The University of Georgia Magazine December 2013

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December 2013 • Vol. 93, No. 1

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In this issue:

• From Gainesville to Garden City, new faculty get a look at Georgia’s economic engines • UGA student on course to become a leader in public health and medicine • Don’t toss that scrap lumber—Chris McDowell (MLA ’12) can put it to good use

In Georgia alone, 50,000 people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. UGA researchers are working to reduce that number through new strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat and raise awareness of the disease

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GEORGIA MAGAZINE Kelly Simmons, MPA ’10, Editor Allyson Mann, MA ’92, Managing Editor Lindsay Robinson, ABJ ’06, MPA ’11, Art Director Pamela Leed, Advertising Director Fran Burke, Office Manager Paul Efland, BFA ’75, MEd ’80; Peter Frey, BFA ’94; Robert Newcomb, BFA ’81; Rick O’Quinn, ABJ ’87; Dot Paul; Andrew Davis Tucker; and Courtney Rosen; UGA Photographers Chase Martin, Editorial Assistant PUBLIC AFFAIRS Tom Jackson, AB ’73, MPA ’04, PhD ’08, Vice President Alison Huff, Director of Publications ADMINISTRATION Jere W. Morehead, JD ’80, President Libby Morris, AB ’71, Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Tom S. Landrum, AB ’72, MA ’87, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Ryan Nesbit, MBA ’91, Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration Griffin “Griff” Doyle, AB ’76, JD ’79, Vice President for Government Relations Laura Jolly, Vice President for Instruction Jennifer Frum, PhD ’11, Vice President for Public Service and Outreach David Lee, Vice President for Research Victor Wilson, BSW ’82, MEd ’87, Vice President for Student Affairs Timothy Chester, Vice President for Information Technology Advertise in Georgia Magazine by contacting Pamela Leed at pjleed@uga.edu or 706-542-8124.

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Incoming MBA students Christoper Maher (left), carrying Shayla Worley, and Andrew Johnson, carrying Pinki Kumari, participate in team-building exercises at Lake Herrick, part of an intensive two-week orientation experience.

Photo by Dot Paul

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Departments 5 Take 5 with the President

President Jere W. Morehead on UGA’s economic development efforts

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Campus news and events

Closeup 14 Changing the culture of waste

Students learn to reuse construction materials to beautify the Athens community

Features 16 Double vision

UGA student wants to heal patients and the health care system

20 The big “C”

Across campus, researchers in disciplines from chemistry to communications are exploring new ways to prevent, treat and possibly cure some cancers

26 A show on the road New UGA faculty get a glimpse of the rest of the state and ideas of how they can contribute to its progress

32 40 under forty

The UGA Alumni Association celebrates its 2013 class of outstanding Bulldogs

Class Notes 38 Alumni profiles and notes ON THE COVER Illustrated graphic of cancer cells in blood by Lindsay Robinson.

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— President Jere W. Morehead on UGA’s economic development efforts

Q: You have created a UGA economic development office in Atlanta and hired a director to oversee that office. How will this office serve the state of Georgia?

A: It is important for the University of Georgia to be more directly involved in the economic developments in Atlanta and throughout the state. This office will serve that effort by linking our faculty and staff with the work of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and others. I believe a closer relationship between our institution and the state’s efforts to grow the economy is essential if we are to have a more prosperous Georgia.

Q: How does the state benefit from having UGA more involved in economic development?

A: We have an important and historic land-grant function in this state, and any time we can offer our expertise in assisting the Department of Economic Development in encouraging new business activity we are all winners in building a more prosperous Georgia.

Jere W. Morehead

Q: What are the benefits to UGA? A: Obviously a strong economy is critical to the growth and energy of the flagship institution of the state. Every new business and business expansion can have a direct and positive impact on the vitality of the state, which helps, directly and indirectly, the future of higher education in Georgia.

Q: You reinstated the New Faculty Tour this year after a five-year hiatus. What were your goals for that trip, which takes 40 faculty members on a statewide tour?

A: I want to congratulate Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Jennifer Frum and her staff for restarting this tour in such a bold and successful fashion. My own goals in asking her to reinstate the tour were reached and exceeded in every respect. It is important for UGA’s faculty to understand the impact and scope of the institution; the tour accomplished that and more. The faculty went literally from one corner of the state to the other and met with community leaders in city after city to learn how UGA contributes to the overall well-being and vitality of our state. It was a tremendous success, not only for the 40 faculty on the tour, but also for the people of those communities who had the opportunity to meet with them and understand how much we accept and embrace our role in giving back to Georgia in everything we do.

Q: How does the tour fit in with your vision for UGA’s economic development efforts?

A: That is an excellent question. As these faculty see from the outset of their tenure here how important our institution is to the state, they will better understand the important role they play in supporting the economic development of our state. It is important for faculty to look for ways to interact with and support Georgia’s communities in their economic development efforts.

UGA employees on the New Faculty Tour get a briefing at Fort Benning, a significant economic generator for the Columbus area.

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Meals on (really fast) wheels ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER

NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon (right) and UGA student Camden Lowrance deliver meals to a family for Campus Kitchen. The four-time stock car racing champion visited campus in August as part of Drive to End Hunger, a campaign to raise awareness about older adult hunger. “I’m not Jeff Gordon today,” he said. “I’m just here delivering this on behalf of Campus Kitchen.” The program provides healthy meals to Athenians using fresh produce and collected excess food. The Drive to End Hunger was created by AARP and its foundation. In 2011 AARP became NASCAR’s first cause-based primary sponsor, with the Drive to End Hunger featured on the No. 24 Chevrolet driven by Gordon.

Morehead Scholars at UGA

UGA ranks 20th

A new needs-based scholarship fund, announced by President Jere W. Morehead in September, will help pay for undergraduate students to study in Washington, D.C. The Wade and Virginia Morehead Scholarship Fund, in honor of Morehead’s parents, was established with a $25,000 contribution from the president. Additional gifts are expected to help the fund reach $100,000 over the next five years.

Need-based scholarships are a priority for Morehead on a campus where 7,000 students are eligible for federal Pell Grants, available only to very low-income students.

The Morehead Scholarship will support students with demonstrated financial need who want to participate in the UGA Washington Semester Program. The program sends students to Washington, D.C., to intern and study with legislators, government agencies and businesses that call the nation’s capital their home. Individual awards will vary from $1,000 to $2,000.

Want to contribute? Contact Greg Daniels at gdaniels@ uga.edu.

UGA climbed one notch in the annual U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings, landing at No. 20 among the nation’s top public universities. It was No. 60 among best national universities this year, up from No. 63 last year.

In the magazine’s highlights of the best undergraduate business programs nationwide, the Terry College of Business took first place for its insurance and risk management specialty. Its real estate program tied for third with the University of California, Berkeley, and the college rose to 27th overall, up from 31st, for best business programs.

U.S. News & World Report surveyed 1,376 colleges and universities in 2013. To decide its top national universities, it measured an institution’s graduation and retention rates, assessment by peers and counselors, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance (the difference between actual and predicted graduation rates) and alumni giving. To be considered a national university, an institution must offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and doctoral programs, and emphasize faculty research.

The college rankings are available online at www.usnews.com/ colleges.

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UGA recognized for economic development initiatives The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has designated UGA an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, acknowledging the university’s commitment to working with public and private partners to support economic development across the state.

UGA is one of only 16 universities in the country to receive the designation.

Economic development has become one of the cornerstones of UGA’s mission under the direction of President Jere W. Morehead, who serves on APLU’s Committee of Research Intensive Public Universities. Morehead said the APLU designation is a reflection of the hard work and effort the university is undertaking to support economic development statewide.

The designation followed a nearly year-long internal and external assessment

by UGA of regional economic development efforts and development of a comprehensive plan for moving forward.

Learn more about economic development and UGA on p. 26.

Identifying a killer UGA played a key role in identifying the virus that killed an unusual number of bottlenose dolphins this summer. Starting in early June, hundreds of dolphins were found dead in the mid-Atlantic region, with increased dolphin strandings reported in the waters off New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Samples were collected and sent to UGA’s Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, housed in the College of Veterinary Medicine. In August researchers led by virologist Jerry Saliki, head of the diagnostic lab, identified the virus as morbillivirus, a subgroup within the family of paramyxo viruses. The lab is one of three in the U.S. with the ability to test tissue samples at the molecular level to identify morbillivirus. In addition to providing comprehensive diagnostic services for U.S. clients, it has served clients from areas of the Middle East, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Portugal and other countries. For more information, visit www.vet.uga.edu/dlab.

SALIKI

Christopher B. Herron

Grants for UGA start-up Two federal grants totaling $1.95 million will provide jobs and research support for a growing UGA startup company that aims to change the way science is taught in classrooms.

Funding totaling $1.8 million from a National Institutes of Health grant will be used to create new software-based case studies, apps and iBooks to teach important concepts related to how nerve cells function.

Students also will learn how these functions can be affected by various diseases.

A second grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a Web portal for teachers and students.

The portal will be designed to help teachers analyze students’ problemsolving skills.

Together, the grants will provide eight technology jobs for the next three years, says Tom Robertson, an associate professor of physiology and pharmacology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, who is the CEO of startup company IS3D LLC. IS3D was founded in 2010 by eight UGA faculty and staff members who share the philosophy that today’s high school and elementary students could become more interested in learning science—and better master its principles—through interactive software designed to engage them in the learning process.

To date, IS3D has released a number of science education applications for both Apple and Android mobile devices, and the new funding ensures more will follow.

Over the next three years, the new teaching materials and a portal will be developed with teachers and students from multiple school districts in Georgia and other states.

Learn more at http:// is3donline.com.

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BARK out to … Lee Becker, professor of journalism at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, who received the 2013 Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

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… Sybilla Beckmann, mathematics professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who will receive the Association for Women in Mathematics’ annual Louise Hay Award.

…. Lynne Billard, statistics professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who was selected to receive the 2013 Florence Nightingale David Award by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. …. Corrie Brown, professor of anatomic pathology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, who received the XIIth International Veterinary Congress Prize from the American Veterinary Medical Association. … Julian A. Cook III, professor in the School of Law; Tracie Costantino, associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art; Sarah F. Covert, associate dean for academic affairs in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; and Tom Reichert, professor and head of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations in the Grady College of Journalism and BROWN Mass Communication, who were among 49 faculty members from Southeastern Conference universities selected as 2013-14 Academic Leadership Development Program fellows. …Nate Kohn, telecommunications professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate director of the Peabody Awards, who won a regional Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Mid-America Chapter for “Ebertfest 2012 Retrospective Doc.” … Henry “Fritz” Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who received the 2014 Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry sponsored by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. … Sylvia Schell, assistant director in the Office of International Education, who won the inaugural 2013 Excellence in Diversifying International Education Award from the Diversity Abroad Network, a national organization promoting diversity in international education.

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… Chung-Jui Tsai, Winfred N. “Hank” Haynes Professor in forest biotechnology in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar with a split appointment in the department of genetics, who was named an International Academy of Wood Science fellow, one of the highest honors given by the academy for scientists in this field of study.

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Free biology texts a boon for students The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering free e-textbooks for introductory biology courses at UGA, using a $25,000 University System of Georgia Incubator grant.

A new biology textbook costs about $97. The grant could collectively save students enrolled in these courses $150,350 over the coming year. The ebooks are part of UGA’s commitment to the statewide Complete College Georgia Plan, an effort to retain and graduate students in a state college or university.

The CTL is working with 2013 Meigs Award recipient Peggy Brickman and fellow faculty members to replace bound textbooks in two introductory biology courses with texts online. Brickman’s textbook “University of Georgia Concepts of Biology” can be found at https:// openstaxcollege.org/pages/ GeorgiaBiology and will be used in her sections of Biology 1103: Concepts of Biology this fall and beyond. The team is currently preparing material for Biology 1104 that will be taught in the spring semester.

Called Open Education Resources (OERs), the learning materials are in the public domain with open copyright licenses that are available at no cost to faculty, students or the institution. Materials are authored by highly regarded faculty from peer and aspirant institutions. Content is reviewed in the same manner as printed textbooks. Because content is accessible online, the texts provide a foundation for faculty course development.

The USG Incubator grant provides early-stage funding and other support for innovative institutional, multi-institutional or regional level projects aimed at increasing college completion. In addition to funding, the grant will place a strong emphasis on sharing promising practices and methods growing from these projects.

Undergraduate research up

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DOT PAUL

Hot to trot John Campbell, a retired physics professor from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, brought his fire walking demonstration to the UGA Department of Physics and Astronomy in September. Following a public lecture, Campbell walked on hot coals on the South Campus lawn next to the physics building. Get more at http://photo.alumni.uga.edu/mediapg/ detail/87/firewlk.

One million served When 456 third- through fifth-graders visited Rock Eagle Oct. 10, the UGA 4-H Center logged its millionth student served by its environmental education program. Diane Davies, now a retired 4-H specialist, started Georgia 4-H environmental education in 1979 with a $300 annual budget and six months to establish the program. Now, 35 years later, the program serves more than 44,000 students annually at Rock Eagle in Eatonton, Wahsega 4-H Center in Dahlonega, Fortson 4-H Center in Hampton, Burton 4-H Center on Tybee Island and Jekyll 4-H Center on Jekyll Island. Get more at http://extension.uga.edu/4h.

More undergraduate students than ever before are taking advantage of UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities.

Fall enrollment in the program was up by 20 percent over the previous semester with 234 students. The number of non-Honors Program students participating has more than doubled from last fall, from 28 to 69 students.

