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Georgia Institute of Technology Avenue, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institute. © 2003 by T Publisher: Editor: Associate Editor: Assistant Editor: Assistant Editor: Design: page 41 Q&A: Academic Reform Real World...... 45 Yellow Jackets...... 41 Yellow model for success. tor Homer Rice’s playbook as a tor Homer Rice’s Burdell and Friends...... 25 Burdell page 9 Gold & White Honors former Georgia Tech athletics direc- Tech former Georgia What’s the Word...... 24 What’s Hispanic Engineers, took a page from Pioneer of the Year by the Society of by the Society Pioneer of the Year 190 North Avenue...... 9 Living History...... 13 Total Concept Total From the Hill...... 18 From Letters...... 5 Departments ...... 22 Georgia Tech Andrés Núñez Jr., who has been named Andrés Núñez Jr., In the Black...... 23 31 Academic Reform Getting A Pink Slip — laid off or fired What do you do when you are 50 or older? Articles with psy- especially if you are counselor Ruth Kanfer and career chology professor John Hannabach discuss strategies to cope with a job loss. Meeting the Challenge issues in the Max Burns addresses Congressman techniques he U.S. House with problem-solving classroom. Tech learned in the Georgia Clough is among the Wayne President in the National Division I university presidents Collegiate Athletic Association driving academic concerning the eligibility of student athletes. reforms Freedom Fighters Freedom combat, is pilot of a B-2 in Alumna Jennifer Wilson, graduates who served Tech among the Georgia during the war with Iraq. page 24 Paper Hanger 45 29 41 26 Contents Summer 2003 ‘Flinty-Eyed’ Success Georgia Tech Foundation chairman Buck Stith looks Tech Georgia back on two years of hard-fought successes during a downside business cycle. Paper Hanger Air Buzz, designed and built com- Tech’s Georgia sweeps over sand dunes paper products, pletely from Challenge near Kitty Hawk, N.C., in the Energy 2003 competition. National Prominence College of Tech’s Georgia Engineering maintains its once again placing national stature, among the top five engineering pro- Industrial Tech’s grams in the country. and Systems Engineering school ranked No. 1 for the 13th consecutive year. Alumni Officers and Trustees Alumni Officers its Alumni Association presents Tech The Georgia slate of officers and trustees for fiscal year 2003-04. Another Slice of Pi Race The top winners of the annual Pi Mile Road victories in an performance of earlier gave a repeat than 300 runners. more event that drew Gold & White Honors for outstanding con- recognized Seven alumni were tributions and two faculty members and a longtime named honorary alumni. were Tech friend of Georgia Cover Story: Getting Out graduate, a computer engineering Phillip Wallace, lifts his sheepskin high during May 3 ceremonies on 2,044 under- degrees conferred Tech when Georgia on graduate and graduate students. Also see photos page 7. Photo by Nicole Cappello. 9 A Quick Read of A Quick Read 24 22 19 14 12 0 18 preview 5/12/03 3:32 PM Page 3 5/12/03 3:32 PM preview letters 5/12/03 3:28 PM Page 5

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The Write Stuff • Summer 2003 Investing in Society Advances Mankind A Word of Congratulations Character Bashing he academic year is now com- Congratulations to Tech for provid- The character bashing and plete and a new group of ing sharp, hard-working recent gradu- name calling directed toward T Georgia Tech alumni have been for- ates for Gov. Sonny Perdue’s administra- President Carter (Letters, Spring mally inducted into your Alumni tive staff — as well as Jim Lientz as 2003) was completely inappropriate. I Association. Georgia’s chief operating officer. am surprised you published some of Alumni Association President Congratulations to conservative them. and I sat next to Robert Hall graduates in Congress — Phil Gingrey each other in the Naval ROTC (V-1 challenged and Max Burns — and also to Dick Program) class the year he attended them to “live a Royal in the Georgia House during Tech and got to know each other reason- life of signifi- this time when the Wall Street ably well. It turned out that, according to cance, not just Journal reports that 80 percent of Carter’s mother, my grandfather (Dr. J.R. success.” the faculties in the nation’s universi- Robins) had “doctored” their family sev- In her com- ties are liberals. eral generations ago. mencement Congratulations to the Alumni Carter was a quiet and unassuming remarks, Sen. Association for outstanding lead- student. I suspect that if a poll had been Elizabeth Dole Joe Irwin ership. The recent reunion for for- taken of the class as to who might seek challenged stu- mer trustees was the best ever. elective office, he and I would have fin- dents to “go out in the world and listen And congratulations on a great ished in a dead heat for last place. Much — and then make a difference.” issue of TECH TOPICS. of his reticence can be attributed to his You see, a university is not simply C.A. Roush Jr., ChE 47 Proud of Carter academic situation. In the 1930s, small about educating students. It’s not sim- Highlands, N.C. town south Georgia high schools were ply about winning awards for faculty While the letter by Mr. Roy Newkirk almost unequipped to prepare students research. It’s not simply about college Whiz Kid Engineers (“Putting Jimmy Carter, the communist, for Georgia Tech. Carter never com- sports. on the cover was just too much.”) does plained but plugged ahead. Perhaps A university is a place that is Thank you for the fine work in TECH not deserve the dignity of a response, I overcoming this adversity gave him con- invested in by society to give back to TOPICS. It is always a pleasure to read. I cannot help but reply that I’m proud fidence to face greater challenges later. society — to bring economic develop- found the Spring cover story, “The Jimmy Carter was a student at Georgia I don’t like his politics and I never ment, to advance knowledge in rele- Governor’s Whiz Kids,” to be a fascinat- Tech. voted for him, but I consider him one of vant and meaningful ways, to cultivate ing article. I would highly support the award of the finest to have held the presidency — good citizens, in short, to advance One does not need to look farther an honorary degree to Jimmy Carter by probably too good for the job. I have one mankind. This is the message of the than Tech’s own Woodruff Distinguished Georgia Tech. This country and question for character bashers of Carter Institute. Lecture Series to find many of the same the world and his achievements: What have you It’s pretty easy to see tangible evi- ideals. In last year’s lecture, former New done in life? dence of this at Georgia Tech. There’s Hampshire Gov. John Sununu Turner W. Ivey, ChE 48, MS ChE 51 plenty of construction going on. A sim- argued that there is indeed a Houston ple (and incomplete) list of the facili- unique place in public policy for ties under construction would include the engineering mind. Contentious Prize Technology Square (three major build- The traditional mind-set of ings), SAC II, the Student Health many other professions, lawyers for I was dismayed and embarrassed to Center, the football stadium, the example, is that the customer is see a photo of a smiling, pompous Biomedical Engineering building and always right and as a consequence Jimmy Carter on the cover of TECH TOPICS the Environmental Science & the solution is selected first, with justi- Winter 2002. He is an embarrassment to Technology building. fication coming second. Indeed, such the state of Georgia and the United Why and how does this happen? instinctual decision making is human States. He was awarded the Nobel Because people want to make a sig- nature. For many decisions it works Peace Prize based on his opposition to nificant difference in Georgia Tech, the well, but not for relatively complex President George W. Bush on Iraq. state of Georgia and society, so they issues. In contrast, the engineer, as part The proper, patriotic and right thing to give of themselves and their compa- of his or her education, is conditioned to do would have been to refuse it. nies and foundations to make it hap- set aside predispositions, dissect the Allen W. Johnson, ChE 62 pen. problem and reason his or her way to a Augusta, Ga. People also like investing in a solution. As one might imagine, this winner and that’s another reason to approach is compelling for many com- Beyond Understanding invest in Tech. It’s a place where inno- plex public policy issues. would be far better vation and progress thrive in many dif- I contend that by not including such if there were a lot more people like Jimmy Some letters regarding the article on ferent fields. That’s fulfilling the obliga- individuals in government we are under Carter. President Carter were beyond my under- tion of Georgia Tech to society. This representing a significant portion of the John E. Hanby, ChE 63 standing. While many of us hold strongly Institute was founded on very prag- people. Unfortunately, as Sununu pointed Seattle differing political views, I don’t under- matic terms and that theme continues out in his Woodruff Lecture, this asset is Before transferring to the Naval Academy stand how anyone could consider this to this day. also the engineer’s tragic flaw. Those in Annapolis, Md., Jimmy Carter attended Naval Academy graduate, Naval officer, who think before speaking are often not Georgia Tech during his sophomore year president and commander-in-chief to be as charismatic as those who think while of college, following a freshman year at unpatriotic or a communist. Could it have talking. I am pleased to hear Gov. Sonny Georgia Southwestern College. While been the Nobel Peace Prize? I am proud Perdue appreciates these qualities. Carter was president, he delivered a to share a Tech connection with him. Sununu’s speech and your article major policy address at the Institute in Larry Meisner, IE 70 Joseph P. Irwin have been an inspiration to me. 1979 and was awarded an honorary doc- Raleigh, N.C. Vice President and Executive Director Kevin S. Davis, ME 97 tor of engineering degree from Georgia Georgia Tech Alumni Association Cambridge, Mass. Tech. Continued on page 6 letters 5/12/033:28PMPage6 6 political affiliations). proper andtimely(regardless ofalumni photograph ontherecent coverwas alumni publication.TheJimmyCarter well-written, well-editedandinteresting

straight doubleA'sinallclasses. probably hemanagedtoget byon tough academicallymaybetrue,but the class. that hewasprobably thebrightest guyin were inthesameclassand I canconfirm Tech Topics tabloids. • Summer 2003 page ofthe1943 Georgia Tech isthatIamonthesame T and theNobelPeacePrize(Winter2002 theme lowersT represent theInstitute.Your trivialeditorial ing suchdrivelisunforgivable. ishisproblem,Jimmy Carter butpublish- sive note(Spring2003Letters)about Tech. Georgian andanalumnusofGeorgia and Iamproud thatheisafellow others aswellandfaithfullyhehas, Few peopleinourlifetimeshaveserved such intemperatepersonalcomments. of theNobelPeacePrizeshouldpreclude decency andtherespect duetoawinner nor andaspresident, butcommon cies andhisaccomplishmentsasgover- Spring issue. ters aboutPresidentinthe JimmyCarter the hatred expressed insomeofthelet- of honorandintegrity. lenge ourselvestoleaveasimilarlegacy own contributionstosocietyandchal- as Tech graduates,shouldconsiderour proud toincludehimasanalumnus.We, be equaled.GeorgiaTech shouldbe during andafterhispresidency hasyetto highest honorandintegrity. Hischaracter agreed isamanof thatJimmyCarter Proper, TimelyCover Famous Freshman Divisive Drivel Intemperate Comments hasCharacter Carter ECH Coral Gables,Fla. S.Saffir,Herbert CE40 Hartsdale, N.Y.Hartsdale, Dick Dougherty, EE47 thatTechHis claiminthearticle was Vienna, Va. John Miller, CE75,MS76 One claimtofameformyyearsat I enjoyed the article onJimmyCarter I enjoyedthearticle to Neither henortheeditorisworthy Roy Newkirk’s disgracefulanddivi- Big Canoe,Ga. Fred Scanling,IM63 Anyone maydisagree withhispoli- I amappalledandembarrassedby Rochester, Minn. Steven A.Smith,Psy74 Regardless ofpoliticalbeliefs,itis Commendations toT T OPICS ). ECH T OPICS ECH to thelevelof as Jimmy. We T OPICS for a am very bullishontheintroductionam very of today’s technology-driveneconomy, andI ly hasneverbeenmorethanin important and science. andengineering the linkbetweenpoetry Hemakesastrongeveryone. casefor nation, muchtothesurpriseofalmost inthe 20 endowedchairsinpoetry delight thatGeorgiaTech hastwoofthe Bruce McEver, IE66,himself. Dobyns, holderoftheMcEverChair, and read. Theothertwowere Stephen Chair inPoetry, introduced theeventand read from theirwork.Itwasastonishing. came tohearthree accomplishedpoets and manypeoplefrom thecommunity Success Center. Students,faculty, alumni crowd reading atapoetry intheStudent evening, Ijoinedastanding-room-only have everseen.Onacoldandrainy better more profoundly thananythingI representedFebruary changesforthe of asecond-yearstudent. tions andathleticeventsasaparent boardadvisory meetings,alumnifunc- Foundation board,in asaparticipant Center, asamemberoftheGeorgiaTech Advanced Technology Development companiesat the investor instart-up on campusquitefrequently, asan student waybackinthelastcentury. Iam waythanwhenIwas a better inevery tell folksthattodayGeorgiaTech isfar thing inretirement. years andwishingyouthebestofevery- the games. gray mopontheTech sidelinesduring getting usedtonotseeingthebouncing Cremins duringthoseyears.Itstilltakes resented byabettercoachthanBobby and itsathleticscouldnothavebeenrep- Hewitt’s future. positiveaboutbasketballcoach Paul very players, chieflyChrisBosh.Healsowas Tech basketballteamandtheincoming expressed alotofenthusiasmforthe He greeted uslikeoldfriends.He some ofhisfamilyinSavannahlastyear. Georgia Tech atheart. interests oftheplayersandintegrity always hadtheeducationalandpersonal impression whomethim.He oneveryone positive occasions andmadeavery 1980s. D.C., GeorgiaTech Clubinthelate my stintaspresident oftheWashington, acquainted withBobbyCremins during Special" intheSpringissue.Ibecame Professor Giebelhaus’letter"Cremins is Bullish onPoetry Bobby Cremins Cared The abilitytocommunicateeffective- Tom Luxspokewithpassionand Thomas N.Lux,holderoftheBourne But whatIwitnessedinearly On manyoccasionsIampleasedto Va.Fairfax, Gerald W. ME62 Swart, “Jerry” Thank you,Bobby, for19terrific Those ofuswhocare aboutTech My wifeandIranintoBobby He wasourguestspeakeronmany secondthethoughtsof I heartily the Spring2003editionofT (representing Georgia’s 11thDistrict)in be appropriate. Tech. onhimwouldalso Asimilararticle who wore theWhiteandGoldofGeorgia inourcapital—isalsoanalumnus start who isalsooff toafastandsuccessful another newcongressman,— MaxBurns homework, youwouldhavenotedthat history. Georgia intheU.S.Congress inrecent Georgia Tech alumnitorepresent Sen.SamNunnareand former theonly statedthatCongressmanarticle Gingrey correction thatneedstobenoted.The state inCongress. However, there isone representingfast andsuccessfulstart our Congressman PhilGingrey, whoisoff toa the IvyLeagueofSouth? andbecome emphasize collegesports this wouldbeapriority. income.IfIwereout thesports incharge, ble ofraisingahelllotmoneywith- except fortheIvyLeague.Bothare capa- association ofoutstandingschools The AtlanticCoastConference isthebest of thestudentathleteisprobably gone. the primary —howgreatthe primary isthat! defeated acandidatenamedDooleyin Congressman district.Andhe Burns’ University ofGeorgiacampusisin Besides, itisadelightfulirony thatthe record straightassoonpossible. elected toCongress. Pleasesetthe IE73,wasalso graduate MaxBurns, you shouldbeaware thatGeorgiaTech However,was welldoneandinformative. Delightful Irony Max on article our see Please agree. We Incomplete Homework De-emphasize Sports of wife Dooley, Barbara defeated Burns Burns on page 29. page on Burns Georgia athletics director Vince Dooley, in Dooley, Vince director athletics Georgia the November election. election. November the guessed suchathing? Georgia Tech. Whowouldhaveever creative at andsubstantiveways.Poetry continue togrow anddevelopinsuch received. readings andworkshopsthatare well cessfully totheAtlantacommunity, with Georgia Tech hasalsoreached outsuc- programwriting skills.Thepoetry at ity ofGeorgiaTech studentstohonetheir asonemeanstoenhance the abil- poetry Your aboutDr. article PhilGingrey Atlanta Scott Orr, EE78 If youhadcompletedalittlemore on I wanttoapplaudyourarticle Lewisburg, W. Va. Joe Holt,IM59 Does theACChavegutstode- toreturnthetime The opportunity Washington, D.C. John Maguire, Text 71,MSText 75 Atlanta William J.Todd, IM71 My hatisoff toaninstitutionthatcan ECH T OPICS never thoughtwere possible. showed methatIcoulddothings life. Bothtaughtmelifelongskillsand two bestclassesI’veevertakeninmy drownproofing (swimming)coursethe consider theaerobics courseandthe that coursewithCoachHyder, butIstill ed from Tech and27yearssinceItook ness. It’s been 23yearssinceIgraduat- me tolivealifeofcontinuedphysicalfit- which continuestoday, anditencouraged myinterestHyder started inrunning, quarter. needed AthatsalvagedmyGPA forthat a much- 1.75 milesin11:45andearned the dayoftestinJune1976,Iran minute runningtest,Igotmycastoff. On tleman. Two daysbefore thefinal12- that hewasagreat guyandatruegen- muchfromlearned himanddiscovered often justtalkingwithhimone-on-one.I with CoachHyderdoingotherthings— tion ofclass.Instead,Ispentthetime intheoutdoor por- could notparticipate cast onmyarm. tinued toruntherestwitha ofthequarter with theclass.Itookhisadviceandcon- this andherecommended thatIcontinue Coach Hyderdiscouragedmefrom doing would allowmetogetamedicalwaiver. just passed,Ihopedthatmybroken wrist forearm. Sincetheofficial drop datehad broke mywristandhadacaston choice. AboutfourweeksintotheclassI was arequirement, soIdidn’t havemuch end oftheterm. pare forthe12-minuterunningtestat for thelast30minutes.Thiswastopre- (usuallyvolleyball) another outdoorsport usually spentrunningandthendoing utes tomakeanA. times around thetrack)inunder12min- student hadtorun1.75miles(seven aerobics classwasdesignedsothata spring of1976,myfreshman year. The “aerobics” (running)instructorinthe Tech. tohavehimasmy Iwasfortunate as aphysicaleducationinstructorat Hyder retired from coaching,heserved Spring 2003T that wasomittedfrominthe thearticle There thingabouthim wasoneimportant death ofCoachJohn“Whack”Hyder. scouting anotherathleteplayingagainst Hall ofFame.CoachW.A. Alexanderwas ar athleteandisintheGeorgiaSports renewed myacquaintancewith him. Georgia Tech’s office, Information I Sports camp. Later, asastudentassistantin athissummerbasketball and participant know CoachHyderasahighschoolkid Coach John“Whack”Hyder. Ifirstgotto Hyder Was True Gentleman Remembering CoachHyder Woodbridge, Va. Craig L.Pritzker, IE80 That aerobics courseandCoach Because ofmybroken wristIusually I really hatedtorunbutthecourse The first30minutesofclasswere I was very sorry tohearaboutthe sorry I wasvery Not manyknowthathewasaschol- I wassaddenedbythedeathof ECH T OPICS . AfterCoach letters 5/12/03 3:28 PM Page 7

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Whack in a baseball game. After Coach the good old days that I remember. Alex observed Hyder, he offered him a There are a lot of people who should scholarship. Back then Tech only had be upset with the new seating arrange-

Lighthearted Moments • Summer 2003 football scholarships, and the first football ments — like every student past and game Whack Hyder ever saw was the present and the Georgia Tech athletes raduation is not all pomp and circumstance. Passing time can have its hilari- one he played in. who hope for, if not count on, a home Gous moments as Sandy Shackelford, below left, and Florence Yarbrough dis- Coach Hyder was also a track star, field advantage. cover with a draw of the cards while playing Go Fish. Congressman Max Burns, accomplished in hurdles, the high jump James F. Overstreet, EE 56 IE 71, who attended the ceremony to see son Nathan graduate, receives a warm- and even the pole-vault. Many know that Manhattan Beach, Calif. buzzy, welcome-back embrance from Buzz. The 215th graduation exercises on he was a baseball player and played for May 3 saw 1,346 undergraduate students receive degrees in the morning and the New York Yankees’ AAA club. Coach Maple Deserves Banana 623 master's and 75 doctorates awarded in the afternoon. Hyder got the Yankee scout’s attention because he was put in the game after the What a surprise it was to read in the CAPPELLO NICOLE starting center fielder broke an ankle slid- Spring 2003 edition of TECH TOPICS that ing into second base in the first inning. Terry Maple was returning to Georgia Whack enlisted in the Navy at the Tech to lead the Center for Conservation beginning of World War II. He came and Behavior. home on a 30-day leave and married his I remember Dr. Maple from my days sweetheart, Vera. He took her by the at Tech when he was professor of psy- Athletic Association to introduce her to chology. He was my favorite professor Coach Alex and Alexander handed him a due to his animated style and his knowl- letter offering him a coaching job upon edge of various psychological issues. I the completion of his military service. have used his teachings throughout my Whack Hyder never had to ask for a job career. In fact, the basic principles of in his entire life. behavior and psychology are probably There were many tributes at his the most valuable concepts I regularly funeral. Coach Bobby Cremins told how call upon in my daily business acumen. Coach Hyder had helped him when he Dr. Maple made his principles come first arrived at Tech. alive in the classroom and he created a Coach Hyder was a servant to fun atmosphere to allow his students to Georgia Tech, to his players, to his family, effectively learn. Anyone making an A on to his church and to all he came in con- one of his psychology exams was always tact with. pointed out. Then, in quite a ceremonial Calvin D. Johnson, MgtSci 73 atmosphere and no matter where they Stone Mountain, Ga. were sitting in the classroom, Dr. Maple always hit them right in the hands with a Quality Graduates tossed banana. His work with the Yerkes Primate Center thus carried over into his The Spring issue of TECH TOPICS had teachings. two articles of major interest to me. And while I was still living in Atlanta, The first was the announcement of his appointment at Zoo Atlanta is remem- the death of John C. “Whack” Hyder. bered as the rebirth of what had become Whack was two years ahead of me, but an eyesore for the city, but has now he was my roommate, along with Bobby become world renowned. I know that Dr. Beers, for several years and a personal Maple will make a world-class facility out friend for many years. Of all the people I of the Center for Conservation and have known over my 85 years, Whack Behavior as well. For that he deserves his was one of the finest gentlemen in every own banana. Welcome back to Tech, Dr. way. He was an inspiration to me as well Maple. as to hundreds of others with whom he George B. “Brad” Douglas, IM 86 came in contact. Laurel, Md. The second article concerned anoth- Terry Maple never completely severed er classmate, Harold Dye. Harold’s ties to Georgia Tech. He continued teach- remarkable record is a testament to the ing a psychology course at the Institute caliber of the Class of 1940. Harold was a during his 17 years as director of Zoo leader in a quiet, subtle way. The recogni- Atlanta. tion of Harold’s accomplishments is well deserved and is a reflection of the quality of Tech graduates. Your Comments Welcomed John G. Gaines, ChE 40 Prairie Village, Kan. The Georgia Tech alumni publications, TECH TOPICS and the Alumni Magazine, welcome letters to the editor. Please Students Get Short Shrift include your full name, address and tele- phone number. Letters may be edited for I was flabbergasted to see in the clarity, space and content. Spring TECH TOPICS that the ragamuffin students have been relegated to the end Address correspondence to: zone of the football stadium. Such things Georgia Tech Alumni Publications as home field advantage — having the 190 North Avenue student body section behind the visiting Atlanta, GA 30313 team — have gone the way of the dinosaur. E-Mail: [email protected]. Fax: (404) 385-4637 Living on the West Coast, I haven’t attended a Georgia Tech football game in Send address changes to melanie.over- some time. It’s too bad that the students [email protected] are given such short shrift. These are not 190 north ave 5/12/03 3:04 PM Page 9

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Alumni Association News and Updates • Summer 2003

CURTIS COMPTON Gold&White HONORS Ten receive top alumni awards at recognition ceremony

even alumni were recognized for their outstanding contributions and two faculty members and a longtime friend of Georgia Tech were named hon- Sorary alumni in the inaugural Gold & White Honors ceremony March 20. Four alumni — Bobby Joe Anderson, IM 50; Shirley Clements Mewborn, EE 56; Thomas Patton, AE 43; and Rayford Kytle Jr., ChE 36 — were presented the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association for a lifetime of leadership, achievement and service to Georgia Tech and to the community. James R. Carreker, EE 69, and Joel Cowan, IM 58, were awarded the Dean Griffin Community Service Award. Anthony Priest, EE 88, MS IE 90, was named 2003 Outstanding Young Alumnus. Named honorary alumni of Georgia Tech were Charles Liotta, Ward Winer and James Moore.

Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Sharing congratulations at the inaugural Gold & White Honors ceremony are Alumni Distinguished Service Award recipients, left to right, Marie Patton, who accepted the award on behalf of late husband Thomas Patton, AE 43; Bobby Joe Anderson, IM 50; Distinguished Service Award and Shirley Clements Mewborn, EE 56, who is the first female to receive this award.

obby Joe Anderson was president Endowment Fund supporting the Legislative Network and National was chairman and president of the Bof the Alumni Association in 1988- DuPree College of Management. Campaign steering committees. company, which expanded into more 89, the year the Association received the Mewborn has supported Georgia than 50 Happy Store stations through- Grand Gold Award from the Council hirley Clements Mewborn, who led Tech through the Roll Call for more out the Southeast. for Advancement and Support of Sthe way for women at Georgia Tech than 47 consecutive years. She and her He also was one of 10 Atlanta busi- Education as best in the country, and is as one of the first two female graduates husband have established the Shirley nessmen who put up $1 million each in an emeritus member of the Georgia of the Institute in 1956, has continued to Mewborn Perseverance Scholarship 1987 to help build the Georgia Dome. Tech Foundation board. be a leader and an example for women Fund for female students at Tech and His monetary gifts to Georgia Tech He represents the second of three and for engineers throughout her the Francis and Shirley Mewborn helped the Institute recruit top faculty generations to attend Tech. His father, career. She is the first woman to serve Endowment Council Fund. and administrators. Arnold B. Anderson, was in the class of as president of the Alumni Association. A member of the Georgia Tech 1923, and a cousin, Ralph Mallard, TE As a student, Mewborn was a Engineering Hall of Fame, she received ayford 29, began the tradition. His father-in- member of ANAK, Omicron Delta the 1994 College of Engineering’s RPerdue Kytle law was Eugene Anderson Stanley, EE Kappa, Tau Beta Pi national engineer- Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Jr., who died Jan. 16. The legacy continues with his son, ing honor society and DramaTech. She 1999 College of Engineering Dean’s 5, 2001, was a Stanley Eugene Anderson, IM 75. was a charter member, president and Appreciation Award. longtime support- “One of the grandchildren is secretary of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. er of Georgia Tech bound to go to Georgia Tech,” he said. She successfully juggled a family homas Patton who devoted his A four-year letterman in track, and career. She and her husband, Tdied June 14, life to his family, Anderson was a member of the Tech Francis “Duke” Mewborn, also a 1956 2002. His widow, career and com- team that reigned as Southeastern alumnus, have two grown daughters. Marie, accepted munity. As a stu- Conference champion in 1949. He was She retired as vice president and treas- the posthumous dent, Kytle was a Ray Kytle also a member of ANAK, the Ramblin’ urer of Southern Engineering Co. after alumni honor and member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, Reck Club, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity a 41-year career. said, “Tom loved Omicron Delta Kappa national honor and ROTC. He hasn’t missed a Tech- A member of the Georgia Tech Georgia Tech — society and Alpha Chi Sigma profes- Georgia football game since 1945. Foundation board, she served as presi- this is a very spe- sional chemical fraternity. He was edi- Anderson joined Puritan/Churchill dent of the Alumni Association in 1990- cial award.” tor of the T Book, a member of The Chemical Co. in 1963 as a sales repre- 91 — the same academic year Tech’s Patton served Tom Patton staff, president of the student sentative and moved through the ranks. football team won a national champi- as Alumni Association president in YMCA and a member of the student He became president in 1978 and onship and the basketball team went to 1973-74 and was a Georgia Tech council, debate team and ROTC. retired as chairman in 1990. the Final Four. In 1990, the Alumni Foundation board member. As a stu- In 1941, he joined Reynolds Metals Anderson was a member of the Association received the Grand Gold dent, Patton was a member of ANAK, as superintendent of the sheet metal Georgia Tech Foundation from 1991-99 Award from the Council for Tech’s unique honor society. After grad- mill in Lesterhill, Ala. Over the next 39 and was co-chair of the 50th reunion of Advancement and Support of Educa- uating, he served as a Navy lieutenant years he rose to the post of vice presi- the class of 1950. He is a former presi- tion as the nation’s best for the second aboard the destroyer USS Wren during dent and director of quality assurance dent of the Greater Atlanta Georgia consecutive year. She served as a mem- World War II. and safety. An Association trustee from Tech Club and has contributed to the ber of the School of Electrical and Com- In his professional life, he and part- 1967 to 1971, he served as president of Roll Call for 53 consecutive years — puter Engineering advisory board, ners formed Triton Inc. and began the the Richmond, Va., Louisville, Ky., and every year since graduation. In 1987, he Georgia Tech Research Corp. board, first self-service gas stations in Georgia Muscle Shoals, Ala., Georgia Tech clubs. established the Bobby Joe Anderson Georgia Tech Advisory Board and the that he named Happy Stores. Patton Continued on page 10 190 north ave 5/12/03 3:04 PM Page 10

10 Cowan, Carreker win Dean Griffin Community Service Award • Summer 2003 oel Cowan is chairman of the large, mixed-use projects exclusively overseas, but he at Tech, an innovative facility to JJMetropolitan North Georgia still lives in Peachtree City. develop computer-enhanced edu- Water Planning District, the first At Tech, Cowan served on the Board of Regents cation technologies that may rev- chairman of the Georgia Regional committee that chose Wayne Clough as the Institute’s olutionize the way engineers are Tech Topics Tech Transportation Authority, the 10th president. He is a former member of the Georgia taught. developer of Phipps Plaza and a Tech Foundation board and was a visiting professor in The couple have endowed a founder of Peachtree City. the School of International Affairs. chair in Digital Systems Design in A confidant of two gover- the school, sponsored an annual nors, Cowan was honorary chief ames R. Carreker has led philanthropic endeavors distinguished lecture series in the of staff for Gov. Joe Frank Harris Jthat have made him one of the country’s outstand- school and co-funded a certificate Joel Cowan J James R. Carreker and was a senior adviser to Gov. ing benefactors. program in engineering entrepre- Roy Barnes. Carreker, of Saratoga, Calif., is founder and man- neurship. The couple support many arts and public Cowan is an innovative developer who began his aging principal of Arbutus Associates, a research and benefit organizations in their Silicon Valley community. career while still a junior at Georgia Tech. Cowan and consultancy program in the new field of entrepreneur- Carreker was founder and former chairman of the father of an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brother ial philanthropy. Aspect Communications Corp., in San Jose, Calif., the came up with the idea of building a planned city from He and his wife, Helen, are the leading benefac- world’s leading supplier of call center systems. He is scratch on the outskirts of Atlanta. Cowan lobbied the tors of Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and also a founding director of the Entrepreneurs’ General Assembly to grant the new city a charter and Computer Engineering, for which they have made Foundation, an organization that encourages new in 1959 became Peachtree City’s first mayor. Cowan’s contributions of $7 million. Last fall, they created the companies in Silicon Valley to support community company, Habersham Worldwide Holdings, develops Arbutus Center for Distributed Engineering Education service.

Outstanding Honorary Georgia Tech Alumni Named harles Liotta has devoted his life to ard O. Winer once gave the Tech graduates — Jim Edward Winer, Young Alumnus Cfostering collaboration among WGeorgia Tech Alumni Magazine an Arch 82, M Arch 86, and Paul Winer, national laboratories and research uni- insight into his personal expectations. ICS 85, MS Mgt 89. nthony J. Priest wears a versities, attracting top-notch faculty “One of my underlying philoso- AGeorgia Tech watch, uses a and graduate students to Georgia Tech phies is to do the best damn job you ames D. Moore, during a 37-year Tech umbrella and carries a Tech and guiding young scientists’ innova- can do at whatever you’re doing. When Jcareer at Ford Motor Co., served as a shoulder bag tions into the global marketplace. you do that, peo- remarkable friend to Georgia Tech. as he rides As vice provost, Liotta oversees ple respect you,” Moore recently retired from Ford’s the Washing- the Office of Research and Graduate he said. Michigan headquarters, but he contin- ton, D.C., Studies and $275 million in research The job Winer ues to travel to Tech — at his own subway and, monies awarded each year. The has done at expense — to meet with employees, when he Regents’ professor of chemistry and Georgia Tech has provide counsel and recruit students. drives, his car chemical engineering serves as the earned him the Moore played a crucial role in has a Virginia Institute’s point man in its work with respect of col- Ford’s $3.1 million, five-year grant to Georgia Tech the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. leagues and stu- Georgia Tech and a $10 million grant prestige Georgia Tech has benefited from dents as well as resulting in the naming of the Ford license plate. Liotta’s expertise, foresight and dedica- professional recog- Environmental Science and Technology While send- Anthony Priest tion since his nition. Ward Winer Building currently ing out Christmas cards, he arrival on campus Winer has always pushed to do his under construc- slipped Tech’s basketball sched- as an assistant best. He received his bachelor’s, mas- tion on campus. ule into the mailing. chemistry profes- ter’s and doctoral degrees in mechani- He also has coor- Priest, EE 88, MS EE 90, is sor in 1965. cal engineering in only three years at dinated $30,000 in president of the Georgia Tech Liotta the University of Michigan. scholarships Club of Washington, D.C., and received his bach- After earning a doctorate from awarded each during the past half dozen years, elor’s degree in Cambridge University in England, he year to students he has worked to make it one of chemistry from arrived at Georgia Tech in 1969 as an participating in the most dynamic clubs in the Brooklyn College associate professor in mechanical engi- the dual-degree country. The club’s calendar is and his doctorate neering and now holds the Eugene C. program with the Charles Liotta crammed with social, recreation- from the Gwaltney Chair in the Woodruff School Atlanta James Moore al, fund-raising and sports events University of Maryland. During gradu- of Mechanical Engineering. University Center. that include an annual picnic, a ate school, he was awarded both Winer’s work at Tech has con- He began his career at Ford as golf tournament and TEAM Celanese and DuPont teaching fellow- tributed to the development of a new plant production control coordinator at Buzz Day. Under Priest’s leader- ships. His postdoctoral research scientific field that is revolutionizing the Sandusky, Ohio, plant. He later was ship, the club has doubled the focused on thermal degradation of fluid mechanics and his research has transferred to the Chicago area to serve number of scholarships awarded polypropylene and the kinetics and been funded by petrochemical compa- as administrative coordinator of the to local students. mechanisms associated with aromatic nies, the National Science Foundation, Ford Marketing Institute. Three years Priest is assistant project nucleophilic substitution. NASA, the Office of Naval Research later he moved to the Ford facility in manager for Hines Interest During his Tech tenure, Liotta has and the Department of Defense. Dearborn, Mich., where he moved up Limited Partnership in received the Outstanding Teacher Winer is a fellow in the Society of the ranks from the emissions program Washington. Award, the Outstanding Faculty Award Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers to chief product analyst in car product A President’s Scholar, Priest and the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi and in 1997 received the organization’s development. served in the Student Research Award. He has been a visiting international award. He was named In 1991, Mr. Moore was tapped to Government Association and professor at the University of Engineer of the Year in 1989 by the design and develop a training program was a member of Tau Beta Pi, California-Berkeley and serves as a con- Engineers of Greater Atlanta, the for Ford’s Powertrain Core Competen- ANAK, Omicron Delta Kappa sultant to DuPont and Milliken. Metropolitan Atlanta Engineer of the cies. Four years later he became manag- and Phi Kappa Phi. Priest was Liotta is often called upon to share Year in Education in 1988 and received ing supervisor of the organization. twice Resident Assistant of the his research findings and expertise on the Georgia Tech Distinguished Throughout his years of involve- Year and received the Time inter-institutional collaboration. He has Professor Award in 1987. ment he has coordinated Ford’s recruit- achievement award. been invited to speak at more than 300 He and his wife, Mary Jo Wielinga, ment efforts on campus and proven research seminars around the world. have four grown children, two of them himself a valuable friend to Tech. GT 190 north ave 5/12/03 3:04 PM Page 12

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CAROLINE JOE Repeat Winners

• Summer 2003 Annual Pi Mile Road Race draws more than 300 runners By Maria M. Lameiras Tech Topics Tech he top winners of the 31st annual George C. Griffin Pi Mile Road Race gave a repeat per- Tformance of earlier victories. Todd Liscomb, who won the race last year, retained his title, and Tech graduate student Stacy Imler, who captured the top female prize in 2000, reclaimed her title. A sparkling blue sky drew a large walk-up crowd of runners in addition to the preregistered racers for a field of 317 (including one preregistered dog) in the April 12 event. Liscomb, who lives in the Home Park neighbor- hood north of the Tech campus, was inspired by the Decatur, Ga., with their daughter, Malia, 18 months, beautiful weather to compete, even though he had run and their son, Drew, who was born in February. Phil the Macon Marathon two weeks earlier. He finished was pushing Malia in a jogging stroller assembled the the race in 16:57. night before the race while Becca walked with Drew in Imler likes to run at Tech, where she studies a sling carrier. mechanical engineering. “Some of our friends got word of the race and we “The race is done really well,” said Imler, whose got a big group to come out,” Becca said. time was 20:32. Douglas High School track team members After the race, participants collected their race T- Brittney Smith, 15, Alexiss Pollard, 17, and Brittani shirts, helped themselves to fruit and bagels and head- Strozier, 17, were chauffeured to the race by their ed over to the complementary massage tables manned coach, Michael Mezzio, who took advantage of the by student therapists from the Atlanta School of opportunity for the girls to get in some training during Massage. their spring break. There were a number of first-time Pi Mile run- Lisa and Pui Panich of Atlanta ran the race to ners. Jewell Jones Jr. ran the race for the first time in mark two anniversaries — the first race the couple ran preparation for the Marine Marathon in Washington, together and their wedding — both on the same day, D.C. April 12, 1998. “I usually run 10K races, but I came to this as a “It’s hard to find a race on a Saturday and we warm-up,” said Jones, 62, who lives in Atlanta’s wanted to run for our anniversary,” Lisa Panich said. Buckhead neighborhood. One returning runner with a unique partner was Another Tech neighbor, Bruce Kempe, accompa- Dick Lawrence, IM 61, a Georgia Tech Alumni nied his son, Sam, 11, who took up running earlier in Association trustee. Running alongside him was Pete, the year. a chubby schnauzer sporting his own race number. “I just like to run,” said Sam, who also plays “I used to run the race all the time, but that was hockey and soccer and captured the first-place medal 20 years ago. We walked about half the way and it Showing off their Pi Mile Road Race medals are Todd for the 14-and-under category with a time of 28:31. took me about twice as long,” Lawrence said with a Liscomb, who also took the top prize last year, and Becca and Phil Darke came to campus from laugh. GT Georgia Tech graduate student Stacy Imler.

Trustees Need Track Shoes Leadership Georgia Tech for Fast-Paced Campus Tour Alumni Association recognizes dynamic clubs ore than 150 alumni from 60 Georgia Tech clubs across the country attended ormer trustees of the Georgia Tech transformed , Mthe annual Leadership Georgia Tech event at the Alumni/Faculty House in FAlumni Association may have to guided by dean of libraries Richard November. change their dress code. Meyer. The new Library West Anthony Priest, president of the Washington, D.C., club, received the While many of the former board Commons has a multimedia learning Ramblin’ Wreck Volunteer of the Year award and 16 clubs won awards based on members gathered on campus Feb. 26 center and student workshop support- points given for participation in club activities. wearing coats and ties, track shoes ing 100 computers on a high-speed net- The President’s Award was presented to clubs in Augusta, Ga.; would have helped keep up with the work, scanners, video capturing and Greenville/Spartanburg, S.C.; Houston; North Metro Atlanta; Northeast Tennessee; happenings of Tech’s fast-paced cam- editing tools and Web development and Washington, D.C. pus. Alumni Association president tools completed last year. Meyer also Ramblin’ Wreck awards went to the Central Florida, Golden Isles, Triangle, Robert Hall welcomed 70 former board outlined his quest to make Tech’s Western North Carolina and Atlanta Intown Clubs. Clubs winning Buzz awards members back to campus and promptly library one of the top 10 research were Albany, Ga.; Charlotte, N.C.; North Alabama; Space Coast; and West sent them off to the races. libraries in the country. Georgia. Robert Harty, executive director of Former board members caught The event, “Maintaining a Dynamic Club in Today’s Competitive Institute Communications and Public their breath at a jazz lecture and concert Environment,” featured joint and breakout sessions dealing with ways to stimulate Affairs, told trustees the Institute’s at the Alumni/Faculty House present- interest among young and old alumni. image is rapidly changing from that of ed by music history professor Ron Lesley Keck, president of the Emerald Coast Georgia Tech Club, praised the a top-notch engineering school to that Mendola, director of both Tech’s Jazz quality of the conference. of a world-class technological universi- Ensemble and Orchestra, but were “I left with a renewed sense of purpose and a much deeper commitment to ty. whisked away to watched Tech play our club’s role in promoting Georgia Tech in our community,” Keck told event Former trustees hurried across Duke in a basketball game won by the organizers. GT campus for a tour of the technologically Blue Devils 77-58. GT living history 5/12/03 3:31 PM Page 17

13 Tech Topics

The Way We Were • Summer 2003

CAROLINE JOE In Command Alumnus teaches discipline, value of college education as Naval JROTC leader

By Maria M. Lameiras

rederick Espy learned at an early age that certain opportunities Fwere closed to him because of his race in the segregated South. Time and time again he was told what he could not do — he would never be a pilot, he would never go to college, he couldn’t apply to become a military officer — but the racial barriers did not stop his determination to suc- ceed. Espy, Math 66, is a retired lieu- tenant commander who spent 22 years in the Navy as an intelligence officer and fighter pilot. Over the past 10 years, he has built the top Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit in Georgia at Southwest DeKalb High School in his hometown of Decatur. The program has grown from 50 students in 1993 to more than 220 this year, the unit’s 10th anniversary. “The kids gravitate to the ROTC program now,” Espy said. “It’s like a community. They belong somewhere and I find that they are very dedicated.” He said the students respond to his life experiences of fighting in Vietnam and living in a segregated society. “When they sit in my classroom, education. Still, he counts himself lucky Espy, who joined the Naval estate before a member of Gen. Colin they don’t have to read about it in a that he survived his first year at Tech. Reserve while at Morehouse in 1962, Powell’s staff asked him to be a part of book because I’ve done it and I can “I learned quickly that if you mess graduated in 1966 with a commission the effort to double the number of relate those experiences to them. It is around at Tech, you’re out of there.” in the Navy. Although he wasn’t the ROTC programs in the country by set- amazing how these kids can listen to Espy relied on two lessons he first African-American to graduate from ting up a Naval JROTC program at the news and have no clue to the histo- learned at Morehouse to help him Tech, he was the first to participate in Southwest DeKalb High School. ry that connects it all. It is all related through. graduation ceremonies. “I tell my students that this is not and I help them put that together.” “Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the presi- “I figured if I’d done all that work, about recruitment, it’s about focus and Historical moments — including dent of Morehouse, would always talk I was going to go through graduation,” discipline. Over 40 percent of my stu- the launch of Sputnik in 1959 and to us about becoming a man and being he said. dents go to college and only about 5 President John F. Kennedy’s inaugura- the best. He said if we were always in Espy attended Armed Forces percent go into the military,” Espy said. tion speech — and a book about first place there would be no one who Intelligence School at Lowry Air Force Espy has learned the value of a Madame Curie inspired Espy to a could tell us where to go or what to Base, then flight school in Pensacola, good education and pushes his stu- career in science. do,” Espy said. “Martin Luther King Jr. Fla. As an F-4 fighter pilot, he flew 120 dents toward college. After graduating as salutatorian of was a visiting professor of sociology at combat missions during a single tour in “Having that Tech degree gets you his high school class in 1961, Espy was Morehouse and once he told us that Vietnam. As an intelligence officer, instant respect. Having that degree has awarded a full scholarship to anyone can be good when times are Espy also worked with Gen. William gotten me respect across racial lines Morehouse College. While he studied good, that it is when adversity comes Westmoreland’s staff in Vietnam. and opened up all kinds of doors for physics at Morehouse, three other stu- that you become a man.” “It wasn’t until my last cruise that I me,” he said, adding that although his dents — Ralph Long Jr., Ford Greene Espy faced his share of adversity at saw another black officer in the Navy,” drill teams are consistently winners, he and Lawrence Williams — became the Tech, socially and academically. Espy said. “I proposed that the Navy is prouder of his students’ academic first African-Americans to integrate the Although he was never harassed, he institute ROTC programs and recruit- achievements — including the first to Georgia Tech campus in 1961. Espy was often ignored, and he did question ment at traditionally black colleges.” enroll at Tech in 2002. remembers attending the community some of his grades. “I just breezed Espy later was tapped to revitalize “You can throw a rifle around all meeting at which black students were through one engineering class and, the Naval ROTC program at Morris you want, but they are not going to go recruited to enroll at Tech. when the grades came out, I got a B. I Brown College in Atlanta. Enrollment out there and do drill professionally,” “I didn’t feel confident enough to knew I’d gotten a 94 and when I went increased from two students when he Espy said. “I want to assist these kids try to apply then,” he said. to the professor, I asked him, ‘What’s arrived to 250 when he retired from the with some kind of career decision and After two years at Morehouse, an A?’ He said, ‘Well, this quarter it’s a Navy five years later. help mold them into productive citi- Espy was ready to focus on a technical 95.’” Espy spent several years in real zens.” GT trustees 5/12/03 8:10 PM Page 14

14 Alumni Association Election of Officers and Trustees

• Summer 2003 Trustee Nominees President L. Thomas Gay, IM 66 ■ CONSTANCE CALLAHAN, Gay is president of Gay Construction Co., an Atlanta general contracting firm. He is MS CP 93, manages the con-

