Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/12/15
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5 Bombers sent stuff and memorial INFO today: 
Jerry BOYD ('52), David DOUGLAS ('62)
Helen CROSS ('62), John CAMPBELL ('63)
Linda REINING ('64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Arlene HORNE ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick MORRELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane CROSS ('79)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Jerry BOYD ('52)

To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Patsy McGREGOR ('54) and I was married on November 11, 1952.
 
I made a good choice! (63 years)

-Jerry BOYD ('52)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)


To: Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63):

I don't recall you, but if you ever played Kick the Can during
the summer, I'm sure I must have encountered you.

Re: Board of Education

Speaking of encounters, I had one encounter with the 'board of
education' - in 7th grade PE at Carmichael. Not because of
misbehavior - it was on my birthday. I remember getting a swat
from the paddle. It certainly wasn't the 'pat' I was expecting -
it stung. It served as a good incentive never to misbehave.
Thankfully, I don't remember the teacher's name. Someone will
probably tell me.

Re: Miscellaneous memories

PE was definitely not my favorite class. One rainy day at
Carmichael the boys were playing basketball in the gym, skins
versus shirts, while the girls sat in the bleachers watching.
Someone on the other team fouled me and I had a free throw
coming. The guy was angry and threw the ball at a sensitive
portion of my anatomy. I was barely able to make the free throw
before I went over to the bleachers, where my girlfriend Mary K.
Poore (her family moved away when she was in 9th grade) was
sitting, and doubled over. She wanted to know what my problem
was. I did not tell her.

I'm also grateful for the privilege of growing up in Richland.
It was a very safe environment - we could ride our bicycles all
over town without our parents worrying about us. I did develop a
lifelong fear of dogs from being bitten three times riding my
bike.

The school system was excellent. I especially remember music
class at Marcus Whitman Elementary. I earned the nickname "Daisy
Douglas" in 6th grade for requesting "Bicycle Built for Two"
whenever I had the chance. I did not like art class, as I was
very unartistic and got "M" on my report card all the way
through, for Mediocre, I guess. I still draw stick figures.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for my girlfriends I wouldn't
have many memories of high school. I missed the Homecoming dance
my senior year to have an operation on my thyroid at a hospital
in Seattle. It left a scar across my throat. When people asked
me what happened I'd say, "My girlfriend [Diane ZELLEY ('63) at
the time] and I had a slight disagreement."

I know I got sent to the office twice by one of my English
teachers (sophomore English, I think) because I was tired of
going over grammar when I'd had an intensive semester of it in
8th grade General Languages.

I only skipped classes once, to take the civil service exam for
substitute mail carrier, as I was hopeful of getting a summer
job. I probably could have gotten permission to skip class, but
it was easier to have a classmate forge a note from my mother
for me. The office never asked to see it, so maybe nobody
noticed.

I've often told the story of the time my first period safe
driving class was practicing driving on the highway to
Kennewick. We had a flat tire. The teacher said it was a good
opportunity to learn how to change a tire. He opened up the
trunk - no spare. He had to walk a ways to find a phone and call
the school. The other driving teacher said he'd bring us his
spare second period. When he finally arrived he laughed at our
teacher for leaving school without a spare. He opened his trunk
- his spare was flat. He went back to school, and the custodian
brought us a working spare in the pickup truck. We got back to
school right at the end of third period, in time for lunch.

I also recall that I was the only senior at graduation who
didn't get a handshake from the principal when I received my
diploma. I guess he didn't like my calling him a liar. I wrote 
a letter to the editor of the Tri-City Herald when the school
board was considering building a new gymnasium, complaining my
physics class only had 30 textbooks for all the physics classes.
If we had to take one home to study we had to get to the room
right after the closing bell rang to have any hope of checking
one out. My letter was discussed at a board meeting and the
principal was asked to explain. He said we had an older textbook
for every student which was the basic text, and the new text was
only supplemental - which was absolutely false, as Mr. Scott
verified to me. Anyway, I was just glad to graduate.

-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ   where it has suddenly turned 
      quite cold.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

My belated thanks to the veterans who came home, and to the
families of those who didn't make it back, and especially those
who endured captivity so that we living in this great nation of
ours could continue to live in freedom. We will be honoring the
veterans at our church this weekend, because we were not church
last weekend, but on a religious retreat.

It is mind-twisting to think of all the prices veterans have
given for our freedom.

Let us all honor, respect and defend that freedom as best we
can.

Re: More thanks

I want to sincerely thank Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
for sending me her books on Early days in our area. I was on
vacation when you mailed the books, so I just got them this
week. I am really enjoying reading them. Just wish my dad and
uncle - who were both avid Bomber fans - could see the book on
Bomber basketball.

I also want to thank Donna BOWERS Rice ('63) for responding to
my comments on her distant relative Meriweather Lewis of Lewis
and Clark fame. After hearing some of the facts (like he was
shot twice when he died) I tend to believe he was murdered. I
have read books about both Lewis and Clark, but I want to read
the books you recommended.

Sorry it took me so long to respond; you wrote when I was on
vacation and my time was spent carrying my 20 pound 6 month old
grandson or swimming with or shooting hoops with my 11 year old
older grandson, so I was exhausted when I was with them, but I
miss them already.

Thank you for writing to me about one of my favorite subjects:
Lewis and Clark.

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN   where the sun is shining 
   and it will reach 65° today, but colder weather is in the air
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)

Re: Don BRACKENBUSH ('63) birthday [on 11/11]

Marilyn and I went to the latest James Bond movie, SPECTRE, 
last evening with our great friends, Don BRACKENBUSH ('63) and 
Lila JENNE Brackenbush ('63). We always enjoy celebrating our
birthdays  [11/11 and 11/15] together. Hope we have many more 
with our dear friends.

-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

To: Barb BELCHER Valinske ('72)

Re: Mr, Anderson (RIP - your grandfather)
 
He was a good teacher... had a lot of patience with me, as I had
absolutely NO artistic talent... for one particular assignment,
we had to be in "teams" and each team was assigned a mural that
had to have a scene with people, animals, trees, grasses, rivers
and bushes (I think we were studying Egypt, so the mural had to
incorporate things to do with that country) and had to be drawn
on a wall in the classroom... I begged to be able to just draw
the rivers, trees and/or grasses, but each member of the team
was required to draw a person... I would just stand there and
stare at that blasted blank piece of "butcher paper"... your
grandfather finally came up to me and whispered that it didn't
matter what I drew, just put pencil to the paper and "it" will
come to you. I did manage to draw a figure, that resembled a
person. I also remember him giving us a demonstration of what
cigarettes would do to our lungs, if we ever smoked... am sure,
now, he'd be in all kinds of trouble and probably be fired, but
he took out a cigarette, lit it, blew smoke into a white
handkerchief and told us that the yellow stain was from the
nicotine and he emphasized that it would stay in our lungs and
would also stain our teeth... I'd like to say that it deterred
me from smoking... took up that habit at 18 and took me 12 years
to quit.

-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID   
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not a memorial - only INFO today

>>Tanya FISHER ('90-RIP)

from the Einan's website:
Service: Friday, November 13, 2015, at 12:00pm 
Events at  Sunset in Richland,
Grave side at Sunset Gardens to follow.
Please come share your memories immediately following the 
grave side, at a reception being held at our Events Center.
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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