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Oxford College Faculty Members
Attend Atlanta Theater Luncheon
John Gregory and Desmond
Avery and Dr. Joseph E. Gull
lebeau of Oxford College, Oxford,
were among those attending a
special luncheon given by the
new Atlanta Repertory Theater
at the Biltmore Hotel In Atlanta
recently.
The purpose of the luncheon
which drew interested parties
from some twenty Georgia ci
ties was to Introduce members
of community theaters, colleges
and universities to the Artistic
Director of the new theater, Mic
hael Howard, and to outline pro
jected plans for area involve
ment In the upcoming activities
of this resident performing com
pany in the soon to be opened
Atlanta Memorial Arts Center.
Directors, administrators and
educators Involved in or interes
ted in theatrical activities th
roughout the state were addres
sed by Mr. Howard and by Chris
topher B. Manos, General Direc
tor of Atlanta Municipal Theater,
parent organization to the Re
pertory Theater Company, and,
after lunch, were given a red
carpet tour of the 13 million
dollar art facility on Peachtree
Street by Charles Jagels, Pre
sident of the Atlanta Arts Al
liance.
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TO ALL NEWTON COUNTY VOTERS
DENNIS F. JONES
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR
COURTS, NEWTON, DEKALB, ROCKDALE
(To succeed Hon. Frank Guess, retiring)
DENNIS JONES was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1925.
He graduated from Emory University Law School, and has
practiced law for 20 years.
DENNIS JONES has tried hundreds of cases as Assist
ant Solicitor General for Newton, DeKalb and Rockdale.
His opponent is a REAL ESTATE lawyer who has tried few
cases.
T HE LAW YERS, who know both men,
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our state must recognize that we
consider our new theater In this
magnificent new center for the
arts not merely a service for the
people of Atlanta,” Mr. Howard
told the assembled, "but a ser
vice to aH the citizens of Geor
gia.”
“We cannot make It such a
service on our own. You and
your neighbors must help us.
We are Interested deeply In you,
In your cities, In your theaters
and other artistic endeavors. We
Invite your Interest and partici
pation In our city, In our theater,
and In the myriad activities which
will soon take place under that
big white roof of the Memorial
Arts Center.”
In conjunction with the meeting,
a speclai communications system
and consultant program was an
nounced by the theater’s admini
stration. Community and avo
catlonal theaters throughout the
state may draw direct benefit
from the Atlanta Repertory Th
eater’s professional staff of ar
tistic, promotional, and admini
strative personnel by arranging
for consultants to go from the
Atlanta company to the outlying
areas for special lectures, de
monstrations, or meetings.
The Stage Campaign 68 pro
gram which allows all students
and teachers to buy season tlck-
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THREE OXFORD college faculty members attended a special luncheon given by the Atlanta Reper
tory Theater at the Biltmore Hotel. Left to right are John Gregory; Michael Howard, Artistic Di
rector of Atlanta Repertory Theater; Desmond Avery; and Dr. Joseph E. Guillebeau.
ets to the Atlanta Repertory Th
eater at a discount of 75% over
regular prices applies In all
areas of the state as well as In
Atlanta.
The Atlanta Repertory Theater
opens Its Inaugural season Octo
ber 30 In the new Atlanta Memo
rial Arts Center with the Ameri
can premiere of “King Arthur,”
a work for opera, ballet and thea
ter written by John Dryden with
music by Henry Purcell. In this
gala opening production the thea
ter company will be joined by Its
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. "Diomas Jay
and Scott were the Sunday guests
of Mr. and Mrs. William Jay In
Avondale. During the afternoon
they climbed Stone Mountain and
Sunday evening visited Mrs.
Terry Jay and young daughter,
Allca, at DeKalb General Hos
pital.
** ♦ *
Mrs. L. A. Patrick, Miss
Maude King, Mrs. Paul Harwell
of Newborn and Mrs. Wallace
Banks of Shady Dale enjoyed din
ner Sunday at the Elberton Coun
try Club when Misses Pauline
Hardman and Elizabeth Willis
were co-hostesses. In the after
noon the group visited Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Reagin in Elberton.
Mrs. Reagan is the sister of
Miss Hardman.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Woodard
of Venlca, Florida spent several
days this week with their child
ren, Mr. and Mrs. William G.
