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12/05/15 - NNHS Newsletter - I Saw Three Ships
“Blessed is the season which engages
- Hamilton Wright
Mabie |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Though the
lyrics to this old carol are somewhat ridiculous, it is nevertheless a happy and
traditional favorite.
I tried to bring you a variety of interpretations in your bonuses, but be aware that they are not all at the same volume. A couple of them are too soft, so when you hike the volume to hear them, the next one could very well then knock your socks off, so be careful.
BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqA3kDdPwbw - I Saw Three Ships - Nat King Cole
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6KIKKNQMo - I Saw Three Ships - Maryanne Faithfull and The Chieftains, 1991
BONUS #3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXtBm5B2y2E - I Saw Three Ships - King`s College Choir, Cambridge
BONUS #4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphA-4iY-ek - I Saw Three Ships - Mannheim Steamroller, 1984
BONUS #5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95LVthJfDzY - I Saw Three Ships - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_Three_Ships:
| "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is a traditional and
popular
Christmas carol from
England.
A variant of its parent tune "Greensleeves",
the earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 17th
century, possibly
Derbyshire, and was also published by
William B. Sandys in 1833.[1][2]
The lyrics mention the ships sailing into Bethlehem, but the nearest
body of water is the
Dead
Sea about 20 miles away. The reference to three ships is thought to
originate in the three ships that bore the purported relics of the
Biblical magi to
Cologne Cathedral in the 12th century.[2]
Another possible reference is to Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia, who
bore a coat of arms 'Azure three galleys argent'*. An arrangement by Martin Shaw appears in The Oxford Book of Carols.[3] The Carols for Choirs series of carol books features an arrangement of the carol by Sir David Willcocks. Organist Simon Preston and former conductor of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger, have also written arrangements that the choir have performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in recent years. This carol is also featured in the musical Caroline, or Change, but as a counterpoint. Adapted by Jon Schmidt on Jon Schmidt Christmas album. John Renbourn has arranged it (in a rather free adaptation) for guitar. The song appears on Nat King Cole's 1960 LP "The Magic Of Christmas" (l/k/a "The Christmas Song"), arranged by Ralph Carmichael... |
HEALTH UPDATE:
From
Glenn Dye
('60) of TX - 12/03/15:
| On Friday morning at 8:00
AM I'll be having cath surgery to see what all is going on.
YIKES!
We're keeping you
in our prayers, Glenn!
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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today 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 tomorrow to Frances Scheinman Berkman ('57)!
Happy Birthday this week to:
07 -
Jay Styles ('68) of VA
AND
Janice Pratt McGrew (Hampton HS - '67) of VA
AND
Tim Parsons ('73) of VA;
09 - Shirley Smith Langston ('57) AND Joan Gardner ('63);
10 -
John Murden ('60) of VA AND
Glen Davenport ('63) of VA;
11 -
Helen Bost Rainelle ('72) of FL;
12 -
Mary Massey Lyle ('61) of NJ AND
Marcus C. Higgins ('65) of AZ AND
Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73)!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
Many Happy
Returns, One and All!
200 YEARS AGO TODAY:
| December 05, 1815 - The foundation of Maceió, Brazil. |
150 YEARS AGO TODAY:
| December 05, 1865 - Chincha Islands War: Peru allied with Chile against Spain. |
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HIS DAY IN WWII:|
December 05, 1941 - In the
Battle of Moscow,
Georgy Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German
army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. December 05, 1941 - Great Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. December 05, 1943 - U.S. Army Air Force began attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. December 05, 1944 - Allied troops took
Ravenna,
Italy. |
THIS DAY IN 1965:
| Sunday, December 05, 1965 - Fashion designer
Manish Malhotra was born in Bombay, India. Sunday, December 05, 1965 - Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Goo Goo Dolls) John Rzeznik was born John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik in Buffalo, New York. Sunday, December 05, 1965 - Rapper Wayne Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica. On 17 February 2014, at the age 48, he died of a heart attack in Kingston, Jamaica Sunday, December 05, 1965 - Race walker Valeriy Spitsyn was born Valeriy Anatolyevich Spitsyn (Валерий Анатольевич Спицын) in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Sunday, December 05, 1965 - Physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Erlanger (b. 05 Jan 1874 in San Francisco, California) died of heart disease in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 91. |
| “Be as friendly to
the janitor as you are to the chairman of the board.”
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.(b. 1940) |
From My #2 Son,
Brent Harty
(Hillsboro HS,
IL - '90) of TX - 12/03/15 - "My Change of Command Ceremony":
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Here are some good images
from my Change of Command ceremony with CPT Paterson. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5-52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Ft Bliss, TX Thanks to all who helped me get to this point, especially my parents and my wife, and my God who makes all things possible. |
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WOWZERS! Congratulations, Brent! 
We so wish we
could have been there with the three of you for this very special day,
but we were most definitely there in spirit!
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| “At every party,
there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who
don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.”
-
Ann Landers |
From Bill Hobbs ('66) of Northern VA - 11/16/15 - "Signs of the Times (#15
in a series of 21)":
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Thanks, Billy!
