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40 Bottom of the Class 44 The Future of Media 52 Just Causes Tom Roberts was an unlikely Tech Social creatures, like the ones depict- Archie Ervin has a lot of work to do. student. He graduated high school ed in the cover illustration by J Chris The first vice president for Institute ranked 194th — out of 194 students. Campbell, are atwitter over must-have Diversity hits the ground running Jan. Thanks in part to a questioning regis- communication tools, including table- 3 to try to reach the goal of making his trar, pictured above, he is a Tech grad. top computer screens, above. job unnecessary.

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10 Letters

15 Alumni House 18 Life Jackets 24 Jackets Required

26 Tech Topics 29 Tech Notes 32 Office Space 35 What’s in a Name? 32 36 Ten Questions 38 Student Life

22 61 Burdell & Friends 63 Ramblin’ Roll 66 In Memoriam

76 Yellow Jackets 80 Sports Briefs

61 86 In Retrospect

88 Calendar

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Contents.indd 7 12/16/10 8:31 AM JoeCol.indd 8 12/17/10 10:53 AM Georgia Tech Thanks to Alumni and Friends Alumni Magazine Volume 87, Number 3 Two small words. Thank you. Sometimes the term seems a bit paltry to express such a pow- Publisher: Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80 erful and deep appreciation for what you as alumni and friends Editor: Kimberly Link-Wills of Georgia Tech do for the institution. But as Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” So we say Assistant Editor: Van Jensen thank you. Assistant Editor: Leslie Overman Thank you for advocating on behalf of Georgia Tech with the Design: Ryan Giusti people you know, the organizations in which you are involved, Student Editorial Assistant: Torian Parker the companies that you do business with and our state and na- Student Photographers: James K. Holder II, Eric Mansfield tional government officials. Thank you for hiring our fellow Georgia Tech alumni and our Executive Committee students or helping connect them to new professional and per- Alfredo Trujillo, AE 81, Chair sonal opportunities. Joseph W. Evans, IM 71, Past Chair Thank you for helping find and recruit the best and brightest C. Dean Alford, EE 76, Chair-elect/Finance students to come to Georgia Tech. Walt Ehmer, IE 89, Vice Chair/Roll Call Thank you for your amazing generosity to the various initia- Laurie Bagley, IM 84, Member At Large tives and opportunities that truly distinguish our alma mater in Benton J. Mathis Jr., IM 81, Member At Large the landscape of American higher education. James E. Trimble Jr., Mgt 91, Member At Large Thank you for devoting your time and energy to volunteer- Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80, President ing and leading in all sorts of activities, efforts, committees and boards to help Tech become an even better place. Board of Trustees Georgia Tech is blessed and honored by the thousands of Thomas G. Arlotto, ME 82 Ashley Gigandet Joseph, IntA 94 alumni and friends who help us in a million different ways each Jennifer M. Ball, Arch 94, M CP 01 Kelli H. Keb, IM 78 and every year. The Alumni Association appreciates you and Coe A. Bloomberg, ME 66 Jesus Leon, Cls 74 what you do to make Georgia Tech not only a great place to be Marc A. Corsini, IM 80 John A. Lewis Jr., IM 79 from, but a great place to be today. Tracey M. Countryman, IM 98 Robert A. Madayag III, ChE 02 Our best wishes to you and your families for a happy new Steven R. Cover, Arch 78, M Arch 81, M Errika Mallett, ISyE 96 year. CP 81 John McKenney, IE 90 C. Richard Crutchfield, IM 69 Wanda B. Murray, HS 82 Marian H. Epps, IM 83 Eric L. Pinckney Sr., ME 86, M CP 93 J. Gregory Foster, ME 95 Joseph P. Irwin, President Troy W. Rice, IE 01 Angela D. Fox, EE 91 Georgia Tech Alumni Association Heather S. Rocker, ISyE 98 Paul S. Goggin, Phys 91 Victoria L. Selfridge, IE 96 Richard A. Guthman Jr., IE 56 Rush S. Smith Jr., Phys 72 S. Wesley Haun, Mgt 72 Robert N. Stargel Jr., EE 83 Jeffrey S. Hurley, MS Chem 90, PhD Chem 92 Jeb M. Stewart, Cls 91 Joseph C. Irastorza, EE 60, MS EE 68, Karen C. Thurman, IM 82 PhD ISyE 73 Philip L. Williams, Text 70 Troy N. Ivey, CmpE 90 Janet C. Wilson, ICS 81 Cayman James, CE 99, MS EnvE 01 Ronald L. Yancey, EE 65 Advertising Holly Green (404) 894-0765; [email protected]

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Curry Commands Respect As a retired engineer who follows the global warming debate, I read with interest the well-written article about Judith Curry in the November/December Alumni Magazine. I have been following her participation in the public discussion and since “Climategate” find it refreshingly objective. Through her academic stature, her scientific papers and the positions she takes in the blogosphere, she commands attention, respect and, unfortunately, some vilification. Although time will judge her scientific work, my observation is that she is trying to restore science to the objective position it must reclaim if it is to be relied upon to lead us into the future. Until “science” is Melissa Bugg restored as an objective arbiter of how we November/December issue readers called Judith Curry’s comments both “refreshingly objective” and “misleading.” view the world around us, we cannot expect to solve, much less understand, these record doesn’t say anything about climate report stated that phytoplankton levels are kinds of issues. Kudos to Judith Curry. change.” That is a very misleading com- down 40 percent since 1950. This decline Philip Holberton, EE 66 ment and seems to be typical of her lack of is potentially catastrophic since they are Pawleys Island, S.C. scientific precision and accuracy. The ’80s the foundation of the bountiful marine were the hottest on record followed by the food web and produce half of the world’s Questions for Climate Scientist ’90s, followed by the 2000s. This is 30 years, oxygen. A total of 70 percent of the world’s I was disappointed in the article about not one record. In addition, the 2000s saw oxygen comes from the ocean. I don’t know Judith Curry [November/December]. Al- the lowest solar minimum in many centu- why the plankton decline doesn’t cause a though she is billed as a climate scientist, ries, which should have made it cooler. mild panic. the article was long on philosophy and If she doesn’t want to discuss the sci- She says, “In Atlanta, for example, short on science. There are several funda- ence, what about the physical evidence? global warming is less of a concern than mental scientific questions, none of which She has done work in the Arctic, where the water. Droughts and floods create signifi- were addressed. Is the climate warming? ice is disappearing. We may soon see the cant problems …” So droughts and floods Is human release of CO2 a major driver? opening of the elusive Northwest passage in Atlanta are not part of global climate, What is the temperature impact of a dou- that has been a quest for at least 400 years. and Atlanta doesn’t need to be concerned bling of CO2 in the atmosphere? The Arctic permafrost in Alaska, Canada about droughts in other parts of the world The closest she comes to answering and Siberia is turning to slush. The glaciers that may cause food shortages or a rising any question is in the last few sentences: in Glacier Bay have retreated many miles sea level that would inundate coastal cities? “Carbon dioxide, all other things being since first seen 250 years ago and photo- At the least, Atlanta taxes would increase to equal, will contribute to a warmer planet.” graphed over 100 years ago. Glaciers are pay for defending coastal cities. However, she qualifies that statement by just about gone in Glacier National Park, As a final comment, I repeat her quote, saying “whether in the coming century where they have been for the last 12,000 “Whether in the coming century green- greenhouse gas will dominate the natural years. While these are more symbolic, they house gas will dominate the natural vari- variability remains to be seen.” These are are also melting on Greenland, the Himala- ability remains to be seen.” Is she saying, vague comments, particularly coming from yas and the Antarctic and have the ability “Let’s just wait to see”? I guess she will a scientist. The physics of greenhouse gases to raise sea level dramatically. Pine bark either say, “I told you so,” or “Oh my, how is very well understood. Without green- beetles are killing trees much farther north. did this happen?” What is her “natural house gases, the Earth would be a very A significant amount of the CO2 re- variability”? What was its impact on the cold, uninhabited place. leased into the atmosphere is absorbed warming in the last century? As for the fact that the 2000s was the by the oceans, which are becoming more Jon Parker, ME 60 hottest decade, she says, “An individual acidic to the detriment of sea life. A recent Houston

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Letters.indd 10 12/15/10 8:17 AM Phenomena Unpredictable As a Georgia Tech graduate and meteo- rologist, I enjoyed the article Handling the Heat on Judith Curry in the November/ December Alumni Magazine. I especially appreciated her concluding statements regarding the future uncertainty. As a weather forecaster in the Air Force for five years, I appreciate the complexity and unpredictability of weather phenomena and maintain a healthy skepticism regarding climatologists’ forecasts of the distant future using models. As Edward Lorenz showed us with his contribution to Chaos theory, little changes in complex weather variables cause major changes in the forecast outcome. In my career, I developed models from time to time, mostly financial, and found that with tinkering and some logical gym- nastics I could fit complex historical data fairly well. However, predicting the future with these models didn’t turn out all that well in my case. So I am skeptical of climate models predicting 100 years or so into the future and am concerned with the impact of relying on these models to drastically alter our economy. Lindsey Smith and Henry Claxton’s entry, Tyrannosaurus Reck, won a second-place prize in the 1978 Wreck Parade. My thanks go to Judith Curry for treat- The duo were responsible for a number of campus capers including the installation of the Mickey Mouse clock. ing this world-changing subject like a scientist. Philip W. Matos, ChE 58 means our only effort. A few weeks earlier, Are Recruits Qualified? Phoenix Smaxton was awarded second place in the I’ve read several articles in the Georgia fixed body category in the ’78 Wreck Pa- Tech Alumni Magazine referencing Tech’s The Smaxton Capers rade. We had wanted a car with a convert- efforts to increase campus diversity. If this A number of readers correctly pointed ible top, so we rolled back the roof of our means recruiting the most highly quali- out in the November/December issue of Tyrannosaurus Reck like a sardine can! fied people from wherever in the world the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine that Most of our other endeavors at Tech they happen to be, I’m all for it. However, I Henry Claxton was a co-conspirator in the were clearly in the mischief category and infer from the context of the articles that it installation of the Mickey Mouse clock on usually involved heat, pressure, noise, means recruiting people of possibly inferior the Skiles Classroom Building in late 1978. flight, etc. — oftentimes all at once. The fact qualification simply because they look or Henry was in fact the “axton” in Smaxton, that we were never caught and/or arrested act differently from the campus majority. our small organization dedicated to creat- for some of our antics amazes me to this If this is indeed what it means, I am firmly ing general mischief on and around the day. I have to constantly remain on guard opposed. Tech campus. when relating some of Smaxton’s stories as David Brock, ME 85 Our initial hope was that the clock my son is currently a senior in engineering Evans, Ga. would remain up for a day or two so that at Tech and needs no encouragement in we could take some photographs. To see nonacademic areas. History Notes our efforts eventually recognized with the Sadly, Henry was lost in a civilian air Thanks for showing a great collection No. 57 spot on the list of Tech pieces of his- crash in 1983. I know that he would have of Tech historical items in the September/ tory [September/October] is humbling at had proud and fond memories of our many October 2010 issue of the Alumni Magazine. the least. adventures at Tech. Here are some comments on these and on Although the clock caper turned out Lindsey Smith, CerE 77, MS CerE 78 a few Tech items I have accumulated over to be our best-known project, it was by no Orchard Park, N.Y. the years:

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Letters.indd 11 12/15/10 8:17 AM No. 6, 27, 40, 113 — I’m glad to have briefly crossed paths with Dean Griffin, Coach Dodd and Coach Alexander and to have autographed books by Griffin and Dodd. No. 13 — If the Marathon Stone de- picted replaced the original stone brought to the campus in 1928 by President Brittain, where is the original stone now located? No. 16 — Freddy Lanoue’s drownproofing program probably saved some lives in World War II. As I recall, we freshmen participated in his PT swim classes buck naked in the late ’40s. Lanoue and Tech gym coach Lyle Welser were good friends, both having attended Springfield College in Massachu- setts, where physical training was stressed. My copies of Lanoue’s drownproofing book and Welser’s physical training syl- labus show just what was expected of the Tech student in these PT courses in the 1940s. No. 18 — Steve Bowes, ME 52, a team- mate on Coach Welser’s varsity gym teams, pus photos and much more. [See In Retro- simply a papier-mache representation of a was outstanding, especially in the 20-foot spect, page 86.] A list of warnings included Budweiser beer can with the slogan “Tech rope climb, an event he often won in less that “students found with playing cards in will win because Bud’s wiser.” That year than five seconds from a sitting position in their possession would be suspended from at Homecoming, I believe, the band started meets with other Southeast colleges. the school.” playing the Budweiser song. Maybe some- No. 25 — It seems unusual that no Thanks again for the fineA lumni Maga- one else knows if there were KAs in the trophy is available from the 1917 national zine we enjoy so much! band or if they just liked the pun. That’s football championship. John C. Cerny, ME 51, MS IM 56 my take on it. No. 42 — I’m proud to have recently Atlanta W. Paul Fryer, BMgt 72 found in my family genealogy research that Bainbridge, Ga. I’m distantly related by marriage to Medal Robert Not Treasury Secretary of Honor recipient and Navy ace-of-aces In item 12 in your article 125 Pieces of Yes, It Was Maxie’s Hat Capt. David McCampbell, honored on a Tech History [September/October], you I was a football manager for the first plaque outside the Wardlaw Center along noted that L.W. “Chip” Robert, a 1908 grad- four years, the last two as head manager, with three other Tech heroes. uate “served as secretary of the Treasury that Bud Carson was coach. I never once No. 61 — This 1929 Rose Bowl ticket under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” To saw him wear an engineer’s hat. I agree reminds me of one I have saved along with my knowledge, FDR’s only Treasury sec- that it was probably Maxie Baughan. many from other exciting Tech sports vic- retaries were William Woodin and Henry Reid Simmons, IM 70 tories — the thrilling 7-to-6 football victory Morgenthau. Panama City Beach, Fla. over Alabama, the national champion, on J.W. Stewart, Phys 61 Nov. 17, 1962, probably one of the most ex- Alexandria, Va. Marathon Conversation citing 7-to-6 football games ever played. Editor’s note: Mr. Stewart is correct. Robert I had to share this story as an example No. 79 — This old gun reminds me of a served as the assistant secretary of the Treasury of Georgia Tech’s positive influence in un- photo I have of this freshman hanging from under FDR. We regret the error. expected places. While I live and breathe the end of the elevated barrel. My Tech Georgia Tech almost every day in Atlanta, roommate cranked the barrel up high with Bud’s Wiser I never really expected to “talk Tech” while me hanging on it, then refused to lower me I believe I know [the origin of the Bud- on my trip to New York City for the mara- back down. weiser song]. One year, perhaps 1970, while thon. One other item I have is Vol. II, No. I Bud Carson was our football coach, the While many people struggle near the of the Tech Annual Announcement of 1903-04 Kappa Alpha fraternity had a Homecom- end of a marathon, I find the initial part to depicting courses, faculty, students, cam- ing display in front of its house that was be the most challenging. At the start of the

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Letters.indd 12 12/16/10 8:37 AM race, when I looked out from the Verraza- Fowler, NRE 05] at mile 9, where he was I believe that they will come to the conclu- no-Narrows bridge and saw Manhattan so equipped with the essentials — Tylenol, sion that the evolution paradigm of natu- far away, it was overwhelming for me to Fig Newtons, Body Glide, etc. I wished the ral selection, which can only adequately think how many miles were between me alum well on his first marathon, and we explain the variation within species, is and the finish line in west Central Park. parted ways. insufficient to be extended to be the cause I broke the race into segments — mile What that Tech grad didn’t know for the development of life from prebiotic 2, 5K, then mile 4 — but it wasn’t helping. was that our mutual love of Georgia Tech substances. Then I heard someone yell, “Go, Yellow helped push me through my most challeng- The only scientific evidence that we can Jacket!” This was followed by, “All right, ing part of the race — and also the fear and observe today is that life can only come Georgia Tech!” I smiled and to my right mental challenge of what laid before me. from life, not inorganic proteins, no matter was a guy wearing a Georgia Tech shirt. I don’t know how the race went for that how complex they are. To evolve from pro- We started a conversation. I learned he alum, but I’m certain that he crossed the teins to more complex forms of life requires first started running with the Pi Mile, and finish line. information as well as intelligence, not only it has had a major impact on his life. He Suzanne Fowler, Mgt 03 natural processes. graduated from Tech in 2004 with a com- Alpharetta, Ga. I think that scientists will one day puter science degree and now lives in New eventually come to the conclusion that life York City. He hasn’t made it to Atlanta in In the Beginning started as it was simply stated more than a few years but has heard that the campus It was exciting to hear that Georgia Tech 2,000 years ago, “In the beginning, God cre- has really changed. is leading the effort of a team of institutions ated …” We ran those first few miles together in an origins of life study. That is an area of John Adams, Arch 76 until I was to meet my husband [Samuel scientific study that must be explored, but Lawrenceville, Ga.

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Honoring Trailblazers Matriculation anniversary includes $2.011 million scholarship campaign

he Georgia Tech Black Alumni Or- ganization has set a goal of raising $2,011,000 for its scholarship endow- Tment in observance of the 50th anniversary of the enrollment of three African-Ameri- can men at the Institute in September 1961. The Alumni Association affinity group hopes the endowment will better position Tech to compete with other universities in recruiting stellar students; help the Insti- tute maintain its status as a top producer of African-American engineers by providing scholarships to current students; and give alumni and supporters an opportunity to give back to Tech to maintain a legacy of academic success. “GTBAO, friends and supporters are Brooke Novak making a difference today through this Honored at a football game were Ronald Yancey, left to right, the first African-American to graduate from Tech, and endowment initiative so they can make an the first three to matriculate, Ralph Long Jr., Ford Greene, with wife Frankie Hall-Greene, and Lawrence Williams. impact on the future leaders of tomorrow,” said Errika Mallett, ISyE 96, president of The yearlong celebration, which will difference,” and said the anniversary will the Black Alumni Organization and an include exhibits, a symposium to coincide give GTBAO the perfect opportunity “to Alumni Association trustee. with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a theat- establish a continuum that will ensure that The scholarship campaign is just one rical production and a number of panel the country’s best and brightest students facet of the celebration surrounding the discussions, will culminate with a Legends are attracted to and can afford to attend 50th anniversary of the matriculation of Ball in November at the Ferst Center for Georgia Tech.” black students. the Arts sponsored by the African Ameri- In 2008, the affinity group established Gary May, EE 85, chair of the School of can Student Union and GTBAO. the scholarship endowment initiative to Electrical and Computer Engineering, is A schedule of anniversary ac- ensure financial resources are available to leading the steering committee for the 50th tivities is available at diversity.gatech. future black students. The members’ fund- anniversary. edu/50thAnniversary/events-and-pro- raising efforts over the past couple of years “Ralph Long, Ford Greene and Law- grams. made it possible for GTBAO to award rence Williams arrived at Georgia Tech as GTBAO will be celebrating the an- scholarships to 20 students in 2010, com- freshmen nearly 50 years ago in the fall of niversary in part with the unveiling of an pared to three in 2008. Current and past 1961. These three young men were the first exhibit, “By Faith,” which features a time- GTBAO scholars include a Rhodes Scholar African-American students to matriculate line of major strides made by trailblazing finalist, Greek organization leaders, a Stu- at Georgia Tech and now, thanks to their black students, professors, staff and alumni dent Government Association president perseverance and sacrifice, Georgia Tech at Tech. It will be unveiled Feb. 28 in the and Ms. Georgia Tech, Makeda Cyrus. is the national leader in the production of mezzanine of the Alumni House, where the More information on GTBAO and its African-American engineers,” May said piece will remain on permanent display. scholarship endowment may be found at at the Women’s Leadership Conference on Mallett called 2011 “a time of acknowl- gtblackalumni.org. campus in late October. edgment and a time to continue making a — Leslie Overman

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AlumniHouse.indd 15 12/16/10 8:53 AM Gold & White Honors Recipients Named The Gold & White Honors, the most prestigious awards given Bill Goodhew, IM 61, of Atlanta, vice president of Intelligent by the Alumni Association, are awarded in recognition of outstand- Systems Corp. He is a past chair of the Alumni Association board ing contributions on campus, in communities and in the world at of trustees and the Roll Call Leadership Circle gift club. He has large. served on the Georgia Tech Foundation board of trustees, the Geor- The 2011 winners are leaders and innovators, but more impor- gia Tech Research Corp. advisory board, the Alexander-Tharpe tantly they are hardworking volunteers and philanthropists. The Fund board and the Georgia Tech campaign steering committee. award recipients will be recognized for their accomplishments and In 1995 Goodhew was inducted into the Georgia Technology Hall generosity during a Feb. 17 dinner and awards ceremony. of Fame. The Southeastern Software Association has named him The Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Entrepreneur of the Year and Software Executive of the Decade. He also served in the Marine Corps. Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association in Hubert “Herky” Harris, IM 65, of Atlanta, retired CEO of recognition of exceptional and outstanding support of the Institute INVESCO, North America. He is a past president of the Alumni As- and a lifetime of professional and philanthropic leadership. The sociation board of trustees and past chair of the Georgia Tech Foun- 2011 recipients are: dation board of trustees. He is a member of the Alexander-Tharpe Joel Cowan, IM 58, of Peachtree City, Ga., chairman and Fund board and a College of Management distinguished alumnus. president of Habersham & Cowan Inc. and an adjunct professor in Harris is a trustee of SEI Mutual Funds, the director of St. Joseph’s the Georgia Tech College of Management. He is a trustee emeritus Translational Research Institute and a member of the Carter Center of the Georgia Tech Foundation board. He formerly was a member Board of Councilors. of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, the Ivan Al- len College advisory board, the College of Management Center for Recipients of the Dean Griffin Community Service Award, Ethics advisory board, the Ivan Allen College development council presented for positively impacting the quality of life of others while and the Georgia Tech Research Institute external advisory board. serving as a role model in the process, are: Cowan was inducted into the College of Management’s Hall of Robert Shelley Blount, Text 66, of Moore, S.C., vice Fame in 2006, and in 2003 he received the Alumni Association’s president of Jocassee Designs. He was the 1999 Ramblin’ Wreck Dean Griffin Community Service Award. Volunteer of the Year for his contributions to the Greenville-

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AlumniHouse.indd 16 12/16/10 8:54 AM Spartanburg, S.C., Georgia Tech Club, for which he formerly Fred Carlson, CE 01, MBA 04, of Tampa, Fla., founder and served as president. He is a past member of the Alumni chief operating officer of Ice House USA Inc. He is vice president of Association board of trustees and was named a distinguished the Suncoast Georgia Tech Club and a member of the Co-op Affin- alumnus by the College of Engineering in 2001. Blount was named ity Group. As a student, he was active in the Student Foundation, the 2008 Small Business Person of the Year by the Spartanburg Wreck to Riches, the Student Alumni Association and Omicron Area Chamber of Commerce. Delta Epsilon. He won the 2003 outstanding first-year MBA student Goodman “G.B.” Espy, ME 57, of Atlanta, an obstetrician/ award and the 2004 MBA student of the year award. gynecologist. He delivered about 500 babies in one year while an Army doctor at Fort McPherson, Ga., and has gone on to deliver Honorary Alumni status is presented to someone who did not 12,000 in his career. He traveled to Kosovo in 1998 to deliver babies attend the Institute but has provided outstanding service to Geor- and perform surgeries on refugees. In recent years, he paid for gia Tech. The recipients are: a 7-year-old Iraqi boy to come to Atlanta for a bone-lengthening Kathy Betty, of Atlanta, owner of the Atlanta Dream and operation, which enabled the child to walk. He has started a mam- widow of Garry Betty, ChE 79, who died in 2007. She serves on the mography clinic in Iraq and travels to the country to train physi- Alexander-Tharpe Fund board and the Campaign Georgia Tech cians. In 2004, the Medical Association of Georgia presented him steering committee. She is CEO of the Garry Betty Foundation, the Jack A. Raines Humanitarian of the Year Award. He also is which pledged $750,000 to co-fund the Garry Betty and V Founda- a distinguished alumnus of the College of Engineering and the tion Chair in Cancer Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech. The Bettys Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. established three trusts, two to fund scholarships at Tech and another for a chair in chemical engineering. The Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna Award goes to a Dorothy Cowser Yancy, of Atlanta, Georgia Tech faculty high achiever under age 40 who has contributed to Georgia Tech, member from 1972 to 1994. A history professor, she was the first the community and the business world. The recipients are: African-American tenured faculty member and eventually served Errika Mallett, ISyE 96, of Stone Mountain, Ga., human re- as associate director of the School of Social Sciences. The Student sources manager and consultant for Southwire. She is president of Government Association named her the outstanding teacher of the the Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization and has participated year and undergraduate faculty member of the year during her in Mentor Jackets and Pi Mile. She is a member of the Alumni As- career. She also was named an honorary member of ANAK. Yancy sociation board of trustees and vice chair of the steering committee currently serves as the honorary chair of the Georgia Tech Black for the 50th anniversary of the matriculation of black students. Alumni Organization’s scholarship endowment initiative.