The CURO courses offer undergraduates the opportunity to do one-on-one research with faculty mentors. Courses range from research projects on the effects of music on male aggression to range shifts in alligator populations due to changes in sea level.

CURO has gateway seminars, research courses, summer fellowships and presentation and publishing opportunities.

Students conduct guided research in labs, write papers and even work up to running their own projects and writing a thesis on their findings—all typically at a level equivalent to what a graduate student might do.

CURO students are writing computer code, studying Chinese investments in U.S. companies, analyzing water samples from the North Pacific, conducting interviews with immigrant populations and tagging songbirds.

There’s not only more student interest, but more faculty interest in mentoring undergraduates. This fall, 172 faculty members are teaching CURO courses—30 more than last year.

Learn more about the CURO program at http://curo. uga.edu.

Through the Arch Subtitled An Illustrated Guide to the University of Georgia Campus, this book, written by veteran UGA public affairs representative Larry Dendy (ABJ ’65), features the past and present architecture on the Athens campus.

Using words and pictures it traces the development of the university over the past 225 years, with profiles of more than 140 buildings, landmarks and open spaces. Dendy worked in UGA’s Office of Public Affairs for more than 37 years as a writer, editor, news service director, associate editor, speechwriter and special projects manager, before retiring in 2005. Copies of the book, which sells for $26.95, are available at the UGA Bookstore and through the UGA Press, www.ugapress.org.

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ARCH Not so lazy Ray Undergraduate Ray Joyner has a year left on his degree but already is making waves in the business world. The junior from Cumming created Lazy Ray’s Ketchup & Mustard, a mix of the two condiments in one bottle.

Produced by an Alabama company, the product is for sale in Athens-area Bell’s food stores, the Buford Farmer’s Market, Woody’s Meat and Sausage Company in Alpharetta, Ferguson’s Meat Market in Cumming and Home Food Super Market in Raeford, N.C. He also is talking to representatives from Walmart and has a meeting with Kroger’s condiment category review board this month.

Lazy Ray’s was a finalist in the sauce competition during this year’s Flavor of Georgia Contest, sponsored by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Joyner got the idea from a childhood memory.

“I remembered how difficult it was to dip a corndog in both ketchup and mustard during elementary school lunches,” he says.

Joyner is developing a second condiment, Lazy Ray’s Fry Sauce, a ketchup and mayonnaise mix.

“It has the potential to become a full time job,” says Joyner, who is majoring in business, “and I hope it does, I think it would be fun.”

—Chase Martin

High energy

PAUL EFLAND

De-Erickious Dumas, a seventh-grader at Hilsman Middle School, reaches out to touch a carbon dioxide bubble generated by mixing dry ice and warm water. The bubble was part of a demonstration showing that carbon dioxide is heavier than air during the first Bioenergy Day at the State Botanical Garden, sponsored by the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute in October.

Georgia Review wins big at GAMMAs The Georgia Review took a record six gold awards, including one for general excellence, and five other honors in the Magazine Association of the Southeast’s 24th annual GAMMA Awards competition in September. The prizes were given out at a luncheon during the association’s annual conference Sept. 20 in Atlanta. The five other gold awards were for best single issue, best photography, best feature, best series and best essay. Get more at www.thegeorgiareview.com.

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Horn player takes top prize

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Saving sea turtles UGA researchers received a $1.3 million grant to continue genetically “fingerprinting” the threatened loggerhead sea turtles in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Using DNA fingerprinting, researchers can identify turtle mothers and their offspring to gauge how well the loggerheads are recovering after decades of population decline.

Loggerhead sea turtles were put on the endangered species list in the 1970s. Found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, loggerheads are some of the largest and most visually striking turtles in the world. Once hunted for their meat and eggs, loggerheads also have historically been prone to being unintentionally entangled in fishing nets.

Combined with naturally high mortality rates for small juveniles, this caused the turtle’s populations to decrease significantly worldwide. During the 2013 nesting season, the Georgia Sea Turtle Cooperative counted a new record of nearly 2,300 loggerhead nests, up from a low of 358 in 2004.

The project, of which the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources is a part, began in 2008. The funding comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

UGA graduate student Lauren Hunt took first prize in the International Horn Competition of America’s university division in September. The doctor of musical arts student competed against more than 50 other contestants to win the title. “Everyone hopes to win at competitions like this, but my main goal was to make it past the first round,” Hunt says. “Once I had accomplished that, I simply made it a point to have fun and enjoy playing my instrument. I think that’s a big reason why I performed as well as I did.” Hunt is a graduate of the New PETER FREY HUNT England Conservatory and Yale University and was awarded UGA’s Presidential Graduate Fellowship. She has performed in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, often working in conjunction with El Sistema, a Venezuela-based youth music advocacy network.

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Battleship!

Team Battle Sheep (at left) take on the Catholic Center Saints during a new intramural activity at the Ramsey Student Center recreational pool. In Battleship, teams are provided canoes and are armed with buckets and shields to try to sink each other.

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NCBG creates specialized tools, custom-made technologies PIERCE and advanced testing equipment used by scientists in universities, pharmaceutical companies and biomedical industries throughout the world. NCBG researchers also conduct training workshops for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and seasoned researchers who are new to the world of glycans.

Researchers at NCBG have discovered that certain types of stem cells, which hold great promise as a treatment for numerous diseases and injuries, must activate a particular glycan in order to change from a stem cell into other cell types. Michael Pierce, NCBG principal investigator, is optimistic about the future. “We’ve got a pretty good picture of the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “But there are many, many therapies that will result from glycomics research, and we will be on the forefront of those discoveries.” For more information, visit glycomics.ccrc.uga.edu.

Stadion Classic ends after four years UGA will no longer host the Stadion Classic Golf Tournament, a Web.com Tour event. Without a major increase in funding, it has become difficult for the university to sustain the PGA TOURsanctioned event at the level required to continue. Planners estimate that it would cost an additional $350,000 to secure TV coverage to bring greater recognition and exposure to the event and the university, a goal UGA set when signing on as tournament host.

The Stadion Classic at UGA was the only PGA TOUR-sanctioned event hosted and operated by an institution of higher education. Net proceeds from the event added approximately $70,000 to the university’s need-based scholarship programs. Local charities received a total of $383,835 through TICKETS Fore CHARITY, a program that benefits nonprofit organizations in communities where PGA TOUR and Champions Tour tournaments are held.

Three UGA alumni have won the event, the most recent Brendon Todd (BBA ’07), a former UGA golf star. Previous UGA golfers to win the tournament were Hudson Swafford (BSFCS ’11) in 2012 and Russell Henley (BSFCS ’11) in 2011, who won as an amateur while on the UGA golf team.

Morehead part of national research initiative

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Game day at uga ESPN brought its popular “College Gameday” show to campus for the Bulldogs’ match-up with the LSU Tigers on Sept. 28. During the show, which preceded the Dogs’ 44-41 win, ESPN announcers were joined by golfer Bubba Watson (BSFCS ’08) and Willie Robertson from the TV reality show “Duck Dynasty.” Watson was the celebrity guest picker representing Georgia, while Robertson represented his home state of Louisiana.

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President Jere W. Morehead will help lead a committee charged with developing a national agenda for public research intensive universities. The committee will advise the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities on key initiatives and policies and help shape the association’s efforts. The committee includes 14 presidents and chancellors from some of the top land-grant institutions in the country. Increasing research dollars coming into UGA is a priority of the Morehead administration. Learn more about the APLU at www.aplu.org.

GOING GREEN UGA gets first LEED gold for historic building

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Students at High Shoals Elementary School in Oconee County work in their school garden. A new UGA resource will help school groups that want to build or enhance a garden.

Gardening resources for schools Georgia teachers looking to start or enhance their school’s garden now have an online resource, thanks to UGA’s College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences.

The UGA Extension School Garden Resource Center offers kindergarten through eighth-grade lesson plans that use school gardens to teach the state curriculum.

Horticulture Professor David Knauft collected and adapted the school garden lesson plans to make it easier for teachers to use their school gardens or to start new ones. During his research, which included focus groups with teachers, school administrators and volunteers, he found that many teachers felt like they didn’t have time for gardening during the school day and didn’t have the support they needed to maintain the gardens.

Knauft first learned the importance of linking enrichment activities with state-mandated curriculum when he helped develop Project Focus, a UGA program that gives college students the opportunity to teach curriculum-based science in elementary and middle school classrooms. In addition to the lesson plans, the website has a comprehensive guide on how to start and maintain a school garden and a list of grants and funding sources for school and community gardens. It also includes resources from other state extension agencies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and nonprofit organizations. Kaiser Permanente’s Partnership for a Healthier America helped fund the project.

Get more at http://extension.uga.edu/k12/schoolgardens.

The College of Environment & Design’s Jackson Street Building received LEED Gold Certification, the first historic building on campus to earn the designation.

Now more than 50 years old, the building originally housed the School of Art and is one of only two modernist buildings at UGA (the other is the College of Pharmacy). When the building was renovated in 2012 for the College of Environment & Design, solar panels were installed on the southernfacing skylight shields, windows were replaced with energy-efficient glass, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems were installed and a 28,000-gallon cistern was added to collect rainwater and water that condenses in the cooling system. That water is cleaned well enough to use for toilet flushing and to return to the cooling system’s tower, reducing wastewater by 90 percent.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an independent, third-party verification that indicates a building project meets standards for sustainability set by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council.

Get more at www.ced.uga.edu.

Wise Owl UGA’s Donna Gallaher received the Wise Owl Award from the Georgia Forestry Association for her years of service and contributions to the forestry community. Gallaher is only the second woman to be awarded the honor. She is coordinator for the Georgia Sustainable Morgan Nolan GALLAHER Forestry Initiative and is based in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Gallaher coordinates for GSFI’s Implementation Committee, which also was recognized with the Evergreen Award. Since 1995, GSFI has worked to promote and improve sustainable forestry across the state. For more information, visit gfagrow.org.

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Changing the culture of waste Students learn to reuse construction materials to beautify the Athens community

by Chase Martin In an overgrown field off South Milledge Avenue, Chris McDowell hauls construction materials around a makeshift workshop.

Old concrete columns, twisted rebar and splintered cuts of wood are among the piles.

To the average person this stuff is trash.

To McDowell (MLA ’12), it’s a treasure of useful resources with potential. With a little time and creativity, the scraps can be used to beautify community gardens, public gathering places and outdoor classrooms.

A program director with the College of Environment & Design, McDowell runs the Material Reuse Program, an initiative he started to construct community spaces in the Athens area with supplies salvaged from demolished buildings.

With McDowell’s supervision, students have recycled the construction materials to create a teaching garden at Clarke Central High School, a communal garden for the Latino advocacy organization Casa de Amistad, and an aquaponics greenhouse at the UGArden, among other things. In the process, they have diverted 125 tons of construction waste from the landfill.

During fall semester, students designed and built an outdoor classroom for the Athens-Clarke County Recycling facility.

“A lot of people win in this situation,” McDowell says. “I see more reward in finding an application for these materials instead of just stockpiling them.”

After earning his undergraduate degree in urban planning from the University of Cincinnati, McDowell moved to New Orleans to help with Hurricane Katrina relief projects, working as a deconstruction manager for a nonprofit organization.

That’s where the idea for a reuse program originated.

In July 2012, he completed his master’s degree in landscape architecture at UGA and saw the opportunity to start a salvage network in the Athens area. Now he manages design-build projects for clients by matching them with students in environmental design classes that require field experience.

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Chris McDowell, a program director in the College of Environment & Design, teaches students how to use salvaged building materials to create new structures.

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Using fencing salvaged from the deconstructed Snyder barn complex on College Station Road, student volunteers build fences to contain the goats kept at Tanyard Creek. The goats graze on invasive plants in the area to protect the creek.

“Students learn more than just how to design on paper,” he says. “I’m teaching them the practicality of their profession.”

Katherine Nguyen, a fifth-year landscape architecture student, was part of the class that built the teaching garden at Clarke Central last spring. It was her first field experience.

“Being able to build this project we had designed with Chris’ help, and being able to give back to Clarke Central by giving the kids this teaching garden was the greatest experience,” Nguyen says.

In addition to educating students and saving valuable space in the landfill, the program saves UGA money. McDowell and the students don’t charge the university to demolish a building, and using the discarded materials saves money in the classroom budget for other purposes. It took McDowell’s team just two weeks to deconstruct an old horse barn off College Station Road, spending a fraction of what it would have cost UGA to have it bulldozed by an outside company.

“There are a lot of facets to the benefits of reusing materials,” McDowell says. “It benefits students through service learning, helps the school economically and benefits the community.”

McDowell’s network received notable attention when LABash, an annual student-run landscape architecture conference, met in Athens in March.

While here, representatives and students from American and Canadian universities worked with McDowell and Habitat for Humanity to convert a corridor known for drug activity into a park in East Athens. The team designed and built the space by hand, using only recycled materials provided by McDowell.

“We have a culture of waste,” McDowell says. “We’re used to taking down buildings that were only recently built. The key is seeing the potential in these waste materials.”

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This shed, which McDowell built from wood scraps, was part of the project for his master’s thesis.

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Double Double vision vision UGA student wants to heal patients and the health care system

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92)

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hen she travels, Smitha Ganeshan has two traditions.

One is to go running. The UGA senior and Foundation Fellow says it’s a great way to see people and places. So she’s run in the meadows surrounding Oxford, England, and in Chennai, India, where crowded conditions made it more difficult than usual.

Her other tradition involves joining Jacqueline Van De Velde to find the highest point of any city or landscape. Ganeshan and Van De Velde, also a senior and Foundation Fellow, have climbed to the top of Table Mountain in South Africa and dangled their legs off Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland.

