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Winter 2019

Track No. 1 Union Station’s “Track No. 1” sign on display in the Locomotion: Railroads and the Making of exhibition, located in WINTER 2018 the Rollins Gallery.

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We have used the word transformation and its various forms in recent years when discussing the . We describe our campus’ improved physical spaces 03 15–19 MESSAGE and expansions as transformative to the visitor experience. We often say we seek to transform those who engage with us Introduction Partnerships by providing emotional connections to the complexities of Message from the Chair & CEO Naturalization Ceremony the past to create a stronger, more empathetic community Partners for History today. We believe the guiding principles of our current strategic FROM THE plan—community, service, inclusivity, relevance, growth, and On These Dates in History high performance—are having a transformational impact on our work daily. A dramatic alteration, a metamorphosis and a 04–07 process of profound and radical change—our transformation CHAIR & CEO will never be fully complete. Exhibition Outlook 20–23 Barbecue Nation Atlanta History Center Ernest Greer WWI Centennial Overview TRANS·FOR·MA·TION By the Numbers Chair, Board of Trustees noun Sheffield 1. a thorough or dramatic alteration in President & CEO 08–12 24–29 form, appearance or understanding; Physical Updates 2. a metamorphosis during a life cycle. History Makers All Aboard for History! Locomotive Debuts Contributions What remains unchanged is our desire to convey that in New Railroad Exhibition history matters to all who experience our exhibitions and Cyclorama: The Big Picture programs, or participate in our efforts toward community Olguita’s Garden engagement. The past creates who we are—and we cannot know or understand ourselves without knowledge of our past. New Kenan Research Center 30–31 Collection Space Opens As we close 2018 and look toward 2019, we have much Operations to share. In October we celebrated the opening of Olguita’s & Management Garden—the most recent addition to our evolving Goizueta Gardens (see page 12). November marked the opening of Financials Rollins Gallery and Locomotion: Railroads and the Making 13–14 Board & Executive Staff of Atlanta, featuring the restored Texas locomotive and recently relocated Zero Mile Post (see page 8), and on Fundraising Events February 22, 2019, the Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker Back on the Farm Cyclorama Building will open to the public. Cyclorama: The Big Picture (see page 10) is a state-of-the-art experience Swan House Ball nus doluptaerum qui comnihit ut od maionsequi optia volupta reressunt non et Image ni acestiis Ipsum Ulpa secae labore | Lorem Cover that will interpret The Battle of Atlanta painting in a context. It will tell not only the stories of the Atlanta Campaign, but the significance of the Civil War and Civil War memory in national history—then and now. As is always the case, the successful transformation of Cover Artifact any organization is impossible without the support of its The artifact shown on the cover is the and the Louisville and Nashville. The last Union Station was built in 1871 on the site community—a community of generous donors, members, “Track No. 1” sign from Atlanta’s third Union train to pass through Union Station was on of the previous Union Station and was trustees and staff—and a shared vision for the future. We are Station. Signs like this would have been used April 30, 1971, the day before Amtrak took abandoned in 1930 when the third Union grateful for our Atlanta History Center community and look to direct passengers to the correct track for over operations in Atlanta. Union Station Station opened. forward to sharing the year ahead with you. their train. was razed in 1972. Learn more about the role of railroads The third station to bear the name Union The first Atlanta Union Station was in Atlanta’s past in our newest exhibition Station opened in 1930 and was located built in 1853 where Wall Street currently is Locomotion: Railroads and the Making one block west of the current Five Points between Pryor and Central Avenue, and was of Atlanta. MARTA station. This station served the destroyed in November 1864 as Sherman

Georgia Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, retreated from Atlanta. Atlanta’s second Greer Hale, (R) Ernest (L) Sheffield

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In English, the first use of the term “barbecue” was written by a woman. In 1688, British playwright Aphra Behn finishedThe Widow Ranter in which the line “Let’s barbicu this fat rogue” is shouted by a rabble-rouser in a crowd scene. England’s first professional female writer, Behn used the word as a verb. Its use confirms the term was so well-known that the audience would understand its meaning—and probably laugh at its implications. This story is paired with an original copy of the pamphlet The Barbacue Feast—one of only three in the world—published in London in 1707 and containing the first description of a whole-hog roast. Together, they begin the visitor experience to Barbecue Nation, Atlanta History Center’s celebration of the history and food culture of American barbecue. Though variations and nuances abound, the common theme among barbecue enthusiasts 2019 OPEN THROUGH SEPTEMBER 29, is their excitement over barbecue: what it is, how it tastes, and where to get it. Regional “Barbecuing” has become a seasonal ritual for American food and an essential part of the differences in barbecue are widely recognized and Labor Day celebrations, nation’s historical foodways. Nevertheless, and publicly celebrated, often pitting counties, though distinctly American, American states, and regions against each other in a barbecue is not distinct in a world filled foodways battle over which barbecue is best “Let’s with traditions of barbecuing. The —or true. exhibition therefore contains information Barbecue Nation reveals how barbecue as a about the global phenomenon of barbecue food often defines the identity of a community, barbicu customs, including braii in Africa, a region, a people, and a nation. Native churrasco in Brazil, and siu mei in China. American, African, and European populations, As traditions cross international as well as Caribbean and Mexican customs and this fat borders and borrow existing local Pacific Rim traditions have all contributed foodways, they lend preferred meats,

BY MICHAEL ROSE BY elements to the current American barbecue seasonings, and other ingredients to form culture—one that over time represents the full rogue!” Barbecue Nation new and exciting cuisines. The United range of the American experience. States, with its complicated, contested, PRESENTING SPONSOR The Widow Ranter, 1688 In addition to traditional barbecue, the and alluring food traditions, is just one exhibition looks at the growth of the post- bracketing the traditional beginning and end global member of a constantly growing World War II phenomenon, backyard grilling. of summer, leisure, and family vacation. Barbecue Nation. MAJOR SPONSORS Rather than the traditional method of low & From the shabby country roadside barbecue Jim ‘N Nick’s, Yeti, and slow, grilling cooks hot & fast. Seventy-five shack to stylish barbecue restaurants in

EXHIBITION OUTLOOK The Rich Foundation percent of U.S. households own a barbecue grill. major metropolitan areas, barbecue is a truly

