{"id":1644,"date":"2012-09-26T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2012-09-26T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:46:29","slug":"lee-42-to-be-honored-this-weekend-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2012\/09\/26\/lee-42-to-be-honored-this-weekend-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee &#8217;42 To Be Honored This Weekend in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1646\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/LeeMug.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1646\" title=\"LeeMug\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/LeeMug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; in the service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Scott Morrison &#8217;14<\/em> &#8211; Every once in a while an extraordinary story resurfaces from the past.\u00a0 Wabash men for over 100 years have gone into the world to make amazing impacts in both good times and bad.\u00a0 Leslie Lee \u201942 found himself on campus in one of the most trying times in human history \u2013 World War II.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/Ladoga.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1647\" title=\"Ladoga\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/Ladoga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; growing up at Ladoga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee grew up in Indiana on his family farm with four brothers who all attended Wabash and two sisters.\u00a0 After graduation, Lee planned to study plant pathology at Cornell.\u00a0 However, with the war in Europe and the Pacific raging on, he was drafted into the Army and sent to Greenland.\u00a0 The Army trained Lee to be a medical technologist in charge of laboratories.\u00a0 He crossed the beach at Normandy and set up and ran medical laboratories for thousand bed hospitals in Paris and Berlin as they were being liberated.\u00a0 He received a Croix de Guerre from the French government, married his French wife, and returned to the states at the time of the Berlin Airlift in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, Lee went to Illinois where he ran laboratories for a number of doctors and a few hospitals.\u00a0 In 1958 he became lab manager for the Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando, Florida where he stayed for 21 years.\u00a0 He became president of the Florida Division of the American Society of Medical Technologists and later repaired and wrote <em>Elementary Principles of Instruments<\/em> which aided in teaching how to use medical instruments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1648\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/recent.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1648\" title=\"recent\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/recent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; a recent photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee will be flown to Washington, D.C. September 29 as part of the Volusia Honor Air Program.\u00a0 The program\u2019s purpose is to recognize the service of veterans from \u201cthe greatest generation.\u201d Almost 60 years after World War II, sometimes we forget those great heroes.\u00a0 The day should serve as a special time for Lee to be honored with fellow military brethren.\u00a0 Leslie Lee is certainly some Little Giant and an exemplar of the Wabash spirit of courage, hard work, and honor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison &#8217;14 &#8211; Every once in a while an extraordinary story resurfaces from the past.\u00a0 Wabash men for over 100 years have gone into the world to make amazing impacts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/LeeMug.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}