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04/02/07 - NNHS Newsletter
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Passover begins tonight at sundown. Assuming
the webmistress
('65 - of NC) has her wits about her, and barring technical difficulties,
this theme repeats itself annually, albeit on different days:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/04-23-05-NNHS-Passover-Wishes.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/04-12-06-NNHS-Passover-Wishes.html
HOMEWORK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover
http://www.holidays.net/passover/
http://www.dorhadash.org/holidays/passover.html
http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/holidaya.html
http://www.aish.com/holidays/passover/
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/
PASSOVER RECIPES:
http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/recipes/
http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/holidays/passover/foodlinks.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/recipes-pesach/
From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 04/01/07 - "April Fool's Day":
Now, Shari,
you better than most people know how weird I am.
The vast majority of people would agree with you, I'm sure - and that's fine. Few people smile, giggle, and laugh more than I do, but my sense of humor is somewhat different from the mainstream. Practically anything the ever gorgeous
freakin' hot
David Whitley ('67) of VA says will leave me rolling on the floor.
For
a classic example, see this page:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/blue-light.html
I just don't like practical jokes and contrived pranks. They usually come at the expense of another, and tend to be designed to make that person feel like a buffoon.
For instance, if water accidentally sprays in a person's face, that to me would be funny. If water sprays into a person's face because it had been deliberately rigged to do so, that to me seems to be just mean and ornery. And if I don't like being the victim of such pranks myself, why would I then play them on my friends and loved ones - or on anyone else, for that matter?
And how might we define harmful? I'll cite an example from my own life.
A few months ago (not on April
Fool's Day), 
Paul (Harty - Bardolph HS, IL - '61 - of NC) left to attend a meeting.
About fifteen minutes after he should have arrived, I received a phone call.
"Has Paul left yet?"
Knowing that his health could hardly be classified as "excellent" (diabetes, hypertension, peripheral artery disease, sleep apnea, etc.), and knowing that his route down Ramsey Street (a.k.a. "Nascar Training Grounds") is a dangerous one, I immediately panicked.
The (several) gentlemen on the other end of the phone thought it was very funny. I did not.
I myself have a heart murmur, and I'm now a full seven years older than my father was when he succumbed to his second heart attack. Granted, Daddy had other markers and factors which I do not - for instance, a four-pack-a-day smoking habit. But an hour later my heart was still racing and I was still trembling - and I was not amused.
But as I said, I am weird.
Thanks for the
chance to vent, Lady!
From Cheryl Mays Howard ('66) of VA - 04/01/07 - "April
Fool's Day":
I could not open this today...don't know why, my internet is up..
Peace & Blessing,
Cheryl
Yes,
my internet was up as well, Cheryl. Unfortunately, our server,
00freehost.com, was flickering in
and out for a few hours. ARGHHH!!! Sorry
about that!
From Stacy Dorn ('64) of VA - 04/02/07 -
"~ Important !! Information ~ driving in the rain":
along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise
control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the cruise
control only when the pavement is dry.
The only person the accident victim found who knew this (besides the
patrolman), was a man who had had a similar accident, totaled his car and
sustained severe injuries.
If you send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about this,
then it was all worth it. You might have saved a life.
YOWZERONI!!!
Thanks so much, Stacy!
Just to be certain, I ran this through snopes.com, and it is True.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/wetroad.asp
From Don Chaney ('66) of MD - 04/02/06 -
"Penny Postcards":
What did your town look like according to Penny Postcards?
Check out your old stomping grounds during the times of the penny postcard.
Click on the state and then on the county to see old
penny postcards from that area.....pretty neat.
Thank you, Donnie!
We've run this a couple of times
- and will continue to do so for any who might have missed it - because it is
waaaay cool!
From Karen Weinstein Witte ('60) of FL -
04/02/07 - "NNHS Class of 60 informal reunion":
Could you please update the Class of 60
informal reunion information? Thanks so much.
The NNHS Class of 1960
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ND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 04/02/07:
Yes, ma'am, by all
means - and Happy Passover!
From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 04/02/07 - "Do You Remember Love? ... Love Poem from a Dog by James Jacobson":
Subject: Do You Remember Love? ... Love Poem
from a Dog by James Jacobson
Sweet little presentation from the author of "How to Meditate With Your Dog"...
http://www.doyourememberlove.com/narration.html
This is very
beautiful, Shari. Thanks!
From My Friend, Charlie Hill, of NC -
04/02/07 - "Women and Heart Attacks (Myocardial Infarction)":
Women and Heart Attacks
(Myocardial Infarction)
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have
when experiencing heart attack... you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the
chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in
the movies?
Here is the story of one woman's experience with a
heart attack.
