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WHILE HE DOESN’T TEACH CLASSES ANYMORE, HE CAN STILL BE SEEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE ARCHIVES, RESEARCHING DOCUMENTS AND ARTIFACTS THAT DATE AS FAR BACK AS THE 13TH CENTURY.

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It would not be hyperbole to say that most of Kentuckiana either knows of or has had direct contact or experiences with longtime resident and local historian Tom Owen.

Known to tool around town either on foot or on a bike, Mr. Owen has been a fixture in Louisville for 70 years, give or take.

Having been raised in Louisville, a young Tom began his adult life studying divinity at Kentucky Wesleyan University and then Boston Theology in the 1960’s. His

studies took him to churches in McLean and Daviess Counties in Kentucky as well as in Louisville where he served as pastor for Summit Heights Methodist Church for three years. He also served as a pastor for a Fire District as well, to where he would often be seen riding his bike to his post.

After completing seminary at Methodist Theological School in Ohio and now married to Phyllis with a family, Tom was becoming and needing to be centered. He began school at the University of Louisville and earned a Masters in History with a

dual focus in Library Services. Apparently that course of action paid off as he began working at U of L in 1968. Soon after Tom attained his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and became a full professor of American History in the early 1970’s. Aside from his teaching of American History he was also an Instructor for Black Studies at U of L which began in the 1970s, the first coursework of its kind at the University at that time.

Not being one to be sedentary, Mr. Owen decided to run for office. In 1990 he threw

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And believe it or not, Tom has moved to video as he hosts a program on You Tube called Hometown Louisville with Tom Owens. On it he shares all kinds of tidbits and nuggets of information about our Derby City.

Mr. Owen surmised that he attends/ facilitates approximately 80 events a year, which include his walking/biking tours, but also work with Leadership Louisville’s Focus Louisville program which grooms local and emerging leaders within the community.

Tom Owen in his tour attire

his hat into the ring to serve on the Board of Alderman. The gamble paid off. He served as an Alderman until 1998. Then again from 2002 to 2016.

Now if you think that after 25 years of service would allow for Mr. Owen to take a break.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. If nothing else, he is even busier than before.

While Mr. Owen has written forwards and recommendations for a number of books and stories that have graced our local bookstores, there is one that he actually put his name to - The photographic history of the Belknap Campus.

You may ask what does Tom do when he isn’t teaching or elbow deep in yellowing paper? You could very well see him lead a Although he is not in public office, he historic tour of a part of Louisville, often via still serves as an advisor to anyone who bicycle. Since his youth, Mr. Owen has been asks. And while he doesn’t teach classes an advocate of pedal and foot power. In fact, as he used to, he can still be seen in the he and his wife share one car. These tours U of L archives, looking and researching were even incorporated into his teaching documents and artifacts that date as far back where he would assign to his students that as the 13th Century. they would have to research and tour a part of the city that they aren’t familiar with and When asked about some of the information present their discovery as if they had lived that can be found at the U of L Archives, there their whole life. which was established in 1974. Mr. Owen was all too happy to oblige sharing While Tom had been used to 75-80-hour that the Archives contain over 2.5 weeks, he admits that he has cut back to million photographs as well as countless 50, allowing for more rest and family time. manuscripts and pieces of memorabilia And it doesn’t take long for new projects to that record and mark the history of the materialize within those hours.

University. There are also hundreds of rare books and paraphernalia that are kept in a As Tom is renowned for his acumen for climate-controlled environment. Tom has history and the story-telling behind it been the guardian of these pieces of history he is often sought out by agencies and since 1975. It should also be noted that companies that look for historical pieces while Mr. Owen has been an archivist, he of information. Recently a national news oversaw the transfer of City of Louisville source reached out to Mr. Owen to discuss paper documents dating back to 1782, redlining and similarities between Louisville Louisville’s beginnings, to microfiche, and Baltimore. He’s also discussed our for ease of research, procurement and heat island and the affect it has on the documentation. environment.

