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Executive Director of The Gheens Foundation and Metro United Way Tocqueville Society Member
After 33 years in banking—19 at National City Bank, where he was Senior Vice President, and 14 at Commonwealth Bank and Trust, where he was Chairman and CEO—Carl Thomas took over as the Executive Director of the Gheens Foundation, the second largest private trust in Kentucky. Joining the Metro United Way campaign when he took his first banking job, Thomas has increased his level of giving each year, ultimately joining the highest level of United Way donors in the Tocqueville Society.
circa 1939
The premiere of Eleanor Bingham Miller’s film Transmissions will celebrate the birthdays of Thomas Merton and the subject of the film, Gray Henry-Blakemore. The premiere will also raise funds for Henry-Blakemore’s Fons Vitae, a 501(c) and their upcoming publications: Merton & The Tao and Merton & The Indigenous Cosmos. Pictured above with her parents is young Gray at the very beginning of a lifelong spiritual journey.
When Jamie asked her boyfriend, Danny, to pick up a couple of goldfish for a science experiment she was conducting with her elementary school students, she never expected the tedious errand to result in a romantic marriage proposal. Danny called Jamie out to the car, asking her to help him carry in the catch. To Jamie’s surprise, she did not find goldfish, but a trail of pennies and coal instead. Puzzled, she followed the trail to where Danny stood in her backyard, where he began to fawn his love for her. “It was so mooshy-gooshy, and that’s big for him, because he’s a total goofball.” He then explained that every penny lying on the ground represented a day and that every piece of coal marked a month they had been together. He continued to explain that every piece of coal would in time turn into a diamond. At last, Danny opened the box he had been holding to reveal an engagement ring. Jamie said, “Yes!”
I didn’t intend to be a spinster. In fact I mostly didn’t think about what we now refer to as our relationship status at all. I was a happy kid. I loved people. I had fun. I was the neighborhood welcome wagon. They called me “Busy.” I played restaurant with my blue metal cash register and poured drinks for the jet set at my parents’ downstairs bar. I was popular.
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