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Latest News:
04/04/2011
From Tom Butler :
Hey Brothers and Sister,
Just a reminder of the Breakfast Club Meeting this Saturday morning at 8 AM at Landmark. I have attached an agenda. As usual we have a group behind us coming in at 10 AM so we will go ahead and order as we arrive to move the meeting along faster. I hope everyone has had an outstanding month. I look forward to seeing all of you Sat morning. We have some outstanding news about one of our members. Hope all of you can make it. Enjoy the day.
Sincerely,
Tom Butler
65A
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
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
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