"Bomber Memories"
October 15, 16 & 17, 1998
October 15, 1998
Don Fisher (50) / Donna Fisher (80)
To the alumni that are interested in Hanford and White Bluffs.
I remember, while at Hanford Grade School, getting my butt smacked by the principal (don't remember why I was paddled) and then about 3 years later (1946) when I went into Richland High School, I saw that my old principal was at the school; we laughed about the incident and each other.
I remember the Hanford Army guys. No problems just a little more drinking and carousing by "By's Burger" that us high school guys couldn't understand (we were so pure). Then in 1954 I became one of those army guys. When I came home from Korea I still had 3 months to finish up. I made my bed in the barracks every morning for inspection, but I slept home (my parents' home) every night.
Millie Finch Gregg (54)
Just a few more memories. A few days ago Tom Hughes asked about the airplane (Day's Pay, etc.). What I found out from my mom is: she doesn't know who made the decision for this but on one given day, all employees working at hanford, donated a "day's pay" toward the purchase of a B-17 Bomber. Anyone else out there that understands it differently or is in position of more info?
To: Sue Elliott Crumb Homan (62) - You made mention of the lagoon. Oh how I remember swimming there and then in later years took my first daughter there to swim also. Just though I would let you that in the past year or so they have cleaned it up and it is now a family fishing pond. I guess it is really nice and I always see someone there and I understand the fish are biting too!
To: Larry Bowls (64): Hi neighbor. We lived right on the corner of Davenport and Abert and the Hale twins (Sue and Dee(54) lived right up from me. Your brother George graduated with us. You know we might have lived in the "south end", but it was the first built - so couldn't be all bad.
I notice that no one has bit the bullet and mentioned the great Harley Stell and Mr. Gordon Pappas. I guess since I was right in the middle of the music department I can enlighten you some. Stell definitely was not liked by everyone, but he was an absolute "great" music teacher. The quality that he got from the Choir, the Male Quartet, the Bel Canto Trebilaires, etc. was amazing. We had a lot of fun going to Ellensburg to adjudications and also preparing for our concerts. The best time we had was when we did 2 live presentations. The first was OKLAHOMA. It was wonderful and so much fun. The last one we did before I graduated was an Operetta called "Good News". It was great and we worked with the band and orchestra lots. Mr. Pappas also was a great teacher.
Millie Finch Gregg
Sharon Brooks Sims (62)
TO: Vince Bartram (62): I can tell you what we all had in common. We all started school in kindergarten together at Lewis and Clark, we all went to Junior High together at Carmichael, then we all graduated together at Richland High. (Col. High)
The reason Agenta Bjiorkland was in the picture was because she was a foreign exchange student staying with Carole Johnston's family.
I am looking at the picture that was taken at L&C. I believe we had cake and punch and then the picture was taken.
To Sue Elliot Homan (62): The lagoon is no longer a swimming hole. It was drained, cleaned out, and is now stocked with fish for the young fisherman who has an adult with them. That was completed this year and the kids love fishing there.
Sharon Brooks Sims
Carol Crose Ellis (62)
To Vince Bartram (62).....his question "What do the following people from the Class of 62 have in common?"
I believe this is a list of 4-5 year olds that all started Kindergarten together, moved into Carmichael together, and then graduated in 62 together. We were all a great bunch of Richland young people.
Yes, our grade school would have been Lewis and Clark. My answer might be wrong, but think it is right. When this large group of students graduated our parents had a big dinner for all of us that had gone through all 13 grades together. I still have that photo that was taken by a professional photographer.
Ann McCue Hewett (63) g
Mary Lou Watkins (63): How funny that you would bring up Violet Jones and her throwing technique (Jefferson P.E. teacher). I have thought of her several times over the years and I am glad someone else remembers her and for the same reason!
I am probably the worlds most gullible person! Several years ago a neighbor told me a story about a choking Doberman... some of you might have heard it. Anyway, I related the story to my husband and he told me it was a myth... I refused to believe him and he found a book about urban myths and legends. Imagine my surprise when in reading it I found a story about a man prowling in favorite parking places of young couples (get the drift?)... threw sand in their eyes or left his "hook" on the door handle... and I thought Richland was unique in that way, too! (And yes, I found several versions of the choking Doberman story, too.)
I just found the web site with ALL the messages from the beginning of this Alumni Sandstorm... last night I read all evening long and think I am caught up. Can you imagine me dreaming about high school days as I slept?! What a blast from the past.
