04/27/06 - NNHS Newsletter
You Don’t Love Me Anymore

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

- Charlie Brown

   Today seems like a Weird Al kind of a day........

I finally got your e-mail.    Brenda Amos Williams ('62 - of VA) gave it to me. I am Pam Larmer Traugott '62. You have become famous! And it is lasting more than 15 minutes. Thanks so much for serving as a hudge funnel to all classes. What do I do to contribute and to receive your hot topics? My e-mail is ....... Oh, I am living in Lexington, VA and have been here for 9 years.

Sincerely,
Pam

   PAM!!!  THERE you are!  I must have lost you last May when I was down for those three agonizing months.  I'm so glad you reconnected with me!  Welcome back!!!

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

   I'm famous now?!?  Oh, goody!  I always wanted to be famous!  Wellll, technically, I always wanted to be Rich and Famous, but halfsies isn't all that bad!   Thanks! 

   And to contribute, all you do is write to me at NNHS65@yahoo.com or NNHS65@nc.rr.com - whichever you prefer, and then patiently wait until I get my act together.  Sometimes I'm the hare, sometimes I'm the turtle - but I always love to hear from y'all.

   Send  us your birthday:

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

   Let me know if you'd like your email addy published.  If not, I'll try to keep it hidden.

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1962.html

   Thanks again, Pam! And thank you, Brenda, for reconnecting us!

27 -   Bill Campbell ('54) of VA - 1936
27 - Genis Bird Crowder Hornsby ('54) - 1936
27 - Barbara Jones ('54) - 1936
29 -   Brenda Davis English ('64) of KS - 1946

   Congratulations and many happy returns of the day to all of y'all! 

D

Thank you, Sweetie!  That means a great deal to me.  She was quite a remarkable woman.

   Thanks so much, Cheryl!   

   I spent the summer of 1966 in Richmond with Jimmy and Frances (Thomas Jefferson HS - '37) and my three cousins, Stuart (Warsaw HS - '63 - of VA),    Jean (Atkinson Mallory - John Marshall HS - '65 - of VA) and Jim (Atkinson - ? - '?) of VA.  Jim was going to be turning seven that August.  Jimmy, Frances, and Stuart were all working, and Jean was going to college.  Someone needed to stay with Jim, and they asked me to come live with them to facilitate matters.  My mind keeps returning to that time and all the fun and great times we had together. Frances even gave me my first cookbook then.  I still have it and use it - and still believe all others to be but pale imitations.

   And I remember too all the summers when Frances would bring the kids down for a visit, and we'd all do wonderfully fun things together.  It always involved Buckroe Beach, and usually picnics and movies and shopping and other things, too.

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/summer-dances.html

   And I remember all the Christmases in Richmond.  Frances was one of the heroic aunts who saved Christmas of 1953 from the Grinch who would have stolen it:

http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/

     http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/holidays.html

          http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/christmas1953.html

   And all these times involved much giggling from everyone - especially Frances.  Perhaps you've noticed how much I myself like to giggle.  Like me, Frances' mother was 39 when she was born.  Like me, Frances was 39 when her last child was born.  We had many such connections that probably never really struck me until now.

   And I find myself quite unexpectedly not doing so well....

   Thank you again, Cheryl.  I really appreciate your caring.

   Ooops.  I do have that effect on people from time to time......

"People tend to love me or hate me and a lot of them just think I'm annoying."

- Jillian Barberie, TV Guide,
February 13, 2006
(b. 26 Sep 1966)

Does any one ever get born among us? Do the people getting born, some where, equal the number leaving? Is there hope for our oneness to continue, or are we taking it with us? How about some real newbies!!!!!  Yea, right next to the real us!

   I can't help you there either, but I did what I could.  My seventh child was born on 07/30/87, and I had my fourth miscarriage several months later.  On 09/15/88, I required surgery which effectively ended any chance of more babies, but I was already 41 anyway.  Of my nine grandchildren, the last one was born on 09/11/05.  Five of my children have not yet had any babies, but four of them are still unmarried, so that's just as well.  My oldest grandchild is now 6' 2", but he's still only 14, so I doubt I'll be getting any great-grandchildren in the near future.

   We publish photos of grandchildren as often as we receive them.  I'm not mathematically inclined enough to analyze the statistics of body replacement ratios, even if I had the data - which I don't.  I'm not sure what to tell you....

On a lighter note I found my class ring. How many among us still have theirs?      How many still fit?   

