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Whipple Addresses Georgia Jaycees
• (Editor’s note: More
than 20 years ago, Perry
was selected as the site
for the state headquar
ters for the Georgia
Jaycees.
Recently, Allen P.
Whipple, Sr. was asked to
address the Georgia
Jaycees on how Perry
was selected for this
honor.
The Houston Home
Journal obtained a copy
of this speech and it
shows the dedicated
efforts put forth by many
of that era’s leaders.)
In the spring of 1956, we
had a form letter from
the state president asking
if we knew of any site that
could be gotten to put a
state Jaycee building on.
One hundred Jaycee
Chapters got this same
letter. There were four of
us Jaycees appointed to a
Jaycee site committee by
our local president: Bill
Bates, Durwood Tatum,
Richard B. Ray and
myself.
The state had asked for
ideas to be presented
about a possible site at
the May 1956 state
meeting at Radium
Springs, near Albany.
Our committee got to
working and located a
site that we got the city to
agree to give. However;
we did not stop with a
site. We worked up a
building plan and got the
good people of Perry to
underwrite us building it
and going to the state for
about one-third of the
cost, before the state
meeting at Radium
Springs.
I was appointed
publicity and promotion
chairman in getting the
to decide to have a
state Jaycee building and
for them to choose our
Crossroads Refugee
Family Arrives Here
It finally happened!
Last Thursday, the
telephone rang at the
Hanse Massey home and
the speaker said, “This is
Church World Service
and your family will be
arriving on Tuesday,
November 25’’. Thus
ended several months of
lealing with the red tape
f getting approval for
oonsorship of a refugee
■mily from South Viet
t im, making various
rangements for their
using, employment,
c. and waiting patiently
r them to be processed
rough the rigid entry
stem into the United
ates. Hanse is the
airman of the Missions
jmmittee of the
rossroads United
ethodist Church and the
onsorship of a refugee
nily is a project of the
arch. The effort to
jnsor a refugee family
gan in September 1979
en the Missions
mmittee first ap
jached the Ad
listrative Board and
ngregation of
ssroads about the idea
the church over
imingly approved the
?ct and authorized
Committee to work
he details. Approval
given over two
hs ago and the
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This attractive Thanksgiving table is in Amelia Ledford’s second grade
lassroom at Tucker Elementary School. The students made the foods
hey wished to eat on Thanksgiving Day. Each child then drew, colored,
ut out and placed himself around the Thanksgiving Table. Pictured are:
>ft to right ■ Valeria Lane, Chandrell Williams, McGarrett Scott, Koatiki
elder, Thoney Ingram, Satoria Ragin, Jonathan White.
site and building plan in
Perry.
I went to a good,
professional sign man
(Mr. Jones) in Warner
Robins, and asked him to
fix six of the largest
banners I’d ever seen
(red on white) saying
“It’s Perry For State
Jaycee Headquarters! ”
hundreds of cigars with
wrappers were made by
our Jaycettes saying
“It’s Perry For State
Jaycee Headquarters.”
Also, three large panels
of pictures of the site, the
proposed building and
things about Perry
saying “why not Perry
for the State Jaycee
headquarters?”
We had a hospitality
room, three days and
nights , Jay cettes
prepared food and we
wined and dined Jaycees
from all over the state,
with Perry Jaycees on
hand every minute to
answer questions. On
Saturday, Abit Massey
was elected state Jaycee
president and our new
local Jaycee president
was Frank Satterfield.
On Sunday morning,
the main item on the
agenda was, should we
have a state Jaycee
headquarters, and if so,
where? We had our young
mayor Stanley Smith
come to Radium Springs
from Perry on a Sunday
morning and make a
pitch and answer
questions, without a note
in his hand.
There were many other
clubs trying, and many
wanted to postpone a
decision til later when
they could have time to
get organized, to make
their pitch for the state
headquarters . A former
church has been ex
pectantly awaiting the
arrival of the family of
Pham Le a native of Phu
Yen, South Viet Nam.
Pham Le and his
family were a self
employed fishing family
in their home village, but
after the communist
takeover of Viet Nam the
danger, especially to
Christian families, in
creased so drastically
that finally they made a
desperate bid for
freedom and arrived in
Subic Bay, Philippines on
May 13, 1979 after a
perilous journey on a
small fishing boat. They
have been living in one of
the United Nations
Refugee Camps in the
Philippines since that
time.
The last few weeks
have seen a flurry of
activity at the “refugee
house” on fourth Street
as the members of the
church have been trying
to get the house ready for
the family’s coming. “We
felt that we were for
tunate to find the house
we did at a reasonable
rate of rent,” Mr. Massey
stated “and one of the
stipulations was that we
paint the house inside and
out as a part of the rent.
We have completed the
interior but will not get
state president from
Perry, Horace Evans got
up and said some words
that turned the tide in our
favor. Abit Massey
wheeled the gavel and we
got it approved and Perry
was selected!
At dinner that day, the
national vice president
prised the young mayor
from Perry in his suc
cessful pitch and said he
bet that Stanley Smith
had been a Jaycee and it
just so happned that
Stanley had been a
charter member of the
Perry Jaycees in 1946.
We came back home
and used the Kennesaw
Mountain Jaycee’s
building plans instead of
ours, through Abit
Massey’s request and
went out in teams to raise
all the needed money.
Many Perryans con
tributed, and Meade
Tolleson built the
building and helped us
considerably, financially.
The building was almost
ready in the January of
1957 when the national
president, Wendell Ford
visited. He said it was one
of the nicest he had ever
seen, and one of the few in
the nation. Ford went on
to become governor of
Kentucky and is now
their United States
Senator. The state
headquarters building
was dedicated by Lt.
Governor Earnest
Vandiver in February of
1957.
In June of 1957 Abit
Massey led us to be No. 1
in the parade of states at
the national convention.
He could have been
governor of Georgia. He
is now head of the Poultry
Industry of the State of
the exterior painted
before their
arrival.’’Arriving with
Pham Le, 56, will be his
wife, Ngo The No, their
five sons, Nghe 18, Non
13, Nuoe 10, Ngen 8, Ngot
6 and two daughters Nong
17 and Bich Chi 4.
Rev. Leland Collins,
the pastor of Crossroads,
told his congregation
Sunday that it is quite
appropriate the refugees
should arrive during the
Thanksgiving Season.”
Three hundred and fifty
six years ago our
forefathers were the
refugees who had
recently arrived by small
boat from a foreign land
and the natives of
America helped them
survive. It is now our
time to welcome the
refugees with open arms
and show them what it
means to live in a land of
freedom.”
Anyone in the com
munity who has clothes
or household items they
would like to donate to
help this family, or
anyone who would be
interested in assisting in
helping them become
acclimatized to
American life are invited
to volunteer by con
tacting Hanse or Linda
Massey at 987-4206 or call
the church at 987-3721.
Georgia, in Gainesville.
It is an honor and a
privilege to have the state
headquarters in Perry,
and we are thrilled and
happy to have you here.
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proudly say, “You Are
The Greatest
Organization In The
World.”
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1980
When King Louis XII of France visited Milan in 1509, Leonardo da Vinci is
believed to have constructed a mechanical lion that walked toward to King's
throne, stopped humbly before him, and ripped open its chest with its claws.
Fleur-de-lis, the symbol of the French royal house, tumbled out at the King's feet.
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