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1918 - Kiwanis Club of Atlanta - 2014 Celebrating 96 Years of Service MARCH 11, 2014 DENT THOMPSON, Vice President and COO Phoenix Air Group, Inc. Dent Thompson oversees the operations of Phoenix Air Group as Vice President and Chief Operations Of- ficer. Phoenix Air is a unique, international aircraft services company that offers solutions to a wide variety of air transportation and related aircraft service needs of in- dustry and government. With more than 40 aircraft and more than 200 employees working out of five states and Europe, Phoenix Air, began as a small air cargo company, founded by Thompson’s brother Mark. Working out of spare rooms in Mark’s basement, the small two-aircraft air cargo company began to grow and diversify, and move away from traditional air char- ter activities like passenger charter flights and air car- go, and began to focus on highly complex government air services contracts, highly regulated cargo such as explosives, radioactive materials and weapons systems transport, and international air ambulance missions. Thompson began his career as a staff writer at Walt Disney World. He later became the senior writer with a move to Assistant to the President of Walt Disney Out- door Entertainment Division. He worked exclusively for several years on the massive EPCOT Center con- struction project, which opened to the public in 1982. Thompson attended Northside High School, followed by Andrew College, Georgia State University and Uni- versity of Central Florida. He has several degrees in- cluding Mass Communications and Journalism. Introduction—Jim Wylie Invocation—Michael Butkus MARCH 18, 2014 EDWARD J. (TED) RYAN, The Coca-Cola Company “History of Coca-Cola” Ted Ryan is the Director, Heritage Communications and has managed the historical collections of The Coca- Cola Company since June 1997. He oversees an exten- sive collection of physical and digital artifacts that showcase the rich history of The Coca-Cola Company. He served as the Project Manager to restore, digitize and catalog over 25,000 historical ads for donation to the US Library of Congress, and was on the design team that developed the historical components of the World of Coca-Cola. Ryan wrote a book celebrating 100 years of Coca-Cola in Latin America, is a regular contributor to Coca-Cola Journey and engages consum- ers and customers via the Coca-Cola Archives Face- book and Twitter pages. He has served as spokesperson for programs on CNN, Food Network and Antiques Roadshow Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Ryan was at the Atlanta History Center for 10 years. His duties in- cluded curating the Atlanta Braves Museum at Turner Field, the Bobby Jones Golf Collection and creating the History Center’s first website. He also won an Emmy as Associate Producer and Researcher for a documentary on minor league baseball in the South. Ryan has a bachelor’s in history from Emory Universi- ty. He is a member of the Society of American Archi- vists, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Academy of Certified Archivists and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital Asset Management. Introduction— Angela Cassidy Invocation— Hank Fellows GEORGIA’S FIRST KIWANIS CLUB Volume 93 Number 11
