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Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library Within The Pages

10 The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael 4 Letter from Dr. Toby Graham and Her Tribute to Veterans 6 Gone with the Wind Exhibit & Family connection inspires children's book Event Celebrates 75th Anniversary about trailblazing UGA professor of the Premiere

12 WWI Propaganda Posters Show Fervor of the Time 8 Gates Foundation Grant Received Poster archive holds clues about attitudes towards war 8 Consular Corp Donates Papers Archives 9 Exhibit Celebrates 's 14 Pushball Diplomacy 50 years at UGA How a giant rubber sphere regulated conflict at

FEATURES UGA, as Europe collapsed in a COLUMNS In the Stacks

16 Greetings from a Co-ed 28 Letter from Chantel Dunham, Family members donate materials belonging to Libraries' Director of Development one of UGA's first female graduates 31 Board of Visitors

Walter J. Brown Media Archives

17 Peabody Materials Provide Surprising Insight Rarely seen ephemera cataloged

18 Art Rocks Athens Exhibit and community collaboration highlights Athens' early music and art scene

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 20 The Party is in the Papers: The Georgia Political Parties Records Project History of the Georgia Democratic and Republican parties revealed as collection is processed

22 Food, Power, and Politics: The Story of School Lunch Exhibit and programming looks back at the history and politics behind the national school lunch program

Digital Library of Georgia

24 The Savannah Newspapers Archive Savannah Newspapers, the latest addition to the digital database

Literary Update

26 News from the University of Georgia Press

27 News from Dr. Toby Graham University Librarian and Associate Provost within the pages

reetings! You will notice a new face ies. Our Libraries have provided collections, university libraries of georgia on these opening pages. On public services and technical services at a scale GSeptember 1, I had the distinct befitting a great University. The work that we 4 honor of becoming the University of have done has mattered a great deal to UGA Georgia’s new University Librarian and and well beyond. Associate Provost. Though new to this Of course, we live and work in a changing graduate education, faculty recruitment and position, I have been at UGA for eleven years, world, and there is much to be done. The retention, and in our University’s statewide having served successively as the director of concept of the research library was remade and global impact. the Digital Library of Georgia and the during Bill Potter’s twenty-five years, and it The University of Georgia is ambitious, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will be remade once again during the next and the Libraries have an essential role to Spring 2014 and as Deputy University Librarian. twenty-five. play. If you look at the universities that UGA There is certainly no place where I had Our University’s historic motto is engraved points to as its aspirational institutions, each rather lead library services and no institution in granite on the front of the Ilah Dunlap is characterized by strong, innovative research where our collective efforts may have a greater Little Memorial Library: “Et docere et rerum libraries that have helped them to get to impact than at the University of Georgia. exquirere causas.” We translate this into where they are, ones that continue to redefine This is an exciting time for our University as English (and amend it somewhat) to read “To themselves over time. That is what the UGA a whole, a new chapter in its history. Likewise, teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature Libraries must be for Georgia. the UGA Libraries begin a new chapter. of things.” This statement is the foundation Over the past twelve months, I have had Through the work of so many of you and of what we do at the University of Georgia the privilege of leading a strategic planning through twenty-five years of visionary, persis- and at the UGA Libraries. That does not process for our Libraries. Our plan expresses tent leadership by my predecessor, William change. What does change is how and the vision in which we will “advance the Univer- Gray Potter, our Libraries have accomplished level at which the University of Georgia sity’s mission by providing the best possible great things: the GALILEO statewide virtual does them. access to recorded knowledge. We will actively library, the Digital Library of Georgia, the Our University intends to make transfor- contribute to the success of students and fac- Miller Learning Center, and the Richard B. mational progress in its research enterprise, ulty through teaching and research services Russell Building Special Collections Librar- graduate and professional programs, under- provided in physical and virtual environ- improvements in access have had the effect and the Athenaeum@UGA scholarly com- pages the within ments that enhance learning and intellectual of creating even greater expectations among mons, along with our efforts to grapple with creativity. As the Libraries conduct this our users. Going forward we will redesign the challenge that “big data” presents to the work, we will emphasize assessment-driven our workflows and realign our efforts to Libraries and to the University, at large. decision making, collaboration, diversity and manage a collection that is increasingly Finally, we highlight the people of our inclusion, the thoughtful use of technol- digital, while also respecting among our organization in a theme we call “the empow- ogy, and innovation in scholarly and literary holdings the local and the unique. ered staff.” Recruiting, retaining, and devel- publishing. The Libraries will respond We are committed to the concept of the oping a talented, diverse, and knowledgeable creatively to changes in the higher education “teaching library,” sustaining a vibrant Libraries’ faculty and staff is essential in landscape and exemplify the University’s and innovative instructional program that every aspect of what we do. strategic priority to serve the citizens of contributes measurably to student success. At the 1953 dedication of the Ilah Dunlap Georgia and beyond.” We will weave the Library into the fabric of Little Memorial Library, poet Claude David- Our plan emphasizes six essential online learning and help to reduce the cost son penned a poem to commemorate that areas of focus: of higher education for Georgia students historic occasion. The first two lines read, A goal around the “evolving collection” through by advancing more affordable and Upon the wind a voice across the library recognizes the complex and rapidly chang- open educational resources. We will provide steps comes saying ing information environment in which we student-centered libraries in which learners university of georgia libraries university work. We are engaging in a comprehensive are not only knowledge consumers but also “Here is knowledge.” study of our collections spending (more knowledge creators. than seventy-five percent of which is for The theme of “library as place” empha- Here is knowledge. Much has changed electronic content) to provide the most sizes that library facilities remain critical since 1953, but never has this statement precise alignment possible between our in higher education, even as researchers are been more true than today. The UGA expenditures and the needs of the Univer- increasingly accessing resources electroni- Libraries are where knowledge lives, and sity. We also recognize that it is our special cally. We continue to re-invent our Libraries we continue to provide the physical and collections that distinguish us from every as 21st-century learning environments that virtual spaces where knowledge not only is other institution in the world, and we will cultivate student success and support dis- consumed but where it is created and shared continue the strategic growth and use of covery, study and contemplation, collabora- with the world. this unique resource for the benefit of the tion, knowledge creation and stewardship, With your help, I look forward to guiding University and our state as a whole. and knowledge sharing. the UGA Libraries as we strive to advance The “discoverable library” acknowledges The “library as publisher” recognizes the the mission of our University and to serve the challenges inherent in organizing and UGA’s Libraries’ contributions to the cre- the citizens of Georgia and beyond. providing a virtual library that is seamless ation and growth of the scholarly and liter- and readily understood by researchers and ary record through the publication activities learners. We have made significant strides in of the University of Georgia Press, The Geor- 5 recent years in this area, and the resulting gia Review, the Digital Library of Georgia, Spring 2014 Spring LOOK

within the pages What the WINDw .# Blew wIn!.# Behind the scenes look at the The film’s famous Green Curtain Dress ultimately became one Walter Plunkett’s most making of Gone With the Wind famous designs. Plunkett, who went on to win an Academy Award for An American In Paris, read Gone With the Wind several times and made hundreds of pages of notes. By Leandra Nessel, Development Associate

hen the movie rights to Gone licity photos, letters, story boards, costume He goes on to gently chastise her, “…Your With the Wind were sold to drawings and fabric samples, two theater speculations about the cast for the movie university libraries of georgia W David O. Selznick in 1936, the seats from the Loew’s Grand Theater in shows that you are engaging in what appears entire world went crazy, or so it seemed to Atlanta, and a variety of additional memora- to be a popular . Everybody seems to Margaret Mitchell and her husband John bilia and photographs. be doing it. But, as a friend, please don't 6 Marsh. Their lives already turned upside Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the urge Clarke Gable, a great many people have down due to the popularity of the book, the premiere in Atlanta in 1939, the exhibit picked him for Rhett, but he is persona non frenzy gained new life as speculation began explores the excitement around the making grata to the Marsh-Mitchell family.” about who would be chosen to play the of the film, Mitchell’s attempts to maintain Though the contract did mean that beloved characters and never stopped until some semblance of control over her story, Mitchell signed away control, she managed the day of the premiere. the barrage of mail she received from fans to persuade the studio to hire her friend Sue

