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BACK IN THE Summer of 1973, when an­ races), and finally construction is under other editor was sadly putting to bed Vol. way. It will be one of the best of its kind 51, No. 4 of the Georgia Tech Alumnus, in the nation, and will serve Tech students he headlined his column "30" — which, in for generations to come. publishing parlance, means "the end". What school do you think produces the It was the end of an era for the dis­ largest percentage of chief executives of tinguished old magazine. the South's top 200 companies? You But some old soldiers don't just fade guessed it; a recent survey by South Mag­ away; they stand ready for revival at a azine disclosed that Georgia Tech leads propitious time. So it turns out to be with nearly 10 per cent. But Tech business with the Alumnus, under a new name: The leaders are not confined to the South . . . Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. Meet three of them (page 12), Dillard Volume 52, Number 1. If it has any Munford, David S. Lewis, Jr., and Marvin overriding theme, that theme is "(more)". Mitchell. (More), of course, is the opposite of 30, And meet, if you didn't while you were signifying that there is more to come. A on campus, Dr. Waldemar Ziegler (page whole new era for the magazine of Georgia 20), who came to Tech with "idealistic Tech's 18,000 dedicated contributing notions" in 1927 and hasn't abandoned alumni, we have good reason to hope. either since. The articles in this issue should give you As for the Alumni-Faculty House . . . a feel for the fact that (more) applies what's that, you ask? Hopefully it will be more than ever to Georgia Tech as an in­ one of the next pieces of Tech's (more) to stitution, and to the alumni it produces, fit into place (page 18). Funny how much who serve society in a myriad of ways. we build on the past. In February, 1910 The future building on the past. . . (see Bob Wallace's book "Dress Her in Bobby Dodd is retiring at the end of this White and Gold") Georgia Tech received year (page 4), and that may be likened the first big gift of its history - $50,000 to the end of an institution within an in­ from John D. Rockefeller toward construc­ stitution; but his legacy will remain, and tion of a YMCA building. Now, one of Tech athletics in the future will build upon Tech's newest gifts is $50,000, along with the contributions he has made and the a $50,000 pledge, from one alumnus, to standards he has set, just as he was guided refurbish that old building and give it new by Coach Alex before him. function. For SAC 70 (page 19), the future is Volume 52, Number 1. And there will now. Many of you have waited long and be (more). The Georgia Tech Alumni worked hard for a fine student athletic Magazine is back because Georgia Tech complex (even if working meant only run­ and its alumni deserve to have it back. Let ning in George Griffin's annual SAC us know how you like it. •

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This cover illustration of Bobby Dodd was painted by George Parrish and appeared in Atlanta Magazine in 1962.

STAFF Bill Seddon, Editor Suzanne Jeffrey, Assoc. Editor John Stuart McKenzie, Design Consultant J. Frank Smith, Jr., Chairman, Publications Committee It's (more) For The Alumnus 1 Bob Rice, Director of Alumni Programs "There is nothing I would change" Bobby Dodd near retirement 4 GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Making It In Business Wm. J. VanLandingham, Tech alumni head major corporations '59 President across the country 12 L. Travis Brannon, Jr., '49 Past President John E. Aderhold, Definitely not Peanuts '45 Vice-President Richard K. Whitehead, Jr., '57 Vice-President An alumnus runs for president •. 14 Bernard Kroll, '57 Treasurer W. Roane Beard, '40 Executive Secretary Alumni — Faculty House in the Future? 18

TRUSTEES SAC 70 in '76 19 Class of '76 Jere W. Goldsmith, IV, '56; Leo W. Kelly, '41; P. Harvey Lewis, '57; J. Frank Smith, Profile: Dr. Waldemar Ziegler 20 Jr., '55; Paul W. Speicher, Jr., '66; J. Tom Watters, '51.

Class of '77 Richard B. Bell, '61; Henry F. McCamish, Jr., '50; David M. McKenney, '60; James D. Blitch, III, '53; Wase T. Mitchell, '57; William R. Ziegler, '41.

Class of '78 Otis A. Barge, Jr., '41; Carey H. Brown, '69; Talmadge L. Dryman, '45; Robert E. Eskew, '48; Thomas H. Hall, III, '58; Alan The Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is published twice yearly for active alumni by the Georgia E. Thomas, '49. Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta, Ga. 30332.

NOVEMBER 1975 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 3 An Institution within the institute is retiring

By Bill Seddon

ROBERT L. DODD, known to some Dodd's long dedication to one as the Tall Gray Fox, known to school is a modern sports marvel. all as Bobby, the man who served During his years as head coach, and Georgia Tech 22 years as head even before when he was an as­ football coach, winning six Bowl sistant, he turned down numbers of games in six years and in­ offers to go elsewhere, including to furiating rival Bear Bryant by hold­ the fat city of the pros. He has wit­ ing "drop-the-handkerchief" prac­ nessed countless students, coaches, tices, the man who saw to it that professors, and even five college his football players stayed in school Presidents during his tenure. and got their degrees, is retiring as "I feel that my life has always Tech Athletic Director in July. been very charmed," Bobby Dodd Bobby Dodd and Georgia Tech says now as he contemplates the have been intertwined for the past relaxed contentment of retirement. 45 years, he having accepted em­ "I was lucky to come to Tech. I ployment as a backfield coach in married a wonderful girl here (At­ 1930 while still a student at the lanta's Alice Davis, in 1933), met University of Tennessee. He might a lot of great people, and stayed have arrived even earlier had not here. There is nothing I would his brother John, a Tech alumnus, change. I don't even believe I wish warned him that he was "too damn I'd won more football games, be­ dumb" to make it at Tech as a cause you spoil people when you student. win them all." "In Dodd We Trust" was a cam­ He won more than most, com­ pus motto from 1945, when he piling a virtuoso record of 165 wins, succeeded Coach W. A. Alexander, 64 losses and eight ties, plus nine until 1966, when he retired as head Bowl victories and four defeats. He football coach for health reasons, was SEC Coach of the Year in 1951 but retained the post of Athletic and was named national Coach of Director he had inherited from his the Year by the New York Daily mentor when Coach Alex died in News in 1952. He was head coach 1950. (continued)

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A rare photograph of Bobby Dodd and his late mentor, Coach W. A. Alexander. of the College All-Star teams in 1952 and 1953. Dodd's coaching feats have over­ shadowed his prowess as a player, which was not slight. He was named to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1961 for his playing achievements. Dodd's athletic career began on an unlikely note when he was 11 and played end at Kingsport High School in Tennessee. The nearest thing to a football midget, he was too small for a uniform, and dressed out in overalls. His forte was to wander onto the edge of the field, unnoticed by the other team, and catch passes for touchdowns. One such touchdown caused a large dis­ turbance by enraged home team fans. The following year Bobby beat out brother John for quarterback. After John went off to Georgia Tech, Bobby decided he'd try for an athletic scholarship too. But John told him, quite accurately Bobby agrees now, "You're too damn dumb to go to Tech." "John knew that this was not the place for me to go to school, be­ cause I was a terrible student," Dodd recalls. Instead, he went to Tennessee, where Grantland Rice named him All-America as quarter­ back, he was co-captain of the basketball team, and a three-year letterman in baseball. He still shakes his head at how finally he did come to Tech. Mac Tharpe, a former player who was assisting Coach Alex, was supposed to scout the University of North Carolina team in a game against Tennessee. But an automobile break­ down delayed his arrival until after the game, so he asked the Tennessee coach for a report. Coach R. R. Neyland told him to see his quarter­ back, because "he knows how to hurt them." Tharpe found Dodd in a. dormi­ tory and got a better game report than he could have turned in had he seen it. He told Coach Alex,

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who quickly decided, "Any player man with high ideals, a very dom­ capable of doing that will make COACH ALEX'S INFLUENCE inating person. Once he got pro­ some school an outstanding head voked with his athletes because they coach one of these days." During "Coach Alex was the best man I were floundering around, and didn't the Christmas holidays young Dodd ever knew," Bobby Dodd says with want'to go to class or get an edu­ was lured to Atlanta, where Alex­ conviction of the man who became cation. So he didn't give any scholar­ ander and alumnus Chip Robert a prime influence on his life, and ships for about three years. The signed him as assistant coach for who also never coached anywhere result was we took some bad lick­ $300 a month, with a bonus of else but at Georgia Tech. "He ings in those years. Then he started $600. "It was more money than I wouldn't let me leave here. I had giving aid again, but only to those had ever seen," he remembers, and an offer (in the late 1930's) to be who would study. Gradually we very soon he carted his belongings head coach at Florida, and I wanted built back up until we had a Bowl to Atlanta, never finishing up or to take it, because I was ambitious team in 1939, our first since 1928. getting his degree from Tennessee. and thought I knew enough to be We beat Missouri in the Orange "It was a fortunate crossroads of a good head coach. But Alex said Bowl." my life that brought me here," Dodd no, my future was here. You al­ Alexander retired after 24 years reminisces of that trip to Atlanta, ways listened to Coach Alex. I as head coach in 1944, turning his which brought frustration to Ten­ stayed his assistant for 14 years, and fulltime attention to athletic direc- nessee's Coach Neyland, who also I got impatient, but he treated me toring, and Dodd's ambition was had designs on him. "Rarely does too good to leave." finally realized. But his first team, anyone stay anywhere 45 years." Dodd remembers Alexander as "a drained by loss of players to the

BOBBY DODD has always been kind of player he was. Even when vaulter. "I bet them I could vault lucky. Stories about his luck are he was wrong, he never lost con­ 11 feet and they just didn't believe legion. He is the epitome of luck. fidence in himself. And I suspect it. I told them I could jump just as Luck personified. He revels in it. that's a goodly part of the reason high as I wanted to jump. Somehow "Lucky?" he once asked. "You bet for his success as a coach. He I got over that 11-foot bar." your life I'm lucky. I'm lucky and transfers that confidence to his That "somehow" was undoubt­ so are my teams. It's a habit. You team. You know that theory of 'if edly the extra competitive edge know, if you think you're lucky, you think you're lucky, you are' Dodd obtained when betting on you are." of his works dern well." himself. He was that way in golf, Bob Wallace told some great — Once in a golf match Tech until he gave up the game cold lucky Dodd stories in his book publicist Chick Hosch was one up turkey in 1948. "I was getting into Dress Her in White and Gold: on Dodd going into 18. The coach's some bad habits, betting a lot of money. I'd bet anything. I was a — Tennessee Coach R. R. Ney­ drive found a creek and rested on a good money player, the kind that land was coaching the North team sandbar, half under water. As Wal­ makes the shots when he needs for the North-South All-Star game. lace tells it, Hosch was congratu­ them. I wouldn't choke. I was a He was instructing his stars on the lating himself on "finally beating winner. But I had to quit the art of out-of-bounds punting, and the unbeatable. Then he saw a course because I wanted to play asked his own star, Bobby Dodd, to geyser with Dodd's head and too much and bet too much." demonstrate. "Where do you want shoulders sticking out of the middle Alumni Executive Secretary it placed, coach?" the cocky kid of it. The ball landed 10 feet from Roane Beard, who played football asked, and Neyland marked the the hole. Dodd canned the putt for Dodd, remembers seeing him spot with his hat. Dodd ran up the and won the match." at a driving range years ago. "They field about 40 yards and booted "I could very easily have been had a target about 200 yards out, one. "Well, you won't believe this, a gambler, because I loved to bet and when you hit it you got a free but that rascal hit my hat on the on myself," Dodd admits now. He bucket of balls," Beard remembers. fly," Neyland reported. "And he even bet with his players for milk­ "I saw him hit 16 buckets. He had the audacity to yell downfield, shakes. As baseball coach he used finally quit because he was tired." 'That about it, coach?' to pitch for the second team and But, remarkably, Dodd has not "You know, those other all-stars bet against the first team. hit a golf ball since 1948. "I got still looked at Dodd with their His best pole vault in college was it out of my system, like smoking mouths wide open at supper that 10 feet, 10 inches. But during his cigars. I realized it is bad for you, night. And he never let on that he first spring at Tech he bet the so I quite and never had a cigar couldn't do it every time. That's the track coaches he could beat their since."

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war, won only four games, and a everyday martinet football coach. coached by hard-driving, clean- number of alumni became skeptical When he first came to Tech he was living disciplinarian Johnny Vaught, about his ability. "The next year, one of the boys, and throughout his in the Sugar Bowl. Vaught preached thank goodness, the war boys came career he held onto the strange total dedication to football. His back and we started to roll again," notion that football should be fun. players weren't even allowed to get he remembers. His only other losing "My philosophy was to work hard married. During the holidays, five season came in 1950, largely be­ for a while, run hard and get every­ Tech players did just that. And the cause of injuries, "but we ended up body in shape; then I did a selling whole team lived it up in New Or­ like Pepper did last year, beating job, telling them what they were leans before the game. Tech won, Georgia at Athens." going to do; and then we would 24-7. Dodd is very proud of his Bowl have a good time. We played touch Coach Dodd's last quarterback, record, including the six straight football and volleyball and had fun Kim King, put it this way: "Playing wins from 1951 to '56, but even in practice. We never scrimmaged for Bobby Dodd was like playing more proud of the "wonderful boys" getting ready for a Bowl game, and for your father . . . His record is an who made up his football teams. I let them off for a long time during indication of his dedication . . . Our "They are some fine people. Many the holidays. practices were fun but not soft. .. of them are now in business, and "A lot of it is just selling people Coach Dodd felt that a boy's edu­ some are in the ministry, and a lot that what you're doing is right. We cation was more important than of them made a million dollars, al­ had some great Bowl teams, and football." though some of them are broke. I the kids loved it, because they knew Alabama's Bear Bryant, one of have been very close to them. The I'd let them see the sights, and they the coaches who seemed to resent most rewarding part of my whole could bring their wives. But at Dodd's easy approach to football, career is my relationship with my game time, they knew they had to and who sniffed at those "drop-the- players." play." handkerchief" practices, put it an­ (Many of his old players came The results were impressive. And other way: "Nobody else in the to Atlanta October 16, and others for opposing teams, bewildering. In country can coach like Dodd and sent letters, for a special program 1950 LSU players were astounded win." honoring their coach. The players to see their Georgia Tech counter­ presented him with a piece of furni­ parts playing volleyball on Friday ture to keep their letters of tribute afternoon and figured they'd have SEND A GOOD BOY... in.) an easy time the next afternoon. Dodd gave his players good rea­ They were shut out, 13-0. Winning was not the only thing son to like him; he was not your One year Tech met Ole Miss, to Dodd, however. He pushed his

BOBBY DODD has witnessed a lot plant. Harrison started upgrading dent Ford played on — but found of changes in his 45 years with Tech academically. They called it out when he got to Ann Arbor Georgia Tech, in people, in places, better, but it hurt me because it that Michigan had a black player. in customs. was harder to get athletes into "The Michigan coach was going "I've seen a lot of Presidents school. This trend continued with to very quietly bench the boy for go through here," he reminisces. Hansen. And now Dr. Pettit is our game," Dodd recalls, "but the He has served under the admini­ continuing to upgrade academics." students heard and demanded that strations of Dr. Marion L. "Brittain, Among the custom changes he he play. Alex knew there would 1922-44; Colonel Blake R. Van has seen are Tech's acceptance of be an uproar back home if we Leer, 1944v56; Dr. Edwin D. coeds and black students. He took did. Finally a compromise was reached — we benched our regular Harrison, 1957-69; Dr. Arthur G. his team to the 1956 Sugar Bowl right end, and they benched theirs, Hansen, 1969-72; and Dr. Joseph to play Pittsburgh, which had a the black player. Our boy resented M. Pettit, President of Georgia black player, despite protests from it very much, and carried that re­ Tech since 1972. "There were a the Governor of Georgia and a sentment a long time. But that number of big changes under White Citizens' Council. far back we couldn't have played them," Coach Dodd recalls. "When But he also remembers when against a black without everybody Brittain retired and they brought Georgia Tech could not play screaming bloody murder." It is in Colonel Van Leer, an Army against Negroes. In 1934 Coach one of Bobby Dodd's few unhappy man, he fought harder for funds Alex scheduled a game against memories of his days with Georgia for buildings and the physical Michigan — the team that Presi­ Tech.

