|
By Larry B. Dendy
The University of Georgia will hold fall semester Commencement Dec. 18 with Georgia  Congressman Sanford Bishop Jr. speaking at the undergraduate ceremony and Kathryn Costello, senior vice president for external affairs at UGA, addressing graduate students.
The ceremonies in Stegeman Coliseum will be for students who completed requirements for degrees at the end of summer or fall semesters. The ceremony for students receiving bachelor’s degrees will be at 9:30 a.m.; exercises for students receiving master’s, doctoral and specialist degrees will be at 2:30 p.m.
This will be the first of two commencements UGA will hold during the 1999-2000 academic year. Students who complete degree requirements at the end of spring semester 2000 will receive their degrees May 13.
Bishop, of Albany, is in his fourth term representing Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes 31 counties in the middle and southern part of the state. Prior to being elected to Congress in 1992, he served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1977 to 1990 and in the Georgia Senate from 1991 to 1992.
 A co-sponsor of constitutional amendments to require balanced federal budgets and protect the U.S. flag against acts of desecration, Bishop has also been a strong supporter of welfare reform. He has helped sponsor and support bills to strengthen veterans’ health care, maintain defense spending, reform the federal crop-insurance program and crack down on underage tobacco sales.
Bishop graduated from Morehouse College and earned a law degree from Emory University. Before being elected to Congress, he practiced law in Columbus.
Costello, who has more than 20 years’ experience in university advancement work, joined UGA in 1998. She oversees the units responsible for development, alumni relations, communications, government relations, special events, strategic planning and career services.
A native of Jasper, Costello was vice president for university advancement at Rice University before coming to UGA. She also worked in advancement at the University of Maryland, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University.
She has been a trustee for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the nation’s leading professional organization for university advancement officers, and is active in numerous other professional associations, advisory groups, boards and commissions.
Costello received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from the University of Kentucky, and completed most of the course work toward a doctoral degree in anthropology at UK. Later she studied in a Vanderbilt University doctoral program in public-policy issues.
|
