All Saint's Day is celebrated by Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, Anglicans, and Lutherans.  However, because of their differing understandings of the identity and function of the saints, what these churches do on the Feast of All Saints differs widely.  For Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, and to some extent, Anglicans, All Saints is a day to remember, thank God for, but also to venerate and pray to the saints in heaven for various helps.  For Lutherans the day is observed by remembering and thanking God for all saints, both dead and living.  It is a day to glorify Jesus Christ, who by his holy life and death has made the saints holy through Baptism and faith.

In the sixth century, Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas and proclaimed May 13, 610 Feast of All Holy Martyrs held.  He dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. 

During Pope Gregory III's reign, the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly.  In 835, Pope Gregory IV changed the date to November 1 and the name to Feast of All Saints.

In the early days the Christians were accustomed to solemnize the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ at the place of martyrdom.  In the fourth century, neighboring dioceses began to interchange feasts, to transfer relics, to divide them, and to join in a common feast.  Frequently groups of martyrs suffered on the same day, which naturally led to a joint commemoration.  In the persecution of Diocletian the number of martyrs became so great that a separate day could not be assigned to each.  The Church, feeling that every martyr should be venerated, appointed a common day for all.

The first trace of this is found in Antioch on the Sunday after Pentecost.  There is also mention of a common day in a sermon of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, and in the 74th homily of Saint John Chrysostom of Constantinople. 

At first only martyrs and Saint John the Baptist were honored by a special day.  Other saints were added gradually, and increased in number when a regular process of canonization was established.  As early as 411 there is in the Chaldean Calendar a Commemoratio confessorum for the Friday after Easter. 
 

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                http://castlescribe.hispeed.com/fam/holidays/allsaints-souls.html

    There you are.  We aim to educate.

One last note.  In today's newsletter,    Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63 - of MD) gave us a web address to look up our old school pictures. Well, in my excitement, and hoping to find a better looking picture than the one that was in the Anchor (maybe a better angle), I rushed to this site as fast as my little fingers could type. You got me good, Chandler!!!  I will have to say though, I think I recognized the lady on the left.  :-) 

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/wsp/index1.htm

   Isn't he just such a rascal?!?  A gorgeous rascal, but a rascal....

   Thank you, Tina!

Dear Buckwheat......

I just checked my camera.....and it's ME who has the WRONG time.....I'm not surprised!!!!!!

   GIGGLES!!!  Thanks, Janice!  It's not that I'm obsessive or anything.......

Also....the locker that we were SO amazed with was on the THIRD floor outside my old homeroom 315....not the band hall. I'm going to change the time in my camera right now......and try to figure out how to make it NOT show when I take a picture.

   Okay, I fixed that!  Thanks!

I've enjoyed seeing everyone's pictures and reading about all the fun time that we had at the reunion. We did have fun....that's for sure. The weekend just didn't last long enough.

   So true!  Can't we just all run back now?!?

Again....you do not get enough thanks and praise for all the work you do to keep us all together each day....but I, for one, appreciate it more than you'll ever know. When your computer was down, I certainly had NNHS withdrawal symptoms....and it was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!

   Thanks, Lady!  I really appreciate that!

Still wish you remembered our trip to DC....we had fun then, too.

   OH, Janice, I'm really working on that!  I want so much to remember!  The fragment at the doorway is still the clearest recollection I've been able to draw forth.  I've been looking at the Washington Cathedral site to see if I can trigger another memory, but it hasn't clicked yet:

http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/

   Can you give me any more details at all?  Was it in the fall of spring?  Who were our sponsors?  Who were our chaperones?  How did we travel there?  Who else was with us?  Did we visit anything else while we were there?  Does anyone else remember this seventh grade Y-Teens trip to DC???

   And I really want to add that second story duck pins Bowling Alley to Our Old Stomping Grounds.  Was that in Wythe or Southampton Shopping Center?  What was the exact name of the place?  I DO remember going there!  I once bowled an entire game there and scored seven points - a four and a three.  The very next game on the same evening I scored 143.  Go figure.....

til later................Janice..........and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!

   Thanks, Janice!  I did have fun!

 

   Amen to that!

Also, when I saw those pictures of the old gym, my first reaction was "there's my home room"! Mrs. Masters' homeroom was in the gym!!!! Anyone else remember that experience?

All my best to you all, but especially to dear Carol, who keeps us all together....

Fondly, Joe Wingo

   SEE?!?  Mrs. Masters again!  Okay, okay - I repent!  GIGGLES!!!

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

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

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/teach-Masters.html - brand new page

   Thanks for the nudge, Sweetie!  And you weren't even trying!  GIGGLES!!!

   And thanks again for all the fun at the reunion!

Please tell    Paul Dobie ('66 - of CO - currently deployed in Afghanistan) that Shelly Speas (daughter of Ted Speas, a salesman for some car dealership I think) graduated HHS and became a Rockette!  That's right, in NYC.  A Rockette at Radio City Music Hall!  She danced there for a number of years (this would have been in the mid-1960s up to the early 1970s) before returning to the hallowed soil of VA and marrying.  She, with hubby and kids, lived in VA Beach in the early 1980s.  I cannot remember her married name.  When Peninsula Community Theatre became the first community theatre in the country to be allowed to mount a production of "Chicago" right after it closed in Broadway, Shelly auditioned and was cast.  This was in the fall of 1983.  She drove from VAB every night for rehearsals and performances.  My oh my, could she kick! 

