IN THIS ISSUE

New leaders for commission, school board

Brad Anders is gruffer on the surface than is Tony Nor-man, but he will be a calmer, less volatile commission chair.

Lynne Fugate has poten-tial to be more abrasive than Karen Carson, but we’ll have to see. She didn’t make a victory speech.

Both leaders are planning to play nice. And the community is starting out hopeful.

➤ Read Sandra Clark on page 4

Fairies frolic at Ijams

Ijams Nature Center could have hung a sign on the door:

“Shh, Fairies at Work!”However, the young nymphs

were too busy working on their Fairy Gardens and concocting Fairy Trail Mix to notice any interruptions at Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party on Aug. 31.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 3

Fulton kids get project of lifetime

Students in Sandy Camp-bell’s Digital Art and Design II class at Fulton High have been asked to complete the project of the lifetime.

Good things can happen when you have a team of stu-dents that attend a state and national competition and bring home fi rst- and fourth-place honors respectively. Expect people to notice.

➤ Read Ruth White on page 6

Catching up with Tom Allen and Mike Frazier

Business writer Nancy Whittaker got in two visits on a short week. Both are local legends!

Tom Allen has weathered a recession and bridge closure, but Allen Sign has survived and prevailed.

“We lost about half of our walk-ins and half of our retails sales,” Tom said. “We laid off eight employees and switched gears.”

Mike Frazier at Knox Rail Salvage says as the youngest of 10, he never got any new clothes until he reached high school.

Mike’s got a couple of good suits now.

➤ Read Nancy’s recap on page 7

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By Betsy PickleFamily reunions are a familiar

concept. So are reunions marking the anniversary of an event, like a high school graduation.

Among former employees of Baptist Hospital of East Ten-nessee, “family” is how they see themselves. And 2013 is defi nitely a milestone – the fi fth anniversary of the closing of the venerable hos-pital on Blount Avenue.

So … it’s party time!Former Baptist employees have

been meeting since June to plan a reunion, which will take place 1-5

p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Tennova South Ambulatory Care Center, 7323 Chapman Highway. The or-ganizing meetings have been like mini-reunions for the committee, with memories and laughter fl ow-ing along with ideas.

At a recent meeting at Broad-way Baptist Church, chair Patsy Boling wowed her friends with her initiative. Knocking off agenda items one by one, Boling would in-vite reports from those who’d been working on the assignment, then mention something she’d done to help research options.

Sometimes, her colleagues had to rein her in.

“What about two-way radios?” asked Boling. “It’s a big place.”

“We can use cell phones,” respond-ed Lisa Stearns.

As the event grows closer – along with the

Thursday, Sept. 12, deadline for registration at http://bhet-reunion.eventbrite.com – the group is meeting more often and

Excitement builds for Baptist reunion

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making fi nal decisions on things like sheet cakes vs. cupcakes, cloth vs. plastic tablecloths and T-shirts vs. other types of souvenirs. It’s crunch time, and they know it, but they’re determined to put together the best reunion possible for their “family.”

The event is free for former em-ployees, physicians and auxiliary and board members (plus a guest). The committee held a fundraising drive to cover the costs – which didn’t include things like printed invitations.

Boling

By Betsy PickleThere wasn’t much fanfare at

the opening of the South Knox-ville Seniors Painters’ new art show at the South Knoxville Li-brary on Wednesday.

That’s because the SKS Paint-ers were back in class – perfecting their skills, enjoying each other’s company and savoring a home-made enchilada lunch at the South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane.

Painting is what they do every Wednesday, from the moment they arrive – anywhere from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. – till when they leave around 3 or 3:30 p.m. Except for the lunch break, of course.

Paul Warren was Mary Harris’ fi rst and only student when she started teaching the class in Octo-ber 2007.

“I sat beside her, and we’d paint a picture every class,” said War-ren. “I’d just paint along, like mon-key see, monkey do.”

Harris, a Knoxville native who lived for many years in Virginia and North Carolina after gradu-ating from Powell High School, hadn’t been back in town long when she went to the senior center to take a watercolor class. When that teacher moved out of town af-ter only a couple of sessions, Har-ris – a self-taught painter who’d taught at a community college in North Carolina – volunteered to teach a class.

“I’ve got 26 people on my en-rollment sheet now,” the Lake-moor Hills resident said. “We’ve got 24 spaces.”

Their talent impresses Harris.

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Devoted to their craft

Paul Warren and Betty Presnell place tags on the

works showing in the South Knoxville Seniors

Painters’ art show at the South Knoxville Library.

“They do wonderful work,” she said. The library show isn’t their fi rst public exhibition; they’ve displayed their art several times before. Although beginners are welcome, the class is packed with experienced artists who work in oil, acrylics and watercolor. There’s even a folk artist who “paints” with a knife.

One of the members, Kathy Rhodes, is a current prizewinner for pieces she entered at the Ten-nessee Valley Fair art show.

The center is open to anyone age 50 or better, and class mem-bers range from early 50s to early 80s.

“We have a very congenial class,” said Harris. “A lot of them have known each other since they went to school together; and then a lot of them were strangers when they fi rst started coming there.”

Warren and Betty Presnell, who helped Harris hang the pieces for the library show on Tuesday, both graduated from Young High

School, though Warren blusteredthat “she’s way ahead of me.” Hegraduated in 1963 and she in 1959.

Presnell, who is retired fromthe Social Security Administra-tion, started painting around1989.

“I didn’t have a group in SouthKnoxville to paint with, so whenthis one opened I was reallythrilled to have it,” she said.

Warren, retired from Alcoa,

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South Knox seniors enjoy painting class

Della Volpe gives FOP a nod for humorBy Sandra Clark

When Nick Della Volpe got a candidate questionnaire from the Fraternal Order of Police, he almost swallowed his teeth. He quickly penned a response to FOP

president Mark Taylor: “I appreci-ate your sense of humor in sending the letter. ... Your offer arrived a bit late for its stated purpose, however, as the FOP has al-ready littered the roadsides with

your anti-Della Volpe signs.”It’s a sure bet that the FOP will be

endorsing Rick Staples, an employ-ee of the Sheriff’s Offi ce and prob-able member of the organization.

The FOP leadership is after Della Volpe because of his prob-lems with the current pension sys-tem. Della Volpe says he’s the best friend the FOP ever had, because he is working for a sustainable pension over time.

