Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
This letter will be as fraught with errors and omissions as the last, simply because too much time has elapsed.
Thank you for
all the Get Well Wishes I received this week - the hysterically funny as well as
the sweet. They were all
touching, and I appreciate them.
The good news is
that while I was sick this week, I managed to lose eleven-and-a-half pounds. The bad
news,
Billy
Turner,
is that it still doesn't get me into that brown leather wrap-around skirt in
time for the
Reunion. ARGHHH!
Maybe next
year... And maybe one day we ought to tell them that story about
Mr. Loving's Geometry class and the
wrap-around skirt incident. Hmmm. I think I'll leave that one to
you, Billy Turner. See you in October!
More Good
News, Bad News: Hit # 25,500 was made on Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 5:30
PM by someone
with a longship.net address using a Galeon 1.2.9 browser on a Linux system.
The bad news is that I don't know who
did it. Now that is SO easy! You KNOW who you are! PLEASE LET ME
KNOW, TOO!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/page-hits.html
Y'all really should go play "Whack Britney with a Summer Sausage" while you're there. It's a great morale booster:
http://www.00fun.com/whackbritney.shtml
NEWBIE:
1. Steve Pullen ('65) of VA - 09/01/04
The
website is outstanding and a true tribute to NNHS, not only the Class of ’65,
but everyone. Please add me
to your list to receive the newsletter and to be contacted. Thanks. Let me
know if anything else is needed
Thanks - and welcome - at long last, Steve! We've been looking for you for four years!
I’ve
been in the same place forever. First
Newport News and now Williamsburg.
I emailed Sarah (Puckett
Kressaty - '65) when she returned to Newport News I thought. Also sent the
website to Steve Burns ('65)
in St. Paul, Minn. Please add both emails to the list. Birthday is 11.10.46 and
I feel it. I’ve been looking
at the website since the Spring when it was first
sent to me and continue to be impressed. I’ll also be sending
you some $$$$ to help keep it up. It will be good
to keep up with some of the old friends.
I noticed Don Harvey ('65) is not listed. He lives in Va.
Beach and is now retired as a high school principal
traveling all over the world.
I’m still working @ the Va. Dept. of Juvenile Justice and hopefully will for a
few more years. I look forward
to hearing more from you.
Thanks for spreading the word.
Traveling the world sounds like fun. I'm always grateful when I can just
travel the five
hours north to Newport News! I added your name and Don's to the '65
contact page:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-B.html
Oh, you'll hear more from me, Steve. Getting me to shut up is the hard part.
2. Sid Melton ('64) of NY - 09/02/04 - courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA and Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA
We'd been looking for Sid for some long while, and thanks to Sarah and Dave's
magic, it all sort of fell in place. Dave
and I were both able to speak with Sid last night at some length, and really
enjoyed being reconnected.
Welcome, Steve and Sid! You are both posted here:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/alumni-list.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
Sid is also to be found here:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1964.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2004-attending.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-marines.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-soldiers.html
UPDATES:
My sister, Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky ('59) of NC, found me a birthday card with this quotation and message on it:
"I plan on growing old much later in life or maybe not at all."
- Patty Carey, 1901
I vote for not at all.
Is not that just The Real Me?!? I posted it at the top of the Birthday Page (where else?):
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
Thanks, Eleanor! What a great philosophy of life!
I made another email addy page, this one for the Class of 1962:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-1962.html
I know I said I wasn't gonna do that,
but it was just so amazingly tedious that it kept my mind off of a lot of
unpleasant
subjects, so I did. Or perhaps I'm just a pathological liar - hard to say.
From Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 09/02/04:
Oh, all right, since you're cute. Stay tuned, and I'll make it soon. Kinda soon. Before too long...
Giggles! Thanks, Dee!
In addition to Sid, two more former Marines have been added to "Famous Marines" - Sen. Zell Miller and Don Imus:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-marines.html
We still seem to be missing someone here, hmmm, Billy? Nudge, nudge.
Joe Madagan
('57) of FL sent me an image of David Brinkley for "Famous Soldiers"
yesterday. I've attached it,
but not the caption yet. My bad. Hang on, I'll get it yet, Adonis!
And thanks so much!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-soldiers.html
The Reunions loom ever closer!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/re-54-2004.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2004.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/re-69-2004.html
From Jean Baker Howell ('69) of VA - 09/01/04:
Thanks, Jean!
In my stupor of thought, I had just realized that your reunion was beginning
tonight when this
arrived from you yesterday. We've been perhaps just a wee bit partial in
promoting '64's Reunion over all others.
