Valdosta State University became the second regional university in the University System of Georgia in 1993. To accommodate the rapid expansion of the university's programs, a building boom began in the 1990s, with careful attention given to maintaining the Spanish Mission style established in existing campus buildings. Courtesy of Valdosta 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.

Poet, teacher, and founder of the Atlanta Poets Workshop, Walter Griffin spent his career identifying with and celebrating what he called “the Blue Glass Charlies”: the transients, the losers, and the outsiders down on their luck whose lives go unnoticed in the boarding houses, cheap hotels, and bus stations of middle America. He was born Jasper Walter Griffin on August 1, 1937, in Wilmington, Delaware, the only child of Nina Blalock and William Samuel Griffin.

Window and Weeds by Keith Maltbey is part of Georgia's State Art Collection. According to Maltbey, "The photograph Window and Weeds is a continuation of a series I began in 1980 called Openings. I've always been intrigued by the endless variety of doors and windows that exist in our world, and the meanings and purposes that they have to us." Photograph, 22 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches 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.

World Carpets, which merged with Mohawk Industries in 1998, is one of the largest tufted carpet companies in the nation. Its founder, Shaheen Shaheen, introduced numerous innovations to the carpet industry in the latter half of the twentieth century. The son of Azeez Shaheen and Saleemeh Balluteen, both Palestinian immigrants, Shaheen Azeez Shaheen was born on January 23, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended public schools in Chicago and graduated with a B.

A C-141A Starlifter flies over the Rocky Mountains in 1972. The first C-141A, a troop transport and cargo carrier for the U.S. Air Force, was completed in 1963. The aircraft was designed and built by Lockheed-Georgia in Marietta. Courtesy of Robins Air Force Base 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.