I cannot believe that a senior at Richland High thinks the Day's Pay bomber is the school's mascot! (Letters, Dec. 30).
When I attended Richland High (then called Columbia High) from 1960-63, the mascot was (and still is) a replica of a bomb. It was placed on the field or court at every pep assembly and game that I attended.
It was chosen as a symbol of the work our parents and grandparents did at Hanford to produce the plutonium that was used to make the bombs that ended World War II.
The mascot of Richland High is "the bomb," not the airplane!
The first I ever heard of the Day's Pay was during the all-class reunion at the school in 2000. It is a beautiful picture on the side of the building and a great story, but it is not the school's mascot!
Marie Ruppert Hartman, Richland
