University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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:? m o k i I ii According to Greek mythology Pandora which means she who has all gifts, opened the box in which all the evils of the world had been suppressed. The evils of the world flew out to plague mankind, leaving only Hope inside the box. In 1886 representatives of the eight existing fraternities on campus: SAE, Chi Phi, KA, Phi Delta Theta, ATO, Del- ta Tau Delta, Fiji.and Sigma Nu; worked together to create the first yearbook at the University of Georgia and the Souths second yearbook ever. The yearbook was a collection of the Greek ' rolls and of their activities on campus. It was a paperback book, much smaller in size than ours today, giving the his- tories of each class, of the school, and of the organizations at the University. Only three pages of photographs were included in this edition. It was not until 1931, the forty-fourth edition of the PANDORA, that photographs of all the students were included. In 1971 the eighty-fourth edition, the PANDORA in- troduced the first sixteen pages of the yearbook in color. In recent years a combination of photographs and writ- ten copy have prevailed. In order to bring about these changes in a yearbook a dedicated staff must be present. The first PANDORA staff had sixteen members all of whom were fraternity men. The first fifteen volumes were done solely by the frater- nities. In this period no PANDORA was published in 1889 or 1891, the only two years to be skipped since 1886. Funding was provided by the fratemi- LEfT: These original PAHDORAs. including the Hrst edi- tion in 1886, exemplify the styles and designs of the past one hundred years. ties and local advertisements. It was the hopes of the first editors that the Board of Trustees would set aside mon- ey for the PANDORA every year. 1903 marked the beginning of a new era for the PANDORA. The university allotted funds for the yearbook and it was published by the student body not the fraternities so that the PANDORA could expand to better represent all as- pects of campus life at the University. The editors were still very select in choosing their staff members, every year gaining in numbers. For over sev- enty years the PANDORA operated quite smoothly. Apathy prevailed in the 1970 ' s, and the University took away all funds from the yearbook. At this time the PANDO- RA appeared to be sunk, but Dr. Bill Powell decided to bri ng the responsi- bility of the yearbook production under him, as Director of Student Activities. In 1978 the ninty -first edition of the PANDORA was published as a self-sup- ported yearbook. Funding came through advertisements, yearbook sales, and all fraternities, sororities and other organizations bought their own pages. The 1980s have preceded in much the same way. This brings us to 1987, today. After many trials and tribulations the PAN- DORA has become an award winning yearbook. The PANDORA staff is now the largest college yearbook staff in the country with 1 75 members. This year ' s staff presents the one hundredth edi- tion of the PANDORA in the form of a box. We hope that your curiosity, like Pandora ' s, will be triggered so that you will open our box to view the past and present. We leave only Hope in this box for the future of the PANDORA. ■ !ra- •-fe ■ £J© Opening 3

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' •»- - T |» kGB Jk. fJk BELOW: A cheerleader from the 1 DORA proves that spirit is the nam game. RIGHT: These loyal Dawg fans sh true colors celebrating our Tech vict Spirit an inspiring or animating principle such as pervades and tempers thought, feeling or action the soul or heart a vigorous sense of membership in a group sensations with respect to exaltion or depression the dominant tendency or character of a thing Georgia has a spirit. It is poorly de- fined as gung-ho , intellectual, apa- thetic or party. It is inconceivably described by any single word. The spirit of a place is a part of all things that it is. (1963 PANDORA)