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From the President RICARDO AZZIZ
President, Georgia Regents University CEO, Georgia Regents Health System
New beginnings put a spring in your step, don’t they? program. They can engage with world-class faculty in high-impact research and discovery even at the undergraduate level. Their colleagues and professors are from even richer and more diverse backgrounds, expanding their horizons without even leaving the campus. They can discover the world through a study abroad program that offers even more exciting destinations around the globe. And they join the storied Jaguar Nation, able to choose from more than a dozen men’s and women’s intercollegiate and intramural sports. As our newest students begin their journey with us, they count on those of us who have traveled these roads before to be there for them … to offer support, wisdom, encouragement, and opportunities. And we are grateful to know our extended family of faculty, staff, and alumni will be there to answer the call.
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Our university has experienced a lot of “new” in recent times. As this semester began, I enjoyed sharing a significant one with our entering freshman class—the very first one for Georgia Regents University. For them, just about everything is new: their school, their coursework, their classmates, their daily routines, the scope of their independence and responsibility. They each will have decisions to make and pathways to choose in order to chart a future for themselves that will, in turn, be new. New beginnings are exhilarating, exciting, empowering, expanding … and we can see all of that on these students’ faces. I find myself excited for them as well. Because we are already realizing positive changes from the transformation we are undergoing—and our students are the primary beneficiaries. These students can now choose from more than 110 programs in nine colleges and schools, including new pipeline programs to the health sciences and joint degree programs like the accelerated BS to MD
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exciting stories, touching stories, stories of innovation and discovery, stories of bravery and triumph, stories of involvement in historic events; stories that will make us chuckle, tear up, and swell with pride. Do you know former students who have gone on to do amazing things? Who have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds? Do you know someone who has added something truly unique or valuable to our university or to our world? Someone who has taken a road less traveled ... and created a life we want to read about? Maybe it’s not a former student, but a former faculty member or administrator? Maybe even you?! Please take a moment to think about the people who have crossed your path while at our university and send an email with any you think might fit the bill. Fantastic people have walked the halls of our institutions, and we want everyone to know about it! E-mail us: gravity@gru.edu.
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Dear Readers, Family, Legacy, Traditions, Connections … … All words that shaped the theme for this, our Fall 2013 issue of GRavity.
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The upcoming holiday season seems the perfect time to feature families with deep connections to our university; families, like so many of our alums, who are proud to make GRU and our legacy institutions part of their own family traditions. We’ve found that strong connections are especially important during this time of change for our university, as we embrace and honor traditions of the past while
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Freshmen toss coins for good luck.
We look forward to welcoming these students to the GRU Alumni family in four years, and we invite you to take a few minutes to enjoy the heartwarming stories of the alumni families that grace the pages of this issue. Best wishes for a safe and joyous holiday season. n
For example, the Alumni Association sponsored the first “Meet Me at the Fountain� event for our first entering GRU freshman class. Hundreds of freshmen joined us at the Blanchard Fountain on the Summerville Campus and tossed in coins for good luck and to support their new university home. We also sponsored the Class of 2017 student banner that was signed by the freshman
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building new GRU traditions for the future. With that thought in mind, your alumni association has made it a priority to build strong connections with our students from the beginning of their college journey and continuing throughout their lives.
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A Super Visit
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Professionals from Sightline, an Atlanta-based high-rise window cleaning company, donned superhero costumes and scaled the windows at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia in an elaborate skit to entertain young patients.
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A Day of Service GRU employees, students, and their families gave back to our community by volunteering at local charities and nonprofit organizations.
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Alumni Barbecue and A Day for GRU Celebration Food, fun and fireworks were all part of the closing celebration for this year’s A Day for GRU campaign.
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Jaguar Jaunt A beautiful day drove a great turnout for this annual 5K race through
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relatives we never knew before!
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, we invite you to spend time with some of your alumni “relatives,” members of extended GRU families you will meet in the following pages. Their careers of choice are as diverse as our university offerings: from artists to physicians, from nurses to athletes, from dentists to educators. Some found what they liked and stuck with it, like the Mazzawi family, a veritable dental dynasty with a long-thriving family practice in Snellville, Ga. Others came to their life’s work more gradually, like Dr. Edward Green, who entered dental school after 11 years as an engineer; and whose daughter, Erica, joined him in practice nearly 25 years later. There are families, like the Ellisons, whose alumni connections cross colleges, campuses, and generations; and there’s the Spearman family, pioneers in MCG’s storied history, instrumental in ushering in a new era of diversity and inclusion. Each family is unique and each story special, yet they have much in common. To a person, they value and appreciate the opportunities their education on our campuses has afforded them. And they recognize that the bonds of family, including alumni family, are priceless.
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Meet the Mazzawis: A Dental Dynasty BY BETTY SOSNIN
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f the “Guinness Book of World Records” had an entry for the family with the most dentists, the Mazzawis of Snellville, Ga., might be contenders. That, according to the book’s advertising, would make them “officially amazing.” To avoid confusion, the family dentists are known by their middle names. There’s Dr. Mark, Dr. Matt, Dr. Miles, Dr. Marty, and Dr. Megan, all graduates of the College of Dental Medicine and children of Hugh and Anne Mazzawi, who are also dentists (Yes, Dr. Hugh and Dr. Anne!). The parents met while attending Emory University School of Dentistry, where Dr. Anne was the only female student to graduate with her class. After graduation, they married, founded Mazzawi Family Dentistry in Snellville, now a part of Metro Atlanta, and began raising children. “The practice was always a family affair,” Dr. Anne said. “The kids had chores there. Our patients knew them, and we knew our patients’ children.” “I think we absorbed much more than we thought during those years,” Dr. Matt said.
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The Mazzawi Family: (from left) Mark, Miles, Hugh, Anne, Matt and Marty (Megan, not pictured)
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The senior Mazzawis settled in Snellville to be near Dr. Anne’s family. Her father was a farmer; her mother, a war bride from England. But the roots of the family tree spread far beyond the South. They lead to Germany and even Nazareth, the largest city in what is now the North District of Israel. Dr. Hugh—a first generation American— was the child of a Palestinian father, who left Nazareth when Palestine was partitioned in 1947, and a German mother, who came to the United States in 1928. Dr. Hugh has correspondence between his father and Eleanor Roosevelt about the partition of Palestine. “He was a prolific writer and had pen pals all over the world,” he said. The extended Mazzawi family is still one of the largest Christian Arab families in the Holy Land, with many members still living in Nazareth, known as the “Arab capital of Israel.” Dr. Hugh’s father was educated by the Jesuits, spoke seven languages, and taught at a Quaker School in Ramallah.
After immigrating, the senior Mazzawi attended the University of Michigan and lived in New York, where he owned a dairy bar. When Dr. Hugh was 5, his parents took him to Nazareth to be baptized at the Church of the Annunciation. “I still have vague memories of it,” he said. The family later moved to Miami, Fla., for the health of their premature infant daughters, one of whom also became a dentist. There they joined a community of Arab Christians. “We called all the adults aunt and uncle,” Dr. Hugh said. After facing war and political upheavals in their home countries, Dr. Hugh’s parents were determined that their children take advantage of the opportunities America offered. “And my father really wanted me to do something in the medical field,” Dr. Hugh said. But in his most ambitious dreams, the Palestinian immigrant likely never envisioned a big, flourishing dental practice staffed with generations of his descendants. The Dream Continues
The youngest Mazzawi sibling, Dr. Megan, is surrounded by family during her 2007 hooding ceremony.
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The Mazzawi children continued the American dream, graduating from the College of Dental Medicine between 1997 and 2007. One by one, they returned to Snellville to join their parents’ practice, eventually taking the reins. “We didn’t exactly retire, they just gradually and gently moved in and took over,” said Dr. Anne. The parade began with Dr. Mark, who graduated in 1997, followed a year later by Dr. Matt. They both serve as part-time faculty members at the GRU College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Miles earned his DMD in 2001. He and his wife Dr. Anthea Drew Mazzawi (Dr. Drew) both practice pediatric and adolescent dentistry. They were followed by Dr. Marty in 2003 and Dr. Megan in 2007.
A nephew, Darin S. Wasileski, (DMD ‘02), also graduated from the College of Dental Medicine and practices with them. Sadly, the Mazzawi’s eldest son, Michael, was killed in a car accident in Arizona in his second year of medical school at MCG. A Balancing Act and Built-in Support Group Each of the siblings brings individual strengths to the practice. “And they are all involved in continuing education and embracing new dental therapies,” said Dr. Anne. They are also active in the Georgia Dental Association and the American Dental Association. Over the years, the Mazzawis have expanded the practice, renovating and adding on to the original building to make room for incoming siblings. Giving Back
Scholarship recipient Nathan Raley with Drs. Hugh and Anne Mazzawi.
From day one, the Mazzawis have supported organizations that provide oral health services, including the Shriners, Medicaid, and the High Hope organization. Today, those initiatives include Gala for Smiles, Brighter Smiles for Brighter Futures, the Georgia Baptist Dental Mission, and the Hebron Dental Clinic. The practice also sponsors athletic programs at local schools to nurture strong and healthy children. Dr. Hugh volunteers to help senior dental students at the Ben Massell Dental Clinic in Atlanta, and Dr. Mark has worked with Doctors Without Borders and has traveled as far as Cusco, Peru, to provide treatment to orphans with no access to care. The siblings are also busy raising their own children, who visit the practice often … and just may keep the family’s dental tradition going. “Official” or not, this is one amazing family! n
A Fitting Tribute: The Drs. Hugh and Anne Mazzawi Scholarship for the Advancement of Dental Education in Georgia
The Mazzawi children recently honored their
parents, Drs. Hugh and Anne Mazzawi, with an endowment at the Emile T. Fisher Foundation for Dental Education for Georgia, through a deserving dental student at GRU’s College of Dental Medicine. The student must desire to practice in a rural area.
Matt Mazzawi, (DMD ‘98), presented the
scholarship on behalf of his family to this year’s recipient, Nathan Raley, a sophomore from Lawrenceville, Ga., at the school’s “Welcome Back Ceremony” on August 21, 2013.
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The Werrick Family: A Legacy of Love and Remembrance BY STACEY HUDSON
His spirit is as present today as 23 years ago when he tragically and much too soon departed from this earth. And the legacy he left behind—nourished by his wife, his children, his siblings, his mother, and, so far, one cherubic little granddaughter named Hannah—is as strong and enduring as the very earth itself. GRU’s long friendship with the Werrick family began with one member: Tommy Werrick (BS, Biology ‘72). Tommy entered Augusta College a pre-med student, but it wasn’t long before he realized his
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Beloved Teacher and Coach Upon graduation, he became a popular science teacher and coach, first at Aquinas High School, then at Evans High School. “As I look back on it, the time and energy he spent was incredible,” said Phillip Kelly, of Augusta, one of his many former students and players grateful to this day to have had him in their lives. Never a stickler for ceremony, Tommy was known for taking on odd and sometimes menial tasks. He watered the grass on the playing field and laundered team uniforms after games. He often toted players back and forth to practice in his Volkswagon Fastback. CONTINUED
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Tommy’s Family Seated front row, from left: Daughter Katie Werrick Martin, holding her daughter Hannah Martin, mother Laura Cameron, wife Sheryl Duncan Werrick, sister Anita Cameron Wylds Middle: Son-in-law Joey Martin, sister Gina Werrick, brother-in-law Henry Wylds
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“He was always there, like a favorite uncle,” Kelly said. And that included after school, when some of the older kids could flirt with trouble. On more than one occasion, Tommy tossed underage students out of Squeaky’s Tip-Top, the historic Summerville watering hole that closed in 2005. “First and foremost, Tommy was a teacher,” said his sister, Anita Wylds. “But he didn’t just know the students. He knew their parents, too.”
As an adult he played softball with the Knights of Columbus and his hobby was golf. He was always on the move, either playing a game or coaching young players. He paced the sidelines of football games, seeming never to sit down, Sheryl said. Until Life Knocked Him Down Doctors diagnosed him with lymphoma in December 1989. By spring, the disease had paralyzed him from the chest down. He died
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And It Seemed Everyone Knew Him “I couldn’t bring him Christmas shopping with me, because he ran into too many people and we never got anything done,” said his wife, Sheryl Werrick. Tommy’s mother, Laura Cameron, said that people always responded to Tommy that way. “He was affable right from the beginning,” she said. “Just a happy, playful person. Every neighbor knew him.” And admired him. When GRU Athletic Director Clint Bryant created an award to recognize student athletes with the highest grade point average, he chose to designate it the Tommy Werrick Scholar-Athlete award. “We consider it our highest honor,” Bryant said. “Tommy was a former Jaguar and a good student. And, as a coach, he always emphasized academics to his students.”
Tommy, circled above, was a member of the first Jaguar baseball team in 1966.
Always a Sportsman Organized sports weren’t as popular in the 1960s as they are now. As a kid, Tommy many times organized his own sports and he learned to improvise, often to comic effect. He played football with a sock stuffed with other socks. He played tennis with a golf ball. He divided his back yard into three holes for golf. And he played basketball with a tennis ball and a hoop made out of a coat hanger and a pair of underwear.
in July 1990, when his youngest son, Michael, was only a couple of months old. But his children have grown up with a good sense of who their father was, thanks to the Jaguar Nation—and the Fighting Irish of Aquinas and the Knights of Evans High School. “People always stop and tell me stories about how they remember him. I’ve heard hundreds of stories about what defined his character,” said son Tyler (BBA, Marketing ‘10).
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Tommy’s sisters, Anita Cameron Wylds (BS, Biology ‘73) and Gina Werrick Adams (BA, Elementary Education ‘79) both graduated from Augusta College. Anita worked for and retired from MCG. Tommy’s wife, Sheryl Duncan Werrick, attended the school at the same time he did, but ultimately graduated from the University of South Carolina-Aiken. Tommy and Sheryl’s oldest child, Katie, took summer courses at Augusta State University while she was enrolled at the University of Georgia. Katie’s husband, Joey Martin (BS, Biology ’07; MAT ‘09), received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at ASU. Their middle child, Tyler, received his undergraduate degree at ASU,
and is currently working toward his MBA at GRU. He also works in the GRU admissions office as a recruiter. And their youngest child, Michael, completed his first two years at ASU before transferring to the University of Georgia. The Wylds rarely miss a basketball game and have been Presidential members of the Jaguar Club for as long as Bryant can remember. Family members support both athletic and academic programs. Twenty-three football seasons have come and gone since Tommy’s passing. But his memory lives on through his family and in the many lives he influenced with ideals that match those of Georgia Regents University: scholarship, sportsmanship, extraordinary effort, and personal integrity. n
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The Spearman Family: At the Crossroads of History BY KAREN GUTMANN AND DANIELLE WONG MOORES
By 1970, the Civil Rights Act had been law of the land in the United States for six years, and the worst of the violence and upheaval surrounding its enactment seemed largely in the past. But Augusta’s worst episode of racial violence was yet to come. In May of that year, a mentally challenged African American teenager named Charles Oatman was murdered while incarcerated in the county jail. His wounds didn’t square with official explanations, and long-simmering racial tensions erupted in riots that spread over 130 downtown Augusta blocks. The riots ended by the next morning, leaving six black men dead and about 300 protesters arrested.
