Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/04/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today: Dick WIGHT ('52) Frank WHITESIDE ('63) Bill SCOTT ('64) David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry HOLLOWAY ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula Jill LYONS ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria KENNEDY ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nina BERLAND ('69) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Dick WIGHT ('52) Re: geneology Carol CONVERSE Maurer ('64) and her interest in geneology piqued my interest. After my father died back in the late '70s, I found some family ancestry stuff in his desk. He'd never mentioned anything to me on the subject. I eventually found a lot more data, including two "family tree" books written perhaps 75 years apart. The latter listed my father, and the two books took my paternal ancestry back to Dedham, Mass. ca. 1635. Seems my original American paternal ancestor Thomas Wight showed up there with a wife and a couple sons. He and his offspring also founded Medfield, Mass. and later Killingly, CT. Back in the '80s when I was stationed in CT, I found ancestral graves in Killingly, and also visited a distant relative in Medfield who was the spitting image of my father! Thomas Wight was our only common ancestor, so the gene pool can remain strong! There is a reconstructed 18th century village / farm complex in Mass. called Sturbridge Village that features a grist mill attributed to one of my ancestors, and an inn there called Oliver Wight House. Interesting stuff, to me at least. We always thought Thomas Wight came from the Isle of Wight, but more recently information suggests he came from Yorkshire, England - but we have never figured out just how he and his family got to America... On the other hand, my mother's genealogy seems a dead end. Her mother died when she was an infant, and she had little info on her grandparents on either side... she was of German extract, and I have always suspected her mother was at least part Blackfoot, but not able to support that. Her father, my grandfather, was a railroad man and married my maternal grandmother in Montana.... I have very little info no how my ancestors felt about the Revolutionary War, but I think most folks of Puritan extract had much use for the English monarchy.... -Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ enjoying the onset of 2015 here in Richland **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63) Re: Moved to EXTRA - part MIGHT be political... click to read http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Whi/150104-politics-Whi.htm -Frank WHITESIDE ('63) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bill SCOTT ('64) To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer ('64) Last year I also did an in-depth ancestry search with ancestry.com. I was able to trace my father's side of the family back to the mid-fifteenth century in Europe. It wasn't as hard as I thought because I found out that a lot of the connecting work had already been done for me by a passel of distant relatives I didn't know I had. Great-Grandmother Ellen O'Hara (with whom I share a birthday today!) had eight children, so I discovered I've got a LOT of second cousins out there. Met one of them online through ancestry.com. Like you, one of my ancestors came over from Scotland in the 1800s. I also discovered my great- grandfather James Scott was a Union soldier (sergeant) in the Kansas Grand Army of the Republic. And, I found out that I'm descended from two separate lines of Scotts, and it is only by virtue of great-grandmother Ellen marrying James Scott that the Scott name was restored to my lineage; it had disappeared through marriage on Ellen's side centuries ago. All in all, it was one of the most satisfying things I've done, and I highly recommend it. -Bill SCOTT ('64) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: I am totally and pitifully unliterate... stupid stupid stupid... I am never gonna learn how to use face book... never never never... every time I see something I wanna comment on I touch something and zoom it's gone... then when I start over there are completely different posts... sometimes they are several days old and I'm lookin' fer one I just saw posted... I knew I shoulda listened to the boyz' counselor when he told me my Sr. year that I should go to the rez and make and sell pottery... but noooooooo I hadda go and get a computer and just get more and more frustrated... wheeeeew, feel better now... so there I was just went on to face book to see what there was to see and up pops the b-day bomber- babe's Senior picture... swooooooooooooon... maybe it was the swooning that was the problem... I don't think I drooled onna keyboard or anything... so I got a little worried cuz it was an HB wish and I had her on my yellow stickie for tomorry... Thank goodness for the Bomber calendar... I saw I was right and went back to write something and whoooooooooosh it was gone... tried again and there were pictures John CAMPBELL ('63) posted on new years day... now I always look at John's pictures but I was onna mission... finally went to the Bomber-babe's page, found it again and sent a post... hope I dun it right... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Paula Jill LYONS ('64) on your special day, January 4, 2015!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looooooooove you, PJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Bomber Memorial >>Joahn HUSTED Nield ~ Class of 1949 ~ 1930 - 2014 Bomber Memorials **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************