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Editor:Tommy Towery                                                     http://www.leestraveller.com

Class of 1964                           Page Hits This Issue     e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu

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

Port Aransas, TX. - We're enjoying our vacation, but the cold that hit most of you in the South also hit us here in Texas. Still, we're on vacation, and so it does not matter.

Please include your class year with your e-mails.

T. Tommy

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Last Week's

Mystery Photo

This Week's

Mystery Photo

      From Our

      Mailbox

We were playing Wii bowling the other night and I saw in one of the games the first pin in the rack was red. That reminded me of something from my early attempts at bowling. Do you remember the significance of red-pin bowling?School and class year with emails please.

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A Door to My Past

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

Sometimes things get pushed to the back of our minds and it takes a spark of some kind to bring back those memories.  That happened to me this week.

We’re on vacation in Port Aransas, Texas – a small coastal town in South Texas. We’re here staying with some travel friends in a little cottage they have rented for the winter and our visit here has kindled some old memories.

The rented vacation cottage is not like the house we live in back in Memphis. It is a lot older and in many ways, it is like traveling back in time to my early days in Huntsville and for me that is a pleasant trip.

I started thinking these thoughts when I walked out onto the front porch on the first day we got here. It was a screened porch with a screened door that has a spring holding it shut. It is locked with a little hook and eye hook that will keep the door closed, but would never keep anyone out that wanted to come inside. It’s been a long time since I have had a house with such a porch. Back on East Clinton we had a screened back porch that was built very similar to the one here. It was a nice big porch and allowed us to leave our kitchen door open and the screened back porch kept most of the flies out during the hot summers.

Other things caught my attention, such as the driveway sounds. The driveway was gravel, just like the one I had back on East Clinton. There’s something about the sound of a car pulling onto a gravel driveway that signals you that you have company coming like no other sound. It’s one of those sounds that had slipped to the back of my mind, since every house I have ever owned since I became an adult has had a paved driveway. The crunching of gravel has a sound of its own.

I also became aware of once again staying in a house that has only one bathroom. There are four of us adults here, and the sharing of a single bathroom has not been something experienced in quite a while. That brings a whole new meaning of cooperation and courtesy that has long been forgotten. In my childhood, our one bathroom was shared by my grandmother, my mother, my older brother and me. I can really now look back and appreciate what some of you went through with more family members and only one bathroom.

Little things I did started coming back to me. Silly, insignificant things like putting my pajamas under my pillow when I made up the bed each day. I had not thought of that, nor done that probably since I started high school. The floors here are wood, and the sound of someone walking on the floor above me reminded me of the sounds made by the arsenal workers we rented our upstairs bedrooms to back when housing was such a commodity in the Huntsville building boom.

We only have one TV here and I can’t remember how long it has been since I had a house with only one TV set. Of course this one is nothing like the monster black and white console one we had back in the Fifties – and of course we did not have cell phones, internet access or satellite TV. But what a great day it was when we finally got cable TV and no longer needed the TV aerial attached to the roof of the house.

I’m sure there are many more things that could come to mind if I sat and thought harder. Right now I am just kind of enjoying the memories I already have. Life was much simpler back then – that’s for sure.

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Subject:Memorial Service for Sheila

Lynn Bozeman VanPelt

Class of 66

There will be a Memorial Service for Sheila Carroll Jandebeur Episcopal Church, small chapel downtown Huntsville Feb. 3, at 6:00 pm. It will be very informal

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Subject:Hello

Jim Butts

Class of '64

Email:  shimkats@msn.com

 

I moved away from Huntsville a week after graduation and was only back for a couple days in 66 when my older brother graduated from Athens College. Thanks to face book, I've been in contact with a couple of my classmates. It's pretty neat and I'd like to talk to more. Life/God has blessed me with a wonderful family and we're really enjoying ourselves. Great publication! Congratulations and keep it coming.

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Subject:Books

Andrea Gray Roberson

Class of '66

I want to thank Shirley Jones Moore for her friendship for 56 years but if she writes a book about us I just want to say that what happened on Kildare St., Oakwood Ave., Pin Palace, Lincoln School, Lee High School  and a blue Rambler STAYS in all of those PLACES!! 

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Jimmy Ray Mcbride, Class of '66, wrote on his Facebook page, "To my facebook friends, Thank you so much for your prayers and well wishes. I had a mild heart attack Sunday after church, had two stents put in at St. Thomas and came home Tuesday. I'm better and starting re-hab at St. Thomas next Tuesday. I am thankful for my loving family, my wonderful friends, the beauty of the earth..., the sky and life. God is great. God is good."

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Scott Haas, Class of ‘68 - Thanks for keeping all of us informed on the Lee happenings!

The Mystery Photo is of “The Rock”.  Seated from Left – Randy Duck, “Little Joe” Skipworth

Standing: Doug Cheffer (RIP), Jackie Tiller (I think…), Skip Adkins

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Unidentified, Class of '66 - The last or one of the last versions of the Huntsville based band The"Rocks".  Top row: Doug Cheffer, Jackie Tiller, Skip Atkins. Seated Randy Duck, person to Randy's left, his name escapes me.. Doug Cheffer I believe was in the class of 1967. Skip and Randy both went Butler and not sure on the remaining two.

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