Vince Dooley worked first as an assistant coach and then as freshman coach at Alabama's Auburn University before accepting the position as head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs in December 1963.
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Warren A. Candler Hospital, pictured in the early 1960s, was founded as a seaman's hospital in Savannah in 1803 and was acquired by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1930. The Methodists named the facility in honor of Bishop Warren A. Candler.
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The main center of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center comprises the Neuroscience Building (left), the original building (center), and the Emory Vaccine Center (right). Emory University assumed ownership of the center in 1956.
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A sign points the way to Albany Junior College in 1967. Established in 1963 as a two-year school in Albany, the college was renamed Darton College in 1987, and Darton State College in 2012.
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The Andrews Raid of April 12, 1862, brought the first Union soldiers into north Georgia and led to an exciting locomotive chase, the only one of the Civil War (1861-65). The adventure lasted just seven hours, involved about two dozen men, and as a military operation, ended in failure.
In early spring 1862 Northern forces advanced on Huntsville, Alabama, heading for Chattanooga, Tennessee. Union general Ormsby Mitchel accepted the offer of a civilian spy, James J.