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FEATURES 18 Celebrating Courage UGA celebrates its 50th anniversary of desegregation with 50 days of events

Young, idealistic and tenacious, a UGA alumnus leads the effort to bring hope and dignity back to New Orleans’ 9th Ward

by Kelly Simmons (MPA ’10)

30 Out to sea

From the Amazon to Antarctica,

professor Patricia Yager tracks climate

change through her work as an oceanographer

by Mary Jessica Hammes (ABJ ’99)

CLASS NOTES 36 Alumni profiles and notes Freshman Carson LeCroy uses a sled to block a snowball thrown by freshman Kelsey Runyan during a snowball fight on Herty Field Jan. 10, which was scheduled to be the first day of classes until nine inches of snow blanketed Athens.

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A collage of the people—past and present—who celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation.

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— President Michael F. Adams on diversity at UGA

Q: Why is diversity important for UGA? A: One of the things we are committed to at the University of Georgia is preparing young people to be competitive in today’s global economy. We can’t do that if we are not modeling society’s diversity right here in our own university community. We are very intentional about building an environment where faculty and students from different ethnicities, regions, religious and political perspectives, for example, can come together in an academic setting to interact with and learn from each other. Much of that teaching and learning takes shape in the diversity of perspectives within a discipline now being taught. Today at UGA we teach some 25 different languages, including Farsi, Mandarin, Hebrew and the Romance Languages. Students can learn about Michael F. Adams different religions, like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. They can study art and music from contemporary local artists or from the world’s great traditions. And all of those experiences and more can be found studying abroad in programs in more than 100 different countries around the globe. Students leave here with a broader view of themselves and the world in our increasingly diverse learning environment.

Q: What does UGA do to better integrate the student body once the students are here?

A: The most alluring aspect of this place is the multiplicity of opportunities available to students. We offer a variety of courses, student activities, cultural celebrations, entertainment, languages and other activities that enhance the student learning experience.

Within each of those offerings are dedicated faculty, staff and administrators who are passionate about supporting and mentoring the young people that matriculate here. We tell students early and often they can find a comfort zone here, but we also encourage them to also explore the diversity of activities that take them outside their comfort zone. The latter is where real learning sometimes takes place.

Q: Is UGA where you’d like it to be in terms of student diversity?

A: I am not sure that any entity in the state of Georgia is where it needs to be, but I desire to focus on the positive. I believe we have come as far as most. We increasingly reflect in almost a mirror image way the number of undergraduate students in Georgia who take and excel in a pre-collegiate curriculum. Clearly there is much more work to be done in this state in the areas of high school preparation, the promotion of an academic culture and fuller parental, teacher and community involvement in the development of successful minority students.

Q: What about faculty diversity?

A: In addition to the progress we’ve made in undergraduate student representation, we have also made dramatic strides in attracting and retaining faculty, administrators and graduate students from traditionally underrepresented populations. I do want the University of Georgia to better reflect to the best of our ability the makeup of the state and to help produce the next generation of leaders from African American, Hispanic, Asian and other communities as well as from the majority population.

Q: What is UGA doing to recruit more diverse student body?

A: It’s a team approach here. We’ve been successful because faculty, staff, administrators, students and alumni have pitched in to reach out to potential students. We are expanding our reach to different high schools all across the state. Our development professionals are raising funds every day to support merit and need-based scholarships. That’s an area where we continue to seek the support of our alumni and friends.

Atlanta civil rights attorney Donald Hollowell confers with Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes during the court case that would open the UGA campus to black students.

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Newly renovated Stegeman Coliseum includes graphics highlighting academic and athletic success.

Pines Have Potential UGA researchers have been awarded an $880,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to experiment with pine tree plantations for potential use in biofuel production. The project also could

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Extreme Makeover Stegeman Coliseum’s $13 million renovation was celebrated at a January dedication ceremony. The project included expanding concourse and lobby space, modernizing and adding

result in key findings for research of carbon sequestration, a

restrooms, upgrading concessions areas and adding a first aid

process where trees are used to capture excess carbon dioxide

room. The arena opened in 1964 as the Georgia Coliseum and

before it enters the atmosphere. Professors from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources plan to experiment

was renamed in 1996 in memory of former athletic director and

with different ways of planting pines to get the greatest biofuel

basketball coach Herman J. Stegeman. The seating bowl has

production. Associate Professor Daniel Markewitz will be working

undergone several renovations to reach its current capacity of

with Warnell colleagues Michael Kane and Robert Teskey, both

10,523. A $30 million practice and training facility opened ad-

professors, and Dehai Zaho, an assistant research scientist.

The team will experiment with different ways of planting pines to

jacent to Stegeman Coliseum in 2007. In addition to basketball

get the greatest biofuel production—focusing on simultaneously

and gymnastics, the Coliseum hosts UGA and local high school

growing timber and biofuels without degrading soil and water

graduations, university classes, concerts and various other

quality and also discovering what happens to the carbon contained in the soil when the trees are harvested. The project

events. In 1996, Stegeman Coliseum was used for volleyball

will span multiple locations across the Southeast, including

and rhythmic gymnastics during the Centennial Olympic Games.

central and south Georgia, north Florida and the coast of South

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Carolina. For more information, see www.forestry.uga.edu.

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Rapid response UGA researchers have developed a technique that can diagnose a common type of pneumonia within minutes, potentially replacing existing tests that can take several days for results.

The researchers, whose findings are detailed online in the journal PLoS ONE, detected Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes atypical or “walking pneumonia,” in true clinical samples with over 97 percent accuracy using a recently developed nanotechnology-based platform. The scientists built upon an existing technology called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, which works by detecting spectral signatures of a near-infrared laser as it scatters off a biological specimen. They were able to enhance the Raman signal by using silver nanorod arrays to detect the tiny bacteria in throat swab specimens. The bacterium is a major cause of respiratory disease in humans and the leading cause of pneumonia in older children and young adults. For more information on the department of microbiology, go to www.uga.edu/mib/.

For further information on the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, go to http://nano.uga.edu.

Commitment to service The Carnegie Foundation has recognized UGA with its Community Engagement Classification, given to institutions for their commitment to community engagement through teaching, research and public service. UGA is one of only 115 colleges and universities to achieve this elective classification in 2010 and will join the ranks of only 311 institutions nationally. First established in 2006, this classification recognizes activities such as public service and outreach, service learning, and university and community partnerships. The Community Engagement Classification is elective and requires voluntary submission of extensive documentation of unique and distinctive university partnerships with local, statewide and global communities. Featured projects in UGA’s application include the university’s commitment to long-term partnerships such as Fostering Our Community’s Understanding of Science (FOCUS), which allows students majoring in science fields to provide enhanced instruction to local elementary school students; Burn Camp, a service-learning course that partners undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Social Work with fire service volunteers to hold an annual camp for burn-injured children; and the training of state and local elected officials, a program conducted by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government on an ongoing basis for the last 52 years.

Frogs indicate climate shift If you hear frogs calling and it seems like the wrong time of year, scientists say it may be due to climate change. Researchers from the UGA Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, writing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggest that the breeding periods of several salamander and frog species have shifted over the last 30 years, possibly due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns.

Many fish-free isolated wetlands are important breeding sites for frogs, toads and salamanders. In the Southeast, some wetlands may have 20 or more species that migrate to the ponds throughout the year, with some species arriving to breed in the fall, followed by others migrating in winter, spring or summer. The SREL scientists discovered that the timing of this migration for four species has changed significantly in recent years, with two of the fall breeders migrating weeks later, and two winter breeding species earlier than they did at the beginning of the study. Delayed and advanced breeding may be related to warmer fall/winter temperatures over the years.

The study was initiated at a wetland called Rainbow Bay on the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site, and for many years has been funded by DOE as a reference site to compare to other wetlands that have been altered by construction activity or trace metals.

For more information on the Savannah River Ecology Lab, go to www.srel.edu.

Best buy UGA is eighth in the latest ranking of the nation’s best values in public higher education by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. The 2011 ranking marks the eighth consecutive year UGA has ranked among the magazine’s top 10. UGA has been in the magazine’s top 20 every year since the magazine began publishing its best value rankings in 1998. The rankings appear in Kiplinger’s February 2011 issue and online at www.kiplinger. com/tools/colleges.

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… Counseling psychology professor Edward Delgado-Romero, who received the American Psychology Association 2011 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, one of only six awards given by the 100,000-member organization. … Willie L. Banks Jr., associate dean of students for the department of intercultural affairs, who was elected to the board of trustees of the Association of College Unions International. … The Civil Rights Digital Library, hosted by the University of Georgia Libraries and GALILEO, which was awarded the 2010 Schwartz Prize for excellence in the public humanities by the Federation of State Humanities Councils.

Willie Banks

… William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award from BirminghamSouthern College.

… Associate professor of geography Marshall Shepherd, who won the national Charles E. Anderson Award from the American Meteorological Society. … Associate professor of social work Brian Bride, who was named editor of Traumatology, the official publication of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. … Kavita Pandit, associate provost for international education, who was named to the NAFSA (Association of International Educators) board of directors. … The Georgia Museum of Art, which won an unprecedented nine awards, including an Award of Excellence, at the Southeastern Museums Conference annual meeting.

Brian Bride

… Laurie Fowler, associate dean of the Odum School of Ecology, who received the Ogden Doremus Award for Excellence in Environmental Law from the non profit public interest legal group GreenLaw. Kavita Pandit

... The Terry College of Business Society for Management Information Systems, a student organization, that was named the national 2010 Student Chapter of the Year by the Association for Information Systems. ... UGA’s Graduate School, which received the 2010-11 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Admissions from the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service. ... UGA student Ben L. Carswell, who was awarded the 2011 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, that places highly qualified graduate students from the nation’s 29 regional Sea Grant offices in positions with federal government host offices that establish and implement national policies related to the marine, coastal or Great Lakes resources.

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Tracy Yang

Top of the class Honors student Tracy Yang of Macon was awarded a 2011 Rhodes Scholarship to attend England’s Oxford University. She is UGA’s 22nd Rhodes Scholar and the third female from UGA to win the award.

A UGA Foundation Fellow, Yang was a 2010 Truman Scholar. She will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and plans to pursue a master’s of science degree in global health science at Oxford.

Alumna Betsy Katz, an Honors student who graduated from UGA in 2009 with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, Spanish and religion, is one of 12 national recipients of a 2011-2012 George J. Mitchell Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance. She plans to pursue a master’s degree in intercultural studies at Dublin City University in Ireland. She currently teaches secondary mathematics in Richmond, Calif., as a Teach for America participant. It is the third consecutive year that a UGA student has been named a Mitchell Scholar.

Going public UGA will partner with Georgia Public Broadcasting to rebrand its commercial television station WNEG-TV as a public station.

The new station will be named WUGA-TV, pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission. The station, acquired by UGA in October 2008 to serve Northeast Georgia and to provide laboratory experiences for students and faculty, will continue to do so and expand its capabilities under the new arrangement.

The rebranding of WUGA-TV will emphasize the station’s role as an extension of the university and will carry GPB Knowledge, an educational programming package targeting primarily adult audiences. It includes news, documentaries, current affairs and history programs, ranging from “PBS NewsHour” to the “Nightly Business Report,” “Scientific American Frontiers,” “American Experience” and “Charlie Rose.” Over time, university-produced programs will be added that cover a range of topics from research to the performing arts and public affairs.

There’s an app for that A UGA family and child welfare professor has created a glossary of commonly used research terms to be released as a smart phone application. “A Glossary of Commonly Used Research Terms for Social and Behavioral Sciences” by Professor Michael Holosko also will be published as a handbook and a downloadable software application for personal computers. Holosko coauthored the book with Bruce Thyer, a former UGA colleague who now is a professor at Florida State University. The pair worked with graduate students to identify commonly used research terms. Approximately 60 percent of the terms in the glossary have been defined in one sentence, and there are no definitions exceeding three sentences. The appendix includes commonly used research and statistical acronyms and links to the core journals of 13 different disciplines in the social sciences. Apple Inc. is projected to develop the smart phone interface, which is expected to be available for purchase in June.

UGA shines with Fulbright scholars UGA is the fourth-highest-ranked producer of Fulbright Scholars for the 2010-2011 academic year, with four academics receiving Fulbright Scholar grants to study abroad, lecture and conduct research. The recipients are: • Diane Edison, a professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, who is lecturing and conducting research at the New Bulgarian University, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

• Jared Klein, distinguished research professor of linguistics, classics, and Germanic and Slavic languages in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who has been named recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Cultural Studies. He will use the award to teach and conduct research at the University of Vienna.

