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“The relationship that I developed with him at GSW, I incorporate here at South Georgia Tech,” said Reeves. “I try to make a connection with students and talk with them to make sure I know what’s taking place on campus and how they perceive what’s happening here. That’s an important aspect of why we are successful today. We never lose sight of our reason for being here.”
Success has not been a stranger to South Georgia Technical College with Reeves at the helm. From 2005 to 2011 South Georgia Tech had seven straight years of record enrollment, more than doubling the number of students enrolled in 2000. He attributes that success, in large part, to his outstanding faculty and staff. “We are making progress and we are sharing that progress through coordinated media efforts,” he added.
“If you don’t let people know what you are doing and who you are, they are never going to know,” he said. “As we review our strategies for the week,
GAIL THAXTON (’72)
You could say that Dr. Gail Thaxton is a “legacy” at GSW. “My mom and dad met at Georgia Southwestern,’ said Thaxton. Her parents were GSW students in the late ‘40s. “They met in the ‘campus store’ as students, and my brother and sister graduated from here. It’s been part of our family for a long time.”
“I was married while I was a student, so I never was involved in student life activities. I ate a lot of hamburgers at the student snack bar,” she joked remembering days at Southwestern. “I had the best instructors in statistics, in health science classes and psychology – really outstanding professors. They made things so interesting and so relevant. Sometimes I had the same instructor multiple times. I felt like part of a community.”
According to Thaxton, she has been in education her entire career but not always in the same category. “I never really used my behavioral science degree. I worked as a teacher in special education for a number of years but very soon realized that I loved the administration part of the work.”
Realizing additional degrees in administration would be necessary, Thaxton earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Georgia and specialist and doctorate degrees in education from Valdosta State University.
every senior staff member talks about what’s taking place within their division. We call them ‘media moments.’ Everywhere there is a media moment or accomplishment, we make sure to share that with the community and within our organization.”
In terms of great “moments” during his life as a student at Georgia Southwestern, Reeves said that the most important would have to be “meeting an attractive college co-ed by the name of Allene Camp from LaGrange.” She has been Allene Reeves for the last 42 years.
“There were probably hundreds of great memories, but meeting Allene was the best,” he said. “What a great time to be in college – the late ‘60s. It was the best of times.
“The diversity that was in place during that time was just amazing; kids were from all over the region, the state, the southeast and the country,” he added. “We made our own fun…good clean fun. I could not have had a better experience.”
From 1986 to 1992, she worked for the Terrell County Board of Education, and from 1992 to 2000, she was an assistant superintendent for the Grady County school system. This is when she made a significant career move, one that would put her on track for technical college presidency.
In 2000, she was named vice president of instruction 07
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