COLLEGE ADVANCEMENTCONTINUED...
For the love of ‘Mim’
McAllister Hall
BY KELLEY M. ARNOLD INTERIM DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
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loved Brewton-
her children and grandchildren later called h
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f “Mim”, as
Hall will forever bear her name.
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the small Christian institution in Mount
Parker Institute. She
n, it was a high school called Brewton-
older sisters, Mary Id
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members of the graduatin
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d Ruth Cochran, were R
respectively. While at BPC, her best
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1917 and 1918,
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es Cochran
was Elizabeth Barrett, the daughter of th
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roommate
Lynton Stephens Barrett (1919-1922).
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leaving home for the first time, her
Mim’s daughter, Claud
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first taste of true independence.
her by her mother about t
Westerfeldt, recalls a story told to
first by herself.
hat memorable train journey – her
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so grown-up when she left on the train from
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ick, passed away
h
aw
earlier this year. Mim passed
right outside
ittle community on the banks of the Flint River
train was arou
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illa,” said Westerfeldt. “The minute the
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the station, she a
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he first bend and she was out of sight of
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fade, of
grown up. She we
l
n
t
o
f a sudden felt pretty naughty and all
mother’s fulfilled and “happy” life, Westerfeldt sa
o
id
m
her
herself a Cosmopolit
u
a
p
n
t
m
o
a
th
g
e refreshment car and bought
believes her mother’s fonde
she
cola. Back in those days you
a
z
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in
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n
and a big huge Coca-
two
st memories stemmed from her
Coca-cola. There were many rumors
’
a
t
b
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n
u
c
t
ouraged to drink
$10
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y
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e
0
ars at BPI. It is for this that Westerfeldt donated
though, she drank that Coca-cola a
it
n
.
d
N
ev
re
e
a
rt
d
h
eless,
Cosmopolitan all the way to Ailey.”
that
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to
d
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d
m
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e the McAllister Hall Lobby in honor and
c
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i
r – one of the many young ladies who
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n she shares her mother’s story; one
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now. After graduating
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degree from Georgia State
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on to earn a
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Milledgeville and teach school in Clayton, Ga
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one of the happiest times of
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ere she met and married a man 19 years her senior
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end of his ca
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legendary coach
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President for College Advancement Doug Baird.
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Vice
Athletics and played in
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ack to play with the Philadelphia
to see renovations begin in early summer 2009.
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