11/12: Remembering Barbara Howard and Bill Bates; More

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 IN THIS EDITION

TODAY’S FOCUS: Barbara Howard Was Example of a Life Well Lived in Gwinnett

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Bill Bates Was The Epitome of a Good Public Relations Person

ANOTHER VIEW: Delving into the Theory of The Big Lie, According to Mein Kampf

SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center

FEEDBACK: Having Fun by Giving Robocallers Back Their Due 

UPCOMING: Volunteer Gwinnett To Recognize Selfless Efforts on November 17

NOTABLE: Transit Review Committee Report Expected by the End of 2019

RECOMMENDED: The Eagle Theatre in Sugar Hill

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early Child Actor Georgian Jane Withers Has Long Movie Career

MYSTERY PHOTO:  Here’s an Aerial View for This Issue’s Mystery Photo

LAGNIAPPE: Who Are These Good Guessers Who Get the Mystery Photos?

CALENDAR: Volunteers Needed at Bryson Park in Lilburn for clean-up on November 16

 TODAY’S FOCUS

Barbara Howard was example of a life well-lived in Gwinnett

By Randy Redner

DULUTH, Ga.  | When we heard the news last week that Barbara Howard had passed away, all of us at the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia were deeply saddened. Barbara left an incredible legacy of life, love and giving. She was a dear friend to the Community Foundation, serving as a board member for a number of years and a fundholder, and our hearts and prayers go out to her family and friends.

Howard

The fingerprints and legacy of Barbara and her late husband, Henry, go so wide and deep in our community and will be felt for decades to come. I, personally, have so many memories with Barbara, going back almost 20 years and starting with my time getting to know her at the American Cancer Society. 

She and Henry moved to Gwinnett in 1972 and one of their first big moves was to establish the Gwinnett Chapter of the American Cancer Society, with the help of two other couples.

As Barbara said in a past conversation, “After that, both of us really got into fundraising. Our next big thing was Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation.”

Then came the Hudgens Arts Center, the Community Foundation and a host of other organizations. She was named Gwinnett County Citizen of the Year by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce in 2013.

Barbara told us, “We had many causes that mattered to us, such as the Community Foundation, Rainbow Village, Peachtree Christian Hospice and more. I just like to go do and do things for people and I find that helps me.” 

In 1960, Barbara and Henry started Suzanna’s Kitchen, supplying restaurants with barbecue, Brunswick stew and uncooked hamburger patties, then moving to frozen hamburgers, corn dogs and other types of meat products for the food service industry. According to the Gwinnett Chamber, their largest customer was Hardee’s and they also supplied hamburgers for a start-up chain called Burger King.

Not only did Barbara and Henry support local nonprofits, so did Suzanna’s Kitchen. Giving back to the community on a personal and business level was important to both of them. They were the lead donors in the campaign that helped build Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth. Suzanna’s Kitchen, among other donations, made a large gift to Gwinnett Medical’s Open Heart campaign.

What Are the Barbara Awards?

What are the Barbara Awards of the Aurora Theatre?

Ann-Carol Pence, co-founder and associate producer of Aurora Theatre, says this about the Barbara Awards of the theatre: 

“Barbara was the best example of someone who inspired business leaders and philanthropists to invest in Aurora Theatre. When time came to create an award that would recognize those who profoundly contribute to our success, sustainability, artistry, and radical friendliness, Barbara was the name that best symbolized that overwhelming passion for the arts. To anyone who receives the Barbara Award, it is the highest honor imaginable.”

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EEB PERSPECTIVE

Bill Bates was the epitome of a good public relations person

By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum

NOV. 12, 2019  | It’s a basic tenet of business.  Having a good public relations counsel is not a cost; it is an investment in your future.

A really good PR person died the other day, living to the ripe old age of 92. He was William (Bill) Bates, who retired in Atlanta after an illustrious career.

We’ve used him for years as an example when talking to students and professionals  of what a good public relations person does. A good PR person serves both his clients and his contacts among the media and in other areas, without questioning.

For instance, once when publishing a weekly in South Georgia, I needed to talk to Bill Veross, who was president of Interstate Paper Company in Riceboro, on the Georgia coast, and a person I knew. A contingent of my newspaper readers worked at that pulp mill, and though I don’t remember why I needed to talk to him, Veross was the only person who could answer that question.  On calling the mill, his secretary would not put me through to him.

