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Happy Birthday today to Wayne DeBerry ('65) of VA! See you next month, Wayne - right???

My name is Chandler Nelms. I’m actually a graduate of HHS class of ’63, but I’ve taken great interest
in the NNHS Newsletters brought to my attention by my sister-in-law, Jackie Veneris Nelms. She was
surfing the website and came upon a blog between Neta Collins (Hastings - '60 - of VA) and Jo Ann
Stewart ('64) which named both my brother Darden and myself as two brothers that had dated these
two girls back in our high school days. Dave Spriggs ('64 - of VA) helped me get in contact with Jo Ann
a couple of days ago and we are now having a blast catching up on 40+ years since we dated, thanks
to your efforts and the newsletter. How can I join in the newsletter?

(The loud clunk just heard all over the eastern half of the United States was me - falling off my chair
in a dead swoon............ This is but an echo of the same sound I once made in his father's office
forty-eleven years ago when I saw the incredibly gorgeous Chandler for the first time......As I recall, his
mama laughed at me and my inept and fruitless attempts to hide my uncontrollable gawking....)

As Dave must have already told you, "Crabbers are always welcome, and you won't be the first."

(Having previously published these four Newsletters, I'll try to conceal my present embarrassment -
probably with about the same level of success as before.....)

OH! By the way, Chandler, it wasn't really a blog you saw; it was just a dialogue. While I generally print
anything which comes to me (unless I'm asked to keep it confidential), I'm a Legendary Control Freak, and
can't seem in all good conscience to relinquish my editing, um, "responsibilities" by installing such a device
on the site.

And email addresses are available for those who wished them to be posted in these two places:

In regards to all those earlier editions in which drooling women discussed the gorgeous Chandler, we have a
very special bonus today from Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA. It's Chandler's junior portrait, direct from the pages
of the1962 Krabba:

Oh, by the way, Chandler, as you're new to our group, I must tell you. Dave is not only our Magical Music Man,
but our resident authority on all things nautical, and our primary scenic photographer. He specializes in all
those incredible Then and Now shots which fill the pages of Our Old Stomping Grounds.

If you wish to send us a "Now" image of yourself for an upcoming Newsletter, I'm sure that not a soul would
object, and I certainly wouldn't be averse to posting it! WILD GIGGLES!!!

It's now official. My NNHS65@nc.rr.com email address is broken. It will not open. Not
only can I now not reply or forward messages from it, I cannot read them. I cannot even
tell if they are there. This means - as I've been telling y'all since late April - that we have
a problem. It worked this morning, but it won't work now. This means that no matter
what my business card says, or how many places online you see that instructs you
to contact me there, or no matter how cute you are, or how much I adore you, if you send
it there, I WILL NOT RECEIVE IT!!!! Then you'll get mad at me for ignoring you!
But I'm trying to phrase this as sweetly and as delicately as possible.
IT'S BROKEN!!! That's B-R-O-K-E-N!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE change my email in your address books
to read "Carol Buckley Harty" <NNHS65@yahoo.com>.

Hmmm, perhaps I should try medication......... Or not writing Newsletters when I'm this frustrated..........

OHHHH, yes, ma'am, Kelly, "the sacred soil of Virginia" is indeed beckoning me back home!!!

I am so sorry to learn of your computer woes! Surely, few people can appreciate that more keenly than I!
I hope your new wonder computer will bring you much joy!

I'm sitting here with my sister's 1957 Anchor in hand, looking at the ad on page 166 for Perry's Meat and
Poultry Market, wondering why I never made it its own page when I had a working scanner.........

Well, I'll just have to do something about that, so that when you're ready with your digital, I'll be ready
to display it!

And for those not given, drop me a line and I'll tell they person you wish to contact them.

Carol,

Reading Dave's letter about helping animals...My daughter Meredith and Dr. Karen DeAngellis,
a vet at Pine Meadows Animal Hospital in Yorktown, are on their way to Slidell to help the people
with Noah's Wish. Dr. DeAngelis is my dogs' vet in Tidewater - Harry Sweet Puppy (a Black Lab male)
and Misty (a German Short-Haired Pointer female). The two of them left this afternoon at 3:00PM
from the Newport News SPCA, and are driving a van sponsored by the Peninsula SPCA, that is
loaded to the gills with crates and food and other supplies for many different species. I hope people who
read this will keep them in their thoughts. Both Meredith and Dr. DeAngelis are on the Peninsula SPCA
board, and Meredith has contributed a lot to their website. I know they will be OK, and keep telling myself
that. This is not just a Sunday drive down South, though. They are in South Carolina about now... 10PM
Thursday 9/8. I hope all who read our newsletters have donated to any charity that will help people
and/or animals.

Re: the kitty with bad breath...healthy and losing teeth? According to my source just now, losing teeth
should end around 5-6 months, though with bad breath a check for gingivitis may be warranted to rule out
other more serious things that sometimes cause the gingivitis. Beyond that, Greenies for cats should help,
and Pounce makes a product out of salmon which aids with tartar and plaque control. My cat loves a few
as treats.

