Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni

My Favorite Coffee Mug

Barb Biggs Knott

Class of '66

I have quite a collection of mugs from places I've been and shows that I've seen. However, my favorite mug is the one I use every day at work. It says it all!

Keep up the great work with the paper...I look forward to it every week. I wish I had more memories to share, but being raised in Pennsylvania and not coming to Huntsville until 1958 when I was in the 5th grade and leaving right after graduation in 1966, I don't have the wonderful memories and history that many of you have. Still, I love remembering that time in my life...it was a wild and wooly eight years!

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Linda Beal Walker, Class of '66 - The mystery photo looks like a Davy Crockett coffee mug.

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Chip Smoak, Class of '66 - This week's mystery photo appears to be of a coffee cup put out just before or just after Walt Disney's Tales of Davy Crockett with Fess Parker in the title role and Buddy Ebsen in the major supporting role of Georgie Russell.

A bit of trivia, the Buddy Ebsen was originally supposed to play Davy Crockett but was replaced in that role by Fess Parker.

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Subject:Memories

Shirley Latta Gomez

Class of '71

I don't have a favorite mug but I do look forward to reading the new editions and seeing the items you keep coming up with. Excellent job! I lived on Mastin Lake across from Davis Hills (it was a new subdivision, believe it or not, only 10 houses on the street) before it was a 4-lane. For some reason I drove by there last week. The pine trees my daddy planted at our new house are now huge and the tree my brother fell out of and broke his arm is still there. I think I can thank you for that stroll down memory lane. My daddy died last year, I think I needed that. Thank you for your dedication and hard work.

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Subject:Maxwell House Mug

Dink Hollingsworth

Class of '65

I also have a Maxwell House mug among my favorites. I would like to add to your story about the Maxwell House Hotel.

My first job in sales was with Maxwell House Coffee which in the 70's was a division of General Foods (Kool-Aide, Jello, Post Cereals, Gaines Pet Food and many other brands). The story is accurate about the slogan "Good To The Last Drop". The brand was not known as Maxwell House in the early days. The coffee was roasted by Joel Cheek Coffee Company and sold off horse drawn wagons. The most prominent customer was the original Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville that promoted the coffee as "their brand".

The brand was sold and gradually became the national brand that it is today and is now owned by Kraft Foods.

My Maxwell House mug now holds pens on my desk as I have opted for a thick ceramic mug that seems to keep coffee hotter longer.

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Subject:Lee Class of 64 - Earl D. McNeal ?

Rufus Bradley

7 Stablegate Court

Columbia, SC 29229

I found your email address on the reunion website and am sending this message to inquire if you or anyone you know has any info on Earl's death. I served with him in the Army and we were roommates during his assignment to Fort Ord after returning from Korea in 1969. I have been meaning to try to find out how he died for several years now and just have not found the time to spend investigating. I had sent a request tot he Huntsville paper for a copy of his Obit, but never received any reply.

If anyone has any info to share, I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

(Editor's Note: I think I know part of the story, but since I was not in Huntsville at the time, if you will please email me with the details I'll send it along.)

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Memories

Linda Beal Walker

Class of '66

You asked for something that could be printed and I'm not sure if you care for this or not, maybe this has been submitted before, but here goes.

Yesterday as I left the drugstore and walked across the parking lot to my car, I saw a young mother get out of her SUV and open the back door to take her small child out of the car seat and I had a flashback.

Remember when we were children, there were no seat belts and no car seats. All we had, if the car stopped suddenly, was the right arm that swung across the front seat to prevent the children in the front seat from hitting the dash or going through the windshield. Some of the smaller children, stood on the front seat behind the parent's right shoulder. A fun place to sleep was in the rear window and if the car made a sudden stop, you fell onto the back seat and maybe into the floor, jumped up and wanted to do it again because it was fun. How did we ever survive??

This is something that you may want to ask the readers -- do they remember any old saying or advise that their parents or grandparents gave them when growing up. For instance, my father told me many times when I left the house with a girlfriend or a date ...

Don't climb any trees above the top,

Don't kill no dead snakes, and

Don't wade no dry branches (creeks, ditches, etc.) (The grammar wasn't perfect but I think that is the way is was passed down to him.)

There were times when Daddy was asked how he felt, he would reply

"I feel like I was sent for, couldn't go, got there and wasn't wanted." (I didn't say they made sense.)

Daddy also told me one time that I wouldn't get married until elephants roosted in trees. I had a tee shirt airbrushed with a tree and one limb with a Bama elephant sitting on it. He wore it for years. I still have it.

Maybe you can use some of this. I know I am not as eloquent as you are, but you have my permission to change whatever to make it readable.

And stay cool. This heat is killing me. I have upper respiratory problems and when I walk out into the heat, it takes my breath away. How did we ever live without air conditioners?

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Elder Test

Submitted by Phil Rutledge, Class of '67

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind What did

he leave behind?________________.

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show.

03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."

04. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed___________________."

05. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the "_____________."

07. "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestles makes the very best.......

_______________."

08. Satchmo was America 's "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and "________

________".

ANSWERS:

01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.

02. The Ed Sullivan Show

03. On Route 66

04. To protect the innocent.

05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight

06. The limbo

07. Chocolate

08. Louis Armstrong

09. The Timex watch

10. Freddy, The Freeloader, and "Good Night, and may God Bless."