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H A P PY BI RTH DAY, GSW UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES BIG DAY WITH SERVICE
GSW Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford
110 YEARS OF HISTORY The story begins in 1906. On Nov. 23 of that year, the lead headline for the Americus TimesRecorder read “Sumter is the Winner,” having been named the county for Georgia’s Third District Agricultural and Mechanical School. This was made possible by the Perry Bill, which was signed into law August 18, 1906. It provided for establishment
Jeans, wisdom, art, antiques, wine, cheese – what do these subjects have in common? They all get better with age. The same can be said for Georgia Southwestern State University. For over a century, GSW has been providing quality education to heads of state and leaders in the courtroom, the boardroom, the operating room and the classroom.
AEOLIAN Magazine | Summer 2017
of “A & M” schools in all 11 Georgia congressional districts. And as the name suggested, what is now Georgia Southwestern resided in the third district. A dozen years later, the Wheatley Administration building – GSW’s signature structure – was constructed. A new name was given by the state in 1932 – Georgia Southwestern College – and again in 1996 – “State University.” Bachelor’s degrees were granted, then master’s degrees. Meanwhile, some
