Put a Spring in Your Step During Homecoming April 27-30, 2006 

Do you wonder what your former classmates have been up to? Would you like to visit a favorite former professor or see how the campus has changed since graduation? Do you yearn to see Augusta’s brightly colored blankets of azaleas during the city’s most beautiful time of year?

MCG will celebrate Homecoming 2006 April 27-30. The following events are planned for alumni, faculty and students. Registration is required, and advance registration is strongly encouraged.  (Space for some events is limited.)

Wednesday, April 26

School of Dentistry Spring Fling Picnic
Lake Olmstead, 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 27

On-Site Registration
MCG Alumni Center, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

School of Dentistry Table Clinic Day
Wellness Center

School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association        
Board Meeting
Noon, MCG Alumni Center

School of Allied Health Sciences
Department of Biomedical and Radiological Technologies program: The Emerging Workplace: Advanced Practice
Worth two hours of continuing education credit, followed by the presentation of Distinguished Alumni Awards and a reception
1-5 p.m., MCG Alumni Center  

Friday, April 28

Goldstein Lectureship: Composite Resins and Glass Ionomers by Dr. Harry Albers
7:30 a.m. registration
Marriott Hotel and Suites*

School of Allied Health Sciences
Department of Dental Hygiene program:           
“Advanced Clinical Practice: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Instrumentation” by Lillian Caperila
Worth four hours of continuing education credit
8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Alumni Center
$60 for alumni and $80 for others 

On-Site Registration
MCG Alumni Center, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Campus History Bus Tour and Luncheon
Noon, MCG Alumni Center 

School of Dentistry
Alumni Association/Goldstein Luncheon
Noon, Marriott Hotel and Suites 

School of Allied Health Sciences
Alumni Association Luncheon
12:30 p.m., Old Medical College 

School of Dentistry canal boat tours
1 p.m. 

Hospitality Suite
3-5 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites  

School of Dentistry Alumni Association Reception
4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites 

School of Medicine Dean’s Reception
5 p.m., Old Medical College 

School of Medicine Alumni Association Banquet
6 p.m., Old Medical College 

School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association
Distinguished Alumnus Award
Presentation and Lecture
7 p.m., MCG Alumni Center

Saturday, April 29 

School of Allied Health Sciences
Dean’s Reception
8-9:45 a.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites

On-Site Registration
MCG Alumni Center, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

School of Medicine Alumni Association
Board Meeting
9:30 am, Alumni Center 

School of Nursing Dean’s Brunch
9:30 a.m., School of Nursing 

President’s Cookout
Noon, President’s Home, 920 Milledge Road 

Hospitality Suite
3-6 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites

School of Dentistry Reunions for the classes of
1976, 1981 and 1991
6 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites

School of Medicine Reunions for the Classes of
1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001
6 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites

School of Nursing Alumni Association
Banquet and Distinguished Alumnus Award Presentation
6:30 p.m., Pinnacle Club 

Homecoming Dance
9:45 p.m., Marriott Hotel and Suites 

Sunday, April 30

School of Medicine Alumni Association Memorial Service
10:30 am, Old Medical College

School of Medicine Alumni Association
Emeritus Club Luncheon
11:30 am, Old Medical College 

* Formerly the Augusta Radisson Riverfront Hotel, 2 Tenth Street

Alumni have received registration forms in the mail. The deadline for advance registration is April 7.

For more information, contact the
Alumni Affairs Office at 800-869-1113
706-721-6723 (fax) or www.mcg.edu/Alumni/Homecoming.html

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Feting Our Friends

MCG honored many of its most dedicated supporters during dinners Nov. 4-5 for founding members of its Milton Antony Guild and members of its President’s Club, respectively. Antony Guild members invest in MCG’s future by including the institution in  their estate-planning. President’s Club members donated at least $1,000 to MCG during fiscal 2004-05 or more than $10,000 during their lifetime.