• Peter Rutledge, associate professor in the School of Law, who will lecture and conduct research at the University of Vienna in Austria from March-June.

• Richard Siegesmund, associate professor and co-chair of art education in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, who is lecturing and conducting research at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland.

Since 1946, the U.S. Government-sponsored Fulbright Scholar program has provided faculty and professionals with an unparalleled opportunity to study and conduct research in other nations. For more information, go to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars website at www.cies.org.

Art professor Ted Saupe (left) teaches beginning and intermediate wheel throwing Nov. 8 on the first day of classes in the newly opened ceramics building, located at 190 River Road.

The 15,500-square-foot building features indoor and outdoor kilns, undergraduate and graduate studios, faculty studios, classrooms, lecture space, a glaze calculation room with spray booth, a computer lab and a clay mixing and storage room. The building features operable windows and central corridors large enough to accommodate a forklift and the volume of clay and glazing material required by the discipline.

For further information, see http://art.uga.edu.

SARA FREELAND

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The report card is a survey of the university’s level of environmental ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER

Sophomore international affairs and biochemistry major Michelle Noorali of Lawrenceville, Ga., takes a bottled vs. tap water taste test at the Go Green Alliance “Take Back The Tap” booth on the Tate Center Plaza on Feb. 3. Students who signed a “Take Back The Tap” pledge to use reusable water containers instead of bottled water were given a free water bottle.

sustainability in nine categories ranging from administration to transportation. UGA received an ‘A’ in each of the following categories: administration, green building, student involvement, transportation

Green cleaning wins award

and investment priorities. B’s

UGA received the co-grand award in the College/University category of the 2010 Green Cleaning Award for Schools and Universities, sponsored by American School and University magazine, the Green Cleaning Network and Healthy Schools Campaign.

Additionally, UGA is the second university in the nation to receive certification for the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association’s Cleaning Industry Management Standard Green Building certification with Honors designation.

UGA’s original green cleaning pilot project, implemented in Old College in August 2005, was so successful and popular among building clients that the Physical Plant moved toward formalizing the green cleaning program to include the entire campus of resident instruction buildings. There are currently 212 buildings being cleaned under the total green cleaning program.

The main focus of the green cleaning program is to improve indoor air quality in buildings, substitute hazardous chemicals with safer, environmentally friendly cleaning products, reduce employee workplace accidents and standardize employee work practices.

Over the past three years, more than 500 hazardous cleaning chemicals have been eliminated from inventory stock and replaced with just two daily cleaners with environmentally friendly compounds.

Building Service employees and supervisors are required to attend a two-week hands-on and academic training session prior to beginning their permanent assignment. Employees eligible to advance in building service positions are required to participate in the Building Service Worker Academy, an established and consistent method of standardized work methods based on green cleaning practices, worker safety training and customer service. To date, nearly 275 employees and supervisors have completed the academy.

For more information on the university’s sustainability initiatives, go to www. sustainability.uga.edu.

climate change and energy, food

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were given for UGA’s efforts in and recycling, and endowment transparency. The institute also gave UGA the distinction of “Overall College Sustainability Leader.”

President Michael F. Adams announced the creation of a UGA Office of Sustainability in his January 2010 State of the University Speech.

A project of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the institute is comprised of 11 members ranging from professors to directors of environmental organization. It has graded the green practices of colleges and universities since 2006.

The UGA report card is available online at www.greenreportcard.org/ report-card-2011/schools/universityof-georgia.

GOING GREEN BYOB The Odum School of Ecology is making it easier for students to access clean water and reduce waste. Students can now fill their reusable water bottles with filtered water at three rehydration stations at the school. The stations, which double as water fountains, use hands-free technology to dispense a steady stream of filtered water from a spout into the bottle openings. The fountains were installed in early January as a partnership between the UGA Ecology Club, who raised part of the funds for the fountain, and the UGA Physical Plant. UGA plans to begin installing the accessible water bottle refilling stations in other locations on campus soon. The stations are a perfect complement to another environmental effort on campus. The Take Back the Tap campaign is an effort by the Go Green Alliance to reduce plastic waste on campus by encouraging the use of refillable water bottles.

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Natalie Nesmith (BS ’09) takes a break to write in her journal during a 2008 study abroad trip to Tanzania.

More students get study abroad awards A record eight UGA students received the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to participate in study abroad programs. The students will study in countries as diverse as Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Based on both merit and need, the nationally competitive Gilman International Scholarship aims to diversify the kinds of students who study abroad and the countries and regions to which they go. The congressionally funded program is administered by the Institute for International Education on behalf of the U.S. State Department.

Scholars receive up to $5,000 to apply towards their study abroad program costs, and a limited number of Critical Need Language Scholarships are given each year for a total award of $8,000.

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Senior ecology major Brian Watts of Douglasville, Ga., refills his water bottle as he uses a rehydration station in the lobby of the Ecology Building.

UGA ranks 10th in the nation among higher education institutions for the number of students who study abroad each year.

For more information on international programs and scholarships at UGA, go to www.uga.edu/oie.

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The six inductees bring the total number of AAAS Fellows at UGA to 63. They are among 503 new Fellows of the AAAS, which is the world’s largest general scientific society.

The 2011 AAAS Fellows from UGA are: • Jonathan Amster, professor and head of the chemistry department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

• Clifton A. Baile, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Agricultural Biotechnology and D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor of Animal Science and Foods and Nutrition.

• Daniel Colley, professor of microbiology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and director of the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

• Alan G. Darvill, Regents Professor of Plant Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.

• Roberto Docampo, professor of cellular biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Barbara and Sanford Orkin/Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and a member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

• Michael Doyle, Regents Professor of Food Microbiology and director of the Center for Food Safety in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Jonathan Amster

Clifton A. Baile

Daniel Colley

Alan G. Darvill

Roberto Docampo

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Not just chicken feed Researchers from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine have received a grant as part of a collaborative effort to encourage sustainable poultry production in West Africa.

The $440,000 grant, part of a research project based at Colorado State University, will enable UGA scientists to look at ways to improve poultry genetics, reproduction, nutrition, husbandry, disease prevention and marketing. The results could lead to higher income and better health for rural residents in the West African country of Mali. The project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development in Mali under a $5.25 million Poultry and Pastoralism Associate Award. For more information, go to www.csucrsp.org.

UGA among the best in scoring Supreme Court clerkships Brian C. Lea (JD ’09) will serve as a judicial clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for the October 2011 term. Lea is the fifth Georgia Law graduate selected in the last seven years to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lea graduated first in his class from Georgia Law, where he received numerous awards and honors for his academic achievements, served as an articles editor of the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He served as a judicial clerk for Judge Ed Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit before joining DLA Piper as a litigation associate in the firm’s Atlanta office. He plans to remain with the firm until his Supreme Court clerkship begins next year.

A fall 2010 analysis by The New York Times showed UGA among the top schools in the nation in the number of law school graduates who received clerkships with U.S. Supreme Court justices. Georgia Law ranked third among public law schools and 11th overall for the time period 2005-2010.

Rick Tarleton

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UGA President Michael F. Adams presents Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus with a bronze bulldog statue at an October ceremony marking the return of the Supply Corps School on Prince Avenue back to the university. A larger bulldog statue (foreground) dressed as a Navy ensign will remain on the property to honor the Navy Supply Corps School’s 57-year presence there. In 1953, UGA ceded the grounds where it held its Normal School for teachers to the U.S. Navy. The Navy graduated its final class at the Athens campus on Oct. 29. In 2012, UGA will move the Medical College of GeorgiaUGA Medical Partnership to the 58-acre campus.

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Tarleton named to Athletic Association professorship Rick Tarleton, distinguished research professor of cellular biology, has been named the first UGA Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in the Biological Sciences. The professorship is funded by the UGA Athletic Association. Tarleton,

Gone too soon

who has been a member of the UGA faculty since 1984, was founding

Uga VIII was laid to rest Feb. 5 in Sanford Stadium, just a day after he died from lymphoma. Formally named “Big Bad Bruce” after UGA veterinarian Dr. Bruce Hollett, Uga VIII was diagnosed with cancer in January and underwent treatment at the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Uga VIII made his debut in October before the UGA homecoming football game against Vanderbilt.

director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and has been a distinguished research professor since 2000. Research in his laboratory focuses on the immunology and pathogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection and the resulting disease syndrome known as Chagas disease. Chagas disease is the most common cause of congestive heart failure-induced sudden death in the world and the leading cause of death among young-to-middle age adults in endemic areas of South America. T. cruzi infection also is a risk to people and animals in the U.S., where almost 300,000 individuals are estimated to be infected. For more information, see www.uga.edu/cellbio.

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Planning for disaster UGA’s Vinson Institute of Government helps Georgia counties and cities plan

by Meg Twomey photos by Andrew Davis Tucker For the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, geographic information systems (GIS) aren’t just for the technologyminded—they’re critical to helping the state plan for its next disaster.

It’s “GIS for dummies,” says Terry Lunn, hazard mitigation director at GEMA. Live weather feeds and traffic conditions can be layered over maps of Georgia cities and counties, allowing planners to assess potential hazards and vulnerabilities even if they lack a high-tech background.

The technology was developed by the Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) division of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Using historical weather data, as well as topographical characteristics, the programs predict which areas are most susceptible to natural disasters, so that planners can take proactive steps to reduce damage.

“A lot of it is for planning purposes,” Lunn says. “Where to spend mitigation dollars, how to strengthen infrastructure. GIS helps with all of that.”

Above: GEMA GIS coordinator Leanora Style and associate director of ITOS Eric McRae review different components of the Georgia Online Disaster Awareness Geospatial System, affectionately referred to as GODAWGS. Left: The GODAWGS system can provide real-time traffic data at major points across Georgia as well as live weather feeds.

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Eric McRae explains a part of the mapping system, which went online in January 2011, to Leanora Style. The system is a collaborative effort between the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority and GEMA, with support from the ITOS department of UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

ITOS also maps the locations of government-owned buildings and the sites of critical facilities, such as hospitals, sheriff’s offices and schools, so that GEMA has plans of action in case a hospital is flooded or the county’s only jail is destroyed by a hurricane.

“You’ve been hit by a class five hurricane, what do you do? You know what to do. You’re not having to sit there and guess,” says Eric McRae (BS ’98), associate director of ITOS. “Basically you take information, whether it’s government info, business info, whatever, and analyze it using the geography as another field.”

When the data are combined, information that would otherwise be difficult to process suddenly makes more sense.

Jennifer Frum (PhD ’09), interim director of CVIOG, says that ITOS “uses technology to make information more accessible to people… to make large amounts of data visual and easier to understand.”

Even though they are using historical hazard information when collecting data, ITOS is working to keep all of its systems

as current as possible and shift to meet their customers’ needs.

“Everybody’s looking for more online information. They want to have quicker access and easier access to their information,” McRae says. Servers that were once kept in isolated areas are now available for employees in different locations and agencies to connect to, modify and add data, and manipulate the information for their benefit.

And Frum says increasingly technology-literate citizens are also demanding the information ITOS provides.

“There are demands by the public to make information more accessible and to be more transparent with public information,” she says. “And I think that’s what ITOS is really, really good at.”

GET MORE For more information on the Vinson Institute, visit www. cviog.uga.edu.

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CLOSE UP

Georgia Museum of Art renovation photos by Dot Paul The Georgia Museum of Art reopened in late January with an array of events designed to showcase its new $20 million addition and renovation, which includes more than 16,000 square feet in new galleries, an outdoor sculpture garden, an expanded lobby and more storage space. The addition also includes the Study Centers in the Humanities that contain archives from the museum’s collections and consist of the C.L. Morehead Jr. Center for the Study of American Art, the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, the Jacob Burns Foundation Center and the Pierre Daura Center. The addition

was funded entirely with private money, including funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The museum had been closed since March 2009, when construction began. For more information, please visit www.georgiamuseum.org.

GET MORE For a multimedia presentation of the Georgia Museum of Art reoppening, visit www.photo.alumni.uga.edu/multimedia/museumopen/

Larry Forte, a preparator at GMOA, takes measurements while installing one of the new galleries. The museum reopened after a massive expansion that took two years and added 16,000 square feet to the gallery space.

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GMOA’s Phase II expansion and renovation project was designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects of New York and executed in a collaborative effort with Stanley Beaman & Sears Architects of Atlanta. The new gallery space will accommodate continuous viewing of the museum’s permanent collection in the areas of early Italian Renaissance painting, 19th- and 20th-century American art, folk art and decorative arts. Special exhibitions will be on view in the C.L. Morehead Jr. Wing.

Lanora Pierce, a preparator at GMOA, changes and directs a light in one of the new galleries.

