“The Geechee” is Armstrong’s college yearbook, published annually since the first graduating class in 1937.
During the war the campus became mostly female and in 1946 the annual recorded height and weight of each Sophomore, for the first and last time.
The post war period began with a surge of veterans back to campus, continued with tea dances and intramural sports that were popular in the 1950s. The 1966 Geechee shows the brand-new campus on Savannah’s southside.
The 1973 Geechee’s photo of The Black American Movement, a growing African American student organization, includes Otis Johnson. Dr Johnson was teaching at Armstrong in 1973, but he’d been the College's first black graduate ten years earlier. In 1963 there were no photos of Johnson in The Geechee.
The yearbooks of the 1980s and 1990s show a more diverse, growing campus; 1995 marks Armstrong 60th anniversary, and the last Geechee annual.
For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
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Geechee 1965
Armstrong State College
Photograph of Virginia Carr, author of The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers and faculty member 1965-1967. Armstrong faculty vote to change the name to Armstrong State College (p.18.) For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
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Geechee 1964
Armstrong College
Armstrong's status as a four year school goes into effect in 1964, this was approved by the Board of Regents in 1963, with the first baccalaureate degrees to be awarded in 1968. For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
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Geechee 1960
Armstrong College
25th anniversary edition of the yearbook. For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
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Geechee 1959
Armstrong College
In 1959 Armstrong College joined the University System of Georgia. Before this Armstrong was a city college, founded by the City of Savannah in the 1930s. For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
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Geechee 1948
Armstrong College
In 1948 Armstrong Junior College was renamed Armstrong College. For more about the history of Armstrong see From the Mansion to the University, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935 to 2010 by Janet D Stone.
