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05/25/06
- NNHS Newsletter
"Do not go where the path may lead, |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
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Who knew that Emerson wrote songs as well as essays??? |
OLDIES-NEWBIES:
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1. Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of
NC via (Keep reading....) Welcome, Bill! We're honored and delighted to have you with us. I've added your name to our (usually) hidden mailing lists, as well as to our now mis-named Alumni List: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html
Send us your senior portrait and
your birthday, and we'll add those as well. Life is short, so we
celebrate everything here.
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
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Carol,
Could you please add me to your
list? I was receiving the wonderful
NNHS65 newsletter but now
that I have moved from Nevada to Virginia and changed my e-mail address, I
do not.
I am Betty Spain Uecker ( '63) and I
am living at 181 Cooper Drive, Stuarts Draft, VA 24477. My e-mail address
is
bsuecker@adelphia.net . I would not mind if you told
everyone my e-mail address. Also my birthday is March 13, 1945.
I talked to my cousin June
Veneris Collie and she said that you wanted to know who her cousin
is....well, it is me.
I used to live on Chestnut Avenue
between 24th and 25th Street. I attended elementary school at
Magruder but moved to
Idaho Falls for Junior High because the
Shipyard sent my dad there to
work.
Keep up the wonderful job with the
newsletter.
Typhoons forever.
Betty Spain Uecker '63
I attended the
24th Street Church of Christ
and Northside Church of Christ
also. In fact my husband and I were the 2nd couple to be married in the
Northside Church.
And that would have been on August 19, 1967, n'est pas? Well, Betty, I don't know what on earth happened here. You've been on our mailing lists for years, but your name wasn't on the Alumni List! That has now been corrected: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html And as you gave me your permission, I posted your email addy on the '63 contact page when I changed your state of residence: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1963.html Congratulations on your return to "the sacred soil of Virginia"! I added your note here, and made a few clarifications to these pages: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/our-places-worship.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Northside-Church-Christ.html
Thanks for reconnecting with us, Betty!
I'll try not to "lose" you this time!
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From Richard Dawes (NNHS/HHS - '62) of VA - 05/24/06 - "Re: Alma Mater":
| Hi Carol I'm glad you found one. I have looked for one that I thought I had, but could not come up with it. If I remember correctly, there were two Alma Maters on the program - one that preceded the one we played. Did it have a different title? Any idea as to when was it used? Any history on it? I was not able to attend
the Grand Reunion, nor did I know
it even transpired, as I was still living in Illinois (and might as well
have been on the moon).
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/grand-reunion-96.html This was the first time I ever heard mention of the earlier Alma Mater: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/grand-reunion-96/04-14-96-gr5.jpg As Arthur Hundley wrote the words and music to the Alma Mater which we all know and love, I assume the other song pertained to the earlier Newport News High schools mentioned here: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/grand-reunion-96/04-14-96-gr3.jpg This sounds like a
question for
Gentlemen?? Also. about the "Key". I recant my earlier statement. The band version was not written in the key of B-flat; it was in the key of F. And as I was thinking of recreating a piano rendition, make that a Concert F. I played a flute, which like a piano, is a C instrument. I wasn't factoring in all the other band instruments. That part of music theory was always way over my head anyway, like economics. (Come to think of it, I think I see a direct correlation, but we'll just leave that alone.....) I'm working on transposing it now. I'm using a broken flute and no piano, but when I check a few things on Sunday, I should be able to finish it - in one form or another. Thanks, Dicky!
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From Bill Lee (Warwick
HS - '54) of NC to 
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL -
05/23/06:
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While I didn't attend NNHS, the
web sites you led me to provided a couple of
hours of happy 'North End' and 'Downtown
NN' memories. Thanks. I'm still absorbing all that is there. I
even found you on the 'famous marines' page (and learned that you were
born in Charlotte)! I assume your father, like so many others, went to
NNS to work in the war years.
From your information, its obvious that we lived within 20 blocks of one
another at one time. I don't know
John Mitchell ('57 - of VA), but I did find him, I think, in the most
recent Apprentice Alumni Association listing (Class of 1963).
Another 'north end' fella I did know well (who you may have known - he's
younger than I by 2-3 years) was Doug Brown ('56). He lived on 70th
street, but attended NNHS (because his father had a business there, and
that entitled him to be a Typhoon - instead of a Farmer). I know he worked
for the city for a long time, after completing high school, but have no
current knowledge of him.
