If this doesn’t make your soul leap this morning, check your pulse.
Ms. Jean, you’re a DGD! Happy retirement to you!
There are people all over campus in Athens whose job it is to make a student’s life a little bit better when someone’s daughter or son is away from home for the first time. Thanks to all of you (same goes for the staff at Furman, too).
If there was someone on campus who was special to you or to one of your kids, give them a shout-out here. Mine was Tom Cochran … he was our fraternity advisor and my daughter loved talking to him when he would visit Arch Society meetings in retirement.
My orientation leader was undergrad Kay Flowers who went on to a news broadcast career in Atlanta. Woof. I was convinced I had chosen were to go to school wisely and she taught us all the importance of memorizing our SSN which was used for everything back in the stone ages.
Right there with ya Peak…there was a neighbor girl who was a couple grades ahead of me in the early 90’s, her name was Katie…and she was fine as frog hair. When people asked me why I chose UGA, I used to say I was just following Katie.
I went to Young Harris College first before UGA. Bud Dyer was director of admissions and a great friend over the years. At UGA, I had some professors that were excellent mentors, so showing the way and others showing the way to avoid. 😀
Candy Sherman (wife of Dr. Barry Sherman, who was a legendary J-School prof, ran the Peabody Awards, etc.) was our Student Activites advisor for University Union and 90.5 FM back in the mid-to-late late 80s, and she was awesome. Taught a lot of us how to navigate a major bureaucracy
Dean Tate was still on campus when I was a student. He loved walking the grounds and talking to students. I had a number of enlighting conversations with him. The man knew everything about the campus, its history and most of the people who worked there. If you had an issue that needed to be resolved he knew who to call to make it happen. Truly a legend in his own time.
In the mid 70s, an older dude named Virgil drove the Russell Hall bus in the afternoon. The stop at Park Hall was always pretty full after 7th period, so people would be getting sardined in there like it was a Tokyo subway at rush hour. I will always remember, in the midst of all of this, Virgil jovially calling out to the sardines “MAKE IT TIGHT..LIKE IT WAS LAST NIGHT!”
Guaranteed laugh line, right there. That kind of humor would probably have gotten Virgil a talking to by today’s humorless administrators, or worse. Dawgspeed, Virgil, where ever you are.