The main lobby of Moore College, the Honors Program's new quarters, will be named for Carmical when the program moves into the renovated 1874 building later this year, Morehead says. Carmical, born in 1895 in what is now Fulton County, received a journalism degree from UGA and for 46 years was a financial reporter and editor for the New York Times. After retiring to Georgia in 1967, he operated a farm near his birthplace until injuries from a fall forced him to enter a nursing home, where he died June 10, 2000. He always maintained an appreciation for what he had received from the university, and this gift to the Honors Program seems an appropriate way for his foundation to have him remembered. The Honors Program provides accelerated learning opportunities for UGA's most academically talented students.
Honors students attend small seminar classes taught by senior faculty members.
Participants receive individualized faculty advising and assistance and can design and pursue independent interdisciplinary majors that culminate with an Honors thesis or project. With about 2,200 participants, UGA's Honors Program is among the largest in the country and has been cited in national publications as one of the nation's best. Carmical was born in the community of Rico, which in 1895 was in Campbell County. The area is now the southern part of Fulton County. After graduating from the university, he went to New York City, where he attended graduate school at Columbia University and worked as a financial analyst for J.P. Morgan Co. before joining the New York Times in 1922.