Welcome & Introductions Allison C. Ausband Senior Vice President of In-Flight Services Delta Air Lines Class of 2015 Board Member
Greetings from the University of Georgia Jere W. Morehead President, University of Georgia
Invocation & Lunch Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams Pastor Emerita, Morningside Presbyterian Church Class of 2010 Emeritus Board Member
The Impact of Need-Based Scholarships Gina Ford Coca-Cola First Generation Scholar Second-year Student, International Affairs
Nicholas Murray Need-Based Scholar Second-year Student, Intended Finance
Bonnie Joerschke Director, Office of Student Financial Aid University of Georgia
Dr. Naomi Norman Associate Vice President for Instruction University of Georgia
David Meyers Public Service Associate J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development University of Georgia
Kelly Margaret Vance Embark Program Fourth-year Student, Public Relations
Jere W. Morehead President, University of Georgia
Scott Williamson Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications Coca-Cola North America Class of 2016 Board Member
Announcements & Closing Remarks Allison C. Ausband Senior Vice President of In-Flight Services Delta Air Lines Class of 2015 Board Member
Class of 2017 Cyndae Arrendale Lillie Axelrod Angie Blank Jeff Cavender Lana Chumachenko Mike Donnelly Jeff Everett John Feltman Bart Gobeil Roger Hunter Otis Johnson Seth Knight Jay Markwalter Randy Martin Leslie Moore Mark Parker Karen Parker Monica Pearson Charles Peck Rogsbert Phillips- Reed Gene Rackley Tucker Sarkisian John Shlesinger David Sikes Greer Taylor Dixie Truelove David Werner Ridley Williams Milton Williams Mary Paul Yates Becky Young
Philanthropist Executive VP, Wells Fargo & Company Director, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Partner, Troutman Sanders, LLP Senior Asset Management Analyst, Chick-fil-A, Inc. Regional President, Wells Fargo & Company Co-Chief Investment Off. Global Core Equity, Invesco Inc. Chairman & CEO, Brookhaven Medical, Inc. COO, Office of Governor Nathan Deal Associate Director Programs & Projects, NASA Scholar in Residence, Savannah State University Partner, Knight Rawls, Inc. Director of Sales, Augusta Convention/Visitors Bureau Cardiologist, Piedmont Heart Institute Managing Director, Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. Financial Advisor, MMHP Investment Advisors Community Volunteer Television Broadcast Journalist, WSB-TV Atlanta President & CEO, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center Oncologist, Metro Surgical Associates, Inc. Director of Government Relations, Coca- Cola North America Director of Public Relations, Sweetwater Brewing Company Owner, Shlesinger Interests, Inc. Owner, Sikes Paper & Chemical Supply, Inc. Community Volunteer Vice President, Truelove Dairy, Inc. Executive Counsel, Office of Governor Nathan Deal Executive VP & Partner, N.A. Williams Senior VP & Portfolio Manager, Crawford Investment Counsel Principal, Yates Design, Inc. Philanthropist
Current Members Stacey Abrams Joanna Adams Terry Adamson Alex Albert Russell Allen Bryan Anderson Karen Anderson Allison Ausband Ed Baker Joe Bankoff Craig Barrs Donna Barwick William Barwick Brian Beckwith Paul Begala Robert Benham Jennifer Bennecke Fred Bergen Rudy Beserra Paul Bowers Bill Britt Otis Brumby Rodney Bullard Steve Burdette Michael Cassidy Beth Chandler Natalie Childs Chris Clark Bobbi Cleveland Deke Copenhaver Gretchen Corbin Ann Cramer Alex Crumbley Jason Cuevas Buddy Darden Tim Echols Mark Ellison Terry England John Ethridge Amanda Eversole
House Minority Leader, GA House of Representatives Pastor Emerita, Morningside Presbyterian Church Vice President, Global Law Affairs Boeing VP Government Affairs, Intercontinental Exchange President & CEO, Georgia Bio VP of Government Affairs, Southern Company Managing Director, Brookings Institute Senior Vice President of In-Flight Services, Delta Air Lines Publisher, Atlanta Business Chronicle Chair, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, GA Tech Executive VP Customer Service & Operations, Georgia Power Senior Fiduciary Officer, Wilmington Trust Company Partner, Duane Morris, LLP CEO Formation Capital, LLC Political Consultant Associate Justice, Georgia Supreme Court President, Jenson Strategic Partners Partner, Bergen & Bergen Senior VP Latin Affairs, The Coca-Cola Company President & CEO, Georgia Power Company Senior Minister, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church Publisher, Marietta Daily Journal & Neighbor Newspapers VP of Community Affairs, Chick-fil-A Foundation Executive Vice President, Haverty's President & CEO, Georgia Research Alliance Vice President & General Council, Rollins Inc. Community Volunteer President & CEO, Georgia Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Tull Charitable Foundation Former Mayor, City of Augusta Deputy Commissioner for Global Commerce Senior Consultant, Coxe Curry & Associates Attorney, Crumbly Law Firm, P.C. VP, Customer Service & Operations, Georgia Power McKenna Long & Aldridge Georgia Public Service Commissioner, District 2 Urologist, The Urology Clinic State Representative, GA House of Representatives Partner, Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP President, Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation, US Chamber of Commerce
Jennifer Flanagan John Hardman Todd Henry John Heyman Larry Hooks Emily Howell Jon Howell Donna Hyland Doug Ivester Phil Jacobs Aaron James Boland Jones Kim Jones Mark Kauffman Jeff Kelley Ken Kendrick Calvin Klitz Craig Lesser Robin Loudermilk Bruce MacLane Pat Matheson Barry McCarty Don McKenna Geoff Meacham Ceasar Mitchell Hala Moddelmog Jann Moore Brand Morgan Jay Morgan Bart Newman Lamar Norton Michael Potts Elizabeth Ralls David Ralston Elizabeth Richards Brian Robinson Christian Robinson Pete Robinson Carl Rogers John Rooker Maria Saporta David Shafer Michael Shapiro
