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The Red and Black • Tuesday, November 27, 1990 • S
Kilpatrick: Eager to mold Athens
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Cardee Kilpatrick stopped tea
ching long before many of today’s
University students learned to
multiply, but she’ll soon get to
work with students again — either
as her constituents or as budding
leaders.
Kilpatrick, who today faces
Danny Daniel in a runoff for the
Athens-Clarke commission’s 7th
District seat, misses teaching but
itches to be one of the 10 commis
sioners who, some have said, will
shape the quality of life in Athens-
Clarke for the next 20 years.
“If 1 say to myself, ‘Suppose I
were to go back to work?’ and I
think about what all the options
are, the option that sounds the best
is teaching,” she said. "But I don’t
want to do any other job than 7th
District commissioner. We could
really fail if we don’t have people
with some good local government
experience to lead us through.”
Kilpatrick holds a bachelor’s de
gree in Spanish from Pomona Col
lege in Claremont, Calif., and a
master’s degree in language educa
tion from Stanford University in
Stanford, Calif. But her path to col
lege fits the archetype of the road
less taken.
Growing up in the northern Cal
ifornia town of Willits, she’d never
used a No. 2 pencil until she went
to Ukiah to take the Scholastic Ap
titude Test.
“I was the first student from my
high school to take the SAT,” she
said. “I was the first in my town
and had to go to the county seat.”
Kilpatrick met her husband, Je
remy, a professor of math educa
tion, as a graduate student at
Stanford. She started teaching
Spanish, French and American
history in a Palo Alto junior high
school while he worked for his doc
toral degree.
“He was my roommate’s tea
cher,” she said. “I was already tea
ching when he was beginning his
doctorate.”
Kilpatrick has lived here since
1975, when her husband trans
ferred from Columbia University
in New York. She’s been an Athens
City Council member for four
years, and she served on the
Cardee Kilpatrick
Clarke County Board of Education
for six years before that, where she
was tutored in the art of policy
making.
“For one thing, you learn to work
with a group of decision-makers
and work through any problems
that come,” she said.
She said the landslide vote to
make the board an elected body
was a good sign.
“I think it’s wonderful that the
vote was so one-sided,” she said. “If
it’s going to make a change, then
let a lot of people be for it.”
She wasn’t politically oriented
when she first came to Athens, but
through her interest in public edu
cation, she involved herself in pro
gressively bigger projects.
“When we came here I started
helping in the schools — you know,
as a room mother and with the
PTO (Parent-Teacher Organiza
tion),” she said.
More recently, she was a
founding trustee and executive di
rector of the Foundation for Excel
lence in Public Education, a local
organization that, among other
things, provides 20 “mini-grants”
to teachers who apply. It also
awards $500 annual scholarships
to two high school students — one
from Clarke Central and the other
from Cedar Shoals — who intend to
become teachers.
“She wasn’t the one out front,
but she was the one assisting all
the board members,” said Camilla
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Brace well, who was a foundation
board member for three years and
its president for one.
‘Wherever she is or whatever
she’s involved in, she’s the one that
gets things done,” said Bracewell,
director of guest relations at
Athens Regional Medical Center.
“She doesn’t always have to be the
one up front, but she doesn’t mind
it — which is a gift.”
This fall, the foundation named
for Kilpatrick a $10,000 chair, to be
endowed and awarded to a middle-
school teacher within a year.
“By next fall we’d like to have
that in place,” Bracewell said.
“(Kilpatrick) was the real back
bone of the organization — she pro
vided continuity,” she said. ^She
really cares for the teachers and
students in the public schools."
Bracewell’s husband, Judicial
Programs Director Bill Bracewell,
said students in the Leadership
UGA program — where top stu
dents tackle modern problems —
should get a chance to work with
Kilpatrick. He wants the charter
member of Leadership Athens to
participate in one of the group’s
projects.
“She doesn’t know it, but she
will soon,” he said. “I think any
student who meets her would
really get a lot out of it. She’s al
ways prepared, always informed —
she does ner homework.”
Kilpatrick’s already come in con
tact with Leadership UGA, having
helped select this year’s partici
pants.
‘They’re such a group of inter
esting, bright, dedicated students,”
she said.
Kilpatrick is confident that she’s
in touch with her student constitu
ency, and she cited her encounter
with 20 of them at a forum held be
fore the Nov. 6 election as evidence
of her familiarity with them.
“For one thing, that night when
those 20 students were there, I
knew half of them,” she said. “I’ve
been very accessible to students.”
Athens/Clarke County
Clean and Beautiful Commission
Daniel: Athens is ready for change
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
“Don’t just hope for a change,
vote for a change” is the motto of
7th District runoff candidate
Danny Daniel.
In an interview earlier this
month, Daniel said that in voting
for a new unified government,
Athens voters have mandated a
desire for a new direction in city
government.
“Because of my background
and experience, I believe I am the
most qualified candidate to bring
about change,” Daniel said.
An Athens native and grad
uate of the University in 1970,
Daniel has a great deal of experi
ence in government and commu
nity activities.
He represented the 88th dis-
rict (Augusta and Richmond
County) in the Georgia House of
Representatives from 1976 until
1980. While in office he served on
the House educational and indus
trial committees.
In addition to his political ex
perience, Daniel possesses expe
rience in a variety of business
and community activities. After
graduating from the University
with a degree in finance, he
moved to Augusta and worked in
commercial banking for Trust
Company Bank for four years.
He owned and operated the
Red Lion Pub, a restaurant in
Augusta, for three years before
he was elected to the state House
in 1976.
“I chose not to run for re-elec
tion in 1980 because I wanted to
Danny Daniel
come to Athens to raise my
family and start a new political
career,” he said.
He was in the insurance busi
ness for himself in Athens until
three years ago when he started
his current business, Cateraid
Foodservices. Cateraid provides
meal plan services for University
fraternities and sororities.
“I think my work with Cat
eraid has been a valuable experi
ence because it has given me the
opportunity to deal with Univer
sity students every day and keep
informed of the issues students
are concerned about,” he said.
Daniel has spent the last 10
years heavily involved in the
Athens community. He has
served as president of the Boys
Club of Athens and as the vice
president of the Athens Emer
gency Food Bank.
Daniel said he is the only can
didate actively involved in serv
ices for the elderly. He has served
on two senior citizen advocacy or-
ganizations, the Northeast
Georgia Area Agency on Aging
and the Georgia Council on
Aging.
He is also a member of the
Athens Regional Medical Center
Development Council, the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Athens Touchdown Club.
In 1989, Daniel graduated
from Leadership Athens, a pro
gram designed to train future
leaders of Athens in the commu
nity’s organization and assets.
Daniel resides in Athens with
his wife of 13 years, Mandy, and
his two sons.
He said his top four priorities
are to reduce property taxes,
lower the crime rate, increase
services to the elderly and create
stricter zoning laws to keep resi
dential neighborhoods intact.
Daniel is also concerned about
issues that relate closely to stu
dents, such as the open container
ordinance and the lack of student
involvement in city government.
“I think that until the open
container law can be amended to
the satisfaction of residents of
the downtown area, it should be
taken off the books," he said.
“I would like to establish reg
ular times to go on campus and
meet with representatives from
the Student Government Asso
ciation and other campus organi
zations in a roundtable fashion."
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