[Special Note to Ann: This last paragraph is not a memory in itself, but dreams are based on our memories! (Sandi)]
Ann McCue Hewett
Carol Wiley-Wooley (63)
Hey, where are the Spalding kids????? There must be someone else that remembers Mr. Carlson, the 6th grade teacher that made all the girls giggle?? I remember clearly that when he announced that he was getting married we were devastated!..The class had a wedding shower for him and brought all kinds of kitchen stuff. Then much to our dismay (the girls) we had his wife for P.E. in the 7th grade at Carmichael!...
Also one could never forget Mrs. Keller, the music teacher at Spalding.. She put us through the jumps, more than Mr. Chitty in P.E. class for sure.. The singing in Latin and the square dancing... We were such talented little charmers.
One of the most challenging parts of elementary school was Chuck Gardiner and I trying to explain how we were ALMOST related..
There were so many patient teachers that really spent the time... Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Foust, Mrs. Julian, Mrs. Pollard and wasn't somebody's Mom the Librarian?? I loved Mrs. Foust and Mrs. Pollard especially as I remember.
That was really a golden time... I think none of us had a clue how mellow our world was compared to the rest of the world.
Not Finished, Just Begun....
Carol Wiley-Wooley
[Carol -- Oh, I'm a Spalding kid!!! My all time favorite was Miss Bowe (2nd grade). We're even still in touch. She was WONDERFUL -- I loved Mrs. Foust (4th grade), too. She was SOOO pretty!! ...and Speaking of Halloween, do you remember the Halloween carnival at Spalding??? the cake walk was down in the 2nd grade rooms and the gym/audotoriam was all decorated and had booths like "go fishing" - and you'd 'go fishing' and get some stupid little toy. --Maren]
Mary Sullivan (64)
Here's a question that's "bothered" me from time to time!! JUST what WAS the purpose of the houses with half "dug out" basements??? I can remember two of the houses we lived in had ALL THAT DIRT but only on ONE side???
Erin Owens Hyder (66)
I've been thinking about teachers since everyone has been mentioning favorites from different elementary schools. I attended Jason Lee and remember Mr. Rex Davis. He taught PE all the years I was there - at least he was the only PE teacher I remember from those years. Later when I went to WSU, he was there teaching Tennis and Gymnastics. I believe a student at WSU had a bad accident in Gymnastics - broke his neck or something - and Mr. Davis decided to give up Gymnastics. I always wondered where he ended up. I really admired him. It also took until I had kids of my own in school to realize that all elementary schools did not have cafeterias, gymnasiums, auditoriums, art rooms and wonderful playgrounds. How lucky I have since felt to have attended a school with soooo many amenities.
Mike Cook (70)
I remember 5 burgers for a buck and 5 shakes for a buck at Skips Drive In. I remember spending way too much time at Ernies Rack and Cue and not enough time at school. One time my friends told Mrs.Wiley I had broke my leg as the reason I wasn't there.When I walked in a few days later,she almost had a heart attack! She went on and on about my miraculous recovery. She wouldn't let it go the whole period.
I remember losing Kim Killain & Marc Peterson to a car wreck. It seems like it was about 1967 or so. I later worked for Kims father, Woody, at the school district.
I remember Phil Soike and Howie Chitie and how they liked to use the paddle. Those two were animals with the board!
I remember being in the same P.E. class with Mike Fitzpatrick (70) and the guy who backed him up on the wrestling team. I can't remember his name but I remember him being very good also. Unfortunately, I weighed the same as them which wasn't good. They used to see which one could put me in a bad way the quickest. I believe Mike was state champion or he would become champion soon. Great wrestler, great guy.
Mike Cook
Susy Rathjen Whitney (71)
Denny Damschen (62) sent in a "stupid story" a while back that triggered a "stupid story" of my own. One night, when I was a little girl, I noticed my mom and dad getting all dressed up. As they rarely went out, I asked where they were going. My mom replied "We're going out to paint the town red." Well, that made sense to me. After all, just a few blocks away the Bon Marche (or maybe it was still C.C. Anderson) was being painted red. It didn't matter that they were all dressed up, I figured they'd pass out some overalls or something there. A few years ago (yes, I was all grown up approaching middle age) I mentioned to my mother, as we drove by the old building, something about her and my dad helping to paint the building. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "We never painted that building!" I said "But I remember you telling me"... at that moment I realized what her words has meant. All those years.... and I had never understood. Now, that's stupid!!
Susy Rathjen Whitney
Margaret Hartnett (72)
Ann McCue Hewett (63) wrote: "Anyone else remember Richland supposedly being "ranked" high on THE LIST of places that would be bombed in case of war?"
