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Welcome to the Robert E. Lee High Class Of 1968 web site. This is a permanent web site for all students of Robert E. Lee High School who graduated in 1968, or not quite, moved away and/or finished at another school. You are all welcome here!
Go Generals!
Photos from our class 60th birthday party have been posted on the Photo Gallery page- if you have photos from our party, please go to the Photo Gallery, and load your photos on to the Gallery named Classmates 60th B-day Photos!
Don't forget to use your sunscreen this summer!
The Coppertone girl looked very cute with her tan but she might not look so cute today after a few sessions at the dermatologist's office!
Email Bouncebacks:
Emails that have been sent to the following classmates have bounced back. If your name is on the list, please check the email address that is listed on your profile page to make sure it is the current, or correct one that you would like to use. Also, if you know how to get it touch with any of these classmates, please do so to let them know about the email problem. Thanks.
Julia Essa Azzouz
Donna Vincent Kerby
Fred Kafka
Nancy Dyal
Jack Barber
Karen Farlow Just
Ron Clanton
Bruce Wilsie - email box is full!
"Our Friends Are A Very Important Part of Our Lives.
Treasure The Tears, Treasure The Laughter,But Most Importantly, Treasure The Memories."
Click on the link below, answer some questions, and find out your "real age"! Interesting!
Deanna White Wenger sent in these beautiful photos from her home in Lucerne, Switzerland:
Gail Burritt was in town recently, had lunch with Darlene Rennie Joseph and Carol Ann Para. While they were about town, Gail took these beautiful photographs of places that are memorable to the Class of '68:
HELP FIGHT BREAST CANCER:
The Breast Cancer Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site every day to meet their quota of donating free mammograms to underprivileged women. It only takes a few seconds to click on the link below, and then on the large pink button that says "Click Here to Give - It's FREE!" to donate a mammogram. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammograms in exchange for advertising...
(Several class members are currently wearing pink bracelets for Pam Register Murray's daughter-in-law. These bracelets were ordered from www.thebreastcancersite.com. Purchasing bracelets and other items from this site also helps in furnishing free mammograms to those who might not have health insurance or cannot afford one.)
Pink ribbons and names have been placed for our Pink Warriors - those who have dealt with breast cancer. Please send in via "Contact Us" the names of other classmates and/or classmates' family members who have been affected by this disease.
For Becky Cowart Macik-16 yr Survivor!
For Laurel Cummings-7yr Survivor!
For Angie Murray
For Shirley
Johns Moncrief
For Kay Campman
For Lucy Croasdell
For Mary Ann Duszlak White
For Dana Kontras
For Eloise "Gussie" Gushanas
For Jayne Thurmond Grant-12 yr Survivor!
For Shirley-Gary Bain's Sister-In-Law
For Bo Galloway's Mother
For Ann Pender-Ken's mom-4 yr Survivor!
For Lois Burner Youell-Mary's sis
For Nancy Moore-4 yr Survivor!
For Joan Glasgow Howell - 2 yr Survivor!
For Christy K. Donovan - 3 yr 7 mo Survivor!
Click below to link to the websites of the Class of '67 or '69:
Our 1968 Yearbook is now online!Also check out the 1968 Highlights page! If you have your picture from graduation (girls and guys), please scan and email a copy to us. Also, if ANYONE has a picture of our entire class from graduation night, please let us know via "Contact Us". We would love to have a copy so that we can post it on the website!
The profiles of classmates who married other Class of '68 classmates are now linked! Try it...it's pretty neat!
Check out the Married Classmates page!
It's not too late to send in pictures for those who haven't.
Keep them coming, and the slide show will be regularly updated!
last update: 2/19/10
Just a reminder that we still need your pictures:
graduation photos, elementary class photos, married classmate photos, military photos
To All The Kids Who Survived The
1930's
1940's
1950's
1960's
1970's
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.
Because we were always outside playing...
that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back wen the streetlights came on.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-Boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies, or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointement.
IMAGINE THAT!!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
If YOU are one of them?
CONGRATULATIONS!!s for our own good!
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at6AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars wi thout turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4.. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes< /FONT> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lineson the telephone 8. Newsreels before the movie 9.. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H greenstamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
The most destructive habit.........Worry
The greatest Joy................Giving
The greatest loss...........Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work.............Helping others
The ugliest personality trait..........Selfishness
The most endangered species..........Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource............Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm"..........Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome..........Fear
The most effective sleeping pill.........Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease..........Excuses
The most powerful force in life.............Love
The most dangerous pariah.........A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer........The brain
The worst thing to be without..... ........ Hope
The deadliest weapon........The tongue
The two most power-filled words........."I Can"
The greatest asset..............Faith
The most worthless emotion............Self-pity
The most beautiful attire..............SMILE!
The most prized possession.......... Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication........Prayer
The most contagious spirit...........Enthusiasm
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First Time Visitors
If you are new to the website please read this page as it should answer all of your questions on how to get a password, make a profile and how to use the website.