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AlumniHouse.indd 17 12/15/10 8:32 AM Life Jackets: Advice to Keep Your Career Afloat Follow Your Heart Women’s Leadership Conference speakers say passion for profession critical

By Kimberly Link-Wills in their work lives. If you look at work as being a playing field, women like to stay in the middle, and the reality is the game gets he student-organized Women’s Leadership Conference on won on the edges and in the end zone.” campus in late October was packed with two days of advice Trish Downing never played it safe. A competitive cyclist, on how to rise above the ordinary, the theme for the 14th Downing was on a bike ride with a friend in 2000 when her path Tannual event. was forever changed, she told her audience during the keynote First admitted to Georgia Tech in 1952, females now comprise lunch address. 37 percent of the freshman class. “I’m thinking about all my dreams and my goals and my plans “We have had a steady flow of high-achieving women with — all these things that I want to do — and all of a sudden I look up, fortitude and resolve who have shown us that women have and I see in front of me that there is a car … turning onto the side the capacity to keep moving forward,” said Ivan Allen College street that we were then crossing,” Downing said. “I went for my Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster during introductory remarks at brakes, but I couldn’t get to them quickly enough. And the front an evening awards banquet at the Georgia Tech Hotel. “Still we wheel of my bike hit the front bumper of that car. I was launched, must rise above the ordinary as we all participate individually and turning in the air, landing on my back on the windshield and falling collectively in what remains a significantly male environment and to the ground. And right there, at the corner of 32nd and Crab be the phenomenal women that those who have gone before us Apple, I hit a crossroads and everything changed.” believed that we would be and those behind us still need us to be.” Before the day ended, Downing was told she had suffered a Keynote speaker Betty Tong, ME 93, MS ME 95, said her path chest-level spinal cord injury and would never walk again. took a number of turns before she discovered her passion for “Never. Have you ever thought about the word never? Imagine thoracic surgery. “No pun intended, it was really what was in my if you spent four years working so hard at Georgia Tech and never heart.” graduated? Or think about the person you love more than anyone President of Omicron Delta Kappa and the Ramblin’ Reck in the world and then imagine never seeing that person again,” Club while at Tech and the daughter of professor emeritus Yung Downing said. Tong, she now is a professor at Duke University and a surgeon in a After more than three weeks in intensive care followed by a specialty field in which only about 7 percent of the physicians are stint at a rehabilitation facility, Downing moved into a wheelchair- women. accessible condo. “I work in a very male-dominated field as many of you do and “There were no doctors, no nurses, no friends visiting, no call will. … I was never asked to go play golf on Saturday morning with buttons. And I was alone with my thoughts,” she said. “Then I the department chair. I don’t fly-fish, but I still did OK,” she said. started thinking, I’m right back where I was, at 32nd and Crab Tong has achieved success by following her passion, she said. Apple Street. I’m at a crossroads. And here is where I make a “You can’t help what you fall in love with. Follow your heart.” decision. I make a decision to sit around and feel sorry for myself or Martha Forlines, president of consulting, coaching, training I make a decision to do what you all are doing today and rise above and speaker services provider Belief Systems Institute, agreed with the ordinary.” Tong. She began training again, this time in a racing chair. “I needed “Think about what really makes your heart sing. What is to ride my own race,” Downing said. “My accident had derailed something that truly, truly you feel emotional about? Hook your me, but it hadn’t stopped me. It was only up to me whether I was aspirations to those things,” said Forlines, co-author of Inspiring going to get back in the race or not.” Women: Becoming Courageous, Wise Leaders, during a Saturday Downing eventually competed in the Ironman world morning breakfast at the Student Center. championship triathlon in Hawaii and won the 2009 duathlon “Be clear about who you are. Be self-defined, not defined by world championship. others,” Forlines said. “While this sounds so simple on the surface, “I think passion is the most important thing in your life in to really understand your strengths and maximize those and getting through the things that are difficult and in finding your minimize your weaknesses is a critical, critical thing to focus on.” way, in establishing your journey and finding your path. And if Forlines said Lois Frankel’s Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office it weren’t for my passion of athletics, my passion to be the best I “identifies 101 unconscious things that women do to sabotage could possibly be, I wouldn’t have made it to where I am today,” themselves at work. She writes that women play it way too safe she said.

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AlumniHouse.indd 18 12/15/10 8:32 AM Women of Distinction Heralded for Contributions

Women of Distinction award winners Shirley Marshall, who earned were announced during the leadership degrees from Alabama State College and conference. They are: Georgia State before receiving additional Outstanding undergraduate student training at Tech through the Southeastern Candace Mitchell, a fifth-year computer Consortium for Minorities in Engineering science major, president of the African and retired in 2005 after 35 years in the American Student Union and the only Atlanta Public School System. undergraduate student on the vice Tawana Derricotte Miller, IM 76, president for Institute Diversity search the first African-American woman to committee. receive a bachelor’s degree from Tech Graduate student Laura Kitashima, without being a dual-degree student, EE 10, a recipient of the Women in earned a master’s from Georgia State Engineering Excellence and Women in and a doctorate from Seton Hall and Engineering Pay It Forward scholarships is the director of Title I and school and a co-founder of the Student Alumni improvement in the Fulton County Association. School System. Faculty winner Deborah Turner, Student Affairs. “Some were high school Adesola Kujore Nurudeen, ChE 78, an associate professor in the College of seniors taking college courses that would MS Met 80, PhD ChE 83, the first black Management, Honorary Accounting eventually prepare them to go on to Yale, woman to earn a doctorate at Tech, who Organization adviser and the two-time MIT, Mount Holyoke and Stanford,” Ray came to the Institute through the dual- recipient of the American Woman’s said. “Others came as educators with degree program with Spelman and now Society of Certified Public Accountants’ the Atlanta Public School System, taking serves on the mechanical engineering award for outstanding contributions to courses through a grant offer through faculty at the University of Houston. accounting literature. the National Science Foundation so they Annie Bryant Smith, an educator who Staff winner Rosemary “Rome” could acquire new knowledge to develop took classes at Georgia Tech and retired Lester, the senior staff counselor at curricula for computer application and after 34 years of elementary school the Georgia Tech Counseling Center, a computer science.” teaching. licensed marriage and family therapist Nine of the first 22 African-American Anita Turner, who took math classes and a charter member of the sexual women to enroll at Tech were on hand at the Institute and retired after 36 years violence task force at Tech. to be recognized during the conference of teaching. Alumna winner Sally Jabaley, CE 74, awards banquet. Alyce Martin Ware, a retired Atlanta of Houston, a Shell International E&P “Eight have master’s degrees, and the Public School System educator who took project assurance manager, member of ninth one skipped the master’s degree classes at Tech and is the owner of the the School of Civil and Environmental and went straight to the juris doctorate,” Atlanta Voice newspaper. Engineering advisory board, past Ray said. Clemmie Bray Whatley, MS AMath president of the Houston Georgia Called to the stage were: 73, one of the first two black females Tech Club, former Alumni Association Bonnie Cameron, who took classes to receive Tech master’s degrees, who trustee and recipient of the College of at Tech as a high school senior in 1971, earned an Emory PhD, created a math Engineering Distinguished Alumni earned degrees at Yale and New York teaching aid and won the 2009 Women of Award in 2008 and the Gulf Coast North University School of Law and became Distinction alumna award. American Region Projects, Facilities and the first female African-American special Others recognized but not in Construction award in 2007. trial attorney at the IRS. attendance were Marion Agee, the late The first black women who Grace Hammonds, MS AMath 73, Wanda Anderson, Gloria Thomas Battles, matriculated at Tech also were saluted one of the first two black women to earn Theressa Talps Bingley, Angela Chaney, as part of a yearlong celebration to mark master’s degrees at Georgia Tech, who Charlene Dupree Everette, the late the 50th anniversary of the enrollment of earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, Sandra Burdette Stephens Farley, Marilyn three African-American men. helped develop the Department of Harris, Dorothea Caster Lee Jackson, “They came in 1970 and 1971, almost Defense’s guidelines for information Carolyn Davis James, Jennie Chakrabarti a decade after the first three black men,” security and co-founded the information Patrick, Donna Smith Palms and Kathy said Stephanie Ray, associate dean of technology firm AGCS Inc. Robie Suh.

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AlumniHouse.indd 19 12/16/10 8:54 AM Schmoozing and Shopping for Jobs

The nearly 20 workshops offered during the Women’s Leader- steps outside of your comfort zone. … It’s still a lot easier to ship Conference focused on a wide range of topics, from account- ‘friend’ someone on Facebook than walk up to a stranger at a party, ability to Zumba, goal setting to dream interpretation. but it’s those interactions … that can have much more impact on Debra Shigley, an attorney and author of The Go-Getter Girl’s your career.” Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While Accepting invitations to social and career-related events is key, You’re at It), led a workshop on playing the schmoozing game. Shigley said. “It can’t be overstated the importance of actually “Success doesn’t happen by accident,” said Shigley, who pre- showing up.” sented her top 10 go-getter principles: Schmooze with a pocketful of “pop culture currency, meaning 1. The work world can be a cold, hard place. You must learn to those things to talk about — movies, restaurants, plays, magazine deal with it. 2. Expand your circle. 3. Maintain a healthy lifestyle. articles, books you read, TV shows. I can’t tell you how many din- 4. Looks matter at work — period. Dress for the occasion and look ner parties or events I go to where somehow, someway the conver- fabulous when fabulousness counts. 5. The best education is self- sation comes back to some reality television show. You may think education. 6. Learn the art of negotiation. 7. Know when to quit. it’s a silly thing to keep up on, but that’s what people are talking 8. Cultivate mentors. 9. Find allies and advocates. 10. Embrace all about.” of your attributes. Without being pushy, work in “five bullet points, whether it’s Shigley said networking “means in the simplest sense of the where you work, where you went to school, where you’re from, word getting out there, trying new things and taking little, tiny what your career goal is — four or five things that would compose

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AlumniHouse.indd 20 12/15/10 8:31 AM your elevator speech — and let them sort of or- to work in global operations at the Coca-Cola Com- ganically drop into the conversation in those first pany, and you find someone on their Web site, the VP three minutes,” she said. of global operations and you send her an e-mail and “Don’t complain. I think this is a big one. Es- say, ‘Hi, I’m a Georgia Tech senior. … Do you have any pecially when we’re in uncomfortable situations, jobs available?’ What will she say? ‘Talk to HR.’ ‘Check it’s kind of the easiest, lowest common denomi- the Web site.’ ‘No.’ That’s a very likely answer. It’s kind nator of what to talk about,” Shigley said. “You of a door-closing conversation because she’s really busy, find yourself in a lot of situations where you’re doesn’t know who you are at all and you’re asking for with your colleagues [in which] it’s very easy something so huge, like a job,” McDow said. for the common ground to be for everybody to “Let’s say you send an e-mail to the same person just sort of kvetch about who they don’t like saying, ‘I’m a senior at Georgia Tech. … I’m very in- in the office or what’s going on or what’s not terested in global operations at Coca-Cola. I saw your working right as opposed to coming up with a biography on the company Web site. Your career path stimulating conversation about a documentary really fascinates me. Could I buy you a cup of coffee and you saw on HBO.” just get 30 minutes of your advice?’ What’s the response? In a workshop on landing a job with grace and brilliance, Lau- ‘Absolutely,’” she said. ren McDow, Mgt 03, recommended “informational interviewing.” “There’s not a person who has even half a heart who will say “This is not at all a job interview. It’s where you basically are no to a college student asking for advice,” McDow said. “At a bare going to ask for someone’s advice. This sounds really simple, but minimum, you’re going to have coffee with the VP of operations at it is so powerful,” said McDow, the professional development pro- the Coca-Cola Company and get to hear her story. … But more pow- gram manager in Tech’s College of Management. erful than that is that you are building an advocate and an ally.” “Let’s say you, as a student at Georgia Tech, would really like — Kimberly Link-Wills

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AlumniHouse.indd 21 12/15/10 8:31 AM Making the Deal Scoutmob co-founder shares startup advice with MBA Jackets

By Kimberly Link-Wills

ichael Tavani, co-founder of the group-buying site Scoutmob, says ideas aren’t worth much. M“Even the best idea in the world is worth about $10 because everybody has a million dollar idea. Trust me, the idea is not the part you really need. You need to execute for the next year after the idea. That’s the real struggle,” Tavani told the MBA Jackets during the Alumni Associa- tion affinity group’s evening program on entrepreneurship in November. “A lot of people wait for the perfect opportunity, the perfect idea, and they’re not going to jump fully into starting a company until they have that perfect opportunity,” said Tavani, who has a law degree rather than an MBA. “I think ideas are overrated. I think the execution after the initial idea is the real magic.” The initial idea three years ago was for Tavani and his business partner to launch SkyBlox, an Atlanta Wi-Fi marketing company that began morphing into Scoutmob in the summer of 2009 and offered its first deal in January. Dressed casually in a plaid shirt and jeans among the Jackets, Tavani revealed he wasn’t a fan of business plans either. “This whole group-buying, flash- commerce space that Scoutmob is in wasn’t even in existence three years ago. “Scoutmob is one of the most unique businesses because it is a 100 percent measurable return on investment, and it actually makes for a pretty easy sale to these local merchants because they know that, first off, they don’t spend anything metro Atlanta receive daily offers, usually buying copycats … across the U.S. There up front. They know whenever they pay 50 percent off food and drink at a restau- will probably be, if I had to go out on a us anything it’s for a customer sitting in a rant. It costs nothing to receive the deal. limb, 10 a year from now,” Tavani said. seat, which is kind of the holy grail of local Scoutmob makes money through a flat fee “Only a few will pull it off.” marketing,” Tavani said. paid by the business owner when a patron He hopes Scoutmob is one of those few. Scoutmob’s 150,000 e-mail subscribers produces the e-mail or text message code. “This is with literally zero dollars market- and 77,000 iPhone and Android users in “There are literally 200 or 300 group- ing spent. It’s about as viral as a product

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AlumniHouse.indd 22 12/15/10 8:31 AM could be,” Tavani said, noting that the love letters from suburban moms than we business expanded to New York City in do from those types.” July and San Francisco in September and He said the Scoutmob team works hard plans to be in every NFL city by the end of to “delight customers” with its wit, includ- 2011. ing the e-mail address for more informa- Scoutmob found an angel investor pro- tion: [email protected]. viding about $200,000 by making it to the “If you don’t have good content, if finals of a Technology Association of Geor- you don’t have good deals, if your e-mail gia business launch competition. doesn’t look great, if your site’s average, if “I really think the first six to 12 months your app’s not fun, then no one’s going to you can’t be concerned about finances. share no matter how many share buttons Michael Tavani is the co-founder of Scoutmob, a When you’re worried early on about try- you have, no matter how many ‘follow us’ group-buying site that is expanding across the country. ing to make revenue as a company, it alters buttons you have,” Tavani said. your product, it alters your decisions,” investors were concerned about it, but we “Seven out of 10 [startups] are going Tavani said. weren’t that concerned because we always out of business. Two out of 10 are maybe “For the first couple of months of knew that if we were actually driving local breaking even. Maybe one is going to hit Scoutmob, we had no billing team, we people to businesses, then there was going it,” Tavani said. “But there’s nothing better had the ugliest billing system of all time. to be some value at some point down the than being in the game.” We had driven so many customers to lo- road,” he said. Poised to play, several of the MBA Jack- cal restaurants and businesses, and we Scoutmob initially went after the “in- ets in attendance took note when Tavani hadn’t gotten paid for it. We weren’t that town, tech-savvy, creative types,” Tavani said the e-mail address for job applicants is concerned about it. I think some of the said. “But we get way more e-mails and [email protected].

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2. Greece

1. North Georgia

4. Mount Everest

3. Tennessee

5. Hawaii

6. Dobbins Air Force Base

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AlumniHouse.indd 24 12/15/10 8:30 AM 7. Maine

8. Alexander Memorial Coliseum

1. Georgia Tech Equestrian Alumni affinity group members Megan Heaphy, Biol 07, Kristy Sten- gard, Mgt 09, and Erika Larson, ME 04, MS BioE 06, all won ribbons in alumni competition at the North Georgia College & State University Fall Gold Rush Classic, Intercollegiate Horse Show As- sociation Western competition. 2. Ben Chilcutt, BC 61, read the Alumni Magazine as he and fellow Georgia Tech Alumni Travel tourists entered the port of Santorini, Greece. 3. Anne, Mgt 99, and Ryan McGraw, Mgt 98, deck out daughters Greta and Cora in Yellow Jackets gear. 4. Annie Anton, ICS 90, MS ICS 92, PhD CS 97, showed her Tech pride at the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal. She climbed to the summit of Kala Patthar with a Trekking for Kids expedition, which raised more than $55,000 for the Orphan Children Rescue Center in Nepal. 5. Linda Hayes, EE 82, crossed the finish line at the Ironman world championship in the Georgia Tech triathlon suit acquired with the help of Jane Stoner, the Alumni Association’s senior manager of Georgia Tech Clubs. 6. Scott 9. Baptist Student Union Blackstock, ChE 79, was selected for a 45-minute flight with the Blue Angels through the Navy’s Key Influencers program. 7. Nathan Dockery, CE 02, sported a Georgia Tech cap on top of Cadillac Mountain in Maine’s Acadia National Forest. 8. Ray Zequeira, center, CE 67, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, visits with Harry Tomas, IE 67, MS IM 73, MS IE 78, while at Alexander Memorial Coliseum with grandson and prospective Tech student Jorge L. Juncos Zequeira. 9. Warren, ME 47, and Sue Woolf were recognized with an endowed scholarship honoring the 16 years at Tech he served as the Baptist Student Union minister, from 1950 to 1966. With them at a celebratory luncheon were, left to right, sons Bill, IM 70, and David, Cls 72, and daughter-in-law Mim. 10. Presiding over the second annual cornhole tournament on the Fifth Street bridge in Atlanta were Moshe Gordon, ChE 01, president of the Young Alumni Council, and Suzanne Fowler, Mgt 03, president of the Intown Georgia Tech Club. 11. Col. Lenny Richoux, AE 89, recently named commander of MacDill Air Force Base, was welcomed to Tampa by the Suncoast Georgia Tech Club’s Ashley Miller, EE 83; 10. Fifth Street Bridge Chip Hayward, Arch 79, M Arch 81; and Irv Lee, IE 81, MS IE 85. 12. Sixth-graders at Palomino Intermediate School in Scottsdale, Ariz., model T-shirts the Alumni Association sent them.

12. Arizona

11. Florida

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AlumniHouse.indd 25 12/16/10 10:45 AM Tech Topics

Melissa Bugg Together at the Alumni House to talk about the professorship they established at Tech to honor their parents are siblings, left to right, Ron Nash, Deborah Nash Harris and Mike Nash. Lessons Learned Nash children’s philanthropy instilled by their parents

n the Nash family, Tech was a key element in two life lessons — The professorship was created and funded in honor of Harold the ability of education to change people’s lives and the respon- R., EE 52, and Mary Anne Nash by the three of their four children sibility to give back through volunteer work and philanthropy. who are graduates of Tech: Ron Nash, IE 70, of Dallas, a partner in I Because of those lessons, the Institute now has a Harold R. and InterWest Partners; Mike Nash, IE 74, of Concord, N.C., president Mary Anne Nash Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineer- of Akabis; and Deborah Nash Harris, IE 78, retired senior vice ing. Pinar Keskinocak, co-director of the Center for Health and president of Microsoft Corp. Humanitarian Logistics, associate director of research in the Health Keskinocak’s research focuses on supply chain management, Systems Institute and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of with an emphasis on resource allocation, and she is actively en- Industrial and Systems Engineering, became the first Nash profes- gaged in research and applications in health care and humanitar- sor in July. ian logistics. The Nash family said Keskinocak’s groundbreaking

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Tech Topics.indd 26 12/15/10 8:47 AM work in humanitarian logistics will benefit from these funds, and the victims of natural disasters will benefit as supplies and criti- Anonymous $5 million Commitment cal equipment are delivered quickly into disaster areas. “I’m excited about the work Pinar is do- Helps Campaign Gain Momentum ing. We got a lot of leverage from this dona- tion because she’s working with a number By Leslie Overman of charitable organizations, particularly in humanitarian logistics. Her work is very The Student Center ballroom was awash in white and gold for the campus valuable,” Deborah Nash Harris said. launch of the public phase of Campaign Georgia Tech on Nov. 12. Hundreds of stu- Harold Nash was a lifetime contribu- dents, faculty and staff nibbled on popcorn and yellow-and-white M&Ms after filing tor to Roll Call, the Alumni Association’s into the room to hear about the Institute’s annual fund, and a volunteer leader in a progress in reaching its goal of $1.5 billion number of educational, civic and religious by December 2015. It is the most ambitious organizations. All three children have fol- campaign in Tech’s history. lowed this model by consistently giving to The audience burst into applause fol- Roll Call and to other Georgia Tech needs lowing an announcement by Anderson D. and requests, as well as by providing vol- Smith, senior vice provost for Academic unteer leadership to various organizations Affairs, that a current faculty member had at the Institute. made a commitment of $5 million. Ron Nash said he, his brother and his “This person has requested anonymity sister value the pride for Georgia Tech so I can’t reveal his or her name, but I will instilled in them by their parents. “But say there is no doubt that this one gift will we also valued what Georgia Tech gave transform and provide critical support for to them. Their story is not unique but still one of our academic programs,” Smith said. pretty incredible, and an important part Nearly 1,000 faculty and staff members was played by a Georgia Tech legend.” already had contributed to the campaign. Coca-Cola Enterprises chairman and CEO John Harold Nash enrolled at Tech after As of Oct. 31, faculty and staff commit- Brock serves as chair of Campaign Georgia Tech. World War II using the GI Bill to finance ments totaled $3.8 million. The Institute his education. He and Mary Anne married has set a faculty/staff goal of $15 million. shortly before he began classes. In addition to helping the Institute realize the goals outlined in its 25-year strate- “They had little money and could get gic plan, the campaign also will help Tech “achieve a level of excellence that would no financial help from my grandparents. not otherwise be possible,” said President G. P. “Bud” Peterson. “It will allow us to Mother was working during the day, and add endowed chairs and professorships, to help us continue to attract the very best they had paper routes in the early morning faculty in the country. It will allow us to provide scholarships for undergraduate and evening to generate additional money. students and fellowships for graduate students so that we can continue to attract the They even qualified to live in subsidized very best students from across the country and, in fact, around the world.” government housing,” Ron said. It also will make possible the construction of new facilities, Peterson said, noting “I was born the spring of my dad’s that 71 percent of the funding for capital construction projects completed on campus freshman year, and Dad switched to night in the past decade came from private philanthropic gifts. classes so he could also work during the Peterson said $925 million was raised during the campaign’s quiet phase. Tech day,” he continued. “My grandparents will be hosting a series of 40 campaign launch events across the country and interna- pitched in by keeping me as my parents tionally over the next two years. worked. By the time Dad got to be a junior, Upon taking the stage, campaign chair John Brock, ChE 70, MS ChE 71, noted he had to attend his EE classes during the that without private philanthropy the Tech campus would not be what it is today, day with Mother continuing to work.” mentioning some of the campus structures named for generous benefactors, includ- Mike was born during the spring of ing the Carnegie and Smithgall buildings and the Stamps Student Center Commons. their father’s senior year. With two little Brock and his wife, Mary, have made a commitment to fund half of the total proj- ones, their mother was going to have to ect cost of an 80,000-square-foot indoor practice facility for Tech’s football program. give up her job to care for them. Without Construction is scheduled to begin this winter. his wife’s full-time income, Harold was go- “We believe we have a very strong personal obligation to give back to Georgia ing to have to drop out — with one quarter Tech,” Brock said. “And I hope that each of you will join with us in thinking about left to earn his degree. Harold went to the just how important it is to do for future generations what others have done for us.” Dean of Students Office to withdraw from

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Tech Topics.indd 27 12/15/10 8:46 AM ron Nash, IE 70 Deborah Nash Harris, IE 78 Mike Nash, IE 74

Tech. Dean George Griffin refused to sign the withdrawal papers. with the latest campaign, Ron and Deborah served on the steering “Dean Griffin asked him how much money he needed to finish committee. the quarter and get out,” Ron said. “And Dad told him he needed “I was trying to figure out what to give,” Ron said. “I thought, $1,000. Dean Griffin said, ‘I’m not going to sign this. You can come ‘Deborah and Mike are also going to be contributing. What if we back tomorrow for me to sign it.’ Dad was upset that he had to all got together? We could give something even more important.’” come back a second day and did not understand why Dean Griffin Mike said their mother, now in her 80s, was “proud and very would not sign the withdrawal form. pleased” when she learned of the professorship and the woman “He came back the next day to get Dean Griffin’s signature. To appointed to the post. his complete surprise, Dean Griffin handed him a check for $1,000. Harold Nash died in 1991. “But we know he would have been He’d gone to the Atlanta Rotary Club and gotten someone to put honored by his children doing this in his name,” Mike said. up a $1,000 loan for my father so he could finish his education at Much has changed at Georgia Tech since Harold Nash’s days Georgia Tech,” Ron said. “Dad graduated, paid back the loan and on campus. in later years joined the Rotary Club and became president.” “It has retained elements that are important — very rigorous The siblings agreed that Dean Griffin helped change the path academics, the need to be tough, to persevere,” Deborah said. “But for the entire Nash family. I think the curriculum now includes more liberal arts content and “It took a family that never had a high school graduate up to more focus on communications and teamwork, which are so im- consistently having college graduates in one generation,” Ron said. portant to career success.” “That’s one of the reasons we wanted to honor our parents. That Ron said Tech is “still a stamina contest. That’s great for busi- first Tech degree made a spectacular impact on our family and on ness. But it’s broader now. If you go back to our dad right after multiple generations.” World War II, not only was it all male, it was much like a military All three of the siblings have had children of their own gradu- college. That was the style.” ate from Tech. Deborah’s son, Andrew Willingham, got a master’s Mike considered how things have changed since the 1970s. “I in music technology in 2010. Ron’s son, David Nash, received two began classes with a slide rule. I ended with a $99 Bomar Brain, a degrees in 2003, in mechanical engineering and international af- four-function calculator,” he said. “The subject matter is not that fairs. Mike is the father of two Tech alums, Jennifer Tench, Arch 02, different, but the way that the educational process takes place now and Michael Nash Jr., MS OR 05. with technology is so different.” The fourth Nash sibling, Mary Alice, continued the family Ron said, in addition to academics, he learned about people Tech tradition by marrying Arthur Ivey, CE 81, and having a son, and leadership. Benjamin Ivey, who is a current Tech student majoring in chemical “I don’t think I would have gotten as broad of a leadership engineering. background at other universities as I got here,” he said. “I think Talk of honoring their parents with a professorship began in that’s been far more valuable in business. Three more calculus the late 1990s, in the midst of Tech’s previous capital campaign. As classes would have done nothing for my career.”

