Up Front | From the Editor

December 1999: Vol. 79, No. 1

ecreating 100 years of University history is a daunting task and one Georgia Magazine could not have tackled without help from UGA News Service staffers Beth Roberts and Sharron Hannon, who researched the topic and conducted most of the interviews, and Janet Beckley, who designed the 12-page special section that appears in this issue. Thanks also go out to GM art director Cheri Wranosky, who did the photo research and who makes every issue of the magazine look so good.

Ag leader Andrew Soule's "College on Wheels" train tour in 1908 showed Georgians the kind of "scientific agriculture" taught at UGA. The Cooperative Extension Service was founded six years later.
Fortunately for us, University history is well-documented in a number of sources—especially Tom Dyer's The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History (UGA Press, 1985) and also Nash Boney's A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia (UGA Press, 1984). Dyer and Boney are the latest history professors to chronicle events at UGA; Merton Coulter wrote of earlier days.

A number of other fine works detail specific aspects of UGA history. Calvin Trillin, a Time reporter in the early 1960s, chronicled the stormy days of integration in An Education in Georgia, which was reissued by the University of Georgia Press in 1991. Charlayne Hunter-Gault penned her own story, In My Place, in 1992. The book ends with her 1988 Commencement address. The University of Georgia Press also recently released The Personal Equation, a biography of UGA president—and later University System chancellor—Steadman Sanford. Each of these works is worth reviewing as another century of UGA history draws to a close.

This issue also marks the debut in these pages of GM's new assistant editor Alex Crevar (AB '93). He succeeds Laura Wexler, who left the staff to devote all her energies to a forthcoming book for Scribner. Alex came on board just in time to hop a plane to England with photographer Paul Efland and videographer Geof Gilland to follow students during their first days of the fall term at Oxford University, where UGA has established a new year-round residence program. In November, President Michael F. Adams also made the trip across the Atlantic to officially dedicate UGA's new house at 106 Banbury Road, Oxford, which you see pictured in this feature.

Here's hoping that the Millennium Bug misses your home, community, and place of business—and that those of you who do something unusual on New Year's Eve will write and tell us about it.