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$1 million gift will establish endowed chair in public policy

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

UGA will use a $1 million gift from Atlanta businessman Cecil Phillips to establish an endowed professorship in honor of former Gov. George D. Busbee, who holds two degrees from UGA.
The George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy will be the first endowed faculty position in UGA’s new School of Public and International Affairs.
The school will recruit a nationally known scholar in the field of contemporary public policy to fill the chair.
Busbee, who was governor from 1975 to 1983, received a business administration degree from UGA in 1949 and a law degree in 1952. He was the first governor to serve two consecutive four-year terms after Georgia law was changed to allow governors to succeed themselves.
After completing his second term, he joined the Atlanta law firm of King and Spalding and is now a retired partner of the firm.
Phillips, president and CEO of Place Properties, served as special assistant and executive assistant to Busbee during his second term and is a long-time friend and admirer of the former governor.
Thomas P. Lauth, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, which was created in 2001, says the Busbee Chair is a perfect fit for the new school.
“The chair will be filled by an outstanding scholar who--through research and teaching--will help inform discussion on major contemporary public policy issues, and will help prepare students to participate in public affairs in Georgia, the nation and the world,” Lauth says. “We’re extremely pleased that the first endowed chair in our school is named for such a distinguished public servant.”
The chair “represents a critical aspect of Governor Busbee’s character and stewardship of the state that I so admired,” says Phillips. “He wanted to plant acorns for oak trees under whose shade he would never sit. The Busbee Chair will be just such an acorn.”

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