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Vol. 43 No. VIII
Serving the
CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Community
May 14, 2012
Inside
Departments:
Arts Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Across the Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Life’s Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
International Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . .8
Trivia Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
In This Issue:
Troelstra Named VP
External Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
CoB Featured in Georgia Trend . . .2
CoB in the Community . . . . . . . . . .3
Earth Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
National Student
Employment Week . . . . . . . . . . . .4
History Class Cleans Up
Fayette Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Toxicology Students Visit EPA . . . .9
Ambassador Young Inspires Clayton State Graduates
Dr. Mary Hollowell Awarded
Fulbright Scholarship
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Commencement at Clayton State
University is always an inspiring event for
the graduates, their families and the
University’s faculty and staff.
The 2012 Spring Commencement on
Saturday, May 5, was, perhaps, a little
more inspiring than the average, thanks to
the commencement speaker, former
Atlanta mayor, Ambassador Andrew
Young.
Ambassador, civil rights leader, humani-
tarian, mayor, congressman, cabinet
member, educator and an American icon,
literally man who needed no introduction
(although a fine one was given by Clayton
State President Dr. Thomas J. Hynes),
Young returned to Clayton State campus
for the first time in eight years. Although
very few of Saturday’s graduates were
present in 2004 when Young was the
keynote speaker at the annual Martin
Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Event,
everyone in the audience unquestionably
knew of his humanitarian efforts and
influence that have spanned the globe.
In speaking to a total of approximately
500 graduates and a full house of roughly
1500 at both the 9 a.m., and noon cere-
monies, Young made sure no one went
home uninspired, tailoring his remarks to
the first ceremony (and the graduates
from the College of Business, College of
Health, and College of Information and
Mathematical Sciences) towards opportu-
nities and moving forward, and, in his
second address (to the graduates from the
College of Arts & Sciences), speaking on
the theme of kindness to one another.
Although acknowledging the problems
the world faces in 2012, Young stressed
Clayton State University Associate
Professor of Education Dr. Mary
Hollowell will be returning to the
People’s Republic of China… as the
recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.
Hollowell’s grant, a Fulbright Teaching
Scholarship, is for the spring and summer
of 2013. She will be teaching American
Educational Policy and American
Children's Literature in English to
Chinese college students at a location still
to be determined. Clayton State faculty
members have previously earned a half
dozen short-term Fulbright-Hays Grants,
but this is the University’s first Fulbright
Teaching Scholarship.
Journeying to China from Peachtree City
with Hollowell will be daughters Kate and
Sophie Mei. Husband Scott Hollowell,
who has business
commitments in
the spring, will
join the rest of the
family later. The
Hollowells have
previously jour-
neyed to China to
adopt daughter
Sophie Mei.
“In essence, we'll
be an ambassador
family,” says Clayton State’s newest
Fulbright Scholar.
Hollowell’s award comes from the J.
William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Dr. Mary Hollowell
Commencement, cont’d., p. 12
Ambassador Andrew Young
Hollowell, cont’d., p. 7