The Alumni Association
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alumni Relations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-6-4-0
Scope and Contents
Housed in this collection are files concerning Alumni Relations. These include: Valdosta State Alumni Directories (1987,1993, 1998, 2002), Records of GSWC 50th Reunions Classes 1937-1952, and Videotapes of the 1987-1989 homecoming, videotapes of 1993 Celebrate VSU. See also UA 24 for Alumni Association
Dates:
Acquired: 2011-06-07; 1937 - 2009
Annie Powe Hopper Award
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-22-6
Scope and Contents
The Annie Powe Hopper Award, named in honor of Valdosta State's first Dean of Women, is presented annually to a senior who represents the high academic standards and exemplifies the traditions of Valdosta State University.
Miss Hopper arrived at South Georgia State Normal College (SGSNC) in 1920 and her first position was that of a teacher. In 1922, SGSNC became a four-year institution and the name was changed to Georgia State Womans College (GSWC). In the role of Dean, she insisted on...
Dates:
1964-present
Frank R. Reade Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-3
Scope and Contents
Reade's papers invite leisurely perusal to appreciate his humor and erudition. His papers are expansive, covering topics from his family and genealogy to administrative correspondence to correspondence with and photographs of the famous men and women of his day. The collection includes books, journals, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and realia. The correspondence ranges from a manuscript of a Civil War era diary by Frank Smith Robertson (1841-1926), Reade's...
Dates:
1841 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1948
Valdosta State College/University History
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-22-6-2
Abstract
This collection contains material from the 1950-1993 time period in Valdosta State University history. During this time Valdosta State University was known as Valdosta State College. Renamed VSC from Georgia State Womens College in 1950, the school embarked on a new era as a co-ed campus. During the 1950?s the University expanded with the acquisition of the former Emory University campus at Valdosta in 1953, this became what is now known as North Campus. Greek organizations began to appear...
Dates:
Acquired: 2010-06-09; 1906 - 2018