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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)

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?!?

 
 

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!!!)

 
Jimmy Shires    
1957 Anchor, p. 139    
   
   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.
   "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! 

 


BIRTHDAYS:

   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

 


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    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! 

 


  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....

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! 

 


  From Dale Lucado ('68) of VA - 02/28/06 - "Burma Shave":

Carol....

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
 

 
  Those Grand Old Burma Shave Road Signs

Remember these?

For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the1930's and '40's.

Before there were interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields. They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet...... and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.
 
     
     

Here are more of the actual signs:
 
 
TRAINS DON'T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
'CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP
Burma Shave

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

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

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! 


  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    Angie (Ray) Smith ('64).  I asked her how much you needed from each "lurker" to maintain the website---you know, a nice round figure.  She said she wasn't sure, either, so then the holidays happened and I procrastinated.  So----how much can I send you?  It will make me happy to do so....you bring so much enjoyment to so many.  

Yours, Sheila Moler

 

     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!!!
 
 
   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! 

 


  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! 

 


  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! 

 


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
 
 
   
         
    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:

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

 


  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.
 

 
 
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
 
         
 
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  
         


... 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.
 

 
   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! 

 


  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!    It's a keeper, isn't it??

 


  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 (Poole Burton - '64 - of RI)!

   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! 

 


  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. 

D
 

 
     GIGGLES!!!

   Thanks, David! 

 
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     Joe Madagan ('57) of FL,    Fred Field ('45) of CA, PLUS the new material about Peninsula Movie Theaters from Eric Huffstutler (Bethel HS - '75) of VA!

   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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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

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