Spring 2014 On Saturday, August 23rd, the Hargrett eager for any knowledge about details of the Myrick to be an on-set consultant about Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened a movie, and a behind the scenes glimpse at all things Southern. A former teacher and fascinating exhibit dedicated to the making the making of the movie. newspaper reporter, Myrick oversaw techni- of the film version ofGone With the Wind. In a letter dated August 1, 1936 to his cal details in an effort to keep the film from Curated by Mary Ellen Brooks, Emeritus Di- sister, Mitchell’s husband John Marsh la- getting the stereotypical Hollywood treat- rector of the Hargrett Library and curator of ments “The movie rights have already been ment of the south. the Mitchell collection, the majority of the sold to Selznick – the contract was signed In a letter dated January 11, 1939, materials on display are pulled from Har- this past week – and the sale gives Selznick Myrick’s personality and devotion to her grett’s Margaret Mitchell related collections, the complete control of all matters involved duties is evident. which contains over 100,000 items making in making it into a movie, with the right to “Dear Peggy, There are so few persons it the largest collection of Margaret Mitchell add, subtract, transpose, delete, interpolate, to whom I can tell things! Gawd! Would I and Gone With the Wind related materials in arrange, substitute and practically everything like to talk to you and John for a couple of the world. else anybody might be able to think of in or- hours….Talked to Annie Laurie and Wilbur Items on display include telegrams from der to make clear and definite in the contract [Kurtz, also an historian and technical Vivien Leigh, Olivia De Havilland, and Leslie that, whatever is done turning the book into a advisor for the film] yesterday about feather Howard upon learning of their casting, pub- movie, is Selznick’s business and not Peggy’s.” beds at Tara and they agreed and I insisted that they must be. Eddie Boyle, head of set collection of Herb Bridges. Known around Wiley, author of several books related to pages the within dressing, is a good egg and we get along fine. the world as the owner of a vast collection Gone With the Wind and editor of The Scarlett I really think the exterior of Tara is lovely of Gone With the Wind related items, Herb Letter, a quarterly Gone With the Wind related and I’m sure credit belongs to Wilbur who wrote many books on Gone With the Wind newsletter, also presented a lovely tribute insisted on square columns and a rambling and was considered an expert on the subject. to Bridges and what he meant to the look. I have insisted on the magnolia tree He appeared in nearly every documentary fan community. out Scarlett’s window and o yes, a funny made about the book and movie. Bridges, a Though tomorrow is another day, the thing. They wanted cotton chopped while UGA alumnus (AB 1950) was scheduled to exhibit will only be on display through dog woods were blooming and Wilbur and be at the exhibit opening, but passed away December 23, 2014, so visit before it is gone I had a time stopping it. They will plough unexpectedly in October of 2013. with the wind. The Russell Special Collec- instead. I nearly died when they asked if A portion of the event was dedicated to tions Building is open Monday through Fri- they couldn't show cotton right at the a tribute to Bridges. Members of the Gone day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays front yard!....” With the Wind fan community were invited from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (closed on home Though Hargrett’s collection is extensive, to send in tributes that were presented to game days). many of the items on display are from the the Bridges family in a keepsake box. John

Left: Not completely sold on British actors playing her Southern characters, Leslie Howard does little to win over Margaret Mitchell in this telegram in which he cannot recall the name university of georgia libraries university of her book. Right: Members of Herb Bridges’ family attended the event. Pictured are Nan Bridges, Joe Bridges, Anne Bridges Clayton, Eleanor Bridges, Bill Bridges, and Christy Bridges.

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Not fans of Clarke Gable, the Mitchell-Marshes were not pleased when they discovered they were seated next to him at the premiere. They were eventually won over by Gable’s performance as Rhett and Mitchell wrote to Gable afterward to tell him what a wonderful job he had done bringing Rhett to life. gates foundation Provides Funding for Training Public Librarians

he Digital Library of Georgia, based primary source collections related to local digitization, digitize the historical content,

within the pages at the University of Georgia history and genealogy. create metadata, host the files, and create T Libraries, received $100,000 from “The Gates funds will allow the Digital two online exhibits. the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Library of Georgia to initiate new digitiza- The project provides the foundation for a the Digital Public Library of America to tion projects with the public libraries and long-term relationship between local public provide digital skills training for public update the Georgia HomePLACE survey to libraries, state and regional hubs, and the librarians to aid in exhibiting cultural bring a better understanding of the digitiza- Digital Public Library of America. The part- heritage content as a part of the Public tion needs of the state’s public libraries,” nerships will allow public library content to Library Partnerships Project (PLPP). said Sheila McAlister, director of the Digital be aggregated and made available at state, This training is designed to reach public Library of Georgia. “PLPP will also provide regional, and national levels. librarians in libraries with special collec- the public libraries with ways to connect Additionally, the project will produce tions that want to share their content with their community history to the larger curricular resources for digital skills training a broader audience but may not have the national narrative through easy-to-create for cultural heritage professionals. Through resources to do so. online exhibits and explore the rich local an iterative process of writing, implementa- UGA’s library is a regional “service hub” history collections of the public libraries on tion, revision, and further implementation, for the Digital Public Library of America. a national scale via inclusion in the Digital the Digital Public Library of America and The funding will further support the project Public Library of America.” the hubs will have the opportunity to test Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library The Digital Library of Georgia provided and document best practices and share their and Archives Collections Electronically). three day-long training sessions to public findings publicly. Since 2003, the project has encouraged librarians designed to introduced the basics Georgia public libraries and related institu- of digital projects. Held in Macon, Augusta tions to participate in the digital library. It and Savannah, library staff worked with the www.dlg.galileo.usg.edu offers a collaborative model for digitizing attendees to identify suitable content for www.dp.la university libraries of georgia

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atlanta consular corp Spring 2014 Donates Papers to Russell Library

he Russell Library for Political embourg; and the Honorable Bruce Allen, “Georgia’s leadership in today’s global Research and Studies and the honorary consul of Liechtenstein – attended economy is affirmed by the one in every 15 T Atlanta Consular Corp held a the event. jobs in the Atlanta metro area being sup- signing ceremony and reception on July 16, The Atlanta Consular Corps’ collec- ported by more than 1,000 foreign-owned 2014, to herald the donation of the corps’ tion documents the organization’s role in companies. The corps’ work and interaction papers to the Russell Library. facilitating trade and economic development with representatives from trade offices and University and corps administrators – throughout Georgia with the corps’ chambers of commerce will be of prime including UGA President Jere W. Morehead; member countries. research interest to scholars and students.” Dean the Honorable Stephen Brereton, the “Policy issues and decision related to trade There are 70 countries represented in consul general of Canada; Vice Dean the and economy have always played a crucial Georgia through the Atlanta Consular corps. Honorable Paul Gleeson, consul general of role in shaping the broader development of The offices also help promote cultural and Ireland; Second Vice Dean the Honorable modern Georgia and the South,” said Sheryl scientific relations and offer services to for- Georges Hoffmann, honorary consul of Lux- B. Vogt, director of the Russell Library. eign citizens living in or traveling in Georgia. within the pages the within

Dooley Endowment Makes Undeniable Impact university of georgia libraries university

Pictured are Dick Copas (trainer), Mike Castronis, Frank Inman, John Donaldson, Bill Dooley, Vince Dooley, Erskine Russell, Jim Pyburn, Hootie Ingram, Doc Ayers, Ken Cooper, Sterling DuPree. From the 1964 Pandora.

