ROTARY DISTRICT 6820

Mark is a native of Vicksburg and a graduate of Mississippi State University. He was the first member of the Madison/Ridgeland Club when chartered in 1987. He served as President 1991-92. He played an important part in the establishment of the Flowood and Gluckstadt Clubs, and served as Assistant Governor for three years.

Mark is a football official in the community college football association, loves to travel, and hunting and fishing is a passion which has led to his writing outdoor articles. Mark is the owner of C. Mark Doiron Insurance Agency, representing Allstate, and specializes in the construction of small office buildings and Retail strip centers.

Mark and his wife, Christy, have boy/girl twins, and have made their home in the Madison area for the past twenty years.

KAY STEED, DISTRICT GOVERNOR, 2002 - 2003

ROTARY DISTRICT 6820

Kay Steed joined the Madison-Ridgeland Rotary Club in 1988 and served as President 1992-93.  She has served in various capacities at District level including Assistant District Governor - Area 7, 1998-2001.

Kay’s career began in New York City with Trans World Airlines.  In 1969, following a job with L’Academe Lloyd in Geneva, Switzerland teaching English as a foreign language, she moved to Winona, Mississippi.  There she worked with the Chamber of Commerce and Lamar Life Insurance Company. 

Kay was hired in 1987 to organize a Chamber of Commerce for the City of Madison and subsequently became Membership Director for the Mississippi Economic Council.  In 1993, she formed Steed International, which markets Juice Plus+, a whole-food nutritional product, throughout the United States.

Throughout the years, Kay has served on the board of a Regional Library System, the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, the Mississippi YWCA and the National Association of Women Life Underwriters.  For ten years, she represented the Mississippi Congressional Delegation on the Congress-Bondestag Committee that selects one student annually for a year’s study in Germany.

Kay and her husband Lelon are Paul Harris Fellows.  They have two children and three grandchildren.   They are active in First Baptist Church of Madison, where Kay teaches a Ladies’ Sunday school class.

JAMES W. YOUNG, DISTRICT GOVERNOR, 1994 – 1995

ROTARY DISTRICT 6820

James was born in Van Vleet, Mississippi and grew up in Chickasaw and Clay Counties.  He graduated from Pheba High School in Clay County in 1941, received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Delta State University, a Masters Degree in School Administration from George Peabody College and did post-graduate study at Mississippi College, George Peabody College, and the University of Colorado.

He served 37 years in the public schools of Mississippi as a teacher, coach, counselor, elementary principal, high school principal, assistant superintendent, and was deputy superintendent of Greenville Public Schools when he retired.

James served three years in the armed forces during World War II, part of that time in the European Theater.

James married Elizabeth Mobley, of Utica, Mississippi.  They have one son, one daughter and six grandchildren.

Before and since retirement, he has been involved in volunteer work.  He has done considerable work with the United Way, the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Delta State Alumni Association.  He is active in his church and the Chamber of Commerce, serves on several senior citizen advisory committees and currently serves as president of the Mississippi Chapter, Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge.

James has been a Rotarian for 38 years.  He has served as president of the Rotary Club of Greenville, group leader for Rotary Group Study Exchange Team to Mexico, Governor for Central Mississippi Rotary District 6820 and has served on various club and district committees.  He and Elizabeth are both Paul Harris Fellows and James is a Benefactor.

James and Elizabeth moved to Madison from Greenville in 1997 and he joined the Madison/Ridgeland Rotary Club, Senior Active.