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Barrister Bullets
MONTHLY MEETING
Plan now to attend the Barristers monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 12, starting at 5:15 pm at outdoor patio at The Firefly at the Hilton, located at 501 W. Church Avenue, Knoxville. Social time starts at 5:00 pm. Register by clicking October 12 on the event calendar at www. knoxbar.org.
VETERANS LEGAL ADVICE CLINIC
The Veterans’ Legal Advice Clinic is a joint project of the KBA/Barristers Access to Justice Committees, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, the Knox Co. Public Defender’s Community Law Office, the UT College of Law, LMU- Duncan School of Law, and the local Veterans Affairs office. This is a general advice and referral clinic which requires attorney volunteers for its continued operation. The next Veterans Legal Clinic will be held in person at the Knoxville Community Law Office on October 12. Sign up at https://www.knoxbar.org/?pg=Upcoming-Legal-Clinics.
VOLUNTEER BREAKFAST COMMITTEE CONTINUES OPERATIONS
The Volunteer Breakfast is a recurring event on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:15 a.m. at the Volunteer Ministry Center, located at 511 N. Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee. The Barristers Volunteer Breakfast Committee always needs volunteers to serve food or sponsor. The cost is $150 for sponsoring, and we need 4-5 volunteers. If you are unable to fund the breakfast, the Barristers will subsidize the cost of the breakfast. We meet at 6:15 a.m. and serve breakfast to approximately 30-40 individuals, generally leaving the site around 7:30 a.m. It’s a great way to serve the community! Please contact either Matt Knable at (865) 360-5044 or Laura Wyrick at (865) 297-5511 with any questions and/or about volunteering.
BARRISTERS HUNGER AND POVERTY RELIEF COMMITTEE
The Knoxville Bar Association Barristers Annual Coat Drive will begin on October 7 and run through October 21. The Barristers have partnered with Knox Area Rescue Ministries with the goal of collecting coats for those in need in our area. The Barristers Hunger & Poverty Relief Committee is asking for gently used men’s and women’s jackets and coats, including jackets, coats, parkas, dusters, raincoats, and trench coats. Please do not donate any non-coat or jacket items or items with holes, stains, or rips, as they will not be accepted. The initial donation locations are Bank of America Building, First Horizon Building, Riverview Tower, Knoxville Bar Association Office, LMU Duncan School of Law, UT College of Law in the Commons Area and at Baker Donelson in West Knoxville. If you are willing to volunteer to pick up items from any of the locations and drop them off at the KBA Office during business hours or help sort coats on October 25 at 5 pm, please contact Committee Co-Chair Jordan Houser at jordan.houser@lmunet.edu.
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visited Sept. 10, 2022. 8 Cooper, supra n. 3. 9 Boyd, supra n. 2. 10 Id. 11 Kathleen Fargey, AAMH-FPO, 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, U.S. Army Center of Military History (Feb. 14, 2014), available at https://history.army.mil/html/ topics/afam/6888thPBn/index.html 12 Id.; see also Boyd, supra n. 2. 13 Naval History and Heritage Command, Battled of the Atlantic, https://www.history. navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1942/ atlantic.html, last visited Sept. 9, 2022. 14 Charity Adams Early, One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC (Texas A&M Univ. 1989). 15 The three women, Sgt. Delores Browne, Pfc. Mary Bankston, and Pfc Mary Barlow are buried at Colleville-sur-Mer-Normandy American Cemetery with full military honors. They are three of the only four women who are buried there. Boyd, supra n. 2. 16 Fargey, supra n. 11. 17 Id. 18 Id. 19 Anonymous WWII Soldier, A Gunner’s Day, available at http://world-war-2.info/ poems/poems_38.php. 20 Fargey, supra n. 11. 21 Id. 22 National Museum United States Army, Ltc. Charity Adams Earley, https://www. thenmusa.org/biographies/charity-adams-earley, last visited Sept. 10, 2022. 23 Dr. Kelly A. Spring, Charity Adams Early, https://www.womenshistory.org/educationresources/biographies/charity-earley, last visited Sept. 10, 2022. 24 Fargey, supra n. 11.
