09/13/07 - NNHS Newsletter - Summer Nights “Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne." - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter) (21 Nov 1787 - 5 Oct 1874)

Dear Friends and Schoolmates, 

   This theme was suggested by      Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('56) of NC back in early August.  Thanks, Sepi!

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS:

   Jeanette Parrish Houston ('64) of VA will celebrate her birthday tomorrow!.  

   Have a great day, Lady!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html

     From Me ('65) of NC - 09/12/07 - "CELL PHONES BEING RELEASED TO TELEMARKETING ~~ READ, THIS IS NOT A JOKE":

   For the several of y'all who were worried about this, I ran it through snopes.com, and it's a "Not to Worry":

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

  From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 09/09/07- "A Mix of stuff":

   Thanks, Shari!

From Mike White ('67) of VA - 09/10/07 - "67 CLASS REUNION":

   Hey, Mike - it was good meeting you, too!

   I have started (but of course, I haven't finished; I so rarely finish anything...) with the Reunion Images, and they're accessible from the main page of the website.

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR THE REUNION IMAGES - 09/04/07 :

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/REUNION-PICTURES-2007-67.html

   Thanks!

Webdoll,

You were curious about my being a “Preacher’s Kid (PK)” and about my Dad’s church. His ministry was more that of a missionary instead of being housed in one of the beautiful edifices downtown. Thus, as the singular scribe Damon Runyon wrote, “A story comes with it.” This may be like me telling you how to make a watch, when you just wanted to know the time. Let me do it in two parts to spare my classmates.

 

First, the “Famous Soldiers” part:  My Dad was Harry M. Covert (Sr.) of rural Palmer, Ill. He was ordained by the Church of God in 1943 and was conducting Wednesday night prayer service at a store-front mission on 27th Street (and Wickham Avenue) when I was born Feb. 10 at Elizabeth Buxton Hospital.   Dad matriculated to Newport News by way of Langley Field, where he served as a B-17 radio operator. He had served a three-year tour in Panama (14th Infantry Regiment), reenlisted in the Army Air Corps at Selfridge Field, Detroit, and trained at Chanute Field, Ill, coming to Langley in 1937. The attached photo is Dad at Fort Knox, Ky, in 1932.
		1932 - Ft. Knox, KY
		Harry M. Covert, Sr.

He found the Gospel Tabernacle (600 block of 32nd Street, just off Jefferson Ave.) during one of his first passes to town in 1937. My mother, Mary Elizabeth (Betsy Goodson) Covert (’37) was the 18-year-old church pianist, who stole his heart. After his discharge and marriage, he enlisted in Service Battery, 111th Field Artillery, 29th Division (Va. National Guard) in 1940, which met at the armory across from Saunders Stadium. His age, prior service, family, and work in the Newport News Shipyard (later the C&O Railroad) kept him from being activated with the 111th after the New York and Carolina maneuvers in 1941-42. He also was rejected in 1944 as a U.S. Army Chaplain. Each church was authorized a certain number of chaplains and the Anderson (Ind.) Church of God had used all its quota.) Mother was happy about that. I’ll explain more tomorrow, including his claim to the Class of 1957.

Norm Covert (’61)

   Thanks, Norm!   I added your father to our Famous Soldiers page:

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

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-soldiers.html

      From one of my Famous Marines,  Herb Hice of MI, who served in the Pacific Theater during WWII - 09/

Pass The Butter,  please.  

           This is interesting . . . .  .    

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.  When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.  It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.  How do you like it?  They have come out with some clever new flavorings.  

   DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter? 

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!   

Both  have the same amount of calories. 

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams. 

Eating  margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over  eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent  Harvard  Medical Study. 

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. 

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few   only because they are added! 

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. 

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years. 

And  now, for Margarine.. 

Very high in trans fatty acids. 

Triple  risk of coronary heart disease. 

Increases  total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and  lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) 

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.  

Lowers quality of breast milk. 

Decreases immune response. 

Decreases insulin response. 

And  here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT  IS VERY INTERESTING! 

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..   

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the  substance).   

You can try this yourself: 

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.  Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

   *  no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it  (that  should tell you something)

   *  it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro organisms will not a find a home to grow.  Why?  Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? 

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them   up")!

Chinese Proverb:
"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.  

       So..., DO IT !

   Thank you, Herbie Darlin! I'm very partial to butter myself, for all of the reasons you mentioned, and probably a couple of others.  I'm quite certain I have not used butter in my home in over thirty years, at the very least.  In fact, I'm famous (or infamous) when asked for a recipe for practically anything for saying, "You start with a stick of butter."

