This Week's "Name That Tune" Contest Like always, each entrant must have a validation comment on one or all of the items and please include your class year. Comments about an event in your life that you associate with one of the songs is what we are looking for. Something touching or fun. Even though we are not keeping a running score, each week's winning class will still be announced. Click on the number to listen to the sound clip. Be paient, some of them have a little lag in the lead-in. __________________________________________ |
Est. March 31, 2000 24.855 Previous Hits June 17, 2002 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu Staff Writers : Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris ,Terry "Moses" Preston Collins Wynn Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 |
Est. March 31, 2000 24.855 Previous Hits June 17, 2002 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu Staff Writers : Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris ,Terry "Moses" Preston Collins Wynn Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 |
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It's Not the California 500, But When Two Generals Meet For Any Occasion It's A Good Time by Tommy Towery Class of '64 We read a few weeks ago how Moses Preston and George "Lehman" Williams attended the California 500 together and the fun they had. Well, here in Memphis, we don't have the California 500 but we do have some things. Anyone watch the Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson fight? That was held right here in the Bluff City. It was a pretty big deal, with tickets starting at $400 each and ringside seats going for over $2,400 each. Lots of famous people showed up for that event, and it was the highest grossing Pay-For-View event ever held. Wouldn't that be almost as good as a car race? Well, that was last weekend. This weekend Memphis hosted "The 26th International Paper Money Show". According to an news item on the web this is "The Holy Grail of Paper Money Shows. If you only go to one show a year, it should be this one." One of the first things I learned from Bobby Cochran when we met at the 2000 reunion was that each year he comes to Memphis for this show. I told him then that the next time he came, we had to get together. He e-mailed me several months ago with his agenda and I put it in my Palm Pilot. On Thursday night, Sue and I picked him up at his hotel and we all went out to a local Bar-B-Q place and had an evening of eating and visiting. It was great to visit with someone who has as many memories of Lee as I do, and who had stories that I had never heard since we did not both run in the same crowd all the time. Bobby and I did share a time together in the Explorers, and had a few war stories from that period. I also found out about one of the teachers who had false teeth that kept falling out that I never knew about. He told me stories of his time in Lee, and about the Lee classmates that he went to Auburn with. We had pre-Lee stories of the California Street area, the big cave by the cemetary, and the school bus. We talked about Miss Broom, the French teacher and how Mr. Fain would give "L" letters to almost anyone in the class for any reason, not just sports. I told him that I lettered for being the editor of the school paper. We laughed over memories of Terry Vandiver and Dwight Kephart, and the fun we had in Mrs. Parks typing class. Bobby got great delight out of telling Sue that our senior trip was all of the Class of '64 loading up on a bus and being carried to the Madison County Health Depatment for some reason, and that Huntsville and Butler seniors went to Washington D.C. the same year for theirs. Bob even brought me a present, a collection of senior text books that he said I could scan, but don't hold your breath for that event! We learned how he got started collecting old money when he was asked to take over a paper route for a friend who was going off on vacation. Today he thinks that he was asked for two reasons - (1) he had a bicycle and (2) it had a basket on the front, which you needed to hold the papers. In the change he was counting he found an indian head penny and was fascinated by it and his dad bought him one of those blue tri-fold coin collector's books and he started trying to fill all the little slots with coins. We talked over the reunions, the ex-wives, and how he had found a lot of old friends with the rising popularity of the web site. We laughed at the story of Skip Cook calling Bob long distance one day asking him to listen to song number seven on the web site trivia and tell him "What's the name of that damn song?" Friday afternoon I took off early and went to the paper money show and was educated by Bobby about his hobby and passion for money - to collect but not to spend. We walked around the show and he would tell me the reason this bill or that bill was so rare or so valuable. We went out and sat on a bench by the trolly stop and ate lunch and talked about the fun of the web site and the plans for the July reunion. He invited me to St. Louis to see a ballgame someday. We visited for the whole afternoon, telling a few off-color or embarassing stories that we could not share with Sue, and then it was time to go. One of Bobby's friendly smiles and a hardy handshake and we said goodbye. But we knew that it was not like we were really saying goodbye, because he will be back next year to the show, and we will e-mail and send photos back and forth for the web site. Goodbyes are not as hard to say as they once were. I drove home thinking. You know it doesn't really matter if you're watching a race ,or sitting at a table over coffee when you're visiting with an old friend - it's the time together that counts in the long run. Sometimes I enjoy the quite times at the reunions more than I do all the loud music and speeches by J.R. I mean no offense with that statement, but since J.R. doesn't know how to use a computer nor is he a regular visitor to this site, I don't think he will ever know he was just