Hue Jackson
Head Coach
Hue Jackson was named the 16th full-time head coach in Cleveland Browns history by Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam on January 13, 2016. He brings 29 years of coaching experience, including the last 15 in the NFL. He has spent nine seasons coaching in the AFC North, during which time he helped his team advance to the postseason seven times. Jackson was head coach of the Oakland Raiders in 2011 and guided the team to an 8-8 record. He has also served as offensive coordinator in Washington (2003), Atlanta (2007), Oakland (2010) and Cincinnati (2014-15).
Jackson has spent the past four seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. During that time, he helped the Bengals to two division titles and a trip to the postseason all four years. In 2012, he served as secondary/assistant special teams coach before coaching the running backs in 2013. Jackson spent the past two seasons (2014-15) as offensive coordinator.
With Jackson as coordinator in 2015, the Bengals offense finished third in the AFC in yards per play (5.7) and points per game (26.2). He was voted by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) as the Co-Assistant Coach of the Year as quarterback Andy Dalton set a career high and franchise record with a 106.3 rating, which led the AFC and was second in the NFL. After losing Dalton to injury in Week 14, Jackson guided quarterback A.J. McCarron to a 2-1 record in the final three games of the season as the Bengals clinched the AFC North title. The Cincinnati running game produced two 700-yard rushers in Jeremy Hill (794) and Giovani Bernard (730) for the first time since 1988. Tight end Tyler Eifert experienced a breakout season after hauling in 13 touchdown receptions, the most by a Bengals tight end in franchise history and the most by a Cincinnati player since 2001. Wide receiver A.J. Green added 10 receiving touchdowns on 86 receptions for 1,297 yards. Eifert, Green and left tackle Andrew Whitworth were selected to the Pro Bowl.
In Jackson’s first year as offensive coordinator for Cincinnati in 2014, the run game posted its highest yards per game average (134.1) since 2000. Dalton passed for 3,398 yards and Green totaled 1,041 receiving yards. Hill led all NFL rookies with 1,124 rushing yards, the second-most by a Bengals rookie in team history.
After spending the 2010 season as the Raiders offensive coordinator, Jackson was promoted to head coach in 2011. Oakland finished the year 8-8 and tied for first in the AFC West but missed the postseason via tiebreaker. The 8-8 mark was the best record by any Raiders team since 2002. The Raiders finished ninth in the NFL in total offense (379.5 yards per game) and seventh in rushing offense (131.9).
Before joining the Raiders, Jackson spent two seasons (2008-09) as quarterbacks coach for Baltimore, helping the Ravens advance to the playoffs both years. He was vital in the development of Joe Flacco, who was named NFL Rookie of the Year in 2008 and became the first rookie quarterback to win two playoff games as the Ravens advanced to the AFC Championship game.
From 2004-06, Jackson served as the Bengals wide receivers coach, helping develop one of the best wide receiver tandems in NFL history with Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. During that span, the two combined to average 173.3 catches, 2,363.3 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns per season. In 2005, Johnson led the AFC with 1,432 receiving yards. In 2006, Johnson and Houshmandzadeh became the first Bengals duo to each top 1,000 receiving yards in the same season.
Jackson gained his first fulltime NFL experience with Washington, where he served as the running backs coach from 2001-02, before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 2003. Under Jackson’s tutelage, running back Stephen Davis led the NFC with 1,432 rushing yards in 2001.
Jackson spent 14 years coaching on the college level, going from a graduate assistant at Pacific all the way to offensive coordinator at Southern California. He spent four seasons (1997-2000) as USC’s offensive coordinator, where he also helped to recruit and develop players, including quarterback Carson Palmer, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy and be selected No. 1 overall in the NFL draft.
He was a minority coaching fellowship intern with the Los Angeles Rams in 1990, Arizona Cardinals in 1992 and Washington Redskins in 1995. He also served as the running backs/wide receivers/special teams coach for the London Monarchs of the World League in 1991.
Born Oct. 22, 1965, Jackson was a quarterback at Pacific from 1985-86 and threw for 2,544 yards and 19 touchdowns. The Los Angeles native also lettered in basketball and earned his degree in physical education.
Jackson and his wife, Michelle, have three daughters, Jordyn, Baylee and Haydyn.
