Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/10/15
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck LOLLIS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don ANDREWS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: LeeAnne HARDING ('83)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzanne CHRISTENSEN ('85)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne BUSSMAN ('98)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)

Re: What's a phone book?

I was with my 11 year old granddaughter, Hannah, the other day
and mentioned that I was going to look for something in the
phone book. She asked "What's a phone book?"

My, times are changing and not always for the better.

-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: Mary Jane BRADY Wagner ('63-RIP)

Sad news indeed. I was in Mechanical Drawing class with her,
but I don't remember if it was for one or two years. I never
saw her again after she graduated. Seems like soon after the
Class of 1963 graduation Dan HOOPER ('64-RIP) and I were
driving around town goofing off like we did a lot of Saturdays
and were in the part of town she lived. We knew the house where
she lived although had never been there (at least I hadn't) and
decided we would drop in and see her. We stopped and when we
knocked on the door her mother (we assume it was her mother)
came to the door we asked to see Mary Jane. "Oh, she's not
here... she joined the Army." I think both our jaws dropped. 

It seems like in the last two years a number of people have
passed I went to school with, was in the Navy with, worked
with, or were related to. Learned a cousin had passed when his
funeral card came with a Christmas card from his sister last
December. Thing that puzzles me is why he was buried in a
National Cemetery. The last time I talked to him he told me he
had bought a plot in what is now called "Lee's Summit
Historical Cemetery" in Lee's Summit, MO. We have a lot of
family buried in that cemetery from the late 1800s until 2005.
Some of them are buried near the old outlaw Cole Younger.
Interesting thing, for me anyway, is that in his later years
Cole Younger lived in Lee's Summit selling headstones. Good
chance some of the family's headstones were bought from him. I
can think of several possible reasons he was not buried there,
but I also thought, maybe it was best to just not bring it up.

To: Donna NELSON ('63) 

I think I always heard it as the "starving people in India."
When I was told I had to finish my food because of the starving
people in India I would always say, "Well give it them then."
Those sayings seem to go into my subconscious and stay there
until they are needed, but I do remember one from Navy days.
When someone would say "If... ," we had one guy would always
say, "If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass so much."

Something I have a tendency to do is if I hear a word miss-
pronounced in a funny way I file that away in my subconscious
and use it. In the '50s there was a TV show where an actress
used the word "foo-bert" while wondering why someone would name
their child after a nut, and then miss-pronounce it.
Hazelnut/Filbert... I only vaguely remember how it was said,
but I still call those nuts "foo-berts."

To: Maren SMYTH ('63 and '64)

Donation is in the mail. It ain't much, but I guess every
little bit helps.

     [Every little big helps, Dennis.. thanks.  -Maren]

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ I was taught to respect my elders. It's 
      just getting harder to find them.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: The Name Game

Let's do Lincoln... let's not... I've always thought some
people just had cool names from the get go... the Bomber
Birthday dude is one of those guys... much as I've always
thought Doug. Bart, and Belva LONGMORE ('61, '64, and '66) had
cool names... in the delinquents we have Ronnie Defazio (NAB),
but his sister's name isn't Laverne... we also have a guy 
whose name screams out Hockey... Vince Lombardi... or is it
baseball... soccer? Oh who cares... anyway... you get the
picture... names can be way cool... unless, as with the Tooter,
you can't pronounce your name real fast... for some reason that
has always been the case with my name... if I try to say 
it fast I get tongue tied... now I can say it fast if I put
"Joseph" in the middle, but I'd never do that because then it
sounds like my mom is mad at me... I can't count the times I've
heard those three names strung together in a very unpleasant
way... but today's guy is one of those guys I've become close
to over the years... he has even enriched my music collection a
time or two... for which I have been quite grateful... we don't
see each other often, but that doesn't stand in the way of 
our friendship... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Chuck LOLLIS ('64) on your
special day, May 10, 2015... and by-the-way... don't try and
use a torch to light alla those candles on the cake at once...
One cup cake... one candle is sufficient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
Basketball?
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[Try FOOTBALL!! HA! You knew that, right?  -Maren]
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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