Lee Thomas SIMS

12 Mar 1899 - 27 Jan 1978

• OCCUPATION: Principal
  
• BIRTH: 12 Mar 1899, Bottineau, Bottineau, ND [1]
• DEATH: 27 Jan 1978, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA [2]

• MARRIAGE: 15 Jun 1924, Corvallis, Benton, OR

1.  Barbara Lee SIMS

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[3] Lee Thomas SIMS
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Monday 30 January 1978 Santa Cruz Sentinel, pages 1 and 10
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Lee T. Sims, Former Santa Cruz High School Principal, Dies
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    Lee Thomas Sims, former principal of Santa Cruz High School for 16 years, died Friday in a local hospital.
    A native of Bottineau, N.D., the highly regarded educator received his degree from Oregon State University.
    While a high school senior, Sims quit school and joined the Army, seeing 14 months duty in France.
    He was active in track and set a Pacific Coast record for the half-mile while in college. Sims was president of his fraternity and of the school letterman association.
    In 1923 he came to California and taught school at LaGrande. Also that year, he became vice principal in Lompoc and coached the basketball team. His teams twice reached the C.I.F. championship finals. His first principalship was
in 1929 at Clarksburg near Sacramento, where he remained until 1942. He came to Santa Cruz in 1943.
    A strong believer in athletics, Sims in the early 1970s was commissioner of the Central Coast section of the California Interscholastic Federation, one of its largest divisions. Sims was named secretary-commissioner of the
Cental Coast Athletic League (a predecessor to the Monterey Bay and Mission Trails Athletic Leagues) succeeding Burt Talcott. He was president of that league.
    Sims was a member of American Legion Post 64 of Santa Cruz; Retired Teachers Assn; past president, American Red Cross; past president of the Santa Cruz Rotary Club; Phi Delta Kappa; Woodburn Masonic Lodge of Woodburn, Ore.; past
patron, Santa Cruz chapter 273, O.E.S. In all, Sims was involved in education for 36 years.
    He is survived by his wife, LaVerne Sims of Santa Cruz; a daughter, Barbara O'Hara of Pittsburg, Calif.; two grandchildren; three brothers, Alva Sims of Medford, Ore., A.R. Sims of Butte, Mont., and Harry Sims of Oregon; and
three sisters, Jessie Butterfield of Paulsbo, Wash., Opal Massey of Butte, and Wava Adams of Seattle.
    Services were today at White's chapel with the Rev. Don Munro Jr., of Untited Presbyterian Church of Felton officiating.
    Interment will be in Oakwood Memorial Park.
    Contributions to the Santa Cruz High School Scholarship Fund are preferred.
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Source:
Monday 30 January 1978 Santa Cruz Sentinel, pages 1 and 10
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[1] [SOURCE] World Connect Site; UserID=:1326284; mary.shiffer@verizon.net;
Mary Sims Shiffer; 25 Aug 2001

[2] [SOURCE] SSDI; SS# 567-66-2571, issued in CA