DAHLONEGA - For only the third time in its history, North Georgia College & State University will award an honorary degree. Also for the third time, the honorary doctorate will go to an alumnus of North Georgia.
At the May 10 ceremony, the degree recipient will be former Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy, class of 1943.
Murphy, the speaker of the House in the Georgia General Assembly for 29 years, longer than any other speaker in the state's history, will receive an honorary doctorate of political science during North Georgia's commencement ceremonies at 1 and 4 p.m. on May 10, when he also will be the graduation speaker. Both ceremonies will take place in
the Memorial Hall Gymnasium on campus.
More than 440 students will receive their undergraduate or graduate degrees.
The first honorary doctorate from North Georgia was awarded in 1999 to Eugene Patterson, NG class of 1942, the Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of the Atlanta Journal & Constitution in the 1960s, who went on to serve as managing editor of the Washington Post, editor of the St.
Petersburg Times and the Congressional Quarterly.
In 2001, North Georgia bestowed an honorary doctorate on Olin King, class of 1953, the retired chairman and CEO of SCI Systems Inc. of
Huntsville, Ala., who serves on the University of Alabama System's Board of Trustees.
Wednesday
May 1st, 2024
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