The Boys and Girls Club and the Athens-Clarke County School District were given something to smile about Thursday when the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission approved the placement of the Youth Facility Partnership on the April 6 consent agenda.
“I’m very proud that Athens-Clarke County is contributing to this project,” said Alice Kinman, district four commissioner.
The Youth Facility Partnership is an agreement between the School District, the Unified Government, the Boys and Girls Club and the Housing Authority that allows for the renovation and instatement of after school programs at the H.T. Edwards Gymnasium.
The programs will be put on by the Boys and Girls Club and will include both an after school program and a nine week summer day camp for youth ages six to 13. The after school program will go from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday during the school year, and the summer day camp will run from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. during the months of June through August.
“I am very excited it is going to happen,” Kinman said about the partnership.
Monday, March 22, 2010
All-American Flunkie
Dan Magill, 89, a writer, athlete, coach, curator of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame and longtime sports information director, has spent almost his entire life in Athens and around the University of Georgia.
“I was an all-American flunkie. I used to cut the grass in Sanford Stadium,” said Magill when he spoke to a journalism class on Monday, March 15.
His earliest memories of Athens are playing sports at the Athens YMCA when it first opened when he was six-years-old and it was only the third in the country. Then, in 1931, Magill was the bat-boy for the university baseball team. Later, he won the state high school 100-yard breast stroke at Legion Pool, and went on to not only coach the university tennis team but continued his involvement with the university and became the director of sports communications.
Magill spends his time these days as the curator of the ITA Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame, which is the only museum of its kind in the country. When he isn’t doing that he is sharing stories with students, the other people of Athens, and participating in his new favorite sport, which he says is “when they kick off in Sanford Stadium and 95,000 people are whoopin’ it up.”
“I was an all-American flunkie. I used to cut the grass in Sanford Stadium,” said Magill when he spoke to a journalism class on Monday, March 15.
His earliest memories of Athens are playing sports at the Athens YMCA when it first opened when he was six-years-old and it was only the third in the country. Then, in 1931, Magill was the bat-boy for the university baseball team. Later, he won the state high school 100-yard breast stroke at Legion Pool, and went on to not only coach the university tennis team but continued his involvement with the university and became the director of sports communications.
Magill spends his time these days as the curator of the ITA Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame, which is the only museum of its kind in the country. When he isn’t doing that he is sharing stories with students, the other people of Athens, and participating in his new favorite sport, which he says is “when they kick off in Sanford Stadium and 95,000 people are whoopin’ it up.”
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