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Sullivan Award finalists
Basketball players Kelly and Coco Miller are among the finalists for the 70th annual James E. Sullivan Memorial Award. In addition to the Millers, other finalists are Ron Dayne (football), Stephen Neal (wrestling), Stacey Nuveman (softball) and Mark Ruiz (diving). The winner will be formally announced on April 6 during a ceremony at ESPNZone in New York City.
Presented by the Amateur Athletic Union, the Sullivan Award recognizes athletes who have achieved athletic excellence and exhibit leadership, character, sportsmanship and the ideals of amateurism. The award has been presented annually since 1930 as a salute to James E. Sullivan, founder and past president of the AAU.
The Millers are the first twin sisters to be nominated for the award. Together, they represent one selection.
Alumnus wins education award
First it was the teacher. Now, the pupil has claimed the same honor.
Luann Purcell, assistant superintendent for pupil services in Houston County Schools and
a 1990 UGA graduate in educational leadership, has received the highest honor bestowed by the international Council of Administrators of Special Education.
This marks only the second time a Georgia educator has won CASE’s Harrie M. Selznick Distinguished Service Award in its 15-year history. But Georgians now have a claim on it for two years running. Bill Swan, a UGA professor of educational leadership and Purcell’s doctoral professor, was last year’s winner.
Purcell has been very active in CASE over the past 10 years, serving the organization in multiple roles. The award will be formally presented at the international Council for Exceptional Children’s Convention in Vancouver, B.C., in April.
Student music winners
Several School of Music students were winners in the recent Music Teachers National Association Southern Division Competition. The regional competition was held Jan. 27-30 at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
Jason Koi, a sophomore music performance major, won the Collegiate Artist Brass Competition. A tuba player, Koi is a student of David Randolph.
The Georgia Saxophone Quartet won the Collegiate Artist Chamber Music Competition. Graduate students of Kenneth Fischer, members of the quartet are Jeremy Phillips, soprano saxophone; Ruth Colegrove, alto saxophone; Jennifer Turpen, tenor saxophone; and Jason Wallace, baritone saxophone.
Koi and the Georgia Saxophone Quartet will now compete in the national MTNA competition, which will be held in Minneapolis, Minn., in conjunction with the MTNA National Convention in late March.
Peabody Award entries
Led by a record number of television and radio documentaries, entries for the 59th annual George Foster Peabody Awards total nearly 1,250 programs.
“As expected, 1999 was a strong year in television news and documentary programming,” says Barry Sherman, director of the Peabody Awards. “Peabody entries were driven by news events, from the NATO bombing of Kosovo to the Columbine tragedy and the global millennium observances. At the same time, the proliferation of new distribution outlets led to a record number of documentary submissions--more than 350. Entertainment programming was also well represented, especially imaginative new series and made-for-TV movies.”
Announcement of this year’s winners will be made via a live press conference and Webcast on March 30, and the winners list will be posted to the Peabody Web site (www.peabody.uga.edu). The awards will be presented during a May 22 luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
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