VOL. 52 NO. 35
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Miracle Maker
Leslie Howe didn’t write the book on math, but she did write the computer program on it. Make that “programs.” A math and computer science teacher at Farragut High School since 1985, Howe has written more than 400 computer programs to help teachers help students find the best path to learning.
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Beaver Dam church bell restored
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Halls 4 Life Halls High School’s new athletic director Mike Wise has started an all-encompassing athletic initiative for studentathletes and the community. This program is an outreach that will connect the past, present and future of athletes at Halls High.
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Brad Walker stays busy with band Brad Walker has been a busy boy. In addition to continuing work with his popular big band orchestra, Walker, a 2004 Halls High School graduate, has also launched a monthly dinner/dance concert series at The Orangery.
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See Jake Mabe’s story on page A-3
Improvement is coming (soon) There are reasons to believe even the immediate future will be better than the past. As you may have heard, Tennessee football is facing a trap game in Western Kentucky and things really get tough after that. “No matter what happens at Oregon and Florida, keep believing that success is again in sight, out there on the horizon. If you can’t see it, get out your telescope,” Marvin West writes.
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Busy bees When you hear the word “bees,” most of us immediately think of honey bees, those industrious, job-focused little insects that live in hives, work on clover blossoms and make us honey. All that’s true, of course, and they’ve been doing just that for a long time. But there’s a lot more to the bee story than just honey.
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Dedication service is Oct. 6 By Jake Mabe Beaver Dam Baptist Church and the Halls Crossroads Women’s League have spearheaded a project to restore the church bell that was saved when the old church building burned in 1948. The bell has been placed in a monument, which is located at the corner of the church property closest to the original Halls Crossroads – Emory Road and Andersonville Pike. A special service to dedicate the bell monument will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. The church sanctuary, which had stood for more than 100 years, was accidentally burned on Oct. 20-21, 1948. According to a church history prepared by Mary Sue Beggs Miller in 1959, the blaze started in the furnace room, where a fire had been built to heat the church building before prayer services. “The project to display the historical bell began with the Women’s League in 2007,” says League member and 54-year church member Alice Loy. “Betty Hensley, also a member of Beaver Dam and of the HCWL’s preservation committee, met with members of the church
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These two plaques have been placed on the monument to commemorate the work of the church and of the Halls Women’s League to restore the bell. Photos by Jake Mabe
staff and Keith Walker, chair of the church building and grounds committee.” A bell monument plan was designed and the League designated $1,000 toward construction of the display, Loy says. Both parties decided to postpone the project for a few years because the church was paying off building debt as its first financial priority. The Women’s League revisited the project in July 2011. Church pastor Dr. Alan Price and members of various church committees designated church members as volunteers to help
with the project as soon as the road improvements to the Emory Road/Andersonville Pike intersection were completed. The church had also paid off its building debt and the Women’s League committed another $1,000 toward the project. Professional brick mason Phil Lay and creative designer Alan Summers both volunTo page A2
Allen Morgan: the guy can’t keep a job By Sandra Clark It’s been 15 years since Allen Morgan’s surprise resignation as superintendent of Knox County Schools. It was a jolt for KCS, especially when his top assistant, Shirley Underwood, followed. Morgan was our last elected superintendent. Morgan, now 66, then joined Jim Clayton and worked 10 years as president of CMH Parks, leading a team of 300 to develop some 22,000 homes in communities across the country. He retired again, taking four years off to earn a pilot’s license and lower his golf score. Then, on March 12, 2012, he accepted a new job as athletic director at Carson-Newman University. The guy is full of surprises. Underwood, now 70, claims almost retirement after a decade of education consulting. She’s given
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The Beaver Dam Baptist Church bell, which was saved when the church building burned on Oct. 20-21, 1948, has been restored in a joint project by the church and the Halls Crossroads Women’s League. It has been placed in a monument at the corner of the church property near the original crossroads (Emory Road and Andersonville Pike).
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Morgan-isms
■ Satellite dish – the state flower of West Virginia. ■ Experience – the ability to make good decisions, learned after first making bad decisions. ■ Getting hired – You be the very best at what you are and they’ll come and find you. ■ God needed a big stick in each hand to beat me out of retirement. ■ Being a grandparent is great, but the downside is I have to live with Granny.
away her home office desk and boxes of folders. There’s a good chance both made more money in the 10 years after retirement than in their 30 years as educators. They’re not talking. Allen and Phyllis Morgan are rumored to have set up a fund to help kids at Carson-Newman. They’ve also bought a house in Jefferson City just four doors from
the campus. Allen can walk to work, and he’s given all the players his cell phone number. Phyllis called in the decorator. Their son, Chris, is senior pastor to First Baptist Church of Chickamauga. He and wife Melanie are proud parents to daughter, Collins. That name has a story. But then everything about Allen Morgan has a story.
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Allen arrived at C-N in the fall of 1964. He made the baseball team under legendary coach Frosty Holt and played sparingly that first season. The team won the 1965 NAIA national championship, the school’s first. Allen said his main job was to roll out the batting cage, a chore he relinquished the next year to Dale Rutherford of Halls. (Dale went on to set records that still stand, but that’s another story.) Holt told a colleague that “once that kid from Strawberry Plains knocks the chicken s_ _ _ off his shoes,” he can play some baseball. Allen also ran track – jumping puddles in borrowed shoes. The Carter High School grad found a home at Carson-Newman. It’s an
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