University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Lingering Memories Of Olde Telamon Cuyler captured this student ' s room in a boardinghouse in this photo from 1893. (RIGHT. Photo courtesy of the University of Georgia De- partment of Public Relations.) This photo taken in 1967 shows some university co-eds outside Creswell Hall. (BELOW. Photo cour- tesy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) The intersection of Lumpkin and Broad with the Chapel, the north end of Old College, and Moore College in the background. (RIGHT. Photo courte- sy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) oule Hall has the distinction of being the oldest residence hall in which students still live. Opened in 1920 to house wom- en, it was for obvious reasons dubbed New Women ' s Building until 1923, when it offi- cially became Soule Hall. This dormitory also con- tained classrooms, an infirmary, kitchen, gymnasi- um, and pool. In 1963, Creswell Hall, named in honor of Mary E. Creswell, was also opened to house Freshmen women. So much damage and vandalism occurred, its occupancy was changed to include all classifica- tions of women. Later, Creswell became a co-edu- c.ilional facility with nine floors of both men and women. Two other dorms underwent occupancy changes: Hill Hall was originally a women ' s dorm but is currently men ' s housing, and Oglethorpe House began as a male dorm, but in 1969 converted to co-ed. New building construction wasn ' t the only tran- sition occuring at UGA. The mode of dress was changing as well. In the early years, sons of well- to-do planters followed the accepted formal fash- ions of the period. For these fellows, typical dress included a tail or frock coal, a high-collared white shirt, a cravat or stock, and trousers, otherwise known as pantaloons. Required dress also in- clude hose and either low-heeled boots or shoes. Completing the outfit were a tophat, a cane, and gloves. By 1910 students displayed a taste for vastly less formal outfits. Yet hats, white shirts and ties were still not uncommon. In certain instances, modes of dress were repre- sentative of the people wearing them. For instance, for several years it became the expected thing for Freshman men to wear inexpensive caps or beanies to indicate their classification. Then in earlier days, Demoslhenian members dressed in home- spun as a protest against England. Homespun was a coarse fabric made from native-grown wool, cot- ton, or flax and used primarily to make work clothes. ' ■« Jij f, 22 Bic. — Campus Life Am

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■ ' ■-«»aiinl.v• i ' k«Wertain. as a sentry post against delinquint students who wandered off campus to visit their favorite tav- erns. An addition to the Law School was built in 1967, and contains over 300,000 volumes at the present. The ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library was completed in 1953. The money was donated by Mrs. Little with the stipulation that columns be built completely around it. The time and cost in- volved were enormous, so the contractor built col- umns in the front and designed false columns for the sides. Mrs. Little ' s eyesight was failing so when she was shown the completed structure, she was unable to discern the difference. Memorial Hall was built in 1910 and initially served as the YMCA. It contained a one-story gym- nasium and a swimming pool. The hall wasn ' t completed until 1925. For several years Memorial Hall was primarily used as a student center because it contained a sizeable ballroom, a snack bar, a gameroom, and some lounges. The new site of the student center is the Dean William Tate Student Center. Completed in 1983, it includes a television lounge, a gameroom, an outdoor plaza, a print shop, a post office, theatre, food services area, and student organization offices. The University Bookstore opened in 1968 and is considered one of the finest collegiate bookstores in the Southeast. Besides textbooks, it carries study and art supplies, gifts and souvenirs, and banking services. Over the years on-campus residence halls have both increased in number and improved in the facilities they offer. Old College, Candler, ■ , and Tucker Halls are three examples of dor- ri mitories that have been converted for office I I I and classroom use. iia ■ ...Jt mx Sanford Stadium is filled with Georgia fans in thii. picture from the fall of 1959. In the foreground to the left, the Chemistry Building is under con- struction. (LEFT. Photo courtesy of Special Collec- tions Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) Freshmen males, wearing their rat caps, congre- gate on the steps of Memorial Hall. (BELOW. Photo courtesy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) The flying dome is incorporated in to the erection of the Coliseum under construction in 1963. This sight of many major campus events holds 12,000 people. (LEFT. Photo courtesy of Special Collec- tions Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) Emerging Faces In Changing Places Campus Life 21

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Memorial Hall offered students a place to study and lounge between classes. This photo was taken in the 1920 ' s. (LEFT. Photo courtesy of Special Col- lections Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) ,.. .eie «( • Incredible as it may seem, the dress code at UGA as late as the 1950s was still considerably conserva- tive; the student handbook stated: The liberty in dress permitted at beaches and other summer re- sorts is obviously not to be permitted on the Uni- versity ' s campus or on the streets or residence properties of Athens. Dances and formal parties were still extremely popular social events in the 1950s. Women no longer wore hats with their gowns, but the dresses themselves were still for- mal creations. Along with the next two decades, several break- throughs occurred concer ning student dress. Throughout the ' 60s women were allowed to wear sun-dresses on campus so long as they wore an accompanying jacket. However they were still re- stricted in some ways: no shorts or slacks were allowed on campus, and any sports clothing had to be covered with a non-transparent raincoat. By the ' 70s women had truly achieved liberation . Not only were they allowed to wear long pants and jeans, but also shorts. As for men, the most preva- lent trend was growing their hair longer and grow- ing beards, saying goodbye to the clean-shaven look of old. Over the past 200 years, the campus has changed from one building with a single faculty member and thirty students to a sprawling campus of 220 buildings, hundreds of professors, and some 24,000 students. The dress, attitudes, curriculum and liv- ing conditions of UGA ' s student body have under- gone numerous and remarkable changes through the years. To us, these previous lifestyles may often times border on the absurd. Yet today ' s student body, recognizing it ' s own rich and varied heri- tage, has borrowed upon many of those longago ideas, values, and attitudes to become the men and women they are today. Today ' s students are ex- tremely fortunate, for the environment which they are developing is one with restrictions, if indeed any at all. :nts are ex- it in ZZij ' I I I Campus Life 23