Happy Birthday tomorrow to    Patti Andrews Mays ('61) of VA!  Have a wonderful day, Patti!

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2. Mother's Day is Sunday, May 14, 2006.  Do yourself a big favor.  DON'T FORGET!  Do something nice for the women in your life.  Remember the words of Proverbs 21: 9 - "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."

3.  Lucy Queensberry ('60) - May I tell you now, if you have not considered it before, just how precious any tidbit, any scrap of information, no matter how insignificant it may seem to you, would be to the family of this now deceased woman.  If you have any memory of her, please send it to me so that I may forward it to them.  Thank you so much.

Hello Carol,
The wife writing on her husband's boat    made me have a good chuckle! It reminded me of a "disagreement" my husband and I had when we were young. He was out doin'-who-knows-what with the "guys" when he called me to say he wasn't coming home. Of course, being the liberal minded person, as only one awaken at two in the morning to hear something so unnecessary to a good night's sleep can be, I gave him a choice. Come home now or risk having a hole put in his precious boat, which was conveniently parted in the front yard!

I delivered the promise and went back to bed only to be awakened at three in the morning by a loud crash and a car horn. Would I ever get any sleep?!!!

I arrived outside with the rest of the neighborhood to see my husband's car had missed the driveway, hit the tree in the yard and he was pleading with God to please fix his boat, he'd take it all back. Well, I let him carry on for ten minutes or so and then went to the boat's hull, which glowed beautifully in that full moon, and torn off the black construction paper "hole" I had put there and gave it to him! I guess it was two weeks before he could go out without sunglasses on or someone asking if he had any life perseveres or  saying they had some tape he could use to "patch" his boat. Next time he went out - he came home quietly, no calls. Ha Ha

   Thanks, Linda, that's hysterical!  You are sooo baaaad!!!! 

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  Thanks so much, Bill!

   WILDER GIGGLES!!!

I remember two of the "usherettes"  in the Rec. Pool photo submitted by John London (Warwick HS - '57) of VA  (5-5-06).

Cristina Agramonte was one of a set of (very) identical twins. I knew their older brother, Donald (Feb. 46). Poor guy was known mainly as "The Agramonte twins' brother." The family lived on Blair Avenue between Poplar and Maple. The Agramonte father was a government inspector at the Shipyard. He must have been transferred around a lot because Donald attended Granby and Hampton before graduating at NNHS.

I think the family moved away soon after 1946. I haven't found the twins in any of my Anchors (through 1949).

Kathleen Smith (June 47) was a stunning blonde back when not many high school girls were blondes. She lived in the 100 block of Sycamore Avenue, diagonally across the street from where    Fred Mays ('60 - of VA) would live later.  She was one of the attractions aboard "The Special" - a bus that loaded in front of NNHS and departed quickly for the East End and Boulevard. Kathleen liked to open the window and let the wind blow out her long blonde tresses. The other girls on board grumbled a bit, especially on a cold day. But for some reason we boys didn't mind.

In 2000 I was at the Newport News Records Dept. looking up historical data on my grandparents' house on 30th Street (next door to where    Joe Madagan - '57 - of  FL - grew up). It was a slow day in the office and one of the clerks had plenty of time to help me. She grew curious about my youthful time in NN and asked me if I knew her mother, Kathleen Smith. She said that Kathleen had married a soldier, settled in the Northwest, got divorced, came back to NN and died young. She was pleased to hear that I remembered so much about her mother.

About May Day: The recent photo of May Day at Wilson School was surely taken during World War II because the ceremony was performed in the school yard. My younger brother Graham might have been in that class.

Prior to the war May Day events were always set in Saunders Stadium with all the schools participating at the same time. Busses would pick us up at our schools and take us to the stadium. My last participation was inMay 1941 when I was in seventh grade at Walter Reed.

