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General: Profile of Foundation Trustee LaVerne Cooper

2/11/2012

2/11/2012 - Brunswick News
When LaVerne Cooper was in high school, she had a long walk to her classes, even though Glynn Academy wasn't far from her home in Dixville. Because she was black and segregation was the law in the South, Cooper had to travel past the closer school on her way to Risley High School.

General: Coastal back on greens

2/11/2012

2/11/2012 - Brunswick News
The golf teams at College of Coastal Georgia haven't played competitively since wrapping up their abbreviated fall schedules in October. That changes on Monday when the Coastal Georgia men and women tee it up for two days of collegiate competition at their own Coastal Georgia Invitational on St. Simons Island.

General: Campus Presentation on African American Detective Fiction

2/13/2012

2/13/2012 - College of Coastal Georgia
Brunswick, GA – In an interesting blend of The Big Read and Black History Month in February, the Gould Memorial Library of the College of Coastal Georgia is hosting presentations by Dr. Jon Hershey on African American Detective Fiction on Thursday, February 16, in Brunswick and Friday, February 17, in Kingsland.

General: PGA Tour pros of tomorrow in Isles now

2/4/2012

2/4/2012 - Brunswick News
Since its inception in 2001, the Jones Cup Invitational has brought some of the world's top amateur golfers to the Ocean Forest Golf Club on Sea Island, including many currently holding PGA Tour cards. The 2009 Jones Cup champion, Kyle Stanley, battled former Jones Cup participant and part-time St. Simons Island resident Brandt Snedeker in a sudden-death playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open just last week, with Snedeker earning the victory.

General: Coastal professor named to reef advisory council

2/8/2012

2/8/2012 - Brunswick News
Being appointed to the Gray's Reef Advisory Council is the culmination of a lifetime on the coast for Timothy Goodale. As a child in Long Island, N.Y., he would get his hands dirty fishing and digging for clams along the northeastern shore.

General: 'Win every inning' Softball

2/3/2012

2/3/2012 - Brunswick News
New College of Coastal Georgia softball coach Jenny Alfirov is approaching her first season at the helm with a very simple philosophy. "Win every inning," said Alfirov of her philosophy. "It's that simple."

General: Future scientists showing right stuff

2/3/2012

2/3/2012 - Brunswick News
George Dyer rummaged through a box of homemade model airplane wings Thursday, looking for the best set to display with his entry in the Coastal Georgia Regional Science and Engineering Fair.

General: College alumni group gets active

2/9/2012

2/9/2012 - Brunswick News
When Mel Baxter attended what is now College of Coastal Georgia on his way to a four-year degree, it was a smaller, two-year institution. Now, it has an alumni association - another sign to Baxter, chief executive officer of United Community Bank, of the growth the college has seen since he attended in the 1970s.

General: College and schools host girls-only science program

2/10/2012

2/10/2012 - Florida Times-Union
BRUNSWICK - Girls from fifth through eighth grade will be on the campus of the College of Coastal Georgia Saturday for some girls-only science.