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STUDENTS AT WESTFIELD SALUTED FOR ACADEMIC, LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT
These Students Won Honors In Various Categories During Annual Honors Night Recently
Westfield students collect awards
during annual academic honors event
Special to the Times-Journal
Honors night for Westfield stu
dents was held May 14 at the
school Gymnatorium.
Community awards went to the
following: American Legion
Citizenship Awards Anna
Greene, Holly Hartley, Todd
Rigdon and David Walker; Army
Reserve Scholar-Athlete Awards
Jennifer Smith, Todd Rigdon;
Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Mary Katherine Walker; Boys
State Buckley Levins and
Matthew Watson; D.A.R. Good
Citizen Award Anna Greene;
and the Eric P Staples Basketball
Award Jennifer Smith and
Brian Nash.
Other community awards
included Flint Electric
Membership Corp. Buckley
Levins, Shannon Kennedy;
Furman University Ashlee
McCord; Hillsdale College
Autumn West; General Excellence
Award Jamie Dortch; Hugh
O’Brien Youth Leadership. Award
Lacey Allen; Georgia
Independent Schools Association
Athletic Achievement Award
Todd Rigdon; Liberty University
Brian Nash; Macon College
Julee Fryer; and Mercer
University Damon Walker.
Additional community awards
included Perry Kiwanis Club and
J.O. and Sallye Jacobs Trust
Scholarship Award David
Walker, Holly Hartley; Perry
Business Women’s Club Award
Julee Fryer; Rotary Leadership
Award Chip Davis; Rotary
Club Hugh Hill Scholarship
Scott Hill; Samford University
Anna Greene; The Houston-Times
Journal Journalism Award
Katie Arnold; Westfield Alumni
Association Award Brian Nash,
Mary Katherine Walker, Ben
Hulbert; Wendy’s High School
Heisman Award Mary
Katherine Walker, Ben Hulbert;
and the W.P.T.A. Fine Arts
Scholarship Anna Greene.
Academic Awards: Academic
Bowl Team Lacey Allen,
Russell Dean, Carrie Johnson,
Kim Kelly and Salena Sampson.
Literary Awards: Girls Solo
Lea Brannen; Trio Lacy Allen,
Anna Greene Laurie Pearson;
Boys Solo Damon Walker;
Quartet Joey Brumbelow, Ben
Nash, Dallas Parker, Damon
Walker; Piano Laurie Pearson,
Spelling Autumn West; Girls
Oral Interpretation Katie
Arnold; Boys Oral Interpretation
Todd Kirksey; Girls
Extemporaneous Speaking
Kim Kelly; and Boys
Extemporaneous Speaking
Buckley Levins.
Other literary awards were
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Girls Argumentative Essay
Jamie Dortch; Boys
Argumentative Essay-David
Walker Jr.; Personal Essay
Jennifer Jones; Debate Team
Russell Dean, Kim Kelly, Salena
Sampson, Jason Walton;
Certificate of Merit, UGA
Russell Dean, Mary Katherine
Walker; and Presbyterian College
Junior Academic Achievement
Awards Russell Dean, Ben
Hulbert, Rosemary Mathias, Mary
Katherine Walker.
NEDT Certificates were pre
sented to Lacey Allen, Britt
Bazemore., JiJJ. Dortch., Robert.
Harrison, Claire Hart, Alan Hawk,
Laurie Pearson, Jesse Riner and
Katie Shipley.
Governor’s Honors Nominees
recognized were Russell Dean and
Lauren Herbert.
The Presidential Classroom
Award was presented to Buckley
Levins.
Ninth Grade Subject Awards:
Algebra I Lina Arnold, Brad
Barfield, Daniel Davis, Joy Evans;
Algebra II Chad Bailey, Brandi
Bazemore, Salena Sampson;
Computer I Rick Coogle,
Connie Thompson, Salena
Sampson; English I Rick
Coogle, Trevor Jones, Salena
Sampson; French I Stephanie
Kelly, Ron Marshall, Salena
Sampson; Physical Science
Chad Bailey, Brandi Bazemore,
Rick Coogle, Salena Sampson;
Spanish I Brandi Bazemore,
Rick Coogle, Jared Shell.
