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Despite the fact that this song is a sentimental favorite of mine, today's theme is also being rerun from over three years ago primarily because I'm a slacker, and it saves me a great deal of time!

Some background: The album containing this song was published while I was at USNA. It would be an understatement
to say that it took the Brigade by storm. Mids were standing in line at the Midshipman's Store to buy it. This was the only song you could hear emanating from every upper class room which had a turntable. Mids hummed it on the way to class and in the shower. It holds immeasurable nostalgia value for me.

The group never recaptured the fire of their first album and faded from the scene. I once did a "PeopleFinder" search on her name and got three hits. One was in Arizona, which seemed like a likely place for a now-forgotten star. Maybe I will call the number some day.

Happy Birthday this week to: 08 -

Mildred Mae Linkous Spriggs ('38) of VA - 1921 - deceased 07/04/07) - also Mother of

Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA) AND Doris Burns ('38) - also Mother of Steve Burns ('65) of MN;

09 - Patrick Burke ('57) AND

Bobby Hilling ('62) of VA AND Katie Haan Spaulding ('64) of CA;

10 - Helen Avant Neal ('57) of VA!

Thank you, Wayne Honey! Please give Linda our love and best wishes for a speedy and pain-free recovery!

From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 03/06/08 - "Emily's Surgery & PRAYER REQUEST":

Dear Friends & Family,

I'm pleading for your prayers, in behalf of Emily. Her surgery is on Tuesday, the 11th. It requires the removal of they are thinking top to bottom 2 back incisions, the muscle being removed, a bone graft, rods, screws and pins being put in place, then the muscle put back in and incisions closed. It's so horrendous, it hurts me to think about it. Two years ago, when I had my back surgeries and bone removal I was in immense pain. Really wasn't feeling anything like myself, for 10 months.

Our bodies are not made to have hardware, yet this is the only methodology that is available today. Her curvature has reached a critical point, it is pressing on other organs. Unlike some surgeries there is no guarantee she will get correction, only halting the progression, although some receive great correction. She is leaning terribly to one side, so correction is badly needed! I'm so scared for her. Please pray for the surgeon to have spiritual assistance guidance, her safety, wonderful correction and that she be in as little pain, as possible.

I will be computerless for more than a week, after Sunday and will have to adjust my computer use, according to her needs, when we do get back. Let me know if I can ever pray for you or yours. *Prayer is a wonderful gift, we can give to another*. Please don't forget!

Thank you!,

Shari

Thank you, Shari! We're certainly keeping you and Emily and all those who attend her in our prayers!

Woman

This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and preaching of Rabbis are conserved over time.

It says: "Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved."

Pass this on to all exceptional women that you know.. and to men so they know the value of a woman.

Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (But do now!)

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Horses can't vomit.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to o take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.

Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They will get a kick out of it.

Joyce Cahoon

Thanks, Joyce!

But no, I did not try to lick my own elbow, delicious as it may be!

From Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA - 03/06/08 - "An Interesting Perspective":

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten.

On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

Looking around, confused, they asked, 'Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom.

Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.

By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students...to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story.... If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you read it in English, thank a soldier.

And YES, this is really a true story...check it out at: http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp

From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 03/06/08 - "RE - Last Newsletter Announcement":

WOWZERONI-ROONI! I would be most delighted to receive those early yearbooks, Jennings! Thank you so very much! With images scanned from them I could greatly expand the value of the website.

I'm relatively certain that some of the other classes have already made contributions to the Ethel Gildersleeve Foundation, but thank you for the reminder - particularly as reunions are beginning to be on our minds again.

And isn't it strange that our medical information sometimes comes from the most unlikely of sources?!? We wish you well, Jennings!

I really empathized with your feelings about Shirley. When I first began reconnecting with old friends after 25 years apart, I was quite devastated to learn of the deaths that had transpired - some much more than others, of course..... I always feel so sorry for people who are just joining us now and read all those In Memoriam sections at once. That pain must be excruciating! It was often more than I could bear finding out about each one on an individual basis.

This is the first edition of school year 1963-1964. It is only two pages.

D

From Joe Drewry ('58) of VA - 03/06/08, 3:38 AM (sic) - "Update on Marriott room reservations for NNHS58 'Noble Gathering'":

From Joe Drewry ('58) of VA - 03/06/08, 6:03 PM - "Another Update on making Marriott room reservation for NNHS58":

1. Jerry Allen ('65) of VA - began radiation for cancer last week of February; it was delayed when he was diagnosed with pneumonia on 02/20/08

5. Me ('65) of NC - recent escalation of shortness of breath, heart and blood pressure problems plus the usual .....

6. Emily (daughter of My Niece Shari) of VA - continuing problems with advancing scoliosis; surgery 03/11/08

7. Frances Heath Scott ('62) of VA - inflammation of nerves; due to be released from hospital on 02/27/08

8. Linda Lamb Stokes (Hampton HS - '66) - surgery of the cervical spine on 3/5/08 to place a new stainless steel plate and screws to eliminate extremely severe pain

9. Heidi Hice MacKay of MI and her Family - stressing over their beloved patriarch since late January 2008

10.

Herb Hice of MI and the MacKay Family - triple bypass surgery plus carotid artery cleanup - @ 01/25/08

11. Patsy Lewis Hancock ('57) of VA - suffered second massive heart attack - 01/31/08

12.

John London (Warwick HS - '57) of VA - lumbar surgery to fix a spinal stenosis [ laminectomy]; will also involve fusion of vertebrae - 02/05/08

13. Pam Pennington Cherry ('58) of VA - congestive heart failure; cardiac ablation procedure - 02/06/08; second surgery on 02/20/08 for aneurysm


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		The composer was Sylvia Fricker. If you do not already know this, she was half of the 50s/60s folkie group, Ian & Sylvia: (http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesI/ ian_and_sylvia.html) (http://www.vanguardrecords.com/ian-sylvia/) The lead singer for We Five was Beverly Bivens. She had a voice to die for. On another cut on the album, she trails off a note to a slow moan/grown which gave me "impure thoughts" .... and still does.
This whole We Five "Thing" made me run down to the Library and excavate for my vinyl copy from my days at USNA.	Sorry for the blur -- bad digi-cam setting. I got smarter for the next one.

		Old American Gas Stations from all around the country Some are abandoned, some are restored and many are still in use.