Beta Gamma is 50 !
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $279,900.00 Average income per year $ 42,693.00 Gas per gallon $ 3.54
• Popular Culture TV shows: Downton Abbey; Dancing with
the Stars Films: Life of Pi; Les Miserables; Lincoln
• Events Boston Marathon bombings, ricin-laced letters, the Texas
fertilizer plant explosion were headline news.
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• Riki Joiner, the daughter of Jamie and Donna Joiner and a senior at Upson-Lee High School, received the Margaret Johnson scholarship on May 2.
• Supporting early career educators is a key project for the chapter.
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $246,300.00 Average income per year $ 45,016.00 Gas per gallon $ 1.83
• Popular Culture TV shows: NCIS; Cold Case Films: Finding Nemo; Pirates of the Carribean: The
Curse of the Black Pearl
• Events U.S. Department of Homeland Security begins operations. Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas.
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• The 75th anniversary of DKG celebration in Psi State included recognitions of 27 Beta Gamma members.
• Mary Braddy battled cancer.
• Mary Long entertained the group with her story telling at the meeting in Pine Mountain.
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $113,200.00 Average income per year $ 31,230.00 Gas per gallon $ 1.16
• Popular Culture TV shows: The X Files; Friends Films: Mrs. Doubtfire; Jurassic Park
• Events First human embryo is cloned. First Beanie Babies are sold. Severe blizzard strikes eastern U.S. Islamic fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center.
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• Lydia Johnson talked about her study trip to England at the February meeting at Greenville UMC.
• The April meeting at Atwater Manna in Thomaston included a visit from Jean Barber, Psi State president.
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• Anne Threadgill represented Beta Gamma at the Psi State Convention in Atlanta in May.
• Lucy Adair, charter member, died May 24.
• Kristen Hoffman received a scholarship from Beta Gamma to study at Mercer University.
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $82,600.00 Average income per year $21,070.00 Gas per gallon $ 1.24
• Popular Culture TV shows: Golden Girls; Cheers Films: Tootsie; Yentl; Star Wars VI
• Events Internet is created. Motorola introduces first mobile phones. Microsoft Word is first released.
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• Rhonda Kay Hester of Manchester received the Beta Gamma Scholarship.
• Mary Braddy was in charge of the February meeting in Thomaston.
• Psi State Convention was held at Pineisle, Stouffer's Resort Hotel in Buford.
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• The Pilot Club of Manchester-Warm Springs held Civic Night in honor of Georgia's 250th birthday. Beta Gamma was represented by Myrtle Lawhon, Mae Russell, Elva Thompson and Anne Threadgill.
• Manchester members were hostesses for the October 8 meeting.
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $32,500.00 Average income per year $12,900.00 Gas per gallon $ 0.40
• Popular Culture TV shows: M*A*S*H; The Waltons Films: The Exorcist; Paper Moon; The Sting
• Events U.S. troops withdrawn from Vietnam. World Trade Center in NY is tallest building
in the world.
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• Miss Marjorie Montgomery of Beta Gamma was among those memorialized at the 1973 state meeting at the DeSoto Hilton in Savannah.
• "Culture in Changing Times – Youth and Drugs" was the topic for the program at the March 10 meeting in Greenville.
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• The April 28 meeting was held at Hamilton Hall Restaurant in Hamilton.
• At the Keefer Room of the Pine Mountain Regional Library in Manchester on December 1, new members were inducted – Melba Belcher, Hazel Clark, Barbara Corley, Willie Fish, Carolyn Kilby and Evelyn Sheets.
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• Cost of Living Average cost of a new house: $12,650.00 Average income per year $ 5,807.00 Gas per gallon $ 0.29
• Popular Culture TV shows: Andy Griffith Show; Mister Ed Films: Cleopatra; To Kill a Mockingbird
• Events President Kennedy was assassinated. Touch tone phones introduced; zip codes implemented.
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Beta Gamma Chapter is organized with 14 charter members.
Lucy AdairOphelia AlsobrookSara EstesPauline HallJosephine JarrellMargaret JohnsonMyrtle Lawhon
Mary MitchamGladys NewtonRegina PinkstonElva ThompsonBess UnderwoodFrances WilliamsPatricia Yeager
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• Miss Eva Gardner met with members of Beta Gamma for a program planning meeting.
• Ophelia Alsobrook was installed as the first chapter president, serving until 1966.
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• Other officers were Regina Pinkston, first vice-president; Bess Underwood, second vice-president; Elva Thompson, recording secretary; Myrtle Lawhon, corresponding secretary; Mary Mitcham, treasurer; and Josephine Jarrell, parliamentarian.
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• Patricia Yeager began the very first scrapbook.
• Gladys Newton was chairman of the first hostess committee. Serving with her were Josephine Jarrell and Frances Williams.
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Current members reflect on the lives of our charter members.
50 years of Beta GammaA rich heritage
A dynamic presentA promising future