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Perry Resident Christy Joins Local Law Firm BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer The local law firm of Walker, Hulbert and Gray has added a sev enth member to its growing team. John D. Christy of Perry joined fellow attorneys Larry Walker, David Walker, Skeet Hulbert, Mike Gray, Chuck Byrd and Trey Moody this month. A native of Atlanta who moved to Perry six years ago, Christy comes to Walker, Hulbert and Gray with an impressive career that has taken him from private and general practice law to the presidency of an area bank. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management and finance from Mercer University in Macon and a Juris Doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta. Since college, he has practiced law in a private law firm in Dou glas and was also a U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee for the South ern District of Georgia. He entered the world of banking when he became staff counsel with the National Bank of Georgia and later joined Citizen and Southern Bank, the company that transferred him to Middle Georgia six years ago to become president of their Houston County branch in Warner Robins. He has spent the last two years in Macon as regional manager for the commercial division of Nations Bank-a company formed when Cit izen and Southern and North Carolina Nations Bank merged in 1992. He resigned his position there at the end of February to re sume his career in law. “Of course. I’ll miss the banking business-I still have a lot of friends there. But I don’t think I could miss it as much as I’ve missed M . , 'IB Tee Tolleson Mell S. Tolleson Named To Board Of CB&T Bank Mell S. (Tee) Tolleson, Jr., has been appointed to the Board of Directors at CB&T Bank of Middle Georgia. Tolleson, a native of Perry, is Executive Vice President/ Chief Operations Officer of Mellco, Inc. Tolleson attended Mercer University, and is a member of the Perry Kiwanis Club, the American Wood Preserve Institute, and the Houston County Development Authority. Macon College Sets Dates For Spring Enrollment Regular registration for spring quarter classes at Macon College begins the week of March 28. Day and evening classes are scheduled at four Macon College locations: the main campus off Eisenhower Parkway and Interstate 475, the Downtown Center on Second Street, the Robins Resident Center at Robins Air Force Base and the Warner Robins Campus in the Advanced Technology Park off Houston Lake Boulevard. For more information and a schedule of classes, call the main campus at 471-2800 or toll free at 1-800-272-7619. Spring quarter classes begin Wednesday, March 30. State supported tuition is $371 per quarter for full-time study, less for part-time work. School, from 1A build a school and get it open by the start of school (next year), we have to get it started." The next Houston County Board of Education meeting is Tuesday, April 12. The board meets in the Board of Education offices on Washington Street, next to Perry City Hall. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. John D. Christy practicing law for the past six years,” Christy said in an interview this week. “I am very happy to have this opportunity to resume my career as an attorney at such a highly thought of law firm and to continue calling Perry home.” “When my family and I moved here six years ago, we fell in love with this town. Perry is the greatest community we’ve ever lived in and we’re all glad to call it home,” he added. In addition to being a practicing attorney, Christy is also active in a number of professional and civic organizations. He is a member of the Rotary Club in Warner Robins; and is on the Air Force Association’s Board of Directors, the Houston Shield Association’s Board of Directors, the Westfield Schools’ Board of Trustees and the United Way of Central Georgia’s Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Ge orgia Bar Association and, along with the rest of his family, is a member of Perry United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Marsha, have a set of 16-year-old twin boys, Scott and Sean, both of whom are juniors at Westfield High School in Perry. European Tour Needs Singers BY PAULINE LEWIS Staff Writer George Hobbs, Minister of Music at Milledgeville’s First Baptist Church, is planning a tour to Europe for choir members interested in participating in four music festivals there. It is anticipated that a 500-voice choir composed of members from England, Australia and America will attend and participate in the festivals which will be held in Munich, Germany, Bern, Switzerland and Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria. The tour is scheduled to cover about two weeks, beginning June 26, 1995. Those going will receive