John W

Thank you so much for the wonderful memories of John W. Daniel school! I attended there from 1946 until 1952
before transferring to Newport News High School. I remember beating chalkboard erasers off the front steps,
lunches in the basement cafeteria, and getting dressed all in white for the May Day commemoration that took
place on the playground every year. Lots and lots of memories come alive upon seeing the photo of John W. Daniel.
Teachers - Ms. Rogers, Ms. Martin, Ms. Wilson, and Ms. Moore reappear in my memory.
Thank you so very much for your Newsletter.

THEN AND NOW:

Hi Carol....

We have never met...my cousin who is a 1963 NNHS graduate told me about this site and I LOVE it!

I graduated from HHS - '62 but I did go to John W. Daniel School 1950-53 (1st through 3rd grade). Also I am kin (my sister is his sister-in-law) to Chandler Nelms (HHS - '63 - of MD) - and I enjoy reading his inserts as well.

My teacher at John W. Daniel was Ruth Savin who stayed with our class from 1st through 3rd grade. There were four of us girls who became close friends during that time - Betty Smith Carey, Joan, and Julia. I actually ran into Betty at my husband's 45th WHS reunion this September (she is married to Jim Carey, a WHS 60 classmate of my husband). Betty and I had not seen each other since 1953! She mailed me a picture of her and our friends Joan and Julia taken back then. Joan's last name is something like Darnell but not sure, and I can't think of Julia's at all. We would love to re-connect to these old friends but have no idea if they stayed in Newport News. Betty graduated from Warwick HS. I hesitate to give permission to post this in one of your newsletters. What I was wondering, is there a site where I could find a list of all students that attended John W. Daniel from 1950 to 1953? If I could get the exact names of these two friends, I would like you to post it in your letter to see if anyone remembered them, and could let me know. I am attaching copy of picture.

I lived across the street from Hutchens Chevrolet on 34th Street when I attended Daniel School...so all these stories are so fascinating! My husband and I now live in Verona, VA in the Shenandoah Valley....

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Betty, Joan and Julia

- June Veneris Collie (HHS - '62) - 11/05/05
Thank you, June! We wish you well!

THEN AND NOW:

It was interesting reading the section on "row homes" near John W. Daniel School. I lived on 38th Street, between Washington and Huntington Avenues, from the time I was 5 until I graduated from NNHS in June of 1966. Now it is a parking lot with the NN Shipyard Credit Union at the end of the street. Some of my neighbors were Jerry Seay ('63 - of VA), Danny Childress ('64), Fred Volhein, Pam Russell (Hanzlik - '63 - of NC), Audrey Dixon Kelly ('62 - of VA), Wanda Crump (Harris) ('66), Garland Rigney ('67), Terri McAfee (Artman) ('66), Gilmore Kirby ('64), Glenn Malpass ('65), Jimmy Morrow ('65 - of NE), Kathy Morrow ('67) and many more whose names won't come to mind at 11:38 p.m. In fact, I met my husband while riding my bicycle in September, 1962. No, I didn't run him down, I was on the bike when someone called me over to meet him. He had just come from Garden Creek, VA to attend the Apprentice School. I went home and told my mom I had just met the man I was going to marry. My husband walked over to Johnson's Confectionary and told Mrs. Johnson the same thing! We married in July, 1966.

Oh, what fun we had back then! Neighbors were all one big happy family who looked out for one another. I remember skating around the city blocks dodging shipyard workers and store workers with reckless abandon. We walked everywhere because we were downtown so everything was close - stores, movies, restaurants, etc. We played hide and seek in the alleys behind our homes well into the night during the summer months without any of the fears that we have for our children today. Goodness, what fond memories have come rushing back!

- Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 12/08/05
Thanks, Dee!

Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heel
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heel
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Second John W. Daniel Image courtesy of http://politicalgraveyard.com/
also at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 10/24/03
Thanks again, Dave!

