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Columns::October 15, 2001
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Moore College will be rededicated as new home of Honors Program
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Moore College, a building constructed on the university’s historic North Campus 127 years ago with a gift from the city of Athens, will be rededicated on Oct. 19 as the new home of the Honors Program.
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| The renovated building retains one of its most notable features--huge solid pine front doors with detailed molding work. Photo by Paul Efland |
A rededication ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m., followed by a reception, tours and an afternoon seminar on “The Rewards of an Honors Education.” The building will also be open to the public Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to noon.
Located behind the Chapel at the north end of Herty Field, Moore College has undergone an extensive renovation that began in 1999 and was completed earlier this year. The Honors Program moved into the building during the summer.
Moore College was built in 1874 with a $25,000 gift from the city of Athens. It is the only UGA building constructed with money from the city, and the only building erected on campus between the end of the Civil War and the start of the 20th century.
It is named for Dr. Richard Dudley Moore, an Athens physician and UGA graduate who, as mayor, persuaded the city to give the money for the construction. The building was constructed to house the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (A&M College), which was located on the university campus at the time. Later it was used for science classes, and in the late 1950s it was occupied by language departments, which used it until the renovation.
The rededication ceremony will include remarks by President Michael F. Adams; Jere Morehead, associate provost and director of the Honors Program; and Sayan De, co-president of the Honors Program Student Council. A ribbon will be cut by Adams; Morehead; Sarah Ashford, co-president of the Honors Program Student Council; Patrick Pittard, trustee chair of the UGA Foundation; and John G. (Jimmy) Alston, chair of the Foundation Fellows Committee for the UGA Foundation.
The Honors seminar, at 2:30 p.m., will be presented by three professors who teach in the Honors Program--Robert Boehmer, associate professor of legal studies in the Terry College of Business; Sylvia Hutchinson, Aderhold Professor in the College of Education and a professor in the Institute of Higher Education; and Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
Moore College was designed by Leon Henri Charbonnier, a French native who came to UGA at the start of the Civil War and spent nearly 40 years teaching mathematics, physics, astronomy and civil engineering.
Featuring a distinctive Mansard roof, the building is the only structure on campus built in the French second-empire style. It was constructed by Manasseh B. McGinty, a prominent builder in Athens who also built the first Clarke County courthouse and the first Southern Mutual Insurance Co. building on Prince Avenue.
The renovation reconfigured the building’s interior to create four traditional classrooms, an interactive classroom with computer access at each seat, two seminar rooms, offices, an Honors Program library and a student meeting area.
The work also included restoration of the building’s original 10-foot ceilings, which had been lowered; installation of new heating and air conditioning; and a new roof. The building retains one of its most notable features--huge solid pine front doors with detailed molding work.
The Honors Program, started in 1960, enrolls 2,200 undergraduates and is one of the country’s oldest and most respected programs for academically advanced students. The program promotes independent and creative learning both in and out of the classroom, through small seminar classes, close faculty guidance and mentoring, and opportunities for independent study and research.
In the past five years, Honors students have received Rhodes scholarships, Fulbright awards, Goldwater and Truman scholarships and many other nationally recognized academic awards, including the new Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Honors students compete for travel-study scholarships and internships through the new Courts Scholars Program and the Honors in Washington Internship Program.
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