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The Red and Black • Friday, May 4, 1990 • 3
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Replica Vietnam Wall
displayed in Snellville
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
Northeast Georgians who have
never seen the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
have a chance to view its “moving
wall" replica until May 6 at T.W.
Briscoe Park in Snellville, Ga.
The display is part of a com
memoration marking the 15th
anniversary Monday of the offi
cial end of U.S. involvement in
the Vietnam War, said James
Walters, chairman of the Snel
lville Days Moving Wall com
mittee.
Walters has been working for
two years to have the wall dis
played in Snellville.
Elton Manzione, an instructor
in the University’s English de
partment, visited the national
Vietnam Memorial in Wash
ington, D.C., and the moving wall
in Atlanta several years ago. The
Vietnam Navy SEAL said vis
iting the monument was a pow
erful experience.
“It’s one thing to look at a
white monument with a flag,” he
said. “It’s another to look at 55,-
000 names engraved on a black
wall.”
In Snellville this weekend, all
Vietnam veterans are honorary
grand marshalls of the 17th an
nual Snellville Days Parade. The
parade starts at 10 a.m. at the
First Baptist Church in Snel
lville.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller and Col.
Ben Purcell, a highly decorated
Vietnam veteran and former
POW, will speak at the closing
ceremonies for the display
Sunday at 3 p.m. at Briscoe Park.
A dinner reception and ban
quet will be held for disabled
Vietnam veterans Saturday at 6
p.m. at the Evergreen Conference
Center at Stone Mountain Park
in Stone Mountain. General Wil
liam C. Westmoreland, com
mander of all U.S. forces in
Vietnam from 1964 to 1969, will
give the featured address.
The dinner is part of a three-
day reunion of disabled Vietnam
veterans coordinated by Tommy
Clack, a highly decorated
Vietnam veteran and special as
sistant to the director of the Of
fice of Veterans Administration
in Atlanta. About 50 veterans
from the Southeast will attend.
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YMCA attracts volunteer University students
By TRICIA PORTER
Contributing Writer
The University has been a
“drawing card’ for volunteers for
the Athens YMCA for several
years, said Hayden Drewry, pro
gram director for the Young Men’s
Christian Association.
Drewry said the YMCA has 30 to
40 student volunteers this quarter.
About 20 students work directly
with the after-school programs.
Others work as lifeguards, in the
fitness area or in the office.
‘The students seem to enjoy
working with the kids and some
even stay during the summer to
help with the boy’s and girl’s
camps,” Drewry said.
He said there are many advan
tages to being a volunteer. Stu
dents get to use all facilities free
and are paid by the hour for doing
something that is fun and can be
self-satisfying.
‘There is something for everyone
here,’ Drewry saitf “We have
soccer, T-ball, tennis, swimming
and softball.”
He said the University has al
ways been a part of the YMCA. The
original YMCA was located where
Holiday Inn is now and was used
by students before the University
built its own fitness areas.
In 1967, the YMCA moved to its
resent location on Hawthorne
treet. It developed from an all
men’s physical fitness center to a
family-oriented program. From
then on, Drewry said, University
volunteers have worked there.
Holly Fowler, a sophomore pre
journalism major, has been a
YMCA volunteer for almost four
years. She is currently coaching
tennis and softball for ages 10 to
14.
“I enjoy working with the older
kids a lot,” Fowler Baid. “They
teach me a lot about patience and
attitude and they're fun to be
around.”
The YMCA has 30 to
40 student volunteers
this quarter
All the volunteer* are work part
time and tchedule their classes
around the youth program.
“We’re very selective of our vol
unteer*,” said Drewry. “We expect
them to be dependable and caring.
Their attitude reflects on the kids,
and therefore it’s important that
they portray a certain amount of
excellence.”
PROFESSOR
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Lenin in Tbilisi. Now there is only
one still displayed and that is in
Lenin Square.”
Other symbols of the changing
times are the public signs that are
expressed in both languages. Now
the Georgian names are above the
Russian ones.
“It is a sign of their indepen
dence,” she said.
Barrow said Soviet Georgians
are very concerned about Lithu
ania. “They are speaking much
more freely than most of us would
ever think they could or would
about government and indepen
dence. They want their indepen
dence back, eventually.
‘There is a lot of tragic, tragic
warfare in their history,” she said.
Barrow attended many dinners
and get-togethers in private
homes. She said the special din
ners consisted of 18 different food
selections on the table.
‘There were lota of toasts and
compliments. On the table at
dinner would be white wine, red
wine, champagne and carbonated
lemonade. They have wonderful
mineral water," she said.
Present at many of the dinners
was the extended family.
‘Three generations, sometimes
four, live together; if not in the
same apartment then in the same
building,” Barrow said.
‘There are a lot of‘only children.’
I am a ‘hero-mother’ because I have
six children, however, I also have
six in-law children. So I say I have
twelve. My (Soviet) Georgia friends
would always put that in when
they introduced me,” she said.
Barrow was overwhelmed by the
Soviet Georgians’ hospitality.
She had a hard time spending
her rubels because “they wouldn’t
let (her) pay for anything.”
She was given the sweater off
her hostess’ back because she said
she liked it.
"I asked her where she got it and
later she washed it and gave it to
me," she said.
She said she would love to have
spent her money on taking her host
family out to dinner, “But getting
to know them they would never
have let me do that. Maybe if my
husband was with me they would
have allowed it.
“It is a male-dominated society,
in some respects. Men and women
have traditional roles in the
family. They are very kind and re
spectful to the elders in their home.
“I hope they make a direct flight
to Tbilisi because if I could get the
money together, I would love to go
back,” she said.
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Phyllis Barrow: Returned
from trip on Tuesday
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