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Sharon
Herndon, CEO
Mrs. Herndon is a
graduate of Mars Hill College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Elementary Education and a Concentration in History. She also
graduated from Western Carolina University of The University of
North Carolina with a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education
and Special Certification in Reading. She has taught both first and
second grades and has also taught Early Childhood Education at the
Community College level. In addition, Mrs. Herndon has set up and
successfully operated a bed and breakfast. She has been very active
in community activities having served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Moultrie/Colquitt County Chamber of Commerce.
During her affiliation with the Chamber, she served as Ambassador,
Treasurer, Chairman-elect, Chairman, and Past President. She was
selected as Ambassador of the Year for two consecutive years.
Additionally, she has been an active member of the Moultrie
Federated Guild of The Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs serving
as Chairman of the Arts Department for two years. Mrs. Herndon was
selected as outstanding new member of the Federated Guild. After
moving to Tennessee, Mrs. Herndon served on the Board of Directors
of the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Humboldt
Downtown Business Association. As a member of First Presbyterian
Church of Jackson, Mrs. Herndon has served on several committees.
She is a breast cancer survivor and dedicated to helping in the
fight against cancer. Mrs. Herndon has been nominated for the Lance
Armstrong Spirit of Survivorship Award and for the Women Making
Magic Award in Southwest Georgia as well as the Jefferson Award in
Tennessee.
Robert
Herndon,Jr., President
Lt. Col. Herndon is a
1992 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Astronautical Engineering. He also graduated
from the College of Notre Dame (California) in 1994 with a Masters
Degree in Systems Management. In 1996 he graduated from the United
States Air Force Academy Undergraduate Pilot Training Program. As a
Senior Pilot he has logged over 3,400 flight hours. He has served
as Instructor Pilot of the C-5 Galaxy and Evaluator Pilot of the
C-21 Learjet. Lt. Col. Herndon graduated in 1998 as the
Distinguished Graduate of the Squadron Officers School. He also
graduated in 2002 from the Air Command and Staff College and in 2008
from the Air War College. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
and served as Commander of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
(AFROTC) Detachment 860, Utah State University. He was recently
reassigned to serve as Deputy Commander of the Northwest Region of
the Air Force ROTC program. He now lives in Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
Robert
Herndon, Vice President
Mr. Herndon is a
dual career retiree who continues to be active in his post
retirement business. He retired from the Defense industry after 33
years. He began working at Newport News Shipbuilding after
graduating from High School and remained there for 33 years. During
his employment with NNS he worked his way up the ladder to a
Department Head position. He also is retired from the U.S. Army
after serving for 25 years. He volunteered for the Special Forces
and after his initial active duty tour remained in the Reserves for
25 years. During his career he has been able to obtain degrees from
three universities. He has a BSBA from Old Dominion University, a
MAAOM from Tusculum College and took a Doctorate Program at The
George Washington University in Executive Leadership. Presently he
operates a successful business and is active in the community.
Jennifer Herndon, Secretary/Treasurer
Mrs. Herndon is a 1992
graduate Of Mary Washington College with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Biology. She also graduated in 1994 from San Jose State
University with Certification in Secondary Science. Mrs. Herndon
taught seventh grade life science at Evans High School in Lubbock,
Texas in 1995 and 1996. She was a stay-at-home mom of three
children from 1997 to 2009. During that time she was active in both
public and private schools serving as President of the PTA, a
committee chair of the PTO and also helping to establish a new
library for the children’s school. Mrs. Herndon served as a Middle
School teacher. She taught Seventh Grade Math and Eighth Grade
Literature as well as continuing her job as a Special Education
Aide. Currently she resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Board of Advisors:
J.