“The city’s pension plan, which has a roughly $200 million defi cit, leaves your members at risk,” he told Taylor. Della Volpe says the hybrid plan for new workers, sup-

ported by Mayor Madeline Rogero and adopted by voters, is “a good start (at reform), but is “just a drop in a very big bucket.”

Never one to simply say, “Sor-ry if I offended you,” Della Volpe

added: “If you haven’t looked at the numbers late-ly, city taxpayers are putting in four or fi ve times more than city workers ($20M vs. $3.8M per year) into the pension plan.”

He rolled on to

a second page: “Do you want to end up like the guys in Pritchard, Ala., where the bankrupt city just stopped sending out the retire-ment checks when their pension system and the city coffers ran dry? Far-fetched? Over a dozen cities around the country have fi led for bankruptcy because of overwhelming debt, including heavy pension debt. It is no time to stick one’s head in the sand. We need to collectively rise to the oc-casion and work through this.”

Count on this discussion to continue through the campaign. Early voting is already underway.

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Cosby managed to hop off the ATV fast enough not to be crushed by the machine, but the twisting motion of his leg sent pain shooting through his hip. “I got up and picked my stuff back up, but my hip was sore,” he said.

Thinking he’d just strained a muscle, Cosby ignored the pain for a while. “I hopped around for two weeks, then finally went the doctor,” he said.

A local nurse practitioner re-ferred him to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders Re-gional Medical Center. After an X-ray and an MRI, Cosby was diagnosed with a fracture in his hip, a partial break in the upper part of his femur (thigh) bone.

Because hip fractures can lead to serious complications, Yau scheduled Cosby for surgery early the next morning, a Sat-urday. During the surgery, Yau installed three screws into the fractured bone to hold it togeth-er while it healed.

“My pain was better immedi-

ately. I couldn’t believe it,” saidCosby. “I had no pain. When Iwoke up they took me back to myroom. I didn’t go back to bed, Isat in a chair.”

By lunchtime on Saturday,Cosby had walked 500 feet downthe hall with a walker. By thatevening, he had set the walkeraside and headed down the hallwithout it.

“I talked (Dr. Yau) into lettingme go home on Sunday becauseI didn’t have pain. He talked meinto a prescription, but I didn’tneed them a lot. I had no pain.He asked me, on a scale of 1 to10, what’s your pain? I said zero.”

Recovery for Cosby has beenswift, probably because of hisdetermination to get back tonormal and work on his farm.And yes, he still rides the ATV.

“I don’t ride it fast like theseyoung people do. I go slow,” hesaid.

Cosby said he would recom-mend Fort Sanders to anyonewho needs orthopedic care. Hiswife of 50 years, Imogene, alsohad orthopedic surgery at FortSanders and was pleased.

“Nobody wants to go to hospi-tal, but if anyone needs to, I rec-ommend they go to Fort Sand-ers,” said Cosby. “They’re a finehospital, with real nice people,and they do a good job.

“It’s the finest hospital I’veever walked through the doorsof, because of the people and thecare they give.”

Beating the odds with the latest approach to hip fracturesJust months after falling and

breaking his hip, Larry Cosby of Claiborne County, Tenn., was back on his ATV, tending cattle on his farm.

But statistics show that Cosby is in the minority. An estimated 20 to 30 percent of hip fracture patients over the age of 65 will die within 12 months, according to a 2009 study by the Journal of the American Medical Associa-tion.

About 90 percent of hip frac-tures occur in people over the age of 60. Hip fracture is the second leading cause of hospitalization for older people in the U.S. In 2007, there were 281,000 hospi-talizations for hip fracture in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Studies show great disability after hip fracture. Ninety percent of patients can’t climb stairs, 66 percent cannot get on and off a toilet unassisted, 50 percent are unable to get out of a chair, 31 percent can’t get out of bed

unassisted and 20 percent can-not dress them-selves after a hip frac”The statis-tics are bad with hip fracture, but we are changing that,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an or-thopedic surgeon at the Hip Frac-ture Center at

Fort Sanders. The center opened in March 2013 to provide coor-dinated, top-quality care to hip fracture patients.

Using a team approach to care, the center employs all the “best practices” that research has found offer the best results for hip fracture patients.

For example, hip fracture pa-tients are encouraged to get up and out of bed as quickly as pos-sible.

“Getting patients out of bed, back on their feet and out of the hospital as quickly as possible is probably the most critical factor in avoiding complications,” said Yau.

“If you lie in bed for a pro-longed period of time, you risk bedsores and skin ulcers, pneu-monia, and urinary tract infec-tions,” he said.

Strategies for getting patients out of bed quickly start in the op-erating room.

“Well, pain control is the best thing we can do in the operating room,” said Yau.

“Our protocol is that anes-thesia is given at the site of the break. Patients have regional an-esthesia, rather than general an-esthesia. This means there is less of a ‘fog’ for the patient after sur-gery, with less nausea and vom-iting. As a result they can walk much sooner than normally done before,” Yau said.

The surgery itself is a com-plete repair, not just a partial, Yau added. “We do it in such way that there’s no restriction on weight bearing afterward.”

Historically, surgeons used to fix hip fractures with plates and screws that limited the patient’s weight bearing ability.

“We still use plates and screws, but we’re able to fix it in such a way the patient can put full weight on the leg with no re-strictions,” Yau said.

“Even a week or two out of surgery, people are getting rid of their walkers and canes,” said Yau. “We’re seeing two to three weeks of recovery instead of six to eight weeks. It’s pretty dramatic. They’re sitting up the same day of surgery.”

The Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders is located beside the Joint Replacement Center, which specializes in replacing hips and knees. The two centers together mean Fort Sanders is one of the most experienced orthopedics centers in East Tennessee.

“There are only about 30 insti-tutions across country that have set up a program like the Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center,” said Yau. “We’re pretty excited to be providing this to the commu-nity.”

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Ijams Nature Center could have hung a sign on the door:

“Shh, Fairies at Work!”

However, the young nymphs were too busy working on their Fairy Gar-dens and concocting Fairy Trail Mix to notice any in-terruptions at Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party on Aug. 31.

The 20 little ones dig-ging in the dirt, assembling bags of snacks, decorating cupcakes to look like mush-rooms and coloring pictures barely paid attention to the 30 parents and grandpar-ents busy trying to get them to pose for photographs.

