With Lee's Personalities Penny Finds in Baytown Walkway
A narrator spends eleven cents and thirty five minutes examining how varied Baytown residents react to a lone penny. Prominent banker squats to pocket it, a disheveled woman shuns it, a boy retrieves it from ooze, a cop pockets a warped coin, teens collide chasing it, a showy woman fumbles for it, a flirtatious couple ignores it, an old man with a cane finally spots it, and the observer ends by taking the last coin home.
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Baytown
Betty Grable
Edwin Atteberry Jr. recounts Korea era service and music
Baytown native Edwin E. Atteberry Jr. recalls his time in Korea with the Seventh Infantry Division. He played trumpet in the division band after switching from baritone, later rejoining the Texas State Guard postwar and pursuing music studies at Lee College while awaiting future plans amid a changing world.
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Hodge
Korea
Acros
Edwin E. Atteberry Jr
Edwin
Baytown
Goose Creek
David G. Burnett
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Huntsville
Texas
E. E. Atteberry Sr
Texas State Guard
State Guard
Atteberry
State Guards
Dad
Cpl
Hokkaido Island
Japan
Camp Crawford
Makomanai
Fuji
General Dean
Dean
G. I’s
Sapporo
Lee College
BSU to Hear Rev J J Slone and Chunn on BSU in Junior Colleges
Miss Minnie Alice Robertson announced BSU speaker Rev J J Slone and Prentis W Chunn Jr worker in BSU Bible Chair centers will discuss BSU presence in junior colleges at Lee College at 1 p.m. Wednesday April 1. A luncheon for BSU members will follow at 12 p.m. at Miss Robertson’s Ohio home.
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BSU
J. J. Slone Prentis W. Chunn, Jr
Lee College
Minnie Alice Robertson
Chunn
Miss Robertson
Ohio
LC student recalls narrow escapes during 1942 sinking
A ParisminI crew member recounts serving in Iceland in November 1942, three sinkings, torpedo strike amid convoy duty, rescue lifeboats, and surviving with 22 of 65 men. He details explosions, depth charges, and a dramatic fall into the sea as the damaged ship sank.
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U. S
Iceland
Europe
States
Savea
Research Papers Continued Reflections From The Library
June Lewis speaks on the challenge of choosing a topic for term papers and the educational value. Freda Jones notes they are not potent. Raleegh Gore chooses cross breeding cattle as his subject. Miss Stern frowns at the idea while others’ opinions remain mostly unheard.
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June Lewis
Freda Jones
Raleegh Gore
Miss Stern
Survivors praise lifeboat voyage after heavy seas
The crew recount a perilous night at sea as heavy seas prevented pushing the lifeboat away. The stern plunged from the ship causing near disaster while men cried for help. Three were pulled aboard, but none other could be saved before HMS Perth recovered the survivors and served hot rum laced coffee.
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Lee
Penny
Merrill Carter
Huck Finn
By Arnold Lars
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