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Columns::September 24, 2001
Tackling ‘Terrorism in America’
Provost appoints interim dean of new school
President addresses minority enrollment at first University Council meeting
Worthwhile IDEAS
Professor studies ‘complex’ role that carbohydrates play in cancer
New director appointed to International Public Service and Outreach
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Campus News
Blue Key honors four for their contributions to state, university
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
State Rep. Dubose Porter, Atlanta businesswoman and philanthropist Deen Day Smith and UGA professor Sylvia Hutchinson will be honored by the UGA chapter of Blue Key national honor society Sept. 28.
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| Dubose Porter |
They will receive the Blue Key Award at the chapter’s annual banquet at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Porter also will be the featured speaker at the banquet, which begins with a 6 p.m. reception followed by dinner at 7 p.m.
The Blue Key Young Alumnus Award will be presented to Frank J. Hanna III, an Atlanta attorney and businessman. In addition, winners of the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship will be announced.
The Blue Key national honor fraternity was founded in 1924 at the University of Florida and has more than 300 chapters throughout the United States. The UGA chapter, which was started in 1926 as the second chapter in the nation, presents the Blue Key award to distinguished Georgians who have made major contributions to the state and the university. The award has been given since 1964.
Porter, of Dublin, was first elected to the Georgia House in 1982. He is chairman of the House Higher Education Committee and a member of the appropriations and education committees. He was Gov. Zell Miller’s floor leader in 1991 and 1992.
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| Deen Day Smith |
A leader for environmental causes in the legislature, Porter is a trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Georgia and is on the board of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. He was a member of Miller’s Preservation 2000 Committee and was named the Georgia Environmental Council’s Legislator of the Year.
Porter, who graduated from Davidson College and earned a law degree at Samford University, is editor of the Dublin Courier Herald and chairman of the paper’s publishing company. He also is executive editor of three weekly newspapers owned by the company. He has been president of the Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Library Trustees Association, and was named Laurens County Man of the Year in 2000.
Smith is board chairman of the Cecil B. Day Investment Co. and vice chairman of the Cecil B. Day Foundation. She began her business career in the 1960s working with her late first husband, Cecil Day, founder of Day Realty and Days Inns of America. After Day’s death in 1978, she continued to build the business until the family sold it in 1984.
She has since devoted herself to numerous civic, educational and charitable causes. She served on the University System of Georgia Board of Regents and as a trustee of Mercer University. She also has been on the boards of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce; the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism; the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation; the Atlanta Ballet; and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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| Sylvia Hutchinson |
A graduate of Georgia State University, Smith is well-known for her interest in gardens and beautification. She is past president of the National Council of State Garden Clubs and the Garden Club of Georgia, and was on the board of Callaway Gardens, where she established the Cecil Day Butterfly Center. She also is a strong supporter of the State Botanical Garden at UGA, where the Day Chapel was built in memory of Cecil Day as a gift by his family.
Hutchinson is a professor in UGA’s Institute of Higher Education and is the Aderhold Distinguished Professor of Reading in the College of Education. She also has been associate dean and acting associate dean for academic affairs in the college, where she has been a faculty member since 1978.
An internationally known scholar in the fields of reading and children’s literature, Hutchinson is the author or co-author of 15 books, workbooks and guides, and scores of other materials. She has been president of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum and the Georgia Council of Professors of Reading, and has been a text consultant to eight publishing firms.
Hutchinson received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education and a doctorate in reading education from UGA. She is a leader in the university’s instructional development efforts, serving as a mentor for the Lilly Fellows, International Faculty Fellows and Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellows programs. She has been a Senior Teaching Fellow and is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy.
The Young Alumnus Award honors Blue Key alumni who made significant contributions to UGA as
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| Frank Hanna III |
students and to their communities since graduation. Hanna graduated from UGA’s business college in 1983 with a perfect grade point average and graduated with honors from the law school in 1986. As a student, he was president of Blue Key and was a Foundation Fellow, a Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar.
He is CEO of HBR Capital, Ltd., a merchant banking firm, and has started and backed a number of successful financial-service and information-processing businesses. He has a strong interest in education, and has helped found three schools in Atlanta and served on the Archdiocese of Atlanta education task force. A frequent speaker on issues of faith as they pertain to business practices, he is active in efforts that serve children and the poor.
The Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship is named for the deceased son of the late Jasper Dorsey, a Southern Bell executive and UGA graduate and alumni leader who strongly supported Blue Key. |
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