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Young, idealistic and tenacious, a UGA alumnus leads the effort to bring hope and dignity back to New Orleans’ 9th Ward

by Kelly Simmons (MPA ’10)

photos by Andrew Davis Tucker

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rom a bank around the east bend in the Mississippi River, you can see the city of New Orleans, its mix of waterfront skyscrapers and historic French architecture shining in the late fall sun. The city buzzes with energy, back to life after the devastat-

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ing storm of five years ago.

Brian Bordainick (AB/BSEd ’07) walks the path of a neatly landscaped park down the river from the center city. Behind him is the 9th Ward, virtually destroyed by flooding when a canal levee failed. Unlike the thriving city ahead of him, much of this part of town remains untouched. Blocks of brick apartment buildings, once home

Brian Bordainick surveys the neighborhood surrounding G.W. Carver High School.

The condemned apartments housed hundreds of low-income and elderly residents before the floods.

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to the elderly and low income, remain vacant and boarded behind a chain link fence topped with wire. At least one in three houses sits empty, the owners forced to rebuild their lives in other places after Hurricane Katrina.

About a half mile away, across the canal, sits George Washington Carver High School, now a shell of a building that the city has just begun to demolish.

Around 400 students, just more than half of the student population before Katrina, attend classes in trailers while waiting for the school to be rebuilt.

“It’s taken five years to get to this point,” says Bordainick, who is wearing a green sport shirt with the Carver emblem. “This is progress, believe me, from where we were.”

Within the next year, city residents should be able to see some significant changes to the landscape. Not only will Carver be rebuilt, but also next to it a state-of-the-art football field and track that will serve the surrounding community.

Bordainick, a tall, lanky, white 25-year-old from New York is the unlikely hero behind the project.

In just two years, the New Orleans outsider built ties with the local community, lobbied local and state leaders and bulldogged corporate grants to amass the $1.85 million project. The Field of Dreams football stadium and eight-lane running track will be built adjacent to the school but will be open to the public.

“He had a vision and he articulated that vision,” says 9th Ward

on dreams resident Johnny Jackson, who chairs the Field of Dreams community advisory board. “Brian got a lot of flack because he was white. If not for him I don’t think the Field of Dreams would have gotten as far as it has.”

Jackson, a former city councilman and state representative, is one of a handful of residents in the Desire neighborhood of New Orleans east of downtown who chose to return to the 9th Ward after his home was destroyed. Though his family is resettled in Dallas, he returns every few weeks to New Orleans to work on the home he bought in 1972.

“It’s almost like a whole new

neighborhood now,” he says. “When their houses got destroyed many of them decided not to rebuild.”

Small businesses and a neighborhood park are gone. Several schools will not be rebuilt because the population in the area now cannot support them.

If it weren’t for a committed group of Carver High School alumni and the Field of Dreams project, that school might have been sacrificed as well.

Teach for America participant, he had requested placement in New Orleans, a city he visited annually with his fraternity brothers at Tau Epsilon Phi, in order to be part of the recovery effort.

His classroom was a trailer a couple of miles from the Carver site.

ordainick arrived in New Orleans B in August 2007, just two years after the flooding, and a few months after leaving UGA with undergraduate degrees in history and education. A

An abandoned boat sits on the road in front of a condemned apartment complex, blocks from the canal.

Carver High School demolition began in the fall. Reconstruction is expected to begin sometime this year.

Five years after the storm, many properties remain untouched, their owners now settled in another city or state.

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He learned on the first day of school that he would be teaching geography.

The school was attempting to revive its once strong athletics program.

Bordainick was asked to coach girls’ basketball in addition to teaching. When the school lost its athletics director, Bordainick took that post as well, at age 21 becoming the youngest high school athletics director in the country.

One of his first tasks was getting

Former city councilman and state representative Johnny Jackson stands in the home he has owned since 1972. Jackson, whose family fled to Texas during the flooding, plans to return to New Orleans permanently one day.

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the school’s storied football program back on its feet. Carver Rams football has a long history of producing college and professional football players, offering a way out of poverty for talented kids living in the 9th Ward.

Marshall Faulk, who won a Super Bowl as a member of the 2000 St. Louis Rams, is perhaps the school’s most famous alumnus.

More than that, football was a rallying event for neighborhood residents, many of them alumni from the days when Carver was the only high school for black students on New Orleans’ east side. In many cases their children and even grandchildren had attended the school.

An annual alumni football game on Thanksgiving Day routinely draws dozens of participants. The Turkey Bowl, as it’s called, pits the older alums against the young.

“We just have a love for Carver,” says alumni association president Mary Evans, who graduated in 1962 and taught at Carver from 1969 to 1980. “It goes all the way down to the children.”

The school brought in Shyrone Carey, who had played football at Louisiana State University, to coach the new Carver team. Getting the players proved more difficult. Youth football in New Orleans had been virtually nonexistent in the years following Katrina so many of the students had no experience with the game. A lot of the older players who had the experience did not return to the neighborhood after the flood.

Only two students showed up for an informational meeting, Bordainick recalls. So he went to their homes and worked on their mothers. If you

commit your sons to play football, he told them, we’ll keep them off the streets in those hours after school.

“He’s yours,” the moms told him.

He put his fundraising skills to the initial test, looking for equipment and uniform donations. New Orleans Quarterback Drew Brees donated money for the team uniforms, a smart combination of green and orange that looks similar to the University of Miami Hurricanes. (Brees would later donate $100,000 from the Brees Dream Foundation for construction of the stadium.)

The 30 players he “scrounged up” for the first season lost every game.

It was during that first season that Bordainick read about a competitive grant being offered by the NFL. The league would give $200,000 in matching funds to organizations raising money to promote athletics in an impoverished community. He knew the 9th Ward would qualify for the grant based on that criteria. Problem was, he had to raise $200,000 in matching funds to get the grant. And he had only 36 days in which to do it.

The grassroots campaign began with e-mails to everyone he knew asking for money. When family and friends were tapped out, he began emailing strangers—city and state leaders, business people, organizations, anyone he could think of. He made a commitment to send 200 emails a day with the subject line “Partner with the NFL.”

He was determined not to take no for an answer.

“If I get in front of you, you’re going to say yes,” he vowed.

His persistence was effective and he got meetings with city leaders,

state officials and local celebrities.

He found a local architectural firm willing to design the project for the grant application pro bono. All seemed to be going well—until three days before the application was due when the architect backed out. He had raised the $200,000 matching funds but had nothing to present to the NFL grant committee.

“I felt like I’d been shot,” Bordainick says. “Like the rug had been pulled out from under me. ”

That night, Bordainick was the topic of conversation at a local event.

When Steve Dumez, a partner in the New Orleans architectural firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, heard about

Bordainick’s plight he wanted to help.

He called his partner Mark Ripple, who after talking briefly with Bordainick agreed to assemble his team at the downtown office to talk about the plan. They worked through the weekend and by Monday—the day the application was due—they not only had it ready to go with a design, but also a local contractor signed on as part of the project team.

“Everybody understands what this kind of thing can mean to a community,” Ripple says. “It’s easy to get behind (Bordainick’s) passion and commitment.”

The Field of Dreams project got the $200,000 grant from the NFL as well as almost $250,000 from Nike.

The day before the school’s homecoming game, the Carver football team runs through a light practice on a field next to the condemned school building.

New Orleans City Council member-atlarge Arnie Flelkow pitched in $25,000 of his own money. Carver students contributed the money they could afford, anxious to be part of the effort. By last summer, Bordainick had logged more than $1.2 million in contributions.

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about the Field of Dreams project.

The next day, Bordainick got a call from Ariadne Getty, the granddaughter of billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, who oversees her family’s charitable trust in Los Angeles. Getty had seen Cooper’s interview and was moved by the project. She flew Bordainick to L.A. for a meeting the next week and agreed to donate the additional money needed for the stadium.

With the financing in place, Bordainick and the project team are working out the details of the project with the school district and also putting together an operations plan that will allow the facility to be self-sustaining. In January, UBU Sports do-

nated the artificial turf from the Super Dome, valued at roughly $550,000, to the Field of Dreams. It was carefully packaged and placed in storage until the stadium is completed.

He left his job with the schools in the fall and is now working with the New Orleans mayor’s office to restructure the city’s recreation department to provide more programs and resources for children and adults.

Since the Field of Dreams program began getting national exposure, he has heard from corporations and philanthropists about potential jobs in other states. New Orleans, however, feels like home.

“The more I live here, the more

Signs of new life in the devastated 9th Ward include a new residential neighborhood for mixed income residents and a community of “eco-friendly” houses like this one, built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Project in the lower 9th Ward.

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unfit I’m becoming to live other places,” he says. t is an unseasonably cold October IFriday night in New Orleans, and

Carver is playing its homecoming game against the J.S. Clark High School Bulldogs at City Park, a few miles north of the 9th Ward.

The home stands are full as several hundred Carver alumni, their family and friends reminisce, eat pizza and hot dogs and cheer on the team.

Only a handful of Bulldog fans dot the bleachers on the visitors’ side of the field.

A whistle blows signaling the umpteenth penalty of the game, most of them against Carver. It has been that kind of year. In October, a Carver player collapsed during a practice and died from an undiagnosed heart condition. Later, the school was fined and put on probation for a year for playing students who belonged in a different school attendance zone.

They lose tonight by a score of 2018, bringing their season record to 3 wins, 7 losses.

In the stands, wearing green pants, an orange shirt and a green Carver jacket is Eddie Scott, a 1979 graduate, who went on to play college football for legendary coach Eddie Robinson at Grambling State University before going pro with teams in the USFL and later the NFL.

“Some of these are kids that if there hadn’t been a hurricane they wouldn’t have been able to make the team,” he says of the team on the field. “But it’s about keeping them out there. We’re in the rebuilding process. You might not win a game

Carver players listen to some last words of advice from Coach Shyrone Carey before the beginning of the Oct. 29 homecoming game against J.S. Clark High School.

This sign hangs on one of the modular classrooms that now house Carver students.

In the stands for the Homecoming game is Eddie Scott, a 1979 Carver graduate, who played football for Grambling State University and pro teams in the USFL and NFL.

this year but you’ve got to keep on trying.”

“You can be a good athlete with a C and everybody in the country will give you a scholarship. If that is the avenue that poor kids have to take, so be it.”

Field of Dreams is a perfect name for a new stadium in the 9th Ward, he says.

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The bridge of the U.S. Researcher Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer offers a serene evening view of the ice floes in the Amundsen Sea. Photo by Katherine Esswein

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Out to sea

From the Amazon to Antarctica, oceanographer Patricia Yager tracks climate change

by Mary Jessica Hammes (ABJ ’99)

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atricia Yager studies how the climate is changing the ocean, how the ocean is responding, and how that relates back to the climate.

That’s pretty big-picture stuff. Luckily, Yager, associate professor in the Department of Marine Sciences and “Tish” to her friends, is good at thinking on a big-picture level.

When it comes to climate change and the ocean, “You can’t just study one little piece,” she says. “You have to have a team. You need all the pieces.”

But Yager doesn’t have just one team. She leads a Moore Foundation- and three National Science Foundation-funded research projects that look at carbon cycling, microbial ecology and microbial community structure in three different coastal regions of the world: Antarctica, the Arctic and the Amazon River.

She’s principal investigator of an international team of oceanographers and river scientists that studies carbon and nutrients flowing from the Amazon River to the Atlantic Ocean; she’s also the principal investigator in the Arctic, where scientists are studying one-celled organisms in the food web, taken from ocean samples collected near Barrow, Alaska.

And, last winter, she was chief of 46 scientists in coastal Antarctica, marking the beginning of the Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition (ASPIRE), which is jointly funded by the NSF and the Swedish Research Council.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to have three projects going,” she says. “It’s difficult for me since I’m literally going to the ends of the earth.”

Regardless of the end she’s in, she’s seeing the same thing: the ocean, which has the responsibility of absorbing a third of all human CO2 output, is not working the way it used to. And if that intake stops, CO2 stays in the atmosphere.

“It looks like the process is slowing down,” Yager says. “The ability of the ocean to help us out is shrinking.”

Trees and soil also absorb CO2, and planting more trees would help, she says. But the reality is that deforestation and the ocean’s slowing down of absorption leaves humanity with a big job: adapt.

Yager wants to see what’s coming, so we can get ready for it. f you look at the ice ages, you’ll see that the Ichanges were linked to the solar cycle—but the solar cycle alone wasn’t enough to make the ice ages. You

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Associate Professor Patricia Yager made her third trip to Antarctica this winter to study climate change.

