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Calendar
of Events
Monday, September 2
Today-Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday, September 3
7:00 p.m.-First Tuesday Concert Series
(Chapel)
Wednesday, September 4
8:00 p.m.-Student Union Show—Party Train (Dining Hall)
Thursday, September 5
11:00 a.m.-Faculty/Staff Luncheon (Magnolia
Room)
Friday, September 6
6:00 p.m.-Salter/Dillard Wedding Rehearsal
(Chapel)
Saturday, September 7
5:00 p.m.-Salter/Dillard Wedding (Chapel)
6:00 p.m.-Salter/Dillard Wedding Reception
(Dining Hall)
Sunday, September 8
1:30 p.m.-Hunter Safety CD Rom Review (Cordell
Conf. Room A)
Monday, September 8
4:30 p.m.-Ag Ed Teachers Meeting (Cordell
Conf. Room)
7:30 p.m.-Tift County 4-H Annual Banquet
(Dining Hall)
Technology Day at
ABAC
Several
technology vendors will be on campus on Sept. 11 from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m.
in Section A of the Cordell Conference Room.
The list of vendors is not finalized, but Compaq, Cingular, and Scantron
will definitely be here. Local
businesses such as CityNet and other cell phone, pager, and computer vendors
are being invited. It is also likely that
you will have an opportunity to view the new electronic voting machine that will
be used in November elections across Georgia.
Following the
vendor display, The Dog Ate My PDA
will be presented from 3-4 p.m. in
Section C of the Cordell Conference Room.
Watch your email for updates.
Get Your Cordell
Lecture Tickets
Tickets for the
Tom M. Cordell Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Janisse Ray on Sept. 23
are available in the Public Relations Office.
There is no charge for the tickets, but due to limited seating capacity
in the Cordell Conference Room you must pick up tickets prior to the event. Ray is the author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
The book is being used in the Freshman Seminar classes at ABAC.
Concert Tuesday
Night
The first of
seven First Tuesday Concerts will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of
All Faiths at ABAC. Individual tickets
for the performance may be purchased at the door at a cost of $3 for adults and
$1 for students. ABAC students are admitted free with their ID cards.
Patrons of the Arts and Entertainment Series
can attend all the First Tuesday series at no charge. The cost for joining the
series is $50 per person. Call Arts
Connection Director Wayne Jones at 3558 to get your series tickets. The Atlanta Symphony will be the first
performance in this series on Sept. 12.
On Tuesday’s program will be ABAC faculty
members Don Coates, Wayne Jones, Dr. Susan Roe, Becky Rodgers, Eugene Wyles,
and Sheri Wyles Gabrowski.
Try Out for
Baldwin Players
Auditions for
the fall production of the Baldwin Players will be held Sept. 9-10 at 7 p.m. in
Conger 319. Baldwin Players Director
John Galyean said the production of The
Birthday Party by Harold Pinter will be Nov. 7-9 at 7:30 p.m. in Conger
319. For more information on auditions,
call Galyean at 3099.
The Birthday Party centers on the
inhabitants of a rundown seaside resort house.
Four men, two women, and many technicians are needed for the
production. Galyean said that Pinter is
known as the master of post-WWII British theatre. The perplexing “pauses” in his scripts are well
known as is his ear for dead-on naturalistic dialogue and realistic settings,
harshly placed against dreamlike and grotesque happenings.
Staff Forum
Meeting Change
The Staff Forum meeting originally scheduled for Sept. 4
has been changed to Sept. 18. The
meeting will take place at 3 p.m. in Section A of the Cordell Conference
Room. Please mark your calendar.
Wild Adventures
Here Friday
A
representative from Wild Adventures theme park in Valdosta will be selling
September through December passes for $29.95 and $6 for a parking pass at the
J. Lamar Branch Student Center from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday.
ABAC Partnership With Coca Cola
A new agreement
between Abraham Baldwin College and Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated
could be worth $318,640 to ABAC and its students over the next 10 years.
ABAC President
Mike Vollmer said $20,000 in scholarship money will be available to ABAC
students over the 10 years. The $2,000 per year scholarship will go to a high
school senior in the Tifton Coca-Cola market who attends ABAC. The agreement
also includes a $20,000 electronic message board that will benefit the entire
community as well as ABAC students.
As a result of the agreement, Coca-Cola will
be the exclusive soft drink, fruit drink, and isotonic drink vendor on the ABAC
campus and at ABAC on the Square in Moultrie.
The ABAC Athletics Program will receive new
equipment, including scoreboards, shot clocks, and a scoring table. This
equipment will employ the latest technology, using LEDs in place of
incandescent lamps for long-life benefits. Scoreboard cable and control
consoles will also be included with the free-standing 12-foot basketball
scoring table.
Alan Kramer, ABAC’s Director of Athletics
and Men’s Tennis Coach, said the idea to form a partnership with Coca-Cola
began with the need for new scoreboards and shot clocks in
Gressette Gym for the men's and women's basketball programs.
“I started the search for corporate
assistance with Coca-Cola because they are local,” Kramer said. “Bruce Walden
[Vending Account Manager] and Tim Ward [Cold Drink Supervisor] from Coca-Cola
have wanted an exclusivity contract with ABAC for quite some time. We saw this
as a win/win situation for both ABAC and Coca-Cola.”
Note of Sympathy
The ABAC Family
expresses sympathy to Wasdon Graydon whose brother, Leonard Graydon passed away on Aug. 23. Sympathy is also extended to
Dr. Sue Hammons whose aunt, Fannie May Smith, passed away on Aug. 26. Condolences also to B.J. Smith, whose
step-father, Bill Mickler, passed away on Aug. 27. Please keep all these families in your
thoughts and prayers.
Positions Open
ABAC:
◘ Temporary Instructor/Assistant Professor of
Chemistry
(deadline 10/18)
◘ Instructor/Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(deadline
(10/18)
◘ Parttime Clinical Instructor, Division of
Nursing &
Health
Services, $25 per hour
(needed this semester)
Contact the Office
of Human Resources for details.
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Celebrating Birthdays September 2 Joseph Njoroge 5 Dina Willis 6 Tawanna Ford 6 John Galyean 7 Charles Lewis 7 Helen Strickland 7 Shelton Wilcox 8 Patricia Barber 8 Diane Jackson 8 Mary Jane Rootes 8 Joy Shurley 9 Herb Hendrix |
ABAC Family
Mike Vollmer attended the opening of
the new Southeast Regional Archives just west of the campus of Clayton College
and State University on Aug. 26. The
project was underway when Vollmer served as Acting President at Clayton State.
Dr. Ed Seagle was the guest speaker for
Wendy Smith’s Workplace Readiness class at Tift County High School on Aug.
23. His topic was Landscaping: A Hobby and a
Profession.
Mike Chason spoke to three additional
classes at Worth County High School on Aug. 28 on The Eagle in You, Reaching Your Goals in Life, and Pathway to ABAC.
The
Student Development Center Staff and Rita Wade administered the ISAT to
39 students on Aug. 13. Donnie Thompson
provided technical support.
Dr. Maggie Martin administered
UGA/Mercer’s School of Pharmacy Ph.D. exam to two students on Aug. 17. She also attended
Sexual Assault Protocol for Counselors sponsored by the Georgia College
Counseling Association at Georgia Southern University on Aug. 2.
Carlos Howard represented ABAC at the
College Fair held at Central High School in Phenix City, Ala., on Aug. 26. He also made high school visits to Edgewood
Christian Academy in Columbus on Aug. 29 and Georgia Christian School in Dasher
on Aug. 30.