"I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO prior
exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've brought it
on. I was sitting all snugly and warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in
my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually
thinking, "A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy
with my feet propped up." A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of
indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and
washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like
you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is
most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and
needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten
its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only
trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
"After that had seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing
motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my
aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum
(breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR). This
fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws.
"AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening--we all have read and/or
heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening,
haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, "Dear God, I think I'm having a
heart attack!" I lowered the foot rest, dumping the cat from my lap, started to
take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself "If this is a
heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or
anywhere else.......but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I
need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment."
"I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room
and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack
due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I
didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was
sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me,
and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could
see me when they came in.
"I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't
remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or
getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on
the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist
was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my
stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions
(probably something like "Have you taken any medications?") but I couldn't make
my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again,
not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny
angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where
they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.
"I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at
least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took perhaps
4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only
minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in
his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere
between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.
"Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want
all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand."
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in
your body - not the usual men's symptoms, but inexplicable things
happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act ). It is said that many
more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know
they were having one, and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox
or other anti-heartburn preparation, and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better
in the morning when they wake up....which doesn't happen.
My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you
to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly
happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a "false
alarm" visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said "Call the Paramedics". Ladies,
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to
the ER-- you're a hazard to others on the road, and so is your panicked
husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you
instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor--he
doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and
if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the
Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved!
The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be
notified later.
3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack
because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a
cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's
unbelievably high, and/or accompanied by high blood pressure.)
MI's are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which
dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in
there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be
aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you
can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
**Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care
about**
YOWZERONI!!!
Thanks so much, Charlie!
Just to be certain, I also ran this through snopes.com, and it too is True.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/heartattack.asp
ALERTS:
1.
From
Brenda Amos Williams
('62) of VA - 03/16/07 - "Re: HELLO":
Hi Carol,
Here I am again asking for another favor. Would you please post on your
website how much we would love to find our 1962 classmates? I know that lots
of folks that read your website, much more than our small
62 website. Our reunion
is getting close (September 22) and we really would like to find as many as
we can. We had a recent mailing and quite a few came back to us, such as
wrong address, moved, etc. so sure would appreciate you putting that up for
us.
You know also that you are always invited to
attend our reunion. We really would like to invite
all the classmates from 1960 to 1965 to attend our Friday night affair.
Soon we will have a webpage with all the information and invitation on it.
I appreciate all you do and hope things are doing good for all of you now.
Again, thanks for the help. Keep up the GREAT
WORK!
Brenda
Brenda Williams
Typhoon Forever
"Be the change you wish to see in the world". -Ghandi
Why,
certainly, Brenda!
In fact, if you'll send me a list of your "missing", we'll post it and begin
to search for them individually.
Thank you for the
invitation! I'm delighted to see that you've opened your Friday night
to include the two classes on either side of you. It will be a fun
time for all, and I'm glad to help you in any way that I can.
I've posted your note here on your page:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html
2.
From Dave Arnold ('65) of VA - 03/18/07 - "60th Birthday Party":
YIPPEE!!!
Certainly, Dave! I made you a brand new page, and our Wizard of
Wonderment,
Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA
picked the perfect music for it:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/60-BIRTHDAY-1965.html
This information is now posted on the main page of the web site, and will be carried in each Newsletter from now until then.
Thanks, Dave!
Sounds like fun!
3.
From Sandra Canepa ('56) of VA) - 03/18/07 - "Buckroe & Crossroads
Entertainment Complex":
March 18, 2007
Crossroads & Buckroe
I applaud the Hampton City Council for considering everything the new Crossroads entertainment complex is expected to do for Hampton. The Daily Press reports that Hampton is looking for Crossroads to be "an attempt to make Hampton a destination" and is "looking for people to come in." ("Hampton's $200M plan," Feb. 15)
Buckroe Beach and Lots B have been the goose that has laid, and continue to lay, golden eggs in the form of attracting thousands of people and thousands of dollars in revenue to a proven destination. Now the council wants to cut up, sell off and destroy this known attraction in hopes its "new goose," the Crossroads complex, will lay the golden eggs for Hampton in the future.
How much more sense would it make for Hampton to have two major attractions to tout; one tried and true, but improved into a magnificent bayfront park with ample off-street parking, and the other, new and untried but needing all the help possible to compete with the other six entertainment complexes in the area.
The council is doing the XL Development Group a huge disservice by not doing all it can as the hosting city to help ensure it a success. Why would the council destroy one financially proven "one-of-a-kind" destination spot to lay all the onus on an unproven Crossroads in "an attempt to make Hampton a destination" when together the two certainly would be a winning ticket and better for everyone involved?
