12/04/05 - NNHS Newsletter -
All My Heart This Night Rejoices

   All the mention of Trinity Methodist Church lately brought a Christmas memory back to me.  Every December they held (and I suppose still do) a magnificent Christmas Cantata with all the church choirs participating, placed in different locations around the sanctuary.  I can remember Christmas of 1960 when we were in the eighth grade    Linwood Wright's ('65 - of VA) being in the Handbell Choir, while    Becky Goolsby ('64 - of VA) ,    Rose Woodard ('65), and   I ('65 - of NC) were singing in the six-girl Antiphonal Choir.  And I remember   Bill Mingee ('61) and    Bill Gruver ('62 - of Northern VA) singing in the Epworth Choir (for those in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades).  Each year, the Epworth Choir sang this beautiful carol - All My Heart This Night Rejoices.  I thought it was one of the loveliest carols I'd ever heard, both the lyrics and the melody.  I still do.

   Hi, Kathie - and welcome!  I've added your name to the invisible mailing lists, as well as to the Alumni List and the Contact List for the Class of 1964 (though I did not publish your email addy):

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1964.html

2.    Myra Rosenwasser Kahn ('58) of FL - 12/03/05:

Add to list; I now live in Lake Worth, Florida.

   Certainly, Myra!  Welcome!  I've never created a Contact List for the Class of '58, but I've added your name to the Alumni List alongside your classmates, as well as to the hidden mailing lists:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html

Happy Birthday today to Howard Williamson (HHS - '63) of VA, and a happy belated birthday to   Ann Lillaston Wilson ('57) and to    George Konstant ('65) of VA, who both celebrated Friday, and I forgot for the second year in a row to mention it in time.  Boy, am I in trouble!  I'm so sorry.  Maybe I should get a head start on    Melody's (Clendenin DeBerry - WHS - '66 - of VA) birthday tomorrow!

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

  Aretie (Gallins)Patterson

I'm afraid my 'memorabilia' is pretty much just memory, where it can't get lost... like the metal Lionel train set I won-in a drawing from Gorsuch Drug Store - and got my picture in the paper as well!... and the baseball cards... who knew? What are those things worth now? I don't even want to know. As with many things and people that are nowhere to be found, we are lucky to have good memories that cannot tarnish with age.

   ARGHHH, all the goodies and wonders we let slip through our fingers!  I don't even wanna think about my baseball card collection!  I had a whole shoebox full!

Glad to hear you will pace yourself!

Jimmy 

   Thanks, Jimmy! 

Carol,

  David Cutler ('67 - of VA) is one of my best friends and I know he is not   Jimmy's ('68) brother; in fact, they are not related at all.

What they did have in common was great track talent.

Peace, Albert

   AHA!  Well, isn't that special?  Let's hope they're good friends and each considered that error a compliment.  Sigh....  At least I didn't pronounce them dead, as I did three poor unsuspecting souls in the past....

   Thanks, Albert!

 

   GIGGLES!!!  Indeed!  Thanks, Sweetie!

   Okay, would anyone care to call one or all of these gentlemen and end our speculations?  I almost picked up the phone and did so myself yesterday, but my voice is still out of whack and I sound like a zombie, if not worse, so I chickened out.

I am doing family research and would like to know if any of my school mates are "family".
The Bonds are from Wise County, Virginia mostly, but are spread out everywhere.
Family names: Wade, Davis, Lawson, Greer, Kilgore, Smith, Gilliam, Horn, Bruce, Powell,  and to tell the truth, a lot of NNHS people. If anyone is out there, please let me know.

lmcrayton@netzero.net

Also, I lived in Warwick Gardens and went to Parkview Baptist. Love to see those pictures!

I have three sisters who also attended NNHS -    Ricki (60), Betty, and Rosie.

   Rosie?  Is    Rosalie ('65) your sister?  She was in my homeroom 209.  (I'm doing soooo well on calling these relationships lately, I thought I might as well stick my foot in my mouth again....)

Print this if you can or think its safe.

   Of course, I can!  And "safe" is such a relative term.  What is safe?  Who is safe? And who really knows?

I'm so glad you're there.

   Thank you - I'm glad I am too!  GIGGLES!

   But as for your question, many of us are related by blood as well as by spirit.  I myself have a Powell line, but it's back in Jamestown in the early 1600's.  And I know of a number of our other subscribers who do as well.  Do you know what in which counties your families lived before they made it out to Wise County?

   Okay, all you family history buffs out there (and we have a goodly number of them in our midst as well).  Check out those names and drop Linda a line.

   Thanks again, Linda!

Dear Carol,

I second    Joe Madagan’s ('57 - of FL) comment about    Fred Eubank’s ('64 - of TX)  Briarfield website and   Jimmy Hines’s ('64 - of Northern VA) comments to you about to relax and not to feel guilty, which appeared in the December 2, 2005 newsletter!!! You ARE doing a TREMENDOUS job, and all of us are deeply grateful to you! Thank you a googolplex times (that’s 10 to the 100^th power times)!!

Aretie Patterson

   GULP!  Thank you, Aretie!  I feel extremely blessed to have this privilege.