I knew Coach Formichelli well. Too well, on one occasion. He also
taught biology at WHS and I got into a fair amount of trouble in his
class (disposing of dissected frog parts in girls' lunch bags). As I
vividly recall, he was not amused. Nevertheless, that same year, after
the annual staff surprised him by dedicating The 1952 Warwick
to him, he was gracious enough to autograph my copy.
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I guess he figured I'd need as much luck as possible, later in life...
I knew 'of'' Joe Agee, but never really had any acquaintance with
him.
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL to
Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC - 05/23/06:
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Hi, Bill:
Great story. I could hardly wait to get to the end to learn .....
(SHHHH - be patient, Sweetie-Pies!)
Would you give
Carol Buckley Harty ('65 - of NC) permission to post it on
her website? If you grant this wish, I
will forward it to her for it is a great story and touches so many
aspects of Newport News.
She had a portion devoted to
Newport News Shipbuilding, and even there several mention how
skilled the workers were to be able to take an ocean going vessel to
sea for trials.
It would add a lot to the history of the community.
Of course, I understand if you do not wish to have it placed on the
internet.
Regards,
Joe
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From Bill Lee (Warwick
HS - '54) of NC to
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL -
05/24/06:
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Some more small world stuff!
My father, as you may have noticed, was the Managing Editor of the Daily
Press (which, at that time, was in the 200 block of 25th Street). I spent
many a happy hour in my youth exploring the newspaper's inner workings.
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL to
Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC - 05/24/06:
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Hi, Bill:
Glad you brought out the fact that your father was the
Managing Editor of The Daily Press in Newport News. I am sure his face
will look familiar to me when I see a photograph.
Mr. Ashe, the red-headed route supervisor was my main
contact, along with the nice lady that took all of our coins and dumped
them into the coin counting machine when we settled our accounts as a
newspaper route carrier.
My route was a Times-Herald home
delivery route in East End,
and of course on Sunday Mornings we delivered The Daily Press. I used to
go pick up my papers on Sunday Mornings because I wanted to get a jump on
the the other carriers and get a good whiff of the
Betty Lewis Bakery with
bread in the ovens. The aroma reached me while riding my bicycle over the
25th Street Bridge, and it sure fired up an appetite.
Carol Buckley Harty's primary email address appears in
this message as a CC.
She will explode with excitement when she reads your
message that you agree to permit her to post your "Two Hoffmans" on her
website. She has captured a lot of Virginia Peninsula history by the
memories of so many TYPHOON, FARMERS, and KRABBAS. You may even hear her
in quiet Wesley Chapel!!!
Boy, Howdy!!!
I am going to snatch a copy of the note at the end of
your story, to place in the Editor's Note when I publish your article in
"The Seahorse" in August 2006. What a small world!
Regards,
Joe Madagan
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From Bill Lee (Warwick
HS - '54) of NC to
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL -
05/24/06:
(A Word Document would
be lovely, Bill - thanks so much!)
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL to
Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC - 05/24/06:
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Thanks, Bill:
Outstanding!!!
We will all enjoy reading your article.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Here is Carol's email address:
Carol Buckley Harty <nnhs65@yahoo.com>
Take care,
Joe
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL -
05/24/06:
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Hi, Carol:
You have another contributor to the Virginia Peninsula
history!
.... Bill Lee (WHS '54) of NC.... is going to polish and scrub his article and send it to you!
He not only learned to build "good ships" at the
Apprentice School, he has a gift
for writing and he also has a passion for naval history.
TYPHOON Regards,
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL
SUPER!!!
I'll look forward to it! Thanks, Adonis!
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL -
05/24/06:
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Hi, Carol:
Surely
Alan Foster ('58) of VA will forgive me for persuading another
FARMER to join us at your website after he reads the
account of disposing of dissected frogs from Mr. Forminchelli's
biology class at Warwick High School.
And we thought we were creative by hiding the
cafeteria spinach in the empty milk cartons!
The photo of this handsome Coach will add to your
history of the Virginia Peninsula. They lived in
Marshall Courts and his
son Billy was in the Cub Scout Pack lead by Ambert Dail,
the station manger of WGH-AM
that met at the Marshall Courts Community Center
on Marshall Avenue.
After all, we all shared the water from the Newport
News Reservoir, why not share the website?
How is that for logic?
TYPHOON Regards,
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL
It works for me, Joe! Thank you, Gentlemen, for this exciting new chapter we're developing. The rest of y'all stay tuned. There's much more to come! |
From Joe Wingo, President of the Class of 1965, of NC- 05/24/06:
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Morning Carol...
Please note and advertise that my new e-mail address post May 31st will be "djosephwingo@bellsouth.net". Thank you so much and an early happy Memorial Day to all.