hen the University of Georgia alumni and friends helped to grow the en- gathered to pay tribute to Coach Dooley hired Coach Vince Dooley away dowment to more than $2 million. and his contribution to the “heartbeat” of W from Auburn, his alma mater, The Dooley Endowment has proven invalu- campus. The event also kicked off a renewed in December of 1963, the Athletic Depart- able in the 26 years since it was established. fundraising effort by the Libraries. Guests ment was impressed with Dooley’s diligence As state funding for the Library has decreased were invited to give “$50 for 50” in honor of and his coaching skills. Auburn’s head over the years, the Dooley Endowment has Coach Dooley, though extra zeroes were coach, Ralph Jordan, said, “I am real happy provided a steady flow of income to fill in also welcome. for Vince. He will make a great head coach gaps left by budget cuts. Funds generated A gift to the Library through the Dooley with his great desire to excel.” (The Red and annually from the endowment have been Endowment is a gift for all students. Black, December 5, 1963) used to purchase journal subscriptions that To make a gift to the Dooley Endowment And Jordan was right. During his 25 year would otherwise have been cut, acquisitions in honor of Coach Dooley, please use the coaching career Dooley compiled a 201-77-10 for the general and special collections, sup- enclosed return envelope or contact 9 record. His teams won six Southeastern Con- port for outreach programs and events, oral Chantel Dunham at (706) 542-0628 or ference titles and the 1980 national cham- history interviews, Center for Undergraduate [email protected]. Coach Dooley will be 2014 Spring pionship. As Athletic Director he helped Research Opportunities (CURO) awards, visit- notified of all donors. to build one of the most successful athletic ing lecturers, new technology for students programs in the country. and many other worthy investments. Few suspected at the time what an impact On September 26th, the Libraries hosted Vince Dooley would have on another campus an exhibit opening and reception in honor institution – the Library. An historian and a of Coach Dooley at the Russell Special Col- scholar, Coach Dooley has a love for libraries. lections Building. The exhibit, titled His wife Barbara often tells the story that he “Vince Dooley: A Retrospective 1954-1988” took her to the Library on the Auburn cam- celebrates Dooley’s football career and the pus on their first date. 50 years since joining UGA. Curated from When he made his first gift to the Libraries the UGA Athletic Association archive in in 1988, Coach Dooley called it the “hearbeat” the University Archives, the exhibit features of campus, supporting the entire university. photographs, playbooks, original artwork by The initial gift Dooly made that estab- favorite Jack Davis, and commemora- lished the Dooley Endowment was given in tive memorabilia. celebration of his 25th anniversary at UGA. Dooley Endowment donors, Lettermen Additional gifts from former players, faculty, from the Dooley era, and other special guests

Vince and Barbara hosted the Libraries’ first White Glove Dinner in the former Hargrett Library space in 2007 for a select group of Library donors and friends. 10

Spring 2014 university of georgia libraries hargrett the M enduring traditions to come out of the First to traditions comeoutofthe enduring kept herpromise by most creating oneofthe ..” service of military men in toour national uniforms the grateful would be“.sincerely appreciative and peacetimesandofwar she During feelings.patriotic Shemadeasilentpromise. thought deepenedMoina’s conflict?The the believed in. ready standing tosoldiers diefor whatthey brave ofthe Instead, shethought young she hadjust visited. beautiful countryside impactimagine the war would have onthe to New York City.” not to Moinatried oceanfrom Naples submarine-haunted the mine-infested the though areas andacross days ship“.zig-zagged andnightsthe coastline ofEurope disappear. For sixteen , andwatched the ship,Carpathia British School.Normal Georgia andto State herstudents atthe safewas passage securing back hometo America entered the battle,andMoina entered the America enteredWhat would happenifAmerica Moina stood upperdeck ofthe onthe began. Foremost onhermind Europe whenWorld War One oina BelleMichael was in missing inaction. letter histwo news that with brothers were Moina was for there himwhenhereceived a University attendingthe soldiers time. atthe one seemedtroubled. lobby especially soldiers, andchatted if with the Shealsosatin floors. and onallthe hotelcampus inthe lobby andplacedthem flowersthe gardensthe from on University “soldier-buddies,” Moinapicked fresh field Universitythe lived below floors onthe her. Communicationsat studyingSoldiers Radio theGeorgian floorof Hotel. fifth on the andliving titleofEmeritus the Georgia with Moina was retired University from the of known Poppy as“The Lady.” red poppy ofthe Moinabecame tribution Andfor hercon- service.” “splendid patriotic anote herfor Army with thanking the her penheusedto signhisfarewellthe order to JohnJ.Pershingended, General gave Moina andwomen. war Whenthe of servicemen bol to sacrifices honorandremember the World War. Thered poppy. Adedicatedsym- My Dad was one of the Signal Corps SignalCorps My Dadwas oneofthe toDetermined dosomething for hernew entered WorldWhen America War Two, lady Her TributetoVeterans Moina BelleMichaeland - correspon includedpersonal materials mary trove- Pri ofinformation andinspiration. atreasureorganized collectioncontained home to MoinaMichael’s Thewell- papers. Library, BookandManuscript grett Rare research.with andhomesoffered to help hearts Elinor andLucia welcomed meinto their story, Delighted to great-aunt’s share their Sizemore, inStone Georgia. Mountain, Elinor Howard CookandLucia Howard autobiography, TheMiracle Flower. about herwas takendirectly from a 1941 found most ofwhathadbeenwritten that researchingyears. Istarted MoinaI After Tribute Veterans to . The Poppy Lady: MoinaBelleMichael andHer ofBoydsimprint MillsPress, published U.S. the History when CalkinsCreek Books, alive.keep We Moina’s story were delighted ing for children my Dadasked meto help - years. the Once I began writ me through words touched my andstayed heart with told meaboutMoina’s kindness.His Our fact-finding journey led to the Har led Our fact-findingto journey I reached outto Moina’s two great-nieces, road toBut the publicationtook seven I was ten-years-old whenmy Dadfirst by BarbaraElizabethWalsh -

hargrett university of georgia libraries 11 Spring 2014 More information and the backstory for The Lady can be found on Barbara’s website: Poppy www.barbaraelizabethwalsh.com see the book trailer created by To illustrator Johnson, visit: Layne http://tinyurl.com/PoppyLadyTrailer Moina Michael picking poppies. picking Moina Michael Illustrator By the death time of Moina’s in 1944, Lady will hope that The Poppy It is my the red poppy of Flanders Fields had raised had of Flanders Fields thepoppy red dollars million in the hundred two over marks year This States and overseas. United anniversarythe of the 100th start of World will mark 9, 2018 and November One, War anniversary the Moina first of when 100th idea. Moina and her thought her poppy of and their story veterans help continue to ’49) Abit (BBA Massey this to day. families and the members of the Gainesville, GA of The Rotary a copy present regularly Club speakers. and other veterans Lady to Poppy sign the book, add information The veterans or comments, and then the present book to elementary In addi- in their schools honor. tion, a portion the of the from proceeds sale book supportsof each Operation Purple®, a program Military of the National Family of children the benefits Association, which military. U.S. her lasting bring Moina for to recognition contribution and carry her legacy. forward -

In addition to the In addition to Hargrett’s extensive

Illustrations from Walsh’s book depict buildings on the of theIllustrations campus Normal from Walsh’s on Prince School Avenue, the now Health Sciences campus. grateful staff to their support. members for viewer."—Layne Johnson, The Poppy Lady , and I’m truly accuracy The Poppy of believable to the making those scenes involvement helped ensure the helped ensure historical involvement "sense of place", art a historically accurate insight into clothing worn clothing at that insight into time. Such but helped give the information I needed landscaping. And Caroline Killens provided Killens provided landscaping. And Caroline me the proper to me. It not only gave Duncan shared the details about Duncan shared smallest was indispensable "The UGA reference the resources of University Archives. Janine Archives. of University the resources Nelson Morgan provided photos beyond beyond photos provided Morgan Nelson involved other staff other example, members. For involved tions. If Steven was unsure of an answer, he of an answer, unsure was tions. If Steven lengths to help find answers to my ques- my to lengths help find answers to requests, and Steven Brown went to great to went Brown and Steven requests, Linnemann tackled my endless reproduction reproduction endless Linnemann tackled my a willing and enthusiastic staff. Mary inspired to bring to inspired idea overseas. the poppy help from invaluable collection I received Guerin, the Frenchwoman who Moina who Moina Guerin, the Frenchwoman respondence between Moina and Madame Moina between respondence missing chapters, along with of cor a cache missing chapters, of Moina’s autobiography, complete with complete autobiography, of Moina’s and interviews. draftalso a first was There dence, photographs, newspaper clippings, clippings, newspaper photographs, dence, wwiwwi propogandapropoganda postersposters show fervor of the time by lee shearer hargrett archives hargrett " hat were they thinking?” undertakes special projects for the library. An agency called the Food historians today sometimes ask “We’ve never investigated, but I’d think it Administration produced many posters. The W in connection with . is one of the larger collections,” she said. agency’s job was to administer the allies’ The war began 100 years ago this year Many of the items in Hargrett are British food supply, which included tasks such as when Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria- — the United States didn’t join the war until keeping the price of wheat stable. Hungary declared war on Serbia, a month 1917, and before that many people, especially “Eat more fish, eggs, cheese, poultry,” after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in the South, opposed entry into it. instructs one of the food administration’s were assassinated in Sarajevo. Among other But British and American governments posters. “Save the meat for the boys at things, the war is notable for battles which alike made similar emotional appeals. the front.” university libraries of georgia