The girls absolutely loved May Day and would show up in very fancy and frilly dresses. We boys hated it. We had to wear white trousers, a black belt, and a white shirt with tie. These were clothes that most of us would not be wearing anywhere else. But most humiliating of all was being partnered up with one of the girls. We were first allowed a chance to get paired up with someone on our own. But for the most part the teachers would grow impatient and simply match up partners according to height. One unfortunate result would then be that most of us guys would later be accused of having picked the object of a secret crush.

On my very first May Day I was assigned to Marion Eubank. She was a very quiet girl and we got through it all just fine. And no gossip followed. In subsequent years we always arranged to be partners. My view was that, except for her damp hands, she was no problem and therefore a good choice. I never knew what she thought.

Vaya con Dios! Fred (June 45)
^^^^^^^^
Fred W. Field
Fullerton, CA
fwfield@juno.com

   You crack me up, Fred!  And your total recall of Practically Everything never ceases to astonish and amaze me!  Thanks so much for sharing all that with us!

YES!!! WE have a winner!!! Ella Fitzgerald is still known among jazz musicians and other people as the First Lady of Song. GREAT!!!

Jimmy

   And the winner, of course, was    Ron Miller ('59) of NC in the 05/03/06 Newsletter.  Thanks, Jimmy - and congratulations, Ronnie!

Oh yeah, well, Sam was born "Samuel David McAvoy" about 6 weeks ago and
weighed 9 lbs and something. I know, I know, I should know that stuff, but I'm lucky to remember where my house is every afternoon.

Since we have not identified the bold beauty in the recent "Redneck Image"  yet, maybe a guess might do. Could she be the same person that appeared in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" (1967)? The young girl in the scene washing an automobile while the members of the chain gang were watching as they worked clearing brush along the roadside? She seems to be still wearing the same pair of cut-offs in her golden years.
 

   Joe, they could hear me laughing in the other end of the house when I first read your note!  You know, you could just be right!   Thanks so much, Adonis!

 Joe (Madagan - '57 - of FL), I think   Dave’s (Spriggs - '64 - of VA) picture  is of some old Biker Babe that didn’t know when to give it up. Probably taken at one of the side shows at Daytona Bike Week or Myrtle Beach Bike Week.

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  I think you have something there, Gorgeous!

Speaking of Babes,    those 1940’s bathing beauties sent in by John London (Warwick HS - '57) of VA were really pretty girls, even by today’s standards, but guys, let’s just hope that style of bathing suit never comes back……arrrgh!

   Amen to that!  Thanks, Chandler Darlin'!

I found two of my cousins in this last newsletter. One has passed on, so it meant a lot to me to be able to print a picture of them that I haven't seen. (In the one of)  the lovely ladies featured at the opening of the pool, the tall one on the left was my cousin, Kathleen Smith ('47). Also, the homeroom pic of 1956 included a B. Smith. My cousin's name is Bert Smith. What a surprise. I never know what I am going to find in these letters.

   What pleasant surprises those must have been for you!  I'm so glad!

To change the subject, all of you Typhoons out there keep us Brevard Floridians in your prayers as these fires are still not under control. We have been inhaling smoke now for three weeks.

   YOWZERONI!!!  That we will, Judy!  Thanks for the reminder! 

Carol, keep up the good work and thanks for being you.  

Judy Lindstrom

   Thank you, Judy!

   My deepest sympathies on your corrupted files, Joe.....

   But I'm delighted to post the Annual Picnic information for the Class of 1957 on the front page:

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   I'll be making them their own Reunion Page quite soon.  Thanks, Joe!

 Thanks, Dicky! 

(I'd comment on this one, but I'm laughing too hard....)

   Thanks, Dave! 

   When we come back again - hopefully tomorrow - we'll have more things for you from    Jo Ann Stewart ('64) of TX,    Susie Overton Jones ('63) of AL - NOT FL!!! - and more - maybe even YOU!!!

   Meanwhile, y'all take care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!