Issue number

14 of "Fayette Portraits" has been issued with 26 Fayette countians

being featured.

The project

was created in 1986 with students in teacher Becky Lewis' class as a way

for students to learn about the county's history and its citizens.

"I get

80 to 90 applications each year," she said, "and I narrow it

down to the staff of 25, so these kids are really the best."

The students

interview various citizens or learn the history of various well-known

sites and put it all together in a publication.

Among those

honored this year were Richard Hand, son of Buddy and Willie Pank Hand,

all of Starr's Mill, and Martha Mitchell, daughter of Jimmie and Ruby

Smith Mitchell, of Senoia. Richard and Martha married in 1945. They are

the parents of 12 children, all reared in Fayette County.

They were interviewed

Joan Burkes

Neal was born in Phenix City, Ala. and reared in Athens, Georgia. She

graduated from the University of Georgia on a football scholarship and

if you read the article in "Family Portraits" you will learn

how that happened.

She retired

12 years ago as a teacher and librarian in the Fayette County school system.

Among the other

individuals honored were Bud Ballard, Joyce Bannister, Ruby Betsill, Huie

Bray, Jim Burch, John Crowe, Jerry Elliot, Rex Fowler, Edna Giordano,

Marjorie Harris, Harold Jensen, Pauline Jones, Barbara Kerlin, Gen. William

Livsey, Theriol Padgett, Robert Swafford, Allen Thames, Hubert Turner

and Roy Westerfield.

Also featured

were Edgefield Baptist Church, Fayetteville First United Methodist Church

and Flat Rock A.M.E. Church.

The publication

is available for $5 at Fayette Book Shop, 692 N. Glynn St., Fayetteville.

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