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02/28/06 - NNHS Newsletter - Good Lovin'
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
- Mignon McLaughlin |
Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
This Newsletter is just full of surprises. And it seems as though I've been working on it all day, but that's only because I've been working on it all day. I hope you enjoy it! |
NEWBIES:
1.
Jimmy Shires ('57) of VA via
Steve Veazey ('60) of VA - 02/28/06:
Carol, we have a request from a NNHS ’57 grad who’d like to begin receiving your regular mailings. His name is Jim Shires and he was a baseball pitcher for our team. I was a ‘bench-warmer’ but, I occasionally caught Jim during our batting practice. But, I really enjoyed BATTING against him….I owned the guy!!! Make his day and get him on board, O.K.? Many thanks! Jimmy Shires?!? The gloriously beautiful Jimmy Shires?!? |
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Are you putting me on, Steve?!? Oh, I get it. This is a thinly-veiled attempt to get me to make the Baseball segment for the website. I see how it works! Invoke the names of a few incredibly hunky athletes from the school's rich history, pretend they want to join us in our nonsense, and I'll fall for the whole thing, and get busy. Yeah... Well, I haven't done the long-promised Football section yet, but I get the message. (Okay, I'll play along with this gag. On the outside chance that Jimmy Shires really is there, I'll add him to the rolls and the Alumni List, just as though it's real. WILD GIGGLES!!!) |
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Jimmy Shires | |||
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Hi, Jimmy! Welcome aboard, we are so delighted to have you with us! I've added your name to the hidden mailing list, and to the Alumni List as well: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html There
ya go, Steve! I'll be expecting to "hear" from Whit Hancock ('59),
Robert Worthington ('61), and Grayson Blount ('62) any day now.
Your own gorgeous personage can represent the Class of 1960. And, okay, I'll start Baseball page right away. Just don't tell the
football players.
Thanks, Steve!
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BIRTHDAYS:
A very Happy Birthday today to Wayne Agee ('58) of FL! Hope you had a super day, Wayne! |
GUEST BOOK SIGNERS:
1. Jeanette Mouser Reichenbach of VA - 02/28/06
Thanks, Jeanette!
From Tommie Mouser ('60) of VA - 02/27/06 - "birthday":
Carol
Please add me to your birthday list.
Tommie Mouser-8-14-42. and yes, I did notice you, and it is great to be
remembered by great people like you and
Certainly, Tommie! And I must say I'm absolutely astounded that you noticed me, let alone remember me! http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html Love your web-site;
never would have found it if not for Thank you - and yes, he is! If anyone would like it, my e-mail address is tommax229@aol.com Super! As I not yet created a Contact page for the Class of 1960 (which I really need to do as soon as possible...), I've posted it here on the Alumni List for the convenience of your friends: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html Keep up the great work please. Take care.
Thank you, Tommie!
It's really good to hear from you!
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From David Whitley ('67) of VA - 02/28/06 - "Funny to me!":
(from my daughter, Cameron) Dad, I found this while looking up something
totally different. Actually I stumbled upon this guy's homepage which is a
blog(?) This is his "tongue in cheek" organization, "National Lawn Care
Now!" which, for a joke, is rather involved.... I thought you might get a
kick out of his "cause" for social justice..;) It's pretty funny.... Thank you, David - and
Cameron!
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From Dale Lucado ('68) of VA - 02/28/06 - "Burma Shave":
Here are more of the actual signs: |
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TRAINS DON'T WANDER ALL OVER THE MAP 'CAUSE NOBODY SITS IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP Burma Shave
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CAUTIOUS RIDER TO HER RECKLESS DEAR LET'S HAVE LESS BULL AND MORE STEER Burma Shave SPEED WAS HIGH WEATHER WAS NOT TIRES WERE THIN X MARKS THE SPOT Burma Shave THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL FOR BEER LED TO A WARMER HEMISPHERE Burma Shave AROUND THE CURVE LICKETY-SPLIT BEAUTIFUL CAR WASN'T IT? Burma Shave NO MATTER THE PRICE NO MATTER HOW NEW THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE IN THE CAR IS YOU Burma Shave |
A GUY WHO DRIVES A CAR WIDE OPEN IS NOT THINKIN' HE'S JUST HOPIN' Burma Shave AT INTERSECTIONS LOOK EACH WAY A HARP SOUNDS NICE BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY Burma Shave BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL EYES ON THE ROAD THAT'S THE SKILLFUL DRIVER'S CODE Burma Shave THE ONE WHO DRIVES WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING DEPENDS ON YOU TO DO HIS THINKING Burma Shave CAR IN DITCH DRIVER IN TREE THE MOON WAS FULL AND SO WAS HE. Burma Shave |
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And my all time favorite: PASSING SCHOOL ZONE TAKE IT SLOW LET OUR LITTLE SHAVERS GROW Burma Shave Do these bring back any old memories? If not, you're merely a child. If they do - then you're old as dirt... LIKE ME! ![]() and I remember: Don't stick your elbow Out so far It may go home In another car. BURMA SHAVE OHHHH,
I must be older than dirt, too, Dale, because I vividly recall these fun
signs myself! Thanks so much!
