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Installment LXVII

Noticed an ad h e a d e d “ B e P a r t o f t h e S t o r y ” … T h e f irst ste p in s e l l i n g a n y -t h i n g i s t h e

“Attention” step. That got my attention and I read further. It was describing Bethel Uni-versity’s LEGACY program. LEGACY-another word making me more inquisitive.

When we see or hear the word legacy it brings to mind an in-heritance.

At the bottom of the paper describing this very interest-ing program in conjunction with Bethel University was four words further catching a read-er’s attention. Those words-Making History Come Alive. Just from reading this one page I was sold on the program.

I like history so it got my interest.

A legacy can describe many values other than money or wealth. Your ancestors, very re-cent and in the past could have left you a good legacy.

Although my dad didn’t leave our family money, he did leave a legacy. Items like thrift, fruits of labor, conduct, love, etc. He’d say “Don’t tell everything you know because if you do the other person will know what you know and what they know also and will be smarter than you”. Or, “The dread of doing something can be worse than the going ahead and doing it”.

I believe Bethel’s Legacy pro-gram can greatly assist those participating. Understanding people-the better you under-stand their actions and motives, the better your life will be.

Success is another word a person could go off in many tan-gents describing-means many things to people in general. We have heard the phrase, “He or she is a self-made person”. We know there are many factors that can describe a successful person. He or she may or may not have a fat bank account yet be successful. Someone wrote, “A successful person will have the qualities of personal in-te g rity, humility, sincerity, wisdom, charity, courtesy and respect”.

A McKenzian I though a lot of could be described by some as a “Self-Made person”. Cer-tain items like drive, desire to do better, quest to know more and many inert qualities may have given him the push he

needed. I sure am not an ana-lyzer of a person’s success. In-cidentally, he taught 20 years at Bethel. I first remember when he lived in the duplex past McK-enzie Banking on Main. Might say the trunk lid of his car was the “roof ” of his business then. He sold candy, notions and other items to many of the small stores around. One of the qualities I feel that helped him in his overall success was the adage, “He was a natural-born salesman”. As they say, “He could sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo”. Everyone knew him as “Red”. Curtis H. Summers-just an all-around good fellow.

Being around him, you would find that he enjoyed life in gen-eral.

Alice Lynn, his daughter, lives here in McKenzie, and, like her father was, is a nice congenial person. Curtis’ father and mother, Mr. Ira and Ms. An-nie, as I mentioned in earlier article, I knew back in my paper route days stopping by their grocery on Paris Pike most every paper delivery day. Knew his brothers R.B. and Ray also.

“Red” was a good example of the more education you can obtain, the better you can navi-gate your course in this world. Passed his G.E.D., graduated from Bethel College with a de-gree, then received a Masters at Murray State and on to receiv-ing his Doctorate at Memphis University.

“Red’s” wholesale business, C.H. Summers Wholesale Com-pany, grew from his car trunk to a large warehouse type on corner of Paris Pike and Car-roll Street.

Some of the guys I remem-ber working there in varied capacities and some working wholesale routes out of trucks at different times were: Rus-sell Cooper, R.B. Summers, Ray Summers, Charles Ray Jones, Oscar Patterson, J.B. “Jay” Johnsonius, Roy Travillian, Wayne Cooper, Max Hall, James Childress and Dorris Rainey.

C.H. “Red” Summers’ life was varied. After many years as a wholesaler, he operated his business, “Golf, Etc.” downtown selling golf equipment. Profes-sor, Businessman, Humorist and Master Magician. He was a well-rounded person, even managing to tour several coun-tries broading his knowledge even further.

I’m glad he was my friend over the years.

…Bob McDonald

B a p t i s t M e m o r i a l Hospital-Huntingdon’s Radiology Department received a Certificate of Recognition by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, the accredit-ing agency for programs in radiologic sciences, for serving as a clinical education setting for the r a d i o g r ap hy p ro g r a m sponsored by Concorde Career College-Memphis.

Serving as a clinical setting, three students from Concorde Career College completed a 10-week internship in our Radiology Department where they gained expe-rience and knowledge in patient care, technical radiographic factors, po-sitioning, procedures, as well as customer satisfac-tion. The students were also introduced to the electronic radiography storage, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communi-cation System).

Radiology Team (l-r): Lisa Dickson, Technologist-Radiology; Kim Spain, Technologist-Radi-ology; Jana Cupples, Technologist-Ultrasound; Lori Laprade, Technologist-Mammography; and Brad Cary, Director of Radiology. Not pictured are: Radiology Technologists-Gina Grant, Karen Neely, Josh Noe, and Sandra Wood; Technologist-Mammography-Rosemary Swindle; Technologists-Ultrasound-Genji Prater and Kathleen Vanderroest.

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Baptist Memorial Hospital’s Radiology Department Recognized

T h e b e a u t i f u l yard of Philip and Carol Morrissett at 561 North Stonewall Street in McKenzie h a s b e e n aw a rd e d Yard of the Month f o r S e p t e m b e r by Morning Glory Gar-den Club.

A m a i n a t t r a c -tion of the home is window boxes filled with a lovely assort-ment Florida moon-light, white queen, a n d re d m i x c a l a -diums and dra gon wing begonias. The F lorida moonlight plants glow in the dark.

