Simpson Sportsmanship Award winners share ‘Panther Tales’

The legacy of Lawrence (“Bucky”) Simpson, a Timber Lake High School athlete who died following a car crash on his graduation night in 1959, was the focus of a program at the Timber Lake Museum on July 27.

Each year for 20 years following his death, a TLHS athlete was chosen by the Lettermen’s Club to receive the Bucky Simpson Memorial Sportsmanship Award. At the “Panther Tales” program, six of the …