Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/01/16
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8 Bombers sent stuff and memorial INFO for 2 Bombers today:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Rex HUNT ('53)
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Dan HAGGARD ('57)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Dwight CAREY ('68), Brad WEAR ('71)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann BISHOP ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane LEE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kevin KELLEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phyllis MAFFEI ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra ELLIOTT ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John MOSLEY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen FULCHER ('79)

BOMBER LUNCH: Class of '60, 11:30, 3 Margaritas (1st Sat)

	COLLEGE FOOTBALL YESTERDAY:
 UW#10, 44 vs. Stanford #7, 8 

	COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY:
11:00 (CT) ~ ND @ Syracuse Orange ~ ESPN 
 6:30 (CT) ~ LSU - Missouri Tigers (HC) ~ SECN
 8:30 (CT) ~ WSU - Oregon Ducks ~ PACN	

BOMBER CALENDAR: http://BrownBearsw.com/cal/All_Bombers
   Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)

Re: Moving back home

I have been back in the Tri Cities for a little over 5 years
now and, yes, it is much different than when I grew up in the
'40s and '50s, but it is still "home." I marvel at what has
been built where I used to hunt jack rabbits; where I used to
explore old buildings; where I used to skinny-dip; where I did
a lot of things that young boys find themselves involved with.
I remember when Truman Fergin, the son of the school
superintendent, and I found a dead muskrat and Truman picked
it up and the next day was pushing a cart around to all the
classrooms at Lewis and Clark with the muskrat on it and he
explained all the details about a muskrat and its habits. I
didn't know he knew anything about them. I just thought he
would be in big trouble for picking up that dead thing. And I
have driven by the very spot from where he picked it up many
times over these last 5 years.

If people want to know what it was like growing up in Richland
back in those days; Jim WATTS; ('54) book, "The Animal"
depicts a lot of vignettes that I'm sure many people of that
age can remember. It is certainly a window into our world of
that time. It is very useful to enlighten younger generations.
I loaned my copy to someone and I don't remember who. If you
have it, please bring it back to me.

-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco   
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Nostalgia

Looking back?

Look not backward in anger,
Nor forward in Fear,
But around in awareness!

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from lovely downtown Hanford, CA   where 
      the temps are down to 96 today! Not ready for the chill 
      factor.
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)

Re: Gloria ADAMS Fulcher ('54)

She doesn't want a lot of attention brought to her, but 
Gloria has given me permission to let all her classmates 
know of her accident!!

Gloria fell down some stairs at her home on September 10th and
shattered her right arm between the elbow and shoulder. She
had surgery at Yakima Medical Center on Tuesday, September
13th. (this is why we missed her at our 80th birthday party!!)
This week, on September 28th, she was moved to the Richland
Rehab Center at 1745 Pike Avenue, Richland, WA 99354. She is
doing well and will be there for a while to recuperate and
heal. Her 2 daughters live in the Tri-Cities, so it is
convenient for them to keep an eye on her, too. 

I visited Gloria today (Friday) and she is still in a lot of
pain but alert and cheery. I didn't stay long as not to tire
her out more, but I did ask her if it was okay if I notified
our classmates and friends of her condition and what 
happened to her. I also spoke with her daughter and met her
granddaughter and great grandson who were visiting. Please
send Gloria a card and wish her well. Her husband, Clarence
FULCHER ('51), is being taken care of by her son and seems to
be doing okay. He is not aware of what happened. 

-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco   In a cooling down
        Tri-Cities. Not looking forward to the cold weather!!
        Rain will be welcomed, tho!!
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>>From: Dan HAGGARD ('57)

WHAT: Class of 1957 ~ 60 Year Reunion
WHEN: September 8, 9, and 10, 2017 (yes, NEXT year)
WHERE: Red Lion (Hanford House) Richland with Club 40 on
      Friday and Saturday Evenings

Saturday from Noon to 3pm at the Community Center Riverview 
Room, Howard Amon Park, for a get together with light snacks 
and group picture at 2pm.