Well, okay, we've been totally shameless. I'm sure there's a perfectly
good reason for that, and if you give me a
moment or two, I'll try to invent one...
We DO wish you
all success and happiness with the Class of '69 Reunion this weekend. We
hope you'll supply
us with pictures so that we can enjoy yours vicariously, even though we've
treated you shabbily.
COOL SITE:
From Rip Collins ('65) of TN - 09/02/04:
http://www.singingman.us/DYR.htm
That was fun! Thanks, Rip!
SCARY NEWS SITE:
From Janice McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 09/02/04:
A slide show of the storm damage in Richmond:
http://tdcar.timesdispatch.com/Storm0831/storm0831.htmlAnd that was NOT so fun, but I'm very glad you sent it. Thanks, Janice!
AWESOME SITE:
This is Jerry's web page of incredible images he make from Polaroid pictures.
They're totally unlike anything
I've ever seen, and the entire site is quite mesmerizing.
From Jerry Gammon ('63) of VA - 08/31/04:
THANKS FOR
THE NICE COMMENTS ABOUT MY PICTURES. THIS HAS BEEN MY HOBBY SINCE 1995…I HAVE
OVER 1400 IMAGES.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE IMAGES IN PERSON, STOP IN BLUE SKIES GALLERY IN DOWNTOWN
HAMPTON, SOMETIME.
Thanks, Jerry! I'd love to see them - and thanks for letting us post them!
OOOPS!!!
Something just went a bit haywire on my computer, and I was forced to remove
that link until I repair it, but if you'll just hand
type it in from the Contact-63 page until I do so, I'm sure you won't experience
the same "interesting" effect that I had. I hope.
Or if you do, please understand that neither Jerry nor I had anything whatsoever
to do with it.
From Brenda Amos Williams ('62) of VA - 09/02/04:
Hi Carol,
You know you have my email address and certainly can put it on your website. I
haven't done anything
with our site much lately. Don't hear from anyone. You keep up the good work and
I know that you hear
from some of my classmates, which is good. That way I can keep up with our
classmates too!
Thanks for all you do.
Your other classmate,
Brenda
Hey, Brenda - so good to hear
from you! I miss running up to your
Reunion
Committee meetings! Well, okay, I only
made it to two of them, but I had such fun! I think of you often, and
wonder how you're doing. If you hadn't begun the
Web Page for the Class of '62,
I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today. I'm indebted to you for a whole
portion of my life!
Thanks so much! I hope all is well with you and yours.
From Me ('65) in NC - 09/03/04:
Once
again, I'm going to have to cut this short and empty with sections removed,
because I'm out of time for the day.
Being the eternal optimist that I am, I have high hopes that soon I'll be able
to complete those missing updates, and
convey to you those missing messages.
Coming home
from my class just now, we passed a really bad car wreck at the intersection.
We were the first ones
on the scenes with a cell phone, so my brother-in-law, Miles Nowitzky (Granby
High School - 1950), (who was
chauffeuring
Adrienne and me for the day) called 9-1-1.
The accident involved two high school students, a boy friend
and girl friend,
and their mothers. The vehicle had slipped
on the pavement, skidded a short distance, and overturned
in a ditch, landing on
the driver's side. The boy managed
to get out and after some difficulty was able to pull his girl friend
free.
After a long while, his mother was able to make it
out, but she had injured her shoulder, and was somewhat
scratched and bruised.
The girl's
mother had been driving, and was pinned in the vehicle, and was bleeding.
While we were there, she lost
consciousness. When the emergency vehicles arrived, they had to cut her
out. We were able to notify the school and
other family members for them. We do not yet know the condition of the
mother, who was whisked away to the hospital.
The entire
incident was yet another example of the fragility of life, and how instantly it
can change forever. Go call
someone and tell them you love them. Better still, give someone a hug.
Y'all take care of each other. You do it so well.
And if I
haven't told you lately what y'all mean to me, consider yourself told. My
association with you has brought me
incredible joy. Thank you for everything you've brought to my life.
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
"I only have two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy."
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 28311-9305
910-488-9408
Yesterday
The Beatles
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away!
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be!
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know; she wouldn't say,
I said something wrong now I long, for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play!
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go I don't know; she wouldn't say,
I said something wrong now I long, for yesterday-ay-ay-ay
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday!
"Yesterday" midi courtesy of http://juali.chez.tiscali.fr/loveli/musicbox/yesterday.mid - 09/03/04
"Yesterday" lyrics courtesy of http://wsp3.wspice.com/~dpannell/beatles/yesterdy.htm - 09/03/04
Brown Star Dotted divider line clip art courtesy of http://www.bravenet.com - 08/12/04