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From Sheila (Smith) Moler ('64) of VA - 02/28/06:
Dear Carol:
Now, now, dear---you're being paranoid about
offending people! I suspect a lot of alumni are like me ----- I "lurk".
I check the site everyday for your wonderful updates and insights, etc.
Then when you haven't updated anything for a week or so, I chew my nails
and worry that you are sick or something, but I don't want to bother you
with an additional email 'cause you stay so busy. So I tell myself you're
busy with your family and pray for the best. Then I'm delightfully
surprised (most of the time) to hear you've been enjoying your children.
And I still wonder how the heck you do it!!
Thank you, Sheila! I hope
you're right!
By the way, when I was in NNews a few months ago, I
got to see
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Oh, my goodness! How wonderfully sweet of
you! For some reason, this gave me a big case of giggles. How
much can you send me? That's sort of like asking
Home Star Runner if he likes
Marzipan! Or possibly like asking ME how much you can
send me! WILD GIGGLES!!! |
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I'm not sure just how to answer this, except to say that from time to time
I've had donations ranging from $4.00 to $500.00, but most fall somewhere
between that. Whatever they are, they are always needed and always
greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much, Sheila!
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From Jay Styles ('68) of VA -
02/28/06:
Good Afternoon, Carol,
Do you know of anyone who has a picture of the TYPHOON that was on the
stadium cushions that were sold around 1965? It was quite fearsome
looking, large triangular mouth with large teeth? My project with the
jacket is starting to gain momentum. My cushion has long passed into
cushiondom.
I personally know
but little, but I truly believe that someone out there will have an answer
for this for you, Jay!
Brenda McClain hit the nail on the head, great idea. Yes, indeed! Did I pick-up on the notation of yours concerning "6th son". I admire you greatly. We're dinks ourselves, (dual incomes, no kids)! Did you ever think of taking up a hobby? SIX, that's great. Later
Jay Styles, '68
Actually, Jay, that's six sons and a daughter. And we would have had more, were it not for the four miscarriages. And - uh - that was my hobby! ![]() http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/me.html http://www.angelfire.com/ct3/aao/cluckmeat/familyhistory.html
"Dinks"?
That must make us "hilks" - half an income, lotsa kids. Seriously, we did like
and love and enjoy all seven of them, and had just about as much fun with
them as was humanly possible - and still do. Thanks, Sweetie!
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From Cookie Phillips Tyndall ('64) of
VA - 02/28/06:
Carol,
I, like you, felt very nostalgic when I heard "True Love Ways". It was one of my favorites, but I haven't heard it in many years. It pulls at the ole' heart strings. Cookie Oh, yes, ma'am - 'deed it
does! Thanks, Cookie!
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BACKLOGS:
From
Cathy Slusser Hudson ('64) of VA -
02/16/06 - "Famous Marines":
Please add My Favorite Marine:
Leonard M. (Doc) Hudson Born - January 5, 1942 - Newport News, Va.
Attended Warwick High School - Graduated Class of 1960 Married
Catherine Slusser
(Newport News High School, Class of 1964) on 9-11-1964 Currently
Retired Newport News Police Officer.
Thank You, Catherine |
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Not as Lean, not as Mean, but still a Marine. | ||||
As I may have mentioned here one or two (hundred) times before, there are just not many things in this world as beautiful as a Marine in his dress blues - a newborn baby, or an occasional bride, perhaps....... I've no real good thought as to why it took me twelve days to process and post these, Catherine, but they were certainly worth the wait. Thanks so much!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-marines.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-marines-G-L.html Oh, it's a bit late for this year, but I added Doc to the Birthday Page as well: |
From
Cookie Phillips Tyndall ('64) of VA -
02/19/06:
Carol,
Several of us 1964 gals met for breakfast on Feb
18th at the Chicahominy House in Williamsburg. |
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Sue Miller Dearnley, Sue Scott Moore, and Jeanette Parrish Houston |
Dyanne Pritchett Lathan, Judy
Weckleman McPherson, Bonnie Binford Mizelle, and Sandi Williams Patrick |
Sue Miller Dearnley and Sue Scott Moore |
Dyanne Pritchett Lathan and Judy
Weckleman McPherson |
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Jeanette Parrish Houston | Bonnie Binford Mizelle and Sandi Williams Patrick | Jeanette Parrish Houston, Cookie Phillips Tyndall, and Jane Coltrain Leonard | Angie Ray Smith, Jeanette Parrish Houston, and Becky Goolsby McCallum | |
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WOWZERONI-RINI!!! What a blessing you
have to be living on "the sacred soil of Virginia", and to be able to
arrange these little get-togethers frequently! Thanks so much for
sharing these with us, Cookie! I've posted them on the 60th Birthday
Page for the Class of 1964: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/60-BIRTHDAY-1964-B.html Hopefully, your other
classmates will so yearn to see y'all again, that it will boost attendance
for your upcoming party!
