10/15/05 - NNHS Newsletter - So in Love
 

1. Curt Overman ('59) of VA - 10/14/05 - "Please sign me up for the mailing list, thanks":

   Welcome, Curt!  If I recall correctly, you were in Miss Suttle's senior English class with my sister, Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky ('59) of NC.  I've added you to the hidden mailing lists as well as to the
Alumni Page: 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html

   If you'll send me your birthday, I'll add you there as well:

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

   (I would add your senior portrait here, but as you're new to our shenanigans, perhaps I'll just wait until you've given me permission to do that, particularly in view of the fact that you're a lawyer....) 

   WHAT?!?  I thought it was a done deal!!!

RE: John Marshall High School logo - I looked through our year books and other memorabilia saved from JMHS and can find no specific symbol, mascot, logo, etc. JM had a cadet corps with several divisions and they had their own colors, symbols, mascots... But we were definitely called the "Justices" (obvious to the Marshall name).
 

The Marshall face, as on the pictured book cover, appears a lot and the J over the M always appears that way. But on the class ring the Marshall face is on one side and the
"justice scale" on the other - so I took it upon my self to claim the scale.

   Works for me - thanks!  And thanks for making that logo for us!

Blue & White are JM's colors.

   (Cheryl was afraid that I might remember this and blurt out the answer without giving anyone else a chance to win the prize she has prepared for you.  FAT CHANCE!!!  And I was there, too!!!  HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

Hi Carol
Just thought I would add some names to the Blue Lite pictures that David Whitley ('67) of VA
posted to: Our Old Stomping Grounds”

The people in the Benn Rush pictures are from left to right: Art Insley (keyboards), R. B. Sharp (guitar), Tom Kalie (drums) Everett Hill (HHS ~65) (lead vocals), Peewee Watson (bass) and Dicky Dawes on Conga drums (that’s right).

   NO WAY!!!!  How cool!

On the ground: Guy with sun glasses is Allen Vance (Kecoughtan), also a great guitar player.

To Allen’s left is Mickey Seacrest (HHS) (with Fro) also a fine drummer.

Next to Mickey is Jean Harrell Combs (HHS 63).

Then the young lady with her back to you is Allison DeHaven.

John Lancaster is the guy in the yellow shirt.

Thanks.

Richard Dawes (NNHS-HHS 62)

   Well, thanks so much, Dicky!  i just added these identities onto the Blue Lite page:

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

I have two annuals - l964 & l965 - that I don’t need.  I got out in l963.  I would like for them to go to someone who cares or has lost theirs.  Do you know of anyone who needs or wants them? 
 
Claudia Dellapenta Melgaard  Class of '63  

   WOWZERS!  That's wonderful!  Yes, ma'am - there are always people looking for Anchors!  Let's see who screams, "ME!  ME!!  ME!!!" first.

   Thanks so much, Claudia!  It's good to hear from you again.

The X-ray machine for checking your shoe size was in the Buster Brown Store. I remember because I would put my foot in it even if mom was not buying me shoes. What a dumb idea that was. like you said, who would guess that it was dangerous.

Hi to all the Typhoonies out there. Keep those letters coming. I read all of them everyday . Thank you so much, Carol, for keeping us  in touch.

Judy Lindstrom

   Hi, Judy!  Thanks!

   So you're saying that in addition to the X-Ray machine that we've already established was in Nachman's shoe department, and the other one that was some place else I've already forgotten again, that there was an actual Buster Brown Shoe Store?!?  Well, that not only makes sense; it also will simplify my life when I finally get back around to creating those shoe store pages!

   I thought Buster Brown shoes were simply a brand such as Stride-Rite and Poll Parrot which was sold by a store or stores of a different name!  Well, now all we need to do is determine the street address of the Buster Brown Shoe Store, and we can proceed anon!

   Thanks so much, Judy!

WOW Carol, that’s SOOO cool (the yearbook pictures). I love it! But I didn’t intend to create a monster for you. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! But I hope it doesn’t start some sort of revolution. I know some yearbook pictures didn’t turn out as complementary as the individuals may have liked, while others are just shy, while still others may prefer to stay anonymous in their journalism.  

By the way, I didn’t happen to see YOUR picture. Ha Ha. I KNOW you’re not shy….we ALL know that. And I’m sorry, but it’s too late for you to be thinking that you’re anonymous. And I’m sure that you were as beautiful then as you are now.  So cough it up, babe.

   But by no stretch of the imagination could I ever have been considered beautiful - then or now.  The really beautiful girls were regularly nominated for things like Homecoming Attendants and such.  I never ever was.  It simply wasn't a moot point.  But thanks, Sweetie! 

   Oh, and in truth, Chandler, though I doubt I shall ever be able to convince either you or Joe Madagan ('57 - of FL) of this, I used to be horribly, painfully shy.  That is the major reason I never thanked any of my teachers.  I didn't think any of them would be even mildly interested in any opinion I might have.  But as Eleanor Roosevelt, rest her soul, said, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

   When I was nine years old I went to see "The King and I" with my family.  The movie had a profound effect upon me.  My sister bought the soundtrack and we played those little 45s so often, I memorized the words to all the songs.  In one of them, Anna said to her son, "Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune so no one will suspect I'm afraid."

   Through the years I put this to the test.  I didn't whistle, but I did pretend.  I've found those words of Oscar Hammerstein II to be very sound advice.  In this manner I can usually bluff my way successfully through experiences which in reality terrify me beyond all reasonable proportion.

   Usually.

   But I can still blush bright scarlet with the best of them!

   Thanks again, Chandler Darlin'!

I love the pictures! What a great move. Also, the tribute to Miss Gildersleeve was beautiful as well as speaking  for all the teachers. I wish all the teachers could know today how much we appreciated them. 

Keep up the good work. The newsletters make my day!

Evelyn Casey Snead '57 NNHS

   WOW!  And you just made mine!  Thanks, Evelyn!

     I suppose she did learn that from Miss Gildersleeve at that.  I always supposed it was all her own, but I had no intention of asking her.  The more I think of it, the more I recall how expert she was in wielding That Look.  That's all it took.  That class never got out of hand.  She was just that good.  As I was mortally afraid of practically anyone in authority, one of my goals in life was to see that such a look was never aimed in my direction.  I was pretty sure it was a death blow.  My second grade teacher at Magruder School, Miss Charlotte Winstead, was the first to give me such a whammy eye - which I did not deserve.  I think the only other one was Mr. Wilson - but I richly deserved that one.

   Thanks, Ronnie!