The Classic City Rotary Club of Athens is taking a field trip to learn of all the fantastic things the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Library has to offer.  The Library is located at 300 S. Hull Street, Athens GA. 30605. Please use the Hull Street Parking Deck (across from the SCL).

Our guide will meet us in the 2nd floor rotunda of the Special Collections Building to begin the tour at 12pm (noon).

The tour typically lasts 45 minutes to an hour and takes visitors through all three of the gallery spaces, which represent the three different libraries here at SCL: the Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.

After the tour, please feel free to stay and enjoy the rotating exhibitions at SCL

Every year, the Classic City Rotary Club of Athens sponsors one or two students to attend RYLA at Tallulah Falls.  These students will join fellow high school students from across District 6910 to participate in a fun-filled couple of days enhancing their leadership skills and creating fellowship among their peers.  Please join us on 9/23 to hear Emiliana Korin, from Athens Academy, as she speaks about her time at RYLA.

Please join us to here Meredith speak about the role of AACF and the Resilient Northeast Georgia trauma-informed communities grant. The AACF is actively working to engage folks in the business and civic sectors more actively in our trauma prevention work, and a big part of that initiative is through local rotary clubs.

Coleman will be speaking about his book ""Memoir of a Moron"" among other things...

An anthology of wit and wisdom, jokes and jaw-dropping insight, philosophy and family, Coleman Hood has always been a keen observer of the human condition, and has now compiled his wonderful nonsense into a book, a book about life in the South, a book about Man trying to cooperate with Nature, and a book about Nature deciding it doesn't want man's help. Read his rants, essays, and surprisingly erudite tirades against pretty much everything.

Coleman Hood was born on Fort Jackson Army Base in Columbia, South Carolina in 1956. He was reared in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was relieved of his attendance requirements at some of the finer institutions of higher learning in the Southeast (Furman University, Wake Forest University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Georgia). At the University of Georgia, he earned a B.S. degree in Forest Resources and an M.S. degree in Biological Engineering. In addition to being a forester and an engineer, at various times he has been a state-certified Emergency Medical Technician, a commercial driver, a private pilot, and a real estate broker. He and his wife have three daughters, three sons-in-law, and eight grandchildren. He is the perpetual steward of stray pets and a wildlife menagerie. He resides in Bishop, Georgia.