University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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THE GEORGIA ARCH center of the campus along Broad Street, two smaller gates provide entry about equal distance to the right and left. In 1946 the Arch was moved backwards about six feet, placed on some limes- tone steps and flanked by two columns at the open sides, with two lights added at the top. Once there were two iron gates, between the two outside columns and the center one, as shown by notches and flanges on the columns. During the Civil War, though the College was closed, the Chancellor as custodian opened the gates and rang the bell at eight o ' clock to symbol- ize that the College was open, with a similar cere- The Arch, with the Chapel in the background, is the symbol of the University, and to many alumni the emotional center of the State. If this Arch could talk, it could tell how the land that the Indians had owned was taken by Fron- tiersmen, then used by Farmers, even Plantations with Slaves. It could tell how Wars had swept over the land: the Mexican War, the bitter Civil War, the Cuban War, then two World Wars when the New World of America went to the Rescue of the Old World. Nearby is a monument whereon are named the Confederate dead: at Shiloh, Crampton Gap, Chickamauga, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, and Fre- mony to close at five. Around 1885 these gates disappeared, maybe stolen, maybe broken, may- be discarded as meaningless. Two brothers, Daniel and James Redfearn, worked their way through the University to be- come prominent in law and medicine. As a fresh- man in 1909 Dan made an impulsive pledge, not to walk through the Arch , till he had his diploma in his hand, a pledge that became a tradition in the policies of hazing sophomores. Often when the freshmen made their Shirt-tail Parade through town, their efforts to break this taboo led to struggles at the Arch, restricted by the honor system to fists only , but even then quite rough. In addition to fathering this tradition, these two Redfearn brothers left an endowment for the Arch, enough to keep the simple structure in re- pairs. Twice governors have been burned in effigy at the Arch: once when a Black player at another school was barred against Tech, again when the University was discredited for political interfer- ence. When the rules forbade a political speech on the campus, the students got permission from the City of Athens to build a platform six inches from the campus but just in front (by six inches) of the Arch. Their candidate became Governor! dericksburg. A forest plateau has become the home of 20,000 students and 100,000 alumni. Phi Kappa and Demosthenian and other groups have sent trained leaders to serve in countless ways: Long in Medicine, Herty in Industry, Grady in Journalism, Black in Finance, Russell in Government, to men- tion only five. Seven out of the last ten governors have been from the Athens campus, thirteen out of the last twenty. A state of 75,000 people on the date of the charter is now 5,000,000; and a village to the near west is prophesied in a hundred years, in 2100 A.D., to be the largest city in the world. And a hundred things now exist not dreamed of even in 1 856: the automobile, space ships, nuclear bombs, computers, eyes looking into the body and far into space — all created during the life of this Arch. And back of the Arch on the campus are its scholars, its teachers, its athletes, its lordly sen- iors, its naive freshmen, its proud parents, its re- turning alumni, its casual visitors. Here between the Town of Athens and the Campus is the one spot, a three-columned seal, that is the Heart of Georgia. JJ[ 2 THE GEORGIA ARCH

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is The Georgia Arch 1856 When the University was chartered in 1785, this spot was in the midst of oak trees. When this square mile (640 acres) was bought in 1800 by- John Milledge and his committee, this area was between the Indians and the Whites, with Daniel Easley owning a mill on the nearby Oconee River, with some fruit trees near the future campus. When the 36-acres college yard was laid off, a free-flowing spring at the northeast corner prom- ised water. In its financial ups and downs, the College un- der the Senatus Academicus decided in 1834 that a Botanical Garden a block to the west was too expensive for a meager budget. The resolution said the proceeds of the sale should be used to provide a proper fence and gate along Front Street, as Broad Street was then called. So ' . ' the thousand dollars of proceeds was used in 1856 to erect the iron fence and the gate, a replica of the Georgia seal. As the old dies that the new can be born, the sale of the Botanical Garden at the hollow on Broad Street left a void; then over a hundred years later a new garden was established near White- hall, a mile and a half away on the far south end of the campus, 295 acres in extent, permanently granted by the Board of Regents. The Callaway Foundation gave a beautiful building for the head- quarters. However, the word Constitution never ap- peared at the top of the Arch, nor the words Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation , which ap- pear on the seals both of the University and the State. The Athens Foundry molded the fence pal- ings and presumably the Arch and its simple col- umns. Years later, when the fence was extended down Lumpkin and Jackson Streets, the molds were still available. The seal at the Arch is simply three pillars, the graceful curve joining the two outside ones. Elev- en seals of the State have not contained this Arch; six have, including the present one. The Seal of the University has an arch with the four words above, encircled by its Latin motto, Et Docere et rerum exquirere causae , which says, Both to seek out and to teach the cause of things , or as President Aderhold said, Research and Teach- ing. Scholars have never found the motto in any book, so some early professor must have orignat- ed it. On the University seal there is another out- side ring with these Latin words, Sigillum Univer- sitatis Georgiae. In addition to the Arch as an entrance at the (continued) Dean William Tate Recalls The Fascinating History Of The Georgia Arch .... 1978 PANDORA UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA 30602 VOLUME 91 S 3

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' i JA l flf .v •w. The University of Georgia : :i h li ' h - Introduction 4 I Beauties 22 ] Academics 33 Sports 81 Organizations . . .161 Greeks 241 ! Classes 353 General Index . . 436 Connpendiunn . . . 448 Copyright ® 1978 by John Scott Kinney and the Department of Student Activities, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the Editor or the Director of the Department of Student Activities. Is xr TABLE OF CONTENTS 3