Happy Birthday to Southlake Rotarian, Marge Lewis!
 
 
The Southlake Rotary Club is celebrating Marge Lewis' birthday and hope her special day was joyous and peaceful!
 
We are delighted that our own Club Member, Ms. Marjorie Herrera Lewis, has received raving accolades of her acclaimed novel, "When the Men Were Gone," (soon to be a major motion picture), chronicling the amazing and ground-breaking life of Tylene Wilson—a woman who surprised everyone as she broke with tradition to become the first female high school football coach in Texas during WWII.
 
Marjorie exemplifies the values of Rotary, including service above self, fellowship, leadership, and the passion for diversity and understanding. She has shared her gift of writing, her thinking, her time, and her awesome talent to our club and in support of our community and world. Marjorie also exemplifies a Member who selflessly DOES for the Club with no intent for accolades or recognition.
 
Marjorie has a lifelong passion for sports.  She wrote for many newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star Telegram and the Dallas Morning News.  She even becoming a beat writer for the Dallas Cowboys at age 29.  Throughout her career, Marjorie covered college and professional sports, including the Texas Rangers and Dallas Mavericks, as well as tennis and golf.  She also covered the Super Bowl, Wimbledon, the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and several college bowl games.
 
While writing When the Men Were Gone, Marjorie even tried her hand at coaching football and was added to the Texas Wesleyan University football coaching staff!!!! She presently teaches media ethics as a university professor at the University of North Texas. 
 
 
Marjorie has received numerous reviews lauding her book including in Sports Illustrated and the D Magazine. There is already a contract for the movie rights!!!! We give a big SHOUT OUT to Marge and her well-deserved success in this endeavor!!!