   I had a dear friend in Macoupin Co., Illinois who had eight beautiful children.  Whenever her father, a prosperous farmer, learned of any of her children being sick, his first response was, "Have you been feeding them margarine again?!?"

   He was absolutely convinced of the health benefits of butter.

   I am, too.

   From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 09/10/07 - "Diary":
 

   WOWZERS!!!  I was unfamiliar with the song (or else forgot it from way back when, and the ending came as a big surprise to me.  Yeah, I know.  I'm just a big ol' cry baby.....

   Thanks, Shari!

    From Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('56) of NC - 09/10/07 - "Flower Show":

Thanks, Sepi!

  From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 09/11/07 - "North End Item":

Webguruess,
 

Re:        Dave Spriggs' ('64) of Va. find of the post card depicting the house at 5600 Huntington Avenue. The esteemed     Mickey Marcella ('54) Va. wrote an historical monograph about the North End about three years ago. My brother,     Harry Covert ('57) N. Va., shared his copy with me. It was a great read. Mickey's informative article chronicled that the house was originally the residence of Collis Potter Huntington, founder of N.N. Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; namesake for Huntington Park, etc. I recall the house passed through the families of other shipyard presidents, including Homer L. Ferguson. Where is Mickey when we need him? Maybe he will share his writing here.

 

I remember Mickey as quite an athlete and what we used to call a "square guy," that is to say he was top notch. He helped put together the 1996 reunion of all NNHS grads (see the program attached). He knows 'bout 58th Street Beach!

 

Norm Covert ('61)

   Thank you, Norm! As usual, you've told me a couple of things I did not know.

   I did not know that Mickey wrote a monograph. (Okay, I'll admit it - I never heard of a monograph - although I am familiar with a phonograph, a photograph, and even a stereograph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monograph

   I did not know that Homer L. Ferguson lived at 5600 Huntington Avenue as well as 5700 Huntington Avenue.

   I never realized until I looked that Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) and Homer L. Ferguson (1915-1946) were not contemporaries.  (I know, I'm quite shocked at my own ignorance myself!)

   But I did know that Mickey was one of the moving forces behind the Grand Reunion of 1996, because Dave Spriggs told me so in 2003:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/grand-reunion-96.html

 ● Grand Reunion - 04/14/96

   And I'm pretty sure that Mickey is out there somewhere; he and    Carol (Moell Marcella - '56 - of VA) checked in just this week.

   I added your thought to the North End page:

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/north-end.html

   Thanks again, Norm!

  From Gary Fitzgerald ('61) of VA - 09/12/07 - "9/11": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_L._Ferguson

Probably nobody can remember 9/11 any better than I because I was there.

I was in New York on a business trip and was staying at the Marriott two blocks away. I had gone to Downtown Athletic club for breakfast two more blocks away, and was on the thirteenth floor when the second plane flew over my head and shook the building.  When I got outside, all hell had broke loose. It really got bad when buildings started to fall and I had to help elderly people try to get out of Battery Park. I saw a lot of bad things, and was on one of the first boats over to Jersey Shore, after which I had to proceed to Brooklyn where I met back up with people I knew. They sent use to a  Red Cross shelter where they cleaned us up, and we got lucky and hired a limo for $900.00 and they brought us home. During this course of time it was hours from the time we could use phones, and we didn't contact our families until about t2:00 PM to let them know we were still alive.

The next day Marriott called my house to see if we were alive, and to notify me my credit card had been stolen and was being used. I ended up in hospital with a little nervous problem.

So just remember, when it's your time to go, you will. 

Didn't mean to bore you; just trying to give you a first hand account.  

Gary - Class of 61

   BORE US?!? I think not! Thank you so very much for sharing that chilling testimony with us, Gary! And we're glad that your time had not yet arrived!

   By the way, Tim and Anne Wilson, my beautiful cousin    Cheryl's (White Wilson - John Marshall HS - '64 - of VA) youngest son and his wife, live in Brooklyn.  She described a part their 9/11 experience in this Newsletter two years ago:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/09-19-05-NNHS-Surfer-Girl.html

   Thanks again, Gary - for everything!

      From Dave Arnold ('65) of VA - 09/12/07 - "7 year old sings National Anthem at local college basketball game.":

This is awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2rvxSUr7w

   WOWZERONI!!! This IS awesome! Thanks, Dave!

1.  Saturday, September 29, 2007 - Evelyn Fryer Fish's (Pot Luck) Birthday Party for All of Us - OPEN TO ALL

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/reunion-page.html
 

Evelyn's Birthday Party for All of Us Hosted by Evelyn Fryer Fish ('58) of TX Saturday, September 29, 2007, 2:00 P.M. The Canepa Cottage, 760 North 1st Street, Buckroe Beach, Virginia CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 07/06/07 Evelyn Fryer Fish's Birthday Party for All of Us - 09/29/07

The NNHS Classes of 1941 and 1942 will have a reunion on Saturday, October 6, 2007 at the James River Country Club at 12 noon. Dr. Harold Cones will speak about the founding and development of the Mariners' Museum. Cost is $30.00 per person - Includes Choice of Two Entrees (MUST PRE-REGISTER!) CONTACT: Jennings Bryan at hjbryan@cox.net  or call him at 757-873-7701. - 07/23/07

The NNHS Class of 1962 will hold its 45-Year Reunion on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 12, 13, and 14, 2007 at the Point Plaza Suites, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601. All schoolmates from '60, '61, '63, '64 and' 65 are invited to attend the Friday night affair.  The Friday night cost will be $20.00 per person, which includes being with all of us, food, and beverages (including beer and wine), plus a cash bar.  The 1962 classmates will be celebrating on that night and on the 13th, ending with breakfast on the 14th. For information, email Brenda Amos Williams at typhoonmom@juno.com or call her at 757-810-4000. Visit Brenda's 1962 Web Page: http://geocities.com/typhoonmom1/ HELP LOCATE MISSING CLASSMATES: nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2007-62-missing.html AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 07/24/07: nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html

  From Christine Wilson Starkman ('68) of CA - 07/24/07 - "Summer's Not Over Yet! "- #24 in a Series of 38:

It's not Buckroe, but it'll do in a rush! This is sand? Thought this was one you'd enjoy seeing; it all took place in British Columbia. THESE SEEM TO GET BETTER AND BETTER EACH YEAR...

   WOWZERS!!! Thanks, Chris!

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

                          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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Carol Buckley Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408

Summer Nights

(Grease)

Summer lovin', had me a blast
Summer lovin', happened so fast
Met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away
To, uh oh, those summer nights

Well-a, well-a, well-a, uh!

(Tell me more, tell me more)
(Did you get very far?)
(Tell me more, tell me more)
(Like does he have a car?)

She swam by me, she got a cramp
He ran by me, got my suit damp
Saved her life, she nearly drowned
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun, something's begun
But, uh oh, those summer nights

Well-a, well-a, well-a, uh!

(Tell me more, tell me more)
(Was it love at first sight?)
(Tell me more, tell me more)
(Did she put up a fight?)

Took her bowling in the arcade
We went strolling, drank lemonade
We made out under the dock
We stayed out till ten o'clock
Summer fling don't mean a thing
But, uh oh, those summer nights

(Tell me more, tell me more)
(But you don't gotta brag)
(Tell me more, tell me more)
('Cause he sounds like a drag)

He got friendly holding my hand
Well, she got friendly down in the sand
He was sweet, just turned eighteen
Well, she was good, you know what I mean
Summer heat, boy and girl meet
But, uh oh, those summer nights

(Tell me more, tell me more)
(How much dough did he spend?)
(Tell me more, tell me more)
(Could she get me a friend?)

It turned colder; that's where it ends
So I told her we'd still be friends
Then we made our true love vow
Wonder what she's doin' now

Summer dreams ripped at the seams
But, oh, those summer nights

(Tell me more, tell me more)

"Summer Nights" midi courtesy of http://www.fromtheheartpostcards.com/MidiPreview.html - 08/04/07
at the suggestion of Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('56) of NC - 08/0
Thanks, Sepi!

"Summer Nights" lyrics courtesy of http://users.cis.net/sammy/summern.htm - 09/11/07
also at the suggestion of Sepi Dinwiddie Prichard ('56) of NC - 08/0
Thanks again, Sepi!

"Summer Night" Image courtesy of http://poemsandprose.blog.co.uk/2006/02/ - 09/11/07

 Animated Blue Divider Line courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars1.html - 08/27/05

Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!

Army Seal clip art also courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks, Al!

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!

Animated Laughter clip art courtesy of Janice McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 01/24/06
Thanks, Janice!

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

Justice Scale clip art courtesy of Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05
Thanks, Cheryl!

Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06