Storytellers - Joe Edward Morris, Ph.D
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Storytellers - Joe Edward Morris, Ph.D
TUPELO CLUB MEMBERSHIP KEY: 1-Past President; 2-Past Secretary; 3-Past Treasurer; 4-Past District Governor; 5-Paul Harris Fellow; 6-Honorary Member; 7-Benefactor; 8-Sustaining Rotary Foundation Member; 9-Paul Harris Society; 10-Bequest Society; 11-Major Rotary Foundation Donor NEWEST MEMBERS: Chesnut, Bob Goss, Fhonda Plunkett, Harold ................ 5,8 Addison, Michael Alderman, Chuck 8 Armistead, William 1,2,5,8 Ashby, Ron 5,8 Bandre, Jesse 1,4,5,7,8,11 Bank, Alan 5,8 Bebout, Scott 1,2,5,8 Blackmon, Dwayne 5,8 Blackmon, Frankie 3,5,8 Blanton, Len 5,8 Booth, Tom 8 Brasfield, Dan 5,8 Brock, Cliff 1,3,5,8 Bullard, Terry 5 Bullock, Tammy 8 Burchfield, Randy 5,8 Burleson, Mark 5,8 Burrus, Swan 8 Busby, Tami 8 Carr, Phillip 5,8 Castles, John Chesnut, Bob 1,5,8 Clayborne, Mike 5,8 Condit, Brian 5,8 Currie, Mike 5,8 Davenport, Howard 8 Delgadillo, Albert Denton, Jim 1,5,8 Diffee, Jim 8 Dodge, Bobby 8 Dodge, Henry 5,8 Doles, Barbara 1,5 Ellett, Mitch 8 Faucette, Rick 1,5 Ferguson, Casey Foster, Clay 5,8 Gaines, Bobby Gaines, Tony Geddie, Karen 1,5,8 Geddie, Rowland 5,8 Goad, Gunner 1,2,5,8 Goodwin, Julianne Goss, Fhonda 5 Greer, Charlie 8 Guyton, Dick Hammond, Trent Harris, Ashley 5,8 Hastings, Richard 5,8 Hilbun, Benton Jr. 5,8 Hilbun, Benton Sr. 8 Hill, J. Edward 5,8 Hill, John 8 Hinton, Mark 1,3,5,8 Hodges, Harold IN MEMORY We remember our deceased Paul Harris Fellows Todd Agnew Pete Albritton Charlie Aycock Tom Bell Felix Black Walter Bourland Tal Braddock Fred Bush Gail Carr Bill Dunlap Edward D. Foster Homer Horton Jinx Joyner Wade Lagrone Fred E. Massey Jack McGill George A. McLean Luther Millsaps Ken Nail Sr. St. Elmo Newton Claude Poland Marty Ramage Larry Ray Bill Reed Frank Riley George Ruff Bob Schreiner Gail Scoville Wick Sparks Jack Stacy Jim Strain Antone Tannehill P.K. Thomas Jr. Tom Vaughn Joe Whiteside Harold Wies Ed Younk FRIENDS Non-Member Paul Harris Fellows (#-Deceased; +-Benefactor) Anita Alton Eldridge Eugene Asbury Cinnie Aycock Edwinta Albritton Avery Bank Hillary Bank Marilynne Bank Ruth Baxter Brenda Bebout Amy Blackmon Bonnie Blackmon Tommie Bourland David Brevard Mid Brock Marianne Burrus Cathy Butler # Evelyn Carroll Betty Castles Grace Clark Johnie Cooks Evelyn Croxton Mary Shetle Currie Nancy Diffee Ric Diffee Scott Doles Harriet Ellett Jim Goodwin Vaughn Grisham Carlyle “Smitty” Harris Dana Hartley Eliza Herring Merritt Lee Herring Skylar Herring 1,2,5,8 5,8 8 5,8 8 1,5,8 5,8 8 5,8 5,8 Hooper, Shane Hosch, B.B. Howell, Vaughn Hudson, Harold Hudson, Rob Imbler, Chuck Ivy, Octavious Jernigan, Jud Johnson, Skip Jones, Jenny Wyatt Herring Brenda Hilbun Reed Hillen, IV Margaret A. Hillen Kathleen Tate Hillen Kathy Hodges Wayne Hodges Frances Hooper Sam Hooper Jr. Sue Imbler # Jim Ingram Margaret Grace Jerrolds Carman Jones Cindy Jourdan Frances Elkins Joyner William Kahlstorf, M.D. Judy Levy Don Lewis Donna Marrero Harry Martin # Corinne Massey Kay Mathews Margaret Anne Murphey #Jim Odum # Julia Otis # Katherine Otto Mary Pace, M.D. Sam Pace Matt Pannell Aubrey Patterson Kimberly Pegues Sylvia Pegues Estus Pirkle 1,5,8 1,5,8 8 8 8 8 5,8 8 5,8 Jack Reed Sr. Wesley Reed Linda Rice Jane Riley Don Robertson Zachary M. Robertson Fredda Robinson James Milton Robinson II Ty Robinson Merrell L. Rogers Joe Rutherford Catherine Sadler Ann Seal Delores Smith Sherry Stubblefield # Dianne Tannehill Edith Ruff Thomas Will Tonos Curtis Trawick Wanda Underwood Walt Walton Sue Washburn Sunny Waters Debra White + # Norma Jean Whiteside Libby Whittington Frances Williams Jane Wood William Wood, M.D. Lavelle Woodrick Boyd Yarbrough # Kay Younk Jourdan, Raymond Joyner, Ernie King, Jeff Lewis, Will Loden, Gearl Long-Neely, Shari Long, Zell Marshall, Joe Mathis, Ken McCoy, Randy 8 5,8 5,8 5,8 5,8 1,2,8 8 5,8 1,8 2,8 1,5,8 5,8 8 5,8 1,5,8 8 1,2,5,7,8 1,5,8 1,2,5,8 5,8 5,8 1,5,8,10 1,3,5,7,8 8 5,8 8 1,2,5 5,8 8 1,4,5,7,8,10,11 5,8 1,5,8 5,8 1,5 5,8 1,5,8 1,5,8 5,8 1,5,8 5,8 8 6 5,8 8 8 5,8 5,8 5,8,9 McDougald, Chuck McMullan, Inita McMurry, Kathy Aycock Miller, Max Miller, Mike Mills, Chris Milton, Sam Moll, Ted Napier, Jerry Pate, Jim Perkins, Sandra Pilgrim, Bob Pirkle, Greg Plunkett, Harold Ray, Talmadge Reed, Robert Reynolds, Rusty Rice, Rob Roberts, Tim Robertson, Cathy Robertson, Jay Robinson, Tom Rogers, Lee Roper, Ron Roper, Ryan Schoggin, Andy Scoville, Wayne Seal, Dan Shackelford, Kevin Shirley, James “Buck” Sparks, David Stubblefield, Jerry Tidwell, Melinda Todd, Larry Tomlinson, Jeff Trawick, Janice Tucker, Patty Underwood, Tom Vance, Buddy Voge, Dennis Wages, Gerald Waldrop, Brent Washburn, Heywood Waters, Bill Weeks, Jimmy White, Calvin Whitfield, Lewis Whittington, Markel Whittle, Shawn Wicker, Roger Williams, James Williams, Mark Williams, Martin Williams, Terri Winkler, Marion Workman, Mike www.tupelorotary.com facebook.com/RotaryClubOfTupelo november 4, 2013 Storytellers » JASON COLLUM Joe Edd Morris, left, and the Rev. Roy Ryan spoke to Tupelo Rotarians last week about working on their book, “Old Testament Stories: What Do They Say Today?” 2013-14 OFFICERS... ’13-14 DIRECTORS... CLUB LEADERS....... Jerry Napier Kathy McMurry (2014) Tom Booth (2014) Benton Hilbun Jr. (2015) Randy McCoy (2016) Harold Hodges Jerry Napier president Scott Bebout vice-president Jenny Jones secretary Bob Pilgrim treasurer Jesse Bandre sergeant-at-arms Janice Trawick executive secretary song leader Evelyn Croxton pianist immediate past-president ROTARY INTERNATIOAL............................................................................................... Ron Burton, RI President » norman, oklahoma Larry Lunsford, Dir., Zones 30-31 » kansas city, mo Tommy White, District 6800 Gov. » water valley Julianne Goodwin, Dist. 6800 Assist. Gov. » tupelo ROTARY CLUB OF TUPELO, MISS. Club 3924 Chartered April 25, 1925 Meets noon Mondays at the The Summit Center, 854 N. Gloster Street mailing address: P.O. Box 1143, Tupelo, MS 38802 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Robert Reed » 11/5 Karen Geddie » 11/8 Skip Johnson » 11/10 TODAY’S SONG America, the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain. For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown they good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. NOTES & ANNOUNCEMENTS Taste of Tupelo now a biz expo happens Tuesday ROTARY NEWS TODAY’S PROGRAM Rotary, Mercy Ships fight disease in Guinea Leslie Scruggs kate nolan | the rotarian A team of health professionals is touring Donka hospital in Conakry, Guinea, in March when they spot more than a dozen large, greenish masses covering the ground. To the U.S. team members, they look like an art installation; in fact, they are hospital gowns and surgical drapes, laundered and spread out to dry. They are a vivid example of the group’s objective: to lower deadly infection rates caused by unsterile procedures. This Rotary Foundation vocational training team is the first to serve under Rotary’s partnership with the nonprofit Mercy Ships. Rotary District 7690 in North Carolina, USA, sponsored the team with a packaged grant, part of the new Rotary grant model that launched worldwide 1 July. The team’s five members will train Guinean health professionals at the two national hospitals. nov. 11: Preston Connell, BNSF Special Agent nov. 18: Bill Courtnay, Acadmy Award Winner nov. 25: Vishal Sachdev, Heart Institute ron ashby » november program chair ‘Sustainable impact’ “Mercy Ships looks for ways to continue helping local medical professionals