Michael Briley, DNP, MSN, APN, Medical Advisor
J. Michael Briley
graduated Cum Laud with a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry in 1990 from
Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. In 1994 he
graduated Summa Cum Laud from Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee with a Masters of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse
Practitioner. He completed a Doctoral Residency at The University of
Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing and graduated in
May 2006. Mr. Briley has served as Assistant Clinical Caseworker at
Jackson Psychiatric Hospital 1987-88, Patient Care Assistant at
Jackson Madison County General Hospital 1988-89, Surgical Technician
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital 1989-90, and Physician
Extender at West Tennessee Healthcare 1990-92. In 1992-94 he was a
Graduate Student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1994-95 he served as a Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt
University. During 1995 to 1996 he served an Internship as Family
Nurse Practitioner in Henderson, Tennessee. From 1996 to the present
Mr. Briley has served as Director of Primary Care Services at
TransSouth Healthcare, P.C. in Jackson, Tennessee. From 2003 to the
present he has served as Director of Student Health at Youth Town of
Tennessee in Pinson, Tennessee, and 2003 to the present Mr. Briley
has served as Director of Campus Health at Freed Hardeman University
in Henderson, Tennessee. Mr. Briley received an appointment as
Chairman of the Health Policy and Governmental Affairs Committee in
the state of Tennessee. In 2005 he received a faculty appointment at
the University Of Tennessee College Of Pharmacy in Memphis,
Tennessee. He serves on the Board of Directors of First South Bank
and Freed-Hardeman University. From 1999-2004 Mr. Briley served as a
member of the Board of Directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Tennessee. He served as Director from 1993-2001 of Helping Hands
Outreach to Egypt (Medical/Mission).
John Thomas Alan Duelge M.D., Medical Advisor
Dr. Duelge is a graduate of The University of Wisconsin and
received his Medical Degree from The Medical College of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee. He completed his Internship and Residency in Internal
Medicine at The Milwaukee County Medical Complex in 1982. From
1980-1982 he held a Fellowship in Medical Oncology at The Milwaukee
County Medical Complex, Veterans Administration Hospital at
Milwaukee. From 1982-1989 Dr. Duelge worked as Medical Oncologist at
Wausau Medical Center in Wausau, Wisconsin. From 1989 -1993 he
served as Medical Oncologist at The Cancer Treatment Center at
Farmington, New Mexico. Since 1993 Dr. Duelge has served as Medical
Oncologist at Phoebe Cancer Center in Albany, Georgia. Dr. Duelge
was certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1978
followed by Certification in Internal Medicine in 1980 and Medical
Oncology in 1983. From 1982 to 1989 Dr. Duelge served as Medical
Director of the Wisconsin Division of the American Cancer Society.
From 1982 to the Present he has been a member of the Society of
Clinical Oncology. Dr. Duelge served as Chairman of the Cancer
Committee of Wausau Hospital Center from 1987-1989. He served from
1989-1992 as Medical Director of the New Mexico Division of the
American Cancer Society. From 1989-1992 he served as Medical
Director of the National Board of Directors of the American Cancer
Society. He has also served as Chairman of the San Juan Regional
Medical Center Cancer Committee and Tumor Board and as Medical
Director of the Northwest New Mexico Hospice. He served as Chairman
of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Cancer Committee and Tumor
Board. Dr. Duelge is currently retired from his position at Phoebe
Putney Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Ingrid Mayer M.D.,
Medical Advisor
Dr. Mayer graduated medical school in 1993 at the Federal
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She completed her Internal Medicine
Residency and Chief Residency in 1998 at the University of Illinois
at Chicago, where she also did her Hematology/ Oncology Fellowship
training from 1998 through 2001. During this time, she worked in the
laboratory setting with MAPK signaling pathway in Chronic
Myelogenous Leukemia, for which she received an American Society of
Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award.