	John W. Daniel School Downtown Newport News, VA 23607
John Warwick Daniel (5 Sept 1842 - 29 Jun 1910)	John W. Daniel School Downtown Newport News, VA 23607	John Warwick Daniel (5 Sept 1842 - 29 Jun 1910)

WAY BACK THEN:
		A recent purchase on EBAY. It is unused, so the date cannot be known. However, the caption "New John Daniel High School" dates it after 1910 (when the school was renamed Daniel School) and prior to the construction of NNHS. Note the shadows cast by the trees. We will assume that these were not added by the publishers. The shadows place the sun behind the camera, which means that we must be looking north. Thus, we are looking across 31st Street.
- Courtesy of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 03/06/05 Thanks, Dave!		- Courtesy of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 11/29/07 Thanks, Dave!

THEN:
I have been searching my reference library and found the attached text and images in the following book, which I cite for purposes of attribution: The Good Old Days in Hampton and Newport News, Parke Rouse, Jr., The Dietz Press, Richmond VA., 1986. The image of Daniel School was taken looking north across 31st Street.
- Courtesy of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 04/11/03 Thanks, Dave!

THEN:

Miss Violetta Wilson’s Third Grade Class, 1949-1950 - Class of 1959 FRONT ROW: Dorcas Ellis, Eugene Paschall, Margo Shenos, Lucy Quisenberry, Bobby Fulton (I think), Carl Williams, Asa Chrisman, Harry Conn, Aretie Gallins, Bobby Atkins BACK ROW: Jimmy Drewery, Ramona Harris, Carol Ann Campbell, Jackie Veneris, I can’t remember her name; I think it was Marie something, Fred Simmons, Lawrence Henderson, Nelson Ellis, Miss Wilson	1958 - Sixth Grade - Class of 1964 FRONT ROW: ?, ?, Eddie Beasley, ?, Nick Fennell, Arnie Mull, Donald Houston, Ernie Murphy, Donald Keenan, and Patricia Kirkland; MIDDLE ROW: Katie Haan, Diane Pritchard, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Kenny Moore, and ?; BACK ROW: Raymond Staton, ?, Tony Benton, ?, ?, Chris Kypriandes, Paul Neal, Tommy Gilbert, and ?.	1959 - Seventh Grade - Class of 1964 FRONT ROW: ?, Ernie Murphy, Arnie Mull, Donald Houston, Nickey Fennell, Donald Keenan, and Eddie Beasley; MIDDLE ROW: Ms. Reams, ?, ?, ?, Katie Haan, ?, and Jimmy DeBerry; BACK ROW: Chris Kypriandes, ?, Tommy Albert, ?, ?, Raymond Staton, and Tony Benton.	March 1960 - Sixth Grade - Class of 1966 The last class to graduate John W. Daniel Elementary. After the school closed the building was used for the newly established Christopher Newport College. TOP ROW: Edward Register, Eugene Shifflett, Nathan Kozloski, Zoe Kounas, Linda Beecham, Aderon Gibbs, Woody Slate, Dean Looney; THIRD ROW: Tommy Brown, Butch Braswell, Deloris Jackson, Lucy Turlington, Judy Phillips, Terri McAfee, Brenda Campbell, Mozelle Smith, Wanda Crump, Dee Hodges. SECOND ROW: Daniel Hartzler, Raymond Price, Patty Edmondson, Kenny Thomas, Nellie Hudgins, Peggy Burton, Chuck Jones, Butch Kypriandes, Tim Rogers, Bobby Houston. BOTTOM ROW: Butch Pettiway, Shirley Kennedy, Don Kirkland Lewis Lockhart, Larry Campbell, Tony Hall, William Leong, Ricky Montague Jimmy Mingee, Mae Mitchell.
Courtesy of Aretie Gallins Patterson ('59) of Northern VA - 09/23/05 Thanks, Aretie!	Both Photos Courtesy of Arnie Mull ('64) of VA via Richie Allen ('66) of VA via Sandi Bateman Chestnut ('65) of VA - 03/27/03 - or do I have that backwards?!? Anyway, thanks!		Courtesy of Chuck Jones ('66) of Northern VA - 01/25/06 Thanks, Chuck!

