Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly, Joy Rubins Morris, Rainer Klauss, Bobby Cochran, Collins (CE) Wynn, Eddie Sykes, Don Wynn
Advisory Members: Paula Spencer Kephart, Cherri Polly Massey
Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders
Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 and Others
Been another quiet week thanks to Thanksgiving I guess. We've had some good response to the information request. There were a few glitches for the first few who filled out the forms (mostly people hitting the submit button too many times and me receiving multiple entries) but it appears to be working now. We're going to let it run a little while longer.
Sorry I did not get home for the holidays, but Sue had to work so that kept me here. She's a lab technician at the Baptist Hospital here, and any of you in the health care profession knows that hospitals don't close for weekends and holidays.
Hope everyone had a safe one.
T. Tommy
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From Our
Mailbox
Legs Like the Twins
by Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly
class of ‘64
Tommy asked me to write about one thing that no one knew about me from high school. I started thinking about it, and in looking back, it’s difficult for me to believe that, for a few years, I was shy. Well, shy doesn’t exactly describe it accurately. It was probably that I felt insecure in myself and, as a result, I was not as outgoing as I normally had been. It may be that I just plain didn’t feel well after being ill, and that will definitely take your personality down a notch or two. I still went to parties, to Bradley’s, etc., but just not with the same zest for life that I’d had previously. I know there are a few of you who knew this, but I think it’s probably the one thing that most people wouldn’t know (or probably wouldn’t believe!) about me from those days.
I had had two surgeries in a one-year period, and the anesthesia caused me to not only lose a lot of hair, but also a LOT of weight! Prior to surgery, I had thick, blondish-brown hair, and when it finally stopped falling out, it came back in thin and brown. This was at the time that Twiggy was the new, skinny model, and I grew so sick of hearing, “Now you look like Twiggy.” It’s very strange how people will be careful of hurting an overweight person’s feelings, but they will not even think twice about saying something like, “You’d have to stand twice to cast one shadow,” to a thin person. I really don’t think people are trying to be cruel. They just cannot understand how it could hurt someone who is not thin by choice. It was also during a period of my life where I was just starting to get a good figure, only to see it go away. I was actually thrilled to hit a big old 98 lbs. (a number I’ll never see again) when we graduated!
I remember that I always wanted to have legs like the twins, Sam and Sara. (I’ll bet they never knew that.) I had always been so athletic with an athletic build, and after being ill and losing weight, athletic was not a word I’d use to describe me at that time. So there’s my story of one thing that no one else knew about me (almost no one). Or, maybe it’s two things: Besides being “shy,” I wanted to have legs like the twins. Of course, I will hold you to the promise that you won’t tell anyone, with the exception of my close friends at LHS.
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Last Week's Who's That
General Standing With?
Information Needed By
Reunion Committee
Kathy (Harris) Jones
Class of '66
We are starting to work on our contact lists and agreed that the best thing to do was to ask EVERYONE to send all their current info to an email address set up just for this purpose. It is LHS@lfsp.com.
Would it be possible for you to devise a form for them to fill out and send?
Maybe with a link from the website to that form? It would need all
pertinent infomation such as class year, maiden and married name, spouse's name, address, phone, email address.
Anyway, this seems like the first thing for us to do......then we'll start
hunting the ones who don't email us. We would love to build a contact base of email addresses.....faster, easier and cheaper. (I'll deny I ever said
such since I work for the postal service!)
Thanks for all you do.
1964-65-66 Alumni - Click on the button above to submit your current information to the Reunion Committtee planning the 2005 Reunion.
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Rick Simmons, Class of '64, made the only guess at the photo. Rick wrote:
"Tommy, I recognize you. I do not recognize the other gentleman."
Rick et. all, I'll give you a few clues here, and then at he bottom of the page I'll tell you who he is. Here are a few clues.
His photo is above.
He lead a band with initials that stood for "Memphis Group."
He had many hit songs including a top hit with a theme for a Clint Eastwood movie.
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Subject: Mrs. Park's Typing Class
Woody Beck
Class of '65
Tommy,
The most valuable skill I ever acquired at Lee was learning to type. The second most important thing was learning that the charge of the Light Brigade took place at Balaclava in the Crimean War.