Bates

Knowing Bill Bates had Interstate as a client, I put in a call to Bill. When I told him I needed to talk to Veross, and asked if he could get through to him, Bates did not ask me why I wanted to talk to him, nor what I wanted.  He simply said, “I’ll get back to you today.” Realize that it was our press day, and I was on an immediate deadline.

It might have been ten minutes later that Veross was calling me. He had not been at the mill, but was in a meeting in Miami. In five minutes, I had the information I wanted, thanks to a good public relations man.

Bates was one of the greatest generation. After high school in Scott (Johnson County in southeast Georgia), he served in the Pacific during World War II as a signalman on a destroyer. He then attended the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism University of Georgia, graduating in 1949 magna cum laude and the class valedictorian. His college career foretold his future leadership, being  Phi Beta Kappa scholar, editor of The Red and Black, and while a student a contributor to The Georgia Review. He was a member of the Gridiron Secret Society.

Newspapers were his next step, when he became a reporter for United Press in Atlanta, and later in Washington, D.C. where he covered the McCarthy hearings. In 1956 he came back to Georgia, as the political editor of The Atlanta Constitution. 

He returned to Washington as Senator Richard Russell’s first press secretary.

Later he went into public relations, with the Atlanta office of the New York firm of Bell and Stanton, which eventually became Manning Selvage and Lee, where he was vice president and director, where I first knew him. That’s about the time I contacted him needing some help. Eventually he set up his own PR firm, then took leave to return to Washington as press secretary of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which was chaired then by Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia. He returned once again to Atlanta was where he put in another 20 years in public relations.

In retirement he was passionate about forest conservation, buying more than 20 tracts in four counties in Southeast Georgia, through his firm, Bates Timberlands LLLP, a family partnership and legacy.

William M. Bates: 1926-2019: May you rest in peace.

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Delving into theory of The Big Lie, according to Mein Kampf

By Ashley Herndon

OCEANSIDE, Calif.  | In my earlier life I was a vice president of an international company whose CEO/Chairman warned us on the executive staff to beware of a harmful political phenomenon.  It could be used to destroy careers or personalities. He called it “The Big Memo.”

 I asked him to explain and he simply said someone planning to displace fact would circulate a false narrative…which by being first to the press would never be completely forgotten and too often repeated and believed.  Most folks are either not interested in or are too lazy to seek facts before accepting as truth these missives/tales. Hit big…hit hard…deny…then smile.  

Further research proved interesting.  The Big Memo comes from The Big Lie.

The Big Lie, (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique (information which is used to influence an audience and furthering an agenda which is not factually objective using salacious information or selectively choosing misinformation to encourage a particular synthesis and/or perception which produces an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented.)  It is a logical trick/fallacy (A fallacy is the use of invalid or ‘faulty facts’, or ‘wrong moves’ in building an argument for misinformation.)  Fallacious arguments/statements may be deceptive by appearing to be better than they/it really are/is.

• Some fallacies are committed intentionally to deceptively manipulate/persuade.
• Some may be committed unintentionally due to carelessness or ignorance.

The sound legal arguments depend on the context in which the arguments are made.  The expression Big Lie can be found in Adolf Hitler’s dictated 1925 book Mein Kampf, about using lies so “colossal” that no one would believe someone “….could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” 

Hitler’s use of the expression can be found in the Chapter 10 translation of Mein Kampf, by James Murphy.

This process was inspired by the principle…which is true—“that in the Big Lie there is always a force of credibility; because the broad masses of a population can be easily corrupted in the deeper part of their emotional nature…unconsciously or involuntarily; and thus, they will more readily fall victims to the Big Lie than the small lie…because being human they sometimes or often tell small lies in little matters…but would be ashamed to resort to big lies.”  Fear is a not so funny thing.

Generally, it would not come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they don’t want to accept that others (including their leaders) would distort the truth so infamously.  Even though the facts prove this so which may be brought clearly to light. They will doubt and waver, causing them to think there may be some other explanation (hope not fact drives this fantasy).   

“The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”   — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I.

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 FEEDBACK

Having fun by giving robocallers back their due

Editor, the Forum: 

Very good article about robocalls recently by Raleigh Perry.

I would like to add two additional types of “scam” calls.

1. The caller identifies himself and asks, “Can you hear me clearly?”

Obviously, as Mr. Perry says, they are wanting a “Yes” so they can have you recorded as having said yes to their offer. I reply “No!” Any additional questions or statement gets a “No” until they hang up. I love wasting their time.

2. This is a real beauty. I can’t remember where I originally got it, maybe even from Mr. Perry. The caller says, “Is John there”? If you answer that no John lives here they say, “Perhaps you can help me.” John is just a trick to get you talking. 

So I then say:  “Hold on a minute” and I turn my head and say “Bill, don’t disturb that. I want to check for prints.” Then I turn to the caller and say, “This is Detective Fred Masters with CSI and this is a crime scene. What is your relationship with the deceased, I mean John? Why are you calling John at this particular time?”

I get strange statements. I then say that we have traced this call and they should not hang up. At that point they usually say I should speak to their supervisor. Then usually, after a few seconds, somebody hangs up, probably the supervisor. If a supervisor comes online, there are many tangents you can take. You can almost feel the person on the other end sweating.

— Hoyt Tuggle, Buford

Hopes retaining future executive isn’t counter-productive

Editor, the Forum: 

Closure would be a desirable outcome, but I am afraid that political tribalism is so extreme now that closure might not come for another four or eight years or more.  

I was just reading about the aftermath of World War II and the retribution that continued after that war.  And although the Ukraine issue is currently topmost, the entire fabric of rejection of Constitution, laws, staff analysis and policy development practices may lead to legislative attempts to constrain a future Executive in ways that may prove counterproductive in a straight-jacketing way.  Let’s hope that we can find statesmen to lead us out of the current situation.

          — John Haeger, Lilburn

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UPCOMING

Volunteer Gwinnett to recognize selfless efforts Nov. 17

Join Volunteer Gwinnett for a day of celebration as the County gives back to those who give selflessly throughout the year. 

Gwinnett County Government volunteers and their families are invited to a Volunteer Appreciation Party November 17 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Preservation Lawn at the Isaac Adair House, 15 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville. The free event will feature games, food (while supplies last), entertainment, kids’ activities, department outreach tables, giveaways and more.

Volunteer Gwinnett, a countywide program, encourages residents to participate in service activities year-round. Gwinnett depends on volunteers to help the county provide residents with the best services and programs possible. 

Muriam Nafees, Volunteer Gwinnett coordinator, says: “In 2018, Gwinnett had more than 1.6 million volunteer hours and 89,000 volunteers directly contributing to the excellent quality of life residents enjoy in our community.. “We want to show our dedicated volunteers how much we appreciate them.”

Volunteering through County departments and elected offices provides residents the opportunity to be involved with their government operations. Volunteers are involved in an array of events and projects that directly impact the community, such as removing invasive species from park lands, picking out trash from rivers and lakes, going door to door to install smoke alarms, fostering animals from the Gwinnett Animal Shelter, delivering meals to home-bound seniors or instructing fitness and language classes.

 NOTABLE

Transit Review Committee report expected by end of 2019

With Gwinnett County’s population expected to reach 1.5 million by 2040, the need for a robust transit system will become critical. The Board of Commissioners recently passed a resolution creating the Gwinnett County Transit Review Committee, a group of citizens to help advise them how to proceed in expanding transit in Gwinnett County to meet future demand.

The resolution calls on the 13-member committee to conduct a thorough review of Gwinnett’s transit needs and its options. The committee will present a written report with recommendations to the County Commission by the end of the year.

The committee will review the Connect Gwinnett: Transit Plan, a comprehensive blueprint approved in 2018, to analyze current and projected transit needs based on projected population and employment as well as the feasibility of various types of transit, including some suggested by the public. 

Materials from the meetings are available to the public. For meeting schedule and locations as well as agendas and minutes, visit www.GCTransit.com. The committee members are:

 RECOMMENDED

The Eagle Theatre in Sugar Hill

From Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill:  I did something last week I have not done in 18 years. I watched the original Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone movie on a big screen! What a treat! While I can heartily recommend this movie, one of the most delightful and creative I have ever seen, this recommendation is for the state-of-the art Eagle Theatre in downtown Sugar Hill where I saw it. I was unsure if I would enjoy watching a movie in a stage theater, but the screen was huge and once the lights were out, I felt as though I were in a proper cinema. They even had popcorn. And here’s the best part – admission was only $2!  In December last year, the newly-opened Eagle Theatre instigated the Tuesday movie series with a different theme each month. Of course, they also host plays and concerts. It’s a beautiful art deco theater and definitely worth a visit.”  

