From Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 04/20/07 - "Walter Reed School":

Maybe if some of the people see this on the web page, they might remember the names. Names that I remember: FRONT ROW: Glenn Dye, Charles Marrs, _____ _____ Ruby Phillips, _____ _____, _____ _____, Joe Shapiro; SECOND ROW: _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, Betty Jean Forrest, _____ _____, Liz Breeden; THIRD ROW: Larry Crum, _____ _____, _____ _____, Forrest Gary, Wayne Sparrow, Van Wayne, _____ Kennedy; BACK ROW: Alice _____, Beverly _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, and Mrs. _____ Barnes.
		1952-1953 Mrs. Barnes' Fifth Grade Class (NNHS Class of 1960)
		Walter Reed School

   OUCH!!!  That's a great motivator, Shari!  Thanks so much!

  From Wayne Stokes ('65) of VA - 04/24/07 - "You have got to see this":

Florida Power & Light Working At Orlando International Airport After seeing this I would definitely want hazardous duty pay! Just another day at work in the beautiful Florida Sun!!! A Florida Power & Light crew putting in lines for an addition to the Orlando International Airport found the following in a culvert they were using... The gator was 18' 2" long. The rattlesnake roundup totaled 87
		Not a Florida Power and Light Crew	Actually California desert rattlesnakes...

   Thanks, Wayne Honey!

   This was so chilling, I ran it through snopes.com, which reported: "Real photographs; inaccurate description".

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/culvert.asp

   Well, THAT'S a relief!!!

   From Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63) of MD - 04/24/07:

Hey Girl.

Just in case you've wondered why I've been out of touch, I've been busy with my latest two wheel creation (pictures attached). I finished it in the wee hours of Saturday morning and took it out to show it off Saturday. If you’ve got some time on your hands, you can see the entire build of this, my latest, as well as all the other crazy stuff we've done and are doing at www.dirtyhandschoppers.com . After the Intro, click on Projects and scroll down and click on Lampo's Scoot.

Love ya,
Chandler

   There you are, Chandler Darlin'! I was just thinking about you this morning!

   WOWZERONI-RINI!  What a beautiful job you did! That's a fun site you have there, too, Chandler.

   Y'all go check it out! Thanks, Gorgeous!

  From Wayne Agee ('58) of FL - 04/24/07 - "REMEMBERING":

   Oh, WOWZERS!!!  I really got a kick out of this one!  Thanks, Wayne!

 From Mark Friedman ('65) of VA - 04/24/07 - "Senior Pie Chart":

		Can you relate? Senior Pie Chart  -  Pretty much covers it for Me..................!    WILDEST GIGGLES!!!    Oh, wait, maybe I should be crying instead, because I can most assuredly relate to that!    Thanks, Mark!
Senior Pie Chart

From Ron Bowen (Pembroke HS - '70) of VA - 04/25/07 - "Re: 04/23/07 - NNHS Newsletter - The Sweetest Sounds":

Carol,

Regarding the note from    Dustin Baker (Norview High - '65 - of MA)  regarding adware and spyware on this web site, I have Microsoft Defender on my PC and have never detected any activity at all. The Defender is a fairly robust set of tools designed to intercept the adware and spyware he was speaking of.

BTW, I thoroughly enjoy your website and all the memories of the Hampton - Newport News area.

Ron Bowen, PHS '70
Pembroke High School
Hampton, VA

   Hi, Ron!  It's good to hear from you again!  And that's another great relief to hear your report!

   We had originally chosen 00freehost.com as our server primarily because it would not cause problems such as these, so I'm very glad to hear we had not been misled!

   And I'm glad to hear you're still enjoying everything!

   (Ron has been with us practically from the beginning!)

  From David Rosenwasser ('64) of MO - 04/25/07:

Carol,

As a regular reader of your NNHS web piece, I always enjoy seeing names and photographs of people and places I knew decades ago. Having never lived in Newport News as an adult, it is a wonderful trip down memory lane.

The recent clippings from Mr. Price brought my attention level to a new high. As an eighth grader I clearly remember nervously walking up to that cigar smoke filled office overlooking the gym. The sacred domain of Julie Conn. It was there that I became a high school track and cross country manager. Some aspire to be doctors, educators, and other admirable professions. At that time I was more than satisfied to be involved in the NNHS track teams from 1960 - 1964, it filled my life with memories and experiences still clearly imbedded in my mind.

Relieved of the burden of having to own or wear a gym suit, I spent the next five years with clipboards and stop watches at the knee of Charlie and Julie watching young men demonstrate their strength, speed and tenacity. The clippings brought recollections from years ago as if they were yesterday. As with many of my generation, I remember some of those track meets more clearly than I remember my lunch yesterday. What I cherish most were the values exemplified by the two incredible coaches and the young men they mentored and coached to a string of state championships that seemed to never end. I think I had more state championship jackets and letters than I had days to wear them.

Thanks to    Robert Price ('61 - of VA and to you.

David Rosenwasser
Saint Charles, MO

   Thanks, David!  It's so good to hear from you! Your note bears witness to one of the main reasons for our existence - the prompting and recording of old, precious memories!

   I posted your remarks on the main Track and Field page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/TRACK.html

    From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 04/25/07 - "Newspaper 1959":

Carol, another newspaper article my mom stuck away for me to find years later, and get misty eyed reading them. Hope you can make this out.    WOWZERS!!!  That's how mothers are...  Thanks, Jerry!    This is as clear as I could make this, so I transcribed it as best I could:

Fall 1959

   I think if I keep working at this, I'll be able to decipher the rest of it.  Meanwhile, I've posted both versions in a couple of places:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/FOOTBALL.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/FOOT-B-60.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/TRACK.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/TRACK-60.html

   Then I noticed that the Football 1960 page would make a lot more sense if I added the pages from the 1960 Anchor, so I did.  The Track and Field pages from the 1960 Anchor were already in place.

