A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 06/30/22
	So Happy It's Thursday
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7 Bombers sent stuff: 
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
	Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)

SENT: 6/12/22

New email address: EmDe1934@frontier.com

I apparently got scammed. Dang! Got dozens (more than 60) of returned
emails "undeliverable due to policy". I'm guessing they contain porn or
maybe insurrection. I checked some of the addresses and I didn't know any
of them. Not sure how "they" got into my old email!!!

Other than my body and mind getting older, things are going pretty well
here. I still have my cough but doctors don't seem too concerned. In
November I had bronchitis but it cleared up with antibiotics. I hope you
are doing well (better) and that the Sandstorm will continue from time to
time. 

Bomber regards,
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ Richland
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

SENT: 6/4/22

Poetic Justice!

When I was junior in high school, I was taking a class with a Miss Blueth!
The subject was literature. At that time we were studying Greek Tragedies!

We each had to pick a person from one of the stories and give a report on
this person in hopes of having other students become interested enough to
read up on the character of your choosing.

	My subject happen to be Oedipus Rex!

            What I am about to tell you is the truth.
      If you don't believe me, ask Miss Blueth!
           I hope to expand your mind on this strange man!
      He was peculiar, I will explain if I can!
           Now Oedipus Rex---had  a strange complex!
      He even wound up in the Freud Index.
          On this subject I will expand.
      Was it by accident or was how he planed?
       Did this happen by Chance
     or was it really a planned happenstance?
       Of all the things you consider Good,
    The top of the list is Motherhood.
      Now as a king he was quite unfit!
    One thought you have to admit!
           He loved his mother!
    Now his sister was his daughter,
          His son, his brother!
   That's why you should never love your Mother!
         Now his feelings were terribly strong,
   Problem was, they were terribly wrong!    
        He up and killed his daddy all to get at Jocasta!
   A crime he committed, caused he thought he hasta.
       His remorse grew at what he had done:
   so he tore his eyeballs out one by one!
      I rather marry a Duck Billed Platypus
   Than wind up like poor old Oedipus!

Be sure now to stay tuned for future Grecian Love stories as taught in
downtown Hanford Ca, where can often be heard the nymph Echo saying
GOODBYE goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye!

-Sexy Rexy ('53wb) from from the afore-mentioned capital city of 
	Rust, Dust and girls with big bust! 

SENT: 6/19/22

I guess this is the demise of the Sandstorm. Its Obituary will read: died
"due to lack of interest"

It makes my heart weep to see such a gallant and Steller apparatus settle
to the bottom of the abyss of dismissal failures due not the fault of the
Sandstorm but to its subscribers and contributors. I am no better than the
rest of you losers! yes, we are losers. was it laziness? Ignorance? Most
likely it was due to that age old malady of "let the other fellow do it".

Makes me a shamed of my fellow Columbia-ites. that so little effort was
required to maintain and make our paper a lasting token of our self-esteem
and love for our Alma Mater, that we are found wanting! well; I hope you
enjoy sitting on your ass and saying it was the other fellow's fault!

-Rex Hunt (53wb) I am as default as the rest of you. But perhaps I feel it
a bit more. I have no petty excuse for not contributing more, other than a
lack of response or rebuttal.

I will be astonished if this is published as many of my afore mentions
contributions have been XXXX out for many and necessary reasons.. Mostly
because I think you all need your butts kicked. Have a NICE DAY! 

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

SENT: 6/27/22

This is a message that, if not sent, may result in great bodily harm. Let
me take this moment to wish Jeanette DUNCAN ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" I do
not wish to dwell on the consequences for not doing so. And, it is not her
current husband I fear.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Tom VERELLEN ('60)

SENT: 6/1122

As a "ute" (My Cousin Vinny) I had the dubious honor to be the family
lawnmower. A position held by goats I believe around the globe. Using the
U.S.of A. cast iron.12 inch wide, reel style, rusted government issued
lawn mowing apparatus I learned the basics skills of mowing the damn lawn.
A classic story of walking to school in six feet of snow uphill both ways.
However seeing a reel style mower at a big box store these days still
sends a chill down my back and produces a cold sweat just thinking about
it. Then motorized mower started appearing and one option was the rotary
style I'm thinking 14 or 16 inches width. The width of the mower blade is
directly related to the number of passes walking around in circles. So now
70 or so years later I find myself walking behind a much improved
lawnmower but it is still a lawnmower going back and forth around and
around week after week dodging the rain inhaling the exhaust filled air
mowing a fifty fifty grass moss area roughly about the same size as the
"H" house yard in south Richland. A blessing in disguise it would seem.
Now days I keep a lawn chair handy for frequent breaks.

SENT: 6//17/22

Digging a hole in the backyard the other day spurred some dusty corner of
the brain bucket. The inspiration to dig all the way to China, such a
subterranean aspiration made possible in the imagination. Only to be
destroyed in these later years more likely to dig into an ocean and miss
China entirely. And the project beyond the half way point will be digging
up. No imagination to cover that. 

disillusioned in near Lacey.

-Tom VERELLEN ('60) ~ A beautiful spring here in near Lacey, WA
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

SENT: 6/16/22

Having such a good time with my Nevada grandson out here.  I think I love
this dry climate and Mountains covered in sagebrush because it reminds me
of growing up in Richland.

 I am so looking forward to the class of '62 reunion this September. My
brother ('65) sold his house in Kennewick where I was planning to stay,
but thankfully I contacted Nada McCOY ('62) and will stay with her at the
old Hanford House.

	http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/220616-NV-grandkid.htm

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in Gardnerville, Nevada  
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

SENT: 6/4/22

To: Maren SMYTH ('64)

In my post for June 4, regarding the linked article on the restoration of
Notre Dame Cathedral, I did not have to log in. For the possible
convenience of others, I saved the article in my files and attach it here.

	http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/220629_ND_Restore.docx

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

SENT: 6/25/22

Re: Team Mascots . . . Again:

Last year Washington State legislator passed a law that a school cannot
use an Indian name for their mascot without getting the approval on the
nearby tribe. The Colville tribe leaders did not allow the Moses Lake High
School to continue as Chief Moses Lake High School and called the Chiefs.
Chief means leader, why would anyone object to that? Is it offensive to be
called a leader? A number of years ago we had a governor who re-named his
Chief-of-Staff because he thought it was offensive. I thought then that it
was not even a Native American (or indigenous person, or whatever term we
are using these days) word. I thought it came from the word "chieftain,"
the leader of a Scottish clan. I got online and did some research and
found the word is of French origin about the year 1300, that is 200 years
before Columbus. You can't blame the Vikings because around the year 1000
they tried to make a settlement in North America but before long it failed
and they left, and the word "chief" had not been coined yet. Why is it
that naming something after an Indian is an insult, and naming it after an
Atomic Bomb is honouring it?

When I graduated HS I thought I had the world pretty much figured out, but
nothing seems to make sense any more.

Re: A Deer and a Harp

Here is a cute video of a girl playing a harp, while a deer seems to take
a keen interest. As she titled it, "A deer turned my harp session into a
Disney movie"

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xd8xq06FCw

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Wonder what the USN and USCG going to change the
	CPO (Chief Petty Officer) to.
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