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October 25 - 27 - Atlanta
 
 
Peace and Justice begin the Atlanta journey at one of the city’s symbolic gates at Oakland Cemetery

 
John Mellott of The Atlanta Journal/Constitution and Beau Allen, President of Oakland Cemetery are
among the first drivers in Atlanta
   
 

Rodney Cook Jr., John Mellott, Beau Allen, and Rawson Haverty of Haverty Furniture Company are the honorary
drivers for the first segment of the Atlanta journey
 
Students at Holy Spirt Preparatory School welcome statues.
     
Stephanie Aceves, Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos, Andy Moots, Archbishop-emeritus John Donohue, and David Hanna of CompuCredit
Corporation ride toHoly Spirit Preparatory School
     
 
Among the first stops for the statues of Peace and Justice in front of Presley Hall at The Westminster Schools




 
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
     
 
Honorary drivers Pam Rollins, Frances Huber, Jo Westervelt, and Armand Vari of Jacoby Development
bring the statues to the Swan House entrance
 
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
     
The team makes its way down Peachtree Street from The Cathedral of St. Philip
     
 
Herman Russell of H. J. Russell & Company and members of the Russell family pass in front of the birthplace
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Sculptor Alexander
Stoddart greets the caisson as it approches the State Capitol
     
 
State representatives Joe Wilkinson and Kathy Ashe with Rodney Cook, Jr. at the Capitol steps
   
     
James D. Robinson IV and family onboard as the
caisson travels through Five Points downtown
     
The Honorable Rodney Cook and Jim and Maggie Robinson pass the First National Bank Tower, built by James D. Robinson Jr.
     
 
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
   
     
 
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
 
Rodney Cook, Jr., Sculptor Alexander Stoddart, and Brian Leary at Centennial Park


     
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.
     
 
The Statues of Peace and Justice pass in front of the World Headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company
 
Joey Marson and daughter Caroline enjoy festivities held at Coca-Cola headquarters.
     
Margaret Mitchell House Museum’s Mary Rose Taylor, former Atlantic Steel President ________________, Louisa Glenn, Tom Glenn, and Lou Glenn.
     
 
   
The Statue of Peace passing the Prince of Wales’s Olympics Monument at Pershing Point
     
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
     
 
The caisson in MidTown




 
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
     
 
Speaker Rodney Cook Jr. acknowledges Mart Martin of the Coca-Cola Company and Frances Tompkins
of The Coca-Cola Foundation
 
Sculptor Alexander Stoddart delivers a speech at dedication event.


     
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
     
 
The final procession including members of the North Atlanta High School Marching Band makes its way up 17th street.
 
The final honorary drivers included Governor Sonny Perdue, Emily Cook (partially obscured), The Honorable Rodney Cook, Susan Eisenhower, and Rodney Cook Jr.
Rodney Cook Jr. presents Governor Sonny Perdue with a
commemorative painting of The Millennium Gate