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Tech Topics.indd 28 12/16/10 9:59 AM Tech Notes

Nanomedicine Center Nets $16.1 million The Georgia Tech-led Nanomedicine Center for Nucleoprotein Machines has received an award of $16.1 million for five years as part of its renewal by the National Institutes of Health. The eight- institution research team will pursue development of a clinically viable gene correction technology for single-gene disorders and demonstrate the technology’s efficacy with sickle cell disease. In addition to experts in the Coulter Department of Biomedi- cal Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tech, researchers from the Medical College of Georgia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York University Medical Center, MIT, Stanford and Harvard are members of the center. The gene correction approach proposed by the researchers to treat sickle cell disease involves delivering engineered zinc finger nucleases — genetic scissors that cut DNA at a specific site — and DNA correction templates into the nuclei of hematopoietic stem cells isolated from the bone marrow of those with the disease. Tech Expanding French Campus Georgia Tech is expanding its campus in the northeast region of France with a new resource center for industry and academic research laboratories. French authorities will finance about $31 million to create the Lafayette Institute at Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz. The institute will provide access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities for optoelectronics, technology transfer and commercialization services. It will focus on technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology. “This European innovation hub will strengthen Georgia’s global footprint in technological innovation and serve as a link between research laboratories and industry, where technological solutions and prototypes can be developed rapidly to stimulate economic development,” said Yves Berthelot, president of Georgia Tech Lorraine. Dean’s Scholarships Kick-started While Joe Evans, IM 71, was volunteering a few years ago to reach out to top high school seniors who’d narrowly missed out on President’s Scholarships, he had an idea to still draw these students to Tech and, specifically, the College of Management. Evans, chairman-elect of the college’s advisory board, talked to Dean Steve Salbu about creating an alternative, and the Dean’s Scholarship Program was born in 2009. Initially, the program involved the establishment of 20 term scholarships, each requiring gifts of $30,000. This has enabled the college to award 10 Dean’s Scholarships (averaging $7,500 annually for four years) to entering freshmen in both 2010 and 2011. Because the funding for these scholarships expires after four years, the college has been working to endow a minimum of 40 permanent scholarships, requiring gifts of $200,000. The matching

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funds provided by the challenge gift have accelerated this initia- professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecu- tive. As of October, 15 endowed scholarships had been created. lar Engineering and the project’s principal investigator. “If we can Evans, past chair of the Alumni Association, and his wife, Rae- make it easier for people to be vaccinated and improve the effec- na, again played a leading role in the process, with the endowment tiveness of the vaccine, we could significantly reduce the number of three Raena W. and Joseph W. Evans Dean’s Scholarships (a total of deaths caused every year by influenza.” of $300,000 in investment). The couple previously had funded the college’s first expendable term scholarship. Legislative Priorities Outlined Georgia Tech has set its priorities for the state Legislature’s 2011 Patch Gets $10 million, Five-year Grant session, which begins in January. The priorities are available online The National Institutes of Health has awarded $10 million to at gov.gatech.edu. Tech, Emory and PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit, to advance a The priorities are to secure $4.2 million in bonds to fund the technology for the painless, self-administration of a flu vaccine us- construction of the eco-commons/storm water relocation project; ing patches containing tiny microneedles that dissolve into skin. $177 million in new “formula funds” among all University System The five-year grant will be used to address key technical issues of Georgia institutions to adjust for enrollment growth; and $100 and advance the microneedle patch through a clinical trial. The million in major repair and rehabilitation funds. Strengthened sup- grant also will be used to compare the effectiveness of traditional port for the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Enterprise Innova- intramuscular injection of flu vaccine against administration of tion Institute also is sought. vaccine into the skin using microneedle patches. In animals, vaccination with dissolving microneedles has been shown to provide Materials Research Medal Presented immunization better than vaccination with hypodermic needles. The Materials Research Society awarded Tech physics professor “We believe that this technology will increase the number of Walter A. de Heer the Materials Research Society Medal at its annu- people being vaccinated, especially among the most susceptible al meeting in Boston in December. He was cited for his “pioneering populations of children and the elderly,” said Mark Prausnitz, a contributions to the science and technology of epitaxial graphene.”

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Tech Topics.indd 30 12/16/10 9:58 AM The medal recognizes an exceptional achievement in materials Tech Gets Support for Race to the Top research in the past 10 years and is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement that has a major impact on Tech will receive $7.5 million in funding through the federal the progress of a materials-related field. Race to the Top program to expand science, technology, engineer- “I am very pleased and encouraged that our research to devel- ing and math programs through its outreach center, the Center for op epi-graphene for electronics is recognized already in this early Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing. stage. This will certainly stimulate others to join us in this impor- Georgia Tech’s initiatives will be based on a NASA model pro- tant endeavor,” de Heer said. vided through the Institute’s Distance Learning and Professional De Heer and his lab at Georgia Tech are known worldwide as Education unit for teachers pursuing advanced courses. Tech also the first to conceptualize the use of graphene for electronics in 2001. will continue to expand the Georgia Intern-Fellowships for Teach- Currently de Heer’s lab is working on developing epitaxial gra- ers program that places high school STEM teachers as partners in phene as a replacement for silicon in electronics. summer internships in industry and university research. Regents’ Actions Affect Institute Lab Chief Named Woman of the Year The University System Board of Regents voted in November to At the 11th annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards, approve: Georgia Tech Research Institute Information and Communications Proposals from the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern Lab chief scientist Margaret Loper was named the 2010 Woman of to establish undergraduate degrees in mechanical, civil and electri- the Year in Technology in the medium business category. cal engineering by a 9-8 vote. Loper created the Georgia Tech Modeling and Simulation Re- The tennis center demolition and construction of a facility to be search and Education Center, bringing together academic faculty named for Ken Byers and indoor courts for Bill Moore. and GTRI researchers for the advancement of simulation technol- Construction of a Ferst Drive transit hub. ogy. She joined GTRI as a research scientist in 1995 and received Naming of the new indoor football practice facility for Mary her doctorate in computer science at Tech in 2002. and John Brock.

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Tech Topics.indd 31 12/16/10 9:57 AM Office Space

Charlie Kemp: Master of Robotics

Story and photos by Van Jensen group is known for its album Straight Talk on Raising Kids, which has been a mainstay on college radio stations. harlie Kemp builds robots. His office and an adjoining lab, on the second floor of a Technology Square building, are filled Robotic inspiration: I got into this because I was interested in ar- Cwith functioning robots and the assorted computers and mechani- tificial intelligence. My adviser at MIT thought robotics was a cal parts that accompany the task. Kemp, an assistant professor in good way to understand intelligence. If it’s grounded in this biomedical engineering at Tech, founded the Healthcare Robotics body and the world, it can be valuable. Lab in 2007. His goal is to design robots that can be used in health care, particularly to help the millions of people with physical im- A booming field:Robotics finally has begun to deliver on the pairments who require assistance in their daily lives. Before coming grand dreams of science fiction, dreams that pop culture has to Tech, Kemp earned three degrees from MIT. While in Boston, he had for years. Computing power is increasing, and we have was a member of the electro-pop band Electric Laser People. The better sensors. It’s an excellent time to be in robotics.

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Tech Topics.indd 32 12/15/10 8:45 AM Purpose for robots: Coming to Georgia Tech, I wanted to take Science fiction:I love sci-fi. For current authors, I like Vernor seriously the notion that robots are machines that can help us Vinge. He’s really talented and captures these worlds where in daily life, particularly in health care. For those who need as- everything fits together. For classic authors, I like Asimov. He’s sistance, robots offer privacy, independence, round-the-clock great with robots. assistance and consistent performance. Film robots: There’s a new movie, Moon, I was really impressed Robots in the home: Robots have been very successful in factories, with that. It was just this guy with this robot, and it only had which are controlled environments, with no people around a smiley face. But it could communicate so much. And Blade them. Now they’re entering our home environment, our office Runner is an obvious one. Are there any robots I haven’t liked? space. How are we going to interact with robots? And how are I’m a sucker for it. If you put a robot in a movie, I’m going to they going to interact with the world? Those are our challenges. watch it.

Robot toy: This one my wife’s parents got me. It just looks cool. I Robot arm: It’s simple, and like how it’s made out of random objects, but it all comes to- it works. It’s fun to play gether. It’s reminiscent of how we pull parts together to build around and see how much robots. you can do with it. Robot arms are really expensive. New ones cost about $100,000. So there’s a need for cheap arms.

Feeding robot: This is a robot we’re really excited about. Its name is Gatsbii. We’re collaborating with Psychology, Computing and the Aware Home, looking at how to use robots to help older adults live at home independently. The maker gave out the robots to 11 teams based on their proposals. The code is open source, which is great. We can all develop something that the future of robotics can be built on.

Robotic firsts:This is something I love to see. [Gatsbii has just successfully scooped and delivered M&Ms.] I come out of my office, and robots are doing something new. This is a time of firsts. Once, I had a robot prepare pan- cakes. It’s important to develop things to allow robots to do something new.

Using sensors: We added an RFID antenna ourselves. We’re looking at the idea of adding labels to little things around the room. For a light switch, it would tell the robot that it can turn it on or off.

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Tech Topics.indd 33 12/15/10 8:44 AM Harsh retirement: This is an older robot, EL-E, and it’s kind of go- giene is a big issue, and the sponge bath is our first effort to ing into robot retirement. It’s dangerous being an old robot in a have robots help with that. The broader notion is that the robot robotics lab. You tend to be cannibalized for parts. needs to reach out and make contact with people. We’re looking at how they can do that effectively. Robot mobility: Cody has two arms and wheels that allow it to go anywhere, which is important. They can move in any direction, Importance of touch: We did a study that showed that leading a just like people can. The arms are flexible, just like our arms. robot through an obstacle course by hand is more effective than We’re making this open doors and using a gaming controller. One of the subjects was a gamer, and drawers right now. That’s some- he said he liked the controller, but he still hit fewer obstacles thing people take for granted. leading the robot by hand. There’s a lot of the world hidden behind doors and drawers. Robot retriever: This is Dusty, which can pick up objects. We found that dropped Adding AI: Another nice thing is objects are a big the robot doesn’t have to have an issue for people. exact model of whatever it opens. This is able to We just tell it where the handle pick them up is. It doesn’t need to know if it’s a really easily and door or a drawer, it just figures it consistently. out. Robots, so far, have not had We did a study, any common sense. Generally, and people had people know how much force success using it. it will take to open something. They really light We’re trying to develop that for up to have that robots, which relates to the AI independence. side. Future of robotics: Robots need to be designed so they can meet Robot sponge bath: Cody was preferences. It’s probably not going to be one robot fits all. Just also cleaning people recently, like with cars, there are so many different types to meet what which got some attention. Hy- people want. But we still need the Model T of robots.

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Tech Topics.indd 34 12/15/10 8:44 AM What’s in a Name?

Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management Fred B. Wenn Student Center

hen the Student Center opened its doors in Student Center dedication ceremony, Wenn’s “father 1970, it was furnished with “molded plastic came to the U.S. from Edinburgh, Scotland, to be a mis- lime-green furniture and hot pink butterfly sionary to Choctaw Indians. The early loss of his father Wchairs,” according to a history of the building on the and the plight of his family led to a real sense of respon- Georgia Tech Web site. The center had a cafeteria, craft sibility and obligation. He worked his way through room, ballroom, chapel and theater. And, in a first for a college by delivering milk to town customers and college campus, the center’s 12-lane bowling alley was eventually was co-owner of a small dairy in Manhattan, equipped with automatic scoring machines. Kansas.” One day this past October, students stopped by the Following service in World War I, Wenn worked for Tech Rec center to bowl for just 40 cents a game, a spe- GE in Schenectady, N.Y., while completing his bach- cial rate in celebration of the Student Center’s 40th birthday. elor’s degree at NYU. He later received a master’s degree from Em- Although construction on the Student Center took about three ory. Wenn began teaching finance and investments courses through years, the process of getting the center funded and approved took Tech’s commerce department in 1923. nearly three decades. An article in a 1968 issue of the Georgia Tech In 1958, Wenn retired from Tech as professor emeritus and was Alumnus reported that the Student Center was “the subject of more named an honorary member of the senior class, receiving the dedi- false starts, more frustrations and more dedicated work by more cation of that year’s Blueprint. He was named an honorary alumnus people than any other building in Tech history.” of the Institute by the National Alumni Association board of trust- Six years after it opened, the center was renamed the Fred B. ees that same year. Wenn Student Center in honor of a longtime industrial manage- According to a brochure published by the Georgia Tech Thou- ment professor who spent years overseeing students’ efforts to sand Club and filed in the library’s archives, Wenn and ODK raise money for the building. A bronze relief of Wenn, who died in members raised more than $250,000 for the Student Center over 1972, was unveiled at a dedication ceremony May 4, 1976. It now the years. Under the professor’s guidance, ODK members encour- hangs on a wall on the second floor of the center. aged students to purchase defense stamps and donate them to the Wenn taught at Tech for 35 years and for most of that time fund during World War II, recruited an acting troupe to campus for served as an adviser to the campus chapter of Omicron Delta a benefit performance of Much Ado About Nothing, held used book Kappa. He was a member of the leadership fraternity himself and sales and charged visitors for campus parking on game days. served as national vice president. Before the Student Center opened, Wenn was presented a Tech Born in Erie, Kan., in 1891, Wenn was one of five children. His whistle in recognition of his work raising money for the building. father died when he was just 7. According to a program from the — Leslie Overman

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Tech Topics.indd 35 12/15/10 8:43 AM Ten Questions Scott Sergent: The Cable Guy

Story and photo by Leslie Overman er/producer/editor for On the Flats, he’s working with Sony Pictures Imageworks. Becky Bardwell [STC 00], who started cott Sergent’s friends think he’s the luckiest guy in the world out as a student producer, she’s working with Qualcomm on because he gets to watch TV all day. A shelf across from his various projects, including FLO TV. Jessica Luza [STC 07] was desk holds three televisions tuned to channels run by the a fashion host for The Hills on MTV. Tech doesn’t really have SGeorgia Tech Cable Network. As programming manager, Sergent broadcasting or communications, so it’s great to see these stu- schedules and airs the network’s original shows and documentary dents go on and, without the formal education, do great work programs, some of them Telly Award-winning productions. When with these major companies. he’s not looking at those TV screens checking for problems with audio or graphics, he may be found in the network’s studio work- 6. With a lot of television networks putting episodes of their ing on videos or overseeing the work of students producing shows. shows online, do you think students are spending less time watching shows on an actual TV set? 1. How long have you been working at GTCN? We’ve talked to our students, and we get that: “Oh, I watch a Been here 12 years. I’m kind of the gray beard around here. lot of video online.” GTCN is making the transition to put more I love the people I work with and it’s a big-time team atmo- content online. sphere, but I really enjoy working with the students. I have a couple of [former] students who still write me today, 12 years 7. Were you involved in your university’s cable network? later, and say, “Hey, let’s get together for lunch.” So it’s nice to I graduated from East Tennessee State, and we had a com- know that you’ve kind of made an impact on their lives. munications school, so I was the sports anchor. ... I think it’s a big help in my job because I went through the same things our 2. How has the network changed during your 12 years on staff? students are going through right now. And if something doesn’t When I first started, we had VHS tapes. We would take a tape, turn out right or if they have a bad tape or a show goes kaput, I put it in and program it into a router, and it would go off at the can kind of understand where they’re coming from. time we wanted it to. We had a clipboard, and we would write in, by pencil or pen, the name of the program and how long it 8. Do you feel like watching TV when you get home from work? was, and we had to physically calculate the time. Now it’s all It’s funny you ask that because sometimes you watch TV all by computer. day. I have three TVs in my office; one is on GTCN 21, the other’s on GTCN 20, and I have one in the middle where I can flip 3. What are some of the original programs GTCN has produced? through and check channels in case a channel goes out. So there We have a program called On the Flats on the football team. Stu- are times where it’s like I’ve looked at a box all day, I need to do dents go to press conferences and interview players. Another something else. I’ve got two children. We have a 3-year-old and one of the programs we’ve done is called Kings of the Court. a 1-and-a-half-year-old, so they take up lots of time and lots of It’s kind of a reality show where we follow one of the Housing energy. It’s a good diversion. And there are some times where teams on the basketball court in intramurals. I just want to watch TV and not worry about “Is this channel coming through?” or “Do we have a problem on that show?” 4. What roles do students play at the network? What we do is we train them. And then we turn them loose 9. What are your favorite shows? with the audio equipment, the camera, all of that, and when Mad Men. I really like that. I got hooked on it. Pretty much any they come back, they’re responsible for editing, writing the sports-related program — I’m a big college football fan. I like scripts. Basically they’re a jack of all trades: shooter, writer, edi- the oldies too. M*A*S*H* is one of my favorite shows. My wife tor, producer, director. We’re there in the shadows, but they re- [Kimberly George Sergent, Mgt 92] hates it, so I have it on the ally do all the hard work. TiVo. Seinfeld, of course. You can’t go wrong with that.

5. Are any GTCN alums working in television or film? 10. When you’re not watching TV, what do you like to do? Rhett Finch [IE 04], he was an assistant editor for the Speed I have a weekly blog on SECsportsfan.com, so I do a lot of Racer movie, The Incredible Hulk and one of the X-Men movies. sportswriting. I’ve also written a novel. I finished it about eight He also was a segment producer for Animal Planet. He was an years ago. It’s about a guy who goes back in time to play base- assistant editor on a TV series called Brothers. He was assistant ball with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and he meets a girl and has to editor on a show called 10 Things I Hate About You. He’s done decide whether to stay there in the ’50s or come back to present some stuff for HBO. Sam Rickles [CM 10], who was the shoot- times. It had to have sold at least three or four copies.

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Tech Topics.indd 37 12/15/10 8:39 AM Student Life

Global Focus International perspective is at the heart of the student group AIESEC, which staged an international gala at the Alumni House in November through the work of committee members, left to right, Shiza Pasha, Emnet Almedom, Priya Nakra, Nickolas Gerhardt Seitz, Eliza Seim and Mansi Shah. AIESEC, the world’s largest nonprofit student-run organization, fosters global understanding through student exchange. The 60-year- old organization has about 55,000 members in more than 100 countries. Tech’s chapter, billed as AIESEC’s highest-performing group in the United States, has 90 active members, with 22 of them currently working abroad.

Students Around the World Linked Creativity of Engineering The creators of OpenStudy want to Each user has a profile page that shows Seniors Displayed at Expo make the entire world a study group. how many questions each one has asked Ashwin Ram, an associate professor and answered as well as how helpful his Mechanical engineering, biomedical in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, answers have been. Recently, OpenStudy engineering and industrial design teamed up with his wife, Preetha Ram, added a feature that allows the student student teams displayed 40 projects at associate dean for pre-health and science users to rate the quality of the answers the Capstone Design Expo on campus in education at Emory University, as well as they’ve been given. December. Chris Sprague, MS CS 04, and entrepre- OpenStudy has more than 350 study The expo is the culmination of neur Phil Hill in 2007 to create OpenStudy, groups that users can join, including AP engineering seniors’ final undergraduate an online system that links students History, Natural Language@Georgia Tech Capstone course, in which student around the world in real time, so they can and Emory Biology. Students may join a teams systematically design, build and get help at any time, day or night. course by using the search function to find report solutions to a variety of problems OpenStudy debuted in August and a topic of interest. from industrial sponsors or their own already has more than 11,000 users from OpenStudy also has teamed with imaginations. 151 countries, with a particularly large MIT’s OpenCourseWare, the world’s larg- The projects included underwater presence in the United States, China, India est provider of free educational classes. bottom-cleaning equipment for large and Brazil. Students using OpenStudy courses can tanks in the Georgia Aquarium; Using OpenStudy is free. All a user has join one of 10 official MIT study groups on an autonomous floating blimp for to do is sign up and connect with a study its site. indoor store or mall advertising; and group that covers his topics of interest. “We will continue to extend the reach an improved design for rice husk “We’ve seen some fantastic examples of OpenStudy so that study help is within gasification stoves for use in Nicaragua. of students worldwide connecting and reach of every student in the world re- Others were a scaled-down helping each other, such as a student from gardless of location, social background or process development demonstration Los Angeles being helped with chemistry the time of day,” Hill said. for separating paper from plastic for by a student from Istanbul, Turkey,” Ash- OpenStudy is a for-profit spin-off that recycling and the Global Soap Project, a win Ram explained. was started at Georgia Tech’s Advanced design for a volunteer-operated factory Currently about 90 percent of the ques- Technology Development Center and is to recycle soap from U.S. hotels to tions posed on OpenStudy are answered, funded by the National Science Founda- distribute to refugees in Africa. and each question asked receives input tion, the National Institutes of Health and from an average of 4.5 other students. the Georgia Research Alliance.

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Tech Topics.indd 38 12/16/10 9:56 AM Marshall Scholar Will Pursue Master’s at Oxford

Nick Wellkamp, ISyE 09, has been and looking forward ment Association for 2008-09, during which named a Marshall Scholar and will attend to our long-term time he led initiatives to promote campus the University of Oxford to pursue a mas- challenges such sustainability and reform the Institute’s pol- ter’s degree in economics. Wellkamp, of as energy, climate icies regarding football ticketing, campus Louisville, Ky., plans on pursuing a doctor- change and sustain- e-mails and final exam preparation. ate as well. able economic devel- He also served on the Georgia Tech “It’s a tremendous honor and a dream opment, I think we presidential search committee and was a come true,” said Wellkamp. “The chance need more leaders member of the student advisory committee to study at Oxford will be exciting, chal- who are well-versed to the Board of Regents. lenging and intellectually enriching. I feel in economics,” Well- Wellkamp spent a summer working in incredibly blessed to get an opportunity like kamp said. “I am the Office of Science and Technology Policy this.” also excited to gain a at the White House and another with a po- Wellkamp said he is eager to pursue a global outlook on the challenges facing hu- litical consulting firm in Atlanta. world-class education in economics and manity through exposure to British, Euro- After being selected as a Marshall final- already realizes how the degree can help pean and other international perspectives.” ist, Wellkamp interviewed with a six-mem- him with his long-term goals. Wellkamp, who was awarded the Harry ber panel in Atlanta, where they asked him “Given the economic challenges our S. Truman Scholarship in 2009, was presi- questions ranging from subjects in econom- country and our world are facing right now, dent of the Undergraduate Student Govern- ics to solar panel technologies.

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Tech story is oneof of determination the toClass prove the registrar wrong

By Tom Roberts

have always been proud to be a Tech alumnus, and this Georgia Tech was directly across I-75/I-85 (two lanes each way is especially true when I read the many articles in the at that time) from the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., where I worked. Pop, Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine about the activities and one of the route supervisors at Coca-Cola, often would drop the accomplishments of other Tech students, faculty and alum- hint that I should apply for admission. I was too embarrassed to ni,” Tom Roberts, ME 69, wrote. “I’ve often wondered if tell him how poorly I did in high school and that I would be wast- other readers would be interested in the journey of a fellow alumnus who ing everybody’s time if I applied to any college, let alone one like “I‘slipped through the cracks.’ At the request of my children, I have docu- Georgia Tech. mented this experience and offer you a copy of what I have sent to them.” I finally relented and stopped by the Tech admissions office. They told me to have a transcript of my high school grades sent to During the first several months of our marriage in 1963, my them. I knew I was in trouble and felt deep regret and embarrass- wife, Martha, and my new father-in-law, Claud Jackson “Pop” Mc- ment for wasting so much of my youth and the earlier opportuni- Neely, encouraged me to consider pursuing a college education. ties I had in school.

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FE_MyStory.indd 40 12/15/10 9:06 AM I had graduated at the bottom of my class in 1959 — literally 194 out of 194. I had been expelled a couple of times, had never taken the first college prep class, failed biology three times and never took the SAT. I sent for my transcript, and a couple of weeks later the admissions office called to ask me to stop by. They told me what I already knew: I could not be admitted. If I took a series of what were called pre-freshman subjects, offered as refresher courses to potential students, and did well, I could be considered. These classes were only offered at night and were not accredited. I paid my fees and began classes in the fall quarter of 1963. To me, being allowed to take these refresher classes was a victory of sorts. I was a “Tech student.” It was probably the first time in my life that I actually felt good about what I was trying to do. I vividly remember the night I started my first class at Tech. I parked in the lower lot outside the Price Gilbert Library. I sat in my car and looked at the stairway leading to the classroom building, and it struck me Tom Roberts worked at Coca-Cola by day and took pre-freshman classes at Tech at night. When he tried to be admitted that they were symbolic of the journey I at the Institute as a full-fledged student, Roberts had to deal with the formidable registrar, William Carmichael. was about to begin. I had no illusions about being admitted to Tech — or of graduating. quit another course because I was doing school do you want?” Since I never re- I was determined, however, to give it my poorly, and I didn’t. ally thought I could get into Tech, I hadn’t best shot until I was kicked out. During my last quarter of the refresher thought about what school I would apply During the following five quarters, I courses, I registered to take the SAT in early for if given the chance. The registrar had continued to work at Coca-Cola and go December 1964. I had made good grades in my folder in his hands. It was stamped to night school. I took the recommended all of the classes — except that first chem- with an alphabetical list of the schools, with courses in English, trigonometry, geometry, istry course — and felt confident about a check-off box next to each one. I was able physics and chemistry. Actually, I took the taking the SAT, despite my history of not to see aeronautical engineering was first on pre-freshman chemistry course twice. The doing well on “big tests.” the list. I said, “Aeronautical engineering,” first time I took it, I thought I was in over In early January 1965, on the final he checked the box and signed an official- my head and did very poorly on the mid- evening before registration ended, I went looking form that would change my life. term exam. A friend and I had the same to the registrar’s office in hopes my SAT I began my accredited classes the fol- level of understanding of chemistry and results had arrived that day. At that point, lowing evening. About a week later, I did equally poorly on the midterm. I was the results were at least a week past due. I received a call from the registrar’s office. discouraged and thought I would never asked a registrar if he could just go ahead They had received my SAT results, and the “get it,” so I stopped going to class. He, and accept me. I pleaded that I had been head registrar, an elderly gentleman named on the other hand, stuck it out, did a lot of told five quarters earlier that if I took all of Mr. Carmichael, wanted to see me at once. I cramming before the final and came out the refresher courses and did well, I could was finishing my shift at Coca-Cola, which with a C. be favorably considered for admission. It meant that both my Coca-Cola uniform and I retook the chemistry course the fol- wasn’t my fault the test results had not ar- I were pretty raunchy. But I went to Tech as lowing quarter and was able to pass it on rived, I told him. requested. the second try. I vowed that I would never He looked at me and said, “What The first words from Mr. Carmichael

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FE_MyStory.indd 41 12/15/10 9:06 AM Mr. Carmichael went on to tell me the chance of me ever making it through Tech was almost nonexistent, that I was wasting the school’s and my own time.

when I walked into his was pregnant — with twins. huge, paneled and carpeted Luckily for us, the post-Korean office were, “Who the hell War GI Bill took effect July 1, let you into this school?” 1966, at the same time we were He told me what any aspir- scheduled to run out of money. ing Tech student knew: At As an Army veteran, I was enti- Georgia Tech, the minimum tled to $105 per month for Mar- SAT score for admittance tha and me, our two daughters was 1200, and the minimum and our anticipated twins. acceptable score in math During finals week of my was 700. He informed me freshman year — June 8, 1966, to that my total score was be exact — I kept Martha up late 833. The math portion was asking me questions about Lord something like 500. I have Jim, the book on which the final never been proud to admit exam would be based the fol- these results, and in fact, lowing day. Early in the morn- I don’t believe I have ever ing of June 9, Martha said it was told anyone of them until time to go to the hospital, so off now. we went. At 8 a.m., Baby A came Mr. Carmichael went on into the world, and five minutes to tell me that the chance of later Baby B appeared — big me ever making it through twin boys. Tech was almost nonexis- My English professor al- tent, that I was wasting the lowed me to take the final a school’s and my own time. couple of weeks later and gave Before I walked into his me a C in the course. (I think she office, I would have admit- had young children at home.) I ted that I never expected to enrolled for the summer session graduate from Tech. To me, and began classes soon after being a Tech student, saying bringing the boys home from that I made it into college the hospital. was an end in itself. I never I continued with my class thought I could compete work and took odd jobs, includ- with those who had applied ing cutting grass and painting. themselves in high school. We spent about $2 to $2.50 per That was the case until I week on gas for our VW Bus stood in front of this man and about $25 to $30 per week who was telling me that I didn’t deserve to be at Georgia Tech. on groceries for six. My mom, Nana, was working at General Mo- He said he would not overrule the assistant registrar’s decision tors Diesel in Detroit, and she sent us $25 every other week or so. to admit me, but he would be watching me carefully. If I didn’t Pop gave us $10 a week toward groceries. maintain acceptable grades, I would be asked to leave. I was on track to complete my coursework in December 1968, I attended night school for the following three quarters, tak- and as that time drew near, I began to interview with several coming two subjects a quarter and scoring B’s and C’s. I also worked panies. It was a good time for engineers, and the recruiters were a lot of overtime at Coca-Cola so Martha and I could save enough lined up at the placement office. All an aspiring graduate had to money for me to attend day school for three quarters. At the time, it do to arrange an interview was sign the schedule posted by the cost $125 per quarter for tuition and about $40 for books. I resigned company. During the early part of the fall quarter, I traveled for from Coca-Cola, and on Sept. 24, 1965, I began day classes. interviews in Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, South What we didn’t realize when I left Coca-Cola was that Martha Carolina and Tennessee.

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FE_MyStory.indd 42 12/15/10 9:05 AM Tom and Martha Roberts are surrounded by their family for a Thanksgiving gathering in November. Twin sons John, MS Mgt 99, and Mike are on the left and right, just as they were in the 1969 commencement photo on the opposite page. In addition to the four children and spouses and 15 grandchildren, ages 10 to 24, is Iryna Ivashchuk, far left, MS IntA 05, a Ukraine native who lived with the Robertses for nearly two years while attending North Georgia State College & University in Dahlonega and now is considered a member of the family.

The interviews and travel took a considerable amount of time your-dream” homily. As a youngster, I never thought about what away from my classroom and study activities, and as a result, by I would do after my school years and did less to prepare for that the middle of the term I was failing Engineering Economy, a re- time. College was for kids who were bright and applied themselves quired class for graduation. in school. An engineer was the guy who drove the train. I had accepted a job at Tennessee Eastman Co. in Kingsport and I applied to Georgia Tech primarily because I was tired of mak- was scheduled to begin work the week after the fall quarter ended ing excuses to my father-in-law. I wanted to finally get it behind me in December. It was a time of high anxiety. I remember going to the and admit to him and to Martha that I just didn’t have what it took Decatur and Tech libraries over the four-day Thanksgiving week- to be accepted at a school like Tech. end and studying no other subject but Engineering Economy for But being allowed to take those pre-freshman classes and being several hours each day. I all but memorized the entire book, and as considered as a “Tech student” triggered something in me. For the it happened, all the final exam questions were taken from the text- first time in my life, I felt the respect of those who meant the most book. I got a B in the class. to me. Our grades were posted Dec. 13, 1968. I had passed all my I am humbled and thankful that I was given this opportunity classes. We moved to Kingsport that weekend, and I began work at and that the Lord placed people in my path who encouraged me, Tennessee Eastman the following Thursday. believed in me, helped me in so many ways and stood by me dur- At the time, Tech had commencement only once per year, so the ing the often difficult and stressful times when I least deserved their exercise for those finishing in December was the following June. understanding, patience or love. This is especially true for my best In June 1969, Martha, our eldest daughter, Cathy, Nana and Pop friend and my mate, Martha. were with me at the Fox Theatre to be part of the commencement Tom and Martha relocated to Dahlonega, Ga., in 1986, when he joined celebration. a design/build utility contracting firm in Suwanee. Roberts retired as one There you have it. I often have wondered what I would want of the company’s principals in 2004. He has given to Roll Call, the Alumni to tell my children and grandchildren about the journey and what Association’s annual fund, for 42 consecutive years — every year since he lessons they might draw from it. It is not intended to be a “follow- proved Mr. Carmichael wrong and earned his Georgia Tech degree.

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FE_MyStory.indd 43 12/16/10 10:48 AM FutureMedia executive director Renu Kulkarni unveiled an outlook that covers the six most critical trends that will shape how media is created, distributed and consumed in the years to come.

Collaboration Data Tsunami People across the New systems will globe will partner arise to sort out in shared virtual the flood of online spaces. information.

Content Integrity Mixed Reality As more personal Smart phones will allow data moves online, consumers to overlay digital security threats data onto their everyday lives. will increase.

Multimedia Assumed True Personalization Consumers will Content and advertising will expect content to be tailored to individuals be interactive and rather than mass-marketed. multifaceted.

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 44 12/15/10 9:10 AM Shaping the Future of Media Story by Van Jensen Illustrations by J Chris Campbell Photos by Meghann Riepenhoff

hen Renu Kulkarni agreed to return to her alma mater consumers need to find a phone number, they usually look online. in mid-2009, she wasn’t sure exactly what she’d signed “What I find is this revolution,” Kulkarni said. “There’s chaos, a up for. Her position was vaguely charged with unifying perfect storm. It’s a terrific opportunity.” W Georgia Tech’s efforts at the intersection of next-gen- For Kulkarni, jumping into chaos is like a fish diving into water. eration technology and media. But Kulkarni, MgtSci 85, said she She’s spent much of her 24-year career in the high-tech field at the didn’t know Tech had many digital media efforts until she started. front edge of nascent areas. After graduating, she joined GTE and “When I was brought on, we didn’t know what to call this or later Sprint, where she developed a packet data connection service. what to call me,” Kulkarni said. One of the businesses she worked with became America Online. As ephemeral as her job was, the subject matter presented even “What we were creating was a cloud,” Kulkarni said. “This was more uncertainty. The rapidly changing technological landscape the Internet.” has revolutionized the way people create and consume media. From there, she joined BellSouth International and dove into Consumers increasingly are reading newspapers, magazines the global wireless communications market. It was a new, rapidly and books online, while print publishing has flagged. People use growing business, and she described the experience as if she were a Web sites like Netflix and Hulu or services like TiVo and DVR to kid in a candy store. watch TV and movies whenever they want and without any com- As the focus shifted from wireless to mobility, Kulkarni, a self- mercials. described geek, transitioned from management consulting to a In one instance of this widespread change, Verizon recently position with Motorola in Chicago. With mobile devices, social net- announced it would cease publishing phone books. People are re- working, augmented reality and other new technologies changing placing landlines with cell phones, the company explained, and if the media landscape, Kulkarni decided to return to Georgia Tech.

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 45 12/15/10 9:10 AM Renu Kulkarni, executive director of FutureMedia, says her job is to bring experts together and help Georgia Tech garner the reputation it deserves.

As she cast around the Institute, she unearthed more and more which included talks by leading media members and presentations efforts relating to media. By her count, Tech has 20 academic units, of the cutting-edge research at Tech. CNN aired 20 segments re- 37 labs and nearly 500 faculty members working in the area. lated to the event, including an interview with Kulkarni. An online “That’s a powerhouse,” Kulkarni said. “My job is to put the replay of the fest was viewed by people in 77 countries. experts together and help Tech garner the reputation we deserve.” Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson spoke at the fest and made This loose amalgamation of media researchers has come to be clear how much importance he places on FutureMedia, which fits called FutureMedia, with Kulkarni as its executive director. It has in with the Institute’s new strategic plan. the stated mission of driving research and economic growth for “We believe that innovation and creativity are going to be the Tech and its partners while exploring and enabling new paradigms drivers of the 21st century,” Peterson said. “What things might be for creating, sharing and consuming content. beyond the horizon?” One of Kulkarni’s first efforts was organizing an event to bring During her introductory remarks at the fest, Kulkarni unveiled together that community of educators and researchers. Only 89 the first FutureMedia outlook. days into her time at Tech, Kulkarni kicked off the 2009 FutureMe- “We put a stake in the ground,” Kulkarni said. “Based on prag- dia Fest. It was a successful, though relatively small, event, but it matic research with our partners, we found there are six fundamen- raised awareness within the Institute and with its partners. tal trends, and these will only exacerbate over time.” This fall, Kulkarni launched the 2010 FutureMedia Fest with Instead of specific predictions, the outlook is a map of the six quite a bit more fanfare. Turner, Coca-Cola, HP and Cisco were crucial areas — mixed reality, data tsunami, content integrity, true among the sponsors. Nearly 800 attended the weeklong event, personalization, multimedia assumed and collaboration — in the

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 46 12/16/10 10:51 AM future of media. It offers a glimpse at the potential and pitfalls on clunky visors wired to large backpacks, the handheld multimedia the horizon and a course for Georgia Tech to navigate as it seeks to devices that have proliferated in recent years have brought aug- shape that future. mented reality to consumers worldwide. Mixed reality is a major focus of the GVU, an interdisciplinary Mixed Reality center for human-centered computing. GVU director Beth Mynatt, At the FutureMedia Fest MS ICS 89, PhD CS 95, said that research area has changed dra- panel discussion on augmented matically in the past decade. reality, a video clip was shown “Previously, our focus was mostly on workplace technology,” of an updated version of the she said. “Augmented reality 10 years ago was primarily about classic game Rock ’Em Sock defense and the workplace. Now, [SimCity creator] Will Wright has ’Em Robots. In the video, two said mobile AR is the future of gaming.” men sit at a table. One sets Through those and other efforts, the GVU has become a central down a simple sheet of paper part of the FutureMedia effort. It has partnerships with Turner, with a few designs on it. When Motorola and Qualcomm, which Mynatt said shows that Tech is at the two men raise their smart the forefront of the media experience. phones, two robots appear on the screens, and the men control The focus on media-related research has grown in the past five their punches during a virtual boxing bout. years, which coincides with Mynatt’s tenure as director. Rather Whereas augmented reality long has been associated with than take credit, Mynatt attributed it to the nature of media.

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 47 12/16/10 10:52 AM “What you see is media technologies tend to take the most lanta’s Oakland Cemetery that mixes physical travel with a virtual risks,” she said. “They’re early adopters. Those other industries tour guide. And more developments are on the way. — health care, defense, workplace technology — are more conser- In June, Georgia Tech and Qualcomm Inc. partnered to create vative. Focusing on media allowed us to be at the edge of opportu- the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio, a research and nity.” design center to pioneer advancements in the area. The other factor that has led to the growth in augmented reality As far as these efforts have come, there still are practical con- — and the revolution in all forms of media — is the increased use cerns to overcome before augmented reality truly proliferates. At of mobile technology, Mynatt said. the FutureMedia Fest, Qualcomm’s director of business develop- Years ago, technology researchers assumed devices would con- ment Jay Wright noted one hurdle. verge. Instead of having a TV and a computer, people would have “It turns out augmented reality is a battery’s worst nightmare,” one device that combined both, she said. he said. “It’s like running a 3-D game and playing a movie at the But people have adopted multiple devices and fit them around same time. We have a ways to go.” their lives. “Previously, media was thought of as something that happens Data Tsunami on the TV,” Mynatt said. “Now, people watch TV on the tube, but As Internet usage has in- they also watch it on their laptop and their handheld device.” creased, the amount of content And in the future, augmented reality will play a much larger generated online has surged role in the media people consume. At the FutureMedia Fest, prod- as well. ucts were displayed that allow people to use a smart phone to view Every month, some 30 bil- detailed instructions visually overlaid on an engine that needs to lion things are uploaded to be repaired. Facebook, and that number is PBS Kids has created an online game using only a sheet of only increasing. People watch paper and a computer with a Webcam that lets children virtually 2 billion videos per day on hatch a dinosaur from an egg and interact with it. YouTube and upload hundreds Georgia Tech’s efforts in the area include creating a tour of At- of thousands of videos.

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 48 12/16/10 10:55 AM About 617 exabytes — an exabyte is 1 quintillion bytes — of transform and present large amounts of data in ways that are easier content are added online every year, a virtual wave of information for people to view and understand. threatening to overwhelm Web surfers. Another GVU effort at data parsing is the Cobot: Health Intel- With this trend only increasing, “the winners will be those who ligence project. Researchers have created virtual agents with artifi- help simplify, who help consumers get at what they really need,” cial intelligence to go onto a health Web site and sort through data Kulkarni said. to offer users the best personalized medical advice. One of the central players in the dual efforts of adding and sort- Mynatt said she hopes such projects will take off and spread ing data is Google. Michael Jones, creator of Google Earth and the outward from media. company’s chief technology advocate, said during an address at “People are being too conservative in health, education and the the FutureMedia Fest that the world is made up of people who em- workplace,” she said. “If you give people the opportunity [to use brace the information age and those who are scared of it. new technology], they will take it.” “The people who are frightened think it’s a fad,” he said. “They’re going to go back to the horse.” Content Integrity He predicted a future in which the online world is completely As more people come on- enveloping, an ever-present ether of information. While only 30 line — and put more of their percent of the world has Internet access today, he said that would lives online — there is an increase to 100 percent within 20 years. increased risk of hackers and Jones said Google’s efforts will include continually perfecting other online criminals illegally its search tool and developing a universal translation system. accessing and abusing that in- “To Google, there’s almost a holy nature to sharing informa- formation. tion,” he said. “When you give societies information, they’re go- “There’s more vulnerability ing to be able to purge themselves of bad things. Humanity has with growth, so security be- switched on an insatiable appetite for information.” comes more important — and The Technology Enabled Visual Cognition in Virtual Teams more difficult,” Kulkarni said. project at the GVU uses visual representation technology to select, That area has been a major

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 49 12/15/10 9:14 AM focus at Tech for years, formalized with the 1998 creation of the which allows people to digitally check in at different physical loca- Georgia Tech Information Security Center. The GTISC holds an an- tions and build an interactive map of their lives. nual security summit and releases a yearly cyber threats forecast. Personalization also is spreading to content creation. At a dem- Despite all of the focus on cyber security, Mynatt cautioned that onstration that coincided with FutureMedia Fest, GVU researchers no silver bullet is on the horizon. For every advance in security that showed off WorkTop. It’s a multi-touch tabletop that allows users is made, hackers will work until they find a way around it. to interact with and create content. “There are interesting challenges. Security, that’s a race that will Another project is Urban Remix, which lets users record natural never end,” she said. sounds around them and then remix the sounds into customized But in that ever-changing environment, Kulkarni sees opportu- music. nity. Mynatt is the leader on the Salud! Health and Wellness project, “There are going to be job titles we don’t even know of,” which allows users to track and analyze their own physiological Kulkarni said. “New industries metrics and see how they change over time in response to different will be created.” factors. But the movement to personalize content is not without risks. True Personalization If people only get information tailored to their interests, how will Gone are the days that adver- they be exposed to new ideas and outside viewpoints? tisers could get by with a single, “It’ll be a balance,” Kulkarni said. “I do worry we’re losing ob- simple ad campaign to run in jectivity. We’re beginning to take sides.” newspapers and on network TV. Through Google, Facebook Multimedia Assumed and other channels, companies are In the future, Kulkarni expects that content will be available not using online data to learn about only on whatever device people use, but also that it will be interac- consumers and customize adver- tive and combine multiple forms of media. Text, video, audio and tising to the individual. games will all blend together. Digital personalization doesn’t just belong to advertising. Mo- One of the main questions for panelists at the FutureMedia Fest bility has led to a rise in geo-tagging programs like Foursquare, was what this shift means for traditional media companies.

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 50 12/15/10 9:11 AM “We’re at a point that is similar to the invention of the film camera. There’s a new method of inscription and transmission. For movies, it took a long time to exploit that ability.”

