A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/31/22
Hump Day
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Marilynn WORKING ('54)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Steve CARSON ('58)
Fred AMES ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Kathy RATHVON ('63)
Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Sent: 8/26/22
I just wanted to leave something behind!
Rex Hunt: August 2020
I just wanted to leave something behind!
Doesn't have to be finished, nor even refined:
Nothing too polished or maybe something spoken
Just a remembrance, or a trinket or token!
An unusual note or sound, or a fleeting sight:
An you can say: Ah yes I remember that night!
A moment to give you just a pause:
A fleeting thought or perhaps a cause!
A memento, something for tomorrow.
Tis not to be, much to my sorrow
Not something you could feel, hear or see!
The thing left behind, was me!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ From downtown Hanford, CA The land of leisure,
a place to die of Boredom or perhaps a seizure! Where Last
Saturday they had the first showing of the 3D, Movie: of B'awana
Devil is that still playing at the Drive In in Richland?
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Sent: 8/21/22
Re: Recent marriage
Congratulations to our former US Secretary of Defense, Jim MATTIS ('68),
on his June marriage to Christina Lomasney, a Physicist at PNNL. A few
weeks after their wedding in Richland, they were married in Las Vegas by
Elvis! No doubt, honeymoon fun. Would like to get them to join Club 40!
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Wor/220829-Mattis_Marriage.jpg
Re: Club 40 celebration
Looking forward to seeing a few of our classmates since the close of our
meeting bc of china virus! Looks like we will only have a few from our
class. I will forward pictures. Wish the best to those who are not able to
attend. Traveling at our age is not easy, I know! Since our Board changed
the qualifications of membership to "all Alumni 21 of age and older" we
need to get you younguns signed up. On The Club 40 website you can print the
"Dues only" form. It's only $10 per year. Alumni spouse is free. Please
join!!
Re: Weather
This hot weather has been brutal! Haven't been able to go to Dust Devil
games. Can't take the heat over 100!! Starting to get down in the 90s now.
Bet a lot of you are feeling it!
Maren, hope this finds you well and able to keep up the great work of
bringing us this newsletter! Thanks, again! When do we send you the $$?
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Sent: 8/18/22
Here's a "Happy Birthday!" greeting to a pair of Bombers Lois WEYERTS
('56) and Kenny CHUBB ('53). Enjoy the day.
Sent: 8/26/22
A remembrance of things past; today would have been Judi PEARSON's ('54 R.I.P.) birthday.
The State Fair opened in Salem yesterday, and rain is in the forecast.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR near where the
State Fair (and monsoon season) begins on the 26th.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Sent: 8/16/22
To: Karl SOEHNLEIN ('68)
MY SYMPATHY ON YOU NO FRIED FOOD ORDERS. Can't say that I'm totally off
burgers and fried Chicken but I have started using grapes for snacks
(frozen in the summer) and go heavy on the salads... Anything is better
than trying to work through the pain. Stay well.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Fred AMES ('60)
Sent: 8/16/22
I do love getting the ASS newsletters, even though I really have very few
memories of my life in Richland. My family moved there, bit by bit, in
1947 – 1948, and we all left in 1956 when I had just completed the 7th
grade. We moved to Cincinnati, where I finished up the 8th – 11th grades,
then to the Boston area where I managed to graduate. I remember a few
friends from Richland, but only two by name – Lee BOND ('60-RIP), who I
was good friends with for a few years, and Kent SINKEY ('59-RIP), who
lived down the street from us on Cottonwood Drive. We lost touch in the
'50s and they are both gone, now.
Most of my memories are of a few small incidents, but after all these
years I don't have any names to attach to other folks in them. I remember
I once had three arrowheads – reddish, black, and sort of white – that I
dug up outside of town. I had a friend (I thought) a few streets over and
I showed them to him, then discovered that they had gone walk-a-bye. I
also remember that my father had an old muzzle-loader, and one of his
hobbies (collecting stamps and being an a-hole to his family were the
others) was to melt down lead into bullets for it, then hunting rabbits
across the highway. He kept the gunpowder for the gun in a locked chest in
the tool room but, of course, I knew where the key was. I used to get out
the gunpowder, put a little in a glass jar, then stand back and throw a
match in. Poof! It was fun, until I told the boy across the street that I
had a really neat thing I did. So he came over, I got out the gunpowder,
put it in the jar and dropped the match on it. And, of course, nothing
happened. So... the kid leaned over the jar to look in, and that's when it
went off. Burned off his eyebrows, he went screaming across the street to
home, and I headed out across the highway. Went home about 8 PM, and found
out that he told his folks that I had told him to look into the jar. I
hadn't, but what could I say? We both survived, but we were never
allowewed to play together again. No loss, I guess, but I was po'd for a
long time that he had lied about me deliberately getting him burned,
-Fred AMES ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Sent: 8/21/22
I was happy to see so many entries in my last Sandstorm. But Terry DAVIS
Knox ('65), I was hoping for a flier on when the play is on and what time
it starts and ends. I'm wondering if I could get a ticket for Sunday
night, September 11, as I don't fly out from Seattle until the next day.
I am getting excited about coming back to Washington for the first time in
a long time. I was there about 30 hours for my mother-in-law's funeral in
January, 2021, but didn't get to do any visiting, except in Brewster.
This time I'll try to drive around the state and visit a few people, who
we haven't seen since before the pandemic. Meaning those I won't be able
to see at the reunion.
Watching the finals for the US Women's gymnastics team for the Olympics.
These women do some amazing feats with their bodies.
Still love reading the Sandstorm when we are lucky enough to get one.
I was just looking at the temperatures around Washington for when I'll be
there. Looks like it will still be hot August nights, thank Heaven for air
conditioning!!
Until a few weeks, what did Frazier Crane say on his TV show? Was it
"Hello, Seattle", as we'll be flying in there. Until then.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in green Indiana
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
Sent: 8/18/22
Thank-you, Terry DAVIS Knox ('65) for alerting us to the next performance
by the Richland Players. Whenever you write about the upcoming plays, I
always wish that I would have a reason to be in Richland when you are
performing. So, I am SO excited that I will be in Richland the weekend of
September 9-11 for the class of '63 picnic on the 10th. I already have my
tickets for Friday night.
To: Rex HUNT ('53) and Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
I love your entries, but sometimes I get a little concerned that you are
walking a fine line on being a little too political. I would hate for
Maren to ban your posts.
[And sometimes I don't KNOW they are being political. -Maren]
To: Ray STEIN ('64)
Also, I love seeing photos that people send in. A great picture of you,
Ray, with your siblings.
-Kathy RATHVON ('63) ~ from warm (85°) and sunny Camano Island, WA
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