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From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 02/28/06:
Your "sacred soil of Virginia"
comment led me to recall something I had seen long ago and had forgotten
..... until I googled it:
To be a Virginian by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one's
Mother's side, is an Introduction to every State in the Union, a Passport to
every Foreign Country, and a Benediction from the Almighty God . Anonymous Ah, yes! I first encountered that quotation when I was touring "Kenmore", Fielding Lewis' home in Fredericksburg, in August of 1972. I so loved it, I copied it down and wrote it everywhere, until at last I had memorized it. I made calligraphy samplers with this inscription for people as gifts. And I added it to my personal web page so I'd never lose it again: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/me.html Thanks, David!
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From
Fred Eubank ('64) of TX - 02/22/06 -
"Train Problem No. 2":
Carol, I would like to submit a few clarifications and additions to my solution for Train Problem No. 2. I know all your readers have been clamoring for these clarifications, and will be so delighted I did this for them. Oh, I'm quite certain that is true, Fred - especially ![]() Jean, oh Jean.......... Seriously though, thanks for indulging math and technical freaks like myself. Sadly, I was so busy in HS playing football and playing dumb, that I did not take full advantage of the great math teachers we had at NNHS. Most of my life I've played catch-up, kind of like Joe Montana and the 2-minute clock. Now, while I have the chance, I'm trying to make sure my two sons don't make the same mistake. Although, they will never have the same great math teachers I did, they do have me pushing them along. Certainly,
Fred! I'll admit when we were in
Miss Allen's biology class together all those forty-eleven years
ago, I had no idea I was in the presence of such fine engineering minds as
yours and
Unfortunately, even though I do not speak this language at all, I'm reasonably certain that your note was hit by the Gobble-de-Gook Fairy. For one thing, nothing arrived written in red. And as the mathematical, scientific, engineering portion of my brain obviously ran off with Jay Styles' Typhoon Stadium Cushion, I have no way of knowing whether what follows is as scrambled as it appears to me - but I truly think it is. If you'd be so kind as to
resend it, I'd be just tickled pink to reprint it.... SURELY, this is next section is scrambled - but all I did was hit "Copy" and "Paste" - truly! I did not throw it into my blender! The excel spreadsheet below shows the tabulated
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From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 01/30/06
- "Why I love the south":
Carol,
If you can stop laughing, you
might include one of these each upcoming newsletter ....
unless you think it undignified.
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GIGGLES!!!
Thanks, David!
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Redneck Redneck Pick-up | |||
STILL TO COME:
I had
several updates as well as a new section or two in mind to do today
(including TYPHOONMART) when I
finished with the Backlogs, but we still have more exciting items pending
from ![]() ![]() Sorry, Gentlemen! Steve Veazey blew my so-called mind with that Jimmy Shires thing........ |
Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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PERSONAL WEB SITE:
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Good Lovin'
(The Rascals)
(Good lovin' . . .)
(Good lovin' . . .)
(Good lovin' . . .)
I was feelin' . . . so bad,
I asked my family doctor just what I had,
I said, "Doctor, . . .
(Doctor . . .)
Mr. M.D., . . .
(Doctor . . .)
Now can you tell me, tell me, tell me,
What's ailin' me?"
(Doctor . . .)
He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yes, indeed, all you really need . . .
(Is good lovin')
Gimme that good, good lovin . . .
(Good lovin')
All I need is lovin' . . .
(Good lovin')
Good lovin', baby.
Baby please, squeeze me tight . . . (Squeeze me tight)
Now don't you want your baby to feel alright? (Feel alright)
I said Baby . . . (Baby) . . . now it's for sure . . . (it's for sure)
I got the fever, Baby, Baby, but you've got the cure
(You've got the cure)
I said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yes, indeed, all I really need . . .
(Is good lovin')
Gimme that good, good lovin . . .
(Good lovin')
All I need is lovin' . . .
(Good lovin')
Good lovin', baby.
"Good Lovin'" midi courtesy
of
http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/midi1.html
at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 02/06/06
Thanks, Dave!
"Good Lovin'" lyrics courtesy
of
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebigchill/goodlovin.htm
also at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of 02/06/06
Thanks again, Dave!
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Image courtesy of http://bogartfilms.warnerbros.com/hb.d.main.html - 02/17/-6
#1 – Icon’s Weave Bar #1 Divider Line Clip Art courtesy of http://www.iconbazaar.com/bars/celtic/index.html - 02/17/06
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Animated Rolling on the Floor Laughing Boy courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 04/06/05