- Collection:
- Piedmont College Graduates Make Good
- Title:
- Piedmont College Graduates Make Good
- Creator:
- Walter, James E. (James Ernest), 1906-1989
- Publisher:
- Vantage Press
- Date of Original:
- 1982
- Subject:
- Piedmont College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Habersham County, Demorest, 34.5651, -83.54517
- Medium:
- books
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Rev. Dr. James E. Walter was president of Piedmont College from 1949-1983 and remained closely associated with the College until his death in 1989. In the early 1980s, he wrote these short biographical sketches of people who had been significant in the life of the College from the earliest days of the College to the present, including students, faculty and staff, members of the Board of Trustees and of the local community.
Our Homecoming Queen at the Orange Bowl: Martha Louise Kelly -- Vice President of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Billy E. Frye -- State of Georgia School Superintendent: Claude L. Purcell -- Daniel Classroom and Administration Building: R. Hugh Daniel -- A Distinguished Pair of "Professors' Kids": W. Henkel Smith and Virginia Smith Williams -- He Wanted to Split the Atom!: Silas Roberts -- Among Georgia's Best College Presidents: Jonathan Clark Rogers '06; Zach Henderson '22; Horace Sturgis '35 -- He Planted a Rose Garden of Peace: Yasukuni Taira -- The Parsons Sisters Meet the Ritchie Brothers -- Educator, Evangelist, Public Servant: Eugene W. Owen -- His Honor, the Mayor of Demorest, Georgia: Malcolm Hunnicutt and Gwinnett Wilbanks Hunnicutt -- Piedmont's First Black Varsity Athlete: Walter Scruggs -- Math Professor and Baseball Coach: Donald G. Ryder -- Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida: Joseph A. Boyd and Ann Stripling Boyd -- Business Executive in Chicago: Sam H. Flint and Jerry Macmillan Flint -- Georgia's Ninth Congressional District Representative: Philip M. Landrum -- A Member of the Board of Trustees for Thirty-seven Years: William Benjamin Singleton and Nelle Farr Singleton -- Secretary of the Piedmont College Board of Trustees: C. Paul Worley -- An Elementary Education Professor: Gertrude Williams -- The Right Man for Our Children: Lonnie Burns and Phyllis Franklin Burns -- He Broke a Cracked Cup on Purpose: Charles Sung Nei Cho and Kyung Jai Cho -- He Brought a Rope and a Saw to College: Leonard Warner and Shelby Parks Warner -- President of Alumni Association during Stormy Years: Perry Bailey -- Welfare Worker, Sociologist, Director of Food Services: Lillian McKee -- Manager of Westinghouse Airbrake Corporation: Flay J. Heaton -- Prisoner of War in Vietnam: Robert Bagley and Sandy West Bagley -- Among Our Most Grateful Graduates: Vincent H. Sutlive and Ruth G. Sutlive -- Sixty Years Plus of Romance: Harry Forester and Forest Forester -- Superintendent of Stephens County Schools for Twenty-nine Years: William Jennings Andrews -- Science Teacher, Principal, and College Trustee: Iver Sumner Gerald and Valeria McCrackin Gerald -- Principal at Hazel Grove Elementary School: Cecil Lamar Taylor -- A Beautiful Legacy for Piedmont College: A. Jack Hayes -- Our Glass Menagerie Queen: India Cabe Stewart -- A Tall Man in the Class of '81: Jonathan Wesley Cantrell -- State Senator and Businessman and Businesswoman: John C. Foster and Bobby Carpenter Foster -- First Faculty Advisor of Alpha Chi: Mary Griggs -- Math Professor at Georgia Tech: James C. Brooks -- Teacher, Principal, Coach, and Mail Carrier: George Elton Clark and Helen Cowan Clark -- Businessman and Organist: Ralph L. Strucher -- Religious and Educational Philosophy of Piedmont College - Local Identifier:
- PC Graduates
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17007.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/PiedmontGrad/id/158
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17007.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/PiedmontGrad:158/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Piedmont College
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that apply to your use. For other uses, contact archives@piedmont.edu.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Walter, J.E. (1982). Piedmont College Graduate Make Good. New York: Vantage Press.
- Holding Institution:
- Piedmont College. Library
- Rights:
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