Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication - Namesake

Namesake

The college was named after one of its alumni, Henry Woodfin Grady. Shortly after graduating from the University of Georgia, with a bachelors degree in 1868, he left Athens and worked for several different newspapers. The combination of Henry W. Grady's alumni status, his editorial position and his Athens birth, motivated the renaming of the journalism school at the University of Georgia.