Wednesday, April 23, 2003
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
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FCHS honors distinguished alumni By CAROLYN
CARY
Four distinguished alumni of Fayette County High School were honored recently. They include Dr. Dean Brown, the late Grady Huddleston, Donna Kirby and Barney Walker. Dr. Douglas Dean Brown graduated in the Class of 1950. When he began in first grade in the fall of 1939, it was in a new school building named the Fayetteville Grammar School. It presently serves as the Fayetteville City Hall. He played basketball all four years, was a member of the Beta Club, president of his class all four years, and was salutatorian of his senior class. He met and married Joan Jackson at the University of Georgia in 1956 and then spent most of the next year at Aberdeen Proving Grounds where he received officers' training. They have two sons and a grandson. He returned to Fayette County in 1957 and he and his wife were employed as teachers at Fayette County High School. Dr. Brown has served his county in various educational capacities: principal of Fayetteville Grammar School and Fayetteville Elementary School, opened Hood Avenue Elementary, first assistant superintendent under Superintendent Eugene Bowers, principal of a new Fayetteville Elementary, and assistant superintendent under Superintendents Jerry Stinchcomb and Trigg Dalrymple. He retired in 1995. The late Grady L. Huddleston, class of 1939, had a distinguished career in the military, in the Georgia Legislature, the State Department of Veterans Service, and the State Merit System. He died February 20, 2001. He was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1942 with a bachelor of science degree, and Woodrow Wilson College of Law, graduating in 1962 with an LLB degree. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Army in European Theater of Operations as an infantry platoon leader. He was company commander for 20 months, and received the Bronze Star and the European Theater Ribbon with two Battle Stars. He married the former Carolyn Putman of Brooks, and they have two children.He served in the Georgia Legislature from 1947 to 1960 from Fayette County, and served on six various committees. He was state supervisor over all training, programs and coordinators from 1956 to 1963. In that year he was put in charge as the Director of Training statewide for the Georgia State Merit System. He retired in 1978. From 1988 to 2001, he was a judge of Magistrate Court, Fayette County. Though born in DeKalb County in 1939, Donna Kirby and family moved to Fayette County in 1941. She attended Truett McConnell Junior College in Cleveland, Ga., graduated from Georgia State University in 1961 with a bachelor of arts in English and Secondary Education, and received her master of religious education from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1963. She was appointed by the Southern Baptist foreign Missions Board in June, 1966, as a missionary to Hong Kong. She held this position until her retirement in 2002. Currently she teaches in the English as a Second Language program at Fayetteville First Baptist Church. Barnard William Walker was a graduate of the Class of 1949 and served in the United States Army. He founded Farmers and Builder's Supply in 1953, subsequently renamed Walker Concrete. He has served in this industry for over 50 years and is a mainstay in major building and construction projects throughout the Southern Crescent. He has served on the Fayette County Planning and Zoning Board for 4 years, served as chairman of the Fayette County School Board for 4 years, served as a City of Fayetteville councilman for 8 years, and has served on the board of directors for four Fayette County banks. Those attending the Fayetteville First Baptist Church have been greeted at the door each Sunday by Barney for over 40 years. He has been married to Sue Hancock for over 50 years, and they have four children, and 11 grandchildren.
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