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changed allowing employees to apply unused sick leave towardtheir retirement. Her intimate knowledge of the recordsmade her help indispensable, and she worked part-time forfour more years updating those files and assisting those whohad taken her place.At first, she tried to attain her dream of a college degree.“I would go to work, get off at five, and go straight to theprison to classes til about ten o’clock at night,” she recalled.“When the professor said, ‘You all have to give at least a dayor two a month to go to the library at Georgia Southern,’ Iknew that it was more important that I work and let my childrengo to college. So, I didn’t go myself, but I worked sothat my children could.”It was in trying to provide educational opportunitiesfor her children that Tatum stumbled uponthe door to the world of travel. After the turbulent1960s, many school systems had stopped offeringtravel opportunities for high school students, butLyndal wanted to be sure her daughter Kay had asenior trip in 1976.“I decided I would do it and be responsible,”she remembered. “They wanted to go to the Bahamason a cruise, so we did. Also, that year was whenKennon’s cousin in Swainsboro had children whoattended David Emanuel Academy. They were doinga spring trip to Williamsburg, Washington, D.C.,and Monticello. They asked us if would we like togo and take our children. We wanted them to seeall that, so we did that trip and had a wonderfultime.”This was when Tatum met Kevin and BobMulvihill, travel agents based in Jacksonville,Florida. She talked with the brothers about the typesof travel opportunities offered through their agency,and her long-suppressed urge to see the world wasrekindled.“When we got home, people told us, ‘We wouldlove to have done that trip; why didn’t you tell usabout it?’” Lyndal remembered. “That trip had beenlimited, but I asked them, ‘Would you really travelif you had the chance?’” and they said ‘Yes.’ It waslike the Lord laid it in my lap.”It was these experiences that led to the foundingof the Tattnall Travelers group.“We’re like a private club; we don’t advertise,”she explained. “The new people who come in, welike for them to be of the same mind, not folks whostay out all night and can’t go the next day. We getnew members in the group when someone else inthe group brings them in.”The Travelers began by taking bus trips that werelimited to nine days, two weekends and the weekin between. Tatum said one trip would barely be48Mature Living Winter Editionover before group members would start asking when andwhere the next one would take place.“It was usually one trip per year, the first week of October.We started branching out because we wanted to go farther,so we started flying. Sometimes we’d find a trip thatwould take twelve days, or more. Everybody would do that,and we just kept going.”As the membership grew, Tatum experimented with takingtwo buses, finally deciding to go one-bus-at-a-time.“The lines were too long; it wasn’t smooth traveling,” sherecalled. “I don’t like to make people wait. So I would gowith one group, then come back and go with the other. ThatContinued on page 50
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