A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 06/15/23
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8 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
John BROWNE ('61)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Marc LEACH ('63)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Betti AVANT ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Class of '63 is having their 60 year class reunion this week end.
Contact Linda BELLLISTON Boehning ('63) for more information.
DBoehn9644@aol.com
June 16 and 17th, 2023 at the Richland Community/Senior Center.
On Friday night "Meet and Greet" with hors d'oeuvres.
Saturday, a light dinner with a short program and a DJ later in
the evening for those who would like to dance.
for Jim HOUSE ('63-RIP):
There will be a memorial type presentation for Jim by Jerry FREE ('62)
held at the basketball "Court that House built".
Saturday, the 17th at 2:30pm
NEW HOME ADDRESS:
Maren Smyth
144 Briant Street
Gretna, LA 70056
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
SENT: 5/1/23
Greetings to all you Richland Bombers out there!
Summer finally got here. Of all days, Saturday was 90 and with no time to
get acclimated, my son, Wes Rawlings, was up on my roof for MANY hours
repairing it! Yikes. He did take a break for lunch but it was a long hot day
for him. I am so grateful! The estimate to replace the roof was an
astonishing $30,000!!
I am enjoying my yard work. Getting rid of the "snake grass" is impossible.
Any ideas??? It is even more tenacious than the Dandelions. My companion,
Terry SHEGRUD ('56) is doing ok but will have some kind of surgery on his
left eye. The macula (if that's what it is called) has a black spot on the
upper part. Dr. will move it a ways so Terry's vision will be better.
Meanwhile, he got glasses today and that will help a lot, I'm sure. I have
to admit I've been nagging at him to get glasses for well over a year.
I hope all of you are doing well, physically, mentally, spiritually and financially.
Best Bomber regards,
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in lovely Richland, WA, where it cooled down
as soon as Wes got the roof finished and the flowers and trees are
blooming nicely
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
SENT: 5/29/23
For 5/29: Hats off, three cheers and a "Happy Birthday!" to Larry HARROLD
('56). Think he deserves it.
SENT: 5/20/23
For 5/20:
Gonnies! Is it time to do it again. If the Bomber Calendar is correct, this
is the day we wish Allen AVERY ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" As Jean-Luc would
say: "Make it so."
SENT: 5/17/23
For 5/17:
If you should happen to see him; please take a moment to wish Garth WHEELER
("54) a "Happy Birthday!" Do be careful and don't startle him when you do.
Silverton, OR, where this Saturday (20th) is "Pet Day" complete with a parade.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Silverton, OR
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>>From: John BROWNE ('61)
Hi, Maren: Class of '61 has experienced another transition. Our webmaster &
techno-wizard Jim YOUNT passed away, in Sequim, last weekend.
During the conversations we had in these last few years I learned that the
town of Yountville in Sonoma County(?) California was named for an ancestor?
& that one of his great-great uncles was the first Park manager of
Yellowstone. (I had found a picture of that dude, taken on a ridge in the
Rockies at the turn of a century, and Jim identified him for me.)
I guess that he was fed up with the "brain fog" that accompanied his
medications, & so he quit- cold turkey- a few weeks earlier? & according to
another classmate, he was delighted that his brain was AWAKE again. (He had
hoped for ONE MORE DAY with a clear mind.. & got 19 of them!)
Okay! sun's out, so it's back to the garden for me. ^..^
-John BROWNE ('61) ~ on Vashon Island
Peace... the affordable alternative
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
SENT: 4/21/23
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Glimpses of "Our Town" Richland
A kind thank you to elder statesman Rex HUNT, '53, and his artful, hunter-
gatherer petroglyph testimonial from shortly after the last Ice Age!? But,
about different KINDS of "artists," there's this from American painter
Robert Henri (d. 1929):
"the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be [?.]
He does not have to be a painter or sculptor to be an artist. He can work in
any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside
it.
"I have met masters now and again, some in studios, others anywhere, working
on a railroad, running a boat, playing a game, selling things. Masters of
such as they had. They are wonderful people to meet. Have you never felt
yourself "in the presence" when with a carpenter or a gardener? When they
are the right kind, they do not say "I am only a carpenter or a gardener,
therefore not much can be expected of me." They say or they seem to say, "I
am a Carpenter!" These are masters, what more could anyone be!? ("The Art
Spirit," 1923/1960).
Here are my few sketches, of Richland, itself. Maybe not the alabaster-city-
on-a-hill, but it's still "Our Town."
YE OLDE TREE: From before 1944 and north of the central fire station on
GWWay until at least 1976, this sentinel of the former years. A reminder of
the bucolic daze before pavement and plutonium. Survivor of droughts and
sandstorms, but not the stump chipper; now beneath the patio of Homewood
Suites.
The FEDERAL BUILDING: A June 2020 visit just before the rainstorm. Here's
where I dropped my antique hunting knife used for sharpening pencils, right
there in the south yard of the police station. Probably raised some
eyebrows.
COL HI: the original (1912) held down the southwest corner of old Lewis &
Clark Elementary School (1938, dedicated in 1939). Today, west of
Ellensburg, take a side trip off of I-90 to see a L & C duplicate brick and
white wooden trim school in time-vault Thorp (population 109). A village as
proud of its historic FLOUR MILL (1885) as boom-town Richland is of our B-
Reactor (1944).
