TSGS May 2012 Meeting Highlights
President Don Counts opened the meeting
with some brief business. John West, Nominating Committee Chair,
announced the slate of candidates for the 2012-13 year: President –
Don Counts; Vice-President – John G. West; Treasurer – Diana
Davis; Recording Secretary – Kim Nightingale; Corresponding
Secretary – Sue Hebbeler; Packet Editor – Brenda Legate; Program
Chair – Bettie Cummings Cook, CG with the following Directors: Rena
Goss, Larry Goss, Becky West, Karin Maria Kirsch, Mary Lou Bevers.
In the absence of the current Program
Chair Becky West, John West introduced the guest speaker... Jeannie
Browning Hester, CEO & Owner of Browning Funeral Home. Jeannie
presented a slide presentation that was followed by a live online
demonstration of the Browning Genealogy Online Database. Several new
features were shown with examples of information on some of our TSGS
members that can be found on this database. Perhaps the most used is
the obituary collection from the Evansville newspapers from 1900 to
the present that were compiled by Charles H. Browning over most of
his life. There was lots of interaction throughout the program of
the near 20 persons present.
After the program, the Browning family
gave everyone a delicious cookie for attending, plus they donated a
restaurant gift certificate for a drawing... with Carol Lantaff
winning it. Another drawing for a genealogy T-shirt donated by Gloria Strott was won by Betty Counts! [Corrected donation of T-shirt from Gloria Strott... thanks, Gloria!]
- Compiled by JGWest
