By: Cynthia Adams | Photos by: Nancy Evelyn

 

The Graduate School gratefully acknowledges all who have made a financial commitment to graduate education at the University of Georgia—from alumni to corporate sponsors to faculty and friends. By supporting graduate students, you are enabling research and creative works that affect so many facets of our lives. You are investing in our future and our children’s future, as well as our nation’s economy and security. You are also contributing to undergraduate education, enhancing our workforce and advancing discoveries that benefit us all.

 

Dean’s List of Donors to the University of Georgia Graduate School

July 1, 2011- June 30, 2012

 

Legacy Society (planned gifts)

Dr. Marc J. Ackerman

Dr. David C. Colman

Dr. Christopher G. Cooper

Mr. James E. DeLaPerriere

 

1910 Society ($50,000+)

Verizon Wireless

 

Laureate Society ($25,000-$49,999)

Dr. Sylvia McCoy Hutchinson

Verizon/Hopeline-South

 

Benefactors ($10,000-$24,999)

C. Terry Hunt Industries, Inc.

CMB Wireless Group, LLC

Hopeline Account

Mr. Charles Terry Hunt and Ms. Mary Lynn Oliver Hunt

Dr. Louise McBee

Ms. Sheryl Sellaway

Verizon/Hopeline Nonprofit Fund

 

Dean’s Circle ($5,000-$9,999)

Mr. James E. Baine and Ms. Edith W. Baine

Ms. Carol Mathes Haley

Murphy Oil Corporation

 

Centennial Club ($1,000-$4,999)

Dr, Marc J Ackerman and Ms. Stephanie Ackerman

Dr. Lindsay Ross Boring and Dr. L. Katherine Kirkman

Dr. Michael B. Bunch and Ms. Kathryn C. Bunch

Dr. William Ford Calhoun

Dr. Max Terry Coffey and Ms. Elizabeth Strauss Coffey

Mr. Earl J. Connolly and Ms. Patricia A. Connolly

Mr. Xiaodong Du and Mr. Min He

Dr. Maureen Grasso and Mr. Andrew Rosen

Drs. Joseph William Hamer Jr. and Carol Elizabeth Hamer

Drs. Joseph Earl Hightower and Robin C. Hightower

Mr. Gregory A. Lanigan and Ms. Susan S. Lanigan

Ms. Miao Hsiang Lu

Mr. and Mrs. John F. McMullan

Prince Agri Products, Inc.

Shannon Foundation

Mr. Liam McMahon Shannon

Ms. Jane S. Wilson

Verizon Foundation

 

Graduate Club ($500-$999)

Ms. Dorinda Gilmore Dallmeyer and Dr. R. David Dallmeyer

Ms. Kathleen L. Davis

Ms. Mary Frances Early

Mr. Ronald L. Fritchley and Ms. Martha B. Fritchley

Ms. Hsin-Hsin Ho and Mr. Tak San Ho

Ms. Jia Liu

Drs. Melinda Birchmore Musick and Joseph G. Musick

Dr. Young Woong Park

Dr. William Alfred Person

Dr. Sangram Singh Sisodia and Dr. Diane Van Hoof-Sisodia

Dr. John Edward Stewart II

Dr. Brahm P. Verma and Ms. Sudha Verma

Dr. Lawrence Jeff Wheeler

 

Friends of the Graduate School ($100-499)

Mr. Dennis Julius Adams

Dr. and Mrs. Gilles O. Allard

Dr. Jacqueline Allison and Mr. Jerry D. Allison

Dr. Charles L. Andrews

Dr. Todd E. Arnold

Mr. Gerald Lynn Asher

AstraZeneca

Mr. William Balke and Ms. Elizabeth Balke

Dr. Benjamin Roswell Bates and Ms. Elizabeth Hunt Morley

Dr. and Mrs. Francis E. Beideman Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Benke

Dr. and Mrs. Gary Bertsch

Dr. and Mrs. George R. Biederman Jr.

Judge and Mrs. Joe C. Bishop

Mr. Henry Hugh Boyter Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. John G. Brewer

Mr. Matthew Livingstone Brodsky

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Brown Sr.

Ed K. Burton, LLC

Mr. Ed Keaton Burton

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Busby

Dr. and Mrs. Larry D. Caldwell

Mr. Larry M. Callaway and Ms. Helen M. Callaway

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Carlton

Dr. Gayle Renee Cawood and Mr. Frank W. Cawood

Ms. Diane Kathleen Cerjan

Dr. Wei Chen

Robert Chong, DPM Podiatric Physician and Surgeon

Dr. Robert K. Chong

Dr. and Mrs. Byoung K. Chun

Mr. William Hugh Cobb

Dr. Christopher George Cooper

Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley G. Corbin

Dr. George Arthur Cozens

Dr. Betty Jean Craige

Mr. Albert C. Cunningham

Dr. Roy Jules Daigle and Ms. Kathryn G. Gradle

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Damiani Jr.

Mr. Walter Edward Dance Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Daniel

Deloitte Foundation

Dr. Juenchin Deng

Dr. Vikram Pratap Dhende

Diane Cerjan PSY D PC

Mr. and Mrs. Costantino D. DiFranco

Dr. Ako Doffou

Dr. Cecile Richter Doroff

Mr. James Murrah Draper

Dr. Delmer D. Dunn and Ms. Ann S. Dunn

Ms. Peggy Joyce East

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation

Dr. Lu Elrod

Ms. Martha Elton

Dr. Elizabeth L. Feely

Dr. William P. Flatt

Dr. Stephen Ray Flora

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Franklin

Ms. Paula H. Gault

Dr. Jennifer J. Gaver

Ms. Heather Manning Gillon

Dr. Brian A. Glaser

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation

Mr. Paul Gruber

Mr. James Ross Gurley

Mr. Paull Douglas Hale and Ms. Mary Anne Hale

Dr. Leslie Anne Hansen and Mr. Richard Hansen

Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Hayes

Dr. Sue Womack Henderson

Mr. and Mrs. Wade W. Herring

Mr. Ralph Ellis Hickman Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Hill Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard K. Hill

Mr. Robert Ainsley Hilliard and Ms. Kim A. Buckey

Mr. and Mrs. Shelby B. Holmes Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam K. Holtzman

Dr. Jianzhong Huang

Ms. Andrea Lynn Hykes

Mr. Arthur Johnson and Ms. T’Leatha Renee Suitt-Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Jones

Dr. Gloria Lynn Jones

Ms. Kay H. Jones and Mr. Burke C. Jones

Drs. JoAnne and Samuel J. Juett III

Dr. Prasad V. G. Katakam

Dr. Cheick Mahamadou Cherif Keita and Ms. Maimouna Toure

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Kent

Drs. Pamela Bradley Kleiber and Douglas A. Kleiber

Mr. and Mrs. Rafal Konopka

Dr. Anna P. Kroncke and Mr. Jason Michael Kyle Cochran

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Laine

Dr. Gordon Lee Larsen

Dr. Anderson Scott Leiper

Drs. Alice and Julian M. Libet

Mrs. Douglas Loving Lighthart

Drs. Zhulu Lin and Siew Hoon Lim

Ms. Joanne Lincoln

Ms. E. Marcia Mann

Dr. Louise Lunsford McCommons

Mr. J. Marshall McCranie and Ms. Susan Avery McCranie

Mr. James Hewitt McGown and Ms. Jane F. McGown

Mr. and Mrs. John D. McKay

Ms. Rae Dennis McWhirter and Mr. T. F. McWhirter Jr.

Dr. Noel Mark Meltzer

Dr. Shaila Maria Miranda

Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Mitchell

Mr. Joseph Anderson Montgomery

Mr. Edgar Ray Moore Jr.

Mr. Bradford Thomas Morton

Ms. Kathy Jane Bible Mullen

Dr. Thomas George Nemetz and Ms. Susan Hopkins Nemetz

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Nesbit

Dr. Gert Nesin

Mr. and Mrs. Abraham T. Ninan

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Nipper Jr.

