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	08/31/09 - NNHS Newsletter - Red Hill Mining Town “He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.” - Barbara Castle (06 Oct 1910 - 03 May 2002)

Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   Today's Red Newsletter is quite possibly the last of that genre; I think I've found and depleted all the available red songs.....

BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oirbEQxV1bY - Red Hill Mining Town by U2

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_Mining_Town:

"Bono has said that the song is about the 1984 UK mining strike and its strain on relationships at the time.^{[citation needed]} In particular, inspiration was drawn from the Tony Parker book Red Hill: A Mining Community."

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY:

Sunday, August 31, 1969 - World Heavyweight Champion boxer (b. 01 Sept 1923) died when his plane in Newton, Iowa, one day before his 46th birthday .

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UPDATE ON "THE PROBLEM" - 08/31/09:

   Some few of you are have been blocked from viewing the site since 07/20/09 out of safety concerns.  Most of y'all are not.  Our server, 00freehost.com also hosts many, many other sites.  Five (down from six) of them are having malware "issues", so to protect the general public from any possible harm, a warning has been placed by some systems.

What is the current listing status for 00freehost.com?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 17 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 365 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 84 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-08-30, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-08-30.

   ARRGHHH!!!

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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

   Happy Birthday today to      Pat Beck Letzinger ('57) of VA AND      Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA AND    Elaine Wilkinson Bracken ('61) of VA AND    My Grandson, Jacob Harty of TX, who is turning twelve today!

   Happy Birthday tomorrow to Ellen Overton Weiss ('68) of VA!

   Happy Birthday this week to:

02 - Frances Adams Smith ('57) AND   Dustin Baker (Norview HS - '65) of MA!

03 - Morton Binder ('57);

05 -   Donna Marie Vest Hagerman ('71) of VA AND        My #5 Son, Nathaniel Harty (Hillsboro HS, IL - '97) of IL;

06 -   Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA!

   Many Happy Returns, One and All!

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        From My #2 Son, Brent Harty (Hillsboro HS, IL - '90) of TX - 08/30/09 - "happy b-day":

Mom

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday in case I couldn't get hold of you today.  I hope you have a good one, with much of your family around you today.  Enjoy! 

Your loving & adoring son...bh

--
Brent Harty
"You may be whatever you resolve to be."  General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
"FIRST TO FIRE!"

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http://5thtexascavalrypartisanrangers.blogspot.com/
http://civilwarhartys.blogspot.com/
http://www.hartyhistory.blogspot.com/

   Thank you so much, Brent - love you!!!   

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  From Al Farber ('64) of GA - 08/30/09 - "BIRTHDAY":

To YOU...HOPE YOU have a GREAT DAY....

   AWWW - how cute! Thanks so much, Al!

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   From Lynn Wright Hickman ('63) of VA - 08/30/09 - "Happy Birthday!!!!":

Hi, Carol

Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for keeping the website going.  I love all the funny items that you post.  Again, have fun today.

Love ya,

Lynn Wright Hickman ('63)

  Thanks so much, Lynn - I DID have a fun day!

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    From Sandi Bateman Chestnut ('65) of VA - 08/30/09 - "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!":

Hi, Carol,

Just wanted to take a few minutes to wish you a Happy Birthday and tell you how awesome you are for all the wonderful things you do to keep our Typhoon family informed.  Hope you have a great day!!!

Love,
Sandi

  Thank you so much, Sandi! You're still in my prayers!

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   From My Friend, Patty, of NC - 08/31/09:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR CAROL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOOOO YOU. 

Sorry there is no sound so you'll have to read it out loud to yourself.  Hope it was a great day.

   WILD GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Patty!

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    From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 08/30/09 - "Peninsula Dairy":

Webdoll,

    Joe Madagan (’57, Fla.) strikes again. He earns a banana split for his detailed description of the Peninsula Dairy ice cream parlor.  My bedroom window on 33rd Street so long ago had a clear view of the dairy, looking past the array of new Oldsmobiles in the Suttle Motor Corp. parking area.

Joe may be off by one block in his recollection, but I offer no criticism of my distinguished elder. The horse stables were set back on 35th Street and Jefferson Avenue. Memory recalls the complex spanning to 36th Street and having a big parking area on the 36th Street side for the Dairy Wagons -- and later its trucks.

		A check of the Newport News street map from August 1944 (see attached with 34th Street and Jefferson Avenue intersection at the center) verifies that the C&O Railroad occupied what would be 37th and 38th Streets, and which marked the city boundary with Warwick County.  Of course, the north side of 36th Street is shown as city property and became Seven Oaks wartime housing at the Madison Avenue intersection. Marshall Courts was a block further south at 35th and Marshall Avenue where 34th Street merged into Shell Road. Thanks for the memory jogger, Joe. Did you ever hear that area was called "Orrsville?" Norm Covert (’61), MD

   Well, Gentlemen, I am just so embarrassed! I thought we had a page for the Peninsula Dairy , yet when I looked for it earlier in the week, I couldn't seem to find it. I don't know how it managed to hide from me so well, but here it is - complete with updates:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-N-R.html

               http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/peninsula-dairy.html

   Thanks so much, Normie!

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  From Alice Fowler Edwards ('64) of VA - 08/30/09 - "Memories":

Hi Carol!

Alice Fowler Edwards here ... Hope you are doing better and again, thanks for all you do. Speaking of memories, the book depository or whatever ... I remember as a kid playing around it and daring each other to climb the rickety looking fire escape that was on the back of the building. Not sure if it's the same building or not ... I (being the chicken-hearted kid I was) never made it to the top!

This was inevitably on our walks up and down Chestnut Avenue to Sammy's Confectionary for candy or other misc. junk food ...  

   Thanks, Alice! I added this to the Magruder page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html 

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/our-schools.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/bankhead-magruder-school.html

Also, the comment from     Norm (Covert - '61 - of MD) reminded me of having    Mr. Pillow for science -- 8th grade I think ... does anyone else remember him walking around the class with a "slinky" going back and forth in his hands? with a very serious expression on his face? He had such a quirky sense of humor! I loved him!~

   A slinky?!?  I had Mr. Pillow for General Science 3-4 myself the very next year, and what I most remember him carrying around the room was his meter stick!  In fact, I remember one day... well, see, the thing is, I have narcolepsy, but this was two years before it was actually diagnosed. So ANYWAY, one day I unfortunately had an attack in his class - I think my head was down on my stack of books on my table (very subtle, n'est pas?).  Suddenly, Mr. Pillow's meter stick came down full force on the table right next to my head. I almost certainly let out a very loud scream, and just as certainly, I'm sure I found some way NOT to fall asleep in his class again!

   And of course, I remember "the good old Archimedes Principle"!  I added your memory - and mine - to Mr. Pillow's page:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html 

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/faculty.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/teachers.html

               http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/teach-Pillow.html

Take good care ... and you know you don't have to do a newsletter EVERY DAY!!! Take a break girl ... a couple a week would be great. Take care of you! and thanks for keeping us together.

   That's true, Alice, but then I'd hafta have a better memory so I wouldn't get lost and lose everything else in the process! I might try to cut them down to about five a week, though, during the fall.....

By the way, anyone know if Class of 59 is doing anything for a reunion this year? I know they sent out an email (my sister ... and yours I think.... were in that class) but she has heard nothing else.

Alice

   Well, now, there you have me, Alice; I do not know the status of that plan. But thanks for all the fun memories!

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    From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 08/30/09 - "Pictures":

Webdoll,

While looking through the NN World War II history volume for the street map, I noted this picture of the War Memorial Rec Center pool, I suppose where our     Joe Madagan ('57) Fla., began his stellar athletic and apparent girl "hunk" careers.
		1944

		I should not neglect that the only other picture in your archives ("Odds and Ends") of the pool seems to be the August 1955 photo of the bathing beauties chosen there (I copied it and tried to touch up with Photoshop). Among them was oft contributor       Sepi (A. K. A. "Dimples") Dinwiddie Prichard ('58 - of NC), who was Miss Junior Teen.
Sunday, August 21, 1955

Maybe I missed the pool archive.

And Happy Anniversary.

Norm Covert ('61) MD

   Oh, JA, you surely did!  The Odds and Ends page is just a holding area for goodies which have no Real Home of their own - but the POOL - well, it has a BIG time fun place - home of some of the funniest stories ever shared here, PLUS the origin of Joe's "Adonis" nickname! 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html

          http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-S-Z.html

               http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/pool.html - Okay, it's listed on that page by it's real name, World War II Memorial Municipal Pool, but I shortened the file name to "pool".

   But WOWZERONI-ROONI, what you found! Thanks again, Normie! I added this fabulous image to our Pool page.

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FINALLY:

From ArcaMax Jokes.com - 08/30/09:

Frying Eggs

The wife was busy frying eggs, when her husband came home. He walked into the kitchen and immediately started yelling...

"CAREFUL!!! CAREFUL!!! MORE OIL!!! TURN THEM!!! TURN THEM NOW!!! WE NEED MORE OIL!!! THEY ARE GOING TO STICK!!! CAREFUL!!! CAREFUL!!! TURN THEM!!! TURN THEM!!! HURRY UP!!! ARE YOU CRAZY!!!! THE OIL IS GOING TO SPILL!!! USE MORE SALT!!! THE SALT!!!!"

The wife was very upset, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you yelling like this? Do you think I don't know how to fry an egg?"

The husband calmly replied, "This is to show you what it feels like for me when I am driving and you sit next to me..."

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Paradise Lost

Two men who haven't seen each other for many years meet on the street. One asks the other how things have been.

"Wonderful, for a while," the other says. "I had it all: money, a magnificent house, a fast car, the love of a beautiful woman. Then, one day, poof! It was all gone."

"What a shame," the friend says. "What on Earth happened?"

Says the other man: "My wife found out."

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The Jury

A prosecuting attorney just could not believe that a jury had found the defendant not guilty.

Astonished, he asked the jury foreman, "How could you possibly have found this man innocent?"

The foreman replied, "Insanity."

The perplexed prosecutor asked, "All twelve of you?"

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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

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  Y'all take good care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!  We'll Always Have Buckroe!

                          Love to all, Carol