The Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and the UGA Retirees Association will host a reception April 27 for UGA faculty, staff and administrators who retired between May 2016 and April 2017.
The new retirees, who were mailed invitations to the event, will be presented with certificates thanking them for their service to the university.
The annual reception for new retirees is a tradition at UGA that allows retirees to be formally recognized for their service. The UGARA Council is grateful for the support of UGA President Jere W. Morehead and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Pamela Whitten to make this a special occasion.
The keynote speaker for the event will be Hugh Ruppersburg, Emeritus University Professor and senior associate dean of arts and sciences.
Information will be available at the reception about UGARA, which includes all UGA retirees—faculty, staff and administrators—who become members when they officially retire from the university. UGARA is governed by a council that consists of elected members who serve three-year terms.
The council members for 2016-2017 were Mark Eason, president; Tom Landrum, vice president; Freda Scott Giles, secretary; Tommy Altman, treasurer; plus Paul Kurtz, Laura Dowd, Jim Cobb, Nancy McDuff and Tom Eaton. Tom Lauth, former UGARA president, served this past year as UGA’s representative to the University System of Georgia Retiree Council.
Landrum will succeed Eason as president of the council for 2017-2018. Incoming council members include Marilyn Huff-Waller, Ruhanna Neal and Henry Hibbs. They will succeed council members who have completed their service.
For more information about UGARA, see http://ugara.uga.edu/ or visit the UGARA Facebook page.
