Nineteen UGA employees retired Oct. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are:
Vickie E. Bates, associate accountant, Soil, Plant and Water Lab, 19 years/6 months; Patty Bradberry, administrative associate II, English, 12 years; Mary E. Crile, county secretary, Cooperative Extension-Northeast district, 21 years/4 months; James T. Flanders, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southwest district, 28 years/6 months; Debra J. Gates, administrative assistant II, Fanning Institute, 9 years/11 months; Susan S. Giddens, county secretary, Cooperative Extension-Southwest district, 27 years/7 months; William Edgar Harrison, public service assistant, Cooperative Extension-Southwest district, 8 years/4 months; Laron Sidney Law, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast district, 27 years; Gordon Richard Lee, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast district, 21 years/10 months; R. Dewey Lee, professor, Cooperative Extension-crop and soil sciences, 28 years/7 months; Polly Carson Morgan, program specialist II, Cooperative Extension-Southwest district, 16 years/1 month; Gregory A. Sheppard, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Northeast district, 32 years/2 months; René D. Shoemaker, librarian IV, College of Environment and Design, 17 years; John Edward Smith, senior public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast district, 28 years/8 months; Robert Terry Thigpen, public service associate, Cooperative Extension-Southeast district, 28 years/1 month; Terry S. Tyner, student affairs professional II, College of Pharmacy, 29 years; Anthony Willie Tyson, administrative director, associate dean for Cooperative Extension, 28 years/4 months; Gary L. Wade, professor, Cooperative Extension-horticulture, 26 years; and Britton N. West, public service assistant, Cooperative Extension-Northeast district, 28 years.