Bayou Chapter Recognizes Roy O’Neal
By Marian Howard and Shannon O’Neal The expression “the glue that holds everything together” is the perfect description of what Roy O’Neal has meant to the Bayou Chapter of the Ozark Society for over 3 decades. Roy has served 3 terms as Chairman - in 1995 and 1996 and again in 2018 when no one else volunteered to step up and serve. He has been a board member for over 10 years because he said that was the only time he’d get to see his Arkansas friends! He has been working with the Bayou Byline newsletter for almost 30 years, been the contact person for the annual Athens-Big Fork Trail Maintenance and has organized the local Duck Pond Cleanup a couple of times each year. Not to mention his invaluable assistance in transporting several hundred pounds of crawfish to the Annual BCOS Crawfish Boil and making sure the burners are functioning and providing expertise in taste testing. Roy can always be counted on to help out whenever and wherever the need arises. Since he has a need to constantly do something, beginning with a morning crossword and moving on from there, Roy gets a lot done. He’s [...]