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"I have been looking on, this evening, at
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I couldn't resist this MIDI. The first verse sounds as though it's being sung through a "Doot-de-Doo".
(You do know what a "Doot-de-Doo" is, doncha?)
BIRTHDAYS:
Happy 51st Birthday today to
Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) of VA - really and
truly, this time!. Have another
good one, Babe!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
It's also my second daughter-in-law's 30th birthday. Happy Birthday, Bethany!
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From One of my Famous
Marines -
Herb Hice of MI - 12/10/05
- "Herb, 6 mo. old, suitable
for framing":
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Hi Carol,
Here is the real ME
at 6 months old. I found it the other day and thought you might like to see
it ??? Already I possessed that Harvard
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Oh, Herbie! What a darling little baby you were!
You must have been delighted to find this! Thanks for sharing it! |
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In your newsletter you said that you and 
Eleanor
(Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of NC) were practicing to do a cantata ??? I
had to find out what a cantata is.http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_cantata.html Now I know. Good Luck, Herbie Thanks, Herbie! And as you introduced the topic (BARELY STIFLED WILD GIGGLES!!!)....... |
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From Me ('65) of NC - 12/11/05 - "'My Servant Joseph' Cantata":
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That cantata was performed last night.
It was not, as you might imagine, a Christmas cantata, but one celebrating
the 200th Birthday of
Joseph Smith.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, we've been observing this all year in different
ways. And as we're all family here (no matter what we ourselves may
personally be observing or not), I'll share this with you as well. You may recall my story a few weeks back about the difference between Shopping and Buying? http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/10-12-05-NNHS-Our-Day-Will-Come.html Well, that very Charis Bean Duke that I mentioned therein was the conductor. Her husband, David Duke, sang the title role (and did so magnificently). He has also appeared in our pages before: |
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| "My Servant Joseph" Program | Second Soprano Marie Catlett and Fayetteville NC Stake President Joseph N. Catlett | Reader and Baritone Soloist Chris Nuttall ("Hyrum Smith") and Alto Franzis Nuttall | Soprano Soloist Cloe Jones ("Emma Hale Smith") | |
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| Conductor Charis Bean Duke and Tenor Soloist David Duke ("Joseph Smith") | Organist Cheryl Lambert and Pianist Leslie Penrod | Alto Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky ('59) and Second Soprano Carol Buckley Harty ('65) | Assistant Organizer Lorna Gwilliam; Soprano Dorinda Payne; and Alto Amy Payne | |
And despite the fact that Charis said we sounded "amorphous and blobuous" (is that not the coolest phrase you've heard lately?!?) in rehearsal Saturday, the performance itself went quite nicely. Thanks for asking, Herbie! (Okay, I can't hold it any longer.)  |
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From Brownie Shaffer Haracivet ('62) of the Virgin Islands - 12/11/05 - "TSG
Party 12.10.05":
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warmth to those of you in winter land. I'm with my TSG guys and their gals
taken yesterday during our Christmas party.
Merry Christmas to all! |
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How fun! And it definitely looks warmer there - even than here in the
Sunny South! Thanks for sharing this with us, Brownie! Merry Christmas to you, too! |
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From Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) of VA -
12/11/05:
| Hi Carol .... To 
Jean Poole Burton ('64 - of RI)... yes,
Sidney Lust had kind of a double meaning
... it was later changed to Hampton Drive In .... but it was a very popular hangout for some of us Crabbers. The Pembroke Avenue area had a variety of evening activities to choose from .... two drive in movies, cruising at Shoney's, bands at The Chateau and PA, baseball at War Memorial, foot long dogs at Stadium Drive-in, go-kart racing (and some real car racing from Shoney's parking lot), and probably other stuff I have forgotten. What started as a connector road from Hampton to NN in the early 50s (39th Street extended or "Super Highway") quickly became a shopping and entertainment venue. Pretty sad to see it all gone. Speaking of drive ins ... there was one in Louisa County, Virginia on Route 33 between Louisa and Trevillians. The sign is still standing amongst the weeds of this still abandoned lot .... the name was Dick's Drive In (honest ... I am not making this up!). Next time I am up that way I will take a camera and get a picture. Nice article on the HHS state championship in today's Daily Press. We now have a THIRD generation state champion .... Hotie Mitchell ('49) played on the '48 championship team, his son Danny ('71 and Assistant Coach) was on the '69 team, and now Danny's son ('08, Sophomore place kicker) from the '05 team. Carol ... no prob on the early birthday wishes ... I just get two presents, right????? If you are a Frank Sinatra fan maybe you can use that association ... he was born 12/12/15 and had blue eyes like me. Or ... just send me wishes on the 10th. It's all good :-).
