For a young man, John Clayton Foster, of Cornelia, has already made his mark in the field of radio communications. He is at present vice president and general manager of the Habersham Broadcasting Company, which covers Habersham County - and uses, interestingly enough, the call letters of the Old Constitution Station of Atlanta; "WCON." He is also serving as a dirctor of most of the important civic organizations of Cornelia and Habersham County, and is on several important radio and television committees and organizations throughout Georgia.

Mr Foster is a native of Cornelia, born there Apr 2, 1935, into a well established Georgia family. His father, Haskell Callaway Foster, Jr., was born in Towns Co., Ga., July 28, 1911. His mother, Essie Mae (Purcell) Foster, was born in Banks Co., Ga.,, Nov 11, 1913. John Clayton Foster went to school in Habersham Co., and graduated from the South Habersham County High School. He then attended Piedmont College. He joined the Army when he was eighteen, in 1953, and served until 1955. Even in high school he had been interested in radio and on his release from the service he went into it in earnest. Joining the Habersham Broadcasting Company, he rose to his present position as vice president and general manager in a very short time.

With his intense interest in promoting the Habersham Co-Cornelia area, Mr. Foster devotes a great deal of time to organizations with that aim in view. He is a president of the Chamber of Commerce, and also a director of the Cornelia Retail Merchants Association; a director of the Habersham Rotary Club, and past secretary and treasurer of the Optimist Club.

In the communications field, Mr. Foster is a director of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, and is chairman of the Education Committee of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. He has served on the Committee of the Radio-Television Institute at the University of Georgia, was a member of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Institute committee of Athens, Georgia, for two years, and was also on the staff of the Henry W Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia Radio and Education Institute. He takes an active interest in politics and was a delegate to the Democratic Executive State Convention of Georgia. He is a member of the First Baptist Church. He is also a member of Governor Sanders' staff.

Mrs. Foster, the former Bobbie Helen Carpenter of Baldwin, Georgia, is an active member of the Cornelia community in her own right. She is a graduate of Peidmont College, cum laude, and holds her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Peidmont. She received her Master of Arts Degree from the University of Georgia, and is presently teaching English at the South Habersham High School. In her free time, in the summers, she attended Mercer University for post graduate work, in music. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi Society and is a member of the First Baptist Church, where she is the church organist. Mrs. Foster's father, R L Carpenter, was born in Macon Co., NC, July 6, 1908. Her mother, Lorena (Boling) Carpenter, was born in Banks, Co., Georgia, June 28, 1906.

Mr. and Mrs. Foster were married March 23, 1958, in Cornelia, Georgia, and have one son, John Clayton Foster, jr., born Feb 18, 1963, in Hall County Hospital, Gainesville, Georgia.

Source:
"Georgia Through Two Centuries" book

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