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Glenn Vaughn’s career as a journalist in his home state began at the University of Georgia where he served as editor of The Red and Black. His preparation began, however, in Newton County where at Palmer Stone High School and Covington High School he learned to love Georgia’s history and her heritage.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948, and after attending the Henry Grady School of Journalism he began working on Georgia newspapers, starting as a reporter at The Albany Herald in 1952. Between stints on The Columbus Ledger beginning in 1955, he went across the Chattahoochee River in Alabama to serve as editor and publisher of The Phenix Citizen for a year and worked for two years, first as a reporter and then as a copy editor, on The Atlanta Journal. On The Ledger staff he worked as copy editor, news editor, city editor and managing editor.

Perhaps his proudest moment in journalism was his time (1965-69) as founding editor and publisher of The Athens Daily News. There he not only nurtured a newspaper from its infancy into an award-winning Northeast Georgia Daily, but also developed a young and talented staff that would become his legacy.

But, as it had throughout his newspaper career, Columbus was calling. In 1969, he returned, not to the afternoon but to its adversary down the hall, The Columbus Enquirer. As directing editor of The Enquirer, he was an editorialist who worked for change and progress in the community he adopted as home. His editorials helped in the tedious process of city and county governments, joining together to become Georgia’s first consolidated government.

From the editorial page, he moved into the business department as vice president and general manager of The Ledger-Enquirer. Later he would be president and publisher and, finally chairman.

He is married to the former Nancy Weeks of Ellijay. They have four children, one with Christ, and six grandchildren.