Hue Jackson’s Coaching Background:
1987 University of Pacific, graduate assistant
1988 University of Pacific, wide receivers/special teams coach
1989 University of Pacific, running backs/special teams coach
1990-91 Cal State-Fullerton, running backs/special teams coach
1992-94 Arizona State, running backs coach
1995 Arizona State, quarterbacks coach
1996 University of California-Berkeley, offensive coordinator
1997-00 University of Southern California, offensive coordinator
2001-02 Washington Redskins, running backs coach
2003 Washington Redskins, offensive coordinator
2004-06 Cincinnati Bengals, wide receivers coach
2007 Atlanta Falcons, offensive coordinator
2008-09 Baltimore Ravens, quarterbacks coach
2010 Oakland Raiders, offensive coordinator
2011 Oakland Raiders, head coach
2012 Cincinnati Bengals, secondary/assistant special teams coach
2013 Cincinnati Bengals, running backs coach
2014-15 Cincinnati Bengals, offensive coordinator
2016- Cleveland Browns, head coach
Jan 19, 2017–Scott Speck / Music Director – Mobile Symphony
Scott Speck joined the Mobile Symphony in 2000 as its first full-time music director and is now in his 17th season. Under his leadership, the orchestra has grown to become one of the central Gulf Coast’s most outstanding performing arts organizations.
A masterful conductor with a wide-ranging knowledge of repertoire, deep experience in programming, and a terrific sense of what will engage audiences – old and new. His gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Evelyn Glennie and Olga Kern have been highlights of his years as music director of the MSO. This season’s exciting lineup of concerts further illustrates the depth and breadth of his knowledge and experience.
Speck also holds positions as Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Philharmonic and West Michigan Symphony. He previously held positions as Conductor of the San Francisco Ballet; Music Advisor and Conductor of the Honolulu Symphony; and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera. During a tour of Asia he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing. He was also invited to the White House as Music Director of the Washington Ballet. Speck is co-author of the world’s best-selling books on classical music for a popular audience: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies and Ballet for Dummies. He has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of Russia, broadcast throughout the world.
Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. There he founded and directed the Berkeley Chamber Orchestra, which continues to perform to this day. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is fluent in English, German and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish and has a reading knowledge of Russian.
Jan. 12, 2017– Jerry C. Oldshue, Jr, / United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Alabama
In October of 2015, Judge Oldshue took the bench as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Oldshue was a shareholder in the firm of Rosen Harwood, P.A in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he served as the Managing Shareholder of the firm’s Creditor’s Rights Department. Judge Oldshue handled commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases including non-dischargeability actions and preference defense; and creditor’s rights cases, including mortgage foreclosures, commercial collection, manufactured housing litigation, compliance, and repossession, and automotive repossession and deficiency recovery.
While in practice, Judge Oldshue was licensed before all Alabama State courts, all U.S. District Courts in Alabama and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. His memberships included the Alabama State Bar, where he served as Chairman of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, the Tuscaloosa County Bar, American Bankruptcy Institute (member, Commercial Fraud Task Force, Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee, and Consumer Bankruptcy Committee), the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and the Commercial Law League of America. In 2001, Judge Oldshue became one of only seven attorneys in the state to achieve board certification as a specialist in creditors’ rights law.
Judge Oldshue received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Alabama in 1985. He worked as a manufacturing engineer for General Motors and a design engineer for BellSouth before continuing his educational pursuits at The University of Alabama in 1992. Judge Oldshue was one of only two applicants selected that year to participate in the University of Alabama’s joint degree program, where he earned his juris doctorate and masters of business administration concurrently, finishing in 1995.
Jan. 5, 2017–Glenda R. Snodgrass / The Net Effect "Cyber Security"
Biography of Glenda R. Snodgrass
Glenda R. Snodgrass has been lead consultant and project manager at The Net Effect since the company’s inception in 1996. Ms. Snodgrass is primarily engaged in cyber security training, threat analysis and mitigation for commercial, nonprofit and governmental organizations.
In addition to conducting security related workshops, corporate training and delivering cyber security defense presentations at professional conferences and conventions, she spends time drafting network security protocols and developing employee security awareness training programs for clients.
She is President of the Gulf Coast Industrial Security Awareness Council and an active member ofInfraGard, ASIS International, and Gulf Coast Technology Council, as well as numerous civic organizations, Ms.
Snodgrass holds a B.A. from the University of South Alabama (1986) and a matrise from Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France (1989).
Dec. 8, 2016
Minutes of the December 8, 2016 Meeting
The Rotary Club of Mobile
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by club president Les Greet at 12:15 PM. Wade Faulkner offered the invocation and Tom Martenstein welcomed members’ guests and visiting Rotarians. Larry Sindel led the club in song and the Pledge.
Student Guest: Jaeylyn Fails, a senior at Faith Academy, was given the Youth Merit Award. Ms. Fails plans to attend the University of Southern Mississippi and major in speech pathology.
New Members:
• Bob Chappelle introduced Andrew Farley, President and CEO of Mobile Paint Manufacturing Company, as a new member.
• John Moses then introduced Jan McKay, Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Exploreum as the club’s newest member.