Take care,
Woody
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Subject: Typing
Chip Smoak
Class of '66
I imagine that we all started out using the "HAPCAE" method, hunt and peck - curse and erase. Do most of you remember the feeling of pride that you experienced when you broke 35 wpm? Also, do you remember that you had to radically lighten your touch on the keys the first time you were able to use one of the two electric typewriters to key from getting numerous repetitions of the same llllletter? How many of us got uppercase letters in unusual locations because we did not hit the sHift key at the right time or held it too long?
I hope that everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving and a very good time with family and friends. Now, open up the wallets and get out the cash or credit cards or grab your checkbook and go Christmas shopping. It will be here "tomorrow"!!
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Subject: Bill Boone
Lara Boone Nowakowsk
LARA2546@aol.com
Tommy,
My name is Lara Boone Nowakowski. My father was Bill Boone who graduated in 1964. I work with Lynn Bozeman at Huntsville Hospital and she was the one who told me about this web site, and that there was an article about my dad and that you could help me find it on this web site. I found the memory page and a note from Jim Pierce that new my dad and worked at the tile shop that my mom (grandmother) owned on Oakwood in the 60's.
I thought it would be nice to read the article and maybe find some of his old friends from high school and maybe talk to them. He passed away when I was five and my grandparents raised myself and my sister. They both recently passed away. He passed away in June and my mom last Sunday.
I would appreciate any information you could pass on to me
Thank You
Lara
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Subject: Memories of '64
Tony Thompson
Class of '64
Hi Tommy,
Today was the first Thanksgiving we have spent without Dad. While at Mom's house today, she brought out a box that was labeled "Tony's Senior Year".
Inside were many memories of that year. I actually recognized all of the pictures without looking on the back. I have signed pics of Judy Sherrill, Ricky Weaver, Pam Parsley, Jennifer Brown, Judy Adair, Susan Smith, Brenda Cone, Charlotte Massey, Sallye Black, (do yall see a pattern here?) Carol Jean Williams, Barbara Wilkerson, & Sandi Gentle, to mention a few.
Also in the box are numerous copies of the original "LEE'S TRAVELLER" (with the same Editor we have today!) A popular item then was the insert "From The
Halls Of The blue & Gray". Great "one liners" brought back many memories!.
Also, ALL of the Football Programs from the 1963 City Championship Team!
After reading the golf caddy story I have a suggestion.
Please put the dates of the reunion at the top of every news letter for a while. You know, for those of us who forget.
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A Turkey Tail
Chip Smoak
Class of '66
To all my friends, I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
This is really a cute joke . . Enjoy and be thankful!!!!
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.
John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary.
Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back.
John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. In desperation, John threw up his hands, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.
For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.
The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."
John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. He was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, when the bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"
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This Week's Who's That
General Standing With?
Okay, I'll give you a hint this week. Last week's Mystery Person played on some of her and her father's records. Take a guess.
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Inputs Solicited -
What is Your
Favorite Slow Song
by Tommy Towery, Editor
Class of '64
As I was preparing this issue, the mystery person column got me to thinking about slow music when we were growing up. The lady with whom I am standing in the photo recorded one of my favorites. I was going to do a big article on "my" favorite slow songs, but I really would like for a few of you to participate with me on this one.
Back in your pre-Lee or Lee days, you probably attended a lot of parties. You may have spent a lot of time at Bradley's, the Armory, or even at the coliseum.
They played a lot of fast dance music and we did a lot of crazy dances to it, like the Fly, the Swim, the Dog, the Mashed Potato, the Twist and the Monkey. But when the tunes slowed down, and the mellow music filled the air, what was the favorite slow song you loved to dance to with your favorite beau or belle? What song still fills your thoughts to those days and makes you want to sway when you hear it?
Please send my some of your thoughts. It can be more than one song. Share with us your favorite song, your favorite place, and your favorite partner (if you wish). You don't have to mention names if you do not wish to, but please help us pick the favorite slow songs of our early dating days. The more that participate, the better. Here's your chance to share some memories and perhaps stir up a few in some other classmates.
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This Week's
Lee-Bay Item
Most of you should be able to identify this, but what kind of stories can you share with us about one of these. Did you own one, give one or receive one as a present, have one engraved, get one taken away? Share your memories with your Classmates, and they might remember some to share with you. We need some participation to make it worth our while to keep this newspaper going.
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The person in last week's photo is Booker T. Jones of Booker T. and the MGs - who recorded "Green Onions," "Hip-Hugger," and "Hang 'Em High."
