On Dec. 31, 2015, College of Sciences Dean Paul M. Goldbart and his wife, School of Psychology Professor Jenny Singleton, were on the way to a New Year’s Eve gathering with family in London, England. “Up dinks an email from College of Sciences Director of Development Art Wasserman,” Goldbart recalls.
It is the final day of a 10-year capital campaign. “Campaign Georgia Tech” has been a resounding success. Every goal has been met by every school and every college, in scholarships, in named chairs, in athletics, and in many more categories – except one: that each of the six colleges should have a dean’s chair. Five have them, but not the College of Sciences.
“And then comes Art Wasserman’s email,” Goldbart recalls. It brought the news: John Sutherland has come to the Georgia Tech campus. He has met with President Peterson and others. And he has made the gift of The Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Dean’s Chair in the Georgia Tech College of Sciences.
On Dec. 31, 2015, College of Sciences Dean Paul M. Goldbart and his wife, School of Psychology Professor Jenny Singleton, were on the way to a New Year’s Eve gathering with family in London, England. “Up dinks an email from College of Sciences Director of Development Art Wasserman,” Goldbart recalls.
It is the final day of a 10-year capital campaign. “Campaign Georgia Tech” has been a resounding success. Every goal has been met by every school and every college, in scholarships, in named chairs, in athletics, and in many more categories – except one: that each of the six colleges should have a dean’s chair. Five have them, but not the College of Sciences.
“And then comes Art Wasserman’s email,” Goldbart recalls. It brought the news: John Sutherland has come to the Georgia Tech campus. He has met with President Peterson and others. And he has made the gift of The Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Dean’s Chair in the Georgia Tech College of Sciences.
I stood there in the London high road of my childhood and sobbed with the joy of knowing what John’s tremendous generosity means for the College,” Goldbart says. “What a shining conclusion to the campaign! What an inspiring way to start 2016!