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Executive Director, Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.
Chartered Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Manager
Graduated from William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1965. | B.A. in History.
Attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Executive Director of Audubon Area Community Services since 1975, leading the agency to thirty times its original staffing level and more than seventy times its 1975 budget level, now with a statewide presence and strong national reputation.
Executive Director of Audubon Area Community Services, Inc's four-county parent agency, Owensboro Area Economic Opportunity Council, Inc., from 1971 to 1975.
Social worker with the Kentucky Department of Economic Security, forerunner of the Cabinet for Health & Families.
Employment counselor, Kentucky Department of Economic Security and the Mississippi Employment Security Commission.
Pastored two Southern Baptist churches - one in Mississippi, one in Kentucky; minister of music at Kreole, Mississippi.
In 1984-1985, one of seven organizers of Leadership Kentucky, of which he is an Honorary Alumnus.
Executive Director Leadership Owensboro, 1984-85. Chairman, Leadership Owensboro, 1997-99. Member of Leadership Owensboro's Charter Class in 1981-82.
In 1987, received Leadership Owensboro's first "Distinguished Leadership Award" and the National Association for Community Leadership's "Distinguished Leadership Award."
Instrumental in helping form Leadership West Kentucky, 1998.
Governor of the then 9,000-member Kentucky-Tennessee District of Kiwanis from 1987-88, earning a "Distinguished Governor" rating; and the Kentucky-Tennessee District was one of five "Honor Districts" worldwide that year..
Instrumental in organizing Kiwanis International's world-wide service program, Young Children: PRIORITY ONE, in 1988-89; and was subsequently International Chairman of the Kiwanis International Committee leading the effort.
Has served as chairman of three Kiwanis International committees since 1990.
Editor of the Kentucky-Tennessee District newsletter, K-T Notes, from 1988-98.
Certified Kiwanis trainer for both club officers training and Kiwanis' Leadership Development Program.
"Historian For Life" for the 1987-88 class of Kiwanis district governors.
Certified Facilitator, Covey "7 Habits of Highly Effective People,"8 Habits of Successful Marriage," "Aligning Goals for Results," "Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities," and "7 Habits of Highly Effective Families."
Has testified before Congressional (U.S. House) committees on several occasions; has twice been invited to the White House - by First Ladies Barbara Bush and Hilliary Clinton.
Served 1990-1996 as a member of the Kentucky Commission on Poverty; in 1995 wrote for the Commission "Uncharted Waters Between the Second and Third Waves - Successfully Navigating the 'Transformational Era' in Kentucky"
1981 Fellow at National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA) in Washington, DC, during which time he wrote, "Why Community Action? A Response to the Heritage Foundation Report." NACAA subsequently published the report and credited it with "saving community action." That year, the core funding for CAAs was recreated in the form of Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), the only funding stream common to all CAAs nationwide.
Member, Investigators Club, Owensboro, Kentucky. | Member, Kiwanis Club of Owensboro.
Enjoys reading, research, and writing. Is a genealogy hobbyist and member of several historical and genealogical societies. Three-time past president of the West-Central Kentucky Family Research Association.