Susan B. 
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Re: “A Man in Full: Jim Leeson, 1930-2010”

Jim's legacy will loom large in the history of VSC & the classic years of the Sarratt Tunnel before it was "sanitized" by the University. Jim would never have stood for what they did to VSC. Afterall, he was Jim.

Jim was a mentor to many! He gave life lessons that one would never expect to glean at college, but those life lessons proved most useful in a post Vanderbilt world...more useful than ANYTHING taught in a Vanderbilt classroom

Jim & I laughed & cried, yelled & screamed, but most of all respected each other, even after we had a falling out. Two weeks ago while mowing the lawn, Jim popped into my mind. Maybe he was saying goodbye.

I just wrote to a fellow Tunnel Rat & said something really corny, but it is true. Maybe Jim's death is meant to keep his "kids" together or at least in contact with one another. We are spread throughout the world. ... The distances may be far, & the time passed long, but the Tunnel loyalties are still so strong!

Jim allowed Dawn Sutton (Versus Business Manager) & me, along with our classmates, to film our assignment for Bob Baldwin's film class on the farm. It was a western, "Malibu Slim". Jim gave our leading man a quick horseback riding lesson, and provided a blanket & a warm, dry truck after our script called for Dawn to be pushed into a wet, cold creek. In true Jim style, lunch & moral support were also provided.

That's just the kind of guy Jim was. That was Leeson!

Susan Bouvier, 1984 Commodore Editor

Posted by Susan B. on 05/07/2010 at 6:39 PM

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