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"There is a growing acknowledgment that producing leaders is both a challenge and a need among today's youth," said Thomas Z. Jones, president of AASU. "This program will serve as a conduit through which the local community will have the opportunity to develop and to teach leadership skills."
Lieutenant Colonel Collins, a 1950 graduate of Armstrong Junior College, donated fifty-five acres of land in Bryan County to the AASU Foundation with permission to sell. The proceeds will endow a lectureship series in Collins' name to honor his military career and leadership skills. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War , Collins retired from the Army Reserve following more than forty years of service. The lectureship also is named after his late wife, Mary, who graduated from Armstrong Junior College in 1949.
The AASU Leadership Institute seeks to improve the quality of leadership in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. For more information about the institute, call Letty Shearer at 921.5967.
June 21, 2002
Collins Leadership Lectureship Series Established
Savannah, GA--In a move to bring outstanding leaders to speak and to oversee forums concentrating on the importance of leadership skills in today's society, Armstrong Atlantic State University has established the Charles L. and Mary G. Collins Distinguished Lectureship Series as part of the university's Leadership Institute."There is a growing acknowledgment that producing leaders is both a challenge and a need among today's youth," said Thomas Z. Jones, president of AASU. "This program will serve as a conduit through which the local community will have the opportunity to develop and to teach leadership skills."
Lieutenant Colonel Collins, a 1950 graduate of Armstrong Junior College, donated fifty-five acres of land in Bryan County to the AASU Foundation with permission to sell. The proceeds will endow a lectureship series in Collins' name to honor his military career and leadership skills. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War , Collins retired from the Army Reserve following more than forty years of service. The lectureship also is named after his late wife, Mary, who graduated from Armstrong Junior College in 1949.
The AASU Leadership Institute seeks to improve the quality of leadership in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. For more information about the institute, call Letty Shearer at 921.5967.
June 21, 2002