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	10/25/09 - NNHS Newsletter - October “Bittersweet October.  The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” - Carol Bishop Hipps

Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   Okay, I'll tell you the truth.  I found the quotation first, and tried to locate a song to go with it.  That's kinda backwards, I know, but in this case, I think it worked.  I was totally unfamiliar with this 1981 U2 song, but I think it's quite lovely - and unusual, being almost entirely an instrumental number.

BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqdJ6CsXt4Y - October - U2, 1981

BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwQaVZuAjI&NR=1 - October - U2, 1981

PRAYER REQUEST:

  From Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL - 10/24/09, 10:45 PM - "My Dad":

Carol,

Would you please put my dad, Bill Reece of Newport News. VA, on your prayer list.  I just got a call that he has been taken to the hospital coughing up blood.  He has not been well for a week or so and they are running tests to see if they can find out the cause.  We are all very worried about him. 

Thanks,
Ruthie

   YOWZERONI! Thanks for letting us know, Ruthie! We'll keep him in our prayers!

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  THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

   Happy Birthday today to Kitty Taylor Hanrahan ('57) AND  Carol Wornom Sorenson ('57) AND     Bobby Turpin ('58) of VA!

   Happy Birthday tomorrow to   Terry Hunsucker ('65) of KY AND   Randy Tate ('66) of DE!

   Happy Birthday this week to:

27 -   Carolyn Simpson Knight ('56) of VA AND Kermit Whiteside ('57) AND        Dimples Dinwiddie Prichard ('58) of NC AND   Frances Heath Scott ('62) of VA;

28 -   Nancy Bigger Alligood ('56) of VA;

29 -   Christine Wilson Starkman ('68) of CA;

31 -   Jo Ann Stewart ('64) of Northern VA;

01 -     Russ Stephenson ('57) of MD AND    Colin Faison ('58) of VA!

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

   Many Happy Returns, One and All!

THIS DAY IN WWII:

October 25, 1944 - During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deployed kamikaze suicide bombers against American warships for the first time. More than 1,321 Japanese aircraft would be crash-dived into Allied warships during the war.

THIS DAY IN 1964:

Sunday, October 25, 1964 - Actor Michael Boatman was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Sunday, October 25, 1964 - Singer Nicole was born in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Sunday, October 25, 1964 - Actor Kevin Michael Richardson was born in The Bronx, New York.

       From Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC - 10/24/09 - "More coming about Colony Inn":

Tell your readers I'm working on a story about the place - with       Dave Spriggs' ('64 - of VA) invaluable help. Gonna take a little time.

Gathering facts, other illustrations and memories of varying level of detail (and sometimes a bit conflicting).

Please ask if anyone is old enough to have dined or otherwise been inside the place that can provide me interior memories. They can send to me at:

ssamerifan@aol.com 

   COOL BEANS! Thanks so much, Bill - and David!

AS PROMISED (with much more still to come):

    From Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 10/13/09 - "Reunions and '69":

			WOWZERONI - DOUBLE TREASURES!! Thank you so much, Normie! I've posted these goodies where they belong: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html      http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html      http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/band.html           http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/band-69.html - brand new page!

ABBREVIATED ALERT:

   Thanks, Jane!

From ArcaMax Jokes - 10/24/09:

Scrubbing Bulkheads

I was scrubbing the bulkhead on the USS Kitty Hawk one Sunday morning when the loud-speaker announced:

"Religious services. Maintain silence about the decks. Dis-continue all unnecessary work."

An hour later, the opinion many of us held regarding our daily routine, was confirmed with this announcement:

"Resume all unnecessary work."

*************

The Spell Chequer

Owed Two A Spell Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques, four my revue, miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong oar write it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee fore two long.
And eye can put the error rite it's rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it, I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh, my chequer tolled me sew.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

2. Friday , Saturday, and Sunday, August 6, 7, and  8, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1960 will hold its 50-Year Reunion at the Marriott Newport News at City Center. For details, contact Karen Weinstein Witte at  kwitte@tampabay,rr.com - CLASS OF 1960

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

    To donate, click on the Donate Button on the left,  or just mail it directly to my home (address available upon request). Thanks! nnhs65@gmail.com
 

October

Recorded by U2, 1981
 

October
And the trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear
What do I care

October
And Kingdoms rise
And Kingdoms fall
But you go on...

...and on...

"October" midi courtesy of http://website.lineone.net/~justincase/midi.htm - 10/24/09

"October" lyrics courtesy of http://www.macphisto.net/u2lyrics/October.html - 10/24/09

Nick Shepherd's Prize Winning Image, "Naked Beauty" (in South Devon, England) courtesy
of http://www.igpoty.com/competition01/winners_Trees_Fin3.asp?parent=winners - 10/25/09

Acorn and Leaf Divider Line clip art courtesy of - oops, I cannot seem to locate that information at the moment.....

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