Philanthropist Former President & CEO, The Carter Center Operations Manager, Caterpillar Athens Inc. Founder & Partner, Actuate Partners Attorney at Law Orthodontist, Howell Orthodontics President & CEO, Georgia Healthcare Association President & CEO, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta President, Deer Run Investments, LLC Founding Partner, Pendleton Consulting Group Vice President of Development, East Lake Foundation Founder, Chairman & CEO, Premiere Global Services CFO, Cherokee Town and Country Club President, Kauffman Tire Partner, Bankruptcy Division Troutman Sanders LLC Owner, Arizona Diamondbacks Director of Human Resources, Baxter International Inc. Managing Partner, The Pendleton Consulting Group President & CEO, The Loudermilk Companies Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Newell Brands President & CEO, Atlanta Botanical Garden Former Senior Pastor, Peachtree Christian Church President & CEO, St. Mary’s Health Care System Analyst, Barclays Bank Foundation President, Atlanta City Council; Attorney, DLA Piper, LLP President & CEO, Metro Atlanta Chamber State Government Affairs Manager, Caterpillar Inc. CEO, Brand Partners, LP President, J.L Morgan Company, Inc. COO, Thrive Farmers Coffee Executive Director, Georgia Municipal Association President & CEO, Lancope Editor in Chief, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Speaker of the House, GA House of Representatives Chairman & CEO, Quality Staffing of America, Inc. President, Robinson Republic VP, J.P. Morgan & Company Chairman, Troutman Sanders, Strategies State Representative, GA House of Representatives CEO, ROOKER Construction Company Founder & Editor, The Saporta Report State Senator, GA Senate Former Director, High Museum of Art
James Shepherd Doug Shipman Daniel Shoy, Jr. Clarence Smith Derek Smith Sammy Smith Bolling Spalding Richard Stamper Cecil Staton Kessel Stelling Wade Stribling Catherine Tabor Tisha Tallman Charles Tarbutton Matt Tarkenton Mark Taylor Ryan Teague Jamey Thaw Kirby Thompson Jane Thorpe Pat Upshaw-Monteith Wayne Vason A.J. Welch Ellen Wiley Bob Williams Neil Williamson Scott Williamson Frank Wilson Kyle Wingfield Chris Womack Dee Yancey Andrew Young Neely Young
Chairman, Shepherd Center Inc. Former CEO, National Center for Civil & Human Rights President, East Lake Foundation President & CEO, Haverty's Inc. Director, Geeknet Inc. President, Rainmaker & Associates, Inc. Cofounder, Jackson Spalding Inc. Founder & Chairman, Fineline Technologies Chancellor, East Carolina University Chairman & CEO, Synovis Financial Corporation Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP CEO, Sparkfly President & CEO, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Treasurer & Director, B-H Transfer Co. Executive Vice President, The Tarkenton Companies CEO, Fred Taylor Company Executive Council, Office of Governor Nathan Deal CEO, Broward Health Senior VP Government Affairs, SunTrust Bank, Inc. Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP President & CEO, Leadership Atlanta Senior Council, Troutman Sanders Senior Manager, Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC Philanthropist President, Atlanta Hawks & Philips Arena Director of Marketing, Cox Media Group -Atlanta Radio VP of Public Affairs & Comms., The Coca-Cola Company Partner, Wilson, Brock & Irby Inc. Conservative Columnist, Atlanta Journal Constitution Executive VP & President of External Affairs, Southern Co. President & CEO, State Mutual Insurance US Ambassador & Founder, Andrew Young Foundation Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Georgia Trend Magazine
Gina Ford is a second-year student from Loganville majoring in international affairs. Gina is extremely interested in counterterrorism, in particular in the intelligence sector; her goal is to enter military operations as a career. She credits the CCFG Scholarship as the greatest blessing she could have imagined. It has not only eased the worries of the financial burden of college, but it also has provided her with a network of friends and mentors that enhance her experience at UGA. Gina has found every professor, mentor and CCFG recipient to be welcoming and helpful, which has been vital to allowing her to assimilate with campus life comfortably and to take advantage of all that UGA has to offer. Bonnie Joerschke has been director of UGA’s Office of Student Financial Aid since 2008. Joerschke oversees an office that is responsible for administering around $530 million from federal, state, institutional and private loans and awards annually, including about $25.8 million in institutional grants and scholarships and around $2.3 million in need-based scholarships for UGA students. Joerschke has been in the financial aid profession since 1975, with administrator experience at three other large public universities, including Purdue University, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Oklahoma State University. She is active in the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and chaired the association’s federal issues committee in 2008-09. In 2012-13 she chaired the association’s Reauthorization Task Force which developed recommendations for submission to Congress on issues and specific statutory changes in the federal student aid programs and their delivery systems. Joerschke was awarded the association’s Meritorious Achievement Award in July 2013 in recognition for her leadership in developing student aid policy, passion for helping disadvantaged students realize their educational pursuits, and sustained contributions to the financial aid profession. She also has served as chair and immediate past chair of the College Board Southern Regional Assembly in 2014-16. David Meyers has been dedicated to child and family