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Griffin Medical College
Sheriff’s sale ended
historic school here
(Editor’s note: This is the
first in a series of 10 on historic
Griffin homes which the Griffin-
Spalding Historical and
Preservation Society plans to
include in its restoration work.
It covers the old Middle Georgia
Medical College, 223-233 East
Broadway. The Society has
purchased the property. It has
been nominated by the Georgia
Historical Commission for
listing in the National Register
of Historic Places and Sites. Dr.
Elizabeth A. Lyon of Emory
University who is a consultant
for the Griffin Historical unit,
prepared the information on the
old home. John Goddard of the
local society is a member of the
Georgia Historical Commission
and is working on the restora
tion projects. Articles on the
other nine historical places will
be presented each weekend
until the series is completed.)
The Griffin Medical College
property includes two struc
tures located on East Broadway
Street in one of the oldest
sections facing the railroad
tracks which run through the
center of the city. The major
structure in this group is the
Middle Georgia Medical College
Building, a two-story structure
of brick faced with stucco. The
central body of the structure,
Santa coming
aboard chopper
Santa Clause will arrive
aboard a Marine Helicopter at
the Griffin-Spalding Airport at
10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7.
He’ll come here to help boost
the Atlanta Marine Toys for
Tots program.
City and county officials will
be at the airport to greet Santa
and Marine officers.
The group will go to the old
Maryland Fried Chicken
building on West Taylor street
for an opening ceremony. The
property owners have made it
available to the Marines for the
next three months. It will be
used as a collecting point for
toys Griffinites wish to con
tribute.
The Toys for Tots program is
conducted annually by the
Marines to take care of children
who might not get anything for
Christmas.
The Marines plan to keep the
West Taylor building open daily
so Griffinites may take toys
there through the season.
What Americans think
President still seems cold, aloof
By Stanley C. Plog, Ph.D.
President, Behavior Science
Corp. (BAS1CO). Los Angeles
Q 1972 by Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
President Nixon is still
having image problems.
Despite his earnest efforts
to dispel the public notion
that he is a cold, distant per-
so n, most
Americans
continue to
see him that
way.
Recently
completed
BASICO re
search indi
cates that
even Mr. Nix
on’s admirers
most often
Dr. Plog
describe him in such compli
mentary but aloof terms as
“experienced,” “ambitious”
and “calm.”
Mr. Nixon is seen by most
voters as a good administra-
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GRIFFIN
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which is the oldest and dates
from the early 1850’s, was built
on a two-room, side hall plan.
Two rooms on each floor and in
the daylight basement are
served by fireplaces in a central
chimney. The basement, now
used only for storage, once
served as dining room and
kitchen and has a dirt floor. A
western wing, added later, has
a central hall plan with end
chimneys, one of which is at
tached to the west wall of the
original portion. To the rear
along Fifth Street are two later
additions. The first, which was
the dining hall of the Medical
School, probably dates from
1860.
A colossal, Tuscan, square
columned portico extends along
both the East Broadway and
Fifth Street facades, and before
the addition of the Victorian
wing, was continued along the
western facade. The remnants
of a stairway and the piers can
still be seen inside a storage
room on the western side of the
building. The massive brick and
stucco piers support a plain
architrave with a dentil cornice
which is returned around the
rear of the central portion.
Balustrades and porches
connect the piers at both
stories. Rectangular fanlights
and side lights enclosed in
Sgt. Maj. John Elkins of
Griffin who is in the Marine
reserves is coordinating the
Griffin program. He lives near
the Mathis lake area and works
for the Comptroller General’s
office at the State capital in
Atlanta.
Sgt. Elkins said that the
Marines hope to get enough toys
to help see that some 300
children in this community
have a Merry Christmas.
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Weather
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88, low yesterday 70; rainfall
1.14 inches; sunrise tomorrow
7:34, sunset tomorrow 7:18;
high tomorrow 70, low tonight
near 50.
tor of presidential functions
and as having matured con
siderably while in the White
House. He handles the duties
of a president with energy,
efficiency, and great skill.
