“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,
and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to
heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A
time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones
together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to
get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to
speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of
peace.”
Summer is almost
upon us, and as everyone knows the three months of summer don't last nearly as
long as the three months of the other seasons, I thought we'd better herald its
arrival a day early.
From Pat Beck Letzinger ('57) of VA
- 06/19/09, 8:57 AM: "NNHS Class of '57 - FYI -
Tony LaPides":
Dear Classmates,
I'm very sorry to
announce that Tony LaPides passed away last night at his home in Atlanta,
Georgia. A private burial will take place in Deland, Florida, at a later date.
I know Carol is most
appreciative of your prayers and support these last few months.
(address available
upon request)
Typhoon Regards,
Pat Beck Letzinger
Oh, Pat, I'm so
very sorry to hear this! I didn't realize Tony was ill; thank you for relaying
this to me.
I'll make a Memorial Edition
Newsletter for him when his obituary becomes available.
Many will also remember Tony's
mother, former NNHS speech teacher,
Mrs.
Virginia LaPides:
From Fred Field (June '45) of CA -
06/18/09 - "Area NNHS Grads.":
Hello Carol, Thu. June 18, 09
copy to Ronnie Margolis
Ronnie Glasofer Margolis, Class of 63, (now in Villa Park, CA) and I have
been in touch and are interested in trying to set up a lunch for NNHS grads.
living in So. CA.
Would a newsletter inquiry be the way to go? Or do you have some magic search
engine to ferret out CA members? I can readily identify the location of any CA
city
Ronnie vaguely remembers the name "Starkman" associated with a schoolmate living
nearby.
We will appreciate any help in making this thing happen.
Fred
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fred W. Field, NNHS Class of June, 1945
Fullerton, CA fwfield@juno.com
I
think this is a splendid idea, Fred and Ronnie, and I'd be delighted to help in
any way I can! My
magical skills are sorely lacking, but these pages should hold some clues to
identify Californians, if not exactly Southern Californians:
And
Christine Wilson Starkman ('68)
is indeed nearby.
Howard
Conn ('65) is in
Irvine, I believe.
Somewhere in
California live
Roy Parrish ('61), Patti Anderson Marshall ('65),
and Anne Marlow Fitzgerald
('65).
Y'all probably spotted several more that I
missed, and of course, we have many readers of whom I am not aware. I'll try
sifting through the various reunion booklets I have to discover more
possibilities, and I'll report back on that soon!
I
had no idea life in Edwardsville would be quite this, um, exciting.
Friday night ("jes' 'fore
midnight") as we were preparing to drift off to sleep, another thunderstorm
hit. I was already in bed watching "tellybision" when I heard a
funny snap and saw a flash, and the power flickered off. Then it happened
again, so I turned off the set right before the end of the show. But then
it happened again, and I knew it couldn't have been the TV hissing, so I lay
there wondering what in the world was going on.
Just then
Adrienne (Harty
- Hillsboro HS,
IL / American School, IL - of IL)
ran into our room, and said the transformer across Frickett Street just outside
our bedroom window (fire escape door, really) had been struck by
lightening. And then it zapped again, and the windows - even on the other
side of the street - lit with full flame effect.
We hastily
jumped out of bed and threw on a few more clothes, thinking that at any moment
the entire block would be engulfed in flames.
My #3 Son,
Randolph (Harty
- Hillsboro HS, IL
- '92 - of IL)
raced outside to check on the neighbors (all of whom
were evacuating their homes), calling 911 as he went. The neighbors said
they'd already called 911, and help was on the way. Seeing that he was
very near a power line, he left their house quickly.
Now, we live -
quite literally - around the corner from both the fire and the police stations.
Somehow they took nearly ten minutes to arrive, and when they did, they said
there was nothing they could do but clear the streets to ensure safety until
representatives from Ameren UE
arrived.
We're not sure
what took them so long, but it was quite some time indeed. Meanwhile the
magical electrical fireball show was getting more and more exciting - louder,
brighter, flashier, and scarier. And just before they arrived, the rains
returned with a vengeance.
At length we all
went back inside, but unsure of what might happen next, we had an ice cream
party and played a game. We were all too agitated to sleep, anyway.
I think we finally went to bed at 3:00 AM.