In 2003, Dr. Mayer became an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the
Division of Hematology/ Oncology at the Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine, where she completed a Master of Science in Clinical
Investigation (MSCI) Program in May 2006. She has obtained
intramural support through the Vanderbilt Physician Scientist
Development (VPSD) Award Program and a Cancer Center Grant Support (CCSG)
Award to identify relevant tumor antigens/targets in breast cancer
tumor samples. She has intensively worked in translational projects
related to targeted therapies in breast cancer, obtaining a Pilot
Project from the Breast Cancer SPORE in 2005. She has also obtained
a Breast Cancer Research Foundation & American Association for
Cancer Research (BCRF-AACR) Grant for Translational Breast Cancer
Research to explore combined endocrine and ErbB inhibition in
ER+/HER2+ breast cancers in 2007, a K23 Career Development Award to
explore targeted therapies in breast cancer, and is also co-Leader
in three of the four research projects of the NCI-funded Vanderbilt
Breast Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE;
Carlos Arteaga, Director).
Dr. Mayer is a key component of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
(VICC) Breast Cancer Program, where her role is to implement and
conduct investigator-initiated, mechanism-based clinical and
translational trials in breast cancer, focusing in novel diagnostic
and therapeutic approaches. Administratively, she directs the
Clinical Core of the VICC Breast Cancer SPORE. She is a member of
the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Breast Committee, the
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Breast Cancer Panel of
Experts, and had served in the American Society of Clinical Oncology
(ASCO) Scientific Review Committee for two years.
Dr. Mayer’s
educational accomplishments include a Doctor of Medicine from
Federal University of Sao Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil, February,
1988-December 1993; University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami,
Florida, Latin American Training Program February-June 1994;
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Affiliated Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, July 1994-June 1997; Chief
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Affiliated Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, July-1997-June1998;
Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Affiliated Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, July 1998-June 2001; and a
Master of Science in Clinical Investigation, Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, September 2004- September
2006.
Charles
Mendenhall M.D., Medical Advisor
Dr. Mendenhall currently serves as the Director of Radiation
Oncology at Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany, Georgia. Licensed in
the state of Georgia, he became Board Certified in June of 1984. Dr.
Mendenhall completed his Residency in Radiation Therapy at The
University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in July 1983. He was
awarded the American Cancer Society Regular Clinic Fellowship in
June 1981 and is listed in The Best Doctors in America Southeast
Region 1996-1997 edition. Dr. Mendenhall has also made numerous
presentations dealing with Ewing's Sarcoma and Carcinoma of the
cervix. Additionally, he has been featured in nine publications with
the Annual Radiation Therapy Clinical Research Seminars and Journal
of the Medical Association of Georgia.
Anthony Moser
M.D., Medical Advisor
Dr. Moser is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and received his Medical Degree from The Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He completed his
Internship and Residency at The Medical University of South Carolina
in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1975. Dr. Moser has practiced
Pathology for the past 30 years and is currently serving as Director
of Pathology at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie,
Georgia. Dr. Moser finds time to relax studying and collecting civil
war artifacts. He is also an accomplished watercolor artist.
Barry Blackburn, Attorney
Mr.
Blackburn is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He
received a B.S.B.A. (Finance) in 1986 from Auburn University and a
M.B.A. (Finance) in 1988 from the University of Mississippi. He
earned his Law Degree in 1991 from the University of Mississippi
School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the
Mississippi Law Journal during 1990 and 1991. He continued his
legal studies at the University of Miami, where he obtained an LL.M.
in Estate Planning in 1992. While residing in Mississippi, Mr.
Blackburn has practiced law primarily in the fields of Estate
Planning, Estate Administration, Elder Law, Commercial and Real
Estate Transactions and Taxation. Mr. Blackburn is also an Adjunct
Professor of Business Law at the University of Mississippi. He is
admitted to practice law in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and
Tennessee.
Robert D. Howell,
Attorney
Mr. Howell is admitted to practice in all Georgia state and federal
courts and is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Moultrie Bar
Association, the American Bar Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers
Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association. His practice
areas include catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death,
employment discrimination, worker’s compensation, and various other
litigated matters. He also handles real estate and estate planning
matters. Before returning to his hometown of Moultrie, Mr. Howell
practiced law in Atlanta with the firms of Troutman Sanders LLP and
Lord, Bissell & Brook. While at Troutman Sanders, he handled complex
litigation matters for clients such as Georgia-Pacific Corporation,
Georgia Power Company, Southern Company, The University of Georgia
and The University of Georgia School of Law. While at Lord, Bissell
& Brook, he handled general commercial litigation matters. Mr.
Howell received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from
Valdosta State University in 1994. While there, he was a member of
the Varsity Tennis Team and a founding member of the Mock Trial
Team. He earned his law degree, cum laude, from The University of
Georgia School of Law in 1998 where he was elected Chairman of the
Moot Court Board, was a member of the championship ABA Moot Court
Team, won several national and regional moot court titles and
awards, and was a contributing author to the school’s Journal of
Intellectual Property Law. He is an active member of the community.
Mr. Howell is Chairman of the Moultrie Downtown Development
Authority, a member of the Board of Directors for the Moultrie
Housing Authority, the Moultrie Technical College Foundation and
Lemon-Aide's Friends, Inc. He has also served on The University of
Georgia School of Law Board of Visitors, is the Associate Juvenile
Court Judge for Colquitt County, and serves in several leadership
roles in the First United Methodist Church. Mr. Howell was selected
to participate in the Leadership Georgia class of 2006.
Gary W. Boley, Public Relations
Mr. Boley retired as publisher of The Albany Herald in Albany,
Georgia and Vice President of Gray Publishing, LLC, in October 2005
after 43 years in the newspaper business. After two months of
retirement, he returned to Moultrie as Director of Marketing, Public
Relations and the Foundation for Colquitt Regional Medical Center.
Mr. Boley began his journalism career as a sports writer for The
Greenville News and Greenville Piedmont in Greenville, S.C., and
over a twenty year period served in a number of writing and editing
positions with the Greenville newspapers before being named Managing
Editor of The Greenville News, the flagship paper of Multimedia,
Inc. He recently retired from his position as Director of Marketing,
Public Relations and the Foundation for Colquitt Regional Medical
Center in Moultrie, Georgia.
Honorary Board
of Directors:
C.
Victor Beadles
Victor Beadles is a graduate of Waycross High School in Waycross,
Georgia. He also graduated from Georgia Tech. Following graduation,
Victor moved to Moultrie, Georgia where he became Chairman and CEO
of Beadles Lumber Company in Moultrie and Balfour Lumber Company in
Thomasville, Georgia. He has served on numerous community and civic
boards including, having served eighteen years on the Colquitt
County Hospital Authority (four years as chairman) and is presently
serving on the Colquitt County Arts Foundation Board and the
Colquitt County Development Authority Board. Professionally he has
served as a board member and President of the Southeastern Lumber
Manufacturers Association in Atlanta and is presently a board member
representing the State of Georgia on the Southern Pine Inspection
Bureau in Pensacola, Florida. He is also presently serving as a
board member of the Georgia Forestry Commission in Macon, Georgia.
Chuck Cloud
Chuck Cloud is a
graduate of The University of Memphis and he received his Certified
Financial Planner Certification from Christian Brothers University.
Chuck was employed by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He
worked with planned giving and individual charitable planning. Since
1997 he has been employed as a Financial Advisor at Edward Jones
Investments. While caring for more than $146,000,000 in assets, Mr.
Cloud’s emphasis is retirement planning for individual investors and
business owners. He is actively involved in his church, a member of
the Rotary Club, a member of the Financial Planning Association and
has served on the Board of Directors for the Humboldt, Tennessee
Chamber of Commerce.
Dr.
Fred Craddock
Dr. Craddock is minister of Cherry Log Christian Church in Cherry Log,
Georgia. He is Brandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New
Testament, Emeritus, in the Candler School of Theology, Emory
University. He is much sought after as a lecturer and has delivered
the Lyman Beecher Lecturers at Yale, the Scott Lectures at Clarmeont
School of Theology, the Adams Lecturers at Southeastern Baptist
Seminary, the Cole Lecturers at Vanderbilt, the Schaff Lecturers at
Pittsburg Theological Seminary, the Westervelt Lecturers at Austin
Presbyterian Seminary, the Mullins Lecturers at Southern Seminary
and Earl Lecturers at Pacific School of Religion. Dr. Craddock has
traveled the world giving lecturers in many countries and has
written a number of books and contributed articles to various
journals. Dr. Craddock is reported in Newsweek magazine as one of
America's top preachers.