What is it about Louisville that has kept Tom here? He says that it is within this community that he is deeply rooted, simply because of the stories that he was raised on. It is through the stories of his mother, who moved to Kentucky to find work in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, but then making her way to a brighter future in Louisville with her sister. It is through his mother’s drama filled storytelling that helped to shape Tom’s insatiable curiosity and ability to delve into research and the explanation of such.

The topics of his walks and seminars are varied and interesting to be sure, but one that he wasn’t sure how it was going to be taken is one that he does called “Trace the Watersheds”, part of a larger study titled “Creeks and Streams of Jefferson County: Mirrors of Our Past”. One of the main watersheds that he traces is none other than Louisville’s Beargrass Creek which has three distinct forks: Muddy Fork that begins on Westport Rd, Middle Fork that runs in the St. Matthews area around Oxmoor Mall (a quick fact, it actually runs underneath the old Sears and Roebuck Building) and the South Fork that falls into the Ohio River.

The ways in which it has come to merge into the Ohio is interesting and well worth learning about according to Tom. Staying busy is part of Tom’s M.O. He enjoys the routine and the jam-packed days that his life provides him. He has no plans to cut down on this schedule and slow down further than he already has. When asked if there was any desire for a slower pace, he responded, “There may come a time (to slow down,) but nah.”

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For starters, he purchased the place right before COVID-19 hit.

“I closed on the deal on Friday, March 20,” Hart says. “I was opening as the new owner on Monday, March 23, and that Sunday night the governor began closing businesses. Talk about a scary feeling.”

Being in the automotive industry, SMI was considered essential so they never had to close. Nevertheless, money was tight for a couple of months. By June and July, however, business was taking off again. Most of their business is built around German imports like Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Volkswagen, though they also work on Asian models like Toyota and Mazda as well as domestic models.

They do not work on exotics such as Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley.

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rest of my life doing cold calls to clients regarding investment advice,” Hart says.

Kenny Hart was 55 years old when his previous employer at SMI Automotive contacted him to announce his plans for retirement. He wanted to know if Hart was interested in buying the shop. The business had been around since 1969, and the owner knew after previously employing him that SMI would remain in good hands with Hart.

He started out in tire stores in college, then moved on to dealerships, then independent stores. Now he owns the largest independent repair shop in the state of Kentucky, which includes 29 service bays. The previous owner managed two body shops, a marine center and a service center. Hart elected to focus solely on the service center, which has re-energized his employees now that there are fewer irons in the fire.

“I know you’ll take good care of my people,” the previous owner had said. That mattered a great deal to him because his employees were loyal - many of whom had been with SMI for 35 years. Hart, who originally went to school to become a financial advisor, found that working in the automotive industry was more to his liking.

“I just couldn’t see myself spending the

Though Hart initially had reservations about buying a business in his mid-50s, he’s glad he did.

“It’s been a great move for me,” Hart says.

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“What happens is, I work on, say, a BMW for a mother but then her son or daughter has maybe a Honda, a Mustang or a Chevy, and the family has developed a trust in us so they want to know if they can bring their other car in for service,” Hart says. “We try to do all makes and models.”

Hart has had customers follow him from shop to shop for the past 25 years. That’s because he says that people do business with people. They don’t do business with business.

“We treat them all like they are the most important commodity,” says Hart, who is happy that SMI has customers who have been coming in for four to five decades now. “Having that longevity to feed on and grow from is pretty special. Not a lot of companies have been around that long, especially in this industry.”

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Many decades ago, Louisville’s medical system was the cause of a big problem, and that problem was waste.

“Perfectly good bandages, cloth operating gowns, towels and sutures were being thrown out,” says Dr. Norton Waterman.

Waterman is the man who, in 1993, along with members of the Greater Louisville Medical Society (GLMS), developed a response to the waste problem, and the response was SOS. “Good instruments were discarded because of recent improvements, regulations or changes in popularity,” he says.

