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11/10/08 - NNHS Newsletter - 233rd Birthday of the United States Marine Corps
"We are United States Marines,
and for two and a quarter - Gen. James L. Jones, USMC (CMC); 10 November 2000 |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
This
event repeats each year:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-10-04-NNHS-Happy-Birthday-USMC.html - featuring The United States Marine Corps Hymn
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-10-05-NNHS-USMC-230th-Birthday.html - featuring Semper Fidelis
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-10-06-NNHS-USMC-231st-Birthday.html - featuring The Liberty Bell March
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-10-07-NNHS-USMC-232nd-Birthday.html - featuring Esprit de Corps
Semper
Fidelis to all you Marines out there from one of your all-time biggest fans!
BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCxegQupMU - The Washington Post - great recording; I wonder who's playing it??
HOMEWORK (required viewing):
ASSIGNMENT #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzccgMy0P6s&NR=1 - The Few. The Proud. The Marines.
ASSIGNMENT #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbYRmTceZ1c&NR=1 - The Marine Band plays The Marines' Hymn at the Marine Corps War Memorial, 11/10/07
ASSIGNMENT #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYRu3JFhF0w - Marine Corps Barracks Washington Evening Parade, 08/31/07
OTHER
BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK:
In other birthday news: WOWZERONI-RINI-ROONI!
We have four
Typhoons celebrating their own birthdays today! Happy Birthday to
Tamsie Warren Ellis ('57), David Wittan
('57),
Angie Ray Smith ('64) of VA,
AND
Steve Pullen ('65) of VA!
Happy Birthday this week to:
12 -
Jean Pittman Priest ('64) of FL;
14 -
Glenda Stewart Martin Faires ('68) of GA
AND
Timothy of DC (son of
Kathy Cooper - '70 - of VA);
15 -
the late
Bobbie
Whitehurst Canady ('57) of VA
(deceased 11/16/07)
AND 
My Niece, Shari, of VA;
16 -
the late
George-Morewitz
('57) (deceased 06/09/08);
17 - Ronald Creech ('57)!
Many Happy
Returns to you all!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
CALLING ALL 1964 CLASSMATES:
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA -
11/03/08 - "NNHS 64/45 REUNION DATES":
Carol,
Could you post this in each newsletter until Monday, 10 November?
Certainly, David!
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NNHS 1964 Classmates,
At the first meeting of your 45th Reunion Committee, it was decided that October 2009 was the best month in which to schedule our 45th reunion. We initially selected the weekend of 10 and 11 October, which is a holiday weekend (Columbus Day). Our thinking was that you would prefer to travel and attend over a 3-day holiday. If a suitable venue is not available for that date, our alternate date is the following weekend, 17 and 18 October.
Thanks to the internet and e-mail, we have the opportunity to poll all of you about your date preference.
We are asking you to reply by e-mail with your preference for one of these two possible dates. If you have already replied to an e-mail which you received, then your preference has been recorded.
Please reply no later than Sunday, 9 November 2008, to: nnhs64@cox.net
Once the responses are tallied, we will arrange a venue for your preferred date.
TYPHOON Regards,
NNHS 64/45 REUNION COMMITTEE
From My #6 Son,
Dale Harty (Hillsboro HS, IL / American School, IL
- '02) of MA - 11/01/08 - "Halloween Pictures":
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| Dale Harty as Darth Maul | Diana Lyons Harty as a Dumb Blonde | Buckley Harty as Winnie the Pooh (4-1/2 months old) | ||
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| Buckley Harty as Winnie the Pooh (4-1/2 months old) | CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Buckley Harty, Diana Lyons Harty, Sylvia Millington Lyons, Jon Lyons, Amanda Lyons, David Lyons |
Sylvia Millington Lyons and Jon Lyons |
Melissa Lyons |
David Lyons and Amanda Lyons |
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Thank you, Dale!
You all look simply splendiferous!
From Ed Nichols ('62) of Northern VA AND
Dave
Spriggs ('64) of VA - 11/09/08 -
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Randy "Pop" Richardson":
I neglected to mention the marathon cutthroat marble games which took place. I have vivid recollections of playing in the dirt area on the north side of 47th where it met Virginia Avenue. We each could easily take a stick and draw a perfect 6 foot circle in the dirt. Like other player, I had a sack of marbles, most of which were of little value and would be placed in the ring in the expectation of being lost to superior opponents. Others were more dear and were retained as "shooters"; they were "steelies" and "cat's eyes". These would never be wagered. I have no doubt that you and I competed in these games.