This website is maintained by the Robert E. Lee High School Class of 1968. It is completely free to our classmates. You will never be asked to pay to make a profile or to be able to access other alumni profiles.
You have the option of restricting your personal Profile to only fellow Classmates, which blocks the general public and search engines from accessing your Profile details. Once you create a Profile, you will also be able to see all Profiles of your fellow classmates and interact with them.
All contact information that you enter into this website will be kept confidential. It will not be shared or distributed. Your contact information is private: your address and phone number can't be seen by the classmates unless you grant permission on your Profile. When someone clicks on your name, the only contact information they will see is your city and state and whatever information about yourself you choose to put on your Profile. Your email address is not visible, although an email can be sent to you using the contact box at the bottom of your Profile page. Note, however, if you send a message to someone through their Profile page, the Classmate will see your email address so that they can respond.
If you have not already done so, you will need to create your individual Profile in order to access any password protected pages on this site. Start by clicking on the Classmate Profile link. This will then take you to a page with all Classmate names, including yours. Find your name and click on it. Click the link at the bottom of the page to join the site, and follow the prompts to create your Profile. The password that you enter during this process will be used as your login password. You can personalize your page with information such as what have you been up to since graduation, school memories, your family, and photos.
If you click "Remember Me" when you log in, you will not need to log in next time you go to the site. Note there is a password retrieval feature to click on: "Forgot Password?" in case you need to log in sometime and can't remember your password; the password will be sent to your email inbox. You can login from computers other than your home computer but you will need to enter your password. If you always login on the same computer, there is no reason you need to logout each time.
If you can’t find your name on the Classmate Profiles page, please contact us to have your name added. We welcome Classmates who went to school with us but did not graduate with us. If you feel more associated with this class than your own, or if you were a faculty member, we will be honored to provide you with a guest account. Contact us if you wish to obtain guest access for this site.
If you change your email address, snail mail address, or phone number, please update those in your Profile so we have your correct information at all times.
Most of all, enjoy and have fun with the website!
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More Instructions
How to upload pictures to your web page:
1. Be sure you are logged in on the home page. In the links on the left side under MEMBER FUNCTIONS, click on the link: Edit/Upload Photos.
2. The Photo page will appear and you’ll see a gray box titled: Upload New photo. Click on this box and you will be at the Add Photo page.
3. The Add Photo page gives basic instructions for uploading your photos. There are 3 places on this page to make entries.
4. Sort: The sort number controls the order in which photos display on your page. By default your pictures will appear in the order you entered them, so this isn’t important for your first picture. But later if you want picture #5 to appear as #1, you will have to change the sort numbers on your pictures. If you delete a picture, the sort numbers for the remaining pictures do not change (e.g., if you delete picture #2 out of 4 pictures, you will show pictures #1, 3, and 4.)
Caption: Caption is the description you write for your picture.
Browse: This is the most important one, for this is how you find the picture on your computer and get it to appear on your page.
5. Your first picture will automatically be Sort Number 1.
6. Now click the Browse button. A list of folders on your computer will show up. Locate the folder that holds your picture. For most classmates this will be the My Pictures folder located in the My Documents folder. When you have clicked through to your picture file, click the view button at the top to show icons as pictures. This makes it easier to find the specific picture you want to upload.
7. Select the picture you want to upload by clicking on it once, and then click Open at the bottom of the box.
8. Now you will be taken back to the Add Photo page and in the Upload Photo box you will see the path to your picture.
9. Enter the Caption for your picture in the box.
10. Click the SAVE CHANGES button.
Now go to your Profile page and look for your picture and caption.
Shortcut for multiple pictures: If you are uploading several pictures that are in different folders, you can copy them to your desktop, then delete them later. Make sure you COPY, not move, your pictures, so you won’t delete the original.
If you are still having problems, please contact us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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06/30/10
Lee Class of 68',
I encourage you to look @ www.Academy.com under their careers. The Orange Park (that will be located on Blanding Blvd.) and future Jacksonville (corner of Kernan & Atlantic Blvd.)store are still looking for good qualified associate and Team Leads. The last time I viewed their website the following were still listed:
Asset Protection Associate
Apparel Sales Associate
Camping Sales Associate
Cashier
Custodian
Fishing & Hunting Sales Associate
Footwear Sales Associate
Receiving Associate
Team Sports Sales Associate
If perhaps I'm chosen for a position in either of the two Jax stores, then I may be able to attend more activities.
Good luck to all!
Sonja Silver/Dunn
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Class of 1968:
I am trying to find out if there is a Cynthia Dean and a Deborah/Debbie Dean listed in the 1968 Yearbook. I believe that they would be either in the 9th, 10th or possibly the 11th grades in 1968.
Cynthia was a very special friend of mine and the photographs I had of her were destroyed in a house fire many years ago. I would love to see a photograph of her.
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