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Courageous Pioneer “Yes, the smoke was still in the air,” said Dr. David Ronald “Ron” Spearman (MD ’74), of his arrival in Augusta from Atlanta’s Morehouse College less than a month later. Spearman moved to Augusta to enter the Medical College of Georgia in only the third integrated class in the college’s history. Two African-American students started at the medical school in 1967, two in 1969, and seven in 1970 out of a class of 136. Despite the recent local events, Spearman’s experiences entering MCG were positive. CONTINUED
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SUMMER 2013 The Spearmans: Dr. Vanessa (from left) with Dr. Ron and Dr. Barbara
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“The best description I can give is that there was an overall environment of mutual curiosity,” he said. Sincere gestures of collegiality and social inclusion counterbalanced the isolated incidents of intolerance and skepticism. Spearman developed a strong bond with MCG that continues to this day. In many ways, Spearman was a pioneer: He was the first African-American to complete the Internal Medicine Residency, the first AfricanAmerican Chief Resident in the program, the first to join the Internal Medicine faculty—and one of the first students and the first African-
MCG Black Student Medical Alliance, 1972 Vice President Tommy Leonard Jr. (from left), Treasurer Ronald Spearman, President Joseph Hobbs, Benjamin Rucker
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Graduation portraits: Ron in 1974, Barbara in 1975
American to serve as a voting member of the Student Admissions Committee for the School of Medicine.
Steadily Blazing Trails As for Dr. Barbara Spearman (DMD ’75), she remembers a schoolmate in a high school French class telling her she wanted to become a dentist. Barbara’s initial thought was, “Females are not dentists.” She was almost right—in 1970 only 1 percent of dental students in the U.S. were women. But that didn’t stop her.
Barbara earned her chemistry degree at Paine College. Then, in June 1972, she entered the College of Dental Medicine as one of five women and one of eight African-Americans in her class of approximately 60. The dental program at the time was experimenting with a three-year program to produce dentists more quickly in the face of shortages. Though successful, the school soon returned to a four-year program. That makes Dr. Barbara Spearman one of only a handful of dentists in the U.S. who successfully earned her credentials in only three years.
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Five-year-old David Ronald Spearman III at Kindergarten Career Day. A third generation of doctors in the making?
Continuing the Tradition Early exposure to her parents’ careers sparked Vanessa’s interest in the medical field. But it was her participation in MCG’s seven-week Student Educational Enrichment Program (SEEP) that caused her to set her sights on MCG, which she had initially dismissed as an option. Today Dr. Vanessa Spearman (MD ’05) is an assistant professor at GRU and is double boarded in psychiatry and internal medicine. She not only oversees her own internal medicine practice, but also works with inpatients as the Director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. Vanessa is proud of her parents and proud of her alma mater: Her parents “having a child who is now a faculty member of the same department speaks volumes for the success of integration at MCG,” she said. And there may be another generation of doctors in the making. When grandson David Ronald Spearman III was asked in kindergarten to dress up as his future career choice, he donned the white coat of an MCG physician. n
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The couple made Augusta their home, where their two children were born, Vanessa in 1979 and David Ronald II in 1981. “When I went into private practice, they were still young,” said Ron. “We staggered our schedules so that one of us was usually with them. One of the things I’m proudest of is we made every concert, every event” while their children were growing up. David began college as an honors premedical student. Then in 2003, along with hundreds of college students from across the country, he entered an American Idol-styled acting competition called the “Soap Star Screen Test.” He won—garnering almost half the votes in a final field of five. With his family squarely behind him, he moved to New York City to claim his prize: a role on CBS’s iconic soap opera “Guiding Light.” Today he is co-founder and Creative Director of Foray Filmworks LLC in Atlanta, Ga.
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But before that—shortly after she arrived on campus—Barbara attended a dorm party. When Ron, then a third-year medical student, spotted her, he doubled back so that they would have to pass each other in the narrow hallway. Pretty smooth—until a flustered Barbara bumped into the wall while she was looking at him. “The rest is history,” said Barbara with a laugh. They went on to marry and recently celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary. After graduation, Ron served on MCG’s faculty before opening a private internal medicine practice in Augusta in 1984. After nearly a quarter century in successful practice, he moved to the Augusta VA hospital, where he provides care to patients in the Spinal Cord Injury Unit. Barbara graduated and established a successful dental practice on Laney Walker Boulevard—between her two alma maters— from which she recently retired.
The Ellison Family: Three Generations and Counting
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BY STACEY HUDSON Lois’ invited her to join him, In 1939, “Gone With his date, and Bob on a double The Wind” was number date for dinner, she said “yes.” one at the box office, a It was the beginning of nice house would set you a love that lasted a lifetime; back about $6,400, and Bob and Lois married while RCA/NBC introduced she was still in med school in the very first regularly 1945. scheduled U.S. television Then life took a broadcasts. frightening—and near tragic— And in 1939, Robert A young Robert Ellison Sr. turn; six weeks after marrying, “Bob” Ellison entered Lois was hospitalized with the Medical College of tuberculosis. In the pre-antibiotic days Georgia, never suspecting he would of the early 20th century, the diagnosis launch a storied MCG family legacy that flourishes unbroken to this day. was usually considered fatal. Four years later, the young surgery She remembers then-Dean Dr. resident demonstrated a spinal George Kelly tearing up when he puncture for incoming first-year visited her in the hospital. students, a class that included 19-year “I knew what he was thinking,” she old freshman Lois Taylor. And a few said. “He didn’t think I would ever months after that, when a friend of come back.”
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The Ellison family gathered to celebrate Lois’ 90th birthday.
Surviving and Thriving But she defied the odds and returned to her studies, ultimately graduating in 1950. The couple went on to start their family— with gusto. Five sons arrived between 1953 and 1959: Robert, Gregory, Mark, James, and John. MCG remained an integral part of their lives. Bob became a faculty member in 1947 and Lois in 1951. And their contributions to their alma mater were only beginning. Early on, the Ellisons established a dedicated cardiopulmonary laboratory at MCG—the first in the state—where clinicians performed the institution’s first cardiac catheterizations, pulmonary functions, and blood gas tests. Lois moved into administration, ultimately becoming university provost. She later moved to hospital administration and took “early retirement” at age 76. For the past 13
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years, she has served in a volunteer capacity as medical historian in residence. “I consider it an opportunity to continue to be a part of a wonderful program,” Dr. Ellison said. “And I know my husband felt the same way. He had many opportunities for other positions because he was so well-known, but he stayed at the Medical College of Georgia.” Bob became head of cardiothoracic surgery, a position he held for 32 years. He repeatedly broke new ground in cardiac care, including performing the first open heart surgery in Georgia in 1956, and his research contributions in the field were legion. After a long and illustrious career, and a too-brief 61 years with the love of his life, the beloved family patriarch passed away in 2006.
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Passing the Torch The Ellisons’ three oldest boys never seriously considered anything but a career in medicine. “They just saw how happy we were in our work,” Lois said. Dr. Robert “Bob” Ellison Jr., Dr. Gregory Ellison, and Dr. Mark Ellison graduated from MCG in three consecutive years: 1980, 1981, and 1982. Bob is a vascular surgeon in Jacksonville, Fla.; Gregory is a general/vascular surgeon in Augusta; and Mark practices urology in Athens. Gregory’s wife, Marty, is a 1981 graduate of the MCG School of Nursing. Bob recalls a childhood where MCG seemed just an extension of the family. “After Sunday school and church, we would frequently go to the hospital,” he said. “My parents had offices right across from each other.”
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He and his brothers would play in the offices and labs, deconstructing models of hearts and lungs and fiddling with test tubes. Sometimes they’d play ball in the hallways. “I don’t think we actually broke anything, but I’m sure we were a bit disruptive,” he laughed. “You can imagine five of us boys.” His two younger brothers chose different paths. James completed law school at the University of Georgia in 1983 and practices in Augusta. John earned an MBA from Kennesaw State University in 1983 and is in business in the Atlanta area.