8 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE A number of Bobby Dodd's players and assistant coaches have made then: own names in the head coaching ranks, including Pepper Rodgers, left, and Frank Broyles, right.

HAPPINESS IS . . . beating Arkansas 14-7 in the 1955 Cotton Bowl. Can you tell the players without a scorecard? Here's some help: 1 Henry Hair 2 Bucky Shamburger 3 George Volkert 4 Jimmy L. Morris 5 Larry Morris 6 Bill Brigman 7 Coach Bobby Dodd 8 John Hunsinger 9 Jimmy Thompson 10 Johnny Minger 11 Jimmy Durham 12 Don Ellis 13 Toppy Vann 14 Jim Summer 15 Lynwood Robert 16 Paul Rotenberry 17 Allan Ecker 18 Franklin Brooks 19 Bill Fulcher 20 Jimmy Carlen 21 Ken Owens 22 Carl Vereen 23 Ray Wiloch 24 George Humphreys 25 Wade Mitchell 26 Bill Sennett 27 Don Miller 28 Jimmy M. Morris 29 Burton Grant 30 Tommy Gossage 31 Frank Christy 32 Ben Daugherty 33 Frank Webster 34 Charlie Huff 35 Rees Phenix 36 Ken Thrash 37 Dickie Mattison 38 Ormand Anderson 39 Ollie Sale 40 Ronnie Kyle.

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players to study and to get their Mother degrees — pushed a little harder, he confesses, because he never did and get his own — and felt an obliga­ Daughter tion to help them. If a scholarshipped player turned out not to have the ability to play, Dodd would let him keep his scholarship. Once a boy

FOOTBALL HAS CHANGED MUCH since Bobby Dodd's coaching days, and not always for the better, he believes. One thing he misses is the quick-kick, now almost extinct. "It had a lot of advantages — the good punt return man was not received a grant-in-aid sheet through Typically he would tell parents, back there waiting, and there was a clerical error. "The boy couldn't "We're not miracle workers but if no runback. And the way we have made the team at a lot of high you send us a good boy to Georgia kicked it we'd get a 30-yard roll, ending up with a 60-yard kick schools," Dodd admitted. "But we Tech, we will send you a good boy with no return. The pros changed carried him through four years at back home." He also sent home 19 things — with third down on their Georgia Tech, because we were ob­ All-Americas. own 10 they'll pass. We wouldn't ligated. I don't go back on my Coach Dodd still counts Tech's think of it. I think our old philos­ word." 7-6 victory over Alabama and Joe ophy is still good. I'd punt more." Namath in 1962 as his most satisfy­ Playing for Tennessee Dodd ing. "There was a lot of rivalry then. once punted out-of-bounds on the Coach Bryant and I were friends, Alabama one-foot line. Tennessee IN 1952 PRE-SEASON PRACTICE but we differed greatly. He was for got a safety and won 15-13. As another player clearly out-kicked tougher practices and more condi­ coach he placed great stock in Georgia Tech sophomore Pepper tioning, yet we both achieved the teaching his punters to kick out- Rodgers. While the other's place­ of-bounds. "But today they always ments flew gracefully end-over-end, same end, and it sure was a lot more go for the field goal. They don't Rodgers' efforts were said to have pleasant to play here. I told my put the opponent in trouble, in a spun crazily like dying ducks, with boys, 'You're not going to get your hole where he will make mistakes." a last gasp making it over the head beat in and be browbeated and College athletes have changed, crossbar. cursed. You're going to be taught too. "The athlete is much better On the eve of the first game today, a magnificent specimen. the other coaches were unanimous When I was in college nobody that the other player deserved the weighed over 200, and we never field goal job. But Dodd was not BOBBY DODD has always had a heard of anybody 250 pounds who satisfied. He called them in sepa­ good press. Reporters and sports didn't waddle. Now our freshman rately to ask how they thought editors always knew he would team has 10 or 12 players over they could handle it. "I'll try, make time for them, and they 230, yet they run faster than we coach," said the first. Then came would get a story from him. Jim could, and they're stronger. A lot Rodgers. "Coach, how many peo­ Minter, then executive sports editor of boys are j running now what ple are going to be in the stands?" of The Atlanta Journal, now man­ would have been a world record the fiesty fellow asked. Dodd told aging editor of The Atlanta Con­ in my day. And in basketball there him 40,000. "I'll kick every one. stitution, wrote on the day Dodd are players who score more points I won't miss," Rodgers proclaimed. retired as head football coach: "If than my whole team." And Dodd announced, "You're my he'd learned to type, some of us But again, change is not always man." would have been out of a job. He for the better: "The athlete today, Rodgers went on to become one could do everything else." however, doesn't have the keen of the great pressure kickers in Minter gave Dodd the highest desire to play football as the boy i college football, and set an SEC compliment within a reporter's in my day. Now he has automo­ record for consecutive extra points. power to give: "When it came time biles and other things to fool And now, of course, he's Georgia to get the news for the paper, he'd around with." Tech's head football coach. give it to you straight."

10 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE I am real close with my children. Bob Jr. is 34 and we play tennis and fish and play bridge together; I probably see more of him than his friends his own age do." (Bobby Dodd the younger was a good foot­ ball player and good student who once wanted to come to Georgia Tech, but was dissuaded by his father. He got a scholarship and played for Florida.) "On weekends I go up to a lake in Dallas with my daughter Linda and her children and fish and catch bullfrogs and catch rabbits," Dodd continues. "And I play tennis almost some pride and when Saturday George Morris '52, and Larry Mor­ every afternoon with my cronies comes you are going to play well.' " ris, '54, (unrelated), both centers, for years — Bitsy Grant, Tom Bird, For pride in playing well, his last and halfback Paul Rotenberry, '56. Hank Crawford and Joe Becknell. team, the 1966 Yellow Jackets, re­ And Clint Castleberry, the "small Joe and I have a record I am very proud of — he is 37, and we play main one of his favorites. They went but terrific" halfback who played doubles together in the "Junior 9-1, much better than expected, only one year — his freshman year Vets" Division, 35-year olds. We've "simply because they put more into — before joining the service in 1943 been to the finals of the state tourna­ and dying in World War II. the game than they had to give." ment two years in a row, and I'm Dodd once said the 1966 team, 66." his last as head coach, was his all- Dodd plays his tennis at the pub­ time favorite. He still says so, but WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS lic Bitsy CJrant Tennis Center, where adds, "So was '47. And those '50's he and Bitsy are regular partners. years when we won six straight Now Bobby Dodd is facing the After tennis, they play bridge for Bowls, there were a bunch of happy prospect of relaxing with his an hour or so until the center closes, favorites in there." memories in retirement, keeping up for a fifth of a cent a point. Usually He is equally reluctant to name a heavy tennis schedule, and spend­ Bitsy is his bridge partner against any "best" players from his 19 All- ing a lot of time with his family. Crawford and Dr. Glenn Dudley. Americas, but does single out "I've always been very close to "I lead a very pleasant life right my family, although during football now," Dodd muses. "I hate to think season I didn't get to see as much about leaving Tech. I've been here of them as I'd like. But the kids 45 years. I've been in organized DODD USED TO PLAY GOLF with came to the games and sat on the athletics since I was 11 years old. his friend Bob Hope. "We had sidelines and I took them on all our It will be unusual not to have an some big money games. But trips and to the Bowls. To this day active association with Tech. he was the hardest guy in the "My health is real good. I've been world to get a good bet with. In very fortunate, able to run around spite of all his money, he always and compete in tennis with 35-year wanted the advantage. Bing Crosby BOBBY DODD'S unusual penchant olds. My life at Tech has been very was the other way around. He'd for keeping athletes in school happy. I never had a contract, never give you the best of the bet." on scholarship even when they Dodd made the acquaintance of couldn't play paid extra dividends had to ask for a raise, they always many stars, on the golf course or once. A great prospect got hurt treated me fairly. through the good offices of a Tech and never played for Tech. But "I feel that my life has always alumnus who headed a movie Dodd let him keep his scholarship been very charmed. I've been lucky, studio. But he never let it go to and he graduated. Later he married although I feel the Lord has to help his head: "The everyday person Linda, the coach's daughter. He you out in certain instances and appeals to me just as much as the is Georgia State Senator Joe get you out of some holes. I have celebrity." Thompson. no regrets. None whatever. There is nothing I would change." A

