Word: gilmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Future Physicians Society, was designed to provide information to pre-med students, other undergraduates and the Boston and Cambridge communities about the future effects of AIDS, said Holly S. Gilmer '88, president of the society...
...rock. People knew he meant business. Young Jesse didn't argue with him." On Wednesday night the Helmses were always at First Baptist Church prayer meeting, and on Sunday morning at services. Fundamentalism perked all over North Carolina after World War I. Churchgoers quickened their step. Jesse's friend Gilmer Clontz remembers: "Everybody went to church. That was the social activity...
When not at home or church or school (where the children, all of them white, prayed daily), Helms seems to have lived one gamboling, summery pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines...