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Columns::October 21, 2002
Digest
Campaign for Charities kicks off Oct. 23
The UGA Campaign for Charities will get under way Oct. 23 at 8 a.m. with a kick-off breakfast at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
At this time, university vice presidents, deans, directors and department heads will receive packets of preprinted pledge cards and other campaign materials for distribution in their respective areas.
This year’s breakfast will feature testimonials from Pat Daugherty, director of student activities and the Tate Student Center, and Adam Cureton, a third-year student of philosophy in arts and sciences. UGA President Michael F. Adams will provide closing remarks.
As in the past, the university will conduct a single campaign for charitable contributions to approved agencies, which include local United Way programs throughout Georgia plus many other agencies which serve statewide.
Many of the charitable agencies will be represented at the breakfast to provide information about their agency. Agency representatives and volunteers also will be available throughout the campaign to provide assistance to the UGA campaign leaders.
“The success of this campaign will depend on the generosity of UGA faculty and staff who designate their contributions to help others who are less fortunate or in need of special services,” says this year’s campaign chair Richard Mullendore, who also is vice president for student affairs and associate provost. “Through this once-a-year campus solicitation, we all have the opportunity to enhance the quality of life for many university students and employees, their families and our friends and neighbors who receive vital services from the agencies included in this campaign.”
The goal for this year’s campaign is $485,000.
Two athletes receive Eaves Award
Athletes Corrie Drakulich (women’s track and field) and Jon Armitage (baseball) are recipients of the annual Joel Eaves Scholar-Athlete Award for 2002-2003.
Named for a former UGA athletic director, the award is given each year to the female and male student-athletes with the highest grade-point average entering their senior year. Drakulich has a 4.0 GPA in genetics and Armitage has a 3.39 GPA in finance.
Drakulich competes in the pole vault for the track and field team. She tied for fifth at the Southeastern Conference outdoor championships this past season, placed third at the 2001 outdoor SEC meet and fourth at the 2001 SEC indoor meet.
Armitage, an infielder/outfielder, played in 60 games this past season for the baseball team, including 52 starts. He batted .295 with five home runs, 29 RBIs and seven stolen bases in 2002.
Films focus on political, civic issues
The Carl Vinson Institute of Government will host a film series on Tuesdays for five weeks starting Oct. 22. The “Reel to Reel” film series, cosponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts, is part of the institute’s 75th anniversary celebration. Following each screening is a discussion led by a member of the Athens-UGA community.
12 Angry Men (1957) will be screened on Oct. 22 as an example of civic duty in public service; social justice and political change are the themes in Four Days in September (1988), which will be shown on Oct. 29; The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) on Nov. 5 is a film exemplifying community empowerment; for public service in the media, three episodes of The Simpsons will be screened on Nov. 12; and finally political idealism will be viewed in the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Each viewing begins at 7 p.m. in the Seney-Stovall Chapel at the Lucy Cobb complex on Milledge Ave. For more information on the film series, visit www.cviog.uga.edu/spotlight016.html. |
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