Hopkins’
Provost Dr. Steven Knapp Selected as GW’s
16th President | W.
Russell Ramsey Named Chairman of Board of Trustees;
2007-08 Officers Elected | Board
Honors Trachtenberg with Endowed University Professorship
| GW Endowment Reaches
$1 Billion | Presidential
Views on Global Affairs | In
Partnership Project, GW Plans New Residence Hall
| GW’s 20-Year
Foggy Bottom Campus Plan Approved | GW
Targets $4.5 Million Toward Academic Excellence
| Standing Strong For
Virginia Tech | Historical
Bank Records Move to GW | Alumna
Marguerite Barratt Named Columbian College Dean
| Jazz Band Showcases
That Swing | A ‘Signature
of Loudoun’ | Colonials
in Congress | Nurturing
the Flock | VA Campus
Hosts High Schoolers | Re-spoutin’
the Fountain | George
Welcomes | GW
in History | A
Faculty for Writing
GW In History
25 Years Ago
George, the University’s well-liked presidential
mascot, was slated to get the revolutionary boot
when GW decided to replace it with the Colonial.
Although many students said they liked the George
Washington-replica, Acting Men’s Athletics
Director W.R. “Chip” Zimmer and other
officials said the “circus-type image”
had to go. Zimmer told the Hatchet that
the new mascot, dressed in a colonial outfit,
would preferably be “a young, active, athletic
Colonial…with no mask or anything like that.”
50 Years Ago
Playboy magazine Editor and Publisher
Hugh Hefner, by request of GW’s yearbook
staff, picked the school’s 1957 Cherry Tree
Queen, Miss Buena Miller. “Hef” leafed
through submitted candid shots and formal portraits
of 12 candidates before choosing Miller, a junior
history of art major with golden curls and a beaming
smile. “[M]ay this year’s Cherry Tree
Queen prove as popular with the students of George
Washington University as Playboy’s
Playmates are with college students throughout
the U.S.,” Hefner wrote to the yearbook’s
editor.
100 Years Ago
Gertrude M. Hubbard, whose late husband Gardiner
G. Hubbard was a University trustee, donated $1,000
for a GW scholarship. The accolade, known as the
Gardiner G. Hubbard Memorial Prize, has been awarded
for the past century on an annual basis to an
undergraduate senior who maintains the highest
four-year standing in American History.
GW Magazine gratefully acknowledges the assistance
of University Archives in the identification of
interesting historical information. For more about
GW’s history, check out the University Archives
Web site by accessing www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives.
The site’s Historical Almanac is especially
informative.
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