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By Jeff Denmon
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There is no one better to head a division than someone with that division as her passion. Dr. Renva Watterson, Georgia Highlands College’s new humanities division chair, has this quality.

“Humanities cover all the areas I was interested in,” she said. “All of these areas-English, communications, art, music, foreign language and drama-I consider critical for the educated person.”

Watterson’s main focus is on communication. One of her most treasured memories is her experience designing and advising a college radio station at Henderson State University.

More recently, Watterson has been professor of communication, chair of the communications department and dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Shorter College in Rome.

Watterson has an upcoming judging assignment for a contest sponsored by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in New York this December. She will be judging high school, college and university newspapers from across the United States.

“I liked the transition from full-time classroom to full-time administration,” she said, “but I don’t think I’m done teaching yet.”

Watterson, who took over the newly created humanities division on July 1, “considers it an honor to join the faculty and administration at Georgia Highlands.”

Watterson is based on the Cartersville campus in office 323E, but spends time each week on the Floyd campus in F-146.