03 Feb 2024 PTCRC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE NORMER ADAMS
Normer Adams has been a member of the Peachtree City Running Club since 1993. He served as Club Treasurer during the period 2013-2105. He took over the duties and responsibilities of Treasurer during a time of turmoil and his financial stewardship ensured and preserved the fiscal solvency of the club.
Normer is an admitted middle-of-the-pack runner. However, he is known for his uncanny ability to hold a pace with computer accuracy. At Monthly Run Social events where predicting the elapsed time or predicting your own time is the goal, Normer is invariably the winner because he is always within a few seconds of the correct time!
But what Normer is especially known and appreciated for is the fact that he has served as the Club Photographer for the past 30+ years. During that time, he has taken tens of thousands of photographs at a multitude of club events and races.
For many years, the club photos were made available on the Shutterfly photo sharing website. When Shutterfly announced in 2021 that they were discontinuing their service and shutting down the website, Normer stepped forward to transfer all of the photos to a new photo sharing web page. He spent countless hours, days, weeks, and months transferring tens of thousands of photos. By doing so, he was able to preserve an important legacy and documentation of club history. Normer’s legacy of service to the club was not his only contribution, but an extension of his lifetime service to his fellow man. Normer has also agreed to digitize and post the club yearbooks which also span decades.
Normer’s selfless service extends far beyond his volunteerism with and for the club. For 23 years, his full-time job was to serve as an advocate for children in metro Atlanta. He worked as a lobbyist for agencies that served children, looking out for the welfare for society’s youngest.
When he retired in 2013, Adams pursued a different past-time — albeit still a helpful one that continued his community service. This time he combined a relatively newfound interest in climbing trees with creatures that needed a specific kind of help: cats stuck in trees. Since April 2017 when he started his feline rescue business — aptly dubbed Cat Man Do — Adams has saved over 1,240 cats stuck in trees. He has made rescues throughout the southeast region in all types of weather and all hours of the day and night. And he has done all this without any compensation. His exploits have been featured in numerous local, state, regional, and national media outlets including People Magazine and the Ellen DeGeneres show. He was recently invited to speak at a national Cat Fancier convention in Minnesota to teach his tree climbing techniques to other cat rescuers.
Accordingly, in appreciation of his dedicated service to the club and by unanimous acclamation of the Hall of Fame Nominating Committee, Normer Adams is hereby inducted into the Peachtree City Running Club 2024 Hall of Fame. He is also concurrently being awarded the RRCA Outstanding Volunteer Award for over 10,000 hours of service to the club!