03/20/05 - NNHS Newsletter - Come Softly to Me
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03/20/05 - NNHS Newsletter - Come Softly to Me |
Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
This seems to be an extra Newsletter to keep me from being overwhelmed by news........
Happy Birthday today to Sid Melton ('64) of NY and Terri McAfee Artman ('66) of VA!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
NEWBIES:
1. Terri McAfee Artman ('66) of VA via Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 03/18/05:
WOWZERS!!!
I never knew that Terri was born in Ireland! And her little puppy dog
sounds adorable! (Happy Belated
Birthday, Chewie! GIGGLES!)
2. Sheila Smith Moler ('64) of FL - 03/19/05:
Welcome, Terri
and Sheila! I've added your names to our hidden mailing list and to our
Alumni Roll, and to the contact
pages for your classes. Please let me know if you'd like to have your
email addies published there:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1964.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1966.html
From Todd Givens ('65) of Northern VA - 03/18/05:
Carol,
Just located your web site after retiring on December
31. Lost all my old links/bookmarks. It is terrible growing
old; you can't remember squat! Some time when it is convenient would you please
change my email listing.....
Also, you can mark me back from Iraq. Thanks for all your hard work Carol.
Take care!
Todd
AHA! THERE you are, Todd! I'm glad you found us again!
Can't remember squat, hmmm?
That's probably the trade-off you have for still being able to pass for 35!
Although, come
to think of it, my memory is completely shot (I mean, I still can't even
remember Fire Station #1?!? C'mon!), and I'd be lucky
to pass for 55, soooo......
Okay, seeing as how you were
definitely home from Iraq by the October
Reunion, I suppose I should finally update that
page (especially as I had not done so since 07/30/04.....):
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/in-harms-way.html
From Janice McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 03/18/05:
Carol...if you liked the aircraft carrier....I think you'll like these too.......
Incredible Shots of the Blue Angels:
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Considering you still have pneumonia, you do
incredibly nice work, Lady! Thanks so much, Janice!
I LOVE those Blue Angels!
Tomorrow I'll try to make them their own page, and because they performed in conjunction with this, I'll attach it here:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-11-54-Forrestal.html
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 03/19/05:
Since Checkmate came up in a Newsletter, I shot the image today en route to the Vet's for meds.
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Well, David, how thoughtful of
you! Thank you so much! I always love getting your gorgeous images!
Okay, tomorrow I'll
make a brand new page for the Checkmate!
From Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) of VA - 13/19/05:
Loved
the picture of David Whitley
('67 - of VA) and Jo Goff .... nice vintage evidence of
interbreeding between
the groups. I still haven't dated a Typhoon, but never say never.
One minor "blooper" ... Jo was in the class of 69,
not 67. Here is one of her classmates, Becky Crenshaw, circa 2001
with the babe. Becky was head cheerleader that year ... the year of Woodstock,
man landing on the moon, and Hampton
FINALLY wrangling the state basketball championship away from NN. All major
milestones in their own right.
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What a treat it was to see all of those
newsletters when I got back home from my
two week vacation on the sunny banks
of Lake Anna (known to David and me as North Anna Power Station). Not much sun,
in fact downright cold with occasional
snow. Good to be home ... it's in the 60s today and just finished a windows down
cruise in the Vette. Maybe winter is
FINALLY over!
Best wishes, your adopted Typhoon
Babe
Awwww, isn't
that cute?!? Thanks, Babe! Welcome home - and oh yes, today IS
the first day of Spring (or so they say)! It's
been so cold I quite nearly forgot!
From Merle Sammons Ivey ('66) of VA - 03/19/05:
Thanks, Merle! We appreciate your
sharing her name.
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 03/19/05:
Hi, Carol:
It sounds as though Love may be a family surname. Thanks, Joe - and Eva!
