Elberta High Student Shares Naval Flight Academy Experience With Optimist Club
Elberta High School student Elliott Wyatt told the Optimist Club of Perdido Bay about his time at the Naval Flight Academy at NAS Pensacola.
Adult Literacy Tutor Tells Mobile Rotarians How Grown Students Doubled Their Reading Skills
Lydia Gaudet of Goodwill Easter Seals told the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile about an adult literacy program whose students, most reading below a third-grade level, doubled their skills in…
From Manila to Mobile: Estella Dorn and the Festival That Taught a City Its Neighbors
The executive director of the Mobile International Festival, born in the Philippines and a Mobilian since 1984, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on the event that has introduced schoolchildren to…
Russell Ladd’s ‘Delta Awareness’ Took Sunrise Rotary Into the Mobile-Tensaw Swamp
A twelve-minute film drawn from six decades in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta was the program at the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile on Feb. 4, 2009, along with a warning…
St. Luke’s Headmaster Palmer Kennedy Outlined a High School and a $10 Million Campaign
St. Luke's Episcopal School had bought the old Julius T. Wright campus on University Boulevard and was raising $10 million to add an upper school. Headmaster Palmer Kennedy laid out…
Senior Bowl Week Brought Phil Savage Back to Sunrise Rotary’s Podium
The Mobile native and recently departed general manager of the Cleveland Browns made his traditional Senior Bowl week appearance before the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in January 2009.
Real Estate Economist Don Epley Headlined Sunrise Rotary’s First Program of 2009
With the housing market in free fall and credit frozen, the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile opened its 2009 program year by turning to one of its own members: University…
Lions Club to Roast a Retired Congressman in Mobile
The Mobile Lions Club scheduled its third annual celebrity roast for April 20, 2006, with retired U.S. Rep. H.L. 'Sonny' Callahan as the guest of honor and a lineup of…
Lions Club Prepares to Roast the Outgoing Mayor of Mobile
The Mobile Lions Club scheduled a March 31, 2005 roast of retiring Mayor Mike Dow, with allies and old critics alike lined up to take their turn at the microphone.