Our Classmates
Profile Update Guidelines
These are the steps to update your personal profile:
- For the "Comment" section or for the "How has your life changed since graduation?" section, draft the text you want to appear and email it to tmseale@mac.com.
- I will make your requested change(s), including adding or replacing your "Now" picture, if one is attached.
- Updates to "Birth Date," "Email address," "U.S. Mail address," and "Telephone numbers," will no longer be possible, as they no longer appear in our personal profiles. That said, I will provide this information upon request (assuming it is current in our email database, i.e., "Class Roster"), once the classmate to be contacted approves.
- Some profiles still display the "Contact Me" feature. AI kept this feature for Classmates who previously included their email address. Classmates who want to update their email address or add it for the first time, can send me a note with the request to do so and I’ll make the change.
SMITH, Ral
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 7 |
| Occupation: | retired real estate broker |
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Comment:
Attended West Riverside Elementary 5th & 6th grades, John Gorrie Junior High 7th grade then moved to Charleston, SC & attended St. Andrews High School and The College of Charleston. Had I not moved, I would have attended Lee High School and graduated with this class. Catherine Sears & Susan Egner tracked me down & were kind enough to invite me to the reunion. |
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How has your life changed since graduation?:
Spent 38 years in real estate & construction before retiring in 2007. Married Nancy Webster Smith in 1996 & we have 7 children and 12 grandchildren combined. Now retired, I enjoy fishing, hunting, golfing, boating, skiing, and traveling. |
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SMITH, Theron David
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Director Technology Innovations |
| Comment: Still have family in Florida. Recently stayed at Jax Beach and was surprised about the quality of growth in Ponte Vedra and the beaches. Been in NC since 1983. Youngest daughter graduated recently from Chapel Hill. | |
| How has your life changed since graduation?: Education and Intelligence Studies. Currently working with NCCCS, Methodist university, and Fayetteville State university (UNCFSU) | |
Solesby (PROSSER), Judith
Last updated 5 months ago
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Speakman (COATES), Dorothy Elizabeth
Last updated 5 months ago
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SPEARS, Claudos Grovie "Claude"
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| How has your life changed since graduation?: Married to Penny Wintz (‘62) since 1966. Possibly longest married couple from 1962 Lee HS class. Graduated from UF. Served 3 years in the Army, to include Vietnam; Lieutenant; Bronze Star. Graduated from Stetson Law School. Specialty: commercial real estate (1972-2023). Retired to North Georgia mountains (Young Harris). | |
Spears (WINTZ), Penelope "Penny"
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
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How has your life changed since graduation?:
Graduated as a Seminole from FSU. Married my best friend in high school, Claude Spears, a UF graduate. He served in the Army, where he was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam. Upon his return, we moved to St. Pete where Claude graduated from Stetson Law School and I began my teaching career. We raised two children in the St. Pete area. Eventually one became a Seminole and the other a Gator. Just like their parents. Claude set up his law practice and I taught high school until we retired to the Georgia mountains. We have been “mountain people” for close to twenty years. We live near our two children and four grandkids who reside in the Carolinas. It’s been a wonderful life. |
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SPENCER IV, John Henry (Hank)
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 7 |
| Occupation: | Plumbing Estimator |
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How has your life changed since graduation?:
From 1964 to 1985 I was in the music business as well as plumbing. 1974 to 1985 music was full time. 1985 til now plumbing is full time. We were all about 3 years ahead of some members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who went to Lee. The last group I played with was called The Whiskey River Band. We were well Known in North Fla. and south Ga. We performed in concert with groups such as Alabama, Lee Greenwood, The Judds, Mel McDaniel, Shelly West, Dan Seals, Bertie Higgins, Steve Weriner, Sawyer Brown, Ace Cannon, David Allen Coe, and Bill Monroe, to name a few. I was inspired to play music by Jack Wade whose band played at our senior prom. He had a band named the Yo Yo's who were later Mouse and the Boys and Brass. |
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SPENCER, Jr., Lewis F.
Last updated 5 months ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | Flight Instructor |
| Comment: Everyday is the first day of the rest of my life and is a GREAT day! | |
| How has your life changed since graduation?: Started out slow at Robert E. Lee. Young, with no direction. Joined the Army right out of high school. Retired from the Army in 1984 (22 years), then worked for the US Government as a civilian for 23 more years and finally retired in 2007. Received my BA in 1986 and my MBA in 1989, then taught for Athens State University until 2007. I then started teaching flight training for Private Pilot through Airline Transport Pilot. Now I just enjoy teaching young students to fly and living each day as the first day of the rest of my life. | |
Spikes (ALLEN), Nunna
Last updated 5 months ago
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