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Ray Anderson, founder of carpet tile manufacturing company Interface Inc., speaks with LaGrange College President Stuart Gulley at a an April 12 dinner honoring Mr. Anderson's commitment to the college. Photo by Nema Etheridge
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E.O. Wilson, left, Harvard professor and environmentalist, speaks with Dennis Creech, executive director of Atlanta-based environmental advocacy organization Southface, at an April 12 dinner in LaGrange. Photo by Nema Etheridge.
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LaGrange College Honors Ray Anderson, Welcomes Int’ly Renowned Scientist
Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University and internationally respected scientist, was keynote speaker at LaGrange College April 12 for a dinner that honored Ray C. Anderson, chairman and founder of carpet-manufacturing company, Interface Inc.
During a dinner hosted by the Friends of LaGrange College Library, Mr. Anderson was presented with the Fuller E. Callaway Jr. Award for Lifetime Service to LaGrange College.
A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Anderson holds an honorary degree from LaGrange College and is a member of the board of trustees of the college. He founded Interface carpets in LaGrange in the 1973, producing America’s first free-lay carpet tiles.
Over the past 12 years, he has become an outspoken supporter of environmentally sustainable business practices and worked to reduce Interface’s waste and carbon footprint.
Mr. Anderson was honored before Dr. Wilson’s keynote address, which discussed mankind’s ability to destroy or preserve life.
A native of Mobile, Ala., Dr. Wilson is often described as the “father of the modern environmental movement.”
He was named by “Time” magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in America in 1995 and has received two Pulitzer Prizes. One he shared with German myrmecologist Bert Hölldobler for their 1991 book “The Ants,” which details the anatomy, social organization and natural history of ants. He received the other prize for his 1979 work “On Human Nature,” which argued that human personalities were shaped as much by genetic predisposition as culture.
He has been at Harvard for more than 30 years.
For more information, contact LaGrange College at
(706) 880-8005.
Georgia State Professor Named Distinguished Chair
for Int’l Public Safety
Robert R. Friedmann, has been named distinguished chair of Public Safety Partnerships at the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University.
Dr. Freidmann is professor of criminal justice and founder and director of Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, GILEE, which is housed at Georgia State. The program has fostered numerous exchanges between law enforcement officials in the U.S. and in nations around the world.
As Georgia State’s first chair of public safety partnerships, Dr. Friedmann will help ensure provision of better public safety in an era of international terrorism, support the efforts of GILEE, promote shared experiences of international best practices and work to increase international cooperation in the area of homeland security.
Founded in 1994, GILEE and the International Law Enforcement Exchange, which builds programs for states other than Georgia, have fostered exchanges between law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Austria, Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, Japan the United Kingdom.
For more information, contact Angela Arnold, public relations coordinator at
(404) 651-1835.
McCart Group Hires New Leadership
Christopher Duncan has joined the McCart Group as its chief operation and financial officer.
The McCart Group is an international risk management and insurance company Based in Duluth.
Mr. Duncan joins the group after being chief operating officer of International Power Group Ltd., a public company in the alternative energy development arena. He has also served as vice president of finance at Delta Air Lines Inc. and held risk management or executive security leadership positions within the PepsiCo Inc. companies of Frito Lay Inc. and KFC Corp.
Mr. Duncan is also treasurer and board member of Project Open Hand, an Atlanta charity organization that delivers meals to the disadvantaged and sick.
For more information, contact
Natalie Varner at
(678) 475-5742.
French Trade Commission Gets New Trade Attaché
Claire Collobert, has joined the French Trade Commission as trade attaché with the services sector.
Ms. Collobert will also be working in the commission’s information call center, which directs French business inquiries to French trade commissions located throughout the U.S.
A native of Nantes, France, Ms. Collobert comes to Atlanta after working in Lafayette, La., with the municipal government’s department of international development.
Ms. Collobert has a master’s in international business and trade and has studied in the United Kingdom and Spain in addition to France. She has also worked as an intern with the Invest in France office in Brussels, Belgium.
Contact the trade commission at
(404) 495-1660.
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