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Fort Benning takes back its old name, but to honor a different soldier
Ms. Sue Conger-Williams, right, Fred Benning's granddaughter unveils a new sign at Fort Benning during a ceremony honoring new namesake on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Fort Benning, Ga.
Ms. Sue Conger-Williams, right, Fred Benning's granddaughter unveils a new sign at Fort Benning during a ceremony honoring new namesake on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Fort Benning, Ga. - photo by Associated Press
FORT BENNING — The Army officially restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.
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Georgia Southern professor Dr. Larisa Elisha will offer free violin recital on Saturday
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music is presenting event 7:30 p.m. at Carol A. Carter Recital Hall
Larisa Elisha
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring Dr. Larisa Elisha, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall. - photo by Georgia Southern University photo

The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring internationally-acclaimed violinist Dr. Larisa Elisha and Dr. Cameron Fuhrman on piano, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Georgia Southern University campus. 

The program of violin-piano masterpieces includes Johannes Brahms’s Scherzo in C minor (from "F-A-E Sonata"), Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23, by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, by Johannes Brahms and Manuel Ponce’s Estrellita (“the little star”). 

Russian-American violinist, Dr. Elisha, is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed and taught extensively throughout Russia, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Taiwan, Lithuania, Israel and the United States.

Currently, Dr. Elisha is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Upper String Studies at the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music, violin/viola Literature and method and pedagogy. 

Dr. Cameron Fuhrman is a pianist, teacher and musical academic. Born in rural Central Oregon, she began taking piano lessons at 5 and teaching them at 11. 

She has given solo, collaborative, and concerto performances across the United States and has received numerous awards for her teaching and research. 

She lives in Savannah with her husband, Jacob, who is Director of Music at the Independent Presbyterian Church, and their daughter, Clara. 


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