T h e b e a u t i f u l landscaped yard is maintained by the Morrissetts. This is a wonderful exam-ple of how beauti-ful a shade garden can be.

Morrissetts Awarded September Yard of the Month

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19) Surrounded by seeming-ly-endless, perfectly-straight rows of white gravestones m a rk i n g t h e f i n a l r e s t -ing places of thousands of America’s revered war dead, Hollow Rock-Bruceton Central High School Band Director Van Wadley, accom-panied by 180 fellow Bugles Across America members hailing from all regions of the United States, momen-tarily pierced the quiet se-renity of Arlington National Cemetery on the afternoon of May 19, 2012 via a unison playing of TAPS.

Re g a r d i n g t h e e v e n t , Wadley said, “It was a truly amazing experience. The youngest bugler to perform with us was 14 years old. The bugler that traveled the fur-thest to perform with us was

from California. We also had a bugler perform with us via telephone from Germany.”

Joining to g ether once more for a harmonized ver-sion of the time-honored military final call for sol-diers to extinguish all fires and lights, the buglers then spread out to different parts o f the cemetery to play TAPS at locations they had requested.

He said, “After Bugles Across America performed the unison and harmonized versions of TAPS, I walked among the gravestones to the final resting place of Major General Wainwright. As a Navy Corpsman, he defended his country in World War II by fighting the Japanese in the Phillipines before being captured and held at Corregidor Island Prisoner Of War Camp #7 located in Manila Bay. After the war ended, Major General Wainwright was released from captivity and returned home to America. It was a privilege for me to perform TAPS at Arlington National Cemetery in his memory.”

Wadley said that another highlight of his trip to Ar-lington National Cemetery was being allowed to hold the actual bugle used to play TAPS at the funeral of Presi-dent John F. Kennedy.

He said, “To hold that piece of American history in my hands was a very humbling and amazing ex-perience. The bugle from the Kennedy funeral is dis-played at the Visitor’s Cen-ter at Arlington, and all the members of Bugles Across America were granted per-mission to hold and inspect it. I definitely did not miss my opportunity to hold that bugle. I must say, Playing Taps at Arlington, playing in honor of Major General Wainwright, and holding the Kennedy funeral trumpet is something that I will never forget.”

He concluded, “I am al-ways deeply honored to per-form TAPS at school func-tions and military events. I have also had the privilege of performing TAPS at the Bruceton Funeral Home.”

Central Band Director Performs TAPS at Arlington National Cemetery

The summer trimester at the Tennessee Technology Center at McKenzie ended with Awards Day on August 24th. The ceremony, organized and sponsored by the campus-wide Student Senate, was held at the McKenzie First Cumberland Presbyterian Church and led by the Dr. Brad White, the Technology Center’s director.

Forty students received their diplomas or final certificates and numerous others were recog-nized for completing certificate levels during the trimester. Also recognized during the ceremony were those students who were inducted into the National Tech-nical Honor Society and students who attained Perfect Attendance.

The students who completed requirements for graduation are: Automotive Technology- Ben Sud-zum, Jason Lott, Samuel Rogers and Issac McMackin; Business Systems Technology-McKenzie – Randall Adkisson, Amber Lyle, Melanie Early, and Tomi Johan-sen; Business Systems Technolo-gy-Weakley County- Carrie Pinion and Norma Mitchell; Computer In-formation Technology- Cody Gul-lett, Adam Marlar, Brian Chandler, J.B. Clark, and Robert Schroeder; Green Electronics Technology- John Chain, Scott Fletcher, and Alan Black; Green Electronics II- Jeffrey Eakes; HVAC/Refrigera-tion- Christopher Peeler, William Thomas Sledd and Bobby White; Industrial Maintenance-Weakley County- Darrin Kimmons, Jeff

Gibbons, Jeffrey Axley, Andrew Moubray, Stuart Reynolds, Brent Williams and Casey Williamson; Machine Tool Technology- Joshua Clifton, Robert Erwin and Cory Thompson; Welding Technology- Dexter Pruitt, Matthew Tolley, Wil-liam David Lowe, Michael Moore, Joshua Ivy, Lanny Ricketts, James Stover, and Kyle Bradley.

Nineteen students were in-ducted into the National Tech-nical Honor Society. These in-ductees were Chrishanda Ridley, Janis Hussey, Brent Campbell, Curtis Mathis, Jason Wylie, Scot-tie Heathcock, Garry Roberts, William Thomas Sledd, Bobby White, William White, Carl Bald-win, Gary Barnhill, Harold Dodd, Ray Courtney, Mark Rainey, Cory Thompson, Eddie Wallace, Brian Morgan, and Joshua Pope.

Thirteen students were rec-ognized for achieving perfect attendance during the spring trimester. The students receiv-ing Perfect Attendance Certifi-cates were Gabriel Padilla, Adam Askew, Norma Mitchell, Randy Garner, Bradley Bone, James Higdon, William White, Jeffrey Axley, Gary McDaniel, Kim Tur-beville, Mark Rainey, Joshua Pope, and Brian Morgan.

Norma Mitchell was also rec-ognized for having achieved per-fect attendance throughout her entire enrollment.

Following the ceremony, a re-ception honored the graduates and their families.

Technology Center Announces Summer 2012 Graduates

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