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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Georgia Southern Magazine University Communications and Marketing Spring 2015 Georgia Southern Magazine Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/georgia-southern Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "Georgia Southern Magazine" (2015). Georgia Southern Magazine. 21. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/georgia-southern/21 This magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the University Communications and Marketing at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Georgia Southern Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY BALD EAGLE TURNS 30 TRUE BLUE MEANS TRUE LOVE FOR MANY COUPLES NEW TICK DISCOVERY MAGAZINE CONTINUING EDUCATION Located in both Statesboro and Savannah, the division serves Accomplish More. as the premier educational link between the campus’s nationally recognized academic resources and the community, for both work and life. Learning With over 30 online, professional, opportunities personal and customized training to help you programs offered year-round, the Division of Continuing Education meet your goals. delivers life-long learning to help you further your goals. DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION Nessmith-Lane Conference Center • Coastal Georgia Center Continue Your Education @ GeorgiaSouthern.edu/conted SPRING 2015, VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 NEWS / 22 ATHLETICS / 38 TAKING THE STAGE AN IMPROBABLE RECORD NUMBERS SEASON CLOSING GAPS ACCREDITED ACHIEVEMENT ALUMNUS NAMED NEW DEAN REMARKABLE STUDIES SPRINGING INTO ACTION WHATEVER HAPPENED T0 ON-TARGET RECREATION SIDELINES CONTINUING EDUCATION POWER LIST ALUMNI / 48 DAY AT THE EVER EAGLE CAPITOL HONORED EAGLES THE FIELDING D. Located in both Statesboro and RUSSELL STUDENT THEIR CALLING UNION EAGLE NATION Savannah, the division serves THIS UNNAMED COUPLE'S STROLL THROUGH CAMPUS WAS CAPTURED AND PUBLISHED IN THE 1979 REFLECTOR GLOBAL REACH MOURNS Accomplish More. as the premier educational link YEARBOOK. MORE THAN 10,000 ALUMNI HAVE FOUND THEIR SOUL MATE AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN. SIX WORDS between the campus’s nationally RESEARCH / 32 FEATURE STORIES recognized academic resources CURIOUS MINDS and the community, for both 6 EAGLES IN LOVE Adam and Emily Pace met in art class at Georgia Southern, and, along with thousands of other alumni, gained a degree and the work and life. sweetheart of a lifetime from the University. 12 TASTE OF EXCITEMENT Eagle couple raises new restaurant from Learning the ashes less than a year after their popular Statesboro eatery went up in flames. With over 30 online, professional, 16 "I JUST WANT TO BE A GOOD GUY" Archie Manning, opportunities personal and customized training retired quarterback and ‘Eli and Peyton’s Dad,’ talks football, leadership and life SUPPORT / 58 lessons learned. programs offered year-round, the MAGICAL NOTE to help you WELCOME TO THE Professor Emeritus David Stone Division of Continuing Education 18 OUTSTANDING SERVICE FOUNDATION looks back and recounts treasured memories from 47 years in the mathematics meet your goals. DIGGING UP NEW delivers life-long learning to help classroom. AN EVENING WITH DERMACENTOR THE PRESIDENT you further your goals. RESEARCH NOTES 21 ANOTHER LEAP FORWARD University receives funding for the LEADING THE WAY construction of a new $33 million multidisciplinary classroom building. LASTING LEGACY FULL HOUSE DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION ON THE COVER: For Adam Pace (’11) and Emily Cannady (’13), it all happened on Sweetheart Circle. They are pictured in the exact spot where they had their first date and later were engaged. They were even married on Sweetheart Circle in 2014. Nessmith-Lane Conference Center • Coastal Georgia Center Georgia Southern magazine © 2015 Georgia Southern University ISSN 1524-0975 Continue Your Education @ GeorgiaSouthern.edu/conted GEORGIASOUTHERN.EDU/MAGAZINE 1 AN EXPLOSION OF COLOR AT THE HOLI FESTIVAL For the first time, Georgia Southern students celebrated Holi, also known as the Hindu Festival of Colors or the Festival of Love. The joyous celebration marks the arrival of spring and offers revelers the opportunity to toss colored powders in the air to coat their friends in the season's vibrant hues. GEORGIASOUTHERN.EDU/MAGAZINE 3 LETTER FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS DIRECTOR The Georgia In the past year, the Alumni Association This issue of Georgia Southern magazine Southern University hosted an array of memorable events, celebrates our outstanding Alumnus of Alumni Association including the biennial Alumni Awards, the Year and the other Alumni Award expanded its base the Class of 2014 “40 Under 40” Alumni recipients. At least 5,000 couples not last month when Awards, and the unique Evening with only found true love with a fellow more than 3,300 the President events, which allowed Eagle but