A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/15/22
RED SHIRT FRIDAY - till ALL our troops come home. SF!!!
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Betti AVANT ('69)
Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
SENT: 7/11/22
We are headed back to Washington from our home in North Carolina to attend
a Changes Parent Support picnic in Everett and the club 40 doings and the
class of 1956 reunion in good old Richland. We will be visiting with
friends and relatives (Terry SHEGRUD (54)(55)(56) and Em DEVINE (52) among
others). I definitely intend to partake of my share of Spudnuts while
there (these folks in NC never heard of Spudnuts). Sadly it is almost
impossible to find root beer back here either!?!? We will be visiting with
son in Warden and one in Spokane and oldest daughter in Orem, Utah on the
way home in September.
We have had a month of thunder storms along with rain and humidity! I'm
already harvesting tomatoes, watermelons, and cucumbers. Corn is about
2 weeks away!
Thanks a million publication of this marvelous news center!!
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
SENT: 7/10/22
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Adding to your memory of Jeanie HUTCHINS ('62-RIP), I recall her part in
the Senior Trio, but also a bit of early talent plus a moment of
neighborhood heroism back in ye olde Lewis and Clark Elementary School
daze.
In the Fourth Grade, around Easter time, Jeanie was invited in music class
to solo "The Red Robes of Calvary." Memorable, still, though a performance
which today would be persecuted. (Likewise, the Christmas scenes I was
encouraged each year to paint for the class bulletin boards.) And, about
persecution, I surely trembled whenever it was my turn to solo "America."
I was a trainwreck especially on such days; I didn't even know all of the
words. A bit of humming in there, which didn't rank high except on the
laughter scale.
Jeanie and I were also in the same Fifth Grade Class (1954-5) under the
tutelage of Mrs. Brinkman. The classroom imbalance was insufferable, with
something like nine boys and eighteen girls, as I recall. The neighborhood
excitement came one of those years on one lazy spring day after class...
Walking home after school and a few steps short of her house on Benham,
Jeanie noticed a small underground sound at the northeast corner of Benham
and Delafield--and then dialed the police. (Until 1956 I lived a short
block west on the corner of Benham and Douglass). Some of us recall those
buried vertical standpipes, concrete and less than a foot in diameter,
lipped and lidded at the surface, with a removable circular wooden cap. It
seems a very small neighbor boy had lifted the lid and then slid feet
first into the pipe, until his knee wedged up and stopped his slide. But
even his head was below ground level. The Fire Department arrived and dug
up and broke apart the pipe, rescuing the little lad from underground, and
unhurt.
At our 50th class reunion in 2012 I recalled this event to Jeanie. Her
face lit up, and for a moment the earlier stages of memory loss left her,
and she...remembered! It was a good little chat of things not forgotten,
with a neighbor classmate from yesteryear.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, at my supposedly advancing age I
still seem to remember lotsa stuff. But, some of which, I'm told,
never happened...
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
SENT: 7/10/22
I say AMEN to Pete BEAULIEU's ('62) post about changing mascots. This is
just another example of the woke culture that is being jammed down our
throats.
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Sent: 7/11/22
Re: Aging
This or similar has been around before; however these all-too-spot-on
observations bear repeating.
Some good ones!!
"To get back to my youth I would do anything in
the world, except exercise, get up early, or be
respectable." - Oscar Wilde
"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth
waiting in line for." -Will Rogers
"We must recognise that, as we grow older, we
become like old cars ? more and more repairs and
replacements are necessary." -C.S. Lewis
"Old age comes at a bad time." ?San Banducci
"Inside every older person is a younger person
wondering what happened." -Jennifer Yane
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do
about it." -Golda Meir
"I'm so old that my blood type is discontinued."
-Bill Dane
"The older I get, the more clearly I remember
things that never happened." -Mark Twain
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself."
-Tom Wilson
"Always be nice to your children because they are
the ones who will choose your retirement home."
-Phyllis Diller
"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to
have face-lifts until my ears meet." -Rita Rudner
"I'm at that age where my back goes out more than
I do." -Phyllis Diller
"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be
anywhere." ?George Burns
"First you forget names, then you forget faces,
then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you
forget to pull your zipper down." -Leo Rosenberg
"Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need
all the preservatives they can get." ?Robert Orben
"I have successfully completed the thirty-year
transition from wanting to stay up late to just
wanting to go to bed." ?Unknown
"As you get older three things happen. The first
is your memory goes, and I can't remember the
other two." -Sir Norman Wisdom
"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long
life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting
old doesn't appeal to anyone." -Andy Rooney
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the
bible a lot more as they get older, and then it
dawned on me?they're cramming for their final
exam." -George Carlin
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until
noon. Then it's time for my nap." -Bob Hope
"I'm 59 and people call me middle-aged. How many
118-year-old men do you know?" -Barry Cryer
"All men are the same age." -Dorothy Parker
"By the time you're 80 years old you've learned
everything. You only must remember it." -George Burns
"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the
alternative." ?Maurice Chevalier
"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-
minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the
truth." -Conan O'Brien
"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me
to wear socks, I don't have to." -Albert Einstein
"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old, it's the
knowledge that he's married to a grandmother that
does." -J. Norman Collie
"You know you are getting old when everything
hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work." -Hy Gardner
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how
young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting
old." -Mark Twain
"You know you are getting old when everything
either dries up or leaks." -Joel Plaskett
"I've never known a person who lives to be 110 who
is re mark able for anything else." ?Josh Billings
"Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of
Sports Illustrated because there are fewer
articles to read." ?George Burns
"The idea is to die young as late as possible."
-Ashley Montagu
"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie
your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do
while you're down there." -George Burns
"People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting
for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a
paternity suit." - George Burns
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy
beautician." -Anonymous
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
SENT: 6/30/22
[REPUBLISH -- with link for their 56 year reunion added - OOPS -Maren]
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
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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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
SENT: 7/10/22
Re: School Names
All these discussions regarding school mascots got me thinking. It seems
it was the state legislature who enacted it being against such things. The
schools involved had to go to their local Indian nations and get their
permission to continue using the mascot names. BTW?Chief Joseph still goes
by that - just not the Warriors any longer. But yet Walla Walla is still the
Blue Devils and the Bombers are still just that.
I'll jump off my horse for now.
I hope everyone is having a good summer thus far.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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BOMBER MEMORIAL JPEGs by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
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Rich FLORA ('63-RIP) ~ 12/30/44 - 5/29/22
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