Since then, because of the efforts of Waterman and the good people of GLMS, SOS has kept more than a million pounds of

medical supplies and equipment from being needlessly discarded in our landfills. These items, instead, have delivered health and hope to communities in the United States as well as 105 other countries that lack medical provisions.

It wasn’t until 2010 that SOS became an independent nonprofit organization, a huge leap from operating as a program of the Greater Louisville Medical Society Foundation. Since that landmark occasion, SOS’s presence has grown from Kentucky into neighboring states. Longterm partnerships are being forged in impoverished countries such as Ghana, Ecuador, Kenya and the Philippines.

“SOS directly benefits underserved peoples living in medically impoverished communities at home and abroad, by delivering necessary medical supplies and equipment to health clinics, hospitals and 10 / FEBRUARY 2021

other institutions,” the SOS website states.

“95% of the donated materials SOS receives are donated, repurposed or recycled.”

The supplies that come from SOS match surplus with need. It’s estimated that hospitals in the United States generate nearly six million tons of medical surplus each year, and a large portion of the surplus is made up of unused, or even underused, medical supplies and equipment. Because of SOS, medical supplies that would otherwise be polluting our landfills have been given to communities within these countries, and have provided much health and hope to their inhabitants.

It can’t be made any clearer that SOS’s goal is about everyone working together to create a healthier and hope-filled world. A board of directors serves as the SOS governing body, and the members selflessly serve without payment, so strong is their desire to

see goodness grow throughout our planet.

While SOS ships perfectly good medical equipment across four different continents, 75% of their work is in Africa.

So how does SOS survive as a nonprofit?

Like many nonprofits, they rely on goodhearted people - people who donate, people who volunteer and, of course, friends. SOS’s very small staff of nine is too focused and results-driven to deal with the red tape that can come with governmental assistance.

SOS also strongly relies on the support of numerous companies affiliated with medical supplies on many levels. These partners share SOS’s passion for a clean and healthy environment, and are a big reason why SOS continues to work and stay active.

One of the nine people employed by SOS is Cody Moran, the global health program manager. In 2014 Moran graduated from Western Kentucky University at the age of 27, and immediately started working at Baptist Health as a financial counselor; his

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The other aspect that attracted Moran to the small company was the humanitarian aid that SOS provides. There is no better position for him to be in at the company than global health program manager, where he is in charge of managing the logistics of all the supplies and equipment, like getting “The environmental impact that SOS creates cargo ready to be delivered to the right places around the world. Sometimes the is pretty significant, locally,” Moran states. boxes scale all the way up to 40’, depending “We keep half a million pounds of medical on the supplies, equipment and beds being supplies out of the landfill. Hard plastics shipped. and soft plastics would just be sitting there impacting our creeks, river and waterways.”

What’s even more crucial than that is the delicate task of handling the partnerships It should be pointed out that donating SOS has, from private family foundations all unused medical supplies to help improve the way up to state and federal governments the health of people around the world has within the countries they work with. another side of the coin - by saving that unused or under-used equipment, it is One example of SOS’s impact can be helping to improve the environment in a tremendous way. In 2018 the World Health found in a little clinic in Western Uganda.

SOS’s president and CEO, Denise Sears, Organization estimated that 12.6 million deaths occur each year that are attributed to visited the two-room building in 2017 and determined that they needed help. In unhealthy environments.

January, SOS sent a 40’ container to them, path was always in line with the medical health care field. What piqued his interest in SOS most was the environmental impact, having been raised by farmers in central Kentucky. Naturally, soil and water quality has always been important to him.

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which held hospital beds, delivery beds, incubators, and anything else they would need to start up a neonatal ward. With the aid of SOS’s supplies, the Uganda doctors in that clinic delivered their first baby on Saturday, October 24, 2020.