These two traditions offer Ganeshan a way to experience a community up close but also get a larger perspective. It’s not unlike her academic interests. She plans to attend medical school and become a doctor, but she also wants to study public health and policy issues. She’s drawn to the one-on-one satisfaction of working with patients, but she wants to have an impact on the system as a whole too.

“Medicine—I just think it’s the most incredible endeavor in the world,” she says. “It’s medicine, but then it’s sociology, anthropology, it’s geography, just everything all at once.” aneshan was born in Atlanta to Ram and Latha Ganeshan, who emigrated from India. By the time she began elementary school they’d settled in Johns Creek, where they created their own software company. From an early age she was interested in science, but it wasn’t until later that two experiences guided her to medicine.

In high school, Ganeshan’s assigned summer reading included Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. The biography covers Farmer’s efforts to cure infectious diseases and bring medical relief to underserved places like Haiti. It sparked her interest in global health and is still one of her favorite books.

The second experience, also during high school, was working at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she shadowed Dr. Grace Rozycki, then associate chief of surgery. At Grady, Ganeshan found a way to bring together her love of science, volunteering and working with people.

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“‘This makes sense. This feels right,’” she remembers thinking, “in a way that nothing else really had.”

And her work at Grady—where she witnessed how the health care system treats low-income, uninsured and Medicaid patients—had a strong influence on her attitude toward public health.

“For lack of a better word, I think it’s unacceptable that we still have populations here in the United States that are not able to access even basic primary care services,” she says.

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t’s a crisp, sunny September morning when Ganeshan welcomes a patient to the Athens Nurses Clinic, one of two free medical clinics in AthensClarke County.

“I don’t know if we’ve met before,” she says. “I’m Smitha.”

Since her sophomore year Ganeshan has volunteered at ANC, where she helps patients sign in, records their vital signs and takes their family, medical and social histories. The patients at ANC are similar to those she worked with at Grady, and Ganeshan values the interaction with people from diverse backgrounds.

“I think the patients here remind me not to take myself too seriously,” she says.

“It doesn’t matter how different your life experiences have been, we’re all just people.”

And Ganeshan has incorporated her off-campus experiences into her academic life. During her sophomore Roosevelt Scholars seminar, a threehour research course, she explored ways to improve primary care services in Athens-Clarke County. Over time the project evolved into an application for a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designation. It was a slow process, and Ganeshan spent a year garnering community support, collecting data and completing the application. If approved, it could provide additional funding opportunities for local primary care services.

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Ganeshan holds a thermometer while checking Charles Linder’s temperature at the Athens Nurses Clinic. She’s volunteered at ANC, one of two free medical clinics in Athens-Clarke County, since her sophomore year.

Monica Gaughan, former UGA faculty in health policy and management, served as Ganeshan’s mentor on the HPSA project. Now an associate professor at Arizona State University, Gaughan says Ganeshan’s discipline made it feasible for her to commit to a long-term endeavor.

“I think Smitha’s passion for serving the poor is what motivated her. I think what kept her going was a sincere and mature desire to see something actually change,” she says. “For Smitha, it is not enough to understand a problem: She also wants to contribute to its solution.”

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ith her Foundation Fellows class, Ganeshan has traveled to England, Costa Rica and South Africa as well as New York and Washington, D.C. She values the lessons learned on the road.

“It challenges you in a way that no other experience [does],” she says.

She’s also arranged her own trips, setting up internships to explore her interests. In Chennai, India, she

interned with the epidemiology team at the World Health Organization’s Hospital and Research Center for Diabetes.

In Managua, Nicaragua, she assisted a physician at a community health clinic.

She traveled twice to Peru: In Lima, she worked at a mobile health clinic, and in Iquitos, she worked on dengue fever prevention at a regional hospital.

In the summer of 2012 Ganeshan explored her interests in the U.S., interning at the Greater New York Hospital Association through the Honors in New York program.

“There I got a more nuanced understanding of the health care system in a way that I wasn’t able to do through my classes or reading,” she says. “There’s something about firsthand experience that will do that.”

Under Susan Waltman (AB ’73, MSW ’75), Ganeshan worked on translating obesity prevention models into programs for hospital implementation. Waltman, GNYHA executive vice president and general counsel, and a UGA Foundation trustee, describes Ganeshan as an exceptionally engaging

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with sister Shreya, 17; and enjoys finding gifts for brother Shashank, 12.

“All of the work that I’m doing here and in my undergraduate career, and hopefully beyond, is great,” she says. “But at the end of the day, my family is of the utmost importance to me.”

Van De Velde says Ganeshan is just as committed to her friends.

“The last time I saw her she was jumping up and down because one of her good friends had just gotten an interview at [Medical College of Georgia], and she was taking her out,” she says.

In September Ganeshan had her own interview at MCG, and in October she interviewed at Harvard Medical School. She graduates in May and has applied to medical schools all over the country.

“I’m excited to see where I end up,” she says.

She’s referring to medical school, but it seems clear that there are people in Athens and beyond who also are excited about Ganeshan’s future.

“In our country if you look at the physicians who have a strong love and interest in public health, they have become our national health leaders,” Corso says. “She has demonstrated, at such a young age, her leadership ability, and she is on that path.”

Ganeshan speaks to a group of campus visitors at the Arch before beginning a walking tour of North Campus. She works at UGA’s Visitors Center, which she describes as “the happiest place on campus, I would venture to say the world.”

person with a set of values and skills that will make her a leader in her chosen field.

“She seems so captured by the ability to touch so many lives,” Waltman says.

Over time Ganeshan has narrowed her focus to the U.S. health care system. She’s been meeting with Phaedra Corso, UGA professor of health policy and management, to discuss U.S. health care policy and reform. Corso says Ganeshan is not just skimming the surface.

“I have graduate students who are not nearly as deep a thinker as she is,” Corso says.

“What’s amazing about her is that she has an interest in medicine, which is focused on treating the individual, but beyond that she has an interest in public health, and that’s a rare thing to find in doctors.”

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ast summer Ganeshan gave up a trip to Japan and an internship in public health research. Her grandfather, Sundaram, was turning 80—an important milestone in South Indian tradition—and he wanted her to be there.

Family is important to Ganeshan, who watches Indian soap operas with her grandmother, Jayalakshmi; texts often

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In April, Ganeshan was surprised during class with the news that she’d won a Truman Scholarship. The award offers $30,000 for graduate study and recognizes students with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government and public service.

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by April Reese Sorrow (BS ’03) photos by Robert Newcomb (BFA ’81)

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his year, 50,000 Georgians will be diagnosed with cancer; more than 16,000 will die from the disease.* Almost 5,000 Georgians will die from lung cancer alone; 12,000 women will die from breast cancer; and more than 1,000 people, mostly men, will die from pancreatic cancer.

Nationwide, more than 580,000 people will die from some form of cancer, more than 1,300 of them children.

At the University of Georgia, researchers are working to reduce those numbers by developing new strategies to diagnose, treat and possibly one day cure cancer, a complex set of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Over the past decade UGA scientists have received more than $114 million in grant money to develop new detection

methods and treatments, identify causes and explore possible cures.

In addition, scientists are raising awareness of the deadly illnesses, helping Georgians better understand the importance of cancer screenings and healthy lifestyles that have proven to help fight against some cancer cell development.

“Much of cancer research depends on talented teams of scientists,” says Michael Pierce, who directs the UGA Cancer Center, established in 2004. “Since cancer is so complex and requires a wide spectrum of expertise to understand and apply advances to diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients, our cancer center members collaborate with both clinicians and research scientists. We look forward to increasing these collaborations in the future.”

Here are faculty making a difference at UGA. * American Cancer Society

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Prevention Who:

Connie Crawley, Senior Public Service Associate and Extension Nutrition

and Health Specialist, College of Family and Consumer Sciences

John E. Vena, University of Georgia Foundation Professor in Public Health, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Cancer Scientist, College of Public Health What:

Vena studies occupational and environmental risk factors for cancers of the prostate, breast and lungs, as well as childhood cancers.

Crawley educates the public on ways to prevent cancer through exercise and diet, and on routine screenings available that can detect certain cancers in their earliest stages. Through a statewide cancer support network, including teams of researchers and UGA Cooperative Extension agents, Vena and Crawley identify groups of people most at risk of developing cancer and work with those populations.

Why:

Raise awareness of environmental risk factors like obesity and smoking that have been linked to cancer, and increase the number of Georgians, particularly those in high-risk populations, like the elderly and minorities, who get regular cancer screenings.

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Vaccines Who:

Geert-Jan Boons, Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences What:

Boons developed a vaccine that identifies tumors based on the overproduction of a protein called MUC1 on the surface of their cells.

MUC1 is found on more than 70 percent of cancers that kill, such as breast, pancreatic, ovarian and multiple myeloma. The vaccine trains the immune system to distinguish and kill cancer cells based on the presence of the MUC1 proteins. Boons’ vaccine has successfully triggered a strong immune response to cancer cells in mice. His group is testing and refining the vaccine and hopes to start clinical trials in humans soon.

Why: Reduce the number of deaths from cancers such as breast, pancreatic, ovarian and multiple myeloma by detecting and destroying cancer cells as they develop.

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Diagnostics Who:

Michael Pierce, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mudter Professor in Cancer Research and UGA Cancer Center director, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Ying Xu, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Bioinformatics, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences What:

Pierce, and his team of UGA faculty and students, has identified specific markers for breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. These markers each involve particular proteins that contain specific chains of sugar molecules, called glycans.

These glycoproteins are on all cell surfaces and regulate cell communication. Early detection of these glycoproteins released from cells could allow doctors to diagnose and then treat these cancers earlier, when treatments are more effective. Xu and his research team analyze tissue samples, both cancerous and non-cancerous, to identify proteins with distinct expression levels in cancer but not in normal tissues. In tandem, they have developed computational software to identify distinct physical and chemical features of proteins that can secrete into blood or urine. By applying this tool to the proteins found to have distinct expression levels in specific cancer types, they can suggest marker proteins in blood or urine for diagnosis of specific cancers, making it possible to diagnose a specific cancer through blood or urine tests.

Why:

Develop urine and blood tests that can detect cancer in its early stages.

Xu’s lab developed the first urine test to detect gastric cancer. Pierce has identified specific glycans on particular proteins that can indicate breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers through simple blood tests. The next stage for all these tests is to screen thousands of samples from patients with cancer and other diseases to determine how effective these tests will be clinically.

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Therapeutics Who:

Mandi Murph, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Cancer Scientist, American Cancer Society Research Scholar and Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy Shanta Dhar, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

What: Murph develops and tests potential anti-cancer medications that block a pathway where tumor cells take advantage of a specific protein that stimulates cell growth and bypass the toxic effects of chemotherapy. Without this pathway, cells are far more sensitive to treatment and less likely to evolve into more resistant and aggressive tumors. Since there is no cure for ovarian cancer or advanced melanoma, Murph also explores new drugs that could offer treatment for these diseases. Dhar’s research focuses on chemicals in cancer therapy that would increase effectiveness of the treatment and reduce unwanted side effects.

Further research in her group also focuses on the development of new ways to deliver medications to cancer patients, which could revolutionize the options for tracking and treating breast and prostate cancers.

Why:

Develop powerful low-cost tools to treat cancer in humans.

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Communication Who:

Jeff Springston, Professor of Public Relations and Associate Dean for

Research and Graduate Studies, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Jeong-Yeob Han, Assistant Professor of Telecommunications, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication What: Springston and Han measure how cancer patients find information and support services and how they benefit from those. Their research, eHealth Interventions, explores how effective social media outlets are in reaching cancer patients. By studying evaluations and content analyses of social networks, they understand how people engage with each other through sites like Facebook and Twitter and how patterns of information and support vary from one user to another based on the type of cancer they have. They also explore how media technologies such as the Internet, interactive DVDs, kiosks and cell phones can be used to encourage cancer screenings as they tailor messages to specific at-risk populations.

Why:

Find effective ways for people to use social media and technology to learn about types of cancer and prevention methods so that they can make good decisions about their health.

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A show on the road

New UGA faculty get a glimpse of the rest of the state and ideas of how they can contribute to its progress

by Kelly Simmons

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hen Kia Motors opened its manufacturing plant in Troup County in 2009, it brought with it 3,000 jobs. Soon, suppliers for the plant, which rolls 360,000 vehicles off the assembly line each year, moved into the area, bringing an additional 7,000 jobs.

The investment has paid off for the west Georgia county. Between 2000 and 2011 the median household income increased by 24 percent, from $31,886 to $39,664.

Median house or condo values grew from $80,000 to $128,337 during the same time period.

Kia last year announced it would spend $1.6 billion over the next 16 years for new machinery at the plant to keep up with U.S. demand for the Korean car maker’s vehicles. Kia now has 8.7 percent of the U.S. automobile market share compared to 4 percent in 2006.

“Every single car you see has already been sold to a dealer,” Kia Public Relations Specialist Faith Jones says as she leads 40 new UGA faculty members on a tour of the plant in August.

The economic boost for Troup County and the surrounding region is the kind of progress UGA President Jere Morehead hopes will result from a new economic development initiative he launched during the summer. In addition to the economic development office in Athens, UGA now has an office of economic development in Atlanta, led by Sean McMillan, former director of western Georgia project operations for Quick Start, the state’s workforce development program.

The Atlanta office, located in the same building as the state Department of Economic Development, makes it easier for UGA to work with that department, as well as with Georgia Power, Georgia EMC, Georgia Electric Cities, the Department of Community Affairs and the state Chamber of Commerce to link resources at the university to business opportunities throughout the state. UGA’s economic development initiatives are overseen by the vice presidents for public service and outreach, and research.

