Burlington Checker Club 3/08/2012

We held our regular checker session Thursday evening, some of us arriving early because we were going to meet Jeri Rowi with the News-Record and Joseph Rodriguez, photographer for an appointment at our usual Thursday checker meeting to do a story about checkers.  This article would feature our senior citizens who enjoy the game and especially interview George Murphy a remarkable 96 year old checker player from Youngsville. We had a good group of players to show and Jeri interview and talked to everyone getting his story.  Joe took plenty of pictures and we were pleased with the article that ran the following Sunday, March 11th. Mrs. Emily Murphy, George's wife made us a big batch of delicious oatmeal raisin cookies. A number of wives were there and Gayle took the below pictures. You can read the article and get a mental picture of the checker activity and fun we have. Incidentally, Judy Currin, George's daughter who takes him to the club meetings married Dr. Shirley Thomas Currin of Cary who is a friend and classmate of Dr. John Webster when attending veterinarian school at Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma City.

Burlington Checker Club  |  3/11/2012 - Greensboro News-Record - "CHECKER(ED) PASTS RELIVED"