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"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and
wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there
was no room for them in the inn......And the angel said unto them, Fear not:
for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which
is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the
babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
- Luke 2: 7, 10-12 |
12/25/07 - NNHS Newsletter -
Merry Christmas!
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"Now it came to pass that when Nephi, the son of
Nephi, saw this wickedness of his people, his heart was exceedingly
sorrowful.... And it came to pass that he cried mightily unto the Lord all
that day; and behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying: Lift up
your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this
night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world....
And behold, the time is at hand, and this night shall the sign be given." -
3 Nephi 1: 10, 12-14 |
Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I do hope your
Christmas Day has been as joyous as ours!
This theme observance is supposed to repeat
every year, whether or not it does due to the time restraints of the webmistress.....
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-25-04-NNHS-Merry-Christmas.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-25-05-NNHS-Merry-Christmas.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-25-06-NNHS-Merry-Christmas.html
Today's beautiful graphic title art is
courtesy of
Glenn Dye
('60) of TX.
Thanks, Glenn, so much!
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From
Me
('65) of NC - 12/24/07:
With a house full of
delightful company - including five adorable grandchildren ranging in age from
ten to two - my time is extraordinarily limited, and my concentration level has
dropped to waaay below zero at the moment. Therefore, I'm saving
practically all personal correspondence, as well as anything time consuming
(namely images or anything causing me to have to think),
for later editions this week.
Thank y'all for your
patience and understanding!
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BIRTHDAYS
TODAY AND UPCOMING :
Happy Birthday
to our
Christmas Day Two-Fer:
Patsy Bloxom Meider ('57)
of NC AND Doug Dickinson ('69) of VA!
Coming Soon:
27 -
Anita Morgan Becker ('66) of
VA; 29 - Roy
Tate ('57);
30 - William Gwynn ('57) AND
Ron Miller ('59) of NC
AND
Sarah Stewart Vance ('69) of VA; 31 - Pat Floyd Pride
('62) of VA AND
Susie Overton Jones ('63) of VA!
Many Happy
Returns to you all!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
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From one
of my Famous
Marines,
Herb Hice
of MI,
who served in the Pacific Theater during WWII
- 12/22/07 - "Dear Carol / Dimples, The legend of holly":
Dear Carol / Dimples
An interesting story
especially this time of year.
Herbie
The legend of holly.
When Christ was born in
Bethlehem
on that first Christmas night,
a barren bush outside the stable
blossomed full and bright.
It bore a grim reminder
at the crown he'd one day wear;
it's prickly leaves foretold the thorns
of sorrow He would bear.
Amidst the green there grew strange fruit
with small berries scarlet red,
as crimson as the very blood
our Savior was to shed.
In honor of the Prince of Peace
a flower pure and white,
blossomed sweetly when the Lord was born
that holy Christmas night.
Thank you, Herbie Darlin'!
Merry Christmas!
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From Tom Norris (Hampton HS - '73) of VA -
12/23/07 - "interesting link for your readers":
Hi Carol ... not sure if you
have shown this in the past ... interesting:
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm
Happy holidays ...
da babe
I'm not really sure either!
Thanks, Babe!
Merry Christmas!
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From
John London
(Warwick HS - '57) of VA - 12/23/07 - "Lights":
WILDEST GIGGLES!!!
Thanks, John - and congratulations!
Merry Christmas!
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From Charlie ('56)
and Audrey Hilling of FL - 12/23/07 - "Charlie and Audrey sent you a JibJab
greeting":
Lucky you! Charlie and Audrey cared enough to
send you a JibJab Sendables(tm) greeting instead of a crappy e-card!
To see it, click here or copy and paste this url into your browser:
http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/view/CQo5kMKtRtoftjpBL6wTB83m
Message from Audrey:
Merry Christmas.
Charlie and Annette have been taking dancing lessons for the New Years Eve
party. How do you think we are doing?
This is so cute! Thanks so much, Charlie and Audrey!
Merry Christmas!
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From
Jamey Douglas Bacon ('66) of VA - 12/24/07 - "Elfed from the Bacon's":
Please go to the link in red this is my family
dressed as elves. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Jamey
Double click on this link or copy and paste it into
your internet browser. This is hilarious!
This is just sooo
adorable!
Thanks,
Jamey! Merry Christmas!
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From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of
RI - 12/24/07 - "Merry Christmas!":
I cannot believe you put out a newsletter with a houseful
of company! Bless you my child!
