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Alumni Sandstorm Archive ~ December, 2016
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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/01/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley PITTMAN ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat NORDMAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chris WILLIAMSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PANTHER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy MARSHALL ('73)
12/01 24 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Crazy Quilt Dragon" (Episode #3)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Here it is, another payday for many. A mere coinkydinky that
it just happens to be the birthday of a Bomber Babe of my
acquaintance. Yup, went to school with her, graduated with her,
and didn't see her again until R2K. My how the time flies.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to
Pat NORDMAN ('54). Hope Pete takes you somewhere nice for
dinner tonight.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
snow levels may be lowering to the 1,000-foot level
(but, thankfully, not to the Valley floor).
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
... off the cuff and other things ~ Judy... Kippy & Others
Re: Judy KEPLINGER ('61-RIP)
While having Sunday breakfast with Peggy STULL ('64) during our
50 year reunion in 2014 we joined Judy KEPLINGER ('61) & Judy
SCOTT ('64) at their table for a bit of conversation. While I
did not know Judy Keplinger at that time I certainly became
aware of her professionalism & sweetness. Thanks to Judy and
the Keplinger Family for their generosities of the heart!
Re: Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62) and harp... 1996
Re: Sandra "Sue" SUTCH ('64)
Re: Still searching for JoAnne POWERS ('64)
Anyone help? When was the last time you saw her? While this
site is a bit out-of-date, the email address is still good.
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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[I goofed.... this should have been in yesterday's
Sandstorm. Bomber apologies, Brad. -Maren]
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Happy Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday to someone I went all through school with.
She's someone who always helps with our class functions.
She's also someone who always showed up at my parties. A
big Happy Birthday to Sandy CLARK Chamberlain ('71) [on 11/30].
Hope you have many more.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in sunny Plano, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/02/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith ARNDT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kent MADSEN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SNIDER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy RICE ('73)
12/02 23 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "The Ikaboos" (Episode #4)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Deadliest Catch
My wife Jackie was notified today that we will be firing the
Crab Season Opener Fireworks Display for the TV Program "The
Deadliest Catch".
It will be several months before it is on the air but we shoot
it January 13, 2017, at Dutch Harbor, AK as the boats race out
to drop their crab pots to start the season.
I will already be up here just getting back to Anchorage from
NYE at Dutch Harbor. We fly back out on the 11th to start set-
up. There are several hundred items so it will be a an exciting
show?
I am a feature writer for Pyrotechnics Publications in both the
US and UK. Jack Drewes publisher of the American Fireworks News
and the Fireworks Business Newsletter intended for owners and
managers of all aspects of fireworks, from raw materials
suppliers to operators of fireworks stores and all in between.
Not sure how Jack found out about it but American Fireworks
News has already commissioned me this afternoon to write an
article about it.
This past year I had 3 published in the UK and 7 or 8 in the
US. They run 1200 to 1600 words. It is all part of the fun of
being in an unusual job.
Jackie and I were just discussing the different situations we
get involved in with pyrotechnics at lunch when her cell phone
buzzed and it was Lisa the producer from Deadliest Catch.
Jackie has been in pyrotechnics for over 35 years and I am over
60 years in it. We were planning a couple of trips this year
in semi retirement and the phone is ringing. Not complaining
as we both love the challenges of doing pyro in a wide variety
of situations. But we think we can get away a couple of times.
WinterBlast is coming in Feb. So if we make the "Blast" and get
away in May for 2-3 weeks and maybe something in the fall, it
will be good.
Re: Gen. James MATTIS ('68)
I am still waiting to hear Mattis is the new Sec Defense.
See this CNN article - Mattis selected but not yet confirmed
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ Anchorage House where it is cold
with mild winds that are icy. There is some snow on the
ground in places.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: two cool Bombers
One of which is a babe are having b-days while I'll be playing
Davy Crockett... ain't never seed mucha Texas 'cept Lubbock to
celebrate the life and times of Buddy Holly... Terry DAVIS
('65) and I went to Dallas I think for a Viet-vet annual
meeting... but I'm interested in just seein' stuff so I'll be
away from my Computer for a while... that said I don't wanna
miss these two and I always ask way too much of my bestex/our
Bomber-babe editor so I'm doin' this before I leave... oh there
is one burning question... since our Halloween candy was prolly
doled out my dear ol' mom, does anyone else buy way more than
you need and become addicted to certain kinds? I need to start
buying even more of those huge bags of snickers and peanut
butter cups while they are still available... having big time
withdrawals... sooooooo HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Patti SNIDER ('65) and
Kent MADSEN ('65) on your special day, December 2, 2016!!!!!!!
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-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/03/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick VINCENT ('71)
12/03 22 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Weasley Wailing Whale" (Episode #5)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
My wife Jackie has been posting some fun craft tutorials
for turning old and new family photos into great Christmas
projects.
She would appreciate it if you would check them out at
www.Genealogy-Gencrafts.com
and please like and share the page... she has put a lot of
work into the tutorials and would love to share it with as
many as possible.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
General James MATTIS ~~
Congratulations to James MATTIS ('68) for becoming the next
Defense Secretary!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
there are strong rumors of snow the beginning of next week
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Larry MATTINGLY's ('60) post
Have never watched, "Deadliest Catch", but guess I'll have to
find it and watch the fireworks display. *grin*
Re: David RIVERS' ('65) post
my daughter and son-in-law buy "umpteen" bags the mini bags
of candy, every Halloween, then we manage to "hide" the
Butterfingers, Snickers, Payday, and Milky Way for us. ;) they
buy the largest bags they can find... had over 100 kids coming
to the door, this year, but didn't have to dig into our
"stash". *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ we are getting snow flurries in Kuna, ID
and I am a "happy camper".
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/04/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff today::
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Leoma COLES ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda DANIEL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michelle KAFENTZIS ('71)
12/04 21 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Samuel Seal" (Episode #6)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: How kinda cool is this
Probably the first Frequent Flyer program, wonder how many
laps it took to earn one and put in on the back of your
parents' wagon.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161204-Dub_Cruisin.jpg
Someone want to get to work on one for Zip? Lew Lloyd would be
just one left turn short of having one with a "V" device.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
For any class of '63 Bombers that remember Judith Gilman... she
sent me a message on facebook that she was in Newport, OR just
south of Lincoln City, OR... she was on a road trip from
Denver, CO and wanted to know if I could meet up for
coffee while she was in the area. Well, we met last night in
Newport, after my Girl Scout cookie leader training meeting. We
had a great visit and caught up on many years of personal
history.
She retired from teaching school and has gone into painting.
I was so glad to see her, and we promised to keep in touch..
It's always a pleasure to visit with friends from Richland
when they get over to the Oregon Coast!!
Well, I can't even believe it's December already... not sure
where November went!
Happy Holidays to all my friends out there in Bomberland...
-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ Lincoln City, OR where it's a rainy day
at the coast again, but I love it!!
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: What a day
fer a day dream... I'm diggin' this post as one a them dayz you
just feel warm and fuzzy all over... every night I go to bed
to a set of glowing foot prints near the wall next to my bed...
sounds strange? Nah for my 60th b-day the B-day Bomber babe and
her husband gave me the "Hanford scale"... the one our folks
and most of us were weighed on by Dr. Corrado... one of her
beeeeeeeeeeaaaaauteeeful daughters (the eldest) put those feets
on the scale so I wouldn't trip over my own big feets inna dark
I am sure... BUT
First I gotta thank everyone for the posts, calls and well
wishes on my birthday... believe it or not I actually went to
Luckenbach, Texas and hadda bang up time... since I don't use
a smart phone I wasn't able to read alla wishes till Saturday
morning...
Next... As our own General James MATTIS ('68) looks to be the
next Secretary of Defense, Jack KEENEY ('65) has decided to
make a second run of the "Bring back Mad Dog" T's... they will
run 15 smackers plus shipping if needed. Orders can be taken
either through Dick STEPHENS ('66) or Bill VOILAND ('66)... I
have Dick's number if'n ya don't have it...
Now... taa daa daa daa... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Janine RIGHTMIRE
('65) on your special day, December 5, 2016... Ride Happy, JE!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthdays
Boy, oh, boy I missed Rick VINCENT's ('71) birthday yesterday,
but he's in Kajecistan or Waziristan, or some "stan" so he
probably is ok with it. However, today is Michelle KAFENTZIS'
('71) birthday, and I don't want to miss it. Happy Birthday,
and many more.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ n cold Plano, TX where you know how you
know how the hunting is
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/05/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Steve CARSON ('58)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
John ZIMMER ('66), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David DOUGLAS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janine RIGHTMIRE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna THORSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Art SNYDER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff FULCHER ('76)
12/05 20 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Presto the Magician" (Episode #7)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
There's good news and bad news.
The good news is that the Huskies are in the final four with a
chance for the National Champeenship. They gotta get by 'Bama
first.
The bad news is that the Bombers lost to the (gasp) Papermakers
from Camas.
The other bad news is that The Tooter ('65) eggscaped from
Luckenback (or whatever) TX, which means that he is more nor
likely plotting his way to Olympia to crash yet another party.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
weather guessers are saying there might be a few snow
flakes making it to the valley floor, but not sticking.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Watched the State Championship game last night.
Congratulations on an impressive season Bombers. You played
well.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
I watched the 4A WA state championship on TV last night
broadcast from the Tacoma Dome. The Bombers lost 14 to 24
against an amazingly strong Camas team. From what I saw
the real difference in the outcome was the penalties that
overwhelmed the Bombers. If not for that, the game might have
had a different outcome. That said, I was glad to see the
sportsmanship displayed after the game by our Bomber football
team. Our young men could be seen actually congratulating the
Camas players in the line as they passed each other. It made me
proud to be a Bomber! They came up against a bigger team and
played their hearts out. The Camas coach said the Bombers were
the best team they had played all year. In the end, I would say
that our young men won what really counts.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in windy and getting colder
Richland
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: 30 dayz has September
er sumthin like that... I find since I turned 70 so long ago
that I am totally losing my mind... yesterday (Saturday) I was
convinced it was the 4th so I did my HB to Janine RIGHTMIRE
('65) with a huge smile on my face... and then this morning
(Sunday) it was the 4th again... groundhog day or Deja Vu all
over agin...
I know you know I would never cheer for the "other" team... but
the Richland Camas game reminded me of my second semester, Jr
year... we moved to Camas... at the time I hardly had the idea
I would end up spending my Sr year living in a boarding house
in East Pasco (never occurred to me I was NOT zoned for Col-
Hi... kids don't think about stuff like that)... there were
three of us from "big" schools at Camas Hi... my buddy from a
school in Vancouver, my girlfriend from Cal-Poly and me. We
just naturally hung together and did our best to be outcasts
and mysterious... when we danced, everyone would stop and watch
as tho we were in some kind of movie... while I missed Richland
I have to say I had the time of my life... I got to know Paul
Revere and the Raiders, had a total "surfer girl" for a girl
friend (my mom thought she should wear stuff that showed less
cleavage... but I dug it) and pretty much just tore up the
town... it was very much like a dream because we had so damned
much fun and pretty much did as we pleased... had I lived
there any longer I am sure consequences would have followed
shortly... I cannot possibly know how the Sr Bombers felt at
the loss (Sr Class not us old people)... to play your last game
with such a result would be something else... Terry DAVIS ('65)
and I spent some time talking about it today (Sunday)... I
was the lucky one... after 9th grade Mommy dearest told me no
football till my grades got better... I guess she thought I
had goals and ambitions... hell all I wanted to do was drink,
smoke, drive around, and chase girls... so that's what I did...
Nancy MIDDLETON's ('67-RIP) mom signed my report cards my Sr
year, I worked at Richland Bell and just hadda grand ol' time
till grageashun when reality set in and boy did it set in!
Well, I may not know what day it is but at least it ain't cuz a
my drinkin'! Thank God! So another HB to JE and good going to
our Bombers... we are always proud of you no matter what!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: John ZIMMER ('66)
Re:A very Happy Birthday to Donna THORSON Whiteside
I do not get to see her very often but she will always be in
my thoughts. Donna caught up with me just before our 40 year
reunion after she and Shirley COLLINS Haskins ('66) found out
I was not "missing in action" through the Classmates website.
Donna made it a point to meet me as I was coming to the lobby
of the Red Lion and greeted me so warmly that it was almost
like I had not missed all of those years. Donna, I wish you
all of the best and on your special day, have a fantastic day.
Always a friend, always a Bomber, always here for you whenever.