Jim McAffrey, Turner’s executive vice president of operations she hasn’t. Kulkarni works remotely for the most part from her of- and strategy, said that while technological changes have been af- fice in Chicago. fecting media dating back to Gutenberg’s printing press, “the wa- “I credit Georgia Tech for supporting this flexible arrange- ter’s getting a little frothy these days.” ment,” she said. “It shows it can be done.” Turner’s strategy, he said, is to embrace new technologies. Last It makes sense that Kulkarni would utilize such an unorthodox year, for instance, the company sent a team with experimental cam- working situation, as one of the tenets of the outlook is to encour- eras and gear to do a test broadcast of a Georgia Tech basketball age new types of collaboration through virtual workspaces. game. Simple tools such as e-mail and file-sharing services make this At the same time, McAffrey said, people will be drawn to qual- possible, but Tech researchers are ity material. building more advanced collabo- “At the end of the day, it’s about great content,” he said. ration systems and finding new Janet Murray, the dean’s uses for them. professor in digital media at One team, led by Michael the Ivan Allen College, said the Best, a joint assistant professor changing technological land- in the College of Computing and scape allows for more complex the Sam Nunn School of Interna- storytelling. She discounted the tional Affairs, is developing an concern that today’s content is interactive story-sharing system too scatterbrained and insub- and virtual war memorials to stantial. promote post-conflict develop- “I tend to take the long ment with Liberia’s Truth and view,” she said. “You don’t Reconciliation Commission. An- get Harry Potter without Don other of Best’s groups is building a system for people in developing Quixote. We’re at a point that is countries to collect and share public information. similar to the invention of the film camera. There’s a new method The idea of collaboration is central to the FutureMedia mission, of inscription and transmission. For movies, it took a long time to both among media researchers on Tech’s campus and with outside exploit that ability.” partners. Murray directs the Experimental Television Laboratory, which “There are so many different groups at Tech working on the looks to exploit that technology. One project, the Smart EPG and media experience,” Mynatt said. “How do we connect those work- Story Navigator, uses an iPad as an advanced remote that allows ing on security, user experience and everything in between? The users to scroll through content on the device. It also can be used to nice thing about the fest is that it’s really pulled people together custom design content, such as splicing new scenes into programs. and connected them to the outside.” The lab also built an interactive story called Reliving Last Night. It’s essentially a choose-your-adventure story, but in digital form. Future of FutureMedia Viewers make choices for the main character on the iPad control, Though Kulkarni is confident in the outlook, she warns that it and that impacts the outcome of a short film. only pertains to the coming five years. The landscape is far too tu- Mynatt said an important part of Georgia Tech’s efforts has multuous to predict beyond that. been engaging undergraduate students in the research. The GVU What, then, is the future of FutureMedia? and Research Network Operations Center hold an annual innova- Kulkarni said the initiative is having “mature” conversations tion competition for students to develop convergence applications. with potential industry partners, and she expects to have some- “We get some of our best ideas from students,” Mynatt said. thing to announce within the next year. She also plans to continue “I can’t think of a better way to conduct research in this space. to grow and improve the FutureMedia Fest. They’re living this notion of convergence already. Our corporate Her goal for FutureMedia is to build Georgia Tech into a rec- partners love it.” ognized center of world-class research in the area and to move research projects into the marketplace. Collaboration “It’s really an exciting time to reinvent ourselves,” she said. Kulkarni’s office in the Georgia Tech Research Institute build- For those looking to thrive — or even just to survive — these ing is hardly decorated beyond her desk and a few chairs. There’s uncertain times, Mynatt offered some simple advice. a whiteboard mostly filled with a diagram of the FutureMedia out- “Reinvent yourself,” she said. “Be ready to cannibalize some of look and a smattering of ideas and questions. your business. We’re just at the edge. The one thing you can count If the office looks like she hasn’t yet settled in, that’s because on is there will be winners and losers.”

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FE_FutureMedia.indd 51 12/15/10 9:11 AM Illustration by Torian Parker, images from Shutterstock

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FE_Diversity.indd 52 12/15/10 9:00 AM Just Causes Diversity directives are driving the Institute toward equity for all By Kimberly Link-Wills

rchie Ervin knows he has a lot of work to do. Intent on hit- book, of 13,515 students, 8,485 were white, 2,953 were Asian, 873 ting the ground running on his first official day at Georgia were black and 734 were Hispanic. Tech on Jan. 3, Ervin has been on campus for meetings to On the faculty front, Peterson said over the last four years the Abring him up to speed off and on since he was named the inaugu- number of African-American faculty has increased 25 percent, and ral vice president for Institute Diversity in early October. Hispanic faculty is up 58 percent. The 2009 fact book figures show President G. P. “Bud” Peterson gave an idea of what is ex- of 930 full-time faculty members, there were only 28 Hispanics and pected of Ervin during remarks at a diversity symposium at Tech 32 blacks. Asians accounted for 194 faculty members. There were in September. 670 white full-time faculty members — more than double all non- “We will recruit, develop and retain and engage a diverse cadre white teachers combined. of students, faculty and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, In welcoming members of the Atlanta Diversity Managers’ Af- perspectives, interests and talents, creating a campus community finity Group to a late October luncheon at the Georgia Tech Hotel, that exemplifies the best in all of us in our intellectual pursuits, Peterson again stressed that diversity is “very, very important” to our diversity of thought, our personal integrity and our inclusive the Institute. excellence,” he said. “We provide more African-American engineers, more women Peterson listed some strides Tech has made. About one-third engineers and the second largest number of Hispanic engineering of the student population is female, an all-time high. In this year’s graduates of any institution in the country. We’re continuing to try freshman class, African-American enrollment is up 53 percent from and build on that success,” Peterson said. the previous year. The number of Hispanic freshmen increased by “I look forward to the time when we do not any longer need 63 percent. a chief diversity officer, where we recognize that diversity is an However, numbers are not as impressive as the percentages. important part of every person’s job at the Institute,” Peterson told According to undergraduate enrollment figures in the 2009 fact the group.

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FE_Diversity.indd 53 12/16/10 11:12 AM ‘Uneven Access to Equal Opportunity’ needs. Part of that was to be able to capture the talent of the world and bring them to Georgia Tech to be that source of knowledge. Ervin was at that luncheon. He wasn’t rattled by Peterson’s Georgia Tech was committed to this, and I wanted to get in on the hope that his job someday would be obsolete. ground level. I left a very comfortable situation and, by all esti- “We are challenged by overcoming our past. Our past is so mates outside of mine, a very successful tenure to take this chance long that our best hope is that we can make incremental prog- to be a part of the new boldness,” he said. ress along the way and make things better,” Ervin said during a “I believe that equity knows no boundaries. I don’t think it’s a break between meetings in his new French Building office in mid- gender-specific thing or race specific. What is right is right,” Ervin November. “I don’t see where everything will be resolved. We’re said. “You try to give every opportunity for individuals to be suc- on this stage for a very short period of time considering the order cessful and to eliminate any artificial barriers to that.” of things. The reason we talk about diversity period is because we He said his job at Tech is to create “an overarching responsibil- are a society that has had uneven access to equal opportunity in all ity for achieving the objectives of an inclusive and equitable com- areas of human endeavor.” munity.” To do that, Ervin is assembling a team that will help him Ervin pointed to Tech’s aspiration to be a leading 21st century create an Institute-wide report on issues of equity, diversity and technological university, one the world will turn to for answers to inclusion. its toughest questions. “We’re not going to be that university un- “I don’t think you can honestly” study all the issues dispas- less we have the greatest talent of the world here. If we can’t be sionately, Ervin said. “I do try very hard — very hard — not to put the best and the brightest irrespective of individual differences, we Archie in charge of values. I keep myself centered by saying, ‘I’m won’t be that,” he said. not the person who judges you. I can listen to you.’ “I’m very aware of the differences in access to opportunities,” “I was raised during a segregated time, effectively, in North Ervin said. “I see higher education first and foremost as the great- Carolina. I went to an all-black school until I was in the seventh est leveler in society, and I see higher education as offering the grade, then public integration of the schools occurred that next greatest hope for humankind to be successful, because it is at this year,” Ervin said. “That shaped me because I perceived there were level of thinking that we really tackle the great issues of our time. some things in life that didn’t seem fair to me, and so I began a This is where I want the greatest intellect brought to bear.” lifelong quest.” Ervin said he resigned from his post as the associate provost for diversity and multicultural affairs at the University of North Making Advances for Men and Women Carolina at Chapel Hill because of the leadership vision at Georgia Mary Frank Fox, the ADVANCE professor in the School of Tech. Public Policy within the Ivan Allen College and co-director of the “I saw a leadership vision that dared to be bold, that said it Center for the Study of Women, Science & Technology, has dedi- wanted to be among the international leaders in addressing human cated her research to the work force in science and academia.

“I see higher education first and foremost as the greatest leveler in society, and I see higher education as offering the greatest hope for humankind to be successful, because it is at this level of thinking that we really tackle the great issues of our time. This is where I want the greatest intellect brought to bear.”

— Archie Ervin

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FE_Diversity.indd 54 12/16/10 11:13 AM “My aspiration is that Georgia Tech be a leader in the advancement of faculty and that it lead the way in equitable processes for the advancement of faculty and that this be a hallmark of Georgia Tech. We are moving in the right direction. ... I have been working on these issues as a lifelong commitment, and I have seen progress.”

— Mary Frank Fox Rob Felt

“I came to Tech [in 1993] because of the opportunities that velopment of a modified duty plan that allows faculty and staff to looked to be available for focusing on issues of scientific personnel reduce their job responsibilities for family reasons, including the in the workplace. It turned out that that has been the case. At Geor- birth or adoption of a child or the care of a parent, Fox said, also gia Tech, soon after I got here, I co-founded the nation’s first curric- crediting the NSF grant with the opening of a day-care center for ular program in the study of women, science and technology,” Fox Tech employees’ children and more than half a dozen lactation said. “I also co-founded the first learning community at Georgia centers on campus; enhancing equity in tenure and promotion; and Tech, which was on women, science and technology, and the Cen- establishing the ADVANCE professors. ter for the Study of Women, Science & Technology. So it was the case that Georgia Tech was open to research on these issues and Room for Improvement to policies and practices, based on the research, that would lead to Although the grant funds are gone, the Institute has continued enhanced participation of both men and women.” funding ADVANCE professors in each of Tech’s six colleges. The NSF launched the ADVANCE initiative to increase the rep- “Part of the responsibilities of the Advance professor are to resentation and advancement of women in academic science and build community among the women on the faculty and to sup- engineering. port faculty development in the college,” according to Fox, who “The rationale for the program was that individual solutions said the six ADVANCE professors meet monthly to address cross- were not working,” Fox said. “It isn’t really a problem of women college issues. falling short in their training, background, capabilities, but it is She believes ADVANCE has helped with the promotion of an issue more primarily of the features and characteristics of the women into senior ranks at the Institute. places in which people work. What do you find when you get to “I am very proud that Georgia Tech is one of the very few in- the workplace? stitutions with ADVANCE awards that have addressed tenure and “That is what I have been working on my whole life. When promotion. Georgia Tech is one of the few institutions with an NSF ADVANCE came along, it was in line with what I had been doing Advance award that’s really gone to the heart of the matter,” and the focus of my research program,” said Fox, who has three Fox said. sociology degrees from the University of Michigan. “I can tell you “That doesn’t mean that Georgia Tech doesn’t have room for that as a professor, when I began, women in science and engineer- improvement — like other universities also have room for im- ing was barely a topic.” provement,” she said. “My aspiration is that Georgia Tech be a Fox took the lead writing the proposal, and in 2001 Georgia leader in the advancement of faculty and that it lead the way in Tech was one of nine institutions to receive an ADVANCE grant. equitable processes for the advancement of faculty and that this be The Institute’s award was $3.7 million over five years. a hallmark of Georgia Tech. The ADVANCE program at Tech helped bring about the de- “We are moving in the right direction. It takes continuing com-

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FE_Diversity.indd 55 12/15/10 8:59 AM mitment. It takes continuing attention. It takes continuing involve- ated at Tech are from all-male teams; 3 percent from all female; and ment. It takes continuing positive practices,” Fox said. “I have been 18 percent from teams of mixed gender, according to Sanders. working on these issues as a lifelong commitment, and I have seen She advised Tech’s administration to make the Institute “the progress. Has progress occurred as quickly as it might? No. But it place that is known for women to come for a top-notch education. has occurred, and I am encouraged.” … I’d like to come back in a few years and see that ranking on your Web site. All the pieces are here.” Shared Concerns Ellen Zegura, chair of Tech’s School of Computer Science, said Fox has served on the National Center for Women & Informa- the Computing faculty roster shows a “pretty impressive number tion Technology advisory board since it was initiated in 2004. She of women, including women in full professor roles. … Our num- attends national meetings annually to address the lack of women bers for female students are actually very weak, so in some ways in computing. we may have an opposite problem to what Engineering has, where “Even the physical sciences have shown significant improve- the student body diversity is very strong but perhaps as you move ment in the participation of women. Physics, which has had an up the ranks of the faculty you start to see more of a problem.” underrepresentation of women, has a positive trend line. But women’s participation in computing has just been sort of flat,” Fox Family Friendliness said. “There appear to be issues about people’s perceptions about Gender pay equity is a subject of discussion on campus as it the field, about the culture of success in computing. People have is across the nation and across professions, said Pearl Alexander, perceptions that field is asocial and that it doesn’t connect with Tech’s senior director of human resources and diversity manage- human dimensions.” ment. Lucinda Sanders, CEO of NCWIT, was a panelist at the Sep- “I think we are, from what I can tell across industries, doing tember diversity symposium. She said women’s participation in about the same. But here’s the deal: Across industries, women are computing has been declining since the mid-’80s. still not paid equitably when it comes to their male counterparts. “In fact, when you look at the truly innovative roles that we It’s one of my soapboxes, actually, because I believe that the reason have in areas of computing, women are not faring very well,” she that is is because we still are using compensation systems that are said. “They contribute less than 2 percent of all open-source soft- largely designed by white males,” Alexander said. ware. This is shocking to me and should be shocking to you.” Through a partial tuition reimbursement program for employ- She said women start fewer than 5 percent of all information ees, Alexander earned bachelor’s and law degrees while working technology companies and hold fewer than 5 percent of leadership at Georgia Tech, where she has been for more than 20 years. jobs in computing. “Clearly women are not participating in the “I did raise my daughter mostly as a single parent. Shortly creation of technology.” after getting here to Georgia Tech, I became divorced and had to Seventy-nine percent of information technology patents gener- make those adjustments — go to school, take care of home, try to

“When you really look at the difference between 2010 and, say, 1710, have we made a difference? You’re doggone skippy we have. When you look at the difference between 2010 and 1810 or 1910, is there a difference in the quality of life for women in this country and internationally? Yes. Is it consistently available or applied? No.”

— Jacqueline Jones Royster Rob Felt

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FE_Diversity.indd 56 12/16/10 11:14 AM “Georgia Tech is known for this entrepreneurial spirit and culture. I think if we can take that same spirit and culture and just look at how we want to succeed in the diversity arena, we can set a unique and impactful type of environment to be in. But we’ve got to move away from some of these more traditional notions of how we do things.”

— Pearl Alexander Rob Felt

keep your career on some kind of an even keel,” she said. “I certainly felt the power differential between being a woman Alexander’s efforts in faculty and staff retention include look- in the work force and being a man in the work force,” she said, ex- ing at ways to help Tech employees balance their work and family plaining that most women have another full-time job of managing lives. the household when they get home. “Should we be doing something different for the people who “Do we have the commitment to pay attention to the actual are here at Georgia Tech like having a charter school or a high lived experiences of women in the work force? Do we have the school?” she asked. “I think if you want to be really competitive commitment to respond to those conditions in a systemic and that’s a perfect example of how we could attract some of the best systematic way? That, to me, is a kind of gender diversity. But the women and men — be more family friendly. We may actually same goes for racial diversity or disabilities or for language diver- move down this path toward a work-live-play community, and I sity. Do we have a calendar that recognizes holidays other than think that would be a huge benefit for us.” Christian holidays?” she asked. Although her two children now are grown, Ivan Allen College Dean Jacqueline Jones Royster “absolutely” remembers the pangs Taking the Long View of maternal guilt she felt as a working mother. The Ivan Allen College dean only since September, Royster said Royster shared some of the thoughts that went through her she doesn’t know Tech’s answers to these questions. head. “‘What are they going to think of me?’ ‘I don’t bake cookies.’ “But there are some basic questions that I can always ask. This ‘I can’t take them to the park at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.’ ‘I’m is a university where engineering, science and technology have sometimes too busy to have these really sustained conversations. dominated for over a hundred years. What does it mean that in They can tell I’m not paying attention.’ 2010 27 percent of the faculty are women? Does that say something “I have laughed with my grown kids now on more than one about the number of women who are available to be here? Does occasion about whether they thought they had a good childhood,” it say something about trajectories of success and participation in she said. “I didn’t just walk away from those responsibilities. I or- success after they get here? chestrated my life and, in many instances, didn’t get a whole lot of “The thing to acknowledge about the United States it that sub- sleep because I was trying to keep all those balls in the air at once.” stantive social change has been incremental, and in order to gain a Royster said she never was passed up for committee appoint- true sense of transformation, you really have to have long vision,” ments or job duties because she was a working mother. Royster said. “We can look at 1960, for example, and 2010 and say, “I have seen that happen to other women, but sometimes it ‘Hmm, we’ve made considerable progress at Georgia Tech in terms helps to be pushy and a loudmouth,” she said. “I guess because I of the participation of women in this environment.’ Some of the tried to be fleet of foot in managing work and home, people were old photographs tell you that. not as distracted as they might have been by the fact that I was a “When you flesh all that out, there are things that need to be working mom. done — still. There are patterns of disregard that need to be han-

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FE_Diversity.indd 57 12/16/10 11:14 AM dled — still. There are patterns of participation and involvement that need to be addressed — still,” she said. “Diversity is a verb and not just a noun. You have to think about what actions are being systematically applied and sustained in order to build that sense of transformative change. “I always invite people to take the long view,” Royster continued. “When you really look at the difference between 2010 and, say, 1710, have we made a difference? You’re doggone skippy we have. When you look at the difference between 2010 and 1810 or 1910, is there a difference in the quality of life for women in this country and internationally? Yes. Is it consistently available or applied? No. Is there any sector where we’re done? No.” ‘A Perfect Storm’ Royster granted that human beings have been “slow learners about how we foment positive change and how we sustain that change. … I always hope that we can find ways to go in over- drive, and I always hope we don’t have to spend time reinventing all the wheels all the time. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest we have had a hard time taking those kinds of lessons in.” Still, Royster is hopeful change is possible. “It’s hard to exhibit any kind of difference and not feel the impact and consequences of whatever that difference is — whether you’re a tall person, whether you’re a redhead, whether you’re a woman, whether you’re a black person, whether you are a Muslim. The question is whether noticing will make a difference in our behavior, in our expecta- tions, in our valuing. I remain hopeful in this kind of sci-fi way that one day we will have a society in which our differences won’t matter so much.” Gordon Moore, Mgt 92, MS Mgt 97, director of the Office of Minority Educational Development at Tech, reported on the campus climate during the diversity symposium. “I think a perfect storm is happening. The thing about perfect storms is we can all die or we can take advantage of it,” Moore joked. “We have our first Hispanic provost [Rafael Bras]. We have our first black dean [Royster]. We have our first black male SGA president [Corey Boone], who also has a Hispanic executive vice president [Brenda Mo- rales]. There are a lot of wonderful things getting ready to happen.”

A mural on the Wells Fargo Bank building just off campus depicts moments in Tech history, including the matriculation of three African-American students in September 1961.

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Revving Up Electric Volt Micky Bly helps steer GM to Car of the Year award By Van Jensen

he past year has been a big one for General Motors. The He has worked in various facets across the company — and company enjoyed a successful initial public offering after around the world. He started out as a lead development engineer emerging from bankruptcy. And its electric Chevrolet Volt in redesigning the Corvette’s iconic V8 small block engine. In 1997, model was named the 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year. he transferred to England to work on the Ecotec L4, GM’s global GM has staked much of its future to the Volt, which was devel- four-cylinder engine. Toped in part by Georgia Tech alumnus Micky Bly. In 2006, Bly was back in Michigan and became director of glob- Bly, executive director of hybrid, electric and battery engineer- al hybrid integration and controls, managing teams responsible for ing, grew up in Augusta, Ga., before enrolling in the Institute. His the design of GM’s hybrid vehicle line. In 2009, he took on a new corporate biography credits a passion for “tearing apart, figuring role and title as executive director of global electrical systems, hy- out and putting back together” for leading him first to Tech and brid and electric vehicles and OnStar engineering. then to the auto industry. He now leads about 2,000 engineers around the world who are Bly interned at GM four times while studying mechanical engi- responsible for all aspects of GM’s electrical systems. The work of neering. He joined GM at its Detroit headquarters as a powertrain Bly and his team was recognized with the 2008 Chevy Tahoe Hy- development and validation engineer after graduating in 1990. brid being named Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year.

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Burdell.indd 61 12/16/10 10:37 AM GM dedicated much of its resources A critical part of that will be information, to development of the Volt, an electrically entertainment and human-machine interac- powered car designed to drive on its lith- tion technologies, and Bly said his team is ium-ion battery pack for 25 to 50 miles. A developing things to make GM a leader in 1.4-liter gasoline-powered engine can then the area. kick in, giving the car an additional range Bly is just one of many Yellow Jackets to of 310 miles on a full tank of fuel. The car make an impact at GM. The company cur- simply needs to be plugged into a standard rently employs about 100 alumni at more outlet to recharge its battery. than 20 locations around the world. Addi- The car was seen as a big risk for GM, tionally, about 40 current Tech students are an expensive venture that required cutting- serving as interns or co-ops at GM. edge components. Bly and his team of en- GM officials said the company has gineers had a four-year window to develop given $1.4 million in education grants, those technologies. $900,000 in scholarship programs and “Our biggest challenges centered $700,000 in research grants to Georgia Tech. around the development of all these new the Volt’s launch has tended to obscure a Bly reflected on his time at the Insti- technologies on the production-critical simple truth: This automobile is a game- tute as the propulsion that pushed him path,” Bly said. “We knew that if our parts changer.” into the automotive industry. And it was failed to deliver, the program would not “I am so proud of the GM team and the breadth of engineering offered at Tech launch.” what we have delivered,” Bly said. “I can that allowed him to work in so many areas Of those challenges, the biggest was honestly say this is the high point of my 20- across GM, he said. designing the lithium-ion battery. year career with GM. This car is just amaz- “I believe that my mechanical engineer- “We had no idea how to design the bat- ing, and the top critics agree.” ing classes and degree have given me the tery,” Bly said. “No one in the automotive Bly said that one of the most important best possible foundation to take on any industry had a blueprint. We were asking a aspects of developing the Volt was making challenge that I have encountered while technology used in cell phones to be scaled sure it offered a pleasant driving experi- working at GM or on the Volt,” Bly said. up to supply enough energy to propel a ence, not just an eco-friendly engine. “It is key that Georgia Tech’s academic 3,500-pound vehicle between 25 and 50 “Driving the Volt is easy to describe,” programs continue to grow and adjust to miles electrically at speeds up to 100 miles he said. “Open the door, get in, push the the cross-engineering needs of complex per hour. Not a simple task.” start button and drive. It’s as easy as that. systems similar to vehicle engineering or The battery also would have to last The real pleasure of the vehicle is the driver the Chevy Volt. eight years in environments from 30 de- experience, from the outside design to the “Engineers of the future must be able grees below zero Celsius up to 50 degrees interior technology interactions.” to work together to resolve tough technical Celsius. Bly opted to work with LG Chem, Motor Trend agreed with that sentiment. and societal problems of the future. Geor- a leader in cellular technology, and GM In announcing the Volt as Car of the Year, gia Tech can and should continue to lead in internally designed and developed the bat- the magazine enthused, “It is a fully func- this area,” he said tery and its support systems, he said. tional, no-compromise compact automobile Outside of vehicle engineering, Bly “We were able to do this during the that offers consumers real benefits in terms listed his interests as watching sci-fi movies worst financial times of the industry, and of lower running costs.” and renovating houses. we delivered,” he said. Bly said he hopes the Volt can lead to a But the bulk of Bly’s engineering skill Despite the unconventional power sys- shift toward more eco-friendly vehicles. continues to be focused squarely on the tem, the Volt has a top speed of 100 mph “Our customers are making a commit- future of the automotive industry. and accelerates from zero to 60 mph in less ment to technology that will help reduce “I feel so blessed to have a career I than nine seconds. our dependence on petroleum,” he said. love and family that supports what I do,” Motor Trend was effusive with praise in “In turn, we commit to deliver the highest he wrote on the GM site. “In fact, I think I naming the long-in-development Volt its standards for value, safety, quality, perfor- may even have two future engineers on my Car of the Year: mance and reliability to our customers.” hands. My 8-year-old son Ethan is already “In the 61-year history of the Car of the The Volt became available for sale in a car buff, and he can’t wait to see which Year award, there have been few contend- select markets in December, and it will new car I’ll bring home. And my 10-year- ers as hyped — or as controversial — as the expand gradually. While Bly couldn’t say old daughter Emily is already talking about Chevrolet Volt. The Volt started life an Old what project is next on his plate, he said his engineering school. Maybe someday they’ll GM project, then arrived fully formed as role will continue to be in developing GM’s both be working on a new concept vehicle a symbol of New GM. … As a result, a lot electrical systems and pushing more prod- that could change the industry and make of the sound and fury that has surrounded ucts and technologies similar to the Volt. their old man’s work seem obsolete.”

