{"id":2431,"date":"2010-07-14T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=2431"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:12:12","slug":"oak-level-ruritan-club-organized-1963","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/town-histories\/oak-level-community\/oak-level-ruritan-club-organized-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Level Ruritan Club Organized, 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Oak-Level-Ruritan-Officers-1963.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2437\" title=\"Oak Level Ruritan Officers - 1963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Oak-Level-Ruritan-Officers-1963-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Oak-Level-Ruritan-Officers-1963-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Oak-Level-Ruritan-Officers-1963.png 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW CLUB OFFICERS <\/strong>\u2013 Ben Robinson (left) installed officers of the new Oak Level Ruritan Club Monday night.\u00a0 From left to right are Dan Bone, President; Truman Thompson, Vice President; Jimmy Lewis, Secretary; Pete Pridgen, Treasurer; Charles Bell, Jimmy Dozier, and Charlie Vandiford, Directors. [photo from the NASHVILLE GRAPHIC article] <strong>(Click on Photo to Enlarge)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Submitted by:\u00a0 Ethel Bell<\/p>\n<p>Posted: 12 July 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OAK LEVEL RURITAN CLUB ORGANIZED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE NASHVILLE GRAPHIC, 17 September 1963, page 6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newly-organized Oak Level Ruritan Club received the charter and installed officers at a supper meeting held at Buck Overton\u2019s [Barbecue] in Rocky Mount on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin Sasser of Rocky Mount, governor of the Rocky Mount-Durham Ruritan District, presided at the meeting.\u00a0 Morris Currin of Durham, a director of Rurita National, presented the new club its charter and Ben Robinson of Rocky Mount, a past district governor, installed the new officers.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Bone was named as the first president of the new club.\u00a0 Other officers are Thurman Thompson, Vice President; Jimmy Lewis, Secretary; and Pete Pridgen, Treasurer.\u00a0 Directors elected were Charlie Vandiford, Jimmy Dozier and Charles Bell.<\/p>\n<p>The new club was sponsored by West Mount Ruritans.\u00a0 Gold Joyner, president of the West Mount Club, spoke at Monday night\u2019s meeting on \u201cWhat is Ruritan?\u201d and Aaron Joyner, Vice President, discussed \u201cHow Ruritan Clubs Operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buck Overton, Jr., President of the Benvenue Club and first lieutenant governor of Zones 3 and 4 of the Rocky Mount \u2013 Durham District, welcomed the new Organization.\u00a0 The Oak Level club is the 36<sup>th<\/sup> club to be organized in the district.<\/p>\n<p>At the organizational meeting, the club voted to hold its monthly meetings on the fourth Monday night in each month.<\/p>\n<p>Charter members of the club, twenty six in all are J. T. Thompson, J. G. Lewis, K. E. Bone, Charlie Vandiford, Rev. Brooks Barkley, A. W. Daniel, D. L. Pridgen, J. L. Dozier, Dan Bone, W. H. Culpepper, W. Thompson, Eugene Pridgen, J. S. Langley, J. E. Dozier, Jr.\u00a0 W. H. Edward, Charles L. Bell, Melvin A. Langley, Jimmie Denton, Marvil Daniel, H. Whitfield, J. P. Bone, Paul Bell, A. J. Harper and Aston Dozier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW CLUB OFFICERS \u2013 Ben Robinson (left) installed officers of the new Oak Level Ruritan Club Monday night.\u00a0 From left to right are Dan Bone, President; Truman Thompson, Vice President; Jimmy Lewis, Secretary; Pete Pridgen, Treasurer; Charles Bell, Jimmy Dozier,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/town-histories\/oak-level-community\/oak-level-ruritan-club-organized-1963\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2426,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PGnLa-Dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2431\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}