Charlotte is preparing for one of the city's biggest weekends as NASCAR
takes over, uptown becomes "Speed Street", and big hair and tank tops rule
again!
"Swappin'
a little paint down in turn three"...that's racin'.......
Be good and thanks again---Joe Hi, Sweetie! I'm so glad you caught us again before you retired from Bank of America; I was afraid we'd lose you there, and we can't have that sort of thing! I'll adjust your email addy in the next few days when that moment arrives. Have fun at the races! Congratulations again,
best wishes to you in your new endeavors, and thanks for everything!
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From
Barbara Houston ('68) of Northern VA - 05/22/06:
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Hi Carol,
On May 31, I will be RETIRING!!! after 33+ years of government work. Could you change my email to _________________. Thanks for all your hard work. Barbara Houston A TWO-FER
- and on the same day!
Well, congratulations to you, too, Miss Barbara! Enjoy your new
freedom!
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From Evelyn Fryer Fish
('58) of TX - 05/24/06:
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Dear Friends,
I am very fortunate to be alive. If not
for Dick, I would not be here to write this. Sunday night while at a
cookout at Susan and Dan's, I cut a piece of steak and it lodged in my
throat. I could not swallow, could not breath, could not cough it up.
(Everyone else was still in the kitchen.) I moved quickly to the grass
where I thought I could throw up, but could not. About the time I was
doubled over, Dick came to back door and yelled to me asking me what was
the matter - when I could not reply - he ran to the back of me and
performed the Heimlich and the steak flew up and out of my throat!
I am sending this hopefully to help someone
else in this situation. First, I should have run inside the house for
help, or should have done the Heimlich on myself, or should have leaned
over one of the chairs on the patio and applied pressure.......but I was
"paralyzed" and could not think logically.
Think of all the people who live and eat
alone. If this helps just one of you, it is worth sending.
Lv, ev
WOWZERONI-YOWZERONI!!!
I wasn't feeling well
(yesterday) morning, Evelyn. I had awaken in the middle of the night
quite ill after only four hours of sleep. By mid-morning I finally
decided to take a little nap, so I turned off the bell on the phone and
lay down for what turned into a "three-hour" tour. EEEK!
When I awoke (still
rather groggy), I found you had sent me the file of the
adorable laughing quintuplets (Southern, no less!) that we had
all loved and misplaced several weeks ago. Then I found your beautiful
(Memorial Day) card, and your hair-raising story (please thank
Dick on behalf of all of us for saving your life!).
Thank you so very,
very much for everything!
 Thank you, Carol. lv, ev |
From Jim Elliott
('61) of AK - 05/24/06:
| Carol, glad to know of
another
Gwen Stefani
fan. She's one of my favorites, too. “Sent from my BlackBerry handheld” |
From Judy Leggette Elliott
('56) of VA - 05/24/06:
Dear
Carol
(Buckley Harty - '65 - of NC)
and
Kelly (Loose Bustamante - '58 - of VA ),
Thank you so much for the kind words; if I
would not end up in the ER, I would try to do a cartwheel. I sincerely
appreciate your remarks--so sweet! Thanks again to you and Carol--this has been a very special day. Carol, I really do appreciate you!!! Typhoon love, Judy Leggette Elliott Thank you - so
much, Miss Judy!
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REUNION REMINDERS: Reunion information is ALWAYS posted very near the top on the front page, and on the Reunion Page section: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
Henceforth, it will be repeated
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YOU ARE INVITED!!
The NNHS Class of 1957
will hold its annual picnic on Saturday, June 3, 2006.
If you would like to renew old friendships, send a check in the
amount of $10 for each attendee made out
W. D. Dangler,
Newport News AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 05/10/06: |
The Super
Open Reunion sponsored by the NNHS Class of 1961 in honor of their graduation 45 years ago will be held on Saturday, July 1, 2006 at the Radisson Hotel, Hampton, VA at 6:30 PM. There will be a social hour/dinner, at a cost of $65 per person. On Sunday, July 2, 2006, there will be a Sunday morning brunch, also at the Radisson, for the cost of $20. If you attend both events, the combined cost will be $75.
The Radisson is holding a block of rooms until June 14
for $139
plus tax.
