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Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Kuanita E. Murphy, PhD
Rural Leader Magazine, LLC is a digital
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Guest Contributors
Jamie Broughton
Founder
Footprints Leadership
Sara Lee Crumbs
Director
Quitman County Family Connection
Bill Thomas
Author
Leadership Toolkit
Margaret Paul, PhD
Best Sellng Author and
Founder of Inner Bonding
Readers’ Forum
5 Special Feature:
Kourtney Shelley
Launches Mutt Life
6 South Texas: Hidden
Gem of the Lone Star
State
7 Five tips for every
Adult Student
24 Teacher Tips for the
Classroom
26 Best Small Town
Restaurant
27 Forty under 4o Call
for Nominations Now
Open
8 Head of the Class
29 Rural Leader Athletic
Spotlight: Gary McCrae
9 Secrets to Planning
Spring Break
30 Fort Gaines Celebrates 200 years
11 How to become 'data
smart'
31 Businesses use Ethical Hackers to Protect
your data
12 Two thousand Fifteen Twenty under 20
Unveiled
16 Reduce Employee
Absenteeism
19 One in five children
in America go hungry:
Learn how you can help
23 Being called a 'tech
geek' is now a compliment
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35 Personal Power
37 Ten Attributes of Effective Strategic Leaders
39 Crime Fighting Accounts
42 Classifieds
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