Top: UGA friends Comer Hobbs, Jimmy, Joe Spence and Kenny Youmans (Our friend Joe Sing has informed me that Comer Hobbs and Joe Spence are Phi Delts)

Bottom: 1961 KA pledge brothers Johnny Parramore, Jimmy, Griffin Bell and Kenny Youmans

One of the reasons for Jimmy's great love of Highlands is that so many of his old college friends congregate there. He says it's like being at the University of Georgia, back in the early sixties, before the war in Vietnam changed everything. It was a time of rules and civility, when the boys wore jackets and ties to football games, and their dates wore heels and corsages and their hair all teased and bouffant. Back then there were curfews and housemothers, even in the rowdier fraternity houses.

In 1961, along with thirty or so other young men, Jimmy pledged KA ,and thus began the many important and enduring lifelong friendships. And what a cast of characters they are: almost every member of this pledge class could be the star of his own Oscar-winning biographical movie. As entertaining as they can be one-on-one, when a group of them gets together, it's like watching a three ring circus. There are stories and legends surrounding each and every one of them, that are told over and over again, and that just get better and funnier with every telling.