Dear CCS Alumni and Friends, Wow!!! Christmas already!  Time seems to go faster the older I get.  I want to wish Happy Hanukah to any Jewish alumni we may have who will be celebrating on Saturday.

The CCS Alumni and Friends Website, the CCS Alumni and Friends Facebook Page and the CCS Alumni and Friends Newsletter include all alumni or anyone who attended CCS.  Double check the name…..AND FRIENDS.  That means anyone who is interested in what is going on within the website, Facebook page, and/or newsletter.  This also means that FRIENDS can submit stuff for all 3 venues.

Annual Alumni Basketball Tournament ....this Friday, December 23. TOMORROW!!
Players should report to the CCS gym at 5:30.

Mary Hallock, Class of 1976, submitted a great picture Eternal Illumination trees in front of the Library.  Check out Seasons: Winter 2016

Glenn Davis - Class of 1960 - Murphy NC
I couldn’t help sending you this note. Our Murphy Bulldogs football team went to the NC state 1A championship game today against Plymouth NC and won a cliff hanger 15 to 14. They won by a two point conversion. Sound a little familiar? We’re very excited by their success this year. Their head couch has been at Murphy High School for 30 plus years. Sounds sort of like Dan Severson's and Don Record’s involvement in Cambridge. We got to play all four playoff games at home being first seed in the western division. We watched the first game in light jackets (on Friday nights) and the Semifinal in insulated coveralls and all the gloves ,scarves and hats we could find. It was twenty one degrees at the last one. The playoff games were postponed for a few weeks due to the flooding in the eastern part of the state due to the hurricane and high tides. Hope this finds you and yours well. Hope everyone has a great holiday season and a happy New Year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the newly renovated MOTEL CAMBRIDGE
Jean Alexander Slingerland (Class of 1975), Mike Slingerland, Jack Alexander (Class of 1974), Rick Robertson

CORRECTION:  Got my Wendys mixed up.
Wendy Brown Marino, Class of 1973
Pauline, Thank you for these notices. Many I don't know but always pray for them and their families.  Mickey was my classmate and I remember her well. I'm so saddened by this. I think if it weren't for you and staying connected with the Cambridge community I would never know about her passing. Just my thoughts. So grateful,

Ed Cantwell Class of '58
Do you know if there will be a Championship baseball cap offered for sale?  I would be most interested in purchasing at least one of them!!!  Thanks again for all you do -- a real Indian!!!!

Yes, there is Championship stuff available but sorry…..no baseball caps  https://www.valswebstores.com/collections/cambridge-indians-webstore
DEADLINE FOR ORDERS …DECEMBER 30^TH

Paul Austin, Class of 1964
Dear Pauline, First of all, thank you for all you do for our schoolmates. The website is a wonderful forum and I love reading about everyone. I haven't missed a reunion since they began and have loved every one.

Finally throwing in the towel on winter, Susan (DeWitt Wilder) and I have sold our home in Scarborough ME and moved in October to our 1880's house on the coast on Davis NC (people here live "on" Davis), inside the Core Banks. We've owned the house here for 12 years, I've extensively renovated it (we're not "restoring" it, we're maintaining it in a "state of arrested decay") and the repair continues. Anything organic here is food for something.

We've worked at meeting people here over the years (by having a twice a year cocktail party when we were here) and moved here to an established community of friends. The area is the last 45 miles of the east coast that is undeveloped, like stepping back into the 1950's. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's not, but as lifelong New Yorkers/Englanders there is so much here to learn about. There is rarely snow and the ground never freezes, peculiar!

We're planning to travel when the summer here is stifling and expect to see everyone at the reunion.

Marcia Watkins Logan, Class of 1956

I was looking at the Indians web page and noticed the hospital bill for the Squiers baby born in 1949(SCRAPBOOK PAGE 46) which reminded me that the bill for my birth was buried somewhere in my files…and I found it.  I was born in Nov. 1939 and cost for “Board and Care” for mother and baby was $3.50 per day for 19 days.  The total bill was larger than the Squiers baby 10 years later but “my” bill included $45 for doctor’s delivery services.  (Marcia’s birth certificate is on  SCRAPBOOK PAGE 48)

Thanks again to Oliver Perry, Class of 1958 for his dedication to taking video of the CHAMPIONS!!!!
I hope I have all of the links to his video on the index page of www.ccsindians.com

Naomi Marsh, Class of 1964                                                                               

Last Call: Cambridge Community Christmas Dinner

            All rumors to the contrary, so many of you have stepped up to help with all the logistics for this event that it is happening!  It will be held at the American Legion up on Route 22 as always at noon on Christmas day. (That’s Sunday this year.)  As always, we will be decorating the hall and the takeout containers the day before from 10 am until we are done!  Please come and join the fun. Kids are more than welcome – they have been especially wonderful with decorating the hall and the takeout containers.

There are still many opportunities to help out:

·         Provide desserts – pies, brownies, cookies, whatever you’d like

·         Decorate the take-out containers – day before at the Legion

·         Decorate and set-up at the Legion –  day before

·         Package take-out meals - Christmas Day

·         Deliver the meals - Christmas Day

·         Finish set-up and serve sit down dinner - Christmas Day

·         CLEAN-UP – many hands make light work!

If you are coming for dinner, it will help us plan if you make reservations for you and yours.  Chris and Rick Catlin are staffing the “Communication Center.”  Please call them at 677-2491 and let them know your plans.  There is no charge for this dinner; you need not live in Cambridge to participate; everyone is welcome!

Here is the schedule of activities:

·         Saturday (day before Christmas) – decorating and set up at the Legion – from 10 to 12-ish; we will have ‘stuff’ for all the decorating; just bring your imagination and holiday spirit. 

·         Sunday (Christmas Day) – we start to finish the set up around 9:30 and get going on packaging the take-out meals; there is plenty to do from then until clean-up is done, including serving our sit-down guests.

·         Rides will be available from the Methodist Church (previous location) to the Legion. Just show up after 11:30. You may have to wait a few minutes while our drivers serve another diner!

·         Come when you can and leave when you need to.

And PS – Just showing up is fine; feel free to call if you need more information – 409-0876.! Naomi

NEXT ASSIGNMENTS!

1.    Email me your winter photos: Christmas decorations, winter scenes from where you live. Make sure you identify your pictures, Thanks!  Seasons: Winter 2016

2.    Email me in your holiday plans, greetings to friends and/or family, holiday memories or stories.  OR….just NEWS!!!!

Thanks to everyone who participate in this newsletter.  Hope to hear from more of you real soon!!!

There are 203 days left until The 13th All Classes Reunion, starting July 14, 2017.