Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/27/15
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12 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Carol CARSON ('60), David DOUGLAS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Duane LEE ('63)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Dwight CAREY ('68)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty CONNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura PARKER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob TURPING ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg POYNOR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay SCHAFER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norm ENGLUND ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darcy FORSYTHE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darwin PERKINS ('69)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Daily Papers
I delivered the Seattle PI in 1942.
As for the Villager, I don't remember when it went away, but it was
a very good source of local news, including sports. A contributor
was the wonderful Jim Clatworthy, the elder, a good source of
gossip and fun at least into the late forties..
-Dick McCOY (from the Tin Can class of '45)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Today marks a milestone in the life of this Bomber Babe. Now, I
could wax poetic about her, but that wouldn't be true. I really
don't know her; although I might have seen her at the big pool
(but who would look at a third grader). There might have been an
obnoxious first grader hovering in the background (won't mention
the name, but we all know who he is). From all that I know of her
is what I read in these pages. Oh, I grant you, I do hear other
things but those are of a private nature.
Needless to say it is her birthday. For that occasion I will now
tip the ol' propeller beanie in her honor and wish her a very
"Happy Birthday!" As some one said, "ML rocks!!" Have a very
pleasant and Happy Birthday, Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
fog is lifting, rain may be in the forecast, and preparations
for Wurstfest are getting underway.
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Memories and Newspapers
When we lived in the "trailer camp" in North Richland in 1952, I
sold copies of the Columbia Basin News on the steps of the Post
Office where everyone had to go to pick up their General Delivery
mail. The paper cost 5˘. When I got home, I would take out what I
owed for the papers and the remaining nickels were mine. I had
determined that I would save all of my earnings for our upcoming
summer vacation.
In order to assure I wouldn't get into my savings, Mom took a
coffee can and cut a slit out of the bottom shook out all of the
coffee. This is where I deposited my daily take. Come vacation
time, we used a can opener to open the coffee can and there was my
vacation money!
Thanks for all the memories being posted.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60) ~ Lynnwood, WA where it was warm
enough yesterday to sit out on the deck.
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Re: Duane LEE's ('63) link
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lee/150125-R-Cloud.3gp
To: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
I had no problem opening the link to the Bomber R-Cloud, but the
video showed sideways. It opened with Windows Media Player (Windows 7).
[That's what it did for me... I'm running Windows 7
as well.. maybe that's the problem? -Maren]
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Col-Hi in the rearview mirror
High school spring break always beckoned for a change of pace. In
the spring of 1960 a group of six of us, another kind of six-pack,
trekked from the Richland "Y" overland south to McNary Dam. Why
not? Other than myself there was John BEAULIEU ('62), Rick SMOLEN
('62), Jeff DAWSON ('62), Bob COTTRILL ('63) and Gaynor DAWSON
('65). In addition there were our overloaded packs at 40 pounds a
piece. Even in early April the temperature got up to 95, and farm
houses for canteen fill-ups turned out to be too rare. With a
United States Geological Survey map in hand we carved out a route
of some thirty-two miles, much of it over freshly plowed foot-
sinking wheat fields. Started at early sun up and stumbled in under
the stars at midnight.
Following the gullies still behind Kennewick we fantasized about
possibly finding Indian artifacts somewhere along the way. At the
top of one gully we dropped face down into the bunch grass, and Bob
just as quickly lifted his face out of the dirt. There it was,
stuck into the tip of his nose — a perfect, transparent white, very
triangular arrowhead. What is the statistical chance of that? This
was our Stand by Me adventure...
As the day wore on we found that the Horse Heaven Hills mound
up to about 1,700 feet, nearly half the elevation of Rattlesnake
Mountain. In late afternoon we looked back and were able to make
out all of Richland far to the north. Beyond was the Columbia River
winding around the entire Hanford Reservation, just another chicken
scratch on a flood plain left by the vast Ice Age megaflood some
10,000 years earlier—twice as far back as the pyramids, and about
the same as the shelf life needed for future nuclear waste storage
(probably in Yucca Mountain, Nevada). At the north edge of the
Reservation, a couple hours upstream of the B-Reactor site, was
where the Wanapum Indian band was first discovered in 1940 — never
forced onto any Indian "reservation" — stone age hunter gatherers
sharing real estate with the coming atomic age and the civilization
of the mushroom cloud.
