Hello, Lewis! First of all, I am sorry to read about your wife's death. I haven't known much about what happened to you since the middle '60s. And I happened to google Eugene Steinquest(why, I don't know)and found your blog entry about him! My favorite memory of him was the year we formed a giant swatter on the field and played "Spanish Flea!" You weren't in the band then, that's for sure.
I'm pretty sure you won't remember me, but I was at Tech from 1963-68, and I remember you came back to school one summer. I guess you were already teaching by then. I thought you were a graduate student, but maybe not. The very fact that your last name was Butler was what made me speak to you in the first place, because that is my Stepfather's name. We would sit in the lounge in the Music Department(who didn't?). I told you about my mother taking a teaching job and you told me something I never forgot. My youngest brother must have been 6 or 7. You said that life would not be the same for my younger brothers and sisters because Mother would meet lots of kids that she considered worse off than her own and if she wasn't careful she would feel sorrier for them and pay them more attention than her own. And you were right, of course.
Anyway, that's all water under the bridge, but I just thought I would let you know what you said was true.
THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND MEMORIES. I CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL EVEN WITH ALL THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, THAT I HAVE BEEN THE LUCKIEST DOG PULLING THE SLED.
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Lewis Butler, AT Consultant
Tn Dept of Education
Hello, Lewis! First of all, I am sorry to read about your wife's death. I haven't known much about what happened to you since the middle '60s. And I happened to google Eugene Steinquest(why, I don't know)and found your blog entry about him! My favorite memory of him was the year we formed a giant swatter on the field and played "Spanish Flea!" You weren't in the band then, that's for sure.
I'm pretty sure you won't remember me, but I was at Tech from 1963-68, and I remember you came back to school one summer. I guess you were already teaching by then. I thought you were a graduate student, but maybe not. The very fact that your last name was Butler was what made me speak to you in the first place, because that is my Stepfather's name.
We would sit in the lounge in the Music Department(who didn't?). I told you about my mother taking a teaching job and you told me something I never forgot. My youngest brother must have been 6 or 7. You said that life would not be the same for my younger brothers and sisters because Mother would meet lots of kids that she considered worse off than her own and if she wasn't careful she would feel sorrier for them and pay them more attention than her own. And you were right, of course.
Anyway, that's all water under the bridge, but I just thought I would let you know what you said was true.
Susie Sheppard,
now Susan S. Hedges
THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND MEMORIES. I CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL EVEN WITH ALL THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, THAT I HAVE BEEN THE LUCKIEST DOG PULLING THE SLED.
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