Nearly all the kids were dressed in jewel tones and pastels, with tons of netting and shiny fabric, and most brought their own wings.

One standout exception was the lone boy, Hunter Hetrick, 4, of Oak Ridge, who wore an impish expres-sion along with his gray T-shirt and dark shorts. Hunter, who accompanied his mother and sisters, seemed oblivious to all the excited girls in the room as he enthusiastically created his garden.

The cuteness factor was through the roof for the event, so of course the adults hustled to capture

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Fairies frolic in fi nery at Ijams

Sunfl ower has drawing powerOrganizers of the La-

bor Day Sunfl ower turned the holiday art project into a weeklong celebration of workers.

What began as a guerrilla art installation conceived by artists Gerry Moll and Josh-ua Bremseth at Edgewood Park in 2007 has become a Knoxville tradition. The sunfl ower returned to the Krutch Park extension for the second year last week.

The 15-by-15-foot circle of sunfl owers was woven into a chain-link frame on Monday, Sept. 2, by area residents who brought sun-fl owers they had grown. Circle Modern Dance per-formed at the installation and again on First Friday with groups such as the First Friday Drum Crew and Hoopers and the Beau-mont Elementary School Dancers.

The giant sunfl ower drew onlookers throughout the week. They were able to appreciate the nature and artistry of the project in the daylight and video pro-jection of images of people working each night.

Joan Eiffe of Powell discovered the sunfl ower Tuesday when she brought grandson Brody, 2½, down-town to visit her husband, Mike, who works at TVA, on his lunch hour. The Eiffes often walk in the downtown park and appreciated the new photo op.

Scott and Brenda Bren-son of Edmond, Okla., were checking out downtown while waiting for their fl ight home.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Scott, who had come to East Tennessee for a ministry conference.

At the end of the instal-lation, the sunfl ower seeds were distributed to attend-ees for them to grow and possibly contribute next year.

Workshop scratches acting

itchWhile many East Tennes-

seans were gathering down-town for Boomsday activi-ties, aspiring and veteran actors made their way to the Broadway Academy of Per-forming Arts, 706 N. Broad-way, for a drop-in acting and theater-performance workshop presented by the Wild Thyme Players.

Actor-director Andi Mor-row led the Sept. 1 work-shop, which focused on the differences between stage and fi lm acting. A lucky 13 class members absorbed Morrow’s insights and in-structions and paired off to read scenes – ranging from classical to contemporary – and receive critiques.

Jeanette and Charlie Stevens of the Silver Stage Players were the most se-nior members of the class,

At Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party, Michelle Adams of Kodak, left, helps daughter Sydney, 3, create her fairy garden while Jessica Hale of Sevierville, right, does the same for her daughter, Cali, 3. Solvi Thompson, 5 (attending with mom Duren Thompson of

West Knoxville), may have had the most beautiful fairy outfi t of all. Photos by Betsy Pickle

The sole male participant, Hunter Hetrick, 4 (attending from Oak Ridge with his mom, Shelaine Hetrick, and sisters), proudly shows off his garden.

Isabella Rose Covington, almost 3 (attending with parents Darrell and Christy Covington of Dandridge), focuses on decorating her mushroom cupcake.

the Kodak, er, megapixel moments. The grown-ups learned the hard way that fairies – like the 3- to 7-year-olds enjoying them-selves in the Ijams program room – are constantly in motion.

Jennifer Roder, Ijams’ education program offi -cer, said this was the fi rst tea party held at the South Knoxville nature center on Island Home Avenue.

“We have done a bunch of other fairy events,” she said.

All of the children seemed satisfi ed with the afternoon’s activities, and many lingered in the lobby to observe the subsequent animal program featuring an albino rat snake.

Maddie Lubiani, 7 (attending with mom Denisha Lubiani of West Knoxville), enjoys the fruits of her labors.

Veteran actors Carolyn Corley and Charlie Stevens read a scene at the acting workshop.

Phoenix Asher, left, and Will Stone run through a scene at the Wild Thyme Players’ acting workshop at Broadway Academy of Performing Arts.

but even with all their ex-perience they said the work-shop was valuable.

“Every class you learn something,” said Charlie. “You never get too old to learn.”

He also plugged the Sil-ver Stage Players’ produc-tion of “Who Ya Gonna Call,” set for 1 p.m. Dec. 18, at the John T. O’Connor Se-nior Center.

Among the younger at-tendees were Phoenix Asher of Campbell County and Will Stone of Knoxville, who did a reading together. Both have been attending the Sunday workshop se-ries, which runs through December, si nce it started in August.

“I love doing these things,” said Stone, who has taken some college-level acting courses.

For more info on the workshops, visit www.wildthymeplayers.org.

Joan and Mike Eiff e of Powell prepare to take photos of grandson Brody at the Labor Day Sunfl ower at the Krutch Park Extension downtown.

Sunfl ower: Onlookers ad-mire the wo-ven sunfl ower stalks seen on the back of the chain-link frame for the project.

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Mayor Madeline Rogero has reappointed How-ard Vogel to the Airport Authority. Vogel, the chair, was fi rst appointed by then- Mayor Bill Haslam.

Vogel, an attorney, is brother-in-law of state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey. He has been an active and effective chair following attorneys Arthur Seymour and Dick Krieg along with business owner Kirk Hud-dleston, who all served as chair over the past 20 years.

Rogero has also ap-pointed Marva Martin to succeed Sam Anderson, for-mer city parks director, to the city civil service board. Anderson was removed due to residency issues.

Rogero does not routine-ly announce appointments to boards and commissions, so your writer will mention them when the situation or person merits comment. Martin, who turns 70 in December, is very ener-getic and active. She will not back down on a subject because someone disagrees. She led enforcement of Title VI in the city for seven years (fi ve of them while this writer was mayor).

Also appointed was former FOP president Ed Mitchell to replace Don Green, a retired police offi cer, also removed for residency issues.

Sometimes city council votes on the appointments and sometimes not. Council does vote on the appoint-ments to civil service board and the airport authority. Council does not vote on appointments to KCDC or to MPC.

■ Former Vice Mayor Mark Brown (and now county magistrate) married Chenile Crenshaw on Aug. 24 in Memphis at a well-attended wedding.

