“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 1995
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1995 was the final year the Geechee yearbook was published. It is the 60th anniversary edition.
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Geechee 1993
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Please note photographs of comedian and actor Steve White on page 87.
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Geechee 1987
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Please see photographs on page 30-33 of rock band Cheap Trick, who played in the Fine Arts Auditorium in 1986.
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Geechee 1986
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Page 1A-48A features a retrospective of the first 50 years of Armstrong, 1935-1985.
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Geechee 1983
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Please note photographs of entertainer Bob Hope on page 50-51, whose Savannah performance was sponsored by Armstrong's College Union Board.
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Geechee 1980 1981
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The Geechee yearbook was not published for 1977-1980, though this volume covers portions of 1980.
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Geechee 1976
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Please note photograph of actor Burt Reynolds on page 82, who dedicated the new Fine Arts building.
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Geechee 1975
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Please note photograph of author Eugenia Price on page 41 and music group The Righteous Brothers on page 50-51
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Geechee 1974
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Please note photograph of folk singer-songwriter Harry Chapin on page 34.
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Geechee 1972
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Please note photographs of Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator David Gambrell, and funk rock group Mother's Finest on page 56-57.
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Geechee 1966
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In 1966 Armstrong relocated from the historic, downtown Savannah location to the current campus on the Southside of town. The photos in this year book are the first of the new campus. 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.
