SAVANNAH — Container trucks rumbled in and out of Savannah’s port facilities behind Gov. Nathan Deal as he spoke under a canopy at the Herty Advanced Materials Development Center’s 75th anniversary celebration. This week’s ceremony also fell near the first anniversary of the center’s new identity as a part of Georgia Southern University.Chemist Dr. Charles H. Herty, also the namesake of a building and forest preserve on the Georgia Southern campus in Statesboro, founded the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory in 1932.
Herty Center marks 75 years
First anniversary as part of Georgia Southern