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11/16/09
- NNHS Newsletter -
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive
that only great
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Today's song is
most certainly not to be confused with the 1989/90 hit, "Whistling in the Dark"
by
They Might Be Giants. Oh my no,
that's a song for another day.
BONUS #1 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4D_cuOMLGE - Whistling Away the Dark
- Julie Andrews
BONUS #2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T57_h0TX0oc&NR=1 -
Whistling Away the Dark - Andy Williams
ALERTS:
From Sydney Dearing ('56) of TN - 11/15/09, 8:36 AM - "Classmates' passing and
illness":
Carol, I received a note from ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-15-09-NNHS-Bert-Smith.html She also passed on the sad news that another of our '56 classmates, Murray Rowe was just diagnosed with a malignant kidney tumor. I do not know the prognosis, only that it will have to be removed (I'm not sure if that means the kidney or the tumor). Would you be so kind as to add Murray to the prayer role.
Certainly, Sydney!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/requests-prayers.html On another upsetting, but not nearly as sad a note, switching my e-mail from the A list to the B list did not help. I am still not receiving them. It's all very strange because the whole time that you were having the problems with many people not being able to receive the newsletters, I was getting them all and had no warnings or problems of any kind. Anyway, I wonder if you would try one more thing for me. Change my e-mail address for your newsletters from syd20@tds.net to batcreek@tds.net. That is my secondary e-mail address, let's see if they will get to me on that one. Thanks again for all that you do. Sydney
Thank you, Sydney!
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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today
to
the late
George-Morewitz
('57)
(deceased 06/09/08)!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to Ronald Creech ('57)!
Happy Birthday this week to:
18 -
21 -
Joe Drewry ('58) of VA
AND
Jane Coltrane Leonard ('64) of
VA
AND
Ann Allen ('65) of NC;
Rose Woodard Groff
('65)
(deceased 10/14/84);
23 -
Sandra Ray ('61) of VA
AND
John Howard ('66) of VA
AND Peggy Cooke Wolfley ('71) of VA AND
Fayetta Covert Stansbury (Ferguson HS -
'72) of FL!
Many Happy Returns to You All!
THIS DAY IN WWII:
November 16, 1940 - Great Britain launched its first raid on Hamburg, Germany. Due to bad weather the accuracy of the attack was minimal and 233 German civilians were killed. By the end of the war, the total death toll in Hamburg from British attacks was near 50,000.
THIS DAY IN 1964:
Monday, November 16, 1964 - Baseball player Dwight Gooden was born in Tampa, Florida.
Monday, November 16, 1964 - Singer/pianist Diana Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Monday, November 16, 1964 - Actor Harry J. Lennix (Dollhouse) was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Monday, November 16, 1964 - Actress Maeve Quinlan was also born in Chicago, Illinois.
Monday, November 16, 1964 - Actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Italy. Her brother-in-law, Nicolas Sarkozy, is the current President of France.
AS PROMISED - ALMOST:
Carol: Bill Lee
How perfectly delightful! Thank you so much, Gentlemen!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/BILL-LEE/George-n-Judy.pdf
- brand new page!
Bill Lee (Warwick HS - '54) of NC
- 11/15/09 -
"Something for your web site":
From
Me
('65) of IL - 11/16/09:
Because I am experiencing technical
difficulties, I've once again removed and reserved the entry from
Paul Dobie
('66) of CO
to use
tomorrow.
Stay tuned once more!
From Bob Allen ('51) of VA - 11/14/09 - "Saturday's Mini-Reunion":
First, it was sponsored by the Class of 1960, so we'll expect to see more of their faces than of other class members. I would imagine the dreadful weather and flooding kept the attendance low, or there would have been many more joining them. Okay, let's think. Class of 1960. Well, first, we already know that Pat Merilic Duncan ('62) and Gene Duncan ('60) were going to be there, and there they are in the first shot. Next, we know that
Hmm, I'll be honest.
A couple of these guys don't look familiar to me at all. I mean, they
did graduate before I ever arrived at NNHS. But looky -
isn't that - I mean, that's just gotta be - OH, NO! No, no,
no, no, NOOOO, I'm not going to dig myself a giant pit from which there
is no return!!! I might - I might - try that in person, but not
from a leetle ol' picture! Y'all will just hafta tell me who was there
and where they were sitting before we label these pictures!
Thanks
so much, Bob! It looks like it was a lot of fun!
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See attached (ten more images of 11/12/09 and five more images of 11/15/09).
