Alumni Profiles

March 2010

From the President: President Michael F. Adams on music and UGA
From the GM Staff: Talk about the passion
Cover Story: Talk about the passion
Feature Stories: Right Click for Local Music; Let’s get down to business; Reaching a Crescendo
First Person: Ken Holley; Chip Pryles; Rob Gibson; Shelly Wischhusen; Michelle Moran
Around the Arch: Fall athletes make the grade; Gone too soon; NASA grant to focus on climate change and birds; Pro golf event will benefit needy students; Living green; Tate takes the gold; UGA creates Office of Sustainability; Best in Show; Training in Middle East; Journalism students launch news bureau; Construction begins; Back to ’Bama; Happy 100th, Graduate School; First-year seminars part of reaccreditation plan; iTunes and UGA; Fostering future bulldogs; Lending a paw; Having a ball; Uga scientist gets $4.4 million for genetics research
Alumni News & Events: Alumni Calendar; Letter from the UGA Alumni Association President
Alumni Profiles: Raising a ruckus; Charmed; Tooting his own horn; Putting the Spin on the music scene; New West goes East
Class Notes: Class Notes; Grad Notes; Obituaries
Class Notes Extras: Alums soar with Lady Antebellum; Music disciple; Why I Give
Back Page: Gregory Broughton
Web Exclusives: Lending a paw; A Dawg’s Day

Tooting his own horn

Brian Turnmire is more than a full-time musician, he is a witness to history. As a trumpeter in “The President’s Own” United States Marine Corps Band, Staff Sgt. Turnmire (BMus ’02) has a ringside seat to some of the most exclusive …

New West goes East

George Fontaine Jr. (ABJ ’04) shares his father’s passion for music, love for the University of Georgia and Athens, and calling to discover young talent. Following in the footsteps of George Fontaine Sr. (BBA ’76), owner of Austin, Texas-based recording …

Putting the Spin on the music scene

Charles Aaron came to the University of Georgia to be a sportswriter, enrolling as a journalism major in 1980. But rock ’n’ roll turned out to be his real major, and it’s a big reason why he’s the music editor at …

Raising a ruckus

Jim May Special photo Jim May has a good gig: hanging out at nice clubs and listening to music. And getting paid to do it. A video and television producer in Nashville, Tenn., May (AB ’67) co-produced 80 episodes of …

Charmed

Jennifer Holloway Photo by David Cross When mezzo-soprano Jennifer Holloway first shared the stage with Placido Domingo at the Teatro Real Madrid in April 2008, performing as Irene in Handel’s “Tamerlano,” she was almost too exhausted to even notice. Her …