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Wanda Orton
A tale of two lakes in Chambers County
This is a quiz.
Who was Lake Miller named after in Chambers County?
March 20, 2010
A bit of St. Patrick’s Day history
Calling all descendants of Humphrey Jackson.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to ye!
March 17, 2010
San Jacinto is home to the Irish
The name McCormick instantly pops up on the list of Irish-Texan names you should remember as we near celebrations for St. Patrick's Day and San Jacinto Day.
March 13, 2010
Don’t know any Oscar winners any more
I never saw any of those movies connected with Oscar awards Sunday night.
March 10, 2010
Matchmaking at Lee College
Lee College drama instructor Lynn O'Hagan had no idea that her casting decisions for the 1953 production of "The Curious Savage" would lead to matrimony.
March 06, 2010
Celebration stirs thoughts of professors at Lee Co
The 75th anniversary of Lee College stirs memories for a multitude of former students.
March 03, 2010
Fans loved the Blue Devils
The Lee College basketball team was originally known as the Blue Devils, and the fans loved watching them play.
February 27, 2010
Log onto Lee Log, 1940
Before me is a copy of the 1940 Lee Log, the yearbook of Lee College.
February 24, 2010
Role model for teachers
Alice Swain’s recent attendance at a Delta Kappa Gamma meeting delighted members of the professional honor society for women educators.
February 20, 2010
The unsinkable Maud Sterling
With this year marking the 90th anniversary of the startup of the Baytown Refinery, I’ve been reading all I can find about Gov. Ross S. Sterling. As often the case, research veers into a different direction.
February 17, 2010
Back in junior high days
After all the feedback from the “Remembering Baytown Elementary” column, I’ve decided to kick it up a notch today and remember Baytown Junior High.
February 15, 2010
A penny for your burger
Former deejay Bill “Rascal” McCaskill, who reminisced recently in this column about KREL on Decker Drive, thought of another incident at the radio station.
February 10, 2010
Jane scooped famous cheerleader mom story
Among my souvenirs, squeezed between scrapbooks and old newspapers, stacked on a closet shelf, is the Sept. 23, 1991, issue of “People” magazine.
February 09, 2010
All’s not always fair
While a 1943 magazine article on how to hire and treat women workers was laughable, as related in a recent discussion here, discrimination is no laughing matter.
February 03, 2010
Rascal remembers days of radio
Ever wonder what the most popular disc jockey in Baytown history – that would be Bill “Rascal” McCaskill at Radio Station KREL in the Fifties – thinks about today’s music.
January 30, 2010
Women at work in ’43
A July 1943 article about women in the work force, written for Transportation Magazine and widely circulated in this century on the Internet, didn’t shock me as much as it did my younger friends.
January 27, 2010
Remembering Baytown Elementary
Baytown Elementary School stood on the edge of the Company Addition, an orderly collection of homes for Baytown Refinery families, and the campus was a close neighbor to the Humble Community House.
January 23, 2010
People love that old tree
In December 1950 Baytown City Council voted to end a longtime debate and, once and for all, get rid of the old oak tree on Texas Avenue.
January 20, 2010
Out on a limb
There’s one sport, however, in which I did excel, but it never was included in the physical education curriculum. Tree-climbing.
January 13, 2010
It’s not so easy as pie
Being a bit under the weather during the holidays, I did more reading over a hot stove than cooking.
January 06, 2010
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