|
|
Columns::April 22, 2002
Honors and Awards
Now open for business
Legislature approves merit-based salary raise pool of 3.25 percent
Finalists chosen for VP for instruction
Penn State University administrator will head physical plant
Russell Library showcases late senator’s baseball card collection
Well versed: Creative writing professor leads a busy life
UGA hosts roundtable discussion as part of Africa Initiative
Promotions
Tenure
Members of promotion, tenure reveiw committees are announced
Maximum load: Provost discusses efforts to increase credit-hour production
Campus News
U.S. senators Gramm and Miller will address seniors at Commencement
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Two U.S. senators and UGA alumni--Phil Gramm of Texas and Zell Miller of Georgia--will be on hand to give graduating
 |
| Zell Miller |
UGA seniors a send-off at the university’s spring commencement May 11.
Gramm, a leading Senate authority on fiscal and defense matters and a 1996 presidential candidate, will be the featured speaker at exercises for undergraduate and professional students at 9:30 a.m. in Sanford Stadium. He will be introduced by Miller, his close friend and frequent ally on Senate legislation.
In case of rain, the ceremony will be in Stegeman Coliseum and will be split into two sessions, at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. A decision to move will be made by 7 a.m. and announced on Athens radio stations and the UGA Today Web site (www.uga.edu/news).
Commencement for students receiving graduate degrees will be at 2:30 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. Edward Larson, UGA historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history, will be the speaker.
The May ceremonies are for students who complete degree requirements at the end of spring semester. Registrar Gary Moore estimates that about 3,100 undergraduates and between 700 and 800 graduate students will be eligible to participate in commencement. The exact number of eligible degree recipients won’t be known until final exams are over just prior to the ceremonies.
Gramm, who was born in Ft. Benning, received a bachelor’s degree in economics from UGA in 1965 and a doctorate in economics in 1967. Miller, a native of Young Harris, earned bachelor’s and
 |
| Phil Gramm |
master’s degrees in history from UGA in 1957 and 1958.
President Adams says the university is honored to have both senators participate in commencement.
“With their deep personal ties to the University of Georgia, and their outstanding records of service to our nation and state, senators Gramm and Miller are two of our most distinguished graduates,” Adams says. “They have been extremely helpful in obtaining federal assistance for some of the university’s major academic initiatives and in supporting our interests in Washington. I can’t think of two finer or more appropriate speakers to provide words of inspiration to our graduates.”
Sharing the podium as a speaker at the undergraduate ceremony will be Tina Rakkhit of Matthews, N.C., a graduating senior who will speak as the student representative of the Class of 2002. Rakkhit, who will receive bachelor’s degrees in German and microbiology, is a Foundation Fellow, Honors Program participant and recipient of numerous academic honors. She was a state finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship and has worked and studied in Germany, Switzerland, India and Australia.
Thirty-six seniors who have maintained perfect 4.0 grade point averages will be recognized as First Honor Graduates.
|
|
|
|
|
