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12/10/10 - NNHS Newsletter Frosty the Snowman “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
We've used this theme for a Newsletter a couple of times over the years:
http://nnhs65.com/12-12-04-NNHS-Snowmen.html
http://nnhs65.com/12-12-07-NNHS-Frosty-the-Snowman.html
BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIIWAu7N6lg - Frosty the Snowman - Gene Autry
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pu-bVrndgY - Frosty the Snowman - Jimmy Durante
BONUS #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDi8TqqeX8 - Frosty the Snowman - sing-along version
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman:
"Frosty the Snowman" is a popular song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the new song to Autry, who recorded "Frosty" in search of another seasonal hit. Like "Rudolph", "Frosty" was subsequently adapted to other media including a popular television special. The song was originally titled "Frosty the Snow Man".
The song is about a snowman who comes to life by the placement of a magical hat found by some children, with whom he shares playful adventures before he has to "hurry on his way" (likely a quaint reference to melting, and the ephemeral nature of snowmen). At the end of their adventures together, the children are saddened by Frosty leaving, however, he reassures them by exclaiming, "I'll be back again some day."
Did I mention that I love snowmen?!?
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today to
John Murden ('60) of VA AND
Glen Davenport ('63) of VA!
Happy Birthday this week to:
12 -
Mary Massey Lyle ('61) of NJ AND
Marcus C. Higgins ('65) of AZ AND
Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) AND
My #2 Daughter-in-Law,
Bethany Winona Harty
(Siuslaw HS, OR - '94) of TX!
13 - Kay Davis Smith ('57);
14 - Elizabeth Mitchell Hedgepeth ('57) AND
Kathie Avant Taylor ('64) of GA;
15 - Jewell Hamner Crowe
('57) AND
Buster Vest ('63) of VA;
16 -
Betty Brockwell McClure ('58) of VA;
17 -
Tom Oxner
('65) of AR!
Many Happy Returns to You All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
THIS DAY IN WWII:
December 10, 1941 -
Battle of the Philippines –
Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General
Masaharu Homma invaded the Philippine mainland.
Friday, December 10, 1965
-
The
Grateful Dead performed their first concert
under this new name.
Friday,
December 10, 1965 - Comedian
Greg Giraldo
was born in
New York City, New York.
He died on September 29 of this year in
New Brunswick, New Jersey
following an
overdose of prescription medication.
Friday,
December 10, 1965 - Musician
J Mascis
(Dinosaur
Jr)
was born Joseph Donald Mascis in
Amherst, Massachusetts.
Friday,
December 10, 1965 - Actress
Stephanie Morgenstern
was born in
Geneva,
Switzerland
(but raised
in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada).
Hi Carol,
If anyone would
like a good Christmas gift idea I think this is a good one. You give
and receive at the same time!
The brave men and
women who risk their lives in defense of our freedom should not have
to endure these kinds of hardship too.
I hope Paul is
much better now and you are preparing for a big Holiday celebration.
Merry Christmas to
all.
Joe DONATE NOW:
As we gather with our friends and families
to celebrate the holiday season, take a moment to support our brave
men and women overseas who continue to put their lives on the line
to protect America. Our troops and their families sacrifice so
much for this country – and we have the opportunity to help lighten
the load for our heroes who are far away from home during this
special time of year.
https://www.uso.org/DonateHolBrandCPDD2010.aspx?src=WH10MYPT12
Thank you so much,
Norris Sweetie!
Merry Christmas
Pet STYLE
Can you
imagine the
amount of work putting
this together and editing it?
FANTASTIC!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0WVfj76bo
ABBREVIATED ALERT:
http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/brochure(2).pdf
http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/CNC-Memories-Book-219390602.pdf
http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/61-63-DECADERS-ADDENDA.doc
http://www.nnhs65.com/CNC-CNU/61-63-DRAMATIC-WORKSHOP-STUDENTS.doc
Contact Dr. Chambers at
cncmemories61_71@yahoo.com.
From
http://www.jokedujour.com -
LadyHawke's Weekly Jokes - 12/05/10:
"Science Fare" (continued)
DATES TO REMEMBER:
2 3. Thursday, January 6, 2011 - The
NNHS Class of 1955 holds Lunch Bunch gatherings on the first Thursday of
every month at Steve & John's Steak House on Jefferson Avenue just above
Denbigh Boulevard in Newport News at 11:00 AM. The luncheon is not
limited to just the Class of '55; if you have fiends in that year, go
visit with them. 7.
