The Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the University of Georgia have dedicated a new garden entranceway to the College to Mrs. Betty Gage Holland of Atlanta.

The Grady College officially dedicated the garden to Mrs. Holland in ceremonies on October 14, 1998. At the same time, the College announced the creation of a seminar room in the College in honor of Mr. William Holland, Mrs. Holland's husband.

Mrs. Holland supports the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research and the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, both housed in the Grady College, as living memorials to her late husband, James M. Cox Jr., who headed Cox Enterprises and Cox Broadcasting Corporation from 1957 until his death in 1974. Support for the Cox Center and the Cox Institute come to the Grady College through The Jim Cox Jr. Foundation of Atlanta, which Mrs. Holland established.

Mrs. and Mr. Holland, Mr. Larry B. Hooks, administrative manager of The Jim Cox Jr. Foundation, and his wife, Carole, attended the dedication ceremonies.

Dean Thomas Russell told the gathering that the garden provided a fitting entranceway to the College and an appropriate reminder to faculty and students of the support of Mrs. Holland and the Cox Foundation for the Grady College.

Dr. Karen A. Holbrook, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, and Kathryn R. Costello, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, represented the University at the dedication and expressed their appreciation to Mrs. and Mr. Holland for their generous support of the University.

At a luncheon following the dedication, Cox Center Director Lee B. Becker asked Mrs. and Mr. Holland to come back to Athens often to visit and enjoy the garden. Becker and Cox Institute Director Conrad Fink thanked the Hollands for their support of the Center and Institute on behalf of journalism students and working journalists around the world.

Also at the dedication ceremony was Cox Center Director Emeritus Dr. Al Hester, who founded the Cox Center and directed it until his retirement in August of 1997.

Bill Holland, Lee Becker, Betty Holland, Larry Hooks, Carole Hooks and Conrad Fink in the Garden.

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