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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b> Reservation reminder:</b> This month's Emeriti luncheon is scheduled for next week Thursday, May 19 at 11:30 AM at the OU Inn. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> If you haven't already done so, email Tom Franz at <b><<a href="mailto:franz@ohio.edu" target="_blank">franz@ohio.edu</a>> </b>with your luncheon reservation. The deadline for reservations is Monday the 16th at noon at which
time the reservation count will be called in to the OU Inn. The cost is $18. Please have exact change or a check made payable to the <i>OU Emeriti Association</i><b>.</b><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b> The menu</b> will be:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">--</font><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Beef Pot Roast </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--Green Beans</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--Mashed Sweet Potatoes</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--Assorted Desserts</span> </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This meeting will also be available via Zoom as a hybrid. Details for the Zoom connection will be sent next week.</div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b> A note from our speaker, William "Bill" Walker:</b></span></div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">"On a hill overlooking the First Ward of Pomeroy, through which Kerrs (Kars) Run flows and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">where in 1869 he relocated his family, Joseph Jones, a free black man from Virginia, was </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">building
a house with bedrooms enough for each of his boys. Sometime in the 1880’s, the Kerrs </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Run Colored School, a one room frame building, would open its door offering grades one </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">through
eight educational opportunities for his and the other children of the African American </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">families of this predominantly black community. The presentation on May 19th will provide an </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">overview
of this community, the school and the graduates' significant influence on southern </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ohio, the state, nation and even the world. This period of rich Meigs County and southern Ohio </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">African
American history deserves to be told and preserved."</span><br>
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