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additional support for this exhibition. The fourth and final exhibition, Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys, 1917-1918 was generously sponsored by the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation. The modern-day battlefield WWI photography of Michael St Maur Sheil was juxtaposed against archival material and images throughout Goizueta Gardens. The story of the war was told through the only remaining living witness: the battlefields themselves. Public programs also promoted greater understanding and study of World War I CENTENNIAL and included a themed week-long summer camp and a Homeschool Day program. The History Center also welcomed author Kathyrn Atwood to speak about her book Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics. The program included a reception and self-guided tours of Anne Morgan’s War. OVERVIEW Atlanta History Center concluded its World War I special focus on Veterans Day 2018. BY CLAIRE HALEY The ceremony served as the official State of commemoration of the end of the war During the Atlanta History Center’s annual Veterans Day Commemoration ceremony, and was presented in partnership with the at exactly 11 AM on November 11, 2018, the Blue Ridge Rifle Corps of Cadets rang a lone bell Georgia World War I Centennial Commission 21 times. They joined others across the country for the Bells of Peace, a moment of reflection and sponsored by Regions Bank. Volunteers and remembrance of World War I. After the final armistice was signed exactly 100 years earlier, assisted from the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans nations across the globe tried to build a new world order to uphold the promise that the Great Business Association, Daughters of the War would indeed be the “war to end all wars.” While that effort ultimately failed, Atlanta American Revolution, and Georgia Society History Center Chief Mission Officer Michael Rose has noted, “Today we are living in the Sons of the American Revolution. More than world that World War I created.” 300 guests gathered for the moving ceremony. Yet the war’s importance and lasting impact is often overlooked in American history. Many wore stickers on their lapels— Beginning in 2017, Atlanta History Center presented a series of exhibitions and public programs a tribute to the thousands of Georgians, to commemorate the war and help Americans reclaim this often-neglected history, while and Americans, who served but never supporting the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission in its efforts to do the same. returned home. The first exhibition, The Great War in Broad Outlines, a touring exhibition developed by the Belgian National Institute for Veterans and Victims of War for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented an international overview of the war. Atlanta History Center incorporated new elements including flour sacks from American mills embroidered by Belgian women and sold to benefit the war effort, on loan from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and PICTURED AT RIGHT Museum, and the story of Moina Michael of Walton County, Georgia. Often known as “The Poppy Lady,” she turned the red poppy into an emblem of war commemoration. The ultimate icon of World War I poster art is this Uncle Sam image created by James Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924, sponsored by The John Montgomery Flagg. Flagg based his version H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation and American Friends of Blerancourt, on an earlier British recruiting poster that highlighted the efforts of American women who traveled to war-torn France following the featured Lord Horatio Kitchener, Secretary conclusion of the conflict. Led by the charismatic Anne Morgan, the all-volunteer group raised of State for War in 1914. Uncle Sam is money and lived alongside the people of Picardy, France, feeding the hungry, planting crops, actually Flagg’s self-portrait, depicted with caring for children, and rebuilding homes. a fake goat beard and white hair. This is The exhibition Uncle Sam Wants You! World War I and the American Poster featured 60 one of 60 rare posters from the personal rare posters from the personal collection of Atlantan Walton Rawls, who was instrumental collection of Atlantan Walton Rawls, who in coordinating this popular exhibition. The posters displayed aided war propaganda efforts was instrumental in coordinating the and helped encourage a reluctant American population to support involvement in a European exhibition, Uncle Sam Wants You! World conflict. The Society of Colonial Wars and Society of Colonial Wars in Georgia provided War I and the American Poster.

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The engine was donated to the City of Atlanta in 1908 and put on outdoor display in Grant Park in 1911. In 1927, it was paired with The Battle of Atlanta painting in the old Grant Park building as monumental reminders of the bloodiest conflict on American soil. At the Atlanta History Center, it is joined by objects from Atlanta railroad history including a ca. 1940 operating signal from Atlanta’s Terminal Station; the original Track 1 sign from Atlanta’s 1930 Union Station; and The Texas arrives at Atlanta History a ca. 1900 rail station bench. Center on May 4, 2017, greeted by excited staff and visitors. Other aspects of Locomotion: Railroads and the Making of Atlanta chronicle the , the experience of working on the railroad, the science and mechanics of a steam locomotive at work, segregation on the rails, the impact of railroads today, and the detailed Texas restoration itself. A series of rail-inspired Meet the Past museum theatre performances further The Texas and new exhibition are housed enhance the gallery experience. The Texas The Atlanta is a city built in a 2,000-square-foot, specially designed, characters include Pullman James Locomotive Debuts on transportation, a glass-fronted gallery funded by the Joseph, Southern Railway chairman W. Gary W. Rollins Foundation. The gallery is Graham Claytor Jr., and pioneering woman in New Railroad story that the Atlanta accessed from the Fentener van Vlissingen switch tender and brakeman Gertie Stewart. Family Wing and opens into the new Lloyd Performances occur every weekend. Exhibition History Center has and Mary Ann Whitaker Cyclorama Building. Major funding for the new gallery was desired to tell in detail The look of the Rollins Gallery is inspired by provided by the Gary W. Rollins Foundation. historic railroad repair shops, with exposed CSX is the presenting sponsor for the for many years. steel girder columns. accompanying exhibit.

Now it is doing so in the new exhibition The Texas and the locomotive General, Locomotion: Railroads and the Making of the star attraction at the Southern Museum Atlanta whose cornerstone is the Texas of Civil War and Locomotive History in PICTURED BELOW Gary and Kathleen Rollins cut locomotive. The detailed exhibition Kennesaw, are the sole surviving engines that the ribbon on the Rollins Gallery, showcasing the Texas interprets the major role railroads played in once served the Western & Atlantic (W&A) locomotive, along with Craig Camuso from CSX. transforming Atlanta into the transportation Railroad. Atlanta owes its existence hub and commercial center it is today. A to the W&A Railroad. It was the beginning major highlight includes the exploration and ending point for state owned 138-mile of the restored 1856 Western & Atlantic line between Atlanta and Chattanooga, as locomotive like never before as visitors can evidenced by the W&A 00 and W&A 138 climb up into the engine’s cab and get the marks on the Zero Mile Post. engineer’s view of the larger-than-life Texas. Unlike the hundreds of locomotives that And for the first time, guests can see two serviced the W&A RR and its successors, the of Atlanta’s most significant artifacts in one Texas and the General, because of their roles place. The Zero Mile Post, the 1850s Western in the Great Locomotive Chase, evaded the BY HOWARD POUSNER HOWARD BY & Atlantic Railroad marker at the end of the scrap heap. FOR railroad around which Atlanta grew, is now In the 1862 incident, U.S. Army raiders displayed alongside one of the two remaining commandeered the General from the town Western & Atlantic locomotives in existence of Big Shanty (now Kennesaw) and drove that likely passed by the post scores of time it north toward Chattanooga, wreaking during its service. Railroads located, built destruction. They were finally caught and created Atlanta, and these two objects by Confederate forces that pursued aboard tell Atlanta’s origin story like no others.

ALL ABOARD ALL ABOARD the Texas. HISTORY!