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“It’s really eye-opening to see all the different parts of Georgia, not just geographically but culturally, and the economic impact of the whole infrastructure.”

— Debbie Murray, Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach in Family and Consumer Sciences

Using UGA’s resources throughout the state is a mission of the land-grant university. UGA academic and public service faculty are already working in all 159 counties in Georgia, helping communities address infrastructure needs associated with population growth, improving public education systems, training government leaders, assisting farmers and offering suggestions that can improve residents’ quality of life.

The new faculty tour, which was revived this year by the provost and the vice president for public service and outreach, provides an opportunity for additional faculty members to see firsthand some of the issues facing the state and identify areas where their resources might be used.

“We hope it piques their interest in some part of the state that they’d want to return to,” says Jennifer Frum, vice president for public service and outreach. “Our hope is that faculty from all the different disciplines will make the connection

between their work and the capacity to attract economic development.”

In Gainesville, Atlanta, West Point, Columbus, Americus, Tifton, Waycross, Savannah and Waynesboro, faculty members who have been at UGA for fewer than two years met with local and state officials, toured major industries and saw firsthand the economic generators in the different regions of the state.

“It’s really eye-opening to see all the different parts of Georgia, not just geographically but culturally, and the economic impact of the whole infrastructure,” says Debbie Murray, associate dean for extension and outreach in Family and Consumer Sciences. “I think it gives me a more holistic approach to my work.”

In Hall County, the tour visited Jaemor Farms, a family operation that has grown from a seasonal business to a year-round agritourism hotspot.

Drew Echols gave them the background on the farm, which has been in the Echols family for more than 100 years.

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Fields of pumpkins, berries, peaches and apples are among the crops that stretch across 300 acres in Hall County. Jaemor’s roadside market sells homemade jams, jellies, ice cream and boiled peanuts as well as products from other local farms.

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“My granddaddy said, ‘We’re not putting in a corn maze. We’re not growing corn to let people walk through it,’” Echols says.

But that corn maze, as well as group tours, educational programs and seasonal activities, draws in 130,000 visitors during the month of October alone. In 2006 Jaemor sold 4,000 pumpkins. By 2010, that number had reached 30,000.

“They’re not just coming to buy,” Echols says. “They’re staying half the day.”

Agriculture remains a significant economic generator in Georgia, contributing more than $7 billion annually to Georgia’s $763.65 billion economy, according to the UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development. One in seven Georgians works in agriculture, forestry or related fields.

Poultry is the top farm commodity in the state and much of the northeast Georgia economy relies on poultry production and processing.

The military is another major economic engine for the state. Fort Benning, in Columbus, employs 40,000 people from the surrounding area.

All U.S. Army infantry begin their training at Fort Benning, and special forces flow through the base for training, contributing to the local economy while they are there.

The UGA faculty were treated to lunch on the base, and then watched as special forces officers did ground training to prepare for jumps from the 34foot- and 250-foot-tall towers on the base.

“Jumping is the easy part,” jokes Col. Gary Jones, who retired as garrison commander at Fort Benning in 1993 and now is executive vice president of military affairs for the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce. “The stopping is a son of a gun.”

In Savannah, the group toured Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., which produces luxury jetliners.

The newest, the Gulfstream 650, which starts at $65 million, is on the assembly line through 2016.

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Top: As they tour Jaemor Farms from a tractor-pulled trailer, Alex Spektor, assistant professor of Russian, and Denise Oen, elementary and social studies clinical assistant professor, enjoy some of the fresh blackberries they helped pick.

Middle: Candace Maddox, an academic professional in counseling and human development services, and Benjamin Britton, an assistant professor of art, get a close look at freshly harvested peanuts grown on the UGA Tifton campus.

Bottom: Kun Lu, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, strokes the head of a calf waiting to be bottle-fed by the faculty visitors at the Tifton campus Dairy Research Center.

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Mickey Baxley, a crew member on the R/V Georgia Bulldog, a 73-foot converted shrimp boat used for research and education outreach, answers questions from Xiaozhong “John” Yu, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, and Donglin Zhang, professor of horticulture, during a trawl on the Skidaway River.

The $30-billion-a-year company, which has been operating in Savannah since 1967, employs about 14,000 people at its corporate headquarters and plants in Savannah and Brunswick. In recent years, the company has seen its 80 percent market share in the U.S. drop to 50 percent, says John “Jay” Neely III, Gulfstream’s general counsel.

That caught the attention of Tim Quigley, a new assistant professor of management in the Terry College of Business.

“To hear (him) talk about that as a challenge, that’s something those of us in business can help with,” says Quigley, a private pilot who moved to Athens during the summer.

“It’s just as important to help a successful company continue to be successful.”

During a bus tour of the Georgia Ports Authority, the faculty got a firsthand look at a major factor in the success of Georgia’s industry—the ability to move products in and out of the state by the ton every day.

The Georgia ports, in Savannah, Brunswick, Columbus and Bainbridge, employ about 300,000 full- and part-time employees— about 7 percent of the total workforce in the state—generating $67 billion in annual sales revenue.

Understanding the value of the transportation systems, like shipping, trucking and trains—faculty also visited the CSX rail yard in Waycross—is vital when helping students look for jobs, Quigley says.

“Not a lot of them want to work in the railroad industry,” he says. “But it’s critically important.”

Connie Frigo, an assistant professor of saxophone in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, came away from the tour with ideas of how UGA could help advance arts education in communities across the state, particularly where such programs have been eliminated in schools.

Holding concerts in people’s homes across the state and taking students to talk about music education in rural areas would help build bridges between the business and arts communities, which can sometimes seem at odds, Frigo says.

“It’s a huge quality of life issue,” she says.

“Community outreach means more than just going to the local nursing home and playing there. We can use our outreach in a way that builds relationships.”

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Top: Two thousand train cars a day from five rail lines pass through the CSX Rice Yard in Waycross, making it the largest classification rail yard in the CSX network.

Bottom: Jake Hunter (right), assistant terminal superintendent, shows (from left) Darren Hayunga, assistant professor of insurance, legal studies and real estate, and Josh Walton, from the Small Business Development Center, around the operations tower for the CSX Rice Yard.

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under forty The UGA Alumni Association celebrates its 2013 class of outstanding Bulldogs For the third year, the UGA Alumni Association recognized 40 outstanding alumni under the age of 40. They were selected for their contributions to business, leadership, research, the arts, community, education and philanthropy; their dedication to the University of Georgia; and how well they uphold the pillars of the Arch—wisdom, justice and moderation. Chosen 32 GEORGIA MAGAZINE • www.uga.edu/gm

from a pool of about 500 applicants nominated by friends, family, business associates and UGA faculty and staff, the winners were selected by a committee of UGA administrators and faculty, members of the UGA Foundation and the Alumni Association. The 2013 class of outstanding alumni was celebrated at an awards luncheon on Sept. 19 at the Georgia Aquarium.

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economic chief at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest.

Commerce in 2012. Bethel twice served on the Dalton City Council.

Padgett “Pat” Wilson (AB ’96)

Laurie Barron (BSEd ’96)

Barron is a National Board Certified Teacher, a distinction earned by only 1 percent of U.S. teachers. In 2012, she was named Georgia Middle School Principal of the Year while serving as principal of Smokey Road Middle School in Newnan. Now living in Montana, she is superintendent for Evergreen School District.

Wilson is chief operating officer for the Georgia Department of Economic Development, managing an annual budget of $26 million and 170 staff members. He also is executive director of Georgia Allies, a marketing partnership between the state and the private sector that promotes Georgia’s economic development priorities.

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Ron Holt (BSA ’97)

Angela Dotson

In 2003, Holt invested his savings in a fledgling maid service. Ten years later, Two Maids & A Mop is the largest privately owned residential cleaning company in the country, with 150 team members in five states. In 2013, he was a semifinalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

(BBA ’98, MAcc ’99) Dotson is one of the youngest partners at Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, the largest tax, accounting and consulting firm headquartered in Georgia.

A breast cancer survivor, she also serves on the board of directors for Turning Point, a health care facility for women battling breast cancer.

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Timothy Murphy

Brendan Kyle Hatcher

Murphy is a senior vice president of financial planning and analysis for RockTenn, a publicly traded consumer packaging company in Norcross. Under his direction the company has grown from $1 billion to $10 billion and acquired another company, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, in 2011.

Hatcher is an international export and investment strategist with Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development.

Previously he served as a diplomat in the Bahamas and Russia, where he addressed issues like human trafficking and religious freedom. In August 2014, he will become

(BBA ’96)

Shunta Jordan

(BSFCS ’98, MEd ’03)

(BBA ’97)

Charlie Bethel (BBA ’98, JD ’01)

Bethel is a Georgia state senator serving his second term representing the 54th district.

He is director of human resources for J&J Industries Inc. and was named Freshman Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Chamber of

Jordan is the J.B. Fuqua Chair of Speech & Debate at Pace Academy in Atlanta and has coached six state championship teams and one national championship debate team. She also is the assistant varsity girls basketball coach and leads summer debate workshops for middle and high school students.

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CrossFit Kids. She is also a Christian playwright with two productions to her credit.

vention’s Energy, Technology and Community Sustainability Legacy Village, bringing together businesses, schools and nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Patrick Lucas (BS ’98)

Lucas co-founded the Northeast Georgia branch of Compassionate Care Hospice and serves as its medical director. After his residency at Wake Forest University, he joined Hawthorne Medical Associates in Athens and became a full partner. He was chief of internal medicine at Athens Regional Medical Center from 2009 to 2013.

Kevin Abernethy (AB ’99)

Abernethy is partner at Hall Booth Smith in Atlanta. In 2010, Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle appointed him to a four-year term on the State Ethics Commission. The following year, Abernethy became the youngest Georgian to be selected to serve as chairman of the commission.

He’s now serving his second term as chairman.

Jon Howell (BBA ’99)

Howell is president and CEO of the Georgia Health Care Association. The GHCA represents 95 percent of Georgia’s 359 skilled nursing facilities, a number of assisted living communities and a home- and community-based case management program.

Howell also serves on the Georgia Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Allen Yee

(BS ’99, JD ’03) Yee is an attorney with The Coca-Cola Company, managing litigation for the world’s largest beverage company since 2011. Before that he spent seven years in Dallas with Vinson & Elkins, one of the world’s largest law firms. He also is chairman of the board of trustees for the Sigma Pi Education Foundation.

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Robyn Painter (AB ’98)

Painter is an attorney and internship coordinator with the Georgia Appellate Practice and Educational Resource Center in Atlanta, where she advocates for convicted criminals on Georgia’s death row. She served in the Peace Corps, developing a public health program in Madagascar, before earning her law degree from Georgetown University in 2004.

Dr. Charnetta Colton (BS ’99)

Colton is a physician at South Atlanta Pediatrics in Riverdale and Locust Grove.

Previously she practiced at Children’s Healthcare Center in Sandersville, where she served on the Washington County Chamber of Commerce board of directors and was medical director of

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Emily Hanson Scofield (MS ’99)

Scofield is the executive director of the U.S. Green Building Council’s North Carolina chapter. In that role, she coordinated the first Charlotte Environmental Sustainability Week in 2011, and in 2012 she convened the Democratic National Con-

Thomas Forsberg (BBA ’00, MBA ’10)

Forsberg’s 13-year career with SunTrust Bank has taken him from credit analyst to first vice president and relation-

ship manager and earned him numerous company awards.

He serves as a Columbus Airport Commissioner, treasurer for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and member of the Historic Columbus Foundation board of directors.

Jessica McClellan (AB ’00, JD ’03)

McClellan, a specialist in admiralty and maritime law, is a member of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division and one of nine attorneys handling litigation from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. She is a co-author of the fourth and fifth editions of Admiralty and Maritime Law.

2001

Kimberly Black (BS ’01)

Black was a member of UGA’s NCAA championship swim team, earning a gold medal in the 4x200 freestyle

relay at the 2000 Olympics.

In 2001, she was named NCAA Woman of the Year.

Today Black is a transplant social worker at Ochsner Health System’s Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, where she provides counseling and support to patients.

more efficiently and effectively. She is on the board of directors for WIN List, GreenLaw and Blueprint Georgia and was named to Georgia Trend magazine’s “40 Under 40” in 2007.

PharmD on Demand and cofounder of Brossie Legendary Turkey Callers. He serves as chairman of the Emerging Leaders of Georgia Forestry Association and co-founded the Warnell School Young Alumni Endowment for Leadership Training at UGA.

Mark Anthony Thomas Lindsey Groepper (ABJ ’01)

Groepper was the first employee hired by Indianapolis-based BLASTmedia in 2005. Eight years later, she’s president of the company. From spring 2012 to spring 2013, Groepper brought in more than $1 million in new business revenue, including acquiring rapper 50 Cent’s new audio brand, SMS Audio, as a client.

Jennifer Jordan (JD ’01)

Jordan is principal and owner of The Jordan Firm and recently developed an iPad application called JuryStrike to help attorneys select juries

(BBA ’01)

Thomas is enrolled at MIT as a 2014 Sloan Fellow for Innovation and Global Leadership, following a stint as director and publisher of City Limits, a New York-based nonprofit news agency that reports on urban life and policy. Thomas was a presenter during UGA’s inaugural TEDx event earlier this year.

Erin Hames (BSEd ’02)

From 2006 to 2010, Erin served as former Gov. Sonny Perdue’s policy director and was executive sponsor for Georgia’s Race to the Top team that secured a $400 million grant for the state. In 2011, she joined the office of Gov. Nathan Deal as deputy chief of staff for policy.

