The shared ownership of Hurt Park by Georgia State University and Atlanta is indicative of the university's reciprocal relationship with the city. The park can be reserved for activities by university-affiliated as well as nonaffiliated groups. Alumni Hall houses various GSU administrative offices as well as a fine arts theater. Courtesy of Georgia State University The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Cast members of the television series In the Heat of the Night pose during the filming of an episode in downtown Covington, circa 1994. From left, Denise Nicholas (Harriet DeLong), Carroll O'Connor (Sheriff Bill Gillespie), and Carl Weathers (Chief Hampton Forbes). The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Isa-Beall Williams Neel was an outstanding educator and a gifted speaker and leader. She was president of the Georgia Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union from 1911 to 1932 and then taught language at Bessie Tift College in Forsyth from 1932 to 1941. She was the first woman to receive the honorary LL.D. degree from Mercer University in Macon (1931) and the first woman to be elected vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention (1931).

Founded in 1940, the Atlanta-based J. Bulow Campbell Foundation is the second-largest foundation in Georgia. It ranks seventh among the top 50 U.S. foundations awarding grants in the state and ranks at number 74 among the top 100 national independent foundations, based on total assets in 2003. Background John Bulow Campbell was born in Atlanta on December 15, 1870. As a young child he applied himself, working in an Atlanta jewelry store in the early hours before school.

The J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta offers nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs that emphasize international business and entrepreneurship. The college’s part-time MBA (master of business administration) program is the sixth-largest among accredited U.S. schools. GSU’s earliest roots are in business education. Started in 1913 as the Evening School of Commerce of Georgia Institute of Technology, the school became an independent unit of the University System of Georgia two decades later and was renamed Georgia Junior College.