Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni

MEMPHIS, TN - Originally the opening line said Huntsville, AL, but, to my woe, when I tried to save the finished new issue, my computer locked up. Yes, it even happens to computer professionals and yes it hurts just as much. Following the reunion and dinner, Sue and I checked into our suite at the Redstone Army Lodging and I decided to stay up a while and work on the website. Despite being tired (and full) I got it all finished and was just about to publish it when the computer quit responding. I was so tired, and so mad, that I decided that I need to wait until I got back to Memphis to do it again. After a long drive home, I am now starting the process.

Please include your class year with your e-mails.

T. Tommy

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Linda Beal Walker, Class of '66 - This is Buster Crabbe and one of his many series, The Foreign Legion. I have to admit that I had to check YouTube to find out the name of his character, Captain Gallant. Corny, huh. My parents liked to watch anything Buster Crabbe starred in.

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Chip Smoak, Class of '66 - This may be late but the mystery picture is of the actor Buster Crabbe who played the title character Captain Michael Gallant in the television series of Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion. Al "Fuzzy" Knight played his sidekick Pvt. Fuzzy Knight. Cullen "Cuffy" Crabbe played the obligatory child Cuffy Sanders in the series.

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Subject:Mini-Reunion

Pam Grooms Smith

Class of '65

Tommy, I am so very sorry that Leon and I will not be able to attend the mini-reunion this weekend, but as I told Patsy this is our family's anual Beach Weekend. I hope you will tell everyone how sorry I am that we can not be there and Hi for me. Lee High School is very special to me and I will never forget any of you I hold all of you dear to my heart. I think of the school, teachers and friends often. I know that the person I became had a lot to do with Lee High School, friends,and family.

I have recently retired after 27 years in education and now we are enjoying our three beautiful granddaughters and traveling every chance we get. I hope that we will be able to attend the next reunion so that we can catch-up with everybody in person. Until then take lots of pictures and keep-up the great work on the Traveller.

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Subject:Reunion

Linda Beal Walker

Class of '66

As usual I will be unable to attend the reunion. This is the weekend of the Collins' family reunion (my mother's family). I have not been to one of these in many years and most of the older family members are no longer with us. It always takes place at Palestine, an old church in the woods, in Carroll County, TN, and it has a cemetery where the great-greats are buried, some with only a rock as a headstone. The old church is no longer used, of course, but as children we liked to play inside the church. The bathroom accommodations leave a lot to be desired, a two-holer outhouse, that the women refuse to use.

It was at the reunion many years ago, I was in my twenties, that I last saw two elderly cousins, Mamie and Agnes, old maids, that I always thought of as the last of the real Southern ladies, always dressed in their pretty Sunday dresses, gloves, hats, shoes and purse that matched, and of course, the soft spoken Southern voice, and they were always treated with love and respect.

Enjoy being in Huntsville and being together.

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I feel like I have already written this story once – oh, yea, I did and it was lost. So here I go again, revisiting the story about revisiting old friends. Sue and I were the first to show up at the Optimist Recreation Center and with 10 minutes left before the official starting time, were the only ones there. I had visions of us having nothing to eat but a plate of brownies and a dozen and a half deviled eggs. Finally, the crowd started showing up, and in the next hour, around 40 old friends and visitors filled the room we had rented for the event.

The food table was filled with fried chicken, Bar-B-Q, lasagna, pizza, chicken and dressing, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, salads, potato salad, deviled eggs, sandwiches, cheese plates, pimento cheese, Mexican dip, guacamole dip, and more I’m sure. The dessert table was filled with way too many things to list, but included brownies, peach cobbler, Italian cream cake, chocolate cake, Amaretto cake, lemon cookies, German chocolate cake. Niles Prestage showed up late with a cake but we were all too full to even cut it.

The room proved to be a great setting for visiting and eating and many stayed until we were forced to call it quits at 5pm. Many people commented on how good it was to visit with each other and many had to drive in from out of town to join in the event. A common theme in the talks was why we didn’t do things like this more often.

Over the next few weeks we’ll share more photos taken of the folks that attended and try to let you identify those that were there. For now, just enjoy the pictures.

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