A Georgia Council of Chiropractic

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By the end of 1982, the GCC had successfully completed its first annual convention and had appointed legislative and peer review committees. Three bills had been drafted to be present to the 1983 legislative bodies. Virgil Smith, a past member of the Georgia House of Representatives, had been named as the GCC legislative advisor, a position he has continuously held until the present. The council had grown to a membership of well over 100. The second annual fall convention and license renewal seminar featured Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., author, lecturer, and critic of the modern-day practice of medicine. Also speaking at the convention was Judge Effie A. Mahan, administrative law judge for the Georgia State Board of Worker's Compensation. Judge Mahan spoke on workman's compensation as it applies to chiropractic practices in Georgia. The GCC Newsletter was begun in 1984. This publication has become the regular bimonthly organ of the GCC and is edited by the Executive Director, Dr. Mildred L. Kimbrough. Dr. Kimbrough was first appointed to the position of executive director in 1987 by then president Dr. Robert Ressmeyer. In 1988, after the GCC designated the week of September 18 - 24 as Chiropractic Week in Georgia, Georgia's Gov., Joe Frank Harris also proclaimed this time frame to be Chiropractic Week in honor of the 93rd anniversary of the chiropractic profession. On October 20, 1990, the GCC kicked off its first free Philosophy Night series. ...

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