Rotary Program: 5/12/04

Program Chairperson: Rakesh Sachdeva

Speaker(s): New Rotarians

Brent Lee is a graduate of Belfry High School and Morehead State University with a degree in Business Management. He is presently a vice-president with BB&T Bank in Pikeville. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pike County / Pikeville Chamber of Commerce and the United Way. Brent’s wife Christy is a homemaker and they have two daughters, Kinsey and Kara. After graduation from college, Brent says he went to work for Matewan National Bank in Williamson, W. Va., then took a position at Rawl Sales for a year and finally on to Sydney Coal for a year. Then in 1999, he moved to Winston Salem, North Carolina to work in the corporate headquarters of BB&T Bank for two years. He then was moved to Beckley, W.Va., where he worked as a commercial lender for two years. Then in August, he moved back to Pikeville and took a position with the Pikeville BB&T Bank that was vacated by Mike McCoy. Brent says his hobbies include golf, fishing, and watching ESPN. He says he was an avid Cleveland Browns fan even before the Tim Couch era and will probably be after he is gone. He also has season tickets for the Cincinnati Reds and will gladly attend the games of either team if any of us would like to go with him. Brent says he likes Rotary because it has given him an opportunity to meet and get to know a lot of people and the fellowship that Rotary provides each week.

Joyce Robinson introduced Joanne Mayhorn, owner of Mayhorn, Inc. located on U.S. 23 South near Deskins Motors. Joanne is a graduate of Matewan High School. After graduation from high school, Joanne says she moved to Delaware where she attended beauty school and worked as a beautician for 15 years. She then spent three years in Germany with her husband, Les, who was in the service at the time. She says she loved the experience of living there, but returned home to Delaware when he was discharged and there they had their two children, Todd and Melissa. From there they moved to Tampa, Florida for a year, but returned to Pike County to live due to sickness in the family. Joanne says at first she was disappointed, but that turned out to be for the best as this was a good place for raising children. She says that her children are her greatest accomplishments in life, that they turned out well, have families of their own, have been successful in their own businesses, and are now working right along beside them. Her grand-children are Nicholas, 13, Nikita, 9, and Conner, who is 7.

Then Jeff Vanderbeck gave a brief report on the progress of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life event that is to take place on Friday night at the Bob Amos Park. He commended all the Rotarians who have worked so hard to make this year’s event possible and said that from all indications it will be the most successful fund raiser that Pike County and Pikeville have ever had for cancer research. - J. Morgan Chapman