-John ZIMMER ('66), Club 40 President
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: State Championship Football Game
Richland fell to Camas 14-24 at the Tacoma Dome Saturday night,
taking 2nd in the State.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where we have our
first possible snow this week and temperatures dropping
to 15° Tuesday night.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/06/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim HAMILTON ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Linda McKNIGHT ('65), Pat DORISS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Neil GOFF ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DeVINE ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha LAWELL ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lamont DeJONG ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda McKNIGHT ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe ROWE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dawn MASON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marc DOUGLAS ('77)
12/06 19 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Candy Pirates" (Episode #8)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
A quick perusal of my Mary Lou WATKINS ('63), "How Many Days To
My Birthday Calendar" reflects that today is the 72nd Annual
Moon Raising of the 6-7-8 Club and the much anticipated first
bite out of the ceremonial Artic Circle Burger.
Happy Birthday to Lamont DeJONG ('63) on the 6th, Jim HOUSE ('63)
on the 7th and Anita "The Cradle Robber" HEILING ('63) on the 8th.
Let the festivities commence
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: dunt da dunt da daaaaaaaaaaa
'spozed to me kinda like a fanfare... oh (you knew this was
coming... admit it!) before I launch into the faaaaaaaaantastic
b-days... I have promised to mention this one more time...
anyone who would like a Bomber "Bring back Mad Dog" T-shirt
honoring our own General Jim MATTIS ('68)... you may call Dick
STEPHENS ('66) at the number on the girl's bathroom wall that
says: "For a good time call 509 713-4537" or if you don't feel
like fries and tarter you can just use the number in this
post... 15 smackers if no mail is involved... you can also get
two for the price of two... and so on... these shirts will not
have pockets like the last batch so he is getting a better
price...
Now... I gotta Bomber-babe I've known pretty much alla my life
and a Bomber dude that I've known at least since Jr Hi but at
the time he was an upper classman, as Doug HAWKINS ('62) would
say... come to think of it... Doug really doesn't say that...
he calls me a "lower classman"... I think he means it inna nice
way... .I think... so anyway... I look so very forward to
seeing this guy and his bomber-babe when I am home... and they
always keep me inna loop when they are off playing in the surf
in Hawaii... he (and she) are the kinda people I wanna be when
I grow up... sooooooooo HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Lamont DeJONG ('63) and
Linda McKNIGHT ('65) on your special day, December 6, 2016!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Linda McKNIGHT Hoban ('65)
Happy birthday to my friend, Lamont DeJONG ('63), who shares
being left-handed and our birfday's the same day. Hope your
day is awesome just like you!!.
-Linda McKNIGHT Hoban ('65) ~ from 38° Tigard, Oregon, where
we had a bit of snowflakes but they didn't stick!!!
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
Re: RHS '65 Ladies December Lunch
The "Classy Ladies of '65" will be getting together for our
monthly lunch this Friday at Anthony's Restaurant in Richland.
It'll be fun to catch up on news/gossip, discuss what we're
doing over the holidays, and talk about our plans and dreams
for 2017.
If you're a Class of '65 Lady, please contact me and I'll add
your name to our reservation!
WHEN: Friday, December 5, 2016
TIME: 11:45 AM to 1:30 PM
WHERE: Anthony's Restaurant, 550 Columbia Point Dr, Richland
If you have any questions, lets me know!
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) ~ West Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/07/16 ~ PEARL HARBOR DAY
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HOFF ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed BORASKY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HOUSE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry SPEARS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karma KING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy HARVILLE ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike DAVIS ('74)
12/07 2010 Entry from Patti JONES Ahrens ('60-RIP)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Jon/101207-XmasTips.htm
12/07 18 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Rolly Polly Policeman" (Episode #9)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gadzooks! I dun went and forgot a Bomber Babe birthday. And to
think I saw her last at the most recent gathering of Portland
area Bombers. Sorry about that.
So, a day late in doing so, but a tip of the ol' propeller
beanie and a belated "Happy Birthday!" to Linda McKNIGHT ('65).
Hope you and Denny had a good party.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the promised snow flakes went unseen, but school started late
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Bomber, Marine and Friend
So here we are kids... today I get to talk about one of my
heroes... not that the other guy celebrating isn't cooler than
cool... I have always admired guys who can be the darling of
the world and maintain total humility and dignity... needless
to say, I have never managed to be the darling of the world let
alone be within hailing distance of humility and dignity... but
it's good to have goals... How would we ever be able to express
our love and devotion to our fellow Bombers without this
forum... I for one am totally grateful for the opportunity to
let others know how deeply they have touched my life... I am
only sorry that my circle of friends has not expanded further
than it has... I enjoyed "growing up" with both these guys and
am only sorry that words do not come close to my feelings... so
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jim HOUSE (#32; '63) and Jerry SPEARS ('64) on
your special day, December 7, 2016... Bo Belinsky (NAB;RIP)
would be proud to share his birthday with you both!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
For those of you keeping score at home, it's 51 days until
Mary Lou's birthday. Plenty of time to pick out a real nice
card, a really nice card, or flowers.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
The All Bomber lunch is upon us once again. Now that winter is
trying to find its way into the Tri-Cities why not join us for
this great time?
WHEN: Saturday, 10 December 2016
TIME: starts at 11:30
WHERE: Sterlings on Queensgate,
just ask at the desk where our group is
(hopefully in the more private back area of the restaurant).
-Betti AVANT ('69)
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
"JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bernie QUALHEIM ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anita CLEAVER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol FORSYTHE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John WILSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toni SHADE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bethany HAGAN ('00)
12/08 17 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Professor Whiz" (Episode #10)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK I know the joke...we have no clue what cold is in Las
Vegas...well lemme tell you... it'll be a cold day in...
dang... the thermometer lies!!!!! I don't care what anybody
says... when I gotta wear long pants and a sweatshirt... then
it is cold enough for me... and what's this I hear about snow
in Richland... yuk... that's awful... makes me shiver just to
think of it... well, even though I am not a fan of cold...
normally I would be getting ready to head for Oly to have some
Chowder with a girl named Carol inna red sweater... waaaaaaah
this year I won't be donning my mukluks and joining the Gold
Medal class... now speaking of that famous class... today's
Bomber-babe is a real member and not adopted like me... sooooo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Anita CLEAVER ('63) on your special day,
December 8, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
Re: Bomber Alumni and science teacher Jim HARBOUR ('55-RIP)
My prayers and condolences to the family:
Obit for Harbour
He has such an impact on so many lives!
-John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/09/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff today:
David DOUGLAS ('62), Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Deedee WILLOX ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Phil GOLDSMITH ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth MILES ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy FINNEY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John MARSHALL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill VOILAND ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda OTT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Margi MAY ('66)
12/09 16 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Fee Foe the Gentle Giant" (Episode #11)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
I know how David RIVERS ('65) feels about cold weather. I had
my fill of snow growing up in Richland. After living in Hawaii
for 34 years, I don't think I could survive snow, which is
why I live in Arizona now. While in Hawaii I worked for the
hospital association and often spoke by phone to people on the
mainland. Sometimes they'd say, "It's so cold - 42°, but with
the wind chill factor it feels like 32." I'd reply, "I know
what you mean. Here it's 83 °, but with the wind chill it's
more like 82. Not everyone appreciated my comment.
I missed out on the discussion of veterans - my son was having
medical problems. Although I never served in the armed forces,
I'm sort of an honorary Marine - I was born on Parris Island
Marine Base. (I owe my very existence to the IRS, but that's
another story.) My dad served in the Marines twice, once during
the '30s as a guard at the American embassy in Peking, China.
Dad was an amateur photographer and took many pictures of
places in China that I never dreamed I'd get to see in person
some day, when I taught at Tianjin University for a year.
Dad served a second time in the Marines during WWII, when he
was stationed in the South Pacific theater. Before leaving he
gave my mom two pages from his small 3-ring notebook. One page
was just a list of numbers, the other a list of places in the
South Pacific. He had duplicate copies of the pages kept in
different places in the notebook he carried with him. When he
wrote letters to her, he'd always say something like, "I'm
writing to you at 9:28 in the morning." The '28' meant the
place that corresponded to the number 28 on the pages he gave
her. That way she'd always know where he was. Only once did a
suspicious censor cut out the time.
Mom got a telegram informing her that Dad was missing in action
during the battle for Iwo Jima. Dad was a gunnery sergeant back
when gunnery sergeants worked on guns. He had a trailer with
all his equipment and was scheduled to go ashore on D-day plus
3. While the crew was loading his trailer on the landing craft,
the craft capsized and sent his trailer to the bottom of the
bay. Dad had to wait until a supply ship could bring another
trailer. However, when he didn't show up on the beach on D-day
plus 3 he was listed as missing in action. While on the ship he
watched fellow Marines raise the American flag on Mount
Suribachi through binoculars.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where the temperature is a
balmy 72, but the pool water is 59, so I don't think
I'll go swimming today
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Portland/Vancouver area Bomber PotLuck
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-PDX/00.htm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
The Portland/Vancouver area Bombers & Guests had a lot of fun
visiting and story-telling. This time we met at a private
clubhouse with a big screen TV, full kitchen, pool table and
shuffleboard. If I counted right, we had 23 people attending.
The potluck meal was a grand success with home-made chili,
meatballs, bean dish, mac & cheese with salmon, chicken pot
pie, deviled eggs (my favorite), salad with nuts, pie, and
several other dishes. I just love potlucks. Thanks, everyone
for your contributions. I'm not certain who brought what, but I
dished up a little of everything and loved it all. My brother
Mick ('66) has a code name for me at potlucks.
The Bombers and guests who helped us celebrate this time were
Bob CARLSON, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) and Karyl Carlson (spouse),
Jan RUCKER Meyer ('55), Ferna GAROUTTE Hicks ('58), Ferna's
friend, Carol Risner, joined us and fit right in. She is
welcome any time, Lola HEIDLEBAUGH Bowen ('60), Jeanie TURNER
Anderson ('61) and Gary Anderson (Spouse), Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
and Linda Hemphill (spouse), Dean ANSON ('62), Marcia MILLER
Neff ('62) and Doug Neff (Spouse), Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63) and
Tony Siegmund (Friend), Don FUNDERBERG ('63) and Tali
Funderberg (spouse), Bill Scott ('64) and Cherrie TEMPERO Scott
('64), John Fletcher ('64) and Becky WERSEN Fletcher ('65),
Linda McKNIGHT Hoban ('65) (Happy Birthday Linda) and Denny
Hoban (Spouse).
We all watched a slide show featuring some new shots of some of
the lunch gang and vintage shots of the olden days. We tried to
find ourselves in the photo of the old pool that was packed
with kids. Don Funderberg showed a great video featuring their
stay at a lighthouse on the Straights of Juan de Fuca. Great
photos Don. Ferna GAROUTTE Hicks brought some old photos that
we will scan and add to the show for next time. We looked at
old yearbooks and other memorabilia. We had fun.
Merry Christmas, Bombers.
-Tommy HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Jim MATTIS ('68)
Well, I just had to prove to my husband that, yes, General Jim
MATTIS is a Bomber. Had to pull up class of '68 website before
he would believe it (but what do you expect from a Bulldog?!).
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA where it is COLD.
I don't put a coat on until it's under 40; believe me,
I'm wearing my WARM coat these days!
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: memories
light the corners of my behind... uhhhhhh... don't think that's
right... oh well it's not really that portant to the final
message... I find it interesting how little things creep from
what we think is lost forever back into the consciousness... I
mean some things do seem to be gone forever... like my very
first date... I know who I was with and where we went... I mean
I know it, but I can't really vision it... what I can bring
vividly to mind is the lights being out in Skip NUSSBAUM's ('65)
basement... and the door to the kitchen (?) being opened... end
of memory... now through discussions with the Bomber-babe I
have "knowledge" of the entire story... but the memory is
lost... so, as I was saying, in June of 1966 I went to my next
Duty Station and didn't again return until my 20 year class
reunion... don't ask why... I've got no reasonable excuse...
BUT, the Bomber-babe celebrating today, was the last kid
(Bomber-babe) I saw before I left... well not counting George
KELLY ('64) who left with me... I also remember the day I met
her... as clearly as anything I did 5 minutes ago (I say 5
minutes cuz I don't wanna push my luck on my current memory)...
it was after a sock hop at Chief Jo... she walked up to my
locker and stuck out her hand and said : "Hi, I'm Margi!"... so
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Margi MAY ('66) on your special day, December
9, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Phil GOLDSMITH ('73)
Re:James HARBOUR ('55-RIP)
I will emerge to say thanks to Mr. PANESKO ('83 and '84) for
drawing my attention to the sad news of Mr. HARBOUR's passing.
