MCG President Honors Longtime Supporter
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The Hidden Name is back! Thursday,eeper October 2, 2003 .^Hb. Volume 13 | Number 20 MCG president honors Vital Signs^U longtime supporter by Toni Baker Dr. Byron H. Dunn, a retired obstetrician/gynecologist from Jersey, Ga., who is a 1955 graduate of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, has been honored for his commitment to MCG by the university's president. "Dr. Dunn has honored this university by his work as a physician and through his ongoing commitment to its excellence. It is fitting that we now honor him," said Dr. Daniel W. Rahn, MCG president, who presented Dr. Dunn with the Vessel of Life Award during the annual MCG President's Dinner Sept. 20. Greenblott Library Dr. Dunn is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the MCG ftosts ceramics Foundation, Inc., and a lifetime member of the Alumni Association of the exhibit School of Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia, Inc. He and his wife have established the $1 million Byron H. Dunn, M.D., and Betty Janes Dunn Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to help support a clinician-educator. The couple has three sons and six grandchildren. The Vessel of Life Award was sculpted by Kathleen Ann Girdler-Engler, a Dr. Byron H. Dunn (center) and wife Betty accept the Vessel of Life Award for their support of 1980 graduate of the MCG School of Nursing. MCG from President Daniel W. Rahn. (Phil Jones photo) MCG, Burke County partner for abstinence education by Ellen Gladden births in 2001 were to girls age 10- consequences of their actions." choices and character develop 19," said Dr. Sandra Edenfield- Burke County is among six rural ment." The Medical College of Georgia, Pittman, assistant professor of Georgia counties included in the In addition to the school-based A dose of culture the Burke County Board of obstetrics and gynecology in the Enterprise Community Healthy Start instruction to students, the three- Education and the U.S. Department MCG School of Medicine and execu Initiative, a federally funded grant year program titled, "Your Life, Your of Health and Human Services are tive director of Enterprise project that works to reduce racial Time, Your Future," will teach par combining resources to help reduce Community Healthy Start Initiative disparities between women and ents, educators, local health care the number of teen pregnancies in at MCG Health System. "We chose children's health, improve preg professionals and religious leaders Burke County, Ga. Burke County, because the schools nancy outcomes with high-risk how to support teens in their deci With a $436,000 grant from the there were already working on their mothers-to-be and fragile infants sion to remain abstinent and pursue Issue X-Ray Department of Health and Human problem and expressed an interest and enhance the health of the fami their goals. Services, MCG faculty and MCG to provide more services to parents lies. Jodi Hudgins, education serv "We've really received a tremen Bits & Bytes • 2 Health, Inc. staff are working with and teens. (The Burke County Board ices coordinator for the program, dous amount of support from every Buzzle • 17 Burke County educators to imple of Education) was extremely valu used nationally recognized absti one in Burke County who's heard ment a countywide abstinence edu able working with us to get the nence curricula to design age-appro about this program," said Dr. Campus Beat • 18 cation program. grant submitted. priate programs for boys and girls in Pittman. "The board of education is Rural Burke County, where 20 "The overall goal is to provide grades seven, nine, 11 and 12. incorporating the instruction in the Marketplace • 19 percent of births from 1999-2001 students with information and per "Seventh- and ninth-graders will school day for four grades which Milestones • 8 were to girls age 10-19, was selected sonal skills to resist pressures to receive eight to 10 hours of instruc shows the high priority they place for the program because school offi engage in early, out-of-wedlock sex tion," said Ms. Hudgins. "A one- on this curricula." Newsbriefs • 3 cials are seeking to reduce the num ual activity. We want to help equip semester course will be offered as Burke County School System bers with education. students with the skills to obtain an elective to juniors and seniors staff, administrators and school Student Pulse • 10 "Across Georgia, 13 percent of all long-term goals and think about the focusing on abstinence, life skills, See ABSTINENCE page 17 ^ ^MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA U.S. Postage h£*£*n£*i" " wrtricK I na MM PAI D m~J%*s **s tLf **s JL 10600*10 Permit No. 210 Division of External Affairs Ubrary Augusta, GA Medical College of Georgia AB228 Non-Profit Org. Augusta, Georgia 30912 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA beeper THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 Putting a halt to junk mail ITD works to black out spam The Information Technology by Ellen Gladden service in Oct. 7, after which users Division uses subject blocks and Spam prevention tips: should see at least a 50 percent sender/domain blocks to reduce The Medical College of Georgia is decrease in the amount of spam. unwanted e-mail, or spam. implementing a service to help Never give out your MCG e- We have been testing the service Group Wise 6.5 contains an addi block unwanted e-mail. mail address to anything that is over the last month and we would tional measure of spam prevention. Over 3 million pieces of e-mail not work-related. Every Internet have effectively blocked between When unwanted solicitations were sent to and from the MCG site you provide with an e-mail 10,000 and 12,000 messages a arrive, users can choose to either computer network between Aug. 17 address could sell your address day," said Mr. Rote. junk all mail from the specific sender and Sept. 19. At least 300,000 of to solicitors of unwanted mail. When the blacklist block takes or junk all mail from that Internet those were unwanted solicitations, Forward unwanted mail to the effect, a blacklisted e-mail sender domain (the part of the e-mail advertisements or nuisance mail, MCG Postmaster account by typ will receive a notice that says address following the @ symbol). better known as spam. ing "MCG Email Postmaster" in MCG's server is not accepting its Mail directed to the Junk Mail folder As Internet use increases, so the "To" field of your message. The message will give will remain there for 14 days before does the amount of spam. The GroupWise e-mail. Make sure to some instruction on how to correct transfer to the Trash folder. Mail Bits 8 Bijtes unsolicited e-traffic is more than click "Forward as an attach the issue. Because addresses on the from a sender or domain that is just an annoyance to the recipient. ment" so all tracking informa blacklist are known spam offend "blocked" will be automatically dis Editor's note: The Information Technology Spam can bottleneck large network tion in the e-mail is forwarded to ers, the Information Technology carded before it arrives in the mail Division offers technology tips in this col systems and may contain viruses the postmaster. Division doesn't expect the block box. umn. To submit questions or suggestions for that could impact network secu Use the "junk mail" feature in to affect any business-related e- topics, contact Becky Rogers, manager of rity. GroupWise to set up e-mail mail. However, if legitimate e-mail To junk or block an e-mail: the Web Technology Group, at ext. 1-3668. "Over the last year and a half, blocks from specific addresses is blocked, the sender should con 1. With the message selected, click we've seen a significant increase in or domains. (See Bits N Bytes, tact their e-mail system administra "Actions," then "Junk Mail" OR right the amount of spam received at left.) tor. click the message and select "Junk "Junk Mail Handling." Addresses MCG," said e-mail postmaster The blacklist will not impact Mail." and domains that have been blocked Jason Rote. "There's a number of internal announcements or e-mails 2. Select "Junk Sender" or "Block or junked can be checked and reasons why, but in particular, has been scrutinized by big busi sent from an MCG or MCG Health, Sender." updated or new entries can be manu spam senders have gotten more ness and legislators, but no laws Inc. server to a large number of 3. Choose to junk/block the e-mail ally placed from this menu. creative with how they obtain e- ban unsolicited e-messages. To recipients. However, if users find address or the entire domain. mail addresses." help alleviate the problem, watch they are not receiving mail 4. Click OK to complete. For more information, contact the Companies wishing to market dog groups such as SpamCop mon expected from an off-campus appropriate help desk ext. 1- 4000 their products to large numbers of itor addresses from which spam address, call the appropriate help Junk Mail Handling settings can be for MCG, or ext. 1-7500 for MCG e-mail recipients often purchase originates. Companies can sub desk (ext. 1- 4000 for MCG, or ext. viewed by clicking "Tools," then Health, Inc. addresses or get them through scribe to a blacklist service to help 1-7500 for MCG Health, Inc.) and illicit means such as taking them block unwanted messages from Mr. Rote can help identify the prob from visitors to a particular Web entering their computer network.