James H. Shepherd Jr., chairman of Atlanta's Shepherd Center, will serve as the speaker at the University of Georgia's fall commencement. The ceremony is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Dec. 16 in the Stegeman Coliseum in Athens.
Shepherd and his parents, J. Harold and Alana Shepherd, will receive honorary degrees.
The graduate ceremony will be held that afternoon in the coliseum with Sylvia McCoy Hutchinson, professor emerita of reading education at UGA, serving as the speaker.
Both ceremonies will be streamed live at http://uga.edu. LAURA DIAMOND
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The Georgia Conference on Children and Families will present its 2011 Gayle Bayes Vision for Children Award to Kaffie McCullough, campaign director for A Future. Not A Past. at its annual awards ceremony Thursday.
The award goes to an outstanding advocate and visionary for at-risk children in Georgia.
Through her work with AFNAP -- the Juvenile Justice Fund’s campaign to stop the prostitution of children in Georgia – McCullough has improved the lives of youth. She also founded GOAL, a nonprofit organization that offers programming for middle school girls. ANDRIA SIMMONS
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The University of Georgia formed a committee to search for a new director of the UGA Press. The current director, Nicole Mitchell, is leaving to run the University of Washington Press. The search committee includes faculty, librarians and members of the press staff and advisory board.
The press was founded in 1938 as a publishing house for faculty members. It has gained a national reputation in several areas, including geography, environmental studies, creative works and American, Southern and African-American literature and history. LAURA DIAMOND
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