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In This Issue:
Perspectives on the
New Science Building .........................2
Korean College Welcomes
Demmitt and Foster ............................ 3
Dr. Foster Saves a Life at
30,000 Feet ..........................................3
Homecoming...........................................4
Library Awarded National Endowment
For Humanities Gran ...........................4
Clayton State a Leader in
Digital Media ........................................5
Legos in January!....................................6
Arts & Sciences Advisory
Board ...................................................6
Nakos a Fellow of AIBSE ......................8
Making Things Better Award..................9
New Alma Mater...................................10
Dr. Franklin and Nelson Mandela;
Memories of Clayton State’s Fall 2013 Commencement
by John Shiffert
Groundbreaking a “Great Day” for the State of Georgia
Governor Deal Pledges $2.9M to Equip
New Clayton State Science Building
Campus Review
Serving the CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY Community
Vol. 44, No. XVI | December 12, 2013
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
Clayton State University has been holding
fall commencement ceremonies since
December 2000. All have been memo-
rable occasions for the graduates, their
families and the Clayton State faculty and
administration. However, the Saturday,
Dec. 7, 2013 Commencement will long be
remembered as a special occasion.
Following the 9 a.m. ceremony highlight-
ed by the keynote speech of State Senator
Jack Hill, chair of the Senate
Appropriations
Committee,
the
University honored former Atlanta mayor
Shirley C. Franklin at the noon ceremony
with the eighth honorary degree granted
by the University in its 45-year history.
Now as the holder of an honorary Clayton
State Doctorate of Public Service, Dr.
Franklin (as so-introduced by Clayton
State President Dr. Thomas Hynes) pro-
ceeded to give a most memorable com-
mencement address, basing her remarks
to the graduates on the example set by a
man she referred to as, “one of the great
heroes of the 20th Century,” former South
African President Nelson Mandela, who
passed away on Dec. 5, 2013, at the age of
95. Indeed, the sprit of a great man
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal electrified
a standing room-only crowd at the Nov.
14 groundbreaking for Clayton State
University’s new science building with a
pledge to include $2.9 million in next
year’s budget to equip the new facility.
Concluding his remarks before a large
gathering of Clayton State faculty, staff,
students and most of the local state leg-
islative delegation, Deal noted the impor-
tance of the planned $19.8 million build-
ing to the training of Georgia’s future
workforce, and added that an empty build-
ing wouldn’t be of much help to the stu-
dents.
“I am including $2.9 million in next
year’s budget to equip this building,” he
then pledged.
According to Dr. Michelle Furlong, chair
of the Clayton State Department of
Natural Sciences, the funds Deal spoke of
will be used mainly for scientific equip-
ment for the new building’s 16 labs.
Included in the science building’s 64,600
square feet will be eight instructional labs
-- five for biology and three for chemistry
– and eight research labs, evenly split
between biology and chemistry.
The ceremony was held on the site of the
new building, located in the parking lot
across from the University’s Laboratory
Annex Building. Other speakers for the
event, coincided with the beginning of
construction, included University System
of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby;
Science Building, cont’d. p. 15
Commencement, cont’d. p. 11