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cost hundreds of thousands of casualties, yet Many exhort young men to sign up to Another color poster poses a young resulted in battle line movements measured fight. One entitled “To the Women of Brit- woman with a variety of corn products. in feet, along with the advent of mechanized ain” poses a series of questions. “Corn, the food of the nation,” it proclaims. and chemical warfare. “When the War is over and someone “Serve some way every meal — appetizing, A collection of posters in a University of asks your husband or your son what he nourishing, economical.” Spring 2014 Georgia archive holds some clues about what did in the great War, is he to hang his head A great many of the UGA posters were a they were thinking — or at least what govern- because you would not let him go?” it con- bequest from the family of Charles Cotton ments hoped people would think. cludes. “Won’t you help and send a man Harrold, Brooks said. Harrold was a surgeon “America’s entry into World War I on to join the Army to-day?” from Macon and a UGA graduate. April 6, 1917 created an immediate need for “Think! How proud you both will be,” UGA library documents also show he do- a large-scale, nationwide publicity cam- is printed on a U.S. poster, a drawing nated more than 500 rare maps in a series of paign such as this country had never before showing a father in civilian clothes holding gifts to the library, along with photographs, mounted,” according to a 1983 article by his son dressed in a uniform, saluting an documents and other materials, Brooks said; Mary Rider, writing about a large World War American flag and gazing at what is presum- the posters were almost overlooked at the I poster collection at the Cincinnati History ably his father’s honorable discharge from time, overshadowed by the rare map collec- Library and Archives. the Army. tion that also came from him. The posters in UGA’s Hargrett Rare Books “Adventure and Action,” proclaims an- UGA records name Harrold as a onetime and Manuscripts Library, donated about other. “Join the Field , U.S. Army.” president of the Society for Georgia Ar- half a century ago, are also an important It also gives the address of the nearest re- chaeology, and his photographs of Georgia collection, according to Mary Ellen Brooks, cruiting station, in the Shackleford archaeological sites are also in the Hargrett’s former director of the Hargrett, who now Building in Athens. vaults. His wife, Helen Shaw Harrold, was a

hargrett archives university of georgia libraries 13 Spring 2014 . Banner-Herald the Athens This article originally ran in the July 26, 2014 edition of in the July 26, 2014 Extensive as it is, the collection poster Extensive many collecting for been quietly “We’ve showing these posters,” Amerson said. showing a partis just of the UGA libraries’ mate- 20th I and other War rial World to related century wars. call the 20th what we Centuryyears Wars Collection,” Brooks said. “It’s kind of getting and some things very are - interest big now, I that sticks in War World ing. One from a by kept It was diary. mind is a single my a gunner in man who was young relatively - His observations interest really just are . ing,” she said. “By digitizing, you could actually see them could actually “By digitizing, you also a that online, they’re they’re Now I War of theAmerson UGA is a fan World when it comes no perspective “Kids have them out to get to one near the bottom, she one near the to bottom, them get out to explained. Every time someone handles one of the it’s fragile posters, cause just liable to add bits of damage and tiny a little damage, turnup as years decades. into without handling them,” she said. to according teachers, for great resource Rebecca and Amerson, a media specialist County in the Cherokee administrator system. school the collection, and included a link to poster so teachers she created page on a web posters primarycould link to the- post like sources help in theirers to teaching. them show can actually and you history, to I by War in World what patriotism like was Hargrett workers began digitizing many digitizing many began workers Hargrett Brooks the to said she wanted posters on top stacked are posters The physical suffragette and the first woman to servewoman and thesuffragette on first - accord the Macon City Council, in 1921, that in the Archives Georgia a note ing to of her and her two a photo accompanies automobile. posed with an early children of the than more millions of items it holds projects a decade ago, and one of the earliest with a — anyone I posters War thewas World can see them at http://fax.libs.uga. computer edu/wwpost/1f/world_war_posters.pdf. be one of the digitized collections. first It’s the an important collection, and now public can see them without damaging the actual posters. with cabinets in oversized other of each and looking at one of wide, deep drawers, of pulling many the can require posters pushball diplomacy hargrett archives hargrett

At the beginning of each match, teams rush to the middle of the field The 1912 Pandora features a comic based on Bud Fisher’s to try to gain control of the ball. Mutt & Jeff that depicts the sophomore-freshman battle.

How a Giant Rubber Sphere Regulated Conflict at UGA, as Europe Collapsed in a World War

university libraries of georgia of punctuality. But the crafty freshmen who dollars, but provided a target that was huge, made it to the safely remote banquet caused elastic, and relatively light-weight. The basic so much disruption that “Watkinsville was goal was to field crowds of players from op- 14 ing-pong may enhance diplomacy for scandalized” and the University administra- posing classes, each team attempting to shove modern superpowers, but tensions tion was moved to act. Even the Red & Black the ball to their designated end of the field. Pon the University of Georgia campus suggested that the 40-year old conflict must Formal rules and tactics existed: set player po- were running too high for mere table tennis be replaced by “a test of valor and strength” sitions for starting, flying wedge formations, in the early 20th century. Fighting among between the underclassmen. the trick of thrusting the ball overhead to students had been a problem long before One might think the ritual battle of foot- break a jam of players. Photographs, however,

