Thursday, December
3, 1964 -
Berkeley
Free Speech Movement: Police arrested over 800
students at the
University of California, Berkeley, following their
takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents'
decision to forbid protests on UC property.
From
Bill Roady ('60) of VA - 12/02/09, 10:30 AM - "NNHS NEWSLETTER DATES TO
REMEMBER":
HI CAROL,
HOPE ALL WELL WITH YOU AND YOURS.
PLEASE REINSERT, WITH CHRISTMAS
BELL AND RSVP REQUEST, THE DECEMBER 12, 2009 LAUGH-A-LOT BREAKFAST BUNCH
MEETING IN YOUR "DATES TO REMEMBER" SECTION OF YOUR NEWSLETTER.
HOPE YOU AND YOURS HAVE A SUPER
HAPPY AND SAFE HOLIDAY.
THANK YOU,
BILL ROADY
"REINSERT"?!?
Where did it go?!? Is my html code screwing up again just when I thought I
had almost - almost - licked the problem?!?
Hmmm - it looks
like it's still there to me - #2 in a list of five - but then, everyone
knows I'm bonkers.
Thanks, Bill!
Lemme know if the problem is still there now, please!
From Steve Veazey ('60) of VA - 12/02/09, 8:20 PM - "Who is the culprit,
please?":
Carol,
Our little Laugh-ALOT-Breakfast-Bunch has a
small problem. And, you can help us solve it...we think.
We've always intended to do a blanket
invitation of our NNHS '60 class, but, we never intended to make it an "open
to ALL TYPHOONS"....the place is just too small for that.
Please look in your emails and tell us WHO
provided that little ditty...please.
We'll take it from there...
Thanks, lady, and continue to provide the great
service you do so very, very well.
Steve Veazey
NNHS '60 and, BTW: your Evelyn
Fryer Fish ('58 - of TX) comments and photos brought tears to my old eyes...
Well, Steve, if you were to round up the usual suspects,
I would be the likely choice, as I have long been an outspoken proponent of
Open Reunions - for reasons too numerous to mention now - but, uh, I didn't
do it.
It arrived from two or three people sort
of second handedly in the middle of the
Nor'easter Ida. Perhaps that accounts for the confusion. It's
a shame you can't include everyone. Y'all just need to find
Doctor
Who and ask to rent out
his TARDIS (Time And
Relative Dimensions In Space).
Meanwhile, I've changed
the posting both on the Newsletter and on the front page of the site:
Thanks for letting us know,
Steve!
Y'all have fun, and the rest of
you who are not of the 1960 persuasion, consider yourselves "un-dis-re-vited".
From Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 12/01/09 - "Upcoming Christmas concerts":
Hello all!!
Virginia Choral Society is having our Christmas Concerts in the next few weeks.
If you wish to come and don’t see me, just email or call me and let me know how
many tickets you want and I will put them at the will call desk for you!
Attached is the flyer for this series and the dates and times for our concerts!!
As before, look forward to seeing you there! Be sure to see me after to say hi!
Fri Dec 11 8:00pm Williamsburg Presbyterian Church Williamsburg,
VA
Sat Dec 12 8:00pm Ivy Memorial Baptist Church Hampton, VA
Sun Dec 13 3:00pm Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Hampton, VA
Fri Dec 18 8:00pm St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church Yorktown, VA
Sat Dec 19 8:00pm Trinity Lutheran Church Newport News, VA
Sun Dec 20 8:00pm Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church Newport News, VA
Mon Dec 21 8:00pm Trinity Lutheran Church Newport News, VA
Thanks,
Sarah Sugah - wish I could be there!
From George Helliesen ('61) of MI -
12/02/09 - "Hug Certificate":
A Hug Certificate for You!
This poem is very sweet.
If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you
And share with you its beauty
On the days you are feeling blue
If I could build a mountain
You could call your very own
A place to find serenity
A place to be alone
If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea
But all these things I am finding
Are impossible for me
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair
But let me be what I know best
A friend that's always there
Life is a coin, you can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it
once.
AWWW!
Thank
you so much, George - for everything! Here're
some hugs back for you!
From Mark
Hutcherson ('66) of VA - 12/02/09 - "A WINTER STATISTIC":
A winter statistic
98% OF AMERICANS
SAY 'OH XXXX' BEFORE GOING IN THE
DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD.
THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM
VIRGINIAAND THEY SAY, 'HOLD MY DRINK AND WATCH THIS.'
WILD GIGGLES!
Thanks, Mark!
From Jerry Blanchard ('62) of VA -
12/02/09 - "A Different Christmas Poem":
Carol, I received this from an old friend and classmate
George Carter. I felt it needs to be seen by as many as possible.
I would love to see you put this in the news letter.
Jerry Blanchard (Class 0f 62) of Va.
