These are 59 college yearbooks for what is now Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. If your ancestor attended college during the years of 1930-1989 at either the South Georgia Teacher’s College (1930-1958) or Georgia Southern College (1959-1989) then the following yearbooks may have a photograph of them. This is part of a collection of free yearbooks being scanned and placed online by Clemson University. Yearbooks provide a window into student life. From sports teams to clubs, fashions to hairstyles, these volumes document the changing attitudes and culture of college students year by year.
Georgia Southern University infancy began as the First District Agricultural & Mechanical School (First District A&M) in 1908 – its inaugural academic year began with 15 students and 4 faculty members. Founded as a school for teaching modern agricultural production techniques and homemaking skills to rural school children its emphasis shifted within two decades on meeting the growing need for teachers within the state. 1924 brought a name and mission change to Georgia Normal School, where the school served as a training ground for educators. Five years later in 1929, full-fledged senior college status was granted and the school was renamed South Georgia Teachers College.
Ensuing decades found more name and mission changes: to Georgia Teachers College in 1939 and Georgia Southern College in 1959. The university continued program and physical expansion. The institution would experience probably its biggest change in identity in 1990 when it became known as Georgia Southern University.
The yearbooks provided within, reflect that change in names from a South Georgia Teachers College to Georgia Southern College. I believe they discontinued the yearbooks once they received University status.
- 1926 Georgia Normal School
- 1927 Georgia Normal School
- 1928 Georgia Normal School
- 1929
- 1930 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1931 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1932 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1933 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1934
- 1935 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1936 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1937 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1938 South Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1939 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1940 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1941 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1942 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1943 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1944 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1945 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1946 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1947 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1948 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1949 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1950 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1951 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1952 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1953 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1954 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1955 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1956 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1957 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1958 Georgia Teacher’s College Yearbook
- 1959 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1960 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1961 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1962 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1963 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1964 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1965 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1966 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1967 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1968 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1969 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1970 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1971 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1972 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1973 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1974 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1975 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1976 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1977 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1978 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1979 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1980 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1981 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1982 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1983 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1984 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1985 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1986 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1987 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1988 Georgia Southern College Yearbook
- 1989 Georgia Southern College Yearbook