March 5, 2019Bill Books, President

William Woods UniversityFulton, Missouri

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114th Kingdom of Callaway Supper

Both one-room school houses were located in Fulton, Missouri

Lamar School

Hardin School

OfficersBill Books, President

Debbie A. LaRue, DirectorPeggy Smart, Treasurer

H. Dale LaRue, Attendance

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to William Woods University for their teamwork in making yet another memorable night in the Kingdom of Callaway.

114th Kingdom of Callaway Supper ProgramBill Books, President

Dulany Auditorium, William Woods University

Presentation of the Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fulton FFA members Please stand

National Anthem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee “Trigger” Ragan

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Books, President

Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tab Leach

Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Callaway Singers

Introduction of the Guest of Honor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Books, President

Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve McVeighGuest of Honor

Historical Society Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mike Auer, PresidentKingdom of Callaway Historical Society

Distinguished Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Our HousePresented by Dan Tucker

Settler’s Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David J. Shively

Presented by Joe Holt

Nomination of Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill Books, President

Retiring the Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fulton FFA members

Benediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lord’s Prayer Presented in the Language of Sign by Susan Peterson

www.kingdomofcallawaysupper.com www.facebook.com/kingdomsupperVideo provided by David A. Burre, Guest of Honor 1997

Seeing Bill Books raising cattle and growing grapes on the farm where he grew up attending Hardin school, one might assume his life has not been very interesting. How wrong that would be.

After graduating from Fulton High School and then college with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Bill entered the military.

Upon graduation, Bill became a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. After basic, he attended flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and received his flight wings in 1981. From there, you could say, his career took off.

In his 24 1/2 years in the military, Bill has lived the life that most of us know only through books and movies. He became a Master Aviator and Parachute Jumpmaster, grew proficient in flying numerous aircraft, and was deployed or supported many military campaigns—Desert Storm in Iraq; Operation Just Cause-Panama; Restore Democracy-Haiti; Gothic Serpent- Somalia; Endure Freedom-Afghanistan; and Iraqi Freedom- Iraq. He served with the 160th SOAR—Special Operations Aviation Regiment—also known as Night Stalkers.

He has been around the world—Europe, the Caribbean, Korea, the Middle East and other regions. “The most meaningful time was when I got into Special Ops,” he says. He was in the United States Army Special Operations Command his final 12 years in the military. This is where Bill flew with the country’s finest warriors, such as Navy Seal Teams and Army Special Forces and Rangers, on covert missions.

“These are highly trained personnel, a select group of people who can adapt to changing situations and conduct their missions successfully.” Bill flew some such missions, so secretive that he won’t discuss them even now, years later. “They’re the silent warriors. People don’t hear about them unless something goes wrong. If it was on the news, it wasn’t a good thing.”

In Bill’s final assignment, he served as the Director of Special Operation Forces Support Activity, a 1,600 employee organization providing logistical services and equipment modifications for deployed special operations.

In addition to a successful career, Bill would smile and tell you the smartest decision he ever made was marrying his high school sweetheart, Liz who he has been married to for over 34 years. Their union resulted in his proudest accomplishment of having and raising three sons: Madison (a CPA), Will (2nd Leutenant currently in flight school), and Paul (a senior at the University of Missouri). Two beautiful daughters-in-law, Madi and Amy, round out the family. Last year, Will and Amy gave Bill and Liz their first grandchild, Hudson; and in July, Madison and Madi will give them a second grandson.

In 2004, Bill was inducted into the Fulton High School Wall of Fame. He was a 1975 State Wrestling Champion at 145 lbs, In 2013, son Paul also earned state championship—that makes Bill and his son the first father/son state champions from Fulton High School.

Retired from the military, Bill now works full time at Ameren’s Callaway Nuclear Plant as a Maintenance Coordinator and serves as the Chair for the Ameren Military Veteran Employee (AMVE). Son of Lurin and Elizabeth Books, Bill Books is a member and trustee of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, an ever important part of his life and the same church his family has attended since its inception in 1879.