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BRETT HEIMLICH

During a previous trip to the Amundsen Sea, Yager uses an ice corer to collect layers of algae found in the sea ice. Yager’s team studied controls on the climate-active gases in sea ice.

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Tara Connelly (front left), a UGA postdoctoral fellow, uses a “woman basket” hanging from a crane to sample the ice algae next to the ship. The other researchers are (clockwise from Connelly) Sandy Aylesworth, a Raytheon Polar Services marine technician, Emily Rogalsky, an undergraduate student from Rutgers University, and Rachel Sipler, a postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences.

have to have something to act like an amplifier to take a little change and make it a big change. The solar cycle, then, acted like a trigger.

Just like human increases in atmospheric CO2 might be a trigger now.

This is where the Amundsen Sea polynya (puh-lin-yuh) becomes important.

Polynya, Russian for “pool,” is an area of open ocean surrounded by ice, existing either because wind is blowing ice away from the coast or because warm air or an upwelling of warmer water melts the ice away.

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will reflect light and feel cooler than a dark shirt. Polar environments are white and reflect a lot of sunlight. When a polynya opens up, there’s now this patch of blue that will absorb light, and therefore be warmer. Sea ice melts fast in summer; imagine that polynya getting bigger, making a larger patch of warm, light-absorbing blue in the middle of all that white, light-reflecting white. Things begin changing, getting warmer. Even a small patch of melting ice leads to warmer temperatures and more melting.

“It’s a runaway train,” Yager says.

This particular polynya, located near the extremely fast-melting Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, is unique.

It’s filled with algae and krill, making it a feeding hotspot for wildlife.

“On a per area basis, (this one) is the most productive, greenest polynya,” Yager says. “We don’t really know why.

There’s something interesting happening here.” In fact it was much greener, Yager says, than anywhere the team measured in the Amazon River Plume.

No one knew the polynya was so exciting until 2007, when the NSF invited Yager to join a group of American and Swedish scientists on a 42-day cruise between the southern tip of Chile and Antarctica’s McMurdo Base, which needed its shipping lanes opened by the Swedish Icebreaker Oden. The Amundsen Sea polynya was about halfway in between. The scientists didn’t know what they’d find, but it was a unique chance to investigate the rarely traveled South Pacific coast of Antarctica—that alone made it “a huge scientific opportunity,” she says. The polynya particularly piqued their interest, and they wanted to return and study it more.

So they did, in November 2008-January 2009, and again November 2010-January 2011. On their latest trip, Yager and the ASPIRE team—principal investigators, research professionals, collaborators, graduate students

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and other crew—boarded the U.S. Researcher Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in Punta Arenas, Chile, and headed toward the Amundsen Sea, where it was joined in late December by the Oden for a two-boat expedition. A blog (http://antarcticaspire.org) chronicled the scientists’ efforts in studying the climate-sensitive dynamics in the polynya and the sea ice ecosystem nearby, trying to understand how climate change will impact the area in general.

The blog captures the exciting moments, such as the realization that “preliminary results reveal that the phytoplankton bloom in the Amundsen Sea polynya exceeds all expectations,” Yager wrote in January. The blog also has sweet, personal moments—a Christmas Eve walkabout on an ice floe, which turned into playing football and Frisbee for hours on the frozen ice. Or the wacky team-building fun of a King Neptune party, which featured skits and songs, including an international version of Jingle Bells.

It was an experience Yager never dreamed possible when she was a child. rowing up, Yager lived in the San Francisco Bay Area G with her parents and two brothers, where the family spent

a lot of time on the water, staying a week or two every summer at a beach house her grandparents rented. Yager was precocious and encouraged to explore science. By age 5,

A drifting sediment trap, outfitted with a satellite tracking device, collects and measures the carbon sinking to the deep waters of the Amundsen Sea. Yager’s team found five times more chlorophyll in the water here than in the Amazon River plumes.

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A zooplankton net collects more than 25,000 krill during a single 20-minute tow. Herbivores, krill are among the most abundant animals in the Antarctic Ocean and provide a link between the ocean’s algae and the population of higher animals.

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During a 2008-09 trip, UGA undergraduate Brett Heimlich (left) assisted the Swedish seal research team, which was on the ship with Yager.

she knew she wanted to be a doctor. When she was 6, her grandfather gave her a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, which she thought was “really cool.”

When she was 13, her family moved to Princeton, N.J., which was her first introduction to an academic community. She felt at home and knew she’d attend an Ivy League school. As a high schooler in Seattle, when all of her friends planned on going to college in Washington, Yager chose Brown.

As a freshman pre-med student, she got her very first taste of that highly competitive world and realized she wasn’t all that interested in becoming a doctor. She found there was too much memorization of material required and not enough opportunity to ask “why” something was as it was.

“Christmas break involved some soul-searching,” she says.

She decided to take an oceanography class. On her first day, she had an epiphany.

Her professor, John Imbrie, was famous for discovering what triggered the timing of the ice ages. He told his students, “Every once in a while, one person in this class discovers they like it well enough to become an oceanographer.”

“I remember sitting there: ‘I didn’t know you could be an oceanographer,’” Yager recalls. “It was the first time I’d heard about the climate of the earth and how it affects oceans…talk about one college class changing your life!”

Yager got her B.S. from Brown’s Department of Geology in 1985, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in 1988 and 1996 from the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.

It took a while to bring her parents on board with her change in plans, mostly because they were unfamiliar with a career in research science.

But her parents, who live part-time in Seattle and part-time in Athens, do understand her drive, especially her father. In his 70s, he still works full time in real estate.

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Karie Sines, a research professional at UGA (left) and Lollie Garay, a middle school teacher from Houston who was funded

by PolarTREC to accompany Yager on her research expeditions, sample seawater through a hole in the Arctic sea ice.

more hour!”

Of course, being a parent makes that work ethic a little complicated.

She met her husband, Steven Holland, a paleontologist and stratigrapher in UGA’s Department of Geology, when both were graduate students at the same marine lab in Washington state. Today, they have two sons, Zach, 9, and Alex, 7. Being away from her family while at sea is a constant struggle for Yager.

She spent the 1990s going to sea nearly every year for at least a month at a time. When her son Alex was 1, she went on one weeklong cruise, but otherwise, she took a seafaring break when her boys were very young.

The initial “cruise of opportunity” to the Amundsen Sea came when Alex was 3. It was a prospect both thrilling and unsettling. Going meant that she’d have to find her sea legs after being land bound for a time. It also meant that she’d leave on Thanksgiving Day, miss Christmas with her family, and return in January.

“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” she says.

But the family has found a way to make it work. When Yager goes to sea, her husband runs a smooth ship at home and remains extremely supportive of his wife’s career, she says. Her sons’ classmates always know where she is, and their teachers at Athens Montessori School have welcomed Yager as a guest to talk about her work.

“I think there is an element of ‘your mom does really cool stuff,’” says Yager. “It doesn’t make up for the fact that Mom is gone. It’s agonizing sometimes. On the other hand, if I were a man, no one would even think about this.

And the fact that Steve is an amazing father gets lost a bit.” iding one of the world’s most powerful ice-breakers is R not a typical sea cruise.

The Oden is broad, shaped like a whale. Rather than cut through ice with a pointy nose, it surges up and whomps down on the ice to break it.

“It does shake, rattle and roll,” Yager says.

The U.S. Icebreaker N.B. Palmer is better designed for the open-water work the team performed in the polynya. “It holds steady like a rock, even in the strong winds we get in Antarctica.”

The crew have watches, with normal sleeping hours, but the scientists work around the clock. The sun never sets in Antarctica in December so there’s no natural rhythm to the days.

“You work, work, work like crazy,” Yager says. “Then you crash for a few hours. And you get up… it’s a lot like having babies. Some people can handle it. Some can’t.

They get punch drunk.”

In the Amazon, at least there’s the night—pitchblack sky filled with stars, phosphorescent fish and squid swimming alongside the ship—to offer relief. Antarctica offers relentless daytime. But sailing to Antarctica offers glimpses of seabirds like albatross, fulmars, petrels and prions; crabeater, Weddell, and leopard seals; and emperor, chinstrap, and Adélie penguins. And then there’s all that ice, glowing white against a backdrop of bright blue.

“There are very precious moments of beauty that keep you going,” Yager says.

She also keeps going because her work directly affects the fate of humanity on a changing planet. In the scientific community, there is no debate on whether climate change is real.

“We’ve known the basic science behind climate change for 115 years; even politically disinclined people (acknowledged) it,” she says. “It was not a partisan issue until very recently.”

She has witnessed climate change.

“I’ve been in these places 20 years or more and they’re

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Adélie penguins and a crabeater seal frolick on the sea ice near where the research team works. The animals are fearless on land as their only predators are in the water.

changing,” she says. “We know what the natural cycle is, and it’s not enough. It doesn’t explain it… If we don’t understand it, we’ll be victims of it. We have to understand what’s coming. We have to start planning for adaptation and mitigation.”

To that end—as if there’s not enough on her plate— she’s the director of the Georgia Initiative for Climate and Society, sponsored by the UGA Office of the Vice President for Research.

“Climate connects us all,” she says. “We have to walk through it every day.” GM —Mary Jessica Hammes is a freelance writer living in Athens.

GET MORE To learn more about Yager’s research, go to http://alpha.marsci.uga.edu/directory/pyager.htm.

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Designs on fashion

As a curatorial assistant for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Clarissa Esguerra (MS ’05) spent the last three years putting together “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915,” an exhibit on display at the museum through March 27.

For Esguerra, who earned her master’s degree in textile, merchandising and interiors, the job was a dream come true. Interested in fashion design since childhood, Esguerra got her bachelor’s degree in fashion design from Brenau College in Gainesville.

In preparing for the exhibit, Esguerra cataloged each of more than 1,000 items donated to the museum. She measured each piece, estimating when SPECIAL Clarissa Esguerra and where it was made and examined it from front to back, making notes about its condition, any labels and the textiles used. Once she gleaned all the information from the clothing, she turned to a variety of resources to confirm when the piece was made and search for any additional information about it.

“I love envisioning what a dressmaker, tailor or fashion designer was thinking,” Esguerra says. “While the designer tries to capture the images of people and understand what they will want to wear, I try to reverse that role by trying to understand the designer.”

To view pieces from the exhibit, go to www.lacma.org/art/ExhibFashioningFashion.aspx.

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1945-1949

Charles Melvin Walker (BSA ’49) of Jacksonville, Fla., retired from his position as an aviator after 32 years of naval service. In October he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Jacksonville University, where he was the director of alumni/parent relations from 1979 to 1996.

1955-1959

Glen M. Nunley (BSEd ’59) of Harvest, Ala., was honored by coaches, ex-players and friends in September for his contribution to sports in Huntsville, Ala. He plans to establish the Coach Glen Nunley Endowment Scholarship Fund for underprivileged students at local school Madison Academy.

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1960-1964

Major General John R. Paulk (BSEd ’62) was inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame. George B. Watts (ABJ ’63) will retire as president of the National Chicken Council on March 31 after 38 years in that position.

1965-1969

Barbara Massey Reece (BSHE ’65) represents the 11th District, which includes Chattooga County and parts of Walker and Floyd counties, in the Georgia General Assembly. Ronald S. Patrick (BBA ’69) of Tallahassee, Fla., retired from the Florida Legislature after serving for 27 years as a senior legislative policy analyst with the Office of Program-Policy Analysis and Government Accountability.

1970-1974

Richard A. Jacobson (BBA ’71) of Tampa, Fla., has been re-elected to the board of directors of TerraLex, an international network of 160 leading U.S. law firms

that serves clients whose requirements transcend state, provincial or national borders. He is a shareholder in Fowler White Boggs’ Tampa office. Jeff Johnson (BS ’72) of Eatonton, Ga., is the interim Cordele city manager. Malcolm Liles (BBA ’72) of Nashville, Tenn., was named one of the Top 1000 Advisors in America

by Barron’s magazine. Ray Childress (ABJ ’73) of Grayson is the president of Cardiovascular Insights LLC, a medical service company, and the managing partner of Comprehensive Blood Management LLC, an independent company that markets perioperative blood management products. Robert Carl Giles (ABJ ’73) is a manuscript editor and writer for Whitman Publishing in Atlanta. He recently opened BuskerBilly.com, a site for his short fiction. Joann Milam (BSHE ’74) received the 2010 Award for Excellence in Public Service Extension for her work as a UGA cooperative extension agent in Washington County.

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Getting his “kid fix” Mike Hackett is making a difference in the lives of Athens’ children

by Denise Horton There was a time when Mike Hackett (BSHE ’81) was rising through the executive ranks of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. As chief professional officer for the organization’s Jacksonville, Fla., location, he oversaw a $3-million budget for 14 different clubs. He wore a coat and tie each day to his downtown office building instead of heading out to the front lines.

