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Clemson University
Matthew David Lee has graduat
ed from Clemson University in
South Carolina with a master’s
degree in professional accountan
cy.
He graduated magna cum laude
from Clemson in 1998, and Lee is
a member of the Golden Key
National Honor Society, and the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor soci
ety.
He is the grandson of Redger
and Maggie Worley of Cumming,
and the son of Barbara and David
Lee of Marietta.
Achievements
South Forsyth High School
band members honored
The South Forsyth High School
Band recently held its annual
awards banquet at the high school
cafeteria.
After a delicious meal and enter
tainment from the award winning
Eagle Jazz Band, each member of
the Symphonic Band and
Marching Band were presented
with certificates of participation
during the school year.
Patrick Denney, band director at
South, also presented individual
achievement awards to outstand
ing musicians on each grade level.
Freshman recipients were Dana
Richmond and Matthew
Anderson; Sophomore recipients
were Sarah Bosko and Tim
Douglass; Junior recipients were
Susan McPherson and Josh
Phillips; Senior recipients were
American Legion leader blasts
federal policies on medical care
Government policies are creat
ing inefficiencies in VA medical
facilities and under-using many
hospitals and clinics, according to
Butch Miller, the national com
mander of the American Legion.
“There are no unneeded VA
facilities - just valuable national
assets that senseless rules keep
from being fully used,’’ Miller
said. About half of all doctors
receive some of their training in
VA facilities.
The Legion commander said
charges that VA facilities are
being under-used only strengthen
the American Legion’s case for
adopting the GI Bill of Health,
which would bring more patients
into VA health care.
“The families of our older veter
ans are desperate to find long
term care for their loved ones.
Military retirees are searching for
hospitals to replace military facili
ties that have closed.
“Americans everywhere want
good, affordable health care,"
Miller said. “All of those prob
lems can be solved by expanding
and strengthening the VA’s health
care system.”
The commander’s remarks came
on the heels of a General
Accounting Office report that
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Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College
Cumming resident Michael S.
Holbrook has been named to the
president’s list at Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College in
Tifton.
Holbrook earned the honor by
having a perfect 4.0 grade point
average on subjects taken during
the summer session. Students
must take a minimum of 12 credit
hours to qualify for the honor.
Holbrook also was included in
the school’s dean’s list for the
summer term.
Ruth Mann and Nathan Menhom.
At the conclusion of the evening
the two most prestigious awards
of the year were given.
The John Philip Sousa award is
the top nationwide prize in the
school band program and is given
to the student displaying superior
musicianship, leadership and
dependability.
This year’s award was presented
to senior, Zack Hargrove.
Hargrove, who plays the trumpet,
will study music performance at
Northwestern University in the
fall. The Louis B. Armstrong
award is the top nationwide jazz
award presented. This year’s
recipient was junior, John
Kilgore. Kilgore, who plays the
saxophone, has been actively
involved in many jazz programs,
including studying with faculty at
Georgia State.
charged the
VA is wasting
$1 million
daily on
unneeded
medical facili
ties.
The report
noted that the
number of
patients in VA
hospitals
66
The families of
our older veterans
are desperate to
find long-term care
for their loved
ones.
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dropped from
49,000 a day in 1989 to 21,000 a
day in 1998.
The report failed to mention the
overall increase in people receiv
ing VA health care during that
period.
“Hasn't GAO gotten the word
that VA medicine is moving
toward out-patient care? Haven’t
they heard that VA has been
squeezing veterans out of the sys
tem for years by tightening its eli
gibility rules because of inade
quate funding?” Miller asked.
The GAO report was also criti
cal of VA officials for giving vet
erans service organizations and
other interested parties the chance
to comment on many local VA
decisions involving the allocation
of resources.
“It’s ironic that, at the very
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Lindsey Hebert, seated, with mentor Susie Lyday during her internship at CIBA Vision Corp.
Forsyth students finishes tenure
working with CIBA Vision Corp.
Lindsey Hebert, a 1999 gradu
ate of South Forsyth High
School, has spent the summer
learning about the working
world.
She spent her off-school
months as an in-tem with CIBA
Vision Corp, working in the
firm’s skills development center
and human resources depart
ment.
During her tenure the local
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moment that
Congress and the
White House are
discussing a so
called patients bill
of rights, the GAO
is trying to
deprive veterans
of a voice in their
own health care,”
Miller said.
The American
Legion has contin
ued to promote a sweeping
change in VA health care, called
the GI Bill of Health, which
would solve many of the GAO’s
concerns. The GI Bill of Health
would open up under-used VA
facilities to veterans and their
families.
Those new patients would rely
upon their own health insurance
or upon benefits offered by
Medicare or the military’s retire
ment system. “Military retirees
and their dependents and veterans
receiving Medicare should be
afforded the opportunity to access
VA health facilities,” Miller said.
“Counting patients in VA facili
ties says nothing about the med
ical needs of veterans or their
desire to receive VA treatment,”
Miller said.
youth learned about the inner
workings of a successful com
pany, and the function of devel
opment skills and human
resources professionals.
She also participated in such
functions as updating employ
ee’s training records and
observing the company’s inter
view simulation process.
Hebert has announced plans to
attend Georgia State University
Senate OKs disaster farm relief bill
Sen. Max Cleland recently praised the Senate
for passage of the Agriculture Appropriations Bill
(S. 12.33). The bill, which provides funding for tbe
USDA and related agencies, also appropriated
$7.4 billion in emergency disaster relief and
income assistance for America’s farmers. Among
the crops included in the finding are cotton,
peanuts, ard tobacco, some of Georgia largest
commodity products.
"Although many farmers across the country
were included in the original version of this disas
ter relief package, I was especially concerned
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS W«dnod»y, Auflu«t 18,1999
in downtown Atlanta.
She will major in business and
psychology.
While Hebert was at the com
pany, her internship was over
seen by mentor Susie Lyday.
After working throughout the
summer with her youthful
charge, Lyday says Lindsey has
a bright future ahead of her. not
ing she has great career poten
tial.
about Georgia’s peanut producers,” Cleland said.
“I worked with the Senate leadership to include
much needed disaster assistance for peanut grow
ers. I was pleased that they accepted my proposal
as part of the larger Democratic package.
“Although the Democratic amendment was not
approved. I was nonetheless happy that the final
bill included identical language to my proposal.
Along with my other colleagues from peanut pro
ducing states, including Sen. Coverdell, we were
successful in fending off the effort to eliminate
the peanut program, which is essentia) for our
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Goodloe
as president
The Professional Association of
Georgia Educators has
announced that Jan Goodloe has
been elected president for the
1999-2000 school year.
Goodloe is an educator in the
City Schools of Decatur (DeKalb
County) school system.
Goodloe is an instructional spe
cialist in language arts.
An active member of PAGE,
Goodloe most recently served as
president-elect and as a member
of the organization's state board,
representing District 4.
She has also served as a system
representative and as president of
her local PAGE chapter.
The election took place earlier
this month at the annual PAGE
state convention.
PAGE is the state’s largest orga
nization for professional educa
tors, with more than 46,000
teachers, administrators and sup
port personnel among its mem
bership.
The organization currently is
gearing up for the start of the new'
school year.
PAGE annually prepares and
distributes a guide to new teach
ers working in the state for the
first time. The guide is a valuable
tool for learning about the
resources available to educators
working in school districts
throughout the state.
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