Coming Home Again Vol. 1 Issue 1 Joe Morris
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VOL. 1 NO. 1<br />
April 2019<br />
COMING HOME<br />
JUNE 2019<br />
Mayfield First Responders<br />
LOOK INSIDE!<br />
All the info you need to<br />
live, work & play in<br />
Mayfield & Graves Co.<br />
Mayfield Reunion<br />
Celebrating <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong><br />
20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE<br />
AS HEAD COACH<br />
239-49<br />
PETRA PREG CRUTHFIELD KIM DUBLIN<br />
Assistant to Mayfield First Woman Superintendent<br />
City Mayor<br />
at Graves County<br />
KATHY O'NAN<br />
Mayfield City Mayor<br />
Nathan Kent, Police Chief<br />
Jeremy Creason, Fire Chief/<br />
Ambulance Director<br />
Fire Station #1, City Hall Campus<br />
TERESA ROCHETTI-CANTRELL<br />
First Woman Mayor<br />
City of Mayfield<br />
DEANNA TAYLOR<br />
Owner of Dinner Bell<br />
Restaurant<br />
<strong>Coming</strong> <strong>Home</strong> <strong>Again</strong> is proud the first edition is <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> Celebrating 32 years of coaching. Please<br />
thank all the sponsors that made this edition possible. I had hoped for twenty pages and we had enough support<br />
for 32 pages. We will publish a magazine every time we have ideas and information to present. We plan to bring<br />
stories that are not normally told. Our next edition will feature six women, followed by a magazine for First<br />
Responders, Reunion and <strong>Home</strong>less Youth.<br />
Working on this magazine has been pure joy for me. As a young person football was the only real discipline<br />
in my life. In 1958, Coach Mac’s first year, he made a significant impact on my life. Also was Coach Virgil<br />
Raines first year and since all the mistakes in this publication I am responsible. He would say you got to remember<br />
that Mel was a lineman, what did you expect.<br />
I do not know <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> like many of you know him but four years ago I approached him about an endowed<br />
scholarship like Coach Mac’s. From the beginning he made me aware it was not about him! I made him<br />
aware that the scholarship was about the students that would receive the <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> scholarship each year. I had<br />
planned a <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> Roast to get the scholarship promoted. The day I was to share about the roast on “Tosh<br />
Talks Sports” he said that he did not really want the Roast but we could go ahead. <strong>Joe</strong> does not want the lime light<br />
or public recognition. You see his heart when this year’s team lost the championship game and the press came to<br />
see what he would say. His comments were these seniors have nothing to be ashamed they were 54 and 5.<br />
When he received the Jackson Purchase Coach of the Year award, <strong>Joe</strong> comments were: “There are a lot of<br />
great coaches in the Jackson Purchase that deserve this and I give credit to my coaches and players”, and spent<br />
the rest of the time talking about his players.<br />
Darrell Demoss, Equipment manager for 20 years, told me that Coach Jack, his dad, use to say I can yell<br />
at David his oldest son but if I yell at <strong>Joe</strong> he will just pout.<br />
So the magazine edition is to share some of <strong>Joe</strong>’s life and it is my hope you will be led to contribute to the<br />
<strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> scholarship. Coach Mac’s scholarship (page 15) has been given for 30 years. Five years before Coach<br />
Mac retired a group of former players and fans established this scholarship. If you give now and in the future<br />
this scholarship will also be endowed.<br />
Mel Doughty<br />
PO BOX 751<br />
DENISE THOMPSON<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
President<br />
Mayfield, KY 42066<br />
Additional Pages: Tourism, Summit,<br />
Graves County Growth, Trace Creek?,<br />
1/8 Acree Realty?, 10 banner pages plus<br />
Dairyman’s. 16 pages min.<br />
Fire Station #2, North 16th & Broadway<br />
Fire Station #3, South 10th & Farthing<br />
July 20, 2019<br />
Mayfield High School Commons<br />
<strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong><br />
Scholarship<br />
All Checks for the <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> Scholarship will be made to<br />
the Mayfield Community Foundation. <strong>Joe</strong> will determine<br />
the guidelines for the scholarship, however, the student will<br />
be able to choose any school they want to attend. Plus the recipient will be an athlete for Mayfield High School.<br />
All money will be kept in the <strong>Joe</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> Scholarship fund. We are encouraging those who wish to give to the<br />
Scholarship to consider a three year pledge. Our goal is to have an endowed scholarship as soon as possible. Read<br />
page 6 about a scholarship set up for <strong>Joe</strong>y Fosko and repeating on page 15 read about about the Coach Mac Scholarship<br />
that has been given out for 30 years. Let’s make this happen for JOE MORRIS!
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