NCSD Class of 1970  Welcome, Ole Bears of '70 

                              Webmaster's Notes

November 1, 2008
Just go out and vote. I voted last Sunday, October 26, 2008.
 

October 24, 2008
It was great to see everyone and especially some of these Football Champions that
we haven't seen since we graduated! Let's not forget David Denton, Don
Westmorland, and even Tim Shane. Hope ya'll saw Ann Aldridge.

A total of 14 Classmates was at our annual meeting, the most ever without this
being a major Reunion event.

Mary Beth wanted to pass this along: Lee is doing good. He is getting stronger
everyday but still tires easily. Heard that you all had a good time at HC in
Morganton. We missed you all.
MB

September 27, 2008
He has a long recovery ahead of him and needs a miracle. And I need God's
strength to help him through it.
Thanks,
MB

September 27, 2008
May be discharged from hospital Sat or Sun instead. It is due too much fluid around
his heart and lungs. He looks a lot better though and he is antsy to get home after
11 days in the hospital.
MB

September 23, 2008
Lee is getting better after the triple heart bypass last Saturday. Depending on his
recovery, he'll be home this Thursday or Friday.

September 19, 2008
Lee is resting comfortably and in good spirits. Doctors are scheduling triple bypass
surgery around Sunday and Monday. Lee and Mary wants to thank you for your
concerns and prayers.
 

September 18, 2008
Lee Ethridge Room C311
% Pitt County Memorial Hospital
2100 Stantonsburg Rd.
Greenville, NC 27835

Pitt County Memorial Hospital website
Pitt County Memorial Hospital visitor's page
Guide containing PCMH info and map in pdf format

August 19, 2008
Things are hectic on my end as most weekends I'm harvesting and preserving the
veggies from our garden. This year for the first time, we are pickling sweet
pickles and bread and butter pickles. We had an abundance of cherry tomatoes so
we're pickling those for the first time. I think this batch is going to be too sweet,
so next time I'm going to change the recipe.

So what is gardening doing here? Well, for one thing, I'm updating this page, hee,
hee. Website updates, as a general rule are updated very early in the week. Other
areas are updated without notices and are mostly in the Events page and the
Things To Do page as well as this page.

Recently, a couple of questions was asked why are other pictures not posted on
this website. As mentioned in the first paragraph of the Why page, this website
is for the members of the NCSD Class of 1970. A single C70 classmate has their
own page for their use as they see fit. Pictures with one C70 classmate and their
family and/or friends are posted on their page upon request.

Pictures with 2 C70 Classmates are posted on either of their page or in other areas
of the website, see Superlatives page for a prime example.

Pictures with 3 or more C70 Classmates are considered as a Mini-Reunion event as
happened at Randy's WDC Lake Leamon event this past August 2.

If you are not a member of the NCSD Class of 1970 and want your pictures online
then I highly recommend posting at MSN Deaf Chat moderated by NCSD
schoolmate Becky Riddle ('75).

Hope this clear things up and please be safe out there.
Lester
 

March 15, 2008
For Una Clark Caines,
It is even worst to lose another parent so soon after the other. The bond between
a daughter and her father is a special one. Daughters mature from perfect little
angels to accomplished women who are dad's pride and joy. Your dad is proud of
you and I hope your memories of him comforts you in this sad time. He knows that
you know he is happy to be with his Queen. Let them go, but they are always in
your heart.

Lester
 

December 30, 2007
For Una Clark Caines,
It is sad to lose a parent, especially during the holidays. No bond is as great as that
between a parent and child. Our deepest condolences are with you as you grieve.
Lester
 

December 2007
   and Happy New Year!  

November 2007
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you, John, for sending!

October 2007
As always, it was great to see Schoolmates and Classmates again. Again, as always, time is not on our side, we always get cut short reminiscing, hee, hee. Opening up the basement of Underhill Gym to serve food instead of out in the field gives alumni the opportunity to observe sports history which were posted on the walls. A grand idea, I think. If you missed this, then hopefully, the school will repeat serving food from the new McAbee Conncession Stand so that everyone can view the athletic highlights managed by the NCSD Museum.

July 30, 2007
Some of you may wonder why the Hoey Hall Renovation pictures were not posted gallery style as in our 2005 Group Picture Taking Event or the Classmates at HC 2005, well, it's pretty simple really; Sion Moss's digital camera, FujiFilm FinePix 59000 is the most advanced digital camera used to date on this website. Lee Etheridge's and my camera takes anywhere from 300 to 500 kilobytes of memory per picture whereas Moss's pictures takes an average of 3 megabytes per picture! That's an average of 7.5 percent increase of memory per picture! In other words, Lee and I can put roundabouts 3 pictures on a floppy disk whereas it would take 2 floppy disks to hold one picture from Siom Moss!

Wow! The improvements in digital technology, eh? Well, this requires an additional step in web optimizing each picture before posting on any webpage in order to reduce downloading times so that you can see those pictures in these web pages in a reasonable amount of time. In other words, one of Lee's pictures might take 2 seconds to download on broadband but it might take one of Sion's picture 8 seconds apiece if I did not optimize. So if there are 10 of Sion's pictures not optimized on a webpage, then it would take over a minute and a half to download just one page on broadband! Optimizing Moss's 10 pictures now takes around 5 seconds on broadband.

Webmastering...not a piece of cake anymore...you have to make it and fix it so every one can enjoy. Test, test, and test again.

The names of the two individuals in these pictures has been identified:
...it appears to me that Doug Pitts, NCSD Business Manager is wearing the hard hat as well as Ruth Jones, NCSD Volunteer Coordinator (wearing the orange hat)...are the ones that were roaming around during the picture taking.

Impressive pictures of Hoey especially the attic is awesome!

Keep it up!
Jimmy Autry
 

July 08, 2007
Our hosting service relocated to a new and expanded datacenter beginning at 10pm on 07/07/07, a process that took less than four hours to complete. In effect, this website was not visible for some visitors until 2 am early Sunday morning on 07/08/07. We apologize for the temporary interruption but we look forward with the upgraded security, integrity and stability of all equipment in order to minimize the possibility of any interference in the future.  And we thank you for your patience...

May 15, 2007
Much needed website maintenance was performed last week mostly upgrading the links on the Sixties pages and miscellaneous webmastering fixes on other pages. I did have webmaster's block (writer's block) when working on a new page for this week. I just couldn't finish the page but did find an unpublished page that was posted as mentioned on the home page.

March 26, 2007
I apologize, no website updates this week. I've been extremely busy itemizing for Uncle Sam.

March 14, 2007
Looks like our spring Mini-Reunion in Raleigh will be either April 21 or the 28th... Stay tuned.

January 21, 2007
Welcome to the New Year. Hope we all can see more of each other this year. Mini-Reunion in Raleigh is still being planned for this Spring. Two groups of "lost" pictures were "rediscovered" last weekend and as soon as I verify the source of one group, we may have some more pictures from the 1994 Class Reunion to publish.

In the meantime, I am currently archiving additional North Carolinian issues and Yearbooks and with the looming tax deadline coming up I'm trying my best to do taxes early this year...wish me luck.

Ye Ole (hard working) Webmaster

December 25, 2006
Christmas -
A time to enjoy the lights
A time to take in the sights

A time to remember memories
A time to create memories

A time to savour the feast
A time to enjoy the sweets

A time to spend with your family
A time to share with your family

But most of all,
Merry Christmas to all

From angels on high,
Lester and Di

December 14, 2006
At about 7:30pm this evening some websites at the hosting service along with
ncsd1970.com were effected by an issue with one of their DNS servers. If you are
reading this now then the problem has been resolved as of 11pm.

The hosting service and the staff of ncsd1970.com apologize for the inconvenience.

Pictures of Bashie Crutchfield posted November 1, 2006 has been moved to a
new page.

October 2006
It was great to see all of our Schoolmates and Classmates during the Homecoming weekend. I wished the day was longer than what nature allowed. Eating at the China Buffet for dinner give me the opportunity to meet additional Schoolmates and to try a rare delicacy at the restaurant....frog legs! Boy, much to my surprise, they were good!

Two deals were made for two new articles for the website on this weekend and I can't wait to get started, although I do have my hands full with many ongoing website projects in the works, one of which I've been working on since this past summer.

Hope to see Classmates and friends in Dunn, NC this weekend. Till then, trick them ghouls and treat yourself to some sugary boos on Horrorween.

September 2006
Our humble beginnings started as a Class newsletter sent through the internet, our first was emailed and snail mailed in April 2001, 5 years ago. Exactly one month after we sent our 5th and last newsletter in July of 2002, we upgraded from publishing newsletters by establishing a Class website sponsored by Tripod/Lycos which went online on August 31st, 2002.

The biggest advantage of having a website is the ease of publishing pictures. After one and a half years, 20 megabytes of disk space on Tripod/Lycos' free servers was getting full to the point where we had to trade old pictures with new, which after a while became time consuming.

In the meantime, some research was done and after purchasing our domain name, a hosting service with 500 megabytes of disk space was selected in January of 2004.

On February 26 of 2006, we transferred this website to a new, more reliable hosting service with twice the server disk space, more than twice the bandwidth, and a superior support staff.

Going with a fee required hosting service provided us with the opportunity to really customize the website to the Class of 1970's roots at NCSD.

Let us not forget that this website is made possible with photographs and memories from the members of the NCSD Class of 1970 as well as NCSD alumni associated with the the Class of 1970. Additional research is also made possible from the members of our Debris Team. Current and future publishing of articles from the student newsmagazine, The North Carolinian, is made possible from the following sources: Deborah Spencer, Jimmy Autrey, NCSD Museum, MamaPat Latkowski, Lester Latkowski, and of course but not the least, Mr. Anonyman.