He was a good teacher and a fine gentleman who did me a couple
of favors that materially affected the course of my life.
Requiescat in pace.
-Phil GOLDSMITH ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/10/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Rex HUNT ('53)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy WOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug LUKENS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry WERSEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff MICHAEL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Loretta JENSEN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Angie GUNTER ('66wb)
BOMBER TWIN BIRTHDAY today: Linda McCLELLAND ('66) (10th)
BOMBER TWIN BIRTHDAY tomorrow: Richard McCLELLAND ('66) (11th)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peter BRADWAY (?67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary VALLELY ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark BOLME ('71)
12/10 15 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Rhyming Rabbit" (Episode #12)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Snow!
Well it may be Christmas but I prefer my lawn green! I don't
even like snow on Christmas cards.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from surprisingly warm down town Hanford, CA
P.S. Had a new pellet stove installed in my fire place and have
yet had to use it. Might try it to roast hot dogs!
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Wow whata list
Wow what a great group I gots today... Two I've known since
second grade and two since 6th grade... One was one a them
neighborhood heroes who has become a great friend... plus he
was/is a helluva baseball player... one I walked to school with
every day from second grade through 5th... One is kind of a
hood as he ran with a bad crowd... well no just one other kid
with a '54 Chebby with split manifold and very loud pipes...
but on the good side I dated two of his sisters so I gotta say
nice stuff about him... plus he was a Chessman... 'nuff said...
the Bomber-babe inna group stole my heart years ago and still
owns a spot in there... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Doug LUKENS ('62),
Larry WERSEN ('63), Jeff MICHAEL ('65) and Loretta JENSEN ('65)
on your special day, December 10, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to the kids from '63 who will be gathering in Tumwater to
have chowder with a girl named Carol inna red sweater... I MISS
YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/11/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Rex DAVIS ('49)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER TWIN BIRTHDAY today Richard McCLELLAND ('66) (11th)
BOMBER TWIN BIRTHDAY yesterday: Linda McCLELLAND ('66) (10th)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim QUALHEIM ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jennifer JANICEK ('90)
12/11 14 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "The Wintergreen Witch" (Episode #13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDqBcI8lE0
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>>From: Rex DAVIS ('49)
Re: My Brother
Maren,
Don't know how you put this on the Sandstorm, so I will just
give you the facts.
My Brother ,Jimmy DAVIS ('52) passed away on December 9, 2016.
So, the class of '52 has lost another member. Jimmy has not
missed a Club 40 for the last 15 years coming all the way from
Santa Monica, CA to attend.
Thanks, Maren, for including this on the best web site around.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours,
-Rex DAVIS ('49)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
We had our 2nd All Bomber lunch at Sterlings on Queensgate and
despite the snow had a turnout of 10. The roads had been plowed
so they weren't bad at all.
Those in attendance were:
Betti AVANT ('69), Pat DORISS Trimble ('65),
Pat JONES DeBattista ('59), Gene DeBattista (NAB),
Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57), Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61),
Glen ROSE ('58) and spouse Carol (NAB),
Missy KEENEY ('59), and Burt PIERARD ('59).
We didn't break out in singing but perhaps we should have
*LOL*. The place was pretty busy but for those of you not
knowing where the place is it right across Queensgate from
the Super Wal*Mart store and other places.
Next lunch will be on 14 Jan 2017... hope to see some more
there (I had invited 4 others but the snow may have scared
them away).
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/12/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
David RIVERS ('65)
Susan STALEY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet MARTIN ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Burt PIERARD ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paige WHEELER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick MORRELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky ALEXANDER ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lanette POWELL ('79)
12/12 13 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Queen Melissa" (Episode #14) .
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: winter wonderland birthdays
Dang December is a busy b-day month... I've known the Bomber-
babe pretty much all my life and met my "uncle" in 2000...
he was herding cats at the Bomber-Bowl to take the R2K photo...
heading out to the Las Vegas Speedway to drive the light
tour... always spectacular... but the price is getting that
way too... used to be 15 smackers with a discount... now with
the discount it was 26 smackers... like so many things these
days... may very well reduce the number of people going... I
haven't been to Disneyland in years... used to be daughter
Sarah's Birthday trip of choice... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Uncle Burt
PIERARD ('59) and Paige WHEELER ('65) on your special day (I
thought the Wheeler girls wuz twinzies?) December 12, 2016!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Susan STALEY Mitchell ('71)
Bomber Mother Died
Thelma Mitchell, the mother of four Bombers, passed away this
morning, December 11, 2016. Her Bomber children are/were
Sharon ('62-RIP), Willie ('66), Ed ('69), and Penny ('71).
Thelma was involved with more Bombers than anyone knew. For
over 30 years, Thelma was the seamstress/alterations woman
at Dawson-Richards. It you bought a Bomber jacket, pep club
sweater and you needed the "bomb" or "R" or your class number
sewn on... Thelma was the seamstress who attached it to your
jacket. She was a wonderful woman and she will be missed.
-Susan STALEY Mitchell ('71)
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>>Mary SCHNEIDER Wahlgren ~ Class of 1967 ~ 1948 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/13/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
Toby WHEELER ('65)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie DAME ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary HYLBAK ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HEDGES ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave COURSON ('71)
12/13 12 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen: "Snaper Snick Crocodile" (Episode #15)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: swooooooooooooooon
did I say swoooon?... I meant swan... no idea why I would
write Swan because this Bomber-babe has always been swoon-
worthy... so let's just pretend I didn't put anything up
there that might gimme away I mean I gotta rep to maintain ya
know... they don't call me Tooter fer nuthin'... now anyone
with a good memory recalls that this time each year I talk
about great hair and faaaaaaaaaaaantastic butts (well one
butt)..not this year... no hair talk and nothing about butts
that can be recognized from 3 blocks away so let's just get
that straight right here, right now... sooooooooooooooooo...
hmmmmmmmmmmm... I can certainly mention a Chief Jo Majorette
"uniform" that was modeled at the age of 60 plus and fit
perfectly... now I can tell you that I have witnesses for each
and every statement made in this post so Ha ha et... I don't
make this stuff up... In all candor, this Babe has been a
very dear friend since 6th grade and I cherish her greatly...
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Connie DAME ('65) on your special day,
December 13, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Toby WHEELER Davis ('65)
Re: '65 Wheeler Girls
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Nope, the Wheeler girls aren't "Twinzies" ... Paige and I are
10 months apart... She was born in December and I was born
the following October, but made the October 31 deadline for
Kindergarten, and my parents were elated we were both off
to school in the same year! My parents managed to keep us in
separate classes most of the time, at least until High School
Jr year English!
-Toby WHEELER Davis ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday boys
Sorry I missed Rick MORRELL's ('71) birthday on the 12th.
Hope it was a good one.
A big Happy Birthday to Dave COURSON ('71) on the 13th. Hope
it's a good one, and your hunting adventures are prosperous.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in unseasonably warm Plano, TX where we
slayed geese and pheasants last week.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/14/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donna BOWERS ('63)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick McCOY ('45)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole NOVOTNY ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry BUNCH ('66)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Mike RICE ('60) & Donna BOWERS ('63)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Lonnie WILLIS and Eileen HASKINS ('72)
12/14 11 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Oliver Ostrich" (Episode #16)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
You know that the year is progressing towards the end when
this Bomber birthday hits the calendar. To say that he is
older than dirt is insulting; he's old, yes, but not that old.
On the other hand, you can count him as one of the oldest,
surviving Bronc/Beaver/Bomber extant. That's right, but he
isn't old enough to qualify as a Colt. Fortunately.
So, a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a hearty "Happy
Birthday!" to Richard "Dick"/"Tincan" McCOY ('44/45/02) on
this particular day. I just hope I can keep doing this to/for
him for many, many more years. That I have a "thing" for his
lovely wife, Ida, is not necessarily a secret.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
we are waiting for the next winter weather "event";
and it isn't even winter yet.
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Happy 53rd Anniversary to my everlivin' lovin' forever
boyfriend Mikey RICE ('60). You made me laugh (2 of our 3
have your nutty sense of humor) and you continue to find
humor almost every day. It's been a very wonderful journey, I
wouldn't have missed it for the world. Your sense of adventure
has taken us all over the world... we have the same sense of
trying something new, going somewhere we haven't been, trying
all the new restaurants in town and going on those almost
daily hour walks (which you so nicely put up with because you
have already exercised at work... thank you very much!!!
Love you forever...
-Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Old School
Today we gotta guy who kinda grageated the year before I was
hatched, then again the year I was hatched and then again in
'02 (tho from a different instetushun as I recall)...in any
event he is one of those Bombers we look to for the true
skinny of what being a Bomber is all about... He woulda gone
to school with Gene CONLEY ('48) and might have some insight
into the guy who had his shoes used as an "outhouse" by Gene
on a long bus trip... I used to remember, but it is some where
in my "back pages" with other great info which has been lost
in what I laughingly call a brain... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Dick
McCOY ('45, '46, and '02) on your special day, December 14,
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/15/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bev KELLER ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dorothy STAMPER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SMITH ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha GOSLIN ('65)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: David RODRIGUEZ ('69) & Linda BAROTT ('71)
12/15 10 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Muddlers" (Episode #17)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
By golly! It's time for another Bomber Babe Birthday
Celebration. Yes, I think I knew this one in the past; after
all we graduated the same year. How coincidental is that?
I'll let some one else do the math on this one.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to
Dorothy STAMPER ('54) on the occasion of her 22nd. Have a
good day and don't over do the cake thing.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR did the
winter weather event arrive as forecasted? Tune in
tomorrow and maybe you'll get an answer.
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: 2016 - What a year!
First off, I want to wish all Bombers, wherever you may be, a
very Merry and Blessed Christmas season and the very best in
the new year. I love being able to keep up with familiar names
and learning from new ones. Thanks Maren for all your work
keeping us connected.
I've followed stories of health issues that seem to crop up
more and more as we enter those "golden" years. Some of you
may know that I have spent the last 12 months in a battle
against lung cancer. I shoulda listened when Mom said smoking
wasn't good for you... as she lit another Pall Mall. 42 years
a smoker, raised in a home with two smokers, 25 years working
in smoke filled bars... the odds weren't in my favor. I am
blessed to have a awesome family around me, a wonderful group
of friends and an army of prayer warriors lifting me every
day. My "treatment" began on Jan. 25 at Kadlec Hemotology and
Oncology with 5 1/2 months of chemo and the goal of having
surgery in Seattle. Two tries to pass the test and the doc
said I wasn't strong enough... so back home to Tri-City Cancer
Center (TCCC) for 7 weeks of radiation. Tomorrow is my last
treatment and doc thinks he got it all. Won't know for a few
months but I have faith I am done. My point in telling about
this is that we are blessed to have world class treatment for
all kinds of cancer with amazing success stories right here
at home. It is truly a blessing to be able to keep "normal"
routines in familiar surroundings. Everyone I worked with
this past year at Kadlec and TCCC treated me with respect,
kindness, and gentle care. I would recommend them to anyone
facing this type of health issue.
Time to add another quilt to the bed and get some rest for my
big day tomorrow... headed into the teens and more snow on the
way. Richland looks mighty purty with its blanket of white.
God bless Bombers everywhere.
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Friends and family... treasure them
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: how do I love thee
Today we've gotta Bomber-babe who has been a close, close
friend since at least Kinneygarden and I've never lost my
affection for her for one moment... but first... lemme say,
I figure that an enormous number of my Bomber friends are
from other than my class... to the extent that when I think
of many, I automatically think of the class in which they
grageated (and for a good number of them I think of their
birthdays)... so I know and you know that Gene CONLEY ('48)
grgeated in '48... so yesterday when I suggested that Dick
McCOY ('45, etc.) went to school with Gene my mind went to
Rex DAVIS ('49) (tho I wasn't actively thinking of it merely
pairing guys who went to school together)... soooooo, In my
mind Gene was '46 tho Maren corrected it inna SS... I'm not
suggesting it makes sense, 'cept in my mind... now down to
brass tacks... as I started... I am wishing this Bomber-babe
a most delightful b-day... I believe she is on a fascinating
trip right now and I hope it is just great... so HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, Marsha GOSLIN ('65) on your special day, December
15, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-David RIVERS ('65)
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7 Bombers sent stuff today:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Missy KEENEY ('59), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Arlene THRESS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack KEYS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim SMYTH ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie HANSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debora SKARSHAUG (?64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billy DIDWAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth RUSSELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary RAEKES ('79)
12/16 9 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen "Cocklebur Cowboys" (Episode #18)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
I have known for some 9 months that I have lung cancer, after
fighting the system and finding a local doctor who knows the
difference between cutlery and a mop handle has been a chore.
