By DEAN CRAIG
Okmulgee Lions
We broke the "local" cycle of programs for Tuesday's Lions Club meeting with a re-scheduled program by James Keith, duck caller extraordinaire, who lives east of Nowata overlooking Lake Oologah.
However, he grew up in western Oklahoma, Sayre, where his adoptive father was a girls basketball coach, finally ending up in Oologah. Coach's kids, much like preacher's kids, get to experience a lot of different cities because it is just the nature of the jobs.
Lion Beth Flud was curious to know who his father was because she, too, was a basketball coach for the Lady Bulldogs (winning a state championship in 1991), and had coached against his father. An interesting side-note: Keith's uncle, the late Harold Keith, was Oklahoma University's first Sports Information Director from 1930-1969.