University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Dr. Michael F. Adams was named the twenty-first President of The University of Georgia by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on June 1 1 , 1997 Dr. Adams has become an increasingly recognized national leader in higher education during his past eighteen years of senior administrative leadership. Adams joined Georgia ' s faculty as a professor of speech communication in the fall of 1997. He is also currently chair of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and just recently completed a term as chair of the Associated Colleges of the South. During his short time at the University of Georgia, President Adams has effected many changes, most noticable, . perhaps being the relandscaping of the campus. Opening 5

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4 Opening Abraham Baldwin was the University ' s first president. A native of Connecticut, a graduate of Yale and a teacher there, a lawyer and a minister, Baldwin moved to Georgia after serving as a chaplain in the revolutionary army. During his service in the state legislature he probably assisted in gaining the original land grant for a college in 1784, and the next year he wrote the charter for the University of Georgia. He served on the Board of Trustees and helped decide on the location of the university. By the time the college was ready to open in 1 801 Baldwin was busy in national politics, so he turned the presidency over to his friend Josiah Meigs, also from Yale.

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The Goat n In the last 100 years of intercollegiate football, there may be no college mascot in the country that is more well known than the University of Georgia ' s Uga, a line owned since 1956 by the Frank W. (Sonny) Seller family of Savannah, Ga. However, UGA ' s mascot was not always the Bulldog. Georgia ' s first mascot for its football game against Auburn, February 22, 1892 in Atlanta, Georgia, was the goat. Old newspaper clippings say the goat wore a black coat with red U. G. letters on each side. He also had on a hat with ribbons down his high horns, and the Auburn fans yelled throughout the game, shoot the billy-goat. Two years later, in 1894, the Bulldogs ' mascot was a solid white female bull terrier owned by a student, the late Charles Black, Sr., of Atlanta. 6 Opening