Tech Topics Tech currently president-elect and treasurer of the executive committee of the Alumni struction portfolio for SunTrust Association board of trustees, on which he has served for the past seven years. As a Bank's Community Development student, he was president of his freshman class, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra- Corp. Prior to joining SunTrust, ternity and battalion commander of the NROTC. A Vietnam veteran, he served as a she was vice president and captain in the Marine Corps. He has a master’s in business administration from Georgia State University. He is currently president of the Atlanta Area Council of Boy development manager for Scouts of America and he holds the Silver Beaver award. He is past president of the Centennial Olympic Park. A board of directors of Hillside Hospital and continues to serve as a trustee. He has graduate of the University of served as a director of the Atlanta Kiwanis Club, treasurer of the Callanwolde Fine Arts North Carolina, Greensboro, she received a master's in Center and director of the Associated General Contractors, Georgia Branch. He and city planning from Georgia Tech in 1993. Callahan sat on his wife, Oggie, have two daughters, Ginny and Laurie. the Governor’s Development Council, a public/private For President-elect/Treasurer partnership that focuses on economic development ini- Carey H. Brown, IE 69 tiatives, from 1993 to 1997. She initiated Georgia’s pre- Brown is a partner in The Benefit Company, a firm specializing in executive and Olympic training program and developed the Georgia employee benefit planning. He is a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Academy for Economic Development. Callahan is a Roundtable, the Atlanta Estate Planning Council and the Association of Advanced Life member of the College of Architecture's alumni commit- Underwriters. He is vice president for activities on the executive committee of the tee and the advisory board of Tech's city planning pro- Georgia Tech Alumni Association and has served three terms on the Association's gram. She is a member of the executive board of the board of trustees, including two consecutive terms from 1975 to 1981 and a third term Urban Land Institute in Atlanta and chair of the urban from 1992 to 1995. He also has served as vice president of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund. As a student, he was president of the Student Government Association and plan program. She is president and director of Ulster active in a variety of organizations. Brown has remained active as an alumnus, serving Project in Atlanta, a member of Central Atlanta Progress’ on several academic and athletic boards. He has served on the boards of the Georgia development review committee and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia State Golf Association (currently president of the American Planning Association. Callahan lives in Atlanta. GSGA Foundation), Literacy Action and Buckhead Rotary. He and his wife, Sally, live in Brookhaven, Ga., and have three children, Brent, Mgt 96; Tyler, HTS 01 and Mgt 01, who was undergraduate student body president; ■ STEVE W. CHADDICK, EE and Natalie, a graduate of the College of Charleston. 74, MS EE 82, is senior vice For Vice President for Activities J. William Goodhew III, IM 61 president and chief strategy offi- cer of CIENA Corp. He has also Goodhew is vice president of Intelligent Systems Corp. Before joining the firm in served as senior vice president 1997, he was president of Peachtree Software, a former Intelligent Systems portfolio of systems and technology, sen- company that was sold to Automatic Data Processing in 1994. He is vice president for ior vice president for strategy Roll Call and served on the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association from 1996 to 1999. In 1995, Goodhew was inducted into the Georgia Technology Hall and corporate development, vice of Fame. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990 and Software Executive of president of product develop- the Decade in 1993 by the Southeastern Software Association and was chairman of ment and president of CIENA's core switching division. the Software Publishers Association. He is a member and past chairman of the board Prior to joining CIENA, Chaddick was vice president of of advisers of Tech's College of Computing and formerly served on the board of advis- engineering at AT&T Tridom, a manufacturer of small ers of the Ivan Allen College and its Management of Technology program. He is a past aperture satellite terminal systems. Chaddick is a mem- trustee of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund, and is currently a trustee at Agnes Scott ber of the Peachtree Road United Methodist Church and College. A member of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, he is past senior warden and chairman of its endowment fund. Goodhew is also a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club. He and his wife, Joan, live in a trustee of the Galloway School. He serves on the Dunwoody, Ga., and have two children and six grandchildren. Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the advisory board of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a For Vice President for Roll Call Janice N. Wittschiebe, Arch 78, MS Arch 80 member of the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. He is also an Alexander-Tharpe Wittschiebe is a principal in Richard + Wittschiebe Architects of Atlanta. She is cur- Fund trustee and a member of the Hill Society. Chaddick rently vice president of communications on the executive committee of the Georgia and his wife, Barbara, live in Atlanta with their son, Tech Alumni Association and served on the board of trustees from 1995 to 1998. She is a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation and served as the first woman to chair Justin, 14. the Georgia Tech Advisory Board. She is a member of Tech's College of Architecture Development Council and Program Advisory Board and is past chair of the college's ■ TONY S. CHAN, IE 94, MS advisory board. She was a National Architectural Accrediting Board Observer for Mgt 98, is director of strategy 2002. A member of the American Institute of Architects since 1976, she has served on and performance management the board of directors of the Atlanta chapter of the AIA and as a director for AIA at Hands On Atlanta, an advisory Georgia. She is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Georgia board for Partners In Technology, Trust for Historic Preservation and a member and past president of Women in Architecture/Atlanta. She has been a guest juror for the Mississippi State Design Awards as well as a visiting a program dedicated to making design juror at Southern Polytechnic State University and Georgia Tech, where she formerly was a design computer and Internet access instructor. She is the widow of Bruce Wittschiebe, CE 78, and lives in Atlanta. available to everyone. During his freshman year at Tech, he For Vice President for Communications C. Meade Sutterfield, EE 72 helped create Best Buddies, a volunteer group working Sutterfield is a private equity investor, primarily in emerging telecommunications with the mentally disabled. After graduation in 1994, he and wireless communications entities. He also serves as an adviser to Providence worked for Andersen Worldwide and was assigned to Equity Partners and Antares Capital, as well as other venture capital firms. He began a the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games as trans- career in telecommunications after receiving his master's in business administration portation coordinator for the Olympic Village. Chan from Harvard University in 1974. He entered the specialized mobile radio industry in returned to Tech to pursue his master's and created the 1986, when he purchased Johnson Communications Corp., which he built into one of TEAM Buzz Community Service Day. The Alumni the nation's largest SMR carriers. The company was sold in 1993 to Nextel Association in 2001 named Chan the Outstanding Young Communcations. He also founded PowerFone, another SMR carrier, which was sold to Nextel Communications in 1994. He was a member of the Alumni Association board Alumnus. He is co-chair of the Georgia Tech Young from 1998 to 2001 and currently serves on the Alexander-Tharpe Fund board of Tech's Alumni Network and an industry member of the Georgia Athletic Association and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering advisory Tech Executive Roundtable. He has supported Roll Call board. He has been named to Georgia Tech's Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. He is chairman- for 12 consecutive years and the Alexander-Tharpe elect of the Society of International Business Fellows, a director of the Radio Club of America and a member of Fund for eight years. The Atlanta resident is a member the Atlanta Business Roundtable. He is married to Susan Johnson Sutterfield and has three grown stepchildren. of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. trustees 5/12/03 8:10 PM Page 15

15 Tech Topics ■ THOMAS FREDERICK Affairs Committee at Tech since 1992, Moore also serves Wharton School of Business in DAVENPORT III, IM 84, is a on one of the chancellor’s task forces for the University of 1966. Townsend has been principal of Lavista Associates Georgia System. Moore is a life member of the National involved with the Columbus Inc., an Atlanta commercial real Society of Black Engineers and has served as chairman Chamber of Commerce and • Summer 2003 estate brokerage firm. While a of its national leadership and precollege initiative com- United Way, is an officer in the student at Tech, he was a mem- mittees and currently sits on the regional and national Columbus Georgia Tech Club ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and advisory boards. Moore is a member of the strategic and headed the Columbus currently serves as president of planning and restructuring task force for the National Regional President’s Scholarship the fraternity’s alumni group in Association of Minority Engineering Program and the Bradley Turner Atlanta. Davenport is a member of the Society of Administrators and is a member of the National Black Leadership Scholarship Committee for Georgia Tech. Industrial and Office Realtors and the Cherokee Town MBA Association. He is a National Youth Sports Townsend and his wife, Janice, have two grown children, and Country Club. He volunteers as a coach at the Association certified coach and travels around the nation Tyler and Meredith, and live in Columbus. Northside Youth Organization and the YMCA. He is also as a motivational speaker, moderator, workshop presen- active at Holy Spirit Catholic Church and Trinity School, ter and educational consultant. Moore is single and lives ■ AL TRUJILLO, AE 81, is where he and his wife, Mary, co-chaired the 2001-02 in Atlanta. president and chief executive fund-raising drive. Davenport has contributed to Roll Call officer of Recall Corp., a global and the Alexander-Tharpe Fund for 16 consecutive years ■ OSCAR N. PERSONS, IE information management com- and has participated in the Ramblin' Recruiter Program. 60, is senior partner and past pany. Prior to his appointment as The Davenports have two children, Thomas, 8, and Jack, chair of Alston & Bird law firm's CEO, Trujillo was president of 4, and live in Atlanta. litigation department. He has Recall Americas, responsible for been a lecturer on trial practice, information management in ■ ANNE WISE FULLER, ME appellate advocacy, securities North and South America. He 68, MS PP 93, is chief executive litigation, restrictive has also held positions with Recall in Australia and New officer of Priority Perspective covenants/trade secrets, corpo- Zealand. Trujillo earned master's degrees in mechanical Inc., a consulting company for rate litigation and discovery. He engineering and business administration from Stanford small to medium-size businesses was general counsel to the Georgia Republican Party University. Trujillo is a member of the boards of the Metro in Louisville, Ky. She is also an from 1971 to 1993, a member of the state election board Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia instructor of graduate programs from 1976 to 1995, chair of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member at the Rubel School of Business Coverdell's 1992 election campaign and Georgia chair of of the Young Presidents Organization, Business at Bellarmine University in Bob Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns and Executives for National Security and All Saints Catholic Louisville. Fuller spent 17 years with Motorola in engi- the 1997 state Electoral College. Persons earned a law Church. Trujillo was elected to Georgia Tech's College of neering and management positions in Fort Lauderdale, degree from Emory University in 1967. He is a member Engineering's Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Fla., Atlanta, Phoenix and Tianjin, China. She has served of the Atlanta Bar Association and Old War Horse Alumni in 1995. He is an active supporter of Roll Call and on the board of advisers for Georgia Tech's School of Lawyers Club. He was elected to the Academy of assists the Institute in the recruitment of Hispanic stu- Public Policy and the Wesley Foundation. Fuller was Distinguished Alumni of the Georgia Tech School of dents. Trujillo and his wife, Melba, have two daughters, inducted into the College of Engineering Council of Industrial and Systems Engineering and serves on the Jackie, 11, and Amanda, 16, and live in Dunwoody, Ga. Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 1995. She has advisory board of the College of Sciences. Persons and supported Roll Call for the last 26 years. Fuller lives in his wife, Virginia, have two children and live in Atlanta. ■ CHRIS A. VERLANDER, Louisville with her husband, Doug, ISyE 82. Her father, IM 70, is senior vice president of Arnold E. Wise, graduated in 1949 in industrial engineer- ■ WILLIAM J. TODD, IM 71, corporate development for ing. is special assistant to Georgia Associated Industries of Florida, Gov. Sonny Perdue. He founded a Tallahassee-based business ■ CHARLES A. "CHUCK" Encina Technology Ventures, an lobby. Previously Verlander held HALL, ChE 85, MS ChE 87, is early-stage technology venture several positions with American director of the polymer business capital fund, in partnership with Heritage Life Insurance Co., unit of William Barnet & Son LLC, Atlanta developer Tom Cousins including vice chairman, presi- a manufacturer and supplier of in 2000. Todd was founding dent and chief operating officer. Verlander earned an fibers, polymers and yarns in president in 1990 of the Georgia MBA from the University of Florida in 1971. He is a fellow Spartanburg, S.C. At Tech, he Research Alliance, a strategic partnership of six Georgia of the Life Office Management Association and the Life was president of the student research universities, private enterprise and state gov- Insurance Marketing Research Association. Verlander is chapter of the Technical ernment designed to leverage research capabilities into past president of the Florida Insurance Council and the Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Hall is a past economic development. Previously Todd worked in vari- Gator Bowl Association. He serves on the boards of The president of the Greenville-Spartanburg Georgia Tech ous administrative assignments in the Emory University Bolles School, SunBank of North Florida, Florida Baptist Club and currently serves as the club secretary. He is a Health Care System including a stint as assistant vice Financial Services, the Florida Insurance Council and the member of the external advisory board of the School of president for medical administration at the Robert W. Overseers Council at Samford University. Verlander Chemical Engineering and an inductee into the Council Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Todd serves on the serves on the advisory board of the DuPree School of of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni. He has boards of the Georgia Tech Foundation, the Atlanta and Management at Georgia Tech and is a lifetime member served on the boards of the Seigle Avenue School Georgia Chambers of Commerce, the University of of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund. Verlander and his wife, Cooperative and the Adult Writing and Reading Georgia Research Foundation, Andrew College, Theatre Karen, live in Jacksonville, Fla., and have three grown Education Program. He is also a volunteer with Habitat Gael and the Holy Land Institute for Pastoral Renewal. children Alan, Scott, MBA 01, and Mike. for Humanity and Team BUZZ. He is the Sunday school Todd is a frequent contributor on issues of technology president and a member of Buncombe Street United policy to Congress and the Georgia General Assembly Methodist Church. Hall and his wife, Pam, have two and writes a monthly column on technology for Georgia Ballot: daughters, Abigail, 3, and Alexandria, 2, and live in Trend magazine, which has named the fourth generation Simpsonville, S.C. Atlantan one of the “100 Most Powerful and Influential ❒ I approve the nominees listed. People in Georgia” for the past five years. He is an elder The nominating committee comprised of the current ■ S. GORDON MOORE JR., at Shallowford Presbyterian Church. Todd and his wife, Alumni Association president and past presidents Mgt 92, MS Mgt 97, is managing Elizabeth, have two children, David, 18, and Hayes, a from the previous three years selected the final list partner and director of the Office sophomore at Tech. They live in Atlanta. of candidates for the board of trustees. of Minority Educational Services at Georgia Tech. While a student ■ B. KENNETH TOWNSEND, ME 64, is president of Mail ballot to: at Tech, Moore was a member of Townsend Personal Financial Planning in Columbus, Ga. Georgia Tech Alumni Association Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He is Previously he had worked for Exxon Chemical Co. for 34 190 North Ave. • Atlanta, GA 30313 a member of the search commit- years in various management positions including global tee for the associate vice provost procurement manager for chemicals and catalysts. He Ballots must be received by June 12. for Enrollment Services. A participant in the Minority received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's STEP 5/12/03 3:35 PM Page 16

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CURTIS COMPTON • Summer 2003 Tech Topics Tech

Rockdale Magnet School students High-tech High Justin Gilstrap, Savannah Barrus and Candice Hogan work in a biology lab Technology partnership accentuates research curriculum at the Conyers, Ga., high school.

By Maria M. Lameiras advanced placement liberal arts classes as well. they do research projects,” said Smith, adding that in Quick said the partnership with Tech is an invalu- 2001 — the first year Rockdale Magnet students partic- andice Hogan’s sophomore research project able resource to the program and the students. ipated in the regional science fair for the involved the extraction of DNA from samples “If a student comes up with a research project that Rockdale/DeKalb area — they won every first-place Cof canine blood using agarose gel electrophore- is out of the scope of our facilities, I can contact Whit prize and many of the second- and third-place prizes. sis in a biochemistry lab at Georgia Tech. Smith at Georgia Tech and get them access to a gas Last year, two magnet students were the first Rockdale But Candice isn’t a Tech student, she’s a 16-year- chromatograph or a lab facility we don’t have here. It County students to ever participate in the old junior at the Rockdale Magnet School for Science has opened up a world of learning for the students,” International Science Fair. and Technology in Conyers, Ga., a partnership she said. “Through Tech they communicate with peo- The benefits to the students are obvious — a between Georgia Tech and Rockdale County Public ple at the Institute, at the Centers for Disease Control, unique research-based curriculum, a sense of commu- Schools designed to give high school students the with our French partners at Georgia Tech-Lorraine — nity among magnet students and enhanced self- opportunity to study college-level math, science and their learning has really been escalated.” esteem — but Smith said Tech reaps the benefits of the technology. Smith, a senior research engineer in the School of partnership as well. The magnet school, established in the fall of 2000, Electrical and Computer Engineering, is Georgia “In the Georgia Tech sense, we get a better crop of involves a specialized curriculum designed by Tech Tech’s liaison with the Rockdale Magnet School, help- potential students coming in and Georgia Tech’s good and the school system and utilizes both high school ing coordinate student activities on campus, helping name ends up in a whole lot of places,” he said. “It teachers and College of Engineering faculty to expose students gain access to people and facilities at Tech enlightens the students to science and math and gives the students to research currently available only at the and mentoring individual students. them an introduction to the university community college level. “The program is run out of the College of they normally wouldn’t get the opportunity for.” Recruited from a magnet school in Columbia, Engineering instead of out of the typical outreach The program also better prepares the students for S.C., director Angela Quick helped design the school’s office that administers the rest of our K-to-12 pro- the challenges of college. curriculum, including specially developed research grams,” he said. “In addition to working with stu- “One of my biggest problems with new Georgia classes that teach study methods and time manage- dents, I do a lot of background work, from helping Tech students isn’t that they can’t do the work, it is ment. Students also perform detailed, in-depth raise funds to planning events, particularly those in that they get so busy doing other things they don’t research and investigations in specific areas of math, which the students have interaction with Georgia have time to do the academic stuff,” Smith said. science or technology through long-term research proj- Tech.” “Georgia Tech students all have tremendous back- ects. That interaction varies from Rockdale freshmen grounds, but they tend to get sucked into more activi- “These classes were designed after meeting with attending freshman chemistry and biology classes at ties than they can handle. middle school students here and finding out their Tech to using Institute facilities usually inaccessible to “During the first research class the Rockdale strengths and weaknesses,” Quick said. high school students. Magnet students take as freshmen, we don’t talk about There are 115 students enrolled in the “school “Some of the projects these students do are so eso- science or technology. We talk about managing them- within a school” at Rockdale High. The inaugural class teric they can’t do them at the high school,” Smith selves — more than just time management, but charac- of 12 seniors, who entered the program as sopho- said. “One student needed to calibrate an instrument terizing teachers, how to study and balancing all of the mores, graduated in May. to an atomic clock, so I took him to Dobbins Air Force other activities that will be begging for their time,” Eighth-graders are selected based on teacher rec- Base and used the Georgia Tech facilities there for the Smith said. “We advocate that they be well-rounded, ommendations, grades and discipline record, a person- calibration. Another needed dynamometers to meas- not just purely interested in science or technology.” al interview, problem-solving skills and a writing sam- ure the torque coming out of automobiles and he came Justin Gilstrap, 15, wants to pursue architectural ple. to mechanical engineering to use the instrumentation engineering and was intrigued by the edge the magnet In addition to required classes in English, social there. Another girl has been using biological sub- program would give him in pursuing his goal. studies, foreign language and health, magnet students stances so hazardous they can’t legally be used at a “They really prepare us. It is rigorous and we are required to take advanced math, science and tech- high school. expect it to be, but it is really worth the effort,” Justin nology classes. Quick said magnet students often take “These students don’t do science fair projects, said. STEP 5/12/03 3:36 PM Page 17

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NICOLE CAPPELLO Next STEP

Equipping teens beyond high school • Summer 2003

By David Terraso

ach day millions of high school students across America look up at the equation-covered chalk- Eboards in their math and science classes and think, “When the heck am I ever going to use this stuff?” For many, the answer is never. But thanks to a group of Georgia Tech graduate students, teenagers in six metro Atlanta highs schools are learning how to use those classroom lessons to develop a career. “Many of these kids have no idea what they want to do when they get out of high school,” said Sundiata Jangha, a 27-year-old African-American doctoral stu- dent in mechanical engineering and a fellow in Tech’s Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership. Sundiata Jangha, right, talks As a STEP fellow, he spends at least 10 hours a with Cedar Grove High School week teaching general chemistry along with accelerat- student Rhonda Hogan about ed physics and chemistry at the predominately her science fair project. African-American Cedar Grove High School. Jangha and 11 other fellows have spent the past year working County. Also an African-American, he helped his stu- Initiative at Dunwoody High School in north DeKalb with teachers in high schools located mainly in dents start a junior chapter of the National Society of County. The group, made up of 17 students, Taylor Atlanta’s African-American southern portion. Black Engineers at the predominately black Westlake. and three other professional women, meets on Launched in 2001, Tech’s STEP program is jointly Woessner said he is especially interested in help- Wednesday mornings and at lunch to discuss goals administered by the Center for the Enhancement of ing African-American students join the engineering and strategies for success. Teaching and Learning and Center for Education profession. “Why do we need more black engineers? “Many of the students don’t understand the link- Integrated Science, Mathematics and Computing. It is We have a big problem in the black community with age between what they study and their career,” Taylor funded by a National Science Foundation grant. access to technology. Technology can be a great divider said. “In the Young Ladies Initiative we ask them to Jangha said the graduate students not long out of of society and engineers can give back to their com- ask themselves, ‘What are the characteristics I see in high school “can connect with the students in ways munity by providing access to both the technology the young lady that I will become in the next five that the school’s teachers can’t. Plus we can show the and the company. Even among the wealthy African- years?’ I remind them of these traits during the weeks students how we use concepts discussed in class in Americans I notice a technology and computer illitera- that we meet.” our research projects.” cy. For instance, out of the 25 or so students in NSBE By the end of the semester, the young women had Getting students on a college and career path is at Westlake, only five use e-mail.” a list of goals and strategies to achieve them — the vital to their success, Jangha said. “I try to get my stu- Closing the technology gap, Woessner said, is cru- first step in the long road to success. dents to think about what they want to do when they cial for the black community to continue to grow and “In my mentoring, I try to incorporate the math, graduate from high school. So many of them have penetrate professional fields. So is going to college. science and engineering and let the young ladies know such a broad range of career ideas: fireman, police- Woessner and Jangha were among the STEP fel- this is something they can do,” said Taylor, who is man, astronaut. That’s great when you’re 6, but at this lows who took their students to Georgia Tech’s pursuing a PhD in industrial engineering. point you need to narrow your choices and find out FOCUS weekend, a program designed to recruit Taylor and Jangha hope to be college professors what it takes to get there.” African-American graduate students. someday and say that participating in STEP will give STEP fellow David Woessner is also trying to Visiting a graduate school recruiting program them a better understanding of their future students. teach his students to go the extra mile. A candidate for may seem like jumping the gun when the students Woessner intends to go into professional sports man- a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and aren’t even in college yet, Jangha said, but it helps agement but plans to keep mentoring students another in business administration, he teaches applied them focus on a career path. through the NSBE junior chapter he helped found. math, introduction to engineering and the college tran- To help students develop a career path, STEP fel- David Terraso is a writer with Institute Communications and Public sition class at Westlake High School in south Fulton low Kendra Taylor co-founded the Young Ladies Affairs.

including teachers, students, parents and community tional affairs majors tutor at the International Charter Reaching Out leaders. CEISMC offers Tech students an opportunity School in DeKalb County, where 60 percent of the stu- to mentor Atlanta elementary students and facilitates dents are children of immigrants or refugees from such Tech strives to be good neighbor student enrichment programs and teaching camps for places as Cuba, Senegal and Vietnam. The Tech inter- teachers. Each year CEISMC places dozens of teach- national students tutor them in math and English and By Elizabeth Campell ers throughout the state in the Georgia Industrial help with homework. The Tech students bring their Fellowships for Teachers program, matching math and international backgrounds and experience to connect housands of Georgia Tech students, faculty science teachers with summer fellowship opportunities with these youngsters. They understand what it is like and staff lend their hands, hearts and minds to at such leading businesses and public science organi- to be different and in a strange place and be expected Tneighboring communities through volunteer zations as the Centers for Disease Control and to perform academically. and outreach efforts. Prevention, EMS Technologies, Georgia Power Co., TEAM Buzz Day — Each fall since 1997 more “Our neighborhood outreach initiatives are a tan- Scientific Atlanta and United Parcel Service. than 1,500 students, faculty and staff participate in gible expression of our intent to create a positive envi- MOVE — Mobilizing Opportunities for Volunteer TEAM — Tech Enhancing Atlanta Metropolitan — Buzz ronment for ourselves and our neighbors,” said Experience is Tech’s umbrella organization for commu- Day and work on a variety of projects throughout the President Wayne Clough. nity service and volunteer opportunities. MOVE has 16 metro Atlanta area. Volunteers can pick from nearly 60 Many student organizations and campus depart- committees addressing everything from animal abuse service projects, including working with children and ments encourage and coordinate community outreach to the blood supply. Tech gives blood literally. It is the staffing local food banks to improving the appearance programs ranging from tutoring to blood drives. fifth largest supplier of blood out of the more than of local parks and building homes with Habitat for CEISMC — The Center for Education Integrating 2,000 metro Atlanta organizations that sponsor drives. Humanity. Science, Mathematics and Computing focuses on the Office of International Education — International Elizabeth Campell is a writer with Institute Communications and kindergarten through 12th grade education community, students, return Study Abroad students and interna- Public Affairs. GT from the hill 5/12/03 3:23 PM Page 18

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• Summer 2003 News from Campus Tech Topics Tech Commencement 2003 Sen. Elizabeth Dole, CDC director Gerberding address 2,044 graduates

raduates who participated in GGeorgia Tech’s 215th Commencement on May 3 entered a world filled with challenges, but were fueled by enthusiasm for their accomplishments and spurred on by words of encouragement. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who gave the address at the undergradu- ate ceremony in the morning, told graduates they face a world that is wary of the United States’ power. “You are our messengers,” Dole said. “To those abroad, show them that we have no sinister motives, share with them our ideals of freedom and tolerance. Show them that we only wish to share freedom and liberty with all of mankind.” Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, spoke at the graduate ceremony in the afternoon. Among the 2,044 graduates — 1,346 undergraduates, 623 master's candidates and 75 doctoral candi- dates — who received their degrees at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, no one was happier to “get out” of Tech than Bill Palmer. In 1999, Palmer was a fifth-year engineering major and co-op student looking forward to graduation. That spring he was involved in a car crash that left him brain damaged and com- Above: More than 2,000 graduates attended ceremonies in Alexander atose. Memorial Coliseum on May 3. Palmer was given only a 5 per- Upper right: Jonathan A. LaCour cent chance of surviving, but one waves to family members after week later, he woke up. receiving his computer science Recovery was not easy or com- degree. Middle: Bill Palmer plete, but Palmer returned to Tech in receives his diploma four years the fall. A subsequent brain hemor- after being involved in a near fatal rhage resulting from the first injury left car accident. His chances of Palmer unable to walk and dependent recovery were estimated at 5 per- on a motorized wheelchair to get cent. Right: Tech President Wayne around. Clough presents U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole with an honorary Again, doctors offered little hope doctorate from the Institute. that he would be able to return to Photos by Nicole Cappello school and graduate after suffering two severe brain injuries. After two years of therapy and preparations, Palmer again returned to Tech in 2001. On May 3 he crossed the stage to receive his degree. “It was rough going back to school,” said Palmer, 27, “but I was determined to make it.” from the hill 5/12/03 3:24 PM Page 19

