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12/04/09
- NNHS Newsletter -
“Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all
the long year through,
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
When we first used this Christmas carol four years ago today, I explained why even apart from its intrinsic loveliness I loved it so:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-04-05-NNHS-All-My-Heart-This-Night-Rejoices.html
I had been looking forward to "revisiting" it, and eagerly anticipating the videos which I could find now. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when there were none available of this particular version - not even in the original German! Even in entering the name of the composer, Horatio W. Parker, I still found nothing. However, as a surprise bonus to us all (and apropos of nothing), I found a clip of Horatio Caine's one-liners. The beauty is, this clip is equally entertaining where you are a big fan of CSI: Miami or just the opposite.
BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS7c21jOnI - Horatio Caine's One Liners - David Caruso
HEALTH UPDATE:
Tim Wilson of NY, youngest son of
My Cousin, Cheryl White Wilson (John Marshall HS - '64) of VA - 11/29/09:
(Reconstructed from phone conversation)
Tim lives on the fourth floor of a seven story apartment building in Brooklyn - with concrete steps. Returning home Saturday night (11/21) after his 39th birthday party, he tripped on the stairs, fell down one flight of steps, landed on his face, and was knocked unconscious. As it so happened, his neighbor "happened" to be having a party herself that night, and departing guests found Tim unconscious on the steps. Returning upstairs, the neighbor called 9-1-1, which dispatched an ambulance which carried him to Bellevue Hospital, passing three or four other hospitals on the way, as Bellevue is better equipped to handle this kind of trauma.
The physicians later said that Tim arrived with mere seconds to spare! He was whisked into surgery with the same problem (an epidural hematoma) which took the life of actress Natasha Richardson in March of this year. In addition to the injury to his eye (which I will not even attempt to describe), he also sustained a fractured skull, and may now have a titanium implant. He actually flat-lined during the surgery, but is expected to make a full recovery, with the possible exception of some loss of hearing in one ear.
A week later he was still hospitalized (I'm not sure whether or not he's been released yet). Obviously, this was not the way he had envisioned his birthday.
Just as obviously, your
prayers on his behalf have been mightily appreciated - and I'm sure are thought
by his family to be as responsible for his miraculous recovery as the excellent
medical care he received at Bellevue, and truly a cause for much rejoicing.
Thank you all so much!
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today to
William D. Dangler ('57) of VA AND
Howard
Williamson (HHS - '63) of VA!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to
Eugene Peters ('57) AND
the late
Gene Peters ('57)
(deceased - 07/24/09) AND
Melody Clendenin DeBerry
(Warwick HS - '66) of VA!
Happy Birthday this week to:
06 - Frances Scheinman Berkman ('57);
07 -
Jay Styles ('68) of VA AND
Janice Pratt McGrew (HHS - '67) of VA
AND
Tim Parsons ('73) of VA;
09 - Shirley Smith Langston ('57);
10 -
John Murden ('60) of VA AND
Glen Davenport ('63) of VA!
Many Happy Returns to You All!
THIS DAY IN WWII:
December 04, 1942 - U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II.
December 04, 1942 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.
December 04, 1942 - Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ended.
December 04, 1943 - In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaimed a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
December 04, 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
THIS DAY IN 1964:
Friday, December 4, 1964 - Singer Sertab Erener was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
Friday, December 4, 1964 - Actor Jonathan Goldstein was born in New York City, New York.
Friday, December 4, 1964 - Scottish Rugby Union player Scott Hastings was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Friday, December 4, 1964 - Actress Chelsea Noble was born in Cheektowaga, New York.
Friday, December 4, 1964 - Actress Marisa Tomei was born in Brooklyn, New York.
From
Don Jett (NNHS / Warwick HS - '60) of FL -
12/03/09 - "New Email Address for Don Jett":
Hi Carol,
Effective now, my email address has changed to jetsetdon@comcast.net and I hope you will make the change right away so I do not miss communicating with you. If you get more than one notice, it is because I have you in more than one address folder.
Thanks for updating my new address.
Don Jett
Thanks, Don!
I've
switched you now, both in my mailing list and on our curiously named "Alumni
List":
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-1960-to-1962.html
From
Bill Roady ('60) of VA - 12/03/09:
You're welcome, Bill - y'all
have fun!
