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
"314"
Look at the top right of the page right now. If you are the 314th visitor to Lee's Traveller this week, e-mail me and identify yoursef. You will be the 100,000th visitor to this website - a significant event!
Remember, if you open the web site each week and do not see the new issue, then you need to click on the refresh browser within 10 seconds while you are viewing the opening page with the line drawing of Lee High School on it. Sometimes browsers link to the "cache" version of a page and will not load the new one.
Please include your class year with your e-mails.
T. Tommy
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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?
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This Week's
Mystery Photo
From Our
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Well, since we stumped the band last week, we'll have to make it a little easier this week. Above is a photo taken from a short film that first appeared in 1957. In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the short "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Most of us saw it many times when we were young in Huntsville. Who can identify it and can remember the song title that goes with it? What famous children's tune uses the same melody? Anyone remember the words to the song without looking them up on the web?
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We had absolutely no one able to identify the emblem that was used for the 1961 Studebaker Lark.
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Saturday Morning Popcorn
50 Years Later
by Tommy Towery
Class of '64
Sometimes I spend all week trying to come up with an idea of something to share with you in The Traveller. Some weeks it comes easy. Other times it takes a lot of work. I had no idea of what I was going to cover this week until about 10am Saturday morning. Let me backtrack to that revelation.
I’ve been selling my B-52 books on e-Bay and I’ve also been buying a lot of computer stuff that has rebates. Hence, each week for the last several months I end up with several checks that need to be deposited in my checking account at my local credit union. Saturday morning gives me the best opportunity to do that task.
One of the services the Credit Union offers to customers such as me is free popcorn out of an old time looking popcorn machine set that is set up in the lobby. Today, I did as I have done each Saturday for the last several months. I deposited my checks and on the way out I stoped and opened up the doors of the popcorn machine and used the little silver scoop to fill myself a little paper bag of popcorn. I’ve gotten so bad at doing this, that I now take myself a Diet Coke with me when I leave the house, knowing that I would have a bag of popcorn to go with it.
Today, as I opened the doors and looked at the mountain of popcorn, my mind flashed back to the few days that I worked at the University Drive-In and the night I spent the whole night making popcorn in my sleep. I quit after about a week, primarily because of the late hours the concession job demanded.
But there I was, scooping popcorn again and thinking back to those days. I got to wondering how many Saturdays my morning meal was popcorn and Cokes at the Lyric and Grand Theaters. Now here it is, 50 years later, and my Saturday mornings are still filled with a routine of popcorn and Cokes, even if it is obtained from a different lobby.
We’ve written many times about those Saturday morning movies – and those memories are very special. I had just forgotten how much popcorn and Cokes were a part of those memories.
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Subject:60th Birthday Party Space
Judy Fedrowisch Kincaid
Class of '66
Tommy,
Can we have a space for party info? I would send you up-dates as things progress. It's hard to believe that it's been a year since the last reunion. How time flies!!!!
(Editor's Note: Consider it done. We will start a special section with party info next week and update it as plans firm up.)
