money. We hope you will all come celebrate with us this year!

Our party M.C. is the wonderful Mr. Jim Weaver! He promised to bring his
joyful personality to delight us all. We are looking forward to spending
time with old (no pun intended) friends and making new memories.

As an added incentive, the Class of 1962 is holding their 60 year reunion
that weekend and the Class of 1963 is holding their 75th birthday party
also, so lots of old friends and classmates will be in town to provide
plenty of reasons to celebrate.

Mark the date on your calendar: September 10th, 2022

-Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)

SENT: 4/27/22

Re: Families and babies

To: Joe FORD ('63)

A number of White Bluffs/Hanford families were allowed to stay during
construction. Annette Buchholz Heriford and her family lived in between
White Bluffs and Hanford during construction, the Bennett family was
another. Each had mentioned families who were allowed to stay thru a good
portion of '44 and your correct, by Feb '45 all families were long gone. I
sincerely believe all families were told to leave well before F start-up
which leaves Dr. Gerber's statement incorrect.

Hospital services were terminated February 15, 1945 and there were 299
births from Nov 17, 1943 to Jan 30, 1945. DuPont kept a small cadre of
construction men at Hanford Camp, a minor 1st aid station in the old
ration office to provide services to them which closed on March 24, 1945.
At that point I would assume all construction forces were removed and the
camp was completely empty. There were shops in White Bluffs still in
operation that stayed busy with sundry tasks related to operational
support. In fact one of the Nordman daughters worked there sometime in the
'50s I believe in the calibration department.

The number of construction personnel has been reported as 51,000, that was
a duPont decision, for some reason, to report that number. I would surmise
the 51,000 number included the wives and children of said workers. In a
June '44 report the total persons on the roll was 44,900 with an estimated
peak force necessary by Aug 1st of 46,500. They didn't quite make that
number by August, the peak work force was 45,096 on June 21, 1944. Total
persons on roll was 42,414 at the end of July those numbers would continue
to drop over the next several months.

Lastly according to duPont records you were baby 298.

-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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