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Columns::August 12, 2002
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Campus News
Former governor gives $1 million to create faculty chair
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Former Gov. Carl E. Sanders is giving $1 million to the UGA School of Law, discharging a vow he made nearly 40 years ago to make the school one of the nation’s best.
The gift, which is part of UGA’s capital campaign, will create a new endowed professorship, the Carl E. Sanders Chair in Political Leadership, in the school where Sanders earned his law degree in 1948. In addition, the main reading room in the school’s library will be named for Sanders.
“Gov. Sanders is a personal hero of mine, and one of the all-time great champions of education in Georgia,” says President Michael F. Adams. “Our state, and the University of Georgia especially, have benefited immeasurably from his enlightened leadership and boundless generosity. The university is immensely proud that he is one of our most distinguished alumni.”
David Shipley, dean of the law school, says the Sanders Chair will strengthen an already-outstanding law faculty by adding a distinguished scholar to “educate students about the roles of law and lawyers in shaping public policy, and about the role of lawyers in positions of leadership.”
Naming the main reading room in the law school’s Alexander Campbell King Law Library for Sanders is fitting in view of Sanders’s long-time support of the school and especially its library, Shipley says.
Sanders’s support for UGA dates back to his term as governor, 1963-67. He was instrumental in providing state funding to expand law school facilities, including a new building for the law school library, which opened in 1967. He also secured $1 million in state funds to buy books for the library, and in 1987 he made a personal gift to create the Carl Sanders Law Library Fund to support the facility.
In 1995 Sanders donated $125,000 to the law library, and his Atlanta law firm, Troutman Sanders, matched the gift in honor of his 70th birthday. Sanders also has donated his gubernatorial papers, photographs and other memorabilia to the library.
He is a past president of the law school’s alumni association, served on the school’s board of visitors, and headed the fundraising campaign for Dean Rusk Hall. He has also served as president of UGA’s alumni association and was a trustee of the UGA Foundation.
Shipley says the law school “is grateful to have loyal and dedicated friends such as Gov. Sanders, whose support enables us to continue to provide a superior legal education and help develop the future leaders of our state and nation.”
Presiding over groundbreaking ceremonies for the law library in 1964, Sanders made a statement that is carved into the building’s wall:
“The people of Georgia want and deserve nothing but the best. The University of Georgia School of Law is, therefore, to be one of such excellence that no citizen of Georgia need ever leave the state because a superior legal education is afforded elsewhere.”
Sanders, who is now chairman of Troutman Sanders, one of Georgia’s largest law firms, says his new gift is intended to reinforce that commitment.
“I owe the University of Georgia law school a great debt and, therefore, I am going to do all that I can to make sure that it can provide opportunities to succeed for young men and women as it did for me,” Sanders says.
Sanders earned the title of “Georgia’s Education Governor” for his strong support of education while serving as the state’s chief executive. |
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