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Building Character. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School owes its birth to Andrew Jackson Ritchie, a "mountain people" Georgian who worked his way through Harvard at the turn of the century, returned in 1903 to found the Rabun Gap trade school. When it burned down in 1926, Ritchie pooled his efforts with Georgia Presbyterians, whose own Nacoochee Institute had burned the same year. Wisconsin-born President Anderson, whose doctorate is from Columbia University's Teachers College, has run the place since 1956, with a goal of character building and the faith ("not just a platitude") that "prayer changes things...
...hoopla on the financial front, Post leads a sedate private life. He enjoys nothing more than spending a quiet evening with his wife and three children in their $1,500,000 Georgian mansion. In fact, he likes that quiet evening so much that he often leaves his spacious office at 3:30 p.m. to get a head start...
...large Georgian building in the southwest corner of the Yard has several offices with fireplaces on the first floor for use by the Master, Senior Tutor, and other members of the staff...
Besides the Houses (Shepley designed both the older, Georgian buildings and also Leverett Towers and Quincy), he drew the plans for the Medical School's Vanderbilt Hall and several freshman dormitories--Wigglesworth, Straus, Mower, and Lionel...
Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall...