GwinnettForum | Number 21.51 | July 6, 2021
AFTER YEARS OF SURGICAL PRACTICE, Dr. Miles Mason III is retiring. He’ shown with his wife, Sandy, and granddaughter Millie, 5, at a reception hosted by the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation recently. For more on this story, see EEN’s perspective below. (Photo from Beth Mozley.)
TODAY’S FOCUS: High schoolers learn about health care jobs at PCOM
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Dr. Miles Mason III of Duluth retiring from medical practice
ANOTHER VIEW: Reflections after a visit to Nashville, Tenn. area
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Thinking more about the demise of professional media
UPCOMING: Norcross Gallery new spotlight show to begin July 9
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation announces new round of grants
OBITUARIES: Jaclyn White
RECOMMENDED: Mockingbird in the Moonlight by Jaclyn Weldon White
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Gambling once ongoing at baseball’s Ponce de Leon Park
MYSTERY PHOTO: Elegant Asian-themed building is today’s Mystery Photo
High schoolers learn about health care jobs at PCOM
CONCENTRATING ON TAKING Lemuel Allen of Shiloh High’s blood pressure, Christina Cadet, a junior at Brookwood listens on her stethoscope, while Vaishnavi Balaji, a senior at Forsyth County High, watches. Check out more about this PCOM program at Today’s Focus below.
By Barbara Myers
SUWANEE, Ga. | About 40 high school students, known as “mentees,” energized the zoom rooms and halls of PCOM Georgia in Suwanee for the past two weeks as they learned about healthcare careers from physical therapist to pharmacist to veterinarian. In addition, they studied such topics as professionalism, time management, financial literacy and college readiness.
A team of PCOM Georgia “mentors,” students in the biomedical sciences, osteopathic medicine and pharmacy programs, provided leadership and guidance to the high schoolers, participants in the college’s free Summer Math and Science Academy. Each high school student painted a heart, made kombucha, dissected a sheep brain and made faux DNA from candy. They participated in simulation activities and visited the college’s anatomy lab. They also worked in teams to present on chosen conditions such as gestational diabetes, the Spanish flu, Marfan syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease.
At the academy commencement ceremony, students had the opportunity to reflect on their two-week experience. Crestard Falohun, a rising sophomore, at McClure Health Science High School, who is considering a career in anesthesiology or pharmacy, said his experience at camp had been “mind blowing” and noted, “It’s amazing there are adults here who care about us.”
Claire Dorcent, DO ’21, a recent PCOM Georgia graduate and an OB/GYN resident at the Mayo Clinic who is credited with planting the seed for PCOM Georgia’s summer academy, delivered the keynote address at the graduation ceremony, which was also attended by campers’ family members.
A first generation Haitian American, she said, “Even though the journey will be hard, don’t give up on yourself.” She thanked the mentors, teachers and professors who “poured into me” while she was a student and promised the mentees “we are here to help you when times are rough.”
The camp’s leadership team consisted of PCOM Georgia students Charles Ahweyevu, MS/Biomed ‘21, Arthur Few, PharmD ‘23, and India Chaney, DO ‘23 who met each week for a year to plan academy activities. Faculty leads were Adwoa Dansoa Aduonum, PhD, MSc, associate professor of physiology and neuroscience and the director of the interprofessional education program for the osteopathic medicine program, and Valerie E. Cadet, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology. Aisha DeBerry, JD, the executive director of diversity and community partnerships, provided support. “I loved that we focused on not just science and medicine, but also on how to stay motivated and find the right field for them.”
Participants included rising 10th, 11th and 12th grade students after high schools at Brookwood, Central Gwinnett, Collins Hill, Discovery, Greater Atlanta Christian, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Lanier, McClure Health Science, North Gwinnett, Parkview, Paul Duke STEM, Shiloh and South Gwinnett. A home-schooled student, as well as students from the Georgia Connections Academy, Midtown International School, Clayton, Cobb, Forsyth and Fulton county high schools also attended the camp.
The PCOM Office of Diversity and Community Partnerships provided funding, in addition to grants from the Jackson EMC Foundation and Hologic, Inc., a medical technology company largely focused on women’s health.
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Second doctor named Miles Mason goes into retirement
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 6, 2021 | If you were living in the Duluth area in the last 60 years, chances are you knew of the medical practices of Miles Mason. You see, there have been two doctors named Miles Mason practicing medicine out of Duluth. Miles Mason Jr. tended to all sorts of medical needs in the Duluth area until 1994.
Now his son, Miles Mason III, has retired as of June 30 from his surgical practice in Duluth. As long as he can remember, Dr. Mason III has wanted to follow his father as a medical doctor.
