Dr. Nicholas Henry, the first president of Georgia Southern University under that name, gives many individuals credit, some more than others, when he talks about the drive that led to Georgia Southern College becoming a university on July 1, 1990. Henry, Georgia Southern's president from September 1987 through June 1998, returned Monday to speak to the Bulloch County Historical Society at GSU's Nessmith-Lane Conference Center. In his remarks on "Three Glorious Years of People Power: From Georgia Southern College to Georgia Southern University, 1987-1990," he reverently dropped names from that era, such as the late state Sen. Joe Kennedy, groundbreaking Eagles football coach Erk Russell and now-retired barber Henry Doyle.