In September Bainbridge Island lost John Bomben, a kind and brilliant man. He was born in a tiny Northern California town to Italian parents who named him Giovani Luigi Pietro Bomben after hisfather and two uncles.His first bed was a dresser drawer, and his first school had two rooms for eight grades. Because he spoke only Italian, he kept running away from school, so his mother paid a little boy next door to watch him and keep him from escaping.