Borella and family.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Little Tammy Stubbs, the young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clack
Stubbs, is a patient at DeKalb
General Hospital where she was
taken Monday following a fall on
her tricycle when she sustained
a head Injury. She Is being ex
tended best wishes for a speedy
improvement.
** * *
Mrs. E. H. Cunard is a patient
at Newton County Hospital.
Friends are extending her best
wishes for Improvement.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Skinner
and Kathy, with Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Stapp were the Sunday
spend the day guests of Mr. and
Mrs. James Stapp in Atlanta.
♦* * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jennings of
Beckley, West Virginia were the
recent house guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Tabor, and are plan
ning to return to Covington to
make their home.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Booker Lewis and
sister professional companies In
the Atlanta Municipal Theater
complex: the Atlanta Opera,
Blanche Thebom, Artistic Direc
tor, and the Atlanta Ballet, Ro
bert Barnett, Artistic Director.
Following a five - week run of
“King Arthur,” the theater com
pany will embark on a 30-week
six-play season of repertory.
Ticket Information concerning
the Atlanta Repertory Theater
may be had from the theater box
office at 1222 Peachtree Street,
N. E., Atlanta, Georgia, 30309,
or by calling 892-2011.
Nancy spent Sunday with Mary
Lewis, who is attending LaGrange
College. The group enjoyed din
ner at Callaway Gardens.
** * ♦
Monday evening guests of the
Arthur Hays family were Con
gressman and Mrs. Robert G.
Stephens, Jr. and children Mary
and Lawton, of Athens and Joan
Cauklns of Covington. Die group
attended the Mansfield Lions Fa
mily Night barbecue at the Mans
field Community Center.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Pratt
spent Sunday in Columbus with
their daughter and family, Dr.
and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Charlie
and Georgia. Enroute home they
visited Dr. and Mrs. Tom Hop
kins and family In Griffin.
♦♦ * ♦
Mrs. Myrtle Malone and Mrs.
Mack Dodd of Macon are the
houseguests of Mr. and Mrs.
Moncey Pratt.
Trees
(From Society Front)
as Amicalola Falls near Juno,
Black Mountain near Mountain
City, and Cloudland Canyon near
Rising Fawn.
There is a tremendous pano
ramic view from Fort Mountain
Park near Chatsworth where you
can visit a pre-historic Indian
fort and climb an observation
tower. Othei' colorful parks are
Hard Labor Creek at Rutledge,
Red Top Mountain at Carters
ville, Unicoi near the little town
of Helen, and Vogel at Blairs
ville on Lake Trahlyta.
In the southern half of the
State, Jack Frost presents out
standing leaf shows at Indian
Springs State Park, Franklin D.
Roosevelt at Pine Mountain and
Little Ocmulgee at Mcßae.
Highway overlooks are num
erous in North Georgia, and offer
spectacular color panoramas.
You find particularly colorful
views at Cohutta Overlook on U. S.
76 near Ellijay, Spoilcane Over
look on Georgia 75 near Helen,
and at the Chestatee Overlook on
Georgia 60 near Dahlonega.
Brasstown Bald, highest point in
Georgia, offers striking views
from the Visitor’s Center. Ele
vation here is 4,784 feet above
sea level. But these aren’t the
only ones -- you find gorgeous,
color panoramas everywhere you
look when Jack Frost has been
busy with his paintbrush.
There is no doubt, there
is color in an autumn leaf tour
of Georgia — gorgeous, riotous
color at that.
For a free color booklet on
“Leaf Tours Through Georgia”
write the Tourist Division, Geor
gia Department of Industry and
Trade, 100 State Capitol,
Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Muncipal Election
Law Workshop Set
0ct.29, Conyers
Secretary of State Ben Fort
son announced that his Office
will hold a workshop on the
Municipal Election Code which
was enacted at the 1968 session
of The Georgia General Assem
bly. The workshop will be held
for Municipal Election Officials
in conjunction with the Georgia
Municipal Association’s Annual
Fourth Congressional District
meeting on Tuesday, October 29,
1968, at Conyers, Georgia, to be
held at the V. F. W. Club. The
Georgia Municipal Association
will begin its meeting at 9:30
A.M., and the Election Law Work
shop will begin at 1:30 P.M.