Doesn't it make good business sense for the council to reconsider its earlier vote on Buckroe's Lots B (view Option B at www.buckroebeach.org.)?
Contact the council at 727-6315 or council@hampton.gov, and let them hear your thoughts on developing Buckroe along with the Crossroads complex.
Sandra Canepa
Hampton
Thank
you so much, Sandra!
I'm
delighted to see there's still hope and that you and your committee are still
working so diligently to save this for all of us.
Now, y'all do your part, too!
DATES TO REMEMBER:
1. Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 60th Birthday Party for the Class of 1965 - OPEN TO ALL NNHS CLASSES
2. Saturday, August 4, 2007 - Typhoon Informal Reunion - NNHS CLASS OF 1960
3. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7 - 9, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1957
4. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 31 - September 2, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1967
5. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21 - 23, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1962; FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN TO NNHS CLASSES OF 1960 - 1965
6. Saturday, September 29, 2007 - Evelyn Fryer Fish's Buckroe Beach (Pot Luck) Birthday Party - OPEN TO ALL
7. Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2008 - NNHS CLASS OF 1958
REUNION REMINDERS:
Reunion information is ALWAYS posted very near the top on the front page, and on the Reunion Page section:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
Henceforth, it will be repeated
here, lest you forget:
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The NNHS Class of 1965
will celebrate their 60th Birthdays
on
Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Shelter #4 at Newport News Park on
Jefferson Avenue in Newport News from 2:00 - 6:00 PM.
This will be an open event
with all NNHS classes welcome.
If you haven't yet reached 60, it will afford an opportunity to practice. If you have, you can act like Jack Benny and move back a few years. No matter the case, all are welcome.
It's never too early to make
plans, so mark your calendar today and we'll follow up shortly
with further information.
We look forward to seeing you in June! CONTACT: Dave Arnold at dlarnold@cox.net or call him at 757-618-6646. AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/18/07: |
The NNHS Class of 1960 will hold a Typhoon Informal Reunion
on Saturday, August 4th, 2007,
at 3:00 PM
at the Beach home of Mary Ann
Edwards Elliot,
504 West Ocean View, Norfolk, VA Afternoon into evening beach party with covered dish dinner
$15.00 per person
For information/reservations, please contact:
Karen Weinstein
Witte
14314 Wadsworth Dr. Odessa, FL 33556
813-920-9498
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The NNHS Class of 1967 will hold its 40-Year Reunion on Labor Day weekend: Friday, August 31, 2007 - Friday by the Fountain, City Center/Social, at Red Star Tavern Saturday, September 1, 2007 - Buffet Dinner/Dance, The Omni Hotel, Newport News Sunday, September 2, 2007 - Omni Sunday Brunch More information will follow in June.
CONTACTS:
mmccoy@vectec.org;
Wanda - 757-867-9070; |
The NNHS Class of 1962 will hold its 45-Year Reunion on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21, 22 and 23, 2007 at the Point Plaza Suites, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601.
Suites will be available that will include breakfast
Visit Brenda's 1962 Web Page: A ND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/17/07:http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html |
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The
NNHS Class of 1957 is planning its 50-Year Class Reunion, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7, 8 and 9, 2007 at the Omni Hotel in Newport News, VA. More details to follow! |
The NNHS Class of 1958 is planning its 50th Anniversary Reunion, Friday and Saturday, May 16 -17, 2008. The Noble Gathering AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/28/07: |
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Hi Carol ... check out these
pictures! They would More chalk drawings from Julian Beever. Incredible!!!!! Julian is an English artist who's famous for his 3D art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. |
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| Make Poverty History | Make Poverty History drawing from the side (40 ft long) | ||
That they would; they're incredible!
Thanks, Babe!
Y'all have a good day, a great Passover - and take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
PERSONAL WEB SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408
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Dayenu Im haboker
ya'ale Im bashemesh hachama Veim notra meat chiba -
dayenu Dayenu... Im nomar mila tová |
It Would Be Enough
If morning will come and
discover us |
"Dayenu" midi courtesy of http://www.cyberspaceholidays.com/passover/passover6.html#PASSOVER_MIDI_SELECTIONS - 04/22/05
"Dayenu" lyrics courtesy of http://www.hebrewsongs.com/song-dayenu.htm - 04/22/05
Passover clip art courtesy of http://www.gsexclusive.com/passoverecards.html – 04/22/05
Animated Rolling on the Floor Laughing Boy courtesy of http://www.animationfactory.com - 04/06/05
Army Seal clip art also courtesy of Al
Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks again, Al!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
Crab clip art courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/ - 10/02/05
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