Thank you so much, David!
Well,
what else could I do?!? We are here to document, n'est pas??
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Nor-easter-Ida.html - brand new page (including all which has been reported previously)!
Go have a look!http://dailypress2.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=57391
I'm
working on finding out when that picture of a group of students in from of
the Warwick (County) High School was taken. Will ask some older students I
know if they can tell me what class, when and identify any individuals. Will
advise if/when I get more info. Believe it had to have been made in late 1940s (looking at attire, plus the fact that Morrison High officially became Warwick High in 1948). Don't recall that "County" was ever included in the title - at least not unofficially - to us it was simply Warwick High. I don't know when that part of the building was completed (older parts that once were Morrison High - and Elementary - were located behind this 'new' front. It was definitely there when I 'arrived' in September of 1949. That picture - nor anything like it - appears in the 1950 school yearbook. Bill Lee
Thank you, Bill, my money was on you all along!
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Hi Carol.
Some answers for
F.A.
Saunders (Hampton HS - '64 - of VA) about his photograph. Facts are:
· My mother, Dorothy Helen Curtis, and her two brothers Howard Milton Curtis and Donald Curtis graduated from Morrison High School. Mama in 1938-39, her brothers 2 and 4 years later. Mama’s class was the first one to graduate using the ‘new’ gym. This building is currently used as the NN Parks and Rec center on Copeland Lane. I am uncertain as to when Morrison HS became Warwick County HS. My guess is sometime around 1945.
·
“In 1958,
by mutual consent by referendum, Newport News was consolidated with the
former Warwick County (itself a
separate city from 1952 to
1958), rejoining the two localities to approximately their pre-1896
geographic size, The more widely known name of Newport News was selected as they
formed what was then Virginia's third largest independent city in population.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
· Note that the school name craved in the stone header above the students’ heads identifies the school as the Warwick County High School. Therefore, the photograph must have been taken prior to 1952 and after the renaming from Morrison HS to Warwick County HS.
OK, you smart guys get busy and correct my info. LOL
Joan
GIGGLES!
Thanks, Joan!
This kinda caught my eye...come to think of it, I was born in 1948.
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html
Bill
My, my, my. 1948, you say?? Sigh..... Thanks, Bill!
It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way
one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be
taken to the store.
Inside I'm thinking, 'Can't you see I'm on the phone?'
Obviously, not.
No one can see if I'm on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping the floor, or
even standing on my head in the corner, because no one can see me at all.
I'm invisible. The invisible Mom. Some days I am only a pair of hands,
nothing more: Can you fix this? Can you tie this? Can you open this?
Some days I'm not a pair of hands; I'm not even a human being. I'm a clock
to ask, 'What time is it?' I'm a satellite guide to answer, 'What number is
Disney Channel?' I'm a car to order, 'Right around 5:30, please.'
I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes
that studied history and the mind that graduated summa cum laude - but now
they had disappeared into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She's
going; she's going; she is gone!
One night, a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a
friend from England ..... Janice had just gotten back from a fabulous trip,
and she was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting
there, looking around at the others all put together so well. It was hard
not to compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic,
when Janice turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, 'I
brought you this.' It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe. I wasn't
exactly sure why she'd given it to me until I read her inscription:
'To Charlotte, with admiration for the greatness of what you are building
when no one sees.'
In the days ahead I would read - no, devour - the book. And I would discover
what would become for me, four life-changing truths, after which I could
pattern my work:
No one can say
who built the great cathedrals - we have no record of their names.
These builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never see
finished.
They made great sacrifices and expected no credit.
The passion of their building was fueled by their faith that the eyes of God
saw everything.
A legendary story in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the
cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird
on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man, 'Why are you
spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by
the roof? No one will ever see it.' And the workman replied, 'Because God
sees.'
I closed the book, feeling the missing piece fall into place.
It was almost as if I heard God whispering to me, 'I see you, Charlotte. I
see the sacrifices you make every day, even when no one around you does. No
act of kindness you've done, no sequin you've sewn on, no cupcake you've
baked, is too small for me to notice and smile over. You are building a
great cathedral, but you can't see right now what it will become.'
At times, my invisibility feels like an affliction. But it is not a disease
that is erasing my life. It is the cure for the disease of my own
self-centeredness. It is the antidote to my strong, stubborn pride.
I keep the right perspective when I see myself as a great builder. As one of
the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished, to work
on something that their name will never be on.
