Bill Lewis
I regret not being able to meet with all of you at the Friday and Saturday get together. Went from ISS to the University of Virginia with Butch Leatherwood and Joe Pigford, and graduated in January, 1964. Married in February, 1964 to a lady from Charlottesville and set up family in Leeds in late February, 1964. Started work with IBM in 1966. My son Wallace 3rd, who is now a photographer with Metropolitan Museum in New York, was born in August, 1966. My daughter, Chelsea, was born in June, 1970. Chelsea has two children: Halle and Jack Henry Hendrix born in 1994 and 1998 respectively.
I left IBM in 1982 and with severely impaired brain cells started a company of my own. The time to leave a company of your own is when an employee comes in and says she has something of vital importance that needs to interrupt any day to day customer calls, service calls, bids for new jobs, money from the bank and says that she is afraid Jancie is mad at her because Janice did not say hello to her that morning. Got into real estate in 1992 and I am still in real estate today. It has been so long I forgot .... in 1983 I got divorced from Louise Haney Lewis and singled it for a while. Got married in 1987 to Mary Susan Martin from Selma who had two children from her first marriage, Allison and Julie. Julie graduated from UVA law and was before 9/11, in the World Trade Center. All the step children and children are in Birmingham except for Wallace in New York.
Some memories: Could Billy Slaughter beat the hell out of a dinner bell on a lectern or what??? Only with Slaughter would all of us continue to rail on while the small bell could hardly be heard: or yes and then Boggs asked us with a stutter to vote for him in something...Dick Baldwin used to sit in his room with a wristwatch with a sweep second hand and time it so he would walk in the class door as the bell was ringing...I saw Allen Williams hypnotize Jordan McDavid and then tell him the ink jar he handed him was a radio and what were they playing?...How did Dr Sipe get picked as the one to actually tell us about hygiene and what to wash? Wouldn't you like to have been in the meeting and heard the discussions about this subject from Big Doc and who should teach this. I do no not think Mac Flemming could have kept a straight face.... T. Lane and I slipped off one night to play fraternity basketball and that was when he blew through a barbed wire fence that he still probably carries scars to prove... No school ever had anyone named Nursie...Boggs actually asked me to climb up a tree behind the infirmary and look at a Bryan lady...I couldn't figure it out since I got to see her everyday in the dining hall...And the final one that blows me away is that in 1973 I got a package from a college student in Missouri and he had sent me an ISS graduation ring with my initials in it that he had found in the lake at the bottom of the dam. So I have two graduation rings.