Military Officer Organization Gathers at “Susan’s Summer Social”
The Atlanta Area Chapter of The Military Order of the World Wars attended the first face-to-face gathering since the pandemic on Saturday, July 17, 2021. MOWW is one of the oldest military officer organizations in the US, which began in 1919 as a vision of “The General of the Armies,” General John J. Pershing.
The 2021 gathering was a picnic entitled “Susan’s Summer Social” in remembrance of companion Susan Newman, who was the Chapter Treasurer. There were 42 attendees at the event, including MOWW companions and Susan Newman’s friends and co-workers from Molnlycke, a Peachtree Corners medical supply store.
The social was held at the home and garden of Ms. Dorothy Newman, a longtime resident of Peachtree Corners, who is the Protocol Officer for the Chapter. Companions traveled from as far as Augusta, Sharpsburg, Newnan, Flowery Branch, Woodstock, Mableton and Hoschton, Ga. to attend. Many awards were presented during the ceremony.
>>> Some OTHER photos I have of Dottie Newman:
And HERE Col. Dottie Newman is -- with Tennessee Williams's DEAR FRIEND Jane (Brotherton) Smith's DAUGHTER Kiki on the SAME PAGE!!!
Meeting Jane Smith:
https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-5-old-friends.html
In Memoriam: Revered author, UNCW professor Philip Gerard to be celebrated this month
Jill Gerard December 3, 2022
WILMINGTON — It was a long and winding road that brought Philip Gerard to Wilmington, North Carolina. But a road well worth traveling.
Though his journey came to an end Nov. 7, the well-regarded writer and UNCW professor, husband, and father will be celebrated in a public event hosted at Cameron Art Museum on Dec. 10.
On a path that began in Wilmington, Delaware, Philip traversed the country several times over, with a long stay in Arizona, where he received his master of fine arts in creative writing and inspired his devotion to teaching. He traveled and wrote from Illinois to Vermont, the latter of which included time at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers Conference, where he served as a “waiter,” one of the most coveted scholarships granted there, and later returned as faculty.
Philip’s first writing job was for the local paper in Newark, Delaware, where his boss told him to “get a story.” He jumped out of planes with the Marines. He performed as a clown with the Clyde Beatty Brothers Circus.
“That was the first time I got to be the person who goes back stage,” he said. “I got to see behind the scenes and that set me on my path to be a writer.”
In the late Eighties, when the road led him to the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Philip knew he was home.
It was here where inspiration to write “Cape Fear Rising” — a book that changed the course of his career — was born.
It was here Philip would help mold a university’s creative writing program waiting to burst forth with a group of colleagues ready to build something greater than themselves.
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2021/06/at-bidenputin-meeting-scott-kenan-will.html
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