Not a problem, Tommee! I was
planning to give you something very similar to what you gave me for my
birthday in August, so I'll just double it! WILD
GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Tom! By the way, I posted the image of you with your '65 GTO: |
From Frances Goodson Wang ('65) of MD - 12/11/05:
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Dear
Joan (Lauterbach Krause - '60
- of VA),
My house is up for sale
and we hope to move soon. My son has been accepted as a transfer student
to William and Mary so we are moving to
restart our lives closer to "Home", Newport News, that is.
Oh, Frances - how wonderful for
you! I'm so happy to hear that!
I love china, art, books,
all things glittery. Oh, well, I could have worse faults... I have
packed some things but also realized I had four sets of dishes, several
sets of glasses and several sets of silver and other cutlery.
(Ummmm - I have ten complete sets of dishes crammed into my tiny kitchen. Surely you're not suggesting - Naaaahhh!!! WILD GIGGLES!!!)
I have a few dear
friends. I asked if they would like some of the dishes and cutlery, lamps
or chairs and yes, they were thrilled! Knowing friends have and
enjoy those things has given me pleasure.
Here in Ellicott City,
Maryland, there are several thrift stores that give proceeds to charity.
A few others take things on consignment. I have seen beautiful sets of
china, glass ware, furniture and accessories in these shops.
I am no good at selling
things so end up donating most of my things that have seemed to
accumulate.
I am sure you have
already considered these ideas but just in case.
Enjoy that new home.
Merry Christmas,
Frances Goodson Wang
Thanks, Frances!
And yes, you and Joan both enjoy your new homes!
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From Bill Campbell ('54) of VA - 12/11/05 - "A Question":
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Hi Carol.
I have a question. How do I get submittals
put on the proper page? That is, if I am writing about
Marshall Courts or
Walter Reed School, how should
I submit it so that it gets on the proper page? All I know how to do now
is to just mail it to you at the
nnhs65@yahoo.com address.
And that's exactly how it's done, Bill.
Send it to me, and I'll post it as soon as I'm able. As you'll
notice from
And then just be patient with me. There's only so much of me to go around. Often fourteen hours a day does not suffice to get the job done. I cannot really manage with less than five hours of sleep a day, and my family seems to think they have some prior claim to me. Go figure. I notice that there are a couple of letters on the Marshall Courts page already, and I would like to add some to that page (and others) in the future. Thanks,
Bill
Oh, if you would like to add a picture of
me to the name in my submittals, you can download one from this website:
It is a picture of me with my guitar in my
'new career'.
Cool - thanks! For those of y'all as unfamiliar with the term, "slack-key guitar" as I was, may I suggest this link: http://www.kbeamer.com/sk_history.html Technically, according
to the original request made by the everlastingly gloriously handsome
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/NNHS-Newsletters.html The good news is that I did at last post that 1941 Daily Press clipping you sent plus your earlier comments on the Marshall Courts page: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/apartments.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/marshall-courts.html Oh - that's another thing! As strange as it seems, it's often much easier to construct a new page (as I did recently for the Sherwood Inn) than it is to add to an existing page. You'd have to watch the production process to believe it. Thanks again, Bill! |
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA to
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL- 12/11/05:
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a photo of the Y at
Fort Monroe.
An old post card with an image just came up on EBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6232127170&rd= 1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 or .. to save you the trouble: And, as
I was saving it to my HD, I found another one I already had: |
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That will have to do until I can get there and capture a current image. Dave Okay, Gentlemen, I surrender! http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/OOSG-A-B.html http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Armed-Forces-YMCA.html - brand new page See,
Joe, I'm not always stubborn! Okay, well, maybe I am
always stubborn, but I'm not always unreasonable!
