NORALA NOTES SUMMER 2016 News from your Alabama District North Civitan Governor Walt Floyd Greetings Alabama Dis- trict North Civitans! Do you realize that we have only three months left in this Civitan Year? All the goals that we set back in September 2015 will be history on Octo- ber 1 st . However, there is great news as you will see! We have reached or exceeded many of our goals. I am pleased to an- nounce that on June 23, 2016 we chartered a new Civitan Club in Scottsboro. This group of new Civitans is full of energy and off to a great start. A special thanks to the South Huntsville Civitan Club for sponsoring the new club. The Certified Club Builders are: Randy Har- vell, Walt Floyd, Julia Floyd, Donna Grice and Catherine Muir. The team was assisted by Master Club Builder Ed Higdon and Certified Club Builder Elizabeth McDowell. Please join me in welcoming the Scotts- boro Civitan Club. Their officers are: Joel Hallman - Charter Presi- dent, Sarah Precise - Charter President Elect, Paul Talley - Charter Treasurer and Susan Ferguson - Charter Sec- retary. You can contact them at: scottsborocivi- [email protected]. We recently had 39 high school students from across the District return from the National Leadership Conference at Harding University in Searcy, AK. Frankie Trammell, District Youth Leadership Chair, did a great job in organizing this event. Bob and Fran Bright (Cherokee County Civitans) also attended as chaperones. Fran had a unique experience while there in that she fell and broke her hip. She had surgery at the Searcy Hospital. Donna and Kala Inside this issue: GOVERNOR-ELECT MESSAGE 3 Junior Civitan 4 Across the District, Centennial Plans 5 Across the District 6 District Awards 6 Scottsboro Charter 7 Youth Leadership 8 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 9 Region 1 Candidate 10 REGISTRATION DISTRICT CON- VENTION 11 ALABAMA DISTRICT NORTH CIVITAN GOVERNOR, Walter Floyd, Jr. [email protected]256-590-5436 Alabama Dstrict North Civitan Summer, 2016 NORALA NOTES Grice ran a rescue trip to bring her back home to Cherokee Medical Center in Centre. Fran is doing well and is recov- ering at home. You may send “Get Well wishes to Fran Bright at: P. O. Box 720, Centre, AL 35960. The District Junior Civitans held their Dis- trict Convention on May 13 th at the NASA Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. They had very good attendance and a great time. Offi- cers were elected for the 2016 -2017 Junior Civitan year. These in- cluded: Nathan Ford, Governor; Tina Huang, Deputy Governor; Jayme Snider, Public Relations Coordinator; Nekhai Ad- ams, Lt. Gov.; Taylor Ad- ams, Lt. Gov.; Danni Jo Grider, Lt. Gov.; Kiley Maddux, Lt. Gov.; Anna Beth Gunderman, Lt. Gov.; Anna Lee Warren, Lt. Gov. Nancy Horton and Kathy Blades will serve as District Co- Chairs of Junior Civitan
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Coordinator; Danni Jo Grider, Lt. Governor, Keiley Maddux, Lt. Governor, Anna Beth
Gunderman, Lt. Governor, Anna Lee Warren, Lt. Governor, Nekhai Adams, Lt. Governor.
Junior Civitan Convention, 2016,
Redstone Space & Rocket Center
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Centennial Committee
The Centennial committee of Alabama District North has brought forth the following sugges-tions for each club in our district during the com-ing year of celebration.
1) Serious and specific efforts should be made to seek positive publicity about centennial year functions in local papers serving that geographic area. This might involve cooperation by clubs which are in close proximity to one another. For example, there are four clubs in the normal distribution area for the Guntersville Advertiser-Gleam newspaper. The Care and Share and the Guntersville Ladies clubs are served by one area director. The Guntersville and Lake City clubs are served by another area director. It would, therefore, be prudent for members of those clubs, via their area directors, to either coordinate on centennial stories or at least let the other director know, in the event that that another club was working on a similar type of article to be delivered to that newspaper. This is not intended in any way to impact articles about a club's activities submitted to the paper which are not geared to centennial emphasis.
2) In a similar vein, any local-focused maga-zines should also be targeted for centennial articles and pictures.
3} Plan and seek publicity at least once during the year on television shows that are local in nature - such as noon talk shows. We hope to involve the Huntsville stations when we have a major event.
4) Prepare a factoid sheet for the local Cham-bers of Commerce, at least noting the centennial year and specifying any such events held by local clubs. In order to regularly be plugged into the "bulletin board" on the Chamber, some clubs have purchased a membership "as a club" in the Chamber. This can provide some perks for clubs, where reasonably-priced dues are avail-able from the Chambers.
All of these suggestions are just ideas for con-sidering when planning events in your individual clubs. The centennial committee, which is open to all who desire to participate, will welcome more ideas from individual clubs. You may pass those ideas along via your area director or by sending them by email to me:
We are in the planning stage for district-wide events. In the meantime, the purpose of centen-nial efforts made by all our clubs is to continue to attract new members to join our efforts to enhance our communities through Civitan activi-ties..
Vina Civitan Mag Bishop
Domino Tourna-ment
The Mag Bishop Domino Tour-nament was sponsored by the Vina Civitan Club. Ms Mag al-ways loved Playing Dominoes and played every year. Ms. Mag went home to be with our Lord this past September. William Bishop son of Mag Bishop presented the 1st place winners awards
to Donnie Hastings and Don Hastings and our 2nd place Winners were Archie Scott and Ray Bohannon.
