Sagamore Hills Civic Association HE IGNAL PO Box 49207 • Atlanta, GA 30359T S www.shca.wildapricot.org January - February 2018 SHCA Offi cers President: Allen Venet [email protected] PRESIDENT’S Vice President: Rene’ Kane 404-634-3636 • [email protected] Secretary: Tina Kalvelage LETTER [email protected] by Allen Venet Treasurer: Tom Heyse 404-408-9797 • [email protected] A Sagamore Hills New Year As we welcome 2018, it is time to think about resolutions, and not just Committee Contacts our latest plan to lose weight and budget wisely. Beautifi cation Committee: Jay Leslie shcabeautifi [email protected] If you have not done so, please resolve to join or renew your SHCA Communications Committee/Signal Editor: Tina Kalvelage & Shelley Coleman membership today, by mailing in the form you will fi nd in this [email protected] issue with your check. From encouraging the DeKalb Board of Community Hotline Moderators: Jim Reeder Commissioners to end late night liquor licenses to asking the County [email protected] to enforce rules prohibiting a massage parlor from operating from a Database Manager: Tom Heyse house in our neighborhood, it is very important that your volunteer [email protected] board can report that we represent a large number of members. On Finance: Deloyd Johnson and Ted Beverage top of that, we work hard to spend the dues wisely in ways which shcafi [email protected] benefi t all of Sagamore Hills. The annual dues are still a low, low $35 per household. A better bargain is hard to fi nd. Health and Education: To be determined [email protected] But, before you write your check, resolve to add contributions for our New Resident Visitation: Rene’ Kane Security and Beautifi cation funds. We all enjoy the benefi ts – including 404-634-3636 • [email protected] • [email protected] increased property values – which come from having regular patrols Nominating Committee: To be determined by off-duty DeKalb police offi cers. Our combined donations to the [email protected] Security Fund go directly to pay for this service; the number of police Parliamentarian & By-Laws: Rick Dascher patrols is determined by the total of the security fund donations we [email protected] receive. The Beautifi cation Fund donations go directly to maintaining Safety/Security and Police Liaison: To be determined our entrances and traffi c islands, which help to unify, beautify, and [email protected] enhance Sagamore Hills. Please do your part to help pay for these Security Patrol: Ronnie Viar and Mark Taylor services. [email protected] • [email protected] Resolve to make 2018 the year to reach out and get to know a few Signal Advertising: Rusty Oliver more neighbors who are not yet friends. Watch out for each other. [email protected] Also in 2018, be sure to respect your “bricks and mortar” neighbors Social Committee: Tina Kalvelage & Drew Ashton by ensuring that your yard is always well cared for, including the curb. [email protected] Traffi c: Tracey Harting In the coming year, let’s all resolve to be respectful and positive in our SHCATraffi [email protected] use of the “Hotline” and “Next Door” and other social media – and Webmaster: Karla Hafford in person, of course. None of us has a monopoly on what is best, or [email protected] correct, or true. Think twice before you post or reply on-line; and try Zoning: Steve Pittard and Ted Beveridge to invest at least as much time and energy in listening or reading as [email protected] in speaking or writing. Last, but not least, resolve that in 2018 you will get out and enjoy the great neighborhood which we are lucky enough to share. The Sagamore Hills Civic Association Board wishes each of our neighbors a very happy new year. To dispute a water bill Call: 404/371-3000 On Line: [email protected] Sagamore Hills Neighborhood News

TAMARACK TRAIL CUL-DE-SAC CLEAN UP by Candy Steele One of our Tamarack Trail neighbors, Valhalla McGaughey, inspired her fellow residents to clean up the overgrown cul-de-sac. So on Saturday, December 2, several neighbors joined together for a couple of hours of landscaping and beautification of our street. Thanks to all that showed up and helped! Neighborhood News Sagamore Hills

