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Marino recognized on Georgia Southern University’s Fall 2021 Dean’s List
STATESBORO, GA — Georgia Southern University recently recognized approximately 3,420 students on the Fall 2021 Dean’s List. Joseph Marino of Cape has been named to the list for excellence in academics.
To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must have at least a 3.5 grade point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.
Georgia Southern University, a public Carnegie Doctoral/R2 institution founded in 1906, offers approximately 140 different degree programs serving more than 27,000 students through 10 colleges on three campuses in Statesboro, Savannah, Hinesville and online instruction.
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Rennie named to Deans’ List at Bryant University for fall 2021 semester
SMITHFIELD, RI — Bryant University has recognized the students who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to academic excellence and achievement. Daniel Rennie, class of 2024, from Cape Coral has been named to the Deans’ List for the fall 2021 semester.
For nearly 160 years, Bryant University delivers an innovative and uniquely integrated business and liberal arts education. With approximately 3,700 graduate and undergraduate students from 38 states and 49 countries, Bryant is recognized as a leader in international education. Visit www.Bryant.edu.
Garbin named to Chatham University School of Health Sciences Dean's List for Fall 2021
Pittsburgh, PA – Ariel Garbin of Cape Coral has been named to the Chatham University School of Health Sciences Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 term.
To be eligible for Dean’s List, students must carry a GPA of at least 3.5 and complete a minimum of 12 credits for a letter grade.
Founded in 1869, Chatham University has an enrollment of over 2,200 students and over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs in areas of sustainability and health; business and communications; and the arts and sciences.
For additional information, visit www.chatham.edu.
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell to speak at FGCU
Many people hope they can do something meaningful with their life. Some achieve it through faith. Others focus on charity work. Fewer find it in a profession. The latter is true for Jerry Mitchell, a journalist whose work helped put four 1960s civil rights-era killers in jail. Mitchell is set to discuss his storied career at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, in Cohen Student Union room 201 at Florida Gulf Coast University. Part of FGCU's Black History Month programming, the free presentation is open to the public.
Mitchell is an investigative reporter. For most of his career, he filed stories for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. He's most known for the reports that assisted authorities in their efforts to secure convictions in some of the South's coldest race-based cases.
"It was people - prosecutors or investigators or others working on these cases - they had to become convinced this was important, worthy and all those things in order for it to happen," Mitchell said. "It wasn't just me. It's a matter of faith with me, but I believe God's hand has been involved in these cases. God loves justice."
Each case involved the deaths of martyrs from the 1960s, primarily Black victims. They include the fire-bombing of Vernon Dahmer Sr.; the Birmingham church bombing, which took the lives of four little girls - Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair; the assassination of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers; and the so-called "Mississippi Burning" case involving the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. A Ku Klux Klansman was eventually convicted in every case.
Mitchell was writing stories about the dead - people he never met. In each situation, the driving force behind this pursuit of justice was the same. It was the family each victim left behind.
"You had to have the families," Mitchell said. "These courageous families -- none of this would have happened if it hadn't been for them."
These families grew to depend on Mitchell, and he didn't let them down. To this day, he's still close with Evers' widow, Myrlie. You get a glimpse of their relationship in Mitchell's new book, "Race Against Time." Within its pages, he also details his experience reporting on the four aforementioned cases. Some of these stories will be revealed in his appearance at FGCU Feb. 16.
"I tell the stories of these cases and how they came to be reopened, and then try to bring it forward by talking about living fearlessly," said Mitchell.
The longtime reporter will discuss modern cases, including the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the murder of George Floyd, among others.
To register for Jerry Mitchell's presentation, visit https://www.fgcu.edu/events/event/?570060789/fgcu-featured-events/fgcu-speaker-jerry-mitchell.