What about the worldwide pandemic that has affected the world in a not-so-positive way? How has a small company that operates with countries around the world fought against the currents of nationwide shutdowns and worldwide panic? How much impact could a little warehouse, tucked in the back corner of Butchertown in Louisville, Kentucky, possibly make?

It was January of last year when the calls started flooding in from Hong Kong and Shanghai - Chinese doctors pressing SOS for help due to the outbreak that occurred the previous month. SOS sent over shipments, but then February and March hit hard and it became apparent that COVID-19 was going to be a big problem

here in Louisville and throughout our own country.

more than one million dollars of supplies to all of those nearby communities.

The nine employees at SOS took the problem by the horns and were able to have a dramatic impact on the community.

They were braced and ready to go. Even on regular days the staff, from top to bottom, could be found in the warehouse doing the essential work without hesitation or complaint. They knew this was the time to do what they could, and really flex the muscles of their mission and what they believed.

Throughout the high-spike seasons, all of the effort and work they did every day around the warehouse doubled, and it was intense. The community became SOS’s main mission. The thank yous and gratitude they received were beyond value. SOS, because of their good works, received dozens of reports back from all of the facilities that they were able to donate to, about how they couldn’t have operated without the donations SOS had provided for them.

In short, the pandemic was their time to shine and really step up, and all efforts became focused on delivering personal protective items to nursing homes like Treyton Oak Towers and Nazareth Home here in Louisville, as well as other facilities whose leaders found their residents in dire straits. From there, their efforts expanded to southern Indiana, Lexington, Owensboro, and even to Nashville. In all, SOS delivered

SOS was recently nominated for the Louisville Business First Impact Award. It is because of people and companies like SOS that there is still health and hope, not only in our immediate communities, but in the world. Theirs is an impact worth celebrating.

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She continued reading and cutting articles from the newspaper, and even subscribed to Archaeology magazine as a kid.

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In high school, Bader was gently discouraged from pursuing archaeology as a career, not only because she was a girl, but also because it didn’t seem lucrative. In her senior year, Bader was able to take the first anthropology class ever offered at Assumption High School. She went on to pursue anthropology at the University of Louisville for her bachelor’s degree, then took a break to marry and raise her four children. She eventually earned her master’s degree from the University of Kentucky and after working for others, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a time, she became an entrepreneur with Corn Island Archaeology.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME Louisville may not seem nearly as exciting as Egypt, China or Greece when it comes to archaeology, but Bader says the city has just as much to offer in terms of ancient civilizations.

“We have things that may not be quite as dramatic-looking as the pyramids and the [Roman] Colosseum, but we have things that are just as old,” she says. “We have things that go back 12,000 years in this area.”

As required by law, Bader and her team at Corn Island Archaeology are frequently called in on jobs by developers or government agencies when federal money is involved in whatever project is being done. Construction of any kind that involves a permit (such as those involving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) or is on federal land also requires an archaeological assessment.

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“I really wanted to do local work,” she adds, noting that this is due to her love of Jeffersontown, Louisville and the Falls of the Ohio. “I could serve our local community better, cheaper and more effectively by starting my own business.”

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THE TRAITS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGIST Having an open mind is an important factor in being an archaeologist, and an openness to the unexpected is critical. Another important part of the job is digging and getting a feel for what you’re looking for in the ground.

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by Valentine Conrad. The name of her firm, American students to consider archaeology Corn Island, also has important historical as a field of study. relevance to the city of Louisville. Corn Island was originally surveyed in 1773, and “It is apparent to us that we need their was used by General George Rogers Clark voices to be in archaeology to tell the

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While Bader hasn’t fallen into a pit of snakes like Indiana Jones, she has had some remarkable experiences throughout her career including establishing the Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Society, which brings together professional archaeologists and individuals who always wanted to be archaeologists. She admits that she has dragged her husband to nearly every archaeological site in the southeastern part of the country.

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