April 28, 2006

06-077

Charles Harmon
Director of University Relations

Sementha Mathews
Manager of Public Information
and Media Relations

Downs hired as VSU's College of the Arts Director of Development

Beth Strickland Downs was recently named director of development at Valdosta State University's College of the Arts.

As the director of development, Downs is responsible for private gifts and private fundraising activities benefiting VSU's College of the Arts and its related entities. This position is important to the regional university's operational funding support, since a large portion of funding is received from external sources.

Downs, a 2000 alumna of VSU, transferred from Marietta, where she spent nearly five years as the public relations coordinator of the Marietta Museum of History.