2008 leadership georgia: progress in motion

THURSDAY, September 18, 2008

Activities

2:00 PM -4:30 PM

Dalton Marriott Courtyard Hotel Check In and Leadership Georgia Registration

4:30 PM -5:00 PM

Load buses and travel to City Hall
Attire- Cocktail attire (a suit for men, and a cocktail short dress for women; preferably not career wear).

5:00 PM

Welcome reception at City Hall

5:45 PM -6:30 PM

Welcome Ceremony: Introductions –  Tim Moses, President, Leadership Georgia Board of Trustees

Welcome Video

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David Pennington, Mayor ( LG- 90)

Brian Anderson, County Commission Chair  (LG-06)

Weekend Overview – Jorge and Julia Atiles

6:30 PM - 07:00 PM

Board buses and travel to The Farm

7:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Invocation- Dick Lowrey
Dinner catered by The Farm
Speaker:  Vance Bell, Shaw Industries

Trustee Gretchen Corbin introduces Honoray Membership award for Mr. H. G. Pattillo
Dancing and visiting with each other
Music by Livin’ Large

10:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Load buses and travel back to the hotel

10:30 PM - 12:00 AM

Hospitality Suite

FRIDAY, September 19, 2008

Good Morning! Be ready for a day of tours!

Please make sure you are assigned to a GROUP (1 - 4) and stay with your group, always!

Attire for the day time activities:
Men: Wear khakis or similar pants with shirts. Polo-style shirts and pullover sweaters are appropriate.  Loafers or comfortable shoes.
Women:  slacks, combined with blouses or tops. Flat comfortable shoes.
Note about the dress code for Group 4– make sure shoes have good traction.

07:00 AM - 07:15 AM

Group # 1 and Group #2  Load buses and travel to Shaw Industries

07:30 AM

Group #1 and Group #2 begin buffet breakfast

07:45 AM - 08:00 AM

Group #3 and Group #4 Load buses and travel to Shaw Industries

08:15 AM

Group #3 and Group #4 begin buffet breakfast

08:20 AM

Group #1 and Group #2 load buses for departure for the Shaw R&D complex (if weather allows, they can walk, since it is only about 400 yards). 

08:30 AM

Group #1 and Group #2 arrive at Shaw R&D complex and are broken down into three groups for the tour that will include three areas of concentration:  museum/industry history, color/design presentation, tour of pilot plant.  Each group will start in one of these three areas and then each group will rotate to another area every 20 minutes.

09:15 AM

Group #3 and Group #4 load buses for departure for the Shaw R&D complex (if weather allows, they can walk, since it is only about 400 yards)

09:30 AM

Group #3 and Group #4 are broken down into three groups for tour of the R&D complex that will include three areas of concentration:  museum/industry history, color/design presentation, tour of pilot plant.  Each group will start in one of these areas and then each group will rotate to another area every 20 minutes.

09:30 AM

Group #1 will complete the R&D complex tour and will load their bus for departure to J & J for a plant tour

Group #2 will complete the R&D complex tour and will load their bus for departure to Shaw's Plant 23 for a tour

10:30 AM

Group #3 will complete the R&D complex tour and will load their bus for departure to Shiroki for a plant tour

Group #4 will complete the R&D complex tour and will load their bus for departure to Universal Textile plant tour

11:25 AM

Group #1 will complete the J & J plant tour and will load their bus for departure for Dalton Utilities

Group #2 will complete the Shaw's Plant 23 tour and will load their bus for departure for Dalton Utilities

11:35AM

Group #3 will complete the Shiroki plant tour and will load their bus for departure for Dalton Utilities

11:40 AM

Group #4 will complete the Universal Textile tour and will load their bus for departure for Dalton Utilities

11:55 AM

All four groups will have arrived at Dalton Utilities

12:00 NOON

Lunch at Dalton Utilities
Welcome- Kelly Jones (LG ‘07)
Speaker Don Cope “Planning for progress”

01:15 PM

Load buses to go on Dalton Utilities tour of water and sewer sites

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM

Dalton UtilitiesTour

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Travel back to hotel

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Arrive at hotel, rest and get ready for evening events
Attire for evening activities*: Country Club casual
Men: Trousers, dressy jeans, sport shirt, knit polo shirt, a sweater or sport jacket optional.
Women: Trousers, Capri pants, knee length city shorts, dressy jeans, sweater set.

* Please no tank or tube tops, t-shirts, flip-flops, tennis shoes or shorts. 

05:00 PM

Load buses and travel to reception at Carpets of Dalton

05:30 PM - 06:15 PM

Reception at Carpets of Dalton
Welcome – Bill Jourdain, Chairman, Dalton-Whitfield 
Chamber of Commerce (LG 99)

06:15 PM - 07:00 PM

Travel to Cross Creek Farms (Peeples’ farm) in Ringgold

07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Arrive at Cross Creek Farm and Creekside Stables and enjoy archery, skeet shooting, hey ride, salsa and merengue dancing lessons, barn tours.

Invocation by Kelly Jones (LG '07) & Dinner

Enjoy outdoors and dancing with DJ Rick Zeisig

10:10 PM
10:30 PM

Buses will begin departure back to the hotel

10:30 PM - 12:00 AM

Hospitality suite

SATURDAY, September 20, 2008

07:00 AM - 07:30 AM

Breakfast in bed, get ready to check out

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM

Check out, load cars, travel in your vehicle to Dalton State College

08:15 AM - 08:45 AM

Welcome to Dalton College, John O. Schwenn, President
Jim Jolly, Board of Regents University System of Georgia. “Meeting the needs of a diverse population”

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM

Video presentation: New Georgians

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09:15 AM - 09:30 AM

Bathroom break

09:30 AM - 10:45 AM

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Questions & answers - Discussion

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Trustees’ highlight, Rich & Soule Slaby (LG 06)

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Observations of the weekend, Dale Threadgill (LG 81)

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Recognitions, door prices, other business, Jorge & Julia

11:50 AM - 11:55 AM

Closing Remarks , Tim Moses

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Introduction of Macon program,
Tim & Alisa Blanco (LG 07)

12:15 PM

Adjourn and Lunch to Go