Spring 2014 Robert Toombs was ejected from the class of ball would have served the purpose, but that suggest the game was riotous, violent, and 1828 for attacking fellow students. By 1910 institution was not confined to the under- hard on the regular street clothes worn in play; violence had been formalized into at least classmen and, as an article in the National a combination of street brawl and striptease. two rituals of conflict between the freshman Magazine asserted in 1905, the ball was too Peace, however, began at the bargaining and sophomore classes – seizing arriving hard to see and the rules too complex, render- table, not the playing field. Under the steady freshmen and shearing off their hair and ing the , “incomprehensible, dull, cruel.” diplomacy of Professor Steadman Sanford banquet raids, in which the classes would The author of that article suggested football - later Chancellor of the University and the attack each other’s annual feast, pummeling be replaced with the sport of pushball where University System – the 1911 underclassmen the diners and stealing their food. rules were simple and the ball too big to miss. met in the Chapel and agreed that freshman In 1910 resourceful freshmen chartered a And big it was. In Athens the ball created “scalping” would be replaced by their being train to remote Watkinsville, locking the doors a sensation when displayed in the window of required to wear red “rat caps” and the food of the cars in Athens to save their persons and McGregor’s Bookstore. The 6’, calf-hide-cov- fights would be replaced by pushball - ac- food from hoards of raiding sophomores at ered rubber sphere was inflated through three claimed as, “a systematic, scientific, athletic the station. A handful of late-arriving fresh- hours of puffing by leather-lunged cheerlead- contest.” The losing class would guarantee men fell into the hands of the rival class, but ers. At $300 the ball represented a consid- an unmolested banquet for the winner. There such are the fortunes of war and the values erable University peace investment in 1910 was a nervous moment in early 1912 when media freshman contemplated voiding the tentative team to be fielded each quarter of the game. Wilson. Five hundred copies were shipped agreement, but they finally reaffirmed it. On The sophomores scored 5 points in the first worldwide - we are still looking for just one. February 5th the University Faculty officially quarter for pushing the ball through their Pushball faded from the pages of the agreed to the rules and regulations drawn goalposts. In the second quarter the freshman Pandora with the coming of the U.S. participa- up by the underclassmen, after which both “Red Cap Brigade” scored 4 points with two tion in the First World War and never seems classes met separately and voted to ratify the “safeties,” in which the ball was simply pushed to have risen to its former estate, if it resumed final form of the treaty. Appropriate to such over the goal line. In the third quarter the at all. In the 1930 film version of Erich Maria great statesmanship, the date of the game was sophomores sealed the game with 2 safeties Remarque’s novel about that war, All Quiet set for the Washington’s Birthday holiday of of their own, winning 9 to 4. Neither team on the Western Front, a character suggests that February 22, 1912. scored the coveted 8 points awarded for wars should be settled by roping off a field, In 1897 football nearly had been outlawed throwing the ball over the goal cross bars. putting the kings and kaisers inside in their after the tragic death of University of Georgia True to their word, the freshmen left the soph- underwear, and having them fight their dis- player Von Gammon. Pushball had its own omores to dine elegantly in broad daylight, agreements out by hand. Perhaps a pushball crisis when during the first pre-game practice unmolested, at the Georgian Hotel. The feast would have been a good addition? It certainly student Byrd Little, class of 1915, suffered a was paid for, in part, by gate receipts. worked at UGA. serious concussion. Fortunately for Little and Pushball continued to be a vital part of the future of the game, it could be reported UGA life, with its own pages in the sport of georgia libraries university two days later that he was, “a little weak, but section of the Pandora yearbook. In 1913 the We would love for you to be a treasure hunter about straight.” The game was on. manager of the local Lyric theatre filmed the on our behalf. If you discover any footage, A holiday crowd of Athenians braved foul contest and the film was picked up by the photos, or other memorabilia of pushball weather and paid $.25 admission to see the “Animated Weekly” newsreel service. News- being played at UGA, please let us know! first “systematic, scientific” battle staged at old papers proudly proclaimed that the UGA We would love to add it to our collection! . Each class was permitted 44 contest would be seen by millions, sharing the eligible men, allowing a completely different same footage as the inauguration of President

As you can see, pushball was rough on the body as well as the clothes. From the 1912 Pandora on Sanford Field.

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Gre by mary l. miller, peabody et awards collection archivist, ing with gordon lamb s n the mid-1970s, Athens appeared to be joined with the Art Rocks Athens Foundation map in 1978 with the release of the “Rock a typical small Southern college town. to celebrate the artistic awakening and musi- Lobster” single on Atlanta's DB Records. IAtlanta might have beckoned the cal explosion that took place in Athens from Love Tractor redefined what it meant to be students at the 1975-1985. In addition, Art Rocks Athens both young and Southern ; homegrown yet, and other malcontents dissatisfied with exhibits at Lyndon House, the Lamar Dodd somehow, homesick. R.E.M. would be both football culture, but Route 316 had not been School of Art, and the Georgia Museum of touchstone and catalyst for the explosion of university of georgia libraries university built yet, and this amorphous group found Art celebrated the visual and graphic arts. college radio in the 1980s, and the band's that one of the things they wanted was a Meanwhile, the ARTifacts Rock Athens personal and political convictions would sense of community. So they decided they exhibit at the Richard B. Russell Special Col- provide a blueprint for the mega-bands of the had to make their own fun. Music and art lections Libraries celebrated the artifacts that 1990's scene. students were at the center of a scene that trace the record of Athens bands. The exhibit opening, held on May 1, was began with raucous house parties, expanded The ARTifacts exhibit, a collaboration a gala affair featuring a lecture by Pylon's into small clubs like Tyrone’s and the between Art Rocks Athens, Brown Media Michael Lachowski, a screening of rare B-52's original , and ultimately Archives, and music fans from the Athens footage, and a fashion show featuring some became more significant than its biggest area, presented objects ranging from the of Cindy Wilson's (B-52's) favorite gowns, dreamers could have imagined. iconic (Ricky Wilson's blue guitar, a brick who was on hand. Hundreds of fans have Music was the art form that most people from the R.E.M. steeple) to the esoteric (Ort's viewed the exhibit, many of them visiting the associated with Athens, but the prolifera- handkerchief). Expert curators Keith Bennett Special Collections Libraries for the first time. tion of visual artists in bands and audiences (The B-52's), Michael Lachowski (Pylon), Ruta Abolins, Director of the Walter J. ensured that visuals partnered Athens sounds and Chris Rasmussen (formerly of Athens' Brown Media Archives, sees the ARTifacts ex- and became central to the bands’ identities. Chapter 3 Records) gathered and arranged hibit as part of an ongoing effort to embrace Unforgettable costumes and wigs set the artifacts contributed from their own collec- and preserve Georgia's musical history. "With B-52s apart. The blurry kudzu on R.E.M.’s tions and borrowed from scores of Athenians. the recent addition of the Georgia Music 17 first cover and the Howard Finster art on Brown Media Archives curators Ruta Abolins Hall of Fame Collection to UGA's Special its second were statements of a new kind of and Mary Miller helped keep the party from Collections, as well as Brown Media Archives' 2014 Spring Southernness. Michael Stipe’s longstand- getting too far out of bounds by making sure digital preservation of the Widespread Panic ing interest in photography and design kept every artifact was accompanied by informa- collection and the Georgia Folklore Collec- visual elements at the center of R.E.M.’s self- tive labels, so that folks who weren't on hand tion, we are expanding access to the musical presentation throughout the band’s long ca- "back in the day" could still enjoy the exhibit heritage of the state and helping to preserve reer. Even an object as disposable as a concert and feel like Athens music insiders. that legacy," said Abolins. flier can illustrate the artistic spirit nurtured As the Art Rocks Athens t-shirt says, in this "ARTifacts Rock Athens" is on exhibit at the Lamar Dodd School that ultimately period, Athens, Georgia was "not a Normal until December 23, 2014. Exhibit tours, as made Athens a household name across the Town." Pylon has forever been the go-to well as occasional screenings and lectures, will nation and the world. group for curious knowledge seekers of the continue through December. This spring, the Walter J. Brown Media Athens scene, but it was the the B-52's who Archives and Peabody Awards Collection put Athens, GA on the worldwide musical

