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Wehunt Gets
Southern Bell
Vail Award
Tony Wehunt, a Georgia
Southern Bell employee, has
been awarded the Bell
System’s most pretigious
citation for service, the Vail
Award, for his spring, 1975,
efforts that are credited with
saving the life of Mrs.
Beatrice Hill.
Presented by Jasper Dor
sey, Southern Bell vice
president and chief executive
officer of the Company’s
Georgia operations, and
signed by Southern Bell
President L. E. Rast, the Vail
Award cites Wehunt for his
“prompt, courageous and
effective action” which is
“credited with saving a life.”
Wehunt, the father of two
children, was an installer in
the Marietta District of
Southern Bell when the event
occurred on March 13, 1975.
He is currently a directory
advertising salesman.
After the incident, Wehunt
explained what happened.
“I left my lunch break and
was in route to my next
service order. As I approach
ed a creek, which had flooded
its banks, I noticed a lady’s
car had attempted to cross
the flooded road, but it had
stalled.
“Suddenly her car was
lifted-up by the rising water
and pulled into the current
and onto the field which was
an additional two or three
feet below road level.
“The lady was screaming
and her car began to take in
water and sink at an
alarming rate. 1 waded out
toward the car as far as I
could and dove for it. When I
reached the car, the lady was
apparently in shock.”
Wehunt then rolled down
the window of the car, pulled
the woman out and held onto
the fender of the car “to keep
the current from pulling us
away.”
Meanwhile, a neighbor
waded out to a secure footing
and helped pull the two out of
the current.
Wehunt graduated from
Osborn High School in
Marietta and Kennesaw
Junior College. He has been
with Southern Bell since
1972.
Dorsey noted that signifi
cantly 100 years ago this
March the first sentence
intelligibly transmitted by
the telephone was a call for
help; “Mr. Watson, come
here; 1 want you!”
“Alexander Graham Bell
impulsively called out those
words to his assistant after
upsetting a battery and
spilling acid on his clothing.
The crude telephone he was
ready to test picked up his
words and sent them over a
wire to a room down the hall
where Thomas Watson was
listening. Since that historic
night in 1876 the telephone
and telephone people have
been ‘friends in need’ to
thousands of people at times
of emergency,” he said.
“Over the years a tradition
of service to the public has
grown out of countless
meritorious acts and ser-,
vices by employees. Almost
every day some act is
recorded somewhere in the
Bell System which exempli
fies the loyalty and devotion
of telephone men and
women. This thought of
‘service first’ is more than
devotion to an organization,
inspiring as that may be. It
comes from a sense of
individual responsibility in
the public service,” Dorsey
added.
“Many of these acts and
services are so outstanding
that they deserve some token
of recognition more enduring
than the spontaneous con
gratulations of associates
and friends,” he said.
“Vail Medal awards were
credited to give this recogni
tion. A Bell System fund was
set up in 1920 as a memorial
to Theodore N. Vail, former
president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph
Company, to perpetuate his
ideals of responsibility for
public service. This fund
provides awards to telephone
people in cases, such as Tony
Wehunt’s, which warrant
such recognition.”
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