■ Mark Campen, one of the quieter but thought-ful members of city council, is doing his part to help the city’s census count. He and wife Emily are expecting their second child, a girl, in October. Her name will

Rogero names Vogel to airport

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be Phoebe Quinn Campen. Her older brother is Parson Campen. Congratulations to them.

Two others in the past 50 years have fathered children while serving on council. They are Ed Shouse, now a county commissioner, and Joe Bailey, whose father also served on city council. Only former Mayor Randy Tyree and this writer fathered children while serving as mayor in the last 70 years.

■ Liane Lee Russell who, along with her late husband, Bill, pushed for enactment of the Tennes-see Scenic Rivers Act in the 1960s, celebrated her 90th birthday at the Pollard Con-ference Center in Oak Ridge on Aug. 27. It was spon-sored in part by the Tennes-see Citizens for Wilderness Planning which she helped to create. She is an icon in the conservation movement in Tennessee.

■ Zygmunt Plater, formerly a UT professor, will be back in Knoxville this Thursday, Sept. 12, at Union Avenue Books for a book-signing of his new book, “The Snail Darter and the Dam,” just published by Yale University Press. Plat-er is a professor at Boston College Law School. This is the story of t he Tellico Dam and the years-long battle to halt its construc-tion. It is the fi rst detailed history of this struggle with fi rst-hand details. Excellent history.

■ Jim Haslam, father of Gov. Bill Haslam, is re-covering from knee replace-ment surgery at Knoxville’s UT Medical Center a few weeks ago.

The best line of the past week came from Ann Dyer, the new fi nance director in Union County. Asked why the medical cost for inmates continues to exceed its bud-get, Dyer said, “We always start out hopeful.”

That line sums up the relationship between Knox County Commission and the Knox County Board of Education as each group starts anew with fresh lead-ership.

Brad Anders got the job he should have had last year when Tony Norman came out of nowhere to be elected commission chair.

Anders, in this writer’s opinion, was being punished for considering the school board’s budget request. He never voted for it. He never made a motion to adopt it.

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He just considered it and therefore he was suspect.

Norman, an otherwise kind and gentle soul, made no bones about his dislike of Superintendent Dr. Jim Mc-Intyre and his disdain for the proposed budget which could have required a prop-erty tax increase. Voting for Norman were R. Larry Smith, Jeff Ownby, Dave Wright, Amy Broyles and Sam McKenzie.

Much of the same crew voted Sept. 3 for Smith to succeed Norman, but Bro-yles and McKenzie switched to Anders who won 6-4. (Richard Briggs, an Anders vote last year, was absent for a medical mission.) Smith was retained as vice ch air.

The school board succes-sion was much more order-ly. Vice chair Lynne Fugate moved up to replace Karen Carson. Gloria Deathridge moved in as vice chair.

Bottom line: Brad An-ders is gruffer on the sur-face than is Norman, but he will be a calmer, less volatile chair. Fugate has potential to be more abrasive than Carson, but we’ll have to

Brad Anders Lynne Fugate

NOTES ■ West Knox Republican Club

will meet Monday, Sept. 9, at

Red Lobster, 8040 Kingston

Pike. Charme Knight will

speak. Dinner begins at 6

p.m. and the meeting begins

at 7 p.m. Info: knoxgop.org

■ Fountain City North Knox Republican Club will meet

Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Shoney’s,

4032 Broadway. Dinner

begins at 6 p.m. and the

meeting begins at 7 p.m. Info:

knoxgop.org

■ East Knox Republican Club will meet Thursday, Sept. 12,

at O’Charleys, 3050 S. Mall

Road. Dinner begins at 6 p.m.

and the meeting begins at

6:45 p.m. Info: knoxgop.org

Tony Norman Karen Carson

see. She didn’t make a vic-tory speech.

Both leaders are plan-

ning to play nice. And the community is starting out hopeful.

Thanks to the generosity of Cornelia “Connie” Cum-mings Hunt of Covington, Ga., a large portrait of her great-great-grandfather, Col. David H. Cummings, has come home.

The striking oil painting will become a part of the permanent historical col-lection at the East Tennes-see History Center.

Early in the Civil War, Col. Cummings was chosen as the commanding offi cer of the 19th Tennessee Infan-try, which recruited in eight East Tennessee counties and trained two miles east of downtown Knoxville at the Old Fairgrounds, which was later renamed Camp Cummings in his honor.

David Cummings was born near Abingdon, Va., on April 7, 1818. His early edu-cation was in the Abingdon schools but he moved with his family to Eagle Bend near Clinton, Tenn., in 1834 when he was only 16 years old.

He later read law with Judge Thomas L. Williams, a prominent Knoxville attor-ney and judge, and received his law license in 1843.

Three years later Cum-mings volunteered to serve in the 2nd Tennessee Vol-

sword to Col. F.M. Walker, who had replaced Cum-mings in command of the 19th Tennessee regiment.

When he recovered from his wound, Cummings joined his older brother, Robert Campbell Cum-mings (1811-1892), in busi-ness in Louisiana. Robert owned Chalk Level Planta-tion near Shreveport and was a cotton factor in New Orleans.

Toward the end of the war, the state was bitterly divided and the cotton in-dustry was in utter chaos.

Finally, the Confederacy was so starved for supplies that the Confederate Con-gress authorized the pur-chase of cotton from pro-ducers for sale abroad or even to the enemy to help relieve the pressing need.

His business interests re-quired frequent travel and, not quite three years after the war ended, Col. Cum-mings was ascending the Red River by steamer re-turning to Chalk Level Plan-tation. A mother and child who were ill with cholera were on the same boat. The riverboat’s crew was aghast, the passengers in a panic. Heroically, the colonel at-tended them himself. Cum-mings also contracted chol-era and died of the disease on Dec. 28, 1867, at age 49.

David H. Cummings was buried in Louisiana but his body was eventu-ally brought home to rest in the Cummings-Young Cem-etery at Eagle Bend.

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unteer Infantry Regiment early in the Mexican War (1846-1848).

He was recommended for a leadership role and was soon elected colonel of his regiment. The regi-ment fought at Puente de Morena near Vera Cruz and in the Battle of Cerro Gordo, where Cummings suffered a severe gunshot wound to his foot. It left him with a noticeable limp for the rest of his life.

When he returned home from the war, he quickly arose to prominence in the legal profession and, by 1845 he was elected attor-ney general for the Second Solicitorial District.

