Here's the captions submitted for the above photo.
Tommy Towery, Class of '64, thinks this is the conversation taking place: "Everyone said to check out the girl in the black dress. Which one of you were they talking about?"
Jim Bannister, Class of '66, suggests: "Ok, Here's the plan for 2010."
Sarajan Steigerwald Tarter, Class of '65, writes that Alex did the class directory and when he asked us to proof it Judy and I found a thousand errors. We kept send him emails that said "Oops - another error has been found"
Therefore, I think the caption under the picture of Carol Jean, Alex, Judy and Linda Taylor should read. " Oh no Alex, You didn't find another error in the class directory, did you?"
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Subject:
Reunion
Jim Bannister
Class of '66
Submitted for your inspection a tale of a group of middle-aged people of various backgrounds and socio-economic status converging on the Marriott Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama. These people have one thing in in common, they are Fami-Lee. They are unaware that they are about to be warped back in time to the REUNION ZONE....
WOW!!!!! What a great time. It has taken me a week to finally come down from my reunion high. It was wonderful to sit around the courtyard listening to the adventures of our youth retold, embellished with time and flagging memory. Saturday Night the Fami-Lee showed that it could still party. The dance floor was filled from the band's first note until their last. Every thing was just perfect and everyone seemed to have a VERY large time. My thanks to everyone on the Reunion Committee for their hard work in making this an outstanding event. Things don't just happen, people make them happen and the Reunion Committee made things perfect. They have set the bar pretty high for 2010 but I am sure that the Fami-Lee will find a way to get there.
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Subject:Reunion
Gilda Davis (Wilburn)
Class of '64
The reunion was great. Enjoyed seeing people I haven't seen since graduation and some I haven't seen in several years. The committee did an aweson job on it and I'm looking forward to the one in 2010.,
You do a wonderful job on the paper and I enjoy reading it.
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Subject:Lee's Traveller
Sally Hymer
Guest
I am a graduate of Rison High School - 1946. A long time ago. I heard about the Lee's Traveller at our Rison/Dallas reunion this month and was interested in seeing what it is. I am impressed and I feel a kinship to anyone from the Dallas Village vicinity since my husband and I were born and raised in the "Village". I lived at #13 North Dallas across from the old red schoolhouse that housed Rison before it moved to Oakwood.
Mr. Fain was our next door neightbor before he moved to the corner of North Dallas on Oakwood. I must admit I did not recognize many of the names of your classmates. I did know the Prestages.and, in fact, was distantly related to Mrs. Prestage whose maiden was Knowles. Also, a dear friend of mine, Virginia Milburn, taught English at Lee, but I am not sure about the dates.
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Latest News On The Future Of Lee
by Tommy Towery
Class of '64
There's a couple of things I wanted to share with you with this column. The first one has nothing to do with Lee or with the reunion. I want to share with those of you who like neat things on the computer a new web site and program that I found. The photo above was taken from that site. For a real neat computer thing, go to http://www.earth.google.com and download their free satellite photo program. You can type in any address and you can get a satellite photo of that place. You can even zoom in closer than the above photo. Try it out. It's magic!
The other thing is that for those of you who do not live in Huntsville, I would like to give you an update on some things going on at Lee High School. Here are a couple of newspaper articles I recently copied from the online version of The Huntsville Times
Northeast Makes Plea To Keep Lee
Friday, August 19, 2005
By CHALLEN STEPHENS
Times Staff Writer challens@htimes.com
Group tells board it backs renovationbut not relocation
Norris Black apologized to the Huntsville school board if the pages seemed to be sticky.
That was because the petition to keep Lee High School in the neighborhood made its way through the restaurants and homes and shops of Five Points.
In the end, that cause collected 700 signatures.
"Lee High, as we all know, is in a state of disrepair," Black told the audience at Thursday's school board meeting.
Black, secretary of the Northeast Huntsville Civic Association, said the parents and residents of the neighborhood welcomed plans to improve Lee, whether that means renovating or rebuilding.
"We are fully aware no decision has been made," he said.
However, the civic group would object to any plans to build a new Lee outside the old neighborhood. Specifically, Black said, the group has heard rumors of building a new Lee east of Chapman Mountain.
Madison County Commissioner Bob Harrison has also suggested consolidating Lee with Johnson High and building a new school in northwest Huntsville.
"Our membership totally objects to any of these alternatives," Black said.
The school board has not announced nor reviewed any official plans regarding Lee.
After the meeting, Superintendent Ann Roy Moore said she plans to meet with Mayor Loretta Spencer in the next few weeks to discuss money for a new high school. Spencer has said she would like the city to create a special tax district to provide some of the money for Lee.
Such a district, known as a Tax Increment Financing district, siphons future increases in property tax revenue in the district to pay for construction now. However, a TIF requires approval of the City Council and County Commission. That process could take months.
And, if a TIF is approved, it may generate only one-third of the money needed to build a new school, Moore said Thursday; the board would have to come up with the rest. As an example, the new Huntsville High cost about $30 million. The city supplied $10 million of that; the board paid the rest.
As for the location of a new Lee, Moore has said there may not be enough space at the current site to build a new high school while students attend the existing one.
"I'll just hold on to it," Moore said of the petition after the meeting. "I know how they think and how they feel. I will certainly take that into consideration."
Black said the neighborhood group also intends to present the petition to the council and mayor.
She'll Keep Lee On The Right Track
Monday, August 22, 2005
Huntsville Times
Brenda Chunn is a mother to Lauren Ruth, a daughter to Seldon Fletcher, a scholar of sociology, a firm believer in the connection between education and the arts and a professional working woman.
She's also Lee High School's new principal.
Chunn's desire to make a difference began at Fisk University, where she studied sociology. She found the subject and its philosophies fascinating - that every person begins on the same life path, but as choices crop up and experiences occur, people tend to wander in different directions. Some people continue on the "right" path, while others veer off into dangerous territory.
Sociology basically is the pursuit of reasons for this behavior.
In discovering this new world of thinking, Chunn knew she had found her special niche, and the field of education was a natural progression. Destined to nurture, encourage and support those who were just beginning on their journey, Chunn sought a career where she could keep people on the right track.
When recalling her high school days, Chunn remembers several happy events such as the proms and football games. But she also remembers feeling safe, secure and as though she belonged.
If there were anything she could pass on to Lee students, it would be that warm feeling of community. She wants the students to feel free to make mistakes and to share talents because, as she said, "school is all about the learning process."
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