2002

Ashley Jones (AB ’02)

Andy Barrs (MFR ’02)

Barrs is founder/CEO of Vega Media Partners, founder of Principle Centered Investments, co-founder/CEO of

Jones is chief of staff for U.S. Rep. John Barrow, a position she has held since 2007. At the time she was the youngest female chief of staff on Capitol Hill. She oversees the D.C.

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office and four district offices, manages a staff of more than 20 and serves Barrow as a senior political advisor.

2004

private sectors to promote regional economic stability and growth, strengthen financial markets, combat terrorist finance and implement U.S. economic sanctions.

was appointed to establish and oversee the state of Alabama’s largest public defender office.

She is now responsible for recruiting, managing and training 39 attorneys and 29 support staff members.

2006

2005

Logan Smalley (BSEd ’06)

Jason Carter (JD ’04)

Carter is a Georgia state senator representing the 42nd district and an attorney at Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore in Atlanta, where he logs many pro bono hours representing the state’s most vulnerable residents. His 2002 book, Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa’s Borders, is based on his experiences with the Peace Corps.

Nathan Hardeman Travis Canova (BBA, MAcc ’05)

Canova began his career with KPMG in Washington, D.C., before joining Science Applications International Corporation, where he led international financial, operational and regulatory compliance audits in France, Germany and Kuwait. Today Canova is a certified fraud examiner and a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Atlanta division.

(BBA ’05)

Hardeman lives in Guatemala and is executive director of Engadi Ministries International, an organization he co-founded that provides a safe family environment and education to hundreds of atrisk boys living in Guatemala City’s dangerous Zone 18.

Smalley oversees TED-ED teams that produce original content for educators. He is probably best known as the director, editor and composer of “Darius Goes West,” which documented the crosscountry journey of Darius Weems, who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Since its 2007 release, it has helped raise $2.3 million for the disease.

2007

Richard T. Scott (BFA ’05)

Michael Mannina (ABJ, BBA ’04)

Mannina rose from an internship with U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson to become the U.S. Treasury Department’s top diplomat to Saudi Arabia, where he works closely with the Saudi government and

Kira Fonteneau (JD ’05)

In 2006 Fonteneau left a private law firm to establish The Fonteneau Firm in Birmingham. In 2013, she

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Scott is a contemporary figurative painter whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the U.S. and Europe, including in Le Grand Palais in Paris and the Palazzo Cini in Venice. In December 2012, American Artist magazine named him one of the “25 Artists of Tomorrow.”

Jinali Desai (PharmD ’07)

Desai is senior director of market health and wellness for Walmart, where she improves the affordability, accessibility and quality of pharmaceutical care for clients and manages a business unit with sales of more than

$100 million. She is fluent in Swahili, Gujarati and Hindi, and conversant in French and Spanish.

Tosha Hays (BSFCS ’07)

Hays is senior director of design for SPANX in Atlanta. She has also been a merchandising assistant with Tommy Hilfiger and a sales coordinator for Union Bay. Her fashion line, Tosha Hays Inc., won the Fresh Face Award from Women’s Wear Daily.

Michael McConnell

2008

2009

2011

Irving Steel

Kim Nogi

Kevin Scott

Steel moved to China in 2008 and founded Original Life Ltd. and Green Drinks China in Shanghai, a nonprofit that is attempting to provide clean, affordable food for the Chinese people.

Steel established the China Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association and received a Rotary International Leadership Award from Rotary Shanghai.

Nogi, a former member of the Redcoat Marching Band, is the publicist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

She coordinated the first “Music Appreciation Night” at Turner Field and was the force behind a number of other ASO events, including a music education benefit with Steven Spielberg and John Williams.

Scott co-founded the ADDO Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta that offers leadership programs to high school and college students. In 2012, the institute received the Governor’s International Award for “Best New Company of the Year.”

Raegan Tuff

Rodney Bullard

(PhD ’09)

(MBA ’12)

Tuff is a senior public health analyst with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, managing agency-wide technology solutions and tracking prevention and control activities for all 50 states. She is also CEO and founder of The Art of the Living, an entertainment and performing arts company.

In 2011, Bullard was named the first executive director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation.

He led efforts to establish the Junior Achievement Chick-filA Foundation Discovery Center in Atlanta, a $10 million facility in the Georgia World Congress Center where more than 30,000 students learn about financial literacy, entrepreneurship and economics.

(AB ’08)

(AB ’07)

Albert Glover Way

McConnell began his U.S. Air Force career in North Carolina as an aircraft maintenance officer, overseeing 600 employees and $5 billion in aircraft. After returning from Afghanistan in 2009, he returned to Athens as an assistant professor of aerospace science and operations flight commander with the UGA Air Force ROTC.

Way, a scholar of cultural and environmental history, is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University.

He uses his background to advocate for sustainable land management. Way is on the board of directors for the Altamahaw Riverkeeper Inc., an environmental group that protects the river’s watershed.

(PhD ’08)

(ABJ, BMus ’09)

(AB ’11)

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Isner looms large AP Photo/Eric Gay

2013 was a big year for pro tennis player John Isner (M ’07). In April he won the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship (above), his sixth title. Three months later he won the BB&T Atlanta Open and appeared—naked—in ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue, an annual photo essay celebrating athletes’ bodies. In August he reached the final of the Washington, D.C., Citi Open, where he lost to 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro. Two weeks later, Isner beat No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic and Del Potro to reach the final of the Cincinnati-based Western & Southern Open, where he lost to No. 3-ranked Rafael Nadal. At the U.S. Open, Isner lost in the third round but donated 20 percent of his prize money to America’s VetDogs, an organization that helps train canines for blind and disabled veterans.

CLASS NOTES

Compiled by Chase Martin

1960-1964

Mike Scruggs (BS ’61) of Hendersonville, N.C., was appointed to the North Carolina Veterans Affairs Commission.

1965-1969

George W. “Buddy” Darden III (AB ’65, JD ’67) of Marietta was honored with the Distinguished Service Scroll Award from the UGA School of Law’s alumni association. Gary Allen Brown (BSA ’66, MS ’68, PhD ’70) of Farmingdale, N.Y., received Farmingdale’s Distinguished Service Award. A. Mark Smith (ABJ ’66) of Eatonton was inducted into the Georgia Press Association’s Golden Club. Charles H. Van Rysselberge (ABJ ’68, MA ’71) of Daniel Island, S.C., was

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awarded Honorary Life Membership by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. Stella Bailey (BSHE ’69, MHE ’71) of Cordele was honored at the Inaugural Pearl Awards.

Reynold Jennings (BSPh ’69) of Kennesaw is CEO of WellStar.

1970-1974

Jeff Lurey (BSPh ’70) of Atlanta received the Georgia Pharmacy Association’s 2013 Meritorious Service Award for outstanding service in pharmacy.

Mary Lynn McCorkle (AB ’70) of Brooklyn, N.Y., exhibited her artwork at the Berry College Moon Gallery. H. Darrell Young (AB ’70) and Joseph P. Hester (PhD ’73) published an article, “Building From Within: Designing a Values-Based Cultural Template,” in the Journal of Values-Based Leadership.

Charles Harman (BBA ’71), former chief

of staff for Sen. Saxby Chambliss, was named vice president for government and community affairs at Emory University.

Pete McDonald (BBA ’71) of Rome was appointed president of Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Maxine Burton (BSEd ’72, MEd ’78) of Athens was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to serve on the Georgia Council for the Arts. Edward L. Shaw Jr. (AB ’72, EdD ’84) of Mobile, Ala., is in his 27th year of teaching at the University of South Alabama and was selected as one of the top 50 professors for the first 50 years of existence of the university. Janet Collins (BSHE ’73, MS ’76) of St. Mary’s City, Md., is the 74th president of the Institute of Food Technologies and the first IFT president to be both a food scientist and a registered dietitian. David A. Garfinkel (AB ’73, MPA ’75) of Jacksonville, Fla., was recognized on Florida Trend’s 2013

Legal Elite list. Elaine Bunn (AB ’74) of Washington, D.C., was chosen to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense for the U.S. Department of Defense.

1975-1979

Marie Garrett (BSEd ’75) of Alpharetta began teaching a graduate level introductory class in public administration at Reinhardt University.

Will Harris (BSA ’76) of Bluffton was named the 2013 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year.

Betsy Crossley (BS ’77, MS ’80) of Brentwood, Tenn., received a Top Dawg Award for being elected to another term as Brentwood mayor from the Nashville Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association. Robert T. Parker IV (BSA ’77) of Suwanee was named president and CEO of the National Peanut Board.

James W. Barge (BB ’78) of Lithia Springs was named chief financial officer of Lionsgate. Steve C. Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87) of Atlanta was honored with the Distinguished Service Scroll Award from the UGA School of Law’s alumni association. Jeff Shellebarger (BS ’78, MS ’80) of Katy, Texas, was named president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company.

1980-1984

Lee Bentley (BBA ’80) of Tampa, Fla., is an interim U.S. attorney and was appointed to fill the 35-county Middle District of Florida. Nancy D. Bryan (BSW ’80) of Tifton is the executive director of Ruth’s Cottage, a shelter for victims of domestic violence, and The Patrick House, a child advocacy center.

Rebekah Farber (BSEd ’80) of Encino, Calif., was appointed board chair of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network. Tim McElhannon (BA ’80) of Lexington, Va., fulfilled a lifelong dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail.

He began his hike at Springer Mountain, Ga., March 27, and reached the summit of Mount Katahdin, Maine, on Aug. 4.

Timothy Montgomery (BSA ’80, DVM ’83) was named to the House Advisory Committee for the American Veterinary Medical Association. Margaret Mary Peltier (ABJ ’80) of Gulf Breeze, Fla., is

ALUMNI PROFILE

Calling the plays Mark Lewis’ moot court and athletic skills help him oversee NCAA championships Andy Johnston (ABJ ’88) Mark Lewis was only a year into his job at the NCAA when he had to tackle two unpopular decisions: To stop selling team jerseys through the NCAA website and to stop licensing a popular football video game.

Fortunately, he had the skills needed to avoid a potential firestorm.

“I didn’t take a class on whether to sell CONTRIBUTED MARK LEWIS jerseys on a website or not, but what I felt like I learned at Georgia was a skill set of problem solving and orienting myself to processing information and making a decision. That’s not something you learn in a classroom, but part of the whole experience,” says Lewis (BBA ’88, JD ’92), who became executive vice president for championships and alliances at the NCAA in April 2012.

Just 20 years earlier Lewis was a standout at UGA, a polished debater who led UGA’s moot court team to a national championship in 1992.

President Jere W. Morehead, who oversaw the UGA School of Law’s moot court program when Lewis was on the team, recognized his potential.

“Mark was the best advocate in the National Moot Court Competition,” Morehead says. “Believe me, at that point, I knew there was nothing that Mark wasn’t capable of accomplishing.”

Before working at the NCAA, Lewis held positions with various Olympic organizations, where he handled a network of international committees and amateur federations. Overseeing the NCAA’s 89 championships, in addition to corporate and media partner programs, isn’t much different from his Olympic work, he says, “except all the meetings are in English and I don’t have to leave the country.”

His connections with athletics, both at Georgia and in his personal life, have helped as well.

As an undergraduate he was a long snapper on Vince Dooley’s final football team in 1988 and roomed with kicker John Kasay, who retired from the NFL earlier this year.

Lewis’ father, Bill, was a defensive assistant coach at UGA in the 1980s. The two recently met to watch Georgia play Clemson in the 2013 season opener.

His “Bulldog allegiance isn’t hidden” at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, he says. He has a framed drawing of Dooley, signed by members of the 1988 team, to commemorate Dooley’s 25 years of coaching.

“I’ve been working around sports … but to be back and be around studentathletes and the college aspect of things and the passion that people have for their alma mater and their university, it’s just really something special,” Lewis says. “And to be a small part of that, it’s a great thing. I like to tell people that I’m glad that I don’t have to work for a living.”

— Andy Johnston is a freelancer living in Watkinsville.

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CLASSNOTES

® It has been a busy fall for UGA alumni both here in the Classic City and across the globe. If you did not make it to Athens for a home football game, I hope you joined your fellow Bulldog faithful for a game-watching party or other alumni gathering in your local area. It was a pleasure to witness the investiture of UGA President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80) on Nov. 19.

People regularly ask me how Kitty and I like living TIM KEADLE in the Athens area, and I always respond, “I knew it was going to be good, but I just did not know it was going to be this good.” Being so close to campus really renews me. I see the hustle and bustle of our students’ daily routines, and I witness our exceptional faculty working to prepare those students for the next stages of their lives. A personal treat for me is that I often see Betty Jean Craige and Jim Cobb, both of whom taught me at UGA back in the mid-1970s. They are still so involved and connected with this great university.

College football season may be coming to a close in the next few weeks, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come to Athens to see a gymnastics meet or a basketball game or drop by one of Athens’ dining establishments for a great night out. Your university and your Alumni Association have numerous upcoming events, so please stay connected.

The UGA Alumni Association will kick off 2014 with a bang by hosting the annual Bulldog 100 Celebration at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on Saturday, Jan. 25. I invite you to attend this festive evening honoring 100 of the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA graduates. This year marks the fifth Bulldog 100 and promises to be an extra-special affair. Visit www.alumni.uga.edu/ b100 for more information and to register to attend.

It is the season of giving, a season of reflection and thankfulness. I’d like to thank those of you who have made a financial contribution to the university this year. If you have not yet contributed, please seriously consider making UGA part of your culture of philanthropy. Private giving to UGA is the fuel that keeps the university reaching new heights in instruction, research and service.

