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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Courtesy of Alabama Museum of Natural History ™
Officials with the Alabama Museum of
Natural History are searching for fam
ily members of Eugene H. Hodges,
the late owner of a radio struck by the
Sylacauga meteorite in 1954. :
University
searching for
radio owner
Man lived in county;
device was struck by
meteorite in 1954
By Kelly Whitmire .
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com .
If anyone in Forsyth County knows the
family of Eugene H. Hodges, officials
with the University of Alabama are trying
to contact them to talk about a radio struck -
by a meteorite. :
Mary Beth Prondzinski, collections
manager with the Alabama Museum of
Natural History on the university’s cam
pus, said the museum is searching for fam
ily members of the late Eugene Hodges,
the owner of a radio of struck by a meteor
ite in the 1950 s that is on display.
“The radio is part of an event that
_occurred_here in-Alabama back-in—l9s4,"—
she said. “It was actually called the
Sylacauga Meteorite Event. It fell in
Sylacauga, Alabama, and it went through
somebody’s home and struck the radio that
we currently have on exhibit, which hit the
woman who lived in the house.” 0
The woman struck by the meteorite was
Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges, then-wife
of Eugene Hodges.
“It became an overnight sensation
because she was the first person to have -
ever been struck by a meteorite,”
Prondzinski said.
Ann Hodges was featured in Life
Magazine and the TV show “I've Got a
Secret” and had a legal battle with her
landlord over ownership of the meteorite.
Ann Hodges sold the meteorite to the
museum in 1955, where it has been since.
The radio that was struck came to the
museum 50 years later in 2005 as a loan
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Jonas Strecker, German teacher at South Forsyth High School, was selected as the 2018 Teacher of the Year
druing the annual Celebration of Excellence on Friday. Below, Natalie Gunter with American Proteins
accepts the 2018 Friend of the School award, honoring the company for the work it does with the system,
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Qualifying wraps up for 2018 races
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
County, state and federal seats are
up for grabs in the 2018 election, and
officials for those seats made their
names known last week.
Qualifying for the elections was
held in both Forsyth County and
Atlanta depending on the seat from
Monday through noon on Friday.
_“lt went very smooth,” said
Barbara Luth, Forsyth County’s
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elections. “[With] the programming
that the state has for us to do it, we
got all of the proper paperwork,
everything was filled out [and] every
body had everything they were sup
posed to have. The parties were here
to qualify and they helped tremen
dously, too.”
The end of qualifying means all
candidates have been set for the
“races. A _second qualifying period
will not be held, as it has in the past.
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