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Maj. Gen. George M. Johnson, Jr., ’38, retired U.S. Air Force, is still going strong at 100. He has experienced the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, America’s first man on the moon, the advent of television, computers and cellular phones, and 18 presidents beginning with Woodrow Wilson. He attended UNG and earned an associate degree. He later earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree from George Washington University. After a career in the Air Force, he retired in 1975. His military decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal, and the French Croix de Guerre.
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1990s
John C. Prosch, ’80 and ’82, was recognized in March for 35 years of active service to the federal government. He is a program manager at the Pentagon in the Department of the Army’s G8 staff. Prior to joining civil service, he served 20 years of active duty in the Army, medically retiring in 1998 from combat related injuries in Desert Storm and Somalia. Prosch is also a life member of the UNG Alumni Association.
Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Fogarty, ’83, has been promoted to the three-star rank of lieutenant general and is the new commanding general of U.S. Army Cyber Command in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Fogarty earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from UNG and commissioned as a second lieutenant in military intelligence in 1983. Fogarty previously served as chief of staff for U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, Maryland, and before that commanded the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. The U.S. Army will be moving Cyber Command headquarters to a new facility located at Fort Gordon that is estimated to be completed in 2020.
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Lawrence (Larry) Young, ’64, is the 2018 recipient of the Sen. William Proxmire (Wisconsin) Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given by the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers for many years of distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the practice of consumer financial services law.
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Dr. Jeff Payne, ’90, has been named to the Board of Governors of the George L. Smith II World Congress Center Authority. Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Payne, who is owner of North Georgia Eye Clinic in Gainesville, Georgia. Payne is also president of the Georgia Society of Opthalmology, a trustee of the UNG Foundation and a trustee for Lakeview Academy. He graduated from UNG with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and enrolled in the Medical College of Georgia, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree.
