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	09/05/09 - NNHS Newsletter - Dweezil Zappa's 40th Birthday “But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.” - Dweezil Zappa (b. 05 Sept 1969)

Dear Friends and Schoolmates,   

   When I realized that Dweezil Zappa was born forty years ago today, I knew it was time to have another celebrity birthday celebration Newsletter.  No midi file or even a song is necessary today.  Just listen to Dweezill play his guitar in the bonus videos.

BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbN3iAdWPi0 - Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa - Let's Talk About It, @ 1986

BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gqCtPcN5NE&NR=1 - "Dweezil Zappa explains how he uses Guitar Rig, and shows off some of his great playing."

BONUS #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVV3sb36aY - Dweezil Zappa plays "Eruption" (EVH) Live at Dodge Theater, Phoenix, AZ - Feb, 26, 2009

HOMEWORK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweezil_Zappa - "Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab and French descent and his mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry."

http://www.zappa.com/flash/lumpymoney/index.html 

http://www.anarchytv.com/actor/dwzappa.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/name-change/names.html - "Dweezil"???

40 YEARS AGO YESTERDAY:

Thursday, September 04, 1969 - This was another of those rare days during the momentous summer (yes, it's still officially summer) when nothing noteworthy happened.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY:

Friday, September 05, 1969 - My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley was charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

Friday, September 05, 1969 - Actor and rock guitarist Dweezil Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California the son of musician Frank Zappa and his wife, Adelaide Gail Sloatman.

UPDATE ON "THE PROBLEM" - 09/05/09:

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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.

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Of the 335 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 2009-09-04, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-08-30.

   ARRGHHH!!!

NEWBIES:

1.   Liz Roberts Venton ('66) of VA - 09/03/09 - "Class mailing list":

Please add my information to the list. My name is Liz Roberts Venton and I live in Smithfield, Va. Please add my e-mail address to the list also: lizbethVenton@yahoo.com. 

Thanks,  
Liz Roberts Venton

   Certainly, Liz! I've added you to both '66 pages. Welcome Aboard!

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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

   Happy Birthday today to   Donna Marie Vest Hagerman ('71) of VA AND        My #5 Son, Nathaniel Harty (Hillsboro HS, IL - '97) of IL!

   Happy Birthday tomorrow to   Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA!

   Happy Birthday this week to:

07 -   The late Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) (deceased - 03/08/06);

08 - Carroll Elliott ('57) AND   Gary Fitzgerald ('61) of VA AND   Patti Johnson Stowe ('62) of FL AND   Cheryl Pless Ramsey ('64) of VA;

09 -   Wayne DeBerry ('65) of VA;

10 -    The late Mr. Pete Robinson (deceased - 12/23/03);

11 -        The late Bobby Hedrick ('58) (deceased 08/31/09) AND     My Grandson, Jimmy Harty of TX!

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   Many Happy Returns, One and All!

Hi Carol,

There has been some comment lately that not enough people are posting their memories of growing up on the peninsula. There have also been some comments about some of our schools lately, so I thought I would share a couple of memories of my elementary school days. When  Dad (Syd Dearing) (30 Dec 1918 - 16 Feb 2002) went off to war in 1944,   Mom (Lena Mae Scruggs Dearing) (11 May 1917 - Feb 1979) and my sister       Nancy (Dearing Berry - '62 - of TX) and I went to live with my Grandma Cora (Dad's mother) in Buckroe. I attended the first grade at Buckroe Elementary School. The first grade classroom was a large room with a curved outer wall like a very large bay window and the teacher's name was Miss Clark. Other than the shape of our classroom, about the only thing I remember about Buckroe Elementary was that we were required to take a midday nap after lunch. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a lot of sleeping going on but we did have to lie down on a blanket and have a quiet time of perhaps a half hour or so.

		When Dad came home in 1945 we moved to Southhampton and I attended Armstrong Elementary School from the second grade through the sixth grade. Armstrong School was almost in the center of a triangle made up of Victoria Boulevard, LaSalle Avenue, and Kecoughtan Road very close to where the Sentara Hospital is today. I think the school is still there. Armstrong was within a couple miles from home and I often walked home from school. My memories of Armstrong School are spotty with very few really strong ones. I remember what the school looked like and I remember Mrs. Wells (a rather heavy woman), Miss Nash and Mrs. Green, my third grade through fifth grade teachers. I can't remember the names of my teachers from the second and sixth grades. On my final report card in the fifth grade which I still have, Mrs. Green said "He reads well but often neglects his other subjects to do this reading." (She was right, I have always loved to read).

In front of the school, close to where the school busses stopped, was a large area with no grass where the boys would play marbles. Almost every boy carried a bag of marbles in his pocket every day, usually kept in a drawstring bag. Some marbles were more prized than others, because of their unusual color patterns or complete lack of color, like the clear marbles called crystals. On one occasion, a friend of mine was trying to slip a special marble out of his marble bag to show it to someone when the marbles spilled out onto the wooden floor of the classroom with a loud clatter. Naturally, everybody in class burst out laughing. Once the marbles were all gathered up, they were instantly confiscated by the teacher. I think the offender was probably also made to stay after class and write "I will not play with marbles in class" one hundred times on the blackboard.

