East Georgia State College (EGSC) officially installed Dr. David Schecter as its sixth president in an Investiture Ceremony on Friday, October 13. The ceremony was open to the public in the auditorium of the Luck Flanders Gambrell Building on EGSC’s Swainsboro campus.
An Investiture ceremony is counted among the oldest traditions of academia. It is a formal and academic occasion to celebrate a new president’s official installation. Distinguished guests, elected officials, and higher education leaders from around the region gathered with students, employees, alumni, and community partners to show support for the start of Dr. Schecter’s leadership tenure.
The Investiture ceremony was also a celebration of the College’s 50th anniversary. Dr. Schecter selected music from 50 years ago along with a few of his favorite songs to be played during the ceremony. Scholars in Sync and Sounds of Gabriel were the two musical groups that performed the songs during the ceremony.
Scholars in Sync is a quartet of musicians organized for the Investiture. Members of the quartet, Jacob Yarborough, Samantha Glover, and Micah Bonn are all graduates of EGSC. Dr. Alan Brasher is in his twenty-seventh year as an English professor at the College. In his first semester, he initiated Music
