03/07/06 - NNHS Newsletter
Who's Sorry Now?

"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow
over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry
for the person rather than angry with him.
You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
                                                            

I just recently found out about the NNHS Newsletters. Thank you for all your hard work to keep it current. It has been a real treat to read about the students and teachers who were a part of my life.  Those days at NNHS were so important to me and still remain precious.  

Love & Joy,

Norton Richman  ‘61

   Norton!  How truly delightful to hear from you again after all these years!  I have gleefully added your name to the (usually) hidden mailing lists, and to the Alumni Page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html

   Did you go to the University of Houston, or is that just some of my wild imaginings?

   I hope you're going to your next reunion!  I understand it will be held this summer, although I've had no direct communication concerning it; neither could I find it listed here:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/commercial-reunion-sites.html

     http://nnadmin.sbo.nn.k12.va.us/alumni/#nn

   (If any of you '61-ers would like to share that information with me, I'd be more than happy to plug it...)

   After that, why don't you plan to join us all as the Class of 1966 hosts an Open Reunion on the weekend of September 30?

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-class-of-1966.html

   Well, Norton, you made my whole day!    When you have ten or twelve hours to spare, cruise through the site itself, and do share some of your own memories with us!  And you're right - they are precious!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
 

    Happy Birthday today to    Shirley Eanes Matthews ('66) of VA, and tomorrow to

Doris Burns, mother of    Steve Burns ('65) of MN.  Have a great day, Ladies! 

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

    Thanks, Barbara! 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/page-hits.html

   COOL BEANS!!!  I seem to be encountering some technical difficulties at the moment, Eric, but I'll post all these additions within the next twelve hours.  Thanks so much! 

Thanks, Jerry! 

   I personally never tire of looking at men in uniform, but maybe it's just me.....  WILD GIGGLES!!!
 

   What a wonderful story, Fred!  I thought as I read it how not only styles but trends and customs change so radically so often.  I was delighted that in the early sixties at NNHS, some of the fellas began wearing really dressy clothes to school on a regular basis - not only shirts, ties, and sweaters, but occasionally full suits.  When my older sons were in school in mid Illinois in the late nineties, they simply could not conceive of such a thing.  As I offered them photographic proof from my Anchors, they were still convinced the guys were just wearing their Sunday clothes for the pictures, and would divest themselves of them at the earliest opportunity.

   Looking back, I wonder if that trend might not have begun because so many of them worked in men's clothing stores and department, and need to dress for after school jobs.  And seeing the pleasant responses such attire evoked in the girls, if many others simply (ahem) followed suit.

   I was further reminded of the stories that     Joe Madagan ('57) of FL shared with us of Julie Conn and the various traveling sports teams, and the unknown generosity exhibited by Julie and his friends in seeing that all the boys looked great, despite their family circumstances.

   And then I remembered the early seventies, when people routinely appeared in public in beach wear and nightgowns...  EEEK!!!!!

   Thanks so much, Fred!  From now on we'll use your adorable senior portrait - and remember your heart-warming story as we do so! 

   Thanks, Jen! 

   OH! Thanks for your persistence!, Joe!  I have made those additions now:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-A-B.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/boys-club.html

   Ahhh - "My Last Duchess"!!!  That's a special favorite of mine for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because I've always found it so disturbing, as I identify so strongly with the poor dear.  My own smiles are all the same.....

"She had
   A heart . . . how shall I say? . . . too soon made glad,
   Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er
   She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
   Sir, 'twas all one!"

   And Porphyria?!?

"Be sure I looked up her eyes
--Happy and proud; at last I knew
Porphyria worshipped me; surprise
--Made my heart swell, and still it grew
--While I debated what to do.
That moment she was mine, mine, fair,
--Perfectly pure and good; I found
A thing to do, and all her hair
--In one long yellow string I wound
--Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
--I am quite sure she felt no pain."

   YOWZERONI-RINI!!!  The moral to these poems is the stuff of which nightmares are made.......

   That reminds me.  The one thing I remember most vividly from all the many times I visited the Mariners' Museum as a child was the gondola in which the Brownings's rode through Venice.  What romantic images that evoked!  And I touched it!!!  I do hope they still have it.

   When is Robert's birthday, anyway?  Ah, May 7, 1812.  Y'all make sure I don't forget that one, please.

   Thanks, Cousin Pam! 

   "Surf the net?!?"  Seeing the double-connection, I thought you yourself had told Earl of the Famous Airmen page!!!

   Well, it's good to see you both "reunited" on the same page!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-airmen.html

   And the world grows smaller......

   Thanks, Dave! 

   That would have been my own "little baby boy", my #6 son,   Dale Harty (American School - IL - '02).  He's right here handy under the same roof again for the time being, and very agreeable, and can be easily located when I'm in a extreme hurry - which is most of the time....  However, his time is about to become much less free.

I also do restorations including more extreme cases with missing pieces, stains, and creases. Granted even the most advanced software will not create a 100% factual restoration, but can be
convincing enough that the average person viewing it can't tell the difference. It was part of my graphic design work associated with designing commercial websites.

In any event, if you have something questionable that may need to be restored for the website, let me know. Send it in the highest original resolution and I can send back the results ready to post. Just a little contribution :-)

Eric Huffstutler
BHS '75

   WOWZERONI!!!  That's very good to know - and a very generous offer!  We've had similar offers from three other subscribers, and indeed a couple of them have actually done wonderful things for us.  I kept their names and offers quiet to avoid the possibility of their being deluged by requests.

   As a matter of fact, somewhere around here I do have a badly mutilated photograph I very much would like to have fully restored.  I'll put out an APB on it, and when it resurfaces, I'll send it on over to you.

   In the meanwhile, you'll notice that at the 10/13/05 request of    Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63 - of MD) we are doing this senior portrait (or reasonable facsimile) thingie, as well as a mascot preface as members from other schools report in with input.    Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73 - of VA) supplied the crab for the Crabbers; my first cousin,    Cheryl White Wilson (John Marshall HS - '64 - of VA) made the scales for the Justices; and    Steve Silsby (Ferguson HS - '72) of NC made us an anchor for the Mariners.

   I do not even know what Bethel's colors and mascot were, let alone have a suitable image for use.  If you could locate those two items for us, we'd be delighted! 

   Thanks, Eric! 

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-A-B.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/blue-light.html

   Thanks, Dave! 

  I had at least six other major items which I thought surely I would address in this Newsletter, but it would seem that I thought wrong!

    Y'all take care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!