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DEL.ICIO.USThe Lowe-down
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We were somehow able to coax a few words out of that shy, retiring Bill Lowe Friday night.
Seriously, the ebullient Lowe was as chatty as ever as he greeted guests at the reception for “Love, Loss & Longing: International Female Discoveries of the Human Spirit.” The show, featuring works by Margarita Checa and Katharina Chapuis, is probably one of the last ones to be exhibited in Lowe’s current space.
Early next year Lowe moves to new gallery space at Two Peachtree Pointe, the Dewberry Capitol Corp. building going up in Midtown.
The new digs will offer more light and more space - crucial when you consider the “too much is never enough” type of entertaining Lowe is famous for.
Still, after 20 years on Bennett Street, he’s a little wistful. In those lean early years, Lowe actually lived there. What’s now his office was then his bedroom.
“I will miss being here,” Lowe said. “It’s been the playground for my aspirations.”
As you’d expect from Lowe, known for theatrical openings featuring go-go dancers and such, he’s planning a big opening bash. It’ll probably be sometime in March and it’s bound to be a big one. The new spot will hold around 2,000 revelers, up from the 1,300 or so the current gallery accommodates.
Talk about a playground.
A true power lunch
The downtown Ritz-Carlton just teemed with brainpower Thursday.
A slew of bright young people were recognized at the annual scholarship awards luncheon of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation’s Atlanta chapter.
Attendees heard first from Jan K. Bennett, president of ARCS’ Atlanta chapter, who noted the chapter has raised more than $2 million and supported more than 400 scholars since its inception 15 years ago.
After an introduction from State Rep. Kathy Ashe (D-Atlanta), Mary Brown Bullock, president emerita of Agnes School College, spoke on collaboration between American and Chinese scientists.
“Why should we be collaborating with our potential competitors?” asked Bullock, a visiting distinguished professor of China studies at Emory University. The answer lies in China’s growing economy and world prominence, she said.
“Greater collaboration leas to a greater intelluctual openness,” Bullock said. Working together, she added, “may help both nations transcend political differences and contribute to world peace.”
The luncheon honored students from Emory University, Georgia Tech, Morehouse College and the University of Georgia.
The Emory students included Kathryn B. Anderson, Christopher Bond, Matthew Boone, Jill Bordelon, Allison Lange, Jeffrey W. Mercante, Troy Querec, Jennifer Sorrells and Shana Topp.
The Tech students included Andrea Forte, Donavon R. Gerty, Michael Hewitt, Shelby Highsmith, Janine B. Johnson, Charlotte Kotas, Michael Pennock, Dylan Shephardson, Andrew Smith, Khalid Sorensen and Tracy L. Westeyn.
The Morehouse students included Mark W. Cunningham Jr., Austin Dixon, Britt A. L. Gayle, Desmond Moore, Andre Okoreeh, Jonathan Singletary and Eric S. Toone.
The UGA students included Geneva J. DeMars, Sarah A. Eisenstein, Jillian H. Hurst, Jodell Linder, Dawn M. Penn, Norman K. Pollock and Laura E. Williams.
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