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Hello Carol.

I hope you're feeling markedly better and that your tests came back indicating that you're fit as a fiddle.

Yes, ma'am, thank you. The blood tests both came back "normal". ( Now don't get excited; the doctor didn't say that I was normal (certainly no one has ever accused me of being that), just that my tests were okay.

Please tell Joe Madagan ('57 - of FL) that Ronald Bass's sister is Enid. She is class of '63. She danced and had that wonderful 'dancer's walk'. She studied with Emily Beardon in Hilton. She was also in band. And she was my first friend at NNHS. She had the most lustrous dark hair that hung nearly to her waist. She was always a sweet girl. During our Mouse Year, Passover and Easter were at the same time. I stayed over at the Bass's sometime during that Spring Break from school. And I had the most wonderful food that was leftovers from Seder dinner!

Now, I need to speak to Jean Poole (Burton - '64 - of RI). Yes, I tool Latin at NNHS. I took 5 years of Latin. I started 2 years before you did. Walter (Ware) Morrison ('63 - of VA) may have been in my third year class. I know David Block ('64 - of DC) was; we used to tease about liking Latin because it was our easy A to balance out PE! But for 4th and 5th years, I was Miss Brewer's only student. I had to have a class hour in my schedule to get credit so I went to HHS (the old building) every summer and took the next year's history class. That freed up the hour. So Miss Brewer placed me in a first or second year class. I'd report to class, get my assignment and head for the library which was just around the corner from her room. I'd do my translations. This would go on until Wednesday or Thursday when I'd go in after school was over and we'd go over my translations. So even though I should have reported to a class that Jean was in maybe 180 times a year (assuming no absences!) I really don't remember the people IN the class because I was always in the library. Bill Barnard ('64) and I dated during my Senior (his Junior) year. He followed my plan to get more Spanish in and somehow (oh, I wonder how that was arranged. . .?) he and I had the same advanced language class in the library during B Period! Yes, we did our work. Yes, we played footsie under the table. Yes, we held hands. Duh! We were teenagers! Finally the librarian (I can't remember any name except Miss Russell) realized that we were dating and she made us sit at separate tables!

During that year the Library had Mrs. Emily Nelson and Mrs. Ball, but I cannot find a record of a Miss Russell....

In keeping with that 'class outside of class' theme, do any of you remember Gracia Malami? She attended St. Vincent's but they didn't teach Physics and she was bright. So she left St. V's every day to come to Physics class at NNHS. She may have taken the Trig/Solid Geometry class too. Now, with all the supposedly wonderful things that government schools offer now, can you imagine just how forward thinking it was of NNHS to allow her to come for those classes? Or for individual teachers to commit to teaching a few students advanced years of language? No school of today holds a candle to the education we got at NNHS. I tested out of first year calculus at Va. Tech based on my high school math because the Math department took a group of us - Dani Garrick ('63) I can clearly remember - and we went to the Math Teacher's lounge on 2 for calculus during our Senior Year. At Va. Tech, there was no testing out of Freshman English because they wanted to be sure their engineering graduates could write. Your content could be lousy but if your mechanics were poor, you got an F. Five grammatical errors was a guaranteed F! The teacher would simply stop reading and mark your paper with the F. We had an honor code that was strictly believed in, followed and enforced. My freshman roommate often wrote things wrong because she heard them wrong. ( she called headache medicine Anderson's instead of Anacins, for example.) But I couldn't point out her errors on papers for her because of the honor code. So I'd read them out loud to her, pronouncing her misspellings and following her punctuations. She took notes and performed the appropriate corrections. Maybe that was stretching the code but failing freshman English was certain academic probation for the second quarter of the year and that was like being defeated before you got started.

And yes, Jean Poole (Burton - '64 - of RI) , it is interesting the things we can remember in detail and the things we cannot!

Best wishes to all, KC


Miss Emilie Holladay	Mrs. Wilma Salmon Robinson and Miss Emilie Holladay
Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Longwood University, Farmville, VA

I passed on buying this, but you might want to post it on the Buckroe or Calvary Baptist (or both) pages. You might have to cut and paste some text to explain what it is:
	"3/4 inch X 2 inch Trolley Ticket for a long ago Sunday School trip from Buckroe Beach to Old Point Virginia. This ticket has aged well and has no user value. It was for the Calvary Baptist Sunday School. I would guess it is from the 1920 but have no real knowledge of the fact. Some age fade appears..."