Fulton Schools to honor bus drivers at luncheon

Fleet manager Charles Smith is reflected in a side mirror while going over a detecting system that can warn drivers there is an object near their bus at the Carroll Pitts Jr. Transportation Center in Marietta. Attention to school bus safety has heightened after students were killed in a Chattanooga bus crash. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com

Credit: Curtis Compton

Credit: Curtis Compton

Fleet manager Charles Smith is reflected in a side mirror while going over a detecting system that can warn drivers there is an object near their bus at the Carroll Pitts Jr. Transportation Center in Marietta. Attention to school bus safety has heightened after students were killed in a Chattanooga bus crash. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com

Some 150 Fulton County Schools bus drivers will be recognized ahead of the new school year for their extraordinary service, officials said.

The Fulton Education Foundation, Family First Credit Union, NAPA Atlanta and the Atlanta Falcons are sponsoring the 11th annual Fulton’s Finest luncheon, where drivers will be honored for perfect attendance and accident-free driving records. The luncheon will take place Aug. 3 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel, 100 CNN Center in Atlanta, beginning at 11:30 a.m.

Those being recognized will be driven to the event in their buses, chauffeured by their supervisors.

District officials said this year’s honorees are:

Alvin Adams

Carlyle Adams

Aneb Ahmed

Paul Ames

Tonie Anderson

Deborah Ansa

JoAnn Ardoin

Valorie Arnold

Thomas Austin

Maria Baker

Quinton Barrett

Gwendolyn Baugh

Janice Belk

Eugene Bettineschi

Kidner Boursiquot

Robin Bower

Georgia Bowers

Renita Bridges

Elisa Brosnan

Alondra Bush

Jane Butler

Jacqueline Carpenter

Homer Causey

Surette Chappel

David Chester

Jean Chrispin

Betty Christian

Miriam Cirilo

Robert Clayton

Shanta Clayton

Akielia Cobb

Gail Coleman

Jaime Cordova

Rene Cousineau

Candysha Cutchin

Mohamed Dari

Nicholas Davis

Daniel Day

Linda Dobson

Phyllis Dorsey

Wendell Duncan

Bernadette English

Lincoln Farmer

Kenneth Ferrara

Lauren Renee Ferrari

Terri Fitzhugh

Terry Fitzhugh

Renna Flanagan

Campbell Forde

Nancy Freeman

Paula Freeman

George Freemon

Kimberly Gaines

Travlis Gardner

Jennifer Gilmer

LeTeisha Gober

Delanna Gooden

Eartha Gordon

Patricia Greene

Daphne Guillory

Martha Halcomb

Vivian Hawkins

Bridget Henderson

Cheowana Henderson

Stacie Hood

Marsha Ivey

Josthene Jaboin

Danielle Japps

Philome Jean

Rosalind Jenkins

Roger Johnson

Thomas Johnson

Johnny Jones

Kay Kenney

Jalandra King

Cedrica Kinney

William Kirstein

Robert Large

Felder Legendre

Patrisha Littles

Katrina Lorzeme

Ronald Lowenthal

Ismeta Manov

Martha Martin

Peter Martin III

Bobby Mason

Cardell Matthews

Scott Matthews

Alicia McClarity

Laverne McClusky

Pamela McTizic

Ruth Mireles

Verline Mister

Johnny Moise

Marie Moise

Gloria Moore

Susan Moore

Sherry Nichols

Nicole Nobles

Daniel Pankarcan

Robert Patton

Larry Peeks

Francisco Perez

Mary Phillips

Barbara Price

Twila Pryor

Delois Ray

Rita Rhymes

Nancy Richards

James Ripley

Robin Rittenhouse

Mozart Saintvil

Richard Saunders

Frederick Seabrook

Carolyn Seda

Vanessa Shepherd

Stephen Siegmann

William Simmons

Richard Sleppy

Donald Smith

Elizabeth Smith

Hewett Smith

Mary Smith

Tammy Stokes-Kuykendoll

Tammy Streeter

Charles Strickland

Mary Strickland

Bruce Sweeden

Susan Teague-O'Neal

Cecile Thurman

Keisha Tilghman

Karen Tolivar

Pauline Travis

Mary Trower

Alan Truesdell

Gary Tudeen

Christian Turner

Linda Tussing

Katrina Upshaw

Kathy Warden

Stephanie Warrior

Ruby Whitaker

Robert Wilkinson

Jimmie Williams

Linda Williams

Jack Wilson

Carl Winn

Patricia Woodley

Amber Worthy

Gary Worthy