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Spalding Junior High School student Kim Beaty has
been presented a Griffin Music Club scholarship to at
tend the University of Georgia Music Workshop. He
is an outstanding member of the Spalding Junior
High Band and is leader of the Village VI, a combo.
Georgia’s Davison
He Doesn't Look
Like President
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—He drives a
diesel - powered Mercedes-Bens.
None of his children are yet in
high school He has almost boy
ish features and could easily be
come lost in a crowd of gradu
ate students at the University.
He just doesn’t look like a col
lege president.
But Dr. Fred Davison, at 37,
has become one of the youngest
college presidents in the coun
try. The Board of Regents
named him to succeed Dr. O. C,
Aderhold as president of the
University of Georgia beginning
July 1.
Davison comes highly recom
mended for the Job. In fact,
Chancelor George Simpson va
lued Davison's services as vice
chancellor so much he almost
didn’t recommend him for the
Job.
“But we couldn't have kept
him long,” Simpson said.
Davison’s rise has been me
teoric. Ten years ago he was a
practicing veterinarian in Ma
rietta. In the meantime, he has
received a Ph. D. from lowa
State, has led an atomic re
search project at lowa State,
has been dean of the Veterin
ary School at Georgia and has
served as vice chancellor.
Davison is determined the Uni
versity will gain national promi
nence during the next few years
and he thinks the magic ingre
dients of success are already
stirring in the state, Just waiting
to be put together.
“There is nothing more im
portant than the total climate
regarding higher education, and
we have a developing climate in
Georgia we can all be proud of,”
Davison said
Davison thinks the man in the
street, as well as the state pow
er structure, is now convinced
that education is the answer to
most of our social and economic
problems. He points proudly to
the highest education budget in
Georgia history passed by the
Bubonic Plague
Lucky Disease
Didn’t Spread
ATLANTA (UPI) — A soldier
from Vietnam last year brought
the first case of bubonic plague
into the United States In 42
years, the U.S Communicable
Disease Center reported Tues
day.
Dr. David J. Sencer, CDC di
rector, said it was "very defi
nitely lucky” the disease did not
spread because the 21-year-old
soldier had the plague for 16
days before it was diagnosed.
Dr. Sencer said the soldier
contracted the disease while en
gaging In a “rat - stomping”
contest in a rat Infested build
ing in Vietnam.
He entered the United States
Aug. 9 and reported to a Dallas,
Tex., hospital Aug. 29. It was
not until Sept. 13 that medical
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
legislature this year as an ex
ample.
It Is not only the attitude
within the state that Davison
sees in a state of change, but
also throughout the rest of the
nation. The stigma of simp’y be
ing a Southern university is be
ginning to wear off. he thinks.
“We’ve already attracted sub
stantial national prestige and
that makes recruiting easier,”
he said. “Our recruiting is get
ting easier all the time. The
heart of any developmental pro
gram lies in the successful re
cruitment of the finest possible
faculty.’’
Davison stresses positive
thinking as the path to excel
lence. “It’s going to take a high
ly positive attitude on the part
of everyone,” he said.
The problem facing Davison
now Is to build certain areas of
the University to national prom
inence with the resources avail
able, while maintaining the oth
er areas at a high level in the
meantime so they can also be
raised.
Davison says the current areas
being pushed are the biological
sciences, art, education and law.
"This year we take this group,
next year another. We take it
up peak by peak,” he says.
"The real challenge is to con
tinue the momentum that hns
built up over the last 10 years
and to direct that momentum
to see that it leads through ex
cellence to immenence, and that
this happens in all the Helds en
trusted to the university,” he
said.
For a man who worked his
way through school sweeping
floors and working In a cafe
teria, his latest success came as
another challenge and another
opportunity to work.
Sometime in the next few
weeks, Davison, his wife and
three children, a dog named Po
go, and a diesel powered Mer
cedes-Benz will move back to j
Athens and a job that will like
ly remove that boyish look from
his face.
sleuths found the plague re
sponsible for his illness.
Texas health authorities said
the soldier told them he had
been assigned to tear down a
rat - infested building in Viet
nam just before being sent
home.
“They wore heavy boots and
heavy clothing and the men en
gaged in contests of stomping
rats," the authorities said. “The
soldier recalled holding one rat
by the tail.”
Bubonic plague is transmitted
when a flea bites a man witb
Uie disease then bites another
man. It cannot be transmitted
directly from person to person.
The lost case occurred In the
United Stares in October 1924
when a stowaway with the di
sease landed in New Orleans.
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