Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/14/15
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Marilynn WORKING ('54)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Betti AVANT ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma MYRICK ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila RAMERMAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki OWENS ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melissa HOLMES ('92)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: CLUB 40
What a wonderful Friday and Saturday we had this past week with
the members of Club 40 who came to join their classmates and
some to celebrate their 55 year and 60 year class reunions.
Saturday morning was a meeting to elect your Board members.
2015-2016 Board members are:
President: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Vice Pres: Dona McCLEARY Belt ('54)
Secretary: Karol BRIMHALL Smith ('56)
Treasurer: Kathy HOFF Conrad ('64)
After the Pledge of Allegiance and Memorial dedication for
classmates we have lost, everyone was excited to get started
on the party!!
It was fun to go to lunch on Saturday with the classes of the
1940s!! Met so many whom I had heard from by e-mail or phone
and good to put a face with a voice. That is a fun, lively
bunch!! Thank you Dale GIER ('48) for the invite.
I have pictures that I will share in a day or two. Got to talk
to our "oldest" Club 40 Bomber from class of 1944, Jo DRESSER
Dudley, who came here from Alaska. Also, met her son Paul, from
Richland, who she will visit with for a couple weeks.
We had a very successful Raffle and Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60)
chairperson, put together some fun items. One in particular was
a beautiful quilt made by her sister, Billie LAWELL Neth ('55).
I want one!!!
We welcomed three (3) new class Reps who will join the Board
at our meetings and help structure the functions of Club 40.
Shannon CRAIG Hightower ('50), Chris NEYENS Coburn ('70) and
Betty AVANT ('69) are the Newcomers!! Thank you ladies for
stepping up.
We need more like them to join us for classes of 1951, 1957,
1958, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972,
1973, 1974, and 1975. Some of the classes only need one
representative to represent their class. PLEASE contact me
and join us. We will be looking to many of you to run for
an office on the Board!!!!
Keep in mind we will have a Fall Dust Storm coming out early
November, so feel free to send in an article or pictures to our
Editor, Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49). This will give
you lots of time to think about it. Our next Board meeting will
be at 1 PM on October 24, 2015, and we welcome your input of
ideas that you would like to see happen with Club 40. E-mail
me whenever you want. There have already been some suggestions
and I will have a questionnaire in the Dust Storm asking your
opinions. Could be some changes and want you all to be a part
of it!!!
Hope all of you out-of-town travelers have made it back home
safely!! Come again next year!! We need you!!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco where I hear the
teachers might get our kids in school by Tuesday!!!
Ratification is Monday, tomorrow!!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I told her: "Don't toy with me, woman!" but it didn't do any
good. I often wonder where she gets the energy at her advanced
age of 22. That's right, folks, Norma MYRICK ('54) turns 22
today, yet she doesn't look a day over 18. She was even carded
at the bar during the latest "Whoop-de-doo" and all she wanted
was a ginger ale. Some days it just don't pay ta git up in th'
mornin' .
So, a tip of the mythical ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy
Birthday!" (we did serenade her with that song Friday) is in
order.
Re: An addendum to my previous:
A friend of my wife will be travelling to Richland this coming
weekend. My wife's friend will be accompanied by her daughter
and 1 year twins. She will be in need of baby sitting assistance
on possibly the evening of the 18th or sometime during the day
of the 19th. They will be staying in a house in Richland. Not
sure where. So, if you have a child or grand-child who would
be interested in baby sitting 1 year old twins; contact me via
e-mail with a name and phone number and I will see that this
information gets forwarded to the proper parties. Thank you for
your assistance in this.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
rain may or may not be coming.
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: ALL Bomber lunch, aka Patti's ALL Bomber Lunch
We had a group of 10 at the Bomber lunch on Saturday. 2 first
timers were in attendance; Wendy ERICKSON Savage ('65) here for
her 50 year reunion and her mother Doloros Erickson, Clarkston
High School class of '37. Doloros still lives in Richland and
will be celebrating her 96th birthday this month so we made sure
she had her free piece of pie. The Ericksons lived the next
block down from me and their youngest son, Todd ('73) and my late
brother Howard ('72-RIP) were best buddies and always were
finding things to do. I think Wendy and her older brother Brock
('63-RIP) were gone from the household at the time. Wendy has
lived in Mississippi for years and really has the "southern
drawl". Our favorite waitress, Linda was back from having her
baby and left some pictures to share as she was headed home for
the day. Yes, Maren she had a daughter and named her Elyse. I'll
miss my first lunch next month as that's the day I climb Badger
Mountain for breast cancer awareness and the following week I'll
participate in a walk again for breast cancer.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Bomber Memorial
>>Don FOSS ~ Class of 1970 ~ 1951 - 2015
Bomber Memorials
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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