19 Tech Topics SARS Travel Warning

ISyE No. 1 • Summer 2003 Tech cancels Asian Association, said a summer alumni academic, leisure trips tour to Beijing also was canceled due to Tech continues national growing concern about SARS. prominence in rankings “We actually don’t have the ulti- By Maria M. Lameiras mate power of canceling the trip, but eorgia Tech’s College of eorgia Tech, which had several we want to protect the interests of our GEngineering maintained its Gstudy abroad programs planned in alumni who had signed up for the powerful national stature in the Asia this summer, canceled trips to trip,” Ludwig said. most popular college rankings, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore The trip was scheduled last sum- once again placing among the top due to concerns about the spread of mer and initially had 25 alumni travel- five engineering programs in the SARS. ers signed up for the June 19-July 4 nation according to the current Amy Bass Henry, associate director excursion. listing by U.S. News & World of study abroad in the Office of Intrav, the travel company running Report. International Education, said the Hong the tour, made the decision to cancel Tech’s Industrial and Systems Although Kong/Singapore summer program was the trip on April 25 and refunded trav- Engineering program ranked No. 1 the DuPree College of canceled in early April and the Political elers’ money. for the 13th consecutive year. In all, Management dropped in the rank- Economy of China curriculum based at Meanwhile, Tech officials are mon- seven of the 11 programs within ings, Clough said the college has Fudan University in Shanghai was can- itoring Web sites set up by the Centers Engineering ranked in the top 10 of sound fundamentals. celed in mid-April. for Disease Control and Prevention and their respective disciplines. “The economy has hit the tech- “Three of the four classes that were the World Health Organization to keep Among the highly competitive nology sector extremely hard, so it’s going to be offered abroad are being up with the latest developments on the schools of business, Tech’s DuPree only natural that a college that offered here this summer,” Henry said. disease. College of Management ranked 51st excels in entrepreneurship and the “They won’t be the same, because in Robert Harty, executive director of overall and the college’s management of technology would Hong Kong fieldwork and visits to Institute Communications and Public Production/Operations feel the impact of that,” Clough industrial sites become part of the pro- Affairs, said a link was added to the Management program ranked 10th. said. gram, and here they will just have Georgia Tech Web site’s emergency “Overall trends are far more “I’m very proud of the work straight classes, but it will be enough resource center page (http://www.ga- important than a specific ranking in done by our faculty, graduate stu- for the students to continue making tech.edu/emergency/) with an updat- a specific year,” said President dents and staff to achieve these progress toward their degrees and, aca- ed SARS health and travel advisory in Wayne Clough. “Our consistently rankings,” said Clough. “We’re con- demically, the ramifications are not too early May. high rankings in Engineering indi- sistently competing well against serious for them.” “The international programs office cate that we have been able to sus- some of the finest universities in the It is too early to determine if has stayed in much closer touch with tain a very high level of quality for a world. Rankings are not why we are exchange programs slated for the fall at students who may have gone to those long time. That’s a very satisfying here, but the trends contained there- the Hong Kong University of Science areas but, from a policy perspective, trend.” in are notable.” and Technology, National University of Georgia Tech hasn’t done anything Tech’s College of Engineering This year, U.S. News & World Singapore and Fudan University in regarding SARS,” said Harty. remained a member of the elite top Report editors ranked graduate pro- Shanghai will be affected by concerns Although the University of five, behind only MIT, Stanford, grams in business, engineering, fine about SARS. California-Berkeley has banned stu- Cal-Berkeley and the University of arts, health sciences, law and medi- “Those students won’t be leaving dents from SARS-affected areas from Illinois. The seven engineering pro- cine. until August. It is too early to try to attending summer classes, no students grams in the top 10 are: Aerospace Additional information about make decisions about canceling have been denied admission to sum- (fourth), Biomedical (sixth), Civil the college rankings may be found exchanges until later in the summer,” mer programs at Georgia Tech, said (fifth), Electrical (sixth), Environ- at www.gatech.edu and the U.S. Henry said. Sheila Schulte, associate director for mental (ninth), Industrial and Sys- News Web site, which may be Martin Ludwig, director of travel international student programs in the tems (first) and Mechanical (sixth). accessed at www.usnews.com. for the Georgia Tech Alumni Office of International Education. Financial Aid ‘Perfect Storm’ Wreaks Havoc eorgia Tech has seen a jump in appeals of finan- aid was May 1, but applications are still being 11,000 undergraduate students at Tech receive finan- Gcial aid application rejections from incoming processed. “We are experiencing a 21 percent increase cial aid, scholarships or loans, Mons said. freshmen, said Deborah Smith, director of undergrad- in total applications for aid compared to last year,” she “We expect this is a combination of students uate admissions. said. As of April 28, 11,100 students had applied for being more aware of financial planning and an “The financial aid process is based on last year’s financial aid versus 9,200 as of the same day in 2002. increase in students who have never applied for aid tax statement. For people whose financial situations “We are experiencing a significant increase in before,” she said. Compounding the problem, scholar- have changed in the last year, or even this year, their families with changed financial situations. A colleague ships and endowments are down “because the invest- true financial situations are not reflected by last year’s of mine described it as ‘the perfect storm,’ where fami- ments earned less money, just like our investments tax information,” Smith said. “Students have begun to lies, even those who have saved, are now finding do.” submit appeals explaining why their situations are dif- those savings dwindled by decreased returns in Alumni are providing scholarship help for Tech ferent from what was in their applications.” investments. Families who were already challenged to students, Mons said. Tech’s Office of Student Financial Planning and meet costs are facing higher costs and others who “We’re an old school and our alumni are gener- Services has worked to show students how to appeal were already challenged have faced setbacks like ous. We have many alumni who give back and now financial aid requests that were turned down. downsizing or job loss,” she said. “Sometimes situa- many reunion classes are taking on raising money for “The financial planning office has been very tions and conditions culminate this way.” scholarships. We have seen that trend pick up in the proactive in getting out to the students on campus and Last fall 30 percent of freshmen received need- last few years. The classes of 1952, 1953 and 1963 are a to students who have been accepted to Tech and say- based financial aid and 31 percent of all undergradu- few of the many examples of classes that have funded ing to them that if there has been a change in their ates received need-based aid. When that number is scholarships,” she said. financial situation, let us know and there is a process expanded to students who receive scholarships, Concern over college finances may also drive they can use to do that,” Smith said. including about 4,900 who receive Georgia’s HOPE down the applicant pool, Smith said. Marie Mons, director of Student Financial Scholarship, more than 60 percent of new freshmen Applications for admission were down 4 percent Planning and Services, said that the poor economy is receive some sort of need-based financial aid or schol- overall from fall 2002, with tuition deposits slightly up driving the increased requests for financial assistance. arship money. from in-state students and slightly down from out-of- The deadline for students to apply for financial In a typical year, about 7,000 of the approximately state students over last fall, she said. from the hill 5/12/03 3:24 PM Page 20

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• Summer 2003 Legal Buzz Tech student sued for posting break-in details on Web site, sharing card reader system information

Tech Topics Tech By Kimberly Link-Wills

eorgia Tech student Billy and the State of Internet Music After GHoffman and his attorney, Napster.” alumnus Pete Wellborn, have a Hoffman and Griffith were to court date later this month to present a seminar but Blackboard address a temporary restraining obtained a cease and desist order order barring the computer science that barred the two from taking the major from disseminating informa- podium. By the end of the weekend tion about the BuzzCard system event, billed as a convention for obtained by accessing a switchbox “technology addicts, digerati, securi- on campus. ty professionals, hackers, phreakers, The Blackboard Co., which geeks and the general public,” operates card-swipe machines at Wellborn had been retained as coun- Ivins Awarded Ivan Allen Prize about 300 universities across the sel and an InterzOne Legal Defense country, has filed a civil lawsuit stat- Fund had been set up. ing Hoffman and University of Both sides are set to appear in By Kimberly Link-Wills always be a citizen of the United States, Alabama student Virgil Griffith vio- DeKalb County Superior Court on and that is in itself another job because lated the Electronic Communica- May 30. n her sarcastic and salty style, Molly this country is your responsibility. tions Privacy Act, the Georgia “We’ll be ready to defend the IIvins downplayed her achievements “Politics is not something you can Computer Systems Protection Act, case tooth and nail, but it may be as a female journalist after accepting look at as though it were a picture on a the Georgia Trade Secrets Act, the the case that the parties can agree the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and wall or a program on television. To not Lanham Act and the Computer upon some middle ground that is Service. pay attention to it is to cede an enor- Fraud and Abuse Act. much less expansive than the tem- “I think one of the things that mous amount of control over your own Tech uses the BuzzCard in din- porary restraining order as currently made a difference in my career was my life.” ing and laundry facilities and for written that will allow Billy and size,” Ivins said during her remarks at Ivins granted that terrorism is a vending machines, building and Virgil to comment on the state of the Ivan Allen College Founder’s Day real threat, but said Americans should parking lot access and library check- technology while at the same time luncheon. “I have towered over every not give up their constitutional rights out. Students can deposit money Blackboard will be satisfied that its editor I have ever worked for. No one as a means of preventing attacks. “I into their accounts through a Web rights are not being infringed ever looked at me and said, ‘You poor, think we are taking tiny steps toward site or by visiting the campus upon,” Wellborn said. sweet thing.’ It was always, ‘Ivins, get fascism in this country and it worries BuzzCard office. No criminal charges have been your ass out there.’” me. In court documents, the attor- brought alleging actual theft of Usher Nair-Reichert, co-chair of “We think we can make ourselves neys for Blackboard refer to meals, sodas or loads of laundry — the Founder’s Day committee and asso- safer by making ourselves less free,” Hoffman’s Web site, on which he anything purchased with a ciate professor of economics, said the she said. “But you’re just less free.” wrote that “the signals to and from BuzzCard, he said. Ivan Allen College wanted to recognize She also worries about the “consid- several Blackboard readers have Tech officials can’t discuss any Ivins “for her years of exceptional polit- erable harm” done to the United States’ been captured, as well as how data disciplinary action that may have ical commentary and her ability to use reputation around the world when is stored on the cards. Using this been taken. And the Institute has no humor to critique both state and President Bush decided to go to war knowledge, Virgil and I have creat- involvement in the case brought by national politics and politicians.” despite opposition from other coun- ed a drop-in compatible reader that Blackboard. “Since we are celebrating 50 years tries. will work with an existing RS-485 Robert Harty, director of of women at Georgia Tech, it is espe- “It is nonsense for Americans to network. Institute Communications and cially appropriate to honor Ms. Ivins, take this contemptuous attitude toward “This (Web site) will show not Public Affairs, dismissed the notori- who has blazed a trail in the largely the rest of the world,” Ivins said. only did we hack the system, but we ety surrounding Hoffman and said male-dominated arena of political jour- “We are losing the battle in the hacked it so far we could build func- the computer science student did nalism,” Nair-Reichert said. hearts and minds in the rest of the tional readers from scratch.” not successfully hack into the Ivins never wanted a ”society world,” she said. “I think we should all Blackboard says in its com- BuzzCard system. pages” kind of journalism career. be prepared to deal with the conse- plaint that “Mr. Hoffman’s Web site “This was vandalism of a “When I started in the newspaper busi- quences of that.” also acknowledges that he broke switchbox,” Harty said. “We’ve ness, if you were female you were pret- Ivins did use the podium to take a into a switchbox, a wall mount taken a careful look at the BuzzCard ty much automatically assigned to few shots at the president. “Whenever enclosure in a campus laundry, in system and it is secure.” what was called the snake pit, which Bush says that he is going with his order to examine an otherwise The case has garnered interna- was the women’s section,” she said. gut,” she said, “alarm bells should go closed wiring system.” tional attention. In its “Did You Writing wedding announcements off in your mind. That means he has Hoffman’s site explains that he Hear?” column, the Washington Post and spring fashion previews didn’t stopped considering the evidence.” broke into the switchbox using “a highlighted a comment Hoffman appeal to Ivins, so she went to She dismissed a question about lib- long thin knife,” according to the reportedly made after receiving the Columbia University for a master’s eral bias in the media by calling the complaint. “His Web site then restraining order. “I … found the degree and ended up as the first female notion “horse poop.” shows photographs of this uncov- emperor has no clothes, and now police reporter in Minneapolis. Ivins said some may find it hard to ered wiring system and attempts to everyone’s mad at me.” Eventually the police force named its believe that she does worry about the explain how this reader, data line Wellborn said Blackboard is mascot pig for her. Ivins considers that Internet, which she called a fascinating and multiplexer fit together.” seeking equitable relief. In other one of her greatest honors — right up medium, because of the lack of gate- Wellborn, ICS 86, and Hoffman words, the company doesn’t want there with being banned from the Texas keepers. met in April at the InterzOne confer- money from the college students. It A&M campus. “I hate to see the well of public ence in Atlanta, where the attorney wants to permanently bar them Ivins believes in speaking out and debate poisoned” with misinformation, spoke on “Stupid Record from telling people how to hack into taking a stand, and advised students she said. “There is a lot of crap on the Companies, Thieving Internet Users the card reader system. not to be spectators in life. “You will Internet.” from the hill 5/12/03 3:24 PM Page 21

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Going Global CAPPELLO NICOLE

Distance Learning, Professional Education extend reach • Summer 2003

By Neil B. McGahee Global Learning Center and the hotel complex will be seamless, separated eorgia Tech is recognized as one of only by a courtyard. The first-class on- Gthe top U.S. technological universi- site facilities and state-of-the-art tech- ties, a status achieved by reliance on nology, along with the expertise of our traditional education and research faculty, should play a key role in devel- methods. The Global Learning Center, oping new partnerships with leading opening in July at the new Midtown corporations and universities similar to campus, along with the merger of two our relationships with General Electric postgraduate education departments and Georgia Tech-Lorraine. will provide easier access to education “We currently have about 35 junior outside the traditional framework of GE engineers taking part in our mas- the Institute. ter’s programs,” he said. “We want to “Tech has historically provided expand that program and a similar one limited education opportunities beyond at Lockheed-Martin. By partnering with the campus boundaries,” said Bill companies and other universities, we Wepfer, interim vice provost of can enhance our educational and Distance Learning and Professional research innovations.” Education. “Distance Learning was pri- Wepfer said the new facilities will marily tied to our five distance degree allow Tech to offer more short courses, master’s programs and, more recently, a favorite with alumni. with the Georgia Tech Regional “We will have a more blended Engineering Program in Savannah. delivery of classes,” he said. “A lot of Professional Education, formerly called the short courses in the past have been Continuing Education, offered noncred- done the traditional way with people it certificate programs and the coming into town. The DLPE program Language Institute offered English as a and the Global Learning Center give us second language. the ability to produce these materials so “We decided last March to inte- they can take the courses at home. grate the three departments to create a “We also want to be able to take high-level service organization — our course offerings to our neighbors in Distance Learning and Professional the Midtown area since we are now Education — that has the infrastruc- part of the community. A lot of those ture to provide course content any- people aren’t going to be attracted to where in the world.” the hard-core ‘Techie’ stuff, so the Ivan Wepfer said the department merg- Allen College will be able to offer many Learning for Fun er, a new Web site and a move to the life-enriching experiences that Midtown Learning can be fun, and R. Kirk Landon, IM 50, is surrounded by the experts Global Learning Center will provide an folks might like.” at having fun — BUZZ and children — at the dedication of a learning center on easier point of contact for faculty, staff Wepfer said DPLE wants to extend campus named in his honor. The Landon Center provides care for the children and students. the Georgia Tech educational experi- of Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students and residents of the Home Park “The Global Learning Center and ence to everyone. community. Managed by Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the center was the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference “Whether they are sitting right in made possible in part through the generosity of Landon, the Georgia Early Center will be a world-class facility that front of you or thousands of miles Learning Initiative, the family of Roger H. Brown, CE 52, and Carolyn Brown allows us to offer some fabulous away, Georgia Tech is in the education- and Tech. events,” Wepfer said. “Access from the al delivery business.” IOECAPPELLO NICOLE Part of his job involves the investigation of the Future Space Feb. 1 crash of Columbia, the spacecraft he piloted 22 years ago. Astronaut says exploration essential “I knew when we lost trajectory it was gone,” he By Neil B. McGahee said. What does the future hold for human space veteran space traveler and moon walker, John W. exploration in the wake of this tragedy? AYoung, returned to his alma mater to tell about “We’ll go back when the president says, ‘Do it,’” 250 engineering students that space exploration is still Young said. “I fully expect to see manned landings on a necessary mission for the future. Mars and a permanent base on the moon.” Former astronaut Young, AE 52, a veteran of the Young said it would be foolish to think that future Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, was the human space exploration can take place without the keynote speaker for the Aerospace Engineering loss of lives and equipment, but changes are needed at Distinguished Lecture Series, presented by the School NASA. of Aerospace Engineering and the William R.T. Oakes “We need to build more conservatism into the Endowment on April 17. program,” he said. “Columbia was being treated as an Young first flew on Gemini 3 in 1965 and later operational vehicle, but it was still an experimental Gemini 10, Apollo 10 and Apollo 16, during which he vehicle. The crash proved that.” became one of only 12 men to walk on the moon. Young told the audience that he enrolled at Tech Young commanded the inaugural space shuttle flight because he believed engineering technologies would and the first Spacelab mission. He now is associate save the world and 50 years later, the challenges director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, remain the same. responsible for technical, operational and safety over- “Space is our future,” he said. “Engineers like you sight of NASA missions. will eventually help save the human race.” GT foundation 5/12/03 3:15 PM Page 22

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CAROLINE JOE Tech Topics Tech Able Leader Foundation chairman Buck Stith savors ‘flinty-eyed’ successes

By Karen Hill

e’s the self-acknowledged leader of a “bunch of Hflinty-eyed, hard-nosed” businesspeople, but if that’s what it takes to get Georgia Tech through a spate of construction in a morose economy, it’s fine with Stith. H. Hammond Stith, CE 58, ends a two-year term as chairman of the Georgia Tech Foundation on June 30, handing the reins to real estate developer A.J. Land. Stith is the retired president of Stith Equipment Co., an Atlanta business that sells construction equip- ment. During Stith’s tenure as chairman, the Foundation ventured into the bond market for $250 million, Foundation chairman extended its credit line by $60 million and bought a Buck Stith poses with half dozen increasingly precious land parcels near Foundation president campus for future expansion — all in support of the John B. Carter Jr. and Institute. treasurer Don Chapman. “Doing all that in a downside business cycle? Oh we had a ball,” Stith said. The Foundation acts as the Institute’s bank, Stith hidden agendas and, using an old cliche, you can take lion development will become home to the College of said, raising funds and investing them for whatever his word to the bank,” Carter said. Management, the Global Learning Center and center purpose Tech officials deem necessary. Each year, the “When the day is done no matter how tough the for executive education, the Economic Development Foundation allocates to the Institute about 5 percent to issue, you always know you had a fair hearing and Institute and the Foundation. It also will include a 252- 6 percent from its investment portfolio of $750 million. that Buck is still your friend.” room hotel and conference center, a bookstore and Foundation-supported projects include renova- Stith said he was proud of several Foundation retail and restaurant space. tions, construction, land purchases, equipment accomplishments during the past two years. One is With his term over as Foundation chairman, Stith upgrades and scholarships. that even though the number of large donations made plans to spend more time on the golf course near his “The academicians have the vision, what they to the Foundation dropped, the number of alumni giv- mountain home in Cashiers, N.C. But he’ll return to want to accomplish in a certain time period,” Stith ing didn’t — remaining at more than 20,000 a year. Tech during the two years he will serve the said. “Our job is to stay in touch with reality. When we Another is that Tech outperformed 75 percent of peer Foundation as its past chairman and to attend the meet in the middle, it’s always good. universities in investment returns. sporting events that first sparked his interest in the “People think we’re a bunch of flinty-eyed, hard- A former president of the Alumni Association, Institute. nosed businesspeople who sit around saying no to Stith said the Foundation tries to have a strong rela- “I used to go to football games with my dad and everything, but nothing could be further from the tionship with alumni. “They can be satisfied knowing my coach at Russell High School in East Point,” Stith truth,” he said. that any money given to Tech is managed by Tech recalled. “It was one of the happiest days of my life Stith knew he would be leading the Foundation grads, and we will give them a fair return.” when Tech offered me a basketball scholarship. through a tough time. Tech had just finished a major Technology Square is due to open this summer, Otherwise, I would have gone to Clemson and turned fund-raising drive that left many alumni and support- on time and under budget, Stith noted. The $180 mil- into a tobacco-chewing, snuff-dipping engineer.” GT ers tapped out. The national economy was beginning to teeter. Instead of simply waiting for state coffers and Foundation Introduces New Board Members alumni pockets to refill, Stith agreed with Tech President Wayne Clough to lead the Foundation in its even alumni have accepted nominations to serve with Waffle House Inc. in Norcross, Ga., former presi- first foray into the bond market. Taking an AA-1 rating Son the Georgia Tech Foundation board and four dent of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association; and to New York, the Foundation raised $250 million to former members were tapped as emeritus trustees. Deborah Nash Willingham, IE 78, of Medina, Wash., build the 8-acre Technology Square and expand the Trustees nominated to two-year terms are William retired senior vice president of human resources for student athletics center. In addition, the $60 million Royce “Bill” Collins, ME 57, MS IM 63, of Alpharetta, Microsoft Corp., member of the Georgia Tech line of credit was used to complete the construction of Ga., chief executive officer for Collins and Arnold Industrial and Systems Engineering Alumni Advisory 11 buildings on campus. Construction Co. in Atlanta; Francis S. “Bo” Godbold, Board and President’s Advisory Board He credits the Foundation’s success during his IE 65, of Tierra Verde, Fla., vice chairman of Raymond Emeritus trustees, who have previously served tenure to alumni who chaired various committees, James Financial Inc. in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Dave as board members, are James Thomas “Tommy” including Niles Bolton, Don Chapman, Mark Dash, McKenney, Phys 60, IE 64, of Atlanta, chairman, chief Gresham, TE 60, of LaGrange, Ga., president, treas- Herky Harris, Jim Lientz, Mac Neese, Joe Rogers Jr., executive officer and president of McKenney’s urer and general manager of the Callaway Foundation Bill Todd, John Staton and chair-elect A.J. Land. Management Corp. in Atlanta, former president of the Inc. in LaGrange; Thomas H. “Tom” Hall, IE 58, of But John Carter Jr., the Foundation’s president, Georgia Tech Alumni Association; E. Roe Stamps IV, Atlanta, vice president, treasurer and director of The said Stith deserved more of the credit. IE 67, of Miami, founding partner of Summit Partners University Financing Foundation in Atlanta; John P. “Buck is an extremely effective leader who is in Boston; Howard Tellepsen, CE 66, of Simonton, Imlay Jr., IM 59, of Atlanta, chairman of Imlay always fair and honest. He leads with integrity. When Texas, chairman and CEO of Tellepsen Corp. in Investments Inc. in Atlanta; and Cecil Jesse “Pete” dealing with the tough issues — and we have had a Houston; Albert S. “Bert” Thornton Jr., IM 68, of Silas, ChE 53, of Bartlesville, Okla., retired chairman few in the last two years — Buck’s style is to put the Duluth, Ga., executive vice president of operations and CEO of Phillips Petroleum Co. issue on the table and deal with it head on. He has no in the black 5/12/03 3:25 PM Page 23

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Financial News and Giving Updates • Summer 2003