Miles III says: “My father was a general practitioner, meaning he did everything, surgery, OB, pediatrics. He worked with George Tootle, another doctor here who did surgery. And it was my father who suggested I should think of doing surgery. And to me that made sense, for there is no better feeling than to be able to fix what you find in a person.”
Dr. Miles Mason Jr.
Now 73, the newly-retired doctor has no immediate plans. “Maybe I’ll be teaching at some place. I’ll not lay down and take it easy, but I’ll get back into something.”
Dr. Mason finished school in Duluth High, then went to Emory at Oxford for his first two college years. Then he graduated from Emory University in 1968, and from the Medical College of Georgia in 1972. For five years he was in surgical residency at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.
For two years, he was in the Navy, initially on the carrier, USS Independence, as a surgeon, and spent another year at the Portsmouth, Va. Naval Hospital. His rank when he left medical service was lieutenant commander.
He returned in 1979 to practice in Duluth at Joan Glancy Hospital, which was then the largest medical facility in Gwinnett County. He remembers: “Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville wasn’t built until 1984, when all of a sudden we had more up-to-date medical facilities in the county.”
Dr. Miles Mason III
Over the years, Dr. Mason III has treated numerous patients, in the thousands. “I saw a guy the other day that I treated when first in practice.” Since 1996 he has practiced out of an office on McClure Bridge Road.
It was in 1972, after medical college, in Augusta that Dr. Mason III married Sandy Ulmer, originally from Walterboro, S.C., who was a teacher at the time. She later became a nurse. They have three children, Stephanie, Lisa and Miles IV. Stephanie is a freelance writer, while Lisa is a veterinarian in DeLand, Fla.; and Miles IV is in information technology in Chattanooga. The Masons have two grandchildren and another on the way.
Dr. Miles Jr.’s marriage brought forth five children, with Miles III being the oldest. Others include Claude Mason, a lawyer of Duluth; James Mason, a pro golfer of Sky Valley; Beth Miles Mozley of Duluth, who worked with Miles III as a nurse; and Bill Miles, a pharmacist, formerly of Statham, but now back in Duluth.
Beth remembers: “Being the only girl in the family, I was the privileged one of the group, for the boys when they needed something, would come to me.” She also remembers about Miles III: “He was always the funniest one, who excelled in his studies, played sports and was always the proper one. “
Recently at a gathering celebrating Miles III years in medicine, friends of the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation raised just over $100,000 for an endowment for Northside Duluth honoring him.
Thank you, Miles Mason III, for your many contributions and your healing hands helping so many people in the wider Gwinnett area.
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Reflections after a visit to Nashville, Tenn., area
By Debra Houston, contributing columnist
LILBURN, Ga. | We stayed at Hurricane Mills, Tenn., where country singer Loretta Lynn lives. In fact, her two houses, museum, and replica of the log cabin where she grew up comprise the town. As we stood before the cabin, our tour guide announced: “You are now standing in downtown Hurricane Mills.”
On this trip we avoided the adrenaline of Nashville, where the population is growing like wild turkeys. Besides, its traffic is dreadful, not unlike Gwinnett’s.
The state capital is blue. Nicole Kidman, Sheryl Crow, and other actors and musicians live there, giving the city a liberal vibe. Construction crews are building in and around Nashville, and the growth reminds me of Gwinnett. The rural areas, however, remind me of old Gwinnett before bulldozers flattened the hills.
We ventured into Franklin, more low-keyed than Nashville. Famous country singers, Vanderbilt doctors, and tenured professors live there. We figured they eat at nice restaurants, and we found one where we chatted with a young veteran who had served in Iraq.
He’d gone to Washington D.C. on January 6 to the Trump rally, when a frightening scenario presented itself, the crowd so massive, he had to move along within its current. “Did Trump order his supporters to storm the Capitol?” I asked. “Of course not,” he answered.
We noted we’d seen few Tennesseans wear masks during our visit. “Our governor, Bill Lee, has already rescinded that mandate. I’ve had COVID, but I’d never wear one anyway.”
“Looks like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might run for president in 2024.” Our friend replied, “I prefer Governor Lee.” Later I’d learn that in April the governor had signed “Conceal Carry” into law.
After lunch we wandered into rural Humphreys County where we met another young veteran, Ben, who described a tattered American flag he saw on a pole outside a house. He said: “So I stopped my car and knocked on the door. I told the man to take it down, that I would dispose of it properly, and I’d better never see it disrespected again.”
Countless wild turkeys gobble their way through Humphreys, so many that rattlesnakes were released to curb their population. That Conceal Carry law might come in handy, I thought, but Ben said it’s against the law to shoot a snake.
