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02/13/08 - NNHS Newsletter -
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long
for those who grieve,
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Today's theme is a continuance of our love themes for February. It is among the earliest music appearing on our site, the theme for the Saturday Night portion of the 35-Year Reunion of the Class of 1965:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2000.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/satnight2000.html
And here's your Valentine treat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-idDbIfGvw
BIRTHDAYS - TODAY AND UPCOMING:
Happy
Birthday today to
Carla Fine Cripps ('65) of Australia!
And a very happy
Valentine Birthday
to
Jimmy Parker ('62) of VA
and to my niece,
Renee Dick Wallace (Booker T. Washington HS - '80) of
Northern VA.
Many Happy
Returns to you all!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
HERBIE:
From Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('58) of NC -
02/12/08 - "
Herbie (Hice
of MI)":
Hi Carol and Typhoon Family,
I spoke with Herbie's daughter
Heidi (Hice MacKay of MI)
this morning, and she has brought me up to date so far.
Herbie is comatose, but will come and go out of it if spoken to. Heidi, her
husband and their children and other family members are exhausted from
sorrow and many trips to the hospital. Herbie's vital signs are good and the
physicians in charge are puzzled as to why his body is reacting this way.
She asked for prayer, strong, uplifting prayer. Not just for Herbie, but to
lift the spirits of the entire family and to supply them with God's strength
and some peace of mind until our Herbie is out of the woods. I gave Heidi a
message to give to Herbie....That he was needed, loved and missed very much
and to quit slacking off and get back quickly because God was not finished
with him....YET ! She laughed and said she would tell him just that and
would say that I said so.
Herbie thought that a stint was going to be
the end of it but the damage was far worse than feared. Herbie is 83, but is
strong and the pillar of his family and a big part of ours, too. Heidi
thanks all of us for our prayers and said it made her feel better just
knowing that we cared enough to pray for her precious dad. Herbie needs all
of us to pray, he helped make this Country a wonderful pace for us to live
and did it so we could keep the freedom we enjoy. He did this when most of
us were small children, babies or yet to be born, but he did it for us...we
can pay him back through prayer.
Dimples aka Sepi
Thank you very
much, Dimples - DITTO!!!
From Butch Ragland ('63) of CO - 02/12/08:
Hi Carol,
Just wanted to send a short note to say all us "Old Marines" are keeping
Herb Hice
(of MI) in our prayers during his hospitalization. I was deeply saddened to hear
he had not bounced back as we expected he would after his surgery. Those of us
who have gone through bypass know the pain and problems that can confront us;
but let Herb know that HE CAN DO IT, and we are all pulling for him!
We are all with you and our prayers will lift you up!
God Bless & Semper Fi!
Butch Ragland-'63'
Thank you so much,
Butch!
I forwarded your note to Herbie's
daughter,
Heidi (Hice MacKay of MI)!
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA -
02/10/08 - "BEACON - 21 NOV 1962":
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That I shall,
Brown Eyes!
Thanks
so much!
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From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 02/10/08 - "Gratitude Campaign":
Carol,
Just a short note to ask everyone to please look at this short film on YouTube. It is really a must to remember our troops. This is a super way to say "Thank you".
Jerry Blanchard (Class of 62) of Va.
http://www.youtube.com/gratitudecampaign
Thanks, Sweetie!
We've
run this several times in the last month alone - and we'll run it again whenever
we can!
From
Al Farber ('64) of GA - 02/10/08 -
"Giggles for the girls":
Here are some Funnies that The Girls might want to SEE....
WOMAN'S PERFECT
BREAKFAST
She's sitting at the table
with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.
Keep reading-they get better!!!
GIGGLES! Thanks, Al!
From My Niece, Shari, of VA -
02/10/08 - "Good Ones":
----- Quickies
I dialed a number and got the following recording:
"I am not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. I am
making some changes in my life. Please leave a message after the beep. If I do
not return your call, You are one of the changes."
