..........by Emily Adams What does it take to walk around the world? All it took for Bozy Adams was the resolve to just do it! He made the decision fifteen and one half years ago one spring day as he completed his tenth lap around the Garrison High School track. When asked what led him to begin such a daunting task, he remarked, "Since I walk around that track every day anyway, I thought it would be fun to set some ridiculous goal like Walking Around The World." On Monday, February 25, 2013, Bozy completed the last lap of his 25,000 mile goal before a cheering crowd of friends and relatives. That long ago spring day that he decided to "just do it" was 1997 which calculates to a total of fifteen and one half years and 100,000 laps. Bozy spent fifteen and one half years on his around-the-world walk and finished his last lap at age seventy-eight. Yes, Bozy Adams is an exceptional man. He has the resolve, endurance, energy, strength, perseverance and focus to Walk around the World on his high school track in the little east Texas town, Garrison, Texas. These same character traits and endurance qualities have influences every other aspect of his life including his career, his church attendance, his community work , and his relationships with his family and friends. When asked to name one accomplishments that he was most proud of, he quickly answered that he was very proud of his volunteerism at Garrison Nursing Home for which he was awarded Volunteer of the Year. "I sing with several different area church groups four times each week," he said, "and since I know most of the home's residents, it is a joy to see their faces light up when we visit with them and sing their favorite hymns." Volunteerism takes a big chunk of Bozy's time with sixteen visits per month to the Garrison Nurshing Home; his weekly church activities, which he never misses; his Lions Club activities for which he has received a Life Membership and a Citizens of the Year Award; his 49-year membership on the Attoyac Bayou Watershed Authority and his 40-year service as district director on the Soil and Water Conservation Board. His membership and perseverance on the two previously mentioned boards precipitated the completion of beautiful Lake Naconiche and Park located between Garrison and Nacogdoches. In explanation about why he is so involved, he explained that he likes people and enjoys the interaction and association in many areas of his East Texas life and culture. At age twenty-six Bozy was elected to the Board of Decons of Garrison First Baptist Church. He had always been faithfut about Sunday school and church attendance, and during his school years had accumulated nine straight years without missing Sunday services. When members of his high school graduating class planned a Sunday morning departure for their senior trip to Hot Springs Arkansas, Bozy announced that he wouldn't be able to go because he couldn't miss church. He wouldn't waver from his committment to church attendance, so the class delayed to their departure for Arkansas to Monday morning. At one point in Bozy's church life he committed to teaching a young boy's Sunday school class. With Bozy's backgrond in science education, the class spent a lot of time discussed the magnificence and beauty of God's world and the grace and goodness of Jesus Christ. After class one Sunday, one student asked, "Mr. Adams you have told us all about heaven and Jesus and God, but you never tell us anything about the Devil and where he lives exactly." Bozy is the youngest son in a family of twelve siblings. He explained that perseverance and endurance may have been a necessary character trait for survive in a family the size of his. "We had a