Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris, Paula Spencer Kephart,
Rainer Klauss, Bobby Cochran, Collins (CE) Wynn, Eddie Sykes
Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders
Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66
Inputs from you classmates are a little slow this week, but next week's Homecoming 2003 should bring a lot of new photos and stories to share with you.
The library fund has grown and we will be presenting the check to the principal of Lee right before the game on Friday night. We plan to do this in the stands, so everyone will want to gather around to share this experience.
Breafast at the Lee cafeteria will be free to the participants, thanks to the donations by many classmates.
If you signed up for tickets for the 64-65-66 dance, you will be sent a map and information this week. You will not receive any real "ticket" but will have your name on a list at the door. We've had a few classmates that have had to cancel their plans, so there is still room for some of you, but you need to let us know quickly. Be sure to bring your camera, as this event will give you many photo ops and a lot of fun to go with them. Photo albums will be available after the event.
Also t-shirts and coffee mugs will be available for sale at all the Homecoming 2003 activities.
Remember all the fun starts with the tailgate party at 5pm. No alcohol please, but bring food.
I remember the street names being the other way around with Oak Park called suicide hill. The story we were told was one year when it snow some kid went sledding and went under a car parked near the bottom of the hill and it killed him. I remember a bunch of us who lived near by either on Peck or Van Buren going skateboarding on the bottom of the hill. Our skateboards were 2 by 4s with an old pair of roller skate wheels on them. One time when we rode our bikes over to skateboard, one kid who had never rode a bike down the hill decided to ride his. He had one of the first English Racer (a 3 speed bike) in the neighborhood. As he came down near the bottom he hit a pebble in the road and lost it and then ended up hitting the curb and flipping in to the rose bush where Giles and Stanhope came together at the bottom. I can also remember the first time I came down on the handle bars riding double, I was scared out of my wits. When I get back to Huntsville I go by and look at the old area and remember all the good times here.
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Subject: Homecomeing
John Nelson
poet09@earthlink.net
Class of '64
This is the first time since '64 I have been this close to Huntsville at this time of the year. I am looking forward to attending the dance with my wife. And swapping
stories with past classmates.
BIG John "64
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Subject: Mystery Photo
Barbara Seely Cooper
Class of '64
Hi Tommy,
Ok, you're dead. Could that really be me? It probably is, since you and I and the Mystery Boy went to Lake Guntersville one weekend with my family. From the emails in this month's Traveller, others think it is me too. Can't wait for you to give the date of the photo, because I was definitely older than 11 or 12 - childish physique notwithstanding. I am struggling to remember the name of the Mystery Boy - could it be Ronnie Bishop? Also, please tell me you do not have any more photos of me in a swimsuit!
(Later Barbara writes in a different e-mail)
Ok, you're dead again. My sister Donna just saw the photo, and is still laughing. I remembered the guy is Mike Tompson (Huntsville High?) and I believe he lived in a big house near Five Points. But where are the earlier September issue(s) that had the photo and the Lakewood memories? Can't find them on the past issues list.
I shall not give up until I've dug through all my old photos for one of you in your Speedo.
(Editor's Note: Sorry, Barbara, the archives got a little behind but that is corrected now so you can go back in them and see the older articles.)
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Subject: LHS Homecoming Bash
Jim Bannister
Class of '66
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the Homecoming. I have to work and am so disappointed that I will miss it. The classes of '64-'65'-'66 should be well represented and I know that they still can party with the best. Do us proud with the FamiLee. I expect photos & stories in the Traveller. GO GENERALS!!!!!
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Subject: Homecoming
Rick Edmonds,
Class of '65
Sorry, but Carole and I will be unable to attend Homecoming this weekend. I had knee replacement surgery last week and could not travel that far as I am still in a great deal of pain. We'll be thinkin' of y'all and hope you have a good time.
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Last Week's Mystery Classmate
Joy Rubins Morris, Class of '64
The mystery photo is of Maj. Michael Storm. Actually, Mike sent a check for the library fund and included a card. He wrote, "As you can tell from the return address, I'm in Kuwait with my Alabama National Guard Army unit. My unit was called to active duty in February, and not sure when we will be home. I'm still able to log on and read the 'Traveller' on occasions and keep up. l Hope everyone enjoys the Homecoming/ Reunion. Mike Storm "65""
Let us keep all our proud service people in our prayers as they protect and defend our country.
See you next week.
Click on the name below to send Mike an e-mail of support or just to say hi.
