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Columns::October 1, 2001

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New portrait of Rogers will be added to presidential collection

By Chuck Toney
ctoney@uga.edu

The university will unveil a portrait of its 16th president, Jonathan Clark Rogers, during a ceremony in the administration building at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3. Rogers served in 1949-1950, a brief but critical time in the history of the University of Georgia.
The portrait was painted by George Mandus, who has also painted six portraits for the School of Law, including the portrait of former Dean C. Ronald Ellington, who served from 1987 to 1993.
Born in Richmond, Ind., in 1885, Rogers grew up in Demorest, attended local schools and was graduated from Piedmont College in 1906. He received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Earlham College in 1907, a master’s from Columbia University in 1927 and an honorary education doctorate from Piedmont in 1934.
In 1911, he was named dean of Piedmont College and served as superintendent of the Demorest City Schools. In 1934, he was named president of North Georgia College in Dahlonega, a position he held until he was named UGA’s president in January 1949.
Rogers struggled with a faction of the board of regents which attempted to sever the College of Agriculture from the University of Georgia, at one time creating the position of vice president for agriculture who reported not to the president but to the chancellor. He was also faced with budgetary restraints resulting from an unfavorable statewide economic outlook and a decline in enrollment caused by the departure of many World War II veterans who attended UGA on the GI Bill.
The veterinary medicine building was completed during his tenure.
“President Rogers held firm in the face of some very serious threats to the integrity of this university,” says President Michael F. Adams. “It is not an overstatement to say that UGA’s recognition as a top-20 public research university is partly due to his steadfast stewardship during those turbulent times.”
Rogers, who was 63 at the time he was named president and very close to the mandatory retirement age of 65, served as president until the fall of 1950.
His portrait will hang in the administration building with those of other presidents of the university.

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