lucky you - your browser doesnt play annoying midis 08/06/16 - NNHS Newsletter When You Wish Upon a Star “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” - Joseph Addison (01 May 1672 - 17 June 1719) Dear Friends and Schoolmates,    I'd probably wish upon a star even now after lo, these many years, but that would mean I'd have to go outside - at night.....  Hmmm... BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh6XxYbbIc - When You Wish Upon a Star - Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards) BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIZ4lXjfJo&NR=1 - When You Wish Upon a Star - cartoon with a surprise BONUS #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKzccrLmw0 - When You Wish Upon a Star - Linda Ronstadt BONUS #4 - When You Wish Upon a Star - Lea Salonga, 1981 BONUS #5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luoPNxyi2fE&NR=1 - When You Wish Upon a Star - Billy Joel - From 1991's "Simply Mad About the Mouse" BONUS #6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJHKQDfLJY - When You Wish Upon a Star - Josh Groban, 2008 - no video, but hey, with such a magnificent voice, who cares? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_upon_a_Star: "When You Wish upon a Star" is a song written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Walt Disney's 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio. The original version of the song was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket and is heard over the opening credits and again in the final scene of the film. The song has since become an icon of The Walt Disney Company..... "When You Wish Upon a Star" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song..... The American Film Institute ranked "When You Wish Upon A Star" seventh in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History, the highest ranked Disney animated film song, and also one of only four Disney animated film songs to appeared on the list, the others being "Some Day My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs peaked at nineteenth, "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast peaked at #62, and "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King, which peaked at #99..... The song has – along with Mickey Mouse – become an icon of The Walt Disney Company..... THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:    Happy Birthday today to   Susan Whitcomb Harlin ('72) of TX!    Happy Birthday this week to: 07 - Elaine Ferrell Taylor ('57) AND   Kenny Branch ('62) of AR AND   Alice Menin Daniels ('62) of Northern VA AND Judy Fertitta Gibson (Hampton HS - '62) of VA AND The late Anne Davidson Matthis ('64) (deceased 02/08/13); 08 -   Virginia Deuell DeBerry ('46) AND Kathy Presgraves Whitt ('71) of VA; 09 - Katherine Adams Barbrey ('57) AND    Hunter Todd  ('57) of TX; 10 - Marshall Conley ('63) of VA; 12 - Lois Marie King Earwood ('57) AND     the late Dave Arnold ('65) (d. 21 July 2012) AND     Linwood Wright ('65) of VA AND    My Grandson, Joseph Harty of TX!    Many Happy Returns, One and All! http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html THIS DAY IN WWII: August 06, 1944 - The Warsaw Uprising occurred on August 1. It was brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow were detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising--the Krakow Uprising (1944)-- that was planned but never carried out. August 06, 1945 - Hiroshima was devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on an inhabited area by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning - an estimated 140,000 people in all. August 06, 1985 - The 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing brought tens of thousands of Japanese and foreigners to Hiroshima. August 06, 1995 - Thousands of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing THIS DAY IN 1966: Saturday, August 06, 1966 - Sinologist, author, and academic Cordwainer Smith (b. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger on 11 July 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) died of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Baltimore, Maryland.

From My Friend, Susan, of NC - 08/06/15:

 From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 08/05/16:

		Some people have forgotten this...     EXACTLY! Thank you, Jean! Why does this seem to be so difficult to remember?

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   From Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA - 08/05/16:

		Thanks, Joan!

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.” - Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 Sept 1821 - 11 May 1881) BONUS STAR CROCHET PATTERNS:

http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/stars.php - Star Crochet Patterns - "Free, online star crochet patterns ..."