Adivsory Board: Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly, George Lehman Williams, Patsy Hughes Oldroyd
Contributors: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 and Others
Back from vacation and starting back to work on Monday...bummer. It was a good trip and we avoided the snow and most of the real cold weather. Got in a few rounds of golf and some good photography.
Please include your class year with your e-mails.
T. Tommy
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We're staying with trading cards again this week and still we're not talking about sports cards. Here's another card from a popular set. Looking for the year, the movie, and the significance of the cards. Any stories to go with your identification?
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Randy Jennings - Class of '66
by Judy Beason Jennings
Class of '65
Above is a picture of Randy. He was an official member of the Class of 1966. Thanks for all of your concern for Randy. He had Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the blood plasma that was diagnosed in September of 2005. He fought a hard battle to over come the cancer (Chemo, radiation, stem cell transplant-we stayed a month at Methodist on Union in Memphis).
We found out on Nov. 15, 2006 that his cancer had returned. It came back as five tumors in the brain. Our doctor with the West Clinic in Memphis took three weeks with much research and Randy a brain biopsy to confirm that the Multiple Myeloma had spread and that he didn't have a secondary cancer. There was only six documented cases of Multiple Myeloma speading to the brain in this manner.
Randy and I would have been married for 39 years this April. We have one daughter. Jennifer and her husband live about 15 miles from
me and have been a great source of help and strength! We also have two grandchildren, Madison (9) and Hayden (5). They were his pride and joy!!!
My husband is trying to locate an old friend: Kathy Fisher (he thinks she graduated in 68)---can you help us find her--we have run into several other old friends & would love to contact Kathy. Thanks in advance for anything you can do or suggest
Blessings,
Deb Roth
(for Stan Roth)
stananddeb@bellsouth.net
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Subject:Military Ham Radios
John Scales
Class of '66
We used to call them "MARS" calls. I think the acronym was something like military auxiliary radio service. There was a place in Qui Nhon (Vietnam) at the recreation area that had such a phone and I remember catching a convoy to Qui Nhon and using it a couple of times. The ham operators donated their time and equipment helping out and their efforts were very much appreciated by the soldiers.
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Jeff Fussell, Class of '66 - As long as I can remember, I've had a fascination with aircraft. I wish I could, but I can't seem to recall seeing these cool collector cards anywhere. So, this week, I'll just have to take a breather and enjoy the recollections of some others.
Now, if you ever want to discuss destroying a small fortune in baseball cards on the spokes of a bike...
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Don Stroud, Class of '65 - This weeks mystery item sure brings back a flood of memories from my stay in the Air Force. I spent many hours working on T-33s. Ours had about a zillion hours on them. It took a fair amount of TLC to keep them air worthy but they were very dependable and easy to work on from an instrument standpoint. Mary and I arrived in Guntersville Thursday,January 18th,2007 after a 340 mile trip from Paducah,KY aboard Riverbreeze II. We had a great trip with only a few cold days but boy were those few very cold and windy. Our new address is 351 Marina Road,Pier F-T1,Guntersvile,Al.35976 Our new Email address is don.stroud@yahoo.com. Thanks buddy for everything you do for us to keep us together. Whatever would we do without you? Remember the invitation stills stands for a visit to Gods country. Also, Jack sure hope you're feeling better. You are in our prayers. Happy New Year to everyone!
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Tommy Towery, Class of '64 - I said I had a story about these cards and here it is. This set of bubble gum aircraft cards was my first education about the "Friends and Foes" of the United Sates. I remember that Buddy Crabtree, Bob Davis, and I collected this series of cards and would often "play" with them at Bob Davis' house. I did not know much about what was going on in the real world, (1951-52 time frame) but I knew that the MIG-15 card was the "bad guy" and that it was a communist jet flown in Korea. That's about all I knew about the Korean War - and I learned it from a bubble gum card. That's sad.
But, as far as the T-33 jet goes, little did I know back in 1952 that it would still be around and I would get to fly in one during my Air Froce career. The one I flew in was owned by the Canadian Air Force and a pair of them were flown down to Omaha, Nebraska to pick up two of us US Air Force officers to go up and brief the Canadian Air Force Electronic Warfare School in Clear Lake, Canada. The most exciting thing about the flight was that the pilot was a former member of the Canadian Air Forces' Snow Birds demonstration team (like our Thunderbirds) and he gave me my own personal demonstration flight on the way up there, including a wingtip-to-wingtip formation join up with the other T-33 with about a thee foot seperation of our wing tanks at several hundred miles per hour. Impressive!
The "Wings" series of 200 artwork pictures of airplanes is one of the most commonly-encountered of Topps early non-sports issues. First listed in the 1953 edition of the American Card Catalog, and assigned the ACC Number of R707-4, the Wings box bears a 1952 copyright date. The color paintings of planes, created from actual photographs provided by the Herald Tribune, are captioned on the front in large white letters. The card number is found on the back in a red panel, along with a written description of the aircraft and a "Friend or Foe" quiz (answer given on the next card in the sequence).
Wings gum packs were issued in 1-cent and 5-cent denominations and both are hard to find as Topps issued a larger quantity of the cards in cello packs and vendor's boxes than in wax packages. The Wings cards measure 2-5/8" x 3-3/4".
The complete set of 200 Wings cards were reissued with larger side borders by Doeskin Tissues in the fall of 1955. They have "Doeskin" printed on the back in the copyright notation area. The Doeskin Wings set was assigned the ACC Number of F381. . The Doeskin Wings cards measure 2-5/8" x 4-3/8".
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Butch Adcock, Class of '64 sends us these.
Sadly, we are losing the art of the well-crafted repartee.
Here are some examples of classic repartees from a time gone by:
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
-- Winston Churchill
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
-- Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
