Veteran's Day Issue Next Week

Tommy Towery

LHS '64

You readers know that we make a special effort to recognize our veteran classmates on Veteran's Day every year. Next week we will feature an updated video of our veterans which you will not want to miss. 

If you have noticed in the past that a classmate from 1964-1967 has been overlooked in our tribute, I am asking you to inform me of their name and branch of service ASAP so they might be added to the honored list. Use the form below to do so.

Also, we have a special section recognizing any classmate who was wounded and received the Purple Heart medal. Again, if someone has been overlooked, we need to know.

Finally, if any of you want to add a personal note or recognition to or about a classmate, you may use the comments form below to do so.  

Lee Lunch Bunch

October 23, 2025

Carolyn Burgess Featheringill

LHS '65

Some 40 members of the Fami-Lee gathered at Carrabba's in Huntsville on Thursday, October 23rd, a beautiful fall day.  We were especially glad to see one of our regulars Linda Weldon '65 from western North Carolina who missed the event last fall as her community recovered from Hurricane Helene.  It's always a joy to see everyone's favorite English teacher Miss Faulkner - - "Sue" to us now that we're "grown." Dwight Jones '64 added to the fun by sharing reunion pictures and his '64 Silver Sabre, reminding us of "the way we were" and sparking many conversations beginning with "do you remember."

Classmates may recall that the Traveller of our high school days occasionally gave a "nerves of steel" award.  Current awards and thanks should go to the spouses who join us and put up with our reminiscences, to Patsy Hughes Oldroyd '65 for making the arrangements for the gathering as she has from the beginning and to Tommy Towery for keeping us together after all these years.

As always, the day began with laughter, handshakes and hugs and ended the same way with promises to "keep in touch."  That's just how it is with the Fami-Lee!

The Wayback Machine

"Radar Men from the Moon"

 Chapter 9 - Battle in the Stratosphere

We continue the serial this week, just like they did back in the movies during our times.

I'm so sorry I was unable to attend the Lee Lunch Bunch gathering, but I was happy to get a good report from the doctor's visit I had scheduled. 

Next month we will celebrate Veteran's Day again, and I know a couple of you sent me in the names of some classmates who were veterans, but I did not have them listed in my slide show. I hope you will remind me once again and I will try to add their names. We still have two weeks to get it done.

Last Week's Questions, Answers, And Comments

Delores McBride Kilgore, LHS '66 , "Thank you, Tommy, for always caring for your schoolmates!"

James Wilbourn, LHS ‘65, "Thank you, Tommy, for all of the work and time that you put into this newsletter every week. I look forward to it every weekend. I am very glad that you received a good report from your latest doctor's appointment, and hope that future reports are similar.

I was not listed last year among the veterans from Lee who served in our Armed Forces. I dropped out of college and joined the regular Army in September of 1967. After basic training and two AIT schools, I deployed to Vietnam in May of 1968, where I served at forward support base, Tayninh West, a few miles from Cambodia, for a year. Upon returning to the States in May of '69, I spent the remainder of my active duty, until September of 1970, in Ft Leonard Wood, MO, where I worked as an instructor in the Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic School. Subsequently, I went back to college and completed my bachelor's degree in May of 1972."