Those nights with a Knight of Georgia

Those nights with a Knight of Georgia

Lewis Grizzard, Vince Dooley and I came to the University of Georgia in 1964. The football team was turning around and it was a great time to be there, but I didn’t meet Lewis until the mid-1970s after coming home to Valdosta and going to work for the bank. A friend of mine was an investment banker with an Atlanta bank and we, as a “country bank,” did a lot of business with them. Several of us young bankers around the state became friends and we…