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instructor by the Georgia Peace OfficeStandards and Training Council. A past president of the Georgia Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, Brother Boynton is a former director of the Athens Boys Club and the Athens-Clarke County United Way and was scoutmaster for a Boy Scout troop. Eta Iota Lambda is extremely proud of one of its own initiates who has truly made his mark as an Alpha Man.

Brother Asa Boynton

U of Georgia's top cop Brother ASA T. BOYNTON, who has served in the public safety division for 13 years, has been named Director of Public Safety at the University of Georgia. The Board of Regents approved the appointment of Boynton, 38, who has been associate director since 1979. The Public Safety Division includes the University Police Department; a Traffic Safety Department; an Environmental Safety Services Department; and the Northeast Georgia Police Academy. Brother Boynton joined the Public Safety Division in 1969 as a police officer and served as a lieutenant and a sergeant. He was director of Operation Catch-Up and Assistant Director of Public Safety for three years. He was Chief of the Community Relations Division in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Public Safety Agency for nine months in 1973. As Associate Director of Public Safety, Boynton was also acting university Police Chief for more than a year. Brother Boynton holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Fort Valley State College, a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Georgia and is a university candidate for a doctorate in Public Administration. He has taken training courses through the FBI National Academy, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Georgia Police Academy and the Northeast Georgia Police Academy, and has been certified as an

Brother John Tarlton

Designer symbolizes equality As a boy growing up in Topeka in the 1940s, Brother JOHN TARLTON knew segregation first-hand. After years of attending all-Black public schools, he grew to regard the theory of separate but equal as an "erroneous notion." Forty years later, he has conveyed his feelings about segregation and the momentous court decision that labeled it unconstitutional by designing a bronze sculpture that now graces the foyer of the Washburn University School of Law. Bernice King, daughter of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., was in Topeka The Sphinx/Fall 1984


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