Sunday no host Picnic/Social from 11am until 3pm

More information to follow.

-Dan HAGGARD ('57)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

Re: Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be!
           or, You can't go back.

The whole Tri-Cities has changed dramatically since I moved 
to Richland in 1961. At that time it had not been that long
since the government had sold the town. It seemed that
everyone who had recently bought a house was remodeling them--
trying to make them look different than the rest of them.
There were three areas on new housing being built. One just
after you pulled off the bypass and on to Thayer, one on the
North side of Van Giesen near the bypass, and then the
"Doctor's houses" on the North side along the river. Got out
of the Navy in 1972 and there was a big push building reactors
and other projects. New houses being built all over the Tri-
Cities. Then in late '70s we decided we did not like nuclear
and threw away all that money and effort. I went from being 
a mechanical designer to a pizza driver. I drove all over
Richland delivering pizzas and it seemed that every block had
at least two houses with a "for sale" sign in the weed patch
that used to be a yard and the areas of alphabet houses
started to look like a slum. About 1990 they started big 
push for nuclear clean-up and there was a housing boom again.
People moved into the original part of town and fixed up the
houses, but over time I guess those people moved out to newer
houses being built and the old part of town is looking a bit
run down again. In 1973 or '74 a very young couple bought an 
"F" house just around the corner from us and in a few years he
somehow had a feeling it was time to sell; which he did and
went back to renting just before the housing crash. Then a few
years later when the prices were low bought a really nice
house near Jason Lee. I did know just at the beginning of the
housing boom comeback it was time to buy, but by that time had
spent what I had saved up for buying a house.

Two or three months ago I watched "The Next Voice You Hear"
with James Whitmore and Nancy Davis Reagan and thought the
filming of the houses looked just like the neighborhood of an
Aunt and Uncle of mine who lived in Fullerton, CA. I thought
that would make sense to pick a neighborhood in the burbs near
Hollywood for outside shots would save a lot of money. Just 
to satisfy my curiosity I checked the Internet Movie Database
thinking I would just find a town, but they gave a street
address "4233 Le Bourget Avenue, Culver City, California,
USA." This really peaked my curiosity and I wondered how much
it had changed so I looked up Google maps street view. The
movie had been released in 1950 and the shot at Google street
view in 2016 so that is 66 years and I was totally blown away!
In all those years hardly anything had changed! The house
where the family lived has shutters on both front windows
instead of one. Shrubs seem the same only taller on one side.
They are different on the other side and what I think must be
a mailbox is standing next to the steps. A couple fixtures on
the door are different and the house number looks different.
Even the driveway where James Whitmore keeps backing out at 
a high rate of speed almost hitting guys in cars and cops on
motorcycles is the same. It has two strips on concrete, one
for wheels on each side. I bet there is not one in a thousand
like it, but at the sidewalk they come together like little
triangles, then on the other side of sidewalk is grass, there
concrete fans out to the street. I have never seen that before
and they didn't even widen the street in 66 years. One thing 
I don't understand is there are four front steps, the second 
and third are not as wide as the others leaving a gap on each
side. Was this done for shrubs? I think it would be a safety
hazard, someone might make one step on the side, then another
and there is no step there. That is something I would have
changed a long time ago. I am including a link to the Google
street view photo so you can look at and understand what I am
saying--'cause I am not sure I would.

Movie shooting location.

Not only was the house where they ware supposedly living not
changed much, but I spent a lot of time moving the Google maps
photo around and playing the movie back and forth and studied
the two houses on the left and the two on the right and they
were also very little changed, maybe a bay window here and
some different shrubbery, just little things.

