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Vol. 125 Issue No. 15
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Owls And Artists Flock To Byron Municipal Complex
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Regina Mansfield introduces the artists and their owls Friday night at the auditorium in Byron. The owls were rented to various businesses around Byron and will be displayed for six
weeks. The owls will later be auctioned off. Photo by Danny Gilleland
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By Victor Kulkosky
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What goes around comes around.
At last week’s Banks-Pierro-Rutland
Bellamy Social and Behavioral
Sciences Colloquium, that was a
tive development.
History professor Donnie D. Bellamy
started the colloquium in 1980
honor three distinguished professors
Fort Valley State. College:
E.H. Pierro II and W.S.M. Banks
political scientist S.E. Rutland.
Bellamy’s retirement, his
and former students honored him by
adding his name to the colloquium.
Fred van Hartesveldt, current chair
the Department of History,
Political Science and Criminal
addressed the colloquium luncheon
Friday and noted it was Bellamy
gave him his first academic job.
Van Hartesveldt said he had
ed the colloquium 23 out of 28
and knew three of its four
Bellamy, Banks and Pierro.
“We spend so much time
sports' stars,” van Hartesveldt
“maybe it’s time we spent more
•honoring scholars.”
That was what the luncheon
ed to do, as First Lady Betty Rivers
a presidential proclamation
Bellamy, who was present at the
table, for his scholarly
The proclamation included
edging Bellamy’s recent receipt
the W.E.B. DuBois Award from
Association of Behavioral
Former FVSC President Horace
Bond was a previous honoree.
The highlight of the colloquium
cheon was the presentation of
to FVSU social and behavioral
ences alumni. The 2009
include:
Distinguished Alumnus in
Service: Bert Bivins III, a
County
See Colloquium Page
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APRIL 8, 2009
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Wesley Gandy goes belly-first into a mud pit Saturday afternoon. Wesley was one of many Peach County
youths participating in Disciple Now, a youth retreat sponsored by Harmony Community Church.
CDEP Students Honor
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By Victor Kulkosky
News Editor
Chemistry major Maurice Dukes
already had great regard for Isaac
J. Crumbly, director of Fort Valley
State University’s Cooperative
Developmental Energy Program.
After reading his mentor’s biography
and hearing about the Golden Torch
Award from the National Society of
p ^y Engineers, he saw the light.
“I’d been with NSBE (pronounced
“niz-bee”) long enough to recognize
his accomplishments,” the Atlanta
native said in an interview. Also,
he’d been advised an award like the
Golden Torch would shine a light on
CDEP and FVSU. So Dukes and
fellow CDEP Darren Williams nomi
nated Crumbly for a Golden Torch for
Lifetime Achievement in Academia.
-Crumbly got the award and was
honored, along with several other
winners, at NSBE’s recent convention
in Las Vegas.
It was a fitting recognition for
Crumbly, who began CDEP in 1983
to get summer internships for FVSU
students interested in engineering.
CDEP evolved into a unique program
that offers promising minority and
female students the opportunity to turn
their interests in math and science
j nt0 rewarding careers in energy and
related fields.
Each CDEP student earns a five
year dual degree. They spend three
years at FVSU in an intensive math
and science program, then they spend
two more years at one of several CDEP
partner universities, where they earn
an engineering-related degree. Among
the partners are University of Nevada
Las Vegas, University of Oklahoma,
University of Texas-Austin, University
of Texas Pan American, Georgia Tech,
and Penn State.
To date, CDEP has produced 67
engineers and 23 geoscientists. Four
CDEP grads have gone on to earn a
PhD. and 14 have earned a masters
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Pul On Your Walking
Shoes To Help
Others See
By Katie Minter Jones
Contributing Writer
The Foundation for Retinal
Research’s 5K Event, Walk With a
Vision, will be held Saturday, April 11
at Lane Packing Company on Highway
96. The goal of this event is to
heighten public awareness and raise
money for The Foundation for Retinal
Research. Proceeds from Walk With
a Vision support finding treatments
and cures for Retinal Degenerative
Diseases and supporting the lives of
affected families.
Registration for the three-mile walk
will be from 9 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. at
Lane’s, and the walkers may begin
walking from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Walkers may walk at their own pace
and strollers and pets are welcome.
A finish line celebration with
refreshments begins following the
event from 10:30 a.m. until noon.
Registration costs include: Individuals,
$25, includes one T-shirt and gel water
bottle; family, $60 includes two adult
T-shirts and a gel water bottle; team,
$75, each member gets an adult T-shirt
and water bottle.
See Walk Page A3
degree. The CDEP Pipeline, which
runs programs for middle school and
high school students, has had 383 stu
dents come through, with 70 going to
FVSU. Those internships, still a major
CDEP feature, have so far provided
about 320,000 hours of experience
and $4.2 million in earnings to help
students with their education. About
$30 million in resources have come to
FVSU through CDEP, which regularly
collects five- and six-figure checks
from energy companies and govern
ment agencies.
For Maurice Dukes, Crumbly’s
achievement is on a very personal
level.
“He’s been so much of a mentor,
even beyond the classroom,” Dukes
said. “He gets into individual advice
of what to do and what not to do. He
provides positive examples of what you
can achieve if you stay focused.”
Crumbly is also a helper when that
focus starts to fade.
The program is so intense and so
rigorous, you can lose your focus,”
Dukes said. “We need somebody like
Dr. C. to help us get over the down
times.”
The Atlanta native said he wants to
go into petroleum engineering. He’s
considering either Texas or Penn State
for the next phase of his CDEP edu
cation. Penn State might have an
advantage, since Dukes will head there
for an internship that will take him to
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South Africa to learn the applications
of geoscience.
Dukes said he’s fascinated by geo¬
science.
“I like the idea of looking at some¬
thing in the present and discover¬
ing what’s happened over many, many
years,” Dukes said.
For Crumbly, who has a shelf full
of certificates and plaques, the Golden
Torch was particularly meaningful
because the nomination came from
students.
“Being an educator, your greatest
reward comes from what your students
do and what they achieve,” Crumbly
said. You feel particularly proud
when your students feel that you have
accomplished things of importance.”
Crumbly also felt honored to be
in the company of the other Golden
Torch winners. One honoree was Lt.
Commander Wesley A. Brown, the
first African American graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy, who overcame
racial hostility to get through a very
rigorous academic program and went
on to a distinguished naval career.
Brown attended the awards ceremony
in a wheelchair.
“It was very moving to be in that
kind of company,” Crumbly said,
noting that he would never have con¬
sidered himself for such an honor.