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Vol 38 Issue 9
Nonagenarians rule!
The Glynn Academy Alumni Association hosted a 222nd Anniversary celebration on
Saturday, February 20. Glynn Academy graduates and their families attended the
event. Graduates honored included Nonagenarians, from left to right, Dick Krauss
(class of 1936), Bill Brown (class of 1937), Billie Tuten Gay (class of 1933) and Joe Whittle
(class of 1937). All are ninety-plus years young.
Islander Staff Photo - Shierling
GA celebrates 222nd anniversary
School energy
program saving
after two years
By Matthew J. Permar
After two years of operat
ing the Glynn Comity school
system's energy conservation
program, one of the questions
Dave Raczynski gets most,
after, ‘Is the program work
ing?’, is, 'What is cost avoid
ance?'
The short answer is: it is
energy costs the school system
avoided having to pay because
of the energy program.
This begs more of an expla
nation.
The school system's Energy
Education Inc. (EEI) energy
conservation program started
in November of 2007 .
In order to get an accu
rate account of how much the
system was saving on over
all energy costs with EEI’s
program, Raczynski needed
a “base year’ of data prior to
the implementation of the pro
gram to measure against.
Raczynski used data from
the previous year, November,
2006 to October, 2007 as the
system's “base year.’
Plugged into a computer
program, the base year data
represents how much ener
gy was used and how much
money was spent on energy
before the energy conservation
program was in place.
Energy Education, Inc.,
(EEI) the company that pro
vided the conservation pro
gram and training, guaranteed
the school system would avoid
$222,200 in energy costs in the
first year.
In the first year of the pro
gram, November 2007 to Octo
ber 2008, the actual cost avoid
ance was $435,000, which was
$212,800 more than EEI's pro
jected avoidance.
Program expenses for the
first year were $219,100,
which, when subtracted from
the $435,000 total cost avoid
ance, leaves a net avoidance,
or savings, of $215,900.
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Energy program
There are a lot of reasons
why Glynn Academy is spe
cial.
If you attended Glynn Acad
emy you know you always
belong there. GA graduates
are fiercely loyal to the school
and go to great lengths to cel
ebrate the school and keep her
alive.
Two of the older buildings
have been restored. The GA
Building, was remodeled in
1999, and the Annex has been
completely restored after a
major fine in 2005. The early
wooden school house, complet
ed in 1840, was returned to the
GA campus in 2008 and funds
are being raised to complete its
restoration.
Because the school is so old
(second oldest in Georgia) sev-
By Pamela Permar Shierling
eral generations of many fami
lies have attended GA. The
teachers and staff, for most of
us, are quite memorable. If you
attended GA during the 50s,
60s or early 70s, The Major
(Vice Principal Lee) not only
knew you, he knew your broth
ers and sisters, and God help
you if a sibling had been an
exceptional student because
that was expected of you.
Glynn Academy's 222nd
anniversary celebration kicked
off Saturday, February 20 and
continued through the follow
ing week. All it takes is a meet
ing of two GA graduates to
kick off a reminiscing session
which means a lot of reminisc
ing went on during the Satur
day gathering.
Five of GA's oldest living
graduates were honored at the
Saturday celebration. The 90
plus year old's included Rich
ard Krauss ('36), Joe Whittle
('37), JoBert Harper O'Quinn
('35), Bid Brown ('37) and Bil
lie Tuten Gay ('33).
A wonderful history of
Glynn Academy is included in
the special Anniversary Edi
tion of the Glynn Academy
Alumni Gazette edited by Bar
bara Klein Stewart ('60) and
Mason Stewart ('60).
All former GA students are
automatically members of the
Alumni Association. To become
an active member or to con
tribute to the Association send
your information to the Glynn
Academy Alumni Association,
PO Box 2879, Brunswick, Ga.
31521. □
School lunch
money collection
program enacted
By Matthew J. Permar
The thing about school
administrators collecting stu
dents’ lunch money is while it's
the kids at school eating the
food, it's their parents, not at
school, who are responsible for
paying for it.
Talking to the Glynn Coun
ty Board of Education's finance
committee last week, school
system Food Service Director
Janet Mitchell said her depart
ment was currently $34,000 in
the red on lunch collections.
The good news was this def
icit amount was $50,000 before
a letter to school principals,
asking for help, increased the
collection rate.
Last year’s deficit was
rolled over to this year, so the
$34,000 deficit represents a
year and a half of uncollect
ed lunch money, according to
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Lunch money
Part One
SPLOST & more;
county work
session runs long
By Matthew J. Permar
Over the last decade or so,
the Glynn Comity Commission
has streamlined their regular
twice monthly meetings to
keep them to about an hour or
an hour and a half.
This, of course, depends
largely on whether the agenda
contains any public hearings
on controversial topics, which
can take up time with discus
sion.
Last week, on Thursday,
Feb. 25, the commission met
in a rare work session at 9:00
a.m.. And while there were
only five items on the agenda,
the meeting was still going
strong two and a half and a
half homrs later.
One of the main topics was
an update on SPLOST 4 and
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SPLOST update
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