At the 140th commencement exercises in 1943, The University of Georgia received a special gift when Judge Price Gilbert presented faculty and students with Gilbert Infirmary.
The new building provided much needed medical facilities and was given in honor of Judge Gilbert’s son and father and named for them.
Judge Gilbert was a retired member of the Georgia Supreme Court and a regent for the University system. A native of Columbus, GA, he was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his law degree from Yale University. He returned to his native state to practice Law and served on the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1937.
His son, Francis, ’27BS, studied Law at Yale after graduating from UGA and died when he was only 26 years old. His father, Dr. Jasper Newton Gilbert, practiced medicine in Stewart County, Georgia.
The building named for these two notable men served the University faculty and students until the opening of the University Health Center of East Campus in 1997. The original infirmary, Gilbert Hall, today provides offices and additional facilities for the Physical Plant operation at UGA.
Judge Price Gilbert died in 1951.