My mother made fruitcake every year. I never liked it
but she and Daddy did. My husband likes it but I do not make it. My Aunt
Elsie used to send us one every year from Collin St. Bakery in Corsicana, TX.
I prefer Toll House Cookies! I have made four kinds of cookies and an apple
pie. One of my favorite things to make at Christmas is strawberry pretzel
salad...has a pretzel crust, a cream cheese and sugar layer, topped by a
strawberry gelatin layer. You have to make one layer, bake, cool, then the
next, chill, then the final layer but it is very pretty and tasty. It looks
especially pretty in a glass bowl.
Merry Christmas Typhoons everywhere!
Love, Jeanb
Thanks so much,
Lady! Merry Christmas!
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From
Me
('65) of NC - 12/25/07 - "Stress Reliever":
If you need a little break from
it all, try this:
http://www.zombo.com/
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From Chandler Nelms (Hampton HS - '63)
of MD - 12/24/07 - "Fruit Cake":
Oh, this is SO cool. I just KNEW there were
others like you and me, Carol....lurking, longing, to be set free and expose
their love of fruit cake. Thank you Domi and "Dimples" (almost rhymes), and I'll
bet there are still others out their seeking to shed their shame. What if we
established the CFCLA (Closet Fruit Cake Lovers of America)? We could each make
a fruit cake from our own recipes (in November, of course - seems to be the
thing to do). Then, send our cake to another in the group along with the recipe
while, in turn, receiving someone else's fruit cake and their recipe. Then, next
year you make that cake and send it on, like a sewing circle, only this would be
a circle of Fruit Cakes. I mean that in the nicest way. No, huh. Well, excuse me
while I go to the pantry for a slice of my Claxton.
Chandler
I do believe there
are even more coming, Chandler Darlin'! And I DO love your idea!
Merry Christmas!
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From Barbara Brewer ('69) of VA - 12/25/07 - "Fruitcake":
I will have to do some networking to find the
recipe. My college room-mate's grandmother had one for a ten pound cake. We
made it in smaller loaves and gave it as gifts, my senior year at
ODU. It was made on the day after
Thanksgiving. It was aged in clothes daily soaked in wine. We used Chianti.
There was a whole orange, ground, and dried figs, ground, chopped dates, amongst
other ingredients. The base seemed to be a gingerbread. It was loaded with
fruit and a little slice would do.
The last time I made it, I made the 10 pound cake
in entirety. I lovingly wrapped in an ancient feed sack, soaked in burgundy,
daily. Shortly before Christmas, I came into the home after choir practice. My
Golden Retriever "designer" dog was lying on the floor in front of the baseboard
heater. She was not even moving her eyes.
I found the remnants of the feed sack, the paper
bag and the intact heirloom platter on the floor in the bedroom. The dog, true
to form, had not broken the plate as she took it off the dresser. There was not
a sign of the cake.
This was Grandmother Newblll's recipe. We used
her husband's recipe for our eggnog for our Christmas Madrigal party. We drank
a cup before bedtime and slept very well. It kept for two weeks in the
refrigerator. If I can contact my friend and get the fruitcake recipe, I will
include the eggnog recipe as well. The spices and the fruit in the cake are
bound to offset the preservatives in the eggnog.
I have been able to spend time with friends and
family in this holiday period. I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy
holiday period. We need to keep all of the military, law enforcement,
healthcare, retail, and restaurant employees in our thoughts.
Barbara Brewer 1969 NNHS
YIKESARONI -
GIGGLES!!! Thanks, Barbara!
And
indeed we will continue our thoughts and prayers for those who serve!
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From Domi O'Brien ('64) of NH - 12/24/07:
Spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday and this evening after work cleaning,
organizing, shopping. I'm taking a break with a plateful of curried shrimp and
a glass of white wine. In the morning I will make stuffing for the roasting
chicken and dry-rub the rolled rib eye roast and make fresh rolls. Then two of
mine, and possibly my daughter-in-law, will come for brunch (Cider-cured
bacon, corn muffins, scrambled eggs, mimosas). (Her husband, my oldest son, is
working until 5). We'll bake some cookies. We'll play games. At about 5:30
oldest son should arrive, and we will open presents and munch some
appetizers-- daughter-in-law loves scallops in bacon. Then we'll have roast
chicken and roast beef, salad, asparagus, roasted potatoes, corn, cranberries,
bearnaise sauce, tarragon mushrooms, and rolls. Then there will be Dobos Torte
with whipped cream. I have to work the rest of the week; Friday night friends
are coming over for breadbake (9 kinds, including VortLimpor and Finnish Oat
and Nissua) and then Saturday a fire-and-ice ritual and the groaning board--
mead, breads, Danish, Irish, and local homemade butter, cheeses, yellow pea
soup, herring, gravlox, shrimp, Swedish meatballs, Irish spiced beef, roast
lamb, roast pork, roast duck, baked turkey breast, salad, mashed sweet
potatoes, pickles and relishes, cookies, tea rings, Yule log (the
chocolate-iced kind) hot spiced tea and coffee, juice and seltzer and there
are rumors of Aquavit and Clementines, and nuts to crack. Sunday I will
collapse and sleep.
