A culminating moment: Morgan's award represents life of hard work, persistence

A culminating moment: Morgan's award represents life of hard work, persistence

By Susan Shinn Turner For the Salisbury Post Technically, Jamie Morgan has been on the YMCA payroll since he was 13. Early on, Morgan realized if he was to make his way out of poverty, it was up to him.  Jack Thomas, the executive director who helped start the South Y, took Morgan under his wing. Morgan started keeping score at industrial leagues basketball games at the China Grove Junior High gym. Three years later, Morgan started work as a Y c…