Lee Note 28 Jim Lee and Bob Roush Memories April 24, 2001

Memories from Jim Lee:

Dear Lee Friends

I am going to give you some background about some people who were in different grades when we were in school and then give you some memories that I have.

Sonny King was a senior when we were sophomores at REL. Sonny played the bass tuba so maybe you can picture him in that hole with his bass tuba.

Nancy Shelley was also a senior when were sophomores and Sarah was a junior. Both of them were in the Brigadiers.

The class was Algebra II and hence there was a fixture of sophomores, juniors, and some seniors. Jimmy Herring was also in the Algebra II class with me.

Jim Lee

Memories - Do you remember?

When Mr. Colley called Nancy and Sarah Sheeley the "Sheeley Brothers"? You had to be there to think this was funny. He received a lot of mileage out of this joke.

On a very hot, humid day during Ms. Mitchum's Summer School class the fan appeared to "have a mind of its own". After turning it on, the fan mysteriously stopped working. Ms. Mitchum walked toward the fan, and it came back on. After walking away, it went off again. The look on her face was priceless. She was not aware that the fan was plugged in at the back of the room, and the fan was getting some assistance.

As we were marching on the practice field one afternoon, Sonny King fell into a "sink hole" which "swallowed" him up to his waist. A picture of this made the Baytown Sun.

What about Nancy Fennema's VW mysteriously parking itself in the band room one morning? Boy, was Nancy surprised!

Do you remember the hat Mr. Burkett would wear for marching practice? It looked like a "Jungle Hat" giving him the nickname "Jungle Jake".

Co-educational Activities - boys and girls mixed volleyball. Wow, we were able to play with the girls! (This was a Senior- only benefit.)

"Now fellows. . . . . . In the spring when the sap begins to rise. . . . ." What an educational session for the boys.

Thanks for allowing me to share these memories,

Jim Lee

From Bob Roush:

Dear Lee Friends,

These are some thoughts that Bob Roush sent after he read the notes from Doris Edwards about our two classmates.

"I remember Frances Kisling, too. She and her mother - they lived on E. James, I think -- came to Holloway's Grocery Store on Hwy. 146 where I sacked groceries all through high school. She was very shy, but nice. I was on the swim team with Mike Wratten and enjoyed being a teammate. He was very good at the breaststroke.

The Spanish teacher was probably Miss Harrell, as I remember being in that particular classroom overlooking the cemetery across the street. Hadn't thought about that in years, although my mother's parents are buried there.

Johnny Rios was in that class: he had the greatest smile. Wish he would come to our reunions.

Cordially,

Bob Roush

P.S. Tell Doris that I didn't know but our paths crossed fours years after graduation: from 1964-66, I was the P.E. coach at Webster Junior High School in the Clear Creek School District.

Since I taught drivers' education also, I had all the astronauts’ sons and daughters in my classes. It was an interesting time to be alive when I would sign an excused absence for a student because his or her father had been at the White House receiving a presidential medal for his space flights."

Bob Roush