Domi
Chris: Samhain is the traditional end of October/beginning of November
feastday that falls approximately with Halloween. Beltaine is at the beginning
of May, when the cows are moved to summer pasturage and the hawthorne blooms.
Unless your Wiccan neighbours were from Australia, or New Zealand, or other
places south of the Equator, of course-- down there they tend to go with the
reversed cycle of the seasons, confusing those of us in the northern
hemisphere who read their newsletters. ( We do understand it's hard to do a
Yule fire-and-ice ritual when it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit and instead of a
roaring fire, hot spiced wine, and a duck or goose and venison or roast beef
or the boar's head roasting you've got shrimp on the barbie...)
We're all Reform Druids nowadays-- no blood sacrifice-- even though the
courts have ruled that animal sacrifice is legal (the case involved
traditional Santeria practices) most of us prefer to buy our meat at the
supermarket neatly encased in plastic wrap. Wimpy of us, I know. I do know a
few traditionalists who raise or hunt their own meat and offer to the spirit
of the animal and the High Ones, but I'm afraid 3 AM in a duck blind clutching
a rifle with a nasty kick or a compound bow is not my style, and killing
something I've raised and named doesn't work for me.
Domi
WOWZERS! Thanks, Domi!
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From
Me
('65) of NC - 12/25/07 - "Early Sunday Afternoon":
If
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D'jever try to take pictures of forty-eleven people after church in a busy
corridor when several of them were still busy with responsibilities and
people were trying to pass them in the hall?!?
Such fun!!!
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 -
Fayetteville, NC |
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Brent, Bethany, Jacob, Thomas,
Emeline, Joseph, and Jimmy Harty of OH |
Thomas, Carol, Jacob, and Paul
Harty |
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DATES
TO REMEMBER:
1.
Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2008 -
NNHS CLASS OF 1958
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From one
of my Famous
Marines,
Herb Hice
of MI,
who served in the Pacific Theater during WWII
- 12/14/07 - "Dear Carol / Dimples, This is Dog Logic"
(#7 in a series of 12):
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Dear Carol / Dimples
Something to ponder.
Herbie
GIGGLES!
Thanks, Herbie Darlin'!
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If your dog is fat, you
aren't getting enough exercise. |
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-Unknown |
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There's much much more to come -
next time! Meanwhile,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Y'all take care
of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll
Always Have
Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408
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Away in a Manger
Words: Verses 1 & 2, anonymous, in Little
Children’s Book for Schools and Families, by J. C. File (Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania: Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1885). Some sources
show the author as Martin Luther; this attribution (probably incorrect) is based
on the title “Luther’s Cradle Hymn,” given to these words by the composer, James
Murray (7 Mar 1841 - 10 Mar 1905), in his Dainty Songs for Little Lads and
Lasses (Cincinnati, Ohio: The John Church Co., 1887).
Verse 3 is by
John T. McFarland (1851-1913), 1904
Music
(Cradle Song) by
William J. Kirkpatrick, 1895
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing, the Baby awakes,
But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes;
I love Thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray;
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
And fit us for Heaven to live with Thee there.
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“Away in a
Manger” midi, lyrics and history courtesy of
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/w/awaymang.htm - 12/08/07
Webmistress'
Note: Of the five available tunes for this cherished carol, I have chosen to use
my personal favorite.
Animated Baby Jesus with Lambs clip art
courtesy of Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 12/07/07
Thanks so much, Glenn!
Tiny Baby Jesus clip art used to form Divider Line courtesy
of
http://www.twoheartsdesign.com/images/clipart/catholic/christmas/nativity/index.html
- 12/23/05
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks, Al!
Crab clip art courtesy of
http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/ -
10/02/05
Marine Corps Seal clip art
courtesy of
Herbert Hice of MI
- one of my
Famous
Marines who served in the South Pacific during WWII.
Thanks, Herbie!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of
http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
Animated
Laughter clip art courtesy of
Janice
McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 01/24/06
Thanks, Janice!
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