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Some Atlantans imagined that restoration Then in August 2017, the German- These restorations, which return the would commence on the 359-foot-long, American crew of Weilhammer & Schoeller painting to its original size of 49 feet tall Two years after arriving at 42-foot-high Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Art Conservation L.P. (overseen by Christian and 371 feet in diameter (with it properly the Atlanta History Center painting virtually the day then-Mayor Kasim Marty of Swiss firm Ars Artis A.G.) began tensioned), are based on archival materials Reed announced its relocation from Grant varnish removal and cleaning. Starting in that are part of the Atlanta History Center’s on towering 45-foot-tall metal Park, its home for nearly a century, to the January 2018, conservators began paint touch permanent collection. Key among them is a Atlanta History Center in July 2014. But up and repair and, importantly, re-created souvenir book that accompanied The Battle spools, history comes full there was major engineering work that had sections removed at different times since the of Atlanta’s debut in Minneapolis. circle as the fully restored to be completed first, not the least of which painting emerged in 1886 from the American From April to October 2018, a small crew was construction of the painting’s new home, Panorama Company’s Milwaukee studio. led by Atlantan Lincoln Stone, a former The Battle of Atlanta the 23,000-square-foot Lloyd and Mary Ann Two missing vertical sections were Turner Advertising billboard painter and THE Whitaker Cyclorama Building. reproduced: a 22-inch-wide strip that was professional artist, channeled the work of cyclorama painting prepares In February 2017, the painting was trimmed along one seam when the painting those artists 132 years ago. for its February 22, 2019 rolled onto the spools, each weighing proved to be too wide for the Grant Park Many steps had already been taken to 10,000 pounds, lifted through two facility; and a 54-inch-wide section believed revive the 3-D illusion intended by the debut 127 years to the day of seven-foot-square holes in the roof, and to have been excised after damage in an 1890s German artists who created the painting, transported from Grant Park to the new roof collapse. including restoring its intended hourglass its 1892 Atlanta opening. building, rehung, and properly tensioned. Seven feet of sky that had been trimmed shape and constructing a 12-foot-high BIG The last part had never been possible in incrementally from The Battle of Atlanta viewing platform that trains guests’ eyes at the too-small 1921 Grant Park building, during its various moves along its top the horizon line. where The Battle of Atlanta had dangled circumference was returned, and other At the same time that conservation and loosely from a ceiling rail, like a shower enhancements were made to make the blue painting proceeded, multimedia exhibitions curtain, developing undulations that expanse true to its 1886 appearance. that interpret The Battle of Atlanta as an Members of the Weilhammer & Schoeller Art Conservation had to be smoothed prior to restoration. artifact of entertainment and changing L.P. crew work on conservation of the 133-year-old Battle of Civil War memory have been painstakingly Atlanta cyclorama painting in preparation for the February researched, curated and fabricated. 22, 2019 opening of Cyclorama: The Big Picture. PICTURE

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PICTURED LEFT Goizueta Gardens Guests from Presenting celebrates the Sponsor Harry Norman OLGUITA’S Realtors (L to R) — opening of Atlanta Studie and Zach Young, Valerie Alston, Jenni and History Center’s first Don Bonura, Price Curtis, major garden addition Rebie and Charles Benedict GARDEN in three decades. PICTURED BELOW BY MICHAEL ROSE & CHERI SNYDER Back on the Farm Executive Chef Kevin Gillespie and Goizueta Gardens celebrated the opening Elevated by the beauty of fragrant flowering ornamental shrubs and accentuating annuals, Atlanta History Center of Atlanta History Center’s first major plants, the garden’s design reflects English and perennials, and bulbs keep the garden in an Trustee Angie Mosier garden addition in three decades on October Continental inspirations on the Southeastern extended peak season of interest. 30. Known as Olguita’s Garden, the formal U.S. landscape. As its central feature, limestone Atlanta History Center Goizueta Gardens garden honors Olga “Olguita” C. de Goizueta, steps lead to formal 50-foot-long double staff celebrate the opening of Olguita’s Garden. the namesake of the History Center’s entire borders culminating in a focal point of century- (Back row L-R) Laurie Carter, Brian Anthony, BY 33 acres of gardens. old limestone columns designed by Atlanta Rosemary Bathurst, Emily Roberts. (Front KATHERINE The new garden encompasses the rear façade architect . The columns encircle a row L-R) Tiffany , Valerie VanSweden, HOOGERWERF of the Atlanta History Museum, including water feature planted with water lilies and Sarah Roberts. the Mabel Dorn Reeder Amphitheater and lotus, and a backdrop of camellias. Hundreds the Bates Block Terrace. Deep shrub borders of the best perennials for creating an English- The History Center’s annual fall event adjoin the eastern and western ends of the style garden in Atlanta are showcased against Back on the Farm marked its sixth year. garden, where shrubs and small trees were a fragrant and evergreen tea olive hedge. selected with an emphasis on fragrance The garden’s borders and beds are planted Guests strolled Family Farm and enjoyed farm-inspired appetizers throughout the year, adding to the overall with a tapestry of flowering and foliage plants from lead chef Kevin Gillespie of Gunshow and Revival; Seni Alabi-Isama appeal to guests’ senses. for year-round color. Small flowering trees, of SmoQue Pit BBQ; and Suzanne Vizethann of Buttermilk Kitchen. After BACK quenching their thirst with a specialty cocktail from Mercedes O’Brien from Gunshow, guests sat down in the Grand Overlook ballroom to a feast of roasted whole hog, brisket, fried chicken, and an array of sides. More than one guest snuck seconds of Kevin’s special cornbread—followed by a few requests for to-go With the addition of the compact shelving, boxes; it was a wonder people had room for his signature warm banana pudding. the Kenan Research Center has ample room to fulfill its collecting mission, and thereby ARCHIVE serve its expanding customer base for decades to come. For an enterprise that relies on its ON THE ability to properly store and preserve the archival material it collects, the importance of this development cannot be overstated. EXPANSION The majority of the shelf space in the new

storage area will be used to house uncataloged

New Kenan collections and newly acquired material. In fall 2018, the staff of Kenan Research Research Center Center moved some 6,000 boxes of FARM Atlanta History Center has renovated uncataloged manuscript material and Collections space in the museum building and installed institutional archives to the new space. September 14, 2018 Space Opens more than 8,200 linear feet of new compact The manuscript material will be gradually shelving designed to hold archival collections transferred back to McElreath Hall where it BY PAUL CRATER of the Kenan Research Center. will be processed and made publicly available. Vice President of Properties Jackson McQuigg and his team repurposed a storage Many thanks to event chairs Juliet Asher and Michael Golden along with area to a more mission-driven use: the Bianca and Mark Bell as well as Presenting Sponsor Harry Norman, Realtors preservation of historical collections and the for their support. Thanks also go to media sponsor Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles. institutional records of the Atlanta History Proceeds from Back on the Farm support the educational activities and farm Center. This project was made possible animals at Smith Family Farm. through a generous grant from the Watson- Brown Foundation.

