Tenniswood/S. River

Art Room

So who is that guy at school who teaches my kids about art? 

The "Mr. Lees Life Story"

Graduated from South Lake High in 1972. (okay, that dates me)

Attended Eastern Michigan Universty majoring in painting and, of course, earning a teaching certificate.  Graduated in December 1976 and began teaching at L'Anse Creuse in September of 1977.   (Also earned a Masters Degree in Art Education, 1988.)  Laid off in 1982 and spent 2 1/2 years toiling at the Stroh Brewery in Detroit. ( For those of you who are very young, yes, there was once a major brewery in Detroit). Returned to L'Anse Creuse in 1985 and have been here ever since.  I am still a painter in my spare time and have exhibited my work at the Michigan Annual, an exhibit at The Art Center in Mt. Clemens and at the Michigan Education Association offices in Lansing, where one of my pieces is in their permanent collection.   I am married with two grown children and a cat.  My daughter, Heidi, is married and has given my wife and I our first grandchild, Molly.  My son, Alex, is to be married this coming June.