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Spring 2014 university of georgia libraries digital library of georgia really engage with this collection, enabling me really collection, enablingme engage this with creating such detailedrecords required me to development ofbroadcast media.Inaddition, and an amazingperspective history onthe was areal treasure, andprovided mewith ofmaterials cornucopia veritable this with Working Peabodyin conjunctionwith entries. for archived these submitted materials exhibit challenge ofcreating item-level records catalog were rarely ondisplay. materials Special CollectionsLibrary, these Library. Until Russell openingofthe the andManuscripts Books Hargrett Rare andlunchboxes,t-shirts inthe are preserved andbrochures fromranging scrapbooks to ephemera, submissions,andthese their included avarietyofnon-mediaitemsin Award's inception in1940, have entrants fascinating andvaluable. Ever sincethe accompanythat mediaare equally the andobjects materials print holdings, the A By NicoleFeldman,studentintern Menaboni Athos by artist thrasher) brown (the bird state Georgia's of apicture received series andArtists" "Arts the to child wholistened Every teachers. andtheir children ofGeorgia thousands School reached Rich's Radio This summer I was tasked with the exciting the This summerIwas taskedwith the depth and breadth ofitsmedia depth andbreadth the Collection ismost well known for Peabody the Awardslthough prevailing senseofreticence andindifference. by their characterized Silent Generation,” coming ofagetimewere atthe dubbed“the been shroudedto inmystery me. The youth mediate wake ofWorld War IIhasalways im- inthe broadcast Theperiod tradition. ofthis richness Collection illuminatethe Peabody itemsheldinthe exhibit Awards Peabody Awards’ inception. entry Theradio shared heritage. cultural Awards collectionsare invaluable to our ing landscape,andaccordingly, Peabody the changing evolv andkeeping the pacewith for excellence are criteria always Committee’s emergent views andstandards. ThePeabody shared way oflife, aswell asabarometer of Awards provide apeerless insightinto our regard, Peabody Inthis context. the in their inspire they feelings actionsthat the andthe submissionsare evaluatedmeaning that by own terms, lence oneach individualentrant’s Peabody Awards have always recognized excel- The audiencesforof, andthe materials. these mindset to creators assumethe ofboth the Radio was already initsheydayRadio atthe Provide SurprisingInsight Peabody Peabody Extras - possessed. Prior to the outpouring ofimagina- outpouring to the possessed. Prior tered lazily heldassumptions I hadhitherto era. and edginessofthis latentdiversity highlightedthe materials these diseases, andcancer. Insum,delving into and ubiquitous issueslike divorce, venereal candidlythat address similarly provocative are collection present inthe similar programs full ofhiddendepths andcomplexities. Other not merely marked by blandapathy, butrather is to reveal timeperiod this itserved that that powerful andfelt simplicity program ofthis tive to sobriety. paths by Iwas struck the respec - andtheir with struggles airwaves their invited recovering to members share over the by alocalAlcoholicsAnonymous chapter and was cosponsored KLZ.Thisprogram station called able was from ascrapbook a1946 program OneitemIfoundperiod. particularly remark my heretofore time aboutthis ignorance Peabodythe Awards corrected collectionthat in era from this materials exhibit entry radio Fortunately, isanincredible there wealth of Likewise, the television exhibit entries shat- Likewise, entries television exhibit the I amAnAlcoholic,hosted by Denver the - digital library of georgia digital library tive, artistically-minded creative programming airwaves, allowing children to receive an edu- The Peabody Awards are unrivaled in their that has aired on television in the last fifteen cation remotely. Using television as a tool to ability to serve as a portal into our shared cul- years or so, television was almost universally ameliorate a societal setback is truly inspiring. tural heritage; the singular criteria by which characterized as a lesser medium without In a similar vein, a public access channel in the Peabody Awards have always operated on any real virtue. That said, I was floored by the New York City in 1958 developed a program continue to invite a dynamic patchwork of en- noble intentions and innovative nature of called The Closed Circuit Television Project. trants. The eclectic and idiosyncratic program- much of early television programming found Through this program, a diverse middle class ming, highlighted by this part of the Peabody in the collection. One program that particu- residential building in the Chelsea neighbor- Awards Collection, shines a light on both larly stood out to me was a 1953 submission hood transformed its rec room into a fully the richness of the history of broadcasting as that aired on WBAL in Baltimore, entitled equipped broadcast studio. The project used well as provides an authentic insight into the Classes on TV (During Strike). During a city- the technology of television to harness imagi- makers and audiences for these materials. The wide labor strike in Baltimore, there was no nation as well as to bridge communal fissures. Peabody Awards collection is truly unlike any one available to turn on the furnaces in the Hence, television’s status as a groundbreaking other and its frequent reexamination and vigi- public school buildings, making it impossible medium is hardly a new development, and lant stewardship is crucial to our continued for children to attend classes in the winter exploring the bountifulness of this portion of cultural vitality. months. Instead of cancelling the school the Peabody Collection serves to dismiss this year outright, teachers began broadcasting false notion. of georgia libraries university instructional material over the television

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Left: "Ladies Be Seated" was an audience participation show broadcast on ABC radio (and eventually on ABC Television Network). Johnny Olson (whose name is misspelled on this poster) went on to host over 30 game shows. Right: WLAW's "The Stargazers Scrapbook" told the history of a local choral group. 20

Spring 2014 university of georgia libraries digital library of georgia I 1970s-1990s; 1960s-2000s) Democrats, repre- documented by records these (Republicans, records. their publicans through Thedecades - and Re Democrats ofthe histories parallel the tracing parties, inthese herself mersed project archivist hasim- Angelica Marini political landscape. haveinstitutions that shapedGeorgia’s recordstime, to the oftwo important will provide researchers access,for first the RussellLibrary the parties, ofthe repository Party.Georgia Republican official Asthe ofGeorgia andthe Party Democratic records the ofthe will organize anddescribe Commission (NHPRC), one-year this project PublicationsandRecords Historical National from the of$58,777 grant Processing Project. Funded by agenerous Georgia Political Detailed Records Parties The GeorgiaPoliticalPartiesRecordsProject Mat Darby,HeadofArrangementandDescription,RussellLibrary By AngelicaMarini,ProjectArchivist,and For several now, months Russell Library and Studies embarked uponthe for Political ResearchRussell Library year, ofthis Richard the B. n February The Party The Papers in the political process. political process. in the to engage ofboth parties more people part the records these demonstrateis that adesire on reading ofpoliticaltomes, ofanarray however, voluminous filesand her parties’ the with isfinding,basedon her work What Marini strategies, andorganizational processes.” showing structures, major differences inparty themselves, selves parties ofthe to bemirrors records “The havesays Marini. revealed- them ing project to work RussellLibrary,” onatthe hasbeenanexcit state inthe - political parties and localelectedofficials the well into 1990s. legislature, state constitutional positions, the however, retained Democrats control of the InGeorgia, states. inmany Southern jorities 1970s buildingpoliticalma- the andstarted reach1960s, their expanded in Republicans the remained throughout strong South inthe base localDemocratic Whilethe South. in the forsent pivotal periods both transition parties “Processing the records“Processing two the ofthe major is in ing county interactions with the GOP state GOP state the with ing countyinteractions The collectionhas numerous filesillustrat- campaigns.” ingrassroots state organize the really 1990sinto party pushedto the whenthe jor revelations late1980s comefrom the and the ma- to members office,but electing party with shouldbe--concerned political party political system inGeorgia. Itwas --asany GOPwas focused the that onopeningupthe says, records,” “itbecameapparent Marini the really getting Istarted direction. “When into clear avery other hand,show with aparty was rarely inquestion. well-oiled politicalmachine whosedominance The records are atwenty-year snapshot ofa unchallenged ofvirtually era politicalcontrol. an existed as they during operations party’s researchers willseeevidencematerial, ofthe planning andstrategy documents,andother political history. Through correspondence, yetcrucial, largely unexplored, chapter oftheir The records Georgia GOP, ofthe onthe records Party The Democratic illustrate a

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As the project draws to a close in January to As the draws project request material for research in the material research for request Russell Library Reading Room. demographic, and the de- and social change of the Republicanvelopment Party in Georgia to say Suffice it War. since the Second World that the materials contained in these two indispensable to political collections will prove and writing an accurate,researching insight- successful dissertation.” ful, and ultimately, to finding aids, or guides, the Democrat- 2015, ic Party Records and the of Georgia Georgia Republican Party Records will be available online via the Russell Library site. web can researchers thatAt time, registered

And when all is said and done, the records funding, whether from federal agencies, federal from funding, whether such as the NHPRC, foundations, or individu- foundations, as thesuch NHPRC, important,” Mat Darby, als is extremely says the Russell Library’s Head of Arrangement and Description. has allowed “This focus understanding in-depth a more of thesefor to beneficial collections and will prove researchers.” future of the Democrats and Republicans will find delve to prepared an audience of researchers a Ellett, Ashton these resources. into new Department of Ph.D. candidate in UGA’s while the patiently has been waiting History, and describe organize to the collectionwork how tell you begin to “I cannot is completed. thesemuch collections will help in the writing dissertation,” “My research of my says. Ellett economic, theexplores between relationship - The success of a project of thisThe success of a project significance Because a collection often can appear respondence have shown me how the parties me how shown have respondence at all involved functioned, the players major sense of the records make to and how levels, they created.” is in no small part the due to Russell Library’s dedi- archivist a professional hire ability to the to parties’cated solely “External records. headquarters, fundraising, political planning, issues. voter and changing state, in its unorganized the archivist chaotic learn to about theworks more people, or in andthis case, the in question organization survey “For the contents of all those boxes. begins with researching me, the always process - exist any and studying the creator collection’s Marini. says “Documents inventories,” ing box charts organizational and cor by-laws, like 22