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 03/18/05:
As of 19 March, I have received orders
for 93 sets of CDs; one subscriber ordered one set and, subsequently
ordered 10 more. Voluntary donations to the Class of 1964 Treasury associated
with the Reunion CDs now
total $880.00. To those of you have donated and have enjoyed the music of our
youth, The Class of 1964
thanks you.
For those who have not requested a set
or are unaware of the offer, e-mail me at
nnhs64@cox.net and I will
send a play list.
Dave Spriggs '64
OH, WOWZERS!!!
That's fabulous news, Dave! But of
course, they're soooo goooood!!!! I listen to mine near
constantly. Somehow, they just never get old.
If you haven't ordered yourself a set, you're leading a deprived life.
Thanks for the
update, David! And thanks for your incredible investment of time in making
- and copying - those CDs for our
enjoyment!
From Judy Phillips Allen ('66) of VA - 03/19/05:
Again, thanks for all you and
others do for this GREAT Typhoon Connection. I have prayed a special prayer
for all of you who have been ill, lost someone you love, or experienced any
other negative event or hardship
in your life. God Bless!
GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Judy!
YOU SAW JOSH GROBAN?!? WOWZERS!!!
Thanks for your prayers on everyone's behalf - and congratulations on your retiremnet!
Don't worry - your excitement is just beginning.....
From Rip Collins ('65) of TN - 03/19/05:
We Didn't Start the Fire
WOW! That is just too cool! I love it! Thanks, Rip! Tomorrow I'll add this link here (because it's too much fun to lose!):
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-28-52-GREAT-FIRE.html
Hmmm - it seems
I'll be busy tomorrow, hmmm? And I have company coming for dinner, too.
That means I'll actually
have to cook something nice, hmmm? Sigh. Cooking is such a waste of
time. I'm sure I could spend that time on the
computer or crocheting or cross-stitching and have something which would last.
Cooking, on the other hand, requires
a great deal of time, the finished product lasts but moments, and then you eat
it and get fat! What kind of a deal is that?!?
From Fred Field ('45) of CA - 03/19/05:
Hello Carol, Sat. Mar. 19, 05 copies to Charles Wicke and Bill Smith, both June 45
Here are a few comments on things
previously asked about Washington Avenue. I
was helped by a sketch
handed out by the leader of a walking tour of Washington Avenue as part of our
Sept. 2000 reunion The
sketch shows all of the stores and businesses between 27th and 35th streets as
of our graduation at June
1945. It was not quite complete when handed out, but there were representative
outlines of the actual
buildings (many housed several stores). When I attend the 1945 Classes (Feb. &
June) Reunion in Sept.
I'll ask the map creator for a better copy and permission to submit it to the
web site.
Kelly Loose Bustamante ('58 - of
TX) asked (3-14-05) about a bowling alley above 5 & 10s on Washington
Avenue. This is not on the map mentioned above, but I do remember something
about it. First, here is the
store lineup marching north from 28th Street on the west side of Washington
Avenue.
1. Not identified - perhaps a restaurant.
2. Grant's. This is the
original location. Grant's was small then and known as one of the four 5 & 10s
on
Washington Avenue. Later it moved across the
street to the big Montgomery Ward building and
from then
on was accepted as a department store.
3. People's Drug Store. A discount type place. I believe the chain was headquartered in Norfolk. Ads on WGH.
4. Shaw Jewelry.
5. Metropolitan Store. The
smallest 5 & 10 on the street. Oiled wood floor, dimly lighted, and with a
small
staff. They struggled to compete with the other three by having some unique
items. I remember going there
with my grandmother to buy some household furnishings. My memory is dimmed
because of their sparse
toy display.
6. Adeline Shop at the corner of 29th.
The bowling alley was probably
above Grant's. I too was forbidden to go up there. I remember walking along
in front of the building on a hot summer evening and hearing the crashing sounds
from above. This was in the
days before air conditioning became routine and I'm sure every window up there
was wide open.
Possibly the bowling alley was
installed where the WGH studios had been in the 1930s (mentioned in my
WGH contribution for 3-12). More about bowling below.
