Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/01/15 ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
Keith ARNDT ('60), Marvin McDONALD ('60)
Mary ROSE ('60), Margaret EHRIG ('61)
Leoma COLES ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
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65 days till the start of Iditarod 43 (March 7, 2015)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larson GRENINGER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna PARDEE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken DEERY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark PERKINS ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FITZPATRICK ('80)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49) & Shannon CRAIG ('50)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Mike, Math was never your strong suit, was it?
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco
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>>From: Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
I would like to wish my sister Grace DeVINCENTIS Spice ('50) a
happy belated birthday [on 12/31] and a healthy and fun filled
new year. I know she wishes she could spend New Year's Eve with
her longtime friend and fellow Richland Bomber companion Bill
Clifford. They spent many New Year's Eve dinners together and
she always told me how much fun he was to be with. Best wishes
Gracie, I love you and hope we can be together soon.
-Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Sandstorm: Obey the Rules and Breathe Easy
I've always enjoyed the clever, articulate writing of Jimbeaux
('63) and his latest contribution was spot on. While I'm as
opinionated as anyone (probably more so) our beloved Alumni
Sandstorm is not the place for our political ranting. I much
prefer viewing photos of all those old people I used to know
than reading someone's opinion that makes my blood boil. I can
easily achieve the latter effect by talking to my brothers-in-
law.
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Marvin McDONALD ('60)
Re: Happy New Year
Wishing all of you the very best in the coming year. Praying that
2015 will be the best year we have had and that health and wisdom
and prosperity will be our greatest gifts.
-Marvin McDONALD ('60)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
So enjoyed many of the entries today. Especially the ones from
Dave ROBERTSON ('60) and Dennis HAMMER ('64). Keep up the good
work, Maren ,and thank you for all you do!!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Re: It's official!
I hope this ends any further discussion of the meaning of
Richland Bombers. On the front page of the Tri-City Herald this
morning [12/31/14] there is a picture of the gift of the class
of 2014 being installed on the 1000 building. It is the MUSHROOM
CLOUD. No more discussion of the Payday Bomber should be allowed.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ehr/150101-Mushroom_Cloud.jpg
[I asked Margaret where the "1000 building" is. She
said she was going by the school and would get back to
me. Her response follows. -Maren]
I drove all the way around and did not see the mushroom. The 1000
building is to the north of the gym but I could not see the north
end of it. The 3000 building is Mac Hall (the science and math
building). I did not get out and walk around but there is an
inner courtyard that would be at the north end of the 1000
building so my guess is that is where it is.
The only Payday airplane I saw was on the trailer that the bank
uses. I think the other one was on the old tennis backstop.
[It has been reported that two other Bombers went
looking for the mushroom cloud and didn't find it. I
now know that the "1000 building" is the main building
where the original Col-Hi building was erected in 1943.
http://richlandbombers.com/RHS-ThruTheYears.html
RHS is now "gated"... WOW! -Maren]
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
Happy new year to all my Bomber friends... my year has been
really great... and I have had company for the last two weeks!
Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2015!!
-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ from sunny Gleneden Beach on the Oregon coast
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Ed QUIGLEY ('62) was SO right on in yesterday's Sandstorm,
echoing something I've had in my mind for several years: too many
people these days CHOOSE to be offended. Future historians may
label this era the Age of the Offended. Someone's offended by
something ALL the time. I for one am sick of it. The more
enlightened among us shrug our shoulders and get on with our
lives. Great job, Maren, in shunting political discourse to
the side. I like the way the Sandstorm has always been: light
and entertaining. I've enjoyed the stories, Bomber news,
announcements, etc. It's no place for political discourse; I
see far too much of that on my facebook page. Ain't it amazing
how anonymity brings out the viciousness in people.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: "It-Never-Snows-in-Southern-Cali-forn-ia"
Hey, all you Bombers living in Southern California and areas east
enjoy that show we sent you. We must have sent it because we have
only had just a little trace of snow twice this year. How about
you sending guys posting in some pictures in the Sandstorm of
yourselves making some snow angles or otherwise playing in the
snow.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: The day it all Happned, Baby
By Robert Thom. I'm onna hunt. It was published as a short story
in Esquire, December 1966 issue. Where I would have been reading
a December, 1966, issue of Esquire is beyond me. Given that I
read virtually nothing until late 1968 it is even harder for me
to fathom. But read it I did. It took the saying "don't trust
anyone over thirty" to and new extreme. I guess it could have
been in a doctor's office, as some of those publications can be
pretty stale, at least inna old days before every doc had CNN on
his wall. I recall clearly going to see a movie in 1968 called
"Wild in the Streets" and recognized it as being based on the
short story. I think it was then that I learned never compare the
film version with the written work... no, that was Flowers for
Algernon, called "Charlie" in the movie. The short story was
fantastic but the film was only so so (Wild that is)... I tried
to just pretend Flowers and Charlie were two different works
entirely and it helped a little... well if anyone has a copy of
Thom's short story in their archives lemme know...
Today, New Years Eve (yesterday, tomorrow) is very nasty and cold
in Vegas... almost as cold as the winter of aught eight ... man
I've always wanted to say that... now I finally had my chance...
Normally we get up early and drive to State line for a car
show... but after seeing the weather report, alla Donut boyz
agreed we ain't gonna go sit and freeze our behinds off this
year... I think it has something to do with age... the guys now
in their 80s stopped going a few years back... now most of the
rest of us are in our late 60s and early to mid 70s and we've
joined that bunch... I know, I know... what do we know about cold
inna Mojave desert...
Well I got confused yesterday and thunk it was Dennis HAMMER's
('64) b-day and thank goodness the Bomber-babe in charge
corrected me... I checked with Dennis and I was a month off...
well, I'm pretty sure I got this Bomber-babe right so HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, Donna PARDEE ('65), on your special day, January 1,
2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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