Saturday, July 9, 2011 (6:30 PM to 11:30 PM) - The Class of 1971 will
hold its 40-Year Reunion at Newport News Marriott at City Center, 740
Town Center Drive, Newport News. For details, contact Richard Rawls
at Richard@Rawls.com - CLASS OF
1971
http://www.nnhs65.com/requests-prayers.html
- updated 08/22/10
http://nnhs.wordpress.com/
-
updated 10/21/10
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NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.com
December 10, 1941 - In the Battle of Malaya, the
Royal Navy
capital ships
HMS Prince of Wales and
HMS Repulse
were sunk by
Imperial Japanese Navy
torpedo bombers near
Malaya.
THIS DAY IN 1965:
From Norris Perry (Warwick HS - '59) of
VA -
08/05/10 - "Vote for Grace (REPEATED)":
From the President of the Class of 1965,
Joe Wingo of NC - 12/09/10 - "Please Send a Christmas Meal to a Severely Wounded
Serviceman or Woman":
What would you
say if I told you your first Christmas gift of the year could
also be the one that is appreciated the most?
It's true.
That's because many U.S. troops who have been
severely wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq have empty refrigerators.
And their children have empty stomachs.
You can come to the rescue by
making a tax-deductible
Christmas donation to the Merry Christmas Meals Project,
sponsored by the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes.
Your gift can help provide these financially strapped military
families with $60 to buy groceries over the Christmas holidays, or
even go out to a restaurant for dinner.
I'm Major General John K. Singlaub, U.S. Army (Ret.). I've commanded
our brave soldiers in three wars, and today I'm proud to be working
with the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes, which provides
emergency financial aid to our troops who have been severely wounded
in Afghanistan or Iraq.
So far the Coalition's patriotic donors have responded with
emergency financial aid to 18,548 requests from our severely wounded
troops and their families. In the process we have provided our
disabled heroes with more than $22 million to avoid utility cutoffs,
evictions, home foreclosures and other financial crises, as well as
to provide them with food, clothes and other support services.
You may be unaware of how hard the ongoing recession has hit our
wounded troops.
Even before the recession, many of the spouses of our wounded troops
had quit their jobs to take care of them. But now, with the
unemployment rate around 10 percent, many spouses who were
able to work have lost their jobs as well.
No wonder these military families are having trouble putting food on
the table!
A gift of $60
can help provide Christmas dinner with all the trimmings for one
severely wounded serviceman or woman and his or her family, $120 can
help feed two families, $180 can help provide dinner for three
families, and so on.
And a gift of $15, $25 or $35
can be combined with other donations to feed a family in need.
From
Me
('65) of IL - 12/09/10 - "Donate to the USO":
In a similar
vein.....
This Holiday
Season, Sponsor a USO Care Package
From Norris Perry (Warwick HS - '59) of VA - 12/06/10 - "No Left Turns
- Really worth the read!":
This is a story of an aging couple told
by their son who was President of NBC NEWS.
This is a wonderful piece by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers
large and small and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the
Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. It is well worth reading, and
a few good chuckles are guaranteed. Here goes...
My father never drove a car. Well, that's not quite right. I should
say I never saw him drive a car.
He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car
he drove was a 1926 Whippet.
"In those days," he told me when he was in his 90s, "to drive a car
you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet,
and look every which way, and I decided you could walk through life
and enjoy it or drive through life and miss it."
At which point my mother, a sometimes salty Irishwoman, chimed in:
"Oh, bull @#$%!" she said. "He hit a horse."
"Well," my father said, "there was that, too."
So my brother and I grew up in a household without a car. The
neighbors all had cars -- the Kollingses next door had a green 1941
Dodge, the VanLaninghams across the street a gray 1936 Plymouth, the
Hopsons two doors down a black 1941 Ford -- but we had none.
My father, a newspaperman in Des Moines , would take the streetcar
to work and, often as not, walk the 3 miles home. If he took the
streetcar home, my mother and brother and I would walk the three
blocks to the streetcar stop, meet him and walk home together.
My brother, David, was born in 1935, and I was born in 1938, and
sometimes, at dinner, we'd ask how come all the neighbors had cars
but we had none. "No one in the family drives," my mother would
explain, and that was that.
But, sometimes, my father would say, "But as soon as one of you boys
turns 16, we'll get one." It was as if he wasn't sure which one of
us would turn 16 first.
But, sure enough, my brother turned 16 before I did, so in 1951 my
parents bought a used 1950 Chevrolet from a friend who ran the parts
department at a Chevy dealership downtown.
It was a four-door, white model, stick shift, fender skirts, loaded
with everything, and, since my parents didn't drive, it more or less
became my brother's car.