Vina Civitan Abston/Franklin Scholarship Dinner Vina Civitans were happy to award 4 Scholarships this year. Anna Kay Hol-land Representative for the Franklin Family Presented two Scholarships in honor of her Mother Kathy Franklin. The winners were Lexi Massey and Bayliegh Childers. Leslie Cantrell Russell Representative for the Abston Family presented two Scholarships in honor of her Grandfather James Abston. The winners were Lauren Ashley Brewer and Morgan Highs. All 4 girls received a $1,000
Scottsboro Civitan Club was chartered on Thursday, June 23, 2016. They have 33 Charter Members and
are rapidly recruiting and growing. Congratulations to Club Builders Randy Harvell, South Huntsville Civitan
Club; Walt Floyd and Julia Floyd, Holly Pond Civitan Club; Donna Hill Grice Arab Civitan Club; Catherine
Muir, Somerville Civitan Club. In addition, Ed Higdon and Elizabeth McDowell provided invaluable guidance,
support and structure. The parent club is South Huntsville Civitan Club. Charter officers are President,
Joel Hallman; President-elect, Sarah Precise; Secretary, Susan Ferguson; Treasurer, Paul Talley; Direc-
tors, Randy Harvell and George Brickley; Historian, Sara Haynes.
Scottsboro Civitans completed three community service projects before they were even chartered. There
is a great deal of energy and excitement in and surrounding this club. The rest of us had better watch
out—this club already has set it’s sights on the ‘Big Dog’ award for the District Convention in August.
WELCOME to Civitan and Alabama District North, Scottsboro Civitan Club!
Scottsboro Civitan
Club
Charter Members
Alabama District North Governor,
Walt Floyd presents new Club Char-
ter to Joel Hallman, Scottsboro
Charter Club President.
Club Builders:
Ed Higdon, Cath-
erine Muir, Julia
Floyd, Donna Hill
Grice, Walt
Floyd, Randy
Harvell and
President Joel
Hallman.
Scottsboro Civitan Club
Charter Officers: Joel
Hallman, Sarah Precise,
Susan Ferguson, George
Brickley, Randy Harvell,
Sara Haynes.
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Searcy, AK
YOUTH LEADERSHIP
“It was a wonderful
experience that I will
never forget. The
things I learned and
friends I made will last
the rest of my life!”
National Leadership Forum held at Harding University in Searcy, ARK was a huge success this year! Frankie Trammell, Chair with chaperones Bob and Fran Bright (all of Cherokee County Civitans) attended NLF. Alabama North Civitans took 39 students from North Alabama with a total of 25 Civitan Clubs sponsoring students. There were 6 clubs who sponsored students from other areas. Thank you for all the Civitan Clubs who were able to sponsor students. It is such a wonderful experience for all stu-dents to attend NLF. Dr. Bob Reely, Director of National Leadership Forum retired this year after many years of NLF. Thank you, Dr. Reely, for your service and hard work with the NLF throughout the years. This year was the 60th Anniversary of National Leader-ship Forum. Students sent thank you notes to all clubs who sponsored them and they are willing, if possible, to attend your Civitan meeting and speak about their experiences at NLF. Fran Bright, one of the chaperones, accidentally fell the first day and broke her hip. She had surgery in Searcy, ARK and thank you to Donna Grice and her daughter, Kala for coming to get Fran and transport her to the Cherokee Medical Cen-ter in Centre for her to have rehab. Civitans are CARING and LOVING people! Thank you so much to Donna and Kala! Frankie Trammell, Chair of National Leadership Forum for AL North Civitans 256-490-7652 (cell) [email protected] (email)
Fellow Civitans....bound for Convention next month, Thank you for registering and planning to attend the International convention in Norfolk July 13-16. I look forward to seeing you there. By now, most of you already know that I am a candidate for the office of Director for Region 1. I solicit your vote. It has been my privilege to attend the district meetings of all our districts in Region 1. If you were in atten-dance, you are familiar with my background and experience. However, since some may have missed the intro-duction in those meetings, I will list below some information that will help you in your decision when you vote. I will list items outside of Civitan that have helped me be qualified and prepared to represent Region 1 on the board, plus my experience in Civitan also makes clear than I am dedicated to the cause and deeply involved.
Experience outside Civitan *I earned two degrees from Eastern New Mexico University with a minor in Sociology, training me to study trends and recognize group dynamics in the population or any smaller group. *My whole life has been spent leading groups in religious settings. *Served two terms as a councilman in the 8th largest city in TX *Served as Mayor Pro-Tem and then, Acting Mayor of that city *Owned and operated a real estate firm in TX for 20 years *Have been (and am) president of a not for profit foundation for 10 years *Have been a public speaker all my life and can think on my feet or in debate. *Have maintained the principles of the Civitan Creed all my life.
Experience in Civitan * Member since 2003 * Served as president of three clubs, will be president of two next year * Severed several terms as area director in various parts of the district * Served as Governor Elect 2012-2013 * Served as a distinguished governor 2013-2014 * Club builder in three clubs * Recruited 44 members * Visited every club in our district at least one time and several were visited various times when Governor. * Raised most money in golf tournament one year, second most the following year, and fourth greatest amount last year. * Have attended a major portion of the International Board meetings for the past two years, in preparation to serve as Director, if chosen. I am the only candidate in all of Civitan who has attended those meetings, other than some who are or have run for president- elect, * I am the only candidate for this office that has attended the district meeting of all in our region, to ask for your support.
I hope that you will visit our booth at convention. And, I hope that you will be convinced that I am the best choice for the office of Region 1 Director.
Willie E. Hamblen, Candidate
VOTE AT
CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL CONVEN-TION,
NORFOLK, VA
JULY 13-16, 2016
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