From the Vault

Flannery O'Connor Quote of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:30:00 +0000

"The freak in modern fiction is usually disturbing to us because he keeps us from forgetting that we share in his state"
-Flannery O'Connor

Back To Our Roots

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:40:00 +0000

Join us at Digital Bridges in Downtown Milledgeville this Friday, March 1 from 5-9 p.m. as we celebrate First Friday. We will be be preserving local history by scanning your old photographs and recording oral history interviews in connection with the Milledgeville/Baldwin County Oral History Project. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us as scinfo@gcsu.edu.

Special Collections Closed

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Special Collections will be closed December 17 and open back up on January 7. We want to wish everyone Happy Holidays.

Geloria Phelps: 'Best of Times'

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:44:00 +0000

We have uploaded an excerpt of one of our interviews from the Milledgeville/Baldwin County Oral History Project. This is Geloria Phelps as she reads a monologue she wrote about growing up and attending school in Georgia. She talks about the "best of times" as well as the "worst of times." Check back often for more Oral History Project uploads.

Allison Blanchard Book Signing

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:56:00 +0000

Special Collections just had a book signing with sophomore Allison Blanchard, author of "Forget Me Not" released this semester. Blanchard is earning bachelor's degrees in English with a concentration in creative writing and French. Her signed paranormal romance novel will be preserved in our archives for future generations. To purchase your own copy of "Forget Me Not" visit www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com or check your local bookstore.

Fall/Winter 2012 Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:43:00 +0000

Our quarterly newsletter is available here.

Take a look and learn more about what Special Collections has been up to. And as always, please feel free to contact us with any of your archival needs.

Thank You to Our Veterans

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:04:00 +0000

We apologize for the late post, but we hope all our Veterans had a wonderful Veteran's Day. We want to say thank you to everyone who has served and is currently serving for protecting our freedom and making this great nation possible!

In honor of Veteran's Day, we would like to highlight some of our WAVES images.

Photograph of WAVES officers saluting, taken by a U.S. Navy photographer circa 1944. The officers are wearing standard white service dress.

On July 30, 1942, Congress granted women the opportunity to serve their country as a member of the United States Navy. This time things would be different. Women were granted the same ranks and titles as their male counterparts. While intended to be a temporary wartime measure, the WAVES, or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, program would make a lasting impact on the Navy. During 1943-1945, many of the WAVES were trained on the campus of GSCW. Their experience is documented in this set. Join Special Collections in celebrating their service to their country and their time on our campus.

Photograph of members of WAVES participating in a drum corps in front of Ennis Hall, taken by a U.S. Navy photographer circa 1943. The women are wearing navy blue service uniforms.

Photograph of WAVES member, taken by a U.S. Navy photographer circa 1944. This portrait is of a WAVES officer who was trained on the campus of GSCW. She is wearing standard officer service dress.

Photograph of WAVES members in gray working uniforms in front of Ennis Hall taken by a U.S. Navy photographer circa 1944. Ennis Hall served as housing for the WAVES, in addition to several other buildings on campus. Each building occupied by the WAVES was run like a Navy ship in harbor.

Special Collections thanks you for your service! To see more WAVES photographs, visit our Flickr gallery here.

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:04:00 +0000

September Collection of the Month

Frank W. Bell

Francis "Frank" West Bell was born in Milledgeville, Georgia on March 12, 1906. Bell attended Georgia Military College and the University of Georgia, where he earned his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1927. Bell also carried out post-graduate work at Columbia University.

After passing the state bar examination, Bell began to practice law in Milledgeville. He worked for a short period as an attorney for Georgia Power Company and then entered private practice where he concentrated on real estate law. He served as a judge in the Milledgeville Municipal Court, was president of the Milledgeville Banking Company and was also chairman of the Baldwin County Hospital Board of Trustees.

Bell married Margarette Napier Bell in 1932, who died on November 26, 1974. The couple had two children and four grandchildren. After his first wife's death, Bell married Virginia Cooper Bell, who died on February 26, 1983. Bell died on October 30, 1986 and is buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville.

For more info, click here and for more picture and documents, please visit Special Collections!

August 16th, 1956

August Collection of the Month

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Euri Belle Bolton: August's Collection of the Month

Euri Belle Bolton was born on February 22, 1895. She grew up as the daughter of a farmer and a housewife in a small Georgia community of approximately 50 families and went on to attend Georgia Normal & Industrial College, or GN&IC.

While working on her degree, Bolton became secretary of the YWCA, taught Sunday school, and played intramural sports. She gained admittance into George Peabody College for Teachers in July 1919 where she went on to receive a doctoral degree. She became President of the Graduate Club, President of the World Affairs Club, and continued to stay active in the YWCA.

