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The renovation of the Morgan Tennis Center is nearer completion every day. Take a look at the photographs to see the progress being made toward completion in early fall. The $3.5 million project is one of the most exciting happening on Jekyll Island at this time.
The advancements on the inside of the Morgan Center building shows dramatic strides with the installation of the elevator and the main components of the Mezzanine on the south end of the building. When completed, the newly transformed facility will have 4,900 square feet of conference space on the main level and 1600 square feet on the mezzanine. The lower level alone can accommodate 400 people; the mezzanine, another 120 more.
The state-of-the-art kitchen facility that is being constructed adjacent to the Morgan Center is rapidly taking shape. The studs and wall facings are in place, and the various sub-systems and their individual components are being integrated. This facility will accommodate the banquet requirements for Morgan Center events where the culinary and banquets service staffs will maintain the hotel’s standard of excellence.
Exterior work in progress includes replacement of the roofing and the wooden shakes on the exterior walls of the Morgan Center. The finished project will emulate the appearance of the Morgan Tennis Center. A significant part of the historic district, the building was originally constructed in 1929 and functioned as an indoor tennis court until the mid 1990’s.
For more information about the Morgan Center for conferences, weddings or special events, contact the Jekyll Island Club Hotel Sales Department at 912-635-2600, extension 1070, or email sales@jekyllclub.com. |
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Congratulations to Thomas Layton of Clearfield, Utah! His image, “Jekyll Poppies,” has won the Jekyll Island Club Hotel Photo Contest for July. Mr. Layton’s prize is two nights’ accommodations at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel.
Mr. Layton’s photograph will appear on Flickr as well as other social media and promotional publications of the Hotel. “Jekyll Poppies” was taken March 15 and features the beautiful landscaping and croquet greensward as well as the turret and front of this National Historic Landmark. Spring is one of the most beautiful seasons to visit.
You may have some exceptional images in your collection, too. Share your best shot of your Jekyll Island visit with us and be eligible to win a two nights' stay at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. The contest is held monthly, and the winners are announced in issues of this newsletter and appear on Flickr and other social media.
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Flickr is an image hosting website, web services suite, and online community. An exciting way to share and embed photographs, it's also a service used by bloggers to host images they embed in blogs and social media.
To enter the Jekyll Island Club Hotel contest is this easy. Email your still image entry to flickrcontest@jekyllclub.com as an attachment. In the email, be sure to include the following information:
Name of the photographer
Contact information: phone number, email address, and mailing address
Caption of still image
Date the image was captured
Permission for the Jekyll Island Club Hotel to use the image on Flickr,
Facebook, and for hotel marketing and promotions.
Contestants may enter one image each month, and the image must have been taken by the
contestant on Jekyll Island.
Visit us on Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. |
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The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, with its beautiful architecture and picturesque landscaping, is the setting for many romantic stories, weddings, and anniversaries. We’d like to share a recent one with you.
It was an enchanted summer, the summer after her sophomore year at Florida State, 1957, and his junior year at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, NC.
Dean Auten, a North Carolinian who had previously worked summers at a textile mill, was not completely happy. One day on his day off, he took his mother to Charlotte to shop and while she was doing that, Dean stopped by an employment agency. He learned about openings at a millionaire’s retreat on Jekyll Island and thought that might be just the place for him. He applied and was hired as a bellman for the summer.
Elaine was one of the few local people hired to work at the Jekyll Island Club that season. Her interview went well, and she was considered, for her first job, to work at the front desk and the switchboard.
Happy with the way things had gone for her, Elaine was walking down the front steps, and she noticed a handsome bellman coming up. He said hello, they chatted, and he offered to walk her to her car. “I thought he was very good looking and felt that I might like him to carry my luggage for the rest of my life,” says Elaine about their meeting.
While Dean and Elaine were working at the Jekyll Island Club that summer, they had some wonderful times. “Even then,” Elaine says, “The Jekyll Island Club was gorgeous. It didn’t look like anything else I had ever seen, certainly not in Brunswick. The closest to it was the Oglethorpe Hotel down town.” Dean and Elaine remember the Saturday night dances at the Club in the Grand Dining Room. They also recall occasional night time rides with the park ranger when a small group of employees would scout the beach with him for turtle poachers. Elaine recalls telling Dean about childhood trips to Jekyll Island when she and her family came to the island by boat before the causeway was built in 1954.
That fall Elaine returned to Florida State, and he to Appalachian State Teachers College. They continued their relationship long distance, and when he finished college, he moved to Tallahassee to be near her. They were married after Elaine’s graduation.
For a while, Dean was an instructor in Brunswick at the Perry Business School before entering the insurance business, and eventually Elaine opened a custom drapery shop in Brunswick in the same building as one of Dean’s insurance offices. The couple, who has three sons, have continued to be very happy these 50 years together.
The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration July 17th, on the Hotel’s Riverfront Veranda where they met, was a gala occasion. “We’ve had such fun planning everything, said Elaine. “Our family and friends from church, our business, college friends, and just good friends from over the years came to our celebration. I’ve had some wonderful phone conversations with some I haven’t seen in years. We asked Mike Hulett to provide the music, saxophone and keyboard. He played our favorites from the summer Dean and I met. We really loved hearing ‘Honky-Tonk Angel’ again,” said Elaine. The gathering of family and friends celebrated the marriage and happy lives of two who met at the Jekyll Island Club, on that same veranda, more than 50 years ago.
To see testimonials from others who have planned anniversary celebrations and other social events at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, check here. |
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www.jekyllclub.com
371 Riverview Drive Jekyll Island, GA 31527
1-800-535-9547 |
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