We would often stay after school to shoot some marbles and would miss the school bus. On those occasions when we walked home, we took a shortcut to avoid the main roads. It took us by an old rundown shack of a house which we had convinced each other was haunted, or at least inhabited by some kind of evildoing residents. As in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, when we went by the house we picked up our speed and never got too close. I think it was actually uninhabited. We never saw any signs of life, but nobody ever had the courage to run up on the porch as a test of bravery, as they did in the book. Of course, one of us could have used the "double dog dare" and the recipient of the dare would have had no choice but to run up on the porch and touch the door before running back down and catching up with the others who would, no doubt be running at full speed and be halfway home by then. But the one using the dare was well aware that he would have been on the receiving end the very next day.

In 1950 we moved to Hickory Avenue just over the Newport News line, where I attended 7th grade at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School which is sadly no longer there. Then it was on to NNHS.

Sydney Dearing

   WOWZERS! Thanks so much, Sydney! I will be revamping to include this information over the weekend!

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    From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 09/03/09 - "Saying It So,     Joe (Madagan - '57 - 0f FL)":

Webdoll,

Thought you got rid of me for a time – not so.

   GIGGLES! Well, that's a relief, Sweetie!

You are owed a couple items, coming in separate transmissions.

First, however, I appreciate Joe Madagan’s (’57, Fla.) compliment, but more so his note about George Washington Elementary. He cleared up my obvious confusion in the discussion of Magruder Elementary. I would not have walked home from Walter Reed to 33rd Street by way of 22nd Street. However, like Beaver Cleaver, I often varied my route home and often took 29th Street. I don’t remember any union signs on the former GW Elementary, but do remember that it showed no signs of educational intent. I believe my mother    Betsy (Goodson) Covert (June ’37) and her sister    Tena (Goodson) Hensel (’39, Va.) attended GW before matriculating to NNHS.

Thanks to Joe, also, for the info about Orrsville. I used to tag along with Brother       Harry (’57, Va./Md.) for games at the Rec Center. “Orrsville” was always one of the teams, whether football, basketball or baseball. Joe was probably there with Harry at the football field that day in 1954 when Hurricane Hazel blew in – but that’s another story. Look for Joe’s sister Nancy Madagan (’61) in the Walter Reed class picture.

Norm Covert (’61, MD)

   Thank you, Norm! We'll definitely return to Hurricane Hazel very soon!

In your response to    Joe Madagan ('57 - of FL), within the newsletter of 9-03-2009, you mentioned remembering a discussion of time long passed that included the "Little O's little league baseball team...". Did you mean "basketball team"?

TC!
Wayne

   AHA! Thanks, Wayne Honey! Actually, I vaguely remember the discussion of various teams - baseball and basketball and football - and clearly remember the Little O's little league baseball team. I used to watch them play in the summertime. They wore red shirts with white lettered O's - and white pants. It's all about the clothes, doncha know!

    From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 09/03/09 - "Thomas Jefferson Picture":

Webdoll,

Here’s a wild guess that you’ll be surrounded by family much of the weekend. Enjoy.

GIGGLES! As far as I know, Norm, the only plan for this thunderstorm-filled Illinois weekend is for complete and utter "chillin" - but then I could be wrong.    However, speaking of my little chickadees, we actually relieved my camera of six full months of images last night, and here are a couple of shots of them from last March.
		Sunday, March 15, 2009 - Edwardsville, IL
		Andrew, Rachel, Mary, Becca, Lewis, and Elizabeth Harty of Collinsville, IL	Randolph, Lewis, Adrienne, Joshua, Dale, and Nathaniel Harty

You asked for it, so here’s the first installment of class pictures.

 

		This is May 1951 in the auditorium of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Pictured is Miss Ann Powell’s second grade class (In 1958 we moved next door to Ann's parents on 52nd Street). We had performed a May Day/Spring program in the auditorium. Music was provided on piano by my mother,    Betsy (Goodson) Covert (June ’37, MA), shown in the back row.   I apologize to all the kids whose names I can almost remember. Here are the ones I know:   Front Row: The late Eugene Turner, the late Shirley Markoff, Shirley McMahone, ?, ?, Bradley Ewell, ?, ?. 2nd Row: Tommy Reese?, 2,3,4,5,6, the late Beryl Barkley, ?, Norm Covert.
May 1951 - Second Grade

I know someone tuning in can help me out with the identities. I’m glad to be able to remember Gene, Shirley and Beryl. Gone but not forgotten.

Norm Covert (’61, MD)

   AWWW! How adorable! Bradley Ewell is unmistakable, but I would not have recognized anyone else, Normie - not even you!

   Thanks so much! I've added it to the TJ page:

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Hunting, sort of...

Shelia walked into the kitchen to find her husband, Fred, stalking around with a fly swatter.

"And what are we doing?" she asked.

"Hunting flies" he responded.

"Oh? Killing any?" she asked, with a smirk.

"Yep! Got 4 males, 3 females," he replied.

Intrigued, she asked. "How the heck can you tell?"

"Simple." He replied, "4 were on a beer can, 3 were on the phone."

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