Now it appears I will have surgery just after Christmas. But
have little faith in the meat whackers at the local cutlery
shop. It's like watching chickens trying to dance on ICE.
Will check in on the other side of Armageddon, let you know
which doctors to avoid.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from downtown Hanford, CA where we have
a new hospital but same Mal-functioning doctors.
Putting lipstick on a pig comes to mind!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Now for the weather. Yes, it snowed here yesterday (14th)
about an inch or so. Other parts of the valley got more.
Portland got less, but it turned to a disaster area (so what
else is new?).
To the business at hand, today is the birthday of a Bomber
Babe. Even though we graduated together, I did not know her
back in the day. Don't even think we had any mutual friends.
We met at a Club 40 Annual Meeting a while back and confessed
that we did not know who we were.
That being said; a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a
"Happy Birthday!" to Arlene THRESS ('54) on the occasion of
her 22nd. Hope that she has a good one and is not snowed in
somewhere.
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: About all those McCOY graduation years
They all came from the same school (Columbia/Richland). The
last being was when he was finally awarded his diploma. Going
back for one more year just because he neglected to take
Washington State History is the best excuse he could offer.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where I
am awaiting the Chinook Wind to melt the snow.
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>>From: Missy KEENEY ('59)
Re: Names
We are freezing our noses and toes-zes off here in beautiful
downtown Richland.
This is and FYI for all Bombers in Sandstorm Land and beyond .
. . . . . KEENEY IS SPELLED WITH 2e's and one N, not the
other way around.
I hope everyone has a happy holiday season and are able to be
with folks you love (and dogs).
-Missy KEENEY ('59)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
To: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Paula:
Thanks for your entry, and I pray for your continued healing
and health. Mom smoked, too, but not often to the point of a
"smoke-filled house." After a first taste at about 14, I never
cared to try it again; I didn't even finish the one cigar I
tried when a military colleague had a baby. Smoke-filled bars
were rarely my thing, fortunately. Mom tried to quit numerous
times while I was a teenager with five younger sisters at
home, but she never managed to stop for any length of time
until Dad had to retire early at 62 with cardiac issues and
continuing her smoking would have hastened his demise - that's
when she quit, and he lived another 16 years.
I'm going to save your entry to pass around to friends with
children who need the message. It's short, pointed, and could
be an effective deterrent. A few more phrases about the
suffering that goes with chemo and radiation might be useful,
but to keep attention, short is good. There are several cases
of cancer in our church right now, some of which appear to be
succeeding, but none that can be directly connected to smoking
like yours. God be with you.
Regards, ecb3
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: "golden" years
I think I understand why you put the word "golden" in
quotation marks. Couple years ago we had a get-together at
wife's twin sister's house of a bunch of us that used to run
around together at CBC. After awhile it dawned on me that
everyone was talking about their health problems. Everyone
except me, not that I haven't had some, but they seemed minor
compared to everyone else's. It became depressing. I think
the "golden" they are talking about is really "fool's gold."
Re: Smoking
Whenever the subject was brought up in the Sandstorm I have
refrained from saying anything because I felt it wasn't my
place to do so as I have never been a smoker.
As I recall your father smoked a pipe. What you said about
your mother saying cigarettes were not good for you as she lit
up, brought up a memory from I think Jr. High. A teacher said
to a class, or a group of assembled students--don't remember,
but have always remembered what he said. "Those of you who
have parents that smoke, ask them if they want you to smoke,
don't ask if they mind if you smoke, ask if they want you to
smoke."
My grandfather (mom's side) offered my aunts and uncles $100
each if they didn't smoke or drink until they were 21. Of the
eight who lived to be 21, all but one got that $100. That was
probably a pretty good chunk of change for a farmer in the
'20s and '30s. Oh, my grandfather did not smoke... he chewed
it. I remember him carrying around a 1 lb coffee can and
putting it on the floorboard of a car to use as his spittoon,
so I don't really know if that $100 was for not smoking, or
not using tobacco. Side note; my grandfather was the only one
in the family who did not get the flu in the worldwide flu
pandemic of 1918. There were seven kids at the time (my
mother was one of them) she said he went into town to get the
doctor; must have been with a horse and buggy. I'm told the
doctor prescribed castor oil for them. My thought was, "I hope
they had a two holer! Anyway, they all survived it.
One thing has always puzzled me. I have known a number of
people (and been related to a couple of them) who have quit
smoking, then after years and years, have gone back to it. I
can understand not being able to quit, but why quit for that
long, then go back to it? One time I asked and did get an
answer. He said, "So I would have an excuse to stand outside
in the cold and talk to the redhead with the big... (well...
you can finish this one).
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick where they are saying it is
supposed to get so cold if you strike a match the flame
will freeze and you can't blow it out
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Long long
ago in a galaxy far far away, there lived a young boy named
Peter White... Peter spent his hours dreaming of being a
Doctor... however, one day as Peter was strapping on his
Paladin six guns over his scooby do pajammy bottoms, Peter
walked the several blocks to the local Lutheran Church...
it was then it hit him... maybe a Doctor wasn't his true
calling... perhaps there was more to life... I mean there were
Children in the corn to deal with... Gila Monsters roaming in
Indiana... Oh man... so many ideas swirled in Peter's mind...
the image of a big blond surfer came to mind... wouldn't it
be fun to stuff grass down that kid's back just at the right
moment... just then an orange souped up car drove by with a
Confederate flag painted on the top... the two ruffians in the
car tooted a rebel tune as Peter Screamed "damned hotrodders"
at the men... just then a gung fu guy twirled in the air and
knocked Peter to the ground... there has to be more to life
than this Peter mused... it was then Peter felt the pain deep
in his groin... no he said... No Doctors for me... even if
they come back as angels... Just then a helicopter picked him
up and flew him off to a strange land... it looked much like
Hawaii... I'd rather be freezing my ass off in France with
WARFORD ('65) and POWELL ('65) Peter thought... he turned to
Shaft... John Shaft... that Shaft is a bad mutha... shut yo
mouth... Shaft just laughed and said "as long as I got the
biggest director's chair on the set I'm cool"... at that
moment... Peter woke from his dream... "damn", he said... good
thing I'm safe and sound here in my Scooby do's... shoveling
snow... snow! In Richland... ha... that'll be the day...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Tim SMYTH ('62), Connie HANSON ('64) and
Terence Paul Angel DAVIS Knox ('65) on your special day,
December 16, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: Birthday milestone
Happy Birthday to Terry DAVIS ('65). You da man. Best Wishes.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/17/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff today:
Dick McCOY ('45), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donna BOWERS ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck MEYER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda RISLOV ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna YOUNG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike CROWLEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim GEIER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Corey BOEHNING ('87)
12/17 8 days till Christmas - 2 days to Winter Solstice
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Wooden Indian" (Episode #19)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Lung Cancer
I've gone thru this and have had great success at Swedish
Hospital ... radiology with the cyberknife ... treatment no
surgery ... they use a machine... for one hour zapping...
over 5 days ... and have a great success record!! You or your
doctor should call them at 206.320-7130
Good Luck
questions? call me at 360.630-5414
-Dick McCOY (from the Tin Can class of '45)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
What were they thinking? Were you watching Thursday Night
Football? Are the Seahawks so poorly paid they have to double
as crossing guards? Those of you who watched in black and
white may also have seen the fluorescent green uniforms in
"living color".
Too bad they play on a "turf" field instead of the real thing;
maybe a little mud might have toned things down.
At least they won the game; but probably lost on style points.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
we may be thawed in time for Christmas.
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Just a heads up... through 5 months of massive pain (like
having-a-baby pain), most nights unable to sleep, unable to
feel to go, progressive pain meds that dry you out causing
their own ramifications and putting you out for days and 3
different doctors, simple answers are best. Thank God for
female doctors, who direct you to the RIGHT answer. The
physical therapist diagnosed it best... herniated disc causing
tetany of muscles... for 5 months! Her simple exercises for
relief were better than any pill and work even when muscles
that have learned to tetany attack days later (you just have
to retrain them out of tetany)... simple exercises that offer
such magnificent relief!
Lessons learned: 1) as you age tissue becomes more fragile so
lifting kayak trailers and pool lounges is NOT SMART no matter
how healthy you have been your whole life + you do yoga and
lift 75 pounds regularly. 2) recuperation is not 2 days laying
down + then because you can't stand lying around, if it hurts
a little, it's ok, so keep going. 3) a herniated disc causes
all sorts of areas to tetany not close to it, so by the time
you go to the doctor finding the cause is more complicated. I
share this to warn us older Bombers that I don't want anyone
to have this happen to them... reality sets in and all those
things you thought you could do, because you work out
regularly, just are not happening when you are in your 70s.
AND to share how simple the answer was, instead of pills.
-Donna BOWERS Rice (GMC '63) ~ from the frigid Midwest
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
I'm sending healing thoughts and sympathies your way, Paula,
as you fight lung cancer. I don't need to get on a soapbox
about smoking; all I need to do is state the facts from my own
family. My father smoked for 58 years, starting in his teens.
He once told me, "I wish I'd never started." After all those
years, it finally caught up with him. He was diagnosed with
laryngeal cancer, and spent the last decade or so of his life
speaking with a throat vibrator after doctors removed his
vocal cords. The other side effects of the disease are too
unpleasant to detail here. My uncle, a life-long smoker, died
of lung cancer at age 84. Hoping you are a survivor. I never
smoked, but that doesn't mean I have no risk. Dad was a heavy
smoker all the time we kids were growing up. No one had heard
of the dangers of secondary smoke in those days. As I grow
older, I wonder if the shoe is going to drop on that one. I
recently had a chest x-ray and it revealed "abnormalities"
throughout my lungs. I see my doctor on Tuesday. Best to you,
Paula.
-Bill SCOTT ('64) ~ from snowy Sherwood, OR where they say
it will hang around for a few days.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/18/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Linda REINING ('64)
Vicki OWENS ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy JENSEN ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole CLARK ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dawn O'NEAL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan NELSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay NORTON ('73)
12/18 7 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Flying Hat" (Episode #20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtAPBxOBr3E
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
With any luck, this part of the world will be thawed out
sometime tomorrow (Monday).
Which logically (?) gets us to today's Bomber Babe. Well,
sorta, cuz she lives down there in ole Airyzony or some place
like that where a cold spell is when the thermometer drops
below 70. Time to get the long johns out. And to think we were
fellow inmates in Mr. Wheeler's Home Room all those years ago.
Enough, it is time to tip the ol' propeller beanie and say
"Happy Birthday!" to Carol CLARK ('54). We must be nice to her
as she has reached the fabled age of 22. I hope she has a good
time in celebrating.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where,
like most places, Christmas is just around the corner.
Be careful, he's still making That list of who's gonna
get a lump of coal in the stocking.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Smoking and cancer
I grew up with both parents smoking, also had aunts and uncles
who smoked, so was always exposed to "second hand" smoke...
although, growing up, we never heard that term. Both my
brother (Tim, ('71-RIP)) and I smoked... I started when I was
18 and smoked for 12 years... 3+ packs a day! I married a
smoker, so, even though I no longer smoked, I was constantly
around cigarettes. When I was diagnosed with throat cancer in
2009 the oncologist told me that my type of cancer was caused
by smoking... so, there is definite truth to the warnings
about "second-hand" smoke. After 5 months of chemo and
radiation, they determined that the cancer was gone... it's
now been 6 years, so am considered "cancer-free". neither of
my daughters or my grandkids smoke... they paid attention to
the warnings against it, plus, my diagnosis of cancer, made
them very aware of the dangers of cigarettes. I thank my
wonderful doctors and God for my cancer being cured. I do
think that early detection is the best answer--I found my
lump, when it was the size of a nickel and by the time we
started chemo, two months later, it had grown to the size
of a half-dollar... tumors grow very fast.
To all those going through this, trust in your doctors... find
ones that you have faith in, can discuss all your options
with, and have a support system that you can rely on... I
would not have made it through all my treatments if it had not
been for my wonderful support system... my daughters and
grandkids were "my rock", as was my faith in God... couldn't
have made it without all of them "in my corner".
Linda Reining(class of '64)......
