Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly, Joy Rubins Morris, Rainer Klauss, Bobby Cochran, Collins (CE) Wynn, Eddie Sykes, Don Wynn, Paula Spencer Kephart, Cherri Polly Massey
Contributors: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 and Others
Well, Sue's off to Iowa for a couple of weeks to help with our new grand-daughter, so I'll be staying up late playing on the computer and eating junk food for a while. I'm driving her to Nashville to catch the plane since it is $160 cheaper to fly from Nashville to Des Moines than from Memphis. She only has one stop on the trip - changing planes in Memphis. She'll be landing here before I get out of Nashville. Don't you just love the airlines?
Please include your name and class year with your e-mail to me.
T. Tommy
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This Week's
Mystery Photo
The Big Six-Oh!
Glenn James, Class of '65 - You can mention in the Traveller that there is something being worked on in Huntsville for the East Coast classmates, as I see Lehman is having a real blowout for the West Coast classmates. I don't think we could do anything to top that though. I think we need to say this will be a one time big party for everyone in all 3 classes ('64, '65 & '66) that will be 60. I hope this will snowball into something that will be alot of fun.
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(Please send your own 60th birthday plans or memories.)
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Jim McBride, Class of '65 - The unidentified beauty in the group photo (back right) sure looks a lot like Sandra Gentle. So many cute Lee girls. Why did I have to be so shy?
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Carol Bailey Olson, Class of '65 - I believe the red headed girl in back that everyone is having a hard time with is Sandra Gentle. Now Sarajane can rest.
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Gary Kinkle, Class of '64 - Since no one else has identified the fourth girl in the mystery photo, I will. She is my sister-in-law, Sandra Gentle Barker.
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Peggy Pierce, In the larger mystery photo on this week's Traveller : has the girl second from left on back row been identified? or is it Carole Bradshaw .. Carole it is you? It looks like you to me - you only see about 1/2 her face, but the eyes look familiar.
P.S. Carole, David is getting married to a girl from Atlanta! Love (to my favorite former sister-in-law from:
Your favorite former sister-in-law.
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Collins (CE) Wynn, Class of ‘64 - I enjoyed the slumber party photo – to me a slumber party was always a feminine mystique kind of thing – I have no idea what went on at one – just one of life’s little mysteries. I felt really dumb when I couldn’t get all the names and somewhat dumber when I read them while thinking, “ah, I knew that all along!”. Dummy, dummy, dummy.
Sandy Moneymaker – what a wonderful name!…and, Vicki Campbell, what a gorgeous young lady. I can’t help but smile when I look at all those fresh, endearing, young faces – how truly lovely they all were. I’m already ready for another reunion. I think we should all meet at George Lehman Williams’ house.
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DBD
by Eddie Sykes
Class of ‘66
The British invasion stormed the US and the halls of Lee during our high school days. For a while the Beach Boys, Four Seasons, and Elvis began to seem a little old fashioned. However, during the summer of 1964 I was introduced to my first British friend. Mike Jaco (not sure of the spelling) came from England to Huntsville to spend the summer with his aunt. Mike became an instant friend to me and Ken Martz. We spent many hours together quizzing each other about the teen culture of our respective countries. We were interested in knowing all about the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and about European girls. Mike was obsessed with Johnny Cash of whom I knew very little.
We went all over town searching for Johnny Cash records and souvenirs. Bob Dylan and Cash had recorded and toured together. I slowly became a fan after listening to some of his live albums. Because of my admiration for my new British friend, he had an unusual influence on some of my thinking. You might have guessed that these memories were resurrected after watching “Walk the Line” this past week-end. This movie is about the early life of Johnny Cash. A couple aspects about the movie definitely grabbed a hold of me. One was the influence that early rock legions had on one another and on our generation.
The more important aspect that I have chosen to discuss is “how quickly one’s life can get out of control”.
It seems that when something really positive or powerful comes into your life that you just seem to get swept away and continue to keep going with the flow. Too often we are not aware of the course nor have little control on where it takes us until the ride is over. That pretty well describes the last 20 years of my life. Things were going so well with my career, family, and finances that I couldn’t see how little control that I had over it all. It only took a couple hurricanes, a couple major changes in management on my job, and two adult children moving back home to break my levee and swamp me with reality. I had to ask myself the question – “Do I have control over anything?”
I now realize that I, as well as many of you, have been carriers of a bad gene that I will call “DBD” (Dysfunctional Breeders Disorder) ! We have raised a generation of dysfunctional children who appear unable to solve simple problems on their own. That gene caused normal rational adults (us) who had a great childhood to believe that we should raise our children radically different than the way we were raised – thus rendering them socially dysfunctional. Unfortunately, I can not offer any solutions, but I thought it might be helpful to alert you to some warning signs. At least you can pass this on to your kids and maybe it can help your grandkids.
You may have DBD if your adult child:
Sets off the metal detector with all their piercing.
Has multiple piercing in places other than their ears.
Has more than one tattoo.
Has more than three credit cards maxed out.
Is over 25 and still living at home.
Receives greeting cards from more than one attorney.
Has two or more children and never been married.
Is thinking of a career change before actually having had a first career.
Has never worked on a job long enough to get health care.
Has never had a paid vacation because they prefer to take a months unpaid leave between jobs.
Still thinks they should go to Florida or Cancun for Spring break.
Their repayment plan on the money you loaned them is their income tax refund check.
Has never washed the car you bought them.
Have drawers full of exotic underwear.
Still has to be told to clean their room.
Has over 100 CDs by groups you have never heard of.
Has a DVD collection that rivals Blockbusters.
Has a cell phone glued to their ear, but your calls always goes to voice mail.
Has unlimited cell phone minutes, but it is worth it at any cost.
Can max out a credit card the same day it arrives by mail without ever leaving the house.
Has a cable bill that is greater than the mortgage payment on your first home.
Has weekly deliveries from UPS from online shopping.
Calls you by your first name.
Doesn’t understand why you don’t treat them with respect or like an adult.
Requires strong anti-depressants to cope with the stress of living at home with un-sympathetic parents.
I don’t know the answer. We did not grow up with cell phones, computers, credit cards, on demand everything, and anit-depressants or drugs for ADD. There is also not a drug for “DBD”. But, if 15 or more of these warning signs apply to you… then I recommend that you should cut your loses, move in the middle of the night, and don’t leave a forwarding address.
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Arrogance of Ignorance
A college student at a recent USC football game challenged a senior citizen sitting next to him, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said loud enough for the whole crowd to hear. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, man has walked on the Moon, our spaceships have visited Mars, we even have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing ..and ....uh.."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"
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From Our
Mailbox
No mail this week that did not fall into one of the story categories.
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Sumber Party Photo
The editor was looking through e-Bay again and came up with an item that was common to our generation, but probably a mystery to teenagers today. Can you name it?
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Looking Back
Lance George, a few years younger but still fellow LHS classmate sent in this picture to share with all of you. I dont' remember the "Insulated Bags" but maybe some of you do. I know that I pay more than 15 cents tax on most hamburgers I buy today.