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Celebrating the Honorable Sam The Naturalization Ceremony is another way that Atlanta History Massell and the Honorable Andrew Center is seeking to serve the Atlanta community as an active Young, and chaired by Ginny Brewer and welcoming civic space. SWAN and Patrice Greer. BY KATHERINE HOOGERWERF

Elected in 1969, Mayor led a robust administration, credited with establishing the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Omni Coliseum, and . The first Jewish mayor of Atlanta, Mayor Massell championed minority opportunities in city government, a stance that future mayor Ambassador Young would also take. Mayor Massell founded and HOUSE continues to lead the Coalition, an organization of business and civic leaders interested in nurturing the quality of life in Buckhead. Mayor Massell and his wife Sandra live in Buckhead. Ambassador Young began his career as a pastor and civil rights leader, working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, Ambassador Young was the first African American to hold the position of U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He went on to serve BALL as Atlanta mayor from 1982 through 1990. As mayor, he attracted 1,100 new businesses and $70 billion in private investment, according to ’s School of Policy Studies. He and his wife Carolyn celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary this year. Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty and Greenberg Traurig were the Presenting Sponsors of this year’s ball. Event design was led by Beth NATURALIZATION Webb of Beth Webb Interiors, and Legendary Events. Swan House Ball raises critical financial support benefiting Atlanta History On Thursday, August 9, 2018, Following the ceremony, new citizens Center and its award-winning student education programs. CEREMONY Atlanta History Center hosted the U.S. and their families and friends attended a Citizenship and Immigration Services for celebratory reception generously provided by BY CLAIRE HALEY a Naturalization Ceremony, marking the the National Society of the Colonial Dames April 21, 2018 first time that such an event occurred on of America in the State of Georgia, Atlanta our campus. Town Committee. During the reception, new (L) Ambassador Andrew citizens and their guests got a sneak peek at Young, and wife Carolyn, and (R) Mayor Sam Massell and wife Sandra at Swan More than 50 new citizens representing 31 House Ball. countries of origin opened a new chapter in their personal histories as they took the oath of allegiance.

Providing the location for this important the Texas locomotive and shared reactions to ceremony meant that new citizens were able their big day with each other as well as with to become Americans in a place surrounded members of the Colonial Dames and Atlanta by Atlanta and American history. This history History Center staff. StoryCorps Atlanta also is continuously shaped by people from all offered special tours of its recording studio over the world who have come together under to help interested new citizens learn more the banner of American citizenship, bringing about preserving their stories. All ceremony with them different ideas and cultures attendees were provided with free admission that are explored through Atlanta History to explore the rest of the campus. Center exhibitions.

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that do work that we can tap into—but can’t do ourselves. And we return the favor based on the Atlanta History Center’s expertise. We have embraced a number of these relationships. These are some noteworthy examples: – The Atlanta Regional Commission conducts research that helps municipal leaders plan and coordinate for the 10-county metro region. Atlanta History Center has translated policy white papers, community surveys, and demographic data into easy-to-explore data visualizations. Come see current offerings in our Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta exhibition. – Another Atlanta History Center partner, ’s Center for Digital Scholarship provides technical advice, development expertise, and training to Emory faculty and students. Through this relationship, the History Center receives valuable technology and skills to employ it. And Emory broadens its reach and the impact of its digital humanities developments. You’ll see this in action in the near future when using digital Also upcoming this year is a maps in the Cyclorama: The Big Picture galleries. And you’ll soon partnership with the Sweet be able to download a free app to guide you on walking tours of the Midtown neighborhood surrounding Atlanta History Auburn Curb Market to Center Midtown – Ever anxious to join forces in producing new exhibits and commemorate the 100th programs, the History Center has partnered with the Atlanta anniversary of Atlanta’s Beltline Authority, Georgia State University, and the Georgia Humanities Council to author a successful planning grant for first public market. history interpretation along the Atlanta Beltline.

Look for more information about our community partnerships in future newsletters. We are committed to creating sustainable relationships so that we can keep building hand-in-hand with Together, we will make sure that this BY CALINDA LEE our partners. incredible story is not forgotten, and that we connect to celebrate the continuing significance of our public spaces. PARTNERS As part of our Strategic Plan, Atlanta History Center is committed to building partnerships that further our mission to connect people, FOR history, and culture.

What does that mean? It means that we recognize that we are among a community of organizations throughout the region that care about the Moments captured during the hustle connections between the past and the present. We are not alone in our and bustle of grocery shopping at understanding that sharing stories of the past can be fun, illuminating, Curb Market, ca. 1970. and deeply useful in helping us to be more informed and active community That “pure lard” price (pictured left) HISTORY members. What’s more? There are some wonderful organizations in Atlanta was a steal!

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Outdoor display from Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys, 1917- 1918, a traveling exhibition hosted in DATES commemoration of the World War I Centennial. BY CALINDA LEE

in the city’s history. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 assassination, we opened Weeping May Endure for a Night: The Funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Through the Lens of Declan Haun at Atlanta History Center Midtown. This intimate photography exhibition took guests back to those difficult days in April 1968 through 25 As Atlanta History Center strives for photographs that were captured by the late Reverend Andrew Young and Isaac Farris escort Christine King Farris to a seat during the burial service for continuing—and growing—significance in Haun, a Chicago freelance photojournalist. her brother. (Photo by Declan Haun/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images) Indeed, 1968 was a year of extraordinary metro Atlanta, we’ve been thinking a lot about upheaval for the city, the nation, and Fifty years before that, more than 100,000 In 2019, Atlanta History Center will continue to share reflections of the past as we move beyond. Just two months after King’s death, Georgians were celebrated for their efforts in toward the future. We look forward to opening an exhibition marking the centennial of passage why history matters. If you are reading this Democratic presidential candidate Robert bringing The Great War (later named World of the 19th Amendment paving the way for woman suffrage. And we invite you to let us know newsletter, you probably already think that Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. Protesters War I) to a close. After three years of taking an what else you would like to explore as we consider the past and consider why history still took to the streets, continuing activism about isolationist stance, the joined matters for us all. history matters. But an increasing number of racial inequality, conditions in urban centers, the conflict in 1917, with Georgia serving as women’s rights, and the war in Vietnam. home to more training camps than any other people claim not to like history, to be bored Atlanta History Center’s More Than Self: state. Between April 6, 1917 and November 11, by it, in fact. What’s that all about? And, Living the Vietnam War exhibition revealed 1918, more than 1,300 Georgia soldiers and that story through the eyes of the soldier. sailors gave their lives for the effort, with even more to the point, what can the Atlanta Through oral narratives from the Veterans many more wounded. History Project (housed at Kenan Research In commemoration of the centennial of History Center do to help our friends and Center) as well as artifacts and photographs, the war’s end, Atlanta History Center hosted neighbors learn about the past…to better visitors were able to contemplate the two years of exhibitions and participated in a complicated, life-altering impacts of that variety of activities, highlighted on pages 6-7. understand the present…and successfully conflict. These events and exhibitions commemorated the sacrifices of those who served in World As the nation grappled with the shifting plan for the future? War I. They also speak volumes to a current social and political terrain of 1968, the generation grappling with the merits and range of social and political sentiment and costs of isolationism and nationalism, military 2018 has been momentous for the Atlanta History Center. It has been a wonderful year to engagement widened precipitously. As one engagement and diplomacy. Though forms of make these connections, to remind our institution and community, through our exhibitions of the most rapidly growing cities in the communication have changed, visitors to the and related programs, of how the events of the past remain significant for us. nation, Atlanta was in the thick of it. A new exhibitions commented on the continuing The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago was a monumental loss for era was ushered in, beckoning Atlantans significance of both propaganda and national the country and world, but it’s hard to imagine another place where that tragedy was felt as to civic engagement in ways that were unity. In these and so many other ways, the profoundly as in King’s hometown. As riots broke out in cities across America, Atlanta prepared unprecedented. past is with us, offering lessons and direction. to host Dr. King’s funeral procession, which drew an estimated 200,000 mourners, and the eyes of a troubled nation focused on the capital of the South as it hosted the biggest funeral IN HISTORY