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Aspire to inspire before you expire.
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( I LOVE THIS ONE! )
My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine.
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Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting.
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The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way
around, you're not going anywhere.
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think
of an answer for her first question.
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I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find
one.
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Every morning is the dawn of a new error.
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The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,
mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end
to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure
this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
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For those that prefer to think that God is not watching
over us....go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us....pass this on.
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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is
the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ''I will try this again tomorrow".
Thanks, Shari!
From Norris Perry (Warwick HS - '59) of VA -
02/11/08 AND 
Bill Hobbs ('66) of Northern VA -
02/11/08 - "Berkeley Vs. USMC":
Unable to verify, hope it is true and others follow.
Interesting ....!
BERKELEY, Calif. Local officials in this liberal city say it's time for the
U.S. Marines to move out.
The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station
is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and
unwelcome guests."
The measure passed this week by a vote of 8-1.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0
Contact the city council at Berkeley, CA via email:
clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us
Now check this out, here is a letter a businessman wrote to the Mayor of
Berkeley. Is this a great country or what?
Dear Mayor Bates,
In that you and your city have chosen to gravely insult the brave men and women,
who have indeed bought you that right with their blood, I am informing you that
my company will no longer do business with any of our current suppliers located
in the Berkeley, California metro area.
In that my company is in international resort real estate development, and do
business with and am associated with, developers and investors worldwide, I am
informing all of my contacts, associates and patrons that we will no longer do
any business of any sort with anyone living in the Berkeley area.
In that we/MDG Resorts are currently building a state of the art mega-yacht
marina, all of the suppliers of Marina equipment, all owners of Yachts , all
suppliers of Yacht materials & supplies, all yacht brokers and all tangential
yacht business purveyors will likewise be informed that we will not do any
business whatsoever with anyone from the Berkeley area.
Likewise all suppliers of building materials, both interior and exterior,
currently associated with any of our several resort developments (Brisamar 300+
villas and 200+ condos: Porto Hussong,
www.portohussong.com,
500+ condos, 180 slip mega-yacht marina) both of which I might add have
international recognition by virtue of glowing reports in Robb Report, Wall
Street Journal, Yacht World, Forbes.
I will likewise inform all of our investors, most of whom are very wealthy yacht
owners, casino owners, high net worth international businessmen, of our decision
to essentially boycott all products and providers located in, or associated with
in any way whatsoever, Berkeley, Ca.
Trust me when I say that having been in the real estate development business for
over 35 years, our list of contacts and associates is long and very, very
impressive. We, and I personally, are going to recommend that they ALL along
with us boycott your city, its purveyors, suppliers, and businesses and
CHARITIES of every kind.
You have every right to choose to take the obnoxious anti-military stance you
have taken, and as stated, that right was bought for you with the blood of
better men than you.
I too have every right to do all that I can to insure that your city suffers
consequences arising from that obnoxious, sickening stance.
Cordially,
Brian G Dennard
Principal Director
Meridian Development Group, LLC
619 807 2444
www.mdgresorts.com
www.portohussong.com
If you agree with Brian Dennard, pass this around. Boycotting Berkley, CA., is
something everyone can participate in from just informing everyone about the
boycott to actually avoiding doing business with anyone or any business located
there.
Thank you,
Gentlemen!
From Jennie Sheppard ('62) of NC -
02/11/08 - "BEFORE YOU GO................":
Thank you so much,
Jennie!
This is beautiful - and the timing is perfect!
From Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('58) of NC -
02/11/08 - "WE didn't start the fire":
http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html
Thanks,
Dimples - the images are not only fascinating, the compiler is a HOOT!
From Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('58) of NC -
02/12/08 - "valentines messages":
Carol,
Do you think there is a need to put this in the Newsletter ?
Dimples
Yes'm, I surely
do! Thanks again,
Dimples!
Subject: valentines messages
This just came from a friend.
There is a new surge of storm worms using Valentine messages to trick people into opening them.
