Editor: As a GSU faculty member of the Betty Foy Sanders Art Department, who was awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2004, I must reply to the news that our Art Department will not coordinate future Youth Arts Festivals or “ArtsFest” for GSU and the southeast Georgia region. Statesboro friends clipped the recent announcement article from the Statesboro Herald (January 21) and forwarded it to me, in N.C., because I was instrumental in establishing the decades-old event. I and other members of past festival planning teams are most disappointed to read of this decision.