| Founders Day
Marietta College celebrates its birthday, which was February 14,
1835, on February 14th—or the Thursday before it—every year with
a tribute called Founders Day. Each year the College selects a guest
speaker and presents faculty awards.
2007
Douglas Gomery, delivered the Founders Day Address, "What
do professors really do." He is currently senior researcher
at the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB) at the University
of Maryland. One of the five largest broadcasting libraries
in the world, the LAB deals with both commercial broadcasting
and public TV/radio.
His 20 books—and more than 1,000 articles from all sort
of encyclopedia to every related mass media journal to Modern
Maturity (which his late mother took the most pride from)—have
been translated into eight languages. He was the U.S. Postal
Service consultant on “The 1980s” series for the
stamp commemorating “Cable TV,” issued in Spring
2000.
View Founders Day photos. |
Douglas Gomery |
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2006
Bruce Payne, delivered the Founders Day Address, "Leadership, Ethics, and Drama." Long involved in leadership studies, theatre, and political science, Dr. Payne is currently the director of "Leadership and the Arts: A Duke Semester in New York City," which offers students planning careers in law, business, government and teaching an opportunity for an experience of deep immersion in the arts.
A lecturer in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University since 1973, Payne has connections with MC that reach back to August 1987, when he welcomed the first class of McDonough scholars to the campus. At that time, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Marietta College in recognition of his sustained contribution to the study and practice of leadership.
View Founders Day photos. |
Bruce Payne |
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2005
The 2005 Founders Day speaker was former Board of Trustee member Tim Cooper, who graduated in 1973. Cooper retired as Partner In-Charge of the Audit and Business Advisory Practice at the Columbus office of Arthur Andersen LLP in August 2000. He is the president of Smoky Mountain Trains LLC in Bryson City, N.C. He was an active trustee at MC from 1994 to 2004 and the Annual Fund Chair from 1996-99. He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1986 and the MCAA Service Award in 2002.
Download Cooper's speech "The Impact of Others" (PDF). |
Tim Cooper
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