By the way, lady, "ALL" of us TYPHOONS say you are BEAUTIFUL. No matter what you think. All of us have changed in the years, only the beautiful come to the top in years gone by. You are at the top with the best.

Jerry Blanchard (62) TYPHOON true.....

   And speaking of getting misty eyed.....

   Oh, WOW! Thanks again, Jerry! What an incredibly sweet thing to say!

    From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 04/25/07 - "Football 1957":

Just found this in my 1959 yearbook. Jerry Blanchard (62) of Va.    WOWZERS! Thanks again, Jerry!  This one IS posted:

  http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/FOOTBALL.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/FOOT-B-58.html - but no, I haven't added the yearbook shots yet.....

  From the President of the Class of 1965, Joe Wingo of NC - 04/26/07 - "RE: If Ever I Would Leave You":

Dearest Carol.

In response to Gary Sealey’s comment about your being beautiful, I could not agree more. Who else but a beautiful person would take on the task that you have of maintaining this wonderful newsletter??? And, you know how the story goes about a fine wine….it gets better with age! But, I do have a deeper appreciation these days of the old adage “Youth is wasted on the young”. You go, Girl!!!

And, as far as I’m concerned, it will always be the “Blue and Gold” no matter what shade it may be!! Otherwise, we’ll have to change all of our fight songs and what rhymes with orange??? Coach Conn was a sly one!!!

Best wishes to all.

Love ya’,

Joe

   Joe Honey, you always say such nice things! Thanks so much, Sweetie!

From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 04/25/07 - "Looking for keys to longevity":

   This is very valuable information, Shari, thanks!

    From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL- 04/26/07:

.....  I have (a story I've) wanted to share with your for a long time.

It seems like yesterday that your mother appealed to me to waive the rule about no glass in the World War II Municipal Swimming Pool, to permit you to wear your glasses to enable you to see the demonstrations of various strokes and drills during swimming lessons. You neatly and carefully rolled up the glasses in a towel when they were not needed or handed them through the fence to your dear mother. I was so touched back then, and it still has not left my memory of you, despite all the years that have flown by since then.

My son Michael had a serious vision problem that we did not discover until he started to school, when an alert school teacher suggested an eye exam. His homework was always in when she announced the lesson. However, when she simply wrote the homework assignment on the board, he did not complete the lesson. She cared enough and was observant enough to identify the problem of which Eva (Ellis Madagan - '61 - of FL) and I were not aware.

He never complained, but on his way home from receiving his eye glasses (coke bottles) he was delighted that he could see road signs and recognize landmarks, as though a new world was awakened.

So, I am glad we "broke the rules" for you during swimming lessons for your vision was hindering your ability to learn.

Silly me for remembering some of the smallest details, but they affect the heart as well as the mind and they do not dim with time.

Mizpah,
Joe

   GASP!!!  Oh, my goodness, Joe!!!  Were I not so badly weeping at the return of this fifty-year-old memory, I might be able to think of a more adequate response now than, "Thank you"!

   I somehow managed to choke back my tears long enough to post this about one-third down from the top on the pool page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

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

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

               http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/pool.html

   Thanks again, Sweet Adonis - for everything!

  From David Whitley ('67) of VA - 04/26/07 - "AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES":

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself.

2. Avoid cutting yourself slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop.

3. Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.

4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.

5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, after which you will be afraid to cough.

7. You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.

8. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Daily Thought: SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES - NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING, BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  David Darlin', you are so baaad!!!

   Thanks, Gorgeous!

  From Norman Covert ('61) of MD - 04/27/07:

Faithful Webmistress Carol,

We've had a challenging year thus far with so many NNHS grads and family going home. I thought it might timely to report that I am thankful to the Lord for seeing me through open heart, single bypass surgery. It was performed April 10 at Washington D.C. Hospital Center to correct a failed bypass from my March 2003 surgery. Since 2003 I've endured nine cardiac catheterizations with three balloon angioplasties, four stents (all in the left descending coronary artery) and a pacemaker. It was good for Boston Medical but an ordeal for my family and me. My daughter Sara and son Patrick agree that I should do something else on their birthdays in March. I hope to be fit enough to attend the next get together of the Class of '61, but not this year, my wife tells me. I have had an uneventful recovery period thus far and hope to get some spring back in my step, or at least get back to playing the trombone soon. My best regards to you and Typhoons everywhere.

Norm Covert ('61)

   YOWZERONI-WOWZERONI!!!  Norman, I had no idea!

   I'm so very glad you're mending well now!    What a wretched time this has been in so many ways for so many of those we love!

   By the way, if any of y'all were forced to miss that fascinating PBS documentary about the U.S. Biological Warfare Program, "The Living Weapon", on which Norman can be seen as an expert, the ordering information can be found here:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/TYPHOONMART.html

   You owe it to yourself to purchase a copy.

   Thanks again, Norman - and do take good care of yourself!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

1. Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 60th Birthday Party for the Class of 1965 - OPEN TO ALL NNHS CLASSES

2. Saturday, August 4, 2007 - Typhoon Informal Reunion - NNHS CLASS OF 1960

3. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7 - 9, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1957

4. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 31 - September 2, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1967

5. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21 - 23, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1962; FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN TO NNHS CLASSES OF 1960 - 1965

6. Saturday, September 29, 2007 - Evelyn Fryer Fish's Buckroe Beach (Pot Luck) Birthday Party for Everyone - OPEN TO ALL

7. Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2008 - NNHS CLASS OF 1958

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

"Stranger on the Shore" lyrics courtesy of http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/lyrics/stranger.htm,
also located through the genius of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 04/23/07
Again, thank you so much, Dave!