Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/06/15
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Ann CLATWORTHY ('54), Helen CROSS ('62)
David RIVERS ('65), John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83/'84)
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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.
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>>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)
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>>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.
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>>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)
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>>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)
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