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Total hours to capture Atlanta History Center offers a variety of Food & Drink The Cyclorama Public Programs interactive programs that bring history and Google generously donated its time and culture to students across the state. Whether expertise to photograph, in very fine detail, it is on a school tour at Atlanta History Center, The Battle of Atlanta cyclorama painting. in the classroom with an outreach presentation Utilizing the Google Art Camera and Google or travelling trunk, or on stage for Poetry Out Art & Culture’s proprietary software, we Loud, students engage in multidisciplinary are able to stitch each photograph together programs, all while having fun. to create one seamless image, allowing Atlanta History Center guests to see the 360 ˚ painting digitally at the brush stroke level. Students Served by Outreach Souper Jenny and BRASH Coffee Roasters Length of hours to photograph each of the serve as a communal meeting place for the 16 sections: 2.5–3.5 guests of Atlanta History Center and our neighbors . Providing healthful food, delicious coffee and a relaxed atmosphere, these two are 67 a wonderful addition to our campus. 11,665 Soups ordered from Souper Jenny Author Programs Family programs at Atlanta History Center Individuals Served by Poetry Out Loud encourage visitors of all ages to explore history and culture in unique and exciting ways. Through our seasonal festivals and holiday celebrations, these programs make family 150,000 memories and traditions for years to come. 6,500 Family Program Attendance Drinks poured at BRASH since opening in January 2018 Students served through our 55 15,448 Education Programs 84,000 Our author program series connects people with breakthrough, award-winning, and 44,101 bestselling writers of fiction and non-fiction. The program provides the opportunity to Individual JPG photos captured by Google engage with some of the biggest names in Number of Family Programs literature today. Past highlights include appearances by Lawrence , Isabel Allende, Ron Chernow, Michael Twitty, Steven Pinker, Mitch Landrieu, and Virginia Willis.

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Fulton County 4-H Mission

4-H stands for Head, Heart, Hands Atlanta History Center was founded in 1926 and Health...and now History! Located on big ideas and relentless fascination. For in McElreath Hall, the Fulton County more than nine decades, we’ve been hard at 4-H office provides assistance in work preserving and sharing the history of our agriculture and environmental science, great city. Through our collections, archives, family and consumer science, and gardens, and programs we strive to connect youth development to everyone in the people, history and culture. local area.

4-H Programs

Individuals reached by 18 Atlanta History Center Sustainability Living Collections Atlanta History Center’s Swan House, With 33 acres, Atlanta History Center is McElreath Hall, and Parking Deck were teeming with life. From sheep to bees and named as top performers in the Atlanta Better trees to veggies, to our newest addition Buildings Challenge (ABBC), a program that Olguita’s Garden. As always, we keep an promotes energy and water conservation by eye on sustainability and do our part to commercial buildings throughout Metro stay . Atlanta. Atlanta History Center is actively working to improve the efficiency of its Diverted gallons of Types of plants buildings at both of its campuses to help the food scraps from added to the Better Buildings Challenge meet this goal and Souper Jenny that living collection; to reduce our utility costs. would have gone a majority of to a landfill to these plants Number of sustainability awards 327,877 compost used in were utilized in our gardens Olguita’s Garden 8,675 95

3 Lambs added to Hens added to Smith Family Farm Smith Family Farm Total 4H Attendees 2 3

Pounds of sheep’s Pounds of goat’s wool shorn mohair shorn 18.4 4.8

Eggs laid 1,473 1,116 ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER HISTORY MATTERS 23 HISTORY MAKERS HISTORY MAKERS

Cynthia Widner Wall and PNC Wealth Mr. and Mrs. James H. Morgens Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rawson Management Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. Palefsky Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Reid Becky and Tom Williams Mr. and Mrs. Solon P. Patterson Mr. Alan F. Rothschild, Jr. Melissa and Bobby Wright Mr. Daniel B. Rather Mr. and Mrs. Schachter Allen Yee Mr. and Mrs. Roby Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. H. Bronson Smith Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Rollins Mr. and Ms. William Stovall Media Partners Mrs. Anne R. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Bryan C. W. Tate HISTORY MAKERS The Atlantan Waffle House Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mrs. Anne G. Weltner Farm Cat Special Thanks to our Auction Donors Chairman’s Circle Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees Sandra and Dan Baldwin White Oak Pastures Mr. and Mrs. H. Inman Allen Julie and Jim Balloun Legendary Events Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Allen IV Benefactor’s Circle Christina and Paul Blackney Steven Satterfield Mr. and Mrs. John G. Alston, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David Abney Julie and Charles Bowen Virginia Willis Mrs. William B. Astrop Ms. Kathleen Barksdale Jackie and Jimmy Cushman Mr. and Mrs. Dameron Black III Governor and Mrs. Roy E. Barnes Sylvia and Bruce Dick 2017–2018 Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Boone III Mrs. Constance Calhoun Mr. Thomas Burleigh Mrs. Tom Carlock Stacy and Ted French Annual Fund – Insiders John Howard Mr. and Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald Childress Received between 07/01/2017 IBERIABANK Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Connell Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C. Crawford and 06/30/2018 Barbara and Alan Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Alston D. Correll, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Curry Bill Kenny and Alfred Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Croft III Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Davis Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Phoenix Society Mr. and Mrs. Bradley N. Currey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Craig P. Dunlevie Shelly and Wright Marshall Mr. and Mrs. John M. Allan Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dreyer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Glenn Margaret McCamish Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Allen III Mr. and Mrs. James C. Edenfield Ms. Virginia Gorday Northside Hospital Mrs. Beaumont Allen Dr. and Mrs. L. Franklyn Elliott Dr. and Mrs. John B. Hardman and Howard Palefsky Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Asher Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Flock Mr. and Mrs. John B. Harrison, Sr. Peachtree Hills Place Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Bazzle Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R. French, Jr. Reverend and Mrs. J. Spurgeon Hays Regions Bank Mrs. Ron Bell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Fricke Mr. and Mrs. L. Howell Contributions Back on the Farm Krist and Ben Voyles Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Mr. L. Tom Gay Mr. Baxter P. Jones and Dr. Jiong Yan September 22, 2017 Ellen and Buck Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buck Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Giornelli Mr. S. Jarvin Levison Studie and Zach Young Mr. and Mrs. E. Butner Mr. and Mrs. John T. Glover Mr. and Mrs. Hector E. Llorens Chair Mr. and Mrs. Chris M. Carlos Mr. David F. Golden Ms. Katherine Dickey Marbut Mary Calhoun Friend of Smith Family Farm Mr. and Mrs. Beverly M. DuBose III Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Goodsell Mr. and Mrs. Michael Masters Juliet and John Allan Ms. Catherine W. Dukehart Mrs. John W. Grant III Mr. and Mrs. T. Randolph Merrill Event Executive Chef and Shepard B. Ansley Mr. and Mrs. W. Douglas Ellis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cleburne Gregory III Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Miller James Beard Award-winning Patricia Barmeyer and Ward Wight Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Engle Mrs. Louise S. Gunn Ms. Tracy G. Monk Cookbook Author and Chef Lisa and William Bridges Mr. and Mrs. Reade Fahs, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Irby Mrs. Mary Patton Virginia Willis John W. Calhoun Mr. and Mrs. J. Rex Fuqua Mr. Robert A. Jetmundsen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Quigley Nancy and Richard Chambers Mr. and Mrs. P. Alston Glenn Mr. and Mrs. George H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Ramsey Sheep Rita and Ralph Connell Mr. and Mrs. S. Taylor Glover Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Reeves Elkin Goddard Alston April and Brian Crow Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Gregory, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles A. Kellett, Jr. Mrs. Clarence H. Ridley Georgia-Pacific, LLC Louisa and Michael D’Antignac Mr. Robert H. Gunn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier II Mr. and Mrs. William B. Shearer, Jr. Peter Moister Ed Voyles Automotive Group Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Helget Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Lassiter III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Shields, Jr. Jenny Pruitt, Atlanta Fine Homes Florida and Doug Ellis Mrs. Terrell W. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Will D. Magruder Mr. and Mrs. John D. Snodgrass Sotheby’s International Realty Epps Aviation Mr. and Mrs. Howell Hollis III Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Maier, Jr. Mrs. Laura S. Spearman Travis Reed and Michael Kriethe, Sade and Bill Fryer Mrs. Frederick A. Hoyt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Keith W. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Taylor IV Harry Norman, Realtors Caroline Gilham Ms. Jocelyn J. Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miles Mr. and Mrs. James S. Thomas, Jr. Katherine Scott Kinsey and Gordon Harper Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Jones III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Millard Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitaker Mildred and John Spalding Elizabeth and David Martin Mr. and Mrs. James C. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Lester Miller Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wilson III Leslie McLeod Mrs. Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wade T. Mitchell Goat Angie and Johnny Mosier Mr. and Mrs. Kurt J. Kronauge Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas Mobley, Jr. Elizabeth and Carl Allen Mary Patton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. John L. Montag Spring and Tom Asher Blair and James Robbins Mrs. Henry F. McCamish, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Mosier Atlanta History Center President Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Matthew Simon and Keith Schumann Mr. Albert S. McGhee Mrs. H. Nicholson III and CEO Sheffield Hale welcomes Elizabeth and Sheffield Hale Margaret Ann and Gene Surber Mr. and Mrs. John F. McMullan Mr. and Mrs. McKee Nunnally, Jr. members and guests to the opening Kathleen Powell Laurel and Wade Thompson Mr. and Mrs. John E. McMullan Mr. and Mrs. William B. Peard of Barbecue Nation in May 2018. Sara and John Shlesinger UGA Cooperative Extension Ms. Florence Lee Moran Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Prince

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Director’s Roundtable Mrs. Robert S. Griffith, Jr. Ms. Marian Alexis Scott and Mr. and Mrs. G. Dennis Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hasty, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Muzzy Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Addison Mr. Joe N. Guy Mr. Brian L McKissick Dr. R. Dwain Blackston Ms. Aileen Ponder Hatcher Mr. and Mrs. William R. Newton Mr. and Mrs. Mel Adler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hall III Ms. Katherine Scott Mrs. Shirley Blaine Mr. James Heckman Mr. and Mrs. Greg Null Mr. and Mrs. C. Scott Akers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon H. Harper Count and Countess Mr. and Mrs. William H. Boice Mr. and Mrs. William F. Henagan Mr. and Mrs. J. Dudley Ottley Mr. and Mrs. Kent Alexander Mrs. Paul M. Hawkins Ferdinand C. Seefried Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bozeman Dr. and Mrs. Armand E. Hendee Mr. and Mrs. John K. Ottley, Jr. Mrs. Marge Anderson and Mr. Dixon R. Head, Jr. Dr. Brandon Seigler and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott E. Brack Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Henry Mr. and Mrs. George D. Overend Mr. Richard Oliver Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Herbert Dr. Wendy Wright Seigler Mr. and Mrs. W. Brannon Ms. Virginia Hepner and Dr. and Mrs. David Owens Mr. Shepard B. Ansley Mrs. Margaret Heyer Mr. and Mrs. Al Sherrod Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Brewer Mr. Malcolm Barnes Dr. Margo Brinton and Mr. Eldon E. Park Mr. Joel Babbit Sarah and Harvey Hill Mr. John Phillip Short Mrs. Harvey B. Brickley Mr. Charles W. Hicks, Jr. Mrs. Natalae W. Parker Mr. and Mrs. William T. Baker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Howard Mr. Allan Boyd Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bridges III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Hills Mr. William A. Parker III Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Baldwin, Jr. Mrs. Susanne W. Howe Ms. Melody Mann-Simpson Ms. Lauren Brockman Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. James Balloun Mr. and Mrs. Eric J. Joiner Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Brown Mr. Richard E. Hodges, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. Fay Pearce, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor A. Barton Ms. Gay T. Jolley Ms. Suzy Smith Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Brown Mr. Tommye Holbrook and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Poe Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Battle The Honorable Wendy Shoob Mr. Barry Straus Dr. and Mrs. Anton J. Bueschen Ms. Cookie Rubin Mr. and Mrs. H. Sadler Poe Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Baxter and Mr. Walter Jospin Mr. and Mrs. Tim Tassopoulos Ms. Cynthia Carns and Mr. Brian Casey Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Howell Mrs. Lula P. Post Mr. and Mrs. C. Duncan Beard Mr. and Mrs. William A. Jump Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. and Mrs. Carolyn Caswell Mr. and Mrs. William Hoyt Mr. Bill Ray Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bissonnette Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Keough Ms. Triska A. Drake Mrs. Lana S. Cauble Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Hubert Dr. and Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves Mr. Arthur M. Blank Mr. and Mrs. James D. Kiley Ms. Teresa Tomlinson and Mr. and Mrs. Carlile M. Chambers Dr. Susan C. Hurt Tanner and Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Reiser Mr. Merritt S. Mr. William D. Kilgore Mrs. Susan Tomlinson Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chambers Mr. Robert G. Tanner Mr. and Mrs. William D. Mr. and Mrs. W. Moses Bond Mrs. Mary Gossett King Mrs. Susan Tomlinson and The Honorable and Mrs. Saxby Chambliss Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hyman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bridges, Jr. Ms. Carla Knobloch Ms. Teresa Tomlinson Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Ingersoll, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Riley Mr. and Mrs. W. Wheeler Bryan Mr. and Mrs. W. Theodore Kresge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Walker IV Mrs. Thomas H. Clarke Mr. Edward H. Inman II Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ritter Mrs. Lucinda W. Bunnen Mr. and Mrs. James Landers Mrs. Raymond M. Warren, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William M. Clarkson IV Mr. and Mrs. Clayton F. Jackson Mr. Michael Rogers and Dr. Edith Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Campbell Mr. George H. Lanier Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Watson Dr. and Mrs. Gregg Codelli Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jaje Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Rosenbaum Reverend and Mrs. Samuel G. Candler Dr. and Mrs. S. Robert Lathan Mr. and Mrs. Winston E. Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Cofer Ms. Jane P. Harmon and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse A. Sasser, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bickerton W. Cardwell, Jr. Mrs. Howard P. Lawrence Dr. William G. Whitaker III Mr. and Mrs. Cecil D. Conlee Mr. H. Mikell Jones Mr. and Mrs. David Schlosnagle Mr. and Mrs. James B. Carson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lundeen III Mr. and Mrs. Scott White Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cramer Ms. C. Randolph Jones Mr. and Mrs. Victor Segrest Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Chatel Mr. and Mrs. Bert C. Madden Mrs. James W. Woodruff, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Darden Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kantor Ms. Marion C. Sharp Mrs. Carol J. Mrs. Gloria Mallet and Mr. and Mrs. Donn Wright Mr. and Mrs. Michael Davis Ms. C. Denise Kilpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sheats Mr. and Mrs. F. Dean Copeland Dr. Andrea Mallet-Reece Mr. and Mrs. Zachry Young Ms. Kathryne de Guardiola Dr. Anne Knutson and Mr. Todd Knutson Mrs. Karen Sheldon and Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. George T. Manning Dr. Jamil S. Zainaldin and Mr. and Ms. Tyler Dempsey Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lanham Mr. Stuart Sheldon Dr. and Mrs. O. Anderson Currie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George McCarty Ms. Ingrid Kelly Ms. Myrna Dial Mr. and Mrs. David P. Lanier Mr. and Mrs. John B. Shepard Mrs. Overton A. Currie Mr. Robert B. McClain Mr. and Mrs. John R. Donnell, Jr. Ms. Dolly Laubach Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Shlesinger Mr. and Mrs. John M. Darden III Mr. and Mrs. Julian B. Mohr Patron Ms. Sally A. Dorn Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Slover, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Davis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lane B. Moore Anonymous Dr. D. Peter Drotman and Dr. J. Bancroft Lesesne and Mr. Tony R. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Denny, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Brand Morgan Dr. Ann U. Abrams Ms. Carolyn Arakaki Mr. Randolph Henning Mrs. Denise Elsbree Smith Mr. and Mrs. Todd Deveau Mr. and Mrs. W. Hampton Morris Mr. John R. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Edwards, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Letson Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spence, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. D. Nalle Mr. Jeremy Aldridge and Mr. Chance Evans Mr. and Mrs. Bertram L. Levy Mr. and Mrs. John W. Spiegel Mr. and Mrs. Billy Dukes Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Nalley III Mr. Michael Aldridge Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Clay C. Long Mr. Frederick Spitzmiller and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Edmiston Ms. Ann Starr and Mr. Kent Nelson Mrs. Kathryn Alvelda Mrs. Alice Bell Fraser Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Lovett Mr. Robert Norris Mrs. Robert S. Eldridge Mr. and Mrs. Graham S. Nicholson Mrs. Carol Arnall Mr. and Mrs. James A. Friday Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. MacDonald III Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Srochi Mr. and Mrs. H. Alan Elsas Mr. Orestes Ortiz Mr. and Mrs. H. Arnold III Mr. and Mrs. James Garcia Dr. and Mrs. Lee Macenczak Mr. and Mrs. James H. Steele Dr. Julia V. Emmons Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Owens, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Arrieta Ms. Linda M. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. James MacGinnitie Dr. and Mrs. John Stevens Mr. Pat Epps Mrs. William A. Parker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George W. P. Atkins, Jr. Mr. J. Michael Gearon and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Mannelly Mr. and Mrs. James S. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton H. Farnham Mrs. Martha M. Pentecost Ms. Vallene L. Baker Mr. Ken Fisher Gearon Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marxer Mr. and Mrs. John W. Strange Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. John H. Pietri, Jr. Ms. Patricia T. Barmeyer and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Gellerstedt III Mr. and Mrs. George W. Mathews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Strickler III Mrs. Dakin B. Ferris Ms. Elizabeth B. Pittman Mr. Ward Wight Ms. Karen Gentry and Mr. John Vaught Mr. Robert L. Mays Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Surber Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Gene I. Poland Ms. Janice Barton Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Goddard III Ms. Mary Beth McCahan Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swanson Mr. and Mrs. William B. Fryer Mrs. James Tinsley Porter, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Barwick Ms. Lathem Gordon and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest McClain Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Talbert Mr. and Mrs. Carl I. Gable Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Prickett Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Battle, Jr. Ms. Cate Dunning Dr. and Mrs. William M. McClatchey Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Taratus Mr. David H. Gambrell Mr. and Mrs. Rowland A. Radford Mr. John H. Beach, Jr. and Mrs. Henry C. Grady III Mr. and Mrs. Allen P. McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Tartikoff Mrs. Caroline Gilham Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Rigby Dr. Ann F. Beach Mr. Charles E. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. McLain Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Thiebaut Mr. Jere W. Goldsmith IV Mr. and Mrs. Al Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Bell Mr. Warren Gump and Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G. Morehouse Ms. Mary Lynne Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Duncan S. Gray, Jr. Mrs. J. Mack Robinson Mrs. Ida P. Benton Ms. Mary Elizabeth Gump Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Morgan Mrs. Newell Bryan Tozzer Mr. and Mrs. Gray Ms. Teya Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bergeson Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Haining Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Morrison Annie York Trujillo and Raul F. Trujillo Mr. Ronald Green Dr. and Mrs. Rein Saral Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Berman Mr. and Mrs. G. Marc Hamburger Mrs. Carole Musarra Ms. Agnes J. Van Ryn Mr. and Mrs. Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Hammack Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Mutz Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Vivona

