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06/26/06
- NNHS Newsletter
"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I have quite
uncharacteristically been offline for most of the day. The separation
has caused me to break out in hives (not to mention to fall even further
behind than usual), but I should be better soon........  |
BIRTHDAYS:
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We
have one birthday today, and one for each of the next three days. Now
I know it's hard to believe that I'm ever interrupted these days, but you
know, just in case something should interfere, I'd like to take this
opportunity to extend birthday wishes to all four of them - just in case:
26 -
Many Happy Returns,
Gentlemen!
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HITS:
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Hit #48,500 was made
on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 12:17 AM by an unknown swbell.net DSL user from Houston, TX who accessed the site from http://sbo.nn.k12.va.us/alumni. Okay, Who Done It??? GIGGLES!!! |
From
Joe Madagan ('57)
of FL - 06/23/06 - "Famous Soldiers
page":
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Hi, Carol:
A bit of color to brighten the pages.
TYPHOON Regards,
Joe
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This is great! Thank you, Major Madagan! 
I'm going to need to stand on my head, wiggle
my ears, and hold my mouth just right to figure out where to place this on
those four pages, and that opportunity hasn't yet presented itself, but I
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From my Daughter, Adrienne Harty of NC - 06/24/06:
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French guy playing horns:
WOWZERS!!!
This is simultaneously impressive and hysterically funny, Adrienne!
Thanks!
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From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 06/24/06 - "Nails in the fence - Love Ya'll":
| NAILS IN THE FENCE Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence) There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but
look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you
say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a
knife in a man and draw it out. Jerry This is such a nice lesson, Jerry! How often do we seek to excuse mean and hateful things we say with a flippant, "Oh, you'll have to excuse me. I have a bad temper." Thank you so much for
sharing this with us, Sweetie!
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From my Daughter, Adrienne Harty of NC - 06/24/06:
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When
you are feeling down
1. If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. 2. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. 3. Of all the things you wear, your __expression is the most important. 4. The best vitamin for making friends....B1. 5. The 10 commandments are not multiple choices. 6. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. 7. Minds are like parachutes...they function only when open. 8. Ideas won't work unless YOU do. 9. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. 10. One who lacks the courage to start has already finished. 11. The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge. 12. Don't learn safety rules by accident. 13. We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. 14. Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise. 15. A turtle makes progress when it sticks its head out. 16. One thing you can give and still keep ...is your word. 17. A friend walks in when everyone else walks out. 18. The pursuit of happiness is: the chase of a lifetime! - JWD - Thanks, Baby Girl!
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From Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 06/25/06 - "EEK!!!!":
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Hey!!
Guess what NOW????? I can't pull up our website!!!!
How 'bout you?
sarah sugah YOWZERONI-RINI-ROONI!!! What sort of nonsense is this?!? I personally would run a virus scan, and then reboot my computer - and then scream for tech support..... "Anyone? Anyone?"
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Keep reading......... |
From One of my
Famous Marines - 
Herb Hice of MI, who
served in the Pacific Theater
during WWII - 06/25/06 - "Dear Carol, To help cheer you up, Trees":
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Dear Carol,
My favorite poem to cheer you up: Trees, one of our Creator's countless Masterpieces. Your Friend, Herbie OHHH, my mama had me memorize that poem when I was a little-bitty girl of four! It was one of her favorites, too. Sadly, of the poem's twelve lines, the only four I can now easily recall are the first two and the last two. Perhaps I'll try to relearn it now. |
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Thanks so much for sending this to me, Herbie! I think I shall print it off for my album! |
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From Tim Rogers
(Hampton HS - '66) of VA - 06/25/06 - "Memories":
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Carol, If this web site is about anything it is about memories, so here goes. To:  Gail Kiger Bonsey (Ferguson HS - '73
- of OR)Sorry I don't remember you; I'm sure it's to my loss, but you were about 6 years old at the time. My best memory of the Staples's family would have been about 1959. Lets see, I think Brenda was dating a Newport News boy named 
Donald Bradley ('59), who I think lived on 24th street. Tommy was dating a
girl named Dianne Geer, and of course Ron wasn't dating. One
of the first kisses I ever had was from Brenda, it was a peck on the cheek
to go to the store for her, what 12-year-old boy could have refused? I
thought she was the most beautiful girl on the Peninsula!The basketball court was the floor left from a old tin building that was there when they moved in and was torn down by the Staples and neighborhood kids. To:  Fred Mays ('60 - of VA)Fred, I have so many childhood memories of Orcutt Avenue Baptist Church and the people who made it; there were you and your sister, 
Cheryl (Mays
Howard - '66 - of VA),
 Janice McCain (Rose - '65 - of VA), and the two
Weaver girls,  Sharon (Knowles
- '63 - of VA) and
 Pam (Haskins
- '66),  Jimmy Parker
('62 - of VA), and it goes on. Summer was great with
the annual picnic to Buckroe and
Huntington Park. The R. A.'s,, so
many memories!!!WOWZERONI!!! You just yanked two or three of my chains there, Tim, but with an unusual showing of great restraint, I'm going to keep my mouth shut...... http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/our-places-worship.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/orcutt-baptist.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/orcutt-choirs.html Thanks - for the
memories!
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From One of my
Famous Marines -
Herb Hice of MI, who
served in the Pacific Theater
during WWII - 06/25/06 - "Dear Carol, In case you did not know, How babies are
delivered.":
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Dear Carol,
Finally it can be shown, How babies are delivered. Your Friend, Herbie Well, that explains everything, Herbie! I wasted 16 years in mid-Illinois where I only had that little box at the post office! Why, I coulda hada LOTTA babies!!! No, wait a minute. I DID have a lot of babies. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ct3/aao/cluckmeat/familyhistory.html "Nevermind!"
Thanks, Sweetie!!!
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From Evelyn Fryer Fish ('58) of TX - 06/26/06 - "The Silent Killer -
Inflammatory Breast Cancer":
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Hi Carol - I saw recently on TV info on this silent killer IBC I wonder how many others are not aware of this? ev
For those of you on dial-up Internet
connections, please take the time to let this download and watch it. It's
a very important message. I had never heard of it before. Everyone needs
to learn about it. I've already received this from several of you, but I
don't anyone to miss it, so if you've already seen it, just ignore!
Please click on the link below. I have never heard of this type of breast cancer. This link will take you to a news report. Wait until it downloads. It might take a little time. The reporter will take you through a cancer description that is almost unheard of as you will see. I learned so much by watching it. It is very informative for women and girls. YOWZERONI-RINI-ROONI!!! This is a rather long, very graphic report, but I had never heard of this type of cancer either, Evelyn, and I consider myself to be relatively well informed. This is very important information, particularly for those of us whose families are prone to cancers of varying kinds. You may just have saved a
life or two today, Evelyn! Thanks so much!
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From Jimmy Hines ('64) of Northern VA - 06/24/06:
| Hey, Carol, you wrote... "Except, miraculously I'm no longer troubled by that odious ActiveX box. We jumped through 18 hoops to make it disappear, but still it remained. Then all of a sudden, one day it was just gone!" How did you do that? Seriously, I'd really like to know-this thing just started appearing one day during the last year and has been in my machine ever since...I still have to pay homage to the ActiveX control to open my newsletters, and if I don't, the machine goes into a real tizzy forever it seems-like it's on it's 10th cup of coffee...real coffee...and I have to click it...ummmm...not too soon, either, or it does the same thing. and...
Hmmm. Thanks, Sweetie!
As promised, I consulted with my resident tech-rep in search of answers: |
From my #6 Son, Dale Harty
(American School, IL - '02) of NC - 06/26/06:
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Okay, here's my official answer:
I have no idea what would cause that problem with hotmail, but if you both have hotmail and it started one day without either of you changing anything - it stands to reason that Microsoft has 'fixed' something that wasn't broken again. So I have no idea how to undo that. But you can give this a try, it may or may not work: instead of left-clicking on the link in the email, right click on it and a drop down menu will magically appear. Then select "open in new window". With any luck it won't crash hotmail. But if it does, you can always just manually go the NNHS website and navigate through the list of newsletters to the most recent one. If that shuts down hotmail.... well, you may want to just get a new email address somewhere else. I highly recommend gmail. I can send you an invite if you wish.
