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Cicely Tyson addresses students at Paine College. Photo
by Jimmy Carter
By Shun Norris
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Legendary actress and hu
manitarian Cicely Tyson gave
the keynote address at Paine
College’s Founder’s Day Con
vocation program on Febru
aryß,2oo2. The program hon
ored the 120* anniversary of
the founding of the school.
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her role as fictitious charac-
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ter Miss Jane Pittman, Ms.
Tyson spoke of Dr. King and
his dream and of Sept. 11.
“The events of Sept. 11 were
aperversion of the principles of
both religious and social ac
tions.”
She explained that we as
Americans mustbe the extrem
ists for love and the cause of
justice as King spoke of in his
“Letter from BirminghamdJail.”
“Wehaverespondedinaway
that Kingwould have been very
proud. And it is now our re-
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sponsibility to continue to
build upon his foundation,”
she said.
“As we honor King, let us
honor ourselves with his
words and examples. Let us
allow his spirit to inform and
inspireustowork even harder
to achieve what he envi
sioned.”
Tysonencouraged theaudi
ence to “build bridges” and
simply “send what cannot be
expressed.”
“Let’s build bridges here
and there. Let’sbuild bridges
everywhere and span the gulf
of challenge,” she said.
PaineCollegesenior LaShay
Hunt is a lifelong fan of Ms.
Tyson and was elated to hear
that the actress would be vis
iting the Garden City.
“Ilove Cicely Tyson. Ican’t
believe she’s here. When I
heard shewashere, Ithought,
‘T just have to shake her
hand.’ She’s an excellent ac
tressand we’rejust blessed to
have someone that serves
such an example to speak at
our convocation.”
The program ended in a
rather positive note with Dr.
Rudolph King of Nassau, Ba
hamas donating a $300,000
grant to Paine College and a
four-year scholarship named
for Ms. Tyson to one deserv
ing student.
Greetings were given by
Mrs. Mary James, faculty, for
Attorney Robert L. Bell, chair
ofthe Board of Trustees; Miss
LaShon Cherry, president,
Student Government Associa
tion;and Mr. Fred W. Thomp
son, president, National
Alumni Association.
Feud over hiring policy continues
From page one
“Canl...?Mr. Chairman...” he
said to Williams. “The adminis
trator was following the pro
cess as I understand the pro
cessand aslrecommended that
the process be implemented.
...Georgialaw providesthatthe
top three candidates, their
namesandtheinformationgath
ered about them as part of the
selection process, hastobemade
public at least 14 days prior to
the actual hiring of the candi
date. However, the process for
selecting a department head is
fortheadministrator tomakea
recommendation of that indi
vidual to be voted up or down.”
He advised Williams and the
other commissioners that, if
they want to do something dif
ferent—ifKolb’scontractstates
that he should do something
different — then they should
formally change that process.
At that point, Williams sug
gested that Wall give him a
legal opinion on the word “rec
ommend,” causing Wall toreit
erate what he had just said.
Commissioner Andy Cheek,
intrueengineer form, suggested
the county needed a “process
improvement plan.”
“I have no problem with the
current process,” he said, “but
it is a departure from what
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(former administrator) Mr.
Oliver did, where we had the
opportunity — well, we were
pretty much told — to sit down
with the three candidates and
we all came in and sat down
with them.”
Commissioner Lee Beard said
he just wanted something to
happen. “I don’t particularly
care whether you bring one or
three, butl think we need to go
inthatdirection. Ithinkwecan
settle the other argument at a
later date, a workshop or some
other forum.”
In earlier discussion about
wheretogofromhereinthefire
chief search, the Commission
explored their options: begin
ningthesearchanew, complete
withtheexpendituresinherent
in conducting a search from
scratch — or contacting a pre
vious candidate.
“Mr. Chairman,” mayor pro
tem Richard Colclough said to
Williams, “I’'ve got Mr.
Gillespie’sphonenumber. Ifyou
like, I will call him and ask him
to come here.”
“Well, as chairman of Public
Services, Mr. Colclough, I'm
going to tell you now, until we
get three candidates, I'm not
supporting anybody, whether
itbethepreviousoneortheone
wehad 25 years ago. If wedon’t
have the process that we had
before, I'm not supporting it.”
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FEBRUARY 14, 2002
Though the committee ac
cepted the discussion as infor
mation, without deciding to
bringanythingtothefullboard,
commissioner Bobby
Hankersondecidedtotakemat
ters into his own hands after
themeeting. Hecalled theother
commissioners and won the
support of seven more besides
himself, then got fire chief Al
Gillespie to agree to come back
for another round.
“I hate wasting time,”
Hankerson later said. “It
seemed we’d sort of been doing
that.”
As far as the argument be
tween Williams and Kolb,
Hankerson said that he would
like to do things by the book.
“I’m new on the Commission,
so whatever the procedureis, I
believe in following the proce
dure. When it comes to dis
agreement, I'd like to go to the
manual. I don’t want to make
laws as I go along, because I
thinkwe’recreatingchaoswhen
we do that.” :
He thinks that, in order to
solve their differences, the gov
ernment officials should “sit
down in a couple of workshops
and put things in writing.”
Hankerson wouldn’t elabo
rate on whom he still has to
convince concerning Gillespie,
but said he’s got only “one and
a half” to go.
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