Club Business
With President Dick O’Donnell out of town with family, President-Elect Brooke Carpenter presided. Micah Fox led the prayer and pledge.
13 Club members attended the Zoom meeting
There were multiple guests:
- Randy and Bill Cary – invited by Sid Little (Randy is a former member of our club)
- John David Wagoner – Financial Advisor with Edward Jones in Mebane
- John Pleasants – guest of Jim Cartner and Dick O’Donnell – Sells copiers and printers
- Savannah Berntson – WAHS Interact
On this date in history:
- 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes was named as president by the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote
- 1933: King Kong premiers in movie theaters
- 1969: The Concord airliner made its maiden voyage
No club birthdays today.
Jwan Johnson has a birthday on March 3 and Marta Moos has a birthday on March 7.
The following celebrities celebrate birthdays on March 2: Daniel Craig, Jon Bon Jovi, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss).
Brooke Carpenter announced that Hayden Ni, representing our club, competed strongly at the district 4-way test, but unfortunately didn’t place. We have a video of the contest. Brooke will present a special award to her at WAHS later this spring.
Happy Dollars:
- Kirk Tucker and his wife went out for breakfast for the first time in six months
- Carolyn Rhode thanked Mike Brown and Andersen Rathbun for providing ACC volunteers with incentive gifts
- Rick Moore and his wife were able to visit family in Wilmington for the first time since March.
Brooke thanked all who had donated to the ARMC / Burlington Beer Works effort to provide meals for essential healthcare workers.
Brooke also said plans were in the works for a fundraiser likely to involve Trivia. Start thinking about who your team might be.
Program: Joel Dobson – Goldsboro Broken Arrow
Sid Little had the program and introduced his guest. Joel Dobson is a former Air Force officer in the Strategic Air Command. He has a commercial pilot’s license, but no longer flies. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is retired from BGF Industries. Sid first encountered Joel at a Life at Elon event.
Joe has written a book, The Goldsboro Broken Arrow about an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 23 January 1961. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3–4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command, Walter Scott Tulloch, ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely; another ejected, but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating. Obviously, the worst possible scenario did not happen, and Joel Dodson has done a tremendous job in giving us the full story of how the accident happened, as well as the story of the brave men and women who were tasked with cleaning up the site. For anyone wishing to know just how close we came to what could have been the worst nuclear accident in US history, this is the book to read! (this is a compilation of Amazon summary and reviews)
Here are links to find out more. It’s a fascinating telling about how close we came to a horrible nuclear accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
https://www.amazon.com/Goldsboro-Broken-Arrow-January-Potential/dp/1483401324 (Specify 2nd edition)
Joel answered various questions at the end
Conclusion
Brooke wrapped up the meeting with the Four-Way Test.