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School Bell Award Winner, 1991
Mrs. Martha Camp Shaw Abney '55, a lifelong resident of Walker
County, began her teaching career in Kensington, Georgia in 1928,
and later taught at West LaFayette, Fortune and Linwood Elementary
Schools. She was an outstanding public speaker and taught elocution.
In 1972 she was the first recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award
presented annually by the LaFayette Woman's Club. She was an active
member of the National Education Association, Georgia Association of
Educators, Walker Association of Educators, Georgia Association of
Public School Adult Educators, and the Political Action Committee
for Education in Georgia. She was a strong advocate for adequate
programs in education, and the establishment of the Sibley
Commission of Education.
Her son, Billy Shaw Abney, would vote to implement the Sibley
Commission Report in the Georgia House while serving as a
representative. She received her B.S. degree in education from
Oglethorpe in 1955. One of her young students who grew up and became
a teacher had this to say in a letter of condolence to Judge and
Mrs. Abney at the time of her death, December 8, 1990: "Your mother
was a lovely person, a master teacher during her long, successful
career." Mrs. Abney was a member of the William Marsh Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, the Chickamauga Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and she held life membership in
the Order of the Eastern Star.
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