NNHS Class of 1962
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| John Bell | 16 Dec 1944 | Apr 1984 | ||
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Junior
Band Randolph Macon College United States Navy |
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| Joyce Benton Bowden | Newport News, VA | 04 Aug 2003 Houston, TX | Cancer | |
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D. E. Clubs: President D. O. Clubs: Treasurer Tri-Hi-Y Homeroom Officer Drama Makeup Staff Usher Staff Dance Committee Senior Assembly Committee School Spirit Committee Remembrance Committee Hall of Fame: Best Dressed T.D.P. |
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| Linda Bost | ||||
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Senior Dance Committee Junior Dance Committee Ushers Committee F. H. A. Club Tumbling Club Apparatus Club Volley Ball Team Hockey Team Basketball Team |
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| Kathryn Brinn Dicus |
04 Nov 1944 Newport News, VA |
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June 2004 Yorktown, VA |
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Tri-Hi-Y: Historian Senior Assembly Committee Creative Writers' Club French Club: Executive Board Lion's Club Award: French Publicity Committee Senior Ring Committee Anchor Staff Beacon Staff Mary Washington College: B.A. in English: 1966 American Association for
University Women |
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| William Burns |
14 Nov 1943 Newport News, VA |
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Apr 2006 Winston-Salem, NC |
Strokes Precipitated by an Aneurysm | |
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Track Team Cross-Country Team: Letter Senior Band: Letter Christopher Newport Society Junior Usher Staff Senior Dance Committee United States Merchant Marine Academy: 1967 |
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| Ronald Collins | 23 Mar 1944 |
18 Nov 1997 Newport News, VA |
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J. V.
Basketball D. O. Club J. V. Football |
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| Charles Duke |
10 Oct 1943 Newport News, VA |
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June 2004 Richmond, VA |
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Hi-Y Club
D. O. Club Junior Dance Committee Shop Officer School Spirit Committee Dance Committee Senior Color Committee Senior Flower Committee U. S. Army |
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| Teddy Forbes | 15 June 1998
Gulfport, MS |
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JAMES T.
FORBES Published in the Daily Press on 6/24/1998. |
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| Jerry Gary | 26 Jan 2003 Smithfield, VA | Heart Attack | ||
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| Buddy Gibson | 01
Apr 2006 Buena Vista, VA |
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WILBERT 'BUDDY' EVANS GIBSON
BUENA VISTA - Wilbert "Buddy"
Evans Gibson, 62, formerly of Newport News, went to
be with the angels on Saturday, April 1, 2006. He was a former employee of
Horne Brothers, Newport News Shipbuilding and Benson and Phillips Supply Co.
Published in the Daily Press on 4/5/2006. |
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| Dreyfus Jackson | ||||
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| Henry Kearney | Dec 1966 | Automobile Accident | ||
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J. V.
Football Varsity Football Key Club Track Team |
I can offer an update on Henry
Kearney ('62), since David Riley ('62) and I visited the funeral home
(Lawrence B. Wood) to view the body. Henry died in December, 1966, while
driving from Emory & Henry College to pick up his girlfriend at another
school, before coming to Hampton for the holidays. It was snowing and his
Volkswagen Beetle hit a '57 Pontiac head on, as I was told. He died
instantly. - Dan
Coleman ('63) of NC - 07/20/06 |
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| Clyde Lewis | ||||
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Senior Dance
Committee Hi-Y Club |
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| Jean Maddy Oney |
17 Dec 1943 Newport News, VA |
18 July 1995 Mathews Co.,, VA |
Heart Attack | |
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Student
Council Homeroom: President Foreign Student Forum: Delegate Junior Decorating Committee Senior Assembly Committee Senior Chorus Dance Committee Christopher Newport Society Latin Club Senior Band: Letter |
Jean is buried in Gloucester, VA.
Information provided by Jean's
brother,
Bobby Maddy ('57), via a phone call
JEAN
M. ONEY Published in the Daily Press on 7/19/1995. |
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| Ted Marshall | Stafford Co., VA | 25 Mar 2002 Norfolk, VA |
Liver Cancer | |
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Junior Band:
Letter Senior Band: Letter French Club Senior Assembly Committee |
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| Sylvia Ottaway | 7 July 1944 |
7 Mar 2005 Poquoson, VA |
Cancer | |
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F. T. A. Club G. A. A. Executive All-Star Hockey All-Star Volleyball Creative Writers Club Christopher Newport Society Latin Club Senior Assembly Committee National Honor Society
Madison College: B. S. |
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/ 03-08-05-NNHS-Sylvia-Ottaway.html |
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| Fall of 1961 |
October 2004 - Groundhog Mt. -
Sylvia, Lynn Hanrahan, and Polly |
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| Doug Pitt | ||||
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Spanish Club Newcomers Committee Publicity Committee Senior Bulletin Board Committee |
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| Max Pollard | Waynesville, NC | 16 Sep 2000 Salt Lake City, UT |
Heart Attack | |
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J. V.