Sometimes from 10:00 in the morning until dark we played monopoly.
I have no recollection of monopoly games, but I was about 4 years younger than Randy, so it is not surprising that I would not be included in a game requiring some small knowledge of capitalism.
Randy was the oldest of our group, thus the leader of our group but he was always teaching, showing, explaining to the others just how to do things. He was a rarity for his age, always including us in on things such as flying model airplanes, crabbing at NN Boat Harbor, and always something to do with baseball. He played third base and was quite good. Visiting his house meant never a dull moment. I lived on 47th Street from 1955 to 1962, and when Randy moved we were all lost. I just don't know how I missed Dave??
See explanation above.
But his
description of Randy's house and yard were right on
the mark. When I saw Randy's obit I
e-mailed
Bobby Hilling
('62 - of VA) to see if he remembered him and he did, but not as well
as I and certainly not as well as Dave. I have often wondered what had became
of Randy and I should have made a point to search him out. I was saddened at
his passing.
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Maggie Linkous. They lived at 337, which was the house next to Randy's on
the Virginia Avenue side. We shared that driveway between, as well as the
garage ... albeit with a dividing wall between ... but with the same roof.
Here is the best image I have of the driveway, the garage, and the side of
Randy's home. In all the years I have viewed this photo (and we are talking upwards of 55 years), I had never noticed before now the young lad standing under the window. I guess I was too mesmerized by that baby's charm. I look a lot like an Ewok, doncha think? Anyway, that boy is too old to be Randy (he was 4 years older than I), so it may be his older brother. |
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And do you remember Johnny
Kirby and Bobby Bowden who lived across the street. I remember
Richie Allen ('66 - of VA) quite well. And the broken school
windows?
I do indeed remember Bobby Bowden across the street.
When my grandparents' furnace blew up, we all evacuated the house and stood on
the Bowden's porch watching the fire brigade dousing the flames. There is a
family funny story surrounding that fire, but it is beyond the scope of this
e-mail. I will relate it to Carol later.
As for Richie Allen, I bet you remember this. He was struck by a car on
Virginia Avenue and sustained some serious injuries. I recall seeing him after
the accident, and the entire side of hid face was one big scab. He became the
unofficial poster boy for child pedestrian safety in North End. "Now, don't
you dare cross any streets while playing, or you will end up like that poor
Allen boy!!!"
And we have not even begun to recount the epic chinaberry fights which would
take place once the chinaberrys were green and easily picked. I would climb up
on the joint Richardson-Linkous garage where there was a particularly lush
tree and stuff all my pockets with ammunition for the coming battle. For added
combat power, we would wet each berry inn our mouth prior to throwing it;
supposedly this would enhance the sting of a direct hit on uncovered skin. I
now believe that the skill and accuracy of our chinaberry throws went far in
ensuring our ability to throw baseballs with comparable accuracy.
Similarly, we have not discussed the never-ending games of tag and
hide-and-seek which took place long into those hot summer nights. IIRC, "home
base" was often the tree in front of Randy's house.
I couldn't agree more. When I recall those days, I can see, feel, smell, and hear it all so clearly, as evidenced by the detail of my recollections herein. It is wonderful place to spend a few hours ... our own "Field of Dreams". Speaking of fields, I seem to remember talk a "Big Field" and a "Little Field" located somewhere across Virginia Avenue between it and the railroad tracks. I was never permitted to cross Virginia Avenue, so these fields held great mystery for me. It was a place where the "big kids" played, and I could never hope to see it' let alone play there. Were there such fields as I described?
Thank you so much, Gentlemen, for sharing these precious memories with us all!
From www.Beliefnet.com - 11/09/08 - "9 Ways Humor Can Heal ":
When
life has you feeling weighed down, laugh a little and feel your heart lighten.
By Therese J. Borchard
Of all my tools to combat stress-especially the stress of dealing with my
illness or someone else's--humor is by far the most fun. And just like mastering
the craft of writing, I'm finding that the longer I practice laughing at life
(especially at its frustrations) the better I become at it, and the more
situations and conversations and complications I can place into that category
named "silly."
G. K. Chesterton once wrote: "Angels can fly because they take themselves
lightly." And Proverbs 17:22 says that "a happy heart is good medicine." I'd add
that human beings and their caretakers can heal and find joy again if they learn
how to laugh. Here are just a few ways a dose of humor might transform something
ugly and stressful to slightly entertaining, and, well, a tad less catastrophic.
