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
We are saddened to report the loss of another member of our Fami-LEE from the Class of '66 this week.
We also want to draw your attention to another upcoming reunion which you might enjoy attending.
Please include your class year with your e-mails.
T. Tommy
________________________________________
Last Week's
Mystery Photo
Current Open Topics
Do you have any memories of a special something that you were given, but may not still have? Send in any graduation present memories you would like to share with your classmates.
Do you have a story about the first big thing you bought with money earned from your first real job, either during or after Lee?
What did you do or do you have planned for your 60th Birthday?
_____________________________________
This Week's
Mystery Photo
60th Birthday Bash
Scheduled for October 8th -
All Are Invited
Plans are still underway for a combined 60th Birthday Party for the members of the Class of '64 (and other Classes and spouses) who are turning 60 this year. More plans will be released later, but we are currently planning to have a Pot-Luck picnic with cake and ice cream at the pavillion up on Monte Sano on Sunday October 8th. More events may be planned as the time gets closer.
This get together is not just for the ones that are are 60 or who are turning 60. It is an event for all of the readers of the Traveller. We'll get more info to you at a later time.
_________________________________________
From Our
Mailbox
Subject:Space and A/C
Jim Bannister
Class of '66
Tommy, I loved your article about air conditioning and the space program. These two things came together for me at the same time. We had never had air conditioning until the space program brought my family to Huntsville from Gadsden, AL. That was in my Sophmore year of high school. We had the window fan, a very large belt driven fan that required a lot of attention when opening an exterior door. You are not alone in whistiling into the fan, I have also sang and hummed into it. The space program in Huntsville then was such heady times. I remember how proud I was and bragged about being from Huntsville. Looking back on it now, the thing that puts me most in awe is that our parents sent men to the moon and brought them back safely. Not just their generation, THEY actually designed, built, tested & made work the vehicles and systems that went to the moon!
_____________________________
Subject:Phone Numbers
John Scales
Class of '66
Your article of a month or so got me thinking. Other than your own, how many phone numbers (friends and significant others) can you remember from high school without looking them up? Although a couple more are on the edge of my memory, I can rattle off only three:
534-8202
536-1625
534-4807
Two were numbers I called quite often and another was one I dreamed about calling every day but lacked the courage to do so! Who can remember the most numbers (no cheating)?
____________________________
Subject:Gary Wilburn
Jim Beck
Class of '68
slumlord@clix.pt
Just looking thru the Traveller and saw that Gary Wilburn (66) died a couple of years ago. That pretty well puts an end to my trying to find him. Can anybody shed any light on his death? Feel free to publish my eddress in any appeal for information. Thanx again.
_________________________________
This week's Mystery Photo is of an item that not only amazed me as a child, but represents something I wanted for myself back then. I remember thinking how "neat" it would be to own my very own. Can you identify it and who you remember using one?
________________________________________
Rison-Dallas Association's
34th Annual Reunion
August 5th, 2006
Here's a special notice to any of you who ever attended or had parents attend Rison School or feel a connection with the Dallas Mills area. It's time for their annual reunion.
The reunion will be held at the Jackson Way Baptist Church, starting at 10am. A covered dish luncheon will be held at noon, and the program will begin at 1:15pm.
This year's reunion will be hosted by the Class of 1946 in celebration of the 60th anniversary. The honored guest will be the 1940 football team and the guest speaker will be Major General James Pillsbury.
Participants are asked to bring a copy of their school picture while a student at Rison. A covered disk is also requested. The cookbook, "Cooking with the Village People" will be for sale at $15 each.
A pre-reunion party is scheduled at Mullins at 5:30pm, on Thursday, August 3rd.
Last year several members of the Lee High Classes of '64-'65-'66 showed their support to this group by attending this event. Not only was it fun, there was lots of great food and conversation. Many of our parents have more in common with the group than we do, but we were welcomed guests and by no means felt out of place.
Ann Franklin has been a reader of Lee's Traveller for several years and is my contact for the Rison-Dallas Association. They have a website at:
It is my sad duty to tell you that Steve (CF) Norrod passed away in Billings, Montana at 10 PM Monday the 24th of July 2006. He was 58 years old and had been fighting cancer for the last three years.
When he got up to go to work on Monday morning, he was not feeling well and went directly to the hospital. Apparently, it was not his prostrate or bone cancer, but complications from his lung cancer that killed him. While we were all around smoke lots as young adults, Steve was never a smoker.
Steve's family including his Mother, his daughter Baylea and her Mom, Nancy O'Brien will be having a service for Steve in Tennessee on Friday the 28th of July.
Nancy and Baylea will also be having a small informal service for Steve in Billings, Montana on Saturday the 5th of Aug at an outside park.
Sympathy cards to his 15 year old daughter, Baylea can be sent in care of his good friend (and ex-wife):
Nancy O'Brien
710 Indian Trail
Billings, Montana 59105
Sympathy cards to Steve's Mom can be sent to::
Mrs. Margaret Apple
450 4th Ave N.
Baxter, TN 38544
________________________________
Published in the Billings Gazette on 7/27/2006
Stephen O'Brien Norrod, 58, died July 24, 2006, with his daughter, Baylea O'Brien Norrod, by his side.
Steve was born April 13, 1948, in Bethesda, Md., to Dayron Norrod and Margaret Stephens Norrod. He was raised throughout the South, including Tennessee, Florida and Alabama. After high school, Steve traveled west, where he spent may happy years as a smoke jumper stationed in Idaho, Alaska and Montana. He received an undergraduate degree from East Tennessee State and obtained his master's in social work from the University of Dayton.
In 1984, he met and married Nancy O'Brien. Their daughter Baylea, the joy of Steve's life, was born in 1990. Steve and Nancy later divorced.
He was employed by New Day Mental Health Center at the time of death.
Steve is preceded in death by his father, Dayron. Steve is survived by his daughter, Baylea of Billings; his mother, Margaret Apple of Baxter, Tenn.; a good friend, Beth Weeks; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services for Steve will be held in Baxter. A gathering to celebrate Steve's life will be held in Billings at a later date.
Memorials are preferred to Billings Animal Shelter, 1735 Monad Road, Billings, MT 59102.
___________________________________________
The only comment on the fan was made by Jim Bannister in the letter below.