   I sadly no longer have mine, nor would it still fit if I did.

I found a "fashion" jewelry bracelet also with NEWPORT NEWS written in alternating blue and white little shields with a basket ball at the end. I think it was a fun raiser from my ninth grade. It's still in great shape. Gee Dog, we even made good junk!!!    You don't get that now-a-days. I wanted to send a picture but I'm too stupid. Sorry.

Linda May 66

   That doesn't mean you're stupid, Linda May.  It just means it's something you haven't yet learned.  But that sounds like such a fun bracelet!  Congratulations!

   YOWZERS!!!  "Dat ain't right!" (English major, ya know....)

   You should have received a notification of this one on Tuesday:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/04-25-06-NNHS-Yom-HaShoah.html

   And this one five days earlier:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/04-20-06-NNHS-Theres-a-Place.html

   But no, actually, I've been a whole lot better, I surely have........

   Thanks for your concern, Gloria!  In my melancholy, I really thought no one even missed me.

   And there they'll ever be!  Thanks so much, Cousin Pam!   

  From Eva Ellis Madagan ('61) of FL:
 

   Thank you, Joe!    I do have peace and comfort, and I know Frances is free from the suffering she was enduring.  I've just always wanted things to go back to the way they were "before" - whenever before was.  And blessedly, my memories are all happy and fun, and usually downright hysterically funny.  I suppose it's simply that I don't always like changes.

   April 21 must have some special meaning in our family.  Frances' Uncle Bruce (Ryburn Payne - b. 18 Feb 1874) died on that day in 1937.  Thirty-five years later, my #2 son,    Brent (Harty - Hillsboro HS, IL - '90 - of IL) was born.  And thirty-four years later, Frances passed away.  Strange.

   OH, WOWZERS!!!  That is so cool!  I didn't remember it at all, but then Gene Hackman has one of those "everyman" faces as did Ben Johnson, and it took me several years to be able to recognize either of them.  Of course, that very characteristic made him ideal for this job.

   Thanks, Major Madagan! I added the link to Gene's Famous Marine slot:

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

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-marines-G-L.html

This was most interesting and I thought you would enjoy this amazing innovation.
 
Take care, Fred Mays

Check this out. Really interesting.

Voted best 3-D animation project - EVER

Pretty cool movie music

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2942922314315974986
 
   WOWZERONI!!!  I can certainly see why this was voted one of the best 3-D animation projects ever!  The imagination alone is astounding!  Thanks, Fred!  This was quite fascinating!

This is not a joke. You can get a free BBQ grill from any of the following stores:
A&P
Acme
Albertson's
Costco
Food Lion

Fry's Giant

Kroger
Meijer
Pathmark
Publix
Safeway
Superfresh
Target
Winn-Dixie

Recommended by the REDNECKS OF AMERICA ASSOCIATION  (RAA)

   Thanks, Al!

I was wondering if I missed the pictures of our 40th class reunion. I know that you posted them because you are so good about doing things like that.  Please tell me where they might be.

Thank you, Shirley Caudill Williamson     

   Well, the well organized pictures are here:

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

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/REUNION-PICTURES-2005.html

   The ones from the tabletop cameras which have been appearing in the last forty-eleven Newsletters have not yet been centrally collected and added to that overview sheet.  But they're almost done, and then I'll add them too.  For now they're available for hunting here:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/NNHS-Newsletters-2006.html

   I believe this edition (ignore the fact that I began with CD #3) marked their first appearance (hence the title):

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/03-09-06-NNHS-Footloose.html

PS Thank you for a job well done. You are fantastic !!!!!!!!

   OH, thank YOU, Shirley!

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

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-S-Z.html

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

   While we were on Virginia's sacred soil, we stayed with my cousin (on my daddy's side),   Cheryl (White Wilson - John Marshall HS - '64 - of VA), whom many of y'all met at last fall's Wide Open Reunion.

   Thanks so much, Cheryl and Don! It was so nice seeing y'all again, and visiting in your lovely home.  It was extraordinarily gracious of you to invite us there in the middle of your remodeling (which we all found fascinating).  And I'm really enjoying processing all those lovely vintage laces and linens you gave me!

   Oh, dear....

   Thanks, David - and Tommy! 

   (That's the last of this batch, but not to worry; Dave has already sent us Batch Three, so our hilarity will continue.  Thanks, David!)

    I ran out of time before I reached this issue's reunion images, but they'll be back.  There are only a few more to go.

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