Alison Kelly and Matthew Turnage, both relatively new members of the Rotary Club of North Jackson, gave vocational talks to the Club at its July 11, 2017 meeting. Alison, is a native of Galveston, Texas. Following graduation from high school in Galveston, she attended art and design school in New York City. Following her graduation, she worked in that field in Copenhagen Denmark and Los Angeles. She commented that both New York and Copenhagen are great places to live if you are young and single. Her husband, Scott, is a family physician. When he completed his residency in southern California, he was recruited to MS. Her response was no, no never, but on visiting Charleston, MS she found it to be a great place. There was a 40 person art league to which she could belong. When they moved to Jackson, she attended MS College Law school and is now a Public Defender in Hinds County.
North Jackson members will remember her Son-in-Law Russell Turley and her daughter Betsy who recently moved to New York when Betsy was offered a job with a NYC law firm.She commented the Russell is working as a banker with a small international investment bank. We thank Alison for her presentation, for her service to or County and her membership in the Rotary Club of North Jackson.
Matthew Turnage is a CPA with Matthews Cutrer and Lindsay in Ridgeland where he He provides auditing and attestation services for non-profit charitable organizations, trade associations, non-profit membership organizations, charitable bingo operations, churches, private schools, commercial entities, pension plans, municipalities, public school districts and utility districts. . He is a third generation graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. IN addition to his work and his family, his passion is to attend a Major League Baseball game in all 30 MLB Parks. We welcome Matthew to our club and thank him for his service.
Alison and Matthew are shown during their speeches in the accompanying photos. 
