Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/02/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Bombers sent stuff: Mike CLOWES ('54) David DOUGLAS ('62) Jim HAMILTON ('63) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma LOESCHER ('53) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom BEAULIEU ('59) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David DOWIS ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rita JOHNSON ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chris ROE ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich JACOBS ('75) BOMBER LUNCH: Class of '63, 11:30, Bob's Burgers BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) From the Soapbox Department: Next Sunday we all turn our clocks to Standard Time. It would be nice if the powers that be said that will be the last time we do it. Doubt if they could get it done before then, which would leave us on Daylight Time, but just for giggles call it Standard Time. 'nuff said. [I leave my car clock and one clock in my house on Daylight Savings time... the clocks that are a P.I.T.A. to change. -Maren] Got more important things to do here. There is a Bomber Babe of my acquaintance who deserves some recognition at this time. Now I knew her back when she was a junior and I a sophomore. We thesped together once... don't think we were on stage at the same time, but we were in the same production. For a brief time she was my Editor on the real Sandstorm, but it didn't last. Fortunately I see her at Club 40 Annual Meetings which sort of takes up the slack. A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" for Norma LOESCHER ('53) on the momentous occasion of her 23rd birthday. Really try to enjoy this one with whomever. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where farmers are fattening up turkeys. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: David DOUGLAS ('62) Helen CROSS Kirk's ('62) mention of Central UP church on 10/30/16 reminded me of a time I attended a Good Friday service there. Tris MAYBERRY Knaff ('62) invited me to go with her. Since it meant getting out of afternoon classes and the church was a short walk away, I cheerfully went. The service was somewhat different to the ones at Richland Baptist Church where I was a member. The most unusual part was a group of young girls dressed in white robes who did an interpretive dance (although what it interpreted I wasn't sure). I hadn't seen anything like that in church before. After graduating from college and marrying a girl from Honolulu, we settled in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and on several occasions enjoyed watching Christian hula dances. Hula is somewhat different from the CUP dance as it is like sign language - certain movements and gestures have specific meanings. What reminded me of all this was our worship service here in Mesa Sunday. The choir sang "It Is Well With My Soul," my dad's favorite hymn. My older brother Walker DOUGLAS ('57) sang it at his funeral. During the triumphant last stanza, a young girl did a ballet dance, which was very enjoyable. I was reminded of the Bible verse, Psalms 149:3 - "Let them praise his name with dancing." The little girl certainly did that. I went to CUP a few more times. Tris also invited me to a sex education class at the church. One of the interesting dates I had with her. Richland Baptist discouraged social dancing. I went to four dances in high school - our German class Christmas party/dinner/dance (my date Patty BEZZIO ('63-RIP) spent the evening in the restroom throwing up), the Thanksgiving Formal with exchange student Vivian GERICKE ('62) (I asked other guys to dance with her), the Tolo dance with Patty (she didn't throw up that time - I guess she developed a strong stomach after dating me for a year), and the Junior-Senior Prom with Tris (I warned her ahead of time I didn't dance, so we just enjoyed the music). The first time I actually went onto a dance floor with a girl was in college. I had a blind date to a dance at a girls' boarding school (shows you how desperate they were to find dates for the girls) in Walla Walla. I was warned ahead of time that the chaperons were to be able to see space between us while we were dancing. However, my date didn't seem to know about that rule. Nobody, including me, called her attention to it. We may have moved to the music, but I'm sure nobody who knows how to dance would ever call what we did dancing. -David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where it's cooling off and becoming harder to keep the pool warm, although I shouldn't complain as it's now November and hopefully we'll have a couple more days to swim, and the water's a lot warmer than the Columbia River ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63) Was going thru the pictures of our Alaskan Cruise this summer and found this shot of the Bomber Totem Pole at the Totem Bight State Historical Park in Ketchikan. http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161102-BomberTotemPole.jpg -jimbeaux -Jim HAMILTON ('63) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************