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Ms. Janet C. Vogler Bronze Sponsors The Cadence Group Mitzi and Bill Linginfelter Georgia Crown Distributing Company Capital and Mrs. Pam Wakefield Sherry and David Abney Anika Calloway and Brian McNeil Mary and Tim Mapes Legendary Events Mr. and Mrs. John A. Arrow Exterminators Cartel Properties Judy and Lester Miller Kim Endowment Gifts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Wasserman Spring and Tom Asher Cartier Ida Rose-Mize, DDS, PC and Patterson Parking In excess of $5,000 received between Mr. Ben L. Weinberg, Jr. BB&T Susan and Tony Catalfano Clyde Mize 07/01/2017 and 06/30/2018 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wepfer Sandra and Dan Baldwin Nancy and J. Richard Chambers Erika and John Montag 2017–2018 Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. White, Jr. Katie and Sam Bayne Aimee and Tom Chubb Suzanne Kasler Morris and Bank of America Ms. Catherine Hope Wilson and Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Peter David Conlon John Morris Education and Public BCD Travel Mr. Vincent X. Ford Bourbon Whiskey Farah and Ralph Cook Vicki and Derrick Morrow Programs Gifts Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. The Goizueta Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Winchester Carter Nancy Cooke Keisha and Daniel Noel In excess of $5,000 received between James M. Cox Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William D. Withers CBRE, Inc. Sandi and William Cooper Angela Page 07/01/2017 and 06/30/2018 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Withers CIBC Atlantic Trust Private Jackie and Jimmy Cushman Victoria and Howard Palefsky JBS Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William B. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Woodward Wealth Management Cushman & Wakefield Vicki and John Palmer Bank of America Mr. and Mrs. John Fentener Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Young CSX Corporation Donna and Chip Davidson Beth and Gregg Paradies Besse Johnson and George Blanton van Vlissingen Mr. and Mrs. David M. Zacks Leslie and Stan Conway Dennis Dean and Drew Brown Beth and David Park Allen Memorial Foundation The Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Zakas Dorsey Alston Katie Deegan and Scott Tinnon Carey and Bill Peard The Bright Wings Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Zeliff Eileen and Bo DuBose Vanessa and Robin Delmer Celeste Pendarvis and AJ Igherighe Connolly Family Foundation, Inc. Ernst & Young Delta Community Credit Union Robin and Marc David, Helen, and Marian Special Thanks Swan House Ball GenSpring SunTrust Private Wealth Barbarella and René Diaz Ashley Preisinger and Brian Dally Woodward Fund Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles and the Harry Norman, Realtors Sally Dorsey and Herb Miller Kay and Ron Quigley April 21, 2018 The Frances Wood Wilson Southeastern Designer Showhouse Jones Day Edge Capital Partners, LLC Tiffany and Bryan Rand Foundation, Inc. & Gardens Legendary Events Evern and Elze Epps Daniel Rather Honorees Fulton County Arts Council and Darrell Mays Chance Evans Johanna and Jonas Reisinger The Honorable Sam Massell Georgia Council for the Arts Peter Moister Andrea Farley and Paul Carriere Georgia Schley Ritchie and Diff Ritchie The Honorable Andrew Young Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. Jackie and Tony Montag Marie and Brad Foster Robert W. Woodruff Library The John and Mary Franklin Northside Hospital Cindy and Bill Fowler Kelly Rodts Event Chairs Foundation Peachtree Hills Place Viki and Paul Freeman Danielle Rollins Ginny Brewer and Patrice Greer The Nissan Foundation PNC Financial Services Group Michelle and Ben Garren Stephanie and Jerome Russell Publix Super Markets, Inc. Printpack, Inc. and The Gay & Erskine Genuine Parts Akilah and Kenneth Saffold Presenting Sponsors Ray M. and Mary Elizabeth Lee Love Foundation Lillian and Greg Giornelli Louise Sams and Jerome Grilhot Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s Foundation, Inc. Regions Bank Carol Lanier Goodman Jack Sawyer and Bill Torres International Realty Regions Bank Saks Fifth Avenue Mary Katherine and Tom Greene Lynn and Bill Shearer Greenberg Traurig The Fargo Foundation SunTrust Bank Mary Ann and Hunter Groton Dean and Bronson Smith The Zeist Foundation, Inc. Kathryne de Guardiola Caryl and Ken Smith Platinum Sponsors Patrons Elizabeth and Sheffield Hale Millie and Steve Smith Chick-fil-A Foundation Exhibition Gifts Tom Abrams and Britt Wood Nikki and Joseph Harland Smith & Howard The Coca-Cola Company In excess of $5,000 received between Mo Akbar and Ed Stephenson Akima and Marc Harrigan Caroline and Scott Spangenberg Cox Enterprises, Inc. 07/01/2017 and 06/30/2018 Betsy and Scott Akers Laura Heard and Marc Castillo Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel Delta Air Lines Juliet and John Allan Coldwell Banker Judith and Bahnson Stanley Jenny and Bob Pruitt Anonymous Valerie and Cotten Alston Heavenly Hands Foundation Dunwreath and Charles Swanson Wells Fargo Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Elkin Goddard Alston Faron Hill Caroline and Jeff Tucker Association Gayle and Jimmy Alston Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. UPS Sponsors Char-Broil Meg and Jeff Arnold Chad Holman and Keith Traxler Krist and Ben Voyles Ginny and Charles Brewer Georgia-Pacific Yum and Ross Arnold Charles Barbara A. White Fidelity Bank Jim N’ Nick’s Wendy and Neal Aronson Frances Walker Holmes and Waffle House Georgia-Pacific, LLC. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Irby Cyndae Arrendale Hadi Irvani Dina Woodruff Sarah and Jim Kennedy Regions Bank Juanita and Greg Baranco Jocelyn Hunter Sylvia and Keith Wright Thalia and Michael C. Carlos Kathleen Barksdale Edward H. Inman Angelica and Bo Young Silver Sponsors Foundation Governor Roy and Marie Barnes Roya and Bahman Irvani Aaron’s, Inc. W.C. Bradley Co. Mimi Bean Caroline and Paul Jeffords Media Sponsor Active Production and Design, Inc. Yeti Manny Beauregard and Don Vellek Marylin S. Johnson The Atlantan Georgia Power Company Trameka and Jerome Bettis Edwina and Tom Johnson Elizabeth and Michael Klump Michael Bishop and Barbara and Eric Joiner Auction Donors Northern Trust Shane Thomas Ellen and Ray Jones Anne Quatrano Rosalind and John Brewer Jim Landon Barbara Roos Gloria and George Cara Isdell Lee and Zak Lee Chris Macksey C. D. Construction Co. Stacey and Don Leebern III Jenny Johnson Allen