In 1853, Cummings was appointed Clerk of the Fed-eral Court of the 2nd Judi-cial Circuit, which included several counties in East Tennessee.

During this time the Cummings family main-tained dual residence in the Mansion House in Knox-ville and at the plantation at Eagle Bend, which he and his father owned.

After the 19th regiment underwent several months of training in Knoxville, they participated in some of the earliest battles of the

war in the western theater. Cummings led them dur-

ing the engagement at Camp Wildcat (Rock Castle), Ky., on Oct. 21, 1861.

On Jan. 19, 1862, the 19th fought in the Battle of Mill Springs, Ky., where Gen. Felix Zollicoffer was killed, leaving Col. Cummings in temporary command of the brigade.

Their next major engage-ment was at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tenn. (April 6-7, 1862), the fi rst battle of the war to in-volve massive numbers of troops.

The Confederates under Gen. Albert Sidney John-ston numbered 44,000 and the Union troops under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant num-ber 39,000, later augment-ed by Gen. Buell’s 36,000 troops.

During this battle the 19th regiment participat-ed in the attack on Gen. Benjamin J. Prentiss’ and Gen. John A. McClernand’s troops.

On that fi rst day of the battle, the troops fought stubbornly for three hours at the Hornet’s Nest, with both sides suffering appall-ing casualties in vicious combat. The Confederates fi nally prevailed and the three Union divisions were overrun.

Approximately 2,000 Union survivors and their general were captured. Cummings was wounded early in the engagement and Prentiss surrendered his

Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 • 5

Eighteen old Vols are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Bernard King is the fi rst former player in the Naismith Memorial Bas-ketball Hall of Fame. Think about that – 18 to 1. Is Ten-nessee a football school or what?

Hall of Fame fi nally admits Bernard King

Marvin West

Bernard was enshrined Sunday in Springfi eld, Mass. The honor was a long time coming. Ages ago the Ernie and Bernie Show packed Stokely Center.

After that, it took years and years of repeated nominations to convince

selectors that the best-ever Volunteer and former NBA great deserved a place among the immortals.

There never was any question about basketball talent and accomplish-ments. The honors com-mittee was undoubtedly waiting to see how King, 56, turned out as a man.

The same might be said of former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian. He, too, made a few waves.

In addition to BK and Tark, this class featured Louisville coach Rick Pitino and former Houston coach Guy Lewis.

Sorry the hall took soooo long to recognize Bernard. Ray Mears and Stu Aber-deen would have really en-joyed the occasion.

It was Stu, a New York-er, who persuaded King to come from Brooklyn to

join fellow New Yorker Er-nie Grunfeld for the best of times at Tennessee. It was Stu who stayed and stayed with the recruiting project when others thought King would not meet NCAA aca-demic standards. Rivals believed that coffee stain on the high school transcript ledger covered a D. Stu, te-nacious researcher, argued it was a B.

Bernard many times tested Mears’ patience but the coach did deep-breath-ing exercises and learned to tolerate this unusual super-star.

Only King would have brought a hamburger and fries to a pre-practice brief-ing. Such meetings were al-most formal.

Nobody would have dared stop the team bus, hop off and jog into a drug store for AA batteries. What

was King to do? His music machine was dragging.

Bernard King, he of fi erce intensity, amazing quick-ness on turnaround jump-ers, very aggressive board play, rare ability to slither through a tiny defensive crack in transition, was three times player of the year in the Southeastern Conference (1975–1977).

He averaged 25.8 points and 13.2 rebounds and racked up a record 62 dou-ble-doubles in 76 career games. Twenty-six times he scored 30 or more. He played with pure passion and despised Kentucky twice that much.

After King’s fi rst appear-ance in Lexington, a taunt-ing UK fan dropped a light-ed cigarette into his hair. Bernard swore he would never again lose to the Wild-cats. He didn’t.

The warrior had a soft-er side. He wrote poetry. I know that for a fact. He wouldn’t let me see but he read to Sarah West.

King scored 19,655 points and averaged 22.5 in the NBA. He scored 60 one Christmas Day and had 50 in back-to-back games for the New York Knicks. He played in four all-star games. His greatest accom-plishment was fi ghting back from a horrible knee injury at the peak of his career.

There was a time when Mark Aguirre said “He was unstoppable. Also unbeliev-able.”

Dominique Wilkins said Bernard was the only man he ever played against who caused fear.

“He scared the hell out of me.”

Knicks fans, late at night, after hard lemonades, will

tell you that Bernard, be-fore the knee injury, was a better small forward than Larry Bird – and a greater scorer than Michael Jor-dan. Even if that sounds crazy, don’t laugh. King was really good.

Bernard had a few minor problems at Tennessee and more serious ones as a pro. Thank goodness, all have been settled, forgiven or forgotten.

For 30 years, he was es-tranged from UT. Bruce Pearl got him back. Bernard spoke to the team and the Tennessee Tipoff Club. He addressed a Greater Knox-ville Sports Hall of Fame dinner. He made sense and looked great in his double-breasted suit.

He adds value to the Hall of Fame. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

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CrossCurrents

LynnPitts

I fi rst learned this verse when I was a very young child.

Roy Rogers and Dale Ev-ans had lost Robin, a Down syndrome child, when she was only two years old. Dale wrote a book about Robin’s short life, and titled it “Angel Unaware.” I asked my mother, who was read-ing the book to me and my brother, what that meant. She told me about this verse

from Hebrews.It was years before I

learned the deeper mean-ing of it: that it was a refer-ence to Abraham’s visitation from the angels (Genesis 18); and the wider meaning: that we are visited by an-gels in this life in the form of dear and beloved friends who bless us.

Let me tell you about two angelic visitations I had just this week.

Old friends Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for

by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

I was shopping far from home over Labor Day weekend: in Durham, N.C., where I knew no one except the dear friends my hus-band and I were visiting. We were in a store that special-izes in fabulous food, as well as ordinary groceries. I was walking toward the front of the store, when I realized that someone had stopped dead, right in my path. (I

had been rubbernecking to that point, astonished at the vast array of specialty, wonderful, exotic, fattening foods available.)