slammed! ______________________________________________________ Addendum To The Editorial On America by Chip Smoak The bleeding hearts who whine about the treatment of prisoners that have fought and tried to destroy our country in addition to our countrymen must live in ivory towers. They are blind, ignorant, stupid and pitiable. Pitiable for the first three flaws in their makeup. Any time I had to fight - I say had to fight because I tried to avoid them - I was not concerned about why the other person was insisting on a fight or what he may have against me. It was enough to know that he wanted to inflict pain on my person. I am not one to just let someone do that without defending myself. If I have to fight, I intend to do everything that I can to avoid or at least minimize being hurt and that means that I am going to hurt the other party the best and greatest extent of my ability, preferably before being hurt. One does not wait for a rattlesnake to strike and inject poison before trying to kill the snake. One tries to kill the snake without getting bit by it. Remember when our embassy in Iran was captured. Iranians here on student visas made protest marches and rallies against the United States. INS intended to deport them and ACLU filed suit on their behalf claiming violation of their civil rights. My question then and now is, "What civil rights? They are here as guests. When they make themselves unwelcome, this country, like any other country in this world, has the right to show them the door and suggest in the strongest possible terms that they not let it hit them in the backside on the way out." Extending a helping hand is one thing. But I know of nothing that says that we have to let a cur bite the hand that feeds it. As someone recently said, "We need to revive the policy of walking softly and carrying the biggest stick possible with a willing readiness to employ it." Some peoples of this world only understand that the biggest, meanest so-and-so must be shown respect or they are going to get their behinds whipped. These same peoples view compassion only as a weakness. This is not to say that this country can not or should not have compassion. However, we have to let the world know that compassion is not a weakness of this nation and that to attack us is to awaken the sleeping giant that will stomp the living daylights out of them. Before the wall came down I do not know of a single instance of when any group attacked Communist Russia or its satellites or hijacked one of its planes. They knew and understood that the Russians would retaliate with extreme prejudice, without regard for world opinion. The U. S. is viewed as a gentle giant for wolves to worry and harry until the giant is destroyed. It is bad enough that people outside the U. S. want to destroy this nation, but the greatest worry that we have is the threat of U. S. citizens who willing assist in this effort, some because they are misguided and some because they are anarchists. We all need to be alert and to take a much greater interest in our government and what it is doing and plans to do. ______________________________________________________ July 20th Mini-Reuion Planning Form We've developed a planning form to gather information about those who might be planning to attend this get together. It is for planning purposes just to get some idea of a head count. This is not binding in any way, but if you think that you might want to attend, then please fill this out and let us know. We need to hear from those of you who live in Huntsville and surrounding areas too. We are thinking of getting a room somewhere and need an approximate number to work with. Click on the button below to go to the form page, fill in the information, and then click on the send button at the bottom of the page. Thanks. ______________________________________________________ More Mail Subject: RE: LHS 64-65-66 Update is Ready Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:10:57 -0400 From: "Cook, Charles" <CookCE@cdm.com> Tommy, I have sent the LHS 64-65-66 web page address to several friends in my firm. They all agree that it is the best high school web page in the world!!! Keep it dude. Skip Cook Class of '64 ______________________________________________________ Subject: RE: LHS 64-65-66 Update is Ready Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:55:24 -0400 From: Julius.Smoak@sba.gov Your e-mail did not include the link to the web site this week. I will have to add it to my list of favorites. I should have already done so. (Editor's Note: Most web browsers will let you type in leealumni.com and it will take you to the site. I try to remember to put it in the reminder each week, but sometimes forget.) ______________________________________________________ Subject: Re: Email to 31 News. Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:49:28 EDT From: JBkarmer@aol.com I will be sending a copy of this Channel 31 To 31 News Department: I think this is a very unique site and hope it get some publicity. http://www.leealumni.com I graduated from Lee High in 1964, the first graduating class. Since we were the first, and most of us grew up with each other, we were also close to the '65 and '66 groups. I suggest that this site is unique to any other as many of us have reconnected to it. The Editor and creator of this site is TommyTowery, was editor of our then newspaper the "Traveler." As a retired Major, he has written a book on this. There are groups of us who have mini alumni meeting such as those in the Atlanta area, and those who meet at Mullins now. The site consist of us trying to determine the cost of the Lyric, our recollections of Mullins, Big Spring park, the Snow White, and other local unique events of that era. Much verified with some research and the then Times Newspaper articles. Jim McBride, who co wrote "Angles in Waiting," which was up for Country Music award for that song along with several other categories for the song. One of our own went on to become lead singer in the rock group Steppenwolf. There are many success stories told on there. Read the back issues of the Traveller. Joan McCutcheon Baber Class of '64 |