Dr. Se Kyung Oh

Dr. Sharon Kay O’Kelley

Ms. Rose Ann Taylor Pace

Drs. Clifton W. and Sylvia H. Pannell

Mr. James Harvey Patterson and Dr. Judith Patterson

Dr. and Mrs. Vivekananda Penumetcha

Dr. Helen Noel Perry

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Piper

Dr. Joe Fagan Pittman Jr. and Ms. Jennifer L. Kerpelman

Mr. Joseph D. Procopio

Dr. Norman Hill Rahn III and Ms. Connie Crawford-Rahn

Dr. and Mrs. Prabhu Rajagopalan

Dr. and Mrs. Madis Raukas

Dr. Carol Anne Reeves

Dr. and Mrs. Taikyun Rho

Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Robertie

Ms. Cathy Anne Robison and Mr. John M. Coggeshall

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Rogers

Ms. Wendie Ruffner

Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Sable

Ms. Dorothy Nell Sampson

Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Schneiderman

Ms. Joan V. Schneier

Dr. Cynthia Anne Searcy and Mr. Timothy P. McGonigle

Ms. Joanne M. Sharpe

Dr. and Mrs. Terry L. Sheehan

Dr. Eleanor Kyle Sikes

Dr. Ronald D. Simpson

Mr. James Andrew Sommerville and Ms. Frances Duggan Sommerville

Ms. Chanida Sonamai

Dr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Speckmann

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Stolzenbach

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Strickland

Mr. Sujeeth Thirumalai

*Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Thompson

Dr. Mary Lane Branch Todd and Mr. Daniel Boyd Todd

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Tyler

Dr. Robert Ray VanKirk

Mr. Ravi Shankar Vermuri

Dr. Duke Elvin Wagner

LTC and Mrs. William A. Walker

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wilbanks

Dr. W. Thomas Wilfong

Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Williams

Ms. Faith Jenine Woodley

Dr. Ruth Naomi Wrightstone

Dr. and Mrs. Shiow-Shong Yang

Mr. Ronald George Young

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Youngblood

Ms. Irene Zaffos

Dr. Alla Petrova Zareva

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Zawalski

Dr. Tingyao Zheng and Ms. Youlian Lillian Zhu

 

 

Why I Give

By: Sylvia Hutchinson

I always wonder about this question. How can we NOT give to the University of Georgia programs? It is really quite a selfish gesture for me. It gives me so much pleasure to contribute to programs that support the learning and growth of undergraduate and graduate students. I was the recipient of financial AND academic AND emotional support from the graduate faculty and staff when I was a student at UGA. It only seems right and natural that I would want to give so others could have that same support. For all my years of study (and the years since my graduations), the University of Georgia has been my extended family. It seems only right to

join in the building process. UGA students are exceptional today. They go all over the world to speak, to perform, to compete with students from other institutions, to research and solve problems, and to share what they have discovered. They carry the banner of UGA, and we are the better for their representation of our institution. The most obvious and most satisfying way for me to show my pride and support of today’s students is to make financial contributions to the programs that support their achievements. What a joy to be a member of this UGA Graduate

The Mary Lynn Oliver Hunt and Matthew Alan Hunt Graduate Studies Fellowship in English Announced

This past fall, Terry Hunt, member of the Graduate Education Advancement Board, contributed a memorable gift on the occasion of his 44th wedding anniversary. The “gift that keeps on giving,” as Dean Maureen Grasso observed, established a new graduate fellowship at the University of Georgia. The fellowship’s namesakes are Hunt’s wife and fellow graduate, Mary Lynn Oliver Hunt, and son, Matthew Alan Hunt.

The surprise endowment was announced August 31, 2012 during the Dean’s Research Award reception on the UGA campus. The first recipient, Holly Gallagher, is in the department of English.

Tom Wilfong, director of development for the Graduate School, says the fellowship as an anniversary present was a first. “Working with Terry Hunt on this new fellowship was a great pleasure for me. His principal goal was to honor his wife on the occasion of their 44th wedding anniversary. In order to surprise Mary Lynn, he wanted to keep the gift completely confi dential

until the moment it was announced. Another goal was to support graduate education at the University of Georgia through the establishment of the new fellowship.”

Wilfong says the Hunts have a special impetus to make this gift. Both the Hunts earned UGA degrees as did two of their four sons. “As incoming chair of the Graduate Education Advancement Board, Terry understands the critical relationship between fellowship support and

quality graduate programs. He told me on several occasions that he owes his success in business to the University of Georgia, and he wants to give back whenever and however he can.”

Terry Hunt is CEO of Hunt Industries in Valdosta, Ga. (For further reading on the Hunts, see the Centennial Edition of the Graduate School Magazine, Summer 2010.)