“I was managing 300 employees, but I only knew maybe a dozen by name,” he recalls.

ROBERT NEWCOMB When the opportunity came in 2003 to head the Boys and Girls Club of Athens, which has a far smaller Mike Hackett works with (left to right) Ontario Wilson, Keymari Baughens and Zakiyaa Lunpkin. budget and only eight full-time employees, Hackett jumped at the chance. He has been in Athens ever since, overseeing three clubs in town plus several in Barrow and Elbert counties.

1975-1979 As a college student, Hackett started off as a general arts and sciences Michael Simpson (ABJ ’75) produced major and spent some time as a speech communication major. By the time the 2009 Academy-Award winning movie he was a junior, Hackett was coordinating the Big Brother/Big Sister program Crazy Heart. Dewey N. Hayes Jr. (AB for the university—arranging for his fellow students to mentor underprivileged ’76) is one of the Top 100 Trial Lawchildren in Athens-Clarke County—which prompted him to transfer into child yers in Georgia, according to American development.

Trial Lawyers Association. James W. Following graduation, Hackett worked as a counselor at a residential treatBarge (BBA ’78) is the chief financial ment center for adolescents. officer of Viacom Inc. Martha Weldon “After three years in that field, it was apparent that it was a mismatch for Pirkle (BSHE ’78) is a senior director me,” he says. “We were trying to repair kids after the damage was done rather of development and college relations for than doing things when there are still other paths they can choose. I realized LaGrange College. John K. Cline (ABJ that I wanted to find something in the preventive field.” ’79) is CEO of unithink NV, a company specializing in eClinical software and When he arrived in Athens he was based at a club that didn’t have a swimtechniques. ming pool, was in dire need of upgrading and wasn’t located near the children who attended. Within a year, he was engrossed in the details of raising money 1980-1984 for a new club. The final result is a $4.6-million building that features top-ofKen Couture (BSA ’80) is president-elect the-line equipment, the capability to reconfigure space on a moment’s notice, of the National Association of Agriculture and a look designed to appeal to the children who attend the club daily.

Educators. He is an agricultural educaHe is also involved in the redevelopment of a second, smaller club in tion teacher at Killingly High School.

Athens that will occupy a building that once housed Athens’ African-American Mark Esoda (BS ’81) was inducted into high school. the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. Esoda Although much of his focus is on the day-to-day operations of a millionis a certified golf course superintendent dollar business, Hackett has not lost his passion for child development. and nationally recognized expert in “I have to get my kid fix,” he says, smiling as he walks through the golf course maintenance practices and building. “If one of our counselors isn’t able to work, I’ll jump in and help the procedures. David Gammon (BSPh ’81) middle-schoolers during homework time. During the summer, I’ll take a couple is working as a part-time clinical oncolof the kids to lunch just so I can listen to them. That’s one of the things we ogy pharmacy specialist at Woman and don’t do a good enough job of—talking to kids.”

Infants’ Hospital in Providence, R.I. He is also consulting for OncologyPharmacist.

—Denise Horton is the director of communications for the net and Waste Management/PharmE College of Family and Consumer Sciences. cology. Robert J. Gibson (AB ’81) was

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A bigger vision Retired educator Barbara Andersen now spends her time serving Athens’ homeless population

by Grace Morris For most people 5 p.m. means it’s time to go home. For Barbara Andersen (EdD ’82), it SPECIAL is time to start answering the phone.

ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER “At 5 every night I take the Barbara Andersen first 16 people who call me with no questions asked except, ‘What name would you like to be called?’” she says.

The people who call are homeless, struggling to survive cold Athens nights.

Since 2001 Andersen and her husband Richard have run Bigger Vision Athens, the city’s only emergency homeless shelter.

The Andersens lived in Athens in the late 1970s and early 1980s while Barbara earned her doctorate. After graduating, she taught at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga until 1998 when the couple retired to Athens.

Upon returning they began volunteering at a local church that operated an overflow shelter to take in the homeless when the regular shelters were full. Soon the other shelters closed, and the Andersens found themselves trying to house all of the Athens residents seeking shelter from the cold.

“At that point we realized we needed to become a nonprofit organization,” she says. “We called it Bigger Vision Athens, because our vision was that it would eventually become more than an emergency shelter. Our eventual dream is to be open 24/7 and to provide more services for getting people back on their feet.”

For the past nine years, the Andersens have operated Bigger Vision Athens from Oct. 15 to April 15. The shelter has changed locations almost every year based on where the Andersens could get permission to house it. For the past two years, it has operated out of a building on Lumpkin Street that sleeps 16 people.

The shelter is run by volunteers who bring hot meals and serve dinner each night.

After dinner the Andersens offer books and games for people to use before bedtime. When the lights go out, everyone receives a mat, two blankets and a pillow. Two staff volunteers stay overnight and wake the shelter inhabitants with a continental breakfast at 6 a.m. the next morning.

This year Bigger Vision moved to a permanent location on North Avenue that can hold 35 homeless people year round. They will open the facility once they have met the city’s zoning requirements.

While that process has been frustrating, Andersen remains undaunted in her mission to serve the Athens homeless community for many years to come.

“I run Bigger Vision because I am meeting wonderful people there, and I enjoy it,” she says. “It’s more interesting than winning a game of golf or bridge or anything else I might do in my retirement. Helping people is the most rewarding and enjoyable thing you can do.”

GET MORE For more information on Bigger Vision Athens, go to www.biggervisionathens.org.

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appointed to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Authority. He is the director of the Savannah Music Festival. Ron J. Langford (BMus ’81) is senior pastor at Athens First Assembly. Pam Walter Fountain (ABJ ’82) received the 2010 Marketing Award from the Georgia GOAL Scholarship Program for implementing the most creative and effective marketing or communications tool for the GOAL program.

Monica Singer Franklin (AB ’82) is the assistant golf professional at Verdae Greens Golf Club in Greenville, S.C., and was elected a PGA member in August.

F. Sheffield Hale (AB ’82) was elected to serve as a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Board of Trustees. Jill Wright Finney (BSHE ’82) is a sales director for Peachtree Lighting, a commercial lighting manufacturer in Covington. Mike Hubbard (ABJ ’83) is speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives. Hubbard, who is also chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, is the first Republican speaker in 136 years.

Nancy P. Stroud (BBA ’83) is the vice president for fiscal affairs at Macon State College. Dexter M. Lummus (BA ’84) is the senior vice president and relationship manager at Private Bank of Buckhead. Cheri Wranosky (BFA ’84) retired Jan. 31 from her positon as art director of Georgia Magazine. She will be doing freelance design work and focus on her ceramic figurative sculpture.

1985-1989

Eric M. Cleveland (BSEd ’85) is lead instructor of the JROTC program at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Ken Feinberg (ABJ ’86) directed seven short films that were selected for the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival in October. He is the owner of Creative Studios of Atlanta, a leading casting company and talent training academy in the Southeast. Ira Bershad (BBA ’87) is the senior business development manager for Timberhorn Specialty Services, a national search and recruitment firm in Frisco, Texas. Lisa Marie Hoye (ABJ ’87) is the director of compliance and internal audit for the National Council on Aging. Barbara Roach (BSHE ’87) is an investigator for the Georgia Department of Human Services. She lives in Toccoa with her husband, Greg. David A.

Brody (AB ’88) is executive vice president and market manager for investment and wealth management for UMB Financial Corp. in the St. Louis area. Laurie F. Gilner (BBA ’88) is president of C.R. Gibson, a designer, distributor and supplier of paper wares and photo albums.

Bryan Preston (BFA ’88) is a member of the Coffee County School Board. He lives with his wife, Mary Bryant Preston (BSEd ’86, MEd ’92), in Douglas. Teresa Edwards (BSEd ’89) was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

She was a two-time All-American at UGA and the only U.S. basketball player to participate in five Olympic Games, winning four gold medals.

1990-1994

Pamela Carnes (BSHE ’90) received the Executive of the Year Award from the Georgia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. She is the leader of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. Blake Kiger (AB ’90) is on the Cabarrus County (N.C.) Board of Education. Catherine Kling Nourse (BSFCS ’91) is owner-operator of Old Nourse Farm Gourmet, an online gourmet jam business in Westborough, Mass.

She currently lives in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine, with her husband, Tim, and son, Noah. James W. Rockwell (AB ’91) is the regional director for Young Life in Houston, Texas. He was previously associate regional director for Georgia and Alabama. Jill Stringfellow (BSFCS ’92) owns Jill Stringfellow Photography located in Oak Hill, Ga., Wilmot McRae Greene III (BS ’93, MS ’00) and Emily Chase (AB ’02) of Athens were married Sept. 18 in Rosemary Beach, Fla. Renita Anderson (BSFCS ’94) is director of marketing for North America Performance Minerals. Jennifer Serio Hatton (BSFCS ’94) is vice president of sales and operations for Follett Higher Education group, a family-owned bookstore provider. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Marc. Anthony Proffitt (BSFCS ’94) is the creator of Taste of Music, an online show that focuses on singers and their food.

1995-1999

Linda C. Morse (AB ’95) earned a Master of Arts from Providence College

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Spring is often a time to look back and recognize those who have helped us along the way. Graduating students are thankful at commencement, and colleges hold annual events and galas to honor some of their most accomplished alumni.

Your Alumni Association also honors distinguished graduates and friends each year at our annual Alumni Awards Luncheon.

The Alumni Merit Award, one of UGA’s oldest honors, has recognized a long list of distinguished graduates for more than 70 years. And this year’s honoree is yet another truly outstanding alumna. Mary Frances Early (BSEd ’62, MSEd ’71) was the first African-American graduate of UGA. I believe it is only right and fitting that the university honor her as we commemorate UGA’s 50th Vic Sullivan anniversary of desegregation.

We also honor an Alumni Family of the Year. In many cases the dedication to UGA goes back generations, and the legacy and love of being a Bulldog is tremendous. This year we are honoring the family of Charles Sanford Jr. (AB ’58), who are long-time supporters of the university.

We honor a member of our faculty through the Faculty Service Award. UGA boasts outstanding faculty, and the list of candidates nominated each year for exceptional service is long and impressive. This year we are proud to recognize Han Park, professor of international affairs and director of the UGA Center for the Study of Global Issues.

Lastly, not all of those who support UGA are our alumni, so we also bestow the Friend of UGA Award. This year’s “friend” is Perk Robins, who led UGA’s early development efforts.

This year’s recipients will be honored at our annual awards luncheon April 15 as once again we thank those who have offered exceptional service and support to UGA. A complete list of past honorees can be found at www.uga.edu/alumni.

While some people have the capability of doing very notable things, we must remember that it’s the broad-based support from the rest of us that truly makes UGA special. The annual gifts to UGA made by thousands of graduates and friends worldwide can make the difference when it comes to positioning UGA among America’s best institutions.

So when it comes to giving annual recognition, you, as a member and supporter of the UGA Alumni Association, also deserve thanks and appreciation. As Bulldogs, we take pride in UGA, and together we can make it even better in the years ahead. You’re a graduate and supporter of the University of Georgia, and your reward of seeing a wonderful University awaits you every time you connect with your alma mater.

—Vic Sullivan (BBA ’80), president UGA Alumni Association

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Deborah Dietzler, Executive Director ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Vic Sullivan BBA ’80 President, Albany Steve Jones BBA ’78, JD ’87 Vice President, Athens Tim Keadle BBA ’78 Treasurer, Lilburn Ruth Bartlett BBA ’76 Asst. Treasurer, Atlanta Harriette Bohannon BSFCS ’74 Secretary, Augusta Trey Paris BBA ’84, MBA ’85 Immediate Past President, Gainesville

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WEBSITE www.uga.edu/alumni 800/606-8786 or 706/542-2251 To receive a monthly e-newsletter, enroll at: www.uga.edu/alumni ADDRESS CHANGES E-mail records@uga.edu or call 888/268-5442

in 2010, has been published in the New England Journal of History and teaches at Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxborough, Mass. Susan Riggs Tinsky (AB ’95) is the executive director of the board of the San Diego Housing Federation. Ben Hoots (BBA ’96) of Byron and Kevin Bentley (BSA ’98) of Fort Valley started Recycool Inc., a company that makes high quality recyclable coolers called Recycoolers, in 2008. The friends were joined by Chad Wagner (BBA ’92) of Cumming, and the company recently received a license to make UGA Recycoolers. Michelle S. Lisenby (MSW ’96) is director of development at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Georgia. Richard V. Merritt (AB ’96) has started his own civil and criminal litigation firm in downtown Smyrna. Mark Edgar Podojil (BS ’96) and Elizabeth Simpson (BA ’99, JD ’06) were married on Oct. 23 in Atlanta. Michael L. Benner (BBA ’97) and Leslie Anne Benner welcomed twins, Leighton Mainous and William Byard, on Oct. 25. Robert Edwards (BSFCS ’97) is head coach for the Arlington Christian School varsity football team in Fairburn.