Ann: I don't think what was going on at Hanford was a very well kept secret actually. I remember my mom being scared to death during the cuban Missile Crisis, she was sure we were a target. For me the most chilling acknowledgment of the fact came through literature. Frank Herbert, best known as a Sci-Fi writer wrote one of the first "what happens after the fact" speculation books entitled "Alas Babylon". There on page one )if I remember correctly) first paragraph, the narrator lists the places that disappeared - Hanford was close to the top.
October 16, 1998
Jane Rollison Hightower (52)
Thanks to Don Fisher (50) for memories of the Hanford area. You must have lived there before the Manhattan Project took over. I believe the town of White Bluffs was already gone when my family moved to Hanford in June 1944. We lived in the giant trailer camp (which would now be called a mobile home park) along with some 50,000 other people, counting the single men and women who lived in barracks. Went to third grade in split shifts at the old Hanford High School. I don't think they had real teachers, just some college kids trying to hold things together, so the only thing they taught us was some popular songs. I still know the words to "Swinging on a Star!"
Re Day's Pay: This was a B-17 purchased by contributions from Hanford workers. It was actually flown to Hanford to a landing strip west of town in July 1944, and everyone in town (who wasn't on shift work) went out to attend the dedication. Boring speeches by the bigwigs, but to see the bomber up close was worth it.
Re Art Dawald: Anybody remember his son, Dick Dawald (49)? - a great basketball player. I remember seeing him sink his hook shots from WAY outside.
Jane Rollison Hightower
Shirley Segrest Telford (52)
I too remember the trips to Ellensburg every year (I was in the orchestra). I remember the "scary" road between Yakima and Ellensburg and then of course who could forget the tunnel!! Also, remember the Christmas Concerts every year? When I hear the song "Sleighride" during the Christmas season I always think back to that time as we did that one every year without fail!!!
Is there anyone out there who was in Mrs. Buescher's(sp?) geometry class (1949-1950)? If so, do you remember the day we had a substitute teacher and every time she turned her back on the class to write on the blackboard some of the boys went down through the trap door in the room?? Then they all came back up again when she wasn't looking. Mrs. Buescher wasn't at all pleased with the class when she returned.
Speaking of teachers, I really owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Spainhower, the steno teacher. She used to say "if you learn how to be a secretary you will never have any trouble finding a job," and she was right!!!
Tony Tellier (57)
Somebody wrote: "I remember 5 burgers for a buck and 5 shakes for a buck at Skips Drive In."
I also remember getting arrested at Skip's for the high crime of excessive hangin out. I think Dave Gilpin (57) and a handful of other miscreants were hailed into court AFTER a police name-taking episode. Not a pretty sight. It was the first step on a downward spiral into a life of crime! But I would learn my lesson well: I was sent to Pullman and Washington State (College, at that time). An exile.
Tony Tellier
John Northover (59)
Subject:Basements
To: Mary Sullivan (64): They were designed that way, just enough room to hold the coal bin, a place for a sink and the furnace. I do not remember a water heater being in the basement... we lived in an 'A' house. IT was 'COST EFFECTIVE' ... what ever that meant in those days...
Which brought back memories of having coal delivered ... If you did not have the little window open for the chute ... no coal. That was my responsibility and I seem to remember my dad having to go to the keepers of the coal ... and get coal in sacks ... and of course I got in big trouble... so what else was new??
Which brings back memories of making a fire and trying to 'bank' the coal to keep a little heat going all night. However, that seldom happened. I had the job of getting up and starting the furnace from about the 4th grade of so... I could get a fire going that would be hot enough to melt iron! I do remember that those houses would get fairly cold during the winter since insulation was not present. Once a fire was going, it was a battle between my sister, Linda, and I to see who would get to stand in front of the vent in the dining room to warm up, while Mom was making breakfast.
How did we ever get along without a thermostat???
John Northover
Earl Bennett (63)
Donna Fisher (80): A month or so ago I sent in a reminiscence about Mr. Barnard and his awesome paddle and good math teaching - here's a copy: "Mary Sullivan: The math teacher with the awesome "spat" board was Mr. Barnard. The shop teacher had an impressive one, too. I had one personal experience in Mr. Barnard's class, based on failure to complete the penalty (500 times write "I will not talk in class," or some such) imposed for talking too much with Barbara (last name lost until I can dig out my annuals). As I recall he was slender but solid. I think he liked to use the phrase "apply the board of education to the seat of learning." Barbara also failed to complete the assignment, but she was wearing about 3 inches of petticoats or something under her skirt that day, knowing what was coming - grinned like crazy walking back to her seat, while I squirmed in my one layer of polished cotton and Hanes. Vivid, tactile memory!