Jim, Mark, John, Bob Jr., and Greg Ellison in 1959 and 2013.
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Legacy of Giving Funds supported by the family: n Robert G. Ellison, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery n Lois Taylor Ellison, M.D. Scholarship Endowment n Old Medical College Renovation Fund n Class of 1982 Scholarship Fund n Children’s Hospital of Georgia n Edgar Pund Distinguished Chair n Moretz/Mansberger Chair n Rinker Society n Sydenstricker Lecture Fund n Lois Taylor Ellison Lecture Fund
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These days the third generation of Ellisons—Bob and Lois have nine grandchildren—are taking their turn. Gregory’s son, Gregory “Taylor” Ellison Jr., graduated from MCG in 2012 and is completing his residency in New Orleans. His sister, Leigh, will graduate from GRU’s Physician’s Assistant program this year. Another sister, Sarah, is an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, considering a career in the health sciences. But the family’s attachment goes even further. Lois, Bob Jr., Gregory, and Mark hold lifetime memberships in the MCG Alumni Association. Both Lois and Mark have served as president of the organization; Lois was the first female president and the two of them the only mother/son pair to serve. In addition, the family supports the institution through numerous funds. “Sure, it’s giving back,” said Lois. “But it is a privilege to serve. And then for the institution to have given an education to our three sons and now our grandchildren— it has been a wonderful opportunity.”
Ellison Family Alumni: (top from left) Taylor, Bob Jr., Greg, and Mark (bottom from left) Leigh, Lois, and Marty
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Jerry and Jane Howington at home with family portraits by Georgia artist Steve Penley.
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Jane Howington, MEd ’75 Jed Howington, MD ’99
How do you handle living in a house full of doctors? “Just love them,” said Jane Howington with a laugh. Howington is the matriarch of a Georgia Regents University family that includes husband Jerry, a radiation oncologist; son Jay, a neurosurgeon in Savannah; and son Jed, also a radiation oncologist in practice with his father in Augusta, all graduates of the Medical College of Georgia. It helps that Howington herself comes from a medical family, with two uncles who were physicians and a mother who was Director of Nursing Services at University Hospital. An Augusta native (Jerry grew up in North Augusta), Howington met her husband at a Young Life trip when they were both teens. Jerry gave the blessing at lunch, praying out loud in front of a busload of teenagers. “I thought, I want to meet that boy,” she said. Jerry always knew he wanted to go into medicine, and he considered only one school: the Medical College of Georgia. It was a lifelong dream as well for Jay and Jed. According to their mother, “From the time they were 5 years old, all they ever said was, ‘I want to be a doctor like daddy. ’” And just like dad, they wanted to go to MCG. “Now, when it came time to go to college, they applied to all kinds of colleges. I knew that’s what you do for college,” said Howington. “And this is the gospel truth. I never knew you would apply to different medical
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schools … Where else would you want to go?” After graduation Jay accepted a fellowship in neurosurgery in Buffalo, N.Y., and Jed a fellowship at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, a large center for radiation oncology. Howington has her own ties to the university. She was Director of Student Activities for the College of Nursing when her husband was a student, and she later completed a Master of Education from Augusta College in 1975. These days she applies her education training to lead a 400-person Bible study five times a week at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church. She credits the university not only for preparing her academically, but also for teaching her how to work with people. “That prepared me for life,” she said. Howington earned a 2009 Distinguished Alumna Award from then Augusta State University in recognition of her volunteerism with local organizations such as the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, Georgia Bank and Trust, the Community Foundation of the CSRA, the Augusta-Richmond County Library, and the ASU Foundation. The Howington family’s ties are strong: to one another, to Augusta, and to GRU. “It feels like this is our community,” said Howington. “If you’re from the South, GRU has its roots in the South. It has professors from all over, but it knows what it is to be an entity in the Southeast. It’s an identity.” n
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Edward J. Green, DMD ’83 Back in the late ’70s, Edward J. Green was a chemical engineer with a young family. Yet something was missing. “I had very good employment, but I wanted more of a people focus in my work,” he said. He looked into medicine, law, even aviation. But after talking to a dentist, “It dawned on me that I liked his lifestyle. I shadowed him a little bit, and I said, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what I want.’” So 11 years after he’d first earned an undergraduate degree, Green, along with wife, Lorraine, and young daughters Edythe and Erica, sold their home, took their savings, and moved to Augusta so that Green could attend dental school. Albany-born, he knew he wanted to stay in Georgia, where the options at the time were either Emory or the Medical College of Georgia. For his family, MCG’s School of Dentistry was a perfect fit in terms of reputation, size, and cost. Jud Hickey, who opened the school, was still dean. Green said, “I got a chance to attend when some of the founding professors were there, and it was really a good experience.” Lorraine, then the breadwinner, even joined the university family by working in the office of then-MCG President William Henry Moretz as an assistant to attorney Jerry Woods—which had an unexpected benefit. During his practical work in the dental clinic (and much to the jealousy of his classmates), “A lot of my patients came out of the President’s office,” said Green with a laugh. Green returned to Albany after his 1983 graduation and set up his private
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practice. His first day, he remembers, he got two phone calls—and maybe five total calls that week. “But things grew from there.” Today, 30 years later, he runs a thriving practice, with a staff of 11, and he said, “The phone never stops ringing.” In 2006, he added another staff member—his daughter Erica, who often tagged along with Green during his weekend lab work when he was a student. After considering pharmacy school at Mercer, Erica worked at Green’s practice for a year before deciding to enroll at the School of Dentistry. “Inside I was extremely happy, but I didn’t want to give away too much on the outside,” he said. “I said, ‘That’s a great idea, I’ll do whatever I can to help you.’” At his daughter’s graduation, Green was invited to sit among the faculty to watch Erica matriculate. (Green is an adjunct professor, and has taught students both at his practice and in Augusta). “[It was] one of my highlights,” he said. “That was a real tribute.” Down the road, the Distinguished Alumnus (2010) would love to see a third generation attend his alma mater. “We try to keep our ties there strong. For me, MCG was a pathway to an interest that I acquired, and from that, I’ve been able to serve people in a lot of different ways,” he said. “I’ve been able to do a lot of things and go through a lot of doors that would not have been possible had I not matriculated at MCG.” n
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Inside Janice Whiting’s art studio, color and texture run riot. In one corner, a queenly Michaelangelo-esque head, depicted three times in a single work, observes the room knowingly from half-closed eyes. Adjacent to her is a wild and forbidding angelic form, all frenzied brush strokes and sparked with splashes of yellow, blue, and crimson. Every corner, nook, and cranny is crammed with finished and halffinished canvases (some she has been working on for at least a decade), frames, oil and acrylic paints, brushes and canvases—all tools of the artists’ trade. A professor of art and humanities on the Summerville Campus of Georgia Regents University, Whiting has drawn as far back as she can remember. Her first-ever piece was a copy of a painting from the cover of her Sunday school book when she was “really little.” Years later, during a trip to Italy in the early ‘90s, that moment would come full circle when she turned a corner in the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art and was overwhelmed to find the original of that book cover: Emil Nolde’s “The Prophet.” Italy is where it could be said Whiting found her artistic rebirth. “I always say I’m homesick for Italy,” she said with a laugh. “But the kids remind me I’m not Italian.” She calls Michelangelo, Della Francesca, Bernini,
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and Caravaggio her heroes, and their influence can be seen in her abstract works—in the curve of a neck, in the flashing eyes, in the full lips. Whiting’s daughter, Sarah Brown, accompanied her mother to Italy when she was just 12 years old. A graduate of Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School, she had “always been involved in some sort of artistic thing”—whether it was drawing, painting, or chorus. “I was always interested in art because of my mom,” said Brown. A printmaking class at GRU’s Summerville Campus during her sophomore year made it all click. She fell in love with the exercise of carving images and textures on several different plates and layering them to create a single image with multiple layers of ink. The final result is almost painterly, with washes of color, and Brown also likes to layer on found objects like unique scraps of paper or old stamps and add more color on top with paint. Although they work in different mediums, their work has similarities— in their abstractness and their use of color. “That’s the common thread,” said Whiting. “It is,” added Brown. “That’s what everyone says.” Another commonality? As a young artist, Brown says she is still figuring out what she wants to say. Her mother has a similar feeling. “If I could say exactly what I wanted to say, I’d be writing,” she explained. “Having said that, a part of apportioned pieces of imagery from the past, it’s a way of communing with the past and bringing something new. And what that is, I really don’t know, and I don’t want to tell someone what they should think.” n