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1940s 1970s 1980s Richard Collier, AE 48, of Englewood, Fla., Philip M. Breedlove, CE 77, has been con- Art Graham, ChE 87, was appointed by Flori- won a gold medal in tennis singles in the 85 firmed for promotion to four-star general in da Gov. Charlie Crist to the state’s Public Ser- to 89 age group at the 2010 Huntsman World the Air Force with assignment as vice chief of vice Commission in July. Graham was elected Senior Games held in October in St. George, staff of the Air Force. Lt. Gen. Breedlove is the chairman of the commission in October. In that Utah. More than 10,000 athletes from 17 coun- deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and position, he also acts as the chief administrative tries participated in 27 sports during the two- requirements at the Air Force headquarters in officer of the PSC. week event. In tennis, there were 422 players Washington, D.C. Joseph R. Martin, ME 81, has published a in the eight age groups, and nearly 700 match- Alex Gregory, TE 70, is one of five CEOs fea- book, No Bag for the Journey, about a solo 2,700- es were played in a five-day period before all tured in a book by Merwyn A. Hayes and Mi- mile cross-country bike trip he took as a youth of the medals were awarded. chael D. Comer published in November, Start minister “to revitalize his faith.” Martin is the With Humility: Lessons From America’s Quiet rector of the Church of Our Savior Anglican 1950s CEOs on How To Build Trust and Inspire Follow- church in Glenshaw, Pa. He and his wife, Hei- J. Michael Duncan, CE 59, MS CE 62, distin- ers. Gregory is president and CEO of YKK Cor- di, have two children, Wesley and Madeline. guished professor emeritus of Virginia Tech’s poration of America, located in Marietta, Ga. Chris Shiver, ME 81, after 22 years with the Charles E. Via Department of Civil and Envi- Carolyn Meyers, MS ME 79, PhD ChE 84, same consulting engineering firm in which he ronmental Engineering, was the 2010 recipient has been named president of Jackson State Uni- of the G. Brooks Earnest Award and Lecture held such positions as principal engineer, has versity in Jackson, Miss. Meyers, who has more from the Cleveland section of the American So- formed his own forensic mechanical/electri- than 30 years of experience in higher educa- ciety of Civil Engineers. A member of the Na- cal/safety engineering firm, Chris Shiver PE tion, previously served as president of Norfolk tional Academy of Engineering, Duncan joined LLC in Roswell, Ga. Shiver and his wife, Julia, State University in Virginia. Virginia Tech in 1984. His work in geotechni- recently celebrated 25 years of marriage. The cal engineering includes embankment dam en- Jeffrey Sheppard, BS 76, M Arch 78, is co- couple have two sons, Ben and Nick, who is a gineering, soil shear strength and slope stabil- founder and design principal at Roth + Shep- senior physics major at Tech. ity, seepage through soils and finite element pard Architects, which was named 2010 Firm Wilbur Strickland, ChE 82, has been named analysis for soil structures. He has served as of the Year by the Denver chapter of the Amer- vice president for global chocolate research, de- a consultant on a number of major geotechni- ican Institute of Architects and AIA-Colora- velopment and quality at Kraft Foods with re- cal projects, including the Panama Canal and do. The firm, known for its law enforcement, sponsibility for core chocolate technology and levee and flood control structures in New Or- restaurant, retail and entertainment design innovation platform development across vari- leans associated with Hurricane Katrina. An throughout the West, also was awarded sev- ous R&D sites around the globe. Strickland and honorary member of ASCE, Duncan received en of the 21 design awards presented by AIA- his family live outside of Zurich, Switzerland. its 2009 Outstanding Projects and Leaders Life- Denver, including the People’s Choice Award, Brian K. Upson time Achievement Award for Education. and three AIA-Colorado design awards. The , CE 82, of Griffin, Ga., was firm has received more than 65 AIA awards for appointed to the state board of registration for 1960s exceptional design work over the last 15 years. professional engineers and land surveyors by Gov. Sonny Perdue. Upson is the owner and Steven C. Bassett J. Larry Tyler , ME 65, has been ap- , IM 70, received the American president of Paragon Consulting Group Inc. He pointed to the Florida Energy & Climate Com- College of Healthcare Executives’ President’s is a member of the Griffin Hospital Authority, mission by Gov. Charlie Crist. Bassett is a se- Award in August. It was only the second time American Council of Engineering Companies nior engineer with Eco Advisors LLC in Palm the honor has been presented since its incep- and Rotary Club of Georgia. He serves on the Beach Gardens and serves as a national direction in 2006. Tyler was chosen for his contri- Piedmont region board of the Georgia Banking butions to ACHE’s career advancement efforts. tor of the Florida Engineering Society. The Flor- Co. He and his wife, Tracee, have two children. ida Energy & Climate Commission is in the ex- He is the chairman and CEO of Tyler & Com- Scott Williams ecutive office of the governor and is the pri- pany, which specializes in health care and life , AE 84, is a brigadier gen- mary organization for state energy and climate science executive search. eral in the Air Force. As an F16 fighter pilot, Williams has flown in more than 100 missions, change programs and policies. Daniel Webster, EE 71, won a seat in the including Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is the Harold Simmons, IM 65, retired from Geor- U.S. Congress for Florida’s 8th Congressional commander of the 169th Fighter Wing of the gia Tech on Oct. 29. In his 34 years working District. Webster was Florida’s House Republi- South Carolina Air National Guard. for his alma mater, Simmons spent four years can leader in the 1990s and in 1996 became the with the Registrar, 22 years with the Coopera- first GOP Speaker of the House in more than a tive Division and the past eight years as direc- century. He was elected to the state Senate in 1990s tor of cooperative education in the Division of 1998 and served his final three years as major- Hamza Benamar, ME 92, MS ME 96, has Professional Practice. ity leader. been promoted to vice president of finance and

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segment chief financial officer at SunGard after Rogers is the founder and president of Checks Healthcare in Roswell, Ga. The family lives in tours of duty in finance leadership roles in Par- & Balances Inc. and the president of WH Cap- Marietta, Ga. is and Hong Kong. Benamar is relocating to Ge- ital LLC. She serves on the Waffle House Inc. Daniel J. DeCicco, ISyE 01, and his wife, neva, Switzerland, for a third time. stand-by board of directors. She also is a trust- Jessica, announce the birth of daughter Kaylyn Jason Brownlie, IE 98, and his wife, Jen- ee and officer of The Lovett School and a mem- Elizabeth. Lt. DeCicco now is deployed aboard nifer, announce the birth of a daughter, Alexa ber of the Georgia Tech Foundation board of the USS Harry S. Truman in the Middle East in Savannah, on Aug. 10. Brownlie is an account trustees. support of Operations Enduring Freedom and manager at Manhattan Associates. The family Melinda Messinger Servick, Mgt 96, and New Dawn. The family lives in Norfolk, Va. lives in Smyrna, Ga. her husband, Todd, announce the birth of a Suzannah Gill, Mgt 05, is the vice president Shari Lew Carson, ID 95, and her husband, son, Brady Todd, on April 12. Servick is the of benefits at The Bottoms Group. Gill previ- Ric, announce the birth of a son, Tilden Clint national sales and marketing manager for Ar- ously served as an employee benefits attorney Carson, on Sept. 16. Carson is a designer for tisan Design Group out of San Diego. The fam- at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in Atlanta. GES. The family lives in San Diego. ily lives in Park City, Utah. Gill, a President’s Scholar while at Tech, taught John T. Trainor English in Shenzhen, China, for a year follow- Luke Davis, CE 97, MS CE 99, and his wife, , EE 98, has been promoted ing graduation and earned a law degree from Kathryn, announce the birth of a son, Nicho- to vice president and chief information officer of Aaron’s Inc. He previously was vice presi- the University of Georgia. She is a member of las Paul, on Sept. 23. He joins sister Sophia, 3, the Georgia Bar Association, a registered neu- and brother Joey, 5, at the family’s home in Ell- dent of information technology for the company’s sales and lease ownership division. Train- tral through the Georgia Office of Dispute Res- icott City, Md. Davis is an information technol- olution and a committee member for the Geor- ogy specialist with IBM. or joined Aaron’s in 1999. He lives in Roswell, Ga., with his wife and three sons. gia Association of Women Lawyers Founda- Mark Horstemeyer, PhD ME 95, has been tion and HealthMPowers. She lives in Atlanta. David Weber, ChE 99, and his wife Shanon named a fellow of ASM International, the ma- Jamie Hall celebrated the first birthday of son Tyler Mi- , ME 08, and Donniece Wright, terials information society. Horstemeyer is the Arch 10, were married May 11. Hall is a hard- chael on Dec. 11. The family lives in Chatta- CAVS chair in computational solid mechanics ware engineer for Hewlett-Packard and co- nooga, Tenn. and a professor of mechanical engineering at owner of King and Lord Apparel (kingand- Mississippi State University. lord.com), an online specialty clothing mar- Regina Smith Joiner, CS 99, and Shane 2000s ket. Wright is a freelance home designer. The Joiner, ISyE 97, announce the birth of daugh- Ashley Armstrong, Mgt 08, and Nathan- couple live in Albany, Ore. iel Adam Almon ter Caroline Ann on Sept. 1. Caroline joins sis- , ISyE 08, were married in Katie Hunley, CE 06, married Kevin Wil- ter Mallory, 2, and brother Zach, 4, at the fam- October in Carrollton, Ga. The couple went lis, EE 01, on Oct. 2. Hunley is a senior con- ily’s home in Jacksonville, Fla. to school together in Carrollton and began struction engineer for Juneau Construction dating their freshman year at Tech. Arm- Tami Randolph, MS EE 94, PhD ECE 01, Co., and Willis is a senior electronics engineer strong, who earned an MBA earlier this year, was honored with a special recognition award for the Federal Aviation Administration. The works in the human resources department at the 15th annual Women of Color in Tech- couple live in Smyrna, Ga. at Southwire Company. Almon works in the nology STEM conference. A program manag- Rutherford Johnson company’s logistics department. , APhys 00, MS Econ er in Northrop Grumman’s information sys- 03, covered the G20 Summit in Seoul, South Lauren Benson Lisowe tems sector in Fairfax, Va., Randolph provides , Mgt 03, and her Korea, in November for the Anglo-Catholic leadership to the research, development and husband, Brad, announce the birth of a daugh- News Service and Coberly Communications integration of signals intelligence systems and ter, Amelia Danielle Lisowe, on Sept. 28. She News Service. Johnson is an assistant profes- leads a large, cross-organization, multidisci- joins brother Braden at the family’s home in sor of economics at the SolBridge Internation- plinary team in the pursuit of a large business Duluth, Ga. al School of Business. opportunity. Jenny Wood Clay, ME 03, and her husband, Kara Manry, IntA 04, MS IntA 06, has been W. Jud Ready, MSE 94, MS MetE 97, PhD Will, announce the birth of their daughter, Eliz- promoted to producer in the special events MatSci 00, and Jamie Anderson Ready, abeth McCants, on Oct. 1. Clay works as a mer- unit at CNN in Atlanta. Manry was the overall CE 99, announce the birth of Robert Mason chant at the Atlanta headquarters of The Home producer for CNN’s coverage of the 2010 G20 Ready on Oct. 14. Mason joins sister Vivian and Depot. Summit in Toronto. She joined CNN in 2005. brother Lucas at the family’s home in Atlanta. Wendy Anderson Cocke, ChE 02, and her Kenyata Martin, ChE 01, has been appoint- Frances Rogers, Econ 93, of Atlanta, has husband, Andy, announce the birth of a son, An- ed brand manager for Old Spice Global Inno- been appointed to the board of directors of the derson Jackson “A.J.,” on June 21. Cocke works vation at Procter & Gamble. He will be respon- Georgia Lottery Corp. by Gov. Sonny Perdue. as a product developer for Kimberly-Clark sible for the five-year innovation strategy and

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Burdell.indd 64 12/16/10 10:39 AM global expansion of this $500 million business. Martin’s career at Procter & Gamble over the past nine years has included being an inventor on a patent and leading the strategic development of award-winning advertising. Josh Oakley, Arch 07, is manager of building information modeling for the Beck Group, which served as general contractor for the renovation of Georgia Tech’s Hinman Research Building. In October, Oakley led a discussion titled “BIM to Preserve Value” at the Institute’s Wardlaw Center prior to a tour of the Hinman building, which was under renovation at the time. Hinman will house additional office, research, gallery and studio space for the College of Architecture. Manas Tungare, MS CS 03, was the first engineer to work on Google Instant during its ear- liest developmental stage. Tungare worked on Mary Russell Sanders, EE 92, and her husband, Jeff, announce the birth of a son, Connor Logan, on Aug. the application, which was publicly launched 12. Connor joins his sister, Haley, 3, at the family’s home in Huntsville, Ala. by Google on Sept. 8, for more than a year developing prototypes and performing experi- ments to create an interface that would allow users to receive quicker search results. Tun- What have you been up to? gare spent three summers interning at Google To have your news included in the Ramblin’ Roll, send us the details at Ramblin’ Roll, while pursuing a doctoral degree in comput- 190 North Ave. N.W., Atlanta, GA 30313, or e-mail us at [email protected]. Pho- er science at Virginia Tech. Tungare, who was tos may be submitted for inclusion in the online Ramblin’ Roll. awarded that degree in 2009, now resides in Mountain View, Calif. Torion Wright, Mgt 04, has been named as- Who: ______sistant vice president of information technology for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. What: ______Wright oversees PC support, help desk, asset management and change control functions as ______well as the Federal Reserve System’s national IT training center. Wright also is responsible ______for network services, telecommunications services, server and storage services and custom- ______er relationship management. Wright began her career at the bank as an intern in 1986 and over When: ______Occupation: ______the past 21 years has held positions of increasing responsibility in corporate IT. Degree: ______Year: ______2010s Phone: ______E-mail: ______Donniece Wright, Arch 10, and Jamie Hall, ME 08, were married May 11. Wright is a free- Street: ______lance home designer, and Hall is a hardware engineer for Hewlett-Packard and co-owner of City: ______State: _____ ZIP: ______King and Lord Apparel (kingandlord.com), an online specialty clothing market. The couple live in Albany, Ore.

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Burdell.indd 65 12/16/10 10:39 AM In Memoriam

1930s Troop 50 and helped all three of his sons be- which he headed from 1982 to 1996. He re- come Eagle Scouts. ceived a master’s degree from the University John B. Kackley , CE 37, of Jacksonville, of Michigan and a doctorate from UT-Aus- Spencer Maddox Cork, EE 44, of Macon, Fla., on Nov. 15. He retired from a 30-year tin. His earlier career included work with Ga., on Oct. 7. Mr. Cork, who participated in Navy career to be the Food and Agricultural Shell Development and Monsanto Co. Dur- Organization of the United Nations’ senior the co-op program at Georgia Tech, was a retired electrical engineer. ing World War II, he was involved with the financial officer in Rome. He was a member government’s high explosives and synthetic of Tech’s Engineering Hall of Fame. Survi- Robert Thomas “Tom” Cummings, TE rubber programs. Dr. Fair served as affiliate vors include son Charles B. Kackley, ICS 77. 48, of Vero Beach, Fla., on Oct. 13. During professor of chemical engineering at Wash- Cloice Everett Temple, EE 36, of Cin- World War II, he served as a captain in the ington University in St. Louis from 1964 to cinnati, on Sept. 19. Mr. Temple had worked Army Signal Corps in the Philippines, New 1977. He was a former director of the Amer- as an engineer with Paramount Kings Is- Guinea and occupied Japan. He was an exec- ican Institute of Chemical Engineers; a for- land and was the former owner of Temple & utive for U.S. Rubber Co. before joining Al- mer president of James R. Fair Inc.; and a Associates. He was a member of the Army liedSignal, from which he retired as presi- former vice president of Fractionation Re- ROTC while at Georgia Tech. dent of the fibers division in 1984. Mr. Cum- search Inc. His many honors included nu- mings then spent six months in Indonesia merous awards from the American Institute B. Pressley Walker III, ME 37, of St. Au- setting up a manufacturing plant as a vol- of Chemical Engineers, which elected him a gustine, Fla., on Nov. 16. He was commis- unteer for the International Executive Ser- fellow; the Separations Science and Technol- sioned as a Navy officer in 1944 and after re- vice Corps. Mr. Cummings served as pres- ogy Award of the American Chemical Soci- ceiving an honorable discharge in 1946 went ident of the Virginia Manufacturers Associ- ety; election to the National Academy of En- into the building supply business. He retired ation and was a recipient of the Good Scout gineering; and the Gold Medallion award from Deebo Products Inc. award of the Greater New York Councils of from the American Society for Engineering the Boy Scouts of America. Education. A member of Sigma Nu frater- 1940s Warner Settle Currie, Cls 42, of Atlanta, nity, he was inducted into the Georgia Tech Clarence Ernest “Ace” Adams, IM 49, on Sept. 28. Mr. Currie received a law degree Engineering Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of Gainesville, Fla., on Oct. 16. Mr. Adams, from Emory University, and he was a senior in 1994. He served on the external adviso- a designated chartered property casual un- partner at Swift, Currie, McGhee and Hiers, ry board of the Institute’s School of Chem- derwriter, worked for insurance companies practicing general liability and products li- ical and Biomolecular Engineering for sev- in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Cincinnati be- ability litigation and labor relations law. He eral years. Dr. Fair authored or co-authored fore becoming a partner of Lanier Upshaw was a member of the Atlanta and American seven books and more than 200 technical ar- Insurance Agency in Lakeland, Fla., in 1967. Bar associations, State Bar of Georgia, De- ticles and book chapters. Also a researcher of He retired in 1990. During World War II, he fense Research Institute and Georgia Trial railroad history, he published numerous arti- was a B-25 pilot in the Army Air Corps. He Lawyers Association. He was a frequent lec- cles and two full-length books on the subject. served as a member of Sertoma and Kiwanis turer at tort and labor seminars. After retir- John Lawrence “Pete” Gray, ChE 40, clubs and the Health Council of West Central ing from private practice, Mr. Currie served of Atlanta, on Nov. 22. Mr. Gray received a Florida and as president of the Polk County as an adjunct professor at the Emory Uni- master’s degree in paper technology from Association of Insurance Agents. versity School of Law. He was named the the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Law- William Hugh “Bill” Caffey Jr., IE 49, acting director of Emory’s LLM in litigation rence College in Appleton, Wis. After work- of Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 27. Mr. Caffey program in 1991 and was elected Most Out- ing with BFGoodrich as a process engineer, retired from Eastman Chemical as a senior standing Professor of the Year by the Student he began a 56-year career with Chemical electrical engineer. He was a past president Bar Association in 1995. An Army veteran of Products Corp. and its affiliate company, of the local chapters of the International So- World War II, he served in the 99th Infantry Dellinger Management Co., both in Carters- Division, attaining the rank of major in field ciety of Automation and the Institute of Elec- ville, Ga. Mr. Gray worked in a variety of artillery and receiving the Bronze Star and trical and Electronics Engineers. A Navy vet- positions with the company and ultimately four battle stars. eran, he was a past president of the North- became president and associate chairman of east Tennessee Georgia Tech Club as well as James Rutherford Fair, ChE 42, a res- the board. He retired in 2003. He had served the Skycrafters Flying Club, of which he was ident of Austin, Texas, on Oct. 11. Dr. Fair as chairman of the Georgia Business & In- a founding member. Mr. Caffey built bird was the McKetta Centennial Energy chair dustry Association, a member of the Amer- boxes for the Bluebird Society and spent 40 emeritus in the chemical engineering de- ican Institute of Chemical Engineers, presi- years making a one-eighth-scale Southern partment at the University of Texas at Aus- dent of the Cartersville Rotary Club and as Railway train on which children could ride tin. Dr. Fair joined the university in 1979 and an elder at his church. Survivors include his through his yard. He was active in Boy Scout founded its separations research program, daughter Mary Elizabeth Gray Hart, ChE

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Burdell.indd 66 12/16/10 2:07 PM 78, his son-in-law Frank A. Brown Jr., IE 70, and grandchildren Laurie Catherine Brown Jones, ABiol 95, and Frank Alvin “Chip” Brown III, Mgt 01. Former Alumni Association Joseph Brooks Haas, Arch 44, of Jack- sonville, Fla., on Nov. 12. A member of Sig- President Frank Stovall Dies ma Chi fraternity at Tech, he served in the infantry in World War II as a lieutenant and James Frank Stovall Jr., a member of engaged in combat in the European theater. the College of Engineering Hall of Fame He began practicing architecture with Reyn- and former president of the Georgia olds, Smith and Hills in Jacksonville in 1947 Tech Alumni Association, died Nov. 12 and later developed his own commercial ar- at his home in Atlanta. He was 90. chitectural design firm, Haas & Reed Archi- Mr. Stovall, TE 41, was the retired tects. He was a member of the Rotary Club, co-chairman of United Cotton Goods a world traveler, an avid snow skier, a fenc- Co., a manufacturer of uniforms and er and a sailor. linens. In 1959, he became co-owner of James Robert Huff, CE 49, of Centreville, the company, which had plants in Grif- Va., on Nov. 12. Mr. Huff worked for the Vir- fin, Ga., and Seguin, Texas. ginia Department of Highways and in Mis- “We took that little business and souri before becoming public works director grew it every year,” Mr. Stovall recalled Georgia Tech Alumni Maga- of Saratoga, Calif., in 1959. He was promot- in a 2000 zine ed to city manager in 1967. He later served article. as city or borough manager in Sikeston, Mo., The company was sold to a German Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Oskaloosa, Iowa, retir- firm in 1980, but Mr. Stovall and his ing in 1994. Mr. Huff served in the Army in business partner continued to manage it the Philippines and received a master’s de- for five years before retiring. gree in public administration from San Jose In an obituary published in the State University. Naples Daily News, Mr. Stovall’s family wrote that outside of family and busi- Thomas Moore Jones Jr. , EE 43, of Mat- ness “his proudest accomplishment was thews, N.C., formerly of Atlanta, on Oct. his long-term relationship with Georgia council, secretary of his senior class and 16. A co-op student and member of Alpha Tech.” Mr. Stovall served two terms on a member of ANAK while a student at Tau Omega fraternity and the track team at the Alumni Association board of trust- Tech. He moved to New York City fol-

Georgia Tech, he served as a lieutenant in ees and was president for 1972-73. He lowing graduation and became a textile the Army Signal Corps of Engineers during was an emeritus member of the Georgia buyer for U.S. Rubber Co. He served World War II. After serving as a sales engi- Tech Foundation board, serving his first four years in the Army Air Forces in neer with the John Underwood Co., he start- term in 1977. He also had served as di- World War II, earning the rank of ser- ed his own business and pursued a career rector and treasurer of the former Tech- geant. He began his textile sales career in engineering sales, representing manufac- Georgia Development Fund, co-chair of at the Atlanta office of Joshua L. Bailey turers of boilers, fans and HVAC equipment. his class’ 50th reunion committee and a & Co. He retired from the company in 1981 and member of the Legislative Network. Mr. Stovall was a former president worked for Borie Davis Inc. until his second Mr. Stovall was inducted into the of the Atlanta Textile Club. A longtime retirement at the age of 85. At his church, he College of Engineering Hall of Fame supporter of the Republican Party, he served as chair of the board of deacons and in 1998. A year later, he was presented was an alternate delegate at the 1968 was a choir member for more than 40 years. the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Dis- national convention and was active in Survivors include his son, Thomas Methvin tinguished Service Award, the highest many campaigns over the years. Jones Sr., IE 74. award bestowed by the Georgia Tech Mr. Stovall’s survivors include sons Keith Thomas, IM 49, of Norcross, Ga., on Alumni Association. James F. Stovall III, Text 70, and John Nov. 10. Mr. Thomas was the owner of POP A Madison, Ga., native, Mr. Stovall Stovall, Cls 81, and grandson James F. Enterprises, a commercial printing firm in was president of Alpha Tau Omega Stovall IV, CS 01, and his wife Chrissy, Chamblee, Ga. He was an Army veteran and fraternity, vice president of the student ChE 01. a member of the Pinckneyville Bridge Club.