Phyllis L.
Edwards
Mrs. Edwards was
born in Texas and has a Bachelor of Business Administration in
Personnel Management and has worked in the field of Human Resources
for over 15 years. She is happily married and the mother of two
boys. Mrs. Edwards is a devoted Christian and is currently the
Precept teacher for the Ladies Community Bible Study in Moultrie,
Georgia. She is very involved in community and school programs and
serves as a Parent Educator for the Communities In Schools project.
She teaches several parent education classes. As a Christian, Mrs.
Edwards looks for opportunities to minister to women and their
families. She considers it a privilege to help those who are in need
of encouragement and a loving touch. Mrs. Edwards lost a dear friend
to cancer and she feels that God used that experience to open her
eyes to the needs of cancer patients and their families. It is a
source of joy for her to be able to encourage and enable others to
achieve their dreams and missions in the battle to find a cure for
cancer.
Dn English
Dn English is a
Private Investigator, Freelance Writer, owner of Something To Read
Bookstore, Main Street Publishing, Main Street Research and A’Mata
Hari and Hari Investigations. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from Memphis College of Art. She also holds a Bachelor
of Arts from Memphis State University and a Master of Arts from NYU.
In addition she has a Master of Arts from the University of Memphis
and has completed Post Graduate work at the University of Windsor in
Windsor, Canada. She is a cancer survivor and knows because of the
type of cancer cells that are in her body that she will always have
cancer. She has been a member of a study group for the University of
Tennessee for over 40 years. Ms English has been told that she has
helped put over 200 drugs on the market with FDA approval. She is
always willing to be there for anyone that is starting on a journey
through cancer.
Larry Franklin
Originally from North Carolina, Larry settled in Jacksonville, Florida
following his service in the United States Navy. He got his start in
renovating properties as a youngster working with his uncle who was
a North Carolina contractor. A few years ago Larry relocated to
Moultrie, Georgia and has relocated the headquarters of Larry
Franklin Properties to Moultrie where he has already made
investments exceeding $10,000,000. His service to the Moultrie
community is not limited to investments in properties. He is also
serving on the United Way of Colquitt County Board of Directors as
well as the Moultrie/Colquitt County Chamber of Commerce Board.
Lowe Finney
Born and raised in
Dresden, Tennessee, Lowe Finney graduated Magna Cum Laude/With High
Honors from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a Bachelor of
Science in Business Administration. He attended the Saint Louis
University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. While at SLU, Mr.
Finney participated in the Student Bar Association, the
International Law Society, the Health Law Society, Phi Alpha Delta
Legal Fraternity and was the recipient of the Honorable Joseph
Eagleton Scholarship. After graduation, Mr. Finney clerked for the
Honorable John Everett Williams of the Tennessee Court of Criminal
Appeals.
Mr. Finney is involved in all aspects of general civil litigation
and appeals in Tennessee state courts, United States District Court,
and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He
maintains active practices in the areas of social security
disability, business formation, estates and probate, and
entertainment law.
In
2006, Mr. Finney was elected to the 105th Tennessee General Assembly
to serve the people of the 27th Senate District. He currently
serves as Chairman of the Tennessee Senate Democratic Caucus, and
previously served as Secretary/Treasurer. He is Vice-Chair of the
Senate State and Local Government Committee, Secretary of the
Long-Term Oversight Committee, and a member of the Transportation
Committee. He served one session as a member of the Senate
Environment, Conservation and Tourism Committee and the Senate
Government Operations Committee. He also served as Chairman of the
Special Joint Committee to Study the Creation of a Department of
Aging as well as the Co-Chair of the Special Joint Committee to
Study the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Mr. Finney is a member of the Madison County and Tennessee Bar
Associations. He previously taught Business Law, Constitutional
Law, and Law and the Courts at Lambuth University, Business Law at
Lane College in Jackson, and Entertainment Law at Bethel University
in McKenzie.
