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PAUL O’MARA
Madeleine Albright first speaker in
Gloria Shatto Lecture Series
Dr. Madeleine
Albright made
history in 1997 as
the first woman to serve the
United States as secretary of
state. She made history again in
2007 as the first speaker in Berry
College’s new Gloria Shatto
Lecture Series. Dr. Albright’s
presentation to a crowd of 900
was an important component of
the celebration surrounding the
inauguration of Dr. Stephen R.
Briggs as Berry’s eighth president
and took place the evening
before the inauguration
ceremony. Dr. Albright also
participated in a classroom
discussion and held a brief press
conference. She was greatly
impressed by Berry’s “jewel of a
campus.”
The $1 million Gloria Shatto
Lectureship, endowed through
gifts to the recently completed
Century Campaign, honors the
memory of Dr. Gloria M.
Shatto, Berry’s sixth president.
Dr. Shatto, like Dr. Albright,
made history during her
lifetime: She was the first
woman to serve as president of a
Georgia college or university.
Dr. Shatto believed strongly
in the notion that there is more
to a college education than
what can be learned in the
classroom or through a
textbook. As her husband, Bob,
has stated, “She loved to find
ways to help broaden the
education of the students she
loved so much.”
The lecture series bearing her
name accomplishes that goal by
bringing speakers of
international
prominence – those
who have stood at
the crossroads of
history – to the
Berry campus.
Dr. Albright fit
the bill perfectly,
according to college
officials. At the time
of her appointment as
secretary of state, she
was the highest
ranking woman in the history of
the U.S. government. She
reached this pinnacle of success
after emigrating from
Czechoslovakia following the
rise of communism. Before
leaving government service, she
served two U.S. presidents.
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Gloria Shatto
New faces, new roles
Dr. Gary Waters (80C, 89G), former
associate vice president for
advancement, now is
serving Berry as chief of
staff in the president’s
office. In this new role, he
will facilitate college
Today, Dr. Albright is
involved with The
Albright Group LLC,
a global strategy
firm she founded.
She also is the first
Michael and
Virginia Mortara
Endowed
Distinguished
Professor in the Practice
of Diplomacy at the
Georgetown School of
Foreign Service and president of
the Truman Scholarship
Foundation.
She chairs The National
Democratic Institute for
International Affairs and The
Pew Global Attitudes Project
and co-chairs the High Level
efforts in the areas of
strategic analysis, planning
and implementation, as well as continuing to
work with donors and key issues of
advancement.
Gary first began work at Berry in 1984 as
assistant dean of admissions and has held
positions of increasing responsibility since that
time in both financial aid and advancement.
He was director of campaign and leadership
giving for the recently completed Century
Campaign.
Rufus Massey (75C) has been named
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Commission on Legal
Empowerment of the Poor.
Dr. Albright’s autobiography,
Madam Secretary: A Memoir, was
published in 2003. Her newest
book, The Mighty and The
Almighty – Reflections on
America, God and World Affairs,
made its debut in 2006.
Additional photos of Dr.
Albright’s appearance at Berry
are available online at
www.berry.edu/AroundBerry/
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assistant vice president for alumni
development and Historic Berry. He will be
working alongside the alumni relations staff
to enhance the resources available to the
alumni community. He also will
oversee the annual fund and
Historic Berry, which includes
Oak Hill and The Martha Berry
Museum.
Rufus brings a strong
background in business planning
and process management at
BellSouth, as well as in student services and
fund raising at Berry. Prior to his promotion,
he served the college as corporate and
foundations officer for advancement.
Alexander “Whit” Whitaker (81C) has
joined Berry as director of major gifts,
coming to the college from the U.S. Navy
Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps.
Whit most recently served as
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Alumnus leads Board of Trustees
Glenn Cornell (62C)
made Berry College
history Feb. 23 when
he became the first Berry
graduate to be elected chair of
the college’s Board of Trustees.
