2014-2015 Offi cers Jim Zeanah, President Betsy Jarnigan, President-Elect Bev Leigh III, Vice President Ardis Hancock, Secretary David Jones, Treasurer Chris Kyle, Jr, Past President Th e Unitor Exchange Club of Tuscaloosa Board of Directors Chartered February 9, 1923 • Affi liated with the National Exchange Club Larry O’Neal, 2017 Michael Quinn, 2017 www.tuscaloosaexchangeclub.org Patrick McKane, 2018 Th ursdays at Noon • Indian Hills Country Club • In service to community, state, and nation Orman Wilson, 2018 Garrett Powe, 2019 September 8, 2016 Josh Taylor, 2019 TODAY: Eli Gold, Sports Broadcaster The Exchange Club Board will meet: THE UNITOR Host: Brock Jones Linda Jackson, Editor Friday, September 16th at 11:30
[email protected] I became an Eli Gold fan during Alabama’s TD moments and Bank of Tuscaloosa Board Room goal line stands (I’m not a NASCAR or hockey fan), but I learned George A. LeMaistre Society to love him while watching Bama games on TV with Dianne Norman Agnew* Rumanek. She turns off the sound and tunes in Eli on the radio Eric Baklanoff* just to share his excitement! I met him when I took his book to him Bill Barton* James Brown* to autograph one football weekend to give to my daughter, who Milton Collier was briefl y a color commentator on ESPN Regional radio. -Ed. Martha Cook J. Sydney Cook III Eli Gold, born in 1953 in Brooklyn, NY [where he sold peanuts in Robert Cotton Madison Square Garden as a youth], now resides in Birmingham James Cowden* [he moved there in 1977 to broadcast Birmingham Bulls hockey Henry DeVasher* games and created Bham’s fi rst local sports call-in show] and in Mitchell N.