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TEACHER OF THE YEAR by Barb Ribner Sagamore Hills resident Emily Brown Lynch was recently the kids’ arrivals. Emily and Dan, who have lived at honored as the “Teacher of the Year” by the Immaculate the corner of Fairoaks Road and Angelique for nearly a Heart of Mary School, where she has taught for ten decade, are the proud parents of Ian (17), Mary Parker years. The Signal learned of her honor by seeing a sign (15), and Patrick (12). posted in her front yard which looked identical to other Emily has always enjoyed working with younger nearby signs touting IHM’s upcoming open houses. A children and currently teaches 3rd grade at IHM. bit of investigation revealed that Emily’s loving husband During her approximately twenty years of teaching at of 22 years, Dan, was so proud of his wife that he called various schools, Emily has been honored on several Kudos Print Media of Norcross, which makes the signs occasions by being nominated for Teacher of the Year. for IHM -- and had a sign made to match! Thanks, Dan, This year, however, she was chosen as the recipient of for letting us all share in the recognition of Emily’s that honor. The announcement was made at an IHM honor! School assembly. Emily graduated from Georgia Southern and later earned Congratulations to Emily (and her family!) on this lovely, her Masters in Early Childhood Education at Georgia well-deserved recognition of a job well done! And we’ll State. Though she did take a few years off when her bet that Emily’s third grade class was thrilled, too! children were born, she worked both before and after

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A TRULY INCREDIBLE WOMAN! by Helen Fredrick Occasionally an interviewee gets asked – “What famous In their later years the Williams fished at their Florida person would you like to have dinner with?” If someone fishing camp, where she learned that women, too, asked me that question, I’d say Avis G. Williams. You could fish! She once wrangled a 30-lb. red fish, but know her as the namesake of the Toco Hills Library, her biggest catch was a 500-lb. shark. They also although she isn’t famous in the usual sense of the traveled and hunted in Alaska and the Arctic Circle, word. But she was truly incredible! where Mr. Williams shot a moose. An article from 1965 in The Suburban Gazette, provided Is there anything this woman couldn’t do? What an by the research desk at the library, details her life incredible life – and a very appropriate namesake for as a hard-working, determined woman who had 8 the Toco Hills Library! I think every time I go there children, 25 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren. now I’ll feel her spirit and be inspired to do more with Not only did she raise her family, she did all her own my own life. housework, made all her girls’ clothes and most of the Thank you, Avis G. Williams, for your contributions to boys’, including coats, evening dresses, wedding and DeKalb County! bridesmaids dresses. She also made draperies and upholstered furniture and still found time for gardening! She grew roses “just to carry to the hospital” and to her church, and no doubt raised the family’s food as well. When the Williams family came to Atlanta from What famous Lawrenceville, having lost everything in the Depression due to the boll weevil, they had one old mule, a one-horse wagon, and an old truck. person would Mr. Williams started a lumber company with his brothers. “ They lived on $15 a week!! The company was responsible for much of N. DeKalb’s housing development in the you like to have 50’s, including Sagamore Hills! Through the LaVista Woman’s Club (whose building she directed, next to Beth Jacob Synagogue on LaVista) she dinner with? worked through the zoning and land acquisition process and naysayers to get the library built “for the children in the area.” Although not a reader herself (when would ” she have found the time?!) she raised her own brood on Compton’s Reference Book. Mrs. Williams had grown up on a farm – one of twelve Ace Hardware of Toco Hills children! And she and Mr. Williams had farms twice – one in Stockbridge, where they raised feed for the Grill Your ACE Off dairy cows, sweet potatoes, and turkeys; and one near Columbus, where they sawed timber, raised turkeys, and where she canned 1,000 jars of fruit one year! As a grandmother Mrs. Williams decided to build houses – rather than babysit her grandchildren – and did so for 5 2983 N Druid Hills Rd NE, Atlanta (404) 325-8000 years, on Fama Drive and Amanda Circle.

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WINTER WONDERLAND by Helen Fredrick

Sagamore Hills was transformed into a Winter Wonderland December 8-9 with an early, heavy (for the South!), and beautiful snowfall. Snowmen populated the neighborhood almost overnight! Kids were seen frolicking, dogs were seen rolling, and teens were seen searching for steep driveways for sledding. And everyone had smiles on their faces! (with the exception of those who lost power due to the fallen tree at Fair Oaks and Sagamore Hills Dr.)

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BAKESALE RECAP by Jaime Grimes

The major neighborhood bake sale Nov. 18 to benefit Thank you to everyone who donated baked goods children at Sagamore Hills Elementary was a big success! (including the two surprise donations the morning of the Because of the neighborhood’s generosity, the bake sale sale) and everyone who attended. Principal Julie Taylor is sold out of everything by noon (an hour early), and raised very grateful for our neighborhood’s support of Sagamore $670 to help students attend field trips. Hills Elementary!

