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Columns::January 13, 2003
Digest
Project inventories historic properties
UGA’s College of Environment and Design has received a $750,000 grant for a five-year project that will significantly improve efforts to preserve historic properties statewide.
FindIt, the Georgia Historic Resources Survey Partnership, will send UGA graduate students in historic preservation all over the state to identify properties that have historic value. The program, funded by the Georgia Transmission Corporation, will aid GTC in its work building and upgrading electrical transmission lines and substations by preventing unknown historic properties from being damaged or demolished.
Additionally, the information gathered through FindIt will be entered into a database at the state historic preservation office. Creating a centralized source of information is essential in preventing the loss of Georgia’s historic resources, according to faculty member Pratt Cassity, lead investigator for FindIt.
“As fast as we can document these properties, just as many are being lost,” Cassity says. “This partnership is precedent-setting for Georgia and could provide a blueprint for states that want to start the historic preservation planning process.”
Museum features Campus Graphics maps
The university’s Campus Graphics and Photography Department contributed 12 Civil War battle maps to a new display at the recently expanded museum of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Cobb County.
Featuring a range of artifacts, photos, maps and a timeline, the new displays focus on the Civil War during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s trek from Chattanooga to Atlanta in 1864. Several items are on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and visitors can also view a new 18-minute documentary film produced specifically for this exhibit.
Historian and Civil War author David Evans, who received a Ph.D. in military history from UGA in 1982, wrote the exhibit’s text. Tommy Jordan, project coordinator for UGA’s Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping, and Wendy Giminski, a computer graphics artist in Campus Graphics and Photography, created a series of detailed topographic maps that illustrate various battles and the movement of troops in relation to the region’s rugged terrain. The UGA Library also contributed to the exhibition. Katie Gentilello, the library’s supervisor of photographic services, enlarged and reproduced numerous photos from the extensive collection of historical photographs at the Hargrett Library. Nelson Morgan and Mary Ellen Brooks were instrumental in finding and choosing images from the Hargrett Library archives.
Football player receives ‘Top’ award
Jon Stinchcomb has been selected by the NCAA Honors Committee as one of the recipients of the NCAA Today’s Top VIII Award. This marks the sixth year in a row that a UGA student-athlete has received this honor.
The Today’s Top VIII Award winners are a group of student-athletes recognized for their academic and athletic achievement, character and leadership during the 2002 calendar year.
A semifinalist for the 2002 Lombardi Award as one of the country’s top linemen, Stinchcomb was named to the Walter Camp All-America team as well as the Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-America squad. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Blue Key and Golden Key honor societies, Stinchcomb was the male student-athlete representative to the university’s athletics board of directors, and was recognized by the Georgia chapter of the Boy Scouts of America as a “Peach of an Athlete” in 2002. Named to the American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team, his volunteer service includes working with Habitat for Humanity, the American Heart Association, St. Mary’s Hospital and the Barrow Elementary School reading program.
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