Spears and Arrows

Dr. Carter, or just plain Carter, as we so fondly refer to her as, made a tremendous impact on my academic and personal life. She is the reason that I have stuck with mass communication for so long and broadened my interests to a double concentration in public relations and print journalism. She forced me to get involved at GC&SU and at The Colonnade and now I am stuck with it and it is a part of my daily life.

She has challenged me to do the best that I can and truly excel at the newspaper, something I was never interested in and something I didn’t think that I could achieve. She has given me the opportunity to enhance my life experiences by going to Orlando and New York with some wonderful people. She offered my the opportunity to present at a conference in New York

Carter has become a second mother and a confidant. She offers so much of herself to her students. She offers a ear to her students when they need to talk, advice when they have a problem, she has even offered desperate students money, furniture and the use of her house. She gives herself over entirely to her academic, extracurricular and volunteer projects. In her classes, she incorporates volunteerism into her class projects. She is so dedicated to the success of The Colonnade that she makes her print students contribute to it weekly.

I will never forget the times we have spent together in her office, at The Colonnade and definitely at Relay For Life. We learned so much about each other walking around the track, grossing out Adcock and talking about trips to Eckerds. We discussed our personal triumphs and hardships and did a lot of laughing. That was when “Mini Ginger” was born and even when Carter is in Belize, “Mini Ginger” will live on. We survived your “mid-life crisis” at The Colonnade by singing Toby Keith’s, “I wanna talk about me” and listening to rockin’ hits of the eighties.

Carter will be missed more than she realizes and she will never be replaced. To my Carter, from the Spurs, I love you.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Apr 25 2003. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry