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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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