Gift to create professorship in honor of former Governor Busbee
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Posted 5:50PM on Wednesday 8th January 2003 ( 22 years ago )
ATHENS - A one million-dollar gift to the University of Georgia will be used to create a professorship in honor of former Governor George D. Busbee. <br>
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The gift, from Atlanta businessman Cecil Phillips, will be for the George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy. It'll be the first endowed faculty position in the university's new School of Public and International Affairs. <br>
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Phillips and university president Michael Adams made the announcement Tuesday at an Atlanta dinner attended by Busbee and his wife, Mary Beth. <br>
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The school will recruit a nationally known scholar in the field of contemporary public policy to fill the chair. <br>
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Busbee -- governor from 1975 to 1983 -- received a business administration degree from UGA in 1949 and a law degree in 1952.
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