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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

SKIPPING AROUND

C ast week I wrote about the rare honor Lake City educator Jim Wilson
has received- he has been named District Teacher of the Year in both
Columbia and Suwannee Counties. Column reader Dr. Marty Cox, our
school system’s Director of Personnel, has pointed out that Columbia
City’s Lisa Malphurs, this years Columbia County District Teacher of the
Year, had previously been named Union County Teacher of the Year.
Congratulations to Jim and Lisa, both extraordinary teachers!

Congratulations also to Dorothy Spradley, our school system’s Director
of Marketing. The five-county Take Stock in Children Leadership Council
has nominated Dorothy for the Florida Mentor Partnership ‘Award of
Excellence’. Nobody deserves it more!

*School Museum thanks to the CHS Class of 1952 for a generous
donation in memory of classmate Kay Melton Argersinger...to FWHS
seniors Megan Sapelak and Rachel Register for helping us research Lake
City’s Columbia College (1907-17)...and to Ethel Skinner Malone (CHS
1952) for a beautiful, decorative plate with the likeness of our School
Board building on it. That building was CHS from 1923-1959 and a junior
high school from then until 1990, thus the appropriate caption “This
building recalls fond memories.”

Congratulations to Pastor Larry E. Sweat and his Berea Baptist Church
congregation on the celebration of their church’s 30th anniversary
(1977-2007). Interesting Berea Church facts: Rev. Fritz Fountain was the
first pastor and served 17 years. Rev. Carson Brittain, pastor emeritus of
First Baptist church, served as interim pastor several times. Rev. Troy
Grant served as pastor from 1999-2002 and was this year’s homecoming
speaker.

Located on SR 47, Berea’s name is taken from a city in ancient Macedonia
and means “well-watered”, from Acts 17:10.

NO HURRY

Life insurance salesman to a would-be client: “Don’t let me rush you into
a hasty decision. Sleep on it tonight, and if you wake up tomorrow, let
me know your decision then.”

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