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GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA TIDBIT

Early Georgian child actor Jane Withers has long movie career

Before Jane Withers became one of the most popular child actors of the 1930s, she performed in vaudeville and on her own radio show in Atlanta. Initially gaining fame in 1934 as the little girl who roughed up Shirley Temple in the film Bright Eyes, Withers maintained a successful career in the film industry for more than a decade. As an adult, Withers returned to the profession and successfully re established herself as a character actor during the 1950s.

Withers

Jane Withers was born in Atlanta on April 12, 1926. Her mother, Lavinia Ruth Withers, encouraged her child’s interest in theater, and Withers’ career began when, as a toddler, she won an amateur talent contest in Atlanta. By the age of four Withers was performing in her own radio program, Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop.

In 1932 Withers traveled with her mother to Hollywood, where the young girl was soon performing on children’s radio programs, doing voice-overs for cartoons, and playing bit parts in films, beginning with Handle with Care (1932). 

In 1934 Withers won the prized role of the cruel brat Joy in the Shirley Temple vehicle Bright Eyes. Temple was Hollywood’s most popular child star, but audiences enjoyed Withers’ mistreatment of little Shirley, and critics praised the performance. As a result of this success, Withers became a contract player for Fox Studios and appeared in her first starring role in the film Ginger (1935), which began production on her eighth birthday. Withers recalled, in a 2003 interview, receiving flowers on this occasion from both W. C. Fields and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had followed her career after seeing Withers’ impression of him in a newsreel. According to Withers, she maintained a friendship with Roosevelt until his death at Warm Springs in 1945.

Often working with a handpicked crew at Fox known as the “Withers Family,” the young actress appeared in thirty-eight films over the next twelve years. 

With the decline of the child-star genre, Withers’ popularity began to fade, and audiences familiar with her work in comedy did not accept her in more serious films like The North Star (1943). Because her parents had managed her income carefully, Withers was financially independent. She left the film industry in 1947 and soon afterward married Bill Moss, a Texas oilman and rancher with whom she had three children. The couple divorced in 1954, and the next year Withers married Kenneth Errair, a member of the 1950s vocal group the Four Freshman. Withers and Errair had two children and were married until Errair’s death in 1968.

In 1955 Withers returned to Hollywood and began film school at the University of Southern California, planning to become a director. But she resumed acting when director George Stevens invited her to take a supporting role in his film Giant (1956). She continued working as a character actor in film and television, appearing on television in episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The United States Steel Hour, The Love Boat, and Murder, She Wrote, among others. She also played the role of Josephine the Plumber in a long-running series of commercials for Comet cleanser.

An enthusiastic amateur photographer, Withers has participated in Internet discussions, hosted by the Kodak Corporation, of her photography. In recognition of her philanthropy, Withers received a 2003 Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center. She continues to reside in Los Angeles, where she is currently at work on several books, including an autobiography.

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 MYSTERY PHOTO

Here’s an aerial view for this issue’s Mystery Photo

Check out this aerial view of a neat structure in a nice setting. Figure out where this Mystery Photo was taken and send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and tell us where you get your mail.

The last Mystery Photo was from Jim Savadelis of Duluth.  Several people recognized it. Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill said: “This is Grand Traverse Lighthouse on Cat’s Head Point in Grand Traverse Bay, now Leelanau State Park. It is Michigan’s oldest lighthouse. It was first built in 1849 but was demolished in 1858. Because it was poorly built and had been constructed on the cheap in a less than desirable location, the tower foundation started eroding within the first five years and the building nearly collapsed.

“The replacement building was erected on higher ground and, over the years, was greatly expanded and changed.  But modern technology caught up with it and in 1972, the Coast Guard discontinued maintaining the lighthouse and replaced it with an automated beacon mounted on a still skeletal tower. 

 (See photo.)Fortunately, a group of local folks created a foundation and preserved the historic buildings and reopened the station as a museum in 1987. This is the new structure. Alas, not quite so romantic.”