Still in front of us to the south was the winding Columbia again
and then Oregon country extending to the horizon. The clock finally
brought us onto three miles of flat grassland bumping against the
north ridge overlooking the Umatilla bridge and the blue and red
night lights of the dam a mile upriver. But the sun had dropped and
darkness set in. Even Van Gogh's "Starry Night" couldn't do justice
to the canopy overhead that night. From somewhere came the rising
rumble of stampeding horses. Resisting the instinct to run (to
where?), we just stood there like solitary fence posts on the
theory that these mustangs would steer around us. Seconds later
they followed our script, but first reared up at spitting distance.
Airborne hoofs pawing through the gloom, or whatever one might see
at this point in a 3-D Western at the Richland Theater [on Biddle]
(John Wayne in "Hondo" stampeding into the seats)! Magnificent! The
Horse Heaven Hills still lived up to their name in the 1960s.
And then there was the River — it is not Richland High School, but
the always something more "Columbia" High: our "namesake's loyal
stream" and "the hallowed name" (from our discarded Alma Mater).
http://richlandbombers.com/AlmaMater.html
In 1965 I spent my twenty-first birthday with Jeff anchored at the
confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia, accompanied by a radio,
a six-pack, and two baited poles. Caught one trophy catfish that
has grown over the years, and several other ruby-eyed throw-'m-
back-sized sturgeon.
Does anyone remember in the late '40s the stern wheeler permanently
moored on the Kennewick side of the old Pasco bridge? It was used
on weekends as a dance and social hall. Martha Parker's "Tales of
Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford, 1805-1943" (pp. 84-5) shows
five such boats in earlier service, some all the way up to Priest
Rapids.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/150127-Tales-00.htm
The largest and most likely holdover at Kennewick was the
Inland Empire, but others pictured are the Mountain Gem, Hannaford,
Gerome and the W.R. Todd.
All our Bomber website flashbacks confirm that in growing up in
Richland on the River — sometimes a bit like Twain's Hannibal on
the Mississippi - youth was not entirely "wasted on the young".
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
Re: Proud of the Cloud link ~ 1/25/15 Sandstorm
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lee/150125-R-Cloud.3gp
On Facebook, search for: Richland Bombers Class of '63
The video shows up there. If anyone really wants it, I can e-mail
it to them. Did that for one person already.
Funny, when I click on the Cloud link in Pat DORISS Trimble's ('65)
entry, it works! Hmmmm
-Duane LEE ('63)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Apparently the software Maren uses can't handle the Greek script I
inserted after the word Koinonia in my entry published yesterday,
as it came out question marks (I have to admit it may have been an
image rather than text, as I copied it from a website article - it
would take forever to remember enough Greek from my classes on
Crete in '67-'68 to type it myself).
[In the incoming email there was a dash after the word
Koinonians. That's it! The Alumni Sandstorm is a PLAIN
TEXT publication. That means no bold, no italics, no
underline... nothing like that. The only way to
emphasize anything is UPPER CASE. PERIOD. -Maren]
While I was in the Richland Lutheran youth group, I vaguely
remember something about Koinonians at Central United Protestant.
I didn't begin my baby steps into the ecumenical world until after
high school, when I got involved with Seekers under (?Homer and
Elizabeth?) Goddard from West Side United Protestant, and a couple
of my sisters did, too. Participated again in '69 after I left the
Air Force. Went with them to Forest Home College Briefing
Conference in the mountains above San Bernadino, CA, great trip.
Regards, ecb3 - from winter in central Virginia, but
happy we're protected from the worst of the storm
hitting the coast.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: The Spirit of Ectsasy and Fuzzy Sweaters
I can't remember when I didn't have a strong penchant for
automobiles. Starting with what are now called Brass Cars as a
little kid, then Hot Rods, Sports cars, Italian cars, English cars
and for quite a while now, Rolls Royces. Never a strong adherent to
the ninth commandment, I know that looking at Rollers is a lot like
eye balling Playboy or the SI swimsuit edition, lots of nice things
you're never going to have. The radiator mascot on Rolls Royces has
been called the Flying Lady, the Flying Angel, Nellie in her nighty
but the correct title is the Spirit of Ectsasy. Over the years I
have looked at many mascots, which surprisingly are not silver but
are currently stainless steel. As with any subject there is a lot
of conjecture as to origin and history, but that just gives those
more learned that I an opportunity to see their name in print.