GARY MEEK Georgia Tech Club Ground broken on 600-acre residential community, golf course

he Georgia Tech Club has started development of Tits 600-acre planned residential community, designed around an 18-hole golf course that will also be home to the Georgia Tech golf team. George C. Griffin II, IM 83, is director of sales for the $66 million planned community being developed in north Fulton and Cherokee counties. Griffin, former assistant executive director for alumni relations and business development at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, is in charge of in- house sales and marketing of memberships and real Discussing development of the estate for the development, which includes a Stan Georgia Tech Club are, left to right, Smith tennis center, a Johnson & Johnson lifestyle cen- Terry Diehl, Alumni Association Vice President and Executive Director ter and fitness facility. Joseph P. Irwin and Association Michael Hickman, CE 89, also was hired by the President Robert Hall. Georgia Tech Club as sales executive, working with founding members in selection of lots and real estate sales. The Georgia Tech Club is under the umbrella of Club, met with members of the Alumni Association the University Clubs by Melrose, a subsidiary of the executive committee at the founder’s cabin. Melrose Co. “We’re in a really exciting phase,” Diehl said. Griffin said more than 90 home sites have been “We’ve broken ground. Years of planning and all the sold. “We are well on the way to having 100 home behind-the-scenes work are coming to fruition. It’s a sites and 100 founding members by June 1.” very active area.” Four holes of the golf course will be completed During the initial construction, Diehl said, home this fall and construction of homes will begin in 2004, sites around the lake will be developed at the same Griffin said. time as the Rees Jones golf course, clubhouse, cottages In the meantime, a founder’s cabin situated on a and Stan Smith tennis complex. lake is being used as a clubhouse where members can “I played on the tour for over 10 years,” Diehl go for fishing, barbecues or planned recreational activ- said. “Atlanta has got some wonderful golf, but I don’t ities, he said. know a place that has a Rees Jones golf course coupled Niles Bolton, Arch 68, designed the clubhouse and with a Stan Smith tennis complex and a Johnson & founders cottages, which are being built by Weitz Golf. Johnson health club and spa in a community that is in Weitz Construction, the largest privately held con- an area this nice. struction company west of the Mississippi and a part- “Combine those components with a master devel- ner with The Melrose Co., is also building the golf oper like Melrose and Georgia Tech and you’ve got course and roads. something that is very special.” The Rees Jones golf course will be built to world- The club cottages on the property open up busi- class standards and is designed to host ACC golf tour- ness opportunities as well, he observed. naments. The Georgia Tech golf team will have its “Tell your business clients — come stay at our George C. Griffin II, left, and Michael Hickman have joined the Georgia Tech Club team. own set of practice tees and computer learning center club,” Diehl said. GT at the club. “It is a great recruiting tool for the Georgia Tech golf program,” Griffin said. Eleven founder builders will construct all of the Roll Call Campaign Heads Toward Dual Goals homes in the community and each will build two show homes for viewing. There are 206 one-acre home oll Call, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s • Corporate support from matching gifts that sites on the property, Griffin said. annual fund-raising drive that ends June 30, is will exceed $1 million. “The setbacks from the golf course are 75 feet R running ahead of last year’s total on the way • Student contributions from more than 1,600 from the fairway — probably the deepest in Atlanta,” toward $7.4 million from more than 26,000 donors. donors. Griffin said. “That’s where the yards begin. It’s nicer “Alumni continue to set new standards for Shea said the cost-per-dollar-raised total this for the golfers and the homeowners.” support with more than 21,000 donors already this year will be less than 10 cents. About 100 acres in the community are planned for year,” said Jim Shea, Alumni Association assistant “Georgia Tech alumni are a special breed,” walking trails and green space, trees and parks. executive director for Annual Giving. said Bill Goodhew, vice president for Roll Call on “This place just sells itself,” Griffin said. “It’s Shea said highlights of this year’s campaign the executive committee of the board of trustees. absolutely gorgeous. You see the mountains on one include: “Their support is unmatched by any other public side and the lake on the other.” • A 7.8 percent increase in Leadership Circle institution and that goes a long way in making The community is expected to sell out in six donors, contributors at the $1,000 level and up. each degree more valuable. Pride in Georgia Tech years. Proceeds from the project will benefit the • Parent support totaling more than $75,000 to appears as strong as ever.” Georgia Tech Alumni Association and the Athletic date, already eclipsing last year. Alumni can contribute online by going to Association, Griffin said. • A dynamic phonathon effort that accounts gtalumni.org and following the links under “Give Former PGA Tour pro and ESPN broadcaster for more than 11,000 donors and $1.1 million. Back to Tech.” GT Terry Diehl, general manager of the Georgia Tech what's theword?5/12/034:24PMPage24 24 Tech Topics • Summer 2003 feel alotofthetimethatpoliticshasdirtyname.I your community, wherever youare,” saidWatson. “I ronmental policy. of Representatives, where hewantstohelpsetenvi- Steve ThompsonandtheGeorgia General Assembly. for U.S.Rep.JohnLinder(R-Ga.),Georgia stateSen. andhasinterned executive vicepresident of the SGA spent thepasttwoyearsas life inpublicservice,Watson has dency. presi- Government Association also recently wontheStudent earth andatmosphericsciences, majoring inpublicpolicyand serve theirfellowman. national awards tohelpthem hope tousetheprestigious earned theBarryM.GoldwaterScholarshipandboth N Tech prestigious juniorsearn Truman, Goldwaterscholarships Paper Hanger day —thelongestwas192feetteamdidnotplace.Team scores were first flight.AlthoughTech’s longestflight,186feet,wasthesecondbestof oftheWright Brothers’ ofthe100thanniversary sities washeldinobservance completely from paperproducts. Thecompetitionwithothercollegesanduniver- Energy. AteamofTech studentsdesignedandbuilttheglider, namedAirBuzz, of Challenge2003competitionsponsored bytheU.S.Department the Energy Tech’sGeorgia hangglidersweepsoversanddunesnearKittyHawk,N.C.,during “I believeingettinginvolvedtheleadershipof He hopesonedaytowinaseatintheU.S.House In preparing himselffora Watson, 21,ajuniordouble Truman ScholarshipandMoniqueGuptahas ate Watson hasbeenawarded theHarryS. Watson LeDoux. niques withbiomedicalengineeringprofessor Joseph and Guptahasbeenworkingongenetherapytech- cy isoneofthemajorareas ofconcentrationinISyE multidisciplinary benefits.Healthcare systemefficien- ago tostudyengineeringanddecidedonISyEforits niques andthehealthcare system. to useimprove theefficiency ofgenetransfertech- ing doctorateandamedicaldegree, whichshewants tems engineering,planstogoonearnherengineer- the award. Watson isonlythesixthGeorgia Tech studenttoearn memorial tothe33rd president oftheUnitedStates. was establishedbyCongress in1975asafederal study. TheHarryS.Truman ScholarshipFoundation year and$27,000fortwoorthree yearsofgraduate scholarship provides $30,000—$3,000forthesenior al candidatesnominatedfortheTruman award. Each Scholar, isone of76scholarsselectedfrom 635nation- tics.” want todomybestrestore people’sfaithinpoli- She cametoTech from Macon,Ga.,three years Gupta, ajuniormajoringinindustrialandsys- Watson, whoentered Tech asaPresident’s News ofStudentLife school inpreparation fortheevent. aspilot.Shespentsevendaysatflighttraining dent Vicky Hsutookoneturn flights were flownbyprofessional hanggliderpilots.Chemicalengineeringstu- team andprofessor anddirector ofPulpandPaperEngineering.Three ofthe S.Hsieh,facultyadviserforthe saidJeffery the experienceofparticipating,” of paper(tensilestrength) andresearch “It’s reports. notaboutwinning,it’s about byavarietyoffactors,includingdistanceflowninfourflights,quality determined Gupta she said.Theconceptisthatscientistswouldfirst eases, andmostofitisstillintheexperimentalphase, neering. careers inmathematics,the naturalsciencesandengi- designed toencourageoutstandingstudentspursue United StatesandPuertoRico.Theprogram is scholarships outofafield1,093applicantsfrom the and ExcellenceinEducationFoundationawarded 300 board fortheupcomingyear. to $7,500toward Gupta’stuition, feesandroom and GT Gene therapyisanovelapproach totreating dis- This yeartheBarryM.GoldwaterScholarship arthritis.” rheumatic arthritisandjuvenile helped bygenetransferinclude Scholar. “Diseases thatcanbe Gupta, whoisalsoaPresident’s causing theproblem,” said use ittoreplace thegenethatis ated inalab,anddoctorswould causing acertaindisease. identify ageneinpatientthatis The scholarshipwillpayup newgenewouldbecre- “A NRWNIESEN ANDREW Tech Topics • Summer 2003 25 GARY MEEK “I have a lot of students who focus on money, how “I have a lot of students who focus on money, “It worked out to be that you'd need $50,000 in pre- That was an eye-opening assignment for the high that his students succeed in Beck wants to ensure “I tell them they need all the math they can get,” he much money they're going to make. One of the things I much money they're on the research did was have students do some Web average home price in Atlanta, the average new car rates and millage rates,” Beck interest price, prevailing said. tax income just to pay the mortgage and the car pay- ment and all the taxes and utilities.” school students who thought the $12-an-hour summer jobs Beck helped them obtain would bring in an “enor- mous sum of money.” moving on to the workaday world. college before sci- focus on very math skills, strong said. “I really strong ence skills and very communication skills.” strong Beck said it has been rewarding to see his students Beck said it has been rewarding to engineering He is incorporating an introduction very“I have so many students who are technically in certain interested real-world Beck's students are got some really neat things going on, they're eager to neat things going on, they're got some really enthused by it,” he said. sign up. I've been real col- getting scholarships and receiving winning awards, lege acceptance letters. Nearly 20 of his students were in the fall. at Tech invited to enroll course into his fall curriculum to keep the momentum going. “Everything world as pos- I do tends to be as real sible. I try make things as practical as possible. My to math and science in a is to reinforce whole goal here practical setting.” Web competent. They can sit down and build an entire site on a computer in 30 minutes, but so many of them skills.” lack the general problem-solving experiences. Alumni Association News and Updates Alumni Association

Beck, EE 84, MS EE 88, just finished his first year as Beck, EE 84, MS EE 88, just finished his first for a long “This is something I had been considering it wasn't an everyday enjoyed my job, “While I really Alternative Preparation The Georgia Teacher want to do and it “It has to be something you really wholehearted He received support his wife, from “I was so overwhelmed with the amount of work I He has experienced what all public school teachers a lot of things you don't expect. Far and are “There When he arrived at the high school, Beck found that com- a national robotics “I have a team that entered all Beck's classes the end of the school year, Before

im Beck left a career as an engineer and took a 70 as an engineer im Beck left a career his love of engineer- to share pay cut in order percent By Kimberly Link-Wills Engineer answers call to teach, brings technology into curriculum Back in Class Back in Class T the technology education teacher at Chamblee Charterthe technology education teacher at Chamblee in math and High School, which draws high achievers DeKalb County. Atlanta’s metro throughout science from young in life time,” he said. “I became a consultant fairly the countryand I spent so much of my time traveling and formal and classes. I developing presentations training and sharing my excite- enjoyed teaching found I really ment about technical subjects. my love share challenge. This was something that let me of engineering and math and science,” said Beck, a resi- Ga., who worked as a licensed engineer dent of Tucker, in the energy field for 18 years. was just the incentive Beck needed to make the Program switch. A critical teacher shortage the career prompted which allows those with col- state to launch the program, class- to become qualified for provisional lege degrees duty within a matter of weeks. room The tim- has to be something you plan to do financially. ing was right,” he said. 86, and their 8- and 11-year-old Beck, CE Susan Trees sons. After earning teaching certificate, his provisional Beck quit his job as an engineering manager with he had to Honeywell last August, about a week before report to Chamblee. had to do that I didn't have time to be nervous. This was that had been neglected because they had a a program time finding people to fill these spots. It was a strug- hard gle to get equipment running, the space set up,” Beck said. “I've learnedin cash-strapped districts go through. that I I get. I'm going have to struggle for everyreally resource to have to become a super salesman to get resources and business partners to help us do what we want to do,” he said. away it's the most physically tiring job I've ever had. It's physically demanding, it's long hours. But it's a lot of fun too.” was a technology some students didn't even know there that Beck and his students were spread lab. But word pages and using a robot- designing Web building robots, ic arm. petition. While we didn't win, we just had a fabulous time said excited about next year,” and it got the kids really Beck, who is also the sponsor of the National Society of Black Engineers chapter at the school. overbooked for the fall. “Once they find out we've were ing in a high school classroom. burdell 5/12/03 3:12 PM Page 25 5/12/03 3:12 PM burdell burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 26

26 FREEDOM FIGHTERS Summer 2003 Contingency Engineering Aids First Flight Air Force Base in Afghanistan Combat mission lands alum in history books

Tech Topics • Topics Tech o class at Georgia Tech ever prepared Air Force hen Georgia Tech alumna Capt. Jennifer Wilson NLt. Sang Lee for his assignment at an air base in Wlanded her B-2 Spirit bomber at an unidentified Kandahar, Afghanistan. base in the Middle East on April 1, she made history In one week, Lee, ME 00, and his unit designed — again. and built a facility that provides blast and fragmenta- Wilson, Biol 95, brought the big bird to a halt tion protection for air base personnel. They were after a bombing run over Iraq and officially became instructed that the structure needed to be stable and the first female B-2 pilot to fly a combat mission. But effective against mortar attacks, placed strategically it’s not the first time she has seen war. Wilson was within the confines of the current base footprint but also at the helm of the Air Force’s B-1 Lancer bomber complying with host nation restrictions. And they on its initial combat flight over Kosovo in Operation could not exceed the $100,000 budgeted and had one Allied Force in 1999. week to complete the project. “Flying is great,” Wilson said. “I can’t imagine “This is what I consider contingency engineering doing anything else right now. To fly in combat with at its finest,” said Lee, an officer who serves in the Air the B-2 was an awesome experience.” Force Civil Engineering Squadron. “My deployment The 30-year-old Miami native received her com- hasn’t taken me to the front lines in Iraq, but our mis- mission through the Air Force ROTC program at sion is simple — protect this base and its troops.” Tech, then attended undergraduate pilot training at Life was much simpler back in Atlanta dealing Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. with Bernoulli’s equation and the first law of thermo- After more than three years flying the B-1, dynamics, Lee said. Wilson applied to become a B-2 pilot. After a lengthy “Out here in Afghanistan, things have a different application and interview process, she was accepted flavor,” he said. “International politics, intercultural into the training program in 2000 and qualified to fly sensitivities, professional networking, proper expen- the B-2 in April 2002. diture of taxpayers’ dollars, back-of-the-envelope The B-2 — or stealth bomber — looks like a engineering and short, but critical, deadlines create a flying wing. The absence of a vertical profile allows unique challenge. I feel very blessed to have been the bomber to penetrate the most sophisticated air given the opportunity to take on that challenge. defenses and strike heavily defended targets. “Although no class at Tech directly prepared me “I wanted to have the opportunity to fly what I for these challenges, the problem-solving approach think is the most premier aircraft,” Wilson said. “It’s learned in my engineering classes taught me a lot exciting to be a part of a chosen few. I am lucky to be about interpersonal relationships and multiple task able to have the chance to do something that so few juggling.” people will ever have the opportunity to do.” Lee said although his unit was hundreds of miles Wilson said she believes the training she Capt. Jennifer Wilson from the fighting, he took pride in the support they received gave her the confidence to complete the provided the combat troops. recent combat sortie. Air Expeditionary Wing to secure freedom for the “Let me tell you, it was a feeling like none other “I wasn’t scared,” Wilson said. “We all trained Iraqi people. to watch the statue of Saddam Hussein fall,” Lee quite a bit leading up to this operation. I knew I was “It was just great coming off the plane and see- said, “knowing that I had some small part in bringing able to come through and get the job done.” ing the people who came to show me support,” hope to a nation. No award, recognition or salary can Wilson said she does not consider the mission a Wilson said. “From the maintainers to the operators, I ever replace the pride and sense of accomplishment milestone. She said she feels thankful that she was humbled to see them excited for me. We all work that we felt during that moment.” deployed with her squadron and the rest of the 40th together to make the mission happen.” Turbulent Times

ive Georgia Tech alumni — Lt. Tony Morales, IE F98, Lieutenants junior grade Rob Betts, Biol 99, Aaron Walker, CS 99, and Jeff Latham, IE 99, and Ensign Jeremy Silverstein, Mgt 01, served aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Silverstein was assigned to strike operations aboard the carrier, helping coordinate missions for the various squadrons on the carrier, while Morales, Betts, Walker and Latham are pilots. Betts flew the Navy’s newest strike fighter, the F/A-18F Super Hornet, while Walker and Latham flew older model F/A-18s, affectionately known as “Baby Hornets.” Morales flew the venerable S-3 Viking, a tanker/surveillance platform aircraft. “Flying into Iraq was intimidating at first,” said Walker. “We train hard, but seeing the intense heat of battle for the first time is still a little scary, especially for new guys like me who really don’t know what’s Lieutenants junior grade Jeff Latham, Rob Betts, Aaron Walker and going on. Ensign Jeremy Silverstein are stationed aboard the USS Nimitz. “These are turbulent times. I just hope all peo- ples of the region can get along,” Walker said. burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 27

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Michael A. “Psycho”

Picciano, ME 97, pilots The Buzz from Friends Summer 2003 an F-14 Tomcat. sales in 1986, the year Canadair 1950s became part of Bombardier. The following year he was William B. Campbell, named president of Canadair CerE 58, MS CerE 60, and Challenger. Moss began his Marcy Dickert were married aerospace career at Lockheed- March 1 in Knoxville, Tenn. The Georgia Co. couple live in Knoxville. Patrick Sweeney, IE 64, William F. Dykstra, retired as assistant director of CerE 59, has retired from Ferro the Montgomery, Ala., regional Corp. and will now continue as office of the Department of a consultant in the industrial Veterans Affairs on April 3. coatings industry. Dykstra lives Sweeney spent 27 years with in Nashville, Tenn. the Veterans Administration working in rehabilitation of dis- abled veterans. He lives in 1960s Montgomery. John M. Taylor Jr., IE C. Clint Bolte, IE 67, has 64, has published a second night. It is awful at night — getting shot into written a book, “How Fulfillment novel, “A Flash of Emerald,” ‘Be On Your Game’ the darkest blackness you can imagine plays Services Drive Print Volume,” through Blue Eagle Press. His quite a game on the senses. You are completely published by the National first, “Behind the Green Water,” Picciano flies Tomcats in combat on the instruments, and I hate it.” Association of Printing was a fictional account of the Picciano veered the Tomcat sharply away Leadership, which cited the international crisis involving By Neil B. McGahee from the Truman and climbed to 25,000 feet. book as the only one of its kind Iraq. Taylor served with the “Once I was airborne and busy doing 100 written from the printer’s per- Army’s 101st Airborne Division is nickname is “Psycho” and he loves other things, including flying and looking for spective. Bolte’s career has as a platoon leader and battal- Htomcats, but not the yowling felines that people shooting at me, the tension went away been in the graphic communi- ion commander and designed sit on a fence and keep you awake. completely,” he said. “When you fly a six- cations industry and he has military command and control In the ready room of the aircraft carrier hour mission to Iraq off the boat, drop bombs been a consultant specializing systems as a civilian. Taylor Harry S. Truman, Navy Lt. Michael A. and return to the ship, a lot of pieces have to in product development and lives in Lutz, Fla. “Psycho” Picciano, ME 97, stepped into a pres- fall in place. That’s where the stress comes in. growth issues in the printing surized suit and performed a preflight check You try not to think about things you can’t industry for nearly 20 years. on his F-14 Tomcat, a swing-wing, twin-engine control and just do your job the best you can. Bolte lives in Cambersburg, Pa. 1970s jet able to fly at twice the speed of sound. He “I hate to say it, because it sounds cliche, Drew Case, ME 66, had practiced the routine thousands of times, but it was so much like training that it was founded Case Industries Inc., Mark Beck, IM 79, and but this was the real thing — his first combat hard to believe. Iraq looks just like the Nevada an engineering and land-sur- his wife, Jodi, announce the mission as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. desert from 25,000 feet. We did everything just veying firm in Hartsville, S.C., in birth of a son, Jacob Ryan, on “On the way to the jet, I was nervous as like in training. Of course, it’s real and it’s February. Case retired Feb. 1 as Jan. 10. Beck is a pricing man- hell,” he said, “mostly because I didn’t want to more complex, and the ‘fog of war’ — not a project engineer from Sonoco ager and industrial engineer screw up, not because I was worried about enough information, decisions to be made, Products Co. after a 29-year with Panduit Corp. The family dying or being shot down. Those things don’t questions of target location, identification and career. He is also the author of lives in Alpharetta, Ga. enter your mind. Most of the pressure in this weapons status — is ever present.” a novel, “The Divine Spark,” Chris Bowick, EE 77, job is internal — we all want to do it right.” Picciano’s VF-32 fighter group dodged written in 2001 and is working was named 2002 Man of the The start sequence took about 20 minutes. anti-aircraft fire over northern Iraq. He could on his second book. He and his Year in the January issue of Picciano taxied the warplane to the steam- see explosions rocking Baghdad to the south. wife, Gladys, have two grown CED magazine, which serves powered catapult buried in the flight deck of The forward air controller, a special forces sol- daughters and live in Hartsville. the broadband technology the Truman. Steam rose around them as sailors dier on the ground, announced Picciano was Doug Grimm, IM 62, industry. Bowick is senior vice swarmed around the jet like ants on a hill. “hot” — slang for ready to attack. Picciano retired in January after selling president of engineering and “The flight deck directors wear yellow jer- released the laser-guided “smart” bombs and US Broadcasting LP, the broad- chief technical officer for Cox seys,” Picciano explained. “They own you seconds later heard the controller yell, “Direct casting company he co-found- Communications in Atlanta. He when you taxi. They take you close to the edge hit, direct hit.” ed and served as general part- and his wife, Maureen, live in of the flight deck, but you have to trust their Turning east, Picciano headed for the rela- ner for. The company, which Atlanta and have two adult chil- experience and skills. They attach the launch tive safety of Turkish airspace, but one last included radio stations in dren, Zoe and David. bar to the nose strut and pull down the cata- hurdle remained — midair refueling. Atlanta and Macon, Ga., was Herchell A. “Allen” pult stroke. Then they hook up the holdback “You are far from home and you need the sold to Cumulus Broadcasting Boyd, AE 76, MS EE 88, has fitting, which holds you back so when we go gas,” he said. “There are five or six other Inc., Clear Channel and Radio been named to head Rockwell to full throttle, the jet stays put.” planes converging in the same piece of sky that One. Grimm lives in Atlanta. Collins’ design development, The flight director double-checked the cat- need gas as well. You need to get in there Bryan T. Moss, IM 62, testing and manufacturing of the apult for the shot, then signaled Picciano to go quickly and safely, get your gas and get out. was named president of Department of Defense joint to full power. The Tomcat’s engines roared and One thing you can’t control is the weather. Gulfstream Aerospace in April. tactical radio system for rotary the entire jet shook, but the holdback bar kept This posed the biggest problems on the tanker. Moss had been vice chairman wing platforms. Boyd, a retired it in place. The launch officer returned Tanking in the goo, at night, low on gas, after of Gulfstream since 1995. Army colonel, also serves on Picciano’s salute, then reached down and four or five hours of a combat mission, is an Before he joined Gulfstream, he the Iowa Homeland Security touched the flight deck, the signal to release. uncomfortable place to be. You can’t go 100 had been president of the busi- Task Force and homeland secu- Picciano hunched forward as if anticipating a percent intensity for six hours. You have to ness aircraft division of rity panels at the federal level. hit in football and all hell broke loose. turn it on and off, which is not easy to do. It’s a Bombardier Aerospace Group Boyd lives in Cedar Rapids, “The shot is about 200 feet long and you huge mental drill and you need to be on your since 1992. He joined Canadair Iowa. go from zero to 150 miles per hour in two sec- game or you will hurt yourself, or worse, you in 1979 in sales, became vice Ed Breslauer, CE 79, onds.” Picciano said. “It’s a blast, except at will hurt someone else.” GT president of sales in 1984 and earned a master’s degree in executive vice president of education from the University of burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 28