Spring 2014 university of georgia libraries russell Richard B. Russell, Jr.Richard B.Russell, Library. Collection,Russell ca.1947-1955. inGeorgia school lunchroom white Photograph, The Story of School Lunch ofSchool The Story The Origins of School Lunch ofSchool The Origins Progressive Era (1890-1920). Progressive (1890-1920). Era the Unitedin the began during States school lunch with experimentation efforts, Taking early acuefrom these European oversight from nationalgovernments. undercentralized of clothing andtextbooks, distribution benevolence such asthe efforts extensive feeding alongside other programs andGermany implemented most the Britain latenineteenth in Europecentury. inthe Great complicated National past ofthe School Politics: ofSchool the Lunch TheStory examines National School in1946. Lunch Program creation ofthe Senate–the long career inthe ment Russellwas his most proud ofduring focusedexhibition legislative onthe achieve- development the ofan vision, beginningwith met scheduleing anexhibition that Vogt’s ofcreat- set task Outreach aboutthe staff andnationallevel. local,state, onthe service namesake, andhisyears ofpublic library’s strong connectionsto Senator Russell,the vision for ayear andevents ofexhibits with anniversary.Vogt40th Director Sheryl hada Political Research andStudies its celebrates The school lunch movement first emerged The resulting display, titledFood, Power, In 2014 for Richard the B.RussellLibrary

administration began disbursing donations administration donations began disbursing In1933, Roosevelt the commodity prices. to incomesby supplementfarm stabilizing 1930s, federalthe the government sought childhood malnutrition. tolunch combatpervasive programs first launched free the milkand charities tions, professional women’s and groups, Philadelphia, andBoston religious institu- can takeanin-depth lookatletters, press lead curator JanLevinson Hebbard. Visitors said inAmerica,” hood obesityandnutrition mostuse, to recent the debatesover child- and puttingexcess commoditiesto good children feeding malnourished humble start interests. and corporate changing needsofchildren,the politicians, hasevolved program asthe to meet and turns, initiative behindthis isoneoftwists The story competing with and federal partners interests. administered plicated program by local,state, tion for school children soonbecameacom- - better nationthrough strengthen the nutri and events inGeorgia. Whatbegan asaway to anemphasis with Lunch onpeople Program, Facing ofeconomicdistress in aperiod In growing like urbancenters New York, “The display “The follows from the story the Outreach Archivist, Russell Library Russell Archivist, Outreach Hebbard, Jan Levinson

feeding poor, children. malnourished crops andjobsfor unemployed the whilealso logical step, providing for apurpose surplus for children next inpublicschools seemedthe Implementing astandardized lunch program country. the throughout school districts for workersand training food inlocal service Administration (NYA) provided funding Administration (WPA) andNational Youth Deal agencies. In1935, Works the Progress several commoditiesthrough New of surplus talent fortalent publichistory,” saidHebbard. ished product shows commitmentand their working fin- the project, andIthink onthis were lucky to have historians talented two very and editingunderHebbard’s direction. “We conductingresearch,mer interns, writing, Kaylynn Washnock. aspaidsum- Both served Ashton Ellet and ofHistory: Department UniversityPhD students inthe ofGeorgia’s for adifferent agenda. eachcondemnation for fighting program, the administrators andlobbyists or praise offer dence from constituents, legislators, school - Correspon program. create the andexpand ongoinglegislative document the battleto andmorereleases, that photographs, reports The exhibit script was script assembledbyThe exhibit two

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- promi to rose as a national problem Poverty Food, Power, and Politics: The Story of School and Politics: Power, Food, on Poverty and theand War School Lunch nence in the early 1960s. Under the direction Under 1960s. nence in the early of Secretary Orville States the United Freeman, Department- commis of Agriculture (USDA) sioned a survey of the the assess to effectiveness a small number only revealed Findings NSLP. or reduced-price free providing were of schools participat and those thatlunches, - schools were those demon- ing in the typically program were the need. These high participationstrating least preparation food had theschools required popula- a large importantly, and, more facilities full price purchase able to tion of students in high need areas—those inmeals. Schools and rural neighborhoods America— inner-city and staff. facilities Several adequate lacked Act Lunch School theamendments to National the under (NSLA) improve sought to in 1962 participantsrepresentation in of low-income the the program. Childhood Nutrition In 1966, eligibility expanded (CNA) institutional Act program. breakfast and enacted a 2013, APS ceased offering fried during foods 2013, in an effortlunchtime fight obesity and to thanoffer healthier its more 50,000 meals to program and broader more A bigger students. afterthan 60 years its original the passage, Program Lunch continues to School National today. be a political hot-button 26 and will remain opened September Lunch in the Harrisonon display Gallery Feature Russell Library out- 2015. 15, through May staffreach planning a currently members are complementary public program series take to place during the winter and spring of 2015. or other on this information more display For exhibits at the Russell Library visit: http:// www.libs.uga.edu/russell/exhibits.html. Photograph, President Harry signing the Lunch School S. Truman Bill, with Senator B. Russell Richard and Senator Allen J. Ellender B. Russell, Richard Jr. looking on with others, 4 June 1946. Collection, Russell Library. Beginning in the mid-1990s, school lunch school Beginning in the mid-1990s, sionals warned obesity as about childhood America say many today as the late 1960s, early pointed to an epidemic. Experts is facing have Program Lunch as both School the National cause of the and a potentiala major problem at risk. a population solution to the of introduction pushed for reformers whole grains, fruits fresh more and vegetables, dairy Law cafeterias. and low-fat into products began public health and advocates makers a greater strike to balance between working the reverse to nutrition and taste, attempting - cafete of school so-called “fastfoodification” rias. the Some districts, Atlanta like Public in the steps taken drastic (APS), have Schools August In for a healthier lunch. school fight saw the creation of a national school lunchthe a national school of creation saw of the diets improve to programa way as hungrycontinual a and provide children southern for Southern crops. outlet Demo- crats bristledof federal the at suggestion program the lunch and school for oversight Russell, Together demanded local control. a crucial in crafting role thewho played bill, the steered and Allen Ellender of Louisiana, with process NSLP through the legislative positions on the Senate Appropriatheir key - tions and Agriculture In 1946, committees. Lunch Congress School the passed National the health and well-being safeguard “to Act encourage and to children of the Nation’s of nutritiousthe consumption domestic agricultural commodities.” -

As a longtime politician and formerAs a longtime politician The goals of the National School Lunch School The goals of the National gov theDuring federal and 1980s the 1970s At the end of World War II, proponents War theAt end of World federal funding. federal B. Russell, Richard of Georgia, governor of the importance aware intimately was Jr., of agriculture of his home the to economy supporter agriculstate. As a vocal of federal - efforts subsidizetural to assistance and early and nutrition food programs,school Russell - construction equip cafeteria and kitchen without guaranteedment purchases on theernment regulations amount relaxed offerings. in lunch found salt, and fat of sugar, theAs a result, nutritional of meals quality - Though health profes declined significantly. Program have changed dramatically since dramatically changed Program have those outlined in the legislation, original 1946 access and participation concerns over as have in the program. Thanks in food advances to and distribution, fortification, production, bodyweight, low once-common maladies like The daily rare. now and anemia are rickets, and eating habits of American- diets school and health experts changed, have children once concerned of caloric a lack by intake now rising obesity statistics. over fret of ongoing school lunch programs lunch worriedschool of ongoing that government’s the federal ad hoc, hand- local discouraged to-mouth funding scheme districts participating.school from Many scarce reluctant invest to districts were like capital projects funds into intensive

