ANOTHER YEAR OF GOLFING AND GENEROSITY FROM OUR FRIENDS AT
SHELBY RAILROAD
Kirk and John Tarver and their Memphis-based Shelby Railroad Services Inc., raised more than $10,000 for the Memphis-based Stuttering Foundation. Shelby Railroad held their annual fund-raising golf outing and dinner on Sept. 18 at Wedgewood Golf Club, in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
“The Tarver Family and Shelby Railroad Services have demonstrated an unbelievable commitment to helping others and giving back to their community,” said Donna White of the nonprofit Stuttering Foundation.
Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, added, “Year after year, we are extremely grateful to Shelby Railroad and the Tarver Family for their ongoing kindness to the Stuttering Foundation. Their incredible gift of $10,400 along with additional gifts of $400 from participating attendees will help us to serve the stuttering community locally and worldwide."
The annual golf outing honors Ruth McGuiness Tarver — the late mother of company president and founder John Tarver. Ruth stuttered from the time she was a young child.
"She was a wonderful lady," Shelby Railroad Vice President Kirk Tarver said of his grandmother. "Her stuttering never mattered much to us, but for her it was a source of great embarrassment. She felt shame, humiliation and defeat her whole life. Eighty years ago, there wasn’t any real help for people with speech issues."
The Stuttering Foundation closed its office early and the staff joined in the celebration. 10
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