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Virginia in January. Breslauer is director of business and opera- 1980s tions for Clarke County Public Summer 2003 Drownproofing Schools in Virginia. He lives in William Donnell “Don” Purcellville, Va. Allen, CE 86, has been named Bill Chastain, IM 79, of executive director of the Light Site Salutes Tampa, Fla., has written his first Gauge Steel Engineers Tech Topics • Topics Tech novel, “The Streak.” Chastain is Association headquartered in Fred Lanoue a former columnist for the Washington, D.C. Allen is an Tampa Tribune and covered associate engineer with Starzer, n the mid-1960s, when Mike Kearney, who major league baseball. He also Brady, Fagan and Associates Igrew up in England but now lives in Wales, has written a biography about Structural Design, Contract discovered Fred Lanoue’s book, “Drownproof- Washington Redskins head Administration, Investigations ing — A New Technique for Water Safety.” He coach Steve Spurrier and is and Cold-Formed Steel Design. found the technique “liberating.” working on his next novel, set He and his wife, Susanne, and Lanoue, swimming coach at Georgia Tech on the Georgia Tech campus. their five children live in from 1936 to 1964, developed drownproofing Bruce J. Cutler, EM 78, Jonesboro, Ga. as a method of surviving in water. Passing was promoted to vice president D. Shane Austin, IM 86, Lanoue’s drownproofing course at Tech was of logistics for Star Furniture in of Atlanta, became vice presi- required for graduation. Houston. Cutler joined Star in dent of Habif, Arogeti and After reading Lanoue’s book, Kearney “Coach Lanoue 2002 after 16 years at Compaq Wynne Capital Partners, an “rushed to the pool to try the technique. I was believed that everyone should be able to sur- Computers. Cutler and his wife, accounting and business advi- amazed. The method didn’t need any learning vive in water and developed a simple tech- Margaret Pate, ISyE 81, and sory firm in Atlanta, in February. or training or practice, I could just do it. To sud- nique which was easy to learn and did not their son, Gordon, live in Spring, Austin has more than 10 years denly realize that I could survive indefinitely in depend on physical strength or intensive train- Texas. Margaret is employed at of financial planning experi- water, without effort, was an incredibly liberat- ing,” Kearney says on Drownproofing.com. Hewlett Packard. ence. ing experience.” “During his time at Tech, Fred personally Bobby Hinson, MS AE Kimberly Wood Years later Kearney went in search of an taught his method to 20,000 students.” 71, retired Feb. 1 from Bellemore, AE 89, and her Internet site on drownproofing, but couldn’t find Lanoue’s book was published in 1963. The Lockheed Martin as senior man- husband, Norman, announce one. So he started Drownproofing.com, which technique was introduced to Kearney and ager in the strategic airlift direc- the birth of a son, Jack, on Jan. promotes drownproofing and lauds Lanoue. “countless others.” torate and also propulsion inte- 3. Bellemore is a construction grated product team lead on project manager in ocean and the C-5 aircraft modernization waterfront facilities with ITA second-largest hotel franchising ter’s of public administration public policy from Virginia program. Hinson spent most of Industrial of Annapolis, Md. The company. from Old Dominion University in Commonwealth University. his 36-year career with family lives in Saunderstown, Ben Elkins, Math 88, and Norfolk, Va. Horton was also Langston is executive director Lockheed Martin in Marietta, R.I. his wife, Ivy, announce the birth inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, of a regional economic develop- Ga., where he lives with his Melinda Mills Bolling, of a son, Jared Simon, on Jan. the national honorary society for ment corporation. wife, Gayle. Mgt 87, and her husband, 4. Jared joins brother Adam, 2. public affairs and administra- Kathleen Maher Manuel A. Junco Jr., Anthony, announce the birth of The family relocated in March tion. Horton lives in Chesa- Lynch, ME 83, and her hus- ME 75, has been promoted to a son, Absalom Rohahn, on from Dallas, Texas, to Chicago. peake, Va. band, Micheal, announce the president of the oil and gas April 25, 2002. Absalom joins Guy Esten, IM 80, was Scott Huff, IE 82, and birth of twin boys, Brendan downstream business unit for sister Aliza at the family’s home named commandant of the Jean Fasulo were married Nov. Patrick and Cormac Kevin, on Fluor Corp. Junco and his wife, in Washington, D.C. Bolling is Florida Air Academy after retir- 9 in Tampa, Fla., where the cou- Oct. 14. Kathleen is the director Susan, live in Aliso Viejo, Calif. an attorney practicing in real ing as a Navy pilot and spend- ple live. Huff is an account man- of intellectual property for Elan Steve McGill, AE 71, has estate, bankruptcy and general ing several years in the informa- ager with Procter & Gamble. Corp. The family lives in Dublin, been named chief operating civil litigation in Washington, tion technology industry. He and Raymond B. King, Mgt Ireland. officer of SMT Dynamics, an D.C. She earned her MBA from his wife, Linda, live in Mel- 87, was named senior vice Mike McCarthy, IE 83, electronics manufacturing serv- the University of the District of bourne, Fla. president for community and has been promoted to com- ice company based in Anaheim, Columbia in 1990 and her law Art Graham, ChE 87, governmental affairs for mander of the 305th Calif. McGill, who lives in degree from Catholic University was elected to the District 13 SunTrust Bank in January. King Communications Squadron at Highlands Ranch, Colo., is Columbus School of Law in post on the Jacksonville, Fla., lives in Atlanta. McGuire Air Force Base in New responsible for all engineering, 1998. City Council in April. Graham, a John J. Klein, AE 88, a Jersey. manufacturing and supply chain Marc Corsini, IM 80, and Republican, was first elected to Naval flight officer, graduated in Jennifer Moy McClure, execution technology for the his wife, Susan, announce the public office in 1998 as a mem- March from the Naval War ME 89, and her husband, Ben, company. birth of a son, Matthew Anthony, ber of the Jacksonville Beach College in Newport, R.I., receiv- announce the birth of a daugh- G. Fred Milburn, ISyE on Jan. 20. Corsini is president City Council. ing special distinction as a ter, Hannah Kathryn, on July 5. 79, was promoted to colonel in of Corsini Consulting Group, a Alice Williams Griffin, Mahan Scholar. His next assign- The family lives in Houston. the U.S. Marine Corps and is strategic planning and busi- ChE 84, was promoted to direc- ment will be as a U.S. Navy fed- Clifford “Chip” now serving as director of future ness-coaching firm based in tor of marketing operations at eral executive fellow at the Morgan, MS ChE 86, and his operations with the First Marine Birmingham, Ala., where the Eastman Chemical Co. in Brookings Institute, a wife, Elizabeth, announce the Expeditionary Force in Iraq. family lives. February. Griffin lives in Washington, D.C., think tank. birth of a son, Adam Russell, on Frank O. Smith, IM 79, Barry A. Cothran, CE Kingsport, Tenn., with her hus- He, his wife, Capi, and two June 21, 2002. Adam joins joined the Alexander Key unit of 87, was promoted to product band, Mike, and children, daughters live in Newport. brother Daniel, 6, and sister SunTrust Bank as first vice pres- planner for Copeland Corp., a Matthew and Laura. Richard M Kramer, Mary Pat, 3, at the family’s home ident in the corporate and exec- $1.2 billion division of Emerson, Michael S. Hickman, Arch 80, MS Arch 82, joined the in Burlington, Vt. Morgan is a utive services area in October. manufacturing HVAC/R com- CE 89, was named a sales architectural firm of Pieper program manager for IBM. Smith lives in Atlanta. pressors. Cothran, his wife and executive with the Georgia Tech O’Brien Herr Architects in Raymond M. Norman, Frank Thach, IM 71, three children relocated in May Club, a golf course and residen- Alpharetta, Ga., in April. Kramer CE 83, and Jill M. Weaver retired March 1 after a 34-year from Lebanon, Mo., to Troy, tial development in Alpharetta, and his wife, Regina, live in Norman, AE 88, announce the career with the state of Georgia. Ohio. Ga., in February. Hickman and Alpharetta with their three chil- birth of a daughter, Stephanie For the last 15 years he has Brad Douglas, IM 86, his wife, Allison Childs Hickman, dren, Christopher, Michael and Marie, on Sept. 30. Ray is a served as deputy director of the was promoted in January to IM 89, and their children, Caroline. Christopher will begin payload logistics engineer for Georgia State Financing and vice president of emerging busi- Andrew and Holly, live in classes at Tech this fall. the International Space Station Investment Commission. Thach, nesses at Choice Hotels Cumming, Ga. Jay A. Langston, IM 82, at NASA’s Kennedy Space his wife, Mary Lynn, and son, International in Silver Spring, Steve Horton, ME 80, of Moseley, Va., graduated in Center and Jill is working for Tripp, live in Roswell, Ga. Md. Choice Hotels is the world’s graduated in May with a mas- December with his doctorate in Boeing in configuration man- burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 29

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LAURA SIKES Meeting the Challenge Summer 2003 Max Burns uses problem-solving techniques for congressional issues

By Kimberly Link-Wills

ongressman Max Burns uses skills learned at CGeorgia Tech in his House work. “A lot of what I do is listening and fundamental problem solving and it goes back to those founda- tion courses in mathematics, in calculus, in differen- tial equations,” said Burns, IE 71. “I remember vividly the course in statics of nondeformable bod- ies. I remember vividly thermodynamics. Today I don’t use either one of those things, but the things I learned in those courses I use.” A Republican elected in November to represent Georgia’s newly drawn 12th District, which stretch- es from Augusta to Savannah and Athens to Statesboro, Burns said his Tech education taught him how to deal with and solve problems. “A Tech education allows you to understand the problem, break it down, analyze it, evaluate it, come to a consensus, come to a solution.” Burns said problem solving in Congress requires receiving input from constituents and fel- low lawmakers. “I’m honored to have the privilege of casting the vote, but I will tell you that I listen to a lot of people. I have discussions and debates with folks. I find that people who agree with me all the time don’t help me very much.” He was a professor of information systems at standing of what it costs to grow an acre of corn or He said the hardest part of his new job has been Georgia Southern University, where son Andrew put in an acre of peanuts or cotton. They don’t fitting everything — the discussions and debates, earned his degree, when he decided to run for understand the equipment requirements or the fer- votes, committee meetings, appearances in the dis- Congress. tilizing of the seeds or the herbicides or any of the trict — into a 24-hour day. Burns fit in a trip to the “Just over a year ago I was not considering run- technology that there is today,” he said. Tech campus May 3 to watch son Nathan receive his ning for Congress,” Burns said. “It happened very, “One of the advantages I have is a reasonable management degree. very quickly in early May, when the dynamics in the understanding of those problems and I have the Life in Washington, D.C., is not anything like a district changed and there was a void in the opportunity to communicate with my colleagues television drama. Republican Party’s nominee. I was living in an area and do things that are good for America, not just for “The challenges and the work required are that was in danger of losing reasonable representa- those directly involved in agriculture but for every- much greater than most people would ever antici- tion in Congress. My initial response was, ‘I hope one who consumes an ag product that is produced pate. I have a ‘read file’ that is multiple inches thick we can find someone willing to step forward.’” here.” on a daily basis,” he said. Burns’ phone started ringing. In less than two A member of the House transportation commit- “You don’t see the stuff that goes on between weeks, he stepped forward to get his name on the tee, Burns said he recognizes that an effective way midnight and breakfast on TV. A lot of folks don’t primary ballot. “I got in this race to ensure that our for the country to become energy independent is by realize the House schedule is such that most of the district had honest, viable, reasonable representa- boosting production of and support for grain-based 9-to-5 business day is taken up with constituents or tion.” fuel. hearings or committee meetings or subcommittees. He grew up in the 12th District, where he still Transportation is a major issue in the 12th The real business of legislation occurs in the after- maintains a small cattle herd on the family farm. District, where Burns sees the need for infrastructure noons and evenings and sometimes into the early “Back in my father’s and grandfather’s day, we projects. morning hours.” would grow cotton and corn, soybeans and wheat. “We have industries in Augusta and all the way Burns said he also learned how to deal with a We had livestock, we baled hay,” he said. “I have to Athens that cannot use the port of Savannah demanding job while a student at Georgia Tech. my roots deep in the American farm soil. I’m the effectively because there’s no interstate access from “I think the greatest thing Tech teaches is a only U.S. congressman from Georgia who lives in a Savannah to Augusta to Athens,” Burns said. “We strong work ethic, a strong problem-solving capabil- rural community. The closest town is Sylvania and it can open up east Georgia and build more of a grid ity and the ability to accept challenges and not be only has 3,500 people. I’m 10 miles from town. I’m around our state when it comes to transportation intimidated by those challenges,” he said. 34 miles from the nearest Wal-Mart!” opportunities.” “Tech is the foundation of my experiences Burns said agriculture is the backbone of the Burns wants the opportunity to continue serv- whether it was in business or industry 20 or 30 years U.S. economy. ing the people of Georgia. ago or whether it was in education over the last 15 “We have the most productive ag environment “I plan to run for re-election, the good Lord or 20 years or now.” in the world. We’ve got to have an opportunity to willing,” he said. “I enjoy the challenge. I certainly Burns didn’t set out for a career in politics. export and trade our ag commodities across the appreciate the honor of doing this.” After graduating from Tech, he served as a lieu- globe and that’s one of the things we’re working Shortly after arriving in the nation’s capital, tenant in the Army Reserve. He received a master’s on.” Burns attended a party hosted by the House speaker degree in business information systems and a doc- Burns said less than 1 percent of Americans are at the Capitol for GOP freshman legislators. The torate in business administration from Georgia State. actively involved in farming, but every household in chamber doors were opened and the new congress- As a Senior Fulbright Scholar, Burns taught corpo- the country is impacted. men walked onto the House floor for the first time. rate information management in Sweden. “Many people do not have a realistic under- “It is tremendously inspiring,” Burns said. GT burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 30

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agement for the space shuttle at lives in Muncie with his wife, Traci Battle, Biol 93, and Kennedy Space Center. They Kay, and daughters, Kaitlin, 10, Rawi Abdelal, Econ 93, live on Merritt Island, Fla. and Summer, 7. announce the birth of a son, Summer 2003 Jeff Offutt, ICS 88, and Rafi Wartan, EE 88, has Alexander James, on Sept. 29. his wife, Jian, announce the been named a principal share- Traci is a research scientist at birth of a son, Andrew Jefferson holder in TLC Engineering for the Dana-Farber Cancer VII, on Jan. 9. Offutt is an asso- Architecture. Wartan is senior Institute at Harvard Medical

Tech Topics • Topics Tech ciate professor of software engi- electrical engineer in the firm’s School and Rawi is an assistant neering at George Mason Jacksonville, Fla., office. Among professor at Harvard Business University. The family lives in his key projects are the new School in Boston. The family Flight Testers Fairfax, Va. Baptist Medical Center Clinical lives in Wellesley, Mass. Kevin Patton-Hock, Services Building, St. Luke’s Roxie “Jessica” Four Georgia Tech alumni were part of a 10-person crew that manned the Arch 83, and his partner, Arthur Hospital and St. Vincent’s Baxter, EAS 97, and Vernon first flight of the upgraded Air Force C-5 Galaxy aircraft on Dec. 21 at the Patton-Hock, of Somerville, Medical Center, all in Alexander “Alex” Turner, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics facility in Marietta, Ga. Air Force Major Mass., announce the adoption Jacksonville. He and his wife, AE 97, were married Nov. 22 in Christopher Dobb, MS ME 96, piloted the plane, Wade Smith, AE 86, of two sons, Benjamin Mao, 3, Denise, and their daughters, Atlanta. Jessica is an engineer an Air Force civil servant, directed the test plan and John Bagwell,AE and David Chet, 1. Kevin is a Nora and Madeline, live in for SchlumbergerSema and 91, MS AE 93, an employee of Lockheed Martin, and Raymond project architect with RSSC Jacksonville. Alex is an engineer for Delta Air Heineman, IM 84, AE 01, an employee of ARINC Inc., analyzed the real time data on board the aircraft during the flight. All four are working on the Architects in Cambridge, Mass. Pamela S. Whitaker, IM Lines. The couple live in Atlanta. Avionics Modernization Program of the C-5, which consists of a “glass Rosalind Wright 82, and Jimmy Norman were Hester Jordan Bell, cockpit” upgrade, including new flight displays, navigation system and Picard, EE 84, and her hus- married Oct. 19 in Fayetteville, ChE 95, launched an Internet installation of the terrain awareness and warning system and traffic alert band, Len, announce the birth Ga. Whitaker is a product line business, Something Sweet, in and collision avoidance system. of a son, Luc Eliot, on Feb 8. manager with SAFECO October selling homemade Luc joins two brothers at the Insurance in Duluth, Ga. The baked goods and gift baskets family’s home in Newton, Mass. couple live in Lawrenceville, Ga. at www.somethingsweet4u.com. Dana Causby, TE 92, MS Engineers’ Minority Leadership Picard is on the faculty of the K. Brent Woodruff, IM Bell lives in Fayetteville, Ga., TE 96, and Shannon Lytle Program, designed to increase Massachusetts Institute of 87, of Atlanta, has joined the with her husband and son. Causby, Phys 94, MS Phys 95, the participation in ASME of Technology’s media lab in corporate services group of CB Bryan Blair, MS ME 98, announce the birth of a daugh- women and under-represented Cambridge, Mass. Richard Ellis in Atlanta as first and Kate Schafer Blair, CE ter, Anna Lynn, on May 17, minority groups. Curtis is lead Lisa Powers, BC 86, vice president. Woodruff will 98, announce the birth of a son, 2002. Dana also received his designer and mechanical engi- accepted the position of direc- provide account management John Michael, on Feb. 20. John professional engineering license neer for Lockwood Greene tor of business development for and strategic consulting servic- joins sisters Elizabeth, 3, and in July and is employed as a Engineering and Construction in CUH2A in the firm’s Chicago es to the firm’s real estate Margaret, 2, at the family’s geotechnical engineer at Nova Savannah, Ga. office. CUH2A is an architec- clients. home in Lexington, Ky. Bryan is Engineering. Shannon is a full- Amy Palmer Daniels, ture, engineering and planning Richard W. Zetterlund, an engineer for Lexmark Inter- time mother. The family lives in Mgt 92, and Joe Daniels, Mgt firm that provides facility solu- ME 84, was promoted to national. Kate is a full-time mom. Acworth, Ga. 92, announce the birth of a tions for science and technolo- Brooklyn borough director of M. Brian Blake, EE 94, Jeff Chang, ID 93, and daughter, Macy Caroline, on gy. Powers lives in Chicago. infrastructure construction for received the Most Promising his wife, Melissa, announce the Jan. 3. Macy joins sisters Charles R. Rugar, EE the New York City Department Engineer in Industry Award for birth of their second child, Palmer and Bryce at the family’s 84, recently became a regis- of Design and Construction, his work in Web-based tech- Alexis Brooke, on March 3. home in Decatur, Ga. Amy is tered principal with National established in 1995 to build the nologies at the Black Engineer Alexis joins brother Tommy, 3, at director of marketing at S1 Securities Corp. in Richmond, city’s sewers, water mains, of the Year award ceremony in the family’s home in Corp. in Atlanta and Joe is Va., where he is a financial roads and public buildings. Baltimore in February. Blake is Lawrenceville, Ga. Chang is director of Southeast sales for adviser in wealth management. Zetterlund, his wife, Gwen, and lead software systems engineer research and development Talisma Corp. out of Seattle. Rugar and his wife, Kat, live in sons, Zach and Luke, live in for MITRE Corp.’s center for manager at Lund International. John Davidson, ME 98, Richmond. Cedar Grove, N.J. advanced aviation system Carter Sean Chapman, and Beth Davidson, IE 98, Mark Santos, ME 84, development and is an assistant IE 95, and his wife, Amanda, announce the birth of a son, has been promoted to sales professor in the department of announce the birth of their first Christian Grant, on Feb. 26. The manager for Hy-Tek Material 1990s computer science at George- child, Carter MacKay “Mack,” family lives in Greenwood, S.C. Handling in Cleveland. Santos town University. He holds a doc- on Feb. 7. The family lives in Brian S. Dietzman, IntA lives in Green, Ohio, with his Anita Advaney, EE 91, torate in information technolo- Lawrenceville, Ga. 96, and his wife, Joanna, wife and two children. and her husband, Timothy gy/information and software Sonya Summerour announce the birth of a son, Roger Sherrard, ME 89, Oehlberg, announce the birth of engineering from George Clemmons, ME 94, and her Reece Augustus, on Dec. 27. and Lisa Simpson a son, Amitav John, on Jan. 14. Mason University and a master’s husband, Wayne, announce the Reece joins brother Spencer at Sherrard, MgtSci 88, “Tavi” joins sister Mala at the degree in electrical engineering birth of their daughter, Ajzari the home in Fort Gordon, Ga. announce the birth of a daugh- family’s home in Rochester Hills, from Mercer University. He Sojourner, on Feb. 8. Clemmons Dietzman, a captain in the ter, Lauren Grace, on March 30. Mich. Advaney is a graduate serves as director of the minori- holds a doctorate in bioengi- Army, has been stationed at Lauren joins brothers Trevor, student at Oakland University. ty mentoring program at neering from the University of Camp Doha in Kuwait since Nicholas and Brandon at the Christine Helvick Georgetown and earned California–San Diego and is November. He is the headquar- family’s home in Cleveland. Algard, Mgt 93, and her hus- MITRE’s diversity award in 2001. founder and CEO of SSC ters commander for the 297th Roger is a general manager band, Michael, announce the Blake lives in Vienna, Va. Enterprises, a biotech product Military Intelligence Battalion. with Parker Hannifin’s automa- birth of a daughter, Amanda Kent Britton, Mgt 92, and business development firm. Brandon Eason, ChE 98, tion group and Lisa is a full-time Grace, on Nov. 15. Amanda and his wife, Angie, announce The family lives in San Diego. MS ChE 01, and Courtney mother. joins brother Brendan Michael, the birth of their first child, Jimmy Crowder, CE 93, Lane Eason, CE 99, James Thomas “J.T.” 3, at the family’s home in Zachary Kent, on Jan. 16. and his wife, Kristina, announce announce the birth of their son, Staley, MS MetE 88, was Loveland, Ohio, where Algard is Britton was also promoted to the birth of their first child, Miles Lane Eason, on Jan. 2. appointed assistant laboratory a full-time mother. controller of Alcoa’s specialty Joseph Ryan, on Aug. 20. The Brandon is an engineering proj- director of Sherry Laboratories’ Annie I. Anton, ICS 90, metals division and the family family lives in Lawrenceville, Ga. ect manager for Kerr-McGee metallurgical testing facility in MS ICS 92, PhD 97, of Cary, relocated from Knoxville, Tenn., Crowder is a civil engineer with Chemical and Courtney is a Muncie, Ind., in February. N.C., was named to the Micro- to Austin, Texas, in April. Schnabel Engineering in consulting engineer with Staley, who has worked as a soft research university relations Jeff Buturff, CE 94, and Alpharetta, Ga. Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung metallurgist for Howmet faculty advisory board at North Shannon King Buturff, Mgt Lisa Barron Curtis, ME civil engineering. The family Castings, the Minnesota Carolina State University in 96, announce the birth of a son, 92, of Richmond Hill, Ga., was lives in Savannah, Ga. Department of Transportation Raleigh, N.C. Anton is an assis- Justin Thomas, on Jan. 25. He selected in January as one of Kate Dickinson and Rocketdyne Propulsion and tant professor in the university’s joins brother William at the fami- only four interns in the American ElHamahmy, IE 95, and her Power of The Boeing Company, College of Engineering. ly’s home in Charlotte, N.C. Society of Mechanical husband, Sonny, announce the burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 31

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JAY NOLAN Total Concept Andrés Núñez followed example Summer 2003 of Homer Rice in creating business