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ it was FIVE degrees in Kuna, Idaho,
Saturday morning... we have about 3 inches of new snow,
too, and more is predicted. yes, I LOVE it, but, am also
thankful that, at my age, I don't have to work in it or
be out in it, unless I want to. *grin*
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>>From: Vicki OWENS ('72)
Re: Niles MAYFIELD ('74-RIP) Obituary
Niles was a childhood friend of mine, as our parents were
friends. Our families were also neighbors, with Mayfields on
the Cedar side of our block and the Owens family on the Birch
side of the block.
Niles' family posted his obituary on Facebook. Niles, his mom,
his younger sister Diane and his sister-in-law Deb are all my
Facebook friends. As you can imagine, the family is shattered
as Niles' death was totally unexpected and sudden. We'll miss
him.
-Vicki OWENS ('72)
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[Facebook article is the same as what was in the Herald at:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article120980483.html
Don't think family would mind it in the Sandstorm. -Maren]
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/19/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Helen CROSS ('62)
Roy BALLARD ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Evelyn BUBNAR ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony HARRAH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie BUSHNELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa McCURDY ('86)
12/19 6 days till Christmas ~ Tomorrow Is Winter Solstice
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen "Snowman" (Episode #20)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Happy one-day-belated birthday to my very good friend,
Kathy JENSEN Collins ('53) on her.. well, we know the
age. She actually is one of the young ones in our class.
I hope that Kenny did you proud and took you to a very
expensive restaurant. Man, these days just keep coming
faster and faster.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from sunny but cold Sacramento
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Christmas Greetings to all in Bomberland, from frigid
Hope, IN at 17°. It warmed up today, but then plunged back
into freezing temps.
I took our exchange student to a Bengals professional
football game this afternoon and survived it. It was pretty
cold, and high up in the nosebleed section for this grandma.
Greetings of the Season
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we are getting
ready for our Christmas Eve service.
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: Antiques
We have a lot of antiques for sale:
High boys, dresser, kitchen queen, side boards, ice box,
player piano with beveled mirror on the door with many rolls,
Victrola, crystal lamp, round pedestal table or coffee table,
and other stuff.
If anyone is interested call at (599) 946-3255,
hope this can go in the Sandstorm.
-Roy BALLARD ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: more than friends
For each of us there are friends and then there are those
who touch our lives so very deeply it is difficult, if not
impossible to describe the relationship... that is what we
have today... the elder, is one who touched several people
I know so very much that his memorial was one of the most
memorable of my life and I didn't even know him as they did...
ah, but the younger... the younger was a Bomber I only came to
know in the 8th or 9th grade, but he helped chart the course
of my life thereafter, we don't see each other much these
days... no one's fault... time and space interfere with face
to face events, but you and I both know that time and space
have no impact on relationships of this nature. I recall
standing in front of my Parents' house in Vegas on a day I
just happened to be there when we met as he was passing though
Las Vegas, perhaps on his way to Richland, his appearance
and mine were totally unfamiliar to each of us... his short
cropped hair was down to his shoulders and he was wearing a
field jacket, instead of the snappy threads he wore at Col-
hi... my hair was high and tight in normal Marine fashion
(now that I recall it looked much like the haircuts my Dad
gave until I reached the age of rebellion), rather than the
carefully combed style I had tried to maintain in school
(appearances are everything some say)... we enjoyed a magic
moment in time before he left... now as I write this, I recall
small snippets of time here and there together over the course
of our lives... sitting in a buddy's basement together with a
co-conspirator waiting for the Fuzz to knock on the door for
a "crime" we honestly didn't commit... playing "Revolver" by
the Beatles at his house... a time we were in grave danger
in Yakima only to be bailed out by another Bomber with a tire
iron in his hand... of course there was the time we tore the
left fender off his VW and convinced the kids we hit, it was
their fault... there was the birthday card he sent me with two
British "rockers" portrayed and my receptionist asking if it
was, in fact, he and I at a younger age... as I said just
little snap shots that remain forever imbedded in my memory...
nothing monumental, but taken together they create a mosaic
of a life shared and cherished untarnished by the years in
between... he is my Pal, my bud, my mentor and the closest
thing to a sibling one could have... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Pook
SMITH ('63 RIP) and Tony HARRAH ('65) on your special day,
December 19, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthdays
Happy Birthday to two of my favorite people!!!! My oldest
son Matt (NAB), and the ever lovely and talented Bonnie
BUSHNELL ('71). Hope you have a great day.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in cold Plano, TX where we slayed the
ducks yesterday.
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Donni CLARK ('63)
Pam EHINGER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anne COLLINS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry LaROCK ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David RODRIGUEZ ('69)
12/20 5 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - Listen "Santa Claus" (Episode #22)
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Re: Christmas
A Very Merry Christmas Bomber family!!
I was feeling very nostalgic for my mom the other day.
Actually I was trying to make candy and so wishing she was
here to show me how. My mother did not like to cook but
everything she did cook was wonderful. She didn't let us make
sugar cookies, which I always lamented... but every year she
made a candy she called Panocha, the same as Penucha. It was a
creamy fudge made of brown sugar, butter and cream. Mom's was
the best and I have only made it like hers about 3 times in my
life, I usually have trouble with it. But was it ever good!
I remember the first time I ever had a Christmas wreath made
out of cornflakes and marshmallows was at Mr. Yadidskis
Christmas party. Now I make them with my grandkids and they
love them. Gluten Free to boot!
We are having a beautiful snowy Christmas in the Gorge! We
have had the fun of snowy walks and making a snowman. Digging
the car out of the snow and driveway don't count. My husband
slipped and thank the dear Lord was OK! Singing for others
with Harmony of the Gorge is a huge blessing and the drive to
the Dalles and Hood River was gorgeous! Some places in the
scenery you could not tell where the hills met the sky! We
have even had rainbows in the snow here! Makes me think of all
the fun we had as kids playing Fox and Geese, making angels in
the snow, sledding, snow forts and rolling snowballs.
Remember the red brick corrugated cardboard that you could get
at Newberry's, drug store? We would get that some years and
wrap our card table with that and make a fireplace that we
hung our stockings on and put our manger on. Mom convinced us
that if we did not have a real fireplace that Santa would find
a way to come in. I think we left the door open just in case.
The best memories of Christmas come with our singing in chorus
all those wonderful Christmas songs we sang... and in church.
Candlelight services, nativity plays, angel wings and baby
Jesus. God bless you all this Christmas and may you all have a
wonderful New Beginning this New Year!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Quilt of Valor (QoV)
Dear Bombers
I would like to tell you about two very Special Bombers! Mick
HEMPHILL ('66) & John Cole ('66) and their wives! On
Veterans' Day I wrote in wishing my Dad, Max Ehinger, a
blessed Veterans' Day! My Dad was in WWII. He was a Radioman.
Long story short. Mick contacted me about the Quilt Of Valor
(QOV). He explained how this QOV, went to men & women who were
in Wars and fought for our country's freedom! On December 16,
2016, Mick & wife Linda & John & wife Vicki MOSLEY Cole ('66)
came to Ephrata, WA. and presented Dad with the QOV! Now mind
you my Dad felt like he hadn't done anything special. But he
was very pleased to receive the QOV!! John and Mick did an
awesome presentation of the QOV! I want to thank them both
very much for a job well done! Linda did a great job on the
picture taking Vicki was helping a lot too! Daddy was very
happy with his QOV!
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Again I want to thank Mick & John and their wives for all
their hard work!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Kindl (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
P.S. My Dad is 89 & will 90 in April!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/21/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff today:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Ed WOOD ('62)
Helen CROSS ('62), Deedee WILLOX ('64)
Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kent HAMRICK ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joanne ROLPH ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan WARD ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Clint KELLY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy SIEMENS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane LEE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jon ANDERSON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff OSBORN ('82)
12/21 4 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - "The Bad Dolls" (Episode #23)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Sending sincere wishes for each to have a Merry Christmas and
all good things in the coming New Year.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ Richland
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Christmas in New Zealand
It may be the summer solstice in New Zealand, but the
profusion of iconic pohutukawa trees tells us it's Christmas
in Kiwi-land. This specimen in the Picton harbor on the south
island.
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-Ed WOOD ('62)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) sure hit every nostalgic note in her
tribute of Christmases past. brought tears to my eyes as I
read it. My mother didn't really like to cook either but
every Christmas she made the best divinity and plates of
chocolate fudge. Sadly, I never tried to make it but whenever
I get it, it reminds me of Christmas back on Olympia St.
My mom also made the best cherry pie year around, and I did
try to learn how to make the crust from her, but I never got
her knack for really good pie dough.
Re: Carol Ann Powell Schwisow's ('58-RIP) passing
On a sad note, my sympathy to Judy POWELL Free ('61) on the
loss of her sister, Carol Ann. I know you were close, and I'm
sorry for her passing.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where it is suppose to
warm up to above freezing today and last through
Christmas. And I wish you all a Merry Christmas
weekend spent with family and friends.
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Christmas
To: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Thank you for all those memories you shared about Christmas.
The old folks are mostly all gone now, but we remember how
special they made the holidays for us.
Where do you live in the Gorge? Dena EVANS Harr ('64) lives
in The Dalles.
To: All Bombers & their families everywhere
Merry Christmas & may you prosper in the new year.
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Christmas memories
Donni CLARK Dunphy's ('63) entry about the corrugated
fireplace from Newberry's, reminded me of when my mom would
buy one and put it in a corner of the front room and hang
our stockings on... always made me wish we had an actual
fireplace. Also remember all the Christmas pageants at school
and also at Richland Lutheran Church... loved them. When I was
in junior high (I was part of the youth choir, but I couldn't
"carry a tune in a bucket" so they let me be an angel)... wore
a white robe, had wings, and stood up on the altar, while the
choir sang. So sad that most schools no longer have Christmas
pageants. My youngest grandson plays drums in his high school
band, and is also in the school choir... they did have a
Christmas program... since I no longer live in Bakersfield,
I didn't get to watch him perform, but my daughter posted a
video on Face book, so I did get to see/hear a little snippet
of his concert and got to see/hear him sing and play.
Also remember all the snowball fights; making snow angels;
snow forts; sledding down Carmichael hill and being "frozen"
and thawing out with mugs of hot cocoa. Even doing it at
night, once we were in high school and then walking to
someone's home for hot cocoa and trying to "thaw out" cause,
of course, being in high school, we were "too cool" to wear
snowsuits, so we just wore jackets and jeans. *grin* oh, and
"skating" on the icy sidewalks in our tennis shoes, cause
nobody wore boots, once you were no longer in grade school.
We are having a Winter Wonderland here in Kuna, Idaho...
lots of snow, icy roads and sidewalks, which, at my age, are
no longer fun to "skate" on, but am still loving watching
the snowflakes coming down, although, I will admit that
temperatures of ONE degree haven't been all that fun, but
thankful I don't have to work in it or be out in it, unless I
want to! Today, Tuesday, the temperature was 9° when I got up
at 6:30... now, we have "warmed up" to 22° and more snow is
predicted for this afternoon.
I love Christmas, it has always been my favorite time of the
year, but will admit that it is also a month that is filled
with heartache for me... oldest grandson was killed in a car
accident, seven years ago, on the 19th of December and I
thought that history was going to repeat itself, on the 18th
of December, this year, when his younger brother and sister
were in a horrible car accident... they were driving from
San Diego to Bakersfield for their family Christmas party...
driving too fast, "hit" ice and slammed into a tree...
car "totaled"... grandson has seven staples in his head;
granddaughter has major bumps and bruises, but they survived,
Thank God. I also tend to believe that their brother also had
his hands around them.
Hoping that this Christmas season is filled with good tidings
for all. It's fun to believe in Santa, but let's remember the
"reason for the season". Merry Christmas to all Bombers,
everywhere.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/22/16
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7 Bombers sent stuff today:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Annette HALL ('62)
Donni CLARK ('63), Frank Osgard ('63),
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Roy BALLARD ('63)
Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Bob CHILES ('58) & Suzie GUNDERSON ('60)
12/22 3 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - "The Parade" (Episode #24)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Greetings to Bombers everywhere:
As we are about to celebrate the birth of our Savior on
Christmas Eve, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas
and a blessed New Year. May 2017 bring you all the blessings
you may desire.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ in snow-melting Pasco
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>>From: Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
Merry Christmas and a very beautiful Happy New Year to all
Bombers out there.
-Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Hi Bomber friends:
I thought I would send this recipe since several asked for it:
CHRISTMAS WREATHS
Melt 1/2 cup butter with 4 cups mini marshmellows
When melted add
1 tsp. green food coloring
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp vanilla
Stir in
4 cups corn flakes
Butter your hands good and shape into wreaths on wax paper.
