Volume 75
Number 4


The Lord of Misrule

Emory Medalists

Enigma: The Haunting of Uppergate House

The Emory Century

Wonderful Woodruffs
The Ubiquitous Woodruff
Living up to the Legacy
The Return of the
Bright Brigade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
1980–The University embarks on a plan to examine its academic strengths and needs in light of the landmark $105 million gift from Robert and George Woodruff.
 
  1980William Fox is appointed the first vice president and dean of campus life. Michael P. Lischke ’90C-’92PH writes, “His leadership and ability to spread his enthusiastic Emory spirit to the students–and now alumni–was clearly an investment that is paying huge dividends to the University.”
 
 
  1981–Two hundred of the College’s eight hundred fifty freshmen take part in a pilot project–the Emory College Seminar Program–designed to improve the quality of student advising. By 1988, the program is expanded to include all entering students.
 
 
  1981–The University consecrates the William R. Cannon Chapel, designed by architect Paul Rudolph and named for a longtime University trustee and bishop of the United Methodist Church.
 
  1981Volunteer Emory, a clearinghouse for student volunteers, is founded by Emory College sophomores Wendy Rosenberg and Debbie Genzer. In subsequent years, Volunteer Emory becomes a major force in student life.
 
 
  1982–The first twelve Robert W. Woodruff Scholars enroll in Emory College, heralding a new era in undergraduate education. An additional twenty-one Robert W. Woodruff Fellows enroll in the schools of business, dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, and theology, and three George W. Woodruff Fellows enter the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
 
 
 
  1982–Former President Jimmy Carter is named University Distinguished Professor, and the University announces plans to develop a public policy center in conjunction with Carter’s presidential library.
 
  1982–The first two Robert W. Woodruff Professors, William Arrowsmith and Richard Ellmann, are named.
 
  1983–The George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center opens.
  1984Steve Gittleson, an Emory College sophomore on the men’s tennis team, becomes the University’s first All-American athlete.
 
  1984–The first major undertaking of The Carter Center of Emory University brings to campus representatives of six Middle Eastern governments and the Palestinian community, as well as some thirty academics who specialize in the region. The conference is hosted by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford.
 
 
 
  1985–Michael C. Carlos Hall, a post-modern renovation of the beaux arts Old Law Building, opens. Named for the Atlanta businessman whose $1.5 million gift funded its renovation, Carlos Hall houses the Emory University Museum of Art and Archæology (later the Michael C. Carlos Museum).
 
 
  1985–The American Dental Association approves an Emory plan to phase out the School of Dentistry’s doctor of dental surgery degree by 1988.
 
  1985–Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford chair an international consultation on Soviet nuclear strategy and military capabilities.
 
  1985–Physicians perform the first five heart transplants at Emory University Hospital. The transplant center unites the heart transplant program with existing cornea, kidney, bone, and bone-marrow transplant programs. In 1987, physicians at Emory Hospital perform the first liver transplant in Georgia.
 
 
 
  1986–Emory joins seven academic peers (Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Washington University, New York University, and the University of Rochester) to create the University Athletic Association. (Brandeis University joins later.) Interim co-director of the Association of Emory Alumni Gerald B. Lowrey, who served as director of athletics in the 1980s, writes, “The UAA finally gave Emory a proper context in which to compete in varsity sports with peer institutions. . . . Since the UAA was formed . . . Emory teams have consistently ranked as some of the most successful competitively. I believe that Emory’s membership in this association has served to strengthen campus life and community.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1986–The University celebrates its sesquicentennial.
  1986–The R. Howard Dobbs University Center is dedicated.
  1986–Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are joined by President and Mrs. Reagan at the dedication of the Carter Presidential Center.
 
  1987–The George and Irene Woodruff Residential Center is dedicated.
  1987–The University libraries acquire their two-millionth volume, a rare sixteenth century atlas.
  1988–The University libraries inaugurate DOBIS, a computerized public-access catalog system.
  1988–South African Archbishop and Nobel Laureate Desmond M. Tutu delivers the Commencement address.
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