Bill BooksPresident

Bill Books, President114th Kingdom of Callaway Supper

The Books family: Will and wife Amy, Paul, Bill and wife Liz with grandson, Hudson, Madison and wife Madi

LTC Bill Books,Desert Storm, 82nd Airborne

Guest of HonorSteve McVeigh

Steve McVeigh was born to parents Mr. & Mrs. Odie McVeigh of Fulton in 1950. He attended the rural Lamar (one room) Elementary School for eight years and Fulton High School 1964-68 where he excelled in varsity football, track, debate and was elected to the National Honor Society and student body vice president. After graduating from FHS in 1968 as class valedictorian, he attended the University of Missouri at Rolla (now MS&T) under both academic and athletic scholarships where he was a four-year starter letterman on the varsity football team. He graduated with a BS degree in Civil Engineering from UMR in 1972 where he was named the outstanding senior student in Civil Engineering by the Kansas City Chapter of the ASCE. He was also awarded the Distinguished Military Student Award in the Army ROTC program serving as student brigade commander. Upon graduation, he

received his officer commission as 2nd Lieutenant and served in the U.S. Army Reserves until 1980 retiring as a captain. In 2009, Steve was selected to the MS&T Athletic Hall of Fame with the 1969 Football Team and received an honorary

post-graduate Professional Degree at the 2010 fall graduation ceremonies. He remains active in University alumni academic & athletic academies and maintains an endowed scholarship fund in Civil Engineering for worthy Missouri resident students. Since retirement, Steve has also periodically served as a guest lecturer on topics of “international business” for MBA programs at Harvard, Indiana and Rice Universities.

Steve’s hobbies include golf, ancestry research and with his wife, Janet, enjoying their three grandchildren, a vacation home in Southern California and international travel where they have visited 65 foreign countries. Steve’s ancestral roots run deep in Callaway County as a namesake of his Great-Great Grandfather who homesteaded east of Fulton in 1825 from Virginia on the very farm where Steve grew up and remains in the family today. Steve has been a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church (NE of Fulton) since childhood and returns there often for worship while visiting his three siblings and many extended family members and friends still living in Fulton.

Steve has served as an Executive Advisor for the WorleyParsons Group since 2011 providing strategic advice for technical projects and management consulting activities with North American energy companies. Prior to that, he was on the Advisory Board for the Celerant Consulting Company from 2005-2011. He retired from the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies in 2004 after 32 years of service in the domestic and international upstream sector. From 2000-2004, he served as CEO for Sakhalin Energy Investment Company living in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Moscow, Russia. This JV owned partnership-company manages the Sakhalin II Production Sharing Agreement with the Russian Federation and is the first offshore and LNG (liquified natural gas) development project ever attempted in Russia. Under his leadership, Sakhalin Energy and its shareholders (Shell, Mitsui & Mitsubishi) reached a positive final investment decision for a $15+ billion integrated oil and LNG development project and constructed one of the largest and most complex grass-roots oil and gas development projects ever attempted in the world.

Prior to joining Sakhalin Energy, Steve served as VP Production for all of Shell’s domestic USA operations including the offshore Gulf of Mexico starting in 1998. He also served on the Board of Directors for Enterprise Products LLP and Enventure Global Technologies (a Halliburton JV). From 1996-1998, he was Chief Operating Officer for Altura Energy Ltd., a Shell-Amoco-BP partnership for E&P operations in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico. Previously he worked in assignments

of increasing engineering, operations and planning responsibilities in most of Shell’s domestic USA onshore and offshore oil & gas portfolio.

Steve joined Shell in 1973 in Los Angeles, California after graduating from the University of Missouri, Rolla with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. He has been married to his wife, Janet, for 42 years and they currently reside in Spring, Texas near their family of three sons.

The McVeigh family: Back row - L-R: Natalie and Stephen (Skip) McVeigh with children Avery and Aiden. Janet and Steve McVeigh - directly behind Steve is Scott McVeigh, Todd, Melanie and Devon McVeigh.

Steve and Janet McVeigh

1906 W.C. Harris*1907 A.C. Bush*1908 E.C. Henderson*1909 M. Fred Bell*1910 George E. Tutt*1911 Sparrel McCall*1912 E.L. Koontz*1913 J.R. Baker*1914 N.T. Cave*1915 Judson Sanderson*1916 Dr. J.M.Tate*1917 L.U. Nickell*1918 J.S. Morrison*1919 J.H. Atkinson*1920 T.P. Harrison*1921 Fred D. Williams*1922 C.S. Garrett*1923 Ovid Bell*1924 F.C. Stokes*1925 W.E. Jameson*1926 The Reverend S.C. Wood*1927 A.M. Kester*1928 Carl Glover*1929 W.B. Whitlow*1930 Dr. Frank Nichols*1931 E.W. Herndon*1932 W.G. Bedsworth*1933 Boulware H. Jameson*1934 Clayton H. Hook*1935 Geo.P. Johnston*1936 Phil M. Smith*1937 Tyre C. Harris*1938 George L. Carlton*1939 Dr. Franc L. McClure*1940 Jack Garrett*1941 T.H. VanSant*1942 Carter S. Walker*1943 Frank R. Baker*1944 W.S. Armstrong*1945 C.E. Blattner*1946 C.M. Brown*1947 Dr. William Meldrum*1948 Elliott E. Hord*1949 Harry E. Backer*1950 Dr. E. McD. Rusk*1951 Henry Danuser*1952 Joseph W. Grant*1953 J. Frank Hensley*1954 V.E. Reed*1955 J.H. Atkinson, Jr.*1956 Lester Peery*1957 Fred B. Montgomery*1958 Dan Wilson*1959 V. A. Johnston, Sr.*

1960 Robert B. Guthrie*1961 H. Clay McGregor*1962 Ray Stephens*1963 Harry H. McIntire*1964 Guy H. Bezler*1965 James St. G. Tucker*1966 Joe Haden*1967 W. C. Whitlow*1968 John M. Grant*1969 Glen Y. Maupin*1970 Edward Link*1971 Lloyd Harrison*1972 John Payne Harrison1973 Tom A. Herndon*1974 Richard M. Dunn*1975 John C. Harris*1976 George Lewis1977 Robert W. Alexander*1978 William E. Howard 1979 Howard Blattner*1980 T.J. Atkinson*1981 Harvey S. Clapp*1982 Vernon Clatterbuck*1983 Gene C. Maupin*1984 Herbert Duffy*1985 Overton T. Harris*1986 Andy Smart*1987 T.J. Neukomm*1988 Gene Austin*1989 H. Dale LaRue1990 Gracia Yancey Backer1991 The Honorable Gene Hamilton1992 Lewis Baumgartner1993 John R. “Bud” Cox*1994 Joe Crane*1995 The Honorable Joe D. Holt1996 Bobby Fletcher1997 William E. Morgan1998 Dan P. Tucker, Jr.1999 John O. Bell2000 Jerry Austin2001 Susan Grant Krumm2002 Kent Glover2003 William E. Backer*2004 Judy Atkinson Borman2005 Bruce T. Harris*2006 Jim Baumgartner2007 Thomas M. Dunlap2008 Robert G. Wright2009 Clifford L. Nevins2010 Thomas W. “Tom” Howard2011 Dr. Michael T. Basnett2012 Mike Boulware2013 Vicki Backer McDaniel

*Deceased

Past Presidents2014 Ron Elliott2015 Julie Boyd Uhls2016 Ron W. Atkinson2017 Roger Moser2018 Rich Custard

