Sandy Hausman reports Ty Seidule now teaches at Hamilton College, where he's free to share what he's learned about Robert E. Lee. At West Point, that was not the case. Credit Macmillan Books As a kid, Ty Seidule aspired to be a Southern gentleman like Robert E. Lee. His school text books were filled with praise, and wherever he went in Virginia Lee was a hero. “I was bused across town in Alexandria from the white elementary school to the segregated all black school," he recalls, "and what was the name of that school? Robert E. Lee Elementary, named in 1961.”