Recently I've started paying more close attention to the Spirit of
Ecstasy and realize that the model must have really put the fizz in
fuzzy sweaters.
Oh yeah, Today just happens to be the birthday of Mary Lou WATKINS.
Happy Birthday as you enter the last age group on the reply cards
you find in Cosmopolitan.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/150127-Spirit_of_MaryLou.jpg
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
You are right about the Pasco radio station that we all listened
to. It was KCKW with dj Lynn Bryson. Though it does seem as though
KORD was a popular station sometime or other.
To: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
Yes, Cheri was a friend of mine as well in high school, but didn't
run around with her. We all were in Brownies together for years
though. Well, Brownies and then flew up to Girl Scouts. It was so
fun to see her at our 50 year class reunion last summer.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick
Where is that sun they keep talking about?
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Duane LEE's ('63) link
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Lee/150125-R-Cloud.3gp
I couldn't get that to open, either... and I have no idea how to do
Windows Media Player.
Re: My Port and other things
I had the "port" removed this morning [1/26/15]... since cancer is
in remission, no longer necessary to have it... only drawback...
tech came in and checked the pacemaker, before surgery and said
it's set too low, so have to see the heart doctor and have it set,
higher. My heart beats at 48, pacemaker is set for 50 and tech
said, that with my Congestive Heart Failure, it should be set
between 60-120. When I was in CA, it was set at 35... when I had it
checked, here, in December, the tech said that was too low and he
set it at 50, but the tech, today, said that is still too low...
means that the pacemaker is working overtime. I am really beginning
to wonder IF the doctors in CA knew what the heck they were
doing!!!!!!! And, I have had the pacemaker since 2011!!!!!!! Am
just thankful that it has never "gone off", which would have meant
that it was detecting a heart attack and "kicking in" so that I
didn't go into heart failure... thankful for small miracles.
Have been enjoying all the memories of early Richland... so neat to
read about everyone's experiences.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID temps are in the mid 20s, but no
more snow, darnit... am thinking our snow is done for this
Winter, although there is still snow at Bogus Basin, so
skiing and snow boarding are still plentiful for those that
enjoy those activities
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: What is love...
five feet of heaven in a pony tail... nope that won't work...
I've seen her hair when it's moist or raining outside as it prolly
is today... no pony tail from that hair... maybe I should try
something new this year... I mean ya see there was this cute girl
living over on Johnston... by my buddy Brian JOHNSON ('65) and he
always seemed to get a little closer to her than I... maybe it was
a neighborly thing... like "Hi Neighbor!" while I was tripping over
my feet and slobbering all over my shirt... didn't dare look at
this future Bomber-babe during noon dancing or it woulda been a
disaster... all that tripping and slobbering... she used to hang
out at her best friends ('63) pool alla time but I never... I mean
never ever went to that pool which is kinda strange cuz alla my
friends did... I always had such a crush on her... but it was "I'm
so young and you're so old" (that sounds bad) time fer me... no
matter what I was always two years younger than she... "Born
too late for you to notice me... " I would never have gone to
Robinson's and picked up a dedication slip for her... so Lynner the
Spinner ('57)/ Lynster the spinster never played a dedication from
me to her... "This is dedicated to the one I love... "... but there
certainly are a buncha songs with her name in them... so my new
thing is gonna be a chance for alla you Bombers out there to listen
to some a them oldies but goodies... hope our Editor in Bomberland
can pull this off for me... Name those tunes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLkCWT2neuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EtextbYPQ (hint... the back up
group on this one would later be known as "The Band"). and finally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs4eIExZols In fact, if you
go to you tube you can listen to this last song sung by the
drummer/often lead singer (RIP) of The Band... now on the last one
ya gotta listen to the whole song to find out about a little fight
the B-day Bomber-babe got into back inna day... soooooooo no
references to little blonde furry animals or anything this time...
keeping this post a true ode to teen love! HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Mary Lou WATKINS ('63) on your special day, January 27, 2015...
and don't you worry sweets, I didn't forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjQgkHzbTk for my next door
neighbor, who according to Terry DAVIS ('65) was way outa my
league... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Laura PARKER ('65) on your special day,
January 27, 2015, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
You are right... the "Future Farmers of America" farm was located
where Hanford High is now... the house on GWWay is still there at
the corner of GWWay and ??
It was very interesting to us youngsters about 1961-'62-'63! If
I'm right, the irrigation was through 6" wooden pipes.
-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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