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Georgia vs. Florida 2022
Georgia vs. Florida 2022
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PROUST<br />
Q&A<br />
BY: CAROLINE CHAMPION<br />
PIERCE CANNON<br />
NAME: Pierce Cannon<br />
FAMILY: Cassandra; Finnegan (8), Mary Pierce (6), Jude (4), TBD<br />
(10/7/22).<br />
HOMETOWN: Savannah, Georgia.<br />
CURRENT TOWN: Savannah, Georgia.<br />
WHAT YEARS AT UGA: 2001-2006.<br />
SCHOOL/DEGREE: Family and Consumer Sciences/<br />
Consumer Economics.<br />
PROFESSION: Mortgage banker with Synovus.<br />
ACCOLADES: Selected to write the epitaph for Philip<br />
Zaehdarm.<br />
WHAT LIFE LESSONS DID YOU LEARN WHILE AT<br />
UGA?<br />
Managing expectations.<br />
WHAT PROFESSOR DID YOU MOST ADMIRE?<br />
Professor Joseph Sabia because he went to Cornell and liked to<br />
remind our class he went to Cornell. Great hair too.<br />
WHICH HISTORICAL FIGURE DO YOU MOST<br />
IDENTIFY WITH?<br />
Sisyphus.<br />
WHO ARE YOUR HEROES IN REAL LIFE?<br />
My mother, Connie Cannon, and my father, Bobby Cannon.<br />
Their unwavering Catholic faith and adherence to simple life<br />
philosophies centered around family, humor, honesty, and<br />
generosity have given me the tools I need to be a husband,<br />
father, and productive member of society.<br />
My wife of 11 years and girlfriend of 19 years, Cassandra Cannon<br />
class of ’08. She is an incredible mother to our three, soon to be<br />
four children, and my best friend and confidant. After graduating<br />
from UGA in ’08 with a degree in Biology and Psychology and<br />
acceptance into Mercer Medical School, Cassandra took a<br />
leap of faith and started a women’s apparel company called<br />
Lake Pajamas with her friend and business partner, Anne Read<br />
Latimore. They’ve gone from selling their pajamas out of one<br />
store in downtown Savannah to a large e-commerce business<br />
with their own retail locations in Atlanta and Charleston. All of<br />
this while raising three children and pregnant with a fourth. She<br />
transcends time and space.<br />
QUOTE TO LIVE BY:<br />
“It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear<br />
never beginning to live’ – Marcus Aurelius<br />
WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS?<br />
Sitting on Tybee Island Beach as the sun is going down with my<br />
wife and kids, my parents, my siblings, their spouses and children.<br />
We have a cooler of freezing cold Budweisers, fried chicken and<br />
boiled peanuts. My brothers are down 4-15 to me and my dad on<br />
the bocce court and we have a leaner.<br />
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR GREATEST<br />
ACHIEVEMENT?<br />
Holding Kwame Brown to six points.<br />
WHAT IS YOUR MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC?<br />
I love to dance.<br />
WHAT DO YOU MOST VALUE IN YOUR FRIENDS?<br />
Being there. I have a very close core group of friends and even<br />
though the time in between visits seems to grow we all show up<br />
for each other and showing up is half the battle.<br />
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT<br />
YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE?<br />
I care too much.<br />
WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE WRITERS?<br />
Epictetus with his classic, “The Enchiridion of Epictetus.” It<br />
provides the pillars on how to live life, concerning yourself with<br />
only what you can control.<br />
FAVE SOCIAL MEDIA AND WHO TO FOLLOW?<br />
Instagram and the @lakepajamas account. I’m not above a<br />
shameless plug for my wife and fellow Bulldogs’ company.<br />
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