I sincerely wish you all a blessed holiday season and a happy new year.

Remember that the UGA Alumni Association staff, its officers and its board of directors are all here to protect and promote the traditions and best interests of your university—the University of Georgia.

Always a Dawg,

Tim Keadle (BBA ’78), president UGA Alumni Association

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Deborah Dietzler, Executive Director ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Tim Keadle (BBA ’78) President, Statham Ruth Bartlett (BBA ’76) Vice President, Atlanta Jennifer Chapman (BBA ’97, MAcc ’98, JD ’02) Treasurer, Athens Bonney Shuman (BBA ’80) Assistant Treasurer, St. Simons Island Julie Reynolds (BSHE ’81) Secretary, Lawrenceville Steve Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87) Immediate Past President, Atlanta

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the new executive director at Pensacola Little Theatre. Krysta Harden (ABJ ’81) of Alexandria, Va., was nominated to be deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dan Jackson (BSFR ’81) of Montgomery, Ala., was named assistant state forester by the Alabama Forestry Commission. Elaine Hamilton (BSEd ’82, MEd ’83) of Thomasville retired as the executive director of United States Tennis Association Georgia. Tim McMillan (BSA ’82) of Enigma is the Lower Southeast Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award winner for 2013.

Victor Keith Wilson (BSW ’82, MEd ’87) of Charleston, S.C., was named vice president for student affairs at UGA. Mike Hubbard (ABJ ’83) is serving his fourth four-year term in the Alabama legislature. Auburn University dedicated a new building to Hubbard, the Mike Hubbard Center for Advanced Science, Innovation and Commerce. Mark Whitney (AB ’83, MS ’91, BS ’92) of Covington was named assistant director of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division.

Liz Bauer-Buckingham (ABJ ’84) of Boise, Idaho, retired after 20 years as the owner of Family Magazine & Media Inc. and publisher of Treasure Valley Family Magazine. Martha Jacobs (BBA ’84, JD ’94) of Armuchee was honored as the Assistant District Attorney of the Year for Georgia by the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. Richard Riley IV (BBA ’84) is the principal officer/consul general at the U.S. Consulate General in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gregory L. Roseboro (AB ’84, JD ’87) of Athens was named director of law admissions for UGA Law.

1985-1989

Elizabeth Brannen Chandler (BBA ’85, JD ’88) of Atlanta was named vice president and general counsel of Rollins Inc. Timothy M. Dixon (BSEd ’86) of Millwood received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UGA College of Education. Anita Gregory Arnold (BBA ’89) of Orlando, Fla., obtained her chartered property and casualty underwriter designation. Noel Barnes (AB ’89) of Atlanta was named the new CFO of the Woodruff Arts Center.

ALUMNI calendar Saturday, Jan. 25 Bulldog 100 Celebration Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Reception 6 p.m., Dinner 7 p.m.

Join the UGA Alumni Association as it reveals the ranked Bulldog 100 list of the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA graduates. Visit www.alumni.uga.edu/ b100 for more information.

Monday, Jan. 28 UGA Founders Day Lecture, UGA Chapel, 2 p.m.

The UGA Alumni Association and the UGA Emeriti Scholars will host the 2014 Founders Day Lecture to celebrate the university’s 229th birthday. The lecture will be presented by Regents Professor Loch Johnson of the School of Public and International Affairs.

Thursday, Jan. 30, and Friday, Jan. 31 100 Days ’til Graduation, Tate Grand Hall, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER

Hundreds of UGA alumni, students, faculty and staff members gathered on North Campus to officially welcome Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80) as the university’s 22nd president during the UGA Alumni Association’s Presidential Welcome Reception on July 9.

The Student Alumni Association will sponsor the annual 100 Days event, a one-stop shop for graduating students. Visit www.alumni.uga.edu/saa for more information.

Friday, Feb. 21, and Saturday, Feb. 22 Alumni Leadership Assembly

Alumni chapter leaders from across the country will flock to Athens for this annual leadership training weekend hosted by the UGA Alumni Association. The weekend boasts a number of informational workshops and exclusive campus tours and activities for attendees.

Saturday, March 8 DFW Dawgs Night at the Symphony Myerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas

The Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association invites local alumni and friends to enjoy an evening of Bulldog camaraderie at the Myerson Symphony Center.

Zach Porter Photography

Quade Bedgood, son of Richard Bedgood (AB ’91), poses with Football Coach Mark Richt (left) and Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Fox during UGA Day in Gwinnett County on July 29.

Saturday, March 22 Dawg Trot 5K

Join hundreds of UGA alumni and friends for a scenic walk, jog or run across the university’s beautiful campus.

To learn about these and other events, visit www.alumni.uga.edu/ calendar.

For more information: alumni@uga.edu (800) 606-8786 www.alumni.uga.edu

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(Left to right) Elizabeth Thompson (BSPHR ’97), Kathryn Medlock and UGA Alumni Association Ft. Myers/Naples Chapter President Kristen Stamps (BBA ’11) cheer on the Bulldogs during a game-watching party hosted by the chapter Sept. 7.

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A bulldog in Scotland For Tony Parker, life in St. Andrews is more than par for the course

by Ron Green Jr. For Tony Parker, life is grand.

Parker (AB ’90, MA ’92) is the 60-year-old curator of golf collections and the Lawrence Levy Golf Photographic Collection at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he can immerse himself in his love of photography, history and golf.

The job took Parker from his deep Georgia roots and landed him in the birthplace of golf, his home just a short drive from the ancient town of St. Andrews and its famous courses where he ADAM SACHS spends as much of his free time as possible.

TONY PARKER “A lot of friends tell me, ‘I hate you,’” Parker says.

He understands.

He went to St. Andrews in 1992 to study the history of Georgia settlement, which was thick with Scottish immigrants.

Upon receiving his doctorate from the University of St. Andrews, Parker donned the kilt given to him by his father-in-law and posed on the famous Swilcan Bridge on the Old Course’s 18th hole. He wore his commencement gown and held his diploma and a golf club.

It was just the beginning.

Soon Parker was director of the University of Dundee’s School of American Studies, which became the top-ranked program of its kind in the United Kingdom. He was twice presented to the queen and took early retirement in 2007.

When a golf photography exhibition came to St. Andrews University, he found a new career. The collection includes more than a half million photos taken between 1848 and 1993, including the first image of the Old Course snapped in 1848. There are original glass plate images of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, the most famous figures in Scottish golf history.

The Old Course, the most famous and historic 18 holes in the world, is Parker’s home course and he’s played it hundreds of times. He’s also a member at Kingsbarns down the road, a New Age classic.

If Parker has a regret, it’s that he didn’t buy a St. Andrews flat when he had the chance to scoop it up for 48,000 pounds (about $75,000). It’s now worth 350,000 pounds (about $547,000).

As much as he loves St. Andrews, he misses Georgia, particularly during football season. He wears something UGA related every day—a belt, a sweater or a necktie— and carries a UGA golf bag.

Parker still has property in Athens, where his family moved when he was 5. He plans to soon move back for football seasons. When fall ends, he’ll be back in St. Andrews where he has another two-plus years on his contract.

“I’ll probably work until they kick me out,” Parker says.

That would leave Parker even more time for golf in St. Andrews.

—Ron Green Jr., of Charlotte, is a writer for “Global Golf Post,” a digital weekly golf news publication.

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Jodie Braner (ABJ ’89) of Marietta was recognized by the Atlanta Association of Health Underwriters with the Patty Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award.

1990-1994

Lauri Irvin (BBA ’90) of Thomaston joined United Bank as vice president and card product manager. J. Kinsey Mason (ABJ ’90) of Macon graduated from Wesleyan College with a master of business administration degree. Jay Sanson (BSFCS ’91) of Columbia, S.C., was promoted to vice president of sales at Sysco Foodservice of Columbia.

Robert Jeffrey Wolford (AB ’91) of Ringgold was promoted to major and serves as the senior defense counsel in the Georgia National Guard. He commands the 1078th Judge Advocate Team, Trial Defense Service, at Dobbins/ Clay National Guard Center in Marietta.

James Robert Copeland III (BBA ’92) of Pike Road, Ala., was named principal of Saint James Middle School. Donna Gast (BSA ’92, MEd ’94, EdS ’09) was named Oconee County Middle School Teacher of the Year. Matthew Wendell Guinn (AB ’92) of Ridgeland, Miss., released his first book, The Resurrectionist.

Cathy McKenzie (AB ’92, MEd ’94, EdS ’95) of Woodstock is president-elect of the Georgia Association of School Psychologists. N. Todd Evans (AB ’93, MBA ’11) of Dacula was selected to serve as president of the Peachtree Corners Rotary Club in Norcross for 2013-14.

Amy Gleaton (BSEd ’93) of Dalton was named Dalton Teacher of the Year.

Wes McGee (BSEd ’93, MEd ’05) of Gainesville was named principal of Habersham Central High School. John B. “Jay” Prince (BBA ’93) of Valdosta is chairman of the board of the ValdostaLowndes County Chamber of Commerce for 2013. Meri Blackburn (BSEd ’94, MEd ’98, PhD ’11) of Watkinsville was named assistant principal of North Oconee High School.

1995-1999

Pamela Elms (BSEd ’95) of Memphis, Tenn., is now the joint executive director for the Kappa Delta Sorority and Foundation. Jonathan Adams (BMus ’96) and Jenn Adams (BMus ’00)

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WHY give formed the cello and guitar duo Montana Skies. Michael S. Martin (BSFR ’98), president of Georgia Timber, and wife Stephanie welcomed their second child, Cooper James, June 24. La’Keshia Frett Meredith (BSFCS ’98) of Conyers was named to the Virginia Cavaliers’ coaching staff. Beth Carey (BSFCS ’99, MEd ’03) of Winterville opened Beth’s Bakery, the first vegan and nut-free bakery in the Athens area. Sean Kirk (AB ’99) of Nashville, Tenn., and his wife Candice welcomed their first child, Stella Rose, July 12. Christopher Turner (BBA ’99, MAcc ’00) of Atlanta was promoted to senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP.

2000-2004

Ashlee Crews (AB ’00) of Durham, N.C., received a 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Patrick C. Kindregan (BBA ’01) of Cumming joined Floyd Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency program. Jennifer Parris Norman (BSEd ’01, MEd ’03) and Chip Norman of Leesburg welcomed their second son Davis Gray Norman Aug. 7.

William Dryden (BFA ’02) of Woodstock was named Brumby Elementary School’s 2013 Teacher of the Year and earned a specialist degree in educational leadership from Kennesaw State University. Kathy Couch Jones (BS ’02) and husband Colin Warner Jones (MM ’04) of Mundelein, Ill., welcomed their first child, Owen Eugene Jones, June 22. Jennifer Lance (BSA ’02, MEd ’06) of Washington is seeking her doctorate degree in science education, focusing on science education in a rural classroom. Eric NeSmith (ABJ ’02) of Athens joined Editor & Publisher’s 25 Under 35 list for 2013. John Nelson Ozier (AB ’02) of Nashville, Tenn., is the general manager for the creative division at ole, an independent music publisher.

Steven Christopher Smith (BS ’02) and wife Tovia Martirosian Smith welcomed their second child, Tovia Virginia McMillian Smith, Aug. 6. Brandi Nicole Littlejohn (ABJ ’03) and Christopher Brandon Skeen (ABJ ’03) of Waleska were married June 1. Chris is an audio designer for HLN and CNN with Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta, and Brandi is a lean six-sigma process improvement leader at Floyd Medical

“The debate program made me more confident and prepared me well for the legal profession.”

— Bill House (BBA ’67, JD ’69) on why he created an endowment to support the UGA Debate Team. The scholarship is named in memory of House’s wife, Ellen Edmondson House (AB ’67, MEd ’68), who died in 1983.

In 1966, Bill House was the first member Bill House with daughters (from left) Charlotte House, Georgia Collier and of a Greek organization (Sigma Phi Margaret House in front of Phi Kappa Epsilon) to be elected student body Hall, home of the UGA Debate Team. president at UGA. He credits his successful campaign to his experience on the UGA Debate Union (now UGA Debate Team) during which he participated in more than 100 debates. But he recognized that scholarship funds were limited for debate students and were necessary for some students to be able to complete their degrees. “I hope to get these funds in their hands soon,” House says, “and I am looking forward to meeting the champion debater that these funds help.”

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Reaching new heights Alumnus performs at Sea World and competes in high diving competitions

by Karen Rosen Ginger Huber was so high above the Barcelona harbor last summer that she took comfort from the masts of the tall ships anchored nearby.

“It just seemed like you weren’t all alone up there,” says Huber (BS ’97).

She then stepped to the edge of the 20-meter platform—nearly seven stories high—and dove into the murky water.

Again, Huber was not alone. Three scuba divers waited for her to give them the ok sign. She came up for air after her third dive with a silver medal in the inaugural high diving event at the 2013 World Championships.

“It’s exhilarating,” Huber says of the two-second plummet. “There’s a definite sense of falling and a very hard impact.

“It can feel like hitting a brick wall. If you have your chin just a little bit out of place, it’ll feel like a good punch.”

As Ginger Fields at UGA, Huber was a member of the diving team, specializing in the 1-meter springboard. Her best finish was a second place in the Southeastern Conference in 1996.

Back then she was leery of anything higher than the 3-meter springboard.

“I didn’t like it. I was just scared of the heights and the impact hurt.”

Now at home in San Diego, Huber performs up to seven times a day in shows at Sea World. She’s the assistant performance manager for the show and plunges from 7 meters, about 23 feet.

“It’s kind of a normal job; it’s just you do unusual things.”

She also competes in the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series, where she has to climb to the 20-meter level from which she dives.

No one is more surprised by her transition to the extreme sport of high diving than her former coaches.

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Huber climbed the 20 meters to the platform from which she dived during Red Bull’s first women’s cliff diving event, held in July in Italy.

“I would never have expected it in a million years,” says UGA Head Coach Jack Bauerle.

Head Diving Coach Dan Laak adds, “This one came out of the blue.”

Huber started doing “show diving” when she graduated from Chattahoochee High School. When she finished her degree in sociology, an entertainment company recruited her.

She worked her way up—literally— performing her first 20-meter dive at Six Flags Over Georgia into an “itty bitty little tank.”

“It looks like you’re going to miss it,” she says, adding that an even bigger fear is smacking the bottom.

In 1998, Huber performed in her first cliff-diving show at Waimea Falls in Hawaii, and eight years later married fellow diver Chris Huber, who is now her coach.

Huber, who at age 38 calls herself “the grandma” of the team, wants to continue high diving to help the sport grow.

“It’s not to say that 20 meters doesn’t scare the bejeezus out of me,”

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she says, “because I get up there and I look down and there’s definitely a lot of energy channeling through my body.”

But that’s not what really frightens her.

“I don’t really like being underwater,” Huber says with a laugh. “I’m ok diving and coming right back out.”

—Karen Rosen is a freelance writer who lives in Atlanta.

Center in Rome. Matthew Allen (ABJ ’04), wife Abby and big brother Brady of Hoover, Ala., welcomed Molly Clark Allen to the family June 24. Michael B. Glatzer (BBA ’04, MAcc ’04) married Dania Liebergesell May 10 in Annapolis, Md. They reside in Virginia, where Glatzer is a certified public accountant. Nicolas M. Hartley (ABJ ’04) of Perry was promoted to regional lending manager for AgGeorgia Farm Credit and will oversee six offices in the cooperative’s middle Georgia region. James Andrew Robson (AB ’04) of Atlanta announced the opening of Glass & Robson LLC, a law firm specializing in representing plaintiffs and their families in serious personal injury and wrongful death matters. Katie Davis Terrell (BSEd ’04) and her father Tom Davis (BSAE ’74) of Athens began Dirt Road Sauce LLC. They sell and distribute Tom’s secret recipe to stores throughout Georgia.

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Heather Newman (AB ’05) of Orlando, Fla., was named a Rising Star by Florida Super Lawyers Magazine and a Florida Legal Elite “Up & Comer” by Florida Trend for the second year in a row. John C. Peters Jr. (BSA ’05) of Moultrie was promoted to regional lending manager for AgGeorgia Farm Credit and will oversee six offices in the cooperative’s southernmost region. Deondra Rose (AB ’05) was awarded the 2013 Leonard D. White Award for the Best Dissertation in the Field of Public Administration and the 2013 Walter Dean Burnham Award for the Best Dissertation on Politics and History.

Christopher Ryan McShane (AB ’06) of Atlanta was named to the National Association of Realtors’ 30 Under 30 list for 2013. Elizabeth Morgan (BSFCS ’06) married Benjamin Leventhal. Alan Barnes (BSA ’08) of Cartersville joined Floyd Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency program. Betsy Lynch (AB ’08) of Kennesaw is press secretary to the Georgia House of Representatives.

Stephen C. Watson (BBA ’08) of Lakeland, Fla., was recognized on the 2014 Best Lawyers in America outstanding attorneys list. Daniel Bennett (BSBE ’09) of Rome joined Floyd Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency program.

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Weaver Bonnie Montgomery (MFA ’81) reached a milestone in May—she completed her 900th rug. It took 32 years to get to number 900, which required 30 yards of fabric and 37 hours of labor. Montgomery’s rugs and additional items like placemats and bags are produced at her studio in Watkinsville, where she listens to audiobooks while weaving at one of her three looms. Her products are sold in Athens, Watkinsville, Valdosta, Macon, Greensboro, Clarkesville and Sautee Nacoochee. For more information, visit www.bonniemontgomery.com.

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NEWBOOKS Humans of New York St. Martin’s Press (2013)

By Brandon Stanton (AB ’08) Based on the blog with more than a million loyal fans, this beautiful, heartfelt and funny collection of photographs and stories captures the spirit of the iconic American city.

Everything in Between CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2009)

By Ava Leigh Stewart (BSFCS ’98) Written while Stewart was a student at UGA, this coming-ofage novel follows McLean Edwards as she deals with relationships, sorority trouble and other hardships of college life.

Perfect Timing Berkley Trade (2013)

By Laura Wilson Spinella (ABJ ’84) A Jersey girl transplanted to the South finds unexpected romance that ends in emotional devastation. Years later Isabel Lang’s cozy life implodes, and she must confront the most unlikely hero from her past to save her future.

The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (2013)

By Elizabeth Ross Hubbell (BSEd ’95) and Bryan Goodwin This book presents the hallmarks of effective instruction and connects them to practical, take-and-apply guidance.

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A Bold and Hardy Race of Men University of Massachusetts Press (2013)

By Jennifer Schell (MA ’98) Schell juxtaposes and analyzes a wide array of 18thand 19th-century whaling narratives, showing how this particular type of maritime work, and the traits and values associated with it, helped to shape the American literary, cultural and historical imagination.

Knickerbocker Glory: A Chef’s Guide to Innovation in the Kitchen and Beyond The Culinary Exchange LLC (2013)

By Matthew Robinson (BSFCS ’92, MS ’95) The Knickerbocker Glory, a little known dessert, stands as a model to teach a simple innovation process and guide the reader from stated purpose to “wow” moment by exploring everything from idea creation to getting ideas off paper and turning them into reality.

Urban Physical Education: Instructional Practices and Cultural Activities Human Kinetics (2012)

By Amy Meltzer Rady (EdD ’81) and Rhonda Clements This book presents 40 ready-to-use cultural games, modified sports and contemporary sport and performance activities, providing a broad background on issues facing PE teachers working in urban settings.

A Majority of One CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2011)

By Robert Lamb (BSEd ’61) When preachers in a rural Georgia town launch a campaign to ban selected novels from the high school curriculum and post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, only one person objects: English teacher Anne Brady, who finds herself in a battle to save her job and reputation.

Return to Tobacco Road CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013)

By Charlie Fiveash (BBA ’83) This novel combines a historical account of the North Carolina tobacco industry along with suspense and romance for investment bankerturned-farmer Will Jordan.

Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton FreedomStar Media (2012)

By Leon “Lee” Ellis (AB ’65) Ellis, a former Air Force pilot, talks about his five-and-a-half years of captivity and 14 key leadership principles.

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Jenna Elizabeth Dawson (BSEd ’09, MEd ’11) and Richard Charles Baldwin of Hawkinsville were married May 4.

Hillyer Jennings (BBA ’09) of New York, N.Y., invented a product called Wrist Tunes, small bracelets with a built-in speaker that play a song. Michael “Scott” Spivey (AB ’09) of Cartersville was promoted to assistant director of admissions for Westwood College, Atlanta Northlake Campus.

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Samuel Thomas (AB ’10) of Colbert became the fourth generation of his family to become an Athens business owner when he opened his College Avenue law firm. Jessica Lauren Wilson (AB ’10) and Anthony Lucadamo (AB ’10) are engaged and will be married November 2014 in their current town of Charlottesville, Va. Jessica works for the University of Virginia, and Tony is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at the University of Virginia.

Ryan Harrison Miller (AB ’11, BBA ’11) of Atlanta is a digital analyst at BBDO Atlanta. Ryan Black (ABJ ’12) of Elberton joined the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer as the Auburn football beat writer. Lauren Maddox (AB ’13) of Calhoun was chosen by the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program to teach English in Kobe, Japan.

Carly Mathis (ABJ ’13) of Leesburg made it to the top 10 in the Miss America pageant.

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“Through my surgeries and hospitalization, my humans, doctors, nurses, and students never gave up. I didn’t either.”

Ray L. Smith (MS ’87, PhD ’89) of Tifton is associate professor and department head of the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

James R. Bohland (MA ’65, PhD ’70) of Blacksburg, Va., is the chairman of the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs advisory board.

Harry McSween (MS ’69) of Knoxville, Tenn., received the Whipple Award from the American Geophysical Union, one of the top awards given in his field of study and expertise. Carl A. Pinkert (PhD

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Learning to see Jennifer Landin’s students learn biology by focusing on the detail in their drawings

by Bill Krueger Jennifer Landin will tell you that she is not an artist and that the popular biological illustration class she teaches is not an art class.

Yes, there are art majors in the class at N.C. State University and, yes, her students’ drawings have SPECIAL been exhibited at a state museum.

JENNIFER LANDIN But Landin’s class is a biology class, one that explores the diversity ’83) of Auburn, Ala., was named vice of multicellular organisms. And while that is done through detailed pen-and-ink president for research at the University drawings, what Landin (BSFR ’94) is teaching is the ability to observe. of Alabama. Ras Michael Brown (PhD “Lines and dots, that’s all drawing is,” says Landin, an assistant professor at ’04) received the 2013 Albert J. Raboteau N.C. State. “It’s the ability to see properly, that I’m teaching. I don’t teach drawing Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana at all. I teach seeing.”

Religions for African-Atlantic Cultures One of the keys to a successful biological illustration, Landin says, is and the South Carolina Lowcountry. patience. It is the patience to research whatever it is you are drawing, to understand that the only difference between two types of woodpeckers is the proportion of the bill that extends beyond the face. It is the patience to look Business carefully at what you are drawing, and then the patience to capture those details Elmore Alexander (MA ’75, PhD ’78) on paper. of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is the new dean When she began the course in 2010 it quickly became one of the most of the Ricciardi College of Business at popular on campus. About half the students are biology majors, with the others Bridgewater State University. ranging from engineering to art majors.

Landin spends the first three-hour lab each semester teaching illustration Education techniques and asks her students to draw something as commonplace as a Larry Gene Williams (MEd ’83, coffee cup. The students are surprised when they realize that they really didn’t EdS ’96) of Trenton was elected to the know what a coffee cup looked like—not without taking the time to study it.

Agricultural Educators Hall of Fame Jordan Lang, a recent graduate who majored in industrial design, struggled after retiring from 27 years of teaching initially. He stuck with it, hoping to learn techniques that would help him land in Catoosa and Dade counties. He is a job designing creatures for video games or movies. He eventually did an founding director of Agrimissions, an illustration of a piranha skull, learning that it had a larger bone mass than other international agricultural assistance fish and how its jaw differed to give it more force. group, and developed a training “Once you learn to see things the way they actually are,” he says, “the program called “Basic Agriculture for drawing part is easier.”

Missionaries” in Spanish. Mary Beth While Landin is pleased to see her students grasp what she’s teaching, Cooper (MEd ’85) of Pittsford, N.Y., she may be even more excited about how their work has spread beyond the was named president of Springfield classroom. Her students’ illustrations have been exhibited at the N.C. Museum College. Sarah Beck Hawthorne of Natural Sciences and the North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke Island. She (MEd ’72, EdD ’85) of Jeffersonville was routinely hears of her students proudly showing their illustrations to friends and appointed 8th Congressional District families. commissioner to the Georgia Student “They’re talking about science,” she says. “That’s probably the happiest Finance Commission by Gov. Nathan surprise I’ve seen from the course, is how much communication about science Deal. She was also honored with the stems from this class.”

2013 Leadership Award by Communities in Schools of Georgia. Jovita Ross—Bill Krueger is the senior associate editor of N.C. State Magazine at North Gordon (EdD ’85) of Austin, Texas, Carolina State University. received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni

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Award from the UGA College of Education. Stephen Gordon (EdD ’89) of Austin, Texas, received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UGA College of Education. Tena Crews (EdD ’94) of Lexington, S.C., received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UGA College of Education. Brad Simmons (MEd ’94) and Jessica Simmons (MEd ’09) of Mount Airy welcomed son Jackson Garen March 18. Merrianne Dyer (EdS ’97) of Gainesville received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UGA College of Education. Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria (PhD ’00) of Malaysia received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UGA College of Education.Tara Trobaugh (MMEd ’05) of Ringgold was named the 2013 Georgia Young Mother of the Year by the Georgia Mothers Association, and was named the National Young Mother of the Year by American Mothers Inc.

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John Robert Crawford (MHP ’05) of Oxford, N.C., was named executive director of Uptown Lexington.

Journalism & Mass Communication

Tom Hagley Jr. (MMC ’92) of Vancouver, Wash., was promoted to chief of staff for Vancouver Public Schools, where he has worked since 1992. James A. Rada (PhD ’97) of Ithaca, N.Y., has had his documentary “Meet Me at Equality: The People’s March on Washington” picked up by PBS.

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Leamon “Lea” R. Holliday III (JD ’70) of Savannah received the Savannah Bar Association’s Judge Frank S. Cheatham Jr. Professionalism Award.

Gary E. Jackson (JD ’75) of Atlanta received the President’s Award from the Council of Municipal Court Judges of Georgia. Theodore Freeman (JD ’76) of Atlanta was elected president of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association. John E. Thompson (JD ’78) of Atlanta was chosen for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2014. Don

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On the fast track Alumnus works with seniors on important issues

by Sara Freeland (ABJ ’05) It was the last race of the 2012 season. Confetti was streaming through the air. And Jim Dau was standing on the stage in Victory Lane with NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and his team.

As director of media relations for the AARP, one of Gordon’s sponsors, Dau (BBA ’97) spends four or five weekends a year next to a track watching the fourtime NASCAR Cup Series Champion race and spreading the word about the Drive to End Hunger, a national effort led by the AARP Foundation to combat hunger among Americans 50 and over.

