WHAT: Hearing from keynote speaker Kellie Appel, senior vice president and general manager of Turner Trade Group, a division of Turner Broadcasting Sales. The week also includes a panel discussion featuring Allen Bass, owner of such restaurants as Bert's, 580 Cherry and Trio; Lisa English, regional technical manager for Wilson Sporting Goods; Eric Wilson, assistant vice president of Merrill Lynch.
MACON - Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. President Bryan Moss will be the featured speaker at The Executive Forum on Thursday, Feb. 16. He will give a breakfast presentation at 7:30 a.m. at The University Center at Mercer University in Macon.
(Posted in The Macon Telegraph on Sunday, March14, 2004)
Macon is fortunate to have a number of citizens who, over time, have given their wealth of knowledge and experience - and their money - to the betterment of the community. Annually, the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce honors a "Citizen of the Year" at its annual meeting. This year's recipient could not have deserved the honor more. Dr. R. Kirby Godsey, president of Mercer University, has been a positive force in the Middle Georgia community for a quarter of a century.
Dr. Godsey could have earned the chamber's honor had his accomplishments been restricted to Mercer. While a case could be made that Mercer's School of Engineering and the School of Medicine and the nursing programs would have come about without Godsey, in reality, theformulation of each discipline took vision and, more important, a...
A new hymnal for Baptists and other Christian fellowships is slated for release in 2009, the year that marks the 400th anniversary of Baptists. The Townsend-McAfee Institute Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer University is leading efforts to organize, research and collect songs of worship for the hymnal. The project is true to Mercer's commitment of extending its resources to Baptists and other Christians and in keeping with the hymnic tradition set forth by the University's namesake, Jesse Mercer, with his Cluster of Spiritual Songs, which was first published around 1800, before passing through 11 editions.
MACON - Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law will hold its commencement at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 12, in the Macon City Auditorium, with approximately 120 graduates receiving degrees during the ceremony.
Recently retired Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher will deliver the commencement address to graduates. The University will also award Justice Fletcher a Doctor of Laws honorary degree during the ceremony.
Justice Fletcher was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia on June 28, 2001. He served continuously on the Court from his appointment on Dec. 28, 1989, by Gov. Joe Frank Harris until he retired from the Court in June of 2005.
He began his law practice in 1958 and in 1963 formed a partnership with the late George P. Shaw and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. While in private practice, he represented the state of Georgia as a special assistant attorney general and he also served as LaFayette city attorney and Walker...
MACON, Ga. - Each month the Atlanta Tip-Off Club honors the top high school players, coaches and officials in metro Atlanta that features a special roundtable discussion. Mercer women's basketball head coach Brenda Welch-Nichols will speak at this month's banquet on Jan. 30.
Nichols will be joined on the dais by Auburn men's basketball head coach Jeff Lebo and Georgia women's head basketball coach Andy Landers.
"It's a great honor to sit on a panel with Jeff Lebo and Andy Landers," said Nichols. "Hopefully, I'll be able to pick their brains some and bring home some great knowledge."
Nichols is also excited about the opportunity the banquet provides her and Mercer. "This is a great chance to promote my team and Mercer athletics," she said.
"This is good exposure for the program," said Mercer athletics director Bobby Pope. "It's also very timely because [Coach Nichols] has the team playing good defense and going in the right...
ATLANTA - There was no heated rhetoric, and only a few talking points, when two savvy 30-something Christians - a Democrat and a Republican - came to Mercer University to speak about their faith and their work inside the Beltway. The speakers, Katie Paris and Joshua Trent, spent the day on campus giving two presentations and speaking to classes as part of Mercer's Lyceum initiative. "We are hosting conversations that we hope will model civility and intelligence, the kind of civility and intelligence our country so desperately needs in these bitterly polarized times," said Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of Mercer's Center for Theology and Public Life, which co-sponsored the event.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences presented Daniel E. Buffington with its Distinguished Alumnus Award during the College's commencement on May 2. Buffington is president and CEO of Clinical Pharmacology Services Inc., in Clearwater, Fla. The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest award presented to alumni of the College who have achieved recognition for academic, scientific or leadership contributions in science, business or public service and who has shown exemplary support and service to the community and to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
MACON - Mercer University's Board of Trustees today approved a $193.4 million operating budget for next year, an $8 million, or 4.3 percent, increase over the current budget. Tuition for Mercer's undergraduate programs will increase by 2.92 percent. Last year's increase for Macon undergraduate programs was 3.48 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent in 2009, 6.5 percent in 2008, 6.8 percent in 2007 and 7 percent in 2006. Most graduate and professional programs will experience tuition increases of between 3 percent and 5.3 percent next year, and undergraduate programs for working adult students will see no tuition increase.
ATLANTA - Melissa Denno and Destin Sampson, both third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students in Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, have been selected for prestigious summer internships sponsored by the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP) in collaboration with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). Denno and Sampson were among 12 students interviewed from a national applicant pool for the highly competitive internships and ended up taking both slots - the first time the internships have gone to students from the same institution.