copies of the music that will be used at the festivals in time to learn it. Cost will be around $2,700 each, and will cover transportation, lodg ing and two meals per day. Thirty people are needed to sign up NOW for the tour. Discuss it in your choirs Sunday and let Pauline Lewis know how many choir members are interested. The numbers from all churches will be consolidated and furnished to Mr. Hobbs Tuesday nighL A down payment to Mr. Hobbs will be due in August 1994. Start saving your pennies and dol lars now. Perhaps there are individuals or businesses that would sponsor this trip for a favorite choir member or director. If so, furnish the name of the choir member to be sponsored and the name of the sponsor to Pauline Lewis (912)987-2588 or (912)987- 1823 by 5:30 p.m. (close of busi ness) on Tuesday, March 29. Kick-off, from -2:15 p.m.: Kids’ Games featur ing sack and egg races, tug-o-war and water balloon tosses will be held. Entry fee is $1 per child and no pre-registration is required. -3 p.m.: Pet Parade will feature pets dressed in fancy and comical at tire. Categories include ugliest, cutest and best costume, just to Call 987-1823 To Subscribe Today! AUCTION SALE TO SATISFY ULBISTS Perry Self Storage Courtney Hodges Blvd. Perry, GA 31069 March 26,1994 - Saturday - 8:30 A.M. Unit Number 120, 243, 036,145, 049, 023, 085,178,233 *■ » Win A Car!! It'a easy, according to Georgia Epilepsy Foundation volunteer Sharon Pearson (pictured above), Just hit a hole In one. Wayne Morris Ford will give a brand new Ford Thunderblrd to the first person to sink a hole In one from the 17th hole at Houston Lake Country Club dur ing the May 20 Georgia Epilepsy Foundation four-person scramble. The open tournament Is accepting 25 teams. Coat la $65 per person and teams can register at Houston Lake Country Club. Major sponsor for the fund raising tournament Is Weyerhaeuser. ■HI. aw Aleisha Lane Receives Achievement Award Aleisha Lane, daughter of John A. and Rosemary Lane of Perry, has been named a United States Achievement Academy National Award Winner. This position of honor is awarded to less than 10 percent of all young people in the nation. Lane's picture and biogra phy will appear in the United States Achievement Academy National Awards Yearbook. Aleisha is the granddaughter of Delores McGhee and Mose Sr. and Annie Lane. V *w3KFw p J I “J p p-/ j|||||| I ||L, '• - ‘' < ' J ' ''■ ’•■ V Oquisha Nicole Lane Oquisha Lane Applies For Va. Scholarship Oquisha Nicole Lane, daughter of John A. and Rosemary Lane of Perry, has applied for participation in the 1994 Pre-Teen Virginia Scholarship & Recognition Program to be held May 27 through May 29 in Norfolk, Va. The by invitation-only scholarship and recognition event is for young ladies ages seven through 12 who are in the top 10 percent ranking in the state academically. In addition, young ladies who are invited have been recognized publicly for their outstanding personal achievements, leadership abilities or creative tal ents. Oquisha is the granddaughter of Delores McGhee and Mose Sr. and Annie Lane. 1A name a few. -5 p.m.-The Dogwood Festival Family Day Balloon Release will be a spectacular and colorful finale to a super day. Hundreds of balloons will be released by Family Day participants. Rosebrock, from3A She also arranged for the cute girl to be his guide as he toured the plant, and to have her picture made with him for the plant’s newspaper. That cute girl was Evelyn and they ’’clicked”. “She’s a great lady”, Ted repeated. They corresponded for one and a half years while he was overseas. They were married upon his return to the States and will celebrate their 48th wedding anniversary on May 26. ‘This past February we celebrated the 51st year since we met”, he said. They have reared four fine children, two sons and two daugh ters and have seven nice grandchil dren. Their children are Dr. Steve Rosebrock, Doug Rosebrock, Jere Smith and Jana O’Brien. Evelyn was very active in the community where they lived. She was Director of Volunteer Personnel at the hospital i,.i Rochester and was a volunteer at the Community House and for a “bunch of other stuff’, Ted said. Enroute to Florida, Ted and Evelyn had stopped at Quality Inn and met Yates and Nannette Green. Perry appealed to them as a town where they could retire and fit into the community. They bought their home from Charles Malone, and Jack Allen was their architect. They met the Rev. Jim Shipley on their return trip from Florida. Both Ted and Evelyn had been ac tive in their Disciples of Christ Church at Speedway, a suburb of Indianapolis. Both were on the Board; Ted was an elder and Evelyn a deacon. They moved to Perry on August 1,1983. “People have been nice to us,” Ted said. They transferred their membership Before Having Your Carpet Cleaned CONSIDER THESE