In
2009, Mr. Finney was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to
serve on the Advisory Commission on the Rules of Practice and
Procedure. Since 2008, he has served on the Appellate Practice
Section Executive Council for the Tennessee Bar Association.
Mr. Finney and his wife, Tiffany, are members of Jackson First
Baptist Church. He is a member of the Saint Louis University Alumni
Council, the Ames Plantation Historical Society, and the National
Rifle Association. He enjoys reading history and biographies,
travel, music, and hunting.
Curtis Halford
Curtis Halford lives in Dyer Tennessee. He attended
Dyersburg State Community College and is retired from Dyer
Fiberglass. Mr. Halford is a member of the Gibson County Republican
Party and Leadership Gibson County. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the Casey Counseling Center’s Peer Support Group. Mr.
Halford serves as Representative for District 79 in the Tennessee
State House where he is a member of the Agriculture, Health and
Human Resource Committees and the Subcommittee on Health Care
Facilities. Mr. Halford has also served as a Gibson County
Commissioner.
C. Stratton
Hill, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Dr, Hill received his
BA degree from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, his M.D. from
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis,
Tennessee, and served a Residency and a Fellowship at
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Bellevue Hospital, Cornell Medical
College. Dr. Hill founded the Pain Service at The University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1981. He served on the faculty
at M.D. Anderson for 35 years. Dr. Hill has been a champion for the
adequate and appropriate treatment of pain throughout his career.
Besides promoting optimum clinical care, he is active in legislative
efforts to remove state and federal barriers to adequate pain
relief. In recognition of his lifelong achievements, Dr. Hill
received the 1995 American Cancer Society Humanitarian Award. He
serves on the pain management education task force of the CATCHUM
Project (Cancer Teaching and Curriculum Enhancement in Undergraduate
Medicine) and continues to lecture.
Eric
Mintel
As early as age three,
Eric Mintel could be found sitting at the piano creating his own
melodies. Music, especially classical and jazz, was always a part of
the Mintel household. In 1982, when his piano teacher was trying to
teach him the basics, Eric was already playing compositions such as
Blue Rondo a la Turk and other demanding pieces. In 1993 he formed
the Eric Mintel Quartet. Additionally, a composer of orchestral and
choral music, the Quartets choral concerts feature the rarely heard
sacred choral music of Duke Ellington performed with various choirs
throughout the country combining jazz and choral music. Eric
performed at the White House in 1998 and was interviewed and
featured in DownBeat Magazine. Eric has also performed at the
Kennedy Center.
Lesa Moser
Mrs. Moser
graduated from The Medical University of South Carolina School of
Cytotechnology and became a registered Cytotechnologist by The
American Society of Clinical Pathologists. While living in
Charleston, S.C., Mrs. Moser worked for 13 years screening genital
and non-genital cytology for cancerous and precancerous cells. She
raised three children and has headed numerous volunteer projects in
Charleston, S.C. and in her present home of Moultrie, GA. Mrs. Moser
received the 2001-2002 Clubwoman of the Year Award from the Moultrie
Federated Guild of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs. She
served as 2004-2005 President of the Board of Directors of the
Colquitt County Arts Center. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer
in 2002 and completed treatments the same year. Mrs. Moser received
the first Lemon-Aide clown in 2002 at her first treatment and was
instrumental in the start-up of Lemon-Aide’s Friends.
