The lush, expansive campus, comprising more than 26,000 acres, draws tourists and students alike to Berry College. Since the late 1980s Berry College has been regularly ranked by several publications as one of the Southeast's top five regional liberal arts institutions. 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.

Bert Lance served in high positions in the Georgia Democratic Party and in state government in the 1970s before U.S. president Jimmy Carter appointed him director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1977. Born on June 3, 1931, in Gainesville, Thomas Bertram Lance moved as a young boy to Young Harris, in Towns County, where his father, Thomas Jackson Lance, served as president of Young Harris College. In 1941 the family moved to Calhoun in Gordon County when Lance’s father became superintendent of the Calhoun schools.

Betty Barnes Loehle  was born on March 21, 1923, in Montgomery, Alabama, to Harry and Elizabeth Barnes. She attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, for two years then attended the Harris School of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. There she met Richard Loehle, another artist in Georgia’s State Art Collection. They were married for sixty-four years, until his death in 2011. The couple moved to Decatur in 1967. They lived there the rest of their lives.

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation was established by Arthur Blank, cofounder of the Home Depot, in 1995. Standing, from left: Arthur Blank, Stephanie Blank, Penelope McPhee (foundation president), Kenny Blank, Nancy Blank, and Michael Blank. Seated, from left: Danielle Blank and Dena Blank. Courtesy of Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation 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.

U.S. president William Howard Taft (far right) presides at the April 1914 dedication of the Butt Memorial Bridge over the Augusta Canal between Walton Way and Green Street in downtown Augusta. The bridge was named in honor of Archibald Butt, military aide to Taft, who died during the sinking of the Titanic. 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.