Janice Klusman McCurdy (66)
Re Spalding.. aahhh I remember it well. Mrs. Pollard, Mrs. Julian, Mrs. Hood, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Swartz, the Librarian's daughter was Mary Bailey. I didn't have Mr. Carlson, but I did have Mr. Stolte. I still see him when he comes into the office once or twice a year to renew tabs. I also see Mr. Jantz from Carmichael. I also remember patrol girls and how we got a free ticket to the movies once a month at the Uptown theater. I remember lucky Mary Jackson lived across from the school, and didn't have to walk far like we did !
A and W drive in was mentioned, but no one mentioned mixing the root beer and orange to make swampwater! Uptown thrifty drugs was to go and get Chocolate Cokes, and Zips was for Cherry 7-ups.
I, too, have put a dent in my dad's car by running into the poles down at the dog and suds ! Ah, to have friends that did body and paint work !
Jan Klusman McCurdy
Michael Figg (70)
The talk about teachers at Jefferson has been interesting. I think Kathy Rathvon started it with the talk about the librarian she had at Jefferson. Joanne Shadel and I both remembered Miss Ahyrs when we were there. We started talking a little off line and I reminded her of Violet Jones, about the time that everyone else from Jeffersone started talking about her. I remember her even better than Miss Ahyrs (SP? -- I could spell her name two weeks ago but I'm two weeks older now!). What I remember most about Mrs. Jones was the black or navy blue gym suit she would always wear. I wonder how many of those she had.
Someone this morning mentioned Rex Davis from Spalding. I never spent any time at Spalding but must have taken a summer class from him at some point because I remember him well. I believe the class was in gymnastics, and as I recall he really looked like a gymnast.
Mike Cook (70) mentioned Mike Fizpatrick and wrestling. I think his backup might have been Loren Sharpe, although I think Loren won the state championship in another weight class. Lonnie and Donnie Draper were comparable and I believe one of them also won a state championship.
Michael Figg
Creede Lombard (72)
Just a minor correction: Margaret Hartnett (72) mentioned the book "Alas, Babylon" and attributed it to Frank Herbert. Actually, it was written by a different Frank -- Pat Frank. I remember Col Hi actually offered a class in Science Fiction for literature credit during an experiment they were doing in the early 70s to expand the number of English/literature options available, and that was the first book studied in the class. For some reason, though, I had to drop the class before I got into the book.
Creede
Paula Mulvey Nokes (76)
For Donna Fisher (80): My husband, Alan Noakes [76] (who has the best nitpicking memory in the world), says that the store on the corner of Lee and Stevens (before Albertson's) was PayLess. He remembers the mechanical elephant; plus his family lived down on Delafield so that was in their neighborhood. He says it was divided as Donna remembers into the grocery and department areas. I vaguely remember, but we did most of our shopping at Thrifty Drug (Uptown), the old Safeway, and Mayfair (anybody remember those?). My mom worked for a time at Thrifty Drug during holiday seasons when I was quite small. I still have dreams sometimes at night that use the floor plan for the Mayfair on Williams and Thayer; weird, huh? Guess I just spent too much of my impressionable childhood there! I also remember the Rexall drug that was by Mayfair and how my folks wouldn't let me walk up there by myself until I was about 8 or 9 years old because Thayer was too dangerous a street to cross!
Thanks for the reminiscences! This is great!
Paula Mulvey Noakes and Alan Noakes
[Seems to me the Uptown Mayfair was something like S&H --- and I KNOW the Mayfair at Thayer and Williams was Campbell's WAY before it was Mayfair... The Rexall Drug store next to Campbell's was Pennywise. Now we need to hear from Erin Owens Hyder (66) again. If memory serves, she said her Dad was the pharmacist at Pennywise -- I was about 5 years old and Pennywise is the ONLY store I've EVER taken anything from that I didn't buy -- can't even remember what it was (balloons or penny candy??) -- but I DISTINCTLY remember lying to my Mother about it -- and I had to take whatever it was back. --Maren]
October 17, 1998
Eva Clark Perry (49)
Have to tell you a little story. We were shopping at Newport Safeway yesterday and there was the strangest looking little red convertible. I made Jim go drive by it, and lo and behold, it was the car that also is a boat!. Shades of yesteryear -- we used to watch a little red car drive into the Columbia from the other side and work it's way down river to the park, where he would drive up and go on to work in the areas. There was an article in the Tri City Herald one time, but of course I didn't keep it, nor do I remember the person's name. It would be interesting if anyone else remembers the car crossing the river back in the 40"s....