I focused, then, on the smiling face in front of me and realized it was Linda, one of my volunteers from my days at Volunteer Min-istry Center. She had been a special friend there, pos-sessed of a good listening ear and a level head; she was someone whose advice and opinions I valued and sought. She was standing there waiting for recogni-tion to dawn.

When it did, I fell into her arms, and we laughed a lot and cried a little. “What are you doing here?” we asked each other, pretty much at the same time. It seems we were both visiting friends,

and that neither of us had ever been to Durham be-fore.

We were so astonished at the coincidence of our meet-ing that we could hardly get through introductions of her friends and my hus-band. Before she left the store, she came back to give me another hug, and tell me again that I had made an imprint on her heart.

I was basking in the af-terglow of that encounter, when I received an e-mail from the wife of one of my former pastors. Gordon and Mary were dear friends who shaped and formed me when I was a college student trying to fi gure out what I believed and why I believed it.

They moved years ago to Joplin, Mo., and when the

horrible tornado hit there (was it last year or this?), al-most obliterating the town, I could not locate them. An-other good friend, also at the Volunteer Ministry Cen-ter, helped me search, with no luck.

When I got home from my trip to Durham, still glowing from the angelic visitation from Linda, I got an e-mail from Mary, say-ing that she had found me online quite by chance, be-cause they have a friend in their church named Lynn Pitts.

“The Lord is good, all the time,” as the saying goes. However, as Carol, yet an-other of my VMC volunteers reminded me occasionally, “Sometimes He excels!”

Angels unawares, in-deed: one and all.

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Patricia Moore has spent a big chunk of her life at New Hopewell Elementary School.

She has just started her second year as principal. She was a classroom teacher for eight years, beginning in 1995. And she volunteered at the school when her son went there.

In fact, that’s what led to her becoming a principal.

Moore had “absolutely no idea” she wanted to teach when she was a student at Young High School. She skipped a grade so that she could graduate with her boy-friend in 1973; they married in 1974. She went to work in-stead of continuing her edu-cation. Teaching wasn’t even a tickle of an idea.

“I didn’t realize that’s what I wanted to do until my son went through school here, and I volunteered in the kindergarten classroom every week and fell in love with it,” she says. “I had never been to college. It

Betsy Pickle

Patricia Moore at the helm

Student Sage Davis takes notes as Michelle Sands gives instruction of the brochure the design class will make.

Fulton High: Project of a lifetime

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LIBRARY EVENTSBurlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville High-

way, will host the following events. Info: 525-5431.

■ Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2 p.m. – “Word 2007 Basics”: introduces the basic tools and concepts of word processing, using Microsoft Word 2007: simple text formatting, cut and paste, page setup, sav-ing, and more. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Call 525-5431 to register.

■ Monday, Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m. – Family Movie Night: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.”

MARK YOUR CALENDAR ■ Coupon book sales began last week and will go through mid-

September. It’s a good time to purchase one and begin saving at some great retailers.

■ Fulton High School PTSO will meet at 6 p.m. today (Monday, Sept. 9) in the library. Stop by, join PTSO and fi nd out great things about your school. Friday, Sept. 13, Fulton will host Far-ragut in the fi rst home football game of the season. Homecom-ing will be Friday, Sept. 20, against Gatlinburg-Pittman.

■ Austin-East Magnet High School will travel to Sweetwater for football action on Friday, Sept. 13, and then to Carter on Friday, Sept. 20. It will host Brainerd on Friday, Sept. 27.

■ Carter High School football has a bye this week and will host Austin-East on Friday, Sept. 20.

Patricia Moore. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Students in Sandy Camp-bell’s Digital Art and Design II class at Fulton High have been asked to complete the project of the lifetime. Good things can happen when you have a team of students that attend a state and nation-al competition and bring home fi rst- and fourth-place honors respectively. Expect people to notice.

The students are current-ly working on a brochure for the Magnet Schools of America to promote their organization. When com-pleted, the brochure will be distributed nationwide to show what the schools have to offer students. The best part is that it will showcase the talent of the students from Fulton High in Knox-ville.

Members of the design team include Zoe McKin-ley, Mark Ogle, Parker Hall, Charles Stansberry, Alexa Caylor and Sage Davis.

Each student has ideas, and they are working to-gether to design something wonderful.

“It will look great if we put all of our ideas together into some amazing bro-chureness,” declared Mark Ogle.

OK, so ‘brochureness’ isn’t a real word. But I know what Ogle meant. He wants the group from Fulton to put their mark on the world of graphic design.

Inspiring and being inspired

While at Fulton, I met a yearbook student named Simmone Davis. We spent a few minutes talking photog-raphy, and she asked me for some pointers on doing her

job even better.Her enthusiasm for pho-

tography just warmed my heart and put a little bit of a fl ame back into my pas-sion. She is the type of stu-dent who will do well. She is enthusiastic and eager to learn. I look forward to see-ing Simmone around Fulton more often when I visit.

Celebrating Reward Schools

My favorite part of the school beat is celebrating successes and achievements of the staff and students. Those celebrations are even more special when I’m de-livering a box of freshly baked cookies from Rita’s Bakery to schools that were honored as a 2013 Reward School.

First stop was at Carter High School where I met the new principal, Ryan Siebe. When I explained the rea-son for my visit, he quickly mentioned that he wasn’t at the school when it achieved its goals, but I am willing to bet money that he enjoyed at least one cookie.

The next stop was the L&N STEM Academy where I met up with assistant prin-cipal Jason Webster and principal Becky Ashe.

On each box of cookies was an ad from the Shop-per-News saluting each of the Reward Schools.

Ashe saw it and said, “I just cut that out and posted

Ryan Siebe, new principal at Carter High School, gets cookies from Shopper-News.

it for the teachers.” Webster, a former assistant principal at Halls High School, was pleased to see the Shopper back in his territory and said he would have been just as pleased had a box of cookies not been present. Hmmm.

Heard in the hallwaysWhen I visit schools I

love to talk to students and see how their day is going. At one elementary school, a little boy ran up to me, hugged me around the legs and said, “I’m so glad you are here today!” I think he mistook me for someone else, but his hug was given to someone needing it that morning.

Last week I was leaving Fountain City Elementary when a 1st grade class was walking out of the build-ing. A student was holding

Jason Webster and Becky Ashe, leaders at the L&N STEM Acad-emy, get Shopper cookies. Photos by Ruth White

the door open for her class-mates and asked if I wanted her to hold the door open for me. I said, “Let me hold it for you.”

