"Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name,
speaks the same language, and worships the same G_d that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins
 from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store."

- Charles Krauthammer - The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998
 

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A Big Happy Birthday greeting today to    Pauline Collins Shofner ('65) of VA!  Have a Super-Duper day, Lady!

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   Certainly, Joyce!  I'm still a little swamped, but I hope to be able to return to that incomplete page quite soon!

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Yes, Ella Fitzgerald, who was hip enough to appear with Karen and Richard Carpenter on one of the Carpenter's tv specials, when Ms. Fitzgerald was toward the end of her life, and still singing great, near 80 years young.

Now, she was, and still is, called The ________________________. Anyone?

Jimmy

   Um - ah, umm - ahh, I confess.  I still can't remember.  
 

    Jimmy, I think we have a winner!

Take care of yourself, gal. Thanks for all the work you do on this newsletter.

   Thank you, Sweetie! I've missed hearing from you!
 

In regards to    Jimmy Hines’ ('64 - of Northern VA) question about the song, “A Tisket, a Tasket”, I know it was written by Ella Fitzgerald.  As far as it’s use as a theme song, I’m going to guess Patti Page.

Captain Dave Arnold
Director of Personnel and Training
Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail

   I had no idea that Miss Ella had written that tune!  But here it is:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald

She started singing regularly with Webb's Orchestra through 1935, at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Fitzgerald recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)", and "Love and Kisses" (her first recording) but it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" that brought her wide public acclaim.

   OOOH, looky here!

• Download sample of "How High the Moon"
• Download sample of "April in Paris" by Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong, from their 1956 album Ella and Louis

   And now that you mention it, I can imagine Patti Page singing it as well!

   Thanks, Dave!

..... Seems to me that at Jackson we had some kind of "day of celebration" regarding May Day!? I was waiting for    Sarah Sugah (Puckett Kressaty - '65 - of VA) to come forth with all the details, but of course now I know she's in the middle of moving to MY county! See what happens when you miss an immigration meeting? ( BAD, really bad!!)

   Oh, you are the naughty one, Wayne Honey!

   Thanks for The Jackson Report!
 

   WOWZERONI!  How utterly charming!  Thanks so much, David! I posted that here:

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     Unless I am very wrong, and I don't think I slept through any of it... we prepared for and participated only in the Grand Feature Parade on Saturday - one shot for recognition, laying it all on the line, always with a specially selected piece of music that fit the band and not only captured the imagination of the crowd, but also earned the respect of the judging panel... ummmm, obviously.

   That is the way I remembered it as well, Jimmy.  But from what I have gleaned from past comments from several of the younger band members, that may have changed in later years.

The Warwick High School Grenadier Band, under Lyle Smith's direction, marched in the Friday and Saturday parades, as I recall, but don't know how often. I believe the Ferguson High School Band went, as well. The Warwick HS Grenadier Band was a very authentically uniformed  and equipped band - a crowd favorite, and Mr. Smith was always a polished gentleman.

   Oh, how I always loved those bag pipers - and those tartan uniforms honoring the Earl of Warwick!  SHHH - don't tell!!!  GIGGLES!!!

 The Firemen's Parade was, and still is, I think,  always on Friday nights, with the awards presentation often at one of the local fire halls - I recall Rouss Fire Hall as being one that held the Firemen's Parade awards presentation. Friday night's crowd was a decidedly more 'lubricated' crowd, though Saturday's mid-day crowd had its share of rowdies, as well. Does anyone remember removing the raincoats just before the turn onto Handley Boulevard? (goosebumps...) A stroke of genius that wasn't forgotten, and was done again years later by another winning band. Saturday's awards may have been presented outside Omps Funeral Home back then, certainly during later years. Mr. Wilson knew when to raise the whistle on the wrist of his right arm, at times to clear people out of the way of his troops. He was always a striking and most impressive figure in any parade, and I'd have moved!

The memories are many, wonderful and priceless in many special ways!

   Indeed they are, Sweetie!  And thanks for sharing yours with us!

By the way, great tune today-kickin'!

Jimmy

   Thanks again!  I was delighted to locate such an excellent rendition of that classic!

So sorry to hear about your dear    Aunt (Frances Frix Atkinson - Thomas Jefferson HS - '37).  It is never easy to lose a loved one.  We really don't lose them you know, they just go through the door before us. 
 

   That's an excellent way of expressing it, Jean!  Thanks so much!

 Thanks, Dicky! 

   Laughing hysterically, but aghast.... 

   Thanks, Dave!