Tenth Grade Subject Awards:
Biology Amy Harold, Claire
Hart, Shannon Lewis; English II
Jill Dortch, Amy Harold, Claire
Hart; French II Jill Dortch,
Laurie Pearson, Tiffanie Smith;
Geometry Jill Dortch, Amy
Harold, Robert Harrison, Claire
Hart; Music Appreciation
Lacey Allen, Jessica Altman,
Michelle McDaniel; Spanish II
Amy Harold, Robert Harrison,
Claire Hart; World History
Amy Harold, Claire Hart,
Shannon Lewis.
Eleventh Grade Subject
Awards: Algebra 111/Trigonometry
Russell Dean, Ben Hulbert,
Rosemary Mathias; Chemistry
Rosemary Mathias, Mary
Katherine Walker, Matthew
Watson; English 111 Russell
Dean, Jennifer Jones, Mary
Katherine Walker; French 111
Michael Bowden, Jennifer Jones,
Matthew Watson;
Psychology/Sociology Katie
Davidson; Spanish II Ben
Hulbert; U.S. History Ben
Hulbert, Jennifer Jones, Buckley
Levins, Rosemary Mathias.
Twelfth Grade Subject Awards:
Advanced Math/Calculus Anna
Greene, Todd Rigdon, David
Walker; Algebra 111/Statistics
Katie Arnold, T.J. Gay, Tom
Newberry; Anatomy and
Physiology Anna Greene,
Holly Hartley, Todd Rigdon; AP
English IV Anna Greene,
Holly Hartley, Melanie Moore,
Todd Rigdon; Bible Jamie
Dortch, Matt Shepley; Creative
Writing Julee Fryer; and
English IV-Scott Hill.
Other senior academic awards
included Government/
Economics Holly Hartley,
Todd Rigdon, David Walker;
Journalism. — Katie. Arnold., Kim.
Kelly, Ashlee McCord; Modern
European History Jamie
Dortch, Scott Hill, David Walker;
Music Appreciation Greg
Adams; Physics Anna Greene,
Holly Hartley, Todd Rigdon; and
Psychology/Sociology
Brandice Dawson, Melanie
Moore.
The Principal’s Leadership
Award was presented to Matt
Shepley.
The President’s Education
Awards went to Jamie Dortch,
Anna Greene, Holly Hartley,
Scott Hill, Ashlee McCord, Rupal
Patel, Todd Rigdon, Matt
Shepley, Larry Thomson, Manish
Vashi, David Walker, Autumn
West.
The Westfield Star Student and
Teacher for 1995-96 were Todd
Rigdon and Mary Kirksey.
Honor Graduate Awards: First
Honor Graduates Jamie
Dortch, Anna Greene, Holly
Hartley, Scott Hill, Ashlee
McCord, Rupal Patel, Todd
Rigdon, Matt Shepley, Larry
Thomson, Manish Vashi, David
Walker, Autumn West; Second
Honor Graduates Travis Baird,
Brandice Dawson, Misty
Goodroe, Melanie Moore,
Jennifer Smith.
Receiving the Salutatorian
Award was Anna Greene. The
Valedictorian Award went to Todd
Rigdon.
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HONORED Charter members of the local VFW post present to observe their 50thl
anniversary recently include (from left) B. Cullen Talton, Harris Chapman, Norlis C. “Skeet”:
Chapman, T.F. hardy, Luther Mosteller, Watt Rainey and A. Ralph Tabor. Also present but not.
pictured is Barnette Hunt.
Chartered 50 years ago
VFW Post 6126 celebrates anniversary offounding of post
By PAULINE LEWIS
Society Editor
Members of the Walter B. Whitten VFW Post
6126 celebrated the 50th anniversary of the local post
with a dinner April 25, at the Post, located off U.S. 41
S.
The Post was chartered on March 14, 1946, with
71 members, and with Jerry A. Davis Jr. as the first
commander.
Joe Gayle, present Commander, announced the
Post had received the Golden Anniversary Award
from the state VFW organization, in recognition to
the local anniversary.