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Twins Kathyrn and Katonya Parks say they were “always together”—from having the same hairstyle and excelling in sports like basketball, track, and volleyball to their dedication to serving in food and clothing ministries at their church, Lord and Savior Ministries Worldwide in South Augusta. By the time they were in the seventh grade, they’d also decided on a shared career: nursing. “We both wanted to do it,” said Kathyrn. Their inspiration was their aunt Cindy, also a nurse, who helped care for the girls when their mother was stationed overseas during her time in the military. “[It was all about] being able to help other people,” said Kathyrn. “That aspect of just showing love.” The family moved to Augusta and Fort Gordon when Kathyrn and Katonya were 13. The twins attended A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School, where they pursued preparatory health sciences work. Their first—and only—choice was Georgia Regents University (then Augusta State University). Kathyrn enrolled right after high school, while Katonya took a year off to work, but both ended up in the same BSN program—ASU’s second-ever class. “It was something we were really proud of,” said Katonya. During the application process, they made a point of talking to their counselor at least once a week about their passion for being nurses—and for the university’s highly competitive program. “[You can imagine] the anxiety that we had, of being twins and being
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like, I don’t know if it’s guaranteed that both of us would get in,” said Kathyrn. Their eagerness and dedication paid off: The two were among only 52 accepted out of 200-plus applicants. And that’s when the real work began. During year one, the two were part of a large study group—“But that didn’t work out,” said Katonya, “After that first year, we were like, ‘It’s just going to be me and you, we’re going to do this thing.’” There was plenty to learn: Kathyrn, who had planned to enter maternal nursing, was accepted into a preceptor program for the top 10 percent of the class. There she worked one-on-one with a RN on a stroke telemetry unit, sparking her interest in stroke care and family education. Katonya fell in love with burn care and treatment planning during a preceptorship randomly drawn for her last semester. Today, Kathyrn works as a nurse in University Hospital’s stroke unit, while Katonya is at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center. While they may not be working together on the same unit, they are likeminded as always on this: “At ASU, we were able to really understand our major and the field we were getting into. We had professors who really cared about us, who cared about the profession of nursing, who made sure that when we go out to a clinical area, we do everything right for our patients.” But their ties to GRU don’t end there: Younger sister Kanisha is an English major in the class of 2014. “No,” said Kathyrn with a laugh when asked if her sister has any interest in medicine. “She’s a writer—a very good one.” n
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Many CAHS faculty and students participated in community service activities over the summer, including the college-led Augusta Area Asthma Camp and Future Scientists Camp for teens with sickle cell disease, the Costa Layman Health Fair, Christ Community Health Services, and the ongoing Laney-Walker revitalization project.
Respiratory Therapy student Pam Usher and camper David Wright share a moment during the Augusta Area Asthma Camp.
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initiated a GRU chapter of the Student Professionalism and Ethics Association in Dentistry, a national, student-driven association that promotes and supports students’ lifelong commitment to ethical behavior.
Paul Kim, Medical Illustration Graduate Program alumnus, ‘11, was selected as the winner of the 2013 Netter Illustration Contest sponsored by Elsevier, publisher of Dr. Frank H. Netter’s “Atlas of Human Anatomy.” Kim’s illustration will replace Netter’s image on plate 163 in the next edition of the book.
Dr. Geraldine Ferris, American College of Dentists Region 3 Regent with chapter organizers Tara Brown (from left), Michelle Paterson and Nathan Raley.
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The James M. Hull College of Business has been recognized a 6th time as one of the nation’s top business schools in The Princeton Review’s “The Best 295 Business Schools: 2014 Edition.”
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NURSING held its first White Coat Ceremony on August 23 for 283 new students. Dr. Christy Berding helps student Mitzi Aquino on with her white coat, while Dean Dr. Lucy Marion looks on.
Several students and professors visited Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Study Abroad Program. The trip included a visit to Robben Island, where key leaders of the antiapartheid struggle were imprisoned.
Dr. Rickey Hicks has been named Dean effective Jan. 2, 2014. Hicks comes to GRU from East Carolina University where he served as Chairman and Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
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EDUCATION The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has awarded the Literacy Center a $2,458.50 grant to fund the new Making Sense to Dollars: Financial Literacy program, designed to help students preparing for the GED test become more financially independent while strengthening their math skills.
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Dr. Lawrence C. Layman (left), Chief of the Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, has found, for the first time in a female, a receptor mutation that essentially blocks estrogen’s action. MD/PhD student Samuel D. Quaynor was first author of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Interestingly, the first mutation in this receptor was reported nearly 20 years earlier in a 28-year-old man.
Profiles in Giving Pat Wozniak
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s a young woman growing up in the ’40s and ’50s, there were only four acceptable career choices available to Pat Wozniak: housewife, secretary, teacher, or nurse. “My mother always wanted me to be a nurse … that’s all I ever heard,” said Wozniak. “I was never an argumentative person; that’s what was offered so that’s what I did.” The decision, though, turned out to be fortuitous; the career that she fell into became one that she fell in love with—particularly after a chance meeting with a nursing trailblazer brought Wozniak to the master in nursing program at the Medical College of Georgia. back to school so that she could apply for a chief After graduating with a baccalaureate degree in position in nursing education at the VA. Despite the nursing from Chicago’s Loyola University, Wozniak strides she’d made in her career, her grade point began work at the city’s Veterans Administration average from Loyola, Wozniak admits, made it (VA) hospital. She learned fast and was soon challenging: “But I was very persistent.” promoted to a head nurse position in thoracic Then, at a college fair, she met Em Olivia Bevis, surgery, followed by outpatient emergency care. who at the time was heading up MCG’s satellite She found herself itching for a new challenge— nursing campus at so transferred Armstrong College to a new VA Through two careers and across four states, in Savannah, Ga. Hospital in nursing has been her life and her love. The author of Gainesville, Fla. five textbooks and “I always wanted That is why Pat Wozniak is remembering numerous articles, to live south; the next generation of nurses through Bevis is credited I’d gotten tired for developing of the winters,” a significant gift in her estate plans, the educational said Wozniak. “I establishing scholarships at both of her model that is used helped open that alma maters. “I believe in nursing very today by colleges hospital, which of nursing across was a really neat strongly,” she said. “What better way to give the U.S. and experience.” back all that I received—all my benefits—but internationally. She moved Bevis took a from unit to to return it to my schools toward advancing look at Wozniak, unit, until she other students in the field?” this scrappy and took a position determined woman, in the in-service then 44 years old, and said yes. “She needed department, where she was responsible for students, and I needed graduate work, so there working with clinical nurse specialists to orient was a marriage built right there,” said Wozniak. new nurses and provide ongoing staff education to “She promised me that she’d get my grade point keep up with nursing developments. average up by working my pants off, and she did. That taste of education was enough to push her
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I loved that woman dearly. She was an excellent nurse and excellent educator.” During the one-year program in which Wozniak earned a master’s in nursing with an emphasis on education, Bevis served as a teacher, mentor, and friend. As promised, “She worked me,” said Wozniak, “but it was so very worth it.” Bevis was by her side at every step, whether it was helping with family interviews during a year-long family nursing course or talking through the care and treatment of a particularly tough patient. Wozniak also remembers Bevis drilling the relatively new concept of “nursing diagnosis” into them. Nursing diagnosis is a process where nurses make a clinical judgment about a patient’s potential response to a health problem, and it could be difficult for nurses accustomed to medical diagnoses of disease states to grasp. One particularly complicated patient encounter required Wozniak to make 10 nursing diagnoses; her grade? A+++. “[Bevis] said, ‘You did it,’ and that made me swell with pride,” she remembers. Walking across the stage to receive her diploma was the first and last time Wozniak ever visited Augusta, but she took what she learned from MCG with her everywhere she went. And it was that moment, she said, when she truly fell in love with her career. “[Before MCG], I had good technical skills, but there was still something missing,” she said. “When I got back from MCG, I felt so comfortable with myself and so satisfied, and nursing just seemed to blossom. I blossomed with the care I gave. In fact, people would tell me that I was born to be a nurse, how wonderful I was. I know I loved it at that time, and that others recognized it made me feel all the better.” After graduating with her master’s, Wozniak would go on to nursing education leadership roles with the VA in Kentucky and Tennessee, along with serving in the Air Force reserves, earning the rank of lieutenant colonel. She retired at age 55, spending the next decade nursing her mother; today, she still teaches at her church and Sunday school and lives near family in Indiana. Wozniak said she is pleased to be able to give back and hopes that the future nurses her scholarships will support will find the same fulfillment in their careers as she has. n
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This summer was a busy one for GRU’s Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs, as they hosted dozens of local, state, and federal officials during multiple visits to our Augusta campuses. As Georgia’s only public academic health center, GRU garners attention from leaders throughout the state, and our Government Relations and Community Affairs staff actively encourages their interest and visits. The office serves as a liaison between GRU and Georgia Regents Health System, the community, and public officials and cultivates partnerships and support to further GRU’s tri-partite mission of clinical service, education, and research.
