Alumni Service Award: Mary Frances Early, former department chair and associate professor of Clark Atlanta University’s department of music, received the 2010 Alumni Service Award for her outstanding and continued dedication in service and philanthropy to the college.
Early (M.M.Ed. ’62, Ed.S. ’71), an Atlanta native, is the first African-American graduate of UGA. She received the UGA Outstanding Alumna Award in 2000.
UGA officially recognized Early as the first African-American to receive a degree in 2000, and the Mary Frances Early Lecture was established in 2001 by UGA’s Graduate and Professional Scholars organization. Sponsored beginning this year by the Graduate School, the annual lecture is held in the spring.
In 2003, the Mary Frances Early Professorship in Teacher Education was established in the College of Education, with a $250,000 endowment from Georgia Power. The faculty search for the chaired professorship will soon get under way.
 | Mary Frances Early in her Center-Meyers dorm room at the University of Georgia in the summer of 1961. Ms. Early was one of the first African Americans admitted to the University of Georgia. Writer: Julie Sartor, 706/542-4693, jsartor@uga.edu Contact: Gabrielle Mason, 706/542-4558 , gmason@uga.edu Apr 20, 2010, 13:57 |
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