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Perry Resident
Christy Joins
Local Law Firm
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The local law firm of Walker,
Hulbert and Gray has added a sev
enth member to its growing team.
John D. Christy of Perry joined
fellow attorneys Larry Walker,
David Walker, Skeet Hulbert, Mike
Gray, Chuck Byrd and Trey Moody
this month.
A native of Atlanta who moved
to Perry six years ago, Christy
comes to Walker, Hulbert and Gray
with an impressive career that has
taken him from private and general
practice law to the presidency of an
area bank.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in
management and finance from
Mercer University in Macon and a
Juris Doctorate from the Woodrow
Wilson College of Law in Atlanta.
Since college, he has practiced
law in a private law firm in Dou
glas and was also a U.S.
Bankruptcy Trustee for the South
ern District of Georgia.
He entered the world of banking
when he became staff counsel with
the National Bank of Georgia and
later joined Citizen and Southern
Bank, the company that transferred
him to Middle Georgia six years
ago to become president of their
Houston County branch in Warner
Robins.
He has spent the last two years
in Macon as regional manager for
the commercial division of Nations
Bank-a company formed when Cit
izen and Southern and North
Carolina Nations Bank merged in
1992. He resigned his position
there at the end of February to re
sume his career in law.
“Of course. I’ll miss the banking
business-I still have a lot of friends
there. But I don’t think I could
miss it as much as I’ve missed
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Tee Tolleson
Mell S. Tolleson
Named To Board
Of CB&T Bank
Mell S. (Tee) Tolleson, Jr., has
been appointed to the Board of
Directors at CB&T Bank of Middle
Georgia.
Tolleson, a native of Perry, is
Executive Vice President/ Chief
Operations Officer of Mellco, Inc.
Tolleson attended Mercer
University, and is a member of the
Perry Kiwanis Club, the American
Wood Preserve Institute, and the
Houston County Development
Authority.
Macon College
Sets Dates For
Spring Enrollment
Regular registration for spring
quarter classes at Macon College
begins the week of March 28.
Day and evening classes are
scheduled at four Macon College
locations: the main campus off
Eisenhower Parkway and Interstate
475, the Downtown Center on
Second Street, the Robins Resident
Center at Robins Air Force Base
and the Warner Robins Campus in
the Advanced Technology Park off
Houston Lake Boulevard.
For more information and a
schedule of classes, call the main
campus at 471-2800 or toll free at
1-800-272-7619.
Spring quarter classes begin
Wednesday, March 30. State
supported tuition is $371 per
quarter for full-time study, less for
part-time work.
School,
from 1A
build a school and get it open by
the start of school (next year), we
have to get it started."
The next Houston County Board
of Education meeting is Tuesday,
April 12. The board meets in the
Board of Education offices on
Washington Street, next to Perry
City Hall. The meeting starts at 1
p.m.
John D. Christy
practicing law for the past six
years,” Christy said in an interview
this week. “I am very happy to
have this opportunity to resume my
career as an attorney at such a
highly thought of law firm and to
continue calling Perry home.”
“When my family and I moved
here six years ago, we fell in love
with this town. Perry is the greatest
community we’ve ever lived in and
we’re all glad to call it home,” he
added.
In addition to being a practicing
attorney, Christy is also active in a
number of professional and civic
organizations.
He is a member of the Rotary
Club in Warner Robins; and is on
the Air Force Association’s Board
of Directors, the Houston Shield
Association’s Board of Directors,
the Westfield Schools’ Board of
Trustees and the United Way of
Central Georgia’s Advisory Board.
He is also a member of the Ge
orgia Bar Association and, along
with the rest of his family, is a
member of Perry United Methodist
Church.
He and his wife, Marsha, have a
set of 16-year-old twin boys, Scott
and Sean, both of whom are juniors
at Westfield High School in Perry.
European
Tour Needs
Singers
BY PAULINE LEWIS
Staff Writer
George Hobbs, Minister of Music
at Milledgeville’s First Baptist
Church, is planning a tour to
Europe for choir members interested
in participating in four music
festivals there.
It is anticipated that a 500-voice
choir composed of members from
England, Australia and America
will attend and participate in the
festivals which will be held in
Munich, Germany, Bern,
Switzerland and Salzburg and
Innsbruck, Austria.
The tour is scheduled to cover
about two weeks, beginning June
26, 1995.
Those going will receive copies of
the music that will be used at the
festivals in time to learn it.
Cost will be around $2,700 each,
and will cover transportation, lodg
ing and two meals per day. Thirty
people are needed to sign up NOW
for the tour.
Discuss it in your choirs Sunday
and let Pauline Lewis know how
many choir members are interested.
The numbers from all churches will
be consolidated and furnished to Mr.
Hobbs Tuesday nighL
A down payment to Mr. Hobbs
will be due in August 1994.
Start saving your pennies and dol
lars now.
Perhaps there are individuals or
businesses that would sponsor this
trip for a favorite choir member or
director.
If so, furnish the name of the
choir member to be sponsored and
the name of the sponsor to Pauline
Lewis (912)987-2588 or (912)987-
1823 by 5:30 p.m. (close of busi
ness) on Tuesday, March 29.
Kick-off, from
-2:15 p.m.: Kids’ Games featur
ing sack and egg races, tug-o-war
and water balloon tosses will be
held. Entry fee is $1 per child and
no pre-registration is required.