welfare for the last 20 years, with experience in both organizational and direct practice. He has been at UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development since 2010, working on a range of youth and family leadership initiatives with a primary focus of supporting young people in foster care and the families and institutions that serve them, including the Georgia Education and Training Voucher statewide program, Embark Georgia, and the Together Georgia professional leadership development series. David has a particular interest in developing training, pre-collegiate and college access programs and initiatives to support foster families. He serves on several committees in support of children and is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Social Work. Jere W. Morehead became the University of Georgia’s 22nd president on July 1, 2013, having previously served as UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost since 2010. He is a 1980 graduate of the UGA School of Law and the first alumnus of UGA to be named president in more than 45 years. Prior to 2010, President Morehead served UGA in several key administrative assignments, including vice president for instruction, vice provost for academic affairs, associate provost and director of the Honors Program, and acting executive director of legal affairs. President Morehead is the Meigs Professor of Legal Studies in the Terry College of Business, where he has held a faculty appointment since 1986. He has received several university-wide teaching awards, including the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA’s highest honor for teaching excellence. He also received the Distinguished Service Scroll Award, the Law School Alumni Association’s highest honor, and has been included in Georgia Trend’s list of Most Influential Georgians for four consecutive years.
Nicholas Murray is a second-year student from Canton and an intended finance major with plans to apply to the Terry College of Business. Nick aspires to work for a private equity firm and eventually become a financial analyst. Nick and his twin brother share a room in one of the campus residence halls and fall into the group of students with the highest financial need among undergraduates enrolled at UGA. He is the recipient of the Zell Miller Scholarship, two university scholarships, and the Horatio Alger Association Al and Cathy Annexstad Scholarship. The Annexstad Scholarship is a private scholarship for a high-need undergraduate student who possesses the academic potential to become a leader in the finance industry and who has successfully triumphed over significant personal and/or family hardship. Dr. Naomi Norman is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and associate vice president for instruction at UGA. Dr. Norman oversees several programs that seek to improve student academic success, such as Academic Advising (including Pre-Health and Pre-Law Advising and the new Exploratory Center that opened last fall to help students decide on majors); Academic Enhancement; and first-year programs, such as Learning Communities and the First-Year Odyssey Seminar program. Prior to coming to the Office of Instruction, Dr. Norman served as department head in Classics for several years and has taught archaeology and Greek at UGA since 1980. She also directed the University of Georgia Excavations at Carthage (Tunisia) and is co-director of the UGA Reacting to the Past Program, an award-winning program that gives students a unique opportunity to engage in active learning. Kelly Margaret Vance is a fourth-year student majoring in public relations with a minor in women’s studies. When she first enrolled at UGA, the Cincinnati, OH, native did not have a place to live and did not know anyone in Athens. Nor did she have a support network of friends or family that she could call on for help. For a while she lived in her car. Even though she had no money, she knew that getting a college education was the key to a better life. Through UGA’s Embark program, Kelly connected to the staff in the Office of Student Financial Aid who helped her apply for a grant that got her back on her feet. Kelly credits Embark for showing her that people from all walks of life can achieve a higher education when the leaders of institutions like UGA care about the success of all students. Scott Williamson is vice president of public affairs and communications for Coca-Cola North America. During his 24-year career at The Coca-Cola Company, Scott has directed public relations initiatives for virtually all of the company’s brands and sports and entertainment properties. He manages a team of 10 public affairs professionals in New York City and Atlanta. Scott earned a bachelor of arts degree in political studies at Gordon College in Wehnam, Mass., and a master’s degree in mass communications from UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he is now a Grady College Fellow and frequent lecturer. Scott and his wife Debbie are the proud parents of two UGA students, Tyler and Hannah.
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UGA’S EMERGING SPACE PROGRAM JOIN US FOR LUNCH AND DIALOGUE LED BY DR. MARSHALL SHEPHERD Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in the social sciences, director of the UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program, and host of The Weather Channel’s WX Geeks talk show.
Monday, April 24 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The Buckhead Club 3344 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 2600 Atlanta, Georgia
Invitation to follow
For more information, please contact Rita Manning (BSED ’78, MED ’83) at rmanning@uga.edu or (706) 369-5974
A team of faculty and students from multiple disciplines are working together to design, build, and deploy a cube satellite with help from NASA.