1971 Mrs. Ruth Dunham Dodge, St. Louis, Missouri Dr. Paul Preston Pierce, Alton, Illinois1972 Thomas Mason Meyher, Fort Scott, Kansas1973 Dr. John O. Esslinger, Birmingham, Michigan1974 Carl D. Alberts, Schenectady, New York1975 James A. VanSant, St. Louis, Missouri1976 Joseph B. Dudley, Springfield, Missouri1977 RADM John C. Barrow, Alexandria, Virginia1978 Frances McCall, Washington, D.C.1979 Theodore R. Zickos, Sheffield, Alabama1980 John Marshall Guthrie, Charles, Indiana1981 Charles W. Rootes, Leawood, Kansas1982 Donald O. Mirts, Knoxville, Tennessee1983 Captain James Vernon Davis, Moscow, Indiana1984 Orville Amyette, Paducah, Kentucky1985 Colonel John H. Atkinson, III, Garland, Texas1986 J. Samuel Smart, Croton-On-Hudson, New York1987 Helen Herring Stephens, St. Louis, Missouri1988 John W. Allen, Seattle, Washington1989 Dr. Jerry D. Kennett, Columbia, Missouri1990 John A. Ferrugia, Denver, Colorado1991 George M. Rootes, Sewaren, New Jersey1992 Colonel Philip Glenn, Fort Bragg, North Carolina1993 Charles L.“Chuck” Souther, Brandon, Mississippi1994 Carol Grant Otto, Providence, Rhode Island1995 Dr. Jo Haden Behymer, Columbia, Missouri1996 Dr. J. Kent Bryan, Melbourne, Florida1997 David A. Burre, Roswell, Georgia1998 Dr. Tom A. Fisher, Starkville, Mississippi1999 Douglas C. Danuser, Huntington Beach, California2000 Lawrence “Larry” Beaver, Osage Beach, Missouri2001 William F. Baker, Evanston, Illinois2002 Walter H. Sanderson, Chicago, Illinois2003 William Elgin Dozier, Dallas. Texas2004 Kay Howard Bartle, St. Louis, Missouri2005 Brigadier General Byron S. Bagby, Cairo, Egypt2006 Dr. E. Dale Brandt, Jacksonville, Florida2007 Samuel G. Barnes, Lexington, Kentucky2008 James B. Leach III, DVM, Big Lake, Alaska2009 Victor B. Pasley, Rochester, New York2010 Randall L. “Randy” Dews, Lincoln, Nebraska2011 Dr. David L. Durst, Huntsville, Alabama2012 Richard C. Brown, Puerto Rico2013 Kyle R. Cave, Ph.D., Amherst, Massachusetts2014 Joe Link, Birmingham, Alabama2015 Jane McClellan, Akron, Ohio2016 Rick Means, Columbia, Missouri2017 Dr. Larry M. Doyle, St. Peters, Missouri2018 Glen Hodges, Forth Worth, Texas