Edwards and his wife, Tracy, have a son, Jordan Michael, born Dec. 16, 2009. Brian Crosland Hobin (BSEd ’97) of FPO, N.Y., is the deputy geospatial officer for Joint Forces Command Naples. He lives in Naples, Italy, with his wife and three children. Candice Chesson Jimenez (ABJ ’97) of San Francisco is the director of partnerships and business development in the west region at DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit dedicated to connecting philanthropists with public-school students in need. She earned her juris doctorate magna cum laude from Seton Hall Law School in 2004. Derrick M. Byrd (BSFCS ’98) is a commercial real estate banker with SunTrust Bank in Columbus.

Ayisha Fleming Brown (BSFCS ’99) is an area sales manager for Medical Nutrition USA, a nutrition-medicine products distributor. She lives in Canton with her husband, Martin. April Griggs Smith (BSFCS ’99) teaches elementary school in Gwinnett County. She and her husband, Trent, have a daughter, Jillian Kate, born Jan. 26, 2010.

2000-2004

Alicia Arnett Loadholt (BSA ’00) and her

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ALUMNI calendar March 8, April 12, May 10 - 12:15 p.m.

Charlotte Chapter Second Tuesday Monthly Luncheons

Join fellow UGA alumni and friends in the Charlotte area for networking, food and fun! We will meet at the Brixx Pizza Uptown.

March 10, April 7, May 5 - 6 p.m.

Boston Bulldogs After Business Hours

Join fellow UGA alumni and friends the first Thursday of every month. This is a great way to network with other Bulldogs who are living in the Boston area.

March 19 - 7:30 a.m.

4th Annual Dawg Trot 5K

Join fellow alumni and friends for the 4th Annual Dawg Trot 5K Run/Walk, providing a refershing early spring run through UGA’s campus.

March 27 - 6 p.m.

Dinner with a Dozen Dawgs

Students who are a part of SAA are invited to participate in the Dinner with a Dozen Dawgs program. Palmer and Holly Sanford will be our guest speakers at this event.

April 7 - 6 p.m.

Dinner with a Dozen Dawgs

Students who are a part of SAA are invited to participate in the Dinner with a Dozen Dawgs program. Scott Sorrels will be our guest speaker at this event.

April 9 The Official Ring Ceremony

In front of family and friends, ring recipients take part in a celebration that includes presentations by the president and executive director of the UGA Alumni Association, as well as the president of the Student Alumni Council.

April 15 - 12 p.m.

UGA Alumni Awards Luncheon

For more than 60 years, the UGA Alumni Association has annually recognized distinguished alumni and friends who have demonstrated outstanding loyalty and service to the University of Georgia.

For more information: Athens area events: Wanda Darden at wdarden@uga.edu or (706) 542-2251 Student programs: Julie Cheney at jcheney@uga.edu or (706) 542-2251 Atlanta programs: Meredith Carr at mcarr@uga.edu or (404) 814-8820 Chapters and clubs: Tami Gardner at tgardner@uga.edu or (706) 542-2251 Parents and Families: Diane Johnson at dfjohn@uga.edu or (706) 542-2251

To learn more about the UGA Alumni Association or find a chapter or club in your area, go to www.uga.edu/alumni.

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Focus on fashion Amy Smilovic fiinds success combining art and business

by John W. English

For Amy Smilovic, the founder and CEO of tibi women’s casual chic resort wear clothing line, the formula for success in business is simple: Focus.

“There is so much clutter in the world that you have to be focused on what you want to be known for,” she says. “You have to be true to what you want.”

Smilovic (ABJ ’89) started tibi in 1997 in Hong Kong, where her husband Frank was working for American Express.

“In Hong Kong, it was easy to be entrepreneurial since there was little bureaucratic red tape,” she recalls during an interview in her hip

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corporate offices on lower Broadway in Manhattan. “My business plan was cutand-dried—make a product and sell it.”

While visiting Bali, Smilovic was attracted to the traditional Indonesian fabric designs of batik and ikat, but not the subdued palette of that Asian culture.

So she got an Indonesian factory to put a new twist on those patterns and print them in bright, happy colors—pinks, yellows, whites—from which she made 100 dresses.

“When that first order sold out, I ordered 400 more and I was in business,” she recalls.

Today, Smilovic oversees an eightperson design team that issues four collections a year. The team develops a concept for new product lines at the start of each season.

The tibi brand now includes swimwear, shoes and home accessories and has grown into a company with sales offices in London, Milan, Dusseldorf, Sydney and Dallas, in addition to New York. The company’s total annual sales are now in the $25 million range.

With its casual chic collections, tibi falls in the gap between couture designer clothes and mass market apparel, Smilovic says. Her line is marketed in such upscale retail outlets as Saks Fifth Avenue, Henri Bendel, Bloomingdales, Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Scoop. In 2006, she opened the first tibi retail boutique in the trendy SoHo district of New York. (Heery’s in Athens also carried the tibi line.)

The media buzz about tibi is obviously good for business, Smilovic acknowledges, including splashy photo coverage in fashion magazines such as Glamour and Teen Vogue, and postings on blogs and Facebook. The brand is also boosted by a celebrity following, including Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon and Liv Tyler. The major promotion and sales event is the annual runway show during New York’s Fashion Week, now held at Lincoln Center.

Smilovic’s family is also is involved in the business. Husband Frank handles contracts and finances. Her mother

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supervises the national distribution center based in their hometown of St. Simons Island. For her part, Smilovic now divides her workday between designing and management, and cares for her two children.

Smilovic says she developed her work ethic in college working part time at DaVinci’s Pizzeria. Her father, an artist, also was an important influence.

Yet she attributes choosing a college major and career path to a the 1986 movie “Nothing in Common,” in which Tom Hanks played a Chicago advertising executive.

“I realized I could combine art and business and knew that’s what I wanted to do. It gave me focus,” she says.

“I loved the journalism school— my classes were mostly discussiondriven, and it was a thoughtful environment. UGA was a big university and I learned how to navigate it and become a big fish in a big pond.”

—John W. English, a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Georgia, is a frequent contributor to GM.

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NEWBOOKS This Is Just Exactly Like You Viking (2010)

By Andrew T. Perry (ABJ ’96) This novel delves into the life of suburbanite Jack Lang after his wife, Beth, leaves him and their autistic son, Hendrick, for Jack’s best friend. Jack can’t seem to stop himself from making mistake after mistake in an attempt to win Beth back. He lets his best friend’s ex-girlfriend move in with him, buys décor from a miniature golf course, moves into his new house and undertakes a major construction project in the backyard. Meanwhile, Hendrick begins to come out of his shell, and Jack and Beth continue to refuse to discuss the reasons and circumstances for their separation.

Dissed Trust: America’s Crisis of Truth, Faith and Freedom Westbow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson (2010)

By William DeMersseman (BBA ’80, JD ’83) This book analyzes the political, economic and cultural upheavals fueling the tea party movement: the insanely escalating national debt, the subversion of the Constitution and the rule of law, the failure of political leadership and the pervasive assault on truth, integrity, faith, freedom and civility.

The South and America since World War II Oxford University Press (2010)

By James C. Cobb (AB ’69, MA ’72, PhD ’75) An expansive narrative covering the Dixiecrats to the “Southern strategy,” the South’s domination of today’s GOP, the national rise of Southern culture and music, immigration, the roles of women and to the role of an increasingly visible gay population in contemporary Southern life. The heart of the book illuminates the struggle for Civil Rights, which paved the

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way for the dramatic protests and confrontations that brought profound racial changes as well as two-party politics to the South.

The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets a Computer Savvy Cyber Kids Inc. (2010)

By Ben Halpert (BBA ’98) Illustrated by Taylor Southerland Like most important life lessons, teaching online safety begins in early childhood. In this book, children learn to protect personal information like name and physical location through their secret Savvy Cyber Kid identity. Through traditional early childhood teaching tools, this colorful book reinforces the message of online safety with pictures and rhyme.

From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 University of North Carolina Press (2010)

By Robbie Ethridge (AB ’78, MA ’84, PhD ’96) In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 by Hernando De Soto to the dawn of the 18th century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire and in a new social landscape that included a large population of Europeans and Africans.

Neiko’s Five Land Adventure Two Harbors Press (2010)

By A.K. Taylor [Amanda Haulk (BS ’07)] Neiko, a warrior with the glistening title of ‘’the Chosen One,’’ finds herself facing a collection of enemies. Her archenemies have come up with a scheme to destroy her reputation with the help of a phony Indian chieftain. However, during the unfolding of their plan, Neiko finds out that a land she thought she had only imagined is actu-

ally real—and more terrifying than she ever imagined. Ramses, the arch-villain, has sinister plans of his own for Neiko, whom he eventually traps in Qari. Neiko must find her way back home and turn the tables on her enemies, but what she finds out during her travels in Qari will change her entire existence for all eternity.

The Orion Protocol Tate Publishing (2010)

By Steve Strickland (AB ’91) This engaging novel tells the story of what happens when the wrong man is given too much power.

What begins as a noble cause quickly turns into a diabolical mission littered with deception and death—a collision course that will shake the foundations of the Judeo-Christian world.

Sing-Along Guidance Youthlight Publishing (2010)

By David S. Young (EdS ’04) A collection of 12 songs—with lesson plans and activity sheets—for educators of children in third to eighth grades.

More than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America’s Large Cities Georgetown University Press (2010) Edited by Douglas J. Watson (MPA ’72) and James H. Svara Offers in-depth case studies of 14 large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades. The case studies shed light on

what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of government— the causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 16, Sports and Recreation University of North Carolina Press (2011) Edited by Harvey H. Jackson III (PhD ’73) An authoritative and readable collection of 74 essays about the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which Southerners engage in their non-work hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.

Banjo Method Authorhouse (2010)

By Jack B. Hood (ABJ ’69, JD ’71) This is the third novel in the series about Sam Stone, a federal prosecutor from Alabama who plays the fivestring banjo, and his relationship with his ex-wife Jonesy.

The story begins with Mark Twaiin’s travel on the Panama Railroad in 1868 and his losses to some train robbers, and concludes with Sam’s discovery of those losses in modern day Panama, despite the efforts of some dangerous criminals who want to eliminate Sam and his ex.

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husband Justin welcomed their daughter, Lucy Carolyn, on July 30. Ryan Anthony Wood (BSA ’00) of Kaneohe, Hawaii, received a Special Citation Award at the Armed Forces Recreation Convention in October for making quality course purchases at a reasonable expense. He is the superintendent of the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course on the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps base and a member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. Jennifer Parris Norman (BSEd ’01, MEd ’03) and husband Chip welcomed their son, Miles Thomas, on Sept. 23. Erin Tankersley (BS ’01, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Brian P. Adams (AB ’02) was named to Macon Magazine’s 5 Under 40 list. Jarrod Slaton Floyd (BBA ’02) and his wife Melanie welcomed their son, John McKinley, on July 29. Floyd is a commercial loan officer for United Community Bank in Rome. Jessica Mitcham (AB ’02) is the executive director for the Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter in Cartersville. Joey Peters (ABJ ’02) is a public relations account manager at The Titan Agency in Atlanta. Justin Boron (AB ’03) is an associate in the litigation practice group at Adams and Reese in New Orleans. Sarah Dunning (BS ’03, PhD ’09) opened the vegetarian restaurant Gymnopedie in Athens.

Dallas Gillespie (BFA ’03) was the 2010 Georgia Art Education Middle Teacher of the Year. He teaches art and helps with the yearbook at Osborne Middle School.

Matthew P. Poyner (BLA ’03) is the manager of business and industry at the Macon Economic Development Commission. Leslie Merritt (BSFCS ’04, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Sarah Peskoe (AB ’04, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Matthew L. Smith (AB ’04) is the K-12 coordinator of social studies for Clayton County Public Schools.

