Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   SURPRISE!  I actually made a new page this morning!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/12-11-54-Forrestal.html

   Thanks for all your participation, and a special thanks to Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA for solving this mystery!  You are my hero! 

From Tom Norris ('HHS - '73) of VA - 12/19/04:

   GIGGLES!  Thanks, Babe!

From  Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 12/19/04:

From Linda Lane Lane ('64) of VA - 12/14/04:

Mary Alice Ring Price was married to my dad's first cousin, Gordon Price.  And yes she did work
in Nachman's selling material.  I first remember them living on 48th Street in her mother's house
next to the Shipyard Apartments. 

That would have been my mother's Aunt,  Cora Linkous Ring, sister of my grandfather, James Preston
Linkous, who lived on 47th Street.

They later moved to Franklin Road in the Hilton suburbs. 

Actually, it was 35 Woodfin Road ... one street to the north of Franklin; I lived with them for several
months in the Fall of 1964. My parents moved next door at 37 Woodfin for several years in the late 60s.
Incidentally, Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) lives on Franklin.

They had one daughter, Mary Alice Ring Price, who graduated in the 1950s from NNHS I believe.  She
went on to graduate from Mary Washington
College with a degree in Nursing.  As was customary at the time after graduation, she went to Europe and
met the man of her dreams, Rafel.  They have lived in Spain all of her married life that I am aware of. 

Make that Rafael ... and, for as long as I can remember, they have lived in Las Palmas on the Canary
Islands, where Rafael worked for an airline. 

I also have another first cousin of my dad's by marriage that was called "Berta".  Short for Alberta.  She was
married to Tommy Price that I mentioned earlier who was a Captain on the NN Fire Department.  She worked
for many years at W. T. Grants on Washington Avenue.  She is still living and should be around 97 this year. 
I saw her last year and as always, she looked magnificent.  She lives with her daughter, Jane Price London,
in Hampton.
 
I had a very large extended family in the NN/Hpt. area.  My great-grandfather, Alexander Powhatan Price,
married my great grandmother, Alice Baker Irving Price.  They had 10 children that lived into adulthood.  So
there are many first, second, third, fourth and a few removed several times cousins that had lived in the area.  A
fellow nurse I met at Riverside years ago was a Price.  Her brother did the family tree and found we were related
to Pugh Price and direct descendents of some of the original settlers at Jamestown.  They sold hard woods back
to the mother land.

OH, so we are playing the FFV Game, are we?  My Linkous line extends back to a German (Braunschweig)
soldier (Heinrich Linckost, b. 1744 Germany) who fought in the Revolution with British General Burgoyne.
He was captured at Saratoga, and sat out the War at the German POW camp in Charlottesville. He married
a widow, Elizabeth Powell (Shiflett) and settled Blacksburg. The home he built still stands and is owned
by a Linkous.

If I have made one correct assumption for Elizabeth, her (and my) Powell line extends to the first or second
sailing to Jamestown. Not a direct line, but a branch. Nathaniel Powell was the provisional Governor
of the Virginia Colony for a few days after the Indian Massacre of 1620. His brother (arrived in Virginia
ca. 1618) is my direct line.

So, ya see, every native Virginian had an ancestor at Jamestown; it is our birthright to so claim.

Small world, huh?  Especially in Virginia.

   AHHH - let the genealogy begin!  "Our Ancestral Homes", perhaps?  Thank you, Dave - or should I say, "Cousin Dave"?  There is
that Powell line connection...

   "To be a Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side, is an introduction
to any state in the Union, a passport to any foreign country, and a benediction from the Almighty God."

~ Anonymous

From Jennie Sheppard ('62) of NC - 12/20/04:

From Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 12/19/04:

From Gary Wun - 12/19/04:

Dear Carol,

I enjoyed your N.N.H.S. web site.  I never attended your high school, but due to the era of "BUSING", I was sent to
WOODROW WILSON ELEMENTARY for grades 6 and 7. We left the area in 1974 for Central Virginia.   What I remember
the most the very first time I saw the school was the age of it. (We lived at Jefferson and Oyster Point Road at Criston
Apartments and later Village Green. I played everyday at Yoder Dairy where my best friend's father was the care taker
for the farm.)  I had attended L. F. Palmer Elementary School which had just opened. Just a jump over the fence and I
was there. The next year it was a 50 minute bus ride up I-64 to school due to busing.

Over the years I have thought back at those times... without a doubt the old Woodrow Wilson Elementary School had to be
my favorite because of the character of the architecture. I read the section of the web site on "our schools" about Wilson.
The size of the school's property was unique - a whole city block.  I looked for the school when I was in the area about 20
years ago but it was gone.  However what was left was unforgettable... the huge magnolia tree that we climbed every morning
(and told every morning to get out of) was still there.  They had built houses where the school once stood. What a great school.  
(Even though the lunches were awful since they shipped them in from another school around the corner.)

