{"47372":{"#nid":"47372","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Holds Inaugural Legislative Day","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Nov. 7, President Bud Peterson and Val Peterson played host to nearly 200 guests, kicking off Tech\u0027s first Georgia Tech Legislative Day. Many attendees were legislators, department heads and other state administrators. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe president and his wife welcomed the guests to an afternoon reception at the President\u0027s Residence prior to the kick-off of the Yellow Jackets and Wake Forest football game. In attendance were University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. and House Speaker Glenn Richardson, as well as Gov. Sonny Perdue and his family.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We organized this event to continue our ongoing efforts to build partnerships between government leaders and Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Dene Sheheane, executive director of Government and Community Relations at Tech. \u0022We are appreciative of the time state leaders spent on our campus to learn more about Georgia Tech, and we hope this Legislative Day will be the first of many.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERegents, state constitutional officers, state and federal legislators, USG staff members and state department heads were invited to the event. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Nearly 200 guests attend a reception at the Georgia Tech President\u0027s Residence to kick off the Institute\u0027s first Georgia Tech Legislative Day.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Institute continues efforts to build partnerships with government leaders"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2009-11-12 11:22:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"47373":{"id":"47373","type":"image","title":"Perdue and Buzz","body":null,"created":"1449175107","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:38:27","changed":"1475894442","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:42","alt":"Perdue and Buzz","file":{"fid":"190114","name":"PurdueBuzz.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PurdueBuzz_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PurdueBuzz_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":129902,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PurdueBuzz_0.jpg?itok=DA6IvQDC"}}},"media_ids":["47373"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtalumni.org\/pages\/legislativenetwork","title":"Georgia Tech Alumni Association Legislative Network"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7784","name":"Georgia General Assembly"},{"id":"7785","name":"Gov. Sonny Perdue"},{"id":"7783","name":"Legislative Day"},{"id":"7786","name":"President Bud Peterson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBetsy Jackson\u003C\/strong\u003E, 404-894-1238\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Director, Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Betsy.Jackson@dev.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}