Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/03/15
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
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4 days till the Ceremonial Start of Iditarod 2015 in Anchorage
6 days till the Official re-START of Iditarod 2015 in Fairbanks

BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol HODGSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Monique MANGOLD ('80)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steven PIIPPO ('09)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Trevor HAY ('09)

BOMBER LUNCH: John Ball "Kids", noon, Sterling's Queensgate

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)

Aloha! I doubt if the Sandstorm will slowly fade away as some 
of us old geezers are good for another ten years or so. In the
meantime, let's keep it light and fluffy.

-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

Happy Birthday late to John ADKINS ('62) who has done a lot to
keep our class alive!!

And a very late Happy Birthday to Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62) (sorry
I don't remember your married name, Kippy). While I was I.
Florida earlier this month I saw a "blast from the past"... when
I was visiting Joy Hendrix Wilson (NAB) who I had met in Richland
in '63 after I returned from being an exchange student Joy showed
me an autographed copy of your album "An Evening with Kippy Lou"
with a very young smiling Kippy (with your harp) on the cover.

My husband and I had visited you once at the Dome of the Sea I
think it was called, so I had seen you perform there, and I was
so proud to know you. A Happy Memory. 

I hope Ed QUIGLEY ('62) comes back to the Sandstorm, as I'll
never forget when he wrote in years ago that he was sitting in
his island yard watching whales go by, and I wondered why I had
ever let my husband talk me out of going to Seattle with Boeing
for his job, because as much as I loved California there is no
whale watching around Sacramento, and whale watching is even less
possible in Cincinnati!!

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN   where we had about 6" of 
       snow on Saturday night; church was cancelled, but our 
       roads are clear, so I've got to get to the store 12 miles
       away from this dear little town to buy some "greens".
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Lynn JOHNSON Andrews ('63)

Your comment on the thoughtful nature of Peter BAUGHER ('63)
could actually start a "flame war on religion." To help deflect
such theater on these pages, here's another recollection of
neighbor Peter from down the street (Howell Street in the north
end). 

Peter was one bright and thoughtful guy, with a ready smile,
usually in a necktie. My most relevant recollection is his
presence at a Christmas break party (1964 or so) in one of those
large "S" houses on Harris Street facing the River. The place was
crowded, and in the kitchen BAUGHER was cogitating aloud to his
listeners as he glanced at the spice cabinet: "People say
everything is 'relative'...but relative to What? Nutmeg?" 

Now that is a thought provoking question. As to whether or not it
is man who invents God, to satisfy a need, this inverted notion
has not played well under regimes set up by the devotees of Karl
Marx--who famously said that "religion is the opiate of the
masses," and then further announced on who does what: that "this
question is forbidden to Socialist Man". Forbidden? . . . food
for thought, today.

The above comments are about a neighbor and about recent history
(not religion as such). BAUGHER was the talk of the neighborhood
as very well read in philosophy well before he got out of high
school. Does anybody know where BAUGHER is now? I have long
wondered about his career decisions and later whereabouts. In the
1980s I saw a name identical to his in a book review journal
("the University Bookman") but could not verify whether this was
our Peter Baugher.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Re: Basketball State Tournament ~ 3/2/15 Tri-City Herald 
  
      "The fifth-ranked Richland Bomber boys basketball team
      (19-4) and the mid-Columbia Conference champion, will
      open against Columbia Basin Big Nine champion Yakima
      Davis Pirates (19-4) at 10:30 am Thursday at the 4A
      WIAA state tournament at the Tacoma Dome. The Pirates
      are a familiar foe not only because the two teams were
      rivals in the Big Nine and CBBN but also because they
      faced each other in the season opener, an 81-74
      Richland home win."

GO BOMBERS!!!

-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland   
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