NOVEMBER 1975 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 MAKING IT IN BUSINESS

A recent South Magazine survey disclosed that more chief executive officers of the South's 200 biggest companies attended Georgia Tech than any other school. But, Tech alumni company presidents and board chairmen are not limited to the South — they head corporations across the country. Meet a few.

By Suzanne Jeffrey

DAVID S. LEWIS, JR.

A GEORGIA TECH GRADUATE who nations are anticipated. has harbored a fascination for air­ "For stability of the company, planes since boyhood is now presi­ you can't beat government business dent of a company that recently in hard times," Lewis has said of made headlines for negotiating "the the deals. arms deal of the century." Since October, 1970, Lewis has General Dynamic's David S. been chairman and chief executive Lewis, Jr. has been personally cred­ officer of General Dynamics Corpo­ ited in business circles for winning ration, this year listed 98th among the Pentagon's multi-million dollar Fortune's 500. He became president order for Air Force jet fighters. in April 1971. That was in January, 1975, five Prior to joining General Dynam­ visualized where I might be. I'm a years after he accepted the company ics on the recommendation of a man lot further along than I would have chairmanship at a time when Gen­ who controlled enough stock to anticipated." eral Dynamics Corporation was hold five seats on the board of Today he is president of the caught in a financial slump. directors, Lewis had worked his way world's largest submarine company Lewis says the $4.3 billion con­ to the top at McDonnell Aircraft and highly diversified manufacturer tract to build 650 YF-16 planes Corporation in 24 years: He of aircraft, coal, asbestos, construc­ injected "new life" into the com­ started with the firm as an aero­ tion materials and ships. One of the pany's Forth Worth plant and cre­ nautical engineer in 1946 and company's products, a liquified gas ated 50,000 jobs nationwide. had no less than eight titles of ship, is "three times as long as Six months/later General Dy­ increasing responsibility before be­ Grant Field," according to Lewis. namics received a $2.6 billion order ing appointed president in 1962, a The son of a civil engineer born for 350 more YF-16s from four position he continued to hold in in North Augusta, S. C. and raised nations of the North Atlantic Treaty the new McDonnell Douglas Corpo­ in Charleston, Lewis attended the Alliance — Belgium, Holland, Nor­ ration, formed in 1967 by the mer­ University of South Carolina from way and Denmark. It was a blow ger with Douglas Aircraft Company. 1934-37 before transferring to to the YF-16's competitor, the While the 5 8-year-old Lewis Tech, where he received his B. S. French Mirage I, Lewis points out. knew early in life that he wanted degree in aeronautical engineering in On June 10, 1975, Defense Secre1, to be an aeronautical engineer and 1939. His first job as an aerody- tary James R. Schlesinger signed sought a degree from Tech for that namicist was with the Glenn L. the accord concluding the European reason, he had no idea where his Martin Company in Baltimore, Md., purchase. Future purchases by other ambition would lead. "I never (continued on page 22)

12 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE DILLARD MUNFORD

"THE MAIN THING I learned at "I'm not sorry that I went to Georgia Tech was that I damn sure Tech. It offers good discipline and didn't want to be an engineer." training no matter what business The Tech alumnus who made that you enter. I earned more money in remark inherited the humorous out­ my last year at Tech as editor of the look of his grandfather, Charles Technique, as a basketball player Henry Smith, a writer from Georgia and as an employee of the Athletic who used the pen name of Bill Arp. Association than I did during my Indeed, at 57 Dillard Munford is first two years out of school," Mun­ no mechanical engineer, although he ford recalls. received an M. E. degree from Tech Much of the money he made in in 1939. Rather he is president of college was used to repay a loan Munford, Inc., a $238 million busi­ that had financed his education. ness that operates Majik Markets, The son of a farmer from Carters- World Bazaars and Wish Bone Fried ville who graduated from Tech in Chicken stores in 22 states — not to 1903, Munford decided early in life mention Munford Do-It-Yourself that he wanted to be his own boss. stores, gasoline stations and refriger­ "I always figured I wanted to try ated warehouses. my hand at running a business," Munford credits Tech for instill­ says Munford. ing in him a sense of self-discipline. (continued on page 22)

MARVIN G. MITCHELL

A TECH ALUMNUS who is now a on the Georgia Tech campus. corporate executive has discouraged The pressure to compete for a his son from seeking a position with diploma and the job after grad­ the company he heads. uation began to be felt, he says, "I wouldn't let my son work for when students were reminded that Chicago Bridge and Iron," says "One out of three of you won't be Marvin G. Mitchell, chairman and here at the end of the year." It was president of the firm. a bleak prediction of what would He believes the legacy of self-de­ certainly ensue if a student didn't termination is one of the most valu­ take the challenge of education able gifts a parent can impart to seriously. his offspring. "I knew it was strictly up to me "It's a great feeling to know that to make the choice about what you can make it on your own," direction my life would take," reflects Mitchell. "For him — or Mitchell recalls. anyone — it is the best thing in the He remembers being awed by the long run." bustling city atmosphere of Atlanta Marvin G. Mitchell, III grad­ after growing up in the tiny South uated from Tech in 1968 and is Georgia town of Quitman, where now a sales engineer for Anning- his father owned a modest hardware Johnson Company, a commercial store to support his wife and five specialty sub-contractor in Atlanta. children. then that made any effort at all A product of Georgia Tech and In 1939 he graduated from Tech toward finding employment for their the Great Depression, the elder with a degree in Civil Engineering graduates," says Mitchell. Mitchell remembers how it felt to and used the placement services of The placement procedure in those be raised at a time when Americans Tech, "pretty primitive at that days was a relatively impersonal were consumed by the need for time," according to Mitchell, to operation in which students' re­ financial security. land his first job in Birmineham, sumes were mailed to companies That need pervaded every facet Ala. seeking employees. Mitchell recalls of life, including, life as a student "Tech was one of the few schools (continued on page 24)

NOVEMBER 1975 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 JIMMY CARTER:

By James L.

