| Dr. Jim Neal, founding
director of the Albert Gore Research Center, retired as of July 1, 1999, after many years
of faithful service. Dr. Neal's greatest legacies to the Gore Center are the
outstanding relationships he has build with its principal donors and an abundance of
state-of-the-art technology. He has laid a strong foundation from which the Center
will benefit for many years to come. Dr. Neal will not disappear, however. He will continue working for the university in a post-retirement contract, teaching in the History Department and working ten hours per week at the County Archives located in the Rutherford County Courthouse. |
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