FACTS Excessive wetting from so-called “STEAM” or Hot Water Extraction can cause Mildew, Shrinkage, Fungi Development and Browning Problems. You don’t have to put up with long drying time or any of the risks of cleaning methods that leave carpet too wet for too long. The Von Schrader Dry-Foam Extraction System cleans deep, dries fast- often in less than Sk 0, an hour. No wet mess. wJjLI , ML Dry-Foam CARPET CARE m & / RESIDENTIAL f ll/ifiof CCsaning Benny Hamsley • 988-4028 • Perry, GA I V GEORGE R. VITO , U.P.M. \ \ WILLIAM F. FADDOCK, VP.M. V V FOOT 8 LEG CENTER OF MIDDLE GEORGIA V \ MEDICINE & SURGERY OF THE FOOT, AV ANKLE AND LOWER LEG WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF OUR NEW OFFICE IN PERRY * ENDOSCOPIC HEEL SPUR SURCERY •CORRECTION OF HAMMERTOES • DIABETIC FOOT & LOWER LEG CARE •CORRECTION OF BUNIONS • TREATMENT OF HIGH OR FLAT FEET ‘TRAUMA & ATHLETIC INJURIES * FRACTURES OF THE FOOT & ANKLE ‘NERVE INJURIES AND ENTRAPMENT PARTICIPATING PROVIDER FOR MEDICARE, BC/BS, STATE MERIT AND AETNA OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT PERRY - 1100 MFFTINC ST 1-800-746-2900 AMERICUS- 1102 E. LAMAR ST (912) 928-9200 MACON - COLISEUM PROF. BLDG. P. SUITE #205 (912) 738-9966 Saturday, March 26,1994 Houston Times -Journal to Perry Presbyterian Church, where both are active. Both like music, reading and golf. Both have worked for the Review Panel for Foster Care (for Judge Wells’ court). Evelyn is a member of the Delphian Club and Book Browsers. Ted is active in the Kiwanis Club. He has served as Lt. Governor of the 25th Division of Kiwanis and helped to form the Kiwanis Club in Hawkinsville and the Breakfast Kiwanis Club in Warner Robins. He was Perry Kiwanis Club’s Man of the Year in 1988. In past years at Speedway, Ted served on the Library Board, the School Board, was Secretary of the Planning Commission, Scout Master, Scout Commissioner, member of the Charity Board, American Heart Association and Precinct Inspector of Elections. He was coordinator of All-Georgia Community for Perry. Upon the invitation of Father Michael O’Keefe, Ted delivered the sermon at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church’s 25th Anniversary, Fest, from 2A moon walk, hay ride, dunk tank, fish pond, duck pond, palm reader, bottle stand, ring toss, balloon bust, bean bag, basketball throw, football throw, golf, sock it to the teacher. Also featured will be a country store, sweet show and silent auction that will have a lot of new or used items to bid on donated by local merchants and parents. All proceeds from the event will go towards a school sign and equal amounts of money distributed for classrooms. Church, from 3A 7:30 p.m. Dianne Scruggs will direct the service which will include special music and the celebration of Holy Communion. Tommy Wood, UMM president, extends an invitation to everyone to join the Crossroads church family for this very meaningful service in the Easter celebration. C lower, from 3A Easter outfit becomes old hat, after the Easter basket is stored away or discarded...then let us remember...our Savior gave up His throne in Heaven, came to live among us in the form of man, lived a sinless life teaching us how to be His desciples, took all of our sicknesses and diseases upon His Body, was crucified for our sins... And He rose victoriously from the grave!! He is alive today! He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty making intercession for you and me! Always remember two simple statements that carry two powerful truths: *1) Jesus died for your sins, and arose victoriously from the grave that we might be part of the family of God. Because of what He did, we can now pray, "Our Father...” *2) The one new command He gave us was that we love me another. In His 10ve... Happy Easter! Thompson, from 4A pie and an Easter Egg hunt with more than 1,000 eggs and lots of prizes for the little ones. No pre-registration is required, but kids are asked to bring their own baskets. And, then there’s the Perry Ex change Club Kids’ Run for Fun; a horseshoe fun pitch; plenty of kids’ games from sack races and egg races to tug-of-wars and water balloon tosses; and the ever-popular pet pa rade with categories for the cutest, the ugliest, the best costume and the best trick as well as the largest and the smallest. There will even be a basketball shooting contest for all ages featur ing three-point shooting, free throw and sharp shooting competitions. Additional entertainment will be provided by Country Notes, a band from Wrightsville and Macon ven triloquist Cliff Patton. The day will end in spectacular style with a colorful balloon release at 5 p.m. So, come on Perry; load up your lawn chairs and your kids and get out there and have some fun. I, for one, can think of no better way to usher in Spring. Page 5A