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Burdell.indd 67 12/16/10 2:06 PM In Memoriam

1950s taught Sunday school classes for 36 years. president. He was a Sunday school teacher and an ordained deacon and was active in Lovic Pierce “Buddy” Baker McNeill B. “Mack” Carter, Cls 51, a res- , Cls 50, Civitian and Little League Baseball. of Peachtree City, Ga., on Sept. 26. Mr. Baker ident of Marble, N.C., on Oct. 31. He joined Robert Park Ellis joined the Navy at 17 and served five years the Navy after graduating from high school , IM 59, of Atlanta, on before attending Georgia Tech. He left Tech and served in the Seabees during World War Nov. 8. Mr. Ellis worked for several real es- at the beginning of his senior year to man- II. Mr. Carter retired from the Postal Service. tate companies before opening the Atlanta age the family insurance business, L.P. Baker He was an avid gardener especially fond of office of Fletcher Bright Co. He retired after Agency, after the death of his father. He man- daylilies. 25 years as president of the Atlanta branch. A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraterni- aged the agency for 39 years before retiring William Edward “Bill” Cheeley Sr., IE ty at Tech, he attended the Institute on a na- in 1987. He was active in the Boy Scouts and 52, of Buford, Ga., on Oct. 21. An inventor, val scholarship. He was commissioned in the Habitat for Humanity and was an avid fan Mr. Cheeley was awarded numerous pat- Navy and served aboard the USS Hancock of the Atlanta Braves and the Yellow Jackets. ents while working for Reynolds Metals. A aircraft carrier. A long-distance runner, he William Eugene “Bill” Ballew vice president of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity , IM 56, was a member of the Atlanta Track Club for and president of Scabbard and Blade while of Maryville, Tenn., on Oct. 11. A World War many years. He also played the ukulele and at Georgia Tech, Mr. Cheeley served in the II veteran, Mr. Ballew retired following a 31- served as a senior and junior warden and a Army during World War II and received the year career with Alcoa. Sunday school teacher at his church. Purple Heart. Charles Edwin “Ed” Baskin , IM 53, Thomas Edison Flanders, EE 52, MS Larkin Francis Culbreth Jr., EE 51, MS of Marietta, Ga., on July 8. A lifelong resi- EE 58, on Feb. 28, 2009. An electrical engi- AMath 55, of Fern Park, Fla., on Nov. 15. He dent of Marietta, he was employed at Lock- neer, Mr. Flanders joined the space program retired following a 34-year career with Mar- heed from 1955 until 1968 and at IBM from with Chrysler Corp. in Huntsville, Ala., in tin-Marietta. 1968 until 1988. He was a member of Geor- 1961 as chief of three units in the static test gia Tech’s varsity football team in 1950. As James E. Curry, ChE 50, MS ChE 51, of firing of Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets. He captain of the track team in 1952, he was SEC Madison, Ala., on Oct. 22. Dr. Curry served served as senior design engineer for General champion in the javelin. Survivors include in the Army during World War II and later Electric from 1969 to 1988 and designed and his son, Ted Baskin, CS 96. was a federal employee, initially hired by the patented a linear electric motor with Trilogy Vernon W. Bates, IM 57, of Sarasota, Fla., Army Ballistic Missile Agency in 1957. He Co. in 1988. From 1995 to ’98, he was an an- on Nov. 9. A Korean War veteran, he served worked for NASA for 24 years and earned alog design engineer for Lockheed Martin. with the Navy VP-21 Squadron from 1949 numerous honors, including the NASA Ex- Mr. Flanders was a veteran of World War II to 1952. He was an air traffic controller in ceptional Service Medal in 1975. Dr. Curry and the Korean War. For years he drove a Hampton, Ga. He was an emeritus member retired from NASA in 1981 as chief of the or- school bus full of children across the coun- of the Grand Lodge of Georgia F&AM. ganization’s nonmetallic materials branch. try to build and repair churches and hous- Dr. Curry, who received a PhD in chemi- es. He also participated in the United Meth- Charles Benson Bottoms Jr., Cls 50, cal engineering from the University of Ala- odist Action Mission Reach Out for Youth of Atlanta, on Oct. 12. Mr. Bottoms was the bama in 1972, taught courses in the univer- program for 20 years. Survivors include his national cold drink marketing manager in sity’s chemical engineering department, and brother-in-law James Woolley, CE 62, niece a 40-year career with Coca-Cola USA. He he later worked for Remtech and Northrop Karen Woolley Hursh, AE 86, and nephew J. graduated from Auburn University in 1950 Grumman. Byron Flanders, TChem 85. and went to the artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla., as a regular Army officer. In 50 years Malcolm Daniel “Dan” Davidson, IM Edwin H. Folk III, M CP 54, of Philadel- of involvement with the Boy Scouts, he was 59, of San Antonio, on Oct. 24. A member of phia, on July 3. He was executive director named an Eagle Scout, served as a Scoutmas- Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Tech, Mr. David- of the Citizens Council on City Planning ter and received the Silver Beaver Award. son served in the Army Reserve and had a in Philadelphia from 1962 until it closed in career as a sales professional. He was a Sun- 1971. From 1971 to ’74, Mr. Folk was with the “Smiling” Jack Burgess, ME 55, a res- day school teacher at his church. Mental Health Association of Southeastern ident of Kennesaw, Ga., on Oct. 14, after a Pennsylvania, evaluating community men- four-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Charles H. Drew, Cls 50, a resident of tal health and mental retardation programs Mr. Burgess retired from a 50-year career Flowery Branch, Ga., on Oct. 2. He served in the city. He received a bachelor’s degree with Goodyear Aerospace Corp. in 2005. Mr. in the Army Air Forces before he attended from Princeton in 1950. Burgess served in the Army Corps of Engi- Georgia Tech. Mr. Drew retired from Har- neers and attained the rank of captain. He ris-Lanier after 40 years as a divisional vice Asa B. Foster Jr., CE 52, of Pinehurst,

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Burdell.indd 68 12/15/10 9:29 AM Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Famer Johnny Hunsinger

Before finding success southwest Atlanta. And in the Atlanta real estate playing Georgia Tech scene, Johnny Hunsinger football was in his blood. found it in the classrooms His father had played and on the field at Geor- football at the Institute as gia Tech. well as his great-uncle, Mr. Hunsinger made George “Pup” Phillips, the dean’s list each year who played under coach and sported a Yellow John Heisman. Jacket jersey during some need hi-res During his time at of the most glorious years Tech, Mr. Hunsinger also of Tech football. He was a was a member of ANAK, member of Bobby Dodd’s the Glee Club, Tau Beta undefeated 1952 cham- Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma pionship team as well as Alpha Epsilon, the stu- the 1953 and 1954 teams dent council and the that won a Sugar Bowl chapter of the American and Cotton Bowl respec- Institute of Industrial tively. Engineers. He served as John Stewart “John- president of Omicron ny” Hunsinger, IE 54, MS Delta Kappa and Alpha IE 55, president of John Pi Mu. Hunsinger & Company Mr. Hunsinger served and a member of the two years as an officer in Georgia Tech Sports Hall the Army. He was award- of Fame, died Oct. 24. The ed three patents while lifelong Atlantan was 79. working as an industrial Mr. Hunsinger began engineer at Chemstrand his real estate career as a in Pensacola, Fla., before salesman with Pope and leaving the nylon compa- Carter and Company ny to enter the real estate of Atlanta in 1961. In Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management business. his third year there, he sports, you practice your plays, you build Mr. Hunsinger’s received the Atlanta Board of Realtors in the mechanism in your body and mind numerous civic activities over the years Million Dollar Club Award for selling $1 to succeed, and when you get in a pres- included serving as president and chair- million worth of property in a year. He surized situation, you do what needs to man of the Atlanta Union Mission; a was named a lifetime member of the club be done and you hardly think about it.” trustee for Scottish Rite Hospital; and a after three consecutive wins. In 1980, Mr. Hunsinger was elected board member of the Atlanta Symphony In 1967, he became vice president of as a charter member of the Atlanta Board Orchestra. He also sang in the symphony. the firm and president of its develop- of Realtors Phoenix Million Dollar Club, He was a longtime member of the At- ment, construction, leasing and manage- which recognizes 10 years as a million lanta Chamber of Commerce, the Martin ment of industrial warehouses and office dollar producer. He was elected president Luther King Historical District, the Boys parks in the Southeast. He left two years of the Atlanta Board of Realtors two years and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Atlanta, later to start his own real estate brokerage later. the Atlanta Urban League and the Atlan- and development company. His beginnings were much humbler. ta Touchdown Club, which named him Mr. Hunsinger once told the Alumni Mr. Hunsinger was raised in a one- an honorary lifetime member. Magazine that he applied lessons learned bedroom house, which he shared with his Mr. Hunsinger was an emeritus mem- from playing football in overseeing his mother, grandparents and two uncles. ber of the advisory board of Tech’s School firm. Mr. Hunsinger told the School of of Industrial and Systems Engineering “I train my people pretty much the Industrial and Systems Engineering’s and a recipient of the school’s distin- way I was coached,” Mr. Hunsinger said. Engineering Enterprise publication that guished alumni award. “There is nothing that beats hours of he could not remember “ever not play- Memorials in Mr. Hunsinger’s name preparation, organization and enthusi- ing” football. As a child, he played the may be made to the Alexander-Tharpe asm. That’s part of a winning program. In sport at his Howell Park neighborhood in Fund at Georgia Tech.

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Burdell.indd 69 12/16/10 10:40 AM In Memoriam

N.C., on May 24. After serving in the Kore- included cooking, dancing and fly-fishing. and Associates for 40 years and spent the past eight years working for Whatley Oil an War as a commissioned second lieuten- William King Hatcher, BS 52, Arch 56, Co. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fra- ant in the Army Corps of Engineers, he re- of Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 27. He recently turned to Atlanta and worked for consulting retired from the board of directors at Baptist ternity at Tech and a veteran of the Marines. engineering firms until 1961, when he joined Medical Center after 39 years of service. He Stanley M. Milam, Cls 59, of Springfield, the Public Health Services, precursor to the was an active supporter of such organiza- Ga., on Nov. 10. He served as a sergeant in Environmental Protection Agency. During tions as the Baptist Health Foundation, Wolf- the Army Reserve and retired from IBM af- his career with the EPA, he ran programs in son Children’s Hospital, Jacksonville Com- ter 32 years with the company. He was past water, air, solid and hazardous waste, pesti- munity Foundation, Jacksonville Universi- commodore of the Hillsboro Inlet Sailing cides, radiation and noise at the regional di- ty and Pickett & Hatcher Educational Fund Club and an avid drag racer. vision level. He received numerous awards in Columbus, Ga. He served as a commis- Thurman Turner Morgan, CE 56, a res- from the agency and the Office of Manage- sioned officer in the Navy for 10 years. ment of Budget. He retired from the EPA at ident of Charleston, S.C., on Nov. 12. He Charles W. Jackson age 50 and worked for a firm that operated , EE 52, of Lenexa, served in the Army and the Reserve, achiev- water and wastewater plants for cities un- Kan., on Oct. 19. An Army veteran of the Ko- ing the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a der contract. A registered professional engi- rean War, he worked for AT&T for 30 years, retired civil engineer with the Army Corps neer in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ten- retiring as an assistant vice president, and of Engineers. then spent three years as a consultant for nessee, Kentucky, South Carolina and North Preston Earl Newman Boeing. Before moving to Lenexa in 2006, he , EE 50, of Rome, Carolina, Mr. Foster served as president of Ga., on Oct. 1. Mr. Newman was the found- the Georgia Section of Civil Engineers and and his wife owned and operated an H&R Block franchise as well as an apple orchard ing partner of Newman Hibble & Associates was selected as Engineer of the Year by his Consulting Engineers in Atlanta. He served peers. He was a life member of the Veterans in Kentucky. He was a Kentucky colonel, Boy Scout leader and member of the Elks Club. two terms on the Georgia board of profes- of Foreign Wars, National Active and Retired sional engineers and land surveyors and Federal Employees Association, American William Lee Lassetter , EE 57, of Char- was elected to the College of Fellows of the Society of Civil Engineers and the Georgia lottesville, Va., on Oct. 2. He received a bach- American Consulting Engineers Council. A Sheriffs’ Association. He also was a member elor’s degree in chemistry from the Universi- World War II veteran, Mr. Newman served of the American Legion. Survivors include ty of Georgia in 1948 and enlisted in the Air in the Marine Corps’ 2nd Division in the Pa- his daughter Jane, Arch 77. Force in 1950, working as an airborne radar cific from 1941 to ’45, earning the Bronze Star Ernest Greene Graham Jr., Text 51, of systems mechanic while stationed in Man- for the Okinawa Gunto campaign. Winder, Ga., on Oct. 4. Mr. Graham was the chester, England. He began his career as an George Campbell Oetter, Cls 50, of Ma- retired owner/operator of Graham Clean- electrical engineer with Sperry Marine Sys- con, Ga., on Aug. 22. A member of Sigma Al- ers. A first lieutenant in the Air Force during tems. He was a supporter of the Charlottes- pha Epsilon fraternity while at Tech, he re- the Korean War era, he was a former mem- ville and University Symphony Orchestra tired from the Air Force. ber of the Winder City Board of Education; and learned to play the cello. a charter member of the Winder Noon Li- George Walter Martin Sr., AE 57, MS John Thomas Rich, TE 52, of Clemson, ons Club; and a recipient of the 2009 Winder AE 58, of Kennesaw, Ga., on Oct. 14. An aero- S.C., on Oct. 28. A Navy veteran, Mr. Rich Rotary Club’s Vocational Excellence Award. space engineer, Mr. Martin worked for Mar- was the site manager of the BASF Clemson He filmed football games for Winder-Barrow tin Marietta and Lockheed Georgia on the plant. He was a member of the Clemson Ro- High School for 10 years. He had served as a C5A project and later consulted with Boe- tary Club and a past president of the South Sunday school teacher, deacon, board chair ing, Pratt & Whitney, Grumman and Gulf- Carolina Manufacturers Alliance. He was a and an elder at his church. stream on design projects for commercial, former Sunday school teacher and deacon at his church. George “Gantt” Hamner, ME 53, a resi- government and private aircraft. He also de- dent of Palm Bay, Fla., on Nov. 3. He worked signed and built custom homes in Roswell Philip Goodenow Rust Jr., IE 54, a resi- for Texas Instruments before joining Radia- and Smyrna. Mr. Martin served in the Army dent of Thomasville, Ga., on Oct. 25. Mr. Rust during the Korean War. He was a member of tion Corp., which later became Harris Corp. worked as an industrial engineer before join- the Tau Alpha Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma He retired from the company following 35 ing his father in managing the family cattle Gamma Tau honor societies. years of service during which he was award- business at Winnstead Plantation in Thom- ed several patents. Mr. Hamner served in Charles “Jack” McDaniel Jr., IM 59, of asville. He continued to manage the planta- the Marine Corps from 1949 through 1951 at Columbus, Ga., on Oct. 12. Mr. McDaniel tion until his death. Mr. Rust was involved Camp LeJeune, N.C. Mr. Hamner’s hobbies was the owner and operator of McDaniel in a number of organizations in Thomasville,

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Burdell.indd 70 12/15/10 9:28 AM Retired Walmart Executive Jack Shewmaker Dies

Jack Shewmaker, Cls 58, who retired company’s Web site that Mr. Shewmaker as vice chairman and chief financial of- “loved this company and gave it his heart ficer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1988, died as well as his considerable talents. He Nov. 17 at his home in Bentonville, Ark., was a dear personal friend, and, though from a heart attack. He was 72. the company will benefit from his con- Mr. Shewmaker was hired by tributions for years to come, it is hard to Walmart founder Sam Walton as a district imagine Walmart without Jack. … Jack manager in 1970 and became president was an extraordinarily gifted merchant, and chief operating officer of the com- and one of my greatest ongoing develop- pany in 1978. He was promoted to vice ment opportunities was to walk stores chairman and chief financial officer in and clubs with Jack — with him striding 1984. ahead and me taking notes as quickly as Mr. Shewmaker is credited with help- I could.” ing develop the retail chain’s “Every Day Following retirement from the retail Low Pricing” strategy and advocating its chain, Mr. Shewmaker traveled the world use of technology, an area in which it sur- working as a consultant and speaking passed many of its competitors. Under to various organizations. He also served Mr. Shewmaker’s leadership, Walmart as a member of the Walmart board from began using bar codes and launched its 1977 to 2008. first satellite system, which connected Mr. Shewmaker served on the boards stores, distribution centers and the home of several organizations, including the office. Springfield, Mo.-based Students In Free “I was very fortunate to be in the Enterprise Inc., for which he served as right place at the right time with Wal- chairman for many years, and the We- Mart Stores,” Mr. Shewmaker once said our business was. We combined with that stark Area Council of the Boy Scouts in a speech for the College of Manage- the latest technology in a way that most of America. He was awarded the Boy ment’s IMPACT series. “I would attribute people can’t imagine. We had computers Scouts’ Silver Beaver Award in 2010. a lot of our success to being in a position in our stores probably five years before Mr. Shewmaker also bred champion where we dealt with very simple expla- our major competitors.” Angus cattle at JAC’s Ranch, which he nations, very simple definitions of who Walmart president and CEO Mike and his family owned and operated out- we were and what we were and what Duke, IE 71, said in a statement on the side Bentonville.

including the Thomas County Historical So- and production of the B-2 bomber. He re- John Hugh Stempel, IE 50, of Longview, ciety. Survivors include his brother Francis tired in 1994 as vice president and general Texas, on Nov. 6. He joined the family busi- Rust, ChE 56. manager for military programs. Mr. Spen- ness, Stempel Manufacturing Co., in 1951 Henry Lee Spence, AE 59, of Mansfield, ce’s lifelong hobby was building and fly- and upon the death of his father in 1968 be- Texas, on Oct. 29. Mr. Spence, who earned ing free-flight model airplanes. He served came president. Mr. Stempel served as chair- a master’s degree from Southern Methodist three times on U.S. teams that competed in man of the board until retiring in 1997. He University and completed MIT’s Sloan Pro- the world championships. In 1969, he placed was mayor of Coleman, Texas, from 1975 gram for Senior Executives, began his career third at the world championships in Wiener to 1989. He also had served as president of at Convair/General Dynamics and in 1962 Neustadt, Austria. In September, Mr. Spence the city’s Chamber of Commerce and was a joined LTV, which later became Vought Air- was chosen to serve once again on the U.S. member of the Rotary Club and a Paul Har- craft Co. During his career with the company, team. He would have competed at the world ris fellow. Mr. Stempel served in World War he was in charge of the design, development championships in May in Argentina. II and then in the Navy Reserve, retiring as

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a lieutenant commander after more than 25 which provided leases to new car dealers. Prevention and Raytheon Services Inc. He years of service. He was president of Delta Mr. Ayers was an avid car collector and en- served in the Air Force and Air Force Re- Sigma Phi fraternity while at Tech. joyed customizing Harley-Davidson motor- serve. cycles. John Mitcham Vernon, ME 58, of Dur- David Thomas Daniel, IM 60, of Cocoa, ham, N.C., on Oct. 26. Following graduation, Claude Singleton Bridges III, ME 65, Fla., on Nov. 4. He earned a master’s degree he spent two years in New Mexico as an of- of Atlanta, on Nov. 17, of amyotrophic lat- from Florida State University and served as ficer and engineer for the Air Force. After eral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. After a pilot in the Air Force. He worked for RCA earning an MBA from the University of Mis- a brief stint with Procter & Gamble in Cin- at Patrick Air Force Base and for the Brevard sissippi and a PhD in economics from MIT, cinnati, he returned to Atlanta and joined County School Board before joining the staff Dr. Vernon joined the faculty at Duke Uni- Malone Construction Co., retiring in 2008 as of Park Avenue Baptist Church in Titusville, versity, where he was an economics profes- senior vice president. In his 40-year career Fla., and serving in administrative and min- sor for 41 years before retiring in 2007. From with the company, he oversaw the construc- isterial roles. 1987 to 1989, he served as chair of Duke’s de- tion of projects throughout the Atlanta area, Allison Maynard “Al” Fleetwood Sr., partment of economics. He was a research including construction and renovations at Cls 60, of Canton, N.C., on Nov. 15, of can- fellow at the Harvard Business School from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Emory Univer- cer. He served as an aviator in the Marine 1969 to 1970 and at the University of Bristol sity Hospital and many personal residenc- Corps and later served many years in the Re- in the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1975. es. He served on the properties committees serve, attaining the rank of major. In his ca- of Trinity Presbyterian Church and Cherokee John Roy Warren reer as an architect, Mr. Fleetwood was asso- , EE 53, of Austell, Ga., Town and Country Club and in a variety of ciated with several Atlanta firms, including on Nov. 17. He enlisted in the Air Force in leadership roles in his 20 years of member- John Portman and Associates, and traveled 1946. He spent his entire career with South- ship in the Dunwoody Rotary Club, which extensively to work on projects in the Unit- ern Bell and BellSouth, retiring as network recently named him an honorary member. ed States, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. operations manager in 1991. During his 38 He was a former member of the Georgia He held various leadership positions in the years with the company, Mr. Warren over- Tech Alumni Association board of trustees. saw telephone switching technology change- American Institute of Architects, loved mu- Lloyd Lee Byars overs from operator assist to electromechan- , EE 62, MS IM 63, of At- sic and art and was an avid reader. lanta, on Oct. 9, after a long battle with Par- ical, then to electronic and later to early gen- Randy Jones, EE 69, MS EE 70, PhD EE 85, kinson’s disease. Dr. Byars, who earned a erations of digital switching. Survivors in- of Tucker, Ga., on Nov. 4. He was an engineer doctorate in business from Georgia State clude his son, John Robert Madison Warren, with the Army Corps of Engineers. IE 86, MBA 05. University, spent the latter part of his career as a tenured professor at Georgia Tech. He Samuel H. Swint Jr., Text 60, of South- Austin Walker West Jr., ChE 50, a res- served as interim dean of the College of Man- ampton, N.Y., on Sept. 13. Mr. Swint had a ident of Birmingham, Ala., on Nov. 9. He agement in the late 1990s and retired from 34-year career with Graniteville Co., a textile worked for Monsanto Chemical Co. before the college in 2008 as professor emeritus of firm that manufactured denim for jeans, re- joining Reichhold Chemicals Inc. in Tusca- organizational behavior. He authored sever- tiring as executive vice president. An Army loosa. During World War II, he served in the al college textbooks and served on the edito- veteran, he served on the boards of Long Is- Army Corps of Engineers on islands in the rial review boards of the Journal of Managerial land University and the Southampton Hos- southwest Pacific. He was a member of Omi- Issues, Journal of Management Case Studies and pital Foundation; on the finance committee cron Delta Kappa and Alpha Tau Omega and Journal of Systems Management. Dr. Byars also of East End Hospice; and on the advisory editor of the Blueprint while at Tech. While was a labor arbitrator for 40 years and was committee of the Rogers Memorial Library. living in Tuscaloosa, he was a member of the appointed to the board of governors for the He also founded the Eastern Long Island Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts. National Academy of Arbitrators. He arbi- Coastal Conservation Alliance. For many trated cases in Europe, Central America and years, he served as chairman of the Swint 1960s the Caribbean. Dr. Byars served as chairman Foundation, a charitable trust founded by of the board of deacons at his church. his father. Leroy Samuel “Lee” Ayers, Cls 60, of Roswell, Ga., on Nov. 3. Mr. Ayers received Robert Lee Cannon Jr., ME 60, of Al- A. Michael Varney, AE 63, MS AE 67, a bachelor of arts degree from Oglethorpe pharetta, Ga., on Oct. 2. His career in me- PhD AE 70, of Winter Park, Fla., on Oct. 4, University and worked for many years at chanical engineering included work for Car- after a four-year struggle with multiple sys- Ford Motor Co. as a merchandising man- rier Atlanta, the General Services Adminis- tems atrophy. A member of Delta Tau Delta ager, receiving numerous awards. He then tration, the Federal Aviation Administra- at Georgia Tech, Dr. Varney was an engineer founded the First Century Financial Corp., tion, the Centers for Disease Control and at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft before returning

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Burdell.indd 72 12/16/10 10:42 AM Alumnus, Longtime Professor Marshall Leach