The writer of the book went so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever
be built in our lifetime because there are so few people willing to
sacrifice to that degree.
When I really think about it, I don't want my son to tell the friend he's
bringing home from college for Thanksgiving, 'My Mom gets up at 4 in the
morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for three
hours and presses all the linens for the table.' That would mean I'd built a
shrine or a monument to myself. I just want him to want to come home. And
then, if there is anything more to say to his friend, to add, 'you're gonna
love it there.'
As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're
doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel,
not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the
world by the sacrifices of invisible women.
Great Job, MOM!
Hope this encourages you when the going gets tough as it sometimes does.
Thank you so much, Sarah Sugah!
(Y'all seem determined to make
certain that my tear ducts remain fully functional.....)
ABBREVIATED ALERT:
From Jane Chambers of VA - 07/01/09 - "CNC BOOK BROCHURE & AD":http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/CNC-CNU/brochure(2).pdf
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/CNC-CNU/CNC-Memories-Book-219390602.pdf
Contact Dr. Chambers at cncmemories61_71@yahoo.com.
Thanks, Jane!
FINALLY:
From
ArcaMax
Jokes - 11/15/09:
Mistakes...
"Don't make the same mistake twice seems to indicate three mistakes, doesn't it?
First you make the mistake. Then you make the same mistake. Then you make the
same mistake twice.
If you simply say, 'Don't make the same mistake,' you'll avoid the first
mistake, won't you?"
~ George Carlin
DATES TO REMEMBER:
2.
Tuesday,
December 15, 2009 - The Class of 1958 will
hold
its annual Holiday Party at Al Fresco Italian Ristorante, 11710 Jefferson
Avenue. For details, contact Joe Drewry at
Jwdvt@aol.com -
CLASS OF 1958
3. Friday and Saturday, August 6 and 7, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1970 will hold its 40-Year Reunion. Saturday night will be at the Kiln Creek Golf & Country Club. For details, contact Carol Comer Cutler at ca23comerww@aol.com or visit the reunion website at NNHS1970Reunion.myevent.com - CLASS OF 1970
4. 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
PRAYER ROLL: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/requests-prayers.html - updated 11/16/09 |
BLOG: http://nnhs.wordpress.com/ - updated 08/04/09 |
Y'all take good care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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Carol Buckley
Harty
618-530-9092
Whistling Away the Dark
Lyrics by
Johnny Mercer
(18
Nov 1909 - 25 June 1976)
Music by
Henry Mancini
(16 Apr 1924 - 14 June 1994)
For the film
Darling Lili,
1970
Often I think this
sad old world is whistling in the dark.
Just like a child, who, late from school walks bravely home through the park.
To keep their spirits soaring and keep the night at bay.
Neither quite knowing which way they are going, they sing the shadows away,
Often I think my poor old heart has given up for good.
and then I see a brand new face, I glimpse some new neighborhood.
So walk me back home, my darling, tell me dreams really come true.
Whistling whistling here in the dark with you.
Often I think my poor old heart has given up for good.
and then I see a brand new face, I glimpse some new neighborhood.
So walk me back home, my darling, tell me dreams really come true.
Whistling whistling here in the dark with you.
"Whistling Away the Dark" midi (sequenced by Gene Confrey) courtesy of http://www.midistudio.com/Guests/G-Confrey/index.html - 11/16/09
"Whistling Away the Dark" lyrics courtesy of http://www.johnnymercer.com/FAQ/Whistling%20Away%20the%20Dark.htm - 11/16/09
"Dark Mood" Image courtesy of http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/wallpaper/downloads/ - 11/16/09
Animated Blue Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars.html - um, a while back.....
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.
Thanks again, Herbie!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art
courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Animated Coast Guard Flag clip art courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06 (still
missing...)
Thanks, Al!
Replaced by Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 02/09/09
Thanks, Norm!
Ferguson High School's Anchor clip art courtesy of
Steve Silsby (FHS - '72) of NC
- 12/14/05
Thanks, Steve!
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Hampton High
School's Crab clip art courtesy of
http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/ - 10/02/05
Replaced courtesy of
http://www.hamptonhigh1964.com - 02/17/09
Animated BOO-HOO
courtesy of Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 08/28/09
Thanks, Glenn!
Animated Big Hugs Smiley clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA
- 06/19/09
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Animated Ringing Gold Bell clip art (designed by Art Holden) courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 12/08/05