Notwithstanding the implications of such a photo for my academic future ... and just for the record ... I graduated from NNHS 35th out of 299 (Honor Graduate) with a hair better than a B average.
I can't say much for those M.C. Hammer pants I am wearing, but how about those nifty Jesus Weejuns I am sporting?
Thanks, Dave, for this adorable image!
Thanks, Jerry!
You wanted someone who lived in the Shipyard Apartments to step forward; well, here's one!
We moved there when I was 14 and quickly discovered how friendly the folks living there were.
NNHS'ers that I can recall right off were Jesse ('58) & Jeanie Kersey, Carolyn, George, and
Bobbie Whitehurst, Delores & Jane ('61) Monfalcone, Faye Eure, Al Creal, Rodney Wyatt,
Max Pollard ('62) , Doug & Gerald ('64) Wright, Dickie Coltrain ('57), and John "Tinker"
Hoban. I'm sure others can add to the list. Does anyone know where Carolyn Whitehurst
Hughes is these days? I would love to reconnect with her.
- Renee Helterbran Benton ('59) - 09/24/05
WOWZERS!!! Thanks so much, Renee!
WOWZERS!!! Thanks so much, Renee!
I lived in the Shipyard Apartments till I was 16 when we moved to Woodfin Road. When I was born
(Riverside Hospital, 50th Street), we lived in the "48th building", 4829 Washington Avenue, then when I was
five, we moved to the "45th building" - 4550 Washington Avenue! I remember walking with my mother to get
the "new" apartment ready and asking "Are we there yet????" That's where I met the Southall's (Mary
Frances ('66) and Lucy ('63) and family, and a bunch more). There were a lot of kids around - we walked
to school - around the corner almost, Joe Milan's store was on the corner of 45th and Huntington - diagonally
to Jackson School. I would walk home for lunch and for one solid week Jerry Allen ('65 - of VA) dragged me by my
ponytail, all the way to his house every day!!! Wonder if he remembers that one!!! Funny the things you don't
forget! Ahhh, YOUTH!!! We could put a book together. Also next door (across the street) to Jackson School
was our church, Calvary Baptist!
- Sarah
Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA - 09/27/05
Thanks, Sarah!