Gayle also presented a plaque to Frank Tolbert for:
“distinguished service, and friend of Walter B.
Whitten VFW Post 6126.” Tolbert sold steak sand
wiches for the Post.
Charter members present on this occasion were:
B. Cullen Talton, Harris Chapman, Norlis C. “Skeet”
Chapman, T.F. Hardy, Luther Mosteller, Watt Rainey,
Ralph Tabor and Barnette Hunt.
Among the 71 charter members of the Walter B.
Whitten VFW Post 6126, chartered March 14, 1946
were Ernest Harris Rape, Grant B. Heller, James T.
Moss, James Watt Rainey, Lawrence Mosteller,
Gilham T. “G. T.” Pierce, Jr., Abner Redding Talton
Jr., Oscar Felton Deese, Clifton B. Turk, Terrell F.
“T.F.” Hardy, Grover C. Whittington, Thomas Lewis
Hammock, Harris K. Chapman, Arlington Kidney,
Warren D. Dixon, Buford J. Cole and Ben Roberson.
Other charter members included Norlis C. “Skeet”
Chapman, Hoyt Dever “Skip” Chapman, James B.
Davis, Walter G. Riley, Samuel S. Thompson, Otis A.
Worrall named to state panel
Special to the Times-Journal
City of Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall is one of 12 mayors to
have been selected recently to
serve on a special committee to
provide feedback to Governor
Miller concerning economic
development strategy for the state
of Georgia. The committee will
meet in Atlanta on June 13 to
share ideas as to how communi
ties throughout Georgia can be
successful in their economic
development activities.
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King, Warren R. Lee. Nathan W. Gilbert Jr., Edward;
M. Warren, Marvin W. Griffin. Joseph M. “Buddy”;
Tolleson Jr., Jerry A. Davis Jr. (the Post’s first*
Commander), Clyde F. Davis, Harry F. Griggs, Jacob;
D. Linton, Luther Mosteller, Lewis Ed Hicks, James
Lawrence Hunt and Bertram W. “8.W.” Bozeman.
Other Charter members were Allen Ralph Tabor,
James A. Taylor, Mack O. Johnson, Henry Andy
Talton, James O. McKinley, Robert A. “Bobby”
Holtzclaw, Malcolm M. Dean, John B. “John Blue”
Calhoun, Durwood E. Wilson, Barnette J. Hunt Jr.,
Murrie E. Griffin, Sam E. Spencer, Charlie W.
Logue, Herman T. Davis, Eugene G. Spencer,.
Charles A. “C.A.” Boswell Jr., and Carlton Hicks.
The following also were charter members: John
H. Hurst, Herman L. Wright, James H. Clark, Lory E.
Gunter, Dan L. Grant, Thomas Cater Rogers, Hugh
D. Dent, Benjamin Cullen Talton, James Hobart
Richards, Arthur M. Kicklighter, Henry M. Helms,
Cliff W. Morrow, Albert D. “Al” Culpepper,
Dodridge “Dot” K. Roughton, Samuel B. “Sam"
Coleman, William S. McCarty, Thomas H. Huff, and
Norman M. Parker Jr.
Officers of the post, in addition to Gayle are Don
Nelson, Ist Vice-Commander; Sid Morris, 2nd Vice-
Commander; Ralph Tabor, Adjutant; Barnette Hunt,
Sgt.-at-Arms; D. E. Dennard, Service Officer;
Charles Evans, Quartermaster; and James Peavy,
Chaplain.
Trustees are T. F. Hardy, Felix Smith Sr., and
Harold Thompson.
The Post motto is: “Honor the dead by helping the
living.”
“The city officials that we are
inviting to attend this meeting
have demonstrated a high degree
of interest in economic develop
ment and are committed to doing
what it takes to make sure their
community succeeds in that
endeavor,” stated James Calvin,
executive director of the Georgia
Municipal Association.
GMA is coordinating this
effort for the Governor’s
Development Council.
JIM WORRALL
Feedback to Gov. Miller
OFFER GOOD THRU JUNE 30, 1996
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