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12/30/06 - NNHS Newsletter - “When Christmas
bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
My precious
company has gone back to Illinois (SOB!!!), my
internet and phone problems have (hopefully!) been resolved, and even the
00freehost server seems to be working fairly well at the moment. Perhaps
I'll be able to catch up with myself after all!
BIRTHDAYS:
We have another Twofer today!
Ron Miller ('59) of NC and Sarah
Stewart Vance ('69) of VA are both celebrating their birthdays!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
Many Happy Returns,
Sweetie Pies!
From Me ('65) of VA - 12/30/06:
Unless you've been even more sequestered than I this week, you will know that we have lost another former president. Gerald R. Ford passed away on December 26, 2006.
As we did when Ronald Reagan died, we have a page to mark and remember this passing. It is now but a basic shell, but I'll be adding images rapidly, and if you're moved to contribute comments on his passing, they will be added as well:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Ford.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Reagan.html
And no, I'm not making a political statement; I'm recording history. You are encouraged to do likewise.
From My Dear Friend, Judy, of IL - 12/29/06 - "dear friends":
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimdandy/specials/dearfriends/dearfriends.htm
Thank you, dear Judy! This is
beautiful!
From Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA - 12/29/06 - "BILL COSBY-------A MUST
READ":
I
had never seen the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson cry in public. And he's seldom
upstaged. Until, Bill Cosby came to town.
Last month* Jackson invited Cosby to the annual Rainbow/PUSH conference
for a conversation about controversial remarks the entertainer offered May 17
(2004) at an NAACP dinner in
Washington, D.C. That's when America's Jell-O Man shook things up by
arguing that African Americans were betraying the legacy of civil rights
victories.
"The lower economic people," he said, "are not holding up their end in this
deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids.
$500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for "Hooked on Phonics!"
Thursday morning, Cosby showed no signs of repenting as he strode across the
stage at the Sheraton Hotel ballroom before a standing-room-only crowd. Sporting
a natty gold sports coat and dark glasses, he proceeded to unload a
Laundry list of black America's self-imposed ills. The
iconic actor and comedian kidded that he couldn't
compete with the oratory of the Reverend but he
preached circles around Jackson in their nearly
hour-long conversation, delivering brutally frank
one-liners and the toughest of love.
The enemy, he argues, is us:
"There is a time, ladies and gentlemen, when we have
to turn the mirror around." Cosby acknowledged he
wasn't critiquing all blacks-just "the 50 percent of
African Americans in the lower economic neighborhood
who drop out of school," and the alarming proportions
of black men in prison and black teenage mothers. The
mostly black crowd seconded him with choruses of "Amens."
To critics who pose, it's unproductive to air our
dirty laundry in public, he responds, "Your dirty
laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day. It's
cursing on the way home, on the bus, train, in the
candy store. They are cursing and grabbing each other
and going nowhere.
And, the book bag is very, very thin because there's
nothing in it."
"Don't worry about the white man," he adds. "I could care
less about what white people think about me . . . Let 'em
talk. What are they saying that is different from what
their grandfathers said and did to us? What is different
is what we are doing to ourselves."
For those who say Cosby is just an elitist who's "got his"
but doesn't understand the plight of the black poor, he
reminds us that, "We're going to turn that mirror around.
It's not just the poor-everybody's guilty."
Cosby and Jackson lamented that in the 50th year of Brown
vs. Board of Education, our failings betray our legacy.
Jackson dabbed away tears as he recalled the financial
struggles at Fisk University , a historically black
college and Jackson 's Alma mater.
When Cosby was done, the 1,000 people in the room all
jumped to their feet in ovation. Long after Cosby had
departed, I could not find a dissenter in the crowd. But
in the hotel corridor I encountered a vintage poster for
sale that said volumes. The poster, which advertised the
Million Man March, was "discounted" to $5: Remember the
Million Man March?
In 1995, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan exhorted
"a million sober, disciplined, committed, dedicated,
inspired black men to meet in
Washington on a day of atonement.
In 2006, perhaps all
that is left of that call is a $5 poster. We have shed
tears too many times, at too many watershed moments
before, while the hopes they inspired have fallen by the
wayside.
Not this time!
Cosby's plea to parents: "Before you get to the point
where you say 'I can't do nothing with them' - do
something with them."
Like:
Teach our children to speak English. There's no such
thing as "talking white". When the teacher calls, show up
at the school.
When the idiot box starts spewing profane rap videos, turn
it off.
Refrain from cursing around the kids.
Teach our boys that women should be cherished, not raped
and demeaned.
Tell them that education is a prize we won with blood and
tears, not a dishonor.
Stop making excuses for the agents and abettors of
black-on-black crime.
It costs us nothing to do these things. But if we don't,
it will cost us infinitely more tears.
Thanks, Joan!
Just to make double sure of the facts, I ran this through Snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp
It's a
little dated; the NAACP dinner took place on 17 May 2004, but the facts are
correct. Thanks for sharing this with us!
REUNION REMINDERS:
Reunion information is ALWAYS posted very near the top on the front page, and on the Reunion Page section:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
Henceforth, it will be repeated
here, lest you forget:
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The NNHS Class of 1962 will hold its 45-Year Reunion on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21, 22 and 23, 2007 at the Point Plaza Suites, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601. Suites will be available that will include breakfast on Saturday and Sunday.
Visit Brenda's 1962 Web Page: AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 11/27/06:http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html |
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The
NNHS Class of 1957 is planning its 50-Year Class Reunion, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7, 8 and 9, 2007 at the Omni Hotel in Newport News, VA. More details to follow! |
The NNHS Class of 1958 is planning its 50th Anniversary Reunion, Friday and Saturday, May 16 -17, 2008. The Noble Gathering More details to
follow! |
May the spirit of this season bring you all as much joy as you've brought to me!
Happy New Year to you all!
Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
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
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408
Ring Out, Wild Bells
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson is
considered the most representative poet of the Victorian Age in England, and
many of his works characterize the conflict between the Christian faith and
the beginnings of the scientific revolution. The death of his sister's fiancé,
Arthur Henry Hallam, at the age of 22 plunged Tennyson into profound shock and
a lifelong struggle between faith and doubt. "Ring Out, Wild Bells," generally
considered a New Year's hymn, is taken from the 106th Canto of In Memoriam,
Tennyson's monumental elegy to Hallam that was published in 1850, the same
year that he was appointed Poet Laureate."
Words by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(6 Aug 1809 - 6 Oct 1892)
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wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. 2. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. 3. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. 4. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. |
5. Ring out
the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. 6. Ring out false pride in place and blood. The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. 7. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. 8. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. |
"Ring Out, Wild Bells" midi and lyrics courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/2168/songs009.html - 12/30/06
History of "Ring Out, Wild Bells" courtesy of http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/ring_out_wild_bells.htm - 12/30/06
Snowy Bells clip art courtesy of http://d21c.com/AnnesPlace/Xmas1.html - 12/18/04
Ornament Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/christ-htm/lines-christ16.htm - 12/18/04
Animated Tiny
Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of
Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
Army Seal clip art also courtesy of Al
Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06
Thanks again, Al!