after the ship leaves port, ” says Michelle Bullington, who helped advise the team. “Improving sterilization techniques would have a sustainable impact.” Rick Snider, former governor of District 7690, worked on a Mercy Ships vessel for five years with his wife, Linda, and coordinated the Guinea project. He recruited assistant governor Jenny Braswell as team leader. A recently retired public health official, Braswell has volunteered on numerous Rotary projects in rural Nicaragua and Jamaica. Her husband, Sherrill, a physician, became her first recruit for the Guinea team. In Guinea, the team visits Donka hospital, where toilets are flushed with water from a pail, and power outages are common. “The staff members touch patients without gloves, going patient to patient without washing hands. There are unbandaged wounds, flies and roaches, open sewage right outside a patient facility and no sterile barriers, ” says Sherrill Braswell, adding an observation that he later repeats so often it sounds like a campaign slogan: “They are doing the best they can with what they have. ” Read the full story online at www.rotary.org Tupelo Rotarians welcomed two new members last week. At left, Rotary Club of Tupelo President, Harold Hodges, left, presents Bob Chesnut his membership packet. At right, Napier welcomes Fhonda Goss. The Taste of Tupelo is now a business expo. Formerly an invitation-only event for CDF members, the Taste of Tupelo Business Expo has extended it’s hours and is now open to the public. North Mississippi’s only business expo features the services and products of local businesses, accompanied by free samples from the area’s top restaurants, caterers, and bakeries. The event will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 5-8 p.m. at the BancorpSouth Arena. Tickets are $5 and are available for guests 21 and older. Pre-event ticket purchase is recommended at www. cdfms.org or call CDF at 842-4521. UPCOMING ROTARY PROGRAMS» The Africa Mercy, a 500-foot oceangoing hospital ship, is docked in Conakry for a 10-month medical mission. The Mercy Ships staff and visiting experts, such as this team, will tackle a range of tasks, including setting up medical and dental clinics, conducting health screenings, performing surgeries on board, and conducting health care outreach throughout the country. The ship also will serve as a steel-hulled security blanket. Border collie trainer Leslie Scruggs of Starkville trains border collies that can be used to herd cattle, sheep, poultry or even small children on occasion. Border collies also are used frequently in shows and trial activities. In a news release from Mississippi State University from a few years ago, Scruggs talked about border collies and their training: “More people use them for working than for shows or trials,” Scruggs said. “They are ideal for dairy cattle that have to be brought to a barn twice a day for milking. A farmer can just send the dog, and it will know exactly what to do without supervision.” Border collies earned their reputations as sheep dogs by bringing lambs into protected areas at night where predators such as coyotes and wild dogs could not encroach. “Just because a dog is a border collie does not mean it will necessarily be a good herd dog. You should look at the dog’s bloodline, especially its mother, to see if it could be a good herder,” Scruggs said. “Some are better for show or just as pets than for working.” Scruggs will be demonstrating with a border collie and sheep at today’s Rotary Club meeting. Outside, not inside. :) PHOTOS BY JASON COLLUM “ WORTH REPEATING» ABOUT ROTARYVIEW» “Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?” GEORGE ELIOT For items to be published in RotaryView, please contact: Jason Collum, RotaryView Editor e-mail: jason.collum@jcanda.net