lucky you - your browser doesnt play annoying midis          09/30/18 - NNHS Newsletter It Won't Be Long “I'm sure it won't be long until you find someone nice who loves you.” - Sebastian Ischer Dear Friends and Schoolmates,     Today's Newsletter theme might apply to many things!

BONUS - It Won't Be Long - The Beatles

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Won%27t_Be_Long:

"It Won't Be Long" is the opening track on With the Beatles, the Beatles' second UK album, and was the first original song recorded for it.[1] Although credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was primarily a John Lennon composition, with Paul McCartney assisting with the lyrics and arrangement.[2] The chorus is a play on the words "be long" and "belong".[3] The song features early Beatles' trademarks such as call-and-response yeah-yeahs and scaling guitar riffs.[4] Typical also of this phase of Beatles' song writing is the melodramatic ending (similar to "She Loves You", which had just been recorded and was about to be released) where the music stops, allowing Lennon a brief solo vocal improvisation before the song finishes on a major seventh chord[3] ("She Loves You" ends on a major sixth). There is an unusual middle eight—for what is, essentially, a rock and roll song—that uses chromatically descending chords. John Lennon, in his last interview, told Playboy magazine that the song was the beginning of a wider audience for Beatles' music than the youthful throngs that had fervently followed them from their Liverpool clubbing days. "It was only after a critic for the [London] Times said we put 'Aeolian cadences' in 'It Won't Be Long' that the middle classes started listening to us. ... To this day, I have no idea what 'Aeolian cadences' are. They sound like exotic birds."[5] Actually the critic, William Mann, said this about the song "Not a Second Time."[6] Bob Dylan had much the same thing in mind when he wrote that Beatles' chords were "outrageous, just outrageous."[7]

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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

Happy Birthday tomorrow to  MaeLea Somervold Tweedie ('62) of VA AND   Jerry Baker Cobb ('66) of VA!   Happy Birthday this week to: 02 - Barry Hatchett ('63) of VA AND  Stuart Nachman ('63) of VA AND   Wayne Frizzelle ('65) of MD AND Paige Spencer; 03 -  Martha Megann Keesee ('57) AND  Mary Megann Peters ('57) AND  Larry Moran ('65) of ID AND  Bridget Whitt Jones ('65) of AR; 04 -    My Former Brother-in-Law, Rennie Dick ('54) of VA AND Jimmy Mooney ('57) AND Donna Rountree Holburn ('63) AND  Brenda Eakes Insley ('66) of VA; 05 - George Pipkin ('57) AND the late Butch Ragland ('63) (d. 11/18/16); 06 - Nancy McCormick Nicholson ('57) AND  Renee Helterbran Benton ('59) of VA; 07 - Ellen Anas Smith ('57) ANDDale Parsons ('69) of HA!    Many Happy Returns, One and All! http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html PAGE HITS:    Hit #173,500 was made by an unknown user sometime in September 2018 when I wasn't paying attention. http://www.nnhs65.com/page-hits.html THIS DAY IN WWII: September 30, 1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy signed the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. September 30, 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlawed "intentional bombings of civilian populations". September 30, 1939 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta. September 30, 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski became commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile. September 30, 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C completed the Babi Yar massacre. September 30, 1949 - The Berlin Airlift ended.

THIS DAY IN 1968:

Sunday, September 30, 1968 - The Boeing 747 was rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

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“Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.” - Richard G. Scott (07 Nov 1928 - 22 Sept 2015)

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From Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA - 09/30/17:

		Thank you, Joan!

From MaeLea Somervold Tweedie ('62) of VA - 09/29/18:

		Thanks, MaeLea!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

1. Every Tuesday, 7:30 AM - Male grads meet at Angelo's Restaurant on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard for breakfast and camaraderie. 2. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 12, 13, and 14, 2018 - The NNHS Class of 1958 will hold its 60-Year Reunion as follows: FRIDAY: 7:00 PM - ? - Welcoming Party at Holiday Inn's Burger Theory Indoor/Outdoor Cafe. Snacks will be provided, and there will be a cash bar. SATURDAY: 10:00 AM - A private coach will take us to the downtown are of NN where we can see our old school and the different businesses we remember. Lunch is open. SUNDAY MORNING: Farewell Brunch. Contact Gail Gaskins Roberson at 1gailroberson@gmail.com. 3. Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - The NNHS Class of June 1942 meets at noon on the second Wednesday of every other month for a Dutch treat lunch at the James River Country Club, 1500 Country Club Road. PLEASE JOIN THEM. Give or take a few years makes no difference. Good conversation, food and atmosphere. For details, call Jennings Bryan at 803-7701 for reservations.