FRAZIER-ROWE PARK Frazier-Rowe Park received a Park Pride Grant toward the With the paved walking path, natural trails to Coralwood building during 2018 of a Pavillion in the park. DeKalb Road and into Camellia Ridge behind the shopping center, Commissioner Jeff Rader has been supportive with some as well as a young children’s playground, an outside funding and helpful comments. This structure will give workout area, picnic spots, and a rustic Scout classroom, park visitors a meeting point for programs, a shelter from there is a lot to checkout in the neighborhood park. rain storms, and a possible venue for music, evening movies, or theater.

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THE HISTORY OF SAGAMORE HILLS ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION By Jaime Grimes This article is the first in a series on the history of meets the American West. Key elements of ranch houses Sagamore Hills. include a sprawling single story; a wide, asymmetrical Historically, we owe the style of the homes in Sagamore façade; a front-facing garage (or carport); and a low- Hills to two men: Frank Lloyd Wright, a renowned American pitched roof. The ranch house is a creation of the car architect, and Clifford May, a California furniture designer. culture: when homeowners began using their cars for transportation, they could put their houses farther apart Thought Wright designed Prairie School-style houses – on larger plots of land, according to ThisOldHouse.com. In horizontal homes designed to evoke the prairie landscape fact, Wright is credited with creating the word “carport.” – May, who never went to architectural school, built the first ranch house. May drew inspiration from his family’s “When they started building ranch-style houses, they own adobe ranch houses in the San Diego area, with one started putting carports on them,” Rhinehart said. “The level floor, an exterior courtyard and arranged around older houses may have detached garages.” “informal outdoor living,” he said in a 1986 New York By 1950, nine out of every 10 new homes were ranch- Times article. style homes. “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian [and Prairie] houses of Split-level the 1930s were these long, low houses, exemplifying horizontal lines, sprawling over the lot, looking like they Born in the 1950s, the split-level home paired a ranch were coming up out of the ground,” said Eddy Rhinehart, house with a two-story section, half a flight up and half architect at the Atlanta firm Rhinehart, Pulliam and Co., a flight down, according to a Slate.com article on the LLC, and Sagamore Hills resident. “Common builders all history of ranch houses. It was designed to accommodate over the U.S. took these Frank Lloyd Wright elements and building on California slopes, but the design also solved diluted his pure design. The houses in this neighborhood two problems that ranch houses had: where to put the have some of the elements of the original designs, and television, and where to put the car. The television was then they broke off from that.” moved to the recreation, or rec, room, usually in the basement (but still only half a flight of stairs away from Whether the house style of the original Sagamore Hills the formal living room). The lower floor also became a neighborhood build (1952-1964, in most parts of Sagamore garage, which was an inexpensive alternative to the Hills) is ranch, split-level or colonial, the exteriors share attached carport. By 1970, four out of five new houses these similarities: bricks brought in from demolished were either ranchers or split-levels. buildings in downtown Atlanta; wrought iron decorations, either as railings, brackets or columns; patios instead of decks; large front windows; and “broken” quarry tile laid out in a mosaic pattern as flooring, said Rhinehart and Jaime Dutro. The home styles most typical to the original Sagamore Hills neighborhood are described below. Ranch Ranch - caption: This 1966 California ranch home exhibits Also known as a rambler or rancher, ranch-style houses the long, low profile and large windows typical of the are where mid-century modern, or Wright’s Usonian, style ranch-style home. Continued on page 9

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Georgian Colonial and Neocolonial are typically double or even triple the square footage of typical 1950s home sizes. Georgia Colonial homes are tall, two-story houses with an orderly row of windows symmetrically arranged on the second story, that imitated the Georgian architecture of Great Britain. During the late 1800s and first half of the 20th century, many Colonial Revival homes echoed the Georgian style, according to ThoughtCo.com. By the late 1960s, more elaborate versions popped up in the form of Neocolonial homes and featured historic styles combined with modern materials. Bigger became better In 1950, the median size of a new house was 800 square feet. But in the 1960s, American ideals changed, and “more is better” became the norm, said an article on ThoughtCo.com. One-story ranch houses quickly became two-stories. Carports and one-car garages became Robie: The Frederick C. Robie House in Chicago was two- and three-car garages. In Sagamore Hills that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is a Prairie School no exception, as homes built across the neighborhood style, likely an early inspiration for ranch-style homes.

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Sagamore Hills Civic Association, Inc. Membership Dues Enrollment & Directory Information January – December 2018

Make checks payable to Sagamore Hills Civic Association, Inc. You can also $35.00 Annual Membership Dues for 2018 join on the website Optional Designated Donations www.shca.wildapricot.org ______Beautifi cation Fund ______Security Patrol Fund ($130/year suggested) ______Total Enclosed

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