IT WAS a Sunday evening at the the impact he has upon audiences Omni in Atlanta and an already has surprised even his most severe bustling full house of young people critics. While still Governor in 1972 were stirring in their seats in un- he made up his mind to run for stifled anticipation of a rock con­ the Democratic nomination for the cert by the Allman Brothers. Back­ Presidency and he has been running stage, the brothers Allman and their hard. musicians were having a jazzy jam He says the decision was simple: session to heat up for the show. He wants to be President, saw no Everyone present looked the part — Democratic candidate with a better long hair, pop modern dress, flam­ chance than he, and decided to hit boyant— except one; the gentle­ the trail early and with force. (More man sharing the bench with the objective observers feel that Carter piano player wore a dark blue suit, saw no other course for his con­ blue shirt, and an Establishment tinuing political future. He couldn't tie. succeed himself as Governor, was But Jimmy Carter was* popping unwilling to run, Maddox-style, for his head in perfect time to the music. Lieutenant Governor, and saw no Later, after the former Governor chance to unseat Herman Talmadge of Georgia had chatted with and in the U.S. Senate.) charmed nearly everyone in the Born in 1924 near Plains, Geor­ room, Greg Allman expressed pride gia — population 700 — Carter set Stephen Pace (Tech, Class of in Carter's fierce campaign for the an early pattern of diligence and 1912) and prepared for Annapolis Presidency and asked him to stick consistency. Though born in the with three quarters at Tech. A around to meet his new wife, Cher. heart of the Black Belt at a time superior student at both schools, he As it happened, Carter didn't wait when blacks were not even allowed graduated from the academy in to meet the famous television star; to knock on the front door, Carter 1946 and ranked 60th in a class of it was Sunday, getting late, and he refused to serve on the White Citi­ 823 cadets. needed his rest. But the main reason zen's Council and voted with his "I wasn't a member of a fra­ was that his mission was accom­ family against segregating the Bap­ ternity at Tech," he says, "but I plished; he had spent thirty minutes tist church. After serving in the had most of the benefits. My navy with a famous band which reaches Georgia Senate he jumped into a supervisor thought I ought to con­ millions of young voters and he had "hopeless" campaign for Governor centrate on my studies and thought made his customary impact. in 1966. Since John F. Kennedy a fraternity might be distracting. I James Earl Carter, Jr., who at­ still evoked a popular image, Car­ had the best of both worlds by living ter's advertising counselor, Gerald tended Tech in 1942, will have with the KA's. Rafshoon, affected a Kennedy made 250 speeches in forty or more "My biggest adjustment at Tech image for his candidate, and Carter states by the end of this year and was not so much to the school as ran a surprising third. John Dennis to living in the big city of Atlanta. of The Nation says of him now: "He As it turned out, I loved every looks as Kennedy might have minute of it." looked had he worked for a living." (Editor's Note: For the first time in After graduating from the Naval its 90-year history, a Georgia Tech Carter has worked for a living. Academy he remained in the ser­ alumnus is a candidate for President A peanut farmer who earned rough­ vice for eleven years. He became of the United States. The Georgia ly $80,000 last year, he grew up known as one of Admiral H. G. Tech Alumni Magazine will take no working the land with his hands Rickover's "boys" and studied ad­ sides in political campaigns, but we and on a recent weekend was re­ vanced physics at Union College in have asked a noted Atlanta writer to laxing in Plains by doing the same Schenectady, New York. His father give us his views of alumnus Jimmy thing. He was the first of his family died in 1953 while Carter was com­ Carter and his presidential aspirations. to graduate from high school, and manding the atomic submarine James L. Townsend is an Atlanta freelance writer, author and editor of his is the fifth generation of Car­ "Sea Wolf" and he retired from the several books, and former editor of ters to live on this land. He re­ Navy to work the farm in Plains. Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Mag­ ceived an appointment to the U.S. He had already married the former azine.) Naval Academy from Congressman Rosalynn Smith, whose family has

14 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Definitely Not Peanuts

Townsend

even deeper roots in Georgia, and and instituted a pilot kindergarten wife. Carter is best. before small they banked $200 from the first program. But the big move was the groups; he is not a Rooseveltian year of farming. establishment of the Department of speakes. At 51, trim and in ex­ Following his healthy showing in Human Resources, a giant with cellent physical condition, he is up the 1966 Democratic primary Car­ more than 15,000 employees. The with the chickens and still believes ter ran for Governor again in 1970 idea proved controversial from the in meeting factory works at the and was elected against strong op­ start and its ultimate wisdom is still gate. Using that old-fashioned de­ position. His four-year tenure was to be determined. vice and possessing a valuable marked by forceful executive man­ In his inaugural address Car­ knack for getting on television, he agement and controversy, and the ter laid a foundation which drew has left a great many states in a two were in some ways interwined. applause from the national press good frame of mind. Following his As Governor, he set about a mas­ and from most Georgians. The key natural political instincts and the sive reorganization of the state's words were: advice of a sound staff, he has been cumbersome bureaucratic agencies. "I say to you quite frankly that impressive in dealing with the poli­ Teams of businessmen and govern­ the time for racial discrimination tical leaders in state after state. He ment specialists visited more than is over. . . . No poor, rural, weak, still has a way to go, but he has thirty states to study structural and or black person should ever have been able to soften the doubts of management improvements before to bear the additional burden of many old pros in the national press. Gov. Carter made his move. When being deprived of the opportunity Whereas the writers first wrote he did, it was with typical drive and for an education, a job, or simple him off with a grin, most — from force: During his administration, justice." the Wall Street Journal to the syndi­ state agencies were reduced from In his formal opening speech as cated columists — now consider about 300 to 22. a Presidential contender, Carter (continued) The biggest single strike was to identified himself as "a farmer, an combine welfare, health, and related engineer, a businessman, a planner, matters under the large banner of a scientist, a Governor, and a Chris­ Human Resources. The Carter ad­ tian." No one who knows him can ministration broke up Georgia's doubt those credentials; the only huge warehouse for the insane in question is whether they are suffi­ Milledgeville (which housed as cient, along with his drive, to get many as 12,000 patients at once) him nominated. and, despite some spirited opposi­ He is a tireless and extraordi­ tion, moved about half of the pa­ narily effective campaigner who tients into small scattered commun­ has set aside 250 campaigning ity centers. days for himself and another 100 His administration doubled the days for his charming and attractive number of alcoholism clinics and established the state's first drug- abuse treatment centers. He moved *L( strongly in the field of prison re­ form, the hiring of qualified blacks, A, (PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHARLES RAFSHOON)

16 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JIMMY CARTER

(continued) /•I him to be at least a serious candi­ same time, is bringing in contribu­ date and an effective campaigner. tions as though he were minting While most consider his chances the money. But Wallace could also of nomination to be, at best, "dis­ be the prime reason for Jimmy Car­ tant", not one who has spoken ter becoming a leading candidate with him personally considers him instead of a "dark horse": If he to be insincere, nor does anyone can beat Walace in the Southern regard him as simply a "favorite states, or even make a strong show­ son". ing in Alabama, Georgia, and Flori­ Nor is he running for President da he would have to be considered merely in the hopes of getting on a serious alternative to the Alabama the ticket as Vice President. Governor. And Carter thinks he "I intend to be President," he can do just that. says flatly. "I'm the only Democrat He isn't boasting when he says who can really challenge [George] it, just confident: "I am the only Wallace, and I plan to do that in his candidate who can beat Wallace in home state, my home state, and the South." wherever he runs. I am not in­ One citizen who emphatically terested in being Vice President." believes in him is a delightful sep­ Some see that as a standard polit­ tuagenarian down in Plains, Geor­ ical disclaimer, but close supporters gia, Mrs. Lillian Carter. His 77- believe it. One key staff member year-old mother fully expects Jimmy put it simply: "He's giving two Carter to be the next President of years of his life to this campaign, the United States. Of course, she and so are some of the rest of us is a lady with more than average . . . and not for a lot of money. I spunk. Mrs. Carter served two years wouldn't do that if I thought he was as a nurse in India in the 60s; very running for Vice President. Besides, few such ladies who are nearing look at his history. Jimmy never has seventy join the Peace Corps. Still been one to settle for a second exceptionally alert, she asked in a spot." recent conversation: "Tell me, if Nevertheless, the former Gover­ not Jimmy — then who? Can you nor has not issued a Sherman-like name me a better man? statement on the Vice Presidency, There is no question that he perhaps because such a statement sincerely believes that he can be would be unacceptable to his grow­ elected, and some people who once ing body of political supporters. snickered at the notion are beginning His biggest problem may be to agree. When he first ran for money, but he's doing better than Governor in 1966 there were a lot some even in that important cate­ of people in Georgia who were say­ gory. Carter has raised more than ing, "Jimmy Who?". The staff im­ a half-million dollars through the mediately made up campaign but­ first nine months of his campaign tons with "Jimmy Who?" on them and showed a $14,000 deficit — and made good use of the relatively minor — during the third phrase. The same thing could hap­ quarter. He is making significant pen in New Hampshire and a few progress in qualifying for matching other states. federal money in several states. In any event, this Georgia Tech The next biggest problem would alumnus is making his name known have to be George Wallace. Wallace throughout the country. still leads in the polls and, at the Jimmy Who, indeed. A