Football U. S. Marine Corps Weber State College |
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| Elaine Redford Bunting Laseman | Richmond, VA | 29
July 2003 Newport News, VA |
Cancer | |
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Office Assistant: 8-12 Girls' Basketball Girls' Volleyball School Spirit Committee Usher Staff Junior Dance Committee Senior Dance Committee Future Nurses Club Future Homemakers Club Homeroom Chaplain: 8th Grade |
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| Joanie Schwab | New York City, NY |
30 Aug 1994 Newport News, VA |
Legionnaire's Disease | |
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JOAN
OLIVIA SCHWAB NEWPORT NEWS - Joan Schwab died Tuesday, August 30, 1994, in Riverside Regional Medical Center after a very short illness. A native of New York City, she had been a Peninsula resident for 47 years. She is survived by her father, Joel H. Schwab; a sister, Fizzy Berlin, of Virginia Beach; two brothers, Jonathan Schwab, of Carrollton, and Philip Schwab, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a niece, Jessica Berlin; and her very dear friend, Mrs. Lil Sagman. A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Hebrew Cemetery, Hampton, by Rabbi Israel Grama of New York. The family will be at the residence in Newport News. The requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to a favorite charity. Peninsula Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Published in the Daily Press on 8/31/1994. |
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Fall of 1961 A scan of a scan is not a good plan. |
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| Lowell Stidham | 04 Aug 1941 |
16 Dec 1984 VA |
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| Andrea Vernon Davis |
13 Mar 2005 Newport News, VA |
Pulmonary Fibrosis | ||
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Senior Color Committee Junior Dance Committee Junior Chorus: Letter Senior Chorus Volleyball Team All-Star Basketball Team Hockey Team Costume Staff: Drama |
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http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/ 03-15-05-NNHS-Andrea-Vernon- Davis.html |
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| Fall of 1961 |
From 35th Reunion Booklet of the Class of 1962 - September 12-14. 1997 |
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| Gene Walling |
Rockbridge, CO |
17 June 2007 Isle of Wight, VA |
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http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/ 06-19-07-NNHS-Gene-Walling.html |
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| Fall of 1961 |
From 35th Reunion Booklet of the Class of 1962 - September 12-14. 1997 |
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| Charlie Wiggins |
14 Aug 1942 Newport News, VA |
14 July 2004 Newport News, VA |
Cancer | |
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J. V.
Football Senior Assembly Committee Usher Staff Hi-Y U. S. Army Old Dominion University: 1967 Hampton Institute: 1973 B.S. in Electrical Engineering |
Fall of 1965 1966
Troubadour, |
My friend, the late Charles Wiggins, and I were inducted into the U.S. Army the same day (Aug. 11, 1968), trained at Fort Benning, Fort Dix, NJ, and Fort Hamilton, NY, eventually being assigned to the Federal Republic of Germany. Following our eighth week in Basic Combat Training, we received a 24-hour pass from Alpha Co, 11th Battalion, 3rd Training Brigade (all Enlisted, Joe).
After Saturday night in town, we wound up Sunday morning at Central Assembly of God Church. Afterward, a family insisted we come home with them for a wonderful Sunday dinner. We were embraced like family. That evening “Dad” drove us back to Harmony Church, across the highway from Sand Hill and the Officer Candidate School quad. That day I understood how the soldiers, Marines and airmen from Fort Eustis, the Naval Weapons Station and Langley felt when my parents brought them home on weekends -- sometimes to my chagrin. Charlie and I pondered the Columbus family’s name a year later, but could not remember. The hospitality in Columbus came without preconditions, though, and I’m sure we weren’t the only soldiers to be welcomed at the modest home. It is a lesson for all of us when we consider our service members, who are far from home, facing uncertainty. Those few hours meant so much to me and Charlie.
 1968 - Ft. Benning, GA (Here's) the cover shot from our BCT graduation book. Charlie is fourth from the right, I’m second from left, both of us trained in the fine art of the bayonet parry and thrust. Most of this group wound up in the Republic of South Vietnam by late January 1968, the beginning of the infamous Tet Offensive. For the record, my POW/MIA flag flies alongside the National Colors each day at my home. - Norm Covert ('61) of MD - 07/16/08 Thanks so much, Norm! |
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Spanish Club
J. V. Football Track Team Cast of a Major Play Drama Staff |
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"Life is to be fortified by many
friendships.
To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
~ Sidney Smith
British clergyman (1771-1845)
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Too Busy for a Friend
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the
other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each
name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of
their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as
the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a
separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that
individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the
entire class was smiling.
"Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!"
and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they
discussed them after class with their parents, but it didn't matter. The
exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves
and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher
attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman
in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature. The church was
packed with his friends.
One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher
was the last one to bless the coffin. As she stood there, one of the soldiers
who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he
asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."
After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a
luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with
his teacher.
"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his
pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might
recognize it."
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper
that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew
without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the
good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark
treasured it."
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie
smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer
of my desk at home."
Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."
"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her purse and showed her frazzled
list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times, " Vicki said and without
batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists."
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for
all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will
end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the
people you love and care for, that they are
special and important.
Tell them, before it is too late...
If you do not ... once again (you will have) passed up the
wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful.
... someone cares for you and... there is probably at least someone for whom you
care.
If you're "too busy" to take those few minutes right now to (tell someone how
you feel), would this be the VERY first time you didn't do that little thing
that would make a difference in your relationships?
The more people that you (tell), the better you'll be at
reaching out to those you care about.
Remember, you reap what you sow, what you put into the lives of others comes
back into your own.
This selection
courtesy of Jimmy Walker ('62) of VA - 04/06/03
Thanks, Jimmy!
Tchaikovsky's
"Dolly's Funeral" midi courtesy of
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/MIDI/Tchaikovsky/Album/24Dolly&27s_Funeral.mid
- 06/15/03
Animated Military Flag clip art courtesy of
http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/KevsGifsGalore/Patriotic.html - 06/18/03
Merchant Marine Flag clip art courtesy of http://www.usmm.org/ - 04/05/06
