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President Hynes on Clayton State’s Regional
Impact: Economic Effects Gratifying,
Value to Quality of Life Also Significant
Clayton State Runners… More than
A Century of Peachtree Road Races
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Campus Review
Serving the CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY Community
Vol. 44, No. VIII | August 1, 2013
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
With the release this past week of the
annual study by the Selig Center for
Economic Growth of the University
System of Georgia’s economic impact,
Clayton State University was once again
shown to be a major player in the life of
the Southern Crescent. However, as
Clayton State President Dr. Thomas
Hynes points out, Clayton State’s regional
impact goes beyond numbers, to the over-
all quality of life in the region.
The study, conducted by Dr. Jeffrey M.
Humphreys, director of the Selig Center,
calculates the economic impact for FY12
by analyzing data collected between July
1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. The annual
study is conducted on behalf of the Board
of Regents of the University System of
Georgia.
“Even in the worst economic times in a
generation or two, our colleges and uni-
versities proved to be strong pillars and
drivers of the economies of their host
communities, says Humphreys of the
study results as a whole. “That’s due to
rising demand for higher education
regardless of the overall economic cli-
mate.”
The current study shows that Clayton
State’s economic impact on the Southern
Crescent for FY12 was $256 million and
2,377 jobs. Over the past five years,
according to the Selig studies, Clayton
State’s economic impact has increased 39
percent, from $184 million. Within the
same time frame, the number of jobs the
University was responsible for increased
37 percent, from 1737 jobs. Hynes says
the results are gratifying, and part of the
big picture of Clayton State’s role in the
community.
“Clayton State University’s direct eco-
nomic effects on the region we serve are
gratifying,” says Hynes. “But as Dr.
Humphreys observes, the data serve only
as a hint of other impacts for our commu-
nity — the data show report payments to
artists in Spivey Hall, but not the value of
Everyone knows that the July 4, 2013 run-
ning of the Peachtree Road Race was the
44th renewal of this Rite of Summer.
However, 2013 Peachtree participants
from Clayton State University can claim
to have more than a century’s worth of
Peachtrees under their Nikes, New
Balances, Sauconys and Adidas.
Nine members of the Clayton State com-
munity gathered on the Quad the week
after the race for the University’s annual
Peachtree Road Race Finisher photo. In
between swapping stories about the race,
it was determined that the nine runners
present for the photo had participated in
more than 125 years worth of Peachtree
Road Races.
Led by Assistant Track and Cross Country
Coach Hugh Toro, who has run every
Peachtree but the first two (that’s 42 con-
secutive years, people), the Clayton State
Nine, who include President Dr. Thomas
Hynes, have not only accumulated a total
of 128 Peachtree Road Races, but every
one of the nine present had run in at least
five of the nation’s largest 10K.
While Toro may be Clayton State’s
Peachtree Champion (only one person
anywhere has run more Peachtrees), the
rest of the crowd all had good reason to
show off their fashionable black shirts
from this year’s race. Clayton State stu-
dent Yao Seidu, who is also editor of The
Bent Tree, made some news himself –
he’s run so many Peachtrees that he’s lost
count. He thinks he is up above 30, how-
ever. President Hynes ran his 16th
Impact, cont’d., p. 8
Road Race, cont’d., p. 9