The Elaine Ledbetter Page
Elaine is now online--email
her!-click
elaine@pampa.com
Created for Elaine, with love
and admiration, from R. Malcolm Brown, Jr.
( Rainbow
page added October 7, 1998! see link below)
Jefrey Pine on Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park
(photo by Elaine Ledbetter)
Yosemite
by
Elaine Ledbetter
from the book, "Triumphant
Moment"
Majestic mountains rising sheer and high
Above soft, green valleys far below;
Lofty redwoods towering toward the sky
That seem to speak with God in accents low;
Mighty torrents rushing swiftly down,
The placid Mirror Lake reflecting blue;
Huge and massive Half Dome, the valley's crown,
And Glacier Point with its incomparable view.
God made all our parks quite grand to see,
But He saved the best to make Yosemite!
On this page you will find
music, exquisite
photography, beautiful poetry,
and meaningful writings from Elaine Ledbetter's collections.
Want to learn more about
this remarkable person?
Scroll down!
Message from Malcolm
I
hope that you will enjoy this webpage. For many months, I have had the
idea to create a webpage for my former teacher, Elaine Ledbetter. She is
someone very special to me. Elaine is very well known to the citizens of
Pampa. She also has gained a national reputation among the Nation's high
school science teachers. What most people do not know about Elaine
is that she is a truly inspirational poet and a wonderful photographer!
While she has published some of her poems in limited, small editions, much
of it remains unpublished. Elaine has given me permission and encouragement
to place all of her materials on the Internet for the world to see.
Magnificent photographs of 'Ansel Adams quality' have been
taken by Elaine, and this site is the opportunity to show the entire world
the unselfish gifts of this very talented person. Elaine Ledbetter
is a hidden jewel! (at least up until the present!)
Now for those of you who have never met Elaine Ledbetter,
please browse through her collections of truly magnificient poetry, photography,
and listen to the associated music which I have either composed myself
or played on my Roland
KR-1070 digital electronic grand piano. By the way, a good way to use
your browser to play these songs is to install Yamaha's MidPlug.
You can get it free on the Internet. Just Click HERE!
I hope that you will have a memorable experience from this "surfing". This
is a rather large site. You will not finish in one evening. Please return
and enjoy the delicious "morsels" placed here through the generosity of
Elaine Ledbetter, a model teacher, philosopher, fellow scientist, poet,
writer, and photographer. If you have any questions or comments, please
feel free to email me by clicking HERE.
Elaine would certainly like to hear from former
students, friends, or just anyone who has surfed through these pages and
found something inspiring, interesting, or worthwhile for a comment. You
may write to Elaine Ledbetter at: 2111 Mary Ellen
Street, Pampa, Texas 79065.
For those of you who would like to know a little
more about Pampa, Texas, I suggest that you click HERE.
I would like also to express my appreciation to Doug Locke of Pampa, Texas
who so kindly took a laptop out to Elaine's home and showed her the early
version of this page. Doug has a very fine Internet
Provider Service in Pampa. Last but not least, I want to thank all
of my former teachers in Pampa. This was a most unusal place which had
a unique and very progressive education system for its citizens. I was
just lucky to have lived in this fine town and be able to partake of what
I have come to realize was a very excellent education. Pampa is continuing
in this tradition in its public school system, thanks to the fine leadership
of its Superintendent, Dr.
Dawson Orr.
As an added note, we intend to get Elaine back on
her computer and outfitted with an email address. As soon as it becomes
available, I will post it here on her webpage.
And now, I would like to take this opportunity to
thank Miranda Bailey of the Pampa
News for an article
on this project which appeared in the September 24th issue of that
newspaper. Having news about one's home online is a fantastic way to keep
up with one's community. I commend the Pampa
News Online for its comprehensive, accurate, local news service.
Keep up the good work! Take a look at the bottom of this page to
see the formal "dedication" of my webpage to Elaine when I
drove from Austin to Pampa, Texas on September 19, 1998.
I am truly proud to have the honor to visit Pampa
and always look forward to these visits! Pampa,
Texas USA is a great place to have been raised, and hopefully
the present youth can learn from us "old foggies" who have
been through it all and still realize just how important the community
is to the early stages of one's growing-up experience. Enjoy! - and
by the way....... "Hook-em
Harvesters" (and Horns!)
Help!
Elaine Needs a copy of her textbook
November 10, 1998. Elaine has asked me to post
this notice! She needs a copy of her 1977 Edition of "Keys to Chemistry"
textbook to be placed in the archives. This book is now out of print and
is no longer available. It was published by Addison Wesley. The authors
are Elaine Ledbetter and Jay Young. If you were a former student of Elaine's,
take a look in your attic to see if you have a copy you could donate to
this worthy cause! You may write to Elaine at 2111 Mary Ellen, Pampa, Texas
79065, or you can email her at: elaine@pampa.com
Who is Elaine Ledbetter?
(click on the thumbnail
to enter)
Elaine
would love to hear from you!
Please write to her at:
2111 Mary Ellen
Pampa, Texas 79065
Called To Teach: The Story
of My Life
(click on the thumbnail to enter)
Reflections of a
Retired Science Teacher
(click on the thumbnail to enter)
The Poetry Page
(click on the thumbnails
to enter)
The Photography Page
(click on the thumbnail
to enter)
The Year of IMPACT
(click on the thumbnail
to enter)
Keys To Chemistry
(click on the thumbnail
to enter)
New!
The "Rainbow Page"
(click on the thumbnail above
to see 5 photos (no larger than 30k each) taken on September 19, the day
I visited Elaine in Pampa, Texas, and also the day we saw a complete double
rainbow from her front yard!
September 19, 1998, the day I drove to Pampa and
presented Elaine with her webpage! Here I am going
over the webpage on a laptop. Miranda Bailey
of the Pampa News is interviewing us. This was
a truly memorable day which ended with a beautiful,
full, double rainbow the afternoon we completed our work!
Notice: All
photos, exerpts from books, poems, and other written materials have been
placed on this webpage with the express permission of Elaine Ledbetter.
Most of this material, including the music, is copyrighted, and to be reproduced
for anything other than your private, individual viewing, you need to obtain
permission from the authors.
Last Modified: December 09, 1998
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