Letters to the Editor: Life before Waffle House? Try life before dorm cable

Editor:

I enjoyed your article regarding how Georgia College and Milledgeville changed over your time there. I can appreciate what you were talking about probably more than most of your readers since I was a graduate in the class of ’93. I enjoyed the article enough to forward it to other graduates from the class of ’82. They were able to recall even more changes than I was. I know you were trying to give your readers and classmates an appreciation of how good they have it now. That is very true. However, I thought it would be only fair for me to do the same for you.

My freshman year, circa 1989, the bypass was not open. There was a Piggly Wiggly where the new courthouse now stands. The Centennial Center had its grand opening that year. The Georgia College “Colonials” were members of the NAIA and the Peachbelt wasn’t even around. The location of the mass communications building (not sure what it is called) was an open area we called “The Quad.” The dorm to live in was Napier Hall. The dorm rooms did NOT have telephones, cable television or Internet hookups. The Opera House was the only place to go on Thursday nights. Mary Jean Land wasn’t a doctor yet and she had blonde hair. The “Mass Communications” department was called the Journalism department. The bands that came to homecoming during my years at GC were Expose, Vanilla Ice, Hootie and the Blowfish, and R Kelly.

Keep up the good work. I hope you realize alumni do keep up with what is going on at the ole’ alma mater.

David Williams
GC&SU Alumni

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Apr 29 2005. Filed under Letters to the Editor. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry