THE COUPLE WHO GAVE $5 MILLION GIFT TO UGA

The University of Georgia announced Thursday it has received a $5 million gift that will be used to start a schol- arship for students with sig- nificant financial need.

The gift is from promi- nent Georgia businessman and philan- thropist A.D. “Pete” Correll and his wife, Ada Lee, both UGA graduates. The Correll Scholars Program will offer annual $7,000 scholarships to two dozen students starting the fall 2018 semester.

Six students in their first, second, third and fourth years at UGA will be selected, the university said in a news release. UGA’s Office of Student Financial Aid will select the recipients, giving prefer- ence to students in need pur- suing degrees in the Terry College of Business or the College of Education.

Pete graduated from the

Terry College, while Ada graduated from the College of Education.

UGA will also use the funds for student mentorship, internships, study abroad programs and faculty-mentored research. Additionally, UGA will use some of the money for a four-week early start program to help first-year students transi- tion to the campus. The UGA

Foundation will contribute

$500,000 toward the Correll Scholars Program. ERIC STIRGUS

Gun-control advocates will host town halls Saturday with Georgia legislators.

The “Town Hall for Our Lives” events are the next step taken by some activists and students who organized last month’s March for Our Lives. They are calling for gun-law reform after the February school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

Concerned Students of Georgia will host a town hall, with speakers to be announced, at 6 p.m. Saturday at Rialto Center for the Arts, 80 Forsyth St. NW in Atlanta. A news release about the event described it as a chance to have “faceto-face conversations about gun reform.”

A Georgia 4th District Town Hall for Our Lives with U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Baptist Church, 301 Honey Creek Road SE in Conyers.

‘Town Hall for Our Lives’ is Saturday

Pete Correll