P. Buckley
Moss
Patricia Buckley
was born in the Richmond Borough of New York City. In grade school,
she was perceived as a poor student, a circumstance probably
attributable to dyslexia. One of her teachers determined that she
was artistically gifted. Her mother enrolled her in an extraordinary
school for girls in downtown Manhattan known as the Washington
Irving High School for Fine Arts. There Pat’s artistic abilities
were taken seriously. In 1951 Pat received a scholarship to New
York’s Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She
studied there for four years and specialized in fine arts and
graphic design. Soon after leaving the school she married Jack Moss
who was a chemical engineer. In 1964 her husband’s work took his
family to Waynesboro, Virginia. By then they had five children and a
sixth one on the way. It was while living in the Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia that she came to appreciate and to know the deeply
religious Amish and Mennonite people. Soon she was incorporating
them in her art work. In 1967 she won her first major art show
prize, a one-person museum exhibition. This exhibition encouraged
her to start seriously marketing her work. The uniqueness of her
work generated by her subject matter won her wide spread
recognition. Thousands of collectors in the United States, Europe,
and Japan have come to recognize and treasure her work. In 1987, the
P. Buckley Moss Society was established. This Society now has some
38 active chapters and a membership of approximately 15,000. In 1989
the P. Buckley Moss Museum opened in Waynesboro, Virginia. Today the
Museum attracts approximately 45,000 visitors per year. For many who
know her and are familiar with her life, she is “THE PEOPLE.S
ARTIST”.
Connie Stevens
In a career that has spanned over thirty years, Connie Stevens has
gained worldwide popularity and recognition as a multi-talented
performer, producer, and most recently, as a major force in the
business world. She has successfully transcended the entertainment
gamut from Motion Picture Star, Television Star, Broadway Star,
Recording Artist, to the concert stage and then on to develop a
successful cosmetic empire.
Connie has proven herself in the business world by creating Forever
Spring, a cosmetic empire that has spawned over 300 products that
include skin care, make up, hair care items, and fragrances among
others. She recently designed and opened the Garden Sanctuary, an
executive day spa and boutique in Los Angeles which will offer
clients a spa menu, an elegant retail boutique, and other amenities
in an elegant private garden-like environment.
Connie’s Forever Spring is one of the most talked about and popular
cosmetic skin care product lines in the industry. Connie Steven’s
Forever Spring has amassed a clientele of over 3 million women
across the country and earnings from the Home Shopping Network alone
grossed over one billion dollars. Considered one of the top 500
female executives in the United States, Connie has owned and
operated her company over for 14 years.
She has devoted much of her time and influence to help those less
fortunate and her work with Native American Indians is widely
recognized. Connie’s project Windfeather of 12 years has enabled the
awarding of 83 college scholarships for Native American youths, the
delivery of surplus goods to Indian reservations nationwide and
summer camps for Native American children who have never left the
reservation.
Stevens, the filmmaker, completed producing and directing A Healing, a
documentary dedicated to the women, and the young warriors they
attended to, who served in the U.S./Vietnam conflict. Proceeds from
this documentary will go to several veterans’ charities. In
addition, she has made landmark strides with Dignity in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, helping the mentally and physically challenged to
become working members of the community. Hosting her annual
Celebrity Ski Extravaganza, Connie has enabled the development of
programs and a facility to house and educate these people, newly
dedicated as the Connie Stevens Center for Independent Living. She
is now involved in plans to build the first resort hotel for
children and young adults with special needs.
For her tireless work and support of others, Connie has been honored
and received the coveted 1991 Lady of Humanities award from the
Shriners Hospital, and Humanitarian of the Year by the Sons of Italy
in Washington, D.C. She also was honored by the Vietnam Veterans
Association of America as well as receiving The Decoration for
Distinguished Civilian Service from the United States Armed Forces,
which is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a civilian.
Hugh B. Ward
Rev. Ward received
his B.A. in Biology from Asbury College. He worked in rural churches
in Kentucky and Mississippi for a time and joined the US Marines in
1966. Following Boot Camp at Parris Island, Vietnamese Language
School and Intelligence School, he served in the Republic of Vietnam
from 1968 until 1972. He attended Columbia Theological Seminary from
1972 until 1975 and did his graduate work at Emory University from
1975 until 1979. During those years he served at Fairview
Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. From 1979 until 1988
he was pastor at Columbia Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia.
In 1989 Hugh accepted the position of pastor at the First
Presbyterian Church in Moultrie, Georgia. He retired from this
position in 2011.
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