-3 p.m.: Pet Parade will feature
pets dressed in fancy and comical at
tire. Categories include ugliest,
cutest and best costume, just to
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Aleisha Lane Receives
Achievement Award
Aleisha Lane, daughter of John
A. and Rosemary Lane of Perry,
has been named a United States
Achievement Academy National
Award Winner. This position of
honor is awarded to less than 10
percent of all young people in the
nation. Lane's picture and biogra
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Aleisha is the granddaughter of
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Oquisha Nicole Lane, daughter
of John A. and Rosemary Lane of
Perry, has applied for participation
in the 1994 Pre-Teen Virginia
Scholarship & Recognition
Program to be held May 27 through
May 29 in Norfolk, Va. The by
invitation-only scholarship and
recognition event is for young
ladies ages seven through 12 who
are in the top 10 percent ranking in
the state academically. In addition,
young ladies who are invited have
been recognized publicly for their
outstanding personal achievements,
leadership abilities or creative tal
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Oquisha is the granddaughter of
Delores McGhee and Mose Sr. and
Annie Lane.
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-5 p.m.-The Dogwood Festival
Family Day Balloon Release will
be a spectacular and colorful finale
to a super day.
Hundreds of balloons will be
released by Family Day
participants.
Rosebrock, from3A
She also arranged for the cute girl
to be his guide as he toured the
plant, and to have her picture made
with him for the plant’s newspaper.
That cute girl was Evelyn and they
’’clicked”. “She’s a great lady”, Ted
repeated.
They corresponded for one and a
half years while he was overseas.
They were married upon his return
to the States and will celebrate their
48th wedding anniversary on May
26.
‘This past February we celebrated
the 51st year since we met”, he
said. They have reared four fine
children, two sons and two daugh
ters and have seven nice grandchil
dren. Their children are Dr. Steve
Rosebrock, Doug Rosebrock, Jere
Smith and Jana O’Brien.
Evelyn was very active in the
community where they lived. She
was Director of Volunteer
Personnel at the hospital i,.i
Rochester and was a volunteer at
the Community House and for a
“bunch of other stuff’, Ted said.
Enroute to Florida, Ted and
Evelyn had stopped at Quality Inn
and met Yates and Nannette Green.
Perry appealed to them as a town
where they could retire and fit into
the community.
They bought their home from
Charles Malone, and Jack Allen
was their architect. They met the
Rev. Jim Shipley on their return
trip from Florida.
Both Ted and Evelyn had been ac
tive in their Disciples of Christ
Church at Speedway, a suburb of
Indianapolis. Both were on the
Board; Ted was an elder and Evelyn
a deacon.
They moved to Perry on August
1,1983. “People have been nice to
us,” Ted said.
They transferred their membership
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to Perry Presbyterian Church,
where both are active.
Both like music, reading and
golf. Both have worked for the
Review Panel for Foster Care (for
Judge Wells’ court).
Evelyn is a member of the
Delphian Club and Book Browsers.
Ted is active in the Kiwanis Club.
He has served as Lt. Governor of
the 25th Division of Kiwanis and
helped to form the Kiwanis Club in
Hawkinsville and the Breakfast
Kiwanis Club in Warner Robins.
He was Perry Kiwanis Club’s Man
of the Year in 1988.
In past years at Speedway, Ted
served on the Library Board, the
School Board, was Secretary of the
Planning Commission, Scout
Master, Scout Commissioner,
member of the Charity Board,
American Heart Association and
Precinct Inspector of Elections.
He was coordinator of All-Georgia
Community for Perry.
Upon the invitation of Father
Michael O’Keefe, Ted delivered the
sermon at St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church’s 25th Anniversary,
Fest,
from 2A
moon walk, hay ride, dunk tank,
fish pond, duck pond, palm reader,
bottle stand, ring toss, balloon
bust, bean bag, basketball throw,
football throw, golf, sock it to the
teacher. Also featured will be a
country store, sweet show and
silent auction that will have a lot of
new or used items to bid on donated
by local merchants and parents.
All proceeds from the event will
go towards a school sign and equal
amounts of money distributed for
classrooms.
Church,
from 3A
7:30 p.m.
Dianne Scruggs will direct the
service which will include special
music and the celebration of Holy
Communion.
Tommy Wood, UMM president,
extends an invitation to everyone to
join the Crossroads church family
for this very meaningful service in
the Easter celebration.
C lower,
from 3A
Easter outfit becomes old hat, after
the Easter basket is stored away or
discarded...then let us
remember...our Savior gave up His
throne in Heaven, came to live
among us in the form of man, lived
a sinless life teaching us how to be
His desciples, took all of our
sicknesses and diseases upon His
Body, was crucified for our
sins... And He rose victoriously
from the grave!! He is alive today!
He is sitting at the right hand of
God the Father Almighty making
intercession for you and me!
Always remember two simple
statements that carry two powerful
truths:
*1) Jesus died for your sins, and
arose victoriously from the grave
that we might be part of the family
of God. Because of what He did,
we can now pray, "Our Father...”
*2) The one new command He
gave us was that we love me
another.
In His 10ve... Happy Easter!
Thompson,
from 4A
pie and an Easter Egg hunt with
more than 1,000 eggs and lots of
prizes for the little ones.
No pre-registration is required,
but kids are asked to bring their
own baskets.
And, then there’s the Perry Ex
change Club Kids’ Run for Fun; a
horseshoe fun pitch; plenty of kids’
games from sack races and egg races
to tug-of-wars and water balloon
tosses; and the ever-popular pet pa
rade with categories for the cutest,
the ugliest, the best costume and
the best trick as well as the largest
and the smallest.
There will even be a basketball
shooting contest for all ages featur
ing three-point shooting, free throw
and sharp shooting competitions.
Additional entertainment will be
provided by Country Notes, a band
from Wrightsville and Macon ven
triloquist Cliff Patton.
The day will end in spectacular
style with a colorful balloon release
at 5 p.m.
So, come on Perry; load up your
lawn chairs and your kids and get
out there and have some fun.
I, for one, can think of no better
way to usher in Spring.
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