By Maria M. Lameiras

ndrés “Andy” E. Núñez Jr. knows what it is Alike to work for a company that doesn’t see its employees as key to its success. That is why Núñez, CE 75, MS CE 77, principal and co-founder of TEI Engineers & Planners, took a page from former Georgia Tech athletics director Homer Rice’s playbook in running his own compa- ny. “Happy employees are more likely to stay. We invest a lot of time, effort and money into develop- ing our employees and helping them have a mean- ingful career,” Núñez said. “We’ve pursued things we would have liked some of our employers to do for us. Not to steal from Homer Rice, but we admire the companies that are doing that because it gives you a ‘total person’ experience.” Núñez moved to Florida in 1980 as project man- ager for installation of a computerized traffic signal system in Orlando and later headed similar efforts Seminole County/Lake Mary Regional Chamber of and expand your horizons,” he said. “The worst for other cities including Jacksonville, Bay Commerce. thing you can possibly do is stop. You have to con- County/Panama City and the Tampa Bay area. “You have to be forward thinking to get some- tinue going and realize that anything you accom- Along the way, Núñez encountered corporate cul- thing off the ground — starting with nothing and plish is actually benefiting others and not just your- tures and policies he did not agree with. creating what we have today,” Núñez said. “The self.” “I recognized a lot of things I’d do differently — awards we have won for excellence and employee Nunez’s interest in transportation stems from and better — if it were my company,” he said. satisfaction have validated that we must be doing his youth in Puerto Rico, where a favorite uncle was Finally, he took the chance. something right.” a construction engineer. Núñez and a partner founded TEI Engineers & TEI has a strong community service component “My uncle would pick me up and take me to Planners in 1991 and, since then, the company has Núñez said is largely directed by employees. his jobs and I was fascinated,” he said. “I’ve always won major awards. In February, Núñez was named “We’ve set up a committee of employees who wanted to be a civil engineer. I was always fascinat- Pioneer of the Year by the Society of Hispanic work independently and discuss the charities and ed by traffic — bridges, roads, highways.” Professional Engineers. But Núñez is most proud of activities they are interested in supporting and we As a student in Puerto Rico, Núñez was attract- TEI’s designation as one of the “Top 100 Companies have usually gone with their recommendations,” ed to Georgia Tech both by its reputation as an engi- for Working Families” by the Orlando Sentinel. Núñez said. “We are not just dictating, ‘Thou shalt neering school and because of the reputation of its TEI, which provides engineering consulting do this or that.’ We want them to be involved in football team. services including traffic engineering, transportation what they are interested in. We are very active in “I figured if you want to go somewhere to planning, traffic signal system design and imple- those activities to show leadership — not just saying study engineering, you might as well go to the mentation, and roadway and highway design, also things, but doing them.” best,” he said. was named Central Florida’s 2001 Organization of TEI opened its Atlanta-area office in June 2001 Núñez remains involved with Tech, serving as a the Year in the large firm category and was ranked to join a community struggling with weighty trans- member of the external advisory board for the 15th among the nation’s “Top 50 Best Engineering portation issues. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In Firms to Work For” by Civil Engineering News maga- “We recognize there are a lot of transportation 1999, Núñez was inducted into Tech’s Academy of zine. issues that need to be addressed and are going to be Distinguished Engineering Alumni. The company, which has offices in Lake Mary, addressed,” he said. “We feel we have the expertise “You always have to look back and help those Tampa, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota, to help make a difference and we are making who helped you,” he said. “If I can make it, any- Fla., and in Atlanta, also was ranked among the inroads. body can. You just have to keep on working and try- “Top 25 Companies in Seminole County” by the “There is always room to grow and experience ing your best until your last day.” GT

birth of a daughter, Sarah Kate, Lockheed Martin. Francis lives a management and technology Rachel joins sister Shana at the announce the birth of their first on Feb. 20. She joins brother in Fort Worth, Texas. consulting company, and Lesley family’s home in Alpharetta, Ga. child, Madeline, on Jan. 20. Alex at home in Dunwoody, Ga., Heather Gerhardt is a full-time mother. Dave is corporate director of Machovec also recently com- where ElHamahmy is a full-time Gallagher, ISyE 94, and her Thomas Hicks, Biol 99, operations, planning and devel- pleted the requirements for his mother. husband, Brendan, announce and Emily Herron Hicks, opment for Coca-Cola professional engineer license in Fred Farmer, IE 93, and the birth of their first child, Mgt 99, announce the birth of Enterprises and Daphne is a Alabama. He is employed as a his wife, Kim, announce the Henry Michael, on Jan. 7. their daughter, Madeline Leigh, full-time mother. project manager with Vulcan birth of twins, Joshua Leo and Gallagher owns Classic on March 26. On May 17, Rebecca Leonard, Mgt Engineering Co. in Helena, Ala. Madison Nicole, on Jan. 8. Photography. The family lives in Thomas received his medical 96, and Aaron Gunn, EE 97, The family lives in Maylene, Ala. Farmer is a signaling operations Philadelphia. degree from the Navy’s Medical were married March 22 in Ryan Magnon, Mgt 97, manager with AT&T Wireless. Brian James Gray, EE School, located in Bethesda, Birmingham, Ala. Rebecca is an and his wife, Aimee, announce The family lives in Bothell, 90, and Lesley Peterson Md., and was promoted to lieu- internal auditor with the Federal the birth of a son, Austin, on Wash. Gray, EE 91, announce the tenant. Reserve Bank of Atlanta and July 24, 2002. Austin joins Ruth Ann Francis, AE birth of daughter, Ashley Noelle, Daphne Armstrong Aaron is a technology consult- brother Taylor, 2, at the family’s 98, was promoted to senior on Dec. 20. Ashley joins sister Katz, IE 91, and David Katz, ant with Accenture. The couple home in Lawrenceville, Ga. engineer for the stability and Julie Ann, 3, at the family’s IE 92, MS IE 93, announce the live in Marietta, Ga. Magnon is a director in account controls group of the F-35 Joint home in Norcross, Ga. Brian is birth of their second child, Scott Machovec, ME management at FacilityPro, an Strike Fighter program at a principal with North Highland, Rachel Davan, on Jan. 20. 97, and his wife, Rachel, e-procurement and supply burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 32

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Westwood Associates. Shah is a announce the birth of daughter Laine Lott Watson, IE field marketing representative Avery Elisabeth on March 19. 90, and her husband, Scott, with Microsoft Corp. The couple Leigh Tidwell announce the birth of a son, Summer 2003 Amazing Results Chemist wins award for math models live in San Francisco. Spooner, ME 91, and her hus- Ford Samuel, on Dec. 25. Craig J. Randall, Biol band, Scott, announce the birth Watson works for Accenture lumnus William H. Miller finds the mathematics driv- 93, a Navy lieutenant, is current- of a son, Jackson Clay, on Jan. management consulting and Aing the award-winning models he develops awesome. ly deployed with the 24th 22. Spooner is a staff account technology services company. Tech Topics • Topics Tech “I’m still amazed how math can make predictions Marine Expeditionary Unit, executive for the Georgia Power The Watson family lives in about the real world — it’s astonishing really,” said Miller, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. value management team. The Atlanta. who holds a chair in the chemistry department of the During his deployment, family lives in Suwanee, Ga. Todd Whittemore, ChE University of California, Berkeley. Randall’s unit participated in Lennye Starr-Bruce, 91, and Megan Lane Miller, Chem 63, received the 2003 Peter Debye Award Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before Mgt 94, and her husband, Whittemore, ChE 91, in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society the war, the unit also participat- Jason, announce the birth of a announce the birth of a daugh- for his achievements in developing mathematical models to ed in training, humanitarian and son, Jared Andrew, on Feb. 2. ter, Katherine Elizabeth, on April study and predict chemical reactions. peace support operations in She is a full-time mother. The 25. Katherine joins sister “Our whole goal is to try to describe chemical reactions Spain, Italy, Kosovo, Kenya and family lives in Tucker, Ga. Courtney and brother Brendan with the fundamental laws of nature,” said Miller. “Then we Djibouti, Africa. Valerie Stickles, Biol at the family’s home in try to see how far we can go in making predictions about Margaret Harris 91, and Timothy Smith were Singapore, Thailand. Todd is the both the chemistry in general and specific reactions.” Rauber, Arch 92, and her hus- married Jan. 1 at St. Matthew process coordinator for an Despite advancements in computer technology, Miller band, Chris, announce the birth Lutheran Church in Columbus, olefins project for Shell still starts with his own computer: his brain, plus pencil and of their daughter, Jane Ga. Stickles is a senior software Chemicals and Megan is a full- paper. Elizabeth, on Nov. 15. Rauber is consultant with Manhattan time mother. “Right now I’m trying to work out the mathematical a senior project manager for Associates. The couple live in David W. Willis, EE 94, relationships between low temperatures and reactions, so Winter Construction. The family Cumming, Ga. and his wife, Lori, announce the I’m manipulating equations a lot.” GT lives in Atlanta. Daphne Stokes, ICS 91, birth of their first child, Marissa Dana Ringle, IE 97, and and Charles Britt Jr. were mar- Kathryn, on Jan. 21. Willis works Jamie Matlock, BC 99, were ried May 17 in Oakwood, Ga. for Northrop Grumman Newport chain management solutions Group Achievement Award for married Aug. 17 in Atlanta. Stokes owns DS Solutions Inc, a News. The family lives in firm in Atlanta. He recently com- his team’s outstanding effort in Dana works for UPS Supply contract computer program- Smithfield, Va. pleted a four-year tour of duty in formulation design activity and Chain Solutions and Jamie ming business. The couple live Navid Yazdani, EE 97, Tampa, Fla., as a quality man- advanced development of the works for Atlanta Commercial in Cumming, Ga. and Anne Valentine were mar- agement officer in the Air Force. prototype electric auxiliary Permits. They live in Atlanta. Gregory Sutton, ME 93, ried Sept. 1 in Popham Beach, Drew Martinez, ChE 99, power unit for the space shuttle Edward Charles was awarded his second patent Maine. Yazdani, who earned his and his wife, Brooke, announce program. Osterlund is the elec- Robertson, CS 96, and for a baling apparatus and master’s degree in electrical the birth of a daughter, Madison tric auxiliary power unit project Heather Maloney method for recycling while engineering from Stanford in Claire, on March 14. Martinez is manager for United Space Robertson, BC 94, announce employed at Load King 2000, is a system engineer at a run plant engineer for DuPont Alliance in Houston. He and his the birth of a son, Sean Manufacturing in Jacksonville, Raytheon in Marlborough, Mass. Dow elastomers in Plaquemine, wife, Sherri, and their daughter, Maloney, on Feb. 3. Edward is a Fla. Sutton now works for the The couple live in Watertown, La., where the family lives. Natalie Faith, live in League software engineer in the infor- U.S. Air Force and lives in Perry, Mass. Heather Scepaniak City, Texas. mation technology and telecom- Ga., with his wife, Naomi, and Deval Karina Zaveri, McKeen, Mgt 95, and her hus- James Cooper Owens, munications laboratory working two children, Harrison, 5, and IntA 94, and Jimmy Tabb were band, Matthew, announce the Phys 90, and his wife, Nina, on military flight planning sys- Lily, 3. married in Nadiad, India, in birth of their first child, Jack announce the birth of twins, tems at the Georgia Tech Allen Turner, EE 95, and December. After honeymooning Joseph, on Dec. 5. The family William Christopher Castro and Research Institute. Heather is a Gulden Demirguc were married in India and southeast Asia, the lives in Marietta, Ga. McKeen is Celine Amanda, on Jan. 24. full-time mother. Sean joins Feb. 8 in Fort Collins, Colo. couple returned to their home in a project manager in the con- Owens is senior vice president brother James Patrick at the Turner is an engineer with San Diego, where Zaveri is an struction management division and chief information family’s home in Mableton, Ga. Western Area Power attorney with Morrison & for Heery International. officer/chief technology officer Charlene Molnar Administration in Loveland, Foerster. Joseph McMahon, ICS of the CARCO Group, a fraud Rubano, EE 94, received her Colo. The couple live in Fort 92, was promoted in January to deterrent/detection services professional engineering license Collins. director of applied technology firm. The family lives in New in Florida on Jan. 14. Rubano is Amanda Overstreet 2000s at RedSiren Inc., a managed York City. a power quality engineer for Wagner, IE 98, graduated with security service provider locat- Lesley Moore Poole, Distribution Power Quality & her master’s degree in business Whitney Hopkins, IE 00, ed in Silver Spring, Md. Mgt 93, MS Mgt 95, and her Reliability’s north central Florida administration from Georgia and Doug Appenfelder, EE McMahon lives in Silver Spring husband, Chip, announce the region. She lives in Apopka, Fla. State University in December. 01, were married Jan. 18 in with his wife, Lorna, and three birth of a son, Sean Garland, on Kimberly Fleck Seijo, Wagner is a business analyst Roswell, Ga. Whitney is a quali- children, Maggie, Colleen and Feb. 20. Sean joins sister TE 93, and her husband, David, with The Coca-Cola Co. in ty engineer with Radiant Peter. Ashley Dawn, 2, at the family’s announce the birth of a son, Atlanta. Systems and Doug is a network Robert I. Morris III, CE home in Suwanee, Ga. Poole is Zacary Sebastian, on Feb. 21. Charles “Chuck” engineer with Verizon Wireless. 98, and Jenny M. Canova were a full-time mother. Zac joins brother Nicolas at the Warbington, CE 93, and his The couple live in Atlanta. married Oct. 5 in Rome, Ga. Sabrina Neill Powell, family’s home in Cartersville, wife, Stacey, announce the birth Michael G. Johnson Morris is a geo-synthetics spe- Biol 98, and Bradford Ga. Seijo is a systems engineer of a daughter, Riley Catherine, Jr., IE 00, and Elizabeth L. cialist for a construction prod- Powell, Biol 98, announce the for Shaw Industries. on March 13. Warbington also Gibson were married March 29 ucts company in Norcross, Ga. birth of their son, Jefferson Helen Ayoub Shuford, received the Engineer of the in Snellville, Ga. Johnson is a The couple live in Woodstock, Richard, on Jan. 28. Sabrina is Mgt 91, MS Mgt 93, and Mark Year in Private Practice award consultant for DCB and Co. in Ga. pursuing her PhD in environ- Shuford, Mgt 91, announce from the Georgia Engineering Marietta, Ga. The couple live in Mike Murphy, Phys 93, mental sciences and Bradford is the birth of a son, William Mark, Alliance in February. He is prin- Atlanta. has joined Ram Real Estate in a PhD student in genetics, both on Feb. 5. William joins sister cipal manager of Pond & Co., Jodi Lockaby, STC 00, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., as at the University of North Julia at the family’s home in an architectural and engineer- and Matthew Ware, ChE 02, director of retail development. Carolina-Chapel Hill. The family Atlanta. Helen is a market intelli- ing consulting firm in Atlanta. were married Feb. 8 in Murphy, his wife, Amy, and son, lives in Chapel Hill. gence team leader with Warbington is also city engineer Douglasville, Ga. The couple Evan, recently relocated to Kumar Rajan, ChE 97, Southern Co., and Mark is for several metro Atlanta com- live in Greenville, S.C. Matthew Tequesta, Fla. and Sonal Shah, Mgt 98, owner of Yard Services. munities, including Kennesaw, is a chemical engineer for Fluor Jeffrey S. Osterlund, were married on April 19 in Carson Smith, Mgt 93, Duluth, Sugar Hill and Flowery Corp. and Jodi is a technical MS AE 98, was recently award- Augusta, Ga. Rajan is a global and Amy Cates Smith, Biol Branch. He and his family live in writer for Rockwell Automation, ed the NASA Headquarters account manager with 94, of Flowery Branch, Ga., Dacula, Ga. both in Greenville. burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 33

33 Tech Topics • CAROLINE JOE Generations Summer 2003 Family legacies are a revered part of the Georgia Tech tradition. The ties to the Institute have worked into the fabric of four generations of Tech families. Uncle Billy’s Longtime Service Launched Van Houten Tradition

By Maria M. Lameiras

illiam Van Houten started working at Georgia Tech at the same age as many Wentering freshmen, but the longtime foundry foreman could have earned a dozen degrees by the time his career at Tech was finished. Van Houten, known affectionately as “Uncle Billy” by students, began working in Tech’s foundry in 1889 at age 17, just one year after the school opened its doors. He had already graduated from Atlanta High School and gone into business with his father at Novelty Iron Works before he was hired as a foundry assistant to teach and do commercial work at Tech. Although Uncle Billy never earned a degree, the Institute has educated three generations of Van and a trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Louis Michael Van Houten III, Mgt 90, above left, Houten’s descendants, including sons John “Bourke” was just a toddler when his legendary grandfather stands with his father, Louis Michael Van Houten Jr., IM and Louis Michael, both Class of 1929, and Robert, died, but he remembers the house on Fifth Street. 65. Below are William “Uncle Billy” Van Houten, left, Class of 1934; grandsons William Van Houten, Text 55, “When my brother and I were young, we used to who worked at Tech for more than 50 years, and Louis Michael Van Houten Sr., Cls 29. John B. Van Houten Jr., Chem 59, and Louis Michael park cars in the driveway before Tech football games Jr., IM 65; and great-grandson Louis Michael III, Mgt for a dollar apiece,” said Mike Jr. “We could get 12 or 90. 13 cars in there and then we’d try to find tickets to get When Uncle Billy started at Tech, foundry work- into the games. If we couldn’t find tickets, we’d just go ers repaired parts for local cotton mills, did all of the back to 170 and listen to the game on the radio.” castings and window weights for the Loew’s Grand Mike Jr. said he never considered going “away” Theater and created most of the bronze vault doors at for college. Oakland Cemetery. “It was where I was always going to go to When the General Assembly banned industrial school,” he said. “I had grown up with Tech, why work at the Institute in 1898, Van Houten was made would I then leave it? It was a no-brainer.” foundry foreman, a position he held until his death in Although he knew little of his grandfather, Mike August 1944. Jr. said he gained a lot of respect for the place “Uncle Van Houten taught countless numbers of students Billy” held in Tech’s history. Despite that history, Mike and attended every graduation from 1890 until 1944. Jr. didn’t push his son to attend Tech. In honor of his 50th anniversary at Tech, he received a “He grew up with Tech the same way I did, going gold watch from the ANAK Society that was bought to ball games and all that. I wasn’t going to say, ‘This for him by members of 30 different graduating classes. school is right for you.’ I told him he needed to talk to John Van Houten Jr., now an anesthesiologist at his guidance counselors and his teachers,” Mike Jr. Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Ga., and his parents said. “At the beginning of his junior year in high wrote out all of his grade sheets by hand and he kept moved into the house his grandfather built at 170 Fifth school he told me he’d made the decision to go to everything. He was able to go back to 1964 when my St. in 1948 so his mother could take care of his ailing Tech.” father had him and show me my dad’s grade sheet grandmother. His three “old maid” aunts — Clare, Mike III said he and his father would visit with his name on it and all the grades for all the Madge and Isabelle Van Houten — also lived in the “Aunties” Clare, Madge and Isabelle at the house on papers he did so I could see how my dad’s grades house. Fifth Street on game days. compared to mine.” “There were very few kids around the area, so “My father and I would go to football games — I While at Tech, Mike III started his own business, the people I associated with were the students around probably started going when Bill Curry started coach- Oxford Comics, and now also runs The Antiquarian there,” he said. “We didn’t have a television, so I used ing in 1980 — and we would park at Uncle Billy’s Book Bindery, a restoration service for very old books to walk down the street to the fraternity house and house on Fifth Street where my three old maid aunts and manuscripts, from the Oxford Comics building on watch TV there in the afternoon.” lived their whole lives,” Mike III said. “It was fascinat- Piedmont Road. John wanted to go to medical school, so he initial- ing because if you look at that house, it is in the mid- Since getting out, Mike III finds that his Tech ly enrolled in premed at Emory University. dle of everything, surrounded by a whole bunch of degree gives him an instant camaraderie with other “In high school I’d been a trainer for the football fraternities. Right in the middle were these three Tech graduates, but his fourth-generation connection team and, in mid-August, it dawned on me that devout old maids. Whenever we went to visit, we extends that pride in his alma mater. Emory didn’t have a football team. I couldn’t see were right in the middle of the Tech campus.” “When you meet another Tech graduate, you both going to a college without a football team, so my Family members weren’t the only ones who visit- know what you’ve been through,” he said. “Being father told me to go see Dean (George) Griffin,” John ed the ladies on game days. fourth generation gives you a sense of ownership in a said. “He knew enrollment was closed, but Dean “They were Catholic, so on game days all of the way. You feel you really belong. You really care about Griffin told me to go see Mr. Carmichael, the registrar. priests would come to the game and park in their yard the Institute and you owe it something more because Mr. Carmichael told me enrollment was closed and I too,” Mike III said. your ancestors have gone and done these things before was crazy to come to Tech because there was no Once he was a student at Tech, Mike III found he you.” premed program, but I told him Dean Griffin told me shared more than a love of football with his dad. Generations stories continue on page 34. If you to come to him and he said, ‘OK, just come.’” “Professor (Robert) Carney was one of my man- know of a fourth-generation family, please let us know. Louis Michael “Mike” Van Houten Jr., vice presi- agement professors and his class was exactly the same E-mail [email protected] or write to Georgia Tech dent of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. in Atlanta as it had been 30 years earlier,” Mike III said. “He Alumni Publications, 190 North Ave, Atlanta, GA 30313. burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 34

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Matthews came to me and said, ‘Bob, if you have to freshman. He also followed his brother into ATO. do this, you come with me and I’ll take you up on the “I don’t think the college atmosphere at Tech is

Summer 2003 GenerationsGenerations rectory roof of Sacred Heart Catholic Church (located like that of other schools, but I was from a sleepy on Peachtree Street) to watch. Surely if they burn the South Carolina town, so Atlanta was very appealing to city, they’ll leave the church.’” me,” Todd said. Simmons Family Experiences From his vantage point, Bob witnessed what he When the time came, Andrew also chose Tech. Unique Eras of Tech, History called “a real piece of humankind’s history.” “I was always kind of math and science oriented. Tech Topics • Topics Tech “I’ve never seen so many people in my life,” Bob My mom desperately wanted one of her sons to go to our generations of the Simmons family have said. “Every prominent politician, sports star and a liberal arts school, but I knew that wasn’t for me,” attended Georgia Tech, and each generation has movie star came and the Atlanta airport was covered Andrew said. Flived very different versions of the college expe- with Lear jets. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a Boeing “I applied and was accepted to other schools in rience. 707 to bring the New York delegation down to Atlanta the ACC, but I knew I was going to Georgia Tech. It The family’s Tech tradition began with brothers and the Kennedy family rented a whole floor of the was just the right fit for me. I had always been inun- Shelton C. Simmons, Text 10, and John Simmons, Text Hyatt.” dated with Georgia Tech, and I liked Tech and the 15. Shelton’s son Walton headed to Georgia Tech in Bob watched the funeral procession that stretched Atlanta scene very much,” Andrew said. 1936 with an eye toward the sky. for miles as it wound from Ebenezer Baptist Church “I was excited to get there, I wanted to be a part “When I was young I wanted to study aeronauti- past the state capital, Atlanta City Hall and down of the fun my brothers had in the fraternity and at cal engineering, but my family was in textiles, so my Peachtree Street. There was suddenly a flurry of activi- football games, even not knowing exactly what I want- dad wanted me to study textiles,” Walton said. ty among the Sacred Heart priests as Cardinal ed to do in life.” Walton played bass drum in the marching and Terrence Cooke’s delegation left the parade route to Andrew, also an ATO, majored in industrial engi- concert bands. He left Tech before earning his chem- allow the cardinal a brief respite at the church. neering and graduated in 1994. istry degree to join the Army Air Corps during World “The priests just started scrambling everywhere “Tech was exciting and more challenging than I’d War II. His brother, Wallis Simmons, followed him to and when the Cardinal came in, he sat down with expected. I really struggled getting started before I got Tech and earned his degree in 1943. them and had a beer,” Bob recalled with a laugh. the hang of it, but my first year was still definitely my Walton and his wife, Josephine, have three sons After graduating in 1968, Bob went to work for best year with all of the things you do in your first — John, Bob and Bill. John and Bob attended Tech. Beech Aircraft, where he spent 30 years in the design year at college,” he said, adding that having brothers John, Cls 65, went on to earn a medical degree and manufacture of small aircraft in various who went to Tech was an advantage. “I got a lot of from the Medical College of Georgia. Midwestern states before moving to Texas to work for easy advice.” “Considering that my grandfather, my great- Lockheed in 2001. A pilot himself, Bob is also a flight The Simmons brothers also had a nearby refuge uncle, my uncle and my father all went to Tech, it instructor. as students. Every Sunday they would travel to their would have made it very difficult to go somewhere John Sr. knew Tech would figure into his three grandparents’ house in Jonesboro to do laundry, study else,” he said. sons’ futures. “There was no way my boys weren’t and have Sunday dinner with Walton and Josephine. He started Tech in the fall of 1961. going to go to Tech,” he said. “It was the ritual for all three of us,” John Jr. said. “That was the same year Tech was integrated and John Jr. graduated with his electrical engineering “You’d spread out the books on the dining room table one of the first three black students was Ralph Long Jr. degree in 1988 followed by brothers Todd, ISyE 91, and enjoy the quiet.” He and I buddied around a lot,” he said. “When I and Andrew, IE 94. Though they are in very different careers — John think about that now and I go back and read the histo- “I decided to go to Tech in late junior high school, Jr. is a vice president in money management at ry on it, I don’t understand how there could have been but I don’t really know why,” said John Jr., who Morgan Stanley, Todd owns Cotswold Furniture that much angst about it.” applied only to Georgia Tech and Virginia, choosing Makers, a custom handmade furniture studio in Bob, AE 68, initially enrolled at North Georgia Georgia Tech as soon as he received his acceptance let- Atlanta, and Andrew is in sales with GlaxoSmithKline College, majoring in physics. ter without waiting for Virginia Tech’s reply. in New York City — all three credit Tech with giving “I can remember clearly thinking, sometime John Jr. said he wasn’t sure what kind of engi- them the tools to succeed. around January, ‘Why am I here?’ That was when I neering he wanted to study. “I went to the placement “What you learn at Tech, besides an actual voca- entered Tech in aerospace engineering,” Bob said. center and I saw on the job listings that electrical engi- tional skill set, is a way to learn. I am 100 percent cer- “Then I worked my rear end off for four years.” neers were making the most money at that time so, for tain Tech gave me a structure of how to keep learning He realized his father’s dream by studying aero- lack of anything better, that’s what I picked.” in life,” Todd said. “It is a validation of that idea of ‘a space and, like his brother, attended Tech during an Although the major wasn’t what he expected, he way to learn’ and a feather in Tech’s cap that they important period in history. stuck with it as a matter of pride. Despite his parents’ have graduates who are doing so many different In April 1968, Bob was at the end of his senior reservations, John Jr. also joined Alpha Tau Omega fra- things.” year and was exempt from taking final exams. It was ternity — a step he said helped him aca- John Jr. added, “Tech made you do everything on the week that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral demically because of the friendly com- your own. There was no one paying attention to was being held in Atlanta. Bob wanted to attend the petition between fraternity brothers to whether or not you were taking the right courses to memorial service for the slain civil rights leader. bring in the best grades. graduate or when to take what class. You had to figure “You can’t imagine the tension in Atlanta at that “I actually liked EE. It is the most it all out on your own and, if you couldn’t, that was time. Windows were boarded mathematical engineering discipline your problem. It teaches you to solve problems on up on houses all over and that worked well your own.” town,” Bob said. “Many of for me,” John Jr. Bob may be the only Simmons to have followed my friends were Catholic. said. his passion for airplanes into a long career with Beech When I told them I was When John Aircraft and Lockheed, but the love of flying has going to see the funeral, Jr. was a senior, spanned the generations. Walton, Bob, Todd and they told Father his brother Todd Andrew are all licensed pilots. Matthews, the enrolled as a All of the shared experiences — from Tech to priest at sports to aviation — provide a multigenerational the Catholic bond. Center. “We’ve always been a close family, but Father there’s really an identity there,” Bob said.