Bolton's career was very diverse, and in 1928 she began her 31-year tenure as a Professor of Psychology at GCSW. She was published in the Corinthian, A Deveoplment of a Department of Psychology at Georgia College, and in The Peabody Journal of Education.

In March 2000 Congressman Sanford Bishop issed a proclamation commemorating Bolton's 105th birthday.

Mrs. Olive Powell of Parrot, GA donated the papers of Euri Belle Bolton to Georgia College, where they are housed in our archives. Fore more information, click here.

The Corinthian, Vol. 9 No. 3 (Bolton's poem 'Candie' was published in The Corinthian)

The New Intern!

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Hey guys. My name is Matt. This is my final year as an undergrad here at GCSU. I have been here my entire collegiate career. I am a History major with concentration in public history. I'm also pursuing an art history minor. I have been a CA in University Housing for four years. After college, I would like to go to grad school to get a masters in teaching so I can teach American history and coach either baseball or football in a high school.

I'm also working senior thesis is this semester as well. While my topic isn't exactly ironed out yet, I hope to write about a historical figure who may not be as well-known as they deserve to be in order to bring more light to their impact on history. I was very lucky to get this position in Special Collections, and I am looking forward to working here because my public history concentration has peaked my interest in the field of archives and exhibits. I hope to gain an understanding of document conservation, the exhibition process outside of just viewing it, online databases, and the programs used in the exhibits. I know this will be a perfect opportunity to do so.

New Exhibit: 'VOTE'

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:31:00 +0000

With the presidential election right around the corner, Special Collections decided it was only fitting to prepare a new exhibit highlighting some of the political and election-related artifacts we have here in the archives.

The new exhibit, entitled "VOTE," features items from our Carl Vinson and Paul D. Coverdell collections, as well as other photographs and relevant artifacts.

Come get a firsthand look at how elections have shaped our nation. "VOTE" is on display outside of Special Collections on the second floor of the Library and Instructional Technology Center.

Carl Vinson, 1961

“Individual Voices Tell the Story of the Community”

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:10:00 +0000

“Individual Voices Tell the Story of the Community”
Stories of war and memories of triumph and overcoming hardship are but a few of the experiences of the citizens of Milledgeville and Baldwin County. These individual accounts will be forgotten if not recorded for the future generations. Busy schedules and distractions often ensure that these memories are not recorded or the stories left untold. Oral history interviews are conducted to document these accounts and people’s lives. Taken together, these interviews tell the greater story of an area or of a region. Oral histories are not often recorded due to lack of time or equipment and a recent grant has been funded to provide both of these necessities to the citizens of Georgia College & State University and the Milledgeville/Baldwin County community.
Special Collections Receives Grant
Early in the summer of 2012, the Knight Fund for Milledgeville/Baldwin County awarded a grant to support Georgia College Special Collections’ oral history project. The Milledgeville/Baldwin County Oral History Project‘s goal is to document the history of the area with a focus on veterans, women, and African-American history. “We are thrilled to begin an initiative that has the opportunity to impact the community in such a large and positive way,” said Katherine Pope, Special Collections staff member and project coordinator.
“The interviews recorded in this project will be transcribed and available in hard-copy form and online for the easiest researcher access possible,” she said. “The goal of this effort is to not only record these histories but to make sure that citizens know about them and are able to use them effectively.”
Opportunities to Get Involved
The Project will begin with a fall kick-off reception with guest speakers and an opportunity for interviews at Digital Bridges (a community focused project of Georgia College with funding from the Knight Foundation, located at 127 West Hancock Street, Milledgeville, GA) on Friday, September 7th during Milledgeville Mainstreet’s First Friday festivities. Interviews will begin at 5:00pm followed by a reception and presentation with guest speakers (Dr. Mark Huddle, Georgia College Associate Professor of History and Dr. Robert J. Wilson III, Georgia College Professor of History).
Citizens who are interested in sharing their stories or in conducting and recording interviews are asked to contact the department. This project provides the perfect opportunity for individuals, groups, and school classes to actively participate in documenting the history of the area. To participate, please contact Special Collections (478) 445-0988 or scinfo@gcsu.edu.

For more information about the event or the project, please visit http://libguides.gcsu.edu/oralhistoryproject.

Milledgeville-Baldwin County Oral History Project website-now live!

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:47:00 +0000

http://libguides.gcsu.edu/content.php?pid=344134&sid=2814286

Georgia College Special Collections Awarded Grant

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:23:00 +0000

Georgia College Special Collections Awarded Grant

Milledgeville, Georgia, July 2, 2012-The Knight Fund for Milledgeville of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia has awarded a grant to Special Collections in support of the Milledgeville/Baldwin County Oral History Project.

