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  • Veteran Education Legislation.
    1946

    The Veteran’s Guidance Center

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    UGA formed the veteran’s division of the university and The Veterans Guidance Center (Dyer, 256-257).

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  • 1946.
    1946

    Student Veteran’s Organization

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    There were 6,643 UGA students, 65% were veterans. Some of these Student Veterans created the Student Veterans’ Organization (SVO) (Dyer, 255, 258).

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  • Veteran Education Legislation.
    1944

    University Veterans Association

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    UGA Student Veterans created the University Veterans Association (Dyer, 258).

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  • Sanford.
    1944

    Postwar University

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    In response to the legislation, UGA Chancellor Sanford advocated curricular adjustment and plans for a “postwar university” as well as a change in the university mission that encouraged a “much-expanded role in areas of research and public service” (Dyer, 251).

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  • A cover of a magazine with text on it saying "Shall I Go Back To School".
    1943

    The GI Bill

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    President Roosevelt outlined a program for “smoothing the assimilation of large numbers of veterans into postwar society,” which become the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 or simply the GI Bill (Dyer, 249).

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  • Veteran Education Legislation.
    1942

    World War II

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    UGA’s policy on students departing their studies for World War II was: “Any student who left for service would be permitted to resume his education after the war ‘as nearly as possible at the point where it was interrupted’” (Dyer, 243-244).

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  • World War 2 at UGA.
    1942-1945

    New Buildings on Campus

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    The U.S. Navy built several new buildings on campus (Dyer, 243) and operated a Pre-Flight School at the University of Georgia Campus. As one of only five such schools in the nation, the program trained approximately 20,000 cadets in the skills needed as combat pilots in the Pacific Theater. The Navy utilized most of the…

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  • UGA after World War 1.
    1929

    Memorial Hall

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    Memorial Hall was built to honor the 47 UGA graduates who died in World War I. An inscription within the building reads, “In loyal love we set apart this house, a memorial to those lovers of peace who took arms, left home and dear ones and gave life that all men might be free.”

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  • Senior Class History.
    1919

    Post-World War I

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    All but one member of the graduating class of 1919 served in the U.S. Navy or Army during WWI and had returned to their studies when peace was declared (UGA; Pandora Yearbook).

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  • Timeline building.
    1867

    Rock College

    ByWes Summers October 1, 2020April 10, 2024

    Nearly 100 veterans, or about 60% of UGA’s total enrollment during the Civil War, enrolled at University High School, later called the “Rock College” (Dyer, 112).

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