Re: Alley Oop, the time traveling caveman

I was surprised to learn that Alley Oop was unknown in the
Tri-Cities when the song came out. I lived in Milton-Freewater
when the song came out where people read the Walla Walla Union
Bulletin and it carried the comic strip so I was aware of
Alley Oop and remember seeing him both riding dinosaurs and
wearing a business suit although it was not a comic strip 
I read. I did see a video clip of a scientist inventing a 
time machine and transported a very surprised Alley and his
girlfriend to modern times. Dick Clark used to have a radio
show on Saturdays called, I think, "Rock, Roll & Remember." If
I couldn't listen I would tape it on a reel-to-reel tape deck.
He had one he called "The Shooting Stars," today they are
usually referred to as "One Hit Wonders." I liked that one so
well I saved the tape and later transferred it to a cassette.
Have not seen that tape in years but am sure I still have it.
Anyway, I think that was where he said he had the Hollywood
Argyles on Bandstand and it was really hated; nobody liked
that song, then it went on to become a number one hit. Dan
HOOPER ('64-RIP) told me when the song was popular he was
called "Danny Hoop," and/or was it "Danny Hoop-Hoop... 
Hoop... Hoop-Hoop."

-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From:  Linda REINING ('64)

Re: Richland Memories 

I miss the "old Richland" that I grew up with, in the '50s 
and '60s. It isn't the same town anymore. Last time I was 
there I drove around to the houses that I lived in (the 
3-bedroom prefab on Rossell... that entire area is so run 
down; the 3-bedroom Ranch on Elm... that area is still pretty
good; was really sad to drive by what was my grandmother's 
2-bedroom prefab on Winslow and see how badly that area has
"gone down the tubes"... what was her house is in need of
repairs and the front yard was full of cars... have great
memories of happy times at her house and was sad to see it so
run down). I know we can't stop progress, but it just seems
so sad to see the changes. I left Richland in '66... once you
move away, I don't think you can ever really go back. I still
have family in the Tri-Cities, so I will always visit, but it
isn't "home" anymore and that makes me wish for "the old 
days".

-Linda REINING ('64) ~ loving life in Kuna, ID   
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)

Re: Richland now vs "back in the day"

David RIVERS ('65),  Love Your Memories... If we didn't have
memories... we'd lose so much.

I agree with the responses, as well... So, I went driving by
our old home... The one we grew up in and learned how to
"Properly" ride behind the mosquito sprayer... .

So deep in the fog your parents couldn't see who it was (well,
hardly)... The neighborhoods are different now, for sure... .
But far from in any dire straits... .

2-bedroom prefabs... the 1943 "temporary" housing... are going
for over $120K on the market for less than 5 days. SO... the
pride of ownership is poking its head back out, and every
neighborhood is rebounding.

Our memories are from a town with all new houses, hellacious
wind storms, new trees, and a "Provider" that would bring
furniture around to us on the back of trucks... Everyone got 
1 of this, 2 of this... 

I remember digging holes for two Sycamore Trees, and planting
them a couple days later when they were delivered... some of
those trees are now 100' tall. 

Those were the days of party-line telephones, no computers, 
no cell phones... just the street lights to guide you... 
really... We loved it, and the tales of growing up there 
will fill several books. I'm sure you've started yours by
copying all your old Sandstorm entries.

And yes, there are new memories being made as we speak... .
Somewhat different than ours, but related to growing up in
Richland, just the same!!

Those original Richland kids are now parents and grandparents,
and are influential in much the same way our parents were with
us. Very unique, and very different from every other place in 
this great country!!

-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)

Re: Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday to one of my long time buds on his special day.
A Chief Jo, (9th grade only) Col-Hi alum, an Army vet, a Coast
Guard vet, a hunting and fishing buddy, a big Happy Birthday
to John MOSLEY ('71) on October 1st. Hope it's a good
one!!!!!!!

-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in unseasonably cool Plano, TX   where, 
      yes, the dove hunting is still great! 
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>>not a memorial - only INFO today

>>Rich BOWEN ('65-RIP)

Celebration of Life; TODAY, Saturday, October 1, 2016, 2pm
Riverview Baptist Church 4921 W. Wernett, Pasco
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not a memorial - only INFO today

>>Jerry IRWIN ('58-RIP)

MEMORIAL SERVICE: TOMORROW, Sunday, October 2nd, 2016, 1:30pm
Bethel Church on Keene Rd in Richland. Reception to follow.
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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