YMCA Director Retires, Teary Eyed
After a 32-year career, with the last 10 at the Fowler YMCA as Executive Director, Debbie Sutton is retiring.
For the past decade Debbie Sutton, executive director for the Robert D. Fowler YMCA, has walked through the front doors of the Peachtree Corners Y, greeting everyone with a smile. But Monday was the last time she would open those glass doors and stride past the front desk. The Y's leader was officially retiring. Sutton, announced earlier this month that she would be taking early retirement to care for her 93-year-old mother who lives in Charleston, SC and is in poor health. To say this was a tramatic day for Sutton, who at 58, has hardly reached retirement age, would be an understatement. "I'm going to miss everyone," Sutton said as her eyes welled up with tears. "I look at the staff and the board as friends -- so I'm going to miss my …
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