School Lunch in the New Millennium Nationalizing SchoolNationalizing Lunch the russell savannah historic newspapers archive By Donnie Summerlin, Digital Projects Archivist

his summer, the Digital Library of and the two published the paper as the tri- The Morning News' popularity grew Georgia released the Savannah weekly Republican and Savannah Evening Ledger throughout the remainder of the nineteenth T Historic Newspapers Archive. The before reverting back to its original name in century, eventually outlasting all of its com- website provides online access to three 1816. In November of 1818, Dr. John Harney petitors. The Savannah Georgian ceased publica- newspaper titles published in Savannah began publishing the Savannah Georgian. The tion in 1859. In 1868, the Savannah Republican from 1809 to 1880. Consisting of over paper failed to gain substantial readership merged with and was later absorbed by the 83,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides during its early years and Harney sold it to I. Savannah Daily Advertiser before going out of historical images that are both full-text K. Tefft and H. J. Finn in 1821. They changed business in 1875, leaving the Savannah Morning searchable and can be browsed by date. The the newspaper's name to the Georgian and News as the city's sole daily newspaper. The website includes the following Savannah Evening Advertiser under their ownership. The paper continued to serve as coastal Georgia's newspaper titles: the Savannah Georgian Republican and the Georgian were political and largest newspaper throughout the twentieth (1819-1856), the Savannah Morning News commercial competitors in Savannah during century and today remains one of the five (1868-1880), and the Savannah Republican the antebellum period, serving as the city's largest newspapers in the state with a daily (1809-1868). Whig and Democratic papers, respectively. circulation of over fifty thousand. The origins of journalism in Georgia can be John M. Cooper and W. T. Thompson es- The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive traced back to James Johnson's establishment tablished the Daily Morning News in January of is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia, of the Georgia Gazette in Savannah on April 7, 1850 as an independent and unbiased voice for as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. 1763. In addition to being the first newspaper reporting the news of Georgia's largest city, in The Digital Library of Georgia is a project of university libraries of georgia published in Georgia, the Gazette was only the contrast to the political leanings of Savannah's Georgia's Virtual Library GALILEO and is eighth newspaper in the American colonies. It two preexisting rival newspapers. The publish- based at the University of Georgia. Georgia 24 remained the city's lone newspaper through- ers struggled through reduced resources and HomePLACE is supported with federal LSTA out much of the rest of the eighteenth century, readership during the war years of the 1860s, (Library Services and Technology Act) funds before completely ceasing publication in 1802. before abandoning the paper prior to Sher- administered by the Institute of Museum and John F. Everett established the Savannah man's arrival in Savannah in December 1864. Library Services through the Georgia Public Republican in January of that same year. John During their absence, John E. Hayes, the New Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents J. Evans joined Everett in partnership in 1807 York Tribune's war correspondent, took control of the University System of Georgia. of both the Savannah Republican and Morning Spring 2014 News, combining both publications' property in of theRepublican . In January of the following year, Palmetto Herald publisher S. W. Mason purchased the Morning News property and resumed publication of the paper as the Savannah Daily Herald using machinery he shipped in from Hilton Head, South Carolina. Col. James H. Estill purchased the publication in 1868 and reinstated a variation of its origi- nal title, the Savannah Morning News, before us- ing it to lash out at the city's northern military occupiers. Thompson continued to serve as editor of the paper after the war and provided tutelage to Joel Chandler Harris, who was an employee of the Morning News in the 1870s.

russell university of georgia libraries 25 Spring 2014 Other newspaper archives available through the Digital available LibraryOther archives newspaper include the- of Georgia Atlanta Historic Newspa Please join our digitization efforts making a gift by in support of the Digital Library of Georgia. For more information, please contact Chantel Dunham at (706) 542-0628 or [email protected]. pers Archive (1847-1922), the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (1827- the Archive Athens Historic Newspapers (1826-1908), Archive the Telegraph Macon (1847-1922), pers Archive (1828-1890), Archive the Columbus Enquirer (1845-1922), the Archive South1928), Historic Georgia Newspapers the Red the and Southern (1929-1986), Israelite Archive (1808-1920), Archive Historicthe Newspapers Milledgeville accessed at http://dlg. can be These archives (1920-1970). Archive Cluster and the Mercer (1893-2006), Archive Black galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html 26

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ometimes I feel a little guilty for were considered possible weapons!) and who you are – that have enriched my life and having the best job on campus. Then barely got out, had crashed his small pane this wonderful university with your generosi- SI am filled with gratitude for the cutting off a portion of his ear, had searched ty. Many have opened your homes for special honor and privilege these past twenty years for gold and survived a most adventuresome gatherings, allowed my colleagues and me have afforded me to meet the most fascinat- life! Amazingly, Nancy and George’s rela- to stay while traveling, hosted events in your ing, fun, generous, interesting, smart, witty, tionship survived through it all too! communities, made key introductions and and amazing alumni and friends. The love I had the real pleasure of getting to know encouraged generosity, ultimately helping they have for this University is so strong and George and Nancy over 14 years and meeting us to secure substantial support for the very their generosity of time, involvement, and some of their close friends. New Years Eve in heart of campus. investment is awe-inspiring. South Georgia was most special as was dis- The UGA Libraries is poised to help university libraries of georgia George Montgomery (AB ’50) was one covering Cumberland Island on , design the future of scholarship at the special alumnus who really made a differ- where George fished with family members University of Georgia. Collaborating with 28 ence with the blessing and encouragement years ago. vibrant centers and colleges across campus, of his amazing wife Nancy. In 2000 I read George and Nancy are true philanthro- we are exploring new ways of creating and two books by George (The Eye of the Eagle and pists and often give anonymously. They have delivering educational content. In addition, The Mountain Cried) and after enjoying them impacted so many organizations around the Libraries are filled with unique trea- thoroughly, I really wanted to meet this man. Georgia and beyond. UGA has also been sures—our state’s heritage—that define His version of what could have happened to the recipient of their generous investments who we are. D.B. Cooper was written from the perspec- and the reading room in the Russell Special I hope you will continue to consider the Spring 2014 tive of a real adventurer, and THAT is an Collections Building honors their support. UGA Libraries as you make annual gifts understatement! George and Nancy also endowed the Georgia that, when combined, help us accomplish With a bit of persistence, George finally Writers Hall of Fame, allowing us to expand great things each year; and that you will wrote back AND signed up for a trip to Italy and grow this statewide program celebrating also consider an investment in the Library the Library was hosting as a “Literary Jour- our Georgia Authors. through a multi-year pledge or through an ney: Georgia Authors and the Places that George passed away in August having estate gift. Inspired Them,” featuring Frances Mayes, lived life with such gusto that it was always The UGA Libraries is a true asset to this author of Under the Tuscan Sun among many so enjoyable to be with him. He cherished institution and this state because of the col- other books. friendships and had some very special con- lective generosity of alumni and friends who Ten days in Italy has a magical effect on nections. His best friend Nancy comple- have donated their treasured materials, col- people and true friendships emerge. I discov- mented him so well and their journey to- lections, and to build the largest and ered that George had been down the Ama- gether was a remarkable one. What a joy and most comprehensive library in the state. zon River with Jacques Cousteau, had been privilege it has been to enjoy such special Thanks be to you ALL!! arrested in Cuba and imprisoned (he and experiences with those wonderful friends. friends had been scuba diving and the tanks And thank you to all of you – you know g in the stacks the in bookbook ofof remembranceremembranceg ince the Spring of 2005, there has a Class of 1932 pilot who gave his life in tion that you can share that will help bring been a quiet place in the heart of the service to the Army Air Corps in 1941. Even the names in the Book of Remembrance to SUniversity of Georgia set aside to as his name joins the roster of World War II life again, so that they are not simply names honor the sacrifice of those from era heroes, we are constantly seeking to add on a page. the University family who have given all in information to the book, so that the stories We are also seeking investors who under- service to nation, state, and community. of these brave men and women can be more stand the importance of this project and This memorial garden, located outside the fully shared. would be interested in funding an intern- university of georgia libraries university Miller Learning Center, has a virtual This is where your help is needed. The ship for a student to help enhance the Book counterpoint in the Book of Remembrance, people memorialized in the Book of Remem- of Remembrance. A gift of $3,000 would an online site in which these people are brance are your friends, neighbors, or family support a student intern for one semester honored and remembered. members. We invite you to help us tell their to upload material received from the public The Book of Remembrance is a dynamic stories by sharing the information that you and to begin researching and adding content register, with the latest addition in October have with us. We welcome biographical in- to other areas of the site. of 2014 of William H. Binns, formation and photographs, or any informa-

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