By Jean Cleveland
An invitational conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of outreach at the University of Georgia will be held June 11-13.
“Public Service and Outreach: Transitions into the 21st Century” is being sponsored by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Commission on Outreach and Technology Transfer and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in addition to UGA. More than 100 participants are expected to attend, including 20 presidents of higher education institutions in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
“In 1899, Chancellor Walter B. Hill brought a new vision to the way the University of Georgia should interact with and serve the people of Georgia. Hill wanted UGA to become ‘a university for the 20th century’ that would ‘connect its activities more closely with the business and life of the people,’ ” says S. Eugene Younts, vice president for public service and outreach and associate provost. “Today, universities stand on the frontier of a new century of service, and this conference will take a look back at a proud tradition and will examine the potential and future responsibilities of the service function.”
Peter Magrath, NASULGC president, will address the participants at the opening dinner. Magrath has written an article on “the engaged university” for a special issue of the Journal of Public Service and Outreach, which is published by UGA.
Carl Swearingen, a senior vice I have ever known,” says Allan Barber, senior vice president for finance and administration. “He always has the interest of the institution as a whole in mind as he responds to the needs of all budgetary areas.”
Parker, at UGA since 1967, is responsible for all accounting, banking and trust services, accounts payable and payroll services, contracts and grants, administrative services, and auxiliary services.
He also directs the university’s acquisition and management of properties for academic programs both locally and abroad.
Barber cites Parker’s “high standards of integrity” in his approach to accounting for university funds.
Parker joined UGA as internal auditor and became director of internal auditing in 1968. He was appointed assistant treasurer the next year and became director of the accounting division in 1972. He has been associate vice president and controller since 1991.
Barber says three other key officials in finance and administration will also be retiring in 1999. Terrell W. Eley, director of the banking-trust department, and William R. Boswell Jr., manager of the accounting department, will retire July 31. Robert G. Ashe, manager of the accounts-payable department, will retire Oct. 31.
Eley, who joined UGA in 1970, “has been instrumental in managing the university’s growth in resources and investments, and the fiscal requirements associated with many changes in student aid, over 30 years,” Barber says.
Boswell “has provided leadership for the university’s accounting operations since 1972,” Barber says, and Ashe, who has been at UGA since 1970, “has conscientiously seen to it that the university has an excellent record in the timely payment of its financial obligations.”
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