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The Red and Black • Tuesday, April 10, 1990 • 3
Fort Valley’s program
improved after lawsuit
The Associated Press
FORT VALLEY, Ga- At Fort
Valley State College, Suzanne
Pyron sits with other students
studying diseases, surgical proce
dures and drugs in a course that
prepares her to assist veterinar
ians in caring for animals.
She is one of 35 students en
rolled in the veterinary science
program at Fort Valley, one of
just five schools in the nation of
fering a bachelor’s degree in vet
erinary technology. The program
was created in 1976 under a de
segregation plan aimed at in
creasing white enrollment at the
historically black state college.
Department head Kashmiri
Arora said the program “is doing
its job.”
Currently, 20 of its veterinary
students are black and 15 are
white. Twenty-one are females;
14 are males. Eleven students
plan to transfer to other institu
tions to work on advanced de
grees.
“We are very proud of our pro
gram,” said Arora. “We have
made tremendous achieve
ments.”
Fort Valley’s 2,097-student en
rollment during the fall quarter
included 1,961 blacks and 125
whites. Students can major in lib
eral arts, agriculture, business,
science and other fields.
A lawsuit against the college in
1986 contended it was academi
cally inferior to other colleges in
the University System of Georgia
and denied students equal educa
tional opportunities. Fort Valley
agreed to make necessary
changes in a 1988 consent decree.
Under the consent decree, the
veterinary program would get a
larger building and more modern
equipment, at least one new pro
fessor and a new technician. The
agreement also recommends
scholarships and financial aid to
retain students in the program.
“We are in the process of up
grading facilities and ... doing
faculty enhancement work,” said
Kay Miller, university system
spokeswoman.
Miller said a management con
sultant will study problems at
Fort Valley and make recommen
dations to the Board of Regents.
Also, Chancellor H. Dean Propst
visits the school each month for
updates and meetings with
acting president Melvin Walker.
Arora said the veterinary stu
dents are qualified when they
graduate.
“I don’t see anything that
should discourage anyone from
coming to this place,” Arora said.
“The quality of teaching here is
excellent, and the teachers are
highly aualified. The graduates
who go from here are taken like
hotcakes."
Fred McLaughlin, a black as
sistant professor, said the veteri-
nary program creates
opportunities for black students
attracted to laboratory sciences
and health care.
“Many of them have a great
love for animals,” McLaughlin
said. “We are providing an oppor
tunity for students to go into an
area where many blacks are not
traditionally accustomed to
going.”
Three other faculty members
—Arora, Ben Lowery and Seyed-
mehdi Mobini — are doctors of
veterinary medicine.
Facelifting a garden:
The Founder’s Garden restored to glory
LYNN BARFIELD
Contributing Writer
One of the most beautiful and
beloved places on the University’s
campus is getting a much-needed
facelift.
The Founder’s Garden of the La
dies Garden Club of Athens, lo
cated on North Campus behind
Joseph Brown Hall, is being reno
vated due to 50 years of wear and
tear.
Robert Hill, associate professor
in environmental design, a
member of the Garden Club’s re
storation committee and garden di
rector, said a restoration designer
from Atlanta will handle the reno
vation plans. The University’s hor
ticulture department will consult
on perennial plants for the garden.
Eunice Robertson, an Athens
resident and a member of the
Garden Club’s Advisory Com
mittee, said a gate was erected two
years ago to stoD vehicle traffic
during the football seasons because
the grass was being ruined.
‘The garden was designed to
stroll through and for students to
study there,” Robertson said.
Hill said the grass is being re
placed by sod because much of the
grass is dead due to heavy traffic.
The aging and cracking brick
wall surrounding the garden will
be replaced with Belgian brick. Hill
said the serpentine shape of the
bricks that make up the garden’s
wall give the garden its unique ap
peal.
‘The design of the brick was cre
ated by Thomas Jefferson,” Hill
said.
The brick wall is only one width
thick and creates a snake-like sil
houette that encompasses a foun
tain and a female garden figure
designed by sculptor C.T. Posey.
The figure was presented to the
Garden Club in 1954.
The money for the restoration is
being provided by the Garden Club
of Georgia and regular mainte
nance is paid for by the club, Rob
ertson said.
Robertson would not say how
much the renovations will cost the
club.
She said the garden will be ded
icated to the twelve founding mem
bers of the Athens chapter of the
Garden Club in February to cele
brate the 100th anniversary of the
club.
According to a historical sketch
provided by Hill, the Ladies
Garden Club was organized in
1891 in Athens. After a motion was
approved to build a memorial
garden for the founding members,
Hubert Owens, who was then the
head of the University’s landscape
architecture department, decided
to collaborate with the Garden
Club in 1936 to get the project
started.
Construction of the garden was
halted during World War II, but
was resumed in 1945. Construction
was finished four years later, and
the Garden Club was presented a
commemorative medal by the Na
tional Council of State Garden
Clubs on completion of the garden.
Robertson said the fountain was
erected in the garden to honor the
veterans of World War II, Rob
ertson said.
Hill, who became director of the
garden when he accepted his posi
tion in the School of Enviromental
Design in 1973, said it’s a popular
spot on the University’s campus for
students and for functions spon
sored by the University and the
Garden Club of Athens.
The garden renovations should
be completed by the end of April.
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