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03/01/10 - NNHS Newsletter - Martenitza!

“The sun is brilliant in the sky but its warmth does not reach my face.
The breeze stirs the trees but leaves my hair unmoved.
The cooling rain will feed the grass but will not slake my thirst.
It is all inches away but further from me than my dreams."

- M. Romeo LaFlamme, “The First of March"

Dear Friends and Schoolmates, 

   It's that time again!

  From Domi O'Brien ('64) of NH - 02/24/10 - "Martinitsa!":

Time to make Martinitsa/Martenitza as we did last year, the Bulgarian custom my daughter-in-law Daniela Dimova, wife of my oldest, Ragnar Arneson, introduced me to. May you flourish!
 
Domi

   Thanks, Domi! You know me, I love to celebrate everything!

http://nnhs65.com/03-01-09-NNHS-Martenitza.html

HOMEWORK:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=157727195&blogID=236078666

BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAS1RydqaPo - Martenitsa

OLDIE / NEWBIES (rejoining us after having been "lost" for a few years...):

1.   Ron Smith ('65) and 2. Patti Elliott Smith ('67) of VA

3.  Bridget Whitt Jones ('65) of AR

   Welcome Home, Sweetie-Pies!

   Let us hear from you! Tell me if you want your email addies posted on the contact pages, send me your birthdays if they're not already posted, and above all, remember that I have practically no sense of discernment whatsoever, so if you send me anything you do NOT wish published, please be sure to tell me!

http://www.nnhs65.com/SITE-MAP.html

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     http://www.nnhs65.com/contact-ALL.html

          http://www.nnhs65.com/contact-B.html

          http://www.nnhs65.com/contact-1967.html

     http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.htm

THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
   Happy Birthday today to Alan Cohen ('57) AND    Robert Shapiro ('63) of VA!

  Happy Birthday this week to:

04 -   Mr. William Etheridge (NNHS Principal) - 1922 - (deceased - 04/19/05);

05 - Hazel Pegram Southall ('57) AND Helen Pegram Ignace ('57) AND   Jeanie Scruggs Anderson ('65) of VA;

07 -   Shirley Eanes Matthews ('66) of VA;

08 -    Mildred Mae Linkous Spriggs ('38) of VA - 1921 (deceased 07/04/07) - also Mother of        Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA AND Doris Burns ('38) - also Mother of    Steve Burns ('65) of MN!

   Many Happy Returns to You All!

http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.htm

YESTERDAY IN WWII:

February 28, 1942 - The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth (D29) which lost 375 men.

THIS DAY IN WWII:

March 01, 1939 - A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.

March 01, 1941 - Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

March 01, 1943 - The Battle of Bismarck Sea began.

YESTERDAY IN 1965:

Sunday, February 28, 1965 - Film editor Park Gok-ji was born in South Korea.

THIS DAY IN 1965:

Monday, March 01, 1965 - Jockey Stewart Elliott was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Monday, March 01, 1965 - Professional wrestler Booker Huffman was born in Houston, Texas.

Monday, March 01, 1965 - Singer/songwriter Mary Lou Lord was born in Salem, Massachusetts.

 From Bridget Whitt Jones ('65) of AR - 02/28/10:

Thanks so much for the information. I will pray for the family and friends (of Bunny Dinwiddie,  Willie Gilliam, and David Page). I lost my precious mother in 1987. She was only 65 and way too young to leave us. I miss her every day.

Thank you for the hard work and effort you put into this for us. You're awesome ! ! !

    Thank you, Dear Bridget! I'm so glad you've rejoined us; we go back a long way!

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          http://www.nnhs65.com/bankhead-magruder-school.html

   The Memorial Newsletters extract an emotional toil on us all, but I believe them to be one of the most important things we do here. My own mama was nearly 91 when she died in 1999, but she was the coolest ever, and I still miss her, too.

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     http://www.angelfire.com/ego/metalliplasty/baba.html

From Norris Perry (Warwick HS - '59) of VA - 02/27/10 - "Viet Nam Wall...":

This is a pretty amazing site.

Someone spent a lot of time on this and it is truly remarkable.....

Someone sent me the link below which is a virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information on our lost comrades. It is a very interesting link, and those  who served in that time frame and lost friends or family can look them up on this site.  Pass it on to other veterans who you think would like this.

