11/27/06 - NNHS Newsletter - I Hear You Knocking

“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear
the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts."

- K. T. Jong
(1856-1939)

 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/01-12-05-NNHS-I-Hear-You-Knocking.html

   I love the midi, and I was fascinated by the clip art.  How could I resist?

   I hope and trust your Thanksgiving holiday has been fabulous!

25 -   Donnie Satisky ('56) of OR - 1938;
26 -   Donna Price Devers ('66) of NC - 1948;
26 -   Diana Price Carter ('66) of WV - 1948;
27 - Gayle Fallin Harris ('57);
29 - Jimmy Key ('57);
30 -   Rip Collins ('65) of TN - 1946; and
30 -   Sandi Bateman Chestnut ('65) of VA - 1947

   Many Happy Returns to all of y'all!

Just a reminder that we are getting closer to our Christmas Concert performance series. Please see the attached flyer for venues and times of performance.  If you are interested in purchasing tickets in advance give me a call, or if you wish me to place them at will call,  let me know (757-224-2049) and I will be happy to do that. You may also check out our website at: www.vachoralsociety.org  which lists our venues, times and other facts about out choir. 

ALSO:  If you wish to attend a concert at Trinity Lutheran you will need to let me know as quickly as possible as there are only a certain number of tickets available for each of those concerts.

I look forward to seeing you.

Sarah

   Thanks, Sarah. Sugah! I'm having a spot of trouble converting your attachment to a format I can use right now.     I'll try this again later......

   Awww, isn't she just so precious?!?

   Thanks, Jennie!  I'm glad you're enjoying us; I know you're enjoying Boni!

Jimmy

   Thank you, Sweetie!  We did have fun together!

Hi Carol

Thanks so much for the news.
I'm looking for    Ware Morrison. Had a dream about him.
He was in the class of 63.
By the way, when are we having a reunion?
Happy T Day. And let's not forget all the Indians that were destroyed for this "holiday".

Rochelle Spooner
 

   Not counting Open Reunions which are becoming more plentiful, your class is due for another reunion in 2008, but I've heard no details.  Try asking    Susie (Estelle) Overton Jones ('63) of AL: tnsjones@comcast.net

   Thanks, Rochelle!  

   Thanks, Brenda!    I have this posted for you:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html

     http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html

Standing over the stove today, keeping an eye on a turkey roasting in the oven, memories of Thanksgiving in Newport News fifty years ago came to mind. In my mind’s eye. I saw my fifteen year old self dressed in a new grey wool coat from Nachman’s, black and white saddle oxfords from Hofheimer's and bobby sox, folded over just so, going down the brick steps of our house on thirty-second street to head to Saunders Stadium for the NNHS-HHS football game, the breeze catching the blue and gold streamers of the yellow pom pom pinned to my collar. The cheers of the crowds in the stadium always echoed across Huntington and Washington Avenue to resound in our neighborhood three blocks away. In those days the Thanksgiving turkey meal at our house waited until after the game. After the game automobile horns honked and blared, echoing from one side of the street to the other as fans circled Washington and Huntington Avenues.

During a commercial on TV while I was in the kitchen, the opening phrases of the melody, “Come Ye Thankful People Come,” reminded me of learning the words at John W. Daniel Elementary School. We cut and pasted the words in purple ink into our composition books and learned them by heart.

The day after Thanksgiving meant the Christmas parade!
 

I'm Marcus C. Higgins, class of 65. I'm not sure who this letter is going to. But the purpose of the note is this. I have a 1964 & 65 Anchor yearbook from NNHS. The writing  (from other classmates) in the back appears to belong to a Darrell Graham?  Could Darrell have been a nickname? If anyone knows where he is or how to contact him, I'm sure he would like his yearbooks back. My mother purchased them many years ago in Newport News. I have lived in Arizona since March 1966. I discovered the yearbooks when going thru her affairs after her recent passing in South Carolina. I have my own complete set of Anchors from 61-65. If anyone else is interested in purchasing the two books, please contact me at mardar1@cox.net. Phone 623-386-4286. (leave message).