CONTACT Jane Monfalcone Simmons
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The Great Open Reunion
sponsored
by the NNHS Class
of 1966
in honor of their graduation 40 years ago will be held on Friday, September 29, 2006 from 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM at RJ’s Restaurant, 12743 Jefferson Avenue, NN, VA. On Saturday, September 30, 2006, meet at 11:00 AM at Newport News High School (now Huntington Hall) for a tour of the high school and gym. Parking is available next to the gym on Huntington Avenue. On Saturday, September 30, 2006 from 7:00 PM to midnight,,the grand affair will be held at Point Plaza Hotel, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA, 757-599-4460. CONTACT Dee Hodges Bartram at dhbartram@cox.net. AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/15/06: |
The 60th Birthday Celebration for Members of the NNHS Class of 1964 will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2006, 7:00 - 11:00 PM at Spirit Events, 12672 Patrick Henry Drive, Newport News, VA 23602. INFORMAL "SOCK HOP" (WEEJUNS AND BLEEDING MADRAS, IF YA GOT 'EM), CATERED FOOD, ADULT BEVERAGES, MUSIC, DANCING, BIRTHDAY CAKE CONTACT Dave Spriggs at nnhs64@cox.netAND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/27/06: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/60-BIRTHDAY-1964-B.html
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The
Grand 50-year Reunion of the NNHS Class of 1956 will be held on Friday, October 20, 2006 at the James River Country Club, Newport News, VA from 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM. Cost is $56.00 per person, reservations required by Aug. 1.
On
Saturday, October
21, 2006
at 7:00 PM, a casual get-together will be held in a Hospitality
Room, Country Inn & Suites on Route 17, Newport News, for all
classmates
CONTACT Judy Leggette Elliott at
jandcelliott@aol.com
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"Dinner" Planning Meetings for The Class of 1962! They would love to have as many of their classmates as possible to participate in the future as they plan the details of their upcoming 45-Year Reunion!! Please plan to join them at their next meeting. If you did not receive an announcement, they do not have your address. Please email Pat Floyd Pride at patnnhs@cox.net or Brenda Amos Williams at typhoonmom@juno.com for directions, and so that you can stay in touch.
Visit Brenda's 1962 Web Page: AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 05/10/06:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html
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From Stacy Dorn ('64) of VA
- 05/22/06 -
"Happy Day" (#3 in a series of 9):
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Hope every day is happy for you :) Have a Blessed Day
I would rather have one rose and a kind word
from a friend while I'm here |
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Oh, WOWZERS!!! How pretty!
Thanks, Stacy!
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From David Whitley ('67) of VA - 05/12/06 - "Funnies" (#7 in a series of 9):
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Ohh, David, what can I say?
Thank you, Gorgeous!
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I'm sorry if I haven't seemed my usual chipper self lately. Along with the increased number of deaths and serious illnesses among family, friends, and acquaintances lately, I've suffered a series of serious financial setbacks that have left a number of my plans in jeopardy - and have left me quite depressed and reeling to the point of disorientation. Hopefully, things will improve........ |
Y'all take extra good care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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Ode
Words by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857
to the tune of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire.
The cannon booms from town to town,
Our pulses beat not less,
The joy bells chime their tidings down,
Which children's voices bless.
For he that flung the broad blue fold
O'er-mantling land and sea,
One third part of the sky unrolled
For the banner of the free.
The men are ripe of Saxon kind
To build an equal state,—
To take the stature from the mind
And make of duty fate.
United States! the ages plead,—
Present and Past in under-song,—
Go put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
For sea and land don't understand,
Nor skies without a frown
See rights for which the one hand fights
By the other cloven down.
Be just at home; then write your scroll
Of honor o'er the sea,
And bid the broad Atlantic roll,
A ferry of the free.
And henceforth there shall be no chain,
Save underneath the sea *
The wires shall murmur through the main
Sweet songs of liberty.
The conscious stars accord above,
The waters wild below,
And under, through the cable wove
Her fiery errands go.
For He that worketh high and wise,
Nor pauses in his plan,
Will take the sun out of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.
* These
lines refer not only to the chains of slavery, but to the laying
of the transatlantic cable in 1857, the same year as this song was composed.
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" midi (sequenced By MTA) courtesy
of
http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/patriotic/usasongs.html -
05/24/06
"Ode" lyrics courtesy of http://www.potw.org/archive/potw369.html - 05/24/06
First Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson courtesy of http://www.poemofquotes.com/ralphwaldoemerson/ - 05/24/06
Second Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson courtesy of - http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson - 05/24/06
Pastel Divider Lines clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars7.html - 05/24/06
Animated "NEW" clip art courtesy of http://gifsnow.com/ - 03/07/06
Animated Birthday Cake Courtesy of Gathered Gifs at http://members.tripod.com/~B123/cd/cake12.gif - 04/15/04