She looked up at me and said, “You’re peach like me. But you’re peach-er.”

Her sweet innocence put a mile-wide smile on my face. Now that all schools have a security button on the front door, I have to ring the bell and announce my-self. At Norwood Elementa-ry I heard the secretary say,

“May I help… Oh, Shoppers!Come on in!”

Her enthusiasm made mesmile.

Yearbook student Simmone Davis documents the event.

FulCom student Zoe McKin-ley listens during a Skype session with Michelle Sands, membership coordinator with Magnet Schools of America.

REUNION NOTES ■ The Central High School Class of 1978 will hold its 35th reunion

at Beaver Brook Country Club from 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.14. The cost is $25 per person, which can be paid at the door. RSVP to Ronnie Booker, 688-8779.

■ Beta Sigma Phi Sorority reunion for all former and present members will be held 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, at the BSP Chapter House, 1411 Armstrong Ave. The sorority’s First Ladies of Knoxville are invited. Info: Shirley Rouse, 531-1467.

CHURCH NOTES

Special services ■ The Church of God of Knoxville, 5912 Thorn Grove Pike, will

host its annual Camp Meeting on Monday through Friday, Sept. 16-20. Services will be 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day. Everyone is welcome. Info: Pastor Robin L. Thames, 748-5403.

took me a while to convince my husband, but when my son started middle school, I started college.”

Moore was the poster child for nontraditional students.

“I did the fi ve-year pro-gram in four years,” she says, earning her bachelor’s in human learning and be-havior and her master’s in curriculum and instruc-tion from the University of Tennessee. She made every credit hour count.

“I knew exactly the class-es I had to have to graduate, and I knew I was going to need one (more credit) hour, so I took a tennis class,” she recalls. “So I had the exact number of hours you had to have to graduate.”

Her fellow students nick-named her “Dr. Moore” because of her knowledge of the program and its re-quirements, but she hasn’t gone after a doctorate – yet. She decided to get her Ed.S. (education specialist) degree after she had been in the classroom for about

10 years, fi rst at Gap Creek Elementary, then at New Hopewell and Carter El-ementary.

“Teaching was fi ne for those fi rst 10 years, but I knew I needed something else,” she says. “I did an af-terschool science club for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. I did

a lot of things so I could, I guess, touch more children and help them.

“It just suddenly felt like teaching wasn’t enough.”

Moore earned her Ed.S. from Lincoln Memorial University while working as a curriculum coach at Mooreland Heights Elemen-

tary. She taught on week-days and went to classes on Saturdays.

“My camping really suf-fered that year and a half,” she says. Degree in hand, she spent two years as an assistant principal at Inskip and then four years at Gap Creek as principal before returning to New Hopewell last year.

She likes the Common Core initiative and the em-phasis on higher standards. It’s not that children today are that much smarter than previous generations:

“We just have to move faster in order to compete,” she says.

Moore thinks New Hopewell stands out be-cause of teacher collabora-tion.

“Our test scores jumped from 2s to 5s, from just last year,” she says. “It’s like I tell the parents – it wasn’t just a teacher; it was every-body. Everybody helps here. … Our Encore teachers are in th e classroom, teaching.”

Senior Appreciation PicnicKnox County Mayor Tim Burchett will host the

seventh annual Senior Appreciation Picnic from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at John Tarleton Park, located at 3201 Division St. The event is free to all Knox County seniors. The picnic will include lunch, live music and a mini-health fair. Any senior planning to attend is asked to RSVP by Friday, Sept. 20, by call-ing 215-4007.

Challenge Grant applications availableThe Knoxville Parks and Recreation Department is

accepting applications for its 2013-14 Challenge Grant Program, which offers grants to nonprofi t projects associated with public parks or recreation facilities within the city limits.

The grants are available this year to 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6) status community groups, homeowner associations, schools, scout troops and other organizations. Recipients of a Challenge grant will be reimbursed 50 percent of the cost of a single project, up to $2,500.

The deadline for applications is Monday, Sept. 16. Applicants will be notifi ed and announced by Wednesday, Oct. 16. All project work must be com-pleted by Friday, May 30, 2014. Info/applications: www.cityofknoxville.org/recreation/challengegrant.pdf or 215-2017.

Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 • 7

Our week was shortened by the Labor Day holiday, so Sandra Clark and I got in just two business visits last Tuesday. Both owners are local legends!

Allen Sign: Tom Allen has weathered a recession and bridge closure, but Al-len Sign has survived and prevailed.

“We lost about half of our walk-ins and half of our re-tails sales,” Tom said. “We laid off eight employees and switched gears.”

Allen Sign is located at 2408 Chapman Highway,

Tom Allen

Meeting two legends

Nancy Whitaker Mike Frazier

just a block from the Henley Bridge. The business sells fl ags and fl agpoles, does engraving and banners, and makes back-lit signs. There’s an in-house design team. The decreased foot traffi c led Tom into more service work.

“I’ve had something to do with probably one out of fi ve signs in Knox County,” he said. “We specialize in corporate and commercial signs.”

Tom is both decisive and aggressive. Once a Kentucky printing company started advertising in Knoxville, so Tom launched some ads in Kentucky. As a result, he got the banner printing for the Kentucky Derby.

Allen Signs makes fl ags for TVA in a 7-state region. He recently redid the street signs for Oak Ridge. He in-stalled the 100-foot fl agpole

in Black Oak Plaza in Halls.Tom started the business

while in college (he earned a degree in business admin-istration from UT), and is now in his 30th year. He’s got a second offi ce at 8403 Kingston Pike near Walker Springs.

Info: 573-3524, 558-3523 or tom@vexus.com.

Knox Rail Salvage: Mike Frazier peers like an owl from his balcony of-fi ce, signaling his daughter, Nancy Lee Harbison, to talk to us.

“I think they want to talk with you, Dad,” she says.

The sign reads: Founded in 1980. It could have been 1880. A walk through Knox Rail Salvage is a step back in time.

The warehouses were built along the railroad tracks for a reason. Freight trains unloaded their wares

in the multi-story brick structures. From there, wagons and later trucks hauled stock into the coun-tryside.

Mike Frazier owns three old warehouses (that we know of) with retail outlets at 400 E. Jackson Avenue and 200 E. Magnolia Av-enue. He also owns the old White Lily building which he uses for storage and re-cently shared a portion with developer David Dewhirst to make into condos.