2005-2009

Conrhonda Enjoli Baker (AB ’05) earned her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s arts management program in May. She is a committee assistant for the Birmingham, Ala., District One councilor and promotes program and arts advocacy initiatives at the Ala-

bama Dance Council. Megan Jones Harris (BSFCS ’05) is a sales support member for Carter’s, a children’s wear company in Griffin. Mandy Irvin (BSFCS ’05) is an associate fabric manager for Ralph Lauren in New York City. Roswell Lawrence Jr. (BBA ’05) and Tionya DeBerry (BS ’07) were married in November. Lawrence is the business manager for the Small Business Development Center at UGA, and DeBerry is a nurse at Athens Regional Medical Center. William Liles (BBA ’05) earned a master’s of business degree in investment management from Vanderbilt University in May. He works with his father, Malcolm Liles (BBA ’72), as a financial advisor with the Liles Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Kathryn E. Marsden (AB ’05) received a Fulbright scholarship to France to study modern history. Stephanie Satterwhite Mathis (BSFCS ’05) married Joseph Calhoun Mathis on March 13, 2010. She is a compliance officer with The Citizens Bank of Cochran, where the couple lives.

Lindsey Maxwell (BSFCS ’05) is a fabric manager for Ralph Lauren in New York City. Elizabeth Metherell (BS ’05, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in spring 2010. Alice B. Way (BSFCS ’05) is a showroom consultant with Ferguson, a bath, kitchen and lighting gallery in Jackson, Miss. Matt Adcock (AB ’06) is the financial center leader for Monroe’s BB&T branch. He was previously a licensed financial specialist and registered personal banker with Wells Fargo. Jessica Michelle Black (BBA ’06) is a senior account manager at The Intersect Group in Atlanta. She was also crowned Miss Georgia United States 2010 and went on to win Miss United States 2010. Brandon Esco (BSFCS ’06) earned a doctor of dental medicine degree from the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry and currently works at Advanced Dentistry of Athens. Gyun Hur (BFA ’06) won the Hudgens Prize, a visual arts competition in Duluth. Hur received $50,000 and will have a solo exhibit at the Gwinnett Arts Center in December. Lyndsey Brandau Jordan (BSFCS ’06, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in spring 2010.

Bartley R. Miller (BBA ’06) is a principal at Sterling Risk Advisors in Atlanta and a part-time assistant football coach at The

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In his blood A strong economy and good education are top priorities for UGA alumnus and House Speaker David Ralston

by Kelly Simmons (MPA ’10) It’s no surprise that David Ralston ended up a public servant.

Growing up in north Georgia his SPECIAL parents encouraged their sons—all David Ralston five of them—to give back to their community. Ralston’s father, the late David Willard Ralston, served as Gilmer County clerk of court for 28 years.

“I had that example in front of me,” says Ralston (JD ’80).

Now speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, one of the most powerful and influential figures in state government, Ralston began his political career in 1993 as a state senator. He served three terms before running for state attorney general in 1998. He won the Republican nomination, but lost in the general election to Democrat Thurbert Baker.

After the loss, Ralston focused on his law practice in Blue Ridge.

“I had four years of a normal life,” he says, jokingly.

In 2002, redistricting left Ralston in an area without an incumbent in the House of Representatives seat. Supporters encouraged him to run. He was hesitant at first, but entered the race, won and hasn’t looked back. He was elected House speaker in January 2010 after the December resignation of Paulding County Republican Glenn Richardson, who had defeated Ralston for the post in 2008.

The past few years have been difficult for state lawmakers as they have struggled to balance the state budget during a time of declining revenues and increased federal mandates. Balancing the fiscal year 2012 budget is the first priority this session, Ralston says.

He also wants to protect Georgia’s system of higher education, including its four-year and community colleges and technical schools.

“We have really built a system of higher education in Georgia that I think is second to none,” says Ralston, who attended Young Harris College, then earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from North Georgia College and State University in 1976. “I don’t want my time as speaker to be known as the time we backed up from that position.”

K-12 education also is a priority and Ralston said his goal is to reach the point where children in Georgia are the envy of children in all other states because of the quality of their education. Strong economic policies that encourage job growth will help the state reach that goal, he says.

“There’s a link between economic opportunity and education,” he says.

Athens, he says, has a special place in his heart and he returns as often as possible, in the fall joining his son Matt, a junior political science major, for Bulldog football games. The two made their first trip together to a Georgia football game when Matt was 9 and have made it a tradition since.

“He still wants to sit with his dad,” Ralston says. “I’m going to sit with him as long as he’ll let me.”

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Marist School in Atlanta. Brett Montroy (BBA ’06) is an associate at the law firm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer and Dobbs LLC in Atlanta, with their litigation practice group. Derek M. Smith (BS ’06) graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Louis Monolito Spikes Jr. (AB ’06) earned a juris doctorate from The Florida Coastal School of Law. Cari Allen (BSFCS ’07) is a buyer for Atlanta Foods International, a supplier of gourmet and specialty food to retail and food service industries. Amy E. Gibbs (BSFCS ’07) earned a Master of Science degree in nutrition and dietetics from Northern Illinois University. Cara Ables Hicks (AB ’07) was named Young Professional of the Year by the Young Professionals Association of Chattanooga.

Sally Owings (BSFCS ’07) is the owner of Sally’s Bakery: A Gluten-Free Place, located in Sandy Springs. Jennifer Regan (BSFCS ’07, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in spring 2010. Elizabeth Weigle (BSFCS ’07, MS ’09) earned a Master of Science degree in fall 2009.

Lauren Atwell (BSFCS ’08, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Mary “Melissa” Bowers (BSA ’08) opened a new Farmers Insurance Group office in Ponca City, Okla.

Aimee Chisamore (BSFCS ’08, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Charles Crowley (BSFCS ’08) is a financial planning coordinator for Atlanta Financial Associates. Keith Deane (BSFCS ’08, BBA ’08) is a retirement specialist for Deane Retirement Strategies in New Orleans, La. Johane Filemon (BSFCS ’08, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in spring 2010. Cain Harrelson (AB ’08, ABJ ’08) is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. After teaching low-income students in Phoenix for two years as part of the Teach for America program, he joined the Foreign Service and will report to his post in Nepal in August. Joseph Stuart Knight (AB ’08) and Sara Elizabeth McClendon (AB ’08, BSEd ’08) were married on Aug. 7 in Carrollton, Ga. Bo Lanier (BSFCS ’08) married Leigh Marionneaux on March 27, 2010, in Shreveport, La. He is the Alabama and Georgia representative for Integrated Medical Systems Inc., a medical device and supplies company. The

couple lives in Decatur. Claire Maust (BSFCS ’08, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010. Scott C. St. John (BBA ’08) graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Julianne R. Tamplin (BBA ’08) received the Chairman’s Citation from the Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia for her work to develop membership in the YAC. Margaret Vazques (BSFCS ’08) is working in the legal department for Homeland Security.

Amy Zack (BSFCS ’08, MS ’10) earned a Master of Science degree in summer 2010.

Josh Asher (BSFCS ’09) is a property manager for Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisors, a brokerage firm that manages more than 200,000 square feet of commercial property in Asheville, N.C. Lauren Ellerbee (BSFCS ’09) is the lingerie manager for a Nordstrom department store in Buford. Kelly E. Forrester (BS ’09) received a 2010 Alpha Epsilon Delta Regional Scholarship for outstanding involvement in premedical studies. She is a second-year medical student at Emory

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WHY give “We were in (Associate Professor Diane Batts Morrow’s) class for an hour or so, and Amanda and I were so infatuated that we didn’t want it to be over. One of the things that we recognized right away was that the history department had a very strong foundation and that we wanted to have as much impact as possible.”

—Greg Gregory, commenting on an undergraduate seminar about slaves and Christianity that sparked his and wife Amanda’s interest in the Civil War

University. Ryan David Pope (BBA ’09) and Alan Foster Pope (AB ’08) opened a Sweet Peppers Deli in downtown Athens along with their father. The brothers are managing partners of the deli.

Kathleen G. Robinson (BBA ’09) is a banking officer at BB&T’s commercial lending department in Cleveland, Tenn.

Lori Katherine Walker (BSFCS ’09) is a dietetic intern at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Gary Woodhurst (AB ’09) is the Camp Bob program director at Kanuga Conferences in Hendersonville, N.C.

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Sarah E. Alongi (BBA ’10) is a teacher at Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology in Charlotte, N.C., with the Teach for America program. Corbin A. Busby (AB ’10) is a teacher at Kelly Elementary School in San Antonio, with the Teach for America program. Justin Foster (BSFCS ’10) is a sales leadership associate for Coca-Cola Enterprises in Tampa, Fla. Kimberlyn Taylor (BSFCS ’10) is a senior team leader with Target in Athens.

GRAD NOTES Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Amanda Alston Gregory and Henry D. “Greg” Gregory Jr.

SPECIAL

The $1 million gift from Amanda Alston Gregory (BSEd ’69) and Henry D. “Greg” Gregory Jr. (M ’66) of Atlanta established a Chair in the Civil War Era in the department of history, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. An additional $50,000 from the Gregorys is supporting research in Civil War era studies for graduate students and faculty members, while another $10,000 gift brought distinguished historian Victoria Bynum to UGA this fall to conduct special seminars with students and to deliver a public lecture.

Greg Gregory retired as president and CEO of commercial real estate firm Industrial Developments International in 2007. He has served on the Terry College Board of Advisors and is an Arch Foundation advisory trustee as well as a member of the Franklin College Dean’s Council. Amanda Gregory taught in public and private elementary schools in Atlanta.

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Philip Schroeder (PhD ’02) is an assistant professor of Agriculture and Veterinary Technology at Alfred State College.

Arts and Sciences

William P. Steele Jr. (MA ’76) retired as Anderson County, S.C., magistrate after 24 years in that position. Lynne Berdanier (MS ’94) wrote a textbook called Case Studies in Physiology and Nutrition that was published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, in 2010. Julie Bearden (MM ’95) of Rome, Ga., is an assistant professor of music at Shorter University. Kristin Hauser (MM ’99) received the 2010-2011 General Education Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is an adjunct instructor of music appreciation at Tennessee Tech University. Robert E. Cummings (PhD ’06) received the Modern Language Association’s Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding work in the fields of language, culture,

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Longtime Georgia Magazine Art Director Cheri Wranosky (BFA ’84) retired in January after more than 20 years of service. She joined UGA in 1989 as a design and production manager and later began designing the Georgia Alumni Record, the precursor to GM. In 1994, her supervisor noted that “Cheri’s generosity in dealing with others helps the whole department work together.” That remained true for the rest of her career at UGA. In retirement Cheri will divide her time between family and her work in ceramic figurative sculpture, which explores the human condition as we react and CASSIE WRIGHT interact with the surrounding Cheri Wranosky and Bella at home in the backyard. environment and often includes found and recycled objects. (See her work at www.cheriwranosky. recently at the Oconee (Ga.) Cultural Arts Foundation, the com.) Cheri has exhibited at numerous juried shows, most Macon Arts Alliance and the Limner Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.

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Key role for Cummiskey

Former UGA state relations director Chris Cummiskey (BBA ’96) was tapped by Gov. Nathan Deal to head the Georgia Department of Economic Development. As commissioner of that department, Cummiskey will lead the state’s efforts to bring new jobs and industry to Georgia.

Cummiskey joined UGA as the director of state relations in 2008. He also served as chief of staff for Glenn Richardson, the former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, and as state director for U.S. Sen. SPECIAL CHRIS CUMMISKEY Johnny Isakson, working with the Georgia General Assembly, the governor’s office, local officials and Georgia businesses on matters relating to the federal government. Prior to that, Cummiskey worked for eight years with energy companies in Georgia, California and Texas.

literacy or literature with strong application to the teaching of English. His book is Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia. David A. Gresham (DMA ’07) is the artistic director and conductor for the Transylvania Choral Society in Brevard, N.C. He is an assistant professor of music at Brevard College.

Business

Harrison S. Carter (PhD ’75) is the executive director of the Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics at The Citadel.

He is a faculty member in the School of Business Administration and has been involved with the Krause Center since its inception. Susan S. Lawrence (MBA ’89) earned her second Distinguished Service Medal in September at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Greg Primm (MBA ’99) is the general manager of the WellQuest Medical & Wellness Corp.’s Bentonville clinic, where he is responsible for all financial functions. Michael Gallup (MBA ’05) is the senior vice president of TeleTracking Technologies. Barbara DeBenham Meeks (MBA ’05) is chief nursing executive at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Fla. Greg Caples (MBA ’09) is chief operating officer of the Summit Medical Center.

Education

Beth Farokhi (EdD ’78) is interim head of the Galloway School in Atlanta. Peggy Ahrenhold Gallagher (BSHE ’73, MHE

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’75, EdS ’79) is professor and chair of the educational psychology and special education department of Georgia State University. Deborah J. Thomason (BSHE ’77, MEd ’79, EdS ’86) has been elected national president of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the professional development organization of Cooperative Extension.

