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When the Georgia State University School of Music stages “Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)” this week, the audience will know what to expect in the farcical plot by the cues of the orchestral music.
Commanding those musical cues will be Michael Palmer, the Charles Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professor of Orchestral Studies… more »
By Sarah Banick; Contact Kim Cretors, (404) 413-3424 GSU Development and Alumni Affairs
Leah Hendry grew up in New York and Alabama, but the international business student is most comfortable as a citizen of the world. Now in the third year of a five-year joint degree program from the College of Arts and… more »
The vision of the Georgia State University Foundation is to enable Georgia State University to become the leading public research university in an urban setting.
The Debianne and Robert Peterman Scholarship: Paying It Forward Debianne Peterman says she owes her career to Georgia State University and the support she received through scholarship funding. Now, Debianne and her husband, Robert, want to provide that same support to future health care students. They have created a planned gift to the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions.More
The Passions of Alumnus J. Allen Pool Sports fan and alumnus J. Allen Poole believes in supporting the things important to him. For Allen, that includes Georgia State University Athletics and a scholarship to help Georgia State accounting students. Allen credits the university with giving him the foundation and network to succeed, and now he is making sure others have the same opportunity.More
Tony Holcombe's Love of History Leads to Planned Gift for Scholarships The success story of Tony G. Holcombe ('77) begins on
the printed page, as a first-generation college student at
Georgia State University who loved reading about world
history. What he learned through those books helped
him understand and connect with diverse cultures in a
career on the advancing edge of wireless technology.
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Margaret Andersen Makes Diversity Her Life's Work Margaret "Maggie" Andersen '70 remembers when female students at Georgia State University were forbidden to wear slacks to class. Today, Andersen is helping this generation challenge social barriers. She and husband Richard Rosenfeld fund the annual Margaret Andersen Scholarship to help an outstanding GSU sociology student pursue graduate education.More
Janet S. and Ronald J. Henry: Banishing a Barrier to Student Access Former GSU provost Ronald and wife Janet Henry's careers in higher education hinged on receiving financial aid as undergraduates. Their experiences led them to fund a university-wide scholarship at GSU, to address "one of the greatest unmet needs in the country for higher education," Ron says.More
Leaving His Mark on GSU Barely two years since 103-year-old photography student Ernest G. Welch passed away, his multimillion dollar bequest has forever influenced the future of GSU. More
Academic Justice, Scholarship Link GSU Law Donor and Student Rebecca White juggles full-time work and classes while pursuing a law degree at GSU, a difficult concept Hugh Welborn is quite familiar with, which led to Rebecca earning the first Hugh W. Welborn Scholarship in Law.More
Florence Kopleff Georgia State's great diva talks about a charitable gift annuity with the Georgia State University Foundation.
