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10/24/20 - NNHS Newsletter - Sunny
“There is no season when such pleasant
and sunny spots may be lighted on,
-
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
If there's no sun where
you are today, then just shine yourself.
BONUS #1 - Sunny - Stevie Wonder BONUS #2 - Sunny - Boney M, 2006 |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_%28song%29:
"Sunny" is the name of a song written by
Bobby Hebb.
It is one of the most
covered popular songs, with hundreds of versions released.
BMI rates "Sunny" number 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century". Hebb wrote the song after 22 November 1963, the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Hebb's older brother Harold was killed in a knife fight outside a Nashville nightclub. Hebb was devastated by both events and many critics say that those events inspired the tune. According to Hebb, he wrote the song as an expression of a preference for a "sunny" disposition over a "lousy" disposition.[1] Certainly, events influenced Bobby's songwriting, but his timeless melody, crossing over into R&B (#3 on U.S. R&B chart) Country and Pop (#2 on U.S. Pop chart), together with the optimistic lyrics, came from the artist's desire to express that one should always "look at the bright side" - a direct quote from the author. Hebb has said about "Sunny": "All my intentions were just to think of happier times – basically looking for a brighter day – because times were at a low tide. After I wrote it, I thought "Sunny" just might be a different approach to what Johnny Bragg was talking about in 'Just Walkin' in the Rain'"... |
THIS WEEK'S
BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today to
Agnes Dick Kump ('57)
AND
Susan Perkins Best ('63)
AND
Mark
Friedman ('65) of VA!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to
Kitty Taylor Hanrahan ('57)
AND Carol Wornom
Sorenson ('57)
AND
Bobby
Turpin ('58) of VA
AND
Owen Smith ('63)!
Happy Birthday this week to:
26 -
Terry Hunsucker ('65) of KY
AND
Randy Tate ('66) of DE;
27 -
Carolyn Simpson Knight ('56) of VA
AND
the late
Kermit Whiteside ('57)
(d.
13 Mar
2014)
AND
Dimples Dinwiddie Prichard ('58) of
NC AND
Frances
Heath Scott ('62) of VA
AND
Fred Shelton ('63)
AND
Eddie
Perry ('65) of TN!
28 -
Nancy Bigger Alligood
('56) of VA AND
Mary Blandford McGehee
('62) of LA;
29 -
The late
Ray Barnes
('65)
(d.
04 July
2019)
AND
Christine Wilson Starkman
('68) of CA;
30 -
31 -
Nuel Quisenberry
('58) of FL
AND
Jo Ann Stewart ('64) of VA!
Many Happy
Returns, One and All!
THIS DAY IN WWII: October 24, 1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
October 24, 1943 - The
Provisional
Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United
States of America. October 24, 1945 - The
United Nations (UN) was formally established less than a month after
the end of World War II. |
October 22, 1941 -
French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages were executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.October 22, 1943 - In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducted an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
THIS DAY IN 1970:
October 24, 1970 - Field hockey player and engineer
Rob Leslie-Carter was born Robert Michael Leslie-Carter in
Oxford,
Oxfordshire,
England.
October 24, 1970 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeff Mangum was born in Ruston, Louisiana. October 24, 1970 - Historian and author Richard Hofstadter (b. 06 Aug 1916 in Buffalo, New York) died from leukemia in Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 54. |
From My Friend, Susan, of NC - 10/23/15:
“There are … so many kinds of voices in the
world. We are surrounded by persuasive voices, beguiling voices,
belittling voices, sophisticated voices, and confusing voices. I might
add that these are loud voices. I admonish you to turn the volume down
and to be influenced instead by that still, small voice which will guide
you to safety.”
-
Thomas S. Monson |
Thanks so
much, Susan!
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Thank
you, Joan!
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11/24/17 | I Won't Last a Day Without You |
11/23/17 | Happy Thanksgiving! |
11/22/17 | Come, Ye Thankful People, Come |
11/21/17 | Now Thank We All Our God |
11/20/17 | You've Changed |
11/19/17 | Since I Fell for You |
11/18/17 | Once in a While |
From Ivan Anker ('67) of VA -
10:23/20, 9:10 AM:
Carol, I lost a cousin in late September. ![]() Ivan Anker, NNHS 67 Oh, Ivan, I'm so sorry to hear this! You and your family have my deepest condolences. Without further information, I can only enter this onto the In Memoriam page for the class of 1960.
Besides the two of y'all, I can remember at least three more Ankers at
NNHS,
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EXCELLENT! Thank
you, Jane!
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From
My Cousin, Cheryl White Wilson (James Blair HS / John Marshall HS - '64) of VA - 10/22/19,
8:23 PM:
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From My Cousin,
Jean Atkinson Mallory (Warsaw
HS / Rappahannock HS / John Marshall HS - '65)
of VA - 10/23/19, 9:49 AM:
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SO CUTE! Thank
you, Jean!
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“If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal
from many, it’s research.” - Wilson Mizner (19 May 1876 - 03 Apr 1933) |
From
My Niece, Shari, of VA - 10/20/20, 10:27 PM - "Halloween and Fall Pix (#4 in a
series of 17)":
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EEK!
Thank you, Shari!
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Kristine's Little Sunshine Appliqué
Rachel Choi's Sun Appliqué
Debbie Williams' Sun Motif
BONUS RECIPES (Sorry,
not theme related):
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FINALLY: |
From www.ajokeaday.com - 10/23/19:
A friend of a friend of
mine was sitting on a lawn sunning and reading, when he was
startled by a fairly late model car crashing through a hedge and
coming to rest on his lawn. He helped the elderly driver out and
sat him on a lawn chair. "My goodness," he exclaimed. "You are quite old to be driving!" "Yes," he replied. "I am old enough that I don't need a license anymore. The last time I went to my doctor he examined me and asked if I had a driving license. I told him yes and handed it to him." "He took scissors out of a drawer, cut the license into pieces, and threw them in the wastebasket. 'You won't be needing this anymore,' he said." "So I thanked him and left." |
PRAYER
ROLL: http://www.nnhs65.com/requests-prayers.html - updated 06/20/20 |
BLOG: http://nnhs.wordpress.com/ - updated 03/13/11 |
Love to all, Carol |
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Written
by
Bobby Hebb,1963
Recorded by
Marvin Gaye,
1966
Sunny, yesterday my
life was filled with rain.
"Sunny" midi courtesy of
http://www.mymidifiles.com/midis/stevie+wonder/sunny -10/24/10 Thanks, Sarah Sugah! Animated USAF Flag clip art courtesy of
http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html -
06/18/03
John Marshall High School's Justice Scale clip art courtesy of
Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05 (replaced 02/23/09) Animated Laughing Kitty courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of
GA - 10/08/07 Bright Idea clip art (designed by Heather) courtesy of http://www.clker.com/clipart-brightidea-2.html - 10/30/12 Jeffrey Holman's Image "A Drop in the Bucket" courtesy of https://tearsfromalonelygod.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/a-drop-in-the-bucket/ - 05/23/16 |