"If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe,
~ G. A. Johnston Ross |
Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Today is
John Howard's ('66 - of VA) birthday, but he's celebrating it away from his
family
on the other side of the world. Happy Birthday, John - and take good care
of yourself!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
From Alex Nicol (Feb., ''49) of VA - 11/22/05:
Thank you for sending to me
this email. I wish I had your computer knowledge. I am almost retired
(still working at 73). Gee, I have not told Sandra Nicol Smith, my oldest daughter, about this web site. (Sandra graduated in 1970 from N.N.H.S. (#2 in the class) Yours truly, Alex Nicol (class of FEB, !949) Thanks, Alex! I wish I had my computer knowledge, too! What was it Archie Leach (aka Cary Grant) said? "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." WILD GIGGLES!!! Oh, please do tell Sandra! We'd love to have her with us! |
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 11/22/05 - "Note from Jeanb":
Dear Carol,
First of all, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! You have enriched our lives greatly with this website and it just grows more and more special and wonderful. Thanks, Jean! I do really love it so! Now I JUST HAVE TO SAY THIS: YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT OLE HIGH SCHOOL CRUSHES BECAUSE YOU DATED 500 guys by your own admission...after all, you might forget one or two and have them slit their throats in disappointment...("wild giggles"...) And we won't even mention the "sneakin' out story"...hahaha I did NOT date
500 guys, Jean!!! That was just what my sister
And I just thought of another reason (besides those already mentioned at length) why that sneaking out of the bedroom window to meet guys is so totally ridiculous. I did not drive!!! How was I to effect that whole thing, walk?!? As Gene Wilder said in Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), "I have a better idea! I have an even better idea!!!" I just glanced over my mailing list. It would seem that there are about ten or fifteen fellas on there that I dated, give or take a few. If any of you guys out there actually remember my doing anything even remotely reminiscent of this nature, please drop me a line! Thanks so much! Now are you ready for a Crock-pot story? TRUE STORY!!! When I was much younger I got a crock-pot and kept in on the counter...since I am SHORT and cannot reach anything I learned a few space-saving techniques...one of which was to keep the cord to my electric coffee pot in the crockpot where it was handy but hidden from view. So I proceed one morning to make a nice chicken soup in the crockpot...took the lid off, threw in the chicken pieces, added some carrots, some celery, some salt and spices...some broth, put the lid on...and let it cook overnight. The next morning it smelled marvelous and I was really excited about this nice soup I had made for the first time. I put a big wooden spoon down into the crock-pot and pulled up the cord to my coffee pot! Needlesstosay the soup went over the stone wall into the woods, and I had a devil of a time cleaning the cord, but it did work after that!!! I no longer store electrical cords in my crock pot! I always give out my crock-pot soup recipe to new brides!!! I also have a recipe for cooking the turkey with the bag of giblets still intact in the cavity...oh well, I would much rather go out for Thanksgiving!
Thanks for the phone call this morning, Lady! You really brightened my day! |
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 11/22/05 - "'prise' and 'be still'":
My maternal grandparents were of
English descent and they used both of those expressions...they also called
me "our Jean". Being a kid, I just thought they were old and "talked
funny"...but when watching the British comedy
Keeping Up Appearances
on cable, I heard it again..."our Rose" "our Hyacinth"...etc.! Isn't that marvelous how idiomatic expressions are passed down in our families for at least a few generations?!? Thanks for the story, Jean! |
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 11/22/05 - "all in fun":
From Renee Helterbran Benton ('59) of VA - 11/22/05 - "Oops!":
Carol
The photo you published in
the newsletter of
Lydia Powell Mugler ('58 - of VA) is actually LINDA Powell
Overton ('58).
Renee Helterbran Benton, '59
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"Well, isn't that special?!?" | |
Lydia Powell (Mugler) | Linda Powell (Overton) | ||
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That's almost as exciting as last month when I gave ![]() Much as I'd like, I can't think up any good excuse for either of these atrocities, so I'll just correct them and offer my deepest apologies. http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/11-19-05-NNHS-Never-My-Love.html |
From Cheryl Mays Howard ('66)
of VA - 11/22/05 - "bday":
Hi web Queen...