____________________________________ From Our Mailbox Subject: July Get-Together Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:34:29 EDT From: NJKINCAID@aol.com Okay, now. Let's start getting a head count so we'll have some idea of how many folks we can expect to attend the get-together on July 20th - afternoon & evening - which will determine how much space we need to secure for the event. If you're reading this and even half-way plan or want to attend, please let us know via this website by next week's edition so we'll have some numbers to talk about at the June 29th breakfast at Mullins (9:00a.m.). Or you can call me at 256-883-9255 (home) or 256-656-3667 (cell). !! And spread the word !! Hope to see some of ya'all soon, Judy "Fedrowisch" Kincaid Class of '66 njkincaid@hotmail.com (Editor's Note: If you even half-way are thinking about attending, then fill out the form on the right of this page and send it in....thanks!) _________________________________ Subject: re: seniors Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:29:38 EDT From: CEB1947@aol.com Hey Tommy, remember when we said we'd never forget each other? When we said it would always be like this. Friendships would never end? Well, thanks to you and the other great contributors to this wonderful web page, those dreams have come true. We can all stay in touch and be friends and keep up with each other and encourage each other. God bless you for what you are doing. It is truly a wonderful thing. Eddie Burton Class of '66 ______________________________________ Subject: Re: LHS 64-65-66 Update is Ready Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:51:54 -0400 From: "Valerie Ranney" <kteach1@earthlink.net> The July 20th reunion sounds like fun. Unfortunately, Bruce and I will be out of the country. Maybe next time... Thanks for sending out your weekly updates. Valerie Hinkly Ranney ______________________________ Subject: Past issues Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:45:01 -0500 From: Glenn James <glennj@aztechnology.com> Tommy, Please check the past issue for May 13, 2002. The one I keep getting is for May 20, 2002. My wife had Diane in training at Huntsville Hospital, and she wanted to read the article about Diane. Hope to see you at the Mini-reunion in June. Glenn James Class of '65 (Editor's Note: You are right Glenn...I had the wrong page linked, but that has been corrected now.) ___________________________________ Subject: Blue Harley Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:50:07 -0700 From: George Williams <georgewilliams@afcjiffylube.com> Skip does have a good memory - It was a blue Harley with butterfly handlebars and yes - the rumors were true and I can't really tell you about all the other things that I did on the Harley, because, I'm not sure about the statue of limitations, but Gary Kinkle, Ray Walker and Mike Sartain would surely have to go to jail with me. Does anybody remember Leonard Askew?, He had a Triumph about the same time, I was supposed to go riding with him the day he got hit by a train, I've always been lucky - Hope it continues. Lehman Williams Class of '64 __________________________________ Subject: RE: Hotels for LHS Impromptu Reunion in July Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:04:38 -0700 From: "Terry Preston" <mosespreston@earthlink.net> Jan and I have reservations at the Fairfield Inn, located just off University Drive in Research Park (1385 Enterprise Way, Huntsville, 256-971-0921). Craig & Jennifer Bannecke, Ed and Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly, Lehman Williams, and Tommy Towery are also planning to make the trip, and hopefully a dozen or more others. I'm not sure where they are all planning to stay (Craig has suggested that perhaps we could get a group rate at the Marriott). I have copied Tommy and several other out-of-town Generals. Does anyone have a reading on this? Thanks gang! Moses _________________________________ Subject: RE: Reunion in July Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:55:15 -0400 From: "Bannecke, Craig A." <banneckc@gordon.army.mil> All, Jennifer and I will be unable to attend. Moses and I talked about this when I ask him about the date. However I never got back with him. I was hoping for early July however late July is too close to a trip Jennifer and I will be making out to Colorado Springs in August. I'm really sorry we won't be able to make it. Haven't seen some of y'all in 30 years. Our loss. But I know the rest of you will have a wonderful time and carry on in the grandest Lee High tradition. (Remember we're Rebel Rousers) Please take lots of pictures and share them with us on the web site. Best to All Craig & Jennifer ___________________________________ |
Still Crazy After All These Years |
This Week's "Name That Tune" Contest Like always, each entrant must have a validation comment on one or all of the items and please include your class year. Comments about an event in your life that you associate with one of the songs is what we are looking for. Something touching or fun. Even though we are not keeping a running score, each week's winning class will still be announced. Click on the number to listen to the sound clip. Be paient, some of them have a little lag in the lead-in. __________________________________________ |
One of our Clasmates wants to know if any of you knows the circumstances of Philip Hall's death. I told him that I would ask around and see. If you do, would you please e-mail us with the info and if it is appropriate, we will publish it. ____________________________________________ _____________ We're always looking for any stories you want to send along to share with your Classmates. Sit down sometime and give us an update on what you're doing or what you have done. ____________________________________________ ________ Check back next week for another story from Moses about a visit with one of our old Classmates - it's a good one. |
