Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/06/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff: Ann CLATWORTHY ('54), Helen CROSS ('62) David RIVERS ('65), John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83/'84) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky SKARSHAUG ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John COLE ('66) '48 BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary BENNETT ('69) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FRANCO ('70) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa RICCOBUONO ('75) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lori RAEKES ('81) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erin HASKINS ('86) WEEKLY BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay (Fridays) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Ann CLATWORTHY Weyerts-Hogshead ('54) Re: Pennywise Drugs on Thayer Dr and Richland Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Richland Lite Opera and Village Players I had my first job in Richland at the Richland Laundry and Dry Cleaners owned by the Stollers. At the same time I worked at Pennywise Drugs on Thayer Drive as a waitress. Many Col-Hi students have worked at both establishments. Best memory was of Gene BARFUSS ('54) sleeping in a laundry cart at the Laundry. Best memory of Pennywise: I served a banana split to a customer without the banana. The customer never noticed until I retrieved the errant concoction and put on the banana making it a true Split. Fun days in Civil Air Patrol, dancing in musicals with the Richland Lite Opera, performing in plays with the Village Players and Camp Fire Girls, all this during the '40s and '50s. The enrichment experiences offered in Richland at that time was outstanding, made available thru many talented teachers and leaders such as; my mother and father Jim and Virginia Clatworthy, Vera Edwards, Mr. Duncan (sp), Gordon Pappas, Jean Smiset, Jane Johnson, CAP teachers & officers, H. Stell, Ms. Ellis, and Mr. McGrath. Oh yes, I forgot the square dancing teachers in the early years at one of the elementary schools. We did it all. -Ann CLATWORTHY Weyerts-Hogshead ('54) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) I am eating fast food while waiting to get my tires rotated as part of getting things ready for our trip to Florida next week; and you'll never guess where I'm eating: an A&W root beer place, Wasn't that the name of our popular drive-in in Richland during high school? I remember lots of friends worked there as carhops, but I made more money working year around part time at Densow's , so I missed my chance to have that job. I'm having a diet rootbeer float and a cheeseburger. does rootbeer have caffeine? I forgot to ask. Well, we did get a little of the white stuff, but with the sunshine our roads are fine, but it was 12° outside, so it looks nice, but it's cold outside. makes our Florida trip even more inviting. We'll have invited our exchange students to our church this Sunday and we have a dinner for them and their families afterward in an attempt to get to know them and make them feel welcome. We expect 10 exchange students from all over who are living in this little town of Hope, a town of about 1,000. I guess we do this partly because I loved being an exchange student so much. I wonder how many exchange students are at Col-Hi now? We usually had 2 most years I remember. my 6th grade teacher, Clair Karlson, had a German exchange student come to talk to our class, and that was when I decided that was something I'd like to do, and I worked at CUP church making and selling fruitcakes to help raise funds for our International Christian Youth Exchange Students for all through high school, and maybe in jr. High too, before I finally got selected to go, all I remember is lots is Saturdays were donated to fruitcakes, and we saved and collected lots of coffee cans. fun memories, -Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN Where it's sunny with blue skies and 25° outside. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: Wuzn't we brung up different? Maybe it's just me. I was brought up to obey certain rules whether I agreed with them or not. If I disobeyed them I KNEW my butt was inna sling... end of story... so if there was a rule that I could not go swimming until 1/2 hour after lunch I knew I couldn't... now maybe most of the time we'd be ok if we went in... but the rule was made to protect the municipality which owned the Big pool from liability AND to protect me as well. So does it bother you as much as it does me to see this ad... for a car (I think)... where the kid looks at the posted rule... then at the life guard and jumps in anyway... then the ad goes thru all this garbage about the kid going to jail, being a big story in the news and on and on... fade back to the kid coming out of the pool where Mom meets him (Mom's way too busy to watch the kid herself while he swims... she's got portant growed up stuff to do)... Mom asks if he broke the rule again, he nods his head and she just beams at her little angel in praise for being a rebel (I say a little sh-t myself)... what the heck does that have to do with anything they are selling and what does it tell kids today????? OK maybe it's just me... Do songs put you back in the time and place you were when you were first listening to them? They do me. Today I was working on something and Theme from a Summer's Place came on... I was right back at noon dancing... OK maybe that's a Chief Jo thing... Wailers songs put me at Hi-Spot... no matter the song, I drift right back to those days gone past when I was tooling the Uptown or Zip's with that special girl... oh come on... I know I gotta rep but you should not be thinking" yeah right... special girl... for that moment"... be kind... as Thumper's mom said "if ya can't say anything nice... don't say anything at all..." Oh Donna sees Tony HARRAH ('65) and me walking into our first Col-Hi mixer... . Anyway, I do love time travel... one a my favorite things! Now for the portant stuff... today is one of my favorite b-days... I have come to know this guy better over the years and as I say every year admire him greatly... he is really one of the good guys even if he is kinda related to Ricky WARFORD ('65), I don't count that against him at all! HAPPY BIRTHDAY John COLE ('66) on your special day, February 6, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83/'84) Hello fellow alumni - long-time reader, first-time poster. Reading talk of the green beverage that used to be served at the drugstore soda fountains over the past few days brought to mind a Bomber-related story from my time in Mr. Harbour's Advanced Biology class, first day of the school year, circa 1980: Sitting on the tall, black-finished laboratory bench at the front of the science room upstairs in Mac Hall was a clear glass beaker containing a cloudy, bubbling green solution. Occasionally small dark objects within would rise to the top of the liquid and then dive for the bottom. Shortly after the bell, the murmur of voices subsided as the teacher, Mr. Harbour entered the room and introduced himself. He was a tall man with bushy dark eyebrows and a serious demeanor. He went over a few classroom basics and then started describing the mysterious liquid. He had our full attention. The liquid, he declared, was nothing other than Yakima River water, and the dark objects within were organisms that went up to the surface, obtained oxygen, and then brought it back into the water. By this process, these organisms were actually purifying the water to the point that it was safe to drink. And to our amazement, he then proceeded to pick up the beaker and DRINK the now-purified (but still green and cloudy) river water, organisms and all, eliciting gasps and groans from the rapt audience! He put the beaker down, looked around the silent classroom, paused until we were all just about falling off the edges of our seats wondering what would happen next, and then he finally shouted out words to the effect of: "WAKE UP! ASK QUESTIONS! Don't believe everything that you're told!" We were all looking at each other in amazement, most of us having never experienced this kind of thing from the teachers in our lesser years. The lesson taken from this episode has vividly stuck to me to this day. The mystery solution in the beaker was the soft drink Squirt, and the organisms were black raisins. The carbon dioxide bubbles would catch in the wrinkles on the raisins until they floated to the surface where the gas bubbles detached, letting the raisins fall to the bottom to repeat the process. Mr. Harbour ('55) was one of the many great teachers I was blessed to have at Columbia-then-Richland High. Yes, I was there when they changed the name and there was quite the uproar about it at the time. The oft-used reasoning was that there was also (and still is) a Columbia High School in Burbank, WA, and we certainly did NOT want to be confused with them! -John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83/'84 - stayed for another year on purpose since I liked it so much, which is a story for a future entry) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************