Club History Highlights:

CHARTER YEAR: 1983

Charter Officers:
President: Vernon McBride
Vice President:Leslie Shumake, Jr.
Secretary: Pat Dorr
Treasurer: Tom Curtis
Sergeant-at-Arms: Carl Gargano

Charter Members:
Hugh Allen, Bill Allen, Jere L. Allen, James L. Bonner, Frank G. Burton, Jimmy Carson, G.P. Chandler, Thomas E. Curtis, Jim Davis, Pat Dorr, Carl Gargano, James H. Gray, George Harrison, Neal Hoover, Douglas W. Jones, Julian Jones, M.D., James B. McAlexander, Vernon McBride, Ray Magee, Jack A. Martin, Milton Nichols, Percy Pounders, Jr., Carter Ray Pryor, J. Hank Ray, R. Spencer Ritts, Patrick Robinson, Leslie B. Shumake, David Vanderburg, Trent Walker and James E. Woods.

The Charter Dinner was held:
November 22, 1983. Some 130 area Rotarians attended.

 

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Vernon McBride receiving the Club Charter from District Govener Billy Walton in 1983

Rotary Club of Olive Branch Charter Members
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Hugh Allen receiving the 1st Olive Branch Paul Harris Fellow Award



 
   
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