12/09/05 - NNHS Newsletter - Hark!
The Herald Angels Sing!
"Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, 'Peace on earth'?"
~ Felicia Hemans
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12/09/05 - NNHS Newsletter - Hark!
"Oh! lovely voices of the sky |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
| Before we
get started, I have a question. At least three of us have been
experiencing strange problems with our email all this week, both sending and
receiving. Sometimes they are being delayed for several hours;
sometimes they are vanishing altogether, and sometimes they go right through
as normal. Are any of y'all encountering the same difficulties, or have the three of us just been detoured into the Twilight Zone? Thanks! |
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From Gary Fitzgerald ('61) of VA - 12/08/05 - "Redskins":
| I'm running a bus trip up
to see the Redskins/Cowboys football game on 12/18. Any alumni wishing to go
should contact me at 757-879-2847. The cost is $75.00 if you have tickets,
and $225.00 if you need a ticket. Come on and have a good time watching my
beloved Redskins whip the Cowboys . I wish every one a safe a happy holidays. COOL BEANS! Thanks, Gary! Go, Redskins! |
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 12/08/05 - "Unusual Advertising Sign for Tire
Dealership
in Hampton":
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Hi, Carol:
Did any of your faithful subscribers identify the name of the retail tire dealership in Hampton where the sign displayed what appeared to be a man's legs sticking up in the air, giving the appearance the man was inside a stack of tires? A person from the mid-west recalling his youth and visits to Buckroe Beach raised the question some time ago? I do recall such a sign, but have not been able to come up with a location or name. Maybe I missed the answer to this "mystery" in one of the Newsletters? TYPHOON Regards,
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL
Not yet, Joe. This
mystery is still waiting to be solved. I remember the sign myself, but
of course I 've no clue where it might have been, just that it was probably
on the way to Buckroe from
Stuart Gardens. Thanks, Adonis! |
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 12/08/05 - "Unusual Advertising Sign for Tire
Dealership
in Hampton":
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me. I can almost see it in my mind. If I had to guess without any research, I would say: 1. Jefferson Avenue between Briarfield and Mercury Boulevard, on the west side. 2. Pembroke Avenue, between Aberdeen and Queen Street. They say to always go with your first hunch ..... Dave
Sounds good to me! Thanks, David! |
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 12/08/05 - "Unusual Advertising Sign for Tire
Dealership
in Hampton":
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Thanks, Dave:
I almost started to suggest it was Pembroke Avenue, between Aberdeen and Queen, for some reason that seems correct for me. So, I am glad you recalled it as well. Maybe there were two such stores on the Peninsula.
"Mickey...Mickey Kramer" ; Mickey Kramer Tires. Nahhh,
they were in Norfolk.
By now I would have thought this mystery was solved
unless this business was around before most of the subscribers were
driving their own cars around the Peninsula. We do not have a time line as
I recall from reading the inquiry.
TYPHOON Regards,
Joe
I'm sure we'll find our answer soon, Joe! It's just on the tip of our collective tongues! Thanks! |
From Joe Wingo ('65) of NC - 12/08/05:
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Dear
Carol,
First
and foremost, a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. As for Merry Christmas, Typhoons. Sincerely, Joe Wingo Well, that is great news, Joe! If those tapes survive, it gives hope that many more may have as well! Merry Christmas to you, too, Sweetie - and thanks! |
From
David Whitley ('67) of VA - 12/08/05:
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OUCH!!! WILD GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Gorgeous! |
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From Roberta Hilsdon ('70) - 12/08/05:
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Hi Carol and NNHS classmates,
Where are all the 1970
graduates? Hope you all have wonderful holidays.
Roberta Hilsdon (youngest of
the Hilsdon girls)
Ummm, I dunno, Lady, I
thought you had them! Where are your sisters ( Seriously, there have
only been two other 1970 Typhoon who have contacted me,
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html But I have noticed a strange occurrence in the past. Classes seem to arrive in groups. A few will come straggling in, and suddenly there's a big rush all from the same class. I would assume this comes from word of mouth. So stay tuned, we might have a plethora of them to suddenly appear. And then there's the other possibility. As strange as it may seem to us, not everyone is interested in this sort of thing! Thanks, Roberta! Tell your sisters Hi for me! |
From Bill Black ('66) of GA - 12/08/05 - "
Tim Parsons' 'Secret Tunnels'":
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To Tim Parsons ('73 - of VA):
A tunnel under the auditorium? That's
news to me... where exactly? Unless you're talking about that open shaft
connecting the 'paint room' on the first floor to the 'stage crew
homeroom' on the second floor.
By all means, let's have a Stage Crew
Homeroom page.
Okay, let me think about how I
want to design that page. Upon further consideration, it's going to
take me a bit longer to construct than I had original thought, but there's
certainly a high enough demand for it among our subscribers. I'm
just a bit short on time today....