First click on a state......then when it opens .........a town.............a name.......follow on and then  it should show you a picture of the person or  at least his bio and medals......

http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm

   Thank you so much, Norris! We've had several people joining us since we last looked at this, and it's too important a site to have anyone miss it!

  From Bill Hobbs ('66) of Northern VA - 02/26/10 - "2 more feet of snow!":

Another 2 feet of SNOW!!!!!   I can't take it !!!!      Thanks, Bill!
 
 

       From My Husband, Paul Harty (Bardolph HS, IL - '61) of IL -  02/27/10 - "Ain't it the truth?":

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....

Uphill... Barefoot...

BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dang Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the darn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!  Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butt! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters!  If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the darn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players!  We had tape decks in our car  We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.  Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!  If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever!

And you could never win.. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!  You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!  NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brats.

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove!  Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about!  You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.  You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

   Thanks, Paul!

      From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 02/27/10 - "THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE!":

Carol,

I feel I must warn everyone in the Great TYPHOON Nation about this. Please include it in the news letter ASAP!

Thanks, Jerry B. (Class or 62) of Va. 

We are under attack:-----

THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!   
 We Must Stop This Immediately! 


Have you noticed that stairs are getting steeper.  Groceries are heavier. And, everything is farther away.  Yesterday I walked to the corner and I was dumbfounded to discover how long    our street had become! 
And, you know, people are less considerate now, especially the young ones.  They speak in whispers  all the time!  If you ask them to speak up they just keep repeating themselves, endlessly mouthing the same silent message until they're red in the face!  What do they think I am a lip reader?

 I also think they are much younger than I was at the same age.  On the other hand, people my own age are so much older than I am.  I ran into an old friend the other day and she has aged so much that she didn't even recognize me.
 

I got to thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this morning, and in doing so, I glanced at my own reflection...well, REALLY NOW - even mirrors are not made the way they used to be! 
 

Another thing, everyone drives so fast these days!  You're risking life and limb if you happen to pull onto the freeway in front of them.  All I can say is, their brakes must wear out awfully fast, the way I see them screech and swerve in my rear view mirror.

 Clothing manufacturers are less civilized these days.  Why else would they suddenly start labeling a size 10 or 12 dress as 18 or 20?  Do they think no one notices?

The people who make bathroom scales are pulling the same prank.  Do they think I actually 'believe' the number I see on that dial?  HA!  I would never let myself weigh that much!  Just who do these people think they're fooling? 
I'd like to call up someone in authority to report what's going on -- but the telephone company is in on the conspiracy too: they've printed the phone books in such small   type that no one could ever find a number in there!

All I can do is pass along this warning:
 WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! 
Unless something drastic happens, pretty soon everyone will have to suffer these awful indignities. 

 PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET THIS CONSPIRACY STOPPED! 

PS: I am sending this to you in a larger font size, because something has happened to my computer's fonts - they are smaller than they once were.

     BOY HOWDY!!! Thanks, Jerry!

       From My Husband, Paul Harty (Bardolph HS, IL - '61) of IL -  02/27/10 - "Wisdom of a Private":

Is Sex Work?
 
 
A U.S. Marine Colonel was about to start the morning briefing to his staff..
 
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing, the colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled.
 
He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he failed to get his usual amount of sound sleep.
 
He posed the question of just how much of sex was "work" and how much of it was "pleasure?"
 
A Major chimed in with 75%-25% in favor of work.

A Captain said it was 50%-50%.

A lieutenant responded with 25%-75% in favor of pleasure, depending upon his state of inebriation at the time.
 
There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the PFC who was in charge of making the coffee and asked for HIS opinion?
 
Without any hesitation, the young PFC responded, "Sir, it has to be 100% pleasure."
 
The colonel was surprised and as you might guess, asked why?
 
"Well, sir, if there was any work involved, the officers would have me doing it for them."

The room fell silent.

God Bless the enlisted man.

   Thanks again, Dools!

  From Judy Phillips Allen ('66) of VA - 02/28/10 - "The BBQ Song":

I find myself wanting a BBQ.

The BBQ Song
 
SEE IF YOU THINK THIS IS AS GOOD AS BBQ ITSELF!!!
 
(Be sure to check out the fellow's tank top and see where it's from!)

Click on this address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ubTQfr_tyY

   Mmmm - I miss North Carolina BBQ..... Thanks, Dearest Judy!

  From Judy Phillips Allen ('66) of VA - 02/18/10 - "Panda Therapy (#5 in a Series of 19)":

I love these Panda emails!  I hope you get the "warm fuzzies", too!

