Yearbooks as time capsules and prized keepsakes
Former Sun editor Wanda Orton reflects on the value of high school annuals from Robert E. Lee High School. She recalls missing yearbooks, notes the plans for a 2007 reunion, and highlights how yearbooks preserve names, faces, culture, and community history while offering enduring sentimental and historical value.
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Robert E. Lee High School
Lee
Winnie Brown
REL
Olive Pruett
Wanda Orton
Sun
Fredericksburg
History and decline of Baytown Brunson Theater
A Lee College student Amanda Dillard analyzes the Brunson Theater in Baytown, tracing the rise of movie palaces from Regent Theater in 1913 to the shift toward multi screen venues, and the social changes that diminished cinema innocence. The piece notes early film evolution, Saturday matinees, and the theater’s place in small town life before ending with a cue to continue on page 2.
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Lee College
Amanda Dillard
Brunson Theater
Texas Avenue
New York City
Regent Theater
Rudolph Valentino
the Sheik
Captain Rhett Butler
Scarlet O’ Hara
Brunson
Baytown
Thomas Edison
Robert Sklar
Edison
America
Baytown Nature Center Journal bird list and sightings
The Baytown Nature Center Journal lists birds such as double-crested cormorant neotropic cormorant anhinga and great blue heron. It notes shorebird migration activity with greater yellowlegs western sandpipers and spotted sandpipers and mentions six young black-bellied whistling-ducks on Wooster Pond along Arkokisa Trail. A great blue heron was photographed in a tree on Arkokisa Trail and several orchard orioles were seen in the treetops. The first anhinga of the season appeared at Heron Haven.
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Baytown Nature Center
Dwayne Litteer
Ron Ummel
Baytown
Wooster Pond
Arkokisa
Heron Haven
Instrumentation grad builds Gulf career with Shell and Mars TLP
Holly Augustin, Lee College instrumentation program graduate, now works as an instrument technician for Shell Exploration and Production. Her duties on offshore oil platforms include monitoring and maintaining systems that control pressure, temperature, level and flow using chemical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, electronic and networking tech. A mentor at Lee College, instructor Richard Tunstall helped her pursue the field, which she describes as essential to industrial processes. See college page 28.
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Holly Augustin
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Lee College
Holly
Augustin
Baytown
Sterling High School
Richard Tunstall
Tunstall
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