Keep up the good work on the web site.

Thanks, Marcus

   People are always searching for old Anchors, Marcus.  I'm sure if we're unable to locate Darrell, someone else will contact you about one or both of these yearbooks.

   Please accept our deepest condolences on the passing of your mother.  We're very sorry to learn that, and you will be in our thoughts during this difficult time.

   WILD GIGGLES!!!  I love it!  Thanks, Bill!

http://www.lost-colony.com/genealogyresearchside.html
 

   Oh, that's just too funny, Carol Anne!  What a rude awakening that must have been!  WILDEST GIGGLES!!!

   I've added both your names to our birthday list.  It would seem we just missed them both!

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

Dear Carol,

A very Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and to every Typhoon out there.

In response to the recent comments as to what is or is not appropriate for you to print, I would just like to point out that intolerance, religious in this case, is why America finds itself the target of radicals currently. So, rather than restricting our freedoms, we ALL should be utilizing them to the fullest lest we lose them altogether. In my case, if I come across something in the newsletter that I don’t care for, I simply skip ahead and do not read that particular piece. I have that freedom.

This is Thanksgiving. A lot of very brave souls have paid the ultimate price so that we can sit in our nice warm homes today and have this debate on our computers. And what is it that all Americans have to give thanks for…..I believe it’s FREEDOM.

Personally, I’m just glad that you, Carol, care enough to put this newsletter together. I’ll continue to read the parts that appeal to me and pass on the ones that don’t. But I will never suggest to you what you should or should not print.

Remember, Freedom is designed to benefit the masses, not be restricted by the disgruntled few.

God Bless America .

Joe

   Thank you, Sweet Joe!

Keep up the good work. As a wise one once said, "You can please some of the people some of the time..... and the rest are probably liberals anyway", Ha. 

   Thank you, Marcus!

Have a great turkey day. Thanks, Marcus C. Higgins. Don't forget the C, that's one third of my name. I'm sure glad my parents named me Marcus, because that's what people around here call me.

   Well, that was a serendipitous naming then, wasn't it?!?  WILD GIGGLES!!!  Thanks again, Marcus!

   Thank you, Betty!

   Thank you, John!

   GIGGLES!!!  Thank you, Bill!

   Friday afternoon as we were all lazing around thoroughly enjoying the rare privilege of doing pretty close to absolutely nothing,    Dale popped in my cherished DVD of Sherman Edwards' 1776 (1972) (One of My Very Favorite Movies given to me by One of My Favorite People on Earth).  I was struck once more as I heard "Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island" utter these pivotal words:

Hopkins: Well, in all my years I ain't never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yeah! I'm for debating anything. Rhode Island says yea!

Personally, I found    Evelyn Fryer Fish's ('58 - of TX) comments on immigration very informative. What are we supposed to do -- hide these facts, so nobody will know??????? Ignore the problem; therefore it goes away? Boy oh boy, wouldn't the politicos love that?

What I found most enlightening in all this, however, is the fact that our resident censor said nothing whatsoever about your #6 son's (  Dale Harty) comments on the issue, showing another side. That letter spelled out many facts that I, and I suspect many others, felt could be a factor, but we have never seen them discussed.

   Ronnie Darlin', rarely do I wish for a web cam, but I would dearly have loved to have seen your face as you penned these words!  I'll betcha the fire and smoke was flowing as freely as it was from mine last month when I felt that one of my dearest friends had come under attack for something I said (or chose to print).  I can take "Love Me; Love My Dog" to new and glorious heights when it involves my friends!

   Your passion and fervor on this subject thrills and delights me, Ron, and I do appreciate your support more than you're likely ever to know. Thank you so much!

   In all fairness - and I could, of course, be completely wrong - I think that Joe really didn't object to either our many differing viewpoints OR our right to express them openly, but simply that he didn't feel that this was a proper forum for doing so. And in our early days, this very definitely would have been true.

