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New Scholarship Named for Tifton Cosmetologist

On Monday, August 26, Mr. Scott Goodman of Tifton made a contribution to the Southern Regional Technical College Foundation to fund a scholarship in memory of his mother, Mrs. Veda Pitts Goodman. Mrs. Goodman was a well-known cosmetologist in Tifton for over 40 years. She started her own shop in the 1940s in the Myon Hotel complex, now Tifton City Hall, and moved to Park Place Plaza some years later. After the death of her first husband, Bill Pitts, in 1968, Veda was left with three children...

Healthcare visionary sets sights on the next generation of imaging professionals

Joshua May, Joe Barron, Jerrod Hampton Late last year, the Assistant Vice President of Heart, Vascular and Imaging Services, Joe Barron, retired from Archbold Medical Center after forty years of visionary leadership. When he first came to work in Thomasville in 1977 as a young Radiologic Technician, Archbold didn’t yet have an ultrasound machine. But even that early on, Mr. Barron says that the administrators and medical providers had a progressive vision of bringing the very best in...