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(Tom Kelly, Author) Thomas H. Kelly, Jr.
Born: May
15, 1927 - Mobile, Alabama
Education: Prep School-McGill-Mobile, AL 1944, B.S. Forestry-Auburn University 1949
Experience: U.S. Navy 1944-1946, Aerial Gunner
U.S. Army 1951-1952, Korean Campaign, Artillery Officer- Battery Commander
Forester Tom Kelly
1949-1953 Exclusive of Army service-new forester duties for Alger Sullivan Lumber Company, leg man for a pulpwood dealer, entry level forester with TVA.
1953-1993 Scott Paper Company-Mobile, Alabama
1953-1965 Progressively increasing responsibilities in field positions, became manager of Wood Procurement and production in 1965, manager of Woodlands in 1978. As manager of Woodlands, raised employee count to 620 and the Woods Division performed the following functions:
1. Logged 550,000 cords per year with company crews.
2. Transported 1.3 million cords per year by barge to Mobile with company owned boats and company people.
3. Exported 400,000 cords of chips per year to the Orient by in-house boats and people and used ships loaded at company port.
4. Operated two maintenance shops, logged 360,000 tons of biomass per year to Mobile, operated 20,000 cubic feet per week to white pole plant, bought 800,000 tons of market stumpage annually, and managed 550,000 acres of company land. The division bought, logged and transported to Mobile, 80% of the raw materials required for the pulp mill which made Scott Towels and Scott Toilet Paper and 100% of raw materials required for the export business.
5. Maintained non-union status in the Woods Division within Scott's union environment for 18 years.
6. Annual Woods Division budget was $ 150 million dollars. Returned annual profit to Scott's of $ 10 million dollars as a sideline while furnishing all raw materials and managing lands and a work force of 620 persons.
7. Tom retired from Scott in 1993.
Author Tom Kelly
1. Tom wrote and self-published turkey classic Tenth Legion in 1973, now in its 15th printing, more than 45 years in print. Some folks call it, “The Bible of wild turkey hunting.”
2. 1973-2018 Tom has continued writing;
- Dealer's Choice 1979
- Better on a Rising Tide 1995
- The Season 1996
- The Boat 1998
- A Year Outside 2000
- Faces in the Crowd 2002
- A Few Loose Chapters 2003
- Take Back in Fancy 2005
- A Hat Full of Rabbits 2006
- A Fork in the Road 2007
- Ol’ Tom and Laura 2008
- Tom Kelly’s Collector’s Edition (1st Eight Books) 2005
- Absent Companions 2008
- Infirm Opinions 2009
- The Best of Tom Kelly 2009
- Payback 2010
- Their Old Inhabitants 2011
- Point of View 2012
- A Matter of Context 2013
- The Other Seven 2014
- Around the Edges 2014
- No Place to Hide 2015
- Around the Edges II 2016
- Unfaded Roses 2017
- The Best of Tom Kelly II 2017
- With a Little Bit of Luck 2018
- Infinite Variety 2019
3. Founded Tom Kelly, Inc. with David Clarke in 2003.
4. Awarded “Communicator of the Year” by the National Wild Turkey Federation, 2009 The award was changed in 2018 to; “The NWTF Tom Kelly Communicator of the Year”
5. Created an Endowed Scholarship in Forestry and Wild Life Sciences at Auburn University,2009
6. Awarded “C.B. McLeod Distinguished Service Trophy” for his devotion to the wild turkey and habitat, 2015.
Present: Active with Alabama Forestry Association, Forest Resource Center, Member of White Smith Land Co. Board. Written 27 books and many hundreds of articles for national sports magazines. Self-Employed as a wood lands consultant. President of Tom Kelly, Inc. a marketing firm developed to sell books, audio books, video documentaries and Wild Turkey products.
