Spring 2008 issue of Terry Magazine - (Page 13)

quickbites ‘Whisperin’ Bill’ has his day on campus FaCulty awarDs B ill Anderson was a just a 19-year-old journalism student at the University of Georgia when he recorded the song “City Lights” at the old WGTV studio in 1958. Over the years, he picked up the nickname “Whisperin’ Bill” owing to his tender vocals and the narrative nature of his songs. Anderson’s stature grew to the extent that he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in early March his alma mater honored Anderson for his 50-year career as a singer-songwriter at the Georgia Center’s Mahler Auditorium. The co-sponsors included UGA’s Music Business Program, which is jointly administered by the Terry College and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and WUGA-FM. Steve Bell, general manager of WUGA-FM, told the audience that the event was “going to be a combination of “This is Your Life” and “Meet the Press” — and he was right. Anderson was feted by UGA President Michael Adams, BMI Director of Writer Relations David Preston, and former Georgia governor Zell Miller. “No one in the business of music and weaving words has done it better and longer than Bill Anderson,” Miller wrote in a message Anderson (center) recorded his first song, “City Lights,” in the old GPTV studio at that Steve Bell read UGA in 1958. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that occasion, the co-directors of UGA’s Music Business Program (at left and right), Bruce Burch and Steve Dancz, to the audience. “It helped put together a special day on campus for the CMA Hall of Famer. took great writers like Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy, and others more than 300 pages to tell you an unforgettable story — Bill Anderson does it in three minutes and writes the musical score along with it.” Anderson was voted Songwriter of the Year six times, and he was inducted into both the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The list of performers who have performed Anderson’s songs includes Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Rogers, Elvis Costello, and James Brown. Anderson recently earned his fourth Grammy nomination and a Country Music Award for the song, “Give It Away.” UGA has dedicated a historical marker where Anderson first recorded “City Lights” and Athens-Clarke County Mayor Heidi Davison officially proclaimed March 4 as “Whisperin’ Bill Anderson Day.” Mike Dekle, music business students Hannah Dasher and Eric Dodd, and country music star John Berry were on hand to perform some of Anderson’s hits. “I graduated from here in 1975, and Bill set a path for me to go to Nashville,” said Music Business Program Co-Director Bruce Burch, who is an accomplished Nashville songwriter himself. Burch was part of a Q&A panel that facilitated questions for Anderson about his early days in Nashville, how songwriters get paid, and the songwriting process. “There are just no words for me to describe what this feels like today,” said Anderson. “I cannot tell you . . . looking out at so many familiar faces, so many treasured friends, so many people that helped me along the way. You don’t have a career that lasts for 50 years without a lot of help. There are so many people in this room that have helped me over the years.” ■ — Matt Waldman (AB ’96) Terry College of emmelhainz, vandenberg receive awards for teaching, research two terry College faculty members, representing the fields of marketing and management, were honored this spring with annual awards for outstanding teaching and research. TEACHING Margaret A. Emmelhainz received terry’s outstanding teaching award. she is a lecturer in the marketing department, and she serves as academic coordinator for the undergraduate marketing major. she has received six teaching awards in the last five full academic years, including the emil s. troelston teacher of the year award and the Marketing Management association’s hormel Meritorious teaching award. she is also a two-time win- EMMELHAINz ner of both the alpha Kappa psi Marketing teacher of the year award and the terry outstanding teaching award. emmelhainz is currently the faculty director for the advanced school of Marketing research, a one-week class co-sponsored with the american Marketing association. this well-regarded, executive education course has been so successful that the aMa decided to award the introductory course of marketing research to terry College beginning in 2009. RESEARCH Robert J. Vandenberg, professor of management, received the outstanding research award. Considered one of the top methodologists in the field of management today, Vandenberg specializes in longitudinal data analysis, latent class structures, and measurement equivalence. he co-authored with Charles Lance a landmark study in 2000 that received the 2005 robert McDonald advancement of research Methodology award as the best publication in the last five years for methodological articles within the organizational sciences. of Vandenberg’s scholarly articles, more than 80 percent have been published in some of VANDENBERG the highest quality journals in his field. Finally, and most important, says Vandenberg, he is married to Carole, he has three children (Drew, Kaity, and jackson), and he rides his harley with a passion every day. ■ uga photography BuSineSS Spring 2008 • 13

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