Oral history with Mr. Aaron Morgan

              Oral history with Mr. Aaron Morgan
F341.5 . M57 vol. 746, pt. 1
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Biography
Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school " bus." He finished high school on a basketball scholarship to Tupelo Military Institute. He earned his B. S. degree from Mississippi State University and his M. A. degree from the University of Mississippi.
For seven years, Mr. Morgan was a classroom teacher, and for thirty- seven years, he was a school administrator. He spent seventeen years on the Tupelo Public School District school board, eleven of those years as the chair. Among the many positions of service Mr. Morgan has carried out are membership of the board of directors of the Mississippi State School Board Association, membership of the Mississippi State Accrediting Commission for three years, membership of the Mississippi State Criteria Committee for the study of school consolidation in the state, chair of District I Mississippi High School Board Association, chair of the Tupelo Education Association, membership of Mississippi State and National School Board Associations, membership of Phi Delta Kappa, membership of Tupelo Lions Club for fifty- three years as well as past president and membership of Sight Service Committee and Goodfellows Committee, vice- president of Mid- South Lions Sight Service, Memphis, Tennessee, membership of Lee County and Mississippi State Four- H Advisory Councils, membership of Community Development Foundation, membership of board of directors of Mississippi Retired Public Employees Association, membership of Northeast Mississippi Retired Teachers, as well as helping organize and serving as first president of RTA, MRTA, NRTA, and AARP, helping to found and organize the Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society as well as serving as its first treasurer, membership of Mississippi Association of Secondary Schools, membership of Red, Red Rose, and membership of Century Club of Methodist Children's Home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Throughout his career, Mr. Morgan has received a number of awards and honors including Outstanding Citizen of Tupelo from the Junior Auxiliary in 1986 as a co- winner with his wife, " The Book of Golden Deeds" from the Exchange Club of Tupelo, and the highest award given by Lion International, the " Melvin Jones Fellow," from the Tupelo Lions Club International Foundation. mus- coh. morgana. doc Page 1 of 25