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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

Memphis, TN - Well, its been a bad football weekend for me but thank goodness baseball is still going and basketball is not too far away.

We may be headed on another adventure this week and if so you might not see the next issue of Lee's Traveller until next Monday instead of Sunday. Remember - Monday is the offical publication day.

T. Tommy

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Last Week's

Mystery Photo

This Week's

Mystery Photo

I found this picture while doing some web surfing and playing with a new Google search technique that I just heard about when I came upon the photo above. It was found in a set of Life Magazine photos. The date is supposedly 1964. The photo was posted online reversed and I had to flip it to make the photo correct, but that made the Life word backwards.

I've had some fun with one of our classmates with it. Here's the answers I got.

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Craig Bannecke, Class of '65 - This weeks Mystery Photo of an LHS Band member is either John Drummond or Don Stroud before they went prematurely thin headed.  Course now that I think on it neither one of them played the picaloe ? But that is my guess and I'm sticking with it.

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Rainer Klauss, Class of 1964 - Tommy, I hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think you've found a long-lost picture of a Lee band flutist, circa 1964. The uniform indeed looks similar, but we didn't have "Lee" spelled out in that center placket; we had a stylized general's head. The record album that the band put out in '63-'64 to help finance our trip to the Orange Bowl has a blue-toned picture of the concert band on it. This panorama of the whole band shows the drum section pretty clearly (because they stood up during stage performances and everyone else--except Mr. Foley--was seated), and although I have to use a magnifying glass to make out details, one can see that the boys (and everybody else) are all displaying that Lee general front and center. Several other details that indicate that this is some other "Le...": The girl is not anybody I recognize from the band of that year. Her hair style is wrong for the time, and we didn't wear gloves. I've got two snapshots of myself in uniform from those days. Unfortunately, they're not in sharp focus, and the instrument I'm holding--my shiny band-supplied baritone--obscures most of the placket; otherwise, I'd send them along as additional evidence. Maybe some other former band member will supply that proof. I'd sure like to see it.

Back to the Google Time Machine, my man.

Editor's Reply  - Oh the times, they are a changin’! Rainer, I appreciate your attempt to stump the band, but band uniforms like everything else, change. Our 1964 yearbook showed the uniforms we had when we graduated in June of 1964. The photo was taken later in the fall of the year. I checked the 1965 yearbook (which would have covered the activities of fall 1964-spring 1965) and find the uniforms are like the one in the Mystery Photo. The 1965 book does not show them as clear as the 1966 they were the same uniforms for both years.

I have even received an identification for the person in the photo already.

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Marty Phillips LHS ‘66 - The beautiful lady playing the flute is Judy Essen, Class of ’66. She moved back to Southern California before her senior year.

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Wanted: Halloween Stories

This is October and before long Halloween will be come and gone. This year I am going to try to get a jump on the holiday by asking you early for some stories to print in the Halloween issue. You can send me a story about a favorite Halloween party, or Halloween costume, or Trick-or-Treat, whatever.

I got one this last week and am looking for more.

I'll be collecting them for the next couple of weeks and sharing the best with all of you.

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      From Our

      Mailbox

Craig Kimbrel

Atlanta Braves Pitcher

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

The other night I was watching the Atlanta Braves struggling in their second game against the San Francisco Giants in the playoff series. The Braves had already lost one game and were behind in the one I was watching, which would put them one game away from being done for the year.

As I watched they called in a relief pitcher and during his introduction the announcer said he was from Huntsville, Alabama. I quickly hurried to my computer between innings to see what I could find out about him and confirmed that he was, in fact, a former Lee General. I could not find his class year.

So, even though he is much younger than us, he is still part of our Fami-LEE and if you follow the Atlanta Braves, like I do, he is just another reason to root for them.

According to http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/archives/1045 :

Kimbrel was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 33rd round of the 2007 MLB Amateur Draft, out of Huntsville, AL; he opted not to sign and attended Wallace State Community College.  The following year, the Braves once again drafted Kimbrel–this time in the 3rd round–but this time signed him, despite a pending scholarship opportunity to play at Alabama.

Every aspect of Kimbrel’s minor league career indicates that he has what it takes to close at the major league level.  With a fastball that sits in the mid to upper 90s and an absolutely nasty slider, he possesses one of the best young arms across MLB bullpens, and should be viewed in the same light as both Aroldis Chapman and Chris Sale.

Braves manager Bobby Cox–who like Wagner, is set to retire at the end of 2010–has clearly recognized Kimbrel’s potential, as evidenced by his use of the youngster in key situations, including a save situation.  Kimbrel has made Cox’s life easy down the stretch of his illustrious career in baseball, as each time Cox has summoned for the right hander, Kimbrel has embraced the opportunity while making MLB hitters look foolish.

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Put on your thinking cap and jump into the "Wayback Machine" and see if you remember what these were. There were numbers associated with both of them. Do you remember the numbers as well? School and class year with answers please.

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Veteran's Day Parade

Is One Month Away

I have the info on trying to sign up a group to march in the 2010 Huntsville Veteran's Day Parade. As of this time I only have 24 people signed up on Facebook as Lee High Veterans. I know many of you don't use Facebook, so if you are interested in making the two mile parade (either in a car or marching) then please let me know so that I can reserve an appropriate slot.

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Subject:Bob Crump

Lynn Bozeman VanPelt

Class of '66

  It did my heart good to see the nice comments about Bob Crump.  Bob was an honorary member of my group of girlfriends from high school until the day he died.  We considered him one of us.  I have been truly amazed at the devotion and love Bob engendered from his students over his long teaching career.  From the time he started dialysis treatments about 2 years ago those ex students organized car pooling to get him to and from dialysis and provided his meals.  When he stopped the dialysis these same ex students made sure someone was with him around the clock.  This speaks volumes about his affect as a teacher, he will be missed by many people for many reasons.

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Subject:Lee's Traveller

Bill (Bambi) Ryan

Class of '66

  I was having fun as a first time visitor until seeing the list of passings. That made me sad.

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