Having a car but not being able to drive didn't bother my father,
but it didn't make sense to my mother.
So in 1952, when she was 43 years old, she asked a friend to teach
her to drive. She learned in a nearby cemetery, the place where I
learned to drive the following year and where, a generation later, I
took my two sons to practice driving. The cemetery probably was my
father's idea. "Who can your mother hurt in the cemetery?" I
remember him saying more than once.
For the next 45 years or so, until she was 90, my mother was the
driver in the family. Neither she nor my father had any sense of
direction, but he loaded up on maps -- though they seldom left the
city limits -- and appointed himself navigator. It seemed to work.
Still, they both continued to walk a lot. My mother was a devout
Catholic, and my father an equally devout agnostic, an arrangement
that didn't seem to bother either of them through their 75 years of
marriage.
(Yes, 75 years, and they were deeply in love the entire time.)
He retired when he was 70, and nearly every morning for the next 20
years or so, he would walk with her the mile to St. Augustin's
Church.
She would walk down and sit in the front pew, and he would wait in
the back until he saw which of the parish's two priests was on duty
that morning. If it was the pastor, my father then would go out and
take a 2-mile walk, meeting my mother at the end of the service and
walking her home.
If it was the assistant pastor, he'd take just a 1-mile walk and
then head back to the church. He called the priests "Father Fast"
and "Father Slow."
After he retired, my father almost always accompanied my mother
whenever she drove anywhere, even if he had no reason to go along.
If she were going to the beauty parlor, he'd sit in the car and
read, or go take a stroll or, if it was summer, have her keep the
engine running so he could listen to the Cubs game on the radio. In
the evening, then, when I'd stop by, he'd explain: "The Cubs lost
again. The millionaire on second base made a bad throw to the
millionaire on first base, so the multimillionaire on third base
scored."
If she were going to the grocery store, he would go along to carry
the bags out -- and to make sure she loaded up on ice cream. As I
said, he was always the navigator, and once, when he was 95 and she
was 88 and still driving, he said to me, "Do you want to know the
secret of a long life?"
"I guess so," I said, knowing it probably would be something
bizarre.
"No left turns," he said.
"What?" I asked.
"No left turns," he repeated. "Several years ago, your mother and I
read an article that said most accidents that old people are in
happen when they turn left in front of oncoming traffic.
As you get older, your eyesight worsens, and you can lose your depth
perception, it said. So your mother and I decided never again to
make a left turn."
"What?" I said again.
"No left turns," he said. "Think about it.. Three rights are the
same as a left, and that's a lot safer. So we always make three
rights."
"You're kidding!" I said, and I turned to my mother for support.
"No," she said, "your father is right. We make three rights. It
works."
But then she added: "Except when your father loses count."
I was driving at the time, and I almost drove off the road as I
started laughing.
"Loses count?" I asked.
"Yes," my father admitted, "that sometimes happens. But it's not a
problem. You just make seven rights, and you're okay again."
I couldn't resist. "Do you ever go for 11?" I asked.
"No," he said, "If we miss it at seven, we just come home and call
it a bad day. Besides, nothing in life is so important it can't be
put off another day or another week."
My mother was never in an accident, but one evening she handed me
her car keys and said she had decided to quit driving. That was in
1999, when she was 90.
She lived four more years, until 2003. My father died the next year,
at 102.
They both died in the bungalow they had moved into in 1937 and
bought a few years later for $3,000. (Sixty years later, my brother
and I paid $8,000 to have a shower put in the tiny bathroom -- the
house had never had one. My father would have died then and there if
he knew the shower cost nearly three times what he paid for the
house.)
He continued to walk daily -- he had me get him a treadmill when he
was 101 because he was afraid he'd fall on the icy sidewalks but
wanted to keep exercising -- and he was of sound mind and sound body
until the moment he died.
One September afternoon in 2004, he and my son went with me when I
had to give a talk in a neighboring town, and it was clear to all
three of us that he was wearing out, though we had the usual
wide-ranging conversation about politics and newspapers and things
in the news.
A few weeks earlier, he had told my son, "You know, Mike, the first
hundred years are a lot easier than the second hundred." At one
point in our drive that Saturday, he said, "You know, I'm probably
not going to live much longer."
"You're probably right," I said.
"Why would you say that?" He countered, somewhat irritated.
"Because you're 102 years old," I said..
"Yes," he said, "you're right." He stayed in bed all the next day.
That night, I suggested to my son and daughter that we sit up with
him through the night.
He appreciated it, he said, though at one point, apparently seeing
us look gloomy, he said: "I would like to make an announcement. No
one in this room is dead yet."
