Former Gov. Zell Miller will be the featured speaker at the
1999 D.W. Brooks Lecture
Oct. 4 at in the Mahler Auditorium in the University of Georgia
Center for Continuing
Education.

Miller’s presentation, "Georgia: Gains and Gaps,"
will precede the
announcement of the D.W. Brooks Faculty Awards for Excellence.
The annual awards are
presented to UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences faculty who excel in
teaching, research and extension.

The teaching award was established in 1981 to recognize
faculty members who make
outstanding contributions and maintain excellence in the CAES
teaching program.

In 1983, the awards expanded to include research, extension
and county extension
programs. An award for international agriculture was added in
1988.

The awards include a framed certificate and a $5,000 cash
award.

The 11 a.m. lecture is named for D.W. Brooks, founder and
chairman emeritus of Gold
Kist, Inc., who died this summer.

Brooks was an advisor on agriculture and trade issues to
seven U.S. presidents. He
started Cotton States Mutual Insurance Companies in 1941 to
provide farmers insurance.

His many honors for contributions to global agriculture
included being the first
inductee into the UGA Agricultural Hall of Fame. He received
the Distinguished
Agribusiness Award from the Georgia Agribusiness Council and
was named Progressive Farmer
magazine’s "Man of the Year in Agriculture in the
South."

The CAES sponsors the annual lecture series in his
memory.