Governor's Awards

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Past Recipients

Individuals: Carrie Moore Adamson, Augusta; Emma Adler, Savannah; Delores Aldridge, Atlanta; Walter Allen, Athens; Anne Dismukes Amerson, Dahlonega; Nancy Anderson, Macon; Cornelia Walker Bailey, Sapelo Island; Sophia Bamford, Tignall; Marcellus Barksdale, Atlanta; Craig Barrow, III, Savannah; Numan Bartley, Athens; Charles Donald Beall, Columbus; Malcolm Bell, Jr., Savannah; Janice Biggers, Columbus; Alfonso Biggs, Columbus; Joyce Blackburn, St. Simons Island; Adrienne Bond, Macon; John Robert Brewer, Ailey; Jean Bridges, Swainsboro; Frank Brown, Columbus; Annette Brock, Savannah; Hugh Brown, Savannah; Beth S. Burney, Atlanta; John Burrison, Atlanta; Gordon Carper, Rome; Virginia Spencer Carr, Atlanta; Dan Carter, Atlanta; Rosalynn Carter, Plains; Edward Cashin, Augusta; Cullen Chambers, Tybee Island; Raymond Chambers, Bainbridge; Gwendolyn Cheatham, College Park; Mozelle Clemmons, Savannah; James Edgar Coleman, Fort Gaines; Kenneth Coleman, Athens; Jacque Coxe, Roswell; Dr. Betty Jean Craige, Athens; Timothy Crimmins, Atlanta; Lennet Daigle, Dahlonega; Yvonne deWright, Atlanta; Helen Parker Dougherty, Atlanta; Sarah O. Dunaway, Atlanta; Robert Durand, Macon; Thomas Dyer, Athens; Charles Elmore, Savannah; Glenn T. Eskew, Madison; Frances Evans, Young Harris; Maurice and the late Anne Farabee, Blairsville; Jane Feiler, Savannah; Gary Fink, Atlanta; James Flannery, Atlanta; Edith Foster, Carrollton; Charlotte Hawkins Frazier, Columbus; Fred Fussell, Columbus; Billie Davis Gaines, Atlanta; Peggy Galis, Athens; Charles H. Geiger, Jasper; Hugh Stiles Golson, Savannah; Sarah Gordon, Milledgeville; Anna Harvin Grant, Atlanta; Louis T. Griffith, Athens; James Gustafson, Atlanta; Jack Hadley, Thomasville; O. Ben Harris, Atlanta; Dr. Jonathan Hershey, Rome; Kay Hightower, Thomaston; James L. Hill, Albany; Cathy Milner Hodge, Athens; Alton Hornsby, Atlanta; Charles Hudson, Jr., Athens; Joan Huffman, Macon; John C. Inscoe, Athens; Joseph Jacobs, Atlanta; Edwin Jackson, Athens; Joy Jinks, Colquitt; Mary Alice Jordan, Sandersville; Thornton Jordan, Columbus; John Kay, Young Harris; Cary Knapp, Brunswick; John Knapp, Atlanta; Clara Krug, Statesboro; Clason Kyle, Columbus; Mills B. Lane, IV, Savannah; Richard LaFleur, Athens; Lewis Larson, Carrollton; W.W. Law, Savannah; Ann Lewis, Atlanta; Stanley Lindberg, Athens; Worth Long, Atlanta; John Lupold, Columbus; Elizabeth Lyon, Atlanta; Kemp Mabry, Statesboro; Joseph Mahan, Columbus; Andrew Manis, Macon; Patricia Marks, Valdosta; James P. Marshall, Jr., Eatonton; Herman "Skip" Mason, Ellenwood; Linda Matthews, Atlanta; Louise McBee, Athens; Ann E. McCleary, Carrollton; Arthur J. McClung, Columbus; Dorothy McClure, Columbus; Thomas L. McHaney, Decatur; Robert McMath, Atlanta; Luetta Milledge, Savannah; Daniel Moore, Atlanta; Howard Morrison, Jr., Savannah; Chris Moser, Atlanta; Gary Moss, Atlanta; Judy Nail, Columbus; Leon Lawson Neel, Thomasville; Dorothy Olson, Atlanta; Gregory B. Paxton, Atlanta; Virginia T. Peebles, Columbus; Margaret Pepperdene, Decatur; Adelaide Ponder, Madison; Robert S. Poydasheff, Columbus; Delma Presley, Statesboro; Eugenia Price, St. Simons Island; Giriraj Rao, Alpharetta; Juan Ramirez, Atlanta; Veula Rhodes, Albany; Sarah Robbins, Kennesaw; Vivian Robinson, Augusta; Janice White Sikes Rogers, Atlanta; Arthur Rosenbaum, Athens; Jacqueline Rouse, Atlanta; Hugh Ruppersburg, Athens; Frank Saunders, Statesboro; Frank Schnell, Columbus; Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott, Jr., Warner Robbins; Thomas A. Scott, Kennesaw; Bettie Sellers, Young Harris; Mark Silverman, Atlanta; Scott Smith, Savannah; Betty Sanders Snyder, Milledgeville; B. Phinizy Spalding, Athens; John Stone, Atlanta; Buddy Sullivan, Richmond Hill; Ron Swofford, Rex; Carmen Chaves Tesser, Athens; Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., Decatur; Eloise Bailey Thompson, St. Mary's; Susan Wehling, Valdosta; Eugene Walker, Atlanta; John C. Waters, Athens; Edward Weldon, Atlanta; Eleanor Torrey West, Ossabaw Island; Susie W. Wheeler, Cassville/Cartersville; Lisa White, Savannah; Phillip Lee Williams, Watkinsville; William "Billy" Winn, Columbus; Sandra Worsham, Milledgeville
Organizations: Athens Regional Library; Atlanta History Center; Auburn Avenue Research Library; Augusta Museum of History; The Chattahoochee Review; Coastal Georgia Historical Society; Dekalb County Public Library, Decatur; Fort Frederica Association; The Georgia Historical Quarterly; Georgia Historical Society; Georgia Junior Classical League; Georgia Power Company; The Georgia Review; Georgia Sea Island Singers; Heritage Education Program, Georgia Trust; High Museum of Art; Historic Augusta; Historic Chattahoochee Commission; Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, Atlanta; Massie Heritage Interpretation Center; Morris Museum of Art; Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins; National Humanities Faculty; "The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations at the Leading Edge"; The Plains Historical Preservation Trust; Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting; The Ritz Cultural Center of Albany; R.J. Taylor Foundation; The Three Rivers Regional Library; Troup County Historical Society; Westville Historic Handicrafts; William Breman Jewish Museum and Heritage Center, Atlanta; Writers Workshop Conference, Clark Atlanta University

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