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A Georgia Tech Alumni-Faculty House looms Among the design and function questions the over the horizon. committee is grappling with are whether the A committee of the Alumni Association Board Alumni-Faculty House should have sleeping ac­ of Trustees is exploring various sites, designs and commodations, full food and beverage service or functions for the Alumni-Faculty facility, which catered service, and certain administrative offices. will probably be accomplished through remodel­ Opinions from all alumni are invited. ing of the old Tech YMCA building on North Pictured on the steps of the YMCA building Avenue. are committee members (top row, left to right) Cost estimates have not yet been set, but range Otis A. Barge, Jr., James D. Blitch, III, Alumni upward from $500,000. One alumnus has donated Association Executive Secretary W. Roane Beard, $50,000 for the project and has committed Jere W. Goldsmith, IV, (bottom row) Thomas another $50,000 for it. H. Hall, III, David M. McKenny, Robert E. Many details remain to be settled, Committee Eskew, and Campus Architect David Savini. Chairman Robert E. Eskew says, but he is hope­ ful that construction will begin during this fiscal year. SAC'70: THE FUTURE IS NONA/

PATIENCE BE REWARDED — the start The Callaway Foundation is con­ | Participating in the Oct. 7 cere­ of construction on Georgia Tech's tributing $2.5 million toward con­ mony on the SAC site were Univer­ long-awaited Student Athletic Com­ struction, with the State of Georgia sity System of Georgia Chancellor plex (SAC) was a cause for cele­ putting up the remainder of the George L. Simpson, Jr.; Georgia bration October 7. $5.4 million total allocated for con­ Tech President Joseph M. Pettit; SAC is being built on 14 acres struction, architects' fees and other Fuller E. Callaway, . Jr.; Carey between Tech Parkway and Ferst expenses. The facility will be named Brown, former Student President Drive, south of Sixth Street. Ex­ the Fuller E. Callaway III Student who led the first movement for the pected completion date is early Athletic Complex, after the Georgia SAC facility; and present Student Summer, 1977. Tech alumnus. President Steve Fox.

Architect's rendering of the way the Student Athletic Complex will look upon Machinery moves into place to start completion. actual construction.

Part of those attending the ground-breaking ceremony The speaker's platform with umbrellas forming a practical October 7. backdrop.

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The crowded start of the traditional George C. Griffin SAC Week Road Race run Lots of running room at the finish line this year. for survivors.

NOVEMBER 1975 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 \foldemar Ziegler: A Road Gladly Taken

DR. WALDEMAR T. ZIEGLER likes sity respectively, and working as a gineering School for whom Tech's to reminisce about the days when he research chemist during World War new Civil Engineering Building is knew personally many of the men II, Dr. Ziegler returned to Georgia named, and Dr. Gerald Rosselot, a whose names are immortalized on Tech as an associate professor in past director of the Engineering Ex­ the buildings at Georgia Tech. 1946. periment Station, Ziegler "got the "The history of Tech is embodied The slight, gray-haired educator feeling I would be able to do what in those names. They made it what recalls the "idealistic notions" that I wanted to do and I have been it is," says the 65-year-old Regents' were a factor in his decision at age delighted ever since." Professor of Chemical Engineering, 36 to accept a teaching position at What he has enjoyed doing for who has spent 34 years of his life his alma mater. the past 29 years is teaching and at Tech as a student and a pro­ "I wanted to return to teaching advising students and conducting fessor. and contribute my efforts toward research, concentrating on thermo­ Dr. Ziegler first came to Tech as the South," says Dr. Ziegler. In his dynamics and cryogenics, the study a freshman in 1927 and left five talks with Dr. Jesse W. Mason, of the properties of materials at low years later with an undergraduate former head of the Chemical En- temperatures. One current applica­ degree in Chemical Engineering. He tion of his field lies in the design of was one of seven sons of German space equipment, though Dr. Zieg­ Dr. Waldemar 7Aegler is an ex­ immigrants, all of whom graduated ler counts himself among that breed ample of the outstanding group from Tech. His brother „ Frank of scientists who are primarily in­ of Georgia Tech professors played fullback for the Yellow Jac­ terested in learning more about the whose presence here may be kets in 1947-^9. universe, "research for research attributed partly to salary supple­ For her role in increasing Tech's sake," rather than applying it to a ments from the Georgia Tech specific problem. ranks, Mrs. • Elizabeth Ziegler, the Foundation, Inc. professor's mother, was made an In 1969 Dr. Ziegler received The Foundation allocates funds honorary alumna of Tech. His fa­ Tech's Outstanding Teacher Award each year to raise the salaries of ther, Theodore Ziegler, now de­ and in 1953 was recipient of the key professors above that given ceased, was a mechanical engineer prize for excellence in research by the State. The Foundation born in India of German mission­ given annually by the Georgia Tech also helps attract National Merit ary parents. \ Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. Scholar and other top students He is a member of the board of After receiving Master's and Doc­ to Tech by offering scholarships directors of the National Cyrogenic toral degrees in chemistry from and student loans. Emory and Johns Hopkins Univer- Engineering Conference.

20 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Famous College Paintings

On one wall of his office hangs a portrait of Albert Einstein, the sci­ entific genius whose "search for understanding was concerned with very fundamental things out- of which have come some surprising applications," Dr. Ziegler declares. No less an influence in molding his life was John Lawrence Daniel, a former dean of Tech's Graduate School, for whom the Daniel Lab­ oratory Building which now houses the physical education department is named. Daniel, who encouraged him to apply for a fellowship, was "responsible for my going to gradu­ ate school," Ziegler says. "I found out it was really what I wanted to do — I just didn't know it at the time." A favorite poem of his is one by Robert Frost, "The Road Not Tak­ en." "Looking forward, one can't anticipate what will happen, but looking back I can see these things all fitting together," he muses. In the years since Ziegler arrived at Tech as a professor, he says the thrust of Tech's purpose has TECH NEVER LOOKED BETTER. changed from primarily a teaching A beautiful way to remember Georgia Tech...in Eglomise, orientation to one where "the grad­ the centuries old art of meticulous hand-painting in oils on the uate program in research is viewed reverse side of glass. This campus scene makes an attractive as an integral part of what Tech is wall plaque or an ideal gift. The frame is hand leafed to match all about." the antique appearance of the painting. Over 1500 American The role of research, he recalls, Colleges available, including all accredited Medical, Dental first came into its own with the and Law Schools. Picture (10"xl5") is $35; with framed succession of Blake R. Van Leer as mirror (15"x26") for $60. the fifth president of Tech in 1944. "It's difficult for people to ap­ preciate how Tech was years ago, compared to how it is now," asserts /W& the amateur historian. "We are still The Gift Gallery, 52 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia 30303 way behind many other universities (404) 522-5400 in terms of research. It's hard to r~J with mirror |~J without mirror Please send me Eglomise painting(s) of GA. TECH. catch up in thirty years with schools Enclosed is a check for $ to cover the price plus 50C that have been around much longer," handling plus 4% sales tax for MARTA residents, 3% elsewhere. he believes. Name The physical complexion of Tech has changed notably since 1925 Address _ from a small, rather unimpressive City -State. _Zip_ campus to the sprawling 276 acres Phone. it encompasses today. He remem- (continued on page 24) Please allow two weeks for delivery.

GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 NOVEMBER 1975 A New Way To Influence A Proven Market ston Purina Company and a fellow of the American Institute of Aero­ nautics. He is a member of the executive committee and the board You're holding it! of governors of the Aerospace In­ Not just a new magazine dustries Association and a member that reaches the almost of the National Academy of En­ 18,000 active Georgia Tech gineering. He is active in civic af­ alumni —but a new medium David S. Lewis fairs in St. Louis, where he moved for your advertising to this (continued) important, influential group General Dynamics' headquarters of people. where he worked until 1946 when from New York in 1971. he moved to St. Louis, Mo. to be­ Want more information? Currently he is also a member of Call or write John Moore or come chief of aerodynamics with Tech's National Advisory Board. David Wise at: the McDonnell Aircraft Corpora­ Lewis and his wife Dorothy have tion. four children: Susan (Mrs. Robert Lewis' oldest son, David S. Lewis, M. Lindblom), David, Robert and III, is a senior in aerospace en­ Andrew. Specialized gineering this year at Tech. "He'd like to take my job if he could get Media it, but it's not good to start out that way," Lewis believes. He expresses pride in his children, who "are all m interested in participating, in things 2161 Monroe Drive, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30324 other than themselves." (404) 875-0421 A broader problem than the en­ ergy shortage, he maintains, is the lack of understanding in the Amer­ Dillard Munford ican economic system exhibited by (continued) Employment many elected officials and the pub­ Today he is chairman of the lic in general. "If Americans could board, president and chief executive Opportunities understand the complexity of where officer of Munford, Inc., a diversi­ We are an established recruiting we are, they would rebel," he de­ fied chain of retail stores and ser­ and consulting firm managed by a clares. TECH engineer ('62). Our client vice outlets operating in 22 south­ companies have exceptional line He says he respects consumer eastern and midwestern stores, management and engineering staff advocates like Ralph Nader, who employing over 6,500 persons. positions for professionals with ChE, ME, EE.CE, IE, and Computer will be the keynote speaker at Since 1946 the history of the Science backgrounds. Most posi­ Georgia Tech's Intersect '75 pro­ company has been one of steady tions are for new or expanding gram on October 31, but feels the growth. divisions, plants, engineering/ public should be exposed to "both Munford notes that "the bottom consulting offices, edp systems sides" of an issue, whether it be depts, etc, with companies having of my business life mentally" was impressive growth and profitability consumer protection or any other early in his career as an entrepre­ records within the oil, gas, chemi­ object of controversy. neur, when fire destroyed the com­ cal, fertilizer, power, fiber, elec­ When Lewis isn't representing his pany's first office building, a poorly tronics, and equip, mfg. industries. Each contact is made selectively company, favorite forms of relax­ constructed edifice on Confederate (you are in control) and held in strict ation include reading, playing golf, Avenue. "We were back in business confidence. Our client companies and travelling. Business-oriented within 33 days, but it took 33 years assume all placement fees and re­ material consumes a considerable off my life," he quips. Newspaper location expenses for both domestic and international loca­ amount of his reading time, but he headlines carried the story of a $1 tions. Send resume or handwritten also enjoys history and spy novels. million fire based on the "facts" experience outline in confidence A seasoned traveller who has jour­ given to a reporter by a fireman at and our Houston director, J. L. neyed many times to Europe and the the scene, he relates. Gresham, BChE, MBA—will con­ tact you at home to discuss your Far East, the soft-spoken, disting­ Munford's luck seems to have interests. Est. 1966, member uished-looking businessman prefers changed for the better after that AlChE. his Sea Island, Ga. home to any episode. Initially a manufacturer of other place he's visited. There his rock wool insulation, the company SYSTEMATICA family occasionally escapes the CONSULTANTS, INC. expanded into contracting and later 1410 Post Oak Tower feverish pace of St. Louis city life. into retail stores. Houston, Texas 77027 Lewis is a director of the Bank The first Munford Do-It-Yourself (713)622-1370 America Corporation and the Ral­ Store, opened at Piedmont and

22 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Cheshire Bridge Road in 1952, fea­ The relationship between city tured primarily "leftovers" like government and business, he feels, insulation and floor tile from the is a "terrible" one, so that partici­ company's large construction proj­ pation in politics is "something you ects. "We found out people didn't have to do." want them," says Munford, who He serves on the National Fi­ eventually got out of contracting nance Committee of the Republican and made the sale of hardware and Party and was former President building materials part of his busi­ Nixon's finance chairman in Geor­ ness. gia.

When sales were faltering in those Munford has also supported rYour own Tech TV stool. Padded seat, easy to clean. Perfect when the Game-of-The- early times, signs like one placed in Democratic canplidates like state Week pulls the crowd of the week at a Buckhead store reading "We guar­ Sen. Herman Talmadge, who re­ your place. $12.00* antee your work — if not com­ ceived Morris Brown College's first Show who you're pletely satisfied we will refund your Man of the Year Award October rootin' for with this windproof money on all materials" helped 10 at a $100-a-plate dinner at the nylon umbrella in Tech Gold and boost business. "It was psychologi­ Marriott Motor Hotel. White with the Yellow Jacket in cal, but it worked," says Munford The Majik Market mogul has plain sight. of his ad campaign. $10.00* garnered the respect of his peers. Without the In 1962 Munford Company was He has served as International Jacket imprint. $8.00* merged with Atlantic Ice and Coal President of the Young Presidents' Company of Atlanta, which was Organization and as Southern Di­ selling ice and coal in mule-drawn vision Vice President of the Na­ You'll need at least a wagons in 1909. Atlantic eventually tional Association of Manufacturers. dozen of these Old Fashioned hi-ball glasses became Jackson-Atlantic, Inc., with He is a member of the Chief Execu­ to celebrate the 5th the acquisition of Jackson's Minit tives Forum and the State Com­ quarter. Design features Yellow Jacket and "Go Markets, and in 1971 stockholders mission on Compensation for Geor­ Jackets." 17.50/Doz.* approved the change of the corpor­ gia. ate name to Munford, Inc. He sits on the board of directors The company's present office for Callaway Gardens and Callaway building on Brookwood Drive, NE, Foundation of Pine Mountain, Ga.; Practical 42-inch is located on the site of one of American Business Products, Peach- travel bag. Great for an away game or Atlantic's several barns that once tree Center, Inc., Neptune Inter­ short business trip. Nylon, water housed as many as 200 mules. national, Redfern Foods, and West repellent, colorful. Munford, Inc. operates over Lumber Company, all of Atlanta; $7.50* 1,375 Majik Markets alone, and Blount Inc. of Montgomery, Ala.; lately has been opening stores at Bill Publications of New York; and the rate of 100 per year, with cur­ Provident Life Insurance Company One-piece Jumpsuit in of Chattanooga, Tenn. gold. Permanent press rent sales up 10 per cent over last blend of polyester and year and recent expansion into yet cotton; short sleeves; When Dillard Munford needs to 2-way zipper. Regulars in another state, Pennsylvania. small, medium, large and relax, he has a variety of options. extra large. Tails in A dairy-processing operation, He might attend an Atlanta Flames medium, large and extra arge. $18.95* Farmbest, is the company's newest game (he is one of eight owners of acquisition, expected to increase the NFIL hockey team) or go hunt­ All orders prepaid. Mail check or money order total sales to $350 million in 1976. ing for grouse in Scotland. He also to Atlanta Peachtree Ltd., 3224 Peachtree Rd. N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30305. "Georgia Residents A self-avowed advocate of one's enjoys tennis, golf and fishing. add appropriate Sales Tax. "corporate obligation to the city and Munford still returns to Tech's TV Stools @ $12.00 ea. =$ the community," Munford is im­ Umbrellas @ $10.00 ea. =$ campus annually to participate in Without Imprint @ $ 8.00 ea. = $ mediate past chairman of the Metro­ the Industrial Management Seminar -Dozen Hi-ball @ $17.95/0oz. = $ politan Atlanta Commission on and to speak to Mechanical Engi­ -Travel Bags @ $ 7.50 ea. = $ Crime and Juvenile Delinquency neering students. -Jumpsuits @ $18.95 ea. = $ and a trustee of Morris Brown Col­ The Tech alumnus lives in At­ Reg Tall S_ . M L XL lege, in addition to holding other lanta with his wife, the former I enclose check/money order in the amount of positions. Lillie Shepherd Davis. They have He has had first-hand experience five children and "three and a half" Name (Please Print) with crime. Last year Munford, Inc. grandchildren. His brother Sims was Street lost $500,000 from thefts and $3 an M. E. graduate in Tech's class City State Zip million at the hands of its em­ of 1935; his son-in-law is also a Satisfaction guaranteed or money promptly re­ ployees, the executive says. graduate of Tech. funded.