Using trivia games, tablet computers and other techniques to engage fans, Dau’s crew illustrates just how many older Americans—9 million—have trouble putting food on the table.

The goal is to raise resources to fix the problem in the short term—to deliver meals to those in need—and in the long term, to nurture solutions to improve access to nutritious meals with local food systems.

“Few people realize how many older Americans struggle with hunger,” Dau says. “So being able to work with Jeff [Gordon] and leveraging his stature to raise awareness and develop solutions is a huge resource in the fight against hunger.”

Dau has also worked with two of his childhood heroes: tennis player Martina Navratilova, AARP’s fitness ambassador, on wellness issues, and Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary, on advocacy matters.

His job isn’t all hanging out with celebrities, that’s just a perk.

He helps with strategic planning for AARP. He’s the on-the-record spokesperson. He does TV interviews, writes press releases and does media training for the organization. And when the Drive to End Hunger trailer catches fire as it did in September, he helps set reporters straight—no, Gordon’s No. 24 car was not on fire two days before

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the race—and gets back to the important issues, like “helping people in need put food on the table.”

Dau got his unofficial start working with the media at age 11 JIM DAU as a paper delivery boy.

“I fell in love with the news well before then,” he says. “My brother and I would have political debates at the dining room table when I was 8 or 9. I knew that I liked communications. And whether it’s policy, politics or consumer advocacy, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.”

A business school grad, Dau says he took the scenic route coming back to journalism.

He worked in developing countries for four years, helping to strengthen political parties and civil society groups.

“I realized at some point that I had done more to help countries like the Dominican Republic or Columbia than my own country… so I wanted to come back and shift to domestic policy,” he says.

He has been with the AARP since 2007, spreading the word about healthcare reform, consumer advocacy and financial security. He helps people read their 401k statements and save money for retirement and is working on legislation that would close the coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug program.

“I certainly never thought I’d be here at AARP, but here I am putting all the elements together. I always thought I’d be on the other side, be the person with the notepad. But maybe that’s what’s next.”

—Sara Freeland is a public relations coordinator in the Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs.

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L. Waters (JD ’78) of Savannah was honored at the American College of Prosthodontists and ACP Education Foundation’s 2013 Annual Session. D. Albert Brannen (JD ’82, MBA ’82) of Atlanta was chosen for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2014. Edward J. Coleman III (JD ’82) of Augusta was appointed U.S. bankruptcy judge for the 43-county Southern District of Georgia. Jeffrey Hanson (JD ’91) of Macon was appointed to the State Court by Gov. Nathan Deal. Edward “Ted” Henneman Jr. (JD ’94) of Savannah received the 2013 Business Commitment Pro Bono Business Law Award. John Arthur Ernst (JD ’03) of Atlanta was named to the DeKalb County Board of Ethics. Ramsey H. Bridges (JD ’05) of Athens is the associate director of admissions for UGA Law.

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Lane Brunner (PhD ’95) was hired by the University of Texas at Tyler to spearhead the development of the university’s pharmacy program.

Public & International Affairs

Gregory von Lehmen (MPA ’78, PhD ’86) of Adelphi, Md., was named provost of Mount Washington College.

Anne Marie Chotvacs (MPA ’99) of Alexandria, Va., is majority clerk of the House State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee.

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Chris Carr (BBA ’95, JD ’99), former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, was selected by Gov. Nathan Deal to become commissioner of the state Department of Economic Development. Carr replaces Chris Cummiskey (BBA ’96), who joined Southern Power, a Southern Co. subsidiary, as chief commercial officer. Cummiskey was economic development commissioner for two years, following a position as UGA director of state government relations.

Carr began working for Isakson in 2004, running his Senate campaign.

Social Work

Jane Skinner (MSW ’09) of San Jose, Calif., published a scholarly article concerning retirement communities in The Journal of Housing for the Elderly.

Fenwick Broyard (MSW ’13) was named executive director of Community Connection of Northeast Georgia.

Veterinary Medicine

Stephen Schaefbauer (DVM ’06) was named to the Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine for the American Veterinary Medical Association. Stic Harris (DVM ’09) of Gaithersburg, Md., was named a 2013-14 Future Leader by the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Elizabeth Antley (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery.

Ashley Ballew (DVM ’13) received the Kaytee Avian and Special Species Excellence Award. Nicole Balsone (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. Jessica Beck (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology. Stephanie Bradshaw (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery.

Robert Campbell (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery.

Victoria Churchill (DVM ’13) received the John Morton Award for Humane

Animal Care. Cheryl Coplon (DVM ’13) received an Award for Proficiency in Emergency and Critical Care. Elizabeth Dale (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology.

Zachary Daniel (DVM ’13) received the Award for Academic Excellence in Veterinary Ophthalmology. Alec Davern (DVM ’13) received the American College of Veterinary Surgeons Award.

Ember Epperson (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology. Emily Falls (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. Jennifer Trzcinski Given (DVM ’13) received the American College of Veterinary Surgeons Award.

Robert Gooden (DVM ’13) was awarded the Outstanding Senior Oncology Student Scholarship. Justin Graham (DVM ’13) received the Food Animal Production Medicine Clinical Proficiency Award. Sawyer Howell (DVM ’13) received the Food Animal Production Medicine Clinical Proficiency Award.

Anna Jeffers (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology. Dustin Major (DVM ’13) received the Novartis/Ethicon Surgical Excellence Award. Tori Moore (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery. Clara Moran (DVM ’13) was awarded the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Certificate of Clinical Excellence. She also received

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Humans of New York Brandon Stanton’s blog pioneers a new form of storytelling

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92) If you’re in New York City, and a guy wearing a backward baseball cap asks to take your photo, beware. Because it’s probably Brandon Stanton, and the next thing he’s going to do is ask you a few questions.

He might open with “What’s your greatest struggle?” or “What’s been your saddest moment?”

But he’s not just being nosy. Stanton (AB ’08) is the creator of Humans of New York, a photo blog with images and stories that offers a glimpse into the lives of New Yorkers.

HONY was born in 2010 when Stanton, who’d been trading bonds in Chicago, lost his job. He decided to spend a summer doing what he enjoyed—traveling and working on photography.

Eventually he settled in New York with the idea of creating a photographic census of the city, an interactive map with images of people tagged to the location where they were shot.

But he soon noticed that his best images were not candids of people on the street, they were the portraits of people who agreed to stop and pose for him. And he started finding out more about his models, asking them questions and including a caption with his images.

“I think the main trajectory of the evolution of Humans of New York is that it’s gotten much more intimate,” Stanton says.

“Now it can’t really even be described as a photography blog. It’s more of a storytelling blog, where I tell these people’s stories in images and words.”

In the early days Stanton borrowed money to pay rent, but a print sale bought him more time. He continued to hone his photography and interview skills, posting about six images a day and traveling to work in other locations like Boston, San Francisco and Iran.

Three years and 5,000 images later, HONY has an audience of more than a million (1.2 million Facebook likes plus 400,000 Tumblr and 130,000 Instagram followers). In October, St. Martin’s Press published Humans of New York, a collection of 400 photos and stories from the blog. And copycat blogs— Humans of Paris, Berlin and India, for example—have sprung up on Facebook.

There’s additional work that accompanies such growth, like HONY’s fundraising efforts, which brought in $500,000 during the past year for causes like Superstorm Sandy relief and Stanton’s local YMCA. But he still pounds the pavement every day, asking strangers if he can shoot their picture and learn a little about their life.

“I’m continually amazed by the amount of information and disclosure that these people are generous enough to give me on the streets,” he says, “and very amazing stories come out of it.”

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“I’m a philosophy professor.”

“If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?”

“Never make an exception of yourself.”

“What does that mean?”

“People like to make exceptions of themselves. They hold other people to moral codes that they aren’t willing to follow themselves. For example, people tend to think that if they tell a lie, it’s because it was absolutely necessary. But if someone else tells a lie, it means they’re dishonest. So never make an exception of yourself. If you’re a thief, don’t complain about being robbed.”

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Charlie Peterson is not a UGA grad—he’s a lifelong fan of the Crimson Tide—but for one day in May, he became a diehard Bulldog. Peterson, warden of the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville, made a deal with his employees. If they raised $3,000 and registered 30 people for Relay for Life (a fundraiser to fight cancer), he promised to sing the UGA fight song on the roof of the center. They met the challenge nearly three months before the deadline, and Peterson kept his word. Decked out in UGA gear and sporting a “G” on each cheek, he took to the roof with a bullhorn and sang the Georgia fight song every hour on the hour for most of a day. “I actually believe I’m the winner, because I raised $3,000 for charity,” he told The Times. “I had a lot of fun on the roof.”

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Southern revival Journalism alum is reintroducing Lewis Grizzard’s humor through digital media

by Andy Johnston (ABJ ’88) Lewis Grizzard probably would chuckle over the job he left for Jason Chatraw.

The author, humorist and lover of all things Southern and UGA pecked out his columns on a typewriter and once wrote SPECIAL JASON CHATRAW about his hatred of computers.

So when Chatraw (ABJ ’96) bought the rights to make e-books out of some of Grizzard’s paper tomes, he had to input the individual pages into the computer.

“He didn’t leave any files behind, so we had to take his books and make scans,” says Chatraw, who launched Green E-Books in 2010 from his home in Boise, Idaho. “We were determined to bring back his books and give them a new facelift for the next generation.”

Chatraw says his fascination with Grizzard began when he was growing up in Orangeburg, S.C., reading syndicated versions of Grizzard’s Atlanta JournalConstitution columns.

At UGA Chatraw twice finished second in a sports-writing contest named for Grizzard (ABJ ’64) and often found himself walking in the former columnist’s steps.

He read about how Grizzard lived in Russell Hall, about how he didn’t have a car, about how he walked across campus in the rain and about how he worked at the Athens Daily News.

“One day when I was a freshman living in Russell Hall, I put down one of his books and I had to walk across campus in the rain—I didn’t have a car—to work at the Athens Banner-Herald,” Chatraw says. “I was walking on the same path he had walked, and it was surreal to do it. It endeared me more to his writing and the experiences he went through.”

He spent about eight months negotiating with Dedra Grizzard, who was married to the author when he died in 1994, for the rights to four books. They worked out a deal, and Chatraw soon began converting Don’t Bend Over in the Garden Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes; If Love Were Oil, I’d Be About a Quart Low; I Took a Lickin’ and Kept on Tickin’ And Now I Believe in Miracles and When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old To Care? to digital files. They are available for download on Kindle, Nook, iPad, Kobo and OverDrive, among others.

Since then, Chatraw has gotten the rights to eight more of Grizzard’s books. He also is compiling many of Grizzard’s college football jokes and stories for a special edition.

“I get to vicariously pay homage to one of my literary heroes and keep him alive for generations to come,” Chatraw says. “In a way, it’s an honor, a labor of love. I don’t want to see that flavor of the South lost. I want to see it continue on, for the next generation to cherish.”

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the John Oliver Neurology Award.

Morika Ogawa (DVM ’13) was awarded the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia Award. Christina Parr (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology. Stephanie Pullin (DVM ’13) received the Blanch D. Hayes Award. Claudia Reyner (DVM ’13) was awarded the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Certificate of Clinical Excellence. Rudy Rivas (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. Erin Schellinger (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery. Amanda Smith (DVM ’13) was awarded the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Certificate of Clinical Excellence.

Christy Cain Stancil (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery. Cheryl Stiehl (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery. Kasey Stopp (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. Adrienne Zercher Stringham (DVM ’13) was awarded the Rafter Memorial Scholarship. Lacy Strom (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Pathology.

Caitlin Tenewitz (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery.

Jake Tripp (DVM ’13) was awarded the John Morton Award for Humane Animal Care. Emily Waggoner (DVM ’13) was awarded the American College of Veterinary Radiology Award. Sarah Warmington (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. Lea Warner (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery. Brian Warr (DVM ’13) received the Food Animal Production Medicine Clinical Proficiency Award.

Travis White (DVM ’13) received a Certificate of Merit for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery.

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McBride, 1932-2013 Claude Walton McBride Sr. (ABJ ’55), an unofficial chaplain of the UGA football team and former associate director of the Office of Alumni Relations, died in August at the age of 81.

Just out of UGA, McBride helped the Columbus Ledger win a Pulitzer Prize for Community Service. He later earned bachelor of divinity and master of theology degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and became pastor of Milledge Avenue Baptist Church in 1964. While there he began a special outreach to student athletes, which led to his invitation from then-Head Coach Vince Dooley to become an unofficial chaplain for the football team, a role he filled for 40 years. He became associate director of alumni relations in 1983.

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“I was researching issues in international business for a few years, but it was really adopting Sophie (that drew my interest in China). We went over in 2005, so I spent a lot of time—a couple of years before— reading about China’s history. That was really when trade was opening up so I started looking at trade-related issues. After I went there in 2005 I started writing more about those issues. Being there and having a sense of place really sparked my interest. I’ve taken MBA students over three times since then.”

—Marisa Pagnattaro, on finding her passion studying international trade issues, particularly in China, after adopting a baby girl from China.

Marisa Pagnattaro Professor of legal studies, Terry College of Business B.A., English with education minor, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. J.D., New York Law School, Manhattan, N.Y. Ph.D., English, University of Georgia Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, 2013 Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, 2013, 2012, 2007, 2005, 2002 Editor-in-Chief, American Business Law Journal, 2013-14 Photo of Sophie Beasley and Pagnattaro shot at their home by Peter Frey and Dot Paul.

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