I use red cut gumdrops to decorate. You can use red hots also.
I also use the minimum food coloring I can.....
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Hope those were happy tears, Helen.
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Linda, Richland Lutheran had so many wonderful parties for
us kids. They had a wonderful youth program with lots of
active parents.
To: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
We sing in the Dalles every year at the Discovery Center,
and several nursing homes and the for the Veterans. It is
so much fun and I would love the number of Dena EVANS ('64)
and maybe we can make a plan to meet sometime when I up there.
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Frank OSGARD ('63)
Going through some boxes this week, I found a silver dollar.
Might be all I brought back from a trip to Reno. Kept as a
reminder of a weekend best forgotten. But then again, it might
have been the only thing I ever won. Unless you want to count
the my two year vacation, when that draft board in Pasco
picked my name to be one of Uncle Sugar's finest. But, I'm
pretty certain this is the silver dollar I won at the Patrol
Boy Christmas party on a Friday, in December of '56.
As I recall we marched over to the Rec Hall from Lewis and
Clark, with the patrol girls who had the responsibility of
keeping order in the halls. Resplendent in our red jackets,
with white Sam Brown belts (there weren't enough hats to go
around), we were marshaled by our Captain, Jerry KERN ('63).
We mustered with all of the other Patrol Boys from all over
Richland in the big games room where Ernie Curtis normally
held court and passed out pool chalk and ping pong balls.
There were a couple of not very memorable nor motivational
speeches by Officer Lodefink (who we would all get to know
better as time went by) and Captain Miller. We then had the
requisite Spudnuts, peppermint candy canes, watered down,
luke warm hot chocolate and visits from "Tony the Atomic
Clown" and probably Santa Claus.
There were some drawings for door prizes. Maybe a bike from
the hardware store. An extra movie pass that all Patrol Boys
in "Good Order" were given as payment for daily putting their
lives on the line and raising the flag. Somehow I won a silver
dollar. I showed it to everyone, dropped it several times,
lost it more than once and spent the rest of the day figuring
out how I was going to spend it. My choice was to buy a bottle
of hand cream at the dime store by CC Anderson's for the girl
who currently owned my heart. No Mary Margaret, I'm not
speaking of you, that was another time.
During Mrs. Brinkman's noon dances, I'd noticed her hands a
little rough. A not great combination with my sweaty palms
during the Virginia Reel, Schottische and all time favorite
"The Grand March". Wanting to be sure that a 30 cent bottle
of Evening in Paris hand lotion was the proper gift, I took
my time.
Bobby Chipmunk ('63) took the girl, and I've still got the
silver dollar.
Back to the Patrol Boy Christmas party. At the end of the
afternoon, we rendered a smart "Right Hand Salute" right out
of FM 22-5, marched back to school for our afternoon tour of
duty. Two-oh-sixxxxx (it's a Lewis and Clark thing). I'm not
positive, but I'm pretty sure that's someone threw up, someone
wet their pants and someone cried 'cause they'd lost their
candy cane.
-Frank OSGARD ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
In my humble opinion, I think what precipitated the demise of
Christmas programs was the advent of pastel sheets and oh yeah
the demise of bathrobes as Christmas presents. Just think
about it, no white sheets to cut up meant no more of those
sappy white choir "shawls" with the big red plastic bows. No
bathrobes meant there was nothing for the shepherds to wear
while tending to their flocks at night. The dish towels on
their heads could have stayed, but wouldn't match up well with
the ubiquitous Star Wars PJs of later eras.
Bob HYATT ('6a3-RIP) and I were "invited" to be on the stage
crew at Lewis & Clark. I thought it was a promotion from the
choir and was jacked about it. Bob was more perceptive than I,
knew it was because we were tone deaf and cried. As I recall,
what brought down the house was the kindergartners singing,
"We with you a Mewwy Cwithmas" right after "All I want for
Cwithmath ith my two front teeth .
Absolutely Adorable.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: BIRTHDAY
To a very good friend I wish Susan WARD ('65) on 12/21 a great
day, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy new Year.
-Roy BALLARD ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Christmas memories
I've been enjoying the Christmas memories from Bombers. Here
are a few of my own: No child was ever more captivated by
Christmas than I was. We kept our Christmas stuff in large
labeled cardboard boxes in the basement. Sometimes in late
summer I would be playing down in the basement and come across
one of these boxes. I would read "Christmas" on the side, my
heart would skip a beat, and I'd think "just five more months
'til Christmas". I started to get really excited when the
Christmas catalogs came out around September. Growing up in an
"E" house on the corner of Jadwin and Symons as I did, we were
kittycorner across the street from Newberrys. I remember the
thrill of going upstairs to the Christmas toyland they had
every year. One year I was fascinated with a new item I saw
there called "The Ilustrated Man", a foot-high figurine with
clear plastic skin that show the musculature and organs
underneath. Across the street from our house was a Hanford bus
stop. On those cold dark December mornings, we'd wake up and
turn on the lights on our big tree, throw open the curtains on
the picture window, and turn on the floodlight on the big
hula-hoop sized wreath Dad would make each year for the
outside, so that the poor souls waiting for the bus in the
freezing darkness would have something cheery to look at. One
year Mom and Dad decided to order all the presents from the
Spiegel catalog. Well, Christmas came and the presents hadn't
arrived. All Mom and Dad could do was to put little cards on
the Christmas tree telling us what we were going to get. I
think they took it worse than we kids did. The presents
finally showed up more than a week later. That was the last
time they ordered anything from Spiegel. Other memories:
sledding down Carmichael Hill trying to avoid the baseball
backstop at the bottom, trying so hard one year to stay
awake to catch Santa in the act (and failing), listening to
"Cinnamon Bear" on the radio. Does anyone know how old that
series is? Listening to it now, it sounds like it was made in
the '30s.
[it was 1937 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cinnamon_Bear]
Merry Christmas to all Bombers everywhere, young and young at
heart.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/23/16
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6 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Dick McCOY ('45), Norma LOESCHER ('53)
Helen CROSS ('62), David RIVERS ('65)
Pam EHINGER ('67), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck HOLTZ ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig LANSING ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill BLANKINGSHIP ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila STAMBAUGH ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy RIGGINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denny KUYKENDALL ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat HARTY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff O'MEALY ('71)
12/23 2 days till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - "Captain Tintop" (Episode #25)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Seahawks New Uniform color (Green/yellow)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/McC/161223-Hawks_ColorRush.jpg
Amen Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Amen Amen -- Actually the NFL requested a different uniform
for Thursday nite... it won't happen again - I've been told.
-Dick McCOY (from the Tin Can class of '45)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Merry Christmas!
I'm so pleased to wish my Bomber Family a Merry Christmas!
Bombers are a big presence in my life, ever since I arrived in
Richland with my parents and younger brother Ray ('57-RIP) in
1944. I attended Sacajawea, Marcus Whitman, Carmichael and
Col-Hi, then taught English and U.S. History at Col-Hi and
Hanford. Now I attend Richland Bomber sports events and serve
on the Richland High School scholarship committee. May you
precious ones have a happy, healthy new year, with God's
blessings!
Bomber Cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I too have been enjoying all the fun memories of Christmases
in Bomberland, aka Richland.
Thanks, Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63), for the wreath recipe. I
want to try it with my grandson once I get to Nevada.
Every time sledding down Carmichael Hill is mentioned, I flash
back to the time I managed to sled past a tree, but somehow
caught my hip on the tree.
I couldn't walk and I think I got to spend 2 days at my aunt
Phyl's house. Allan ('59-RIP), Bob ('62), Carol ('64-RIP),
Maryjane ('68-RIP) and Duane ('79) CROSS, are her children and
my cousins. I can't think of a Christmas memory in Richland
that doesn't involve them, as we spent every single holiday
together, didn't we Bob('62)? At least we did till all our
part-time jobs made scheduling a get-together very difficult.
I've always felt sort of guilty for taking my children so far
away from our families, so they didn't have many family get-
togethers as they grew up.
Christmas Blessings to all... we are getting ready for the
last Christmas Eve service Warren will lead as a full-time
minister, as be will retire this coming June.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we are thankfully
above freezing again.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Friends
today we gots too life long buds celebrating on the same
day... way cool... but first... tho I know it may be too late
for this year... every day is a new day... and as we all know:
"He's everywhere; he's everywhere"... ok now lets get to HAPPY
BIRTHDAY Bill BLANKINGSHIP ('62) and Craig LANSING ('62) on
your special day, December 23, 2016... and lemme say I blew it
to Susan WARD ('65) and Duane LEE ('67 on the 21st... I been
trying a new system but it only works if I LOOK at my cheat
sheet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Dear Bombers, near & far, young & old
I wish you all the greatest Christmas ever! That the new year
is a blessed one for you & your Family.
May God bless & keep you safe.
Merry Christmas!! Celebrate Jesus' birthday with love &
happiness!
Bombers Rule,
-Pam EHINGER Kindl (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re; Birthday Boys
Happy Birthday to a couple of guys I've known for a long time.
Chief Jo, Col-Hi, and WSU.
Happy Birthday to Jeff O'MEALY ('71), and Pat HARTY ('71).
Hope you have a good one!
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ Plano, TX where the weather can't make up
its mind if it's winter or spring
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Bomber Memorial
>>Beth PARKER ~ Class of 1963 ~ 1945 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/24/16 ~ CHRISTMAS EVE
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Ann BISHOP ('56)
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Cathy GEIER ('66), Betti AVANT ('69)
Anita FRAVALA ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn GROFF ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave MILLER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry LYNCH ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Art SCHAFER ('70)
12/24 1 day till Christmas
CINNAMON BEAR - "North Pole" (Episode #26) (last one)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Good to hear from Mr. McCOY ('44, '45, '02).
About the only good thing that could be said about the
"green" uniforms was at least they did not have "wings".
Guess if they did, they would be Ducks instead of Seahawks.
[See entry from Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73) later
in this edition. -Maren]
Here it is, the day before Christmas. I hope you all have your
stockings hung by the chimney. Just remember that with the
increased amount of daylight, Santa's visit may be shortened.
Kinda think he's got a lot of coal lumps to deliver this year
(Bombers excluded).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
weather guessers promise a cold and dry Christmas Day.
Snow will be in the mountains, where it belongs.
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>>From: Sara Ousley, aka Ann BISHOP ('56)
I just want to wish all our Bombers everywhere a Blessed and
Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year. May the new year bring
all your dreams come true. I pray that The Father will give
"our Mad Dog" MATTIS ('67) wisdom in his new job!
May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Bless you
-Ann BISHOP Ousley ('56) ~ Fouke, AR (near Texarkana)
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: Merry Christmas Bombers!
Maren... You can post this whenever works best for you.
Wishing you an especially lovely Christmas and a huge thanks
for all you do. You're the best!
I want take a minute to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas
and the Happiest and Healthiest 2017. It is wonderful to be a
part of our Bomber family and to read and share stories of
growing up in this special community. Your stories make me
laugh and cry sometimes but always trigger another memory of
my own.
Thinking back over those early Christmases, the memories are
almost overwhelming sometimes. I remember on Christmas
morning, my sisters, Janice ('64-RIP) and Nancy ('65) and I
had to stay in our rooms until Mom and Dad and older brother
Charlie ('56-RIP)(who was 6 years older and didn't believe?!?
In Santa) came to get us. We were blindfolded and led past
what we knew was an amazing sight, into the kitchen, the door
was shut and we HAD to eat breakfast. Mom always made cinnamon
roll wreaths for special family friends which we delivered
on Christmas Eve to the Reils, the Sybertz family and the
Smiths, and a couple of neighbors too and one for us. We
girls managed to choke down a few bites of roll and scrambled
eggs then the door would be opened to reveal our wonderful
Christmas surprises.
My favorite Christmas ever was the year Mom made complete
wardrobes for each of our "Toni" dolls...kind of like Barbies
but cooler. There were shorts and tops, skirts and sweaters,
dresses and even a ball gown. I remember mine was made of an
iridescent aqua fabric, floor length with colorful sequins
around the neck and hemline. It was beautiful. How Mom managed
to make so many outfits for three dolls and they were all
different! She was amazing and we didn't realize until we were
older how blessed we were. Mom passed her love of sewing on to
Nancy and me but Janice wasn't to be the crafty one but turned
into a great Mom and Nana anyway.
I hope your memories of that time of our lives is equally
sweet. God bless you all!
Also, thanks to those of you who sent messages after my post
last week. It was great to hear from you and I certainly
appreciate your good thoughts, advice and prayers. I'm feeling
stronger every day.