Just leave off any reference to "pink
bellies". 'Nuff said.
GIGGLES!!! Okaaaaay.......
Most of my personal favorite memories of
the stage crew were in '66, when the Community Theatre did "My Fair Lady"
and on strike night, our faculty sponsor,
Mr. Tod Christian (
Jane's - '66 older brother ), went around counting nail holes
in the floor and handed Hilliard Marshall ( since he was probably
the "producer" of that particular production ) a bill for -I don't
remember- fifty or sixty dollars. Hilliard thought he was kidding, and
when Mr. Christian ( jeeze.. why, after forty years, do I still think of
him as that? ) said he was serious, Hilliard hit the roof! I don't think
it was ever paid, and they chalked it up to 'normal wear and tear to the
stage'.
But later that same year, during, I
think "A Man for All Seasons", somebody had the bright idea to put a
c-clamp on the house curtain ( which was rigged to open and shut
horizontally, and not fly in and out ) on the stage left side, about six
feet up. During strike night, the guys on the pin rail were flying out
all the velour legs so we could get the scenery off-stage and give the
place a clean sweep. Of course, they couldn't see all the way across the
stage, so when one of the community theatre people yelled up to them
"Okay, now, fly the main outa here!", and it didn't want to budge right
away, they all jumped on the line and put their combined weight on it. I
was standing near the roll-up door, and it seemed that the whole stage got
quiet for a second, then came the muted sound of velour ripping apart.
Hilliard was there that night and grinned and said: "Well, okay.. That one
we'll pay for.
Then there was the time "Zizi Jean Marie
and her French Revue" came to town.. Uh... Never mind.. That story ain't
for general consumption.
Bill Black
Bill, you are a hoot! Thanks! |
From Kelly Loose Bustamante ('58) of VA - 12/08/05:
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Dear Carol,
Really enjoy reading your
letters -- thank you so much for
all your hard work.
You're most welcome, Kelly - and
thank you!
The Nehi Bottling Company was on 27th and Huntington Avenue. I can remember Nehi delivery trucks being loaded with sodas parked outside of the plant on Huntington Avenue. The neighborhood kids would elect one of the gang to keep the driver busy while the others lifted sodas from their cases on hot summer days. Hmmm, wonder how I would know that? Upstairs, over the bottling plant, were one-bedroom apartments.
Directly across Huntington Avenue on 27th
Street was a convenience store operated by a very grouchy, mean man named
Mr. Gayle, who was also a landlord of multiple run-down apartments
in the area. He could have easily been an understudy for Mr. Scrooge.
Bah-Humbug!
Take care of yourself Carol,
Kelly Loose Bustamante, NNHS'58
WOWZERONI!!! Well, at least that mystery is solved! Thanks so much, Kelly! I posted your remarks: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html |
From Fred Field ('45) of CA - 12/08/05:
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Hello Carol, Thursday, Dec. 8, 05
Joe Madagan's ('57 - of FL) mention in
today's (newsletter)
of Mr. Reese's Service Station at 901 Thirtieth Street sent me
scurrying back into my archives. About 20 years ago I had written an
article about The Old Neighborhood - the 800 block of
Thirtieth St. - which was the extent of my universe in my
early formative years. This is where I lived with my grandparents from
age 3 (1931) to age 6. My time in the neighborhood produced wonderful
memories that linger with me.
My last editorial runthrough was in 1991
and sometime I need to to add information gathered since
Since Joe seems to have lived somewhere
nearby, he would probably enjoy having the entire article forwarded to
him. However it is a bit wordy for publication in the newsletter. But do
whatever you want with it. Perhaps there are cameo sections of it that
might be interesting to the readers.
Mr. Reese and his establishment are
mentioned on page 3, right column. He and his very large family lived on
Chesapeake Avenue about a block east of
the hospital. His daughter, Roxie, was my age.
Fraternal best wishes,
Fred
WOWZERS!!!
