WKPIC extends warmest congratulations to Dianne Rapsey-Vanburen, for taking her oath today and finishing the arduous process of becoming a United States Citizen!!
We are so happy to have you, and your ceremony flowers are beautiful.
It is with great fondness and lots of sadness that we bid farewell to this crop of minions . . . I mean, interns. Jon Torres headed home to Kansas City for a post-doctoral position at an inpatient facility, while Rain Smith started a post-doctoral slot at Pennyroyal Center in Hopkinsville. Crystal Bray is staying on with the crew here at Western State as a post-doc, and we’re glad to have her.
BUT, amidst all the parting sorrow, there is joy, because we have sparkly new arrivals!!!
Welcome, Dannie, Dianne, and Jennifer!!
And though she has never read Harry Potter, 50 points to Gryffindor on behalf of Dianne, who has already expertly trolled Dr. Greene with a New York Yankees poster. Come on, Dr. G. Expand those sports horizons.
We look forward to an awesome year–and I am impatiently waiting to see what this year’s group comes up with for intern office decorations…
Susan R. Vaught, Ph.D.
Director, WKPIC
WKPIC is thrilled to announce that former intern Danielle McNeill has completed licensure in the State of Kentucky! She’s all official now!
WAY TO GO, DR. MAC!!
<You are now free to recruit minions of your very own.>
A big WOOHOO to former intern and current post-doc Dr. Danielle McNeill for passing her licensing exam! WAY TO GO!!
Susan R. Redmond-Vaught, Ph.D., Director WKPIC
Zach Meny, Psy.D., Training Director WKPIC
WKPIC Staff
Hopkinsville, Kentucky is “black tobacco country,” where many farms still exist, supplying the cured leaf used to make chewing tobacco. This time of year, crops are heading to barns to hang in the rafters, with coals and wood smoking well on through Thanksgiving. People new to the area sometimes think the smoking barns are on fire!
The Pennyroyal Area Museum posted this feature today on Facebook:
Today in Hoptown’s History
1907: The Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that Night Riders had raided the Bainbridge district of the county. The newspaper described a terrifying scene of 75 masked, heavily armed men who visited a farmer to encourage him to join the Tobacco Association. The farmer was given until the next day to join – and was instructed to have it printed in the newspaper so that everyone could see it. He was also given a list of his neighbors that he was to en…courage to do the same.
The Night Riders visited two additional farmers that night. Their tactics worked. The newspaper reported 8 new members of the Tobacco Association on this date 108 years ago. This photo (from Gilkey & Turner’s book Christian County) shows the P’Pool and Woosley country store in Bainbridge in the same time period.
Want to learn more about the Night Riders? Come to the Museum’s http://www.museumsofhopkinsville.org/tobaccowar2015