Don't hesitate to ask the vet questions! Look it up on the internet. Read and become knowledgeable
about what's possible, before the fact. From what Meredith just experienced with Chico, a long haired
Persian male that she rescued, teeth need to be monitored. Chico was an 8 year old male who made great
strides in Meredith's care, and was accepted by the other cats (3 other longhaired Persians) in Meredith's
home, but his dental problems were so deep rooted, they could not be overcome. Meredith is still getting
over his passing a couple months ago. And do you know that there are vets who specialize in cat and dog
dentistry? They are very few and far between. As a matter of fact Meredith's vet-dentist just moved
from Tidewater to No VA, leaving her to figure how she will get one of her cats checked, if there is a
problem. One of them developed lower canines with a pronounced underbite, which required clipping and
capping so he could simply eat without hurting himself. Then, when the cap came off one of them, he had
to have a root canal. Cat dentists are hard to find.

Come to think about it, Sandra Williams Patrick ('64 - of VA) raises cats, according to what I read, and
probably has info that would help.

http://www.charleval.com/

I am glad to again be reading the newsletters, and thank you for the work you do in producing them. And a
belated happy birthday to you!!!

Jim

WOWZERS!!! We'll certainly keep Meredith and Dr. DeAngelis in our prayers! What a marvelous thing
they're doing!

Thanks so much for your wonderfully informative note, Jimmy! I knew that information was lurking out there
in a couple of places!

And thank you for your birthday wishes, Sweetie - being back at work here is the best present I could have had!

From Sharron Wanderer Dawes ('61) of VA - 09/08/05:

Thanks, Carol Richard attended NNHS for 3 years and then transferred to Hampton High, where he graduated in the class of 1962. He says he is a soft-shell crab because he has mixed allegiances. He attends my reunions where he knows many people. Of course, he also knew all the teachers and coaches, especially, Mr. Wilson, Band Director. I think he will send you more info when he can find time. Sharron Wanderer Dawes

AHA! Well, I had forgotten the transfer part, but I had the '62 right! YEA!

Thanks, Sharron!

From Jo Ann Stewart ('64) of TX - 09/08/05:

Hi Carol -

Can you double check that you are using THIS e-mail address for the newsletters. I am still not
getting them. It is driving me slam crazy that I am not getting my newsletter "fix".

Yes, ma'am, Jo Ann, I did so check, and that is what I have in my address book. But AOL spam guards have
been tightened, and they seem to think "I-R-1", and they won't let me through. AOL does notify me every time I
send out a mailing that every single one of my AOL subscribers has been protected and prevented
from receiving my notifications.

The good news is that there's more than one cure here.

The Newsletters themselves are not being blocked; only the notifications that they are now available. In fact, as
it now takes me almost four hours to notify everyone, chances are that they are available much earlier than you think.
Thanks to Ron Miller's ('59 of NC) brilliant suggestion (Thanks again, Ronnie!), they are now ALWAYS available
to read. You don't have to worry about accidentally or intentionally deleting anything, because they all remain
permanently online. You can go back and read earlier editions to your heart's content - all the way back to 05/25/04::

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/NNHS-Newsletters.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/NNHS-Newsletters-2004.html

As a matter of fact, even earlier editions - all the way back to 02/17/03 - are within easy reach in my files, and if
you had a pressing need, I'm sure there are even earlier issues lurking in my email account in a different format.
These are all available upon request.

If you will bookmark either or both of these links, you could check each day to see if there is anything new:

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

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/NNHS-Newsletters.html

And I can call the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday issues "Bonus" editions all I want. The reality is that ever
since I came back to life on 08/15/05, the Newsletters have been posted six days a week, and that pattern is already
scheduled to continue up through 10/20/05 at least! (I may have to miss that 10/21/05 edition; it's a five-hour drive!)

TA-DAH! Problem solved! Now it doesn't matter if AOL does hate me; you can still read the Newsletters!

Thanks, Jo Ann. I had been meaning to address this for some time now.

I just found this hiding in one of my less-used email addies, and thought I'd share it with you:

Hurricane Katrina Missing Persons Database
A resource for family members to find dislocated persons
(Sept 7, 2005)

If you are concerned about the condition and/or whereabouts of someone who was impacted by the recent
Hurricane, the Family Links Registry is a resource available to you from the ICRC and the Red Cross where
current information may be obtained.

The Red Cross website is managed by the ICRC in close cooperation with the American Red Cross and
with other National Societies working in the disaster area.

This, of course, is the husband of our beloved NNHS science teacher, Mrs. Frances Nettles, and father
of Adrienne Nettles Holderby ('56) and LaRhue Nettles Mitchell ('58), wife of Johnny Mitchell ('57) of VA.

Carol, it was a real surprise to open the newsletter from Wednesday and see a happy birthday to me!
Thank you so much. It was so nice to be remembered. I was 60, like some of our schoolmates. It always
amazed me that we'd have early and late birthdays so that some people would be nearly 2 years older
(or younger) than their classmate. No wonder there is a huge gap in the way students understand things!

That's a good point you raise. There's a bit of a difference between the way a War Baby and a Baby Boomer
observes the world!

Don't forget to "tune in" tomorrow evening (Saturday, September 10) at 1800, to watch Navy clobber Stanford!!!


Chandler Nelms Hampton High School Class of 1963 (Junior Portrait)
1962 Krabba