Humor Combats Fear
I know this first hand, having sat in the community room of a psych ward
watching a video of a comedian poking fun at depression. Like everyone else in
that room, I was scared to death of many things: that I would never smile again,
or love again, or even WANT to love again. I was fearful of life.
That panic didn't instantly transform into a hearty chuckle once the psych nurse
popped in the funny video. But the climate of the room was noticeably different.
Patients began to open up more, to share some of the details they had left out
in the prior group therapy session.
Humor disengages fear because it changes your perspective both on the past and
the present. A traumatic childhood episode loses its tight grip on your heart if
you can place it into the "ridiculous" category of other stories from the past.
With a playful perspective, you can remove yourself from a marital problem that
has you debilitated with anxiety. Laughter forces a few steps--some much-needed
distance-- between a situation and our reaction. We all would do well to follow
the advice of Leo Buscaglia: "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot
and hang on. And swing!"
Humor Comforts
Charlie Chaplin once said, "To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain
and play with it." I suppose that's why some of the funniest people out
there-Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, Art Buchwald-have journeyed
through periods of torment.
There is an unspoken message hidden within a chuckle that says this: "I promise,
you'll get through this." Just like the comforting hug of your mom when you were
three. In fact, New York City's Big Apple Circus has used humor to console sick
children since 1986, when they started sending teams of clowns into hospital
rooms with "rubber chicken soup" and other fun surprises. "It's for the
children, yes," explains Jane Englebardt, deputy director of the circus, in an
"American Fitness" article. "But it's also for the parents who, when they hear
their children laugh for the first time in days or weeks, know everything's
going to be O.K."
Humor Relaxes
Like any exercise, laughing relaxes you and works against the chronic stress
that most Americans wear on their shoulders. Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., a heart surgeon
at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York
City, explains why this is so in a 2005 "Reader's Digest" article:
"When you push any engine, including your body, to its maximum, every once in a
while it slips a gear. The ways the body manifests that are: irregular
heartbeats, high blood pressure, and increased sensitivity to pain. When people
use humor, the autonomic nervous system just tones down a bit to take it off
high gear, and that allows the heart to relax."
Humor Reduces Pain
Apparently the psych nurses at Laurel Regional Hospital weren't the only ones
gathering patients around the TV to watch funny flicks or videos. Dr. Elias
Shaya, chief of psychiatry at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore also tries to
instill the importance of laughter in his patients. Says Dr. Shaya: "I advocate
finding ways to laugh by watching comedy or engaging in looking up jokes and
sharing them."
"Humor rooms," which encourage people to use humor in their recovery from any
kind of illness, are now available in some hospitals. And science backs these
efforts. In a study published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing, humor very
definitely seemed to diminish pain. Says Dave Traynor, M.Ed, director of health
education at Natchaug Hospital in Mansfield Center, Connecticut in "American
Fitness": "After surgery, patients were told one-liners prior to administration
of potentially painful medication. The patients exposed to humor perceived less
pun as compared to patients who didn't receive humor stimuli."
Humor Boosts the
Immune System
Whenever I prick myself accidentally, I tell a joke, and my finger doesn't
bleed! Well, not exactly. But if you are laid up in bed with a terrible strain
of the flu that your four-year-old brought home from her play date yesterday,
try to find an itsy-bitsy thread of humor in your situation, and you'll be back
to work in no time. Or, better yet, dwell in the misery and stay away from the
cubicle longer.
In 2006 researchers led by Lee Berk and Stanley A. Tan at Loma Linda University
in Loma Linda, California, found that two hormones-beta-endorphins (which
alleviate depression) and human growth hormone (HGH, which helps with immunity)
increased by 27 and 87 percent respectively when volunteers anticipated watching
a humorous video. Simply anticipating laughter boosted health-protecting
hormones and chemicals.
In his "American Fitness" article, Dave Traynor explains a separate study at
Arkansas Tech University, in which concentrations of immunoglobulin A were
increased after 21 fifth graders participated in a humor program. (I'm nervous
to hear about the details of that fifth-grade humor program, because my kids
roar whenever you throw out a bathroom term.) Laughter was once again found to
increase the ability to fight viruses and foreign cells.
Humor Reduces Stress
The same research team in Loma Linda, California, conducted a similar study
recently to see if the anticipation of laughter that was shown to boost immune
systems could also reduce the levels of three stress hormones: cortisol ("the
stress hormone"), epinephrine (adrenaline), and dopac, a dopamine catabolite
(brain chemical which helps produce epinephrine).
They studied 16 fasting males, who were assigned to either the control group or
the experiment group (those anticipating a humorous event). Blood levels showed
that the stress hormones were reduced 39, 70, and 38 percent respectively.
Therefore, researchers suggest that anticipating a positive event can reduce
detrimental stress hormones.
Humor Spreads
Happiness
I remember playing the game of "Ha" as a young girl at my third-grade slumber
party. I would lay my head of my friend's tummy, and she would lay her head on
another friend's tummy, and so on. The first person would start the chain of
laughs with a simple, "Ha!" The second person, "Ha Ha!" The third, "Ha Ha Ha,"
at which point everyone would break into hysterics. About absolutely nothing.
The way a person's abdomen tightens and moves when she says "ha" makes you want
to giggle.
My point: laughter is contagious. That's why there are 5,000 laughter clubs
around the world-where people laugh for no reason at all. Say what? According to
Dr. Shaya of Good Samaritan Hospital, "These clubs have exercises that teach how
to move your face, how to laugh more intensely to involve the shoulders, then
the belly." Laughing yoga classes are also popular today.
Humor Cultivates
Optimism
Humor is like gratitude in that it nurtures optimism, and Dan Baker writes this
in "What Happy People Know":
"[Appreciation] is the first and most fundamental happiness tool...Research now
shows it is physiologically impossible to be in a state of appreciation and a
state of fear at the same time. Thus, appreciation is the antidote to fear."
So if humor can change a perspective on a painful memory of the past or a
gnawing issue of the present into opportunities to laugh at the inherent
craziness of life at times, then a person can better facilitate his own healing.
Humor Helps
Communication
This is good marriage advice for anyone. But especially for the person prone to
anxiety and depression. Most of Eric's and my fights end with one of us making a
sarcastic remark that is met with a snicker, and then a yuk, and then a roar.
Voila! The quarrel is magically resolved! Sort of.
Humor is a way to articulate those truths that are so difficult to express
otherwise. It's handy language for someone like myself that doesn't like to use
big words, who is still fretting about her low verbal SAT scores because the
college administrators didn't think they were funny. If only they had read this
article!
Therese J. Borchard writes the
Beyond Blue
blog for Beliefnet.
From Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL - 10/31/08 - "++++ MAXINE +++++" (#7 in a Series of 15):
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..... More from the
gal everyone loves and admires..... Whatever pops into her mind, Maxine says. Ordinarily, folks might be offended. But instead, millions of Americans have identified with the crabby, irreverent Maxine, the popular Hallmark character that lambastes everything from holidays to aging, and does not hesitate to tell it like it is - or as she sees it.....
Thanks, Ruthie!
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DATES
TO REMEMBER:1
. Thursday, December 4, 2007, 11:00 AM - Class of 1955 Lunch Bunch - Steve & John's Steak House on Jefferson Avenue just above Denbigh Boulevard in Newport News, VA - OPEN TO ALL WITH FRIENDS IN CLASS OF 19552. April 23, 24, & 25, 2009 - Class of 1954 will hold their 55th-Year Reunion. For details contact Dr. Harry Simpson at 804-694-0346 or email him at hdsdds@aol.com - CLASS OF 1954
 PRAYER
ROLL:http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/requests-prayers.html - updated 11/06/08 |
NNHS
BLOG: http://nnhs.wordpress.com/ - updated 11/10/08 |
Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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- John Phillip Sousa,
1889
(6 Nov 1854 - 6 Mar 1932)
"The Washington Post" midi courtesy of http://www.dws.org/sousa/works.htm - 11/09/08
USMC Image courtesy of http://jasonjeffrey.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/ - 11/09/08
Animated USMC Flag clip art courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Divider Line clip art courtesy of Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - um, a long time ago........
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Animated Coast Guard Flag courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Hillsboro High School's Topper (Band Version) clip art courtesy of
http://www.hillsboroschools.net/schools/hhs/activities/music2/Band/bio.html
- 06/07/08
Thanks, Mark!
American School Logo courtesy of http://www.americanschoolofcorr.com/grads.asp - 09/05/06
Animated Navy Flag clip art courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Marine Corps Seal clip art courtesy of the late Herbert Hice of MI - one of my Famous Marines
who served in the South Pacific during WWII.Animated "NEW" clip art courtesy of http://gifsnow.com/ - 03/07/06