Other places that have been asked about:
Broadway - West side in middle of block between 30th and 31st. Between Barr Bros. and Gorsuch's Drugs.
Parisian Shop - West side between 31st and 32nd. Between Jonah's and Young Men's' Shop.
Hanna's
- East side between 31st and 32nd. Between Wonder Clothes and
National Restaurant and a few
doors south of the Palace Theater.
Thomas Piano Company - At 210 28th Street, behind what most readers will
remember as Antine's (corner
of 28th and Washington), but in the WW-II years was Playland Confectioners.
Earlier that site was Day's
Drug Store which had an extremely long lunch counter and was famous for good
food. Thomas Piano was
a popular stopover after school. They had listening booths where the hep
crowd listened to records they
might buy. And we band and orchestra guys drooled over the several showcases
filled with instruments.
Many of the Washington Avenue
stores placed ads in the Anchors and included their addresses. In NN the
avenue blocks were identified by the lower number adjacent cross street. Thus
the block between 31st and
32nd was the 3100 block. The street blocks used odd numbers on the west
(James River) side, even on the
east. The avenue blocks had odd numbers on the north side.
Up through the 1930s bowling
alleys were way down on the social scale and looked upon at about the same
level as billiard parlors. Those names conjured up images of smelly
places full of cigar smoke, with spittoons
and a strictly male clientele wearing green eyeshades and probably of
questionable moral fiber . I remember
asking my mother what a "billiards" was and she told me it was just a fancy name
for a pool parlor.
When I was in
NNHS 1941-45 many boys spent lunch time at a bowling
alley on the corner of 33rd Street and
Huntington Ave. The lady in charge would tolerate our eating our bag lunches
because we would all buy nickel
drinks and some would even cough up the 15 cents to bowl a line. One day the
manager approached me and
offered me an after school job to manage the place until the night manager could
arrive at about six. I was
thrilled at the prospects, but said I would have to check at home first.
Unfortunately my mother went ballistic
over the thought of her friends hearing that her son was employed at a bowling
alley.
But like nature, society sees
equilibrium in all things. As the war heated up there was a successful effort
to upgrade the social status of bowling. Physical fitness was stressed as an
important factor in Being Prepared.
The theme was quickly jumped upon by the bowling industry and heavily sponsored
by the Brunswick Co.
Suddenly bowling was pushed as the healthy (and patriotic) thing to do. A huge
bowling alley appeared at the
Wythe Shopping Center and, miracle
of all miracles, my mother and her friends took up bowling.
Life is a circle. Just try to live long enough to go around at least once.
Nostalgic best wishes, Fred
WOWZERS!!! Thanks, Fred!
I'll update Our Old Stomping Grounds tomorrow, too.
I am
seriously out of time this morning, and I didn't get to a couple of our main
items, so - you guessed it - they'll be
in tomorrow's Newsletter as well!
Y'all have a good day - and take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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Come Softly to Me
(Fleetwoods)
Come softly darling, come to me stay
You're my obsession, forever and a day
I want, want you to know, I love, I love you so
Please hold, hold me so tight, all through, all through the night
Speak softly darling, hear what I say
I love you always, always, always
I've waited, waited so long, for kisses and your love
Please come, come to me, please come, softly
I want, want you to know, I love, I love you so
I need, need you so much, I want to feel your touch
Come softly darling...
"Come Softly to Me" midi
courtesy of
http://members.tripod.com/~rosemck1/jukebox-1950s.html
at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 03/08/05
"There is only one version out there, and 100 people link to it."
And it's a good one!
Thanks, Dave!
"Come
Softly to Me" lyrics courtesy of
lyrics courtesy of
http://www3.lyrix.at/en/text_show/a076c68ecb9e3011cc33b2fd4548d5b5
also at the
suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 03/08/05
Thanks again, Dave!
Animated Love Bar and String of Hearts Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars12.html - 03/19/05