However, he has difficulty in
projecting himself as a warm
and responsive person, even
to his supporters, and he con
tinues to generate deep
seated distrust and hostility
from those who are against
him.
These and other con
clusions grow out of research
which is based on a combi
nation of clinical psychologi
cal techniques and personal
interviews with nearly 450
persons throughout the
United States. The analysis
of results includes statistical
summaries of the data and
an intensive psychological
analysis of "projective” ma
terial by BASICO psycho
logists.
Voters participating in the
study were handed a list of
Daily Since 1872
pilasters frame the doorways in
each street facade. Sash win
dows in a six-over-six pattern
suggest the relatively late date
of this generally Greek Revival
part of the building.
The Victorian wing, which
faces East Broadway, carries
out the original theme through
two-story porches that are
functionally connected to (he
original section. The pattern of
vertical supports also reflects
the original style, but the details
are mid-19th century brackets
on slender posts. Central door
ways at each level are framed
by rectangular side and fan
lights and brick pilaster strips.
Their treatment also echoes the
details of the original section.
The dining hall wing, whose
foundation and floor level is
lower than the original portion
of the building, is entered
through a doorway framed by
rectangular fan and side lights.
Its form thus echoes the older
doorways but the simple flat
moldings and low profile
triangular lintel reflect its later
date.
Interior details of the central
portion of the building include
high mantels with sharply
projecting shelves over wide
flat architrave members on low
pilaster-like forms. They are
thus simplified adaptations of
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following play Griffin's Tony Head romped 98 yards for a
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40 carefully selected words
which describe personality
characteristics. The list con
tains positive and negative
words, and the research par
ticipants could choose as few
or as many words as they
like to describe President
Nixon.
The words chosen by more
than 60 per cent of those who
say they will vote for Mr.
Nixon are:
Experienced 89%
Ambitious 77
Calm 70
Dedicated 66
Level-headed 61
Responsible 61
Decisive 61
And, those positive words
which are selected with con
siderably less frequency by
Mr. Nixon’s supporters in
clude:
Warm 28%
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, September 30, 1972
Greek Revival forms, if not
classically proportioned
compositions. Mantels in the
western wing are the smaller
scale less geometric forms of
the later period.
Adjacent to the Medical
College Building is a smaller
one-story hipped-roof structure
whose details suggest the possi
bility that it was built first. This
house was built on a four-room
central hall plan of the dog-trot
pattern. Panelled double doors
framed by rectangular fan and
side lights close off either end of
the wide hall. A later wing has
been added on the eastern side
in the rear. The house is entered
through a porch which runs
across the front in a manner
typical of such houses of the
period in Georgia, and is
elaborated by flat cut-work
balustrades and brackets. Nine
over-nine light windows are
framed like the doors by mold
ings with square-block.
The Griffin Medical College
Building is the only one of four
pre-Civil War college buildings
still standing in Griffin. This
school, incorporated as the
Middle Georgia Medical College
in 1859, was granting degrees in
the pre-War period along with
the Griffin Synodical Female
College, the Griffin Female
College and Marshall College
Open minded 38
Ethical 40
Combining the two lists,
we get the picture of a presi
dent who is viewed as experi
enced and efficient in the
performance of his duties, a
person who is able to remain
calm and level-headed in the
face of his awesome re
sponsibilities and one who
brings a tremendous amount
of energy, ambition and dedi
cation to his job.
In contrast, he is not
seen as being a particularly
warm or open-minded indi
vidual, even by his support
ers, and it is surprising that
he does not receive a majori
ty of choices for “ethical.”
Thus, the Nixon image,
among his supporters, is that
of a good administrator and
manager of government who
has gained tremendous ex
pertise since becoming presi
dent but also a person who
has trouble getting close to
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for Boys and Young Men. These
last three were established in
the early 1850’s. Os these only
the Marshall College and the
Griffin Female College were
revived briefly after the War.