   WOWZERONI!!!  Thanks, Kathy!

   Thanks, Kathy!

   GIGGLES!!!  Well, as you can see, there were plenty of cameras along with us when I decided to unknowingly recreate your move, Jean!  My solution was more along the lines of squawking, "Get me down from here!!!"

   Thanks, Lady!

Glad to hear you took a day off and rested.  Don't want you to burn out!  Hello to Gail Kiger Bonsey (FHS - '73 - of OR) and Bill Black ('66 - of GA) (I still have the picture from the summer of '71).   Don't know where Beth Wingrove lives now, but believe she is in the Tidewater area. 

Take care, Barbara Houston

   Thanks, Barbara!  I must admit, I was ready for that day off!  GIGGLES!!!

   Thanks, Jean!  I personally have always loved Halloween:

http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat/holidays.html - I really should get around to updating this page sometime - in my free time......
 

Two things...

Hello to    Paul Dobie ('66 - of CO - currently deployed in Afghanistan).. I knew Shelly Speas.. she and I were in the Little Theatre production of Camelot together.. her dad played King Arthur and had a fantastic voice. Have not seen her since high school! There was a really nice looking guy about 16 who had a fantastic voice that was in Camelot with us. His name was Ed Black and he went to Hampton High as well. He was killed just a few months after the Camelot production. He was hit by a car while walking down Mercury Boulevard! I heard it on the radio while in art class and had to go home due to the upsetting news. Of course.. I went home any chance I could get! hee hee

 
On Halloween...yes I do know all the bad things about it and am kinda glad we were ignorant to that in "our days". That was my favorite night.. due to being a sweetoholic. Remember Cocola Brown's house and trick or treating...innocent days they were! I ate all my chocolate by the next day and it was a full grocery bag!

 
We sure treasure you, Carol.. thanks again for all you do to keep the typhoons straight!

  John will be home from Iraq for 28 days on Dec. 16th and our oldest daughter Chera and husband Adrian arrived in San Salvador yesterday for one year.. boo hoo.

Peace & Blessing,
Cheryl

   WOWZERS!!!  What a gorgeous portrait of you at 18!  Thanks so much!  You'll have to write often just so we can use it to grace and beautify our Newsletters!

   I'm glad John will be home with you for the holidays.  Give him our love.  And I can but imagine your feeling at having Adrian and Chera so far from home!  Hang in there, Lady!

   Thanks again for everything!

 

   No rush, Tommee, take your time!!!  GIGGLES!!!

Janice (Pratt McGrew - Hampton HS - '67) and I really enjoyed the reunion ... sorry I missed the tour of NNHS. You know .... I have never been inside the school .... just to Saunders Stadium.

Later on ....

Babe
 

WOWZERS!!!  Thanks, Babe!  I'll post this on the WGH page soon:

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

By the way, I spent a while unsuccessfully trying to snag your senior portrait from the Crabbaganza web page:

http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/

Why don't you and your snazzy new scanner whoosh that over to me, please?

Lois Evelyn Williams Pilgrim, widow of Harry D. “Pierre” Pilgrim, died on Nov. 1, 2005, in Hampton.  She was 86.  She was born in Omaha, NE, on Dec. 2, 1919,   became a Peninsula resident in 1944 and was married to Pierre for 63 years until his death in 2000.

Lois and Pierre were the parents of Michael Pilgrim (Alethia) of Tybee Is, GA, and Kathleen Pilgrim Clark, Perry Pilgrim (Becki) and Patrick Pilgrim (Bridget), of the Peninsula.  Her grandchildren include Lillian, Harry, Christopher, Dana, Reba and Matthew.  She is also survived by her golden retriever Honey Bear.

Lois taught typing and shorthand at the Nebraska School for the Deaf and Blind before coming to Virginia.  After her children began attending school, Lois returned to teaching, first at Sinclair School in Hampton and later at the Robert Sugden School.  She was very proud to be associated with such a fine school and to be able to teach the children who studied there.  She enriched the lives of many children whom she taught by challenging them to strive for everything beyond the easy answer.

Lois and Pierre retired to Collington Harbour, NC in 1970 and enjoyed their time there.  Lois was a member of “The Bubbles”, a synchronized senior swimming team that performed shows to the delight of their friends at Collington Harbour.  Never able to sit idly by, Lois became the first registered paralegal aide in NC, working in the law office of Herbert Thomas.  She retired from that position in the late 1980s when she and Pierre returned to Hampton.   

Lois volunteered with Hampton Social Services for many years and continued to swim daily until 2000 when she had to cut back.  She seized every opportunity to teach something to someone, continuing to educate her adult children every day.  She loved sewing, knitting, canning and working in her yard.  Above all, she loved her family and was proud of her children.

Arrangements are being handled by Parklawn-Wood and will be private.   

       Chip Clark ('65 - of Northern VA), bless his sweet heart,  has been feeding me images he shot at the reunion all day.  As you might expect from a photo journalist of his stature, they are incredible! At the breakneck speed in which I've been operating, it will be a while before I'm able to pass them along to you, but trust me, they are worth the wait.  Thanks again so very much, Chip!

   Today's Newsletter is relatively long, but only half-finished, and I must sadly admit that I can no longer concentrate.

   Tomorrow is another day, so we'll stop now and begin anew then.