Welcome to the Berry Breakfast Club!
Latest News:
08/30/2010
Next Meeting is September 11th at 8:00 am at the
Landmark Restaurant on Hwy 27 N.

Hi!
Chris Watters indicated to me that you guys are
very interested in helping to rally the troops for this year’s
installment of Mountain Day reunion fun.
J Thank you so very much!!
I have listed the academy contacts below and their respective class
year. Also, we are having a dinner for all the high school/academy
folks on Friday, Oct. 1 up at Hill Dining Hall, 7 p.m. Please promote
when and where you can!! You can register for this event on-line at
www.berry.edu/alumni or by using the registration form in the
Mountain Day brochure.
1970A: Stanley Geraldson ;hoppersrg@msn.com
1975A: Teresa Smith Puckett;
teresa5703@live.com and David Kirkland
kirkland@kirkscorks.com
1980A: Stewart Fuqua;
spanner517@bellsouth.net
Thanks again so very much. If you need other
contact information of anyone else you can think of from these class
years, let me know and I’ll get you the info. These are the main people
I’ve been communicating with from the start for these reunions.
Have a great day!
Yours,
Jennifer T. Beard (93C, 00G)
Asst. Director, Alumni Relations
jbeard@berry.edu / 706-290-2170
www.berry.edu/alumni
04/10/2010
From Jack Pigott:
My Berry friends,
Today
we have tragically lost one of our own, Ted Touchstone. Ted suffered a
massive stroke on Thursday and could not recover. He passed away this
afternoon. Ted was from Rome and one of the original day students at the
Academy. He was an outstanding baseball player (shortstop)and was MVP
of the baseball team in 1969. You may recall that Ted earned his pilot’s
license as a teenager and he was an avid flyer. Ted worked most of his
adult life as a conservationist for the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources. He also hosted a weekly call-in talk show on one of the Rome
radio stations discussing topics of wildlife, the outdoors and
conservation in general.
I am shocked and devastated at this news. Ted
appeared to be in perfect health – trim, athletic and strong. He was a
great friend and a great teammate. I will forward to you the funeral
arrangements once they are known.
Jack Pigott, 69H
The Unofficial Berry Academy Website
Berry Sports History
02/26/2010
Fwd: Berry Brother Jimmy Fletcher has passed.
I'm sure most of you have received the news in the
email from Tom Butler copied below:

Hello Brothers and Sisters of Berry,
I wanted to forward this email
from Dale as it is so well done. Jimmy passed away last night. I spoke
with Bob Williams just now and the funeral arrangements have not
been made but they think it might be Monday. I will let you know once
we know for sure.
Each of us have our own thoughts and memories of Berry and our time
with Jimmy. I always thought deep inside he knew things so profound
that none of us could even imagine. I still believe that. God bless
Jimmy and we are all thankful that we knew him. TB
From: "Dale Cummings" <daledcummings@windstream.net>
To: ftbutler@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:29:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: Berry Brother Jimmy Fletcher
Tom,
It
may seem odd, but many of us who visited Jimmy along with his
friends, especially
Sandy-his sitter, many of his Berry Brothers-
the likes of John Shahan and Coach Shelton, Kevin (Lamar’s son) and
Jimmy’s employee friends, all had a good time chatting about
pleasant day remembrances- encouraging each other ‘till the late
night hour, and Jimmy was able to hear it all.
While
I was at my duck pond, with the beautiful clear moonlit night and a
strong chill in the air, I called Lamar to find out that Jimmy had
passed “Ad Astra” around 11:45 P.M., Thursday eve.
He
was truly a great man! He was a mountain of inspiration to us all!
“Say
not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was.”
-an ole’ Hebrew
Proverb
who
knows the way out; that is the truth and it is worth celebrating.”
It will be another good time when many folks will gather at
Jimmy’s funeral-celebration- soon to be announced.
This will be a tough decade for a number of us Merry Band of
Berry Brothers & Sisters. We need to continue and encourage our
visitations with each other as much as possible.
You’re Berry Brother,
Dale
02/09/2010
Tom Butler forwarded this
email from Chris Waters at the Alumni Office:
Tom,
I meant to have also sent this link to you
that the dairy guys directed me to. This is a link to their October
Ruminant Report (the dairy’s monthly e-newsletter). On page 3 of
the Oct. issue is an article about the dairy in the 70’s and 80’s
that some in the Breakfast Club might be potentially interested in,
especially if the group ever wants to tour the current dairy with
Tim.
October
Ruminant Report
Two of the students in the Golden Days
photo are 1970's Academy alumni; Reed Biggers and Barry Geisel.
In case anyone is interested, all of their
newsletters can be found at:
www.berry.edu/dairy
02/09/2010
Tom Butler's email regarding the
February 13th meeting:
Hey Brothers and Sisters,I am letting you know
about the meeting Sat. We will have breakfast at The Landmark
Restaurant at about 8 but many of us will get there at 7:30 or so.
We will have it in the big room and then remain there to have the
meeting at 9. We will be on a tight schedule but we will enjoy the
great company and the work we are doing. We've come a long way. We
will discuss the future meetings then. I have asked Jennifer Dickey
to come but have not heard back from her at this writing. Attached
you will find the agenda for the meeting and we will add Jennifer if
she comes. Hope all of you are well and feeling great. I don't
think the weather will mess us up this weekend. We will see you
then. TB
12/08/09
Copied from an email from David
Woody
As
most all of you know, we had some great news this week from Terry Rolan who
finally was able to locate Doug Toineeta and visited with him in Cherokee,
NC. Doug was the salutatorian of the class of 1964. You can bet our whole
class is really looking forward to visiting with him at a reunion very soon.
On
a sad note, I have to tell you that we lost a “Berry Brother” from the class
of 1964. James Hunicutt "Jimmy" Rudesal passed away Feb. 15, 2009 in
Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. I contacted his step son’s wife from
Barnesville, Georgia and she stated that Jimmy died of lung & liver cancer
at a Baldwin County Georgia healthcare facility. I remember Jimmy as a very
kind and giving person who loved to sing in the choir. He was a Navy veteran
and he was a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Milner, Georgia where he
served as a Deacon, taught Sunday school, and was a Minister of Music. He
was a loving Husband and Father.
Here is a link to a
memorial for
Jimmy Rudesal.
Here is
wishing each of you a very Merry Christmas & fantastic
holiday season with you family and friends.
Wish you
only the very BEST,
David Woody
11/17/2009
Two links to great videos
about Martha Berry's Schools.
Berry College: The Gate of Opportunity | Georgia Public Broadcasting
WSB-TV Atlanta's 'Georgia's Hidden Treasures' featuring Berry College on
Vimeo
10/11/2009
Visit our
Legacy Page for stories of our members...
10/03/2009

In case you missed
Mountain Day, the Breakfast Club had a tent for
the first year. We reconnected with quite a few HS/ Academy alumni and
received contact information. We also passed out brochures about the
Breakfast Club to many alumni and students. If you would like to reconnect,
please visit the Contact Us page on this website
and fill out the form. A special thanks to Frank Adams and all others
involved with the tent and table.
10/02/2009
The Berry Breakfast Club website is now online! Feel free to explore our website.
We invite you to look at look at information about a book project, which will record the history of the High Schools and Academy.