The buildings which housed
three of these schools have
either burned or been torn down
in the intervening years,
leaving the Medical Building as
the only extant example. After
the people.
This view is supported by
an analysis of the in-depth
group discussion material
and a projective question
given to respondents, which
read:
“If I were talking to an un
decided voter, the things I
would most like to tell them
about President Nixon is ...”
The analysis shows that the
people mainly describe Mr.
Nixon’s abilities to handle
the duties of president, and
very little about his personal
qualities.
Examples of these answers
include:
• “He is a very profes
sional politician with a large
backlog of experience in
domestic and world affairs.”
• “He has the back
ground for the office. He’s
level-headed.”
• “He is a very effective
person who takes action and
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This is how the Old Medical School looks today.
incorporation as Middle
Georgia Medical College, the
school was housed in a structure
built originally as a simplified
Greek Revival house that was
enlarged c. 1860 to meet the
needs of the school. The ad
jacent house on East Broadway
Street was the residence of the
school’s founder, Dr. E. F.
Knott and was also joined to the
school building property for a
backs up his actions. He is
very respected by world
leaders.”
On the other side of the
picture are the comments by f
those voters who are against
Mr. Nixon. The words that
are chosen more than half
the time by his opponents
are:
Deceitful 75%
Untruthful 61
Dishonest 61
Experienced 54
Opportunist 54
The most frequently used
words relate to questions
about President Nixon’s bas
ic honesty and integrity.
Whether these concerns re
late to previous campaign
charges against Mr. Nixon or
to the credibility problem
that all recent presidents
seem to be facing can only
be speculated.
But in any case, these
voters will be very difficult
period in the late 19th century
under the ownership of Lucius
Goddard. The Griffin Historical
and Preservation Society is
planning to combine the
properties once more as a head
quarters for the society.
Together the structures provide
examples of the architecture of
Griffin’s earliest period of
development.
The Middle Georgia Medical
Plog
report
to, win over to the Nixon
camp because of the intensi
ty of the negative views they
hold about the President,
they also hold views similar
to the Nixon supporters in
believing he is not a warm
person but that he does have
a great deal of ambition and
has gained a considerable
degree of experience while in
the White House.
Again, these comments are
also backed up by an anal
ysis of other psychological
data from the anti-Nixon
voters in the study. Answers
to the “projective” item
about what they “would
most like to tell an undecided
voter about Richard Nixon”
reveal a deep distrust of him
and a feeling that his am
bition leads him to do many
things for personal gain.
For example:
• “He’s a deceiving per
son and very much out for
personal gain.”
College was incorporated by the
Georgia Legislature in 1859 with
power to grant degrees and
licenses to students of medicine
and surgery. Eight physicians
were listed as faculty and the
Board of Trustees included
prominent Griffin citizens,
among them attorney Leonard
T. Doyal. The college had been
founded as Dr. E. F. Knott’s
(Continued on Page 5.)
Wrong bank
NEW YORK (UPI)-Two
holdup men intent on robbing a
bank Friday chose the wrong
bank.
The branch of the Chemical
Bank, four blocks from the New
York headquarters of the FBI,
was filled with FBI agents
waiting to cash their paych
ecks.
Agents grabbed the two men,
identified as Roland Dowe, 22,
and Earl Underwood, 21, both
of Staten Island. They were
charged with bank robbery.
■'oing to set a good
'ter do it while
won’t be
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• “He’s too slick for
words. He almost always
takes a stand that is neither
for or against something.”
• “His policies are all
self-serving and he has a
‘blatant’ disregard for little
Americans.”
Every president faces
strong criticism from various
segments of the voting public
since he obviously cannot
satisfy all of the people all
of the time. The question for
Nixon watchers is whether
the number of people who
deeply Idistrust him de
creases or increases during
the remainder of the election
campaign.
And whether that number
decreases or increases dur
ing the next four years if
Mr. Nixon is re-elected in
November.