earl goode ‘62 wins good scout award Alumnus, trustee, and former board chair Earl A. Goode
‘62 received the Thomas W. Moses Good Scout Award
on June 1, presented by the Crossroads of America Council, Boy Scouts of America, during its 31st Annual Scouting Awards Dinner. The award is one of four given by the council to recognize outstanding service and commitment to youth. Goode and his wife, Vicki, also a GC graduate, have one daughter.
ABOVE: Black History Month: Artifacts from the Underground Railroad are viewed by students following a talk by historian Jerry Gore of the National Underground Railroad Museum, Inc. LEFT: Dr. Lynn Robson, Tutor in English at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, returned to deliver the annual McCandless Lecture, started when Georgetown College and Regent’s Park College formed a partnership in 1999.
WINNIE BRATCHER RECEIVES REGISTRAR EMERITUS TITLE Hired as Registrar in 1981, Mrs. Bratcher retired on June 30 of this year. “Supporting students has been the focus of my 34 years at Georgetown,” Mrs. Bratcher commented. “The Registrar desk is a catbird seat. From there, one can see possibilities to create the missing piece in the degree completion puzzle a student might be working on. I had the opportunity to struggle with a number of them, and I cherish the thank you notes I found when I cleaned out my office in June.” When she came to Georgetown College, registration was in Alumni Gym, with faculty sitting at long tables and students lined up to sign a sheet to register for each class. Later, GC experimented with advisors using the phone to call the Registrar’s Office with schedules they and the advisee had agreed on, a practice “that didn’t work - there weren’t enough phones to handle the calls!” Bratcher said. Registration at Georgetown College went online in 2000. “My (then) assistant, Tom Cannon, and I spent many hours working with ITS creating the online registration procedures. At first, we registered during the day, but the students cut classes to register and, of course, the faculty complained. So that is why students start registering at 7 a.m.!” What’s next for the Registrar Emeritus? “Right now I have many tasks waiting that I did not get finished before I officially left my desk,” she said, noting that the past year has been extremely busy. Mrs. Bratcher also plans to be available as needed to assist Georgetown College’s new registrar, Dr. Bryan Crawley, as he transitions to his position. “We are so grateful that Mrs. Bratcher will be continuing to lend her expertise and experience to the Registrar’s Office,” said Dr. Rosemary Allen, Provost. “Her understanding of institutional history is unmatched. But I am also so glad that after so many years of tireless service, she will have time for her family and for herself. We all wish her joy in her retirement, she has earned it!”
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