Politically, Humphreys is red. A grocery clerk seated at a cash register lowered her head while gazing up at us, speaking low: “When Democrats come in here and want to talk politics, I listen, but I have to wonder,” and she tapped her head, “What’s going on up there?”
Back at Hurricane Mills, I considered that Loretta Lynn is a heroine of mine: I recalled something she’d said about a woman “cussin,” presumably in a green room of a TV show. Loretta didn’t like how Gloria Steinem was “carrying on.” I considered that with songs like “Woman Enough,” and “The Pill,” Loretta Lynn is more of a down-to-earth feminist. At 89 she has just released a new album, “Still Woman Enough.”
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Thinking more about the demise of professional media
Editor, the Forum:
The recent article lamenting the demise of professional media at the hands of social media begs further analysis.
Has social media replaced establishment newspapers, magazines, and cable TV, or has it become a substitute for a failed or no-longer-credible mainstream media?
In this country, with the exception of 1900-1990 or so, information has been sustained largely on gossip and sensationalized events of the day. It was, as you point out, the advent of electronic communication in the form of telegraph, radio, and television that created the audience and opportunity for larger scale commercial operations employing professional, credentialed journalists.
But the nexus between professional media and consumer credibility occurred when publications would use politics and advertiser sensitivities to effectively limit the reported news, leaving consumers to seek alternative sources. So,, it’s likely not the Internet or social media that killed major media – it was the loss of credibility and utility that came with no longer providing all the news fit to print.
— Joe Briggs, Suwanee
Dear Joe: I somewhat disagree. Newspapers, and even television, were credible before the Internet. Remember Cronkite, Brokaw, etc.? These stalwarts were dominant until about 2000, but by then the amateurs and people without credibility were starting to gain audiences, followed by Fox News and others who allowed non-objective reporting to enter….and since they have become more pervasive on social media, all going downhill.—eeb
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Norcross Gallery new spotlight show to begin July 9
Norcross Gallery and Studios, formerly known as Kudzu Art Zone, will be opening their second exhibit since the dismal 2020 limited all our schedules. Its new show runs from July 9 to August 28. It features a small group of diverse local artists.
There will be a reception for this show on July 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. Food and wine will be served, giving an opportunity to socialize and meet these artists.
Grace Arledge, vacationing in Vicksburg, Miss., by the Mississippi, took a shot with a view of both shores. Her digital photograph is titled River Man at Old Man River, Vicksburg, Miss.
Mikki Root Dillon, known for pastel paintings and photography, went with a group of plein air painters to an island off the Georgia Coast and enjoyed the rising sun, cows, boars and morning light shining through trees. Blue Heron Sunrise is her pastel painting from this happy experience.
Angelika Domshcke is a multi-talented artist who specializes in sculpture, mostly Bas-relief. “Wings” is the title of her latest Hydrocal and acrylic 18” tall sculpture and is part of her “Harmony Reflection” series. It was inspired by the beauty of natural symmetry and flow and ponders the wonder of wings born out of the rough.
Karen Donaldson, while walking in the gardens in the United Kingdom, came upon this waterfall of perfect design by the gardener. She wanted to capture that in her painting to reflect every day, which is evident in her painting, Warwick Castle Gardens.
Ruth Gogel says: “I love to explore and photograph old machines and discarded miscellaneous stuff in dusty, ancient mills and factories. I frequently roamed around Atlanta’s westside, where decadent machinery creates bizarre images like Pump It Up. We still use the basic tools—wheels, pulleys and belts, but computers have revolutionized our lives and forced us to become thumb crazy.”
A longtime member of Norcross Gallery and Studios, Betty Loud is known for her descriptive landscapes that make viewers wish they were there. Her painting, Creekside Glow, came from “…a trip to Pennsylvania, where I was enamored with the beautiful colors and lovely glow along this creek.
Somewhere Out West #2 is a watercolor and acrylic by Sharon Nichol, who lived in Arizona 55 years before moving to Georgia. Says the artist: “I design landscapes mostly out of my imagination until I need to add an animal or a specific flower.”
Darrell Ortiz says: “What inspired me was the canvas, I totally do not know what I am painting until the canvas talks to me. Most of my paintings are straight out of my imagination.” Savannah Shore is his painting.
Norcross Gallery and Studio is open Fridays from noon until 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The phone number is 770-840-9844 and website is norcrossgalleryandstudios.org.
