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WGC’s J. T. Ford’s Acquainted
With America’s First Family
Reprinted from the CarroM County
Georgian
BY JEANNE MEt'KLIN
J. T. and Mary Helen Ford of
Carrollton have more in common
with the country’s new First
Family than their mutual last
name.
Both Ford couples lived in
Alexandria, Va. for several
years, a few miles from each
other, when J T was pastor of
the First Baptist Church there
Both families have produced
three sons, although the Gerald
Fords added a daughter, Susan,
now 17.
And Mary Helen, a counselor
with Student Services at West
Georgia College, is well
acquainted with two of the other,
now-famous Fords-Michael and
John both of whom she
taught at T. C. Williams High
School in Alexandria.
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Pictures of the two young men
with their brother Steve decorate
her office wall, often causing
unknowing visitors to ask if they
are her sons.
The pictues, she said, are
"quite representative’’ of the
Ford sons’ personalities. Taken
trom Newsweek Magazine, they
show Mike, the eldest, before a
church cross; Steve, the
youngest, playing basketball;
and John, or Jack as he is called,
was photographed while skiing, a
favorite hobby.
"I was not surprised to hear
that Mike is attending
seminary,” said the former
teacher. "He was always a good
student, quiet, serious and rather
intellectual.”
laughing, she described Jack
as "exactly the opposite. He was
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a free spirit. We always knew
when he w as around. He was very
outgoing and energetic.”
Mary Helen called Jack "a
typical teacher’s nightmare, a
bright boy who had lots of
potential but was satisfied with
academic mediocrity.”
According to his eleventh grade
English and homeroom teacher,
Jack was “like a lot of other
students who fought the routine
and didn’t see any point in taking
required subjects like English ”
She hastily added that Jack has
apparently changed. “I read that
he is a senior at the University of
Utah this year and is considering
seeking a master’s degree in
forestry.”
The Fords agreed that Steve,
the third son, appears to possess
qualities of both Jack and Mike.
"1 didn’t teach him but from
what 1 read, Steve must combine
Mike’s intellect with Jack’s free
spirit,” said Mary Helen. “It’s
really not too unusual our own
boys turned out that way.”
J. TANARUS., now executive assistant
for administration at West
Georgia, said he believes it is
significant that the Ford
children, except for Susan,
remained in public schools in
spite of their father’s hectic life.
"This seems typical of the
family. Gerald Ford was never
thought of as a particularly
ambitious man. Yet, there was
nothing ever heard negative
about him,” he explained.
"Alexandria abounds in gossip.
However, we never heard one
thing about the Fords. That’s the
kind of good people they are,”
added his wife.
SUMMER *74
NEW V. A. REP Steve Gammon, a Vietnam veteran, has been
assigned to West Georgia College as a part-time V.A. representative.
Gammon, a former student here, will be coordinating the program for
students who are receiving financial assistance under the G.l. Bill.
Gammon was hired last summer and assumed his position at the
beginning of the fall quarter.
Gingrich Demands Flynt
T o Leave W ashington D .C.
BY LEE HOWELL
Newt Gingrich launched the
final phase of his bid to become
next Sixth District
Congressman before an en
thusiastic hometown crowd at
the Lake Carroll Pavilion
Saturday night and renewed his
call for his opponent to ‘‘come
home” for a series of town hall
meetings to discuss the issues.
The 31 year old Carrollton
resident, who is seeking to
unseat Democratic incumbent
John J. Flynt of Griffin, said
that the veteran Congressman
has "rebuffed, rejected, and
ignored” his several attempts
to "give the voters the chance to
judge the candidates” at a
series of town hall meetings
with a question and answer
format in every county and
major city in the District.
"We cannot accept this type
of arrogance from our elected
officials,” Gingrich said. "Any
man who has been honored with
the public trust for 20 years has
a record to stand on. He must
defend it.”
Gingrich said his opponent
"must come home and answer
some questions because the
public has a right to know.” The
youthful challenger specifically
called on his op
ponent to come home and ex
plain his votes for the special
interests and against the con
sumer, tell how he can take
credit for the post offices and
not for the inflation, and
describe what benefits to the
District his seniority has
brought.
Pointing out that ‘‘if elected, I
will be the first Congressman
from Carrollton since 1917 when
Rep. William Charles Adamson
retired,” Gingrich sought to
draw some parallels between
the District today and the
District then. Adamson,
Gingrich said, war a ‘‘very
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important Congressional
leader” who authored the first
legislation establishing the
eight-hour work day. Noting
Adamson’s interest in trans
portation, Gingrich pointed out
that it would be one of his chief
concerns too, because the
airport ‘‘is the biggest single
employer” in the District.
Discussing his decision to run
for office this year, Gingrich
told his supporters that
America is “in a crisis... things
just don’t seem to work out like
we want or expect them to
anymore.
“The nation is divided and
uncertain,” Gingrich charged.
“Traditional authority is
questioned; contemporary
institutions do not keep pace
with our lifestyles; political
systems are under attack;
generations and races are in
conflict; we are in desperate
need of real leaders who will
stand up and be counted
unafraid to make the hard
decisions necessary to solve our
problems.
"Sometimes I think the power
brokers, the bureaucrats, and
the political hacks who claim to
be doing what the people want’
have forgotten from whence
comes the strength and the
power of America,” Gingrich
said. "It was not the paper
pushers who made America
great and it will not be the
bungling bureaucrats who save
it during the present crisis.”
Gingrich said that America
really has no choice in the
question of new leadership
because the country faces
“decay at home and increasing
military threat abroad.” He
compared current leaders in
both parties at the
Congressional and Executive
branches to “the crew of the
Titanic arguing over the dinner
menu while the iceberg loomed
ahead.
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