Union City Rotary Club - Weekly Bulletin & News

Today, the program should be of interest to gun enthusiast of Union City Rotary, as Newell Graham enlightens us on the legality and process of civilian machine gun ownership.

Newell, other than being a long time member of Union City Rotary, and a Paul Harris fellow, is a 30 year veteran of the machine gun business. His program today is for the purpose of enlightening us as to civilian machine gun ownership.

Newell is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, he climbed to the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, presently, Newell is CEO of Union City Coca Cola Bottling Company; CEO and President of Reelfoot Ordnance; Vice-President of Meridian Coca Cola Bottling company; Chairman of Community First Bancshares; Chairman of the board of Directors of First First State Bank; Chairman of Executive Committee of First State Bank; Chairman of Executive Committee of First State Bank; Chairman of Discovery Parks of America Military Committee; Member of Steering of UT Martin’s recent Capitol Drive; and longtime treasurer (20+ years) for St. James Episcopal Church.

Next week, Skyhawk Women’s Equestrian team’s Head Coach, Meghan Cunningham will visit.

Maghan was named the University of Tennessee Martin’s first head equestrian coach in the spring of 2005. Meghan helped transition equestrian at the university from club to varsity sport. The team has been selected to participate in the Varsity equestrian National Championship every year since the program’s existence and in 2010, the team was seed 7th. The 2009-2010 season record was 8-6.

Prior to joining the Skyhawk family, Meghan was an assistant coach at Kansas State University for four years. While at Kansas State, she led the hunter seat squad to three regional championships (2003-2005), one zone championship (2003) and two national appearances (2003-2005). During 2005, the hunter seat squad placed sixth at Varsity Championships and seventh at IHSA National. Under her leadership, 11 individual riders qualified for nation al competition, including three high-point riders for competition in the Cacchione Cup.

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Meghan received her bachelors degree from Virginia Tech and her masters degree from Kansas State.

Two weeks ago, Union City Rotary added three names to that prestigious list of Paul Harris Fellows. Jim Glasgow, Jr. did the honors, calling Randy Barnes, to the podium first, then it was Bill Simrell, and in a surprise move, the third member added was Clint Joiner. Clint thought his only job was to be sure that the family members of Bill Simrell were present, but didn’t turn out that way.

It was a very busy noon meeting for Union City Rotary, as we had several visitors, in the form of the Union City Rotary Travel Group on hand getting ready to leave on their trip of a lifetime. For the third straight year, Union City Rotary has sponsored a group of soon-to-be Seniors for the three local high schools, sending them on a trip they will never forget as long as they live.

The students this year consisted of Megan Cook, Catie Stanford and Chelsea Southerland of Obion County Central High School. Breanna Brown, Hailey Cash, Grant Walton and Devin Burnside of Union City High School, not able to attend last Friday’s meeting was Nick Crumble and Petyon Mosley of UCHS, and Julie Mathenia of OCCHS, but were part of the group making the trip. They left Tuesday morning, June 28, flying out of Memphis to London, where they joined Cosmos Tour and visit Paris; Lucerne, Switzerland; and several stops in Italy. They will be departing Rome Sunday, July 10 for their trip back to Union City. This year they were accompanied by chaperones David and Mary Hellen Johnson, Mrs. Johnson is a teacher at Union City Middle School.

On to business at hand, after a brief message from Past District Governor Glen Vanderford, reminding us of when the club was chartered, and covering a brief history of the accomplishments locally, also on the District and National level, Glen called the 2011-2012 Union City Rotary Officers to the front, serving them with challenges, goals, and swearing them in for the upcoming year. The new officers are, President, Al Creswell, President Elect, Richard Graham, Secretary, Chuck Doss, Sgt.-at-Arms, Sam Bradberry, Ascending Director, Ron Green, Director, Hadley Malone, Director Charles Kirkland, and stepping down from President and becoming Past President & Director, Gary Houston.

Coming Attractions

July 15 - Megan Cunningham, UTM Equestrian Team Coach.

July 22 - Dr. Julie Hill, The Black Music of Brazil

Welcome New Member..

Tyler Barker

Birthdays

July 10 - Jim Bondurant

July 12 - Jimmy White

Anniversaries

July 08 - Jim and Linda Harrelson

July 08 - Will and Kim Wade

July 11 - Scott and Heather Critchlow

A Visit With Will Rogers - 1879 - 1935

"I was born on Nov. 04, which is election day... My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year."

"No man is great if he thinks he is."

"I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as it does to get a divorce. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain’t. That would also make the preachers financially independent like it has the lawyers."

"Remember, write to your Congressman. Even if he can’t read, write to him."

"All there is to success is satisfaction."

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