02/28/06 - NNHS Newsletter - Good Lovin'

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing."

- Mignon McLaughlin
(1913/15 - 1983)

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?!?

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!!!)

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.
   "Make his day".  That's a good one, Steve! 

   And, okay, I'll start Baseball page right away.

   Just don't tell the football players. 

   Thanks, Steve! 

   A very Happy Birthday today to Wayne Agee ('58) of FL!  Hope you had a super day, Wayne!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html

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    Fred Mays ('60 - of VA).

   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    Jim Walker ('62 - of VA); great guy.

   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. 
Tom 

   Thank you, Tommie!  It's really good to hear from you! 

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....

http://www.jefflindsay.com/NLCN.shtml#FAQ


   David, you gorgeous creature, I am just delighted to see that Cameron inherited your wonderful, kooky sense of humor!  It's possible that I may have laughed a teeny bit too hard while I was reading this hysterical site; I'm quite sure that I pulled something out of whack .

   Thank you, David - and Cameron! 

Many of these signs were still around in the 50's and 60's. I saw many traveling to and from Lynchburg as a young Typhoon.

TYPHOON FOREVER..........DALE   68
 

SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
Burma Shave

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave

DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED
NEXT IS NOT AMUSING
Burma Shave

BROTHER SPEEDER
LET'S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
Burma Shave

   OHHHH, I must be older than dirt, too, Dale, because I vividly recall these fun signs myself!  Thanks so much! 

   Thank you so much, Sheila! 

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! 

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! 

   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:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html

Several of us 1964 gals met for breakfast on Feb 18th at the Chicahominy House in Williamsburg.
 

... Unfortunately (it only shows) the back of Becky Goolsby McCallam's head. My camera was full before I could get a frontal picture of Becky.  Sorry, Becky.
 

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! 

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 .
 

   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!    It's a keeper, isn't it??

 

   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    David's (Spriggs - '64 - of VA)!  I am totally awed when I see your erudite explanations for things I consider to be numbered among the Mysteries of Life..

   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....

My changes are in red below.

A Freight Train left the station at 4:00 PM EST and maintained a constant speed of 60 Miles Per Hour.
A Passenger Train left the same station on the same day and on a parallel track to the one on which the Freight Train is traveling, departing at 5:00 PM EST and is traveling at a rate of 120 Miles Per Hour.
How long will it take before the Passenger Train doubles the distance from the station to that of the slower moving Freight Train?

If the question is (to state it differently) "how long will it take until the distance from the Passenger Train (PT) to the station equals twice the distance from the Freight Train (FT) to the station," then the answer is never.

If the two trains start at the same time, then at any travel time, PT will be twice as far from the station as FT, i.e., after 1 hour FT will have traveled 60 miles (1 x 60), and PT 120 miles (1 x 120), and after 5 hours FT will be 300 miles (5 x 60) from the station, and PT 600 miles (5 x 120) from
the station.  So if they start at the same time, there is a doubling of the distance.

But since FT got a 1 hour head start, FT will have traveled 60 miles when PT leaves the station.  So when PT has traveled for 1 hour, its distance is 120 miles, but now FT has traveled for 2 hours, and has also gone 120 miles (2 x 60).  Thus, they are equally distant from the station at this point.  But
now after PT travels for, let's say, 5 hours, its distance from the station will be 600 miles, and FT, having traveled 6 hours (1 hr more than PT), will be 360 miles from the station.  Therefore, PT's distance of 600 miles will be 120 miles short of being twice FT's distance (600 is 120 less than 2 x
360, or 720).  This 120 mile shortage will hold up for any time traveled.

For example, if PT travels for 144 hours (6 days), then its distance from the station will be 144 x 120, or 17,280 miles.  FT will have traveled for 145 hours (again, 1 hr more than PT) and will be 8,700 miles from the station.  Double 8,700 miles and you have 17,400 miles.  Thus, PT's distance of 17,280 miles is still 120 miles short of being twice FT's distance of 17,400 miles.  This 120 mile shortage occurs because when PT leaves the station, it has a 60 mile deficit that it can never make up in trying to double FT's distance.  Therefore, the 60 mile deficit doubles to become a 120 mile deficit.

Interestingly, there is no algebraic solution (for time T) to this problem. Trying to solve it algebraically, you would get DPT =120 t and DFT = 60(t+1).  Then for PT to double the distance of FT, you would have DPT = 2 DFT, which yields 120t = 2 x 60(t+1) or 120t = 120(t+1), and finally 120t = 120t + 120, which results in no solution for T because there is no time T at which DPT = 2DFT.  Now if you subtract the distance formulas because you suspect that DPT will never equal 2DFT, you would then have 2DFT - DPT, which results in (120t + 120) - 120t, or 120, which shows a constant 120 mile shortage for any time t.

The solution showing the constant 120 mile shortage can also be found by graphing or tabulating the two equations and observing the relationship between the two distances.

   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 distances, and the 120 mile shortage.

Time          Distance of         Distance of the         Double the Distance of         2DFT
          Passenger         Freight Train         the Freight
Train         Minus
          Train                                           DPT
          DPT         DFT         2DFT                 
Hours                          60(T+1)         2x60(T+1)
120T+120
                                            120(T+1)
Minus
                          60T+60         120T+120         120T

T          120T         60T 60 60T+60         120T 120
120T+120         120
0          0         0 60 60         0 120
120         120
1          120         60 60 120         120 120
240         120
5          600         300 60 360         600 120
720         120
10          1,200         600 60 660         1200 120
1,320         120
50          6,000         3,000 60 3060         6000 120
6,120         120
100          12,000         6,000 60 6060         12000 120
12,120         120
144          17,280         8,640 60 8700         17280 120
17,400         120

Thanks.
Fred Eubank

   Yesssss, as I said, we can try this again, Fred.  Thanks! 

   Thanks, David! 

 

   Sorry, Gentlemen!  Steve Veazey blew my so-called mind with that Jimmy Shires thing........