Andersonville site to mark 157th anniversary of hanging of 6
Andersonville National Historic Site will mark the 157th anniversary of the hanging of six “raiders” by their fellow prisoners on Sunday July 11, 2021 at 10 a.m. The site will be hosting author Gary Morgan, who will be leading a Raiders-themed tour of the grounds with a book signing to follow. Morgan will share insights gained while researching the book, Andersonville Raiders, Yankee vs Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp, which was published in 2020 by Stackpole Books.
The park is approximately 12 miles north of Americus and 11 miles south of Montezuma on Georgia Highway 49. No public transportation systems serve the park.
By relying solely on prisoners’ diaries, memoirs written within five years of the prison’s closing, government records, and the recently discovered transcript of the Raiders’ trial, Morgan will sort out the facts from the myths surrounding this unprecedented event in U.S. History.
Who were the six men hanged and how did they come to this ending? What crimes were they guilty of? What role did the Confederate prison authorities play in the arrests, trial, and execution? These areas of interest will be addressed by way of the tour.
Comfortable footwear is recommended, as heavy walking is expected. Because of the sometimes violent nature of the events that will be discussed, this program may not be suitable for young children. The tour is free of admission and all parties interested in Civil War history are invited to attend.
Jackson EMC Foundation announces new round of grants
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total $119,500 in grants during its June meeting, including $72,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County.
$20,000 to Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, serving students and young adults with neuromuscular and developmental disabilities from Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson counties, to renovate a building for its Young Adults Learning Life Skills (YALL) adult day program.
- $17,000 to Eagle Ranch, a 310-acre Flowery Branch campus serving Northeast Georgia boys and girls in crisis, to help provide therapeutic counseling sessions for both children and families.
- $15,000 to Boy With a Ball, to provide curriculum materials for the Velocity Cross Age Mentoring program that pairs high school mentors in Gwinnett County with middle school students.
- $15,000 to J.M. Tull Gwinnett Family YMCA, in Lawrenceville, for its Afterschool Enrichment Program for at-risk youth from low-income families, to improve academic achievement and empower healthy living.
- $5,000 to Heirborn Servants, Inc., serving Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and Madison counties, to provide assistance with its Give Rides program, which partners with community groups, transitional housing organizations and rideshare companies to ensure survivors of human trafficking or domestic violence can get to therapy and employment.
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Jaclyn White
Jaclyn Weldon White, age 73, of Hoschton, died June 19, 2021. Jackie was born in Chattanooga, Tenn.; she was the daughter of John (Jack) and Evelyn Weldon. Jackie became a mother in 1974 to her daughter Caroline. In 1984 she married Carl Dean White Sr. and inherited three more children, Shannon, Dean and Kim. Jackie had seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
White
Jackie was born, raised and lived all her life in the South. She was a police officer for six years and worked as a patrolman and detective. She left police work to take a position as administrator for the Gwinnett County Juvenile Court, a position she held for sixteen years.
Once retired, she was able to focus her time on her true passion, writing. Jackie was the author of 11 books and numerous articles which appeared in local and regional magazines. Outside of Jackie’s love for her family, she loved music. Jackie spent time writing songs, singing and playing guitar.
She was an avid herb gardener and designed and crafted her own line of kiln-fired silver jewelry. She also enjoyed genealogical research. Jackie was known for treasure hunts that she created for her grandchildren.
Jackie was preceded in death by her husband, former Gwinnett County Police Chief Carl White; daughter Caroline; father, Jack, mother, Evelyn, brother, John, and grandmother, Janie. Jackie is survived by her children, Shannon McDonald (Ray), Carl Dean White Jr. (Jennifer), Kimberly Ammons; grandchildren Ashley Lindsey (Reza), Tyler Cone, Daniel White, Justin Ammons, Devyn Cone, Madison McDonald and Dylan Ammons; great-granddaughter Nova Lindsey.
The family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Pam, Tena and Visiting Angels for their love and support and for helping to care for Jackie over the last years of her life.
Jackie was a generous person and gave to many local charities and organizations; for this reason, the family asks in lieu of flowers that friends and relatives donate to the Northeast Georgia Humane Society, 845 Ridge Road Gainesville Ga., 30501 in her memory. No Oxford commas were used to write this tribute! A celebration of life for Jackie will be announced later. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Duluth Chapel, was in charge of arrangements.
Mockingbird in the Moonlight by Jaclyn Weldon White
It was weird. One day I read about the death of Author Jackie White, and a few days later I stumbled across in my library one of her books, which I had never read. And with the book set in Macon, where I grew up, I had to read it. Jackie wrote 11 books, and they all read well, telling a simple but overlaid story, and in the case of mysteries, giving you enough false clues to make reading even more worthwhile. I could picture in my mind many of the locations she used in this book, since many were in my growing-up neighborhood. The setting is vivid, the work of the police resonate, since Jackie was a former policewoman, and the story moves quickly taking place during Macon’s Cherry Blossom celebration. And it reads fast, with me finishing it in two days. So pleased I ran across it! —eeb
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Gambling once ongoing at baseball’s Ponce de Leon Park
Ponce de Leon Ballpark in Atlanta was one of the nation’s finest minor league baseball facilities in the early to mid-20th century. The original ballpark was built on property northeast of downtown owned by the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, directly across Ponce de Leon Avenue from an amusement park. A lake on the site was drained, filled in, and converted into a $60,000 ballpark made of wood. More than 8,000 fans welcomed the minor league Atlanta Crackers to their new home on May 23, 1907.
In 1923 the wooden ballpark burned down, and the Crackers finished out the season at Grant Field. Then a wealthy concessionaire named Rell Jackson Spiller spent $250,000 to build a concrete-and-steel baseball park. When R. J. Spiller Field made its debut in time for the 1924 season, the Atlanta paper City Builder called it “the most magnificent park in the minor leagues.”
The new facility drew lavish praise from baseball officials across the country. Chairs were fastened into the stadium’s new concrete skeleton, furnishing seats that were far more comfortable than the wooden benches fans used to occupy. The grandstand’s entire capacity was 9,800. The bleachers for the white fans, located in right field, accommodated 2,500, and the seats in left field, for African Americans, held the same number. With standing room for more than 6,000, the stadium could hold 20,000 fans.
The fence was 365 feet down the left field line, 321 to right, and 462 to dead center, where a giant magnolia stood. Spiller Field had the only ground rules in baseball history allowing for a tree in the outfield. (One year, during a preseason barnstorming tour, Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees came into town. Ruth and his fellow Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews are the only two men ever to have hit home-run balls into the magnolia.)
When the park opened, there was a swimming pool next door where fans could go if the game got a little slow. Train tracks ran above the first-base line, and engineers frequently stopped their trains to watch the games. Across the street were horse stables, as well as a Spiller-owned restaurant, where alligator wrestling was an attraction.
Fans could also entertain themselves by gambling, which Georgia law allowed when it wasn’t conducted under a roof. The covered grandstands became home to the true Cracker faithful, and the outfield bleachers were host to the “fly-ball fans,” who sat with the local oddsmakers. People would bet on anything, including on whether an outfielder would drop a routine fly ball. Buster Cheatham, a shortstop for the Crackers in the 1920s, probably saved bookies more money than any minor leaguer in history with his spectacular outfield catches. Once a group of bookies gave him a pot of about $200 in appreciation. Cheatham, afraid that people would think he had been corrupted, gave it back.
Soon Cracker officials began prohibiting gambling during games, so bookies and their customers devised another language: finger signals. While the police roamed the stands looking for perpetrators, the bookies were paying or collecting from their customers. According to one story, a well-dressed businessman sitting in the outfield bleachers was holding up a couple of fingers, trying to make change with a vendor, when the police threw him out under suspicion of gambling.
The Crackers called Ponce de Leon Ballpark home until their final season in 1965, when they moved into the newly built Atlanta Stadium (later Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium ). The old ballpark was torn down in 1966, and the site has been home to numerous retail operations since then. The magnolia tree, however, still stands.
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Elegant Asian-themed building is today’s Mystery Photo
This Mystery Photo for today is of an elegant Asian-styled building, replete with beautiful colors. Your job, if you care to accept it, is to identify where and why this building was erected. Send your answers to Elliott@brack.net, including your hometown. And if you’ve got a clever Mystery Photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us all!)
Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex., did a superb job of identifying and labeling the last Mystery Photo. (See labeled photo.) Shooting this unusually-framed photograph was Stewart A. Woodard of Lawrenceville.
Peel writes: “Today’s mystery photo is of an exhibit called Squadron, and is the central theme of the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, one of five buildings that make up the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, La. This exhibit can be viewed from four different levels in the building, and the mystery photo shows five different airplanes from the WWII era as seen from the main floor of the exhibit hall. While only five are shown in the mystery photo, there are actually six different planes hanging from the ceiling. Also located in this exhibit space, but not shown in the mystery photo, is the SBD-3 Dauntless which flew in the Battle of Guadalcanal, plus the fuselage of a B-2D Liberator on the ground.”
David Will of Lilburn added that “….the P-51 Mustang by its colors, especially the Red Tail, we know it was one used by the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen flew cover for the B-17 bombers.”
Others identifying this photo included Mike Tennant, Duluth; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va. Several readers incorrectly identified the site as either the Smithsonian Institute or the Pensacola Air Museum.
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