Thanks, Fred! With this further information (which I extracted below),
I'll be making that page very soon! And I did forward the article in
its entirety to Joe. I'll no doubt be using more of it myself in the
future! |
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| 862 30th - This was a
combination gas station and store. Although the address was on 30th St., it
was built on a diagonal so that it partially faced Wickham Ave. This place
had a sequence of proprietors. Directory Listings: 1927 - David Goldberg. 1929 - Reese Service (see also following). 1931 - Thomas Watson station. 1933 & 1935 - Lamb's Service. Later - The place was operated by a man name Pulley. 901 30th - Location of Reese Service Station. Although not strictly in the 800 block, the place was important to neighborhood kids because Mr. Reese stocked a good supply of penny candy. He was a friendly man who had a large family himself. He lived at 53 Buxton Ave., later on Chesapeake Ave. I went to Woodrow Wilson School with his daughter, Roxie. Except for the Reese Station the 900 block was entirely devoted to agriculture and served as a buffer to the black section which then began at Orcutt Ave. |
From Tina Crowder Wescott ('65) of VA - 12/08/05 - "Old Morrison High School":
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Hi Carol,
The photo
Tim Parsons ('73 - of VA) sent to you of Morrison High School really
evoked a pleasant memory for me. When I was a kid and attending
elementary school here on the Peninsula, our school would use the Morrison
High School gym to play our basketball games. I had forgotten that the
gym was part of Morrison High School. |
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Anyway, I have worked out of
that gym for the last 10 years. It's now called the Warwick Recreation
Center and sits right beside Warwick High School. The gym is part of the
Newport News Parks and Recreation department and we run all the youth and
adult athletic programs for the city from here.
My office is at the front of the building (closest to Copeland Lane) and there is another office in the back where the athletic coordinators work. Every time I have to walk through the gym to get to the other office, it's like taking a walk down memory lane. |
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I can still see myself dribbling the ball and running up and down that court. For several years I kept score for the junior league basketball (13 to 15 year old boys) in the evenings. Watching them play reminded me of my time spent in this gym. When I first started working here, taking that walk would bring back so many pleasant memories, but now it just reminds me of how long ago that's been!!! But, that's still good!!!!
About 7 years ago, we had the rubber gym floor replaced
with a wooden floor. When the contractor started pulling out the floor,
we found 4 different floors underneath. We took a 2 foot x 2 foot section
of the original floor and had it framed and engraved a plaque with
"Morrison High School, 1930, Original Floor", and hung it in the gym.
Thanks for the memories!!!! :-)
Tina Wescott '65
WOWZERS!!! That is so cool! Thanks, Tina! |
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From Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 12/08/05:
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It was interesting reading the section
on "row homes" near John W. Daniel School.
I lived on 38th Street, between Washington and Huntington Avenues, from
the time I was 5 until I graduated from NNHS
in June of 1966. Now it is a parking lot with the NN Shipyard Credit
Union at the end of the street. Some of my neighbors were
Jerry Seay ('63 - of VA),
Danny Childress ('64), Fred Volhein,
Pam Russell (Hanzlik - '63 - of NC),
 Audrey
Dixon (Kelly - '62 - of VA),
Wanda Crump (Harris) ('66),
Garland Rigney ('67),
Terri McAfee (Artman) ('66),
Gilmore Kirby ('64),
Glenn Malpass ('65),
Jimmy Morrow ('65 - of NE),
Kathy Morrow ('67) and many more whose names won't come to mind
at 11:38 p.m. In fact, I met my husband while riding my bicycle in
September, 1962. No, I didn't run him down, I was on the bike when
someone called me over to meet him. He had just come from Garden Creek,
VA to attend the Apprentice School.
I went home and told my mom I had just met the man I was going to marry.
My husband walked over to Johnson's Confectionary and told Mrs.
Johnson the same thing! We married in July, 1966.
How wonderful!
My mother's mother and her mother's mother and their spouses did the very
same thing! In fact, I'm reasonably certain my oldest son and his
wife did as well!
Oh, what fun we had back then!
Neighbors were all one big happy family who looked out for one another. I
remember skating around the city blocks dodging shipyard workers and store
workers with reckless abandon. We walked everywhere because we were
downtown so everything was close - stores, movies, restaurants, etc. We
played hide and seek in the alleys behind our homes well into the night
during the summer months without any of the fears that we have for our
children today. Goodness, what fond memories have come rushing back!
Thanks, Dee! We lived in such a charmed time and place, didn't we? We've heard pretty much the same story from the Wilson group, the Magruder and Walter Reed kids, those from Briarfield, and who could be closer even now than those Jackson people from North End?!? How truly blessed we were! I've added your comments to the Daniel School page: |
From Rip Collins ('65) of TN - 12/09/05 - "The Perfect Couple":
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http://www.flashfunpages.com/couple.swf
Oh, Rip - this is delightful! Thanks! |
Y'all have a super weekend - and take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
(“Hark the
herald angels sing” was written by Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley,
founder of the
Methodist church, in 1739. A somber man, he requested slow and solemn music for
his lyrics and thus
“Hark the herald angels sing” was sung to a different tune initially. Over a
hundred years later Felix
Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed a cantata in 1840 to commemorate Johann
Gutenberg's
invention of the printing press. English musician William H. Cummings adapted
Mendelssohn’s
music to fit the lyrics of “Hark the herald angels sing” already written by
Wesley.)
Hark the herald
angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
Christ by highest heav'n adored
Christ the everlasting Lord!
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin's womb
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings
Ris'n with healing in His wings
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
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
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