Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/03/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 Bombers sent stuff: Jim McKEOWN ('53), Barbara SESLAR ('60) Mike WAGGONER ('60), Helen CROSS ('62) Carol CONVERSE ('64), David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene LARSEN ('56) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve DENLER ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dickie RHODES ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jesse MALLORY ('66) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53) Re: Bomber Birthday A day late but not forgotten... Happy Big Whatever to Norma LOESCHER ('53) [on 11/2], the lady who never ages... I don't think she introduced me to my wife, but they were sorority sisters at Wazu, so she probably warned her about me... it was great seeing you at the September function, and, as always, you rock!! Much love!! `Jim/Edna Mckeown....class of 53 (me, anyway) -Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from cooling off and wet Sacramento ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60) Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon DATE: Saturday, November 5, 2016 TIME: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: 3 Margaritas (downtown near Lee Blvd.) Spouses and friends are also welcome! Please join us first Saturday of each month. Turn right inside the restaurant and you'll find us at the corner table. No reservations needed. -Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Mike WAGGONER ('60) Re: Atomic City, USA: How once-secret Los Alamos became a millionaire's enclave An interesting article about Richland's sister city. -Michael WAGGONER ('60) ~ Boulder CO ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) Re: Comments on the 11-2-16 Sandstorm I felt I had to comment on a couple of things in today's Sandstorm. First, being raised in CUP, I must admit I don't remember any sex education classes being offered at CUP during our Senior year or otherwise that David DOUGLAS ('62) mentioned, but working at Densow's Drugstore regularly did cut into my schedule, so I could have forgotten about it in the last 50 + years... I think had it been offered year after year... my dad would have wanted me to attend said classes,, because believe me, that was never discussed in our house. Also... Having been in Ketchikan, Alaska -- a few times, fortunately, as I love Alaska -- I couldn't remember any Bomber totem pole up there that Jim HAMILTON ('63) submitted. I had to laugh when I looked at the photo. http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161102-BomberTotemPole.jpg -Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we are still enjoying a very warm fall, it was 60° when I got up and it is suppose to hit 80° again today; we are still getting fall foliage colors, so tourists would love being here now. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) To: David DOUGLAS ('62) Song: It Is Well With My Soul one of my favorites!! -Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: The ol neighborhood(s) I've known these two Bombers since 6th and 2nd grade, respectively (age preceding uhhhhh... well you get the picher)... come to think of it, they are either the same age or one year apart... as many of us had to wait till almost puberty to start kinneygarden... I have a vivid memory of waking up on my 5th birthday and singing at the top of my lungs "today I go to school... bla bla bla"... but my mom hadda brake the news to me that I hadda wait another year... no matter, Good ol' Johnny Reed ('63wb) was waiting to walk with me to Jefferson... not that they let me in... he left me at the swings to wait for recess... some nice people came along and took me home (ah the joys of growing up in Richland)... I didn't know my address (1309 Haines) but was pretty sure my house was "pink"... I'm still not sure what color it was but it was not exactly pink... (I am sure the original colors are somewhere to be found in an archive of Richland Gubmint housing)... now where was I... oh yeah would meet the younger b-day Bomber (or shorter if they are the same age) when I moved to 1301 Acacia and started Spalding in the middle of the 2nd grade... I have misspelled his name all these years till he corrected me about 8 months ago or so... Now I have come to calling this kid my "guardian angel"... the morning of the Tet Offensive 1968, we had sent our Artillery to somewhere around Khe Sahn and Helos to probably Phu Bai... don't really matter 'cept to say we were left in the hands of the Americal Division of the US Army... now if you were with Americal at that time this is not about YOU... anyway, we called for support and it was denied... so all hell broke loose and remained that way till just before dawn... as the light began, we were greeted by Naval Gun Fire from the USS Edson and jets swooping overhead from the Enterprise... damn what a beautiful sound, though I must admit that naval gun fire just over your head and just beyond your position can be a bit un-nerving... bull shit... scared the hell outa me... a couple of weeks later, our Commandant and some Army types arrived to relieve the Army General of his command... it was an horrible time for Americal to the extent that the 196th Brigade (the bunch portrayed in Terry DAVIS' ('65) show "Tour of Duty"), which had never been a part of Americal before arriving in Vietnam, refused to wear or identify with anything "Americal"... I've met most of the living members of the 196th and know personally that this is true. Ah but the good news is... aboard that Destroyer (The Edson) was the '65er b-day Bomber! Damn straight, Dickie! Now the elder or taller Bomber, I met when I moved to 1002 Van Giesen... and met him inna new neighborhood... now here's a guy... I have never seen him in anything but a great mood... possibly one of the nicest guys I've ever met... so much so that when he changes email addresses or I in any other way lose touch with him, I go looking... true story (I don't make this stuff up)... so you can imagine how happy I am to scream HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Steve DENLER ('64) and Dick "Dickie" Rhodes ('65) on your special day, November 3, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************