The goal of the Project is to document the contemporary history of the area with a focus on veterans, women, and African-American history. The Project will begin with a fall kick-off reception with guest speakers and an opportunity for interviews. All participants will receive a transcribed version of their interviews and all recordings will be posted online for easy researcher access.

Digital Bridges, a community focused project of Georgia College with funding from the Knight Foundation, will partner with Special Collections to record oral histories and to act as a collection point. Interested community members, K-12 and college-level teachers, churches and religious organizations and civic groups simply need to contact Kate Pope (kate.pope@gcsu.edu or 478-445-0098) for more information or to make an oral history appointment.

ABOUT GC SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Special Collections is responsible for the administration of the Flannery O’Connor Collection, Paul D. Coverdell collection, local and regional historical collections, Georgia College Archives, Rare Books, and the Flannery O’Connor Room.

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For additional information, please contact Kate Pope at (478) 445-0074 or kate.pope@gcsu.edu.

Special Collections and the Rotary Club of Milledgeville

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:39:00 +0000

Rotary Club Signs Repository Agreement with Special Collections

The Rotary Club of Milledgeville recently signed a repository agreement with Special Collections of Georgia College. This agreement will ensure the preservation and access of Rotary Club historical and contemporary materials. “Special Collections is excited to take care of the materials of such an illustrious organization and we look forward to working with them to document the group’s history,” states Kate Pope, Archival Associate of Special Collections.

The Rotary Club is donating the materials that they currently possess and they would also like to ask community members and past Rotarians for their assistance in accumulating any materials relevant to the history of the club. Please contact Rotarian Christa Kahea (478-445-0995) or Kate Pope (478) 445-0988 to donate items or for more information.

Neither Rain, nor Snow, nor Flood

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:39:00 +0000


Water outside of Parks Hall Basement Vault

You might think archival work is all white gloves, old records, and lots of boxes, but some days it turns into an adventure. On a recent pickup for our University Archives, we encountered a small flood in the basement of Parks Hall. Needless to say, we soldiered on with the help of Georgia College's excellent moving crew to extract the over forty items related to Georgia College's history include an original student register from 1941-1942. On this day it seemed that Special Collections needed to swap white gloves for galoshes.

A message from The SC Intern

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:35:00 +0000

As part of his internship experience, new intern Pete Roberts will be working on a research project about Victorian Age women. When finished, the project will go into an exhibit for display at the Georgia’s Old Capital Museum in Milledgeville, GA. Items from GCSU’s Julia A. Flisch collection will be featured in the exhibit, supporting and lending perspective to Roberts’ work.
A native of Augusta, Georgia, Flisch lived from 1861 to 1941. Her obituary praised her as “having done more than any other person to advance the cause of women’s education in Georgia.” Flisch spend her adult career tirelessly working against gender prejudice to improve women’s status through better education after being denied admission to the all-male University of Georgia.
In 1877, Flisch graduated with honors from the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens. Flisch represented the women of the state at the laying of the cornerstone for the Georgia Normal and Industrial College (GNIC) in 1890, Georgia’s first state-supported women’s college. She also served on the GNIC faculty. In 1899, she received the first ever honorary degree given to a woman from the University of Georgia. Flisch served as Dean of Women and professor of history in Augusta’s first junior college. Flisch was also a prolific writer; she wrote many articles and comments for newspapers throughout the state and even authored a few novels.
GCSU’s Julia A. Flisch collection contains many of her manuscripts: personal and professional correspondences, articles, published and unpublished works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; reviews, and photographs which will provide useful to this project. In an age of ordinary women, Flisch accomplished extraordinary things. Flisch was not just a woman, but also a student, scholar, professor, dean, columnist, and author. Who better than local women’s rights heavyweight Julia A. Flisch to represent Victorian women?

New Donation-President Chappell's Family Bible

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:49:00 +0000

Special Collections would like to thank Mr. Charles and Mrs. Sally Schaefer from North Carolina for their donation of President J. Harris Chappell's family Bible.

