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Hathcote Named Interim Dean |
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Jan M. Hathcote (BSHE ’74, Home Economics Education), associate dean for academic affairs and research in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences since 1997, was named interim dean effective July 1. She will continue in the position until a search for a successor to Dean Sharon Y. Nickols is completed. Nickols retired as dean on June 30 after 15 years, returning to the college faculty to teach and conduct research. “Dr. Hathcote has extensive leadership and administrative experience in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and the University of Georgia,” according to Arnett C. Mace Jr., UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “I and others greatly admire her administrative skills and commitment to the college and the university. I look forward to working with Jan during this interim period and appreciate her willingness to assume this role given her many other commitments.” Hathcote, an associate professor of textiles, merchandising and interiors, has been on the college faculty since 1990. An authority in the areas of international retailing and international trade of textiles and apparel, she frequently reports on her research in professional journals and maintains a regular teaching schedule of graduate and undergraduate classes in addition to her administrative responsibilities. Hathcote earned her bachelor’s degree in home economics education from UGA in 1974 and received a doctorate in human ecology from the University of Tennessee in 1989. |
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Redcoat Band Members Visit China |
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Carmen Guisasola, (Junior, FACS Education) and Lindsay Vick (Senior, Consumer Economics) were among the 298 Redcoat Band members to spend a week in what was dubbed, “the largest performing act ever to tour China.” Band members traveled more than 5,000 miles, from Beijing in the northeast to Kunming near the Vietnam border, then up to Chengdu in the central Sichuan Province, to Xiamen on the southeast coast and finally north to Nanjing and Shanghai. Guisasola, who is from Ellijay, plays the mellophone, while Vick, who is from Powell, Ind., plays the trombone. |
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Gala Honors Dean Nickols |
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More than 300 guests attended the April 21st gala honoring former Dean Sharon Nickols’ leadership. The event was held at The State Botanical Garden of Georgia and included the announcement of the newly endowed Sharon Nickols Student Leadership Fund, which was funded with gifts from Nickols’ well-wishers.
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FACS Grad Student Chairs SUAAFCS |
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Melissa Wilmarth, a new master’s level graduate student in consumer economics, has been named chair of the Student Unit of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences. Prior to becoming AAFCS Student Unit chair, Wilmarth served in a variety of other leadership roles in AAFCS, including serving as chair elect and as a member of the membership and marketing committee. She has also been president of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Collegiate Association, vice president of the Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies Club, and secretary of the Human Sciences Student Council of the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University. In 2006, Wilmarth was recognized for her leadership abilities and academic excellence with the Iowa State University Senior Class Council Senior Leadership Recognition Award, AAFCS Student of the Year Award, and the Phi Upsilon Omicron Lynne White Scheider Award. She graduated in May from Iowa State with a bachelor’s degree in family and consumer sciences educational services. She is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Societies, Golden Key International Honor Society, Kappa Omicron Nu, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Upsilon Omicron. |
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