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From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL to - Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA12/11/05
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Monroe Armed Forces 'Y'":
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Hi,
Dave (Spriggs - '64 - of VA):Great timing, and thanks for your message. Please do not run the risk of arrest and detention taking a photo on government property, which I completely overlooked in my zeal when writing earlier making the request of a photo. It would be too embarrassing to see a retired Navy Captain being shuffled off into a Military Police vehicle on the evening news. I am sure Carol will be convinced this fine structure and outstanding facility existed at Fort Monroe. Well, maybe not since she can put us some stiff resistance in the face of almost overwhelming odds. TYPHOON Regards,
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL
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From Gloria Woolard Price (Hampton HS - '65) of FL - 12/11/05:
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I
am so surprised about the Sherwood Inn
on Ft. Monroe. I have a lot
of memories of Ft. Monroe, and I never knew of the Inn's existence. And
compared to the Catholic church, wasn't it enormous? In 1966,
I transferred from NASA to work at USCONARC, Ft. Monroe. My
social life was dancing at the NCO Club every Friday night. It was
inevitable that I would meet and marry a guy in the Army. However, he
was stationed at Ft. Eustis, and I met him at the Langley NCO
Club. Go figure! He was playing in the band that I used to go-go
dance with, but that's another story for another time. Anyhoo, we got
married in the St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church in
1968. I moved away, but returned to Hampton in 1970 and worked at
Langley. In 1974, I went back to Ft. Monroe (now called TRADOC), and
in 1976, I moved to Texas. Upon my next return to Hampton.....
I dispelled the myth many times that you can't go home again! .......I
went back to Langley and never worked for the Army again. I had some
wonderful times at Ft. Monroe, and I also went to the Y, but it
was just for lunch. The best place to eat lunch and meet the guys was
the snack bar/bowling alley. I met Kathy Mooney (HHS '64) there
in 1967, and although she has lived in NY since 1970, we have remained
best friends all these years! I wrote to her about the Sherwood Inn,
and she sent this website of Ft. Monroe.......it's a good one! I hope
you can use some of the pictures.
http://www.ovstationmuseum.org/hampton.htm My daddy also moved from NC to work in the Shipyard. My mother followed him with her two NC-born children, Mel Woolard (HHS '65) and Nat Woolard Cunningham (HHS '60). However, I was born in the Riverside Hospital, thus ensuring my status as a born and bred Virginian. Anyhoo, the USS Forrestal was mentioned in an earlier newsletter, and my daddy worked on it and went on the trial trip. He also worked on the United States and went on that trial trip. Later, he fortunately got a civil service job at Ft. Monroe and retired from there. He never mentioned knowing about the Sherwood Inn, but I suppose because it was long gone. Thanks, Gloria! Just see all the ways our lives have intertwined! |
From Kathie Avant Taylor ('64) of GA -
12/11/05 - "Image":
| I do not understand what you mean about
‘adding my image’ to the list. Please let me know how this is done. Thank you, Kathie Avant Taylor Class of ‘64 Well, see, the problem here, Kathie, is that you are so new to our midst that you haven't learned how to interpret what I meant to say, as opposed to what I actually said. Do not be concerned. You will develop this talent rather quickly as the others have before you. Necessity will require it of you. What I no doubt meant to say (and I'd rather not go check; it's too humiliating) is that I will not publish your email address without your permission. And I can't very well publish your birthday until you tell me, because I do not know it. I may be a psycho, but I'm not really psychic. But as you see, I already published your lovely senior portrait! Thanks, Kathie! Sometimes I make even less sense than that! WILD GIGGLES!!! |
From Dale Lucado ('68) of VA - 12/11/05 - "The Snowdog":
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Merry Christmas to You..."
Follow directions very carefully; this
is really neat... ;-) This is so neat! I love these interactive cards! Thanks, Dale - It's good to hear from you! |
From Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) of VA -
12/11/05 - "A couple of notes re.
12/10 newsletter":
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Tell
Dave (Spriggs - '64 - of VA)
not to worry about locating the old
Tysinger sign on Mercury. It was still a Tysinger sales place
until about 1980 when it became a Merita Bakery Outlet Store. That
building was demolished lat year and a new Ruby Tuesday restaurant
was built on the site. The site is on the west corner of the Langley
Square Shopping Center.
Also, those photos of the
Sherwood
Inn
at
Ft. Monroe (outside the moat) look
remarkably like the old Hygeia Hotel. The Hygeia burned down in
the early 1920s and was replaced by the
Chamberlin.
The Hygeia was owned by Harrison Phoebus, a carpetbagger who, with
his lovely wife Roselyn, came to Hampton as a businessman. His
home was called Strawberry Banks and the manor house was called
Roselyn Manor. The manor house still stood in the 1960s but was
finally destroyed by fire in the late 1970s.