She is a professor and state extension specialist at Clemson University, where she received her doctorate in 1992. Ronald R. Williams (PhD ’81) is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Macon State College. Veta J. New (BSHE ’74, MHE ’76, EdS ’82) is superintendent of Oglethorpe County Schools. She also received the president’s Professional of the Year Award from the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders. Nancy D. Rice (BSHE ’75, MEd ’89) is the president of the national School Nutrition Association. She is state director at Georgia’s Department of Education, School Nutrition Division. James Russell Vandiver (EdS ’89) is the president of Lanier Technical College in Gainesville, Ga. Ellen M. Sabatini (MEd ’97, EdD ’02) is the principal of Barrow Elementary School in Athens. Jean G. Thompson (MEd ’98) is the principal at Dooly County Elementary School. Lauren Phillips (BSEd ’99, MAEd ’04) was the 2010 Georgia Art Education Elementary Teacher of the Year. She is the art teacher at Nesbit Elementary. Keith Allen Bryant (MEd ’00) is the principal at Carmel

Elementary School in Cherokee County.

Darby Thompson Sewell (BSFCS ’00, MEd ’01) and Jeff Sewell welcomed their son, John Wesley, on July 10, 2009. Randall L. Peters (EdD ’05) is the president of Southern Crescent Technical College.

Dana Westmoreland (AB ’07, MEd ’08) is the volunteer services coordinator for the Flint River Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Family and Consumer Sciences

Jacqueline Campbell (BSFCS ’98, MS ’00) works at the Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C. Kristi Hughes (BSFCS ’03, MS ’07) is the development coordinator for the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Dionne Stephens (PhD ’03) received the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association for her research about African-American adolescents. She is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Florida International University in Miami Beach.

Angie DeWitte Ruhlen (AB ’01, MFCS ’04) is a registered dietitian and the nutrition services coordinator at the University of Georgia Health Center. She provides nutrition counseling, is a member of the UHC eating disorder treatment team and also demonstrates healthy cooking techniques in the UHC’s nutrition teaching kitchen. Megan C. Janke (PhD ’05) is an assistant professor of gerontology at USF Polytechnic. Katy Gregg (MS ’08, PhD ’10) earned a doctoral degree in summer 2010. Kelly Wagner (MS ’09) is a child life specialist for Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, Fla.

Forestry and Natural Resources

Jon Puckett (MFR ’96) is the fuel procurement manager of Ameresco’s Savannah River Site Project. It is the largest energy efficiency project in the federal government’s history.

Journalism and Mass Communication

Deborah Garrison Lowery (BSHE ’79, MA ’81) is a freelance writer/recipe developer and writes for Cooking with Paula Deen, Southern Living Big Book of BBQ and 1001 Ways to Cook Southern. She is also an adjunct instructor at East Ten-

nessee State University in Johnson City.

Anne S. Finn (MMC ’89) is the executive director of The Sandbox, an interactive children’s museum on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Thomas R. Hagley Jr. (MMC ’92) is executive director of community and government relations for Vancouver (Wash.) Public Schools, which recently won the 2011 Leadership Through Communication Award. This national award recognizes exemplary leadership in the enhancement of communication within the school system and community. Hanna Elise Norton (ABJ ’94, MMC ’98, PhD ’01) of Russellville, Ark., is the head of Arkansas Tech University’s department of speech, theatre and journalism. She received the Faculty Award of Excellence in 2009 and was awarded an Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association in 2008. Erin Smith Watson (MMC ’03) is president-elect for the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America chapter. She is a senior account director at Rawle Murdy, a Charleston-based marketing firm.

Law

Benjamine Reid (JD ’74) received the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Salute to Miami’s Leaders Award in the field of law. He also received the Honorable Theodore Klein Award from the Florida Association for Women Lawyers and the Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award from the Florida Supreme Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit. William K. Broker (AB ’75, JD ’78) is the president of the Savannah Bar Association. He is also the managing attorney of the Savannah office of Georgia Legal Services. Roy W. Copeland (JD ’83) was named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the country by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Alan F. Rothschild Jr. (JD ’85) was elected chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law. He is a partner at Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis and Rothschild LLP in Macon.

Carl W. Bowers (AB ’86, JD ’89) is a Division I judge in Cobb County State Court. Joan A. Gabel (JD ’93) is the dean at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. Jacquelyn L. Johnson (BBA ’94, JD ’97) was appointed

district attorney of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. Carla Wong McMillian (JD ’98) of Tyrone, Ga., was selected by Gov. Sonny Perdue to serve as a state court judge. She is also a member of the Partnership Against Domestic Violence board of directors. Christian Coomer (JD ’99) is a representative for District 14, which includes Bartow and Floyd counties, in the Georgia State House. Clay Cheshire (JD ’01) has formed his own law firm, J. Clayton Cheshire & Associates, in Atlanta. Laura DeMartini Eschleman (AB ’02, JD ’05) is a partner at the law firm of Nall and Miller in Atlanta. Monica R. Dean (JD ’07) graduated from the State Bar of Georgia’s Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy. She is a staff attorney for a state court judge in Henry County and is founder and co-chair of the Young Lawyer’s Division Judicial Law Clerk Committee. Kathleen Van Pelt Gibson (AB ’06, JD ’10) is an associate

attorney at Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison P.C. in Chattanooga, Tenn. Raj Shah (BSA ’06, MPA ’06, JD ’10) is an associate at the law firm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer and Dobbs LLC in Atlanta, with their health care practice group.

Pharmacy

Shawn Blue (PhD ’10) and Bridgette Israel (PhD ’10) were recognized at the 17th Annual Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Institute on Teaching and Mentoring for completing their doctorates the previous year.

Social Work

Karen Brown Watkins (PhD ’09) is an assistant professor and the field placement coordinator in human services at Shorter University.

Veterinary Medicine

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of International Animal Health News and the author of three textbooks on animal health and production for small farmers in developing countries. He is also a board member of Christian Veterinary Missions. W. David Fletcher (DVM ’61) received the 2009 A.M. Mills Award from the Lambda Chapter of Alpha Psi. He also retired as a full colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve Veterinary Corps.

John Hayes (DVM ’63) received the 2010 A.M. Mills Award from the Lambda Chapter of Alpha Psi. He was also named Distinguished Virginia Veterinarian of the year by the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association in 2009. Bill Reeves (DVM ’65) is retiring after more than 42 years as a veterinarian in Americus. Philip Filder (DVM ’67) was the 2010 South Carolina Association Veterinarian of the Year. Gary Bullard (DVM ’69) received the AVMA President’s Award for his efforts on behalf of local, state and national veterinary medicine and for his commitment to the AVMA. Jack J. Broadhurst (DVM ’70) received the 2010 Distinguished Veterinarian Award from the North Carolina

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Veterinary Medical Association. His veterinary contributions include devising a new dosing schedule for Frontline-Plus and a new treatment for canine parvo virus enteritis. He was also awarded a patent for this treatment. James M. Shuler (DVM ’70) received the 2010 Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Virginia Tech. Gov. Sonny Perdue (DVM ’71) received the 2010 Dr. Fred C. Davison Award for Distinguished Service from the Eta Chapter of the Omega Tau Sigma Veterinary Fraternity.

He was recognized for exemplary service to his community, church, veterinary fraternity and state. M.K. “Curly” Cook (MS ’61, PhD ’75) received the Georgia 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award at the Georgia 4-H Gala in August. Walter R. Daley (DVM ’83) received the 2009 U.S. Public Health Service Veterinarian of the Year Award. He is chief of the Epidemic Intelligence Service Field Assignments Branch in the Career Development Division of the Office of Workforce and Career Development at the CDC. Valerie E. Ragen (DVM ’83) is president of

AgWorks Solutions agricultural consulting service in Washington, D.C. Prior to accepting this position, she was the assistant deputy administrator for veterinary services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She has also participated in trade negotiations related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and international efforts to eradicate brucellosis. Gary S. Brown (DVM ’84) completed his second term as American Veterinary Medical Association vice president. Kevin Chapman (DVM ’88) is president of the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association. Lisa Nolan (DVM ’88) is dean of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Cheryl B. Greenacre (DVM ’91) is a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. She was also among the first veterinarians to become certified with the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in the new exotic companion mammal medicine specialty. Jenifer Hope Gustafson (DVM ’91) is a major in the Veterinary Corps of the U.S. Army Reserves and recently completed a tour of Af-

ghanistan. Chris Griffin (DVM ’95) and his wife Stephania welcomed their daughter, Sara Aralyn, Jan. 23, 2010. Griffin has an avian and exotics veterinary hospital in Kannapolis, N.C., and recently finished his term as president of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians. Edith Rogers (DVM ’03) received the 2010 Georgia Veterinary Medical Association Recent Graduate Award for her exceptional leadership within the organization. Rogers joined the Peachtree Hills Animal Hospital in 2009. Kate Patterson (DVM ’09) is in her first year of a laboratory animal medicine residency and post-doctoral program at the University of Michigan Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine. Anna Smith (DVM ’10) and Isaiah Smith (DVM ’09) purchased Mountainview Veterinary Services in Keyser, W. Va.

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“The next day I met friends for coffee at Blue Sky and www.uga.edu/gm said, ‘We’ve got to put together an event. A music event.’

No one had a freakin’ clue what to do, or what we were doing, or anything about it… and we put together this little concert event,” she says.

Eleven years later, and a few doors down from where Blue Sky Coffee once stood, Sara (AB ’00) and her sister Megan O’Brien Lewis (AB ’93) are talking to Starbucks barista Alexei Gural, whose band performed at the first BreastFest in February 1999.

“Oh yeah, I remember when that first got started… it was great,” he says, reminiscing about the performance with Sara.

Sara and Megan, along with sisters Bridget O’Brien Mink (BFA ’92), Anne O’Brien and Katie O’Brien, founded the Tyanna Barre O’Brien Breast Cancer Foundation in 1998 to honor their late mother. BreastFest is the major fundraising event for the foundation.

“What we’re good at is getting the community together to raise money,” says Sara, who with Bridget and Katie lives in New Jersey where the family was raised. “And we put the money in organizations that do a really good job serving the community as far as breast cancer and cancer services go.”

Ninety percent of all the money raised at BreastFest events goes toward local charities of the foundation’s choosing. In Athens, it’s the St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center, which was able to purchase its first digital mammography machine with the help of money from BreastFest 2010. The other 10 percent goes to the foundation—they hope to someday have enough money for scholarships, endowments and sponsoring research. But the main emphasis of BreastFest is to think local.

In adition to Athens and New Jersey, they hold BreastFest events in Baltimore, where Anne lives, and Philadelphia, and since 1999 have raised over $750,000 for patient care—which includes everything from medication costs not covered by insurance to yoga programs and educational services.

They stress not just awareness, but also action.

They send monthly e-mails reminding women to perform breast self-examinations, and a nation of health-

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Sisters and UGA alumni Megan Lewis, left, of Athens and Sara O’Brien of Audubon, N.J., started the annual breast cancer awareness campaign BreastFest.

conscious, informed citizens is what Sara considers the foundation’s end goal.

It is “for each of us to be responsible… to teach our children and friends and families to take responsibility for our bodies,” she says. “Take care of your bodies through fitness and wellness, and then God forbid, if you were to get diagnosed with cancer or breast cancer or anything, you’d know where to go. You could pick up the phone and call St. Mary’s… I think that’s an attainable goal.”

And despite the serious subject matter, they keep a sense of humor about the events. “Save the Girls” was one T-shirt slogan.

“We’re not trying to make light of a scary, sad situation.

We’re just trying to make it fun. Our mom was about having fun,” says Megan, who lives in the Athens area. “We think of it like a little music festival. It’s fun.”

GET MORE Upcoming BreastFest events are scheduled in Athens on March 26 and in Haddon Township, N.J., on May 14. For more information and event dates in other cities go to www. breastfest.org.

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ou spend all this time pretending to be something else. That also relates to how I discovered clothing and costumes. The easiest way to transform yourself into somebody else is by putting on something. That’s what I love about clothing and dress. You just put on something and you’re different.”

—José Blanco on how his preoccupation with pretend play during his childhood in Costa Rica

led to his interest in theater and later historic costumes.

JOSÉ BLANCO Assistant professor and Historic Costume Collection manager, College of Family and Consumer Sciences B.A., dramatic arts, Universidad de Costa Rica M.A., theater arts, California State University, Los Angeles Ph.D., theater, Florida State University Teacher of the Year, Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors, and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2008 Photo shot on location by Andrew Davis Tucker at the UGA photography studio.

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