Lee High School - Huntsville Alabama Alumni

This week's Mystery Photo is of an item that was popular for Christmas when we were growing up. Which disease was the target of the organization that used these seals for their fund raising drives during the holiday periods? School and class year with your answers please.

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If you have any Christmas Stories or wishes for you classmates, then please send them in sometime this week - before Saturday.

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Jerry Brewer -

Lee's Little Drummer Boy

Will Play for Christmas Dance

by Tommy Towery

Class of '64

Jerry Brewer, Class of '64, sent me the above poster to let all of you know that the current band he plays with will be hosting a special Christmas dance this coming weekend.

Most of you will recognize the Timemachine Band as the band that played for our latest reunion, so we all know that there will be some good dance music.

This is also a chance to party with our friends from Butler and Huntsville High and other friends who attended other schools than Lee.

Any of you who have attended one of the previous dances held at the Elks Club know that a fun time will be had by all.

As an extra attraction at the dance, I'll be setting up a table for a book signing for my latest book The Baby Boomer's Guide to Growing Up in "The Rocket City".

Sue and I will be headed to Huntsville on Saturday to participate in a book signing event at Shaver's Bookstore in the Railroad Station Antique Mall and hope that if you are still looking for a unique Christmas present that you will consider buying a copy of my book for that special friend.

Shaver's is located on the second floor of the Mall - 315 Jefferson Street North in Huntsville. It's down by the old railroad depot, but not in that complex of buildings.

I want to thank all of you classmates who have already ordered copies of the book for presents. It has certainly made me feel that you appreciate the time and effort I put into writing it.

So, if you get a chance I'd love for you to come down and visit with

Sue and me from 1 - 4 pm on Saturday, December 18th at Shaver's or 8 pm at the Elk's Club. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you then.

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Hugh Zeanah

Father of Mike Zeanah, Class of '64

and Marsha Zeanah, Class of '66

Aug. 27, 1918 - Dec. 8, 2010

Published in The Huntsville Times on Dec. 10, 2010

Hugh W. Zeanah, 92, of Huntsville passed away Wednesday at Crestwood Medical Center.

Hugh was born in Gordo to John William Zeanah and Loudora Fendley Zeanah. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Jean Koehler Zeanah.

Hugh served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a faithful member of Whitesburg Baptist Church, a Sunday school teacher for 50 years and a member of the Gideon's. He graduated from the University of Alabama and retired from NASA, where he worked as a robotics engineer. He was a ham radio operator and loved to play his baby grand piano. In his younger years, he played for the Stamps Baxter Quartet and sang with a barbershop quartet.

He was the loving father of Michael of Atlanta and Marsha Castelli of Pittsburgh. He is also survived by granddaughters, Echo and Olivia; two great-grandsons; his brother, John William and wife Shelby of Hendersonville, Tenn. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery.

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Subject:Suzanne Pettus Thomason

Chip Smoak

Class of '66

I want to thank Carolyn Burgess Featheringill for letting us know about the passing of Suzanne.

I never met her personally. That was my loss.

We became friends through email over the past year. I found her to be a very caring, generous person.

I personally will miss her.

I wish that I had known her better. The world is the poorer for her passing.

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Joy Rubins Morris, Class '64 - I believe, if memory serves, that during the Christmas holidays you could stencil your windows with various holiday designs using Glass Wax. Glass Wax was a glass cleaner that you used on a sponge or cloth and dabbed onto the stencil to create a festive look on your windows. (When it dried it left a white film.) Then after Christmas, you just took a cloth and wiped it off thus cleaning your windows while removing the art.

Merry Christmas to all - May your season be blessed with health, happiness and love.

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