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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Chapter Eighteen: 1980 - 1989
Local people of the 1980s
Around 1987, music educator Imogene Miller, who went
on to win Teacher of the Year honors, felt so strongly that outstanding
local teachers should be honored that she held the first such award
ceremony in her own home at her own expense. The Teacher of the
Year event is now held in the beautiful, spacious sanctuary of the First
Presbyterian Church, where it is always well attended.
In 1985, Alyce
Jones Caesar became
the first local black
woman to successfully
operate a business
(Caesar’s Funeral Home)
and run for public office
(the school board).
Although she lost that
election, she was named
the Lake City Reporter’s
“Woman of the Year.”
The county
superintendents of public
Alyce Jones Caesar instruction that decade
were Dr. Silas Pittman
(1977 - 1988), and Dr. Dianne Lane (1988 - 1996).
The police chiefs that decade were Paul K. Philpot (1976 -
1980), Ray Simmons (1980 - 1986), Act. Chief L.R. Wilson (1986),
and Frank E. Owens (1986 - 1996).
The mayors that decade were James R. Tison (mayor 1978
- 1980), Paul Roy (mayor in 1980 after James Tison resigned), and
Gerald Witt (mayor 1980 - 1996).
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