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contributors
Volume 20 • No. 3
Publisher & Advertising Director LAURIE GAY
Editor KEVIN C. HALL
Contributors WILLIAM DAVIS COBB DAVID & KAY SCOTT BECKY TAYLOR
Becky Taylor joined the sports department of The Tifton Gazette in September 2012. She was reared in Berrien County and developed a love of sports, starting with the 1991 Atlanta Braves and an invitation to keep basketball scorebooks for Nashville Middle a year later. She graduated from Berrien High, attended ABAC and finished Valdosta State with a degree in History. Five years later, she found herself in Athens and later graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Newspapers. Prior to joining The Gazette, she worked with Georgia Public Broadcasting for the recently aired production“ As If We Were Ghosts” and has done research for the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association.
Design & Layout DEREK SCHAPER
William Davis Cobb is a reporter for the Tifton Gazette. Native to Suwanee but a resident of Thomasville, he graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2021, earning a Bachelor’ s in Writing and Linguistics. While he isn’ t from the Tifton area, he’ s enjoyed the times he’ s had the opportunity to visit the city and see what it has to offer.
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ON THE COVER: Artist Jill Whitley with TUGA, one of the first bulldog statues created and instated through the initiative. He sits at the front of UGA’ s Tifton Campus, standing guard over the historic buildings that sit along Research Way.
Photography by Davis Cobb
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