Peace & Blessing, Cheryl |
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Now that one I knew! But thanks for
the reminder, Cheryl! http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html These colors look rather incongruous
with John's image here, |
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From Aretie Gallins Patterson
('59) of Northern VA
- 11/22/05 - "Reconnections ":
Thank you, ![]() ![]() Two hours later: Well guess what… I got my courage up, and I said to myself, what the heck… then I got out the Peninsula phone book, which I keep a current copy on hand at home because we go to NN all the time and my father still lives there, and I looked up Willie’s phone number. He wasn’t listed, but his brother was. Only first I had to look up ![]() ![]() Isn't
that just the most wonderful, dream-like feeling?!? |
From Pauline Collins Shofner ('65) of VA - 11/22/05:
From Aretie Gallins Patterson
('59) of Northern VA
- 11/22/05 - "November 22, 1963":
Dear Carol, I just finished reading the memories of 42 years ago. I was in my second year of teaching at NNHS. I was standing by room 121 at the end of the hall on the cafeteria side of the building to monitor the halls during the class change. A student coming to my eleventh grade U.S. history class rushed to the door and gasped the news. I froze in disbelief. History class that day was not about events long past. We lived history that day and grieved that it was so. The next several days we witnessed history in numb disbelief glued to our black and white televisions. The tragedy was incomprehensible. The U.S. history curriculum covered assassinations of past presidents, but those were so many words on pages in a textbook. In the spring semester of 1964 when we covered U.S. history from 1860 on, the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley were no longer remote. Thanks, Aretie! I was your student in one of those eleventh grade U.S. history classes that semester! I posted your memory: |
From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA - 11/22/05:
Carol,
I was in the U.S. Navy on board the USS IWO JIMA (LPH-2), with Tacron 12. We were in the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan (AKA FORMOSA). The whole ship was awakened at approx. 5 A.M. by the ships Chaplain with word that Pres. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Being a radioman, I spent many hours, off duty, in radio central trying to learn as much as I could of what had happened. When we were allowed to go ashore the people of Kaohsiung went out of their way to try to console us. It was one of the few times overseas that I truly felt welcome. It still seems like yesterday when I think about it. It was what I guess you could call a rude awakening that morning! Typhoon always! Jerry (62) Oh, WOW!!! Thanks, Jerry! I posted your recollections as well: |
From Dave Arnold ('65) of VA - 11/23/05 - "Reminder":
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 11/23/05:
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Hi, Carol:
I love the "Thoughts, On The Business of Life" published by Forbes in their November 28, 2005 edition. Let me share a few with you, and hope they will crack you up. They just might serve as a theme for one of your Newsletters.
"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie
on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're
going to be lazy." -Shirley Conran
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"Housework, if it is done right, can kill you." -John Skow "The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes." - Mary McCarthy
"People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but
because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex." -
Carol Burnett
"You become about as exciting as your food blender.
The kids come in, look you in the eye and ask if anybody's home." - Erma
Brombeck
"He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the
house." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"There is no need to do any housework at all. After
the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse." - Quentin Crisp
"Cleaning anything involves making something else
dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean." -
Laurence J. Peter
"I can't help it. I like things clean. Blame it on my
mother. I was toilet trained at five months old." - Felix Unger, from the
Odd Couple
"Housekeeping ain't no joke" - Louisa May Alcott
Always,
Adonis
Thanks, Adonis! These are a hoot! |
From Steve Veazey ('60) of VA - 11/23/05 - "RE:
Mr. Huller":
Hey, Carol, Thanks a bunch for your quick reply. I was here at the keyboard, eating breakfast, and should have thanked you right away. You continue to do remarkable work and we all appreciate it beyond words. Steve Thank you - so much, Steve! It's nice to be appreciated! |
NEWS FLASH:
From my sister, Eleanor (Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of NC) - 11/23/05:
My cable guys just left, and I now have high-speed internet. Would you like my new address?!? Well, certainly, Lady! I'll post it here: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1959.html And congratulations, not only for your escape from AOL, but for your graduation to the wonderful world of high-speed! |
BACKLOGS:
From Fred Eubank ('64) of TX - 11/04/05:
Carol, I would like to submit the attached JPEG images (one small and one large of each) to be added to the Briarfield Elementary School page. All the images (except the one with me standing in front of the school) are from the “School Memories” miniature photo albums (produced by Delmar Studios) that students received every year. Two years are covered, 1955-56 and 1956-57. I was in the fourth and fifth grades respectively. One shows my 5th grade teacher, Ms. Edwards. The “My Favorite Classmates” page shows Mike Barnes and Clarence (Clyde) Point. On the page with 6 photos, I know who they are except the top row, left and middle. If you can’t recognize them, I will send you the names. The three females should be fairly easy to ID, and one was very well known. I don’t know if you’ll want to, or even be able to, post the names on the web site due to privacy concerns. But I’m sure none of these individuals look anything like their images of 50 years ago. I have a few more of these, so let me know if you want them. Thanks. Frederick Craig Eubank NNHS Class of 64 San Antonio, TX |
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Okay, don't anyone faint just before the holidays, but I actually posted this today: |
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Mike Barnes ('64) and Clarence (Clyde) Point ('64) | ||||
I think it's entirely within the
realm of possibility that the little boy on the top right is you, Fred, and I
don't
know about the others, but if the little girl in the center of the bottom row
isn't Sue Miller ('64), I'm turning my
badge of something or other....
Thanks so very much, Fred!
And if we're still on speaking terms after this ridiculously long delay, I'd be
delighted to post your other images!
Y'all have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving - and take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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"I only have two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy."
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Now Thank We All Our God Based on Ecclesiasticus 50:22-24 by Martin Rinkart (1586-1649) Translated by Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878) Music: Johann Crüger (1598-1662); Harmony by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, In whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothers' arms Has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. O may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessed peace to cheer us; And keep us still in grace, And guide us when perplexed; And free us from all ills, In this world and the next. All praise and thanks to God The Father now be given; The Son, and him who reigns With them in highest heaven; The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus it was, is now, And shall be evermore.
"Now Thank We All Our God" midi courtesy of http://www.breadsite.org/classic.htm - 11/21/05
"Now Thank We All Our God" lyrics courtesy of http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/s-now-thank-we-all.html-ssi - 11/21/05
Flowers in Pumpkin Vase clip art courtesy of http://www.kaleidesigns.com/crochet/news/october04/news1.html - 10/31/04
Lacy Hearts Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://members.tripod.com/~emelinda/index-12.html - 10/04/04
Animated Rolling on the Floor Laughing Boy courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 04/06/05
Animated
Cheering Smiley
clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 08/18/05
Thanks, Al!