Georgia State University - Rampway Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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IIHIIUNVIIIIIES ' f C, , V 1951-1958, 223. 1172112011 Sf.-Fifi! Ozwzed Building w ' i Old Sheltering Arms Home Remodeled .for Tech Evening School. 1' 1 f. A C ' i C 1 ,N 3 1 9 During the last years before 1931, overflow, students were housed by Iyan Allen, Sr., in his empty Spring St. Building, and Fred Moore in empty offices in the new Rhodes-Haverty Build- ing, free of charge. ' Y ' , p 1 ,Nine sites. housed the College from its be- ginningpto' the midlcentury mark of its history. The first classes Were held in the basement of the old Chemistry Building- on the Campus of' Georgia School of lTechnology. Rented 'locations at the following sites were the next four quarters. I C 3 191 5-1 917: Three rooms in the AWHIIOYZ Bizildizzg 1917-1921: Four Rooms, Arcade Building 9 1921-1926: Third floor attic of five rooms, 18 Azzbumadzfefzue. i g -9 1926-1931: Sixfroom5,,92Q Forsyth Sly. in - - f Detail of Entrance to 225 Walton, Street Building. ' V ' I Nineteen rooms with a roof garden, coffee shop, laboratories, classrooms, school office and lounge if area was the gift of Robert, R. Johnson, President, Campbell Coal Company, iwho headed the Building C Committee. His ,Atlanta business friends donatedj. materials to remodel the old Sheltering Arms home. 1 i

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. 3 I, 'Q-'j ja'-'q :'. 'V f F ?5-FI' 'eff -if A,fQff?lvf:l'L .i hL 'f4 '11i H 5 A .S il' f'552:' A 9 r W- N i ' f Noah Noel Langdale, jr. PJ'c J'i!167If,' 1957 Io Pre3'ezzzf -. ' ' K XX. -' ' . - Vrliql - P f . g K C. , I . i Q ' f- ' P .. f I Y - - . , -.1 - f fQ'1fhe second President ofl,Georgia State .Collegegearned significant achievement at the University of Alabama where he was elected to PhilBeta4Kappa, other honor societies, and received the Outstand- ing Student Award in 1941 from the Panhellenic Council. Thefe the played football four yearsfand 'was onthe victorious Cotton Bowl team that same year, 1941. After .being graduateddmewserved as. as- sistant totheathletic coachiwhile doingsgraduate, work iii! law school, but in 1942, She 'went into the gNavy.'Having had ROTC in college, in Coast Artillery training, he became anfensign.-He went through a V-5 program at theUniversity of North Carolina, and was sent to the University of Georgia as an-instructor in Naval Subjects. ' A t. Q ' , P' P all g ' 1' -X , P . He served actively in the Navy during the war. Atthe war's endsheiwas officer in chargeiof NATS in Manila. He left the Navy not long after the wars endg entered Harvard University Law School. After graduation with an in 1948,-,he attended Harvard QraduatelSchool of Busingss Adminis- tration whem he earned the M,B.A. degree. In 1959. after two years as Presidenf of 'Georgia State Collegefthe University of Alabamatawarded him the honorary LL.D. 1 P ' C g A 5 1 1., 1 He has done much in hisiseven years asePresident pffGeorgia'State College. Firsthhejrnade a Plan, which the is implementing with perrnission ogf the Regents, in 'acquiring the large ,residue og business property not owned already by thegllollege tin the two city blocks bounded bye Gilmerg Ivy, Decatur streets and Piedmont Avenue. Second, he has strengthenedthe faculty, and .Lprograms of' college as the College now offers:SDoctor of Busines'Administration, Master of Business Administration, Master of Businessiilidiication, Master of Actuarial Science, and .Master of Professional Accountancy. The'Arts, and Science programs have been expandedg tof Bachelor Degrees arid Master Degrees. Also he has carried to many parts offthe Nation and even to European Countries information and: knowledge of Georgiag State,College., ' - A 9 -7 is ' 9 if f D e ri P Thisnfian then,iasP'so1id andi massive in his vision as in the frame work his body, can be relied.. upon as a Modern Ajaxn' to bear 'vsdth buoyance the futureeof Georgia State Collegef S , ' ' F' -- . ' 1 V P ' - FW

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x ' , , 1 ' 1938-1946 162 Lnrkib Slreef Building -. 1 X tc Q Purchased in 1945, and in useipresently, this six-story com- bination office and garage building originally contained 187,700 square feet. The sixth floor was extended and a seventh story added later. Of brick and reinforced concrete, the back was constructed in elevenlevels connected with double .patented ramps. An elevator and stairway connected the six main floorsi - - o ' ' To finance the purchase of thepbuilding, Dr. Sparks borrowed 3lS600,000 in unrestricted trust- funds 'from the State Auditor at four per cent, with-the Regents' permission, who also authorized the purchase of the garage office building. To complete the transaction legally they author- ized the organization of three corporations with Dr. Sparks as President of eachg one to liquidate the assets of the garage, ' one to operate the office building, and one to take over the other two corporations. . . The first classroom finished was on theifirst immediate level fspace now occupied, by .Alpha Phif and Zeta Tau-V Alpha Sororitiesj and was occupied ,several weeks before others by a class in Mathematics taught by W.pC. Cantrell. 'x v ' ' A p The old square U-shaped Georgia Baptist Hos- pital, on the corner of Luckie and Techwood, was purchased in 1938 forthe mounting enrollments of day and evening classes, Its fifty rooms, re- modeledrinto classrooms, chemistry- and other lab- oratories, library, assembly room, clinic, penthouse for the Art Department of that day and student recreation areas also used for indoor sports, wiped out alltraces. of the former hospital. Its'court-yard, enclosed with brick wall and lighted grillwork gate, was fused' not only for an approach, to the terrace at the entrance, and fog sunning on warm, clear, days, but furnished the settingxfor formal occasions such as the junior Collegexgraduation, and was used by classes in Physical Education. The W.P.A., courtesy of the late Governor Eugene Talmadge, helped' in the. remodeling processes, and 'student 'labor Vex- cavated the leftpwing ground floor area into afrec- reation center, small refectory, and rifle range added during World War II. p - 7 , AY W ' f ' n , 1 I , 'ri , L- A - - 11.1.-.s it 1.-.1 it - u , ... H , 'rm di. us.. I 1 r x,a5f- -'ff:N'i ' - Nr r 711'--l'1--I-mm in miriam LI Ill U S 24 !Ivy Street Building-1945-present It ,N