Ms. Sharon Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Living Well-Spring 2001

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   Published on: 4/1/2001   Last Visited: 1/15/2003

   Sharon Anderson
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   Sharon Anderson, Emergency R.N./Trauma Coordinator, was named the Employee of the Year at Hutcheson Medical Center (HMC) for the year 2000. Sharon works in the Emergency Department as a trauma coordinator, but her duties at HMC far exceed her wonderful work within the ED.
   
   In most cases, a supervisor nominates an employee for the employee of the month honor, which puts them in the running for the yearly honor. In Sharon's case, however, there were several glowing recommendations from supervisors and co-workers alike, and each of them detailed Sharon's above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty attitude.
   
   Sharon serves as deputy coroner for Catoosa County and is active in the domestic violence task force. Oftentimes, she will work 12-hour shifts at the hospital and return at any hour to administer a sexual assault exam. She spends much of her off time serving the hospital in some capacity.
   
   One example of her caring and compassion occurred last summer when an elderly man traveling from Michigan to Florida had a heart attack and died while passing through the area. Sharon took the man's elderly wife and two cats into her home, consoling her on the loss and making her feel safe, until the woman's family members could arrive the next day.
   
   Sharon Anderson truly exemplifies Hutcheson Medical Center's tradition of caring.
   
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2. 2. www.residentialarchitect.com

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   Published on: 5/26/2007   Last Visited: 5/27/2007

   As a teenager, Sharon Anderson often visited her grandmother at rooms the older woman rented in the residence for a first lieutenant at the 6th Cavalry Post in Fort Oglethorpe. When it went up for sale 25 years ago, Ms. Anderson's husband bought it while she was out of town, she said.
   
   "I love old stuff -- furniture, clothes, houses," said Ms. Anderson, 59, a registered nurse who serves as deputy coroner for Catoosa County. "This house's historical significance is important to me."
   
   Like all the officers' quarters on the Post, the 3,500-square-foot home was erected between 1900 and 1905, according to Ms. Anderson. "It cost the federal government $10,500 to build it," she said.
   
   Designed as a duplex with Victorian shingle details, it has cypress siding, an asbestos-tile roof and solid-copper gutters. Its interior features include heart-pine floors, extensive oak trim work, pocket doors, brass hardware and four fireplaces, with ornate oak mantels, beveled mirrors, cast-iron fire doors and brightly colored tile hearths and surrounds. Its ceilings are 91/2 feet high.
   
   But its original two-family configuration bowed to a post-war four-unit conversion when area housing was scarce, according to Ms. Anderson. "It brought $8,000 at auction in 1948," she said.
   
   The remodeling entailed turning the two butler's pantries into first-floor bathrooms and adding a pair of kitchens to the new apartments, efforts largely reversed during Ms. Anderson's occupancy.
   
   "When I moved in, the porch rails had been removed, but it was too expensive to have (1900s-style) replacements milled, so I put up railings close to what the originals would have been," she said.
   
   She also enclosed separate porches at the rear of the house to form a spacious sun room that afforded interior access to both wings (the earlier duplex units) of the dwelling. The ingenious move "allows me to get to either side of the house without having to go outdoors," Ms. Anderson said.
   
   In her quarter-century of residence, she has made other modifications ranging from installing gas logs in what were originally coal-burning fireplaces to hanging period-faithful wallpaper in several rooms where the 1900s plaster was too damaged for costly repairs.
   
   "I've added central heat-and-air and made some wiring upgrades, but the plumbing is original," Ms. Anderson said. "So are the claw-foot tubs, pedestal sinks and bead board in the bathrooms."
   
   At the time of her purchase, few of the turn-of-the-last-century light fixtures remained from the home's gas-light days, she said. But several radiators from its steam-heat era had survived previous remodeling projects, including one in the dining room that's topped by a warming oven.
   
   The closets still boast rows of brass hooks that predate the advent of clothes hangers, according to Ms. Anderson. Other nostalgic features are the "trunk rooms," once used to store the large trunks that contained personal belongings of military occupants who may have moved into furnished lodgings, "at least, that's my theory," she said.
   
   With a careful eye to the home's 1979 inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, Ms. Anderson said she has adhered to preservation guidelines where alterations have been concerned.
   
   Still, she's imprinted her personality on the landmark that's also been a family's living space.
   
   Its furnishings are an eclectic mix of antiques and modern elements. A 1920s Roper gas range and a Mother Hubbard cupboard share kitchen space with sleek appliances in trendy onyx hues. Victorian-era toys in the sun room await the visits of grandchildren who also can lounge in the nearby hot tub.
   
   But after 25 years in the house, Ms. Anderson said she is looking to downsize. If each structurally defined space in the home is counted, it has 19 rooms on its four stories -- levels that she knows, as a registered nurse, may get harder to navigate in advancing age.
   
   "I realize times change," she said.

3. 3. ChildWelfare.net - Letter from Advocacy Retreat Participants to Governor Roy Barnes

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   Last Visited: 6/13/2006

   Sharon Anderson , Deputy Coroner, Catoosa Co. Ga. , 12/7/2000.