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Vince Dooley (b. 1932)

There is perhaps no one person more singularly identified with the University of Georgia (UGA) than Vince Dooley, the architect of the athletic program's modern-day explosive growth and the shepherd of all things "dawg."

In 1964 Dooley, at the age of thirty-one, was hired by athletic director Joel Eaves as head coach of the UGA football team and served in that position until 1988. Dooley succeeded Eaves as athletic director in 1979 and dedicated the next twenty-five years to Georgia Bulldog athletics until his contract was not renewed in a highly publicized power battle with university president Michael Adams in 2003. As a football coach, Dooley is among an impressi...

Donald Hollowell (1917-2004)

As one of a handful of black lawyers practicing civil rights law in the 1950s and 1960s, Donald Hollowell was instrumental in the movement to desegregate public institutions through...

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The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state and the only member of the Association of American University Presses within the University System ...

Atlanta College of Art

The Atlanta College of Art (ACA), founded in 1905, was a four-year accredited private art college in the city until 2006, when it was absorbed by the Atlanta campus of the...

J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006)

J. B. Fuqua was a self-made businessman who started with a handmade ham radio and built a multimillion-dollar empire that included television and...