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Gandy speaks to Progress Club about ‘Famous Lost Words’

Maurice Gandy is shown speaking to the Fayette Progress Club concerning preserving oral histories.

Maurice Gandy is shown speaking to the Fayette Progress Club concerning preserving oral histories.

Maurice Gandy, a long-time feature correspondent for The Mobile Press-Register and an adjunct English instructor for the University of South Alabama, spoke to the Fayette Progress Club during its March 10 meeting, held at the Fayette County Memorial Library. Gandy’s topic for the meeting was entitled, “Oral History: Famous Lost Words, Don’t Forget Where You Came From.”

Club celebrates 100 years of ‘Progress’

Toni Robertson (left) and Carolyn Junkin are shown cutting the Progress Club’s 100th anniversary cake.

Toni Robertson (left) and Carolyn Junkin are shown cutting the Progress Club’s 100th anniversary cake.

In March 1921, a group of very forward thinking ladies met for the first time for the sole purpose of helping to establish a permanent library in the City of Fayette. Toni Robertson, during a presentation at the Fayette Memorial Library on Sept. 9, said that someone suggested they call their newly established club the “Progress Club.” The name stuck, and so did the ladies’ determination to establish a library.

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