Georgia Tech professor William Marshall Leach Jr. died Nov. 20, a day after suffering a heart attack. He was 70. Dr. Leach joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty after receiving his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Institute in 1972. He taught courses in audio engineering, electroacoustics, analog electronics and elec- tromagnetics. During his 38-year career at Tech, Dr. Leach was chosen by senior ECE students four times to receive the ECE Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award. One of Dr. Leach’s former students, Allen Robinson, EE 94, PhD ECE 07, told the Technique, “His legacy was left through his classes. … I took everything he ever taught. He had an infinite amount of patience and an absolute willingness to help.” A memorial service for Dr. Leach was held at the campus’ Marcus Nanotechnology Building in mid-December. Born and raised in Abbeville, S.C., Dr. Leach received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force upon graduation. Following a six- month stint working at NASA’s Langley Research Center, he entered the Air Force, serving three years at McClellan Air Force Base in California as an electronics research and development officer. and a member of the Institute Radio Communication Board. In addition to teaching at Tech, Dr. Leach also was a long- In his faculty bio, Dr. Leach listed among his hobbies “un- time adviser for the student chapter of the Institute of Electrical raveling the riddles of loudspeakers and audio amplifiers, writ- and Electronics Engineers, a technical adviser for WREK FM ing and growing grass” as a landscaping enthusiast.

to the Institute to pursue a doctorate. Dr. Var- 100 technical publications and was a mem- worked as an aircraft mechanic for Delta Air ney later served as staff engineer and prin- ber of Georgia Tech’s Academy of Distin- Lines for 30 years. Mr. Webb also was a re- cipal investigator at Martin Marietta, a re- guished Engineering Alumni. tired bailiff for the magistrate court of Mor- search member of the aerospace mechani- row, Ga. He was a past president of the South Gary Gordon Watson, AMath 61, MS IE cal sciences department at Princeton and a Metro Atlanta Georgia Tech Club. 67, MS ICS 74, of Kennesaw, Ga., formerly of faculty member of the mechanical and aero- Marietta, on Oct. 30, of cancer. An Air Force space engineering department at the Univer- veteran, he was stationed at Sheppard Air 1970s sity of Central Florida. In 1970, he founded Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, from 1961 Yehuda Menachem Ben-Yaacov, EE Applied Combustion Technology Inc., a re- to 1964. He worked at Georgia Tech for 33 71, MS EE 73, MS NE 76, of Douglasville, Ga., search and development firm at which Pump years in information technology, retiring in in February 2010. Jet technology was developed. He served as 1997. Survivors include his son Drew Wat- president and senior research engineer un- Robert David Bernstein, CE 76, of Seat- son, IE 91, MS Mgt 93, and his wife Leah, til his retirement. In the late 1990s, he cre- tle, on Nov. 3, of pancreatic cancer. Mr. Ber- Mgt 92. ated Consulting Professional Engineers Inc. nstein, who earned a master’s degree in civil to analyze and diagnose combustion-relat- David Herman Webb Jr., Cls 61, of Mc- engineering from Northwestern University, ed events for civilian and government legal Donough, Ga., on Nov. 8. Mr. Webb served was a transportation engineer and planner proceedings. Dr. Varney authored more than in the Air Force during the Korean War and and an avid cyclist. Memorials in his name

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may be made to Georgia Tech’s School of on Oct. 27. A behavioral psychologist, she University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Civil and Environmental Engineering exter- served a postdoctoral fellowship at the Elizabeth Ann “Beth” Judson, MS CerE nal advisory board fund. Scripps Clinic in San Diego and later was 91, PhD MSE 99, of Roswell, Ga., on Oct. awarded a fellowship at Harvard Medical William Craig “Bill” Dart, GMgt 72, of 26, after an airplane piloted by her husband School. She remained in the greater Boston St. Simons Island, Ga., on Oct. 29. He began crashed in Mississippi. Dr. Judson was a con- area working with teens and adults, most a career in the seafood business as a deck- sultant to the University-Industry Demon- recently as clinical director with the Justice hand on a king crab fishing boat. He worked stration Partnership of the National Acade- Resource Institute’s Disability Services in for SeaPak Shrimp Co. and was a partner mies and had been a general manager of a Framingham. She was an avid runner and in Marine Foods before founding Waterway ceramic armor startup associated with Geor- reader of 18th century English literature. Foods International, a food brokerage busi- gia Tech. She had worked with Alcoa and Survivors include her husband, Rhea T. Es- ness in St. Simons at which he worked until several small ceramic businesses in the At- kew Jr., MS Psy 80, PhD Psy 83. his death. He volunteered as a youth league lanta area. She served on the board of trust- coach in Glynn County and was active in Thomas “Ben” Settle Jr., AE 85, of Ar- ees of Alfred University, from which she re- community alcohol and drug recovery pro- lington, Texas, on Oct. 14. Mr. Settle spent ceived bachelor’s degrees in ceramic science grams. A member of Alpha Tau Omega fra- most of his career at Bell Helicopter Textron and mathematics. She evaluated engineer- ternity while at Tech, Mr. Dart rode around and most recently worked for Elbit Systems ing departments at universities as a mem- St. Simons Island in a golf cart with a horn of America as the program manager for un- ber of the Accreditation Board for Engineer- that played Ramblin’ Wreck. Mr. Dart’s sur- manned aerial systems. He was a member ing and Technology. She and her husband vivors include his children, Casey Igel, Mgt of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society helped launch St. Brigid Catholic Church in 98; Jessica Dart, Psy 99; Matt Dart, IE 03; and and American Helicopter Society. He pub- Johns Creek, Ga., and served on the board at Beau Dart, Mgt 09, and son-in-law Eric Igel, lished papers on tilt-rotor helicopters and Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Ro- CE 99. held a related patent. swell. Dr. Judson was a founder and trust- Charles Rogers “Chuck” Floyd Jr., ee of Southern Catholic College in Dawson- Econ 78, of Peachtree City, Ga., on Oct. 27. 1990s ville, Ga. A choir member at her church, she had served as executive director of the Geor- Mr. Floyd received a law degree from Suf- Charles David Boyer, Phys 94, of At- gia Regional Girls Choir. folk University in Boston and was a practic- lanta, on Nov. 22, after being shot in an at- ing attorney in metro Atlanta and in Phila- tempted robbery by a masked gunman in delphia. He became chief magistrate judge the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of At- 2000s of Fayette County in 2002. A football player lanta. A co-op student while at Georgia Tech, Lonnie Harvel, PhD CS 05, a resident of at Tech, he enjoyed tennis and golf and ran Mr. Boyer worked as a computer engineer Watkinsville, Ga., on Nov. 4. He was the vice his first marathon at the age of 48. He was a in California before returning to Atlanta and president of educational technology and an member of the Georgia Tech Bar Association. running a business selling cell phones. An associate professor of technology at Georgia Darrel E. Knaus, MS ICS 79, of Bedford, avid Yellow Jackets fan, he attended a men’s Gwinnett College, where he was one of the Texas, on March 13. basketball game with his father the week be- four charter cabinet members. He had been a fore his death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitu- Mark A. Sciora, AE 72, of Old Bridge, N.J., senior research scientist in the School of Elec- tion reported. on Oct. 13. He retired after 40 years as an op- trical and Computer Engineering at Georgia erating and aeronautical engineer. An avid James Edward “Jim” Creech, M Arch Tech, at which he later served as director of drag racer, he had raced at Raceway Park in 97, of Athens, Ga., on Oct. 17, from compli- the Digital Media Lab, associate director of Old Bridge. cations of adenoid cystic carcinoma. A his- the Center for Distributed Engineering Edu- torical architect, Mr. Creech’s more than 40- cation and an affiliate member of the Graph- 1980s year career included work with the feder- ics, Visualization and Usability Center. His al government documenting archeological research included the development of dis- Mark Thomas Henderson, ICS 89, a res- sites in Alaska and overseeing the restora- tributed education architectures and appli- ident of Ball Ground, Ga., on Oct. 1. Mr. tion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and cations, mobile interaction, telepresence, an MBA from Henderson, who received his childhood home and with the National context analysis systems and context-based Georgia State University, was a business an- Park Service revitalizing the Tuskegee Insti- content filtering. He received a bachelor’s alyst and project manager at Abel Solutions tute National Historic Site in Alabama. He il- degree in theater and a master’s in comput- in Alpharetta. He was part of Leadership lustrated technical manuals after joining the er science from the University of Georgia. A North Fulton 2009-10. Air Force in the 1960s. He received a bache- member of the Society for Creative Anach- Kathleen Frances Melia, MS Psy 83, lor’s degree from the Atlanta College of Art ronism, he was referred to as Lord Aoghann PhD Psy 85, a resident of Medfield, Mass., and a master of fine arts degree from the Mac Gumrait during re-enactments.

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Rocket Man Sean Bedford’s success on the gridiron and in the classroom makes him a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award

By Van Jensen He put in a call to Buddy Geis, then the wide receivers coach. I came to campus for a visit, and I fell in love.” rom a young age, Sean Bedford had two passions that were While Bedford decided to attend Tech because of its aerospace as intense as they were seemingly contradictory. Growing up engineering program, he was happy to have a shot at collegiate in Gainesville, Fla., Bedford loved the space program. At age football, even if he didn’t have a scholarship. F6 he started building model rockets, launching them and watching “Coming out of high school, it never crossed my mind” not to them disappear into the sky. A couple of years later he made the play, Bedford said. “I felt like I had something to prove.” first of three trips to space camp. He joined the team for the 2006 season as a walk-on and red- Bedford was just as fervent in his passion for football. Though shirted under then-coach Chan Gailey. The next season, Bedford undersized, he starred at Buchholz High School as a hardwork- played on the scout team and made it into one game. ing defensive lineman. His senior season he racked up 79 tackles, Battling through injuries on the field, Bedford was discovering eight sacks, five forced fumbles and a blocked kick and was named just how tough academics are at the Institute. scholar athlete of the year by the Gainesville Sun. “The engineering side is everything it’s promised to be,” he Bedford, also the student body president, finished his high said. “It’s never been easy, but I wouldn’t want it to be. You have school football career having led the team to two district titles and to come in with a good work ethic, and you really have to make an being named to the all-state team. effort.” But because of his limited size, he received no scholarship of- He said his hardest class was System Dynamics and Controls, fers from Division I teams. Bedford did have an outstanding aca- which offered challenging concepts and plenty of work. demic record, though, and his mother convinced him to apply for Bedford’s academic load was all the more taxing because so Georgia Tech’s President’s Scholarship Program. much of his time was taken up by football. “When I found out I was a semifinalist, I had an interview with “The thing about football that people don’t understand is the Wade Barnes [ABiol 71],” Bedford said. “He was also a former measurable time that goes into it,” he said. “We have practice then walk-on, and he asked me if I had any interest [in playing football]. weightlifting then film study. Sometimes you don’t have enough

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YellowJackets.indd 77 12/15/10 8:25 AM time for sleep or homework. And after But Tech had fired Gailey and brought off the ball. And he works hard in the practicing, a lot of times you aren’t really in in Paul Johnson as head coach, and so Bed- weight room and moves his feet well.” the mood for studying.” ford decided to give the new regime a shot. After practice, Johnson talked to Bed- Heading into his third season, Bedford During August preseason practices, ford and asked him to break down the was still a defensive lineman buried deep Bedford was playing with the defense team’s performance. Bedford obliged, us- on the bench. He started to consider hang- scout team when he caught the eye of ing his academic side to dissect the Yellow ing up his cleats. Johnson and new offensive line coach Mike Jackets’ strengths and weaknesses. “I’d been injured a lot and hadn’t Sewak. Before the next practice, Johnson called played much,” he said. “At the same time, “He kept his pad level low,” Sewak Bedford over. Bedford didn’t know that school was getting really intense.” said. “That makes it easier to knock guys Johnson and Sewak were looking for a

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YellowJackets.indd 78 12/15/10 8:24 AM The analytical role fit Bedford perfectly. joy success both on and off the field. “He came willingly and worked hard His academic work was recognized at it,” Sewak said. “His tenacity overcame when he was named a finalist for the some of his flaws. He’s smart, so he un- Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, which derstands schemes, where the lineback- honors senior athletes with outstanding ers and safeties might attack. He’s a no- academic records. The winner will be an- excuse-make kind of guy. He tries to work nounced Jan. 10. on things when we critique his play. He The award also recognized Bedford’s spends extra time on film work.” community service, which includes serving Bedford played in two games in 2008 as a grand marshal at the Georgia Special and continued to master Johnson’s com- Olympics opening ceremonies for the past plex triple-option offense. As for quitting three years and helping with a dance mara- the team, the thought never crossed his thon fundraiser for Children’s Healthcare mind again, he said. of Atlanta. “The transition wasn’t that bad,” Bed- In mid-December, it was announced ford said. “We play very aggressive. The that Bedford was the winner of the 2010 technique and attitude isn’t that different. Burlsworth Trophy, awarded to the coun- But there’s a much larger mental aspect.” try’s most outstanding football walk-on. During Tech’s ACC championship- Bedford’s play continues to earn ac- winning 2009 season, Bedford started in colades as well. For the second straight all 14 games and helped the Yellow Jackets season, he was named to the All-ACC first lead the ACC in rushing and total offense. team. Running back Anthony Allen also After the season he was named to the all- made the team. conference team. And before that season, Bedford also gained a little recogni- he’d finally earned the football scholarship tion from Brandon Swafford, ID 07, of M- he’d long sought. train fame. Swafford filmed a short video Sewak explained that offensive linemen about Bedford that jokingly exaggerates tend to be more intellectual — if a smidgen his obsession with aerospace engineering unhinged. and features a cameo by his girlfriend. It “It’s easy to throw and catch a ball,” includes a very off-key Bedford performing Sewak said. “No one lines up in the middle John Denver’s Leaving on a Jet Plane. of the street and says, ‘Let’s block each “I’m not sure if you noticed, but I can’t other,’ not anybody in their right mind, really play the guitar or sing,” Bedford anyway.” noted. “Everyone seemed to like it, but my Bedford stands out among the line- girlfriend was a little embarrassed.” men Sewak has coached in one respect: his Having earned his aerospace engineer- vocabulary. Sewak said the team would be ing degree in December, Bedford now is deep in a sweltering August practice, ev- trying to figure out what his future holds. eryone exhausted, and Bedford would cut He’s bulked up to about 280 pounds, but in with a quip full of $10 words. he’s still a few inches too short and 20 or “He broadened my vocabulary,” Sewak more pounds too light for the NFL. said. “But I make up my words too.” And he’s no longer set on the space smart, hardworking player to join the of- That’s just one of Bedford’s nerdy hab- industry as his career. Bedford credited his fensive line. its. classes at Tech for broadening his horizons, “He said, ‘How about you come get “I’m a vocabulary snob,” he said. “I use and he’s applying to law schools to study some snaps with me?’” Bedford said. a lot of words that people say aren’t really technology and intellectual property law. “They gave me a white jersey, and I’ve words. But I read the dictionary occasion- After spending so many years focused been offense ever since.” ally as a kid. Other than that, when I walk on his twin passions, is it really possible Bedford was named the team’s backup around campus I usually listen to history he’ll soon not be involved with football or center. The role is the leader of the offen- podcasts.” space science? sive line, reading the defense and directing While the Yellow Jackets struggled in “Those will always be part of my life in teammates toward blocking assignments. Bedford’s final season, he continued to en- some form,” Bedford said.

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Georgia Tech Sports Information Members of the 1990 championship football team were honored during halftime of Tech’s Nov. 13 game against Miami. Former coach Bobby Ross addressed the crowd.

1990 Championship Team Reunites teams in our league,” he said. “We’re a team that’s good enough to make it to the NCAA tournament. ... We just have to stay focused During halftime of the Nov. 13 football game against Miami, on that, that’s all.” former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Ross led several members of the Yellow Jackets 1990 national championship team onto the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Lacrosse Enshrines First Hall of Fame Class The former players and coaches were reuniting for the 20th an- During Homecoming weekend in October, the Georgia Tech niversary of the school’s last football title. Lacrosse Club and the lacrosse affinity group celebrated 40 years of Tech finished with no losses and one tie in 1990, earning a top lacrosse at the Institute by inducting the first class in the new Geor- finish in the United Press International poll, which was voted on gia Tech Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Crease Club. by the nation’s coaches. The Yellow Jackets had started the season Twenty former players and coaches were honored in the cere- unranked but finished with a 40-23 victory over Georgia and a 45- mony. Fourteen were enshrined in the Hall of Fame, and six former 21 drubbing of Nebraska in the Florida Citrus Bowl. players were inducted into the Crease Club, which honors lifetime According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the final vote tal- achievement in the sport. lied by the coaches broke a tie between Georgia Tech and Colorado, The initial class in the Crease Club is David Lapin, IE 83; Steven which finished first in the Associated Press poll. The Yellow Jackets Laskowski, IE 84; Wade Lnenicka, GMgt 73; Sonny Pieper, Mgt 94; came out on top, 847 to 846. Craig Pritzker, IE 80; and Tristan Zaia, ME 83. The Hall of Fame will induct a new class every five years. Hewitt Works Through Growing Pains After losing frontcourt stars Derrick Favors and Gani Lawal Jumpers Shine in First Meet of Season to the NBA draft, men’s basketball coach Paul Hewitt entered the In their first meet of the 2010-11 indoor track and field season, 2010-11 season with an inexperienced but talented team. the Georgia Tech men’s and women’s teams excelled at the Orange Predictably, the season started out with both ups and downs. and Purple Winter Classic at Clemson in early December. “I didn’t really learn a lot” about the team early in the season, Yellow Jacket jumpers combined for two of Tech’s three first- Hewitt said. “I know that we have very good potential ... but our place finishes. The other came in the pole vault. focus sometimes can really betray us.” In the high jump, Mykhail Chambers earned a first-place finish. Hewitt said that despite those struggles, if the team is able to Omar Morrison took home the title in the long jump. Pole vaulters learn from its mistakes, it could have a successful season. Joanna Wright and Erica Penk tied at 3.7 meters. Wright took home “We are a team that is good enough to be one of the better the victory in a jump-off.

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YellowJackets.indd 80 12/15/10 8:23 AM Montgomery on Naismith Watch List Georgia Tech senior forward Alex Montgomery was named to the preseason Naismith Trophy watch list. The Naismith Trophy is the nation’s most prestigious award presented annually to the women’s college basketball player of the year. The recipient will be awarded April 4 at the NCAA Women’s Final Four in Indianapolis. “I am so excited that Alex Montgomery is finally receiving this type of recognition,” head coach MaChelle Joseph said. “She is very deserving of this honor.” Montgomery, a Tacoma, Wash., native, is the leading returning scorer for the Yellow Jackets. She finished the 2009-10 season with 11.9 points per game and six rebounds per game. “I am extremely excited to be included on the Naismith Trophy watch list,” Montgomery said. “There are a lot of great players included. It is an opportunity for me to really show that I am a leader of our team by stepping up the consistency in my game and bringing energy to our team every day.” The Atlanta Tipoff Club’s Board of Selectors compiled the watch list. In February, the club will announce its midseason list of the top 30 players, and in March it will narrow the list to four finalists. Montgomery was named ACC player of the week on Dec. 6 after scoring 20.7 points per game in leading Tech to a 3-0 week. Eric Mansfield

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‘Firearms Should Be Deposited With the Professor in Charge’

Tech students these days don’t know how good they have it. “A list of warnings included that ‘students found with playing Sure, parking on campus is scarce, and dining in the food court cards in their possession would be suspended from the school,’” can get pricey. But at least they can play a game of Texas hold ’em Cerny wrote in a letter to the editor, which begins on page 11. in their dorm rooms without worrying about getting kicked out of A copy of the Annual Announcement to which Cerny was refer- school. ring was found on a trip to the library’s archives along with a col- A feature on 125 pieces of Tech history published in the Sep- lection of regulations booklets from later years containing many of tember/October issue of the Alumni Magazine prompted John C. the same guidelines. Cerny, ME 51, MS IM 56, to share with Alumni Publications some Here are some rules and regulations from the 1903-04 and 1904- items from the Institute’s past not included in the list, such as a 05 editions that had the Alumni Magazine staff either laughing out 1903-04 handbook given to students. loud or scratching their heads.

4 Each student should have two suits of 4 The rising bell will ring in the hall at 6:15 are found in any room in the dormitory, overalls, costing about $1 each. a.m. daily, except on Sunday. the orderly of the room will be held re- 4 Requests for permission to be off limits 4 Rooms must be in order, beds made up, sponsible. must be submitted in writing to the pro- floors swept and students dressed at 6:40 4 Students found with firearms in their fessor in charge before 8 a.m., except on a.m., when the inspection bell rings. possession will be suspended from the Sundays, then before 9 a.m., who will 4 The bell for breakfast will ring at 6:45 school. pass upon them and return through the a.m., except on Sunday, when the rising, 4 Firearms should be deposited with the mail. inspection and breakfast bells will ring professor in charge. 4 Students will state in their request for one hour later. 4 Students will not be allowed to use the leave of absence the hours desired for de- 4 At 7 p.m. the bell for call to quarters will bathroom after call to quarters, except on parture and return, and where they wish ring. Then all students must go to their Fridays and Saturdays. to go, giving name and street number. rooms for study. 4 4 No student will be excused from his Leaving before the hour of departure, 4 Five minutes after call to quarters there duties on account of sickness unless his or returning after the leave expires, will will be an inspection, after which no name is reported on the sick list by the be punished by confinement, expulsion student will be allowed to visit without division inspector to the professor in from the dormitory or dismissal from the special permission from the professor in charge, who will summon a physician. A school. charge. Visiting will be allowed on Fri- fee of $1 is charged for each visit of the 4 No leaves will be granted for theaters, or day and Saturday nights, after the usual physician. In case a student is taken sick during the week for religious exercises, inspection. during the day, he shall report immedi- without written requests from students’ 4 At 10:15 p.m. the bell for retiring will ately to the president, or in his absence, parents. ring, and all lights must be out and stu- to the professor in charge. 4 Getting a leave of absence for one place dents in bed at the second bell, which 4 Students must patronize the laundry. and then going to another will be regard- will ring at 10:30. 4 Absences of all students will be mailed ed as a false statement, and is punishable 4 The general weekly inspection will be to parents weekly. by expulsion from the school. held every Saturday at 9 a.m., at which 4 4 Any student found engaging in any Students will be allowed to exercise on all students not on duty are required to disorder, boisterous conduct, whistling, their wheels during the day without per- be present. running through the halls or shops or mits. 4 Any student found with intoxicating smoking in any of the buildings, except 4 The time at the dormitory will be regu- liquors in his possession will be suspend- the dormitories, shall receive such penal- lated by the shop whistle. ed from the school. In case such liquors ties as the faculty may direct.

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InRetro.indd 86 12/16/10 1:58 PM 4 No ball playing will be allowed on the scene language are subject to such punished by expulsion from the school. campus between the following hours: 8 ishment as the faculty may direct. 4 Athletic teams shall not be allowed to a.m. to noon, and 1 to 4 p.m. Violations 4 Members of fraternities will be allowed visit other places except to play games of this regulation will be punished as the to leave Saturday nights, not later than with educational institutions. faculty may direct. 12 o’clock, to attend meetings of their 4 Steps leading to the bathroom and gym- 4 All ball playing on the campus must be fraternities. Each student must report his nasium from the first floor shall be off confined to the space south of the terrace departure and return to the officer of the limits except during hours specified. in front of the academic building and day, and must return to the school within 4 Students are prohibited from the use of east of the terrace in front of the Swann a reasonable time after adjournment of tobacco while on duty and from spitting Dormitory. the meetings. on the walls and floors of the buildings. 4 Students using profane, indecent or ob- 4 Gambling of any description will be pun- — Leslie Overman

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Swan Lake will be performed by the renowned State Ballet Theatre of Russia at the Ferst Center for the Arts. ferstcenter.gatech.edu

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Night at the Wizards will allow members of the Washington, D.C. Georgia Tech Club to catch up with former Yellow Jackets Derrick Favors and Anthony Morrow as their New Jersey Nets face the Washington Wizards. gtalumni.org/events Hinman Research Building grand opening will unveil the preserved and revitalized 1939 building. coa.gatech.edu

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Cirque Mechanics will take the Ferst Center stage as acrobats fly, climb and contort their way through a Wild West mining town. ferstcenter. gatech.edu

Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition will pit inventors against each other in the quest to design the top new instrument. gtcmt.coa.gatech.edu

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