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Georgia Tech President Blake R. Van Leer. Carlos Valdes, actor and singer; Blake R. Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech, the first to admit women and fought against segregationist Governor Griffin; Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, artist and architect, women's rights activist; Fernando Velasco, football player; born in New York
GenealogyBank.com is an online subscription genealogical service that provides access to records useful in family history research. GenealogyBank is one of the largest collections of digitized U.S. newspapers, dating back to 1690. [1]
James Earl Carter was born in Arlington, Georgia, on September 12, 1894.He was the fourth of five children born to William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt. [1] [2] In 1904, after his father was murdered by a business partner — which the nine-year-old James witnessed — the Carter family moved to Plains, Georgia.
Joseph Mayo Pettit (July 15, 1916 – September 15, 1986) was an engineer and the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1972 to 1986. He previously served as the dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering from 1958 to 1972.
Rhodes Hall. The Georgia Archives was established on August 20, 1918, after a prolonged effort on the part of the Archives' first director, Lucian Lamar Knight. [2] The Archives occupied a balcony in the State Capitol Building for twelve years until 1930, when furniture magnate Amos G. Rhodes left his home, "Rhodes Hall", to the state.
The Reverend Horatius Holipheal Coleman (February 22, 1892 – December 13, 1969), better known as H. H. Coleman, was an American church pastor and evangelist. Reverend Coleman, who was born in Sandersville, Georgia, was senior pastor of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, from 1935 until his death in 1969.
Speer was born on September 3, 1848, in Culloden, Monroe County, Georgia. [1] His parents were Dr. Eustace Willouby Speer (1826 - 1899) and Annie Eliza King Speer (1827 - 1910).
Munson continued to live in Nashville until 1978 when he moved to metro Atlanta, after joining the Georgia Radio Network as a reporter. [10] [11] Munson moved to Athens in 1997. [12] On September 22, 2008, Larry announced his retirement from being the play-by-play announcer for the University of Georgia Bulldogs. [13]