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Peace and Justice begin
the Atlanta journey at one of the city’s symbolic
gates at Oakland Cemetery
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John Mellott of The Atlanta
Journal/Constitution and Beau Allen, President of Oakland
Cemetery are
among the first drivers in Atlanta
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Beau Allen, and Rawson Haverty of Haverty Furniture Company
are the honorary
drivers for the first segment of the Atlanta journey
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Students at Holy Spirt
Preparatory School welcome statues. |
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Stephanie Aceves, Sandy
Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, Andy Moots, Archbishop-emeritus
John Donohue, and David Hanna of CompuCredit
Corporation ride toHoly Spirit Preparatory School
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Among the first stops for the statues
of Peace and Justice in front of Presley Hall at The Westminster
Schools
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Riding through the Buckhead business
district are Jim Borders of Novare Group, former Mayor Sam
Massell, Atlanta History Center curator Andy Ambrose, and
Chairman of the Board of The Atlanta
History Center Sheffield Hale
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Honorary drivers Pam Rollins, Frances
Huber, Jo Westervelt, and Armand Vari of Jacoby Development
bring the statues to the Swan House entrance
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Rodney Cook Jr., Rich Noonan of WGCL
TV, Jim Jacoby, The Very Reverend Sam Candler of The Cathedral
of St. Philip, The Very Reverend Robert Willis of Canterbury
Cathedral
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The team makes its way down
Peachtree Street from The Cathedral of St. Philip |
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Herman Russell of H. J. Russell &
Company and members of the Russell family pass in front
of the birthplace
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sculptor Alexander
Stoddart greets the caisson as it approches the State Capitol |
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State representatives Joe Wilkinson
and Kathy Ashe with Rodney Cook, Jr. at the Capitol steps |
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James D. Robinson IV and
family onboard as the
caisson travels through Five Points downtown |
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The Honorable Rodney Cook
and Jim and Maggie Robinson pass the First National Bank
Tower, built by James D. Robinson Jr.
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Otis Brumby of the Marietta Daily Journal,
The Honorable Rodney Cook, Jimmy Williams of SunTrust
Bank, and Rodney Cook, Jr. as the caisson team breaks for
lunch downtown
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Thornton Kennedy of The Northside Neighbor,
Otis Brumby, Kenny Leon of True Color Theatre Company, and
Brian Leary of Atlantic Station aboard at Centennial Park
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Rodney Cook, Jr., Sculptor Alexander
Stoddart, and Brian Leary at Centennial Park
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Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders
is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Dowling of the Georgia Tech College
of Architecture, Bill Mitchell of the Southern Architecture
Foundation, and Luther Randall of Randall Brothers on the
caisson.
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The Statues of Peace and Justice pass
in front of the World Headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company |
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Joey Marson and daughter Caroline enjoy
festivities held at Coca-Cola headquarters. |
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Margaret Mitchell House
Museum’s Mary Rose Taylor, former Atlantic Steel President
________________, Louisa Glenn, Tom Glenn, and Lou Glenn.
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The Statue of Peace passing the Prince
of Wales’s Olympics Monument at Pershing Point |
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Assisting the team driver
are Michael Robison of Lanier Parking, Greg Paxton of the
Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, WSB TV News Anchor
Monica Kaufman, Jim Robinson IV, and Michael Schapiro of
The High Museum of Art
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The caisson in MidTown
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At his arrival at The Millennium Gate
site for the dedication ceremony, while greeting a child,
Governor Sonny Perdue is escorted by architecture team Hugh
Petter and Sandy Cooper
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Speaker Rodney Cook Jr. acknowledges
Mart Martin of the Coca-Cola Company and Frances Tompkins
of The Coca-Cola Foundation
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Sculptor Alexander Stoddart delivers
a speech at dedication event.
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Members of the Atlanta Boy
Choir join Sandy Cooper of Collins, Cooper, Carusi Architects,
Sculptor Alexander Stoddart, Hugh Petter of Robert Adam
Architects, Spencer Tunnell of Tunnell and Tunnell Landscape
Architecture, Rodney Cook Jr., and National Monuments Foundation
Advisory
Board member Susan Eisenhower of the Eisenhower World Affairs
Institute
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The final procession including members
of the North Atlanta High School Marching Band makes its
way up 17th street. |
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The final honorary drivers included
Governor Sonny Perdue, Emily Cook (partially obscured),
The Honorable Rodney Cook, Susan Eisenhower, and Rodney
Cook Jr.
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Rodney Cook Jr. presents
Governor Sonny Perdue with a
commemorative painting of The Millennium Gate
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