George Graf of Palmyra, Va. told us: “The first version of this light, which no longer exists, was ordered built by President Millard Fillmore in July 1850. A brick tower with separate keeper’s quarters was constructed at a site east of the present Lighthouse in the state park campground. This first house and tower were deemed inadequate and razed in 1858 when the present structure was built. Still visible is a portion of the lighthouse foundation and the original tower site was located in 1999. Today, one can tour the restored lighthouse resembling a keeper’s home of the 1920s and 1930s. Exhibits on area lighthouses, foghorns, shipwrecks and local history are located in the Lighthouse and Fog Signal Building.”

Also recognizing it were Lou Camerio, Lilburn: and Cindy Evans of Duluth.

Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. : “Since 1972, and without a keeper onsite, the abandoned buildings slowly fell into disrepair until an organization, now known as Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum, was formed in 1984 and worked to have the lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1984. Renovation efforts led to the eventual opening of the museum to the public in 1986.”

LAGNIAPPE

Who are these good guessers who get the Mystery Photos?

Over the last few years, several individuals around the country stand out as experts in answering the mystery photo in each issue of GwinnettForum. “Just who are these people?” several readers have asked us.

To shed a little light on that question, we asked consistent spotters who recognize the mysteries to tell us something about themselves, in about 150 words. We’ll run one in each upcoming issue.

Foreman

Today’s Mystery Spotter is Robert Foreman of Grayson.  He writes: 

“I was born in Sarasota, Fla., and  received my degree in architecture from the University of Florida in 1970. I served as an officer in the Army Reserve, commissioned through ROTC. In 1972 I became a licensed architect and relocated to Atlanta, and married Barbara in 1974. Our son Matthew pastors a church in Media, Penn. Our daughter is a portrait artist in Roswell. We have seven grandchildren.

“I opened an  architectural practice in Gwinnett County, specializing in churches and schools. Banks, hotels and other commercial facilities were soon added. In 2015 I sold Foreman Seeley Fountain Architecture to my partners and retired. I am a 2014 graduate of Gwinnett Senior Leadership and serve as Infrastructure Day chairman. We have lived in Grayson since 2012 and are active at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. I was elected to Grayson City Council in 2017 and re-elected this year.”

 CALENDAR

Snellville Commerce Club will have its Tourism and Trade Annual business meeting and will be on Tuesday, November 12, at the Summit Chase Country Club, 3197 Classic Drive. Speaker will be Chef Hank Reid, who will be collecting for Toys for Tots and for Give Hunger the Boot. The Club will also elect two members of the Board of Directors at this meeting.

Cherokee Nation Master Gardener and culinary expert Tony Harris will discuss native Georgia plants and the ways they were used for medicines and meals on Thursday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Suwanee branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. There will be a cooking demonstration on Native American recipes by Chef Jeffrey Mayer afterward. The event is free.

Sixth Annual Fall Art Show of the Lilburn Arts Alliance will be November 15 and 16 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at The Apothecary, 93 Main Street in Lilburn. It is free and open to the public. 

Volunteers needed for cleanup of Bryson Park on Saturday, November 16 by the City of Lilburn and the Gwinnett Department of Water Resources.  The event is from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. 

Climate Education is the subject at three presentations by the Citizens’ Climate Education group. Kathe Gowland, Bob O’Brien, Scott Presson and Terry Welsher will make the presentations.  They will be Saturday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at Collins Hill Library, 455 Camp Perrin Road, Lawrenceville; Friday, November 22 at 3 p.m. at Suwanee Library, 361 Main Street; and Monday, December 2 at 6 p.m. at the Five Forks Branch, 2780 Five Forks Road. 

Southern Wings Bird Club will meet Monday, November 18, at 7 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Join Melanie Furr to learn about hummingbirds, a year in the life of these magical little birds. As Director of Education at AAS, Melanie develops and teaches numerous programs about birds for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.  A licensed wildlife rehabilitator, her interest in birds was sparked by her volunteer work at AWARE Wildlife Center, where she has been rehabilitating injured and orphaned Georgia wildlife and providing training and enrichment for AWARE’s non-releasable animals for almost ten years.

Hear Dr. Michael Gunther talk about pineapples and pumpkins, to ideas about liberty and government. This will be at the Collins Hill Branch library on Tuesday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Gunther is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Gwinnett College .  He will tell you many surprising ways that our original Americans have helped to develop and enrich our country. 

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