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Rev. Bruyere Was Homecoming
Speaker At Porterdale Sunday
PORTERDALE - The Rev. A.
J. Bruyere stirred the congre
gation of the Julia A. Porter
Memorial united Methodist
Church at their Homecoming Ser
vice on Sunday, October 13. Ap-
Hospital
। Notes
Patlents admitted during the
week of October 7th thru October
13th, 1968:
Mrs. Ruth E. Wiggins, Claude
Brooks, Mrs. Jewel Skelton, Hal
Bailey, Mrs. Linda Barnes, Bar
bara Bradford, Mrs. Opal Stokes,
Sara Ann Meadows, Sue Knight,
Ronald Sweat, Sara Gauntt, Mar
garet Coe, Mrs. Corine Fleming,
Mrs. Minnie Rowland, Mrs. Sara
Weaver, Ben Martin, Paulette
Canup, Clifford Cagle, Leila S.
Klnes, Irene Ivey.
Mrs. Nora Ellington, Mrs. Am
mle Bruce, Miss Peggy Heard,
Boyce Aiken, Thomas Shumate,
J. Allen McGee, Mrs. Brenda
Waldrop, Addie Harris, Mrs. Sa
rah W. Cofer, Norma W. Maner,
Franklin Gray, Dorothy Barnett,
Zina Sweat, Jenny Hilton, Mrs.
Nena Daniel, Bobby Harper, Mrs.
Charlotte Lawson, Edgar Lee
Allen, William C. Jeffries, Wil
liam T. Ewing.
Flora E. Benton, Jessie Jef
ferson, Sr., Zatta Mae Delmar,
Elizabeth Pridgett, Chris Harris,
Annie Ruth Cooper, Forest Saw
yer, Jessie Jefferson, Sr.
Patients remaining the week
of October 14th, 1968:
Boyce Aiken, Claude Brooks,
Hal Bailey, Mrs. Linda Barnes,
Mrs. Barbara Bradford, Mrs.
Dorothy Barnett, Ruth Beam,
Ammie Bruce, Robert Callaway,
Grady W. Carter, Mrs. Sarah
W. Cofer, Clifford Cagle, Mrs.
Paulette Canup, Mrs. Margaret
Coe, Zatta Mae Delmar, Duff
Davis, Brenda Denny, Mrs. Nora
proximately 260 joined the
membership for the sermon with
more than 300 sharing in the
delicious meal following the spi
ritual experience.
Flowers in the sanctuary were
Ellington.
Mrs. Corine Fleming, Mrs.
Sara Gauntt, Chris Harris, Addie
Harris, Miss Peggy Heard, Bobby
Harper, Mrs. Irene Ivey, Wil
liam C. Jefferies, Mrs. Leila
Klnes, Miss Sue Knight, Mrs.
Mamie Lester, James Allen Mc-
Gee, Mrs. Sara Ann Meadows,
Ben Martin, Norma Maner, J.
A. Middlebrooks, Mrs. Sarah
Oldham, Leon Powers, Ollie H.
Rogers, Mrs. Minnie Rowland,
Mrs. Jewel Skelton, Mrs. Opal
Stokes, Ronald Sweat, Minnie K.
Thompson, Mrs. Ruth E. Wiggins,
George L. Young.
Flora W. Benton, Forest Saw
yer, Miss Alice Shy, Mrs. Janie
Stanford, Nannie Strawn, Henry
James Wright, m.
Richard A.
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placed there by members of the
Lola Drennon Sunday Schoo’
Class.
During the afternoon, the Rev
and Mrs. Harold Lyda held Opet
House at the Parsonage. They
were assisted in entertaining by
young ladies in the church, Kathy
Lowerry, Cathy Head, Linda
King, and Marcia Johnson.
Dahlias and mums were used
effectively in the dining room
whose table was overlaid with
lace over pink.
An arrangement of carnations
and mums in red and whits
beautified the den.
Other arrangements were
placed advantageously throughout
the home.
Mrs. Vivian Nall, President of
the WSCS, acted as hostess, in
viting guests into the home.
For the occasion, Mrs. Lyda
wore a becoming navy shift with
tucked front and a white carna
tion corsage.