Hundreds of people celebrated the Georgia Artist Collection’s 50th anniversary along with Betty Foy Sanders’ final exhibition at the Georgia Southern Center for Art and Theatre Thursday. “Mrs. Sanders touched my life and the life of many students... with her presence, support, artwork, money and love of people,” said Dr. Curtis Ricker, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. When her late husband Carl Sanders was governor, Sanders founded the Georgia Artists’ Collection in the 1960s at then Georgia Southern College as part of a state-wide effort to fund arts departments, said Jason Hoelscher, the Center’s gallery director.