Columnist Dick Yarbrough pledges $1.57 million to UGA journalism school
by Lindsay Field, Marietta Daily Journal
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Columnist Dick Yarbrough, who is syndicated in a number of newspapers throughout Georgia, is making a $1.57 million pledge to the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in an attempt to prepare students for crisis management and make it the go-to school on the topic.

The money will be used to create a first-of-its-kind professorship — the C. Richard Yarbrough Chair in Crisis Communications Leadership — at the state’s largest university.

Yarbrough, a 1959 UGA graduate and former public relations professional, will be recognized for his donation during the college’s Dick Yarbrough Day on Tuesday.

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