Announcements:
• Tom McGehee reminded the club that there will be no luncheon meeting on December 15. Instead a cocktail event will take place on Wednesday evening, December 14 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM on the mezzanine of the Battle House. Members are encouraged to bring prospective members and enjoy the fellowship.
• Suntrease Maynard Williams asked club members to collect new and slightly worn books for the Free Little Library Project which the club sponsors. She said she had recently hosted an event where attendees were asked to bring books and had a very good response.
Rotary Children’s Foundation Distribution:
Bo Mattei presented three checks as follows:
• $3,000 to representatives from Camp Rap-A-Hope to provide the cost for children suffering with cancer to attend camp next summer.
• $2,000 to the Epilepsy Foundation allowing children with disabilities to enjoy a camp experience.
• $1,900 to Troop 18 of the Boy Scouts at Augusta Evans School. Henry Calloway explained that this pays the national dues of a number of his scouts who could not otherwise afford it as well as covering the cost for the troop’s sleep over at the Gulf Coast Exploreum
Program: Robert Ligthfoot, M.D.: Victory Health Partners
Bob Chappelle introduced Dr. Lightfoot who then presented a brief power point program. In the presentation a local patient had become debilitated from a rare skin condition. Dr. Lightfoot was able to arrange her diagnosis from a specialist as well as the medication she needed but could not otherwise have afforded.
Dr. Lightfoot explained that Victory Health Partners seeks to assist the working poor with both medical and dental assistance. He said these are the construction workers, the hairdressers and everyday people who cannot afford insurance much less the very high cost of medicines when they become ill. All pay on a sliding scale depending on their situation.
The Mobile Infirmary leases a building to the organization at the rate of $1 per year. However, he said with 75-85 new patients added each month the facility is being rapidly out-grown. Dr. Lightfoot termed his organization’s mission as one to provide both God’s love and quality healthcare to those who cannot afford it otherwise.
For more information please see victoryhealth.org
Les Greer thanked Dr. Lightfoot for speaking to the club and presented him with a certificate noting that a donation to the Rotary International Foundation has been made in his honor.
The meeting adjourned at 1:00 PM.
Tom McGehee
Dec. 1, 2016
June 30, 2016 Minutes
Submitted by Tommy Fulton, Contributing Editor
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by President Les Greer. Norman Nicholson gave the invocation, followed by Larry Sindel, who led us in song and the Pledge. Tom Martenstein introduced our guests along with visiting Rotarians.
Student Guest: Saty Putcha introduced Sarah Jane Bruton from Davidson High School as our Student of the Week.
New Member: John Dukes introduced Bill Kleinschrodt as a new member.
Announcements: The Rotary Children’s Foundation distributed grants to MARC-$8,500.00, UCP-$7,500.00 and Mobile Infirmary’s Center for Women & Children-$8,000.00.
Sally Roberts and Tom Harris were honored as Paul Harris Fellow recipients.
Program: Win Hallett introduced our speaker, David Bagwell, who spoke regarding Louis LeClerc Milfort.
Mr. Bagwell established his credentials by stating that he would be from his own authority, “Bagwell’s B.S. of Mobile History!”
Milfort served in the French army from 1764-1774, before emigrating to Boston. Apparently, this was was a decision made after he had killed a servant of the king’s household in a duel. He then moved to Indian territory in what was to become Alabama.
During the Revolutionary war, Colonel Alexander McGillvray, chief of the Creek Indians relied on Milfort as his War Chief, or “Tustunneggee”, which meant “Top Warrior.” After the war, this area was mostly occupied by the Spanish, French and British, but was ruled by the Spaniards. However, the Creek Indians moved in and took over the area. They were son-named because of their daily habit of bathing in the creeks.
Mr. Bagwell described the two Creek factions, the Upper Creeks and the Lower Creeks as similar to the Tea Party and the Country-Club Republicans, respectively. The economy of the Creek Indians was mainly trade with Britain in deerskins, such as, buckskin pants, gloves and bookbindings.
When Milfort first came to America, he almost starved to death until being rescued by Alexander McGillivray of the Creek Indian nation. Milfort took Alexander’s sister as his wife. Bagwell then described Mobil in 1781, as a little Garden of Eden, where hunting and fishing were excellent, and everyone had loaded guns behind their front doors, “not unlike today.”
One peculiarity described by Mr. Bagwell dealt with the relationships between men and women. He said, “The sky was the limit with women, for men during harvest time. All other times, the women were known to be very chaste and loyal.”
Les Greer then thanked Mr. Bagwell for his presentation and presented a certificate to him, noting that a donation in his honor had been made to the Rotary International Foundation.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 pm.