also a lifetime partner. You undergraduate alumni to gather in different cities across will read about some of these Southern and graduate Georgia and in Florida, to network and Sweethearts in the magazine as well. students received share their passion for Georgia Southern. We also look at the success of the men’s their degrees at The Association keeps busy at dozens basketball team in its inaugural season Spring Commencement. Members of of locations all year through our Alumni in the Sun Belt Conference. Eagle Nation are passionate, loyal Networks, Southern Women events, and never fail to show their True Blue Eagle Outreach activities, Alumni Thank you for your continued support spirit. The Alumni Association serves Scholarship Program and many more and please let us know how your Alumni the University by fostering lifelong local activities. I want to thank all alumni Association may assist you. relationships with alumni and friends who have supported the Association and through programs and services that I encourage others to connect with us Wendell Tompkins ('87) enhance the continued growth of through any of these activities. Senior Director of Alumni Relations and Georgia Southern. Annual Giving TRUE BLUE spotlight 30 YEARS OF GLORY Glory, one of Georgia Southern’s Glory's story started in 1985 when beloved bald eagles, turned 30 in her egg was retrieved from a nest in March. To celebrate, the Center for the Florida Everglades by the U.S. Fish Wildlife Education and Lamar Q Ball, Jr. and Wildlife Service. She successfully Raptor Center hosted a day of birthday hatched from her egg and was eventually activities, which included prizes, cake released in the Gulf Shores area of and a flighted raptor show. Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had hoped she would find a mate, “Turning 30 was a big day for Glory,” lay eggs and help the endangered bald said Casey McCall Corbett, education eagle population. Unfortunately, her coordinator at the Wildlife Center. “We story in the wild ended too soon. She was wanted to make it all about her.” shot while flying near Albany, Georgia. The injury required the amputation of Since first appearing at football games part of her left wing. in the 1990s, the revered matriarch has presided over numerous events, including Then in the fall of 1990, Georgia Southern three national championships. She has was just minutes away from winning a relinquished her mascot responsibilities fourth football national championship. to our current bald eagle, Freedom. Glory During the live televised game, a now welcomes visitors to the Center for cameraman focused in on a bird of prey Wildlife Education while sitting high in flying high over the stadium and the This Georgia Southern ambassador her nest on the Raptor Walkway. sports announcer commented that it is a powerful representation of the was Georgia Southern's mascot. As well- University’s True Blue spirit, and fans For the birthday celebration, Wildlife meaning as he was, he did not realize can visit Glory and the other bald eagles Center Director Steve Hein presented a it was a turkey vulture. Hein, a master at the Center for Wildlife Education program on eagles, highlighting Glory's falconer, was contacted for help and after and Lamar Q Ball, Jr. Raptor Center on story so that everyone in attendance got making a few calls to the Fish and Wildlife campus Monday through Friday and a chance to know this “mighty” bird a Service, Glory was placed with Georgia most Saturdays during the months of little better. Southern University. September through May. THEN AND NOW 1976 WVGS 91.9 signed on the air 41 years ago as a student-run radio station. Many of our alumni may remember the first song played was “Statesboro Blues” by the Allman Brothers Band. A year after it was created in Sanford Hall, the studio moved to the Williams Center where it remained until last year when it relocated to its original home, Sanford Hall. This photo shows what the FM radio station looked like in 1976. Check out the old turntables, the reel-to-reel tape deck, the mounted speakers, the rack of magnetic tape cartridges (they resemble 8-track tapes) and the shelves of vinyl albums. The station broadcast at only 10 Watts back then. In 1984, the FCC granted authority for the station to operate at 1,000 watts. It has been at that level ever since. The room shown in the picture above, now houses the 1,000 watt, solid-state, transmitter currently in use. 2015 In comparison, digital recordings have replaced all things analog at today’s 91.9 The Buzz. Students can choose from thousands of recordings including songs, voice tracks and public service announcements, which are stored on a single software machine the station uses for music rotation. They can play from multiple genres of music, including pop, country, rap, rock, alternative and even South Korean, Latin and Caribbean. Today’s studio contains an audio board, over-the-air microphones and computers. The studio also houses an interview room and a production room.