8/10/02
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PHS Alumni On-Line
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Aug 10, 2002
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9 Bulldogs today:
Colleen Alvis Bandy (`55)
Don Bailey (`56)
Jim Boothe (`59)
Julia Whitby Kennedy (`60)
Doyle Clapper (`62)
Rick Givan (`63)
Lorie Walleston McMasters (`64)
Susan Shupe Bald (`65)
Paul Case (`67)
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From: Colleen Alvis Bandy (`55)
What a lovely way to stay in touch with everyone. Thanks to whoever put forth the effort and time.
Colleen Alvis Bandy (`55)
Tigard, OR
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From: Don Bailey (`56)
Greetings:
Don't know how you found me, but this is the first time I've seen this website. Maybe it's because I recently changed Internet providers. Happened to show up in my in box. Really Neat! I'd like to know why the class of 1958 has so many signed up and good old 1956 is well . . .
Anyway a lot of water under the bridge since I left Pasco. Lived in Michigan, California, North Carolina, Kentucky and now Ohio, besides Washington. Also changed companies a few times and done a lot of things. Vice President of a technology partnering organization now - build collaborative teams driven by industrial companies like GE, TRW, Goodrich, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Timken, Caterpillar, Parker-Hannifin, Becton Dickinson, etc. to name a few. Variety - aerospace to medical. Go after money from the Federal Government and pretty good at that. Lot of it out there once you know the game.
My wife Valerie of 34 years passed away a couple of years ago which was a real blow because we had a terrific relationship (hard to believe Pasco is even beyond that!) but we have 3 wonderful children, a Chiropractor, a banker and a soon to be attorney (and tree hugger). Get out to Washington a few times a year and my brother still lives in Olympia. Flying into Seattle is always like coming home, in spite of all the changes.
Glad to make the contact and sorry I couldn't make the reunion a few years back. Love to hear from my old classmates. By the way for any of you who knew Jim Williams (Richland football), we're godfathers for one of each other's children and Jim is presently Dean of Engineering at Ohio State University (go Buckeyes!). Became good friends at U of W.
Take care and this is really a great communication tool. Good way to connect!
Don Bailey (`56)
Broadview Heights, OH
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From: Jim Boothe (`59)
To Steve Boothe:
Now the truth comes out. I'm telling your mom about what you were doing all those nights down at Sigman's parking lot. You may as well go ahead and ground yourself for life. As that story started I thought it was going to be about when you, and perhaps a friend or two, came across the robbery at that other grocery store down town a block or so from the Liberty theater where you helped out the shot employee and then helped identify the culprit to police.
Back to your story about the sandlot baseball games. I remember that vacant lot across from Phil's well. More than one spring I cleared it of enough weeds and filled in enough holes so we could play some ball there. But every year the weeds grew back within a couple weeks with a fertilized-like intensity. That Pasco sand could really grow the tumbleweeds and "tack-weeds" (as the flat tires on our bikes would attest to).
Does anyone know anything about the where-abouts of the Alvis family. They lived across the alley from that vacant lot. I remember the names of Ray who was about my age and his older sister Colleen. They moved from there to across the street from the water tower near the court house.
To Ronnie and Larry Richwine's sister [Lisa Richwine (`83)]:
I have a lot of memories of your brothers at a young age as we lived across the street down in the Gray's addition. Just last week when my sister Barb and her family were visiting we went through some photo albums and there was a snapshot of Ronnie and I standing in his front yard.
Enough ramblin'. Do really enjoy reading all the news from PHS alums. Especially the really old ones like the classes of 55, 56, 57 and 58.
Jim Boothe (`59)
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From: Julia Whitby Kennedy (`60)
I've read everyone's entries with great enjoyment. I'm still plowing through some of the archives.