Jerry
Honey, I run this about three or four times every December,
but since you're cute and as you're the first to ask this year,
I'll run it again.I thought last
year being what it was, I might have missed posting it then, but not so:
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
'What are you doing?' I asked without fear,
'Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!'
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said 'Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.'
'It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,'
Then he sighed, 'That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers.'
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.'
' So go back inside,' he said, 'harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right.'
'But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
'Give you money,' I asked, 'or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son.'
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
'Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.'
Christmas will be coming soon and some
credit is due to our U.S. service men and women for our being able to
celebrate these festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit
of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead,
who sacrificed themselves for us.
"Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that no body's going
to know whether you did it or not."
If you can't back our troops, maybe you should STAND IN FRONT OF THEM! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, THEY ARE OUR FAMILY
MEMBERS!
Thanks,
Sweetie! Tell
George Hi for me!
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 12/02/09,
9:57 PM - "64 Reunion Images":
We had a wrap-up committee meeting
tonight, and
Cookie (Phillips Tyndall - '64 - of
VA) was wondering when she could expect to see her reunion pictures on the site.
Also, watch for an e-mail from
YOUSENDIT, which will tell you how to download 95 mB of Linda
Lane Lane's ('64 - of VA) reunion images.
Thank you, David!
As I've mentioned several times, the Order of Posting will be to make up all the
back issues I missed from going to southeast Missouri the first week of
November, then the various Reunion images, then the shots from the CNU Tailgate
Party.
I have two more back issues to go - 11/02 and 11/03. This
has been greatly hampered by the difficulties I've experienced with wacko html
code, causing each Newsletter to require two and three times the hours they
normally take to produce. All of this has been exacerbated by the fact
that I've been feeling worse than usual for the past couple of weeks, rarely
leaving my room, and often requiring one or even two naps a day of at least two
hours each. I'm not ill with a cold or the flu; I think I'm just wearing
out like a broken machine whose warranty has expired.....
I realize y'all have been patient for a mighty long time, but
I'm giving it my best shot, I really am.
From Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL - 12/01/09 - "Warning for Friday!!!":
Warning for Friday!!!
ALIENS ARE COMING TO EARTH THIS
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AND THEIR
MISSION IS TO ABDUCT ALL GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE.
YOU
WILL BE SAFE.
I'M JUST E-MAILING TO SAY GOODBYE.
WILD
GIGGLES! Thanks, Ruthie!
Bye-Bye!
ABBREVIATED
ALERT:
From Jane
Chambers of VA - 07/01/09 - "CNC BOOK BROCHURE & AD":
Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and
Complain About Our Pets
1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (That's
why they call it "fur"niture.)
3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is
short, hairy and walks on all fours. Although they doesn't speak clearly, they
communicate extremely well, especially cats.
5. Dogs and cats are better than kids ...they eat less, don't ask for money all
the time, are easier to train, usually come when called (this does not apply to
cats), never drive your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke
or drink, don't worry about having to buy the latest fashions, don't wear your
clothes, and don't need a gazillion dollars for college. Also, if they get
pregnant, you can sell the children!!!
DATES TO
REMEMBER:
1.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - The Class of 1957 will hold its
Holiday Party at Angelo's on Route
17. RSVP no later than December 6. For details, contact Pat Beck Letzinger at
Pabletz@aol.com -
CLASS OF 1957
2.
Saturday, December 12, 2009 -
The NNHS Class of 1960 will again encourage the Laugh-A Lot
Breakfast Bunch at 9:00 AM at the Candle Light Kitchen in Norge (Williamsburg).
Directions: Take I-64 to Exit 231A-Norge, go 1-1/2 miles to Richmond Road, go
through light, look for shopping center on left, Candle Light Kitchen on Right.
-
CLASS OF 1960
-
RSVP to duckbill1@verizon.net
NO LATER THAN
December 8, 2009.
3.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - The NNHS Class of 1958 will hold its annual
Gathering and Dinner at Al Fresco Italian Ristorante, 11710 Jefferson Avenue.
For details, contact Joe Drewry at
JWDVT@aol.com -
CLASS OF 1958 AND “other NNHS
alums and friends of our 1958 class are invited to join with us”!
4.
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
5
.
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
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, You gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, You gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby do you recognise me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me
(Happy Christmas!) I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again
Chorus
(Oooh. Oooh Baby)
A crowded room, friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God I thought you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Oooh Oooh
Now I've found a real love you'll never fool me again
Chorus
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
(Gave you my heart)
A man undercover but you tore me apart
Next year
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
special
someone
someone
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
who'll give me something in return
I'll give it to someone
hold my heart and watch it burn
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
I've got you here to stay
I can love you for a day
I thought you were someone special
gave you my heart
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone
last Christmas I gave you my heart
you gave it away
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone
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!
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!
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