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Joe Brown Hall was constructed in 1932 and named after Joseph Emerson Brown. Joseph E. Brown was an attorney and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Georgia. He was a secessionist who lead Georgia into the Confederacy in 1861. After…

UGA police found David Braun on campus in his Vandiver Hall room on January 14, 2014, after police met a locked door to his room and went in using a key. The deceased student’s suitemate Tevin Reeves said he alerted housing officials after he had not…

A dedication ceremony was held Sept. 26, 2009 to officially name a student residence hall at the University of Georgia in honor of former Gov. Ernest Vandiver. Speakers for the ceremony included former UGA President Michael F. Adams and Vandiver’s…

Joe Brown Hall was once a student dorm. However, after the 1971 Thanksgiving break, 26 year old UGA student Stanley Park Haddock from Atlanta was found dead. Haddock committed suicided by hanging himself from his dorm closet. The UGA police confirmed…

Creswell Hall is named after Mary Ethel Creswell, the first woman to receive a baccalaureate degree from the University of Georgia. Mary Creswell received her B.S. in home economics in 1919, and she became the first dean of the College of Home…

Mary Lyndon Hall is named after Mary Dorothy Lyndon, the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia. Mary Lyndon received her master’s degree in education from UGA in 1914, although women were not admitted to UGA as regular…

Postcard of UGA at night

A campus map of the University of Georgia is shown here. Highlighted in blue are the residence halls that are covered in this exhibit.

Found in the Special Collections, this is a telegram sent to Governor Vandiver by Georgia businessmen urging him to keep public schools open. Closing public schools can severely hurt the economy of Georgia, and therefore, it was in the interest of…