The next
morning, we noticed the fire trucks were back. It seems the debris had
begun to smoulder and spark anew.
Had I mentioned
these neighbors were trying to host a three-family yard sale through all this?!?
We had just been over there Friday morning before we knew how excitingly the day
would end.
As I said, I had
no idea life here was going to be so entertaining - floods, marathons, and now
arcing fireballs - all right outside my door!
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday
today to
Barbara Houston ('68) of Northern VA!
Happy Birthday
tomorrow to
Ralph Goldstein ('57)
AND
Kelly Loose Bustamante ('58) of VA
AND
Terry Haney ('66) of VA!
Happy Birthday
this week to:
22 -
Jim Cobb ('66) of VA;
24 -
My Cousin, Jean Atkinson Mallory (Warsaw HS / Rappahannock HS / John
Marshall HS - '65) of VA;
25 - David Lundquist ('57)
ANDGlenn Dye
('60) of TX
AND
Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI;
26 -
Fred Eubank ('64) of TX;
27 -
Jimmy Dick ('65) of FL
AND
My #1 Daughter-in-Law, Mary Bennett Harty (Litchfield HS,
IL - '89) of IL!
From Fred Field (June '45) of CA -
06/18/09 - "Time & Geography":
Hello Carol, Thu. June 18, 09
Sounds
like a touch of timus warpitis there. The skating rink at
Camp Stuart was named "Old Dominion Skating Rink." The building,
a remnant of the WW-I camp, was located on the Hampton Roads side of 16th
Street about 150 yards east of Chestnut Avenue.
The Old Dominion Skating Rink is listed on one of the old WPA City
descriptions which can be found on the internet. I expect it was slapped
together soon after the National Guard moved out in 1937. You could get to
it on the streetcar line which ran south on Chestnut Avenue, then east along
16th Street and over the Salter's Creek bridge to Chesapeake Avenue.
Ohhhh,
thanks so much for clarifying that for me, Fred!
Don't be misled by the red star on
this map which I borrowed from the Stuart
Homes page. Chestnut Avenue (although not identified by name
here) is the one located between Roanoke and Oak Avenues. So if I
understand you correctly, the old rink would have been smack in the middle
of the Stuart Gardens Apartments -
about where Jeb's Place was later carved, n'est pas??
04/11/03
I remember quite well the day the old
building was demolished. That was probably in 1942 while the Stuart Garden houses were being
built. A bunch of youngsters and I were standing across the street in front of
a partially constructed new home. We were hoping to see some action.
Someone with a megaphone began shouting for everyone to evacuate because
dynamite was going to be set off. The other kids scattered, I slipped into the
new house and hid in a closet just inside the front door. Nothing exploded, so
in about 10 minutes I opened the closet door to see what was happening. Just
then the dynamite went off, making an enormous bang and raising a cloud of dust.
I felt something hit my chest and when I dared look I found a pea-size piece of
concrete stuck there. This was not serious and I just plucked out. No need to
tell parents.
I remember first going to the upscale Briarfield
rink when I was in the 5-high at
Walter Reed. I wrote an essay about this event which my teacher,
Miss Ruth Folkmann liked. That would have been in about 1939. Surely the
Old Dominion Rink would have met its demise by then.
Also near the Chestnut-16th Street Intersection (west side), down a remnant
street from the Camp, was the clubhouse for the "Old Dominion Golf Club." When
the Stuart Gardens project got under way, the clubhouse and golf course were
bulldozed along with its several small hills.
I don't remember much about the Hygeia Rink
(Wickham & Hampton Avenue) except it was built during, or soon after the
Stuart Gardens Shopping Center. Probably during WW-II to serve all the new
nearby homes.
Few artifacts of old Camp Stuart can be found today. One very distinct item is
an old building, said to have been the Camp Stuart Officer's Club. It
survived, only because it remained inside the fence of the parcel that the
Dodge Boat and Plane Co. purchased. I found what I believed was that
building, relocated and converted into a large home on Shore Drive. Dave Spriggs('64 - of VA) helped
confirm that it is as I suspected. More on that story as it develops.
Fred
I really appreciate your delineating all this for me, Fred! My
family and I moved to the area in January of 1954, and I've always been very
curious about the area's "past lives".
From Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC -
06/19/09 - "More pictures - shipyard apartments":
Carol: here are a few:
First one was taken
about 1939 in front of 48th Street apartment building.
Older fella in pix is
G. Lynwood (Little Ding) Price, Jr., son of Mary and 'Ding' Price
(Managing Editor of the Times Herald). I do not know where the nickname 'Ding'
came from or what it meant. 'Little Ding' probably graduated from NNHS in the early 1950s. I have been told he also
graduated from West Point Military Academy,
married a General's daughter and much later became a general himself. His
mother, last I heard, was still alive and living in a retirement home near Main
Street in Hilton.
I have no idea who the
gal on the left is; thought some of your readers might recognize her. That's me
on the right.
Next
picture is even earlier, I believe, and shows more of the 48th street
building than any others I have.
Little lady is Adeline Allen.
She was a few years older than I. Her father was a photographer for the DP/TH
in the 1930s. They moved to Front Royal before WW II started, and he had a
photographic studio there. Adeline's parents and mine were close friends and
exchanged visits and Christmas cards for years, but I have no real memory of
her. She may have gone toJackson
Elementary (just a guess, although they might have moved before she
was old enough to do so).
My mother's favorite picture, and one that caused me much embarrassment
before I truly discovered girls.
The apparently less-than-excited
lass is Marcia Robbins. Her parents, who lived in the 48th Street
building at the time, later moved to Hampton. She probably graduated from
HHS in 1954; give or take a year. But that's all I know; she
never came around for a repeat performance!
Use as you see fit. Hopefully,
someone will know more about the unknown gal in the first image and if my
understanding of 'Little Ding' is accurate. Maybe even whatever happened to
Adeline and/or Marcia.
By the
way, I have noticed that you use old/new photos of people, from time to
time. Here's a fairly recent one of me, taken in March of this year at the
Apprentice Alumni Association's celebration of my class' 50th anniversary of
graduation.
WOWZERS!!!
Thank you so very much for all these treasures, Bill!
I've posted the three darling pictures - which really provide quite
a good glimpse of the shipyard apartments - here:
Tell Jim I owe my one
summer of salamander hunting to him. It was fun at age eight, but much like you,
Carol, I like babies, lace, and most things soft and girly - the exception being
hard rock. How he missed the band, Scorpions, is amazing to me. Guess we
relatives are a mixed bag. I'm glad he still finds joy in much the same as he
always did. As for me, the only wanted contact with snakes, scorpions and other
creepy crawlers, near and dear to him, are viewed on my television screen.
Hugs to you both,
Shari
GIGGLES! Thanks, Shari!
Sometimes even watching them on TV
is too scary-spooky for me!
From Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA
- 06/19/09 - "Line dance; have to see this!!":
This is so Good, with this little guy.....
I know you will enjoy it.
1. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 4, 5 and 6 (Labor Day Weekend), 2009 -
The Class of 1969 will hold its 40-Year Reunion at the Point Plaza Hotel, Newport News, VA. For details, see:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2009-69.html
and contact Jean Baker Howell at hokie13mom@cox.net
-
OPEN TO ALL NNHS ALUMNI
2. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 18, 19, and 20, 2009 -
The Warwick High School Class of 1959 will hold
its 50-Year Reunion at the Marriott Newport News at City Center, Newport News,
VA.
For details, contact
WHSREUNION1959@aol.com
-
WHS CLASS OF 1959
3. Friday and Saturday, October 9 and 10, 2009 - The Class of 1964 will hold its 45-Year
Reunion
For details, see:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2009-64.html
-
CLASS OF 1964
4. Friday and Saturday, August 6 and 7, 2010 - The NNHS
Class of 1970 will hold its 40-Year Reunion. Friday night they will all meet at
RJ's; Saturday night will be at the Kiln Creek Golf & Country Club. For details,
contact Carol Comer Cutler at
ca23comerww@aol.com.
-
I'll make a Memorial Edition
Newsletter for him when his obituary becomes available.
My
magical skills are sorely lacking, but these pages should hold some clues to
identify Californians, if not exactly Southern Californians:
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
My
family and I moved to the area in January of 1954, and I've always been very
curious about the area's "past lives".
