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City to honor 2009 ‘Walk of Fame’ nominees
AMERICUS — The 2009 nominees for the Walk of Fame recommended to Mayor and City Council will be honored at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Rylander Theatre. Former Mayor and District Attorney J. Frank Myers, who led the fight toward peaceful integration is one of those to be honored. Myers also served in the Georgia General Assembly, on the State Board of Health and co-founded the Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) Foundation.
Also to be recognized will be Luther Story, Sumter County’s only Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and a veteran of World War II; Roy Lee and Susan Smith, philanthropists to South Georgia Technical College and GSW and supporters of the Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Home; William B. King, Ph.D., president emeritus of GSW 1963-1978, trustee of Lake Blackshear Regional Library and former Department Chair of Counseling and Guidance at the University of Georgia; Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farms, author of the Cotton Patch gospels, civil rights worker and credited with bringing Millard and Linda Fuller to Americus.
The public is invited to attend the ceremony and the reception to follow.
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