Mary Helen McClanahan (left) and Ellen M. Henry earned BBA degrees in 1957.

Goizueta makes history

Goizueta’s history is now completely and officially on record, along with having an honored place among business schools recognized by the Newcomen Society of the United States.

The history was commissioned for Goizueta’s induction into the Newcomen Society, an educational foundation for the study and recognition of achievement in American business. Nearly 200 guests, including alumni, Advisory Board members, students, faculty, and friends attended the March 21 ceremony held at the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta.

The author of the school’s history book is Don McKee, a journalist and historian who searched Emory’s attic—the Woodruff Library—to piece together the story of Goizueta Business School. “If we don’t know about our history, we are like a person with impaired vision,” says McKee. “We are able to meet future challenges through learning about the past.”

Sifting through magazines and books that date back to the school’s opening in 1919, McKee uncovered how the school has played a pivotal role in developing leadership not only in Atlanta but in the nation as well.

“The progress of the school has reflected and kept pace with what was going on in the country at the time,” says McKee. “From training an all-male student body to serve the government in the 1920s to admitting the first female students in the 1930s, the business school has adapted to the country’s social climate.”

The Newcomen Society will distribute Goizueta’s history to its members and to libraries across the country. The history also will be posted on Goizueta’s website: www.goizueta.emory.edu.—Shelley Hughes