Rep. Earnest Smith and Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler at the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus “Vision 20/20” Health Symposium (July 7-8).
Staffers from Georgia’s and South Carolina’s federal delegations don GRHealth scrubs while touring during the Second Annual Congressional Fly-In (Aug. 15-16).
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Advocacy Update Georgia General Assembly’s House Appropriations Health Subcommittee (July 16-17): Rep. Pat Gardner, Rep. Barbara Sims, Rep. Ben Watson, Rep. Darlene Taylor, Rep. Matt Dollar, Senior Budget and Policy Analyst Margie Coggins, Rep. Carolyn Hugley, Rep. Ben Harbin, and Chairman Butch Parrish.
GRU Cancer Center Director Dr. Samir Khleif speaks with Sen. Johnny Isakson (Sept. 5).
U.S. Rep. John Barrow greets GRHealth Emergency Department staff during his Sept. 4 visit.
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GRU neurosurgeon Dr. Cargill Alleyne speaks with Rome delegation members Rep. Katie Dempsey, Rep. Eddie Lumsden and Dr. Leonard Reeves, Associate Dean of the NW regional campus (Aug. 20-21).
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WOMEN’S MEN’S
Nov. 9
Tusculum
7:00 p.m.
Nov. 10
Anderson
4:00 p.m.
Nov. 30
Paine
5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
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West Georgia
6:00 p.m.
Dec. 7
*Lander
5:30 p.m.
Dec. 12
Shaw
7:30 p.m.
Dec. 14
Emmanuel
1:00 p.m.
Dec. 22
Mount Olive
4:00 p.m.
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*Francis Marion
5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Jan. 5
*UNC Pembroke
2:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Jan. 18
*North Georgia
1:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
Jan. 30
*Armstrong
5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 8
*Young Harris
1:30 p.m. (P4K)
3:30 p.m.
Feb. 13
*Columbus State
5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Feb. 15
*Georgia Southwestern (HC)
1:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
Feb. 26
*USC Aiken
5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
March 1
*Flagler (SD)
1:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
* Peach Belt Conference Game (HC) Homecoming game (SD) Senior Day (P4K) Play4Kay Day (in support of breast cancer awareness)
Full schedule at jaguarsroar.com
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Duking It Out on the Diamond BY LAURA VAN TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN win against Paine College; Ben’s was playing in the Peach Belt against USC-Aiken during his senior year. Ben feels his experience in Jaguar baseball helped prepare him for life after college. Most of all, it taught him structure. The Dukes are extremely proud of their sons; Jamie says that most people don’t realize how much work is required to be a successful student athlete. Nor, he might add, how much support is required from student-athletes’ parents. And after more than two decades, it’s hard for them to believe their days of cheering from the sidelines are winding down. n
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Where we are, what we’re doing...
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Dr. Larry L. Tilley (DMD ‘75) was recently spotlighted on the cover of “CRANIO, The Journal of Craniomandibular & Sleep Practice.” Each month the international dental journal selects a clinician who is a leader in the field whose career has been devoted to craniofacial pain and temporomandibular and dental sleep disorders.
Dr. Sam Brewton Jr. (MD ’56) was presented the 2013 Service to Mankind Award by the Thomaston Sertoma Club for his service to the Thomaston community throughout the years.
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Jeanette Andrews (BSN ’87)
Jerry Brigham (BBA, Business ’71)
recently completed the AACNWharton Executive Leadership Program. This world-class enrichment experience is designed exclusively for top academic leaders in schools of nursing.
has been appointed to the National Association of Accountant’s Political Action Committee.
Dr. Reid B. Blackwelder (Resident, Family Medicine) recently assumed
Col. Ramona Fiorey (BSN ’77) has been named Madigan Army Medical Center’s new commander.
the role of president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which represents 110,600 physicians and medical students nationwide.
Dr. Cordell “Chip” Bragg (MD ’86) has released his third book,
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Dr. David Johnson (MD ’76)
“Crescent Moon over Carolina,” which examines the life of Maj. Gen. William Moultrie (17301805). He is also the author of “Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A.” and coauthor of “Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia.”
has been named Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. He is also a noted expert on lung cancer, is the Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Holly Powell Kennedy (MSN ’78) was recently named Executive Deputy Dean at Yale School of Nursing. She is a retired colonel in the United States Army Nurse Corps Reserve and recently completed a three-year term as President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Dr. Miles Mason III (MD ’72) was recently presented Georgia Hospital Association’s prestigious Chairman’s Award. He was recognized for longtime dedication to the hospital system and for bringing quality care to the community.
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Dr. Robert Bowman (MD ’86) has opened Changes Laser, a clinic dedicated to expert laser tattoo removal, to meet southern and central Georgia’s increasing demand for a solution to address tattoo regret. Ron Courson (BS, Physical Therapy ’89) was recently inducted into the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. The ceremonies were held at NATA’s Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in Las Vegas on June 26, 2013. He is currently the University of Georgia Athletic Association’s Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine and serves as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Kinesiology at UGA and as a clinical instructor teaching physical therapy students from GRU and other physical therapy schools.
CLASS notes of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Georgia Neurological Society, and the Muscogee County Medical Society. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Rochester Medical Center.
Dr. Walter Curran (MD ’82) was recently named executive director of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and Chairman in Cancer Research by the Georgia Research Alliance. He is also professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology in Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Robert Rosengart (MD ’88) has been elected President of the Georgia Radiological Society effective June 2, 2013, and will serve a two-year term. He currently is a partner with Radiology Associates of Macon and serves on various committees for both the group and the Medical Center of Central Georgia.
Dr. George Fuhrman (MD ’86) was recently named to the Best Doctors in New Orleans list by New Orleans magazine. He is employed at Ochsner Medical Center and serves as program director for the general surgery residency program.
Dr. Gary Stanziano (MD ’88) has joined MiMedx Group Inc. as the company’s Vice President of Medical Affairs.
