Bobby Parham HS '59

Bobby Parham, a Pharmacist, operated Medical Arts Pharmacy in Milledgeville for forty years. He also served in the Georgia House of Representatives for forty years. He is a great supporter and advocate for GMC. Parham Hall (pictured above) which houses the business office was named for him.

Our Alumni House

This is our GMC Alumni House located on South Jefferson St. one block from the South Gates

The National Anthem

Click on the Title above for The National Anthem by the U.S. Marine Corps Band

Preserving the Past

Do you remember your High School sweetheart or Jessie you took to the movies at the Campus Theater on Sunday afternoons?

The Theater has been purchased by Georgia College & State University and they are spending millions to preserve our old theater. On the inside will be a bookstore, a coffee shop, and a "Black Box Theater."

Dean Robbins Sends a Message

Just a brief note to thank you for creating the web blog for the reunion. I visit it every day just to see if anything new has been added. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all the postings. I will not be able to be at the reunion, as I too have duties for my wife, but the blog in some way at least allows me to enjoy the great memories I have of all of you. For that I thank you.

As the years go by my memories of my time at GMC, as I remember them, are some of the fondest of my life.
Please express my best wishes to all who attend the reunion , and my regrets for not being able to join in on this celebration of 50 great years and great classmates.
kindest regards,
Dean

THANKS TO DEAN ROBBINS FOR THIS PICTURE OF JODY & JOY CURRY, ALSO FOR THE CORRECT PHONE NUMBER. JODY'S CORRECTED INFO IS BELOW. JOY IS A CANCER SURVIVOR & CAN'T TRAVEL FAR FROM HOME. JODY WILL NOT MAKE THE REUNION, BUT SENDS HIS BEST TO ALL.

JODY CURRY
163 HILLSIDE DRIVE
APPLEGATE, CA 95703
PHONE: 530-878-7914
E-MAIL: pathways0974@sbcglobal.net

Some Memories from '54-'59 GMC High School

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Some Memories from '54'59 HS Years-Herb Meyer
(Obtain a more extensive list of these 'bullets' at the Reunion in October)

I entered GMC as an 8th grader in 1954. Graduated in 1959; served in Band Company under Major Godfrey Osterman; went to Emory University (BA-English); Middlebury College (MA-English); then taught and coached soccer and golf for 39 in public and private schools: Atlanta, Dallas, and Athens. Retired in 1959. Married and have two boys.

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THINGS WE ACCOMPLISHED AT GMC. See what you remember. See what you wanna forget. (no particular order to these)

Last class of 8th grade at "big GMC." Holding a rock to tell right from left. Rifle not gun.

First group to bivouac at the GMC Lake property, and the first group to bivouac on the Carrington property across the river. Survived.

Witnessed and participated in the National Jr. College Football Championship; Coach Cordell's final game vs. Gordon Military. Creamed 'em at there place.

First class to initiate high school football, "Bull Pups". Lost once in 1958 season and entered GHSA in Class C in 1959. Coach Abbott; Coach Parnell Ruark; Coach Bill Barnes.

Memorized Maj. Schultz litany: "In regards to your black boots. . . !"

Endured chapel: "on'-on'-on'-one d-d-d-day at a time." (quote from a chapel talk joke)

Best Crack Squad in the state.

our Sunday parades in five years, wearing wool Eisenhower jackets. Excused from Sunday parades - cause: fainting; punishment for vaseline in boots or cardboard in boots.

SOME THINGS WE KNEW ABOUT.

White book tests in chemistry and physics; why K. Moody's nickname was "Salt."

The answer for That Stafford gave to Col. Muldrow's request to name two types of gas: Propane & poontang!

Keys to the flagpole; permit to wear White Underwear; Pivot shoes.

Latin derivatives.

Terror of the square needle.

FM 22-5

5th General Order: "Sound the alarm in case of fire or disorder." All other nine General Orders.

"X square times Y square is Z square, Y square, and 'that's all there are tew it.'"

PLACES WE WENT AND PLACE WE SHOULD NOT HAVE.

The Campus Theatre; Kidd's Druistore for cokes and fries; Grant's; Ray's Steakhouse; The Ham House; The Dairy Bar under the pecan trees in the dark in the backseat; Tilly Kidd's house; Diane McDade's home; Keith Massey's home; GSCW dormitories

The Log Cabin; The Ding Dong Club; Pool Rooms; Macintosh Street; water skiing on bivouac; speeding Hancock street; speeding on campus; dragging on the Oconee River bridge; dragging out near Stevens Mill on Sunday afternoon.

Briget Bardot movies; woods of Lake Sinclair; the Dam

Skiing all the time: naked, clothed,triple, backwards; two skis, one ski, slalom, tubing in the Oconee.

GMC Is Now on Facebook

This link will take you to GMC's Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milledgeville-GA/Georgia-Military-College/117383372482?ref=mf

1960’s GMC Cadet Anonymously Establishes $100,000 Endowment To Honor Former Commandant

From The Cadence Fall 2008

A former cadet has stepped forward to establish a scholarship endowment honoring the legacy of Colonel William McCord Kemp, who gave extraordinary service to Georgia Military College for thirty-five years. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, was a cadet at GMC under the leadership of Colonel Bill Kemp (at the time, Major Kemp) as Commandant of Cadets. The former cadet explained, “It was the contributions he made as Commandant for so many of us that I will never forget, and which have resulted in this honor of his memory. He was also a great, memorable teacher of mine, but as Commandant he was superb in many ways, having impacted the lives of so many individuals at a very critical time.” Colonel Kemp joined the GMC faculty in 1955-56, teaching history, political science, and world literature in the junior college and then becoming Commandant of Cadets in the fall of 1957. He served the institution well in many capacities until his retirement at the close of the academic year in 1990. In an article for a previous issue of The Cadence celebrating Colonel Kemp’s service at GMC and commemorating his passing in 1995, A. Alling Jones, HS ‘59, wrote, “Bill Kemp had a strong sense of right and wrong based on values he taught his students, as much by the way he lived and conducted himself as by any other method. He knew the mind of the adolescent male and seemed to be everywhere, all the time. He would anticipate the most secretly planned pranks and thwart any midnight forays which might arise among the corps of cadets. Underneath his
Olympian facade was a truly caring man concerned that his wards grow to become upright, responsible adults. We always respected his rule of order, looking up to him as a father figure in many instances. With the passage of time we have come to feel a deep affection for him and the wise ways, often underlined with subtle humor, by which he imparted the knowledge and code of conduct he always knew we would need later in life.”

The Colonel William M. Kemp Scholarship Endowment will provide a scholarship annually to a second-year junior college cadet who has demonstrated a high degree of motivation and integrity, and possesses the potential for future success if given some financial assistance. It is the intent of the donor that the scholarship honoring Colonel Kemp’s memory “…would always maintain the high standards that he set and demanded of his students, as demonstrated by the future achievements and successes of those receiving it.”

Those wishing to make donations to the Colonel William M. Kemp Scholarship Endowment should send their gifts, noting their intent, to the GMC Foundation, 201 E. Greene St., Milledgeville, GA 31061.

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