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Columns::October 7, 2002

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The new building will house the Fanning Institute for Leadership and the Government Training, Education and Development Division of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. (Photo by Peter Frey)

Pillar to pillar: J.W. Fanning Building will be dedicated on Oct. 10

Athens and the UGA community will join together this month to celebrate the life of one of Georgia’s most beloved leaders, J.W. Fanning, UGA’s first vice president for services. The J.W. Fanning Building will open to the public with a dedication and open house on Oct. 10 at 10:30 a.m. at 1240 S. Lumpkin St., across from the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the Hoke Smith annex.
“This dedication will provide the community with an opportunity to honor Dr. Fanning,” says Art Dunning, vice president for public service and outreach. “The building is a tribute to his legacy of service and leadership to the state of Georgia.”

Georgian State Dance Company brings its high-flying act to campus

The Georgian State Dance Company performs in Hodgson Hall at 8 p.m. on Oct. 11 as part of the Dance Festival Series for the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25-$29, and are available at the box office (542-4400), open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and two hours before performances.
The company was founded by Nina Ramishvili and her husband, the late Iliko Sukhishvila, in 1945. Both were classically trained dancers who wanted to set up a Georgian folk dance company “to show the rest of the Soviet Union and the rest of the world the wealth and culture we have in Georgia, how different it is from other parts of the Commonwealth of Independent States, unique in its color and history,” according to Ramishvili.

Former education professor leaves UGA $1.7 million

Eileen Russell was the kind of faculty member any

Eileen Russell

university would like to have: dependable, hard-working, a demanding but gifted teacher who was devoted to her students and her job.
She also was a private, reserved woman who lived alone in a small apartment, built her own furniture and repaired her own car. And when she retired from the UGA College of Education in 1977 and moved to Florida, colleagues assumed they would hear no more from Russell.
And few did--until she died last year at age 82. When her will was probated, UGA officials were astonished to learn that in 1994 Russell had directed that the bulk of her estate go to the College of Education--a bequest that amounted to $1.7 million.

D.W. Brooks Award winners announced

Five University of Georgia faculty received the D.W. Brooks faculty award for excellence Oct. 1. The $5,000 annual awards recognize UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences faculty who excel in teaching, research, extension and county extension programs. An award for international agriculture is given in even-numbered years.
CAES Dean Gale Buchanan (fourth from left) congratulates the 2002 winners (from left): Gerritt Hoogenboom, international agriculture; Robert Shewfelt, teaching; John Baldwin, extension; Daniel Fletcher, research; and Sidney Law, county programming.

Report: Agreements insufficient to contain weapons of mass destruction

Last month, researchers from UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security presented the results of a year-long study to the U.S. Senate. Findings of the study indicate current international agreements are insufficient to control trade of sensitive components used to make weapons of mass destruction.
“Without improved international co-operation in monitoring sensitive exports, some terrorist organizations, like al-Qaida, and some countries, like Iraq and Iran, may find few barriers to acquire items needed to build weapons of mass destruction,” says Mike Beck, assistant director of CITS and one of the authors of the report.

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