2018-19 Offi cers Orman Wilson, President Quinn Roe, President-Elect Bev Leigh III, Vice President Ardis Hancock, Secretary David Jones, Treasurer Betsy Jarnigan, Past President Board of Directors Garrett Powe, 2019 Josh Taylor, 2019 www.tuscaloosaexchangeclub.org Ken Elmer 2020 Whit Whitfi eld, 2020 Wally Burge, 2021 Nick Britto, 2021 September 6, 2018 T U TODAY: Monique Scott Linda Jackson, Editor [email protected] Campaign Director, United Way George A. LeMaistre Society Norman Agnew* Monique Scott, Campaign Director, United Way of West Alabama, [pictured Eric Baklanoff* left] is from Stone Mountain, Georgia. She has her Bachelor of Business Bill Barton* Administration in Finance from the University of West Georgia and her Master James Brown* Milton Collier of Business Administration from Strayer University. For ten years she worked Martha Cook as a banker. J. Sydney Cook III She began volunteering at United Way of West Alabama in 2012 and was Robert Cotton James Cowden* hired as the Campaign Director in January of 2016. She is a member of Henry DeVasher* Friendship Baptist Church where she sings in the choir. She and her husband Mitchell N. Drew* Dewayne have been married for eight years and they have a fi ve year old Karl Elebash* Charles DelGaudio daughter named Jayda. Samuel Gambrell, Jr. Nan Glaus Laura Gregory Tide Trivia (sent by Glen Smith) This Month... Ardis Hancock Thanks to Glen for spotlighting the Crimson tradition! 9/13: Wright Waters Dexter Hancock (former Sun Belt Commissioner) James Hulsey, III* Hoyt “Wu” Winslett, who played for Alabama in the 1926 John Ingram Rose Bowl game against Washington, was an Exchangite. 9/20 Derek Osborn (PRIDE of Tuscaloosa) Tennis Jackson Though the star of that game was George “Wildcat” Wilson, 9/27 Field trip (UA Indoor Tennis stadium) Betsy Jarnigan -Quinn Roe, Programs Chair David M. Jones who was considered the best running back in the nation, Wu William Jordan* is credited with stopping the star. According to Al Browning’s Hubert Kessler* Bowl Bama Bowl, Wilson had turned down $3000 to turn pro, Fuller Kimbrell* Louis Lackey, Jr.* shortly after Alabama accepted the Rose Bowl invitation. Otis Lee* A newspaper report said Wilson wanted to test his line- Bev Leigh, Jr.* crushing power against the Pride of the South. WInslett is Bev Leigh III William Lipsey* credited with sidelining Wilson. How the injury happened Harmon Looney* is a source of debate. At an Exchange Club program held A.J. Martin back in September, 2011, the speaker Lewis Bowling, author Jon McGee Patrick McKane of Wallace Wade, told the Club that Wilson had made a dirty Buck Medley tackle, and UA players were looking to retaliate. Bama was Jim Meherg behind at the half, 12-0, but as Larry O’Neal pointed out at Harlan Meredith* Willis Meriwether that meeting, Bama got all 20 points while Wilson was out of Larry O’Neal the game. Wilson returned in the 4th quarter and Washington M.T. Ormond* scored, fi nishing with 19, but Bama prevailed, 20-19. A.W. Patton, Jr.* Robert Poellnitz “I’ll tell you one thing,” said Luny Smith, UA team Joe Powell manager and reporter, “Wu won that game for Alabama. He Ralph Quarles put Wilson out of the game by kneeing him in the throat.” Lee Rearden* “I ran a reverse at Wilson,” WInslett said, “and they say he David Reynolds* Wu WInslett, Exchangite and standout didn’t get up.” M.L. Roberts* UA player on undefeated Bama’s victorious Wright Ross, Jr.* “The Rose Bowl’s greatest game,” is the way Maxwell 1926 Rose Bowl team. Winslett served as James Russell* Stiles described the Alabama victory in his historical book Glen Smith Exchange Club president in 1933. Munny Sokol* about the Rose Bowl. Russell Stockman* William Tate* Andy Tucker* [from ‘Yea, Alabama’ you have to hum as you read...] Walt Vornbrock* Those who would disrespect Beasor Walker* Remember the Rose Bowl, we’ll win then. Ernest Williams* our flag have never been Hoyt Winslett* Go roll to victory, Hit your stride. George Wright You’re Dixie’s football pride... Crimson Tide! handed a folded one... Jim Zeanah *deceased The Unitor • p. 2 • September 6, 2018 September Birthdays David M. Jones Sept 3 Sam Gambrell Sept 15 Bill Walker Sept 15 Betsy Jarnigan Sept 23 Sam Gambrell provides birthday list. Young Baseball Players Show What’s Really Important PUNS sent by Tennis [sent by Tennis] could at least make contact. Shay swung • A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of At a fundraiser at a school for children clumsily and missed the fi rst pitch. The speaking. with learning disabilities, the father of Shay, pitcher stepped forward again to toss the • Dijon vu - the same mustard as before one of the students, told this story: ball softly to Shay. Shay swung and hit a • Practice safe eating - always use Shay and I walked past a baseball game slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. condiments. being played by some boys Shay knew. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder • Shotgun wedding:a case of wife or death. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they would and could have easily thrown the ball to • A man needs a mistress just to break the let me play?’ I knew most of the boys the fi rst baseman. Shay would have been monogamy. would not want someone like Shay on the out and that would have ended the game. • A hangover is the wrath of grapes. team, but I also understood that if my son Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right • Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form were allowed to play, it would give him a over the fi rst baseman’s head, out of reach of fl oor play. much-needed sense of belonging and some of all his teammates. • Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? confi dence to be accepted. Everyone from the stands and both • Condoms should be used on every I approached one of the boys on the teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to fi rst! conceivable occasion. fi eld and asked (not expecting much) if Run to fi rst!’ Never in his life had Shay • When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I. Shay could play. The boy looked around for ever run that far, but he made it to fi rst • A bicycle can’t stand on its own because guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs base, wide-eyed and startled. it is two tired. and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, • The defi nition of a will? (It’s a dead give he can be on our team and we’ll try to put run to second!’ Shay awkwardly ran on, away.) him in to bat in the ninth inning.’ struggling to make it to the base. By that • In democracy your vote counts. In Shay struggled over to the team’s bench time, the right fi elder had the ball. The feudalism your count votes. and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. smallest guy on their team who now had • A chicken crossing the road is poultry in I watched with a tear in my eye and warmth his fi rst chance to be the hero for his team. motion. in my heart. He could have thrown the ball to • If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put second for the tag, but he intentionally repossessed on a glove and played in the right fi eld. threw the ball high and far over the third- • The man who fell into an upholstery Even though no hits came his way, he was baseman’s head. The opposing shortstop machine is fully recovered. obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and ran to Shay, turning him in the direction of • Local Area Network in Australia - the on the fi eld, grinning from ear to ear as I third base, and shouting, ‘Run to third! LAN down under. waved to him from the stands. Shay, run to third!’ Shay did, grinning • Every calendar’s days are numbered. In the bottom of the ninth, Shay’s team deliriously as the runners ahead of him • A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours scored again. With two outs and the bases circled the bases toward home. All were and taint mine. loaded, the potential winning run was on screaming, ‘Shay, Shay! all the way Shay’ • A boiled egg in the morning is hard to base and Shay was up next at bat. At this The boys from both teams, and the beat. juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away spectators, were on their feet screaming, • He had a photographic memory that was their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’ never developed. Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, • A midget fortune-teller who escapes from Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat and was cheered as the hero who hit the prison is a small medium at large. properly, much less connect with the ball. grand slam and won the game for his team • Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses. However, as Shay stepped up to the ‘That day,’the father said, ending his story, ‘the boys from both teams brought • Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to- plate, the pitcher--recognizing that the piece of true love and humanity into this know basis.