1921 Walter G. Byran, New York City, New York1922 Dr. B.P.Taylor, Huntington, West Virginia1923 Howard Sutherland, Washington, D.C.1924 Judge T.B. Buckner, Kansas City, Missouri1925 Reece S. Allen, Electra, Texas1926 Dr. Oscar Gilbert, Boulder, Colorado1927 Dr. J.T. Padgett, New York City, New York1928 Dr. J.T. Ferguson, Kansas City, Missouri1929 M.M. Duncan, Virginia City, Montana1930 James W. Harris, St. Louis, Missouri1931 J. Brent Williams, St. Louis, Missouri1932 Dr. J.R. Cunningham, Davidson, North Carolina1933 William N. Sitton, St. Louis, Missouri1934 Zed H. Austin, Minneapolis, Minnesota1935 Dr. W.J. Bryant, Rockford, Illinois1936 Issac N. Tate, St. Paul, Minnesota1937 Dr. Frank Marion Powell, Louisville, Kentucky1938 Dr. Paulena Nickell, Ames, Iowa1939 Rolla E. Peters, Minneapolis, Minnesota1940 James Leslie Crump, St. Louis, Missouri1941 Judge N.T. Cave, Kansas City, Missouri1942 Max O’Rell Truitt, Washington, D.C.1943 Crockett A. Harrison, Amityville, New York1944 Edgar Thomas Wilkes, Chicago, Illinois1945 Ray S. Hamilton, Manhasset, New York1946 Colonel Clifford D. Overfelt, Columbus, Georgia1947 David Payne, New York, New York1948 Dr. Clarence J. Settles, St. Augustine, Florida1949 Jerry N. Koontz, Kansas City, Missouri1950 T. Roger Blythe, Tuscon, Arizona1951 Dr. John B. Grow, Denver, Colorado1952 William J. McClure, Knoxville, Tennessee1953 John S. Moore, St. Louis, Missouri1954 Colonel Hugh Waggoner, Jefferson City, Missouri1955 Colonel Basil Offutt, Colorado Springs, Colorado1956 Dr. J.L. McKibben, Los Alamos, New Mexico1957 Dr. William Francis English, Columbia, Missouri1958 Dr. Harold Barrow, Winston-Salem, North Carolina1959 Howard B. Lang, Jr., Columbia, Missouri1960 Marvin B. Clatterbuck, Salem, Oregon1961 Herbert J. Schroers, Vinita, Oklahoma1962 Dr. Samuel T. Moore, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma1963 Dr. James W. McCubbin, Cleveland, Ohio1964 Jack G. McCall, Champaign, Illinois1965 All Loyal Citizens of the Kingdom1966 Colonel Joel H. Yates, Kensington, Maryland1968

Elmer C. Henderson, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri

1967 Dr. Sydney B. Maughs, St. Louis, Missouri1969 Wilmer Newell McKibben, Erie, Pennsylvania1970 Carl Sanford Cave, Rolla Missouri

Guests of Honor

1989 (84th) Callaway County Fair Board1990 (85th) Effie Selby and Callaway County Nurses1991 (86th) Kingdom Days Committee1992 (87th) Virginia (Piggie) Herndon1993 (88th) Westminster College and William Woods College1994 (89th) Historical Society1995 (90th) Boyd Harvey1996 (91st) Jack McBride1997 (92nd) John C. Harris1998 (93rd) Evelyn Berry and Robert O. Blount1999 (94th) Gladys Books and Richard M. Dunn2000 (95th) Hatton Extension Club2001 (96th) Callaway County Fire Protection Districts: Central, Holts Summit, Millersburg, New Bloomfield, and South Callaway2002 (97th) Jahnae Barnett (William Woods University President)2003 (98th) Marion Gentry2004 (99th) YMCA2005 (100th) Reverend Cecil Culverhouse2006 (101st) Pastor Bruce Williamson2007 (102nd) The Callaway VFW Post #2657 Honor/Color Guard Members 2008 (103rd) Betty Maddox2009 (104th) The Dream Factory2010 (105th) The Auxvasse Lion’s Club2011 (106th) The Rooster Creek Boys2012 (107th) Callaway County United Way2013 (108th) Kingdom of Callaway County Historical Society2014 (109th) Martin Northway2015 (110th) VFW Post 26572016 (111th) Buddy Pack Program2017 (112th) Callaway Youth Expo 2018 (113th) Super Sam Foundation

2002 (97th) Dr. George Groce2003 (98th) Charles James2004 (99th Pat Jones2005 (100th) Robert J. Basnett, DVM2006 (101st) Jim Ware2007 (102nd) Lee Gordon2008 (103rd) John H. “Jack” Marshall2009 (104th) Jim Zerr 2010 (105th) Dr. Thomas “Dr. Coop” Cooper

Program Layout by Publication ClassMissouri School for the Deaf

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

Settler’s Award Recipients2011 (106th) Dr. Ron Baker2012 (107th) Nancy Lewis2013 (108th) David West2014 (109th) Hadley Linnenbringer2015 (110th) Joyce Epperson2016 (111th) Robert R. “Bob” Sterner2017 (112th) Bobby Washington2018 (113th) Mayor Leroy Benton