Is it any wonder the world has fallen in love with these animals?

DON'T YOU FEEL BETTER ALREADY? 
 

   Yes, I do! Thanks, Judy!

   
  Does this log make my butt look fat?
 

ABBREVIATED ALERT:

  From Jane Chambers of VA - 07/01/09 AND 02/07/10 - "CNC BOOK BROCHURE & AD" AND 61-62 DECADERS ADDENDA:

http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/brochure(2).pdf

http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/CNC-Memories-Book-219390602.pdf

http://www.nnhs65.com/61-63-DECADERS-ADDENDA.doc

   Contact Dr. Chambers at cncmemories61_71@yahoo.com.

   Thanks, Jane!

FINALLY:

From ArcaMax Jokes - 02/278/10:

Red Lights

Two elderly women were out driving in a large car - both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to an intersection. The stoplight was red, but they just went on through. The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself "I must be losing it. I could have sworn we just went through a red light."

After a few more minutes, they came to another intersection and the light was red again. Again, they went right through. The woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red but was really concerned that she was losing it. She was getting nervous.

At the next intersection, sure enough, the light was red and they went on through. So, she turned to the other woman and said, "Mildred, did you know that we just ran through three red lights in a row? You could have killed us both!" Mildred turned to her and said, "Oh my! Am I driving?"

DATES TO REMEMBER:

1. Saturday, March 6, 2010 - Hunt for Hampton History - http://insync.sbo.hampton.k12.va.us/400/forms/h4hBrochure.pdf - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 16, 17, and 18, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1953 will hold its 57-Year Reunion. For details, contact Robert Walker at bobsawalker@verizon.net (757) 596-7722 or Betty Burns at bsb0735@cox.net (757) 223-9488 - CLASS OF 1953

3.Saturday, April 24, 2010,11:30 AM - The NNHS Class of 1954 will hold a 56-Year Mini-Reunion Luncheon at The Chamberlin.
 For details, contact Mickey Marcella at mcmiceli@verizon.net (757) 249-3800 or Betty Hamby Neher at bineher@cox.net (757) 898-5099 or Dr. Harry Simpson at hdsdds@aol.com (804) 694-0346 - CLASS OF 1954

4. Friday and Saturday, August 6 and 7, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1970 will hold its 40-Year Reunion. Saturday night will be at the Kiln Creek Golf & Country Club. For details, contact Carol Comer Cutler at ca23comerww@aol.com or visit the reunion website at NNHS1970Reunion.myevent.com - CLASS OF 1970

5. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 6, 7, and  8, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1960 will hold its 50-Year Reunion at the Marriott Newport News at City Center. For details, contact Karen Weinstein Witte at kwitte@tampabay.rr.com - CLASS OF 1960

6. Friday and Saturday, October 15 and 16, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1965 will hold its 45-Year Reunion at the Point Plaza Hotel, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601. For details, contact Dave Arnold at captarnold@vprj.net.

PRAYER ROLL:

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 BLOG:

http://nnhs.wordpress.com/ - updated 02/21/10

   Y'all take care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!  We'll Always Have Buckroe!

                                   Love to all, Carol

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Carol Buckley Harty  
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More Cica Rece da me Zeni

"More Cica Rece da me Zeni" midi courtesy of http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/midipage/midipage.html - 03/01/09

Martenitza Image courtesy of http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=157727195&blogID=236078666 - 03/01/09

Red and White Ribbon Divider line clip art courtesy of http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/bar3.shtml - 03/01/09

Animated "NEW" clip art courtesy of http://gifsnow.com/ - 03/07/06

Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!

Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06 (still missing...)
Thanks, Al!
Replaced by Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 02/09/09
Thanks, Norm!

Marine Corps Seal clip art courtesy of the late Herbert Hice of MI - one of my Famous Marines who served in the South Pacific during WWII.
Thanks again, Herbie!!

Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06

Animated Wildly Laughing Dog courtesy of Eva Ellis Madagan ('61) of FL - 11/24/07
Thanks, Eva!

Animated Laughing Kitty courtesy of Tom Flax ('64) of VA - 06/03/06
Thanks, Tom!

Animated Laughing Frog courtesy of Joyce Lawrence Cahoon of VA - 05/31/08
Thanks, Joyce!

Animated "Happy Little Rabbits We Are" clip art courtesy of http://users.bigpond.net.au/jellery/index.htm - 04/25/09

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