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School of Allied Health Sciences

Charles T. “Chuck” Adams (nuclear medicine technology, ’83), Royston, Ga., is the chief executive officer of Ty Cobb Healthcare System, a private self-supporting nonprofit health care organization serving Franklin, Hart, Madison and Barrow counties. He is a board member of the Georgia Hospital Association and the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and recently was appointed to the Health Strategies Council by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Melanie Maynor Sennett (respiratory therapy, ’88) is chief certified registered nurse anesthetist at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C.

Jay Pottinger (’98) and his wife, Dr. Jill Pottinger, Rome, Ga., work full time in the Floyd Medical Center emergency room and own Mediquick, a walk-in clinic that emphasizes low-cost service to uninsured and Hispanic patients.

Obituaries

Siri Schwartz Mills (medical illustration, ’76) died recently of breast cancer. She lived in Muenchen, Germany with her husband, Ernst, and their daughter, Alexandra. “Siri was a beautiful and talented medical illustrator,”  said Kip Carter, president of the Association of Medical Illustrators. “She will be greatly missed.”

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School of Dentistry

Dr. Jeffery Barnett (2005) has joined the Gainesville, Ga., dental practice of Dr. Henry G. Goble as a partner. Dr. Barnett and his wife, Dawn, have a daughter, Eva.

Obituaries

Dr. Michael D. Webster (’74), Rome, Ga., died Oct. 2. He loved boating, photography, travel and his profession.

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School of Medicine

U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (’69) was among hundreds of physicians who volunteered their service to Hurricane Katrina victims in the critical hours after New Orleans residents were forced from their homes. Dr. Gingrey, a gynecologist from Marietta, treated more than 20 patients at a sports arena in Baton Rouge, La. “They were all extremely grateful,” he said, noting that his fellow volunteers “were just like me—folks who realized the need, jumped in their car or hopped a plane and they came.”

Dr. Robert E. Dicks III (’73), Athens, Ga., has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as an at-large member of the state’s Board of Human Resources. Dr. Dicks is the advisor to the chief executive officer and president for physician development at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens and is an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia in exercise science. He previously served as executive director of neuroscience at St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Dicks is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Crawford W. Long Medical Society and the Georgia Neurological Surgery Society. He and wife Lynn have three children and two grandchildren.

Dr. Vendie Hooks (’74), a colon and rectal surgeon with Colon and Rectal Surgery Associates, PC in Augusta, has been elected president of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery through September 2006.

Dr. Gillian Carpenter (’85) has joined the 26-member cardiology team at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She completed fellowships in pediatric cardiology at Georgetown University Medical Center and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She has served as a pediatric cardiologist with Child Cardiology Associates, PC, in Washington, D.C., and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics and pediatric cardiologist at Georgetown University Medical Center.       Dr. Carpenter has co-authored several journal articles related to pediatric cardiology. She served for three years as a pediatric cardiologist in Gainesville, Ga., before moving to her current position.

Dr. Chad Marley (2000) is a brigade surgeon serving in Iraq, overseeing seven doctors and eight physician assistants to provide medical care and supplies for the 5,500 soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team. He was recently inducted into Gwinnett County’s  Shiloh High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame. He was a three-time state champion wrestler at Shiloh from 1990-92. He and wife Catherine have a son, Max.

Dr. Jorge O. Escamilla, an obstetrics/gynecology resident at MCG from 1951-54 under Dr. Richard Torpin, refined a forceps delivery technique for posterior presentations during his career. He also created tools to clinically measure the AP diameter of a laboring patient and a “shoe horn” for shoulder dystocia. He retired in 1994.

Dr. Sheri Holmes, who completed her OB/GYN residency at MCG, has joined the East Tennessee State University Cancer Center at Johnson City Medical Center. In addition to supporting the center’s gynecological oncology division, she will have a general women’s health practice through ETUS Physicians and Associates-OB/GYN.

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Attention, Alumni

Please keep us posted on personal and professional achievements by dropping us a line. Remember to include your degree, class year and contact information. Also, please let us know if your address has changed. Send information to:

Scott Henson
Director of Alumni Affairs
FI-1000, Medical College of Georgia
Augusta GA 30912
706-721-3430 (phone)
706-721-6397 (fax)
shenson@mcg.edu (e-mail)

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