“I am very honored and
humbled to be asked to serve as
chairman,” he said. “As I look
back at the terrific list of people
who have led the college, I am a
little overwhelmed to be
included in the group.”
Mr. Cornell, retired
commissioner of the Georgia
Department of Economic
Development, had been serving
as chair on an interim basis
since William B. Stokely III
announced his retirement from
the board last summer. Mr.
Cornell was formally elected at
the February board meeting, at
which time L.P. “Pete” Roberts,
commanding officer of Naval Legal Service
Office Southeast, where he supervised 20
judge advocate litigators and
was a senior member of the
JAG Strategy Group. His work
with JAG also has included
service as director of the Navy’s
general civil litigation office in
Washington, D.C.; as staff
judge advocate (senior in-house
counsel) in Japan, England and Scotland;
and as an international law attorney at the
Pentagon.
J. Ron Elmore was named
director of financial aid at
Berry replacing Tim Tarpley,
who now is senior associate
director of admissions and
financial aid.
Ron has 19 years of financial
aid experience and most
retired president of A&L
Shielding in Rome, Ga., was
named vice chairman.
“I have had the good fortune
of working closely with Glenn
Cornell and Pete Roberts
through the transition period,”
said President Stephen R.
Briggs. “I could not be more
delighted to have the
opportunity to build on these
efforts in the years ahead.”
Mr. Cornell has served Berry
College in numerous capacities
over the years, including past
membership on both the
Alumni Council and the Board
of Visitors. A trustee since 1995,
he chaired the Advancement
Committee and led the
$100 million Century Campaign
to a highly successful conclusion.
“Berry College has been a
major part of my life for almost
50 years,” he stated. “I have
been blessed in so many ways,
and I attribute much of my
success and happiness to the
foundation for life that I
received at Berry. I have always
been proud to say that I am a
Berry graduate.”
Bill Roseen (78C), president
of the Berry Alumni Association
and member of the board, spoke
highly of Mr. Cornell and the
history-making appointment of
an alumnus as Board chairman.
“I know Glenn Cornell as a
man of distinction who has a
deep love for Berry,” Mr. Roseen
said. “The fact that he is the
first alumnus to be elected chair
is a great source of pride for all
alumni.”
Currently, 10 Berry alumni
are serving on the Board of
Trustees. In addition to Mr.
recently served as director of student
financial aid for Greensboro College. He has
been a presenter at numerous financial aid
workshops and conferences and has served
as president of the Alabama Association of
Financial Aid.
Additional recent promotions of note
include Jeanne Mathews to assistant vice
president for public relations and marketing
and Scott Shank to assistant vice president
of finance.
Scientist in
residence
Dr. Joseph E. McDade,
former deputy director of
the National Center for
Infectious Diseases at the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, has joined Berry as
scientist-in-residence.
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As a student, Glenn Cornell
was president of his freshman
class and the Student
Government Association, as
well as a varsity athlete. He
now is chair of the college
Board of Trustees.
Cornell and Mr. Roseen, they
include Sheryle J. Bolton (68c),
Steven J. Cage (74C), G. Bert
Clark Jr. (82C), J. Barry
Griswell (71C), Karen Holley
Horrell (74C), Harold D.
Kilpatrick Sr. (60c), Dr. Roger
C. Tutterow (84C) and C.B.
Wright III (73C).
His appointment marks the start of a
new program designed to stimulate
student interaction with distinguished
scientists who are not in regular faculty
positions as well as to encourage
collaborative teaching and/or research
activity between faculty members and the
scientist-in-residence. Dr. McDade taught
Berry’s Great Neglected Diseases course in
the fall and will teach it again in fall 2008.
Dr. McDade is founding editor of
Emerging Infectious Diseases and has served
on the editorial board of the Journal of
Clinical Microbiology. Past honors have
included the Charles C. Shepard Lifetime
Scientific Achievement Award. Most
notably, in recognition of the role he
played in isolating the agent that causes
Legionnaires Disease, the species of
bacteria found to be responsible was
named Legionella mcdadei.
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