NOVEMBER 1975 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 23 placed by elevators. "It was less Another son, Robert, is studying impersonal then," reflects the soft- medicine at Duke University and his spoken professor. daughter Ellen lives in Canton, Even after he retires in two or Conn. He and his wife, the former three years, Dr. Ziegler says he will Martha Ellen Holt, reside in Col­ continue to write up his research lege Park. and possibly conduct further ex­ The professor is a member of periments. To date he has authored Georgia Tech's Executive Board, or co-authored more than forty vice-chairman of the Georgia Tech publications. Athletic Association and chairman In his retirement years the Re­ of its finance committee; and a gents' professor says he will have member of the Board of Directors more time for other activities he of the Georgia Tech Wesley Foun­ relishes, including photography and dation. traveling. Over the years Dr. Zieg­ He had the honor of representing ler has had considerable opportunity the faculty of Georgia Tech at the for extensive travel in the United inauguration of Dr. Joseph M. Pet- States and in Europe. He is a former tit, President of Tech, on May 17, Waldemar Ziegler consultant for the National Bureau 1972. of Standards in Boulder, Colo.; a Dr. Ziegler calls himself "an in­ (continued) "large contingent" of Zieglers still veterate accumulator of things." He bers when commencement exercises reside in West Germany; and his hastens to add that most of these were held "among the trees" in eldest son John, a Tech graduate, things, like a piece of green marble front of the Administration Build­ received his doctorate in mathe­ he brought back from Ireland, are ing, which once boasted "a mar­ matical physics from the University particularly valuable for the mem­ velous circular staircase" now re­ of Dublin, Ireland this summer. ories they evoke. A

became chairman in 1973, "I just pathy for Americans who act as if do the best job I can." they were "entitled to something Chicago Bridge and Iron no just because they exist, who take longer builds bridges, having found the basics — food, clothing and the business to be unprofitable by shelter — for granted." the early 1900's when the company Like other corporate officers who began producing elevated water commit the major part of each day tanks. Now the firm is engaged in to managing the affairs of a profit- the design and construction of metal oriented venture, Mitchell's outside Marvin G. Mitchell plate structures such as oil storage interests complement his business tanks, with offices in the United life — golf, reading, and travel. (continued) States, Japan, Canada, Australia, Mitchell, 59, is active in business that he received several offers, in­ Germany and Brazil and construc­ and Tech-related activities, being a cluding one from a government tion headquarters in 20 other coun­ director of the Georgia Tech Nat­ agency that paid more money than tries. Since 1960 the company has ional Advisory Board and a mem­ the job he accepted. expanded its research into new ber of the Chicago Club, the Mid- The job he accepted was with areas — cryogenic storage systems America Club, and the University the corporation he now heads, for liquids and gases, reactors and Club. He is a director of the Illinois where he started as a Junior Engi­ containment vessels for nuclear Manufacturer's Association and a neer and steadily advanced to the power plants, and structures for member of the American Petroleum position he holds today. In addition offshore and underwater oil storage Institute, the American Iron and to Birmingham and Chicago", he has and drilling. Steel Institute, and the American moved with the company to Baton Mitchell, who recently testified Management Association. Rouge, La., Tulsa, Okla., and At­ before the U.S. House Ways and He serves on the board of direc­ lanta. Means Committee on export taxa­ tors of McGraw-Edison Company, Once a man of ambition reaches tion, says he participates in the R. R. Donnelly and Sons Company, the top rung of the corporate lad­ political process "when I think I Bliss and Laughlin Industries, Har- der— what then? know something about it." He ley-Mitchell Hardware Company, When Mitchell became president claims government is "always a and Mitchell-Stewart Hardware of Chicago Bridge and Iron in 1969, decade behind" constantly-changing Company. he received a "letter of condolence" economic realities. "Not all Con­ Mitchell resides in Chicago with from a friend commiserating with gressmen live in the real world," his wife, the former Margaret V. him over the fact that there would he asserts. The Republican sup­ Lovelady. They have two children, be no'more promotions. Now, says porter whose party loyalty vacillates a son and a daughter, and two the company executive who also on occasion says he feels no em­ grandchildren. A

24 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 500 Strong and Growing/

From the birth of an idea at a luncheon meeting in January, 1974 to a lively club with an active membership of over 500 by December—That's the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Club. The purpose of the Yellow Jacket Club is to actively support the total athletic program at Georgia Tech. Membership is open to everyone and you don't have to be an alumnus to join. Dur­ ing the Club's first year of operation, we supported athletics at Tech in these areas: • Donated the juke box for the Football Locker Room • Co-sponsored the Spring Football T-Night Game • Played an active part in the Recruiting Program • Sponsored the 1st Annual Georgia Tech Basketball Banquet • Organized several out of town football trips • Sponsored meetings with Coach Dodd and Coach Rogers • Sponsored the 1st Annual Georgia Tech Football Banquet as speakers

L-R: Ty Sigmund, Gary Deiters, Ronald King, Jim Bell, Kim King, Randy Carroll, Steve Whisenant, Charlie Sims, Turner Warmack The 1975 Membership Drive began July 1 and, from all indications, we will have 1,000 active members to greet the Bull Dogs on November 29. The following officers and committee chairmen were elected to guide the club this year. President: Kim King Program Comm: Billy Bowers Special Projects: Ty Sigmund, Jr. Vice President: J. Randall Carroll Summer Jobs: Frank Smith Travel Comm: Tom Rose Vice President: Jim Bell Public Relations: Turner Warmack Recruiting Comm: Massey Clarkson Secretary: Steve Whisenant Membership: Charles Sims Counselor: D. Lurton Massee, Jr. Treasurer: Ronald E. King Stinger Comm: Gary Deiters Your membership entitles you to be a part of and attend all Club functions, such as: • Free Football Parking • Tail gate parties for all home games • Attend Annual Banquets • Regular meetings with players and coaches • Free Subscription to Yellow Jacket Confidential • Brunch before the Auburn and Clemson games • See films of out of town games • Cocktail party prior to the Georgia game

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