Eva Clark Perry
Dick Wight (52)
The comments of Jane Rolliston Hightower (52) and the other '50's folk sure dregs up ole memories. We lived on Van Geisen (msp?) in a duplex, dug out the other half of the basement for a bedroom (for me!). I recall what seemed to be a big drug store with a soda fountain/restaurant downtown where many of us gathered from time to time. Remember how to invert a full glass of water upside down on a table top using a napkin? It took quick hands! I recall one night seeing a tall, skinny fellow wearing a white suit with pictures of playing cards on it, having coffee there. We asked who he was and he responded, "Why, son, I'm T Texas Tyler!" (old country western singer of some fame).
I remember Mrs. Beuscher the geometry teacher. Really nice lady! Also Miss Scoggins who taught algebra. My senior year I was bored with the class, cut lots of her classes, failed to do much homework. She told me she was going to fail me... but I "aced" the final exam and she grudgingly gave me a C-, saying that was how her mathematical formula worked out! A fair teacher, I'd say!
Another time I was flying an ole Aeronca Champ from the old CAP airport (now a gravel pit) and flew over Jane's house in West Richland, tied a note in a handkerchief and threw it to her. I missed and dropped it across the canal, but she retrieved it.
Gary Horton (59)
Here's a few more memories.
We lived in Sunnyside until our prefab was finished sometime in 1943. The day we moved in carpenters were putting the finishing touches on the flat roof and hauling in furniture. I remember one morning waking up to discover someone else's prefab roof had blown off the night before, it was intact in the ally way between the houses. About the same time my best friend's family was forced to leave and move back to where they came from (Minnesota) because his dad had not followed the rules pertaining to keeping quiet, not discussing what he and others were doing at Hanford.
My dad came home from fishing on the Snake River to announce that he and his fishing buddies were the last people to cross the wooden bridge at Sacajawea and the mouth of the Snake River before it burned down. Anyone remember the old wooden bridge being narrow and rather treacherous to cross. At that time the Columbia River used to be the coldest and fastest flowing river in the world.
I loved all the fruit trees that were in the ally ways, everything from plums to peaches, what a feast when the fruit was in season. Does anybody remember the "this is government property and I can do what I want," when some grown up decided the ally way was his property and you shouldn't be on his place.
About half the kids in our neighborhood would sleep out almost every night during the summer. Depending on the various fruits or vegetables that were ripe would account for how far we would stray from our sleeping bags to get something to eat. It was "the best" when the watermelons finally got ripe, they make the best midnight snack. One night late in the year 1957, too late and too cold to sleep out, we were lying out in the yard just looking up in the sky, as we looked at the stars we were startled to see what at first we thought to be a falling star but later discovered it was Sputnik, it was a big phenomenon to see a man made object go flying over head back then.
My recollections of the Kennewick Social Club brings back memories of various rock and roll stars that came and performed. Conway Twitty, Fats Domino, and The Fleetwoods. The setting was pretty casual, not the elaborate concerts that happen today but just as thrilling to me, they were the first real celebrities that I had ever seen up close and personal.
One of my favorite hang outs in the 50's was the hobby shop, I think it was called Paul's, it was next to and on the same side of Geo. Washington Way as the Desert Inn, across from the old SeaFirst Bank in downtown. There were a bunch of us model airplane enthusiasts in those days. We had many meets down below Col Hi during the hot wonderful carefree summer days.
I remember in junior high (Carmichael) my first real participation in fad clothing, pink and black clothes really made you cool. White buck shoes in high school. Remember seeing the white outline of someone's shoe's on the floor in the hall where they would get their dust bag and powder their shoes. Tough job keeping them white. How about the pegged pants (Levi's) with thin belts and wedged shoes, the pants had to be worn low. Cars became a big deal when I reached 16, one of the best looking cars driven by a Bomber was a beautiful candy apple red ford owned by a guy named Ray. Important to a car's good looks were flipper hub caps, lowered with dual exhaust / side winders.
Doris Van Reenen Dollarhide (61)
Going through a box of old school stuff and ran across the Sandstorm -- Friday, June 2, 1961.
Class of 1961 will be remembered for many reasons, one is the Bomber Bowl graduation -- the first in the history of Col-Hi.
