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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 7
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Career Expo & Leadership Workshops
Held for Savannah Chatham Public
High School Students
Savannah-Chatham students participate in Career Expo at Savannah Tech
On Friday, April 24,
2009 the Savannah
Chatham Public School
System’s ‘Career Expo and
Leadership Workshops’
took place at Savannah
Technical College.
More than 30 local
businesses and post sec
ondary institutions were on
hand to talk to approxi
mately 200 11th and 12th
grade students about career
preparation and job oppor
tunities.
During the Career
Expo, eight volunteer pro
fessionals presented a total
of twenty-four Leadership
workshops on such topics
as “Resumes and
Electronic Portfolios,”
“Business Etiquette,”
“Public Speaking” and
“College Prep 101.”
In addition, 30 booths
provided college, career
and employment informa
tion. In conjunction with
the Career Expo and
Leadership Workshops, a
Workforce Development
Breakfast was held for par
ticipating business and edu
cational representatives.
Learning for Life
strives to be the foremost
co-educational career and
character development pro
gram for youth by fostering
school/business partner
ships and recruiting volun
teer professionals as career
mentors and positive role
models.
Special thanks are extended
to Melanie Smith, Interim
Enrollment Management
and Marketing Director and
Enrollment & Retention
Specialist, Allied Health
for Savannah Technical
College for her assistance
in organizing this excellent
event.
Special thanks are
also given to the following
organizers from the
Savannah-Chatham Public
School System: Karen
Pflugh and Tammy
Broadnax, Career
Technical Supervisors for
Savannah Chatham Public
School System, and also
Gayle Tremble, Youth
Apprenticeship and Work-
based Learning
Coordinator and Rita
McAllister, Administrative
Assistant, Career
Technical Education
Department.
Scholarship
Recipents
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Scholarship recipients
awarded during the Tourism
Leadership Council include:
Barbara Favery, Georgia
Southern University
Petya Kostadinova,
Savannah Technical College
Tacuma McCraw, H.V.
Jenkins High
School/Johnson and Wales
University
Seth Nix, University of
South Carolina-Beaufort
Sheldon Fox Scholar:
Chesney Fox, University of
South Carolina-Beaufort.
Mark Dana currently
serves as President of the
Tourism Leadership Council,
and Marti Barrow serves as
Executive Director.
Congratulations to all
award recipents honored dur
ing the Awards dinner.
Robert Lee Cutter, Sr.
1925-2008
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Sears Announces Post
Supreme Court Plans
Chief Justice Leah Ward
Sears will not be slowing
down when she steps down
from the Supreme Court of
Georgia at the end of June.
She recently announced
she will join the law firm of
Schiff Hardin, a nationally-
renowned firm based in
Chicago.
The law firm has nearly
400 lawyers and offices in
seven major American cities,
including Atlanta, where Chief
Justice Sears' practice will be
based.
She will begin working
there Oct. 15 of this year.
“I am honored to be join
ing such a distinguished law
firm with a long history of
service and dedication to its
clients,” she said.
The firm, founded in
1864, has a general practice
legal program with a particular
concentration in high-profile
public corruption and white
collar crime.
In addition to practicing
law, Justice Sears plans to
devote half her time to two
other ventures.
Starting Aug. 15, she has
accepted an offer from the
Institute for American Values
to serve for one year as the
William Thomas Sears
Distinguished Fellow in
Family Law.
The fellowship is named
after her beloved brother
Tommy, who died in
November 2007 at the age of
53.
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The Institute for
American Values is a private,
nonprofit, nonpartisan research
institution based in New York
City.
Its goals are to produce
cutting-edge scholarship in the
area of marriage and family,
influence how Americans think
about financial thrift and gen
erosity, and increase
Americans' engagement in
Islam-West relations.
While on the Court, Chief
Justice Sears created the
and Convention Center.
Advance reservations
are required; seating is limit
ed. The cost is $35 per per
son or $280 for a table of
eight.
As keynote speaker,
the luncheon will feature the
internationally respected
thought leader and 2005 Inc.
Entrepreneur of the Year, Ms.
Ping Fu.
Fu arrived in the
United States in 1981 as a
23-year-old student.
By 1992 she had
become a US citizen. And
she loves her new homeland.
She runs a growing
international business that is
on the cutting edge of 3-
dimensional rendering.
Raindrop has developed a
Georgia Supreme Court
Commission on Children,
Marriage and Family Law,
advocating that “children do
better with parents together.”
As she promised last fall when
she announced she would step
down from the Court June 30,
Chief Justice Sears will con
tinue to speak out about this
issue.
In the same vein, she
also plans to teach a seminar
on “Contemporary Issues in
Family Law” at the University
of Georgia Law School.
The seminar will explore
today's definition of “family”
and the dramatic changes in
marriage and divorce, as well
as focus on controversial fam
ily issues facing the legal sys
tem.
“I'm excited to have the
chance to work with young
people,” she said.
“And I look forward to
being back in the academic
world of a college campus.”
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Fu co-founded
Raindrop along with her
husband, Herbert
Edelsbnmner, who is a pro
fessor at Duke University.
She took over as chief
executive officer of
Raindrop in 2001.
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