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Proposal for campus memorial goes before University Council Executive Committee

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

UGA students, faculty, staff and alumni who have died defending “democracy and their country” would be honored with a campus memorial that includes reflecting pools, a black marble wall and the U.S. and Georgia flags, according to a proposal to be considered this week by the University Council Executive Committee.
The proposal, developed by a subcommittee of the council’s Facilities Committee, suggests the memorial be located near the new Student Learning Center in an area already designated for a garden. Part of the memorial would be a book, on view in the Student Learning Center or another nearby building, that would contain the names of those being honored.
The 16-member subcommittee, composed of faculty, staff, students and alumni, gathered information on similar memorials at other universities and held two forums during fall semester to get ideas and suggestions.
The subcommittee presented its proposal to the full Facilities Committee earlier this month; it was unanimously approved and sent on to the Executive Committee.
Political science professor Loch Johnson, chair of both the Facilities Committee and the memorial subcommittee, says the proposed memorial is based on a design created by Marisa Scalera, a student in a graduate landscape design course taught fall semester by Allen Stovall, a professor in the College of Environment and Design and a member of the subcommittee. Stovall had his students devise memorial designs as a class project, and several were chosen for consideration by the subcommittee.
Johnson stresses that the memorial is “apolitical. It goes beyond whether one might agree or disagree with any particular military conflict in which an individual was called to serve. It pays tribute to the duty, loyalty and dedication of those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect democracy and their country.”
The memorial will be financed through private donations. Johnson estimates the cost will be about $100,000 and he anticipates widespread support for the project.
“We have received an avalanche of letters, e-mails and telephone calls from students, faculty, staff, alumni, veterans, townspeople and individuals around the state and beyond,” he says.
The University Council Executive Committee meets Feb. 28 at 1:30 p.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. If the committee approves the proposal, it will be on the agenda for the full University Council meeting March 14.

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