From Tom Lyda "I shall remember them for their hard work on student government" "I was really proud of them"
Senior colors were lavender and white and the motto: "Live for today, for the future is guided by the past"
From Edgar Haag "As I've watched the progress of the class of '61 I've had the feeling some of the leadership was trying harder than previous classes to be different and set up new traditions or activities."
Doris Van Reenen
Paula Beardsley Glenn (62)
My memory ain't what it used to be but this has jogged some long dead memories.
Kathy Rathvon (63)
The prizes we got at the "Fishing" booth were so cool! They were not stupid prizes. "Fishing" was my favorite booth at the school carnivals.
Mr. Barnard was a wonderful math teacher. He was tall and slender and wore glassed (thick ones). But I loved math and got good grades. That was the last year I did well in math. The next 2 years (8th and 9th grades) I had Mr. Russell for home room and math and it was downhill in math for me from there until I graduated. I wish I could have continued with Mr. Barnard.
Rick Maddy (67)
For the life of me, I cannot recall the name of the little league field at Lewis and Clark. I lived across the street from it at 707 Downing for thirteen years (54-67), on the corner of Casey and Downing. Many of you probably came across the street and used my parent's bathroom. I played ball on that field for four years in the minor/majors and then, later in life, trying to break windows out of the school with the long ball. What is the field's “real” name? It is moments like this that I blame on growing up in the 60’s.
The streets in "old" Richland are named after Hanford project engineers, in alphabetical order, starting with Adams. Carmichael Junior High is named after S.P. Carmichael, Superintendent of schools in the 1920's. Jason Lee was a missionary, coming to Oregon with Nathaniel Wyeth party in 1834. Lee went back East, got a boatload (50 or so), returned to OR, helped start settlements in The Dalles area and other locations, and created an American counter presence to the Hudson Bay Co. (Schwantes, pg 80-81).
Rex Davis lived down the street from us for awhile on (Comstock?). As a young lad, I remember him being a roaming PE teacher at the different grade schools. He was a really cool teacher, very well liked, but I hated the dancing.
I never did get an answer to these questions out of the Sandbox, so I will try again here. Are there any Goliath moths around anymore? I was always told they were the little moths, that usually committed suicide on the street lights, that were returning from the 300 Area. And where did all those diving, bug-eating, Nighthawks go?
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Happy trails to you, keep smiling until then.
Who cares about the clouds when were together.
Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Dale Evans
Paula Vinther Case (69)
To Mary Sullivan (64): I had to laugh when I read your entry today. I'm the person who wrote about going to "First Aid" at Kadlec after the exciting train wreck behind the Tastee Freeze. When I was writing my story I felt kind of foolish calling the emergency room "First Aid" but I remember distinctly my mother calling it that. So you have to figure if your mother and Maren's mother and my mother called it "First Aid", then that must have been what it was!!! How could you have ever doubted her??
Paula
[When I took "First Aid" in 9th Grade at Carmichael, I thought I was SO smart, that I'd quiz my Mom to see how much she knew about First Aid: "What would you do if you saw a kid with a compound fracture?".. and several OTHER similar questions... got the SAME answer to each question I asked her: "Take them to First Aid!! -Maren]
Mike Franco (70)
OK Jefferson alums... Yeah Mrs. Price was great.... anyone remember Mr. Campbell in 5th grade ? or Mrs. Warren... I think 2nd ? Jefferson was great.... and who remembers our "initiation" when we finished 6th grade? Or my first crush... the AWESOME Miss Dykeman in 3rd grade ????!!!!!!!
Margaret Gilstrap O'Hara (Maggie)
(74)
There was always something going on in the south end of town, sometimes even my dad was involved, bless his soul. Were we just better at keeping secrets in the south end?
Does anyone remember the big strike? Must of been in the late 60's. My dad was president of HAMTC (Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council?) then. I remember it going on for ever. How long did it last? I remember school was getting ready to start and we couldn't order our 3 dresses, always plaid, from Sears & Roebucks for $10. Were those UGLY or what? Our next door neighbor, Jerry Wilson, and her mother were so kind and made three dresses each for me and my sisters Bobbie 72' and Cathy 75'. Words could not tell you how we felt about those dresses. They were absolutely beautiful and were not PLAID! We were probably hoping the strike would go on until the next school year.
What about the crab apple fights and the weeping willow wars at Lewis & Clark during the summer? The south end against who? I don't remember.
Margaret Gilstrap O'Hara (Maggie)
