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Atlanta's Elite Give Students Life Lessons on the Golf Course

Published: 6/04/2008

Atlanta's elite give students life lessons on the golf course

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  -  June 5, 2008

Members of the influential Yates and Cousins families, Billi Marcus (whose husband Bernie built the Georgia Aquarium), state House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons), Woodruff Foundation President Russ Hardin, Children's Healthcare board chairman Doug Hertz, retired Southern Co. executive Warren Jobe and others paired up with 36 kids from Drew Charter School who a generation ago would have little access to this kind of power.

They did it the old Atlanta way, with drivers and putters, on the ground where Jones and Yates grew up in East Atlanta.