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Financials Board of Directors Executive Staff

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 Ernest Greer Sheffield Hale Chair President and CEO Contributions $1,559,123 19% $2,455,265 29% $2,137,729 25% $2,027,224 23% $2,478,725 25% Admissions $968,167 12% $986,922 11% $987,531 11% $987,643 11% $1,092,405 11% Barbarella Diaz Paul Carriere Programs $154,229 2% $201,208 2% $185,189 2% $209,873 2% $249,000 2% Secretary Chief Operating Officer, Net Sales (Rentals, Gifts, etc.) $1,544,017 20% $1,253,826 15% $1,723,632 19% $1,893,537 21% $1,950,925 20% Executive Vice President Endowment $3,661,636 46% $3,687,437 43% $3,859,390 43% $3,855,959 43% $4,059,771 40% Jocelyn Hunter of Operations and Legal Operating Revenue $7,887,171 100% $8,584,657 100% $8,893,471 100% $8,974,236 100% $9,830,826 100% Vice Chair Michael Rose Tom Asher Chief Mission Officer, Executive Vice President Rodney Bullard Beverly M. Dubose, III Susana Braner Vice President of Sales Allison Dukes and Operations Mary Katherine Greene Paul Crater Sarah Kennedy Vice President of Collections Contributions Stuart Kronauge and Research Services Admissions Jamie Maclean Programs Hillary Hardwick Net Sales (Rentals, Gifts, etc.) John Montag Vice President of Marketing Endowment Communications Louise Allen Moore

Angie Mosier Calinda Lee Vice President of Historical Howard D. Palefsky Interpretation and William B. Peard Community Partnerships Kathleen Rollins FY2018 Jackson McQuigg Teya Ryan Vice President of Properties John Shlesinger Sarah Roberts Vice President, Goizueta Gardens and Living Collections 10,000,000 Jeff Rutledge 9,000,000 Vice President of Finance

$9,830,826 Cheri Snyder 8,000,000 $9,679,375 Vice President of Development

7,000,000 $8,893,471 Jessica VanLanduyt $8,574,867 $8,584,657

$8,383,518 Vice President of Guest Experiences $7,887,171 $7,785,443 Operating Expenses $7,727,474 6,000,000 Kate Whitman $7,254,240 Vice President of Author and 5,000,000 Family Programs

4,000,000

3,000,000

2,000,000 Operating Revenue

1,000,000 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018

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