Thanks, Sweetie-Weetie!
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ALERTS:
From Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 06/13/06:
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Carol,
Just a reminder about the cost of the
1966 reunion. It will go from $50 per person to $60 per person July 2nd.
Please let people know about the increase (it was in the original
letter). We have catering and other financial deadlines to meet, as all
reunions do, so we need to have the money as soon as possible from those
that are going to attend.
Thanks!
Thank you,
Dee!
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From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 06/20/06 - "ATTENTION
ALL CLASS
OF 1964 TYPHOONS":
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reserved a block of 15 rooms at the Point Plaza, 950 J. Clyde Morris Blvd.,
Newport News VA, for Saturday night, October 14th, at a special NNHS rate of
$79 (Standard) or $99 (Suite) plus 12.5% tax. You must make your reservation
NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006. Call
1-757-599-4460 or 1-800-841-1112. In order to receive the special rate, you
must clearly say "NNHS Class of 1964 Birthday Celebration" when making the
reservation. Because of this requirement, it is recommended that you DO NOT
make your reservation over the Internet.
Thank you, David!
Y'all have fun!
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From Jane Monfalcone Simmons ('61) of VA - 06/22/06 - "1961 45 year
Reunion": |
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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
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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 $60 per person.
On
Sunday, July 2, 2006,
there will be a Sunday morning brunch, If you attend both events, the combined cost will be $75.
We are
finalizing our plans for the reunion. If any classmates from other
classes
Please
mail reservations and payment for the July 1 and July 2 events at
the Radisson
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 - 06/24/06: |
The
60th Birthday Celebration
INFORMAL "SOCK HOP" (WEEJUNS AND BLEEDING MADRAS, IF YA GOT 'EM), CATERED FOOD, ADULT BEVERAGES, MUSIC, DANCING, BIRTHDAY CAKE We all agree that the Class of
1964 throws the best parties, and we really were flattered that so many
members of other classes attended our 40-year Reunion. However, the
Committee chose to invite only members of the Class of 1964 to our 60th
Birthday Celebration. CONTACT Dave Spriggs at nnhs64@cox.netAND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 06/23/06: |
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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
Joe Madagan ('57)
of FL - 06/17/06 -
"From the Garden" (#6 in a
series
of 6):
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Hi, Carol:
OH!!!
That is really spectacular! Thanks so much, Adonis! This has
been a happy series of images!
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Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
PERSONAL WEB SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat
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I'll Cry Instead
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney
(The Beatles, 1964)
I've got every reason on earth to be mad, 'cause I've just
Lost the only girl I had. If I could get my way, I'd get
Myself locked up today, but I can't so I cry instead.
I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet, I
Can't talk to people that I meet. If I could see you now,
I'd try to make you sad somehow, but I can't so I cry instead.
Don't want to cry when there's people there, I get shy when
They start to stare, I'm gonna hide myself away, ay hay;
But I'll come back again someday.
And when I do you'd better hide all the girls, I'm gonna
Break their hearts all 'round the world. Yes, I'm gonna
Break them in two, and show you what your loving man can
Do, until then I'll cry instead.
"I'll Cry Instead" midi courtesy of
http://rock.mididb.com/beatles/
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05/21/06
at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 10/29/05
Thanks, Dave!
"I'll Cry Instead" lyrics courtesy of
http://www.iqm.ro/beatles/lyrics/pcantbuym.html
also at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 10/29/05
Thanks again, Dave!
NOTE: This page was unavailable at
press time, so the lyrics are actually courtesy
of
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/7821/hdn1964.html#09
- 05/21/06
Cry-Love Image courtesy of http://xergio.net/ampliar-6-2350/cry-love.html - 05/21/06
Blue Neon Bar Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars1.html - 06/25/06
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Page Hit Counter clip art courtesy of http://www.bravenet.com - 03/07/06
Marine Corps Seal clip art courtesy of
Herbert Hice of MI
- one of my
Famous Marines
who served in the
South Pacific during WWII.
Thanks, Herbie!
Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks, Al!
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Crab clip art courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/ - 10/02/05