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.         

Gary 

   Thank you, Gary!  I've posted your memories, and dressed up that Wilson page a bit in the process:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/our-schools.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/woodrow-wilson.html
 

From Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) of VA - 12/21/04:

   Thanks, Kathy!

   "Corky"?!?  Just remember, Babe - she said it; I didn't!  WILD GIGGLES!  (For those of you who forgot, Kathy and Tom were
raised in the same Hampton neighborhood, though there's a ten-year gap in their ages.)

   I enjoyed your history of Willis, Syms, Eaton School, Kathy.  I'd not heard that story before; it's quite impressive.

   I am having a partial memory returning of the Willis dances; I'm sure I attended a least a couple.  But, yes, my memories of the
Magruder dances are far sharper.  And they were a block party sort of thing - people came from all around, whether they were one
or 91.  That's what made them so wonderful!  Literally, everybody and his brother were there!  So when you and Joan and the girls
were walking towards Magruder on that summer night of '62, you were going to one and the same.  And no doubt, I saw you there.

From Craig Miller ('63) of FL - 12/21/04:

  Uh-huh!  Y'all keep talking, and all my memories will come flooding back yet.  Thanks, Craig! 

   You're right about dance contests.  I'm shocked to say that I do not remember your winning that Mashed Potato contest, but I do
remember watching you dance, and I must concur with the judges!  I myself won a limbo contest there one year - no cheating, no
twisting or tilting, and I cleared the limbo pole at 12" from the ground.  I'm not sure to this day how I did that.  Do you suppose my
then-tiny size (depending on which summer that was, my waist ran from between 18" to 22") may have been a contributing factor??? 

   I'm also shocked that I don't recognize the Stuart Gardens surfer guy you mentioned.  Someone will, though, from your description.
And I'm sorry to say that I have not heard from Lois.

   By the way, Craig is still an excellent dancer!

   Thanks again, Craig!

From Me ('65) of NC - 12/21/04:

   Oh, yes - my Christmas service...   Sunday was exciting. We had an all but impromptu cantata for our worship service. Due
to a long improbable chain of events, I had thought we wouldn’t be having one – WRONG!   But as Music Chairman, I was
responsible for organizing one.  So I asked a few people the previous Sunday and throughout the week to tell me what solos
they'd like to sing, and whether they'd like to narrate the scripture readings, and wrote the program Saturday afternoon and altered
it all evening. On Sunday morning at 7:00 AM, I suddenly thought it would be fun to throw in a flute solo (“The Star of Bethlehem”)
for myself. Because it was an unfamiliar tune, no one recognized my mistakes – which considering the fact that I hadn’t touched a
flute in three years were not too many.

   At 10:00 AM one of my soprano soloists called and wanted to switch her  solo from “What Child Is This?” to “Away in a Manger”
(which had been scheduled for the congregation to sing).  So as “What Child Is This?” is not in our hymn book, I called my sister,
Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky - '59), gave her a URL to download and print three copies, and told her we’d be singing a duet – in
an hour and a half.  She already knew the alto, and I’ve been masquerading as a soprano all year, so we ran through it once in the
car. We handed the music to our pianist (who is an award-winning composer), and all was well. The beauty of being sisters is –
no matter how different we are - and boy, howdy, are we - our voices blend automatically.

   The pianist's husband is a Methodist College music professor/professional opera singer.  I persuaded him to open with an aria
and recitative from Handel's "Messiah", plus two other Christmas carols.  As you can imagine, he was spectacular.  The pianist
herself offered a piano solo of "Lo, How a Rose Art Blooming".  There were two soprano soloists, a children's chorus, five
congregational carols, and the program ended with one of our full-time missionaries singing an incredible tenor version of "Oh,
Holy Night".  The man is amazing; he looked and sounded like an angel, and he hit all the notes - including the high A flat -
effortlessly.  It was definitely a Kleenex moment.

   And in the Small World Department, he discovered a few weeks ago that he's the first cousin, once removed of the very pianist
who accompanied him, even though they were raised on opposite sides of the country and had never met!

   So you see, we really are just one big happy family - all of us, everywhere.

   Y'all take care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!

                          Love to all, Carol

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“Coventry Carol” midi courtesy of http://www.divtune.com/dtmid.htm, at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 12/18/04
Thanks, Dave!  It's lovely!

“Coventry Carol” lyrics courtesy of http://www.night.net/christmas/coventry.html -12/21/03

Angels with Violin clip art courtesy of http://www.newcybertech.com/christmas3_new.html - 12/18/04

Star Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.holidaygraphics.com/christmas/graphics/page8.html - 12/18/04

Victorian Choir Member courtesy of http://clipart.christiansunite.com/Victorian_Clipart/index4.shtml - 01/01/04

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