Chris Schroder – Moments

Bill Tush’s 30-year TV career began the lucky Moment he stopped by Channel 17 for a job

Date: May 21st, 2012, 1:35 pm

For 30 years, Bill Tush was a comic fixture on Ted Turner’s SuperStation Channel 17, but it wouldn’t have happened had it not been for his Moment in 1974 when he walked into what was then a struggling alternative TV station and asked for a job.

“One weekend I was watching this local television station that ran all these great movies but they were in such bad shape – they were scratchy I remember – but they were all the old great black-and-white films that I’ve always loved,” Bill said. “I was hooked on this television station. But the station was so bad I thought I could get a job there.”

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Milton Little’s Moment was a little girl’s kiss that eventually led to a career with United Way

Date: May 14th, 2012, 5:17 pm

Milton Little Jr. was working for a nonprofit education and social policy research organization in New York City in 1989, when his outreach to the disadvantaged suddenly got up close and personal.

“I felt I was doing a good job of giving back because of my profession,” he said in our accompanying video. “She decided she was going to crawl in my lap, she put her arms around me and kissed me on my cheek and told me to ‘keep reading.’ ”
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Hope Arbery’s Moment returned her to a childhood passion and began a home-based business

Date: May 7th, 2012, 3:58 pm

Hope Arbery was a young successful real estate attorney when she was assigned a case for which law school did not prepare her: how to balance the demands of a growing practice with her developing desire to stay home raising two young boys.

Deliberating the issue while at home on an extended break from the firm, Hope’s Moment occurred when her next door neighbor called, asking if Hope knew anyone who could help complete her commercial sewing project that was derailed after the neighbor broke her arm. It was a serendipitous call for both. Continue reading →

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Bo Jackson’s Moment was deciding which path to follow after his 16-year-old son died unexpectedly

Date: April 30th, 2012, 3:34 pm

Bo Jackson was driving urgently down New Providence Road in Alpharetta on the foggy, rainy election night of November 7, 2006, hoping and praying his – and any parent’s – worst nightmare was not about to unfold before his eyes.

Bo’s Moment wasn’t when his son Parker died; it occurred months afterwards. “I was forced with a decision and a choice,” he says in our accompanying Moments video, filmed at Parker’s grave. “How was I gonna react to this tragedy? Was I gonna to let it bury me or was I going to rise above it?”
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Lisa Borders’ Moment helping to integrate Westminster provided life and career lessons

Date: April 23rd, 2012, 5:40 pm

Seventh grade can be an awkward time for any student, but for former Atlanta City Council President and current Grady Foundation President Lisa Borders, helping to integrate an independent private school in Atlanta made it especially challenging.

“What I learned is that I had the capacity not only be at that school, but to excel, and it taught me to deal with adverse circumstances, always,” Lisa said. “So there I had to stay focused on getting my diploma, regardless of what others thought. What was important was how I responded.”
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Tom Key’s Moment was choosing between Atlanta and a great job offer in the bright lights of New York

Date: April 16th, 2012, 7:20 pm

Tom Key has graced Atlanta audiences with many dramatic productions at Theatrical Outfit and the Alliance Theater, but the curtains rose on his own dramatic Moment 26 years ago when he was offered a chance to lead a theater in New York City.

With echoes of nightly off-Broadway standing ovations for his one-man show still ringing in his head, Tom instead chose to nurture his talents in Atlanta – his “home place in the American South.”
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Bob Voyles’ Moment was hearing Atlanta’s traffic would prevent his daughter’s return

Date: April 9th, 2012, 4:18 pm

Bob Voyles has spent much of his career developing signature buildings that grace Atlanta’s prime intersections and highways, so “it was like a fire bell going off in my head” when his daughter Virginia revealed she wasn’t moving back to her hometown because of Atlanta’s growing congestion.

“This was a huge surprise to me, because I love Atlanta and worked here nearly 40 years and my family is from here and always expected my children to want to embrace the city that I loved,” Bob recalled in our accompanying video. Continue reading →

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Joyce Fownes’ Moment transformed her – just as her design team transforms workspaces

Date: April 2nd, 2012, 3:27 pm

Joyce Fownes has completely transformed the workspace of many of her firm’s clients, proving again and again that interior design can alter how employees interact with each other.

Ironically, she found herself completely transformed one recent Easter morning when she felt spiritual “lightning” travel through her body. She hasn’t been the same since – at home or at work.
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Joel Babbit isn’t sure he even believes in Moments, but finally picked a Mother of one

Date: March 26th, 2012, 4:00 pm

Having now published a dozen installments of Moments and being on the cusp of April Fools Day, it seemed an appropriate time to visit with Joel Babbit, the ever-inventive viceroy of Atlanta’s creative scene.
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John Pruitt’s first TV Moments went national, sparking his award-winning career

Date: March 19th, 2012, 5:22 pm

As a longtime news anchor on Atlanta’s top-rated television stations, John Pruitt narrated and often embodied the tumultuous events that punctuated our last half-century. On July 4, 1964, John stood next to a colleague at a segregationist rally when four young African-American men wandered in, inciting a melee in the stands. John’s colleague handed him a video camera, quickly showed him how to press the button to record on film and pushed him in the direction of the battle and into his own Moment of journalistic fate.
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