Gary Couvillon relished introducing the tall, lanky speaker he remembered as a bushy-haired president of the Horticulture Club with a 3.9 average back in 1974. Most of the bushy hair is long gone but the grade point average was an indication of a bright future. He returned to campus this summer to share his views of the world. Larew's role is to match the needs of people overseas with campuses, primarily land-grant institutions like the University of Georgia. But often his first job is to answer hard questions.
People say international work is expensive, it's risky.
We don't need to because we already know what to do. Yes, it's expensive, he admits. But international work is becoming less so with technology. Our country would suffer a real lack of leadership. Life is a risk.