An hour or so later, he spoke his last words:
"I want you to know," he said, clearly and lucidly, "that I am in no
pain. I am very comfortable. And I have had as happy a life as
anyone on this earth could ever have."
A short time later, he died.
I miss him a lot, and I think about him a lot. I've wondered now and
then how it was that my family and I were so lucky that he lived so
long.
I can't figure out if it was because he walked through life, or
because he quit taking left turns.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the one's who don't.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it and if it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most
likely be worth it.
ENJOY LIFE NOW - IT HAS AN
EXPIRATION DATE!
From Jerry ('65) and
Judy Phillips ('66) Allen of VA - 12/09/10 - "Merry Christmas Pet STYLE..
With Humor :0)":
This is fun!
Merry Christmas!
FINALLY:
5th and 6th grade responses to science questions on tests:
- A monsoon is a French gentleman.
- The word "trousers" is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top
and plural at the bottom.
- To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow.
- When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting.
When people do it, we say they are crazy.
- For asphyxiation, apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead.
- Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
- One of the main causes of dust is janitors.
1.
Sunday, December 12, 2010 - Noon to 4:00 PM - Holiday Open House at the
Chamberlin Lobby - Go see Brownie!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6:00 PM
- The NNHS Class of 1958 will hold its Holiday Party at Al Fresco
Ristorante, 11710 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606. CONTACT: Joe
Drewry (jwdvt@aol.com, 757-244-4443,
ext 4)
5. Wednesday,
April 13, 2010 - The NNHS Class of June 1942 meets at noon on the second
Wednesday of every other month for a Dutch treat lunch at the James
River Country Club, 1500 Country Club Road. PLEASE JOIN THEM. Give or
take a few years makes no difference. Good conversation, food and
atmosphere. For details, call Jennings Bryan at 803-7701 for
reservations.
6.
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - The NNHS Class will have a Luncheon. Team
Leaders are Mickey Marcella (mcmiceli@verizon.net
- 757-249-3800), Betty Hamby Neher
(bjneher@cox.net - 757-898-5099), and Dr. Harry Simpson
(hdsdds@aol.com - 804-694-0346). -
CLASS OF 1954
PRAYER ROLL
:
BLOG:
PERSONAL WEB SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat
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Carol Buckley Harty
Frosty the Snowman
Written by
Walter "Jack" Rollins
(15 Sept 1906 - 01 Jan 1973) and Steve Nelson, 1950
Recorded by
Gene Autry
(29 Sept 1907 –
02 Oct 1998), 1950
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
and two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say
He was made of snow but the children
know how he came to life one day
There must have been some magic in that
old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
he began to dance around
Frosty the snowman
was alive as he could be
And the children say he could laugh
and play just the same as you and me
Thumpetty thump thump
thumpety thump thump
Look at Frosty go
Thumpetty thump thump
thumpety thump thump
Over the hills of snow
Frosty the snowman knew
the sun was hot that day
So he said
"Let's run and
we'll have some fun
now before I melt away
" Down to the village
with a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there all
around the square saying
Catch me if you can
He led them down the streets of town
right to the traffic cop
And he only paused a moment when
he heard him holler "Stop!"
For Frosty the snow man
had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye saying
"Don't you cry
I'll be back again some day
" Thumpetty thump thump
thumpety thump thump
Look at Frosty go
Thumpetty thump thump
thumpety thump thump
Over the hills of snow
“Frosty the Snowman” midi courtesy of http://www.santaland.com/ - 12/08/04
“Frosty the Snowman” lyrics courtesy of http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~av359/xmas/carols/frosty.html - 12/11/04
Animated Kissing Snowman and Snowwoman courtesy of Janice McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 12/31/06
Animated Frosty and Tiny Snowmen clip art courtesy of http://www.always-safe.com/merrylittle.html - 12/08/04
Animated Glitter Snowman and Snowman
checking Mailbox clip art courtesy of Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of VA -
12/06/08 and 12/03/08
Thanks, Joyce!
Animated Caroling Snowmen and Snowman in the Woods courtesy of Pat Beck
Letzinger ('57) of VA - 12/13/07
Thanks, Pat!
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
Hampton High School's Crab clip art courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/
-Siuslaw High School Viking Logo clip art courtesy of http://www.siuslaw.k12.or.us/shs/index.php - 05/27/07
Coast Guard Seal clip art courtesy of http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/SealsEmblems/USCG.htm - 10/03/07
Animated Ringing Christmas Bell clip art (designed by Art Holden) courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 12/08/05