North Georgia claims to be a leader in environmental leadership. But, what about its plans to log the delicate Hurricane Creek Preserve on the protected Etowah River?
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North Georgia Commandant
Brooks Pennington Military Leadership Center
North Georgia College & State University
Dear Colonel:
NGCSU prides itself on teaching leadership and in being the educational leader of military colleges nationwide.
Unfortunately, this leadership is missing in the Biology Department. The Department Head, Dr. Tom Nelson removed a display which a colleague had produced within the Biology Department but didn’t give the colleague an opportunity to retrieve and save the photographs and charts he had made for the display. Dr. Nelson “trashed” them and mixed his preserved wildlife into the Department’s collection.
At the least Dr. Nelson could have boxed the materials and asked the colleague to pick them up. He had the authority to remove the display but not to “trash” the colleague’s photos and charts.
This was not an example of Department leadership but of adolescent petulance! Shame! He didn’t even tell the professor Emeritus who owned the photographs and chart to get them but threw them into the trash!
This conduct betrays North Georgia College’s reputation as a leadership institution...Also, is Dr. Tom Nelson currently trashing the Hurricane Creek Preserve in order to “trash” another professor’s project?
I have established a C.R.T. (Charitable Remainder Trust) to benefit North Georgia’s military ROTC based on leadership. I have second thoughts now!
George David
LTC AUS Retired Class of ’50, President of class, 1947-48
651 Deer Leap Road
Dawsonville, GA 30534