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Friends and family... treasure them
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Here I am making fudge, well, my daughter is making fudge, I'm
just stirring the pot. I can't boil water without burning it.
First Christmas I remember we were living in Athena, OR where
I went through grade school. I was on the living room floor
playing with a toy truck and parents said it was time to go to
bed so I parked it under the sewing machine and went to bed. I
woke up first and went into the living room and saw all these
new toys. I didn't know where they came from or if I should
even touch them so I went back to playing with my truck.
Parents woke up and thought it was so funny I had all these
new toys and was playing with an old one. Then I was too
embarrassed to tell them I did not know they were supposed to
be for me... so I never told them. Another Christmas eve we
were going to a movie, got in the car, and dad had to go back
in the house for some reason. Seemed to take him a long time
and I'm thinking, "come on, let's go." Finally he got in the
car and we went to the movie, I think it was "Peter Pan."
When we got home and went into the house, doggone, Santa had
already been there! Also remember many times looking into the
oil stove we had in the living room where you can see the
flame and wonder how Santa got down the chimney and through
that flame.
I remember my dad always just drove up into the Blue Mountains
and found a tree (I don't think you needed to get a permit
back then to do that). I was cold and kept thinking, come on,
cut one, but he had to find the perfect tree. I didn't know
it then, but I turned out the same way in wanting to get the
perfect tree. When we first got TV in I think '54 and I saw
programs where the characters went and bought a tree... that
seemed weird to me, I thought everyone cut their own tree.
First Christmas after I married was a great one. I was in the
Navy and we had an apartment in San Diego and no family but
just the two of us. I bought a cheap tree I think at the Navy
Exchange and couldn't believe I got such a great tree for
such a reasonable price, but now if I go back and look at the
pictures, that tree wasn't much better then Charlie Brown's
Christmas tree.
My daughter's first Christmas was very memorable too. She was
too young to remember it of course, but I think between us,
family, and Santa, she got a whole sleigh full of presents. I
tried pulling that Santa Claus already came thing on her when
we were at the family Christmas eve party, by sneaking out
from the party and putting out the presents, but when we all
left the party to go home, she was smarter than me and asked
if Santa had already come. Another year after the family
Christmas eve party and she had gone to bed I had to put out
the presents including the Barbie motor-home. I thought I
could take it out of the box, but I had to assemble it, and
put stickers on it, an all the little things like tables and
silverware. I was already tired and that took forever to get
ready.
I had always wanted to get a fake tree but wife would never
hear of it. Then daughter came along and she also would not
hear of it. Four years ago I had a lot of trouble getting it
into the stand and balanced and standing up straight. It fell
over, it was in the rec room (daughter's bedroom now) and
landed right on the bar, which is the place she likes to have
a whole bunch of lighted candles. Fortunately, she had no
candles lit, but she did agree to try a fake tree because of
that. Went out and bought one in the after-Christmas sale.
Funny thing is, next year when we put it up, she liked it a
lot better than she thought, and I did not like it very well.
Three years ago the plugs of both strands of lights we were
using the most which my parents bought back in the '50s (they
got them to replace the ones where if one light went out you
had to check each one until you found the right one). Don't
laugh, they were higher quality, easier to hook on the tree
and worked better than the ones I bought in the '70s and '80s.
So instead of fixing the plugs I decided to get LED lights. I
didn't know the sockets would be different, so we can't use
the bubble lights, or the bell shaped "ice" light. I kept the
old strings of light and this year, just bought new plugs so
next year we can use both types until those lights burn out.
My all-time favorite light was a Santa shaped light about four
inches high from grade school days. Every year I was always
afraid it would burn out and finally it did. I thought maybe
I could cut off the bottom where it is glued with a moto tool
and replace the bulb. Now, I was thinking use an LED and it
won't burn out again, but have not found one I thought would
work.
When I was a kid, it took forever to get from one Christmas to
the next Christmas, now I am thinking, "didn't we just pack up
these decorations last month?"
Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
http://blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/twas.html
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) mentioned spending all the Holidays
with her cousins, growing up in Richland... I did the same and
have always wished that my kids could have grown up closer to
their second cousins... almost all of my cousins: Cheri ('66),
Mike ('67), and Joni ('73) De Mers; Mary ('67) and Gene ('69)
Norberg; along with my brother Tim ('71-RIP) stayed in
Richland... I am the only "defector"... lived mainly in CA,
till two years ago, when we moved to Idaho... now, am only
five hours from the Tri-Cities, so closer to family, once
again.
Since my grandmother and great-uncle also lived in Richland,
Christmas was always spent at their house... Christmas Eve
we'd all gather in her two-bedroom prefab for gift opening,
then back on Christmas Day for dinner... there were seven of
us grandkids so that little two bedroom prefab was "filled to
the rafters", but we had fun and always seemed to be able to
"find a spot on the floor" to sit on.
We all used to get together, take our sleds and "saucers" and
go sledding down Carmichael Hill, every Winter... we'd be
bundled up in snowsuits, boots, and mittens... don't even know
how we walked, let alone sat down on the sleds/saucers. We'd
"tumble off" the saucers, since we had no other way of
stopping them, unless we wanted to let the fence be our
"brakes". Fun memories.
Merry Christmas to Bombers, everywhere.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ it's COLD in Kuna, ID this morning it
was 15°. Still have snow, but it's more ice, now than snow
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: It's beginning to look
a lot like Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and
here we go with almost Christmas birthdays... (take it easy
Larry ('64) don't jump the gun)... I forgot to mention it was
really great to hear from Frank OSGARD ('63)... as we all know
Frank didn't zachary grageate I think he just kinda rolled
out... but he remains a true hero to many... especially those
Bomber-babes who had the opportunity to share his company now
and then... I member one time Jimbeaux ('63) going through
"the box" (if yer not familiar with the term... we all got
one... maybe it's a drawer, a closet or whatever) cuz he
promised to send me pix of Frank and him at a particular
gathering that was not greatly publicized at the time and can
do without specifics here... he could not find a single photo
where Frank's face was clear... in fact in most, one could
only see the back of his head... I always thought there were
reasons for that, but had assumed he was in Witness Protection
so I didn't make anything of it... anyway glad to hear from
him... now we gotta Bomber-babe Celebrating... her picture
appears on the same page with Jimbeaux in the Columbian along
with that now famous picture of Number 32 ('63) and Ellen
WEIHERMILLER ('63)... I love looking at pictures from the
Columbian at b-day time... none of us has changed a bit...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marilyn GROFF ('63) on your special day,
December 24, 2016 (CHRISTMAS EVE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Cathy GEIER ('66)
Happy Holidays to Bomber Friends!
Here in Seattle the rain has returned with its wet warmth.
While the frigid cold sunny days give lovely uplifting rays
of shining sun I am more comfortable with our warmer rain.
We still have reports of possible snow but I am pretty sure
we'll remain with rain.
On 12/24 when many are shopping, celebrating and possibly
running around in final preparation for Christmas I will be at
Seattle's big Seahawks football game. I have a part time job
for Guest Services of CenturyLink field. It's fun. As I wind
up my life chapters in Seattle I am biting off huge chunks
of my favorite activities Seattle holds; loved events,
performances, parks - my loved Green Lake and Gasworks where
I teach yoga for a meetup during summers.
Reflections on Richland's Christmases: I loved the holiness
and beauty of Christmas Mass at Christ the King Church. The
Church was so beautiful, decorated with trees, a large manger
scene. I remember looking at sun rays coming through the
stained glass windows! I remember so much snow in the winters
and walking to Carmichael and Col-High in snow and ice. (never
will happen in Seattle!) I remember sharing celebrations with
Cathy PALMER Wood ('66) and Nancy Badgett. Gary SCHULZ ('66)
was my neighbor; we and other neighbors fielded snowballs and
displayed snowmen in our yards. I remember beautiful Christmas
trees at home and my mother's wide variety of Christmas
cookies. I remember a lovely tree at Uptown Richland. During
2006-2008 when I lived in Richland I worked at Coldwater
Creek and the Red Lion. The mall was full of shoppers, yet I
didn't run into any classmates. The Red Lion's parties and
decorations were spectacular and great fun.
Next year I begin in earnst my search for my move away from
Seattle proper - traffic, increased crime and busyness. Though
I have gone to Costa Rica many times I will not go to be a
permanent resident. I may return to Richland to finish a new
life chapter, living again in our safe city after big city
adventures. I'll probably take yoga every place it is offered
and begin my own yoga-teaching business. Be forewarned - it
will be Cathy's Kick Butt Yoga/Fitness. I am blessed with
years of athletics. Many thanks to Rex DAVIS ('49) for asking
his Girls' Tennis Team to be the first Girls' Gymnastics Team
to keep us in shape for Spring Tennis.
Happy Holidays Bombers! Wave at me at the game tomorrow!
-Cathy GEIER ('66) ~ Seattle
P.S. This is not a Christmas memory. however, I was hoping to
see Doug CONRAD ('66) at our reunion. I remember "crashing" a
Lettermen's Club meeting asserting that since I earned an
athletic letter I should be able to be a member. It was Doug
who was the delegate to let me know nicely that it could not
happen!
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Christmas wishes
To Bombers everywhere-
May you all have a blessed Christmas and a wonderful 2017.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ from good old Richland
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Seattle Seahawks Color Rush Uniforms
Must respectfully disagree with Dick McCOY ('45) and Bob
Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54). I loved the Seahawks' green
color rush uniforms so much I had the team store mail me a
jersey (no team store in California!).
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Fra/161224-Hawks-NewColor.jpg
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73) ~ in Indio, CA we've had rain
the last two days but back up into the mid 70s next week
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/25/16 ~ MERRY CHRISTMAS
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
Spencer HOUCK ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry BOWLS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Irene WALDNER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jay COATES ('72)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday!
One chance in 365... what are the odds? Well they are one in
365, I guess... what we have here is a great Bomber who only
gets presents once a year... all together "awwwwwwwwwwww"...
now that we are a tad older maybe it's not sucha big deal
but man when yer a little kid... well, even the threat of
shootin' yer eye out, kid doesn't give way to a teeny tiny
wish for a different birthday... but ya know... he's worth
it... specially now that he doesn't roam the freeways onna big
two wheeler any more... that last spill was not fun to live
through even though I didn't feel the pain... besides this kid
could always get the rake off and pride in knowing every kid
in town wanted a "Bowls paint job"... that's what we called
them and to have one of brother David's ('58) paint jobs was
the ultimate cool... never spent 50 smackers better... well,
here we are again with a very large part of the entire world
celebrating his day... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Larry BOWLS ('64) on
your special day, December 25, 2016 and MERRY CHRISTMAS,
EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Spencer HOUCK ('71)
Re: Merry Christmas
This may be late but you are not forgotten. I would like to
wish all of you out there where ever you are a very joyous
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
As we bring this year to an end we have gone through a lot and
we have created memories that we can cherish. To those who
have gone on my heartfelt condolences to you and your family.
For those of us who remain hold close the memories of them and
keep them in our hearts. I have special feeling for this time
of year as my mother pasted over twenty years ago but still
seems like yesterday. Our family misses her. She was a small
person but had a very big heart. So enjoy your time with
family and build your own memories to share with others.
Thank you to Maren and all my Bomber friends around the world.
-Spencer HOUCK ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/26/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Marvin McDONALD ('60)
Larry BOWLS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vera SMITH ('58)
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>>From: Marvin McDONALD, Jr. ('60)
My wife SanDee and I would like to wish everyone the very
BEST Christmas and Happy New Year. May this coming year be
the best every for you ALL.
-Marvin McDONALD, Jr. ('60)
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>>From: Larry BOWLS ('64)
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Your 12/25/16 Sandstorm entry
David,
By a popular vote of this Bomberville guy, you will surely go
down in history as one of the few greatest "Bombers", well
except for Rudolf the red nose reindeer. Rudolf was the
hero of my birthdays and Christmas. In my mind, he was the
greatest. You see, on Christmas Eve from my sister's bedroom
in a now historic "A" house, you could see Rudolf's red nose
and the other reindeer start their decent into Bomberville,
USA. At this point I should clarify the red nose we envisioned
was the red flashing light on top of the water (tank) tower
off the south end of Thayer Drive. Still, in our minds the red
light was Rudolf and by the magic of Christmas it would be
transformed into a sleigh full of presents, the other eight
reindeer and Santa Claus. It was our warning that we had to
get to sleep soon. So, with one last prayer to Santa, we would
close our eyes and try to fall asleep. I was praying maybe
this was the Christmas I would actually get that double
holster pistol set with two six guns, several rolls of
ammunition (caps) and a sheriff's badge. I remember that if I
didn't get it that particular year, I would soon run out of
time, and time would be closing in that I would still be
playing cowboys and Indians. Little did I know that playing
army was to be next. Such is the life a little kid. The pistol
set I never got, but no matter. I was mostly satisfied with
the new flannel shirt, socks, blue jeans, etc. But, I digress.
With decades of Christmases and birthdays now behind us,
I just wanted say thanks for your kind words to me and
remembrances of Richland "back in the day". Many of us will
agree that our growing up a "Bomber" was special in that
unique place known as Richland, WA. You have become a friend
to many, including me, even though we didn't connect in our
youth. Thank you for that, and thank you for keeping our
Bomberville memories alive in the special way you do. We are
all truly blessed by your friendship. May this Holiday time be
full of the joy and hope this Christmas Season offers.
-Larry BOWLS ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/27/16
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn SCHULTZ ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeannine HUGHES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon CHAPMAN ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sabra PETERSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti ECKERT ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray NELSON ('70)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Trust all the leftover wrappings have either been ironed out
and saved; put in the re-cycle bins or just taken to the dust
bins (garbage cans). And the feeling of bloat from all the
grand foods, goodies and candies is passing. Who knows, you
may recover in time for New Year's.
All that is beside the point. 'Tis the celebration of a Bomber
Babe's birthday. Sad to say it comes after Christmas and all
funds are exhausted. That is no excuse for not celebrating.
A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to
fellow classmate Jeannie HUGHES ('54) on her day of days. Hope
all is well with you and yours.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
we are awaiting the next wintery blast.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/28/16 ~ NOT
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No entries for a REAL Alumni Sandstorm.
We do, however, have birthdays today:
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron STEPHENS ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy STEACH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robyn RICHARDSON ('78)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/29/16
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1 Bombers sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck LANGE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dot EGELAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Hannah LEE ('94)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted BLOWE ('08)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: way too soon
Today I celebrate the lives of two Bomber-babes who touched
my life and made it part of what it is today... no matter the
age, the people in our lives make a huge difference in what
we become... I came to know one of these Babes in 2nd grade
and the time I spent at her house was another part of what
made my Spalding years so very special... her house was a
gathering spot for Spalding kids and the times there were
magic... I mean plus two of the loves of my life, Gretchen
GRIFFEN ('65-RIP) and Cheryl WEAVER ('65) hung out there as
well... ahhhhhhh grade school love... now on the other hand,
the other babe was way too sophisticated for me in school...
I went with her Younger sister ('66) off and on, from time
to time... but she and I did not become close until several
years later... I cannot even tell you how it happened...
but it did... it was one of those 250 miles away kind of
relationships and I would spend many weekends around Doheny
and other parts of Orange county in her company, in fact,
my daughter would manage a restaurant in her town in later
years... as often happens long distance relationships are
hard at best... no fault on either side... I often wonder if
she had let me know about and how serious her illness was if
things hadn't been different, but she was a trooper and not
a complainer... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Janice BEARDSLEY ('64-RIP)
and Kathy WERSEN ('64-RIP) on your special day, December 29
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/30/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Mike DALEN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phil GANT ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug HAWKINS ('62)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Lance HARTMAN ('60) & Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jim HAMILTON ('63) & Nancy WICK ('65)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
In order to keep things running in the proper direction; in
other words hoping to prevent a "Not" issue, I make this
submission. Perhaps someone else will also submit something
of note.
My basic purpose is to acknowledge the birthday of a Bomber
whom I went to school with, and, yes, even knew back in the
day. I think our shared interest was to "party harty". Can't
think of any other reason we would hang together.
At any, rate, he's a good guy who unfortunately got borned
too early and did not qualify for the New Year's Baby prize
(that's one where close does not count). A tip of the ol'
propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" to Phil GANT ('54).
Have a good one, buddy, and do come back for more.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
weather prognosticators are saying the first week of
January will be clear but cold (highs in the 20s and
lows in the teens or single digits).
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Milestones
Gads... I am told I have to celebrate my birthday January 6th
like it or not. Wife Jackie had that look in her eye as she
kissed me goodbye at the airport for my flight to Dutch
Harbor, AK for New Years display. So the 6th of January I will
have to recognize I will be 75. I have lived a busy life and
time has flown by. All my life I have been fortunate to have
pyro activity to distract me from aging. I have already agreed
to do the two displays a year at Dutch Harbor for 3-4 more
years as long as I am able. So far my health is reasonable
with the usual aches and pains of my age.
My first ever Christmas Eve Display staged at the Applegate
Christian Fellowship west of Medford, OR went over very well.
Management said I far exceeded their expectations and that
many of the 3500 in the audience were overcome by the
carefully choreographed display. I was personally quite
satisfied with the display considering I am my own worst
critic. I even got a little emotional hearing 3000 voices
singing the Christmas carols of my youth.
I am a great fan and long time highly satisfied MVP customer
of Alaska Airlines. But WOW Christmas Day they blew it. Not
enough pilots, or planes, poor scheduling and a bad attitude
on the part of some employees. I sat 6 hours at the Medford,
OR Airport watching clerks fumble, and finally at noon some
gal walked in rolled up her sleeves and took over. She picked
up the mike and said "Everybody! Go sit down!". "You have to
give me some time and I will fix as much as I can, as quick
as I can." She was a whizz at her job. One by one, plane out,
plane in, all day. I got to Anchorage at 2:30 am and had a
flight to Dutch Harbor at 7 am.
However the next day I received an e-mail letter from the VP
of Airport Operations. He made no excuses just "we messed up
BIG time". Enclosed was a gift certificate for $150 off of my
next fight on Alaska Air. I sent him a note back thanking him
and saying he needed to do something nice for the Gal who
fixed things. He replied that she will be well rewarded. It
was her day off and she went in without anybody asking and did
not even sign in. She just went to work on it. I have yet to
meet an Alaska Air employee who was not quite happy with
their job.
My willing crew has us ready to load the guns (mortars) 2 full
days ahead of time. The set up of this display on two trailers
is complex, and time consuming. The several hundred pieces of
fire wire running back and forth will make you dizzy. They are
City of Unalaska Employees. Firemen/EMT, Electrical Lineman,
Water Dept. workers, not sure what the 4th guy does, he does
not say much just quietly works fast. Anyway we are well ahead
of our task.
Over 500 items (incl. 8-10, and 12-inch shells) will be fired
starting at exactly midnight. Firewood has already been
stacked on the beaches for the warming fires.
I hope all had a nice Christmas with family and friends.
It was my first Christmas without Jackie in 12 years. The
reaction to my display by the audience helped as they were
wonderful. Many went out of their way to come over and say
"Thank you".
I wish all Bombers and their families have a Happy, Healthy
and prosperous New Year.
May the blessings of the season be upon you and your families.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: 50th Anniversary
50 years ago today (December 30, 1966) I married Lance
HARTMAN ('60) at West Side Church in Richland. I had known
him since my first grade year in Benton City where his mother
was my first teacher. We reconnected in September, 1966 when
he was home on leave after serving 3 years in Viet Nam. It has
been an adventurous ride as the wife of a Submariner and I
have loved every moment despite the normal ups and downs of
the military life. We moved back to Richland in 2004 when
Lance finally retired for the second time to be close to our
daughter's family.
We will celebrate with a road trip in the spring to several
National Parks, a stop to watch our granddaughter play in a
volleyball tournament in Las Vegas, and visit with family in
the Phoenix area.
Happy New Year to Bombers everywhere!
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Upper classmen
Ya gotta love 'em... but first a quick story... I am sure
we were all saddened by the loss of Debbie Reynolds and her
daughter... In this little burg, rubbing elbows with the great
and near great was just a way of life inna old days... when
we got our McDonalds you could count on any number of stars
standing in line just like the rest of us... during my
practice I have represented most of the Hotel Casinos at some
time or another... lotsa black tie affairs at any given time
so owning a tux was kinda taken for granted... I still have
the one I had made a while back and it still fits but these
days it pretty much gathers dust... a few years back I was
attending a nice affair with assigned seating... I found my
seats and only two others were already seated so I could
kinda maneuver where I sat... the two girls already seated
were Debbie Reynolds and Phyllis McGuire... as we exchanged
greetings I hadda make a quick decision... Debbie looked like
a normal mid seventies girl... Phyllis, on the other hand, had
had 5 too many face lifts... I swear she looked exactly like
Jack Nicholson as the Joker... lip stick and all... though I
don't drink, I knew if I had to face her it would be water out
the nose at any moment... I managed to sit so I faced Debbie
but only had to give side-long looks at Phyllis... saved by
logistics!... Well it's now a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Doug HAWKINS
('62) on your special day, December 30, 2016... while I'm at
it a big Happy Anniversary to the Ever young and lovely Miss
Nancy ('65) and Jimbeaux ('63)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Mike DALEN ('72)
Re: Go Dawgs Roll Tide!
Heading for the Peach Bowl in Hotlanta this weekend to witness
my UW Huskies steal one from Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide.
I've lived in Huntsville, Alabama for 32 years now, where
college football is religion. I'll be one of twelve Husky
alums in the Georgia Dome, so you should be able to spot me.
Should I get my tix now to the National Championship in Tampa,
or wait til after the game Saturday?
Go Dawgs Roll Tide
-Mike DALEN ('72)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/31/16 ~ NEW YEAR'S EVE
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Grace DeVINCENTIS ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wayne WALLACE ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug HILDEBRANT ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John ALLEN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary GRIGG ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mikel BOATMAN ('99)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Happy New Year
To: Bombers Everywhere
My wish for all of you is a blessed and happy New Year in
2017. I am grateful to God that I am still on the earth this
late in my life. The damage to my heart and lungs which I
received working in the areas at Hanford has been well
controlled through medication and physical therapy. As a
result of God's grace I have been able to complete my book
of daily devotions and it is in the publishing process and
should be in book stores early in 2017.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Bomber Help
Time to give credit where it is well deserved. I did not use
his name as I had not asked if it was OK.
Bomber Alum Chuck LOLLIS ('64) was a tireless worker in the
setting up of the Applegate display. It was a long drive down
there and since Pepper and I drove the truck, Chuck was our
taxi to and from the Motel 6 where they had provided each of
us with a room. We had breakfast in town and then drove the
15 miles to the Applegate facility. They provided us with
sumptuous lunch and dinners.
So a big THANK YOU to Chuck who put aside his pursuit of a
little white ball, carrying a bag full of clubs, to work on
the display. For several years now he has worked fireworks
displays for EFI in 3 states and has enough experience to be
a very valuable helper. On top of that he is a really nice
guy to be around.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Cataract surgery was a success... for all my worry, I didn't
feel a thing... gave me an IV and I was in "la-la land"...
procedure only took about 15 minutes... but, was there for a
total of two hours. Have three different drops that I have to
continue using for four weeks, three times a day. oh, and
insurance doesn't "cover" one of them, since it's available
as generic, but this eye doctor won't prescribe generic, as
he doesn't think it does as good a job as the brand name so
that little bottle, which is smaller than a thimble, costs
$279! Almost had a heart attack when the pharmacist told me
the price! insurance did "cover" the other two, since they
are generic, but, even at that, the two of them were almost
$300 and they are the same size as the other bottle! BUT, the
blurriness is gone, I can actually see the street signs and
be able to drive, again, so it's "all good". Now, just have
to wait till the eye is completely healed, then I will get
the prescription for glasses... will still need them for
reading and distance, since insurance would not pay for
"premium" lens... they only pay for "standard"... no big
deal, wearing glasses has never bothered me... I kept my
octagon-shaped frames, and I will have the lens tinted
purple, since that color will "match" my purple hair. *grin*
My youngest daughter and her son came up here from CA, for
Christmas and they have been enjoying all the snow we've been
having... we still have it and more is predicted for this
coming week, along with "minus" temps, starting on Wednesday
and going through the weekend. they are saying Thursday we
will be MINUS SEVENTEEN (I can't even imagine how cold that
is) and that's the night they are supposed to fly back to
CA,so she's wondering if she'll even get off the ground.
weatherman has said this has been the coldest December for
this part of Idaho since 1998 and the snowiest December since
2008. And, I know I'm crazy, but I am LOVING the snow... it's
so pretty and makes everything look so Wintry and Christmassy
(I don't even know if that's a word).
Happy New Year to Bombers everywhere. Hope 2017 is a better
year for everyone and brings only good tidings.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ 3° in Kuna, ID Friday morning
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November, 2016