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BONUS CHRISTMAS STORY:
From My Friend, Tammy, of UT - 12/05/14 - "Daily Christmas Story (#5 in a Series of 24)":| This year I decided to
share some of my favorite Christmas stories and quotes. It is a
tradition in our family to read a Christmas story every night in
December culminating with the Nativity on the 24th.
Christmas Story Day 5,
Thoughts on Mary by Jeffrey R. Holland |
| I’ve thought of Mary, too,
this most favored mortal woman in the history of the world, who as a
mere child received an angel who uttered to her those words that would
change the course not only of her own life but also that of all human
history: “Hail, thou virgin, who art highly favoured of the Lord. The
Lord is with thee; for thou art chosen and blessed among women.” (JST,
Luke 1:28.) The nature of her spirit and the depth of her preparation
were revealed in a response that shows both innocence and maturity:
“Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”
(Luke 1:38.) It is here I stumble, here that I grasp for the feelings a mother has when she knows she has conceived a living soul, feels life quicken and grow within her womb, and carries a child to delivery. At such times fathers stand aside and watch, but mothers feel and never forget. Again, I’ve thought of Luke’s careful phrasing about that holy night in Bethlehem: “The days were accomplished that she should be delivered. “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and [she] wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and [she] laid him in a manger.” (Luke 2:6–7; italics added.) Those brief pronouns trumpet in our ears that, second only to the child himself, Mary is the chiefest figure, the regal queen, mother of mothers—holding center stage in this grandest of all dramatic moments. And those same pronouns also trumpet that, save for her beloved husband, she was very much alone. I have wondered if this young woman, something of a child herself, here bearing her first baby, might have wished her mother, or an aunt, or her sister, or a friend, to be near her through the labor. Surely the birth of such a son as this should command the aid and attention of every midwife in Judea! We all might wish that someone could have held her hand, cooled her brow, and when the ordeal was over, given her rest in crisp, cool linen. But it was not to be so. With only Joseph’s inexperienced assistance, she herself brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in the little clothes she had knowingly brought on her journey, and perhaps laid him on a pillow of hay. At this focal point of all human history, a point illuminated by a new star in the heavens revealed for just such a purpose, probably no other mortal watched—none but a poor young carpenter, a beautiful virgin mother, and silent stabled animals who had not the power to utter the sacredness they had seen. Shepherds would soon arrive and later, wise men from the East. Later yet the memory of that night would bring Santa Claus and Frosty and Rudolph—and all would be welcome. But first and forever there was just a little family, without toys or trees or tinsel. With a baby—that’s how Christmas began. It is for this baby that we shout in chorus: “Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn king! … Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die: Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth.” |
Thank you so
very much, Tammy!
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BONUS CHRISTMAS
CROCHET PATTERNS:|
http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/little-penguin-ornament
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Nancy Anderson's Little Penguin Ornament http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/snowflake-ornament - Katherine Eng's Snowflake Ornament http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/christmas-love-hearts - Christmas Love Hearts http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/tree-hearts - Linda Cyr's Tree Hearts http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/sweet-heart-sachet - Sweet Heart Sachets |
BONUS RECIPES
(Sorry; not theme-related):
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FINALLY:
From www.ajokeaday.com - 12/04/15:
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A
middle aged man bought himself an open top sports car and having
just picked it up from the showroom, decided to take it for a drive.
Enjoying the wind in his hair as he took another bend, just kissing
the apex he spied in the rear view mirror a policeman on a
motorbike. Immediately he put his foot on the gas and was soon
approaching 100 miles an hour. Then he came to his senses and pulled
over. As the policeman approached, the man started to apologize when the officer said, “Look, it's 5:15PM on a sunny Friday afternoon and my shift ends in a few minutes. If you can give me an excuse I haven't heard before. I'll let you go.” The man replied, “Officer, my wife left me for a policeman six years ago, and when I saw you in my mirror I thought you were trying to bring her back to me.” With this the officer closed his ticket book and waved the man on. |
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I Saw Three Ships
I saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
I saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And what was in those ships all three,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three,
On Christmas Day in the morning?
Mary mild and Christ were there,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
Mary mild and Christ were there,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And all the bells on earth did ring,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
And all the bells on earth did ring,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And all the Angels in Heav'n did sing,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
And all the Angels in Heav'n did sing,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
Then let us all rejoice again,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
Then let us all rejoice again,
On Christmas Day in the morning!
"I Saw Three Ships" midi courtesy of http://delongfarms.com/m_frame.html - 12/01/06
"I Saw Three Ships" lyrics courtesy of http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/%7Eai251/xcarol.html - 12/02/06
Image of Three Ships courtesy of http://www.puzzlehouse.com/_jigsaws/woodenthumbs2.htm - 12/05/06
Animated Ship Divider Line clip art
courtesy of
http://www.fg-a.com/lines.htm - 05/03/03
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 Famous Marines
who served in the South Pacific during WWII.Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
Hillsboro High School's Topper (Band Version) clip art courtesy of
http://www.hillsboroschools.net/schools/hhs/activities/music2/Band/bio.html
- 06/07/08
Thanks, Mark!
Animated
Applause
clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 08/18/05 (re-saved 02/27/09)
Thanks, Al!
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06
Animated Laughing
Kitten courtesy of Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of VA - 07/29/08
Thanks, Joyce!
Animated BOO-HOO
courtesy of Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 08/28/09
Thanks, Glenn!