Those old brick buildings are built to last.

The secret of Mike’s suc-cess?

“Worked hard. Long hours. Took chances.”

In addition to his daugh-ter, his son-in-law Joel Piper works for the business. And Mike’s wife, Betsy, runs the Angelic Ministries, located in the old Merita Bread

building on North Central. There’s a rumor she doesn’t charge rent to her ministry.

Knox Rail Salvage sells kitchen cabinets, windows, vanities, mirrors, doors, sheet rock, roofi ng shingles, ceramic tile, wood and vinyl fl ooring, carpet and lumber. Well, that’s all Mike got out before stopping to take a breath.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.

“I grew up in Grainger County, the baby of 10. Why, I didn’t get any new clothes until I was in high school!”

Things have changed for Mike Frazier. Now he’s got three shirts and two pairs of jeans. Sandra Clark contributed to this report.

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By Sherry WittSeveral large commercial

real estate transactions helped boost total prop-erty sales in Knox County to more than $250 mil-lion during the month

of August. There were 950 property transfers recorded in Knox County – about 60 fewer than those recorded in July, but more than 100 bet-ter than last August’s totals. The aggregate value of prop-erty sold even bested July’s output of $248 million.

By comparison, in Au-gust of 2012 about $142 million worth of land was transferred.

It was a banner month for mortgage lending as well with just over $403 million borrowed against real prop-erty in August. That eas-ily topped the $349 million loaned in July, and also sur-passed last August’s fi gures by about $80 million.

The largest mortgage transaction was a $27.5 mil-lion loan fi nancing a devel-opment known as Walker’s Crossing Properties.

The commercial real es-tate market experienced something of a mini-boom in August. Among the more noteworthy transactions was a sale of property on Executive Park Drive to Bryn-Mawr Estates Part-nership L LC for $18.75 mil-lion. Close behind was a parcel in Northshore Town Center Phase II, which sold for $17,769,231.

The $251 million in prop-erty sales was the highest aggregate monthly total since October 2011 when the Mercy Health Systems facil-ities were sold to Tennova.

On behalf of all of us at the Register of Deeds offi ce, I would like to wish a happy birthday to Faye Smith, who turned 75 on Sept. 4. Faye was our offi ce manager, and was with the Register of Deeds for 43 years before her retirement in 2006. We still miss her, and we wish her all the best.

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Is it safe to invest your hard-earned money in an East Knoxville business?

You bet. Sam’s Club, lo-cated on Millertown Pike, is investing nearly $8 mil-lion in a net 24,000 square foot addition to its existing 115,000 square foot build-ing located near Knoxville Center mall. (I said “net addition” because the con-tractor is actually adding 31,700 square feet of new structure after demolishing the old automotive section of roughly 7,000 square feet).

The expanded building will allow Sam’s to have a much better automobile service area and enhanced merchandise display. New features include a specialty electronics center, a hearing

Expansion is underway at Sam’s Club near Knoxville Center. Photo by Nick Della Volpe

Sam’s Club invests in East Knox store

aid center to complement its vision/eyeglass service, an expanded bakery and meat sales counter area, more room for administrative of-fi ces for store management, a new pharmacy and a bet-ter checkout area.

The 140,000 square foot store will be a great addition to the shopping in this part of the city.

The project is expected to be completed by mid-No-vember of this year. A sepa-

rate Sam’s team is handling the interior fi nishes. The original target date was late October, but weather delays affected the early site work. The new building is now well along and will soon be completely under roof, so that construction delays are less likely to occur.

In addition to the interior store expansion, Sam’s is also building a fuel service island or kiosk style service station to provide gasoline

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and Presnell say most of their fellow painters are fe-male. Warren is one of three current male class mem-bers.

“We’ve had several,” he said, “but they don’t stay long.”

The classmates are di-vided into six teams, which rotate lunch duties every six weeks. There’s no charge for the class, and while the painters are expected to bring their own materials, Harris has extras for those who need them.

They have special lun-cheons at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they celebrate everyone’s birth-day – though years are never mentioned. All in all, it sounds like a sweet setup.

Harris says there are other city and county senior centers that offer art class-es, but “I’m sure nobody else has as much fun as we do.”

Baptist reunion From page 1

“I’ve had people ask me, ‘When am I going to get an

invitation?’” Joyce Por-ritt shared. Her reply: “It’s called Facebook.”

At press time, they already had r e s e r v a -tions for

600-plus, about two-thirds of capacity. They’ve dis-tributed fl iers. Boling and Cynthia Campbell reported

a scheduled TV appear-ance.

G l e n d a Darden of Halls start-ed nursing school at Baptist in 1958 and after gradu-

ating worked there for 40 years.

“I retired seven years be-fore it closed,” said Darden.

“These 12 years I’ve been waiting for this reunion.”

The group credits phy-sician David Rankin, who chaired the board when Baptist closed, for coming up with the reunion idea, but he says his contribution was encouraging the right people to lead.

“Patsy and Glenda are patients of mine,” says Rankin, who now is affi li-ated with the University of Tennessee Medical Center. “Usually when people from Baptist come in to the offi ce we talk about Baptist and how it’s family. Patsy and I were talking, and she told me it’s been fi ve years (since the hospital closed).

“And I said, ‘Five years? We ought to have a reunion!’ We started talking about it. I said, ‘Patsy, you need to be head of this.’ She said, ‘Oh, head of what?’

“And then Ms. Darden came in the next week, and I said, ‘You and Patsy need to talk about this.’ So it went

from there.”Boling graduated from

nursing school at Baptist in May 1973 and immediately went to work in orthopedics. She went on to spend 22 years in ICU, then moved to the nursing offi ce in 1997 and stayed until it closed in 2008.

“I was one of the last peo-ple to leave, actually, in the inpatient nursing area, and then we went to St. Mary’s,” said Boling, who’s now re-tired. She’s serious about being part of the Baptist family.

“I felt like I grew up there,” she said. “Being in nurs-ing school there and having all my friends and meeting head nurses and doctors at that time and then working as a nurse, it just really felt like a family. And I can say that I haven’t felt that at any other place that I worked. It’s been great.”

To register offl ine, call 335-5275 or 218-7535 and leave your name, number and address by Sept. 12.

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