[Bristol-Birds] TOS State Meeting at Bristol -- what a weekend !
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 19:39:34 -0400
The Tennessee Ornithological Society Annual Spring Meeting at Bristol has come
to a close
and participating birders are far dispersed to their homes in Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama and
Virginia.
Bristol Bird Club members are tired, thankful and home to get off their feet
and rest after
days of hosting birders and making sure the logistics were implemented.
Janice Martin was beaming like the sunrise when Ruth Luckado of the Highland
Rim Chapter
of TOS from Tullahoma, stood at the conclusion of Saturday night's dinner
before the
annual meeting membership to praise the food. She proclaimed that, in all her
years attending
TOS meetings, there had never been a dinner that was ever that good. It was
not only
delicious and varied but it was as well presented with excellence of eloquence
as could be imagined
for such an event. It was simply beautiful. I don't remember any time that so
many people
out of the audience rushed forward with cameras to take photos as they did just
before the
serving line opened.
Other BBC members had a lot to be proud about:
field trips: Larry McDaniel, John Moyle, Dick Peake, Rick Knight, Rob Biller,
Jeremy Stout,
Dave Worley, Bill Grigsby, Ron Harrington, Mary Erwin, Richard
Lewis.
dinner speaker selection: Larry McDaniel, Wallace Coffey
registration, sign in, visitor packets: Janice Martin, Bill Grigsby, Wallace
Coffey, Ron Harrington,
Mary Erwin
BBC display, signage: Ron Harrington, Bill Grigsby, Zellie Earnest, Dave
Worley
finances: Janice Martin
BBC book sales: Wallace Coffey, Janice Martin.
facility reservation: Ron Harrington
hotel rooms: Bill Grigsby
catering. reception, food services: Janice Martin, Mary Erwin,
Bill Grigsby, Jacki Hinshaw, Joan Harrington, Ron Harrington, Fred Martin.
table arrangements, decorations: Jacki Hinshaw
door prizes: Zellie Earnest, Rob Biller, Ron Harrington, Dave Worley, Wallace
Coffey.
Bill Grigsby.
Among the known birding highlights at this moment was a Merlin perched within a
few feet of
Sunday's Laurel Bed Lake field trip group on Clinch Mountain. The Virginia
Rail found
at the Steele Creek Park wetlands was a new park record for the species.
BBC member Wilma Boy joined the ranks of current club members nursing a broke
arm.
Wilma fell Friday night at her hotel room and was taken to Johnston Memorial
Hospital
emergency room in Abingdon. She was out early, sporting a splint and sling to
take part
in a TOS state meeting Saturday morning field trip. She
joined Judy Roach who feel down a slope at Kingsport, TN while on a wildflower
walk
and is sporting a cast and sling on her arm but she made the TOS annual banquet
this
weekend. Carolyn Coffey recently broke both bones in her left forearm when she
feel at
the South Holston Weir Dam. After emergency surgery for the breaks and open
wound and
a 10-day hospital stay, her splint and sling are gone but she still enjoys two
metal plates
and 12 screws in her arm.
What a weekend !
Let's go birding......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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