Below is a wonderful e-mail RE: the history information on our website as well as information on a local soldier who was killed in Vietnam. (His mother was a school teacher; Roger Belveal was one of her students.)I think your students' project, "Through Our Eyes: The Stories of Lebanon's Fallen Vietnam Soldiers," was absolutely wonderful and touching and has clearly sparked interest and appreciation for fallen soldiers p'raps otherwise forgotten.
Thank you for being the wonderful teachers that you are!
Marta Neilson
Documents TechnicianLebanon Community Schools
Phone: 541-259-8920
e-mail: marta_neilson@lebanon.k12.or.usWebsite: www.lebanon.k12.or.us-----
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*******************************************************************************Name: Roger BelvealEmail: re@belveal.comSubmit: SubmitMessage:Hello, On the LUHS Alumni Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LebanonUnionHigh/message/43043 Celeste Wheeler gave us the link to the history section of the school web site about Sandridge http://www.lebanon.k12.or.us/history/history_sdr.htm mentioning Larry Jay Wheeler.
It happens that Larry Jay Wheeler’s mother Alice was my first school teacher and one of the kindest dearest ladies I’ve ever known. She taught for many years at McDowell Creek school which is also mentioned in your history section. Your site shows it open until 1950 with a question mark. I attended first grade there in the fall of 1966. Mrs. Alice Wheeler taught first and second grades together in the one school room. I remember well her telling us about her son, Jay, who had joined the army. She was extremely proud of him. She told us the story of sending him cookies which the sergeant made him open and share with the rest of the platoon so they wouldn’t be in his barracks attracting pests. One day he visited our class wearing his olive green uniform. He was very shy even before a class of first and second graders. She proudly introduced him. It was just a few months later that I remember the newspaper article about his death just before he was to come home for his wedding. --
Re: [LUHS] Larry Jay Wheeler, 6/12/1946-8/12/1969
Larry Wheeler, 23, Tangent, was killed in Vietnam as the result of hostile action, the U.S. Army said Saturday. Wheeler was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Wheeler, Rt. 1 Box 197, Tangent. Wheeler attended Western Mennonite High School near Salem. He also attended George Fox College, Newberg, for three years and Oregon State University in Corvallis for one year. He was due to return to the United States in early September and was engaged to Kathleen Garner of Albany.Invitations to the 14 Sep (1969) wedding had already been made up when word was receivedof Wheeler's death. (Sunday Oregonian, Portland OR, 17 Aug 1969)>on panel 19W of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.>>http://www.lebanon.k12.or.us/history/history_sdr.htm--
A couple of years ago I took a consulting job in DC. His name was the first one that I looked for on wall of the Vietnam Memorial. I arrived late in the evening. It was still winter and I had no flashlight. By following the reflection of the moon against the smooth black granite I found the name of Larry Jay Wheeler. And I remembered.
Thanks for including the history of the schools on this website.
Roger Belveal LUHS 78
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