As a teacher myself, I've gotten a big kick out of all the reminiscences of teachers. It's interesting that we remember so little about the curriculum they taught! We remember the life's lessons they gave us! No one has mentioned the heartthrob of my life when I was at the Navy Base School -- Mr. Iufer (sp?). I don't remember whether he was a good or bad teacher -- I just remember that he was very, very handsome.
Does anyone remember the movie we watched -- I think at the Navy Base? It was about a white boy who found out that he was black and went back to Harlem to see about his roots. The movie made quite an impression on me, but I can't remember the title.
I'll look forward to hearing from other contributors and will try to come up with some anecdotes -- after my son's wedding is history and school starts once again, so I can get rest!!
Julia Whitby Kennedy (`60)
White Salmon, WA
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From: Doyle Clapper (`62)
To Glen Fetter:
Hi Glen, I remember the fun times with you and the rest of the gang back in the late 50's and early 60's. It was great growing up in Pasco when times were more simple & the music was better. I would love to see you again. Call me the next time you are in Pasco; my number is in the phone book.
Doyle Clapper (`62)
Pasco, WA
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From: Rick Givan (`63)
In the fall of `62 I took the academic cure for Senioritus: Study Hall. Mrs. Gustafson was the overseer of this early chat room held in the cafeteria. Initially she allowed us to sit at the tables facing one another. Soon, however, she announced that we had breached a previously unspecified standard of conduct, so we had to all sit beside one another, facing her.
A group of us offended by this arbitrary ruling approached her to redress our grievances. But she had an alternate suggestion as to what we could redress. (This was six years before Mary Beth Tinker wore her Vietnam War protest armband in a Des Moines high school, was suspended, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and got her punishment overturned as the court announced that "students don't check all their constitutional rights at the school house door").
Anyway, we decided to have some type of demonstration to assert our right to assemble and sit where we wanted -- sort of a self-centered imitation of what the Civil Righters were doing down South. But we were already "sitting-in" in the lunchroom, so that wouldn't do. We decided to protest by kicking over the chair opposite us at a pre-announced time. That would show her.
I like to think that Tom Mathews was early. But really the rest of us wussed out. When Tom was the only to kick over his chair he still might've covered it up, but he laughed derisively (more of a a cackle) at the rest of us.
Mrs. Gustafson, not sure what was going on, but sensing her authority was being challenged, crooked a finger at him and shouted in that foghorn voice of hers, "Tom Mathews -- get out!" Tom headed for the door in his arms-dangling, leaning-forward walk (sort of a Groucho Marx with better posture). As he got to the doorway, Mrs. Gustafson bellowed, "and stay out!"
Suddenly Tom, as if impelled by the force of her voice, rose off the floor, hurled himself across the hallway slamming into the lockers on the opposite wall, and collapsed into a whimpering pool.
For a moment there was silence. Then the rest of us wimps began to show our appreciation in various ways. Tom got up, bowed, gave us that crooked grin, and shambled towards the office. I always figured that bit of business earned him some extra punishment from the Colonel. But what an incredible performance.
Rick Givan (`63)
Cabot, PA
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From: Lorie Walleston McMasters (`64)
Okay Terri -- just in case no one from `67 is reading your post I will say hi -- so what if I am your sister and just saw you last weekend in Portland?! Remember chasing our dog Lady around the field at the stadium when we called it the gravel pit?
Love you!
Lorie Walleston McMasters (`64)
Burien, WA
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From: Susan Shupe Bald (`65)
Family and many friends still in Pasco -- I still call it home.
Susan Shupe Bald (`65)
Touchet, WA
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From: Paul Case (`67)
To JoAnn St.Pierre Donohue (`65):
I got a call from my oldest son, Jeremiah (`97), about 7:00 last night (8/9). He was at Giants Stadium. So there was at least one Bulldog there to see Barry Bonds hit his 600th home run. He was in right field so no chance he got the ball, though. Shucks, I figured he would undoubtedly have given it to dear ol' dad if he would have caught it.
Paul Case (`67)
Pasco, WA
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