Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   My Magic Shower got the best of me.  It just keeps wanting to "walk that lovely, golden land" with me.  That's
just fine with me.  I'll be walking on "the sacred soil of Virginia" in just a few short weeks now - YES!

From Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) of VA - 09/23/05:

Back again ... here's some more self explanatory stuff. The ticket stub close-up is from the last
Turkey Day game in '70.

November 22, 1951		November 26, 1970

   Oh, waaay cool!  But Tommee, there's no date on that middle one!  You know perfectly well that I'm too
compulsive-obsessive to be able to place it on Odds and Ends without a date!!!  I mean - where would it go?!?
Find me the date before I hyperventilate - please!    No, Honey, of course I'm not joking!  As Popeye said, "I
am what I am."

   The other two are safely ensconced:

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

   Thanks, Babe!

From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/25/05:

   OH, CRUM!!!  Well, if you want to be technical, Joe - GIGGLES!!!  Okay, let's say that Mickey won first place,
Dale won second place, and Aretie Gallins Patterson ('59 - of Northern VA) picked up an honorable mention
for her earnest effort.

   And you've caught me slacking again.  These twelve hour days are just insufficient to do the job.  Sigh.  Okay,
well, I'll track all that down and post it on the Boys Club page yet.

   Now you just know you completely did me in by telling me that an actual official Marine Corps tree is sporting
an ornament I made, dontcha, Adonis?!?  Okay, you win.  I'll crochet the prizes - I can't top that!  (I can't stop these
tears either but that's another story...)

   There will be a slight delay until I finish crocheting the little white suit, bonnet, and booties for Jonathan to wear
for his blessing on Sunday, October 9.  Then I'll start on the ornaments.  I've only been crocheting for 48 years now. 
I'm sure I'll be able to build up some speed someday.......

   (Speaking of Jonathan, he was three weeks old yesterday, and they came over to spend the evening with us. 
The four of them played games, and I took Jonathan and played Hug-a-Baby in the recliner, and the two of us
had a nice, warm, cuddly nap.  It doesn't get much better than that!)

  Thanks, Joe - I'll keep on keeping on!

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

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-A-B.html 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/boys-club.html - Watch this page.......

From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 09/26/05 - "North End Beaches and Beach Houses":

My mother's cousin's (Myrtle Ware) husband, Jimmy Spotts (father of LaVerne, a.k.a.
Tootsie, NNHS 63) had a beach house in that area, and I have vivid memories ( I was
maybe 7 or 8) of swimming in the James there and getting a major sunburn from just lolling
in the waves breaking on the shore.  While my visual memory of the structure and the beach
is quite clear, not so clear is the street where the steps descended from Huntington down
and down and down and down to the shore.  It could have been 63rd, but I can't shake the
image of it being closer to the fork to River Road, i.e., 67th St.

I need to go excavating again at my mother's home for the photos which I know are there
somewhere.

		Here is an image showing Jimmy Spotts (on the viewer's left). Having seen him, now have a look at LaVerne's photo in the 63 Anchor.
Jimmy Spotts; Mildred Linkous; Steve Rockney (a suitor before my dad showed up)	LaVerne "Tootsie" Spotts, who was middle-named after my mother
About 1940	Fall of 1962

   This sounds fascinating, Dave!  I had no idea there were beach houses down there until this week.  Of course,
that wasn't really my neighborhood, either.  Thanks for enlarging my scope!

   For more great North End memories, see here:

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

For Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63) of MD - ROGER CLARK'S THEME SONG:

From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 09/26/05:

..... Roger Clark's theme song is on the Reunion CDs.

It is:  "Strange What A Song Can Do"  performed by Harry James on the trumpet,
with vocals by Marion Morgan...

Marion Morgan and Harry James
Sentimental Souvenirs

See:  http://www.collectablesrecords.com/product/view.cfm/id_76372.html

   OOOOH - Thank you, David!  How delightful!!!  I've replayed it about six times already, and just let the
memories flow over me like warm water!

   I've no idea of any way I can attach this even remotely to the Newsletter, but I've already passed the mp3 file
along to some of y'all - including Chandler:

         From Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63) of MD - 09/27/05:

   If the rest of you would like to hear it, and your computer wouldn't mind a 4488 KB file, just let me know and
I'll forward it to you.

   OR - you could buy the record through the handy link which Dave provided.

   OR - you could just break out your trusty Reunion CDs that you picked up from Dave for FREE (or a mere
pittance of a donation to his Great Class of 1964), and you'll find it there, too!  It's # 28 on CD #1.  The funny
thing is - you tend to not hear it as it plays, because by the time it comes up, your mind has convinced you that
you're back in time and WGH is really playing, and it's just a regular commercial - and you know how easy it is
to tune those out!

   But that's no doubt why it's been bugging you, Chandler.  Even though you didn't hear it as you were listening
to your CDs, your subconscious mind absorbed it, and lay in wait to taunt you.  Works for me, anyway!

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

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/CD-MIX.html

   I know Chandler's been enjoying those CDs.  The rest of ya'll did order them, didn't you?!?

From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/26/05:

   Thanks, Joe!  I could listen to Harry James play that trumpet all day!

   And I'm sure your fellow Marines were happy, indeed!  You have a very generous heart and spirit, Adonis. 
Thanks for being you!

From Bill Black ('66) of GA - 09/26/05:

   Bill, you are a hoot!  Thanks - I especially love that Lettermen song!!!  It's a sentimental favorite of mine.

From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/26/05:

Hi, Carol:

   Wasn't that neat?!  Thanks, Adonis - and thanks again, Renee!

From Gene Collins Glave ('60) of SC - 09/26/05:

   GIGGLES!!!  Thanks, Gene!

   There were obviously at least two of those X-Ray machines around - one in Nachman's, one in Adams Shoe
Store - were there more?

   Who sold Poll Parrot Shoes?  I know that store had one!  I thought Poll Parrot shoes were the coolest - and I
loved that commercial:

Poll Parrot, Poll Parrot,
The shoes you want to buy!
They make your feet run faster -
As fast as Poll can fly!

   I thought that just had to be a good thing - I was soooo slow!!!  So I always wanted to buy my shoes there - or
at least look at shoes there.  That way I could get to that wonderful machine, too!  My mother, however, had other
ideas.  She was positively enamored of Stride-Rite shoes, which were carried by Hofheimer's.  Grrrrr....

   But I'm afraid I must refute your claim that the X-Ray machine caused your feet to be short.  Despite as frequent
use as I could manage, my feet are anything but short - more's the pity!

From Bill Hobbs ('66) of Northern VA - 09/26/05:

YIPPEE!!!  I just love to hear about people planning to be at that reunion!!!!  It does my heart good!

   C'mon - tell us the story - we're big and strong, we can take it!  (Well, I'm a Super-Wuss, but no matter....)

   Actually, Bill, I believe a great many of our friends saw those lights of West Point.  I didn't, of course, but I
suppose that's because I so desperately wanted to see them, and as Mick Jagger was later to say, "You
can't always get what you want".

   The fact that I never actually made it over to West Point at night may have somewhat impeded my psychic
opportunities.......   Sigh.

   Thanks, Bill!  See you soon!

From Ron Miller ('59) of NC - 09/26/05:

   Oh, WOWZERS!!!  I don't really remember the second bottle at all (perhaps it was a later version and
that's one of the factors contributing to its demise???), but look at that first one - WOW!  It had such an elegant,
comforting shape to it.  It felt so nice and happy in my hand - what a delight!  It's such a treat just to see it again! 
(As you may have noticed by now, I'm very easily amused....)

   Thanks so much, Ronnie!  I delightedly posted them on Nostalgic Artifacts - which looks much prettier with their
addition:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/nostalgic-artifacts.html

   And Ron, it's too late.  I have long since forgotten Orangette and Lemonette - SHEESH!  GIGGLES!!!

    As usual, I have more goodies from y'all yet to come.......

   Y'all have a good day - and take care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!

                          Love to all, Carol

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 Exodus

Music written for 1960 film "Exodus" by Ernest Gold, who won an Oscar for the score.
Words added in 1961 by Pat Boone as "This Land Is Mine."

 Various versions charted in 1961 by Ferrante and Teicher (#2);
Mantovani (#31); Eddie Harris (jazz rendition, #36);
Pat Boone (#64); and Edith Piaf (#116).


This land is mine,
God gave this land to me,
This brave and ancient land to me.
And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plains,
Then I see a land where children can run free.

So take my hand and walk this land with me
And walk this lovely land with me.
Though I am just a man,
When you are by my side,
With the help of God, I know I can be strong.

This land is mine,
God gave this land to me,
This brave and ancient land to me.
And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plains,
Then I see a land where children can run free.

So take my hand and walk this land with me
And walk this golden land with me.
Though I am just a man,
When you are by my side,
With the help of God, I know I can be strong.

To make this land our home.
If I must fight, I’ll fight to make this land our own
Until I die this land is mine!

 "Exodus" midi courtesy of http://www.jewz.net/ - 09/24/05

 "This Land Is Mine" lyrics courtesy of http://www.impossible.za.net/cd/exodus1.htm - 09/22/05
and http://www.istrianet.org/istria/organizations/united_istrians/exodus.htm - 09/24/05

"Holding Hands Walking" Image courtesy of http://www.meaganmccormick.com/Holding%20Hands%20Walking.html - 09/25/04

"Couple Walking" Image courtesy of http://www.opadocs.com/ - 09/25/05

Green Leaves Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars4.html - 03/15/05

Animated Yehaa Typhoon clip art clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 08/18/05
Thanks, Al!

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