The original Col Hi was abandoned in 1943. During K through 6, L & C kiddos
walked past it every day wondering what neat stuff might be found if we ever
broke in for a look-see. The replacement began to come down during the Class
of '62 senior year.
JIM HOUSE MEMORIAL. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/sports/high-school/prep-
basketball/article204042249.html [must have a PAID account to see this] One
summer (1965?) yours truly ('62) was Shanghai-ed to fill out two full teams
for a summer pickup game. As a non-entity, I found myself leaning against
the House ('63-RIP) to his great amusement. But, was teamed up with the (a one-
time appearance?) legendary Norris BROWN ('57). Both "artists" on the same
floor, at the same time!
HIGH SCHOOL DESIGN: Before Hanford K-12/High School was built, a UW
architecture conceptual ground plan, by yours truly, at a close-in location
(now the north end Safeway shopping center). The complex is integrated
around a balanced Liberal Arts/STEM Info Center (both). And the left-over
spaces between the buildings are pumped up as equal parts of an overall
composition: more "symphonic" (?architecture is frozen music,? Goethe). And
so, more of a student-community and sense of "place" in our big-sky
flatlands.
The RICHLAND THEATER: In 1951 the Technicolor (!) movie "King Solomon?s
Mines" came to town. The family Friday-night theater outing was blocked by
an overflow crowd (they still come!). Had to wait a full week to ogle all
those stampedes and the head-swingin' and jumpin' war dance (art!) of those
7-foot Zulus. Today they're stars in the NBA (another art!), and at the
Theater the crowds (all "artists"!) still come.
Back to OL' MAN RIVER: The not-quite-art DAWSON dock (Stephanie '60, Jeff
'62, Gaynor '65) pulled to high ground during flood stage (the summer of
1964). Downstream on the horizon, the Horse Heaven Hills where mustangs
still roam free.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/0.htm
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA where the single-family property
tax goin' through the roof alongside the assessed value of upstart
apartments and condos.
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. This Florida Bombers happened some time ago.. when
my brother, Tim ('62) was in Florida for the winter. He is now back in New
York and Wayne and Lyndy are still in Florida cuz they LIVE there year
round. -Maren
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/230611-Florida_Bombers.jpg
Picture: Tim ('62), Tim's Lady, Debby (NAB), Wayne Myers ('62) and
sitting: Lyndy WHEELER Myers ('62)
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Marc LEACH ('63)
SENT: 4/1/23
Re: Attic dreams
For some strange reason I found myself dreaming of the attic in our "Z"
house the other night. I am curious about what some other ranch house
denizens might recall on this subject. There was a ladder built in to the
wall with an incredibly heavy and unsecured trap door above it to gain
access. It was full of old tvs Christmas stuff and so on and I used to sneak
up there to hang out maybe smoke a cigarette sneak a beer. Illumination was
a bare light bulb which always seemed to have some dripped sap from the
rafters melting on it giving out a great scent.
On one occasion I lost control of that door and it brained me on the way
down the ladder. Haven't been the same since.
-Marc LEACH ('63)
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
SENT: 5/31/23
Summer is here. We've had temps on up there (plus humidity) and lately some
really nice days.
Just spent some time with my daughter and family and my son. We had a great
visit! Had some meals, went to church -- even had a picnic. Also had my
grandson's B'day -- #14. Don't get to spend time with all of us together
very often.
My brother, David ('64), is settling in to his new apartment. Karen ('71),
our sister has been helping him with this move. I think he is mostly healed
from the broken hip.
Hope everyone is set to enjoy summer
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ in West Tennessee
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
SENT: 6/9/23
Re: Hacked
PLEASE would you put in a Sandstorm that I do not use Facebook. I cannot get
onto Facebook because I do not remember my password from 35 years ago; so I
cannot get my name off of it. I hate everything about Facebook. And I am NOT
posting all these weird notices that purport to be from me. I am not selling
puppies; I am not looking for a ride anywhere (I am the designated driver
for everyone I know).
Did I give you (I think I did) my new email? patricia.cleavenger1@gmail.com
(don't miss the number 1)
THANK YOU!
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
Until further notice I've decided to cancel the All Bomber lunches. There
was a lot of interest in restarting them so the first one was set up for
January, 2023. There were 3 of us there and I thought hey it's a start. The
last 3 months I've been the only 1 in attendance. I found out the nice lady
waiting on me is the co-owner of the diner and actually spoke to her husband
today as well. If you are interested please let me know at least a few days
prior to the next one (if we have one) so I can make arrangements for the
table(s) we will need. It is set for the 2nd Saturday of the month at noon
at Lil' Moon Diner (formerly JD Diner) on VanGiesen in WestRichland. It's
hard talking about Bomber memories and days gone by with oneself.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
SENT: 4/1/23
Re: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/230614-tag_00.htm
To: All Bombers
One of my guilty pleasures is going to estate / yard sales looking for
various items to use and the occasional Hanford related item. Last week I
was reviewing photos of a sale in Benton City and noticed a blank H E W
property tag. Now I've seen hundreds and hundreds of tags with numbers
engraved but never seen a blank one, however it wasn't completely blank. On
the opposite side the name Carolyn Jo Noake address 303 Cullen. Who might
this be and how did she come to have her name scribed into it. Did an
admirer scribe or did she work in the inventory department?? Wonder wonder.
See attached.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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