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August 13, 2008
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Retreat
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"It's what I agreed to (in
order) to try to help the
county and to help us work
together," said Peters. "To
show the county that there
is some light at the end of
the tunnel."
Two warrants for Evans'
arrest were issued on July
31 on charges of misde
meanor disorderly conduct
and a felony, terroristic
threats. That after Peters
swore out a complaint at
the Monroe County
Sheriffs Office that Evans
cursed him and threatened
to break his jaws on July
24. Evans and Peters had
gotten into a disagreement
about Evans' efforts to cut
down older trees on the
courthouse square that
day.
Superior Court Judge
Tommy Wilson summoned
Peters and Evans to his
office Aug. 1 to try to bro
ker peace.
Peters said Wilson,
Sheriff John Cary Bittick
and district attorney
Richard Milam all agreed
the warrants could be
dropped if Peters' idea of a
retreat occurs soon.
Commissioner Jim Ham
announced the retreat at
the commission meeting on
Tuesday, Aug. 5. Peters
said they'll call in a profes
sional mediator, perhaps
from the Carl Vinson
Institute at the University
of Georgia, to lead the dis
cussions. Peters said it's
not just about the most
recent dispute, but about
six years of bickering on
the board.
Peters said commission
ers won't be planning the
agenda of the retreat
because that would be just
one more thing to fight
about. Peters said they
don't know yet where
they'll go or when, but said
it'll probably be in
September. Ham said the
consensus is they'll meet
on a weekday night.
Under Georgia law, com
mission meetings must be
open to the public and can
only be closed to discuss
the purchase or sale of real
estate, potential or existing
litigation with their attor
ney, or a personnel matter.
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“They’re just out of luck,” says T.
Raleigh Mann, Mercer’s senior asso
ciate vice president of alumni rela
tions. “We won’t consider it.”
The Tift bell was moved from the
Forsyth campus to Macon sometime
after Mercer bought the school in
1986. At first, Mercer had tried to
keep Tift open but said it was finan
cially unworkable. After closing the
school and selling the property,
Mercer created the Tift College
Alumnae House on its Macon cam
pus to preserve the legacy of Tift. It’s
home to many Tift artifacts that
were moved to Macon when the
Forsyth campus closed. And Mercer
also moved the Tift College bell from
Forsyth to a location in front of the
Tift Alumnae House. Moreover,
Mercer created the Tift Scholars pro
gram. The program honors a “select
group of young women at Mercer
with scholarships and inclusion in
one of the University’s most distin
guished scholastic organizations,”
says Mercer’s website. There are cur
rently more than 175 Tift scholars,
and one of the traditions at Mercer is
for Tift Scholars to ring the bell each
spring.
With Mercer doing so much to pre
serve the Tift legacy, Tift alumnae
say they’re happy to see the bell stay
in Macon.
“The bell’s fine where it is, I would
rather keep it there,” said Carey
Russell of Forsyth, the president of
the Tift College Alumnae
Association. “Mercer has been very
good to help us.”
Russell noted that not only do Tift
Scholars ring the bell each spring,
but so do Tift alumnae when they
meet every other year for meetings
at the Alumnae House at Mercer.
“I don’t know if (the bell) would
mean anything to the Department
of Corrections, but it means a lot to
Tift alumnae,” said Russell.
Russell said Mercer has even
allowed Tift graduates to change
their diplomas to Mercer diplomas
if they’d like to help them when
they’re job hunting. And she said
Mercer has helped Tift at a cost,
because Tift alumnae do not give as
much as Mercer spends on scholar
ships and the alumnae house to
preserve the Tift legacy.
Another Tift alumna and incom
ing member of Tift’s alumnae
board, Joy Callaway of Bainbridge,
agreed.
“I would like to see it stay where
it is,” said Callaway. “That’s where
everything else is.”
But Callaway added that she’s
pleased to death to see the old Tift
Campus coming back to life. “I
hated to see it sit there with noth
ing going on there,’ said Callaway.
“It’s a beautiful campus and I had
some wonderful days there. Good,
specials days.”
Callaway suggested maybe the
state could get a replica of the Tift
bell to erect on the DOC campus.
While she likes the bell where it is,
Russell said she would be willing to
discuss the bell when the Tift alum
nae board meets on Aug. 16. She
said they could also discuss ways to
work with the state to preserve Tift’s
history as the renovations continue.
According to a book about Tift’s his
tory, “Yesterday at Tift” written by
legendary Tift teacher Eugenia
Stone, the bell was erected in front of
the library in 1958 after workers
found it in the rafters of Ponder Hall.
It’s not clear whether the bell was an
original from 1852, or perhaps was
given to the school when it opened
the new Ponder Hall in 1883.
The old Tift College Bell shown in front of the
old library not long after it was erected. The
bell is now on the campus of Mercer Universi
ty where school officials say it will remain.
(Photo courtesy state Department of Correc
tions.)
Whatever the case, local Tift alumna
Mallory Rumble of the class of 1923
paid to have the bell mounted on a
frame and erected in front of the
library. It was called the Senior Bell
because only seniors were allowed to
ring it. Underclassmen got in big
trouble if they rang the bell, recalled
Russell. And for now, it appears the
bell won’t be coming back to Forsyth.
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The suspect is described as a black male in his
late teens or early 20s and was wearing a white T-
1 and then went to check
on Glover, who was lying in
the parking lot. She held
his hand and checked the
bullet wound in his chest,
noting there wasn’t much
blood. Glover told Hilder
that he didn’t know the
assailant, who merely
ordered him to “get outta
tha car, get outta tha
car...you think I’m playin’
with you?” before shooting
him at point-blank range.
Hilder found Glover’s cell
phone and called his moth
er, who arrived before the
EMS.
Hilder said the suspect
didn’t steal any money or
anything else from Glover
except his Caprice Classic,
which she said appeared to
have 26” rims and a fresh
paint job.
“He just wanted that car,”
said Hilder.
Hilder said she noticed
Glover’s cell phone had a
screensaver photo of the
Caprice Classic and gave it
to authorities to help them
locate it. A Monticello
police officer spotted the
vehicle on Hwy. 83 at about
9:50 p.m. and pursued, but
later found the car aban
doned and parked on the
side of the highway. Police
used dogs to search the
area but were unable to
make an arrest. The sus
pect is described as a black
male in his late teens or
early 20s and was wearing
a white T-shirt, cargo
shorts and a white bandan
na. He appears to weigh
between 160-180 pounds.
Maj. Matt Perry of the
Forsyth Police Department
said he’d be very surprised
if the shooter is from
Forsyth but thinks he has
a local connection who
could assist police.
Dairy Queen owner
Ronnie Daniel said Glover
is a cheerful, regular cus
tomer and said he’s pray
ing that he’ll recover. He
said he’s stunned that a
shooting happened at his
restaurant.
“I thought we were
exempt from all that,” said
Daniel. But he added he’s
thankful it wasn’t worse.
“This could have been
really ugly if he had come
in the store,” said an emo
tional Daniel. “We have so
much to be thankful for. I
just thank the Good Lord.”
And he said he’s very
proud of his staff and their
shirt, cargo shorts and a white bandanna. Anyone
with information please call Matt Perry at 994-6022.
calm response.
Hilder credited her abili
ty to respond to the situa
tion to Daniel’s training.
She said Daniel is always
asking employees what
they’re going to do in tense
situations, drilling them
about calling 911, locking
down and not panicking in
an emergency situation.
The incident came just
three days after the Dairy
Queen raised $5,000 by
selling blizzards for the
children’s hospital at the
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