Troy University News

April 9, 2004

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Top students and faculty to be recognized at TSU Honors Convocation

   Troy State University will recognize its top students and faculty at the annual Honors Convocation on Monday, April 19, with Dr. Betty Lentz Siegel, president of Kennesaw ( Ga. ) State University , as the keynote speaker.
   The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theater. The public is invited to attend.
   The convocation is designed to honor students in the areas of education, business, arts and sciences, the fine arts and health and human services. Highlights include the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which recognizes recipients for spiritual qualities in addition to academic and extracurricular activities; the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, which is presented to an outstanding member of the faculty on the Troy Campus and the Wallace D. Malone, Jr., Distinguished Faculty Award, chosen from among all TSU faculty worldwide.
   According to Barbara Patterson, TSU Director of Student Involvement, the convocation will honor those students who have achieved outstanding academic success in the past year and those who have been initiated into various honor societies.
   Dr. Siegel, who has been president of Kennesaw State University since 1981, is the first woman to head an institution in the 34-unit university system in

Georgia

, and the longest serving woman president in the nation. Under her leadership the university has more than tripled its enrollment and has expanded its degree programs from 15 to 55.
Dr. Siegel has served on six corporate boards and is currently serving on many community service boards, including Arby’s Foundation, Inc., Atlanta Ballet, Boy Scouts of Atlanta, Georgia Substance Abuse Council, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, and the Metro-Atlanta Chapter of The American Red Cross and the Northside Hospital Foundation.
During the 1996 Olympics, Dr. Siegel chaired the Board of Directors of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. She was the first woman and the first educator to hold this top leadership position in one of the country’s largest chambers of commerce. She has also been presented with the Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award and Business to Business Magazine selected her as one of their “Divas for Life.”