Casey wins Breakfast Rotary award
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Now in its fourth year, the award is given by the club’s past presidents and is designed to highlight members of the community who demonstrate the club’s motto, “Service above Self.”
Defining Casey as a loving, caring and selfless individual who shows kindness to others and who has touched the lives of numerous children, past president Mike Garrison presented the award to Casey during the club’s annual banquet at Riverfront Park.
A native of Cannon County, Casey received a bachelor’s degree from MTSU and worked on her master’s degree at Tennessee Technological University. She taught in Cannon County and Mississippi before coming to Warren County to teach, where she taught at City Grammar, William Biles and West Elementary schools and saw the opening of several new schools. Casey retired from teaching after 45 years of service in 1987.
Casey has been active in a number of other pursuits, including: membership in the American Legion Post, the First United Methodist Church and the ladies’ fellowship class. She is treasurer of the missionary group. She was a Sunday school teacher, has been active in “Super Stars,” is a member of the Warren County Laity and she serves as superintendent of Sunday school.
She is also past president of Alpha Delta Kappa Gamma, was the Business and Professional Women’s Woman of the Year in 1970 and was named to “Who’s Who Among American Teachers” in 1998. She is a member of the National Education Association and the Retired Teachers’ Association. Casey has also been named Ms. Warren County and has received the community service award from First National Bank.
For 17 years, Casey also took it upon herself to teach Japanese women American culture through the Sister Cities program.
“This is an award that shows extreme community service and caring feelings for others, but most of all, having service above self, which is a Rotary creed,” Garrison said, noting previous winners Nelma Justin, Diane Stanley and Charles Norton.