North Georgia College - Cyclops Yearbook (Dahlonega, GA)

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S fit Bonwick Hall was built in 1898 as the col- lege ' s first extra building . Money for the building came from the sale of certain gold mines including the famous Calhoun mine, donated to the college by Cpt. {. A. Bonwick of New York. On September 20, 1912, Bon- wick Hall was destroyed by fire early in the morning. in 1926, a strong sentiment to change the original name of the college by dropping the word agricultural sprang up. The Superior Court of Lumpkin County officially made the change to North Georgia College in 1930, a name unofficially used for the school for sev- eral years previously. By that time, the Univer- sity System consisted of 26 schools. The small size of the institutions and the oncoming de- pression years forced then-Governor Richard Russell to reorganize the System and NGC was reduced to junior college status. The college almost collapsed during the depression, but rejuveniation came in the 1940 ' s as North Georgia took an active role in preparation for World War 11. The response of NGC students to the war effort was tre- mendous and was high-lighted in the spring of 1942 when 31 students enlisted as a group in the United States Naval Air Corps and be- came the Hell ' s Angels flight squadron. The squadron was the first in the Southeastern United States to be filled by one college. 29

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Regents authorize reconversion to senior college 30