Clarksville Family Magazine — November 2014
The November 2014 issue of Clarksville Family Magazine profiles a father-and-son Civitan duo and their decades of service to people with developmental disabilities.
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The cover feature by Taylor Lieberstein profiles a rare situation: a father and son serving together as leaders of one of the community's oldest Civitan clubs. Since the 1950s, Civitan has carried a special emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities, and the club has been one of the cause's major supporters — a legacy of service the feature honors through the two generations carrying it forward.
The profile captures what makes Civitan's work enduring: a commitment passed from one generation to the next, and a decades-long focus on some of the community's most vulnerable members — the kind of quiet, sustained service that rarely makes headlines but shapes countless lives.
“Clyde and Earl's Excellent Adventure” adds a lighter, story-driven feature to the issue, and a seasonal poem brings a reflective note as the month of thanks arrives.
The health pages and recurring departments round out a November number that leads with a heartfelt story of service and gratitude, fitting for the Thanksgiving season.
The recurring departments and photo pages round out a November issue that leads with service and gratitude. The story of a father and son carrying on Civitan's decades-long commitment to people with developmental disabilities embodies exactly the kind of quiet, generational dedication the season is meant to honor. Around it, a story-driven feature and a reflective poem add warmth, while the health coverage keeps the magazine's practical side present. It is a fitting Thanksgiving-season number, reminding readers that gratitude is best expressed through service, and that some of the community's most meaningful work is done far from the spotlight, one committed family at a time. It is a story that rewards a slow read — a reminder that the strongest community institutions are often sustained not by grand gestures but by families who show up, year after year, for the neighbors who need them most. That quiet constancy is exactly what the season of thanks is meant to celebrate.
Table of Contents
- Poem (p. 45)
- Clyde and Earl's Excellent Adventure (p. 46)
Regular departments
- Spotlight (p. 48)
- The Fridge (p. 50)
- Family (p. 52)