Calendar of Events

Monday, January 27

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

Tuesday, January 28

7:30 a.m.-Red Cross Board Meeting (Magnolia Room)

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

11:00 a.m.-Student Support Services Workshop

(Cordell Conf. Room A)

Wednesday, January 29

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

Noon-Fit for Life (Magnolia Room)

3:00 p.m.-Staff Forum (Cordell Conf. Room A)

5:30 p.m.-Basketball: Fillies vs. Middle Ga. (Gressette Gym)

6:00 p.m.-Student Union Show-Clayton Miller Band (Dining Hall)

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

7:30 p.m.-Basketball: Stallions vs. Middle Ga. (Gressette Gym)

Thursday, January 30

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

11:30 a.m.-Faculty/Staff Luncheon (Magnolia Room)

3:00 p.m.-Advisor Workshop for CAPP (Cordell Conf. Room A)

Friday, January 31

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

Saturday, February 1

8:00 a.m.-Child Care Conference (Cordell Conf. Room/

Dining Hall)

2:00 p.m.-Basketball: Fillies vs. Ga. Perimeter (Gressette Gym)

4:00 p.m.-Basketball: Stallions vs. Ga. Perimeter

(Gressette Gym)

Monday, February 2

8:00 a.m.-Ga. Chiefs Assoc. Management Program

(Cordell Conf. Room C)

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

Pedestrian Mall on the Move

The fountain wall is scheduled to be poured today for Phase I of the Pedestrian Mall. Plans are progressing to complete the first phase and begin on Phase II in coming weeks. Phase II will extend all the way to the new Ag Sciences Building between the Horticulture Building and Branch Hall.

Call Selected as VP

Tom Call has been selected as the Vice President for Student Enrollment Services at ABAC. He has served in that position on an interim basis for the past year. Call began his service to ABAC as a faculty member in the Division of Agriculture and Forest Resources in 1981. He was also director of the public radio station at ABAC, WABR, before becoming the registrar for the institution.

Moultrie Numbers Growing

Kay Powell, Director of ABAC on the Square, reports over 350 students enrolled in classes at ABAC’s Moultrie location this semester. That is almost 100 more students than at this time last year. Thanks to all those who allowed the Moultrie operation to enjoy its greatest enrollment since it began in 1987.

Numbers Up at Night

Director of Evening and Off-Campus Programs Gail Dillard reports that 850 students are now attending evening classes on the ABAC campus, almost 250 more than last spring. Thanks to all those faculty and staff members who assist in making the evening program a great success for our students.

Huge Games Wednesday

The annual ABAC-Middle Georgia rivalry will take place at Gressette Gym on Wednesday beginning at 5:30 p.m. when the Golden Fillies of Coach Julie Conner take on the Lady Warriors. In the nightcap, Coach Robert Moore’s Stallions will battle the always tough Warriors from Cochran. Come out and cheer the ABAC teams to victory over arch rival Middle Georgia. Both ABAC teams will also be at home on Saturday for a 2 p.m. twin bill against Georgia Perimeter.

Staff Forum Wednesday

All members of the ABAC staff are invited to the Staff Forum meeting on Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Section A of the Cordell Conference Room.

First Tuesday February 4

The next First Tuesday Concert featuring Stan Smith, Vann Thornton, and Marlene Bowen will be held on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths.

International Info February 4

David Starling, Assistant Director of Valdosta State’s Center for International Programs, will be at ABAC on Feb. 4 from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. He will have a table set up in the dining hall with plenty of information about Study Abroad opportunities for ABAC students.

Celebrating Birthdays

January

28 Jimmy Grubbs

28 Stefane Hightower

29 Steve Moore

31 Frances Wilson

February

1 Stan Diffie

More Office Changes

Business Division faculty members Kip Smith and Kathy Moreno now occupy the former Evening Program Office in Conger Hall. An accounting study lab is also located in that area. The Evening Program Office is now located in Tift Hall in the former home of the Registrar’s Office adjacent to the Admissions Office, which was formerly located in Weltner Hall.

The Public Service and Business Outreach Center and the former Youth Connection offices are now located in Weltner Hall, the former home of the Admissions Office. The Youth Connection program is now called the ABAC Kids College.

That move left a vacancy in the Carlton Center where the PSBOC was located. At the end of this week, Dr. Chrystle Ross, Patsy Hembree, Jim May, and Donnie Thompson from the Office of Information Technology will move to that location. GEAR UP personnel are now located in the former Youth Connection Office on the second floor of Tift Hall adjacent to the College Services Office.

Deadline for Hawaii

The deadline for submitting an application and paying a deposit for ABAC’s Hawaii trip this summer is March 7. The cost for the 10-day trip is approximately $2,795. Projected dates of the trip are June 5-14. Contact Katrina Williams at 3267 or email her at kwilliam for more information. It promises to be a fabulous trip.

Scholarship Deadline March 15

The deadline for submitting applications for scholarships at Abraham Baldwin is March 15. Students who are interested in scholarships for either the 2003 summer term or the 2003 fall semester should apply by March 15 to the Office of Academic Affairs.

Fifty-eight scholarships totaling $49,525 were awarded during the annual Honors Day event last April. The awards were funded by the ABAC Foundation. For info, contact the Office of Academic Affairs at 3238.

Did You Know . . .

ABAC has defied national trends in enrollment demographics by remaining gender equal (virtually 50/50) until fall, 2002. This fall our female population was 54 percent and male was 46 percent.

Note of Sympathy

The ABAC Family expresses sympathy to retired staff member Margie Ivey whose husband, James, passed away on Jan. 19. Please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.

Care & Concern

Etta Lee’s husband, John, is recuperating after undergoing gall bladder surgery last week. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Notes of Thanks

I just wanted to say once again THANKS to each of you for the cards, thoughts, prayers, calls, visits, flowers, and so many other acts of kindness shown to me these past four months and 10 days. I returned last Tuesday, moving a bit slower than usual, but so glad to be back. I pray that God’s richest blessings will be yours to claim.

Brenda Graham

ABAC Family

President Mike Vollmer was the guest speaker at the Moultrie Kiwanis Club on Jan. 23. He spoke on ABAC’s plans for the future. Also attending the meeting were Dr. Gail Dillard, Kay Powell, and Mike Chason.

A review of Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers written by Dr. Charlotte Pfeiffer, Professor Emeritus, appears in the January/February 2003 issue of Georgia Writers News/Magazine.

Mike Chason attended the University System of Georgia Marketing Task Force in Atlanta on Jan. 22.

Bryan Golden was the guest speaker at the Ashburn Rotary Club on Jan. 16. He spoke on the differences in law enforcement in the United States and Israel.

Dr. Ed Seagle was the guest speaker for the Kiwanis Club of Sylvester on Jan. 15 where he spoke on ABAC, golf turf, and Forest Lakes.

Katrina Williams was the guest speaker at the Ashburn Rotary Club on Jan. 23 on ABAC’s Public Service and Business Outreach opportunities.