A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/10/22
	Sunday. Whatever makes you happy, DO THAT!
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7 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Darvis BERGAM (57)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Donna NELSON ('63)
Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Shirley COLLINGS ('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: 7/7/22

Well, as someone said, "The third times the charm". Not really too sure if
this will even work, but here I am back on the laptop trying to send a
"Happy Birthday!" to fellow classmate Betty RUSSELL ('54). Sure hope it
works.

 -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Darvis BERGAM Bobo ('57)

SENT: 7/4/22

Re: Class of '57 - 65 year Reunion - This could be our last

Is anyone wanting to get together one more time? Several of us are
planning on attending Club 40 in the hope that many from '57 will be
there. I know of 7, for sure, who want to be there. Lots more would be
even better! We are no "spring chickens" any more! Let's do this -- even
if we have to take our own class picture!

-Darvis BERGAM Bobo ('57)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

SENT: 6/30/22

I was sad to learn of Jeaniea HUTCHINS (a fellow '82 class member and
friend from growing up at CUP Church as well) death in the Sandstorm
today. I enjoyed reading "sexy Rexy's" (Rex Hunt '53) remembrance of Greek
literature those many years ago in good ole' Richland High school!

Amazing how quickly time is fleeing by; Christmas is now closer than 6
months away.

We need to start gearing up for all our little grandkids, and great
grandkids if we are so blessed. I consider myself fortunate to have come
to the grandparent late (in my 60s).

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Busy with the Indiana grandkids now, going
	swimming when their community pool opens up in an hour.  
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

SENT: 6/30/22

To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

About team mascots, you express bewilderment that "naming something after
and Indian is an insult, and naming it after an Atomic Bomb is honoring
it."

Take, for example, the NFL (former) "Washington Redskins." Team owner Dan
Snyder stated that the name was chosen in 1933 to honor [!] Native
Americans in general and the coach [!] and four players [!] at that time
who were Native American. And, that in 1971 the then coach George Allen
consulted with [!] the Red Cloud Athletic Fund on the Pine Ridge
reservation when designing the logo.

Why such a practice is now cancelled is best explained by the chorus of
nanny associations now opposed. These are the sycophant American
Psychological Association (2005), then the American Sociological
Association, the American Counseling Association, the American
Anthropological Association, and the National Educational Association. We
get the picture. The real agenda of these flatulent ass-ociations is to
give asses like themselves trendy visibility.

So, closer to home, leave Chief Joseph Junior High School (now Middle
School) alone. That "chief" was one of the most eloquent and principled
leaders and finest generals of the nineteenth century. It was said that he
could have cut a fine figure in any of the highest aristocratic circles in
Europe.

This from Chief Joseph, his surrender speech at the Bear Paw Mountains
battleground in Montana on Oct. 5, 1877:

   "Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he
   told me before I have in my heart. I am tired of
   fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is
   dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all
   dead. It is the young men who say 'yes' or 'no.'
   He who led the young men [Olikut] is dead. It is
   cold and we have no blankets. The little children
   are freezing to death. My people, some of them,
   have run away to the hills, and have no blankets,
   no food. No one knows where they are; perhaps
   freezing to death. I want to have time to look for
   my children, and see how many of them I can find.
   Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me,
   my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad.
   From where the sun now stands, I will fight no
   more forever."

Why not remember and even honor, just a little, the losers to Manifest
Destiny? I don't regret in the ninth grade (1958-9) painting Chief Joseph
with feathered headdress, high cheekbones and dark complexion, on the
school band's bass drum used in Warrior [!] athletic events.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ call me a "racist;" but to hell with the cancel 
	culture.
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)

SENT: 6/30/22

Nice surprise to see the Sandstorm this am Thank You, Maren. What do
you do now instead of publishing? 

	[READ! -Maren]

I got the most wonderful gift from my 3 sons on Mother's Day. They gave me
lawn service for the summer so I don't have to mow... well until next year
but maybe they'll do it again. It was part of my cardio routine if I
didn't go to the gym but was dreading it. So when my Maui son came home to
snowboard on Mission we were walking around the yard and he was telling me
"you should take out these bushes, put edging between garden and lawn,
etc. and I said what I really want is someone to mow so I can do those
things. I had already found someone but they're paying. Ahhhhhhh

-Donna NELSON ('63)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

SENT: 7/7/22

I just got home to Richland from a trip to Jamestown, ND for my grandson
Cameron Jenkins' ('16) wedding to a lovely North Dakota girl, Martha
Sheaffer. They both graduated last year from the University of Jamestown.

Cameron is still working on his Masters degree, playing baseball, and
working part time at a local store. Martha is working at a local bank.
They have purchased their first house in Jamestown so I plan on making
many trips to that part of the country.

One of Cameron's other grandmothers (he has three) and I drove out to
Jamestown for the wedding. We took our time driving back and enjoyed the
sites along the way. We had Cameron's cousin, McKenna, with us and she had
never been back to that part of the country. 

It was a wonderful time catching up with so many friends and family from
far and wide.

-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ back in Richland
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

SENT: 6/30/22

Re: '66 in '22 Class Reunion

The 56 Year Class Reunion for the Class of 1966 will happen the weekend of
August 26-27, 2022. Our 55-Year Class Reunion was postponed one year due
to China Virus.

Our Reunion will take place at the Holiday Inn Richland on the River
(previously the Red Lion/Hanford House/Desert Inn). The link to our
Reunion page is 
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/66in22.html

The reunion packet was sent by email to all 1966 classmates with email
addresses on May 13, 2022.

Dick STEPHENS ('66) has been calling all of our classmates to make sure
that the reunion packet was received. He is finding from his phone calls
that several classmates have changed email addresses or home addresses and
did not receive the reunion packet. He is also finding that some
classmates who did receive the email are not able to open the registration
form, fill it out and return it per the instructions. Dick has asked me to
"snail mail" a reunion packet to those classmates.

Approximately 80 classmates who did not have email addresses were "snail
mailed" the reunion packet.

If you graduated in 1966 and have not yet been contacted either by email,
snail mail or by Dick please let me know right away.

-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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BOMBER MEMORIAL JPEGs by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
 
Rich FLORA ('63-RIP) ~ 12/30/44 - 4/29/22
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Jeanie HUTCHINS Simon ('62-RIP) ~ 9/5/43 - 4/25/22
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Peg KESTELL Hume ('67-RIP) ~ 12/20/48 - 6/26/22
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