From George Helliesen ('61) of MI -
02/12/08:
Joe ('57) and Eva (Ellis) Madagan and
Gene and Libby (Whitcomb - '63) Ellis. Eva, Gene and I were all in the
same class, 61, and I hadn't seen Gene in over 40 years. It was great to see
them, and both Gene and I had a difficult time in saying good bye without
getting emotional. I really believe guys are more sentimental than the lady
folks. Maybe this is one thing we can do better than the ladies.
Bernie and Bobby Helmer just a few days ago. Thank you. I was
close friends with both in high school and have been trying to locate Bobby
for several years without any success. Any help from you or any of your
readers on how to communicate with Bobby would be greatly appreciated.
I LOVE hearing
reconnection stories, George!
Thanks
for sharing yours!
We'll need some help from the class in finding Bobby, though, I'm afraid. I do believe he's still living on the Peninsula, but I've had no contact with him.
"Anyone? Anyone?"
From My Niece, Shari, of VA -
02/12/08 - "Stop Animal Fighting in the Commonwealth":
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/VA_2008_animal_fighting4?rk=hdaZ9tdqLQo5E
Thank you,
Shari!
For
those of you still living on the Sacred Soil, here's an easy opportunity
for you to do something really important - and really good!
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of
RI - 02/12/08 - "Guess what today is?":
Today is in addition to Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the fourth anniversary of my mother's (Elsie Poole, HHS class of '40?) cancer surgery. Mom was sent home to get her affairs in order...she has had four years of good quality of life, plus a new knee and a boyfriend!!! She is still doing well...praise God from whom all blessings flow!
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This is a
photo of her at her 85th Birthday party this past summer. The little boy is
her great grandson, Jackson Poole. The friend next to Jackson is
Judy Richardson, the guy in the back is my brother Al Poole.
That is just so fabulous,
Jean, thanks! Please give your mama our love!
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From Renee Helterbran Benton ('59) of VA - 02/12/08 - "Breast Cancer Button":
WHAT?!? Well, this sounds like a computer trick to me, Renee! I just checked both our computers (which considering that they're linked together, seem to have very little in common), and the pink button is showing up just fine and dandy on both.
So let's take
a poll. This button -
- should be located
right at the top of your Newsletter in the bar space above the title.
Today's bar happens to be black. How many of y'all see such a button? Does
it work? If you see nothing at all, does anything happen when you click
into the center of the bar??
Thanks,
Renee - nothing like a good mystery!
From Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of
VA - 02/12/08:
Joyce
Cahoon
WOWZERS!
This one
really got to me, Lady! When
my
daddy, the late
Robert Buckley (John Marshall HS - '25), died quite suddenly at the
age of 52, I was still four months away from my 13th birthday. His funeral
was held at the Chapel of the Veteran's Hospital at Kecoughtan where
he was employed as Chief of the Domiciliary Clinic. As we first
entered the gates, we could see men everywhere - his beloved "boys" - most
in pajamas and robes, openly weeping. The chapel itself was packed.
I was holding together fairly well until
I looked up beside me and saw that my sister,
Eleanor (Buckley Nowitzky -
'59 - of NC) was crying. (She later told me she was okay until she
looked up at his mama, our beloved Sudie, and was so touched by the
thought of her having lost her first born that she broke down.) I
began to sob just as the minister was offering the benediction. Knowing
ministers as I do, I thought that certainly would give me ample time to
collect myself before I had to leave. Unbeknownst to me,
my mama,
the late Maxine Frix Buckley (John
Marshall HS - '25) had asked the pastor to keep the prayer short - and
it was surely one of the briefest on record.
Suddenly we were filing out in front of everyone just as I had hit full-throttle weeping, first my mama on the arms of an usher, and then me. I ducked my head in a vain attempt to hide from the congregation. My mama - who always had eyes in the back of her head - quietly said to me - actually, commanded me, "Keep your head up!"
