The Third Year - 2000:

Officers:

Elected:

President: Irene Jackson
Vice-President: Kathy Brock
Secretary: Becky Collins
Treasurer: Steve Burdette

Appointed:

Required

Librarian: Vacant
Parliamentarian: Rhett Williamson
Historian: Marcia Atkins

Optional (and may not always exist)

Corresponding Secretary: Mary Walker
Publicity: Gwen Thigpen
Chaplain: Willard Tumlin
Newsletter Editor: Marcia Atkins
Web Master: Larry Noles
Ways and Means: Barbara Edwards
Membership: May Noles

January:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Creating Family History Scrapbooks by Mary Kay Barrett.
We begin the new millennium with $916.93 in the bank.
Society agrees to take up the expenses associated with publishing the Society newsletter, in order to relieve Marcia Atkins of this burden.  Thus far, she has been shouldering the expenses out of her own pocket.  She deserves our gratitude for contributing so heavily during our formative months, while we concentrated on other things.  Thank you, Marcia!
18^th - Larry Noles great uncle passes away.

February:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: How and Where a Beginner can Begin the Search by John Fuller.

March:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Birthday Gifts for the Society by the members.
Society celebrates 2 years of existence, with this birthday party.
17^th - Verna Williams daughter undergoes open heart surgery.

April:

Newsletter: On file.
Conflicting Program Data:

1 (from index) - Douglasville and its Families in the Early 1900s by Sarah M^cKoy.
2 (from newsletter) - Experiences as the First Woman Elected to Public Office in Douglas County by Sarah Greenwood.

Wally Smith's daughter passes away.
May Noles retires after 23 years.
Verna Williams daughter is reportedly recovering well from open heart surgery.

May:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Internet Sources for Genealogical Research by Myron House, Head of Special Collections, West Georgia College Library.
Joan Attwood (out of area member) is profiled in the Society newsletter.
2^nd - Dennis Waldron undergoes back surgery.

June:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: My Research Experiences by Roger Smith.
Patty Fosse (out of area member) is profiled in the Society newsletter.
Larry and May Noles move to Covington (job related) and will no longer be able to attend regularly.  He will continue to maintain the web site.
Verna Williams daughter is released from the hospital.
Bob James son, Brent, graduates from Auburn University.
Dale Dodsons daughter is married.

July:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Ancestors Photo Show and Tell by the members.
Permanent member name tags are created (some of us still have them, but seldom wear them).
Projects are established to compile a cookbook (for fund raising) and to collect histories of Douglas County families.
Wendell Guyer (out of area member) undergoes triple bypass heart surgery.
Gwen Thigpen and Dale Dodsons mother has surgery.
13^th - Gwen and Dales aunt passes away.
22^nd - Board of Directors contemplates creating a Douglas County Heritage Book.

August:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Revolutionary War Re-enactment by Rhett Williamson.  An active participant in the Sons of the American Revolution, Rhett was in full regalia as Lieutenant Fitzpatrick of the Georgia Militia.
Wendell Guyer is recovering from heart surgery but faces more surgery on his legs.
Gwen and Dales mother has made a great recovery.
29^th - Marcia Atkins welcomes granddaughter Mary Katherine Grigsby.

September:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: How I broke through My Brick Wall by Linda Waldron.
24^th - Clara Daniell Williams passes away.

October:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: The Special Collections Room by Charlotte Hurt, Head Librarian of the Douglas County Library.
The Society Library merges with the Douglas County Library, in the Special Collections Room.
Meeting place changes to the Douglas County Library on Selman Drive.

November:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program.
Election of Officers for 2001.

December:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Was intended to be Christmas Dinner gathering at Marcia Atkins home, but the event was canceled due to weather (rain, snow and sleet were all predicted).
Board Meeting schedule (first Saturday of even numbered months) is announced in Society newsletter.