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    Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime
    Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime
    Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime
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    Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime

    By Floyd L. Griffin

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    Life: Four Quarters plus Overtime is a book created specifically with the African American community in mind. The book examine the periods of development associated with the human life span with brief overview of the social, emotional, congenital, perceptual, and moral development specific to each life stage

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFloyd L. Griffin
    Release dateAug 3, 2020
    ISBN9781952648052
    Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime
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    Floyd L. Griffin

    At different times in his life, Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. has been a cadet, Vietnam Helicopter Pilot, Army Colonel, football coach, professor, businessman, state senator, a mayor and author. Throughout his life of change and challenges, Floyd Griffin has always been dedicated to public service. Griffin is former Co- owner of Slater's Funeral Home, INC in Milledgeville, Georgia. He serves on the Board of Visitors at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia and he is the Chairman of the Baldwin Charter System Foundation of Excellent. Griffin was inducted into the Winston-Salem State University's "Big-House Gaines" Athletic Hall of Fame and Tuskegee University'sROTC Hall of Fame. His oral history video is included as a permanent record of the History Makers Collection at the Library of Congress. The Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. papers are held by the Ina Dillard Russell Library Special Collections at Georgia College and State University.Griffin is currently featured in the W.J. Usery Jr. Special Collections Leadership Gallery at the Heritage Hall Museum at Georgia College and State University.Griffin also served on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Tuskegee University. In 1994, Griffin did what political experts said was impossible. He literally stormed onto the political scene and defeated an incumbent Georgia State Senator. The victory made Griffin the first African American in modern times to be elected in a rural legislative district containing majority white voters. In 2000, Griffin continued to do what political experts said was impossible by becoming the first African American mayor of the Old Capitol City of Milledgeville, Georgia. Griffin is married to Nathalie Huffman Griffin. They are both Tuskegee University graduate. They have two sons, also Tuskegee University graduates, four grandsons and a goddaughter.

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