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Calling Mr. Lee, MR. HEAVEN LEE!: There were some dare-devils amongst us - eager to be recognized, eager to do something no one had done before, eager for GLORY! There were some who dared spectacular feats . . .
Matt Abominable Dr. Phibes Hart did the famous Human Torch.
Frank Buck Biller led a group of Pledges in painting the SAE Actives, their dates and SAE front porch instead of the Lions.
J.D. Suckling Strickland went on to live with his Mother, forever.
BUT, ONE GIANT AMONG MEN stood out, and staged the greatest feat of all. This true story bears retelling.
Jeff Locksmith Overby, a/k/a Mr. Heaven Lee!
As retold by Bozino:
Nashville night life had been opened to us by the recently changed Tennessee law lowering the drinking age to 18. It was not long before we discovered Printers’ Alley - the Nashville equivalent of New Orleans’ French Quarter.
Ok, it’s nowhere near as great as French Quarter.
At the time, there were several strip clubs in Printers’ Alley - and by strip club we are not talking Deja Vu or total nudes. No sir, probably the most skin you’d see in Printers’ Alley is if you got drunk, fell and skinned your own elbow. The strippers were more like vaudeville performers. They actually put on a real show, complete with music, lights, lavish costumes, flashy g-strings, tassels, and colorful scarves.
There was one exotic dancer who was far and above the rest, called
Heaven Lee, who danced at the Black Poodle, a joint in Printers Alley.
Buck and I (this was before Vinny's time - he pledged as a Sophomore), who had together investigated many of the establishments on Lower Broad (at that time mostly honkey tonks, peep shows, and other seedy establishments) and Printers Alley, led a contingent of Ticks to
The Black Poodle to see the Heaven Lee Show.
That is where the story would have ended, were it not for Jeff Locksmith Overby.
One evening back on campus, a rumor started that Locksmith was going to bring Heaven Lee to the ATO House for dinner. Who knew, it could happen?
That evening, there was a full house lining up to eat. As I recall,
Alex and Laura fixed their famous Lasagna with salad and garlic bread.
Sure enough, someone yells, She’s here!
And there is Jeff Overby, neatly dressed in a sportcoat and tie, entering the ATO House, escorting none other than Heaven Lee (and I think Heaven’s body guard as well). Only one rule, no photographs.
In our dreams, we thought Heaven Lee would show up in one of her costumes, but she was dressed casually in a party dress, she looked dazzling.
Overby had a look of accomplishment on his face - a top this kind of look.
Overby introduced Heaven Lee to Alex and Laura, and after Alex said the customary ATO Dinner Prayer, we all sat down to dinner.
All of the boys behaved like gentlemen
(although I had fully expected Muenchie to come running out of the shower-room, clad only in a bath towel, with his famous tongue sticking out, crowing Heaven . . . oh, Heaven!)
No, there were no stunts, fireworks or indecent exposures, the only drama was the mystifying effect Heaven Lee had on the ATO House that evening, transforming all of us into gentlemen on our best behavior.
Thanks to Locksmith for that great memory.
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Jeff Locksmith Overby also sent me an e-mail last week:
Hi Brother Bozo, I hope you are well . . . . I might be able to make it to homecoming, would you know if I could purchase two football tickets for saturday's game? and if so, can you direct me? Thanks, and I hope to see you and the other Brothers from another mother . . . jeff
Great news - we’ll take might as a yes. Looking forward to seeing you Jeff!
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1984: George Orwell, or Charles Anderson ? I received a random e-mail from a Tick-a-lor from 1984, Charles Anderson:
Larry,
Great blog!!! I check it out every month. It is good to see names of people I heard of and some I know from my time in the TIC house (79-84 yeah I loved it so much I stayed an extra year) . . Jimmy Grisset, Hoover Noonan, Steve Boyd, Tom Soudan all great guys. Taught me to play tales the hard way!! Any way great site All the best
Charles M. Anderson (Big C) class of 84 cmandersonjr@bellsouth.net
WITHOUT FURTHER TOO-DOO, BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES CHARLES ANDERSON!
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REUNION / HOMECOMING UPDATE: This is the last Blog before Reunion. So far, it looks like we’ll have 35 people attend the Dinner Saturday evening. As I told you, we have to do a head count, because last year we had a cramped space, the head count was inaccurate. The dinner will be better if we have an accurate head count. If I have you listed incorrectly (or left you out, or have the number in your party wrong) please let me know.
THE ATO CLASSY BOYS OF 1975 - YES - LIST:
BUCK BILLER fbiller1@msn.com : YES 1
MATT BLANKENSHIP mattsb@texas.net : YES 1
TISON KEEL tison.keel@hotmail.com : YES 1
JEFF OVERBY JeffOverby@aol.com : YES 1
BEN PEDIGO banjoworks@sbcglobal.net : YES 1
LARRY SIMONS Lasimons4law@aol.com : YES 1
CLARK THOMAS clark@macusers.com : YES 1
GENE YOUNG gyoung@westernwireprod.com : YES 1
OTHER HONORED TROLLS-OF-YES:
ABE BENAVIDES abraham.a.benavides@vanderbilt.edu : YES 2
FRANK COLLINS collinzes@gmail.com : YES 5
DAVID HAINES haines.david08@comcast.net : YES 2
MARK McGANN: markmcgann@prodigy.net : YES 1
JACK MUENCH trujac@sc.rr.com : YES 1
ART LANDRY awl@awlandry.net : YES 1
TOM LOVINGGOOD tlovinggood@comcast.net : YES 2
BILL WHALEN wawhalen@gmail.com : YES 1
GEORGE WELBORN gwelborn@mindspring.com : YES 1
ATO GAL-PALS - SLATED TO ATTEND:
ANN POLK SIMONS annpolksimons@gmail.com : YES 1
BETTY INGLE BACH e.bach@comcast.net : YES 1
KAREN DEGERBERG karen.degerberg@gmail.com : YES 1
BECKY DENHAM bejasy@comcast.net : YES 1
BECKY BRUNING MANYAK rmanyak@yahoo.com : YES 1
KATIE HERRINGTON nurseless1@att.net : YES 1
MARILEE JACOBS mljacobs25@hotmail.com : YES 1
ATO CLASS OF 1980 TROGLODYTES -OF-YES LIST:
MARTY HEFLIN m@m2hgroup.com : YES 1
KEITH SCHNEIDER kps428@hotmail.com : YES 3
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BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of October 5, 2010, the Blog roster stands at 104 Tick-a-lo men online who have e-mail addresses (plus 6 Brothers who do not have e-mail), and 14 ATO Gal-Pals. The blog needs e-mail addresses, please share!
VTL,
Larry Simons
Beta Pi, 72
