The Noon Exchange Club of Garland welcomed author Rusty Williams and awarded the Book of Golden Deeds award to Tony Rorie at the March 13 meeting.
Book of Golden Deeds award
The 2023-2024 Book of Golden Deeds Award is the founder and executive director of Men and Ladies of honor, a group that helps restore young people, ages 9-19, with honor and moral excellence. He works with youth to turn them into qualified leaders and world changers. Rorie teaches them the principles of chivalry, honor, moral excellence, and courageous leadership at life-changing camps an ongoing weekly curriculum-based meetings.
Rorie and his wife exemplify the Noon Exchange Club’s mission and vision.
His impressive list of community service activities includes:
- President of Rylie Faith Family Academy School Board for two years
- Truth Academy School Board in Dallas for two years
- Volunteer student leader at Restoration Worship Center Church in Garland for seven years
- Founder and volunteer executive director at The Men &Ladies of Honor for seven years
- Rowlett Chamber of Commerce Board for one year
- Leadership Rowlett – for 1 year
- Mesquite Boys Club – board of director s for two years
- Boys Club – Featured National Alumni
- Board of directors – Connect Forney for four years
- Forney Food Pantry – Golf Tournament chair – one year
Rusty Williams, Texas author
The meeting’s guest speaker, Rusty Williams, talked about his recently published book, “Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State.”
About Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash
The book tells the stories of 10 unique Texans who gained national attention between 1925 and 1950 through their accomplishments, actions, and words. These individuals painted a picture of Texas that remains a part of its popular culture today. Even non-Texans will enjoy reading the stories of these individuals who “branded the Lone Star State with its lasting reputation for being loud, proud, and brash.”
“If you’ve ever wondered how Texans gained a reputation for being oversized, cocky, self-promotional, sports-crazy, and too rich for their own damn good, this book has the answers. In 1925, most non-Texans wrote off the state as little more than cactus, cattle, and cowboys; by 1950, Life Magazine (among others) was dedicating multi-page spreads to Texas sports teams, Texas women, Texas oil millionaires, and the locals who bragged about everything Texan.
About Rusty Williams
Writer-historian Rusty Williams writes about history through the stories of the people who lived it. He has written six nonfiction books, five on Texas topics.
Rusty is also the author of Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press, 2016), My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky, 2011), and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Turner, 2010). Available from your favorite local or online bookstore.