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Harris tapped for C of C award
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com Hollis Harris, the retired chairman and CEO of World Airways and the man responsible for moving the company’s headquarters to Peachtree City, was named Fayette County’s 2004 Business Person of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce Saturday. The announcement came at the end of the chamber’s annual awards gala hosted by the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center. Other honors handed out Saturday included: Donna O’Kelly Realtors, Small Business of the Year; Pat Brannon of L.S. Wells, Ambassador of the Year; Virginia Gibbs, Chamber President, Chet Wells Chairman’s Award; and Andy Carden, executive director of Fayette Senior Services, Dreambuilder Award. Harris, a longtime resident of the community, retired from World Airways in May — almost five years to the day he was hired to salvage the charter carrier, which was on the verge of shutting down in 1999. A year later, Harris made a cost-saving decision to relocate the company’s headquarters from near Dulles Airport in suburban Washington to Peachtree City. Today, more than 250 of the company’s 1,400 employees work at the main office, and World Airways stock is at record highs. In keeping with the theme “Flying High,” the keynote speaker for the chamber dinner was retired Air Force Col. Thomas Kirk, now a ski instructor in Vail, Colo. The veteran of both Korea and Vietnam told of his experiences as a POW in the 1970s, imprisoned for more than five years in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.” Also, Mike Jablonski of BB&T took the gavel as chairman of the chamber board for 2005, replacing Vicki Turner of AIS Computers. |
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