This song which I had sung with the Antiphonal Choir at Trinity Methodist Church burst upon my mind, and I sucked in my breath and lifted my head and straightened to full height and somehow made it out that door. This poem set to that music certainly brought that memory back to me with full force.
Thanks
so much, Joyce!
PRAYER ROLL (arranged alphabetically, but not necessarily complete):
1. My Friend Judy of IL - shoulder replacement surgery - 04/22/08
2. Clyde Bryant ('58) of PA - heart replacement surgery - 12/13/07
3.
Me
('65) of NC - recent escalation
of shortness of breath, heart and blood pressure problems plus the usual
.....
4. Emily (daughter of My Niece Shari) of VA - continuing problems with advancing scoliosis
5.
Herb Hice
of MI
- triple bypass surgery plus carotid artery cleanup - @ 01/25/08
6. Patsy Lewis Hancock ('57) of VA - suffered second massive heart attack - 01/31/08
7.
John London
(Warwick HS - '57) of VA - lumbar surgery to
fix a spinal stenosis [ laminectomy]; will also involve fusion of vertebrae -
02/05/08
8. Pam Pennington Cherry ('58) of VA - congestive heart failure; cardiac ablation procedure - 02/06/08
DATES TO REMEMBER:
1. Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2008 - NNHS CLASS OF 1958
From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 01/12/08 - "Gas Stations Of
Yesteryear-------------------------this IS REAL Americana" (#14 in a Series of
37):
Carol, do not know if you would like to show these or not. Just brings back a lot memories from yesteryear. Hope you like them.
Jerry Blanchard (62) of Va.
Gas Stations Of Yesteryear
Back when life was much simpler and gas was 18-25 cents a gallon!!
(or there about) and as low as 17 cents during gas wars.
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Yeah . . . I remember!
And with a fill-up you got the gas pumped for you,
your windshield cleaned, oil and fluids checked, tires checked,
a free map, if you wanted it, and greeted in
ENGLISH !!!
Yeah! I remember!!!
Enjoy Your Days & Love Your Life.... Because...."Life is a journey to be savored."
Thanks, Jerry, I remember
them quite fondly, too!
Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
PERSONAL WEB SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408
- Music by
Alex North; Words by Hy Zaret; written in 1955 for the obscure prison film Unchained.Oh, my love, my darling,
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time.
Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much.
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love,
God speed your love to me.
Lonely rivers flow to the
sea, to the sea,
To the open arms of the sea.
Lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me,
I'll be coming home, wait for me."
Oh, my love, my darling,
I've hungered for your touch,
A long, lonely time.
Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much,
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love,
God speed your love to me.
Lonely mountains gaze at the
stars, at the stars,
Waiting for the dawn of the day.
All alone I gaze at the stars, at the stars,
Dreaming of my love far away.
Oh, my love, my darling,
I've hungered for your touch,
A long, lonely time.
Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much,
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love,
God speed your love to me.
"Unchained
Melody" midi courtesy of - well, I don't know who, but it's been in my
files since 06/05/02,
before I started keeping track of such things.
"Unchained Melody" lyrics (probably) courtesy of http://www.ladyjayes.com/unchainedmelody.html - 06/05/02
"The Love Omen" Image courtesy of http://my.opera.com/NatureTruthDivinity/blog/index.dml/tag/love - 02/12/08
Black Vine Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.xmission.com/~tssphoto/valentine.html
- 02/12/08Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Animated Heart clip art courtesy of http://www.gagirl.com/graphics/graphics.html - 02/12/05
Marine Corps Seal clip art
courtesy of
Herbert Hice of MI
- one of my
Famous Marines
who served in the South Pacific
during WWII.
Thanks, Herbie!
Booker T. Washington logo courtesy of http://ww2.nps.k12.va.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=18567 - 09/25/07
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al
Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks, Al!
Animated Yehaa Typhoon
clip art
also
courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 08/18/05
Thanks again, Al!
John Marshall High School's Justice Scale clip art courtesy of
Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05
Thanks, Cheryl!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
