Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/08/15
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6 Bombers sent stuff and Memorial INFO today:
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Betty NEAL ('62), Mike QUANE ('63)
Tedd CADD ('66), Dave MILLER ('67)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty RUSSELL ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tammy JANES ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna Sue LUKINS ('79)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Wishing classmate, Betty RUSSELL Kent ('54) a very happy
birthday today. Enjoy your time up at your cabin and hope
to see you at Club 40 in September!! At least you are escaping
the 100+ weather here in the Tri Cities!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco Cooling down to the 90s
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, we have come to the 8th of July. The annals tells that
on this date a Bomber Babe was born. It is presumed that great
rejoicing was given throughout the land. How could it not be;
after all she is a Bomber Babe. This is important to remember
as the day wears on.
Now to say that I knew her back in the day would be stretching
it a bit. I knew of her, she, on the other hand, may or may not
have known me. We moved in different circles together. None the
less, we have come to the point in our lives when we address
each other civilly; what more could one ask.
In keeping with a tradition that I invented a few years back;
I will now ceremoniously tip the ol' propeller beanie and lead
the shout of "Happy Birthday!" in honor of Betty RUSSELL ('54)
on this celebration of her 21st. I would remind her current
husband/significant other that taking her to Wendy's in honor
of the occasion just doesn't quite make the grade.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
possibilities of rain by the coming weekend may just be
passing fancys.
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>>From: Betty NEAL Brinkman ('62)
Re: Women's Soccer
Did you see where they spent 8 million dollars for the men's
team that didn't make it through the first round? On the other
hand they spent 2 million dollars on the Girls' Soccer Team
that won all the marbles.
Where is the equality?
-Betty NEAL Brinkman ('62)
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>>From: Mike QUANE ('63)
Re: San Jose Bomber Connections
Connections: Mike QUANE ('63), Tim QUANE ('69), Patty O'NEIL ('65),
Marilyn HAMMER Strankman ('70), and Tom WESTPHAL ('05).
Our community 4th of July picnic was held at our ranch this year
with a few Bomber connections in attendance.
The Smith family, proud grandparents and aunt and uncle of the
2005 Bomber valedictorian, Tom WESTPHAL came for the party.
Graduated WSU ROTC, now Captain WESTPHAL is in the Army special
operations. They spent numerous summers in Richland with the
grandkids. Grandpa Tom Smith, the dean of Park Management at
West Valley College (we taught together for years (actually
decades) presented me with a signed copy of his new Park
Management text. I told him I would have been happy to give
him at least $20 for the text if he had included at least one
picture of me. He turned to page 155, and I reached for my
wallet.
Our neighbor, Sid Melbourne, taught school for 25 plus years
with Patty O'NEIL ('65) in the San Jose area and is the next
door neighbor of Kevin Tillman, played minor league ball with
Elliott Strankman, son of Bomber Marilyn HAMMER Strankman ('70).
Then there is brother Tim QUANE ('69) who is heading to Richland
(vacation) next week after 30 years away.
Pictures: 1. Mike, brother Tim, and Sid. 2. Proud grandparents,
aunt and uncle. 3. Tree House Bath. 4. View from Tree House
Bath. 5. Not everyone arrived by 4 wheel drive.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Qua/00.htm
-Mike QUANE ('63)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Donna BOWERS Rice ('63) and "Congrats to ... Richland."
According to this morning's Tri-City Herald, Richland Mayor
David Rose watched the game and wondered "if the city could
recognize her somehow, but I couldn't think of anything
appropriate."
So: Congratulations to Hope! But not to the city government.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Dave MILLER ('67)
Re: Working for the Jolly Green
Let me clear up something about working for the pea harvest.
Bill SCOTT ('64) mentioned [in the 6/24/15 Alumni Sandstorm]
"David Miller" working at the pea harvest in 1964 and I am
sure he did but a friend asked me about it. I worked there with
Fred MOBERG ('67) and Mike GRIFFIN ('67)in the summer of 1966.
There were two David L. Millers, one was David Lee MILLER ('65)
and myself, David Leon MILLER ('67). Several times I had
received things of his in class at Chief Jo and Col-Hi delivered
by he office. It is funny to think that so many kids went to
Dayton to work in the pea harvest.
Mike, Fred, and I got hired as swather drivers by claiming we
were eighteen, but we had all had tractor experience. We drove
tractors picking up hay bales after we moved sprinkler pipes in
the mornings and we picked up plum crates out of orchards. We
drove swathers all night just following the lights in front of
you and doing a little loop turn at the end of the field
The next year (1967) we went there again to drive tractors but
swathers were gone and replaced by a combine that did the whole
job of swathers and dozers that picked up the rows we cut and
spit all the waste out the back. we got hired to make sure the
combine waste exit didn't get clogged up. There is another word
for it that starts with an a, but I wont use it.
So we gave it up and ventured to the big city (Walla Walla) and
went to work for Rogers Walla Walla cannery for which I still
have my union card that my dear mother saved for me. Peace to
all,
-David Leon MILLER ('67)
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NOT a Bomber Memorial - only INFO today
Re: Dick BOISONEAU ('61-RIP)
from the Einan's website:
Services will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2015,
at 10am at Events at Sunset in Richland
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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