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Dr. Cary Goldstein (DMD ’84) has
Dr. Richard Bennett (DMD ’98) was recently honored with
been elected to the executive board of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (AAED). For the past three years, Dr. Goldstein has been the chairman of the local arrangements committee for their annual meetings in Puerto Rico; Naples, Fla.; and Washington, D.C.
the Georgia Dental Association Community Service Award at the Association’s Annual Meeting. This award recognizes a GDA member dentist who distinguishes him or herself by extraordinary service to the quality of life and health of persons in their local, state, national, or international community via the field of dentistry.
Dr. Davey Herring (MD ’80) has joined Eatonton Medical and Surgical Center and the staff of Putnam General Hospital. He is a fellow in the Southeastern Surgical Congress and a member of The Macon Surgical Society and The Will C. Sealy Surgical Society. He is also a volunteer clinical faculty member for both the Mercer University School of Medicine and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Scott Fogleman (BBA, Accounting ’90) was recently selected to serve as the community’s next Town Manager by the Blowing Rock Town Council.
Dr. Jon Jones (MD ’86) recently joined Russell Medical Center as a general surgeon.
Dr. James Metcalf (MD ’80) recently joined the Progressive Neurosurgery practice at Cayuga Medical Associates through a regional neurosurgery initiative. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Southern Neurosurgical Society, the American Association
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joined Advanced Rehabilitation in Calhoun, Ga. She is a member of the Georgia Upper Extremity Special Interest Group and volunteers as K-5 grade Director at NorthStar Church in Kennesaw, Ga. CONTINUED
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Susan Gould (BS, Occupational Therapy ’91) has
CLASS notes Dr. Bob Johnson (MD ’90) has
Dr. Melissa Davis (MD ’04, Resident, Pediatrics) is now leading Harbin
announced his candidacy for Georgia’s First Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He currently practices with SouthCoast Medical Group in Savannah, Ga.
Clinic’s Ansley Park Pediatrics, which recently held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the new clinic.
Erica Moore Neet (BSN ’97) has
Anna M. Farrow (BS, Dental Hygiene ’09) married
been named Division Director of Resource Development at United Way of the Coastal Empire in Savannah, Ga.
David M. Redd on May 25, 2013. The couple will reside in Aiken, S.C.
Dr. Mason Florence (MD ’07, Resident, Orthopedic Surgery)
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has joined Athens Orthopedic Clinic and will specialize in arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle.
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Ute Aadland (MED, Educational Leadership ’06) has been appointed Dr. Dion Franga (Resident, General Surgery) is now a part of Regional
the new Wagener-Salley High School Principal in Wagener, S.C.
Medical Center’s new surgical practice, Palmetto Surgical Group. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he is board certified in general surgery and interventional nephrology and is registered in vascular interpretationARDMS.
Dr. Jeremy Bruce (MD ’07)
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has joined the medical staff of Chattanooga Bone & Joint Surgeons. He completed an orthopaedic residency at University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga and a fellowship in sports medicine at The Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla.
Dr. Devon Greene (MD ’07) recently joined Children’s Hospital of Erlanger as a pediatric pulmonologist.
Mario Cruz (DPT ’09) is now an American Physical Therapy Association board-certified specialist in sports (SCS).
Dr. Betsy Grunch (MD ’07) has joined The Longstreet Clinic as a neurosurgeon. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Association of Women Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Jennifer Darcey (MS, Medical Illustration ’04) received an Award of Merit in the Medical Legal category for her exhibit “Severe Leg Trauma and Resulting Surgeries” at the 68th-annual conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators.
Dr. Eric Hall (DMD ’09) received the Academy of General Dentistry’s Fellowship award. The award is presented to dentists who seek to provide the highest quality of dental care by remaining current in their profession. This is an accomplishment achieved by only five percent of dentists.
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Dr. David Hardy (BS ’01, MD ’07)
Dr. Alan Morgan (MD ’03) has joined St. Mary’s Neurological Specialists as a neurohospitalist, a physician who specializes in providing neurological care to patients while they are in the hospital.
was recently named Resident of the Year by GRU. He was also recently chosen for a fellowship in vascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Alyssa Paetau (MD ’07) Dr. James Hicks (DMD ’09) recently opened Pediatric Dentistry of Johns Creek. Following dental school, he completed a two-year residency at the University of Kentucky, while also earning a specialty certificate in Pediatric Dentistry and a Masters of Science degree in 2011.
recently earned board certification from the American Board of Surgery. She joined Western Maine Surgery, a department of Stephens Memorial Hospital, in August 2012 after completing her surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Jonathan Poon (MD ’04) has been named the new Chief of Medical Staff at Elbert Memorial Hospital in Elberton, Ga. He is a board-certified family practitioner at The Medical Center of Elberton.
Dr. Matthew Kevin Howard (MD ’05) has been named Sleep Lab Medical Director at University Health Care System.
Chris Ireland (DPT ’09) is now an American Physical Therapy Association board-certified specialist in orthopaedics (OCS).
Dr. Candace Lauderdale (DMD ’09) is now the lead dentist at Aspen Dental’s new practice in Columbus, Ga. The Columbus practice is one of eight Aspen Dental locations in the state.
Gayle Prince (DPT ’08) has been appointed the Physical Therapy Association of Georgia (PTAG) District 1 Director. In her new leadership role, she will assist with PTAG outreach and communications efforts for more than 31 counties in the southwest Georgia region, as well as serve as a liaison and a resource for the 7,419 licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants in the state. She is currently employed as the Director of Physical Therapy for the Hughston Clinic in Valdosta, Ga., where she treats sports and orthopedic injuries. Dr. Moonkyung Schubert (Resident, Internal Medicine) has joined Gastroenterology Associates of Pensacola, Fla.
Dr. Maureen Martin (DMD ’06) has joined the TeethWhiteningforFree.com team, extending complimentary teeth whitening to patients who visit her office for a routine exam or check up. Dr. Martin provides professional dental care in the Cartersville, Ga., area.
Dr. Warren Kyle Stribling (MD ’05) recently joined the Megan Moran (DPT ’09) is now an American Physical Therapy Association board-certified specialist in pediatrics (PCS).
cardiology staff at Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tenn. He is certified for cardiovascular diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board eligible for heart failure and transplant.
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Dr. Lorraine Simonds (MD ’09) has joined the staff of Eye Consultants of Atlanta as an ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon.
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Rachel Leigh Johnson (BS, Health Informatics ’12) married Brenton Lemar Addy on April 27, 2013. The couple will reside in Saluda, S.C.
Martha Jo Ashmore (BBA, Accounting ‘10) was selected as the new clerk for the city of Lincolnton, Ga.
Dr. Joe Henry Livingston IV (MD ’13) recently joined Floyd Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency program.
Dr. Stephen Chen (Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease) has joined Springfield Clinic in Springfield, Ill.
Dr. Laura Mayer (Resident, General Practice) has joined
Dr. Robert Crawford (DMD ’10, Resident, Orthodontics)
the dental practice of Dr. Melinda Reynard in San Carlos, Calif.
has completed an orthodontic residency at GRU and recently purchased Crawford Orthodontics in Augusta, Ga.
Dr. Ashley Dickinson (MD ’13) and Dr. Alejandro Pena (MD ’13) were married on May 18, 2013. They will be completing their residency in Arizona.
Dr. Travis Fiegle (DMD ’10, Resident, Orthodontics) has joined the staff of Winning Orthodontic Smiles in Beaufort, S.C.
Adrienne Mundy McKnight (BSED, Middle Grades Education ‘13) and Michael Garrison (BSED, Middle Grades Education ’12), Teacher Education graduates, have each received a $1,000 New Teacher Assistance Grant from Georgia Power to assist in purchasing classroom supplies and materials.
Paul Muchnick (DPT ’10) is now an American Physical Therapy Association board-certified specialist in orthopaedics (OCS).
