The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 6, 1995 Page: 3 of 37
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COATES ART WILL BE OFFERED AT BCCFA ART EXHIBITION -
Though this clay modal, "After The Battle," will not be available at
the show, other works by Dan Coates will be offered at the Bosque
County Conservatory of Fine Arts Show and Sale opening Sept. 9.
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• PREVIEW
Continued From Page One
Myers' fellowship was spent in Italy
studying at the Fooderia D’Arte Del
Chiaro Massimo. Additional studies
were with Stanley Bieifeld, NA of the
U.S and with Bruno Lucchesi, Italy.
Reservations are requested for the
Saturday, Sept. 9, Preview 95. Admis-
sion is §12.50 per person for BCCFA
members and $15 for non-members or
at the door All BCCFA members will
receive a discount of $1 for the open-
ing-night exhibition.
• WALKING MAN
Continued From Page One
MLAs and POWs.
His walking has continued to this
day, for the veterans, and for the chil-
dren of the nation
Born and raised in Miami, Fla,
Callahan entered the Army after high
school.
At that time, the Army had what
they called the “buddy system" and in
1968, Callahan and 13 others headed
for Viet Nam.
"1 am the only one still left alive,"
Callahan said. “The rest were lost in
Nam.”
Callahan was assigned as a combat
medic with the 5th Special Forces from
1968 to 1972. (As another veteran said,
"One of the toughest units over in the
Nam.*)
The war took its toll on Callahan.
Not only did he lose many friends, but
on Christmas day, 1970, he saw his
brother shot down right in front of him.
Callahan remained even after that.
Two months prior to rotation (re-
turning home' in 1972, Callahan was
hit, leaving him in hospitals both over-
seas, and in the states, and then in a
wheelchair until 1985.
The year of 1985 will be one that
lives with him forever, as a year of
major ups and downs.
“I lost my five-year-old son to leu-
kemia, I lost my wife, and I got out of
my wheel chair,” he said.
This was also the year that he
walked across America on his new legs.
Arriving in Texas, he found a group
of Viet Nam veterans in San Antonio
getting ready to walk from Austin to
Washington though he was having se-
rious trouble with his legs, and had to
be hospitalized due to bleeding and for
needed surgery, he told them he would
join them as soon as he could.
Two weeks later, with a 75-pound
backpack strapped on a back just out
of surgery, he hit the road again.
“A group of bikers came along and
helped me by taking my pack ahead,
and keeping it safe for me,” he said.
He averaged 15 to 25 miles a day,
and even traveled 46 miles one day,
thanks to their help.
“No one really understands bikers
these days. They just think of the Hells
Angles. But bikers now, with $30,000
between their legs, it’s a new breed.”
Callahan said. “They really give from
the heart."
“After walking all over America I
felt I had been treated better in Tkxas,
than anywhere else," Callahan replied
when asked what had brought him to
Texas seven years ago. He has both
good and badmemories of that time,
too.
“My house is like a museum. I have
keys to cities all across the nation. The
governors of the states gave me per-
mission to walk on the interstate high-
ways, and offered state patrol cars as
escorts. The mayors all came out and
greeted me and gave me keys to the
city," he said. “Except for Houston,
where the mayor at that time felt it
was more important to go to a gay
rights convention than to support a vet-
eran. She didn't stay mayor for long,”
Callahan said with a smile.
Callahan loves what he does. Spon-
sors pay for his traveling, and all the
money he makes goes to benefit the
seriously and terminally ill children
"I’ve already raised $3 million this
year doing benefits," he said. ‘The only
thing that has hurt me this year is
here at the barbecue. In the past, the
benefit has been for Camp John Marc,
but this year, when it wasn’t, no one
from the camp could even come to the
auction.”
Callahan has helped thousands of
people over the years, veterans and
children alike —not only with money
raised through benefits, but through
his strength, and his belief that one
must keep trying. He doesn't say it —
he does it.
“We believe in something," he said
in closing.
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The show will con tin up through Sept.
24 and will be available for viewing
from 1 to 4 p.m. daily at a cost of $2
per person, children admitted free
For more information on Preview 95.
or to schedule a tour, call the BCCFA
office at <817! 675-3724, Monday
through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.
The Conaervatory is loeated at 1701
West 9th Street, Clifton
Myers Sculptures
To Be Featured
At BCCFA Show
CLIFTON — Dr. Scott Myers, win-
ner of the 1994 Jones Fellowship award
at the annual Bosque County Conser-
vatory of Fine Arts Art Exhibition and
Show, will be featured at the 1995 show
starting Saturday, Sept. 9.
Myers has always had two passions
in life — art and caring for animals.
Rather than choose between having one
for his career, he has elected to do both.
A graduate of Texas A&M Univer-
sity College of Veterinary Medicine,
Myers is a small animal practitioner
at the Hood County Animal Clinic in
Granbury. When he is not practicing
medicine, he slips away to the studio
behind his clinic to pursue his other
career — sculpting.
In the past, Myers has been hon-
ored with eight different awards dur-
ing the BCCFA annual show
This year, the show will feature 28
bronze sculptures on exhibit and for
sale during Preview 95 and the dura-
tion of the exhibition
Myers will be attendance during
Preview '95.
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PREVIEW '95 TO FEATURE HURRINGTON - The oil painting titled
“Tea For Two' by Sherry Harrington will be one of many featured at
the BCCFA Art Exhibition and Sale which opens Sept. 9, in Clifton. ,
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skilled nursing facility w ill open in September. The
center will offer an innovative response to the
challenges of healthcare, integrating skilled nursing
and rehabilitative services to care for the medically
complex patient.
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 6, 1995, newspaper, September 6, 1995; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788537/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.