    Here's how the site appeared on 08/08/02:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020829165059/www.angelfire.com/va3/nnhs65/

   You'll notice there were only 14 links, with two others planned.  There was but one "In Memoriam" page, that for the Class of 1965.

   There was no "Our Old Stomping Grounds", so it could not have split to cover "Our Old Places of Worship".  There was certainly no "Our Old Apartments", which much later expanded to cover "Our Old Neighborhoods".  There was no section on "Our Schools When We Were Younger" with all those adorable childhood photos.  Of the "Famous Military" pages, only "Famous Marines" existed, and it was quite small, and resided on my personal (Cluckmeat) page.  There was precious little room to house images, and there was absolutely no thought of running a Newsletter.

   There were no memories of the fabulous WGH, or of the Cold War, or the Lights of West Point ,or the Kennedy Assassination, or Ship Christenings (I haven't gotten to USS Enterprise yet, but I have it planned....), or Physicians and Dentists, Fraternities and Sororities, Proms or Graduations, no coverage of hurricane damage, and certainly no silliness to equal the Great Saga of the Two Trains.  There simply wasn't space for all that.

   Three-and-a-half years ago when we (or more precisely,    Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA; I myself sorely lack that gift of vision and imagination) began expanding the scope of the site, we had no idea it would be so far-reaching.  The growth came when members of other classes joined us.  Each expansion sparked another.  Ideas began to play as communication began to develop among us all.  Perspectives changed, reunions became open, people began to see one another more often and under more circumstances, and as they did, we became what    Tom Flax ('64) of VA called One Big Happy Typhoon Family - and even that "NNHS" limitation has expanded.

   And when that happened, there was no reason not to celebrate.  There was no reason not to entertain.  There was no reason not to educate and inform.  And as families do, there was no reason not to discuss, and yes, sometimes even to argue, because that is what families do, that is how families grow.

   But what families do most and best is to love, and hopefully that is what we here do most and best as well.

   Thank you all so very much - for everything!

Please know that I do not want to cause problems by my email to you. I am sorry that I sent it to you and if it offended anyone.

Love, ev

   Nonsense, Pretty Lady!  You voiced a majority opinion from a unique perspective, and you have every right to do so!  I'm glad you did!  We get into little fun squabbles with one another every now and then, and we all still love and respect one another, and we all still have the right to say what we feel.

   I knew it would cause a little excitement when I printed it - and    Chandler Nelms' (Hampton HS - '63 - of MD) earlier remarks.  And I had been planning to add    Dale's for some time as well.....  We may become progressively wilder on this subject, but you, Sweet Lady, are not the focus of any of our rants.  The point here is the right to express ourselves, and not limit our conversations to strictly school memories.

Thank you, Dear Carol. 

I appreciate your response.  You know, I have always looked at your newsletter as that for your class and I have appreciated so much being able to enjoy it.  I always thought your were very nice to include us "older folks"...  Although others do give input and you include so many others - personally, I still feel it truly belongs to your class.  Since I have always thought of it as being Your Class newsletter, I am SHOCKED that someone outside of that arena would have the gall as to give you ANY kind of advice as to how You Do YOUR Newsletter!!

Love, ev

   WOW, I find that rather fascinating, Evelyn!   I myself have not considered it a strictly "1965" site or newsletter for almost four years now!  I do believe that the majority of our content has come from people of other classes.  It's just too much trouble and would cause too much confusion to change the name!

   Thanks again, Sweet Lady!

   Thank you, Richard!

Love you lots, Jeanb 

   Thank you, Jean!

   OH, how funny! 

   Thanks, Gorgeous! 

Carol,

Look at one a day to brighten your day,

Jerry Blanchard (Class 62) of Va. 

AWWW, isn't he cute?!?  Thanks, Jerry!

  
   My company has gone, and I'm playing "Catch-Up" as fast as I can.  I'll try to have another issue for you tomorrow, as we have some newly-arrived time-sensitive material.

   Y'all  take care of each other! 

   TYPHOONS FOREVER!  We'll Always Have Buckroe!

                       Love to all, Carol