Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni

2010 Reunion Info

August 20th - 21st

Huntsville Marriott

5 Tranquility Base

Huntsville, Alabama 35805

Phone: 1-256-830-2222

Next committee meeting on

Monday, June 21, at 5:15

The next reunion committee meeting has been moved to June 21st. This will give classmates that have not responded yet a chance to return their forms and enable the committee to cut down on postage costs for the second mail-out. If you have misplaced the form that was sent out earlier - or did not receive one - get in touch with your class contact and they will send you another one.

As of May 28th there are only a limited number of rooms left at the Marriott for August 20 & 21. As stated in an earlier update, hotel rooms & prices are at a premium this summer due to the Star Wars Exhibit that will be at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The rooms at the Marriott are $109.00 per night ($123.20 including tax). When making reservations, be sure to mention that you are attending the Lee High School 64'65'66 reunion and request a poolside room if at all possible - unless you would rather not have a poolside room. The Marriott will do their best to honor requests.

Remember, we want to hear from you even if you are not able to attend so that we will have your current contact information for the handbook that will be given out at the reunion. If you are unable to attend the reunion and would like a handbook, arrangements can be made to send you a copy.

The reunion class contacts are:

Class of ’64 – Linda Taylor

lktaylor731@aol.com

Class of ’65 – Sarajane Steigerwald Tarter

1965lhs2010@gmail.com

Class of ’66 – Judy Fedrowisch Kincaid and Kathy Harris Jones

jfk19662010@hotmail.com

Please send an email to your contact and include: Class year, first name; last name at time of graduation; married name (if applicable); spouse’s name (if applicable); street address; city; state; zip code; home ( H ) or cell ( C ) phone number (which ever you prefer); e-mail address; and occupation.

Even if you do not plan to attend or are not sure if you’ll be able to attend the upcoming reunion, please send in your information. And please encourage other classmates that you may be in contact with to do the same.

And check the Traveller each week for planning updates.

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Do you, uh, uh...want to dance?

3rd Week

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

Thanks for all the emails with your top 10 choices in last week's Slow Song Contest. Here are the songs that made the cut. Once again all of the 20 songs last week got at least one vote.

41. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

43. Stand by Me

47. Tears on My Pillow

49. The End of the World

51. The Hawaiian Wedding Song

52. The Ole Lamplighter

53. Theme from A Summer Place

54. There's a Moon Out Tonight

58. True Love Ways

60. Unchained Melody

Remember: We'll finsih out the first rounds of slow songs when I return from my trip. I only have eight songs left on my list, so if you want to add one or more of your favorites that we have not covered, then send me the name and artisst. These must be "slow" dance songs and must have been released prior to June 1966.

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Barb Biggs Knott, Class of '66 - This week’s mystery photo is a World Book Encyclopedia Yearbook. I had a set of the World Book Encyclopedias when I was in school and still have the yearbooks from the 60’s. I especially cherish the 1962 edition of the yearbook with the wonderful article ‘The South Goes to Town’ by Hoke Norris. It is a 16 page article about Huntsville, Redstone Arsenal and its importance in the space program

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Rainer Klauss, Class of '64 - This week's Mystery Photo is of a World Book Encyclopedia Yearbook, I believe. My parents bought a set of the encyclopedias in the mid 50s, a 19-volume set (with a separate index, I believe), red-bound. The volumes were utilitarian, of course, valuable resources for school reports, but the bountiful, fascinating information they contained made them prime leisure reading material, too. I rememember that we would get yearly supplements that were more like large pamphlets rather than the actual book the photo shows. That innovation must have come along later, or perhaps it was standard with the higher-priced set. I still have the "A" volume as a keepsake somewhere.

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Donald H. (Don) Blaise, Class of '64 - The mystery is a World Book encyclopedia. I still have a set of those “Pre-Internet” sources.

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Ernie McAlister - It looks like the World Book Deluxe Yearly update !

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Patsy Hughes Oldroyd, Class of ‘65 - I would recognize a World Book Encyclopedia from fifty paces! It was probably the most often used reference book of our time in school, and it was so easy to copy from!  Gee, I thought you were supposed to copy the material verbatim back in those days so that you could be accurate with your information. Ha! I feel certain that some of our wonderful teachers at Lee probably recognized copying on some of my papers, but let me slide by anyway. Old “grammar nazis,” as Paula Spencer Kephart called us when we were both still teaching English, would never allow such a thing as copying from reference materials in our classes though.

I do remember very well when my mother and father bought a set of these encyclopedias for our family along with the little wooden bookcase that they fit in perfectly. It was a wonderful privilege to have such nice books at that time to help with our school work. I remember still looking up information in World Book while I was in graduate school. As old and outdated as they are, those books are still at my parents house in a little noticed area of the hallway. I had not thought about them in a very long time, but I may just get one out and look at the pictures the next time I go over to their house.

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Subject:Slow Songs

Rainer Klauss

Class of '64

Sort of a "battle of the bands," huh. Not that it really matters, but it'll be hard to see some of the songs kicked off the dance floor, so to speak. The fun and charm of this project has just been to be reminded of how many great tunes there were--some of them I hadn't remembered at all. Your idea and its efficient implementation have brought me a lot of pleasure. I thought I had a pretty good "Oldies" collection on my iPod, but you may make me spend some more money on iTunes tracking some more of these songs down.

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Subject:Ernie Ritch

Don Blaise

Class of '64

I was saddened to hear about Ernie Ritch. I bought and sold several houses in Huntsville using him as my realtor. He was a good man and Gay I hope you see this. He will be missed.

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A Trip Down the Parkway

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

A feature I am working on to include in my new book is the importance of the Memorial Parkway to the teenagers growwing up in Huntsville in the Sixties.

Below you will see a list of places that I can remember that met that condition, going north to south with the ones on the left being on the west side and the ones on the right being east.

The frst listing is a rock quarry that I do not believe was on the Parkway but was reached by traveling up that way. Do any of you remember that quarry, and if so, what do you remember about it.

Also, I don't remember much about the music store on Traylor Island so I need some memories about that place. Most of the other places I have personal or submitted info about, but if you want to add anything please send it to me for consideration. Please limit your additions to things that were on or significantly near the Parkway, or some personal memory about something that happened to you while on the Parkway. I have the cruising between Jerry's and Big Boy's covered in another section.

Finally, look at the list and send me any additions that you think should be added to it, telling me which side and between which entries you think it belongs and why.

North

The Rock Quarry?

The Parkway Drive-In

Maplewood Park

Hardee’s

Max Luthor Drive

VFW Club

Terry’s

Oakwood Avenue

The “Green Front” Store

Mugs Up Root

Pin Palace

The Alabama Theater

The Mall

University Drive

Shoney’s

Pinhook Creek

Traylor Island

Traylor Music Company?

Carter’s

Go-Kart Track

Starlight Bowl

Clinton Street

Heart of Huntsville Mall

Dunnavant’s Mall

(5th Ave.) Governor’s Drive

Miracle City

Hardee's

A & W Root Beer

Huntsville Times

Putt-Putt

Plamor Lanes

Jerry’s Drive-In

Parkway City

Drake Avenue

Madison County Airport

Lilly Flagg

Redstone Park

Tennessee River

South

Please help me finish up this section of the project so that I can hopefully get this thing published before the reunion.

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