Phyllis Gamble (MED, Educational Leadership ’10)
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recently became the Assistant Principal at North Augusta Middle School.
Dr. Adam Goldberg (DMD ‘10) was chosen as one of Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40,” a feature that highlights 40 people under the age of 40 who are making an impact in their professions, their communities, or the state.
Meredith Nolan (EDS, Educational Leadership ’12) has been appointed the Assistant Principal at Clearwater Elementary School, following eight years as an art teacher at Hammond Hills Elementary School in North Augusta, S.C.
Holley Pace (BSED, Health and Physical Education ’11) has been
Luis Hernandez (DPT ’10) is now an American Physical Therapy Association board-certified specialist in orthopedics (OCS).
selected as Teacher of the Month at Merriwether Middle School for September 2013.
Dr. Gehres Pascal (MD ‘11) spent two weeks working at this year’s America’s Cup, a sailing regatta for the world’s best sailors, where she treated sailors and patrons as an emergency medicine physician.
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Contact: Samantha Mellinger, Alumni Affairs Coordinator, smellinger@gru.edu
Ashlyn Platts (MPA ’12) has joined Lavonia Clinic as a physician assistant to the practice’s dermatologists.
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Dr. Connie Drisko (former Dean of the College of Dental Medicine and current Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President of Advancement) is a recipient of
Dr. Mary Beth Whittaker Smith (MD ’10) has returned
the University of Missouri-Kansas City Alumni Association’s Alumni Achievement Award for 2014.
to Bainbridge, Ga., to practice pediatrics in her hometown. She joined the staff and physicians at Memorial Pediatrics after completing her residency in pediatrics at the Greenville Health System in Greenville, S.C.
Clint Bryant (Director of Athletics) has been inducted into the Dr. Michael P. Reidy Belmont Abbey Athletics Hall of Fame at his alma mater, Belmont Abbey.
Dr. Brad Snead (Resident, Ophthalmology) recently joined Snead Eye Group.
Lori Ann Stanley (BSED, Early Childhood Education ’13) married David Patrick Garrett on July 20, 2013. The couple will reside in Augusta, Ga.
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SAVE DATE APRIL 25 - 27 Reminisce with classmates, renew old friendships and recapture the memories of life on campus during
Dr. Benjamin James Taylor (DMD ’13) recently joined his family’s dentistry practice in Jonesboro, Ga.
If your class is hosting a reunion , you will receive more information in the coming months about your reunion. We hope to see you in April!
Dr. Brandon Whitworth (DMD ’13) recently joined Alcovy Family and Cosmetic Dentistry in Covington, Ga.
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In Memoriam
Dr. Earl Alderman (MD ’60)
Freddie Hudson III (BS, Computer Science ’99)
Sarah Angermuller (MSN ’79)
died Sept. 5 at the age of 42. He was described
Christy Baker-Annis (MA, Psychology ’82)
as happy, smiling, and upbeat throughout
Karen Bell (MSN ’78)
his life—in spite of
Gloria Branyon (BSN ’58)
sustaining a devastating
Leliane Burroughs (BSN ’77)
and life-changing injury
Carolyn Byrum (BSN ’62)
while only a teen. Hudson was a
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Dr. Kenneth W. Carter (MD ’79) Dr. Lamar Collie Sr. (MD ’55)
17-year-old 175-pound
Reynard A. Corley (AACC, Core Curriculum ’58)
senior defensive end
Dr. Bennett Dixon Cotton Jr. (MD ’79)
for the Academy of
Dr. Mickey Crouch (MD ’66, Resident, Psychiatry)
Richmond County
Dr. John Deaton (MD ’50)
Musketeers in 1988.
Keith Didyoung (BS, Physician Assistant ’84)
While tackling a Westside Patriots player in a
Dr. John V. Duncan (MD ’75)
pivotal playoff game, he suffered a broken neck,
Dr. Paul Elliott Sr. (MD ’74)
sustaining multiple fractures in his third and
Dr. James Finch (DMD ’74)
fourth vertebrae. The injury damaged his spinal
Audrey Foss-Osterbrink (BSN ’77)
cord, and the young man never walked again.
Ronald M. Frain (MBA ’77)
Dr. Helen C. Freeman (MD ’56)
health problems throughout his life. Through
Dr. William Galloway (MD ’44)
months of physical therapy he learned to—slowly
Barbara Gelfant (BSN ’77, MSN ’81)
and laboriously—use a mouthstick to operate
Martha Guizar-Ghastin (BSN ’84)
a computer. Despite the challenges he faced,
Dr. Thomas Fielder Hardman (MD ’82)
Hudson enrolled in Augusta College in 1990 and
James Harris (AACC ’45)
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer
Dr. Larry Hart (MD ’80)
science nine years later, a truly courageous and
Cornelia Henderson (BSN ’60)
inspiring accomplishment.
His injuries left him susceptible to multiple
Katherine Marlene Jernigan (BSN ’90) Mary Lynn Jordan (BS, Respiratory Therapy ’84) Dr. George Maloney (MD ’64) Rev. Rudolph Mayes (BA, Psychology ’76) Courtney McCall (MED, Counseling and Guidance ’95) Dr. Clara McClellan (MD ’58) Dr. Andrew McRae Jr. (MD ’66) Dr. Harvey Newman III (MD ’48) Laura L. Palmer (BA, English ’85) Dr. Joel Floyd Parker Sr. (MD ’69) Dr. Claude Pennington (MD ’49) Ralph Taylor (BBA, Accounting ’74) Dr. Stephen Turner (DMD ’75) Paul Walker (BBA, Management ’77) Dr. Robert Whitelaw Jr. (MD ’72) Dr. James Richard “Rick” Williamson (Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology)
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Rich Rogers, BA, Communications ’03 Meterologist, NBC 26 Augusta (WAGT)
YOUNG ALUM Q & A
Who was your favorite professor in college? I’m fortunate to have been taught by many wonderful professors. One of the more memorable professors would have to be Dr. Jim Garvey. In the only class of his I ever took—Newswriting—he helped me to refine my writing skills, which has been of great value professionally ever since. What have you been doing since you graduated from college? Since I graduated in 2003, I have spent most of that time as a meteorologist for NBC 26 (WAGT) in Augusta. My start in
broadcasting can be traced back to a weather internship I did while I was in college. A couple of years after I graduated and was working at a local bank, I got an unexpected phone call to try my luck at TV. I gradually settled into the new role, working part-time at NBC 26 for a year while still working full-time at the bank. Then, the station offered me a full-time position as a weather forecaster and Web editor. Since arriving at NBC 26, I’ve taken three years of online meteorology courses and obtained a certificate of broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University, and I was awarded the broadcasters’ Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association. In my personal life, the biggest news since graduation has been marrying my wife Stephanie! We got married about a year ago on the first day of fall (makes it easy to remember anniversaries!). Tell us about your job. My main job as a broadcast meteorologist is to forecast the weather and then take that
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information and be able to communicate it effectively with our audience through television, radio, Web, and social media. I don’t just copy a forecast from a computer model or the National Weather Service. Those are tools I use, among many others, to create my own forecast that’s exclusive to NBC 26. Most weather forecasters and meteorologists that are worth listening to make their own forecasts. This can be timeconsuming, especially when I’m filling in on the early morning shift and more pressed for time. What do you enjoy most about your job? I get to tell people about the weather and how it will impact them. Each weathercast is a presentation. Though it can be tedious and challenging at times, I enjoy presenting the weather in a way that is, hopefully, easy to understand, but also teaches the average viewer something while they’re watching. I also like to throw in some climate statistics every now and then. n
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Why did you choose our university for your education? I chose to attend Augusta State (now GRU) for two primary reasons: I had the HOPE Scholarship, and I didn’t have to move out of town. Both of those factors meant I could avoid the accumulation of debt at a young age. Plus, I knew it was a good school and had a good reputation.
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