From Domi O'Brien ('64) of NH via Her Daughter,
Avens - 12/03/09 -
"pictures":
Mum said I'm supposed to email Thanksgiving pictures to you.
Lots of pictures attached and they are HUGE... apologies for that, I tend to be uploading them to sites that auto-shrink them and keep my originals large size for printing purposes. If you can't open 'em, let me know and I'll do some mass shrinking.
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Blessings, Avens
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WOWZERONI! Looky-looky at all that beautiful food! Thanks so much, Avens - and Domi and it's good to see your faces at last!
The
size of the images was perfect; I vastly prefer to shrink and compress them
myself, whereas it's nigh on to impossible for me to enlarge them.
From Gary Sealey of VA - 12/02//09 - "Beecroft & Bull in Hilton Retiring":
Sad News.... Beecroft & Bull's Hilton location is retiring...
I received this email today ( Wednesday 1:21)
Over 50 years...
Just wanted to pass this along
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40% - 80% Off
Fall/Winter as well as Spring/Summer Clothing at our Newport News Location Only! December 3rd - 31st. After more than
50 years in the clothing business, Beecroft & Bull founders, Moss and
Frances, are retiring |
OH, NO!!!
Thanks for letting us know, Gary!
http://www.dailypress.com/news/newsletter/dp-biz_beecroft_1203dec03,0,5332836.story
From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 12/03/09 - "Have a nice weekend.":
http://www.uniquescoop.com/2009/11/original-civil-war-photographs.html
Original Civil War Photographs.
http://www.uniquescoop.com/2009/11/play-with-your-food.html
Food Art-some old, some new to me.
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Although I had arrived 20 minutes early for my one o'clock doctor's appointment, I watched patient after patient disappear into the various rooms. Now, I know things happen, and that more serious issues are typically dealt with first, so I was able to accept that those coming in after me were seen first, But when I was still sitting in the waiting room 1 1/2 hours later, I'd had enough and had become pretty irate.
Fortunately, as I got up and went to the receptionist, I calmed down enough to handle it without anger.
Instead I calmly said, "I know my son's appointment was for one o'clock. Can you tell me if that was a.m. or p.m.?"
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"If the world should blow itself up, the
last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
- Peter Ustinov
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"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no
good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell
Thank
you,
Shari!
I know how he feels.
Challenged Senior
At a certain age, everyone will understand this poor guy...
I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a
Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with
Facebook and Twitter.
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their
spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the
modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only
140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grand kids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl,
Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that
sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting
world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except
the bowel movements of the entire next generation.
I am not ready to live like this.
I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every
now and then going over to the grocery store or library.
I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I
am supposed to use when I drive.
I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife
as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my
hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the
most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time..
Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating". You would
think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She
would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next
light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross
streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GSP
lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones
in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how
I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair
cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone
rings.
The world is just getting too complex for me.
They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store.
You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper
or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of
those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take
them in with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say,
"Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual.."
Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look.
WILD GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Judy!
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 - 12/03/09:
Dress Code
Employed by the human-development
center of a corporation in the Midwest, my friend trains employees in proper
dress codes and etiquette.
One day as she was stepping onto the elevator, a man casually dressed in jeans
and a golf shirt got on with her.
Thinking of her responsibilities, she scolded, "Dressed a little casually today,
aren't we?"
The man replied, "That's one of the benefits you get of owning the company."
DATES TO REMEMBER:
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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 -
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 -
The NNHS Class of 1960 will again encourage the Laugh-A Lot
Breakfast Bunch to meet 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
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RSVP to duckbill1@verizon.net
NO LATER THAN
December 8, 2009.
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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”! |
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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
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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 |
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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
All My Heart This Night Rejoices
Words: Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen
"All
My Heart This Night Rejoices" lyrics and available history courtesy of http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/allmyhea.htm - 12/03/05Herald Angel clip art courtesy of http://www.btinternet.com/~edward.caution/HarkTheHeraldAngelsSing.htm - 12/03/09
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nimated Stars Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/christ-htm/lines-christ25.htm - 12/03/09
John Marshall High School's Justice Scale clip art courtesy of
Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05 (replaced 02/23/09)
Thanks, Cheryl!
Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
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
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!
Litchfield High School's Purple Panther Paw Print courtesy of http://www.litchfield.k12.il.us/ - 06/23/07
Animated Ringing Christmas Bell clip art (designed by Art Holden) courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 12/08/05