Auspicious, Audacious 175
Celebrating our history and the people who made it
Makers of History.
Photo by Ann Borden.
Marilyn Holmes, wife of the late Hamilton Holmes 67M 76MR, attended on behalf of her husband.
Photo by Kay Hinton.
Earl Dolive 40B is among the oldest living graduates of Goizueta Business School.
Photo by Ann Borden.
President Wagner and speakers on stage.
Photo by Kay Hinton.
Former Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker 70L (left) greets former US Senator Max Cleland 68G.
Photo by Tom Brodnax 65Ox 68C.
Laura Hardman 67C (left), who represented her late father, Boisfeuillet Jones 34C 37L, with Mary Lynn Morgan 43D.
Photo by Ann Borden.
Asa Candler V.
Photo by Bryan Meltz.More than one hundred of the honored 175 Emory makers of history, or their relatives, traveled to campus to join in the official celebration of Emory’s 175th anniversary on December 7.
The highlight was a special convocation open to the community, where the honorees present processed to the front of Glenn Memorial Auditorium wearing their special medallions.
“This morning is a rare occasion in American history, the celebration of an institution that has achieved the ripe old age of one hundred and seventy-five,” said President James Wagner. “Not many colleges or universities in the United States are older—fewer than a hundred, in fact.”
Wagner singled out the stories of several historic figures as examples, saying, “We celebrate these men and women because they have incarnated, have brought to manifest reality in their own flesh-and-blood lives, the qualities that we hope to impart, or to strengthen, by education in a liberal arts university.”
