An Elvis Fan Club in Tupelo...Again!

[MauriceColgan]

FROM Google news
"Carlisle Sentinel Reactivated fan club in Elvis Presley's hometown of Tupelo, Miss. ...
International Herald Tribune, France - 12 hours ago
TUPELO, Mississippi Fifty years after the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" played at a fair in his birthplace, the long-defunct Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club has been ...
Elvis Presley Fan Club back in action in city of the king's birth Biloxi Sun Herald
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I may join............. just for old times sake:-) Daily Journal newspaper of Tupelo has the details.

Yes Tupelo is really taking Elvis to heart again...great news! http://irelandtoo.blogspot.com

[Wendy56]

Thank you for the good news.

[MauriceColgan]

Thanks wendy56, Here is the story from the Daily Journal of Tupelo...........
"Elvis fan club reignites for The King

9/27/2006 8:54:38 PM
Daily Journal
Fan club facts

- President - Barbara Mallory
- Vice president _ June Dearman
- Sec/treasurer - Ivy Duvall
- Publicity - Loretta Graves

Club info
- Next meeting - 6 p.m. Dec. 4
Birthplace Chapel, Tupelo
- Want to join? Call 841-6598
BY SHEENA BARNETT
Daily Journal
TUPELO - They never left the building.
They just had a very long intermission.

The official Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club has reactivated, exactly 50 years to the day The King of Rock n' Roll played the Tupelo fair in 1956. Almost 20 people - mostly women - showed up at the chapel on the birthplace grounds to kick off the new club. Fans from around the world signed up to be a member of the Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club, and there are about 400 members so far, said Jane Riley, who helped organize the Elvis Presley Festival.
"It's just amazing the common denominator that Elvis Presley and his life and his music provides," Riley said.
Members, some dressed in Elvis regalia, elected officers and voted on by-laws at Tuesday's meeting.
Barbara Mallory was elected its president, reprising her role as leader of the 1956 fan club named the Elvis Presley Sweethearts.

Riley brought an enlarged photo of the original 1956 group.
"We were a bunch of teenage girls who were crazy about Elvis," said Mallory, who formed the club with cousins and friends. Although the group disbanded after its members matured, "all of us still remain Elvis fans."

Riley said at the meeting that many overseas fan clubs act much like civic clubs by donating part of their money to charities. The rest often goes to sending members to America to visit Graceland and the birthplace.


The Tupelo members agreed to choose a charity at their next meeting.


Members who signed up - many at the Elvis Presley Festival - before Sept. 26, 2006, will have lifetime membership. Anyone who signs up now will have yearly membership for an undetermined fee. The one-year membership runs from Sept. 27 to Sept. 26, 2007.


Said member Daniel Ausborn, who went to school with The King: "I'm proud to see this happen for Elvis."

Contact Scene writer Sheena Barnett at 678-1580 or sheena.barnett@djournal.com". URL http://www.djournal.com/pages/story....pub=1&div=News

400 Members is a fine start!