Contributors: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 and Others
I'd like to thank Lehman Williams and Barbara Donnelly Wilkerson for volunteering to serve on the advisory board for Lee's Traveller. We still have room for a few more volunteers if you want to join them.
Please include your class year with your e-mails.
T. Tommy
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From Our
Mailbox
Last Week's
Mystery Photo
This Week's
Mystery Photo
Maybe you can still buy this thing in a store, but I personally haven't made use of it in many, many, years. It was a favorite of many teenage get togethers. What is its name?
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Sherry Louise Gross Kataya
Class of '65
Jan. 5, 1947 - Dec. 30, 2006
(From The Huntsville Times)
Sherry Kataya, 59, of Woodville died Saturday at her residence. Mrs. Kataya enjoyed needle work and sewing. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mrs. Cordelia Ruth Hunsucker Gross. She is survived by her daughter, Andelita Louise "Lisa" Bumpus and her husband, Steven, of Huntsville; her son Mr. Solon Glenn "Lonnie" James II and his wife, Cathy, of Huntsville; her sister, Belinda Cribbs of Woodville; her brothers, Glenn Harvey Gross Jr. and Keith Evan Gross of Colorado; her father, Mr. Glenn Harvey Gross Sr.; stepmother, Margaret of Birmingham; four grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be Sunday from 1 p.m. until the start of service at 3 p.m. at Valhalla Funeral Home.
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Rick Simmons, LHS ('59-'63) - I believe the last Mystery Photo of 2006 is of a hotdog cooker.
Happy New Year to ALL.!
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Benney (Ben) Dillon, Class of '67 -Yes, I believe we got one as a Christmas present one year. You stick the end of a hot dog on each side and when you plug it in, it "electrocutes" it to heat them up. Did not impart a particularly good taste, but it was quick!
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Jeff Fussell, Class of '66 - You have seriously raised the bar on the Mystery Photo for 2007. I studied that thing up and down and came up snake eyes. I'll just have to wait until Monday morning to find out what it is and, more importantly, why on earth you ever wanted something like that. Happy New Year!!
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Tommy Towery, Class of '64 - Yes it is a hot dog cooker, inspired by devices used for death row inmates before the advent of lethal injection or capital punishment protestors. I never got one, but if I am not mistaken, someone made one for a science project that cooked one hot dog at a time and used nails and a cord from a discarded living room lamp in the construction. .
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Two Weeks Ago's
Mystery Photo Extra
Marty Phillips, Class of '66 - Here’s an old picture for you and the gang. It says "Roy's '50s TV show made Bullet the dog, Nellybelle the Jeep and Pat Brady household names."
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Eddie Burton, Class of '66 - Tommy, the sidekick that drove Nellybelle in the Roy Roger's TV show was Pat Brady. Roy had several sidekicks over the years like Gabby Hayes and several others but Pat Brady was the guy who drove Nellybelle around on the TV show. I love these kinds of trivia questions. A lot of my youth was wasted watching TV. But about 16 years ago I won about $10,000 worth of stuff on a gameshow from all that useless knowledge. Have a wonderful and healthy New Year.
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Tommy Towery, Class of '64 - The saying I was looking for was a quote that Pat Brady said in almost every episode of the TV show he was in. Remember him screaming "Whoa Nelly!!!" as he seemed to always lose control of the Jeep? I remember Bob Walker yelling that one night as we were screaming down Oakwood Avenue in his dad's '52 Ford which he called "The Gray Ghost."
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The Day I Shook Hands
With President Ford
by Tommy Towery
Class of '64
Above is a photo that was taken the day that President Gerald Ford came to Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth, Texas, and visited the Alert Force on duty. We all drove out to the flight line to see him and he got off the plane and walked over and shook hands with each of us, right down the line. He was the first and only President whose hand I have shaken, but I saw President Eisenhour at the Boy Scout Jamboree in 1960 and I saw President Jimmy Carter at an Atlanta Braves game in Atlanta a few years ago. I wrote an obit in Lee's Traveller for President Kennedy the day he died, and that has been my association with our presidents.
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Subject:Pennee Homan
Bob Cochran
Class of '64
I worked for a while at IBM when I was in college. My supervisor was Ivan L. "Van" Homan, Pennee's father. He and her mother (Bunny) were truly really wonderful people.
Pennee and I dated a few times, but we were just "buddies" - no romance (but what a beautiful young lady she was!)
If I remember correctly, they had moved to Huntsville from New Jersey. I don't know if Pennee moved back there after she finished high school, or even if she finished high school at Lee.
Van and Bunny would truly be SENIOR CITIZENS by now. I believe that she was adopted, but I'm not sure.
If anyone does know her whereabouts, I'd certainly like to chat with her as well.
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Subject:Lee's Traveller
Beverly Still
bevstill@comcast.net
Class of '66
For at least six months or more I have not been receiving the weekly newsletter and have been missing out on all the news.
Could you add me back on the mailing list so that I can pick up on the news, and go backwards and catch up on the past
issues? I would greatly appreciate it.
(Editor's Note: I have said many times that the e-mail that I send out each week is just a notice that the Traveller has been published. It is not required for you to get the e-mail to see each week's new issue. All you have to do is to go to http://www.leestraveller.com and you will see the most current issue. Remember, many of you got the mouse pads and ball point pens at the last reunion with that web address on it? So, even if you do not receive an e-mail, you can still get the new issue each week by typing that web address in your internet browser's box.)
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Subject:Kevin Rice's Age
Steve Craig
Class of '71
Great job. I believe Kevin Rice must be older than Class of 71- He remembers too many things from beyond his years.
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My 2007 Wish For You
submitted by Kathy Jones
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $200 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words may God bless you and.........
May 2007 be the best year of your life!!!
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Bobby Cochran Sent This In
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
