Our Speaker: Gerald Augustus, Civil War Author and Researcher Program: The Civil War: Many famous officers came from our local area here in East Tennessee. Gerald touched on the stories of Parsons Brownlow, John L. Vonn, Goldman Bryson, Hugh Lawson White, and David M. Key. For further reading, Gerald recommended the book: Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders And The […]
Speaker: Alyce Burdine, Asst. Dir. of Student Success – tnAchieves Program: The Tennessee Promise Program is a scholarship and mentoring program focused on increasing the number of students that attend college in our state. It provides students a last-dollar scholarship. Alyce is recruiting 9,000 volunteers needed to become mentors for next year’s Class of 2018. Mentors commit about 12 hours annually […]
Speaker: Col. Don Edmands, Jr. – USAF (Ret) Program: Churches of the World Don took us on a photo tour of some of the world’s most famous churches and several interesting but lesser known churches as well, He also provided some history lessons along with other interesting trivia. David Foote shared that he has also visited many of these […]
Our Next Meeting – Thursday May 11 Board Meeting: 10:15 AM Regular Meeting: Noon – First Baptist Church of Tellico Village Speaker: Col. Don Edmands, Jr. – USAF (Ret) Program: BAND OF BROTHERS – Follow the famous HBO Series Easy Company Soldiers from Basic training in Georgia, D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, […]
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