How tragic! Bill Ferguson, Ferguson Corp, bought the land and built the Strawberry Banks Hotel on the water there. The loss of the house was during Bill Ferguson's ownership. Hampton University has since bought the motel and uses it as an honors dorm. HU bought the property from Ferguson's estate.
My mother-in-law had a mirror
that was saved from the Hygeia Hotel. It was black with gold burnishing
and the wood was carved to look like bamboo. It hung over a half round
table in her entry hall. Her father owned the Slaughter Lumber Company
in Phoebus and was one of the many fire
volunteers who went to the Hygeia fire. I'm sure there are many similar
pieces in Hampton homes. That mirror now lives in Kings Mill at my
brother in law's home - or maybe it is at my husband's home there. But it
is still in their family.
MARVELOUS!
A little side note: Hampton
didn't have a fire department because Hampton didn't have enough water to
put out fires! So after the Hygeia burned down, Hampton Fathers went to
Richmond and begged the legislature to create a water authority for the
Peninsula. The legislature passed an enabling act in 1928, creating such
an authority. Since NN was a city and Hampton was a county seat, NN got
the water business; NN had the municipal structure in place to manage such
a thing. Granted, they had to create water sheds, assess the demand and
lay lines and hydrants to serve the entire Peninsula. But the NNWW
continues to be the cash cow for the City of NN. NNWW brings in all this
huge revenue and gets an amount for its budget doled back out by the NN
Council!
Thanks so much, Kathy! I love your passion for details! |
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 12/11/05 - Hygeia Hotel/Sherwood Inn:
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the Hygeia was not the
Sherwood Inn nor vice versa. Also,
the Hygeia was much much larger that the Sherwood. And another thing:
Hygeia was not on the same footprint as the later
Chamberlin;
it was located where the marina now is and facing the bridge portion of the
HRBT. |
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From Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) of VA -
12/11/05 - "another short note":
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Carol,
Why is it that Crabbers (or Krabbers if one prefers) are used in the plural (though sometimes without the er when an a is substituted) but Typhoon seems to be used in the singular? I have always used both as plurals Typhoons and Crabbers. Am I wrong? Surely we have enough of both subscribing to the newsletter to figure this out. There is a definitive answer to this, particular where those of the NNHS persuasion are concerned, and those who know the Real and True Story are quite adamant in defense of their position. Personally, I've always had trouble understanding this, as it seems to fly in opposition to those rules of grammar and usage which were so diligently taught us be our illustrious faculty. I shall therefore defer this question to one of those great number among us who can explain it to you far better than I. Gentlemen?
I'd also like to ask the
question that burned hotly in the minds of seniors of the Class of 1963:
how is
Artie (Gallins Patterson) ('59 - of Northern VA) pronounced? Some
said it was A-rtie and others said it was simply Artie, like a diminutive
of the man's name Art. The difference is a long or a short A. But With
Artie (or is it Aertie) among us, maybe she can clarify that.
Actually, it's "Aretie",
and I do know an answer to that question. I'm even reasonably
certain that it's the correct answer, as my sister Thanks again, Kathy! |
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL- 12/11/05
- "East End":
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Hi, Carol:
Thank you so very much for publishing the message you received from
Bill Campbell ('54) of VA.
Certainly!
Among those treasured photos of Bill Campbell's, I sure hope he finds one or two of the Peninsula Dairy Store on Jefferson Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets. It sure attracted a crowd from Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks with their great selection of Ice Cream and Shakes. I hope he does, too! That would be sweet! TYPHOON Regards,
Joe Madagan ('57) of FL
Thanks, Sweet Adonis! |
From My Friend, Judy, of IL - 12/11/05 - "Deck the House":
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Very Pretty
Oh, what fun! Thanks, Jude! This one is a little different, isn't it?? |
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI -
12/10/05 - "Thought you would find this beautiful...":
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who weep, sob, and blubber... a beautiful tribute to our military heroes who
put their lives on the line for us every day... http://www.clermontyellow.accountsupport.com/flash/UntilThen.swf Thanks, Jean! It is indeed beautiful - and of course I needed it - it's been what - almost fifteen hours since I was last crying?!? I wouldn't want my tear ducts to dry up or my heart to grow cold...... Say - didja notice that was the BYU Choir singing?? I met a young gal at church yesterday morning who'd just come back this week from a year in Iraq. Such things tend to put life into perspective. Thanks again, Jean! |
I'm still considerably backlogged, but you're becoming accustomed to that, n'est pas?
Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER!
Love to all, Carol
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Tannenbaum
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, |
O,
Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
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