INSIDE Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away -Dr. Susan Srigley

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:45:00 +0000

INSIDE Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01519

Introduction
Susan Srigley

Dark Night, Dark Faith: Hazel Motes, the Misfit, and Francis Marion Tarwater
Richard Giannone

The Lost Childhood of George Rayber
John F. Desmond

“NOT HIS SON”: Violent Kinship and the Spirit of Adoption in The Violent Bear It Away
Gary M. Ciuba

Abstraction and Intimacy in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away
Jason Peters

Transfiguring Affliction: Simone Weil and Flannery O’Connor
Ruthann Knechel Johansen

Only Love Overcomes Violence: The Violent Bear It Away as Case Studies in Theological Ethics
Scott Huelin

“Jesus Is the Bread of Life”: Johannine Sign and Deed in The Violent Bear It Away
P. Travis Kroeker

Suffering Violence in the Kingdom of Heaven: The Violent Bear It Away
Karl E. Martin

Asceticism and Abundance: The Communion of Saints in The Violent Bear It Away
Susan Srigley

From the Introduction…

The idea for this book began to take shape in my mind at the Flannery O’Connor in an Age of Terrorism conference held at Grand Valley State University in October 2006. As a few of us chatted between sessions, a colleague mentioned that his “desert island” book of choice would be New Essays on Wise Blood, edited by Michael Kreyling (Cambridge University Press, 1995). This comment not only spoke to the enduring quality of the collection but also demonstrated how a focused series of essays on one of O’Connor’s novels could continue to yield deeper insights and new perspectives into her fiction. I immediately thought to myself, “Why is there no comparable collection on O’Connor’s second novel, The Violent Bear It Away?”

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My hope is that readers will be opened to a new appreciation for O’Connor’s religious vision in The Violent Bear It Away: the centrality of love, the struggle with faith, the darkness of uncertainty and its attending violence. Dark Faith allows for some critical voices to unravel common assumptions about religion and violence without sacrificing the artistic integrity of O’Connor’s novel. Each essay invites the attentive reader into the darker turns of faith, but with a wider perspective: the darkness is only a part of the world in which we live, one that Martin Buber describes as “filled with burning contradictions, and with yearning for salvation.” The myriad approaches to the novel gathered here attest to the fullness of O’Connor’s legacy as an artist who grappled with the “burning contradictions” in the divine-human experience.

Grant Awarded

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:46:00 +0000

The Community Foundation of Central Georgia (The Knight Fund for Milledgeville)has generously awarded grant monies to Special Collections of Georgia College & State University for the Milledgeville/Baldwin County Oral History Project. Check back for more information!

Introducing our new intern-Pete Roberts!

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:40:00 +0000

My name is Pete Roberts, and I am 28 years old. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and have since lived in Augusta, Georgia; Minot, North Dakota, and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. I have been a native of Milledgeville, Georgia since 1990. I am currently a senior at Georgia College & State University majoring in history with a concentration in public history. I chose history as a major because it is a bit of a hobby for me. I find history fascinating, enjoyable, and enlightening. It is the most important subject in my opinion. I also chose to major in history because it comes easily and naturally to me. I also enjoy aviation. Although I do not have a pilot’s license and cannot fly anything, I just love anything that flies, military fighter jets in particular. I can identify just about any jet just by looking at it, American, Russian, or French. My other hobbies include golfing, basketball, swimming, hiking, camping, and especially, building model airplanes. I am interning at GCSU Special Collections for the summer. So far, I have not yet decided what to do with my degree in history, but I am leaning toward archival history. I think it would be very interesting, not to mention fun, to work in a museum or archives.

Presidential Highlight of the Month- Dr. Parks

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Dr. Marvin McTyeire Parks (1905-1926) graduated from Emory University in 1892 and received an honorary LL.D from the University of Georgia in 1915. Parks began his career at Georgia Normal & Industrial College in 1903 as a professor of pedagogy and in 1905 took the place of President J. Harris Chappell, who had stepped down due to illness. During the first decade of his presidency, the college received authority to grant four-year degrees and established its clear independence from the University of Georgia. In 1922 Georgia Normal & Industrial College changed its name to Georgia State College for Women. Just as GSCW began to flourish, President Parks' life came to a tragic end. While visiting Tampa, Florida in 1926, Parks was struck by a car as he tried to cross the street. His sudden death shocked the college to it score. President Parks was interred in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville and is remembered by two buildings that remain on campus: Parks Hall and Parks Memorial Hall, which was built with alumnae donations.

New interview with Dr. Henry Raymaker

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:44:00 +0000

We have just completed an oral history interview with Dr. Henry Raymaker. In the interview, Dr. Raymaker discusses his time serving in World War II and his work as a psychologist at Central State Hospital. At 85 years of age, Dr. Raymaker has returned to school and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in history at Georgia College. Dr. Raymaker has the following advice for GC students:

"Try to have a diversified [college] experience by having friends...become more socialized and more communicative with people and do not just stick around with computers...be respectful of people, and study and recite learning points to reinforce memory with repetition, think in turns of generalization and do some creative thinking."

Thank you Dr. Raymaker!

O'Connor in Newsreel

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:13:00 +0000

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/do-you-reverse-1

Historypin | Historic Georgia College Tour

noreply@blogger.com (GCSU Special Collections) — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Historypin | Historic Georgia College Tour