"Mama exhorted her children at every
opportunity to 'jump at the sun.'
We might not land on the sun, but
at least we would get off the ground.”

- Zora Neale Hurston
(b. 1891-1960 )

And whose signature tune was this and what was that person called? Hint...Not Karen Carpenter, although the person in question did appear on tv with her...no gender clue, sorry!

...Jimmy

  AH!  A test!  Ummm, all that comes to my mind is the great Ella Fitzgerald - who, of course, was a Newport News native - and I don't remember what she might have been called.  The Karen Carpenter connection eludes me completely.  What can I say?  "The seventies (plus a few other decades) were all a blur...."

   "Anyone?  Anyone?"

   Thanks, Sweetie! 

   Super!  Would you like to join us officially???  Yes???

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I happen to be missing one of my old yearbooks - 1966.

   YOWZERONI!!!  How dreadful!

I am interested in pictures of the JV Cheerleading squad that would have been in that yearbook. I was captain that year and have no pictures. Would you or anyone have pictures that I could get?

   Thanks to the generosity of   Fred Mays ('60) of VA, I do have a 1966 Anchor.  These images should have been scanned and placed long ago.

Thanks for your help!

Joyce

   Thanks for the nudge!!!
 

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   Thanks again, Joyce!  We'll look forward to hearing from you again soon!

   This is a much grader production than whatever it is I'm trying to remember, Pam.  It sounds fabulous!  I think I certainly would have remembered something like that, had I ever participated in it.  Thanks so much!
 

   Noooo, that couldn't have been it.    Eleanor (Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of NC) is six years older than I am.  She and Judson were classmates.  When we moved to town in January of 1954, Eleanor was in the middle of the seventh grade at Walter Reed, and I was in the middle of the first grade at Magruder.

   And the clearest part of the fractured memory that I have - if I have it at all - is of standing with the rest of Mrs. Leyland's class outside that sixth grade wing.  Mr. Ramsey (was his name George???) may or may not have been there.  It's entirely possible that it was just a pretty day, and she decided to take us all outside for music class.  I seem to remember singing more than anything else - particularly The Ash Grove, possibly Oh, Canada (which we inexplicably seemed to have sung often), and I think even some gypsy songs (?!?). 

   And of course, you and I were in that class together.

Mrs. Eunice Leyland's
Sixth Grade Class,
January 1959

  Thanks, Janice! 
 

I attended Magruder School the FIRST year it opened, September of 1948. We always had May Day....I well remember being a Sunflower in the May Day program......Our Mothers had to make our costumes out of bright yellow crepe paper. I still think of the Sunflowers when I see that bright color of yellow. My older sister,    Mary Anne Mays Davis ('58) was in the third grade when I was in the first and she was a tree....they just had to stand straight and do absolutely nothing. We all had to sway from side to side. This was a more significant role, I would say. Someone, probably a parent of a student, did a video....probably a super 8 movie (no sound), of the program and it was shown to the entire school. I remember that I was in the front...doing my really good impression of a swaying Sunflower. I was so proud of this. I would really love to know who made that video and if it still exists.

For the 5th through 7th grades I went to Woodrow Wilson School. We had May Day there too. I remember in the 5th grade we dressed as George and Martha Washington and did the minuet. We had powdered wigs and black knee pants with ruffles on our shirts.....we had a buckle on each shoe. I was honored to have as my partner the prettiest girl in the class, Glenda Langham. She lived on Chesapeake Avenue, next to Mary Immaculate Hospital. They moved away, I think before entering high school. Her father was military. These were good days.

Thank you for reminding me of good times, Carol.
Take care, Fred Mays of Newport News, VA.

   OOOOH, this WAS a big production! 

   Nope, I don't remember anything like that!  Thanks so much for sharing such a great memory with us, Fred!
 

I remember a May pole dance at Magruder School.   We had long streamers attached to the pole and walked in and out to braid the pole.  Take care and thanks for all of your hard work! 

Barbara Houston

   Thanks, Barbara!

   So three years earlier, the celebration was held, and three years later it was held....   Hmmmm.

   You know what?  I'm beginning to think if we did have a May Day celebration that year, I was probably home "sick" anyway, with a big toe ache, or an elbow ache, or (my personal favorite) an eyelash ache.  This sounds like a day fraught with interesting opportunities for embarrassing myself royally, and I would have concocted any story necessary to avoid the whole thing, rather than risk the certain ridicule.
 

   Thank you, Queen of the May!

   Thanks so much, Tom!

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  The happy-goofy commercial jingle!  I love it! Thanks, Eleanor!

   Thanks, Dave!