NOW:
	This marker faces onto 32nd Street. You are looking toward 31st Street. The block is almost entirely pay parking. As I was standing in the middle of 32nd Street setting up the shot, this uniformed lady came down from her parking lot Stalag watchtower and asked if she could help me. I was letting myself imagine what it once looked like 40 years ago, so when she asked if she could help me, I seemed to feel that she was a trespasser, that she somehow didn't belong there. I replied tersely, "No, thank you", and continued to adjust the shot. She said that she thought that I had to get permission to photograph there. I was astonished, but tried to remain a gentleman; I explained the obvious ... that I was standing in the middle of a public street taking a photograph of a public historical marker, looking across a parking lot. She mumbled something about terrorists, and I assured her that neither my camera nor the marker were going to explode. I then invited her to call the police if she felt that strongly about it. She slithered back to her watchtower and said no more. It seems that downtown has devolved into an armed camp, and everyone is under suspicion.
May 2003
- Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 05/12/03 Thanks, Dave!


I found this book from John W. Daniel School on the internet. It was of particular interest to me because this history book was most likely a part of the curriculum while I attended John W. Thought it might be of interest to share with some of us "oldies, but goodies".
- Kelly Loose Bustamante ('58) of TX - 09/01/04 Thanks so much, Kelly!

THEN AND NOW:
Hi Carol.... We have never met...my cousin who is a 1963 NNHS graduate told me about this site and I LOVE it! I graduated from HHS - '62 but I did go to John W. Daniel School 1950-53 (1st through 3rd grade). Also I am kin (my sister is his sister-in-law) to Chandler Nelms (HHS - '63 - of MD) - and I enjoy reading his inserts as well. My teacher at John W. Daniel was Ruth Savin who stayed with our class from 1st through 3rd grade. There were four of us girls who became close friends during that time - Betty Smith Carey, Joan, and Julia. I actually ran into Betty at my husband's 45th WHS reunion this September (she is married to Jim Carey, a WHS 60 classmate of my husband). Betty and I had not seen each other since 1953! She mailed me a picture of her and our friends Joan and Julia taken back then. Joan's last name is something like Darnell but not sure, and I can't think of Julia's at all. We would love to re-connect to these old friends but have no idea if they stayed in Newport News. Betty graduated from Warwick HS. I hesitate to give permission to post this in one of your newsletters. What I was wondering, is there a site where I could find a list of all students that attended John W. Daniel from 1950 to 1953? If I could get the exact names of these two friends, I would like you to post it in your letter to see if anyone remembered them, and could let me know. I am attaching copy of picture. I lived across the street from Hutchens Chevrolet on 34th Street when I attended Daniel School...so all these stories are so fascinating! My husband and I now live in Verona, VA in the Shenandoah Valley.... Thanks for any help you can provide.	Betty, Joan and Julia
- June Veneris Collie (HHS - '62) - 11/05/05 Thank you, June! We wish you well!
THEN AND NOW:
It was interesting reading the section on "row homes" near John W. Daniel School. I lived on 38th Street, between Washington and Huntington Avenues, from the time I was 5 until I graduated from NNHS in June of 1966. Now it is a parking lot with the NN Shipyard Credit Union at the end of the street. Some of my neighbors were Jerry Seay ('63 - of VA), Danny Childress ('64), Fred Volhein, Pam Russell (Hanzlik - '63 - of NC), Audrey Dixon Kelly ('62 - of VA), Wanda Crump (Harris) ('66), Garland Rigney ('67), Terri McAfee (Artman) ('66), Gilmore Kirby ('64), Glenn Malpass ('65), Jimmy Morrow ('65 - of NE), Kathy Morrow ('67) and many more whose names won't come to mind at 11:38 p.m. In fact, I met my husband while riding my bicycle in September, 1962. No, I didn't run him down, I was on the bike when someone called me over to meet him. He had just come from Garden Creek, VA to attend the Apprentice School. I went home and told my mom I had just met the man I was going to marry. My husband walked over to Johnson's Confectionary and told Mrs. Johnson the same thing! We married in July, 1966. Oh, what fun we had back then! Neighbors were all one big happy family who looked out for one another. I remember skating around the city blocks dodging shipyard workers and store workers with reckless abandon. We walked everywhere because we were downtown so everything was close - stores, movies, restaurants, etc. We played hide and seek in the alleys behind our homes well into the night during the summer months without any of the fears that we have for our children today. Goodness, what fond memories have come rushing back!
- Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA - 12/08/05 Thanks, Dee!