If you were a journalist looking for a peg to hang a column on, you could call the UGA faculty who began arriving here in 1967 our “Greatest Generation.” That was the watershed year, when the Georgia governor and legislature finally faced up to the economic reality that a better University of Georgia would cost money—a lot of money. The appropriated funds started a flood of new, young faculty coming here to teach and propelled UGA out of the backwaters of sleepy, Southern academia. Most newcomers were not from around here, and by their very presence they shook up faculty and students in issues of racial and sexual discrimination and attitudes toward the Vietnam War. They also threw new energy … Continue reading ‘The Greatest Generation’ Begins to Refigure Health Insurance