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| This photo of Clementine with the next mayor of Vista, CA (her Aunt Sarah) at the Strawberry Festival shows off her little strawberry footsies. Barbara Carlin McKinney Thanks Grandshaw. I like getting these pictures of family via Georgia |
The lowlife who stains the seat of Washington, Lincoln et al in 2018 is a towering jerk. On this most solemn of national celebrations, he uses our heroic dead to celebrate himself, Gen. Bonespurs. #PutinAsset’s Memorial Day tweet is all about himself and lies at that. Please, Mr. Mueller, give us such smoking guns that even Ryan & McConnell will spearhead the impeachment of this tub of warm spit.
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Dan Bolton
I feel your pain. Listening to that speech killed me.
Terrell Shaw
I only read his tweet. I would not expend thevenergy of tapping the remote control to hear his obnoxious fascistic words. How anyone can love America and still support this traiterous canker is beyond my ability to understand.
Dan Bolton
I read the tweet as well. You know dad spent 26 years in the Army and calls him the biggest disgrace he's ever seen.
George Barton
just watching this draft dodger hang a wreath at the tombs of the unknown soldiers just made me want to puke, I changed the channel.
Christy Davis
"Tub of warm spit" just about covers it. Ew.
Terrell Shaw
Some day I’ll tell you how I really feel about this guy!
David Matheny
VP John Nance Garner, under FDR, coined that phrase....
Terrell Shaw
David Matheny that’s right. He said the vice presidency wasn’t worth a bucket of that substance.
Howard Smith
Our nation continues its downward spiral under a lying president who continues to mislead so many Americans.
Jim Curry
I’ve decided he does this kind of stuff, as sad as it is, just to irritate his opponents, which I realize gives him far more intellectual capacity than is logically imaginable. His die-hard followers just laugh and give him a thumbs-up. Sad state of affairs.
Howard Smith
I think it is far more likely he does it because he has spent his life as a con artist, a genius at “branding“, who knows he is good at selling his lies to far too many gullible Americans. Whether he is underminig the Russian investigstion by calling it a “witch hunt” or “spygate”,calling an opponent “little Marco”, “lying Ted“ or “crooked Hillary“, our free press “fake news”, or simply licensing his name, Trump, as the gold standard of excellence, he is a gifted marketer of infomercials that unfortunately lure many “buyers” .
As the end of the school year in 2010 approached I decided to make my own class picture. We sat on the world's most substantial outdoor classroom benches and someone (was it Donna Brown maybe?) took the picture from the platform there. Sarah Echols was my outstanding student=teacher from Berry Collge that year. Later she was my co-worker at Arrowhead Environmental Education Center for over two years. Allien McNair was an "inclusion" teacher in my classroom, always looking for ways to make the learning experience better for these beloved young'n's.
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| Another beloved colleague. I taught Andrea N David Moore's son and her old man David, well, I'll save the story for another day, but he will always be a bit of a hero to me! Andrea N David Moore: I told that STORY at Nature’s Classroom this year !!! |
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| Wendy Ramsey has joined me in retirement. She was a dedicated and effective teacher and colleague. |
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| Duane Conley has continued to work for our kids at AES to this day, and has coached the AES Young Naruralist team to a championship in 2017 and runner-up in 2018. |
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It is graduation time again. Here are my Stars of 2010, many of whom will graduate tomorrow night. Sarah Echols was an outstanding student teacher. Creative and disciplined. Firm but caring. I wonder how many AES Spelling Bees I have called. Maybe 18, though I am not absolutely sure I called it that first year. It is graduation time again. Here are my Stars of 2010, many of whom will graduate tomorrow night. There are also many beloved kids who were in other homerooms that year, so here are their class pages from our Armuchee Elementary yearbook. I also made some quick screen captures of current pics several kids from yesterday’s RNT.   I learned much from many of my colleagues in the 44 years between 1969-2013, but few if any influenced my teaching as much as Ruth Pinson. Although I used the environment as a vital context for teaching from that first year, I had to meet Ruth and get involved in the EIC program to give research-based backing to that approach. What a lot I would have missed without her example. AND even in retirement, this year she helped coach the Johnson Elementary Young Naturalists who were tough competitors in our quiz bowl   I not only taught James, I taught his older brother Charles! James and Charles toot at me from their vehicles still, and occasionally stop out front of the house for a brief howdy. And his Dad, Charles Hehn is a pretty good guy too.  Christopher Dean is another great kid who has stayed in contact. He and his father (George Dean) and mother (Robin Dean) sometimes join us for storytelling activities, and Christopher even told one of his own stories to our group at a Christmas storytelling event at our house a couple of years ago.  J.C was so full of life as a fourth-grader. Now look at that goatee!   Best of luck to this great kid who transferred to Rome High and graduated last week.      What a sweetheart! I an looking forward to seeing Savannah tomorrow night to discover her plans.             Sheila and I had a great time visiting Cathy Nichols’ surprise retirement party on Broad Street this afternoon. Cathy looks happy and ready for the next chapter. There was Scott Gilstrap, another old UTS grad with Sheila and step-dad to one of my fourth-grade Armuchee Stars, Sierra, who is now, gulp, a teacher herself - up at Trion! Time flies. Scott’s dad, Randy, is an old friend as well. I wonder how many of my students have become teachers themselves? There are a good many of ‘em. Warms my heart. I’ll bet Sierra is a good’n’. |
My first memory of James was as my Daddy's fellow preacher and friend. Once when I was in high school I somehow managed to get trapped into a road trip with Daddy, James, Al Bruce, and Y.A. Bailey to Asbury College in Kentucky. The five of us were roommates for one night in a hotel in Somerset, Kentucky. I got very little sleep. Such a cacophony of foghorn snores I have never before or since experienced.
Later James served as pastor of Winter's Chapel United Methodist Church in Sandy Springs where my sister Carol and her family attended.
Sheila and I came to Rome to live eight days after our marriage in 1971 and (re)joined Trinity UMC. When we moved way down in the country at Chubbtown in southern Floyd County we got used to sleeping in on Sundays and did not attend church regularly. We moved back to town in 1976 but our Sunday morning habits had become ingrained and we didn't make it back to church. Then James was appointed pastor at Trinity UMC. James was the most dedicated "visitor" of any pastor I've known. And soon after he came to Rome there he was at our front door on Cedar Avenue and we had a nice visit. When we made it back to Trinity it happened to be a Sunday when the choir director Greg (?) took time to issue an invitation to the congregation for new choir members. We showed up in Mobley Hall the next Wednesday night and Trinity's choir became a beloved part of our lives and James our beloved pastor and his outspoken wife Betty was a much beloved fellow choir member.
When our daughter Brannon Ruth Shaw was born in 1983 James was one of our first victors at the hospital. We brought her to church the very next Sunday along with a bag of Baby Ruth candy bars to pass out as treats to commemorate the birth of our "Baby Ruth". James asked to have enough of the candy bars to give the kids during his "children's sermon". Doggone if James didn't tell the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth! Granted at 34 and 36 we were older first time parents, but really!
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| From Mother's 1984 Christmas letter |
My Daddy came up to officiate at Brannon's baptism but, of course, James was a part of that service as well.
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| In 1984 I was president of the Floyd County Democratic Association. I appreciated James agreeing to lead the invocation for the Jefferson-Jackson dinner at the Roman Inn that year. |
James stayed at Trinity for six years. That was a long pastorate by UMC historical standards at that point. He broke the previous record (my Daddy's) at Trinity of five and a half years. That record would stand until David Campbell's ten-year pastorate.
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| One of the two plaques at Trinity UMC that records the pastors who served the church from 1875 to present. [2024 note: Trinity UMC was disbanded in 2023.] |
James was proud to drive a twenty-tear-old car which he kept in immaculate condition.
By 1986 James had moved on to College Park UMC. When my Daddy died on December 3, James helped facilitate the funeral at that church and joined with my brother-in-law Jim Turrentine and the District Superintendent Marion Pierson, and George King in officiating the service.
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| James' memoir. |
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| James' note to Mother in her copy of his memoir. |
I greatly admired James Sanders and I will miss him.
Here is James' online obituary from the funeral home:
The Rev. James L. Sanders died May 21, 2018. He was born August 22, 1928 in LaGrange, GA to the late Walter E. and Millie Knowles Sanders. He was preceded in death by this first wife, Betty Alice Curry Sanders to whom he was married for fifty-five years. He is survived by his present wife, Janice Clotfelter Sanders and four children: Lamar and wife Melissa Sanders, William (Bill) Sanders, Alice Bell, Laura Bishop and husband Joe Collette, eight grandchildren: Katy Southern, Jonathan Sanders, George Sanders, Chris West, Bill Bishop, Stephanie Benham. Jeff Bell, and Jennifer Sudderth, and thirteen great grandchildren: Abigail and Sawyer Benham, Parker and Addison Bishop, James Henry, Eli and Matthew Southern, Drew and Leia Sanders, Hannah and Jacob West, Jenna Burleson, and Maranda Bell. Also surviving are three stepsons and their wives: David and Susan Clotfelter, Jeff and Brenda Clotfelter, Mike and Lisa Clotfelter, eleven step-grandchildren, thirteen step-great grandchildren, and brother and sister in law Byron and Patricia Scott.
James attended Piedmont College and was the first male to graduate from Shorter College. Later he received a Masters of Divinity (cum laude) from The Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
He served for 48 years under appointment of The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, serving churches in Dillard, Cleveland, Mizpah and Rush Chapel in Rome, Zebulon and Fincher, Fair Oaks in Marietta, University Heights in Decatur, Winters Chapel in Doraville, Trinity in Rome, College Park First Methodist, Tuckston in Athens and Covington First Methodist. After retiring in 1995 he served as interim at Leland Methodist Church in Mableton and was on the staff at Grace United Methodist Church in Atlanta for 10 years as Minister of Pastoral Care. His greatest love in the pastorate was visitation. He made well over 50,000 pastoral calls during his active pastorate and made some 6,500 during his time at Grace. He conducted over 150 funerals since retirement.
Services will be held Friday, May 25, 2018 at 11:00 am at The Tucker First United Methodist Church with burial at Winters Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Doraville. Visitation will be held Thursday, May 24, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at AS Turner Funeral Home in Decatur.
In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to University Heights United Methodist Church, 1267 Balsam Dr. Decatur, GA 30033.
Ministers and spouses of The North Georgia Conference are invited to form an Honorary Escort.
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| Clementine Georgia Carlin and John Dieter Carlin |
After storytelling near Rockmart I decided to drop by the Bethlehem Baptist Church cemetery in the Fish Creek community between Rockmart and Cedartown. Many of my relatives are buried there.
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| When my grandmother, Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson Shaw, was only four years old her little brother Charles died at only three months. This little stone is at the Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery at Fish Creek in Polk County. |
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| When my grandmother, Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson Shaw, was only nine years old her mother Eula Amanda Childers Wilkerson died at only 29. This stone is at the Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery at Fish Creek in Polk County. |
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| Looking up the hill over the graves of Eula and Charles Wilkerson toward the crest of the hill and the resting place of Sarah Brewer Childers (my great-great grandmother) and her father Joel Brewer (My great-great-great grandfather. Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery, Fish Creek, Polk County, Georgia. |
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| Sarah Chlders died just a few weeks before her grandchild Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson Shaw was born. She was buried beside her father Joel Brewer. It is said that Joel’s three wives — He was married to only one at a time, I hasten to add! — are buried next to him, but there are no markers. His first wife, Nancy Peek Brewer, was Sarah’s mother. Joel was the first Ordinary (now called Probate Judge) of Polk County. He donated land to Bethlehem Baptist Church for this cemetery. |
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| The elevated view from Joel and Sarah’s graves must be nice looking east at sunrise, and it’s soothing to hear the whinnying of horses in the neighboring pasture. |
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| Clementine at four weeks! No hint of her difficult premiere… look at those bright eyes and confident gaze. The outfit is a gift from our neighbors the Carters (Barbara, Kimbee, Megan, & Jason)
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Nelda Myers Hartline What a beauty! |
Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
She is so cute, let me know when they visit so I can cuddle that sweetie!
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