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Source:             Sesquicentennial Supplement III, Ledger-Enquirer
Name:               George Gunby Jordan
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       4 Men Were Keys to Construction:
                 Jones, Williams, Jordan and Wright.
 ( This is a very large article, so I will post each builder seperate.Three of 
the builders has pictures, there is no picture for Seaborn Jones. CGT) 

                          By william Rowe 
                        Ledger Staff Writer


  George Gunby Jordan golfs less today at 62 than formerly, but he is noted for 
bringing Columbus into the national golfing picture.
  He built Green Island Country Club in 1962 with The Jordan Co. and in 1970 
established the Green Island Open golf tournament. When Southern Airways became 
co-sponsor in 1971, the autumn event became the Southern Open and during the 
first week of September it will bring the nation's top golfers to Columbus 
vying for $175,000 in prize money and competing for the enjoyment of area fans.
  G. Gunby Jordan, chairman of the board of The Jordan Co., was born in 
Columbus on Nov. 2, 1915, son of the late R. Curtis Jordan and Louise M. 
Jordan. He has sometimes been identified as Gunby Jordan II to distinguish him 
from his grandfather G. Gunby Jordan (1846-1930), a pioneer in education who 
helped establish in 1906 the Industrial High School in Columbus, now named 
Jordan Vocational high, as the nation's first industrial high school built by a 
city. It was for the earlier Jordan that Columbus College's business-education 
military-science building was named.
  Gunby Jordan attended Columbus High School 1927-29, Kent School in 
Connecticut, 1929-33, and Yale University, where he received his A.B. degree in 
economics in 1937. He married the former Helen Swift of Columbus on June 18, 
1938, and they are the parents of Randy Jordan, Helen J. Prince, Lenora J. 
Garrard and Katherine J. Waldrop. 
  Jordan has devoted himself to community service in addition to his business 
career and hobbies of golf, bird dogs, quail hunting, reading, travel, and 
flying his own airplane since 1945.
  Business includes his service as director of I.T.T. Grinnell, Southern 
Airways, Gas Light Company of Columbus, Utica Mutual Insurance Co., and 
Columbus Bank & Trust Co.
  He is a trustee of St. Francis Hospital, a trustee and assistant treasurer at 
Brookstone School; Columbus College Foundation trustee and former chairman.
  Jordan ,has served as chairman of Red Cross and Christmas Seal fund drives, 
as president of United Way, Green Island Country Club, Big Eddy Club, Country 
Club of Columbus, and as national president of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
  Memberships include Piedmont Driving Club, Atlanta; Bay Point, Panama City. 
f1a.; and Lost Tree Club, North Palm Beach, Fla.
  He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus.
  City fathers called on Jordan in 1969 to serve on a charter commission to 
study and draft a charter for the consolidation of city and county governments.
  He was the honored choice to serve as King of the 1971 Mardi Gras Ball in 
Columbus.
  Jordan has occasionally taken up the pen to write with authority on questions 
asked about consolidation while it was being studied, on the bidding procedure 
in the construction industry, and an explanation of the Chamber of Commerce's 
opposition to the "Housing Act of 1949" on the basis that it tended to promote 
a welfare state.
  Among his continuing interests is helping to attract a growing number of 
business and industry leaders to visit Columbus in conjunction with the 
Southern Open classic. Bringing in another board of directors, meeting rewards 
him with elation similar to a hole in one.


Special Sesquicentennial Supplement III
Ledger- Enquirer, Sunday, April 30, 1978, pg S-28. 


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