I was very pleasantly surprised this summer, when I heard from Lawrence Marx, that he was in Davis (on the math faculty at UC Davis, of course). Since Davis is not far from Sacramento, where Mike Jett lives, it was obvious a reunion was in order. They both seemed to think that San Francisco held more appeal than either Sacramento or Davis, so we met at my house Saturday afternoon, the 20th.
Lawrence and I had corresponded for a few years after we went off to college, then lost touch after graduation. In 1972, when I was doing my clinical psychology internship at the Boston VA and living in Central Square in Cambridge, I got a letter from him which he had addressed to my old address in Huntsville, hoping my parents were still there and would forward it, as they did. Lawrence was then at MIT, no more than a mile from where I was living. We had one visit, then promptly lost touch again. I felt already by that point that I was a different person from when I had been in high school (thank goodness); Lawrence seemed to me exactly the same as ever (also thank goodness).
After another 31 years, I wouldn’t have recognized Lawrence on the street, although there wasn’t any change except glasses and thinner hair. But his famous easy laugh was just the same. He had left MIT shortly after I saw him, and finished his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, then taught at LSU for 5 years before moving to Davis in 1984. He’s doing what he wanted to do since the age of 4, and it was obviously the right choice. I have clear memories of his patience and generosity in helping other students with math at Lee (while I was feeding them ridiculous answers at the back of the classroom to make Mr. Blackburn laugh).
In Lee days, I was about the only guy I knew who wasn’t headed off to Georgia Tech to become an engineer. So it has been very interesting to me that, so far as I can tell, nobody stayed at Georgia Tech and became an engineer. Mike Jett says Jim Norman, recognizing that Mike was more oriented to people, steered him out of electrical and into industrial engineering. But before long he had moved all the way over into social work, and is now working in the governor’s office on family policy. He also seems to be very well situated professionally, and is as good a person as one could possibly wish for in that position.
I think Rainer’s and Ed’s accounts of our hikes have permanently scared everyone off from walking across the street with me. Both Lawrence and Mike are in good shape; Lawrence walks a mile and a half each way to work, and Mike was telling about a recent hike to Vernal Falls in Yosemite with his mother. He said the steep descent was killing his knees, but his mother, in her 90s, made the hike with no trouble. So we could have had a beautiful 10-mile hike to dinner along the coast if I had known they might be up for it. As it was, we had a scenic drive past the houses of Robin Williams and Danielle Steele to Kokkari (photo above)(www.kokkari.com), possibly the most elegant Greek restaurant in the country. My housemate and ex-wife Robbie joined us. I realized afterward, to my dismay, that, despite attempts by both Lawrence and Mike to steer the conversation to more serious and interesting topics, I had kept it at the superficial level of jokes and stories. Probably because they weren’t doing their share of drinking. Mike was driving, and Lawrence, as I had predicted, doesn’t drink—although, as Ed Paulette’s father would have said, it looked as though he had had a lot to drink because his face was getting blurred—so I was stuck with all three bottles of wine mostly to myself. I hope they’ll give me another chance.
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Some New "Oldie Goldies"
submitted by Pat Stolz
We're not sure if we have already printed this or not, but since most of you confess to having CRS, then it won't hurt to have the laughs again.
Some of the artists from the 60's are re-releasing their hits with new lyrics to accommodate us...good news, for those feeling a little older and missing those great old tunes...
Herman's Hermits - "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Walker"
The Bee Gees - "How Can You Mend A Broken Hip"
The Temptations - "Papa's Got A Kidney Stone"
Ringo Starr - "I Get By With A Little Help From Depends"
Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grape Nuts"
Procol Harem - "A Whiter Shade Of Hair"
Johnny Nash - "I Can't See Clearly Now"
Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Napping"
ABBA - "Denture Queen"
Paul Simon - "Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver"
Roberta Flack - "The First Time I Ever Forgot Your Face"
Commodores - "Once, Twice, Three Times To The Bathroom"
Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Pee When You Want"
Bobby Darin - "Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' A Flash.
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Mystery Item of the Week
Skip Cook, Class of '64, found this in his mother's house and has no memory of where he came from or when. This Little Guy is a plactic pin, about three inches high and the same wide. Anyone remember when these were distributed?
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Next Week's Issue
Next week's issue made be published a little later since the editor will be in Huntsville for the Homecoming and will not be back until Sunday afternoon. It should still be published before Monday however.
