ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 6760
District Governor
Rufus Clifford
Columbia, TN
RCliff7760@aol.com
International President
Wilfrid J. Wilkinson
Trenton, Ontario Canada
Today,
we welcome one of the most successful basketball teams in Tennessee, as Coach Shane Sisco and the TSSAA, Class A State Champions of 2007/08 visits Union City Rotary. The Golden Tornadoes went 37-0, this past season, being only the 15th boy’s basketball team in Tennessee to accomplish this feat.
Coach Sisco just competed his 9th season at the helm of the local Twister’s Club and has a record of 224-64, and two State Champs in the past three years under his belt.
The 2007/2008 Boy’s Roster includes, Andre Coby (Senior), Nik Brooks (Senior), Tony Wilkins (Senior), Lavan Mosley (Senior), Josh Batte (Sophomore), Pat Polk (Senior), K.J. Brooks (Sophomore), MJ Brown (Senior), B.J. Marshall (Junior), Brandon Easley (Junior), Cameron Callicott (Senior), Kendhal Warren (Sophomore) and Ryne Simpson (Junior). The coaching staff includes, Shane Sisco, and assistants Michael Hart and Marty Sisco. Managers - Ben Woods and Thomas Turner.
Also in attendance will be the group that kept these guys going and going and going all season, the Cheerleaders, Jade Davie, Hailey Fishel, Brooke Beachum, Kathy Crews, Brenna Duncan, Taylor Edwards, Skye Gifford, Taylor Perryman, Katie Potter, Kathelyn Ray, Anna White and Corey Anne Youree, along with Sponsors, Laura Kingrey and Angela Keathley.
Team member MJ Brown won the Class A Mr. Basketball award for the second straight year, as well as being named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Associations All-State team for the second straight year. At the state tournament, Brown was named the Class A state tournament MVP, with teammates Tony Wilkins and Andre Coby joining him on the All-State Tournament team.
Welcome State Champs!!!
Next week,
May 23rd, there will be no meeting due to the Distinguished Speakers Banquet on Thursday Night, May 22nd. The event social will begin at 6:30 p.m., here at the Hampton Center, with diner to follow at 7:00 p.m.
The speaker for the event will be Linda Hooper, and her speech is titled "The Power of One". Linda, Principal of Tennessee’s Whitwell Middle School, encouraged her students to take on a project known as PAPER CLIPS. The project was initiated to give the students a prospective of the unfamiliar chapter in human history - the Holocaust. The students decided to collect six million paper clips, so as to grasp the concept of the 6 million people who were murdered during this crime against humanity. The project caught on and gained national and worldly attention, prompting an award-winning film entitled PAPER CLIPS.
In Linda Hooper’s own words: "The Paper Clips Project has been an affirmation of my beliefs that education is absolutely essential to change; that evil must be constantly battled by education; that everyone must study the past so that we do not forget nor repeat our mistakes; and that there is a higher power guiding our destiny."
Robert Kirkland established the Obion County Distinguished Speakers Foundation in 2003 for the purpose of bringing exciting and informative speakers to the citizens of Obion County.
Last week,
the 27th annual Rotary Scholarship Banquet was held at First Baptist Church’s Family Life Center. 110 Obion County students received $129,650 worth of scholarships. It took Rotarian Terry Hailey approximately forty minutes to go through the list of recipients and donors. Each name was accompanied by a Power Point presentation detailing the student’s name, the student’s school, and the donor’s name and scholarship amount.
With last week’s scholarships, coupled with the upcoming Verhine Scholarships the Union City Rotary Club has distributed more than $3 million in scholarships since it all started back in 1982 with the very first scholarship - a $10,000 endowment set by Hardy Graham to honor Union City Rotary’s first president, the late Gus B. White.
Scholarship chairman Roger Williams began the program with words of thanks to the donors and encouragement to the recipients. He recognized the committee - Jim Cawley, Newel Graham, Ron Green, Gary Houston, Clint Joiner, Bob Regen, Dave Schlager, and Steve Vaughn and expressed his appreciation for their work.
Guidance Counselors Winnie Logan of Union City; Pam Burrow of South Fulton; and Sally Wharton of Obion County Central were saluted for their assistance in the program.
Committee member Steve Vaughn recognized the teachers, whom the students said had meant the most to their educational careers. They were Peggy Lohaus of S.F., James West of OCCHS, and Andrea Byford and Joannna Wisener from U.C.
Prior to the awarding of the scholarships, 1995 OCCHS graduate Ernie Williams addressed the club and expressed his appreciation to Rotarians for the scholarship he received in the 1990s. He acknowledged that this scholarship was most significant in allowing him to obtain his degree from Union University. Mr. Williams is currently teaching school in the Jackson Madison County School System.
A special thanks to Roger Williams and his committee and to everyone wh had a part in this years Scholarship Program!
Coming Attractions
May 22 - Distinguished Speakers Dinner
May 23 - No Meeting
May 30 - Ray Jamieson - Jamieson Distillery
June 6 - Rotary/Verhine Scholarship Banquet
June 13 - Larry Vernon’s Karate Class
June 20 - Grayhounds Baseball Team
June 27 - Officer Installation
July 4 - No Meeting
July 11 - Ron Green & Clay Woods - Boy’s & Girl’s Club
Since there is no meeting next week, we are listing two weeks in this column
Birthdays
May 17 - Lee Fry
May 18 - Leland Davis
May 19 - Phillip Pinion
May 20 - Charles Denaburg
May 20 - Dan Weber
May 23 - Steve Conley
May 27 - Grover Schleifer III
May 28 - Art Sparks
Anniversaries