Four generations of Simmons brothers include, left to right, John Simmons Sr., Cls 65; Todd Simmons, ISyE 91; Bob Simmons, AE 68; John

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35 Tech Topics • NRWNIESEN ANDREW Giant Among Alums Larry Gellerstedt’s contributions Summer 2003 throughout Atlanta, Tech campus

awrence Gellerstedt Jr., a former Alumni LAssociation president and Joseph M. Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award winner, died on April 12. Mr. Gellerstedt, ChE 45, of Atlanta, was the retired chairman of Beers Construction. He joined Beers after his discharge from the Navy in 1946, became the company’s president in 1960 and bought it in 1969. Mr. Gellerstedt led the company during its con- A family of Ramblin’ Wrecks are the Johnsons: struction of such Atlanta William Lloyd Johnson Jr., ChE 43, MS ChE 47; landmarks as the prize- Calvin Drake Johnson, MgtSci 73; Ann Drake winning High Museum of Johnson; Adam Johnson, Mgt 03; William Lloyd Johnson IV, a senior who will graduate in Art, Coca-Cola headquar- August; and William Lloyd Johnson III, IM 76. ters, BellSouth Center, Georgia Dome, Bank of America tower, Piedmont “I never had any intention of going anywhere Hospital, 191 Peachtree else and I never applied anywhere else,” said Lloyd and the Four Seasons Hotel. On Tech’s campus, Generations III, who played football at Tech briefly before a knee Beers Construction built such structures as the injury forced him to choose between the gridiron and Centennial Research Building, the Wardlaw the Marines. Center, Moore Student Center, the Fourth Street ‘No Question’ for Johnson Clan By the time he attended Tech, the Johnson legacy and Hemphill apartments and the Parker H. in Choosing White and Gold was already making itself apparent. Petit Institute for Bioengineering. “Professor LeRoy Woodward taught me physics. He also was a leader at Georgia Tech, he Johnson family’s Tech tradition spans four The first day of class he was calling roll and when he beginning with stints as president of the student generations, but it is Ann Drake Johnson who got to my name he stopped, walked out from behind council, his senior class, ANAK Society and Tprovides the vital link to the legacy as daughter, his lab table and asked me if my father was from Sigma Chi fraternity. Later Mr. Gellerstedt sister, wife, mother and grandmother of Tech men. Washington, Georgia. I said yes and he told me he and would serve as vice chairman of the centennial William Calvin Drake, who graduated in 1913 my father had gone to school together,” he said. campaign in 1986 and of the five-year, $712 mil- with a degree in electrical engineering, was Ann’s Adam, who graduated May 3 with his bachelor’s lion campaign that ended in 2000. father and he instilled in his children a healthy love for degree in management and a minor in music, has Tech President Wayne Clough told the his alma mater. Ann’s brother, William Calvin Drake added a twist to the Johnson legacy with his gradua- Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Larry was a giant Jr., graduated in 1943 with his degree in aeronautical tion date — he, his father, grandfather and great- among Tech alums. He knew how to make engineering and his daughter Ann had a strict policy grandfather all graduated from Tech exactly 30 years strategic plans for the university, how to raise of dating only Tech men. apart — in 1913, 1943, 1973 and 2003. funds for it, what was important in the long “I didn’t want to date anyone else,” said Ann Although the family tradition was a strong incen- run.” Johnson. “My father was pretty gung ho about Tech. tive to attend Tech, Adam said the Insitute was a prac- During the five-year campaign, he He was very dedicated to Tech and we came to all the tical choice for him. endowed the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Chair home games.” “I came here because it was the best school for me in Bioengineering. Mr. Gellerstedt also was a Ann married one of her brother’s classmates, for the type of education I wanted,” he said, adding major contributor to the Wardlaw Center. A William Lloyd Johnson Jr., ChE 43, MS ChE 47, in that he also wanted to play in the Tech band. “They member of the Georgia Tech Foundation board 1948. The couple have two sons, Calvin Drake Johnson began offering the music minor my first year here so for more than 25 years, he served as its presi- and William Lloyd Johnson III, both Tech alumni. that fit in with my plans as well.” dent from 1973 to ‘75. He also was a member of Lloyd Jr., 80, came to Tech because he became fas- Adam played tuba in the Tech marching band the Wallace H. Coulter Department of cinated with chemistry at age 14 and because he had a and euphonium in the symphonic band. Biomedical Engineering advisory board, the couple of uncles who attended Tech before being “I’ve loved it,” he said. Engineering Hall of Fame and the World War II called to serve in World War I. Lloyd III said all three of his children — William class reunion committee. “I grew up around Tech families and I knew Tech Lloyd IV, 22, Patricia, 18, and Robert, 17 — were Mr. Gellerstedt was instrumental in the cre- was the only place I wanted to go,” he said. dressed in white and gold from a young age. ation of the Georgia Research Alliance. He Calvin, MgtSci 73, said there was no pressure to Lloyd IV is scheduled to graduate in August with received the Distinguished Service Award in attend Tech, but Tech tradition was strong enough in his management degree and, like his father, a commis- 1981. the family to make it the logical choice. sion in the Navy. Also like his father, Lloyd IV didn’t Mr. Gellerstedt served his community as “Including cousins, we’ve got close to 30 family apply to any other colleges. well, as chairman of the Atlanta Chamber of members who have gone to Tech,” Calvin said. “My “Because I was going into the ROTC program, my Commerce, Central Atlanta Progress, United dad didn’t put pressure on me to go to Tech, but Tech recruiter told me I needed to apply to other schools for Way, the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center and football was a big part of growing up.” the scholarship options, but I didn’t,” Lloyd IV said. Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation When the time came for choosing a college, “There was no doubt I was coming to Tech. I wanted and the board of Agnes Scott College. Calvin applied only to Tech. to be an electrical engineer before I knew what an elec- Mr. Gellerstedt once told TECH TOPICs, “My “I applied for early admission without telling my trical engineer was. Once I got into it, I realized that life would have been totally different if I hadn’t parents. I got accepted and when I received my letter operations management was the one thing about it had the exposure I had at Georgia Tech. I was of acceptance, I saved it and put it in my dad’s stock- that I loved, so I switched to management.” prepared to earn a living and I was given the ing for Christmas. I knew I couldn’t give him a better Lloyd IV also has participated in intramural tools to do it with, so I don’t guess I can ever present than that,” he said. sports and other Tech social activities. The experience repay that school what I got out of it.” Lloyd III followed his older brother to Tech, par- has been all he expected and more. He is survived by his wife, Mary; three chil- ticipating in the Naval ROTC program and earning a “I have enjoyed it, but I’m ready to get out,” he dren, Gayle, Ellen and Larry Gellerstedt III; nine commission in the Marine Corps while working on his said with a laugh, echoing a sentiment that, in itself, is grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. industrial management degree, which he got in 1976. a legacy at Tech. GT burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 36

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within Fulton County was named member of the Army ROTC at Weather Service in 1939 and dent M.L. Brittain. An Army vet- the Turner McDonald Parkway Tech, he was called to active served as a flight instructor and eran, he retired in 1992 as vice for his service to the county in duty and served in France, the squadron commander. As a test president of investments for Title Summer 2003 1920s 1994. Philippines and Japan. A pilot, he flew in more than 100 Insurance and Trust Co. in Los James Bartow “J.B.” founder of Matthews, Holliday, types of aircraft. Mr. Whitten Angeles. Ralph Meldrim Buffing- Morgan Jr., CE 38, of Atlanta, Couch and Hollis Architects, he wrote a number of technical James H. Carlyle Jr., ton, Arch 28, of Pendergrass, on Feb. 27. During World War II, was the firm’s president from reports for the National Advisory IM 53, of Norcross, Ga., on Feb. Tech Topics • Topics Tech Ga., on April 18. He studied he earned the Philippine libera- 1976 until his retirement in 1991. Committee for Aeronautics, 8. He served in the Army for two architecture in Europe in 1929 tion ribbon with one bronze star Mr. Holliday served as vice which later became NASA, and years during the Korean War and ’30. Unable to land a job in and the Asiatic Pacific service chairman of the Macon Bibb he worked on Mercury, Gemini and served in the Reserve for architecture in Georgia during medal with three bronze stars. County Urban Development and Apollo projects, including another 25 years. Mr. Carlyle the early Depression, Mr. After the war, Mr. Morgan and Authority and as president of astronaut training, the docking was the Norcross postmaster Buffington went to work as a his brother-in-law started a tele- the Middle Georgia Chapter of guidance system and the lunar from 1956 to 1990. high school principal and paint- vision and stereo retail and serv- the American Institute of lander touchdown simulator. Francis R. “Frank” ed. The High Museum of Art ice business, L&M Electronics, Architects. Causby, CE 50, of Decatur, displayed 65 of his watercolors which served Atlanta for more Donald Bailey 1950s Ga., on Jan. 28. A World War II and drawings in October 1931. than 35 years through several MacKaye, IM 43, of Atlanta Navy veteran, he was the presi- A World War II veteran, he stores. and Newport, R.I., on Feb. 26. A Clifford D. Bailey, MS dent and owner of CUBE retired from the Army Reserve Hoyt E. White, EE 38, of member of Sigma Chi fraternity, Phys 56, of Austell, Ga., on Feb. Construction Co. as a lieutenant colonel. A resi- Athens, Ga., on March 2. He he served as an Army captain 27. A Navy veteran of World Wiley Don Holcombe, dent of Houston for nearly 50 retired from the Army as a during the occupation of Japan. War II, he joined Lockheed as a Cls 52, of Decatur, Ga., on Jan. years, his achievements in colonel after 33 years of military Mr. MacKaye founded and research engineer and used 29. An Air Force veteran, he architecture include the service. served as president of Silver sound waves to test for fatigue was a professional home builder Christian Cathedral in Oakland, Bear Inc., a manufacturer of col- in the metal of airplanes and in metro Atlanta for 48 years. Calif., and the Baptist Seminary 1940s lege notebooks. A lifetime mem- rockets. While a Tech student, Survivors include son Wiley Don in Taipeh, Taiwan. He published ber of the Newport Preservation he became fascinated by Holcombe Jr., ESM 77, a senior books on his family’s history and George D. Adair, Cls 41, Society, Mr. MacKaye also Atlanta’s growing community of research engineer at the the artwork of George Cope and of Alpharetta, Ga., on Feb. 28. umpired the Piedmont Driving international students and joined Georgia Tech Research was the author of “Building for He served as a B-29 gunner on Club tennis championships for the American Field Service Institute. God, a Spiritual Adventure.” 27 Air Force missions during many years. International Student Exchange Luther E. Harper Jr., Fred C. Reed Jr., Cls 29, World War II. He held manageri- John Boyd Mallard Jr., Program. He hosted the first of Arch 52, of Conyers, Ga., on of Atlanta, on March 15. While al and executive positions with Cls 46, of Asheville, N.C., on many foreign high school stu- March 23. Mr. Harper was an serving in the Army during Adair Appliance Co., Speed March 20. A graduate of the dents in 1961. He became the Army veteran. World War II, he sketched the Queen Corp. and Sears U.S. Naval Academy, he was a state representative for the Irene Davenport war-torn European countryside. Roebuck. He later built upscale retired Navy captain. exchange program in 1963 and Kruse, Text 59, of Shalimar, When he returned to Atlanta, the custom homes as owner of Julian C. McCowan held the post for a decade. Mr. Fla., on Jan. 29. She enrolled at High Museum hosted a one- George Adair Construction. Jr., EE 47, of Marietta, Ga., on Bailey also was instrumental in Georgia Tech after earning a man show of the sketches. In William Dooly Dec. 21. Mr. McCowan had the founding of the Atlanta history degree from Wellesley 1948 he opened Fred Reed Bohannon Jr., ME 47, of been a BellSouth employee. Ministry for International College. She worked in the tex- Picture Framing, a business Lawrenceville, Ga., on March Frank A. Miller Jr., Cls Students in 1978. tile industry and then for the specializing in handcrafted cus- 20. He was a fighter pilot in the 42, of Marietta, Ga., on March Marion Luther Brittain U.S. Tariff Commission in tom orders. Mr. Reed also was a Army Air Corps during World 28. He was president of III, IM 51, of Los Angeles, on Washington, D.C., where she renowned art restorer. His War II and retired from Western Briarwood Enterprises. April 25. He was the grandson met her husband, H. William clients included museums, Electric/AT&T as a senior staff Charles Poolos, AE 48, of former Georgia Tech presi- Kruse, IE 51, who survives her. designers and art patrons. He engineer after 30 years and 22 of College Park, Ga., on April 7. sold the business in 1992 and patents. He served with the 90th Infantry devoted himself to his painting. William B. Bourne Jr., Division during World War II and Mr. Reed’s work was featured in IM 48, of Atlanta, on March 27. worked for Delta Air Lines for 37 Hal Smith Dies a retrospective show at the A member of Sigma Alpha years. Atlanta College of Art and Epsilon fraternity, he served in Charles A. Slikas, ChE al Smith, the 1987 recipient of the Joseph Mayo Pettit recently at the Church of the the Navy during World War II 41, of Newark, Del., on Feb. 10. HAlumni Distinguished Service Award, died on March Atonement. and participated in the D-Day An Army veteran of World War 9 in Naples, Fla. invasion. He remained in the II, he worked for Getty Oil Co. Mr. Smith, Com 26, served as an Alumni Association 1930s Navy Reserve until 1961. Mr. for 35 years and was the opera- trustee and president of the Georgia Tech Foundation. He Bourne was retired from tions manager of the company endowed chairs in both entrepreneurship and small busi- William H. Guffey, CE Universal Steel. refinery in Delaware City until his ness and the John E. Smith Scholars Program. 34, of Gallatin, Tenn., on Feb. 2. Joseph S. Carruthers, retirement in 1983. He had served as chairman of the board of the John A co-op student at Georgia ChE 44, of Kingsport, Tenn., on Elmer L. Stanley Jr., IE Smith Co., founded by his grandfather. For many years he Tech, he served as a captain in March 22. 45, of Atlanta, on April 21. An also served on the boards of The Citizens and Southern the Army Ordnance Corps in Theodore Harris Army lieutenant during World National banks. the Pacific during World War II. Abbey, Cls 41, of Smyrna, Ga., War II, he worked at Lockheed Mr. Smith served his wife’s alma mater as well. He was Mr. Guffey retired as a chief field on March 7. A World War II vet- Aircraft for 41 years. chairman of the Agnes Scott College board for 17 years and engineer after a 40-year career eran, he served in the Marine Albert T. Stephens, IM endowed both the Julia T. Smith Chaplaincy and the chair with the Tennessee Valley Reserve until his retirement as a 41, of Columbia, S.C., on April of free enterprise. He also funded a soon-to-be built chapel Authority. Survivors include his colonel in 1981. He retired as 18. A Navy veteran of World on the Agnes Scott campus that will be named for his late son, Charles Guffey, ChE 63. president of Abbey Steam War II, he retired from Southern wife. A. Turner McDonald, Specialty Co. in 1984. Bell after 47 years. Mr. Stephens He served on the board of the Georgia Foundation of Cls 30, of Atlanta, on March 9. Jackson Riley was vice president and director Independent Colleges and endowed the Smith-Thompson He began working for the Fulton Holliday, BS 48, Arch 49, of of the Columbia Chamber of Scholar’s Fund at Columbia Theological Seminary. Mr. County Public Works Macon, Ga., on Feb. 7. He Commerce and served on the Smith also had been a trustee of the Metro Atlanta YMCA, Department in October 1935. A worked at Georgia Power Co. board of directors of the chairman of the Greater Atlanta Red Cross and president of Navy veteran of World War II, as a co-op student, was induct- American Cancer Society and the Rotary Club of Atlanta. Mr. McDonald was named ed into ANAK, served as presi- the Columbia United Way. Survivors include his son, John E. Smith II, IM 58. director of public works in 1947 dent of Phi Delta Theta fraternity James B. Whitten, AE Memorials may be made to the John E. Smith Scholars and held that position until his and was a member of the 47, of Huntsville, Ala., on Dec. Fund through the Georgia Tech Foundation. retirement in 1980. Georgia 400 Georgia Tech swim team. A 31. He enlisted in the Air Corps burdell 5/12/03 3:18 PM Page 37

37 Tech Topics • held 55 patents and published 1980s Dover McCloud, 89, of 28 technical papers. His awards Temple, Ga., on Feb. 27. He Alumnus Dies in Fall include being named Motorola’s John Anthony “Tony” worked as a carpenter at Tech Distinguished Innovator in 1989 from 1953 until his retirement in Boswell, Econ 85, of Summer 2003 eorgia Tech alumnus T.J. Lathe, 49, of Stone Mountain, and the North Texas Inventor of Carrollton, Ga., on April 17 after 1979. After playing semiprofes- GGa., was killed Feb. 22 during a church mission trip to the Year in 2002. a 10-year fight with multiple sional baseball in Duluth and Honduras. John Coy Lyon Sr., CE myeloma. He had a successful Doraville, Ga., Mr. McCloud Thomas John Lathe, Cls 90, died when a cable snapped 62, of Canton, Ga., on March 5. career in the office equipment joined the Atlanta Crackers, a on a suspension bridge over a mountain gorge near the city He spent 35 years in govern- industry with Ikon Office Double-A minor league affiliate of Balfate. The bridge flooring flipped, and Mr. Lathe fell to ment service with the Veterans Solutions. of the Milwaukee Braves, in his death. Six others who were posing for a photo with Mr. Administration and the Army Mitchell Harrison 1955. He was 41 years old at Lathe on the bridge were injured, and one later died. Corps of Engineers. Survivors Dodd, CE 86, of Tuscaloosa, the time and played with the A member of Grace Fellowship Church in Snellville, include son John Lyon Jr., CE Ala., on March 12. He was a team for three years. He also Ga., Mr. Lathe had led mission trips to Brazil, Ecuador, 77. professional engineer. was an accomplished mandolin Venezuela, Chile, Ukraine and Honduras for nearly 20 player and, after retiring from years. During his last trip, Mr. Lathe was doing electrical 1970s 1990s the Institute, formed a five-piece wiring work and computer troubleshooting at the hospital band, McCloud’s Earley Grass mission in Honduras. Gene Elmore, MS EE 70, Eric Stephen Hein, Cls and Blades. Before enrolling at Tech, Mr. Lathe served as a Navy of Kennesaw, Ga., on Feb. 13. 99, of Marietta, Ga., on March Cornelia Turner electronics technician aboard the USS Garcia. He worked as During a 35-year career with 28. He was an employee of Moseley, 81, of Stockbridge, an electrical engineer for Wrigley Manufacturing and was Lockheed Martin, he moved OfficeMax. Ga., on March 12. She was a chairman of the board of the nonprofit Inquest Ministries. through the ranks from engineer secretary to Georgia Tech foot- He spearheaded the translation of the Bible into the lan- to vice president and manager 2000s ball coach . guage of the Mapuchee Indians, served on the Grace of the C-130 program. Amy Hughes Pyron, 87, Fellowship board and drove a church bus. George “Mac” Jeffrey Muehlhauser, of Atlanta, on Feb. 2. A native of McDougal, EE 74, MS EE 78, CS 01, a resident of San Diego, England, she was away on a job of Marietta, Ga., on Feb. 7. He on Feb. 24. assignment when her apartment Mrs. Kruse was active in her Metro Georgia Tech Club. was a principal research engi- was destroyed during a World community, leading a Girl Scout Survivors include son Charlie neer in the Electronic Systems Friends War II bombing by the troop and serving as a tour Stigall, IE 72. Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Germans. Mrs. Pyron moved to guide and weaving instructor at F. William “Bill” Research Institute. Mr. Nellie Tryon Reynolds the United States in 1954. She the local history museum. Mitchell, Arch 55, of Marietta, McDougal had been a Tech Acree, 98, of Atlanta, on March was retired from the industrial George Robert Ga., on Feb. 23. For much of his employee for more than 30 26. A past president of the development division at Georgia “Bobby” McCauley, IM 56, of career, he was a senior associ- years, beginning as a co-op stu- Georgia Tech Women’s Club, Tech. Rydal, Ga., on Feb. 17. A base- ate with the Atlanta architectural dent. He was an expert in test- she was the widow of Walter ball standout at Georgia Tech, firm Heery International and ing electronic warfare systems Reynolds Jr., a Tech math pro- he was inducted into the served as project manager for and was one of the key devel- fessor for 33 years. Athletics Hall of Fame in 1975. Atlanta/Fulton County Stadium. opers of a testing system adopt- Mr. McCauley was self- Mr. Mitchell also worked on proj- ed by the Air Force. employed in sales and market- ects with the New York City Charles Julian ing. parks and recreation depart- Robertson, Biol 74, of Dallas, t’s the way you let your Bob McMillan, Cls 50, of ment and on nationwide proj- Texas, on April 9. He was a Georgia Tech classmates Decatur, Ga., on March 4. An ects for the Corps of Engineers. makeup artist and hair stylist as Iknow what you’ve been up to. Army Air Corps veteran of World At the time of his retirement, he well as a musician who wrote, The Ramblin’ Roll and TECH TOPICS War II, he was retired from was a senior consultant and played and sang his own com- is the best way to keep up with BellSouth. expert witness with the positions. classmates, roommates and team- James H. Motz Jr., CE Brookwood Group. Nancy Richardson mates, and help them keep up with you. 51, of Decatur, Ga., on March Summers, ME 79, of Charlotte, Whether you’ve made an addition to your family, gotten a 15. He fought with the Marines 1960s N.C., on Sept. 8 of breast can- promotion, changed occupations, started a business, written at Iwo Jima during World War II cer. She was a merit scholar a book or won an award, it’s time for you to Bee in Touch. and retired as a major in the Ronald E. Clements, and charter member of Alpha Army Reserve. Mr. Motz also ME 61, of Cordova, Tenn., on Delta Pi sorority. retired from Georgia Power Co., Dec. 17. He owned and operat- Bruce Wittschiebe, CE Who: ______where he was a civil engineer. ed a manufacturer’s representa- 78, of Atlanta, on Feb. 27 of Earl Stevenson Jr., CE tive organization from 1970 to cancer. While at Tech, he was a What: ______53, of Smyrna, Ga., on March 4. 2000. member of the Rambling Wreck Mr. Stevenson served in the Frederick James Club and president of Theta Chi ______Army from 1944 to 1945. He “Jim” Conklin, MS ChE 69, of fraternity. Mr. Wittschiebe was a co-founder of Miller, Kingsport, Tenn., on April 17. He worked as vice president of When: ______Stevenson & Steinichen, which retired from Eastman Chemical Hardin Construction Co. and later became Stevenson & Co. in 1998. most recently was vice presi- Submitted by: ______Palmer Engineering Inc. and for Joseph B. Dewberry dent of development for which he served as chairman of Jr., IM 67, of Atlanta, on March Cousins Real Estate Corp. He Degree: ______Year: ______the board and senior vice presi- 25. He was the owner of was involved in the develop- dent. Mr. Stevenson served as a Centennial Properties and a ment and construction of sever- Phone: (_____) ______E-mail: ______civil engineer and consultant for partner in Cornerstone al Atlanta landmarks, including municipal and county govern- Associates. Crawford Long Hospital, the Street: ______ments throughout Georgia. Chang-Kiang “Clinton” Concourse office building and Charles R. Stigall, IE Kuo, MS EE 62, PhD 68, of the Atlanta Airport Hilton. City: ______State: _____ ZIP: ______52, of Roswell, Ga., on Feb. 27. Austin, Texas, on Jan. 2. A Survivors include his wife, He served in the Army at Fort native of Taiwan, he joined Janice Nease Wittschiebe, Arch Clip and Mail To: Benning in the final months of Texas Instruments in 1968 and 78, MS Arch 80. Ramblin’ Roll, Tech Topics World War II. Mr. Stigall, who was involved in MOS memory William A. Yeager, IM 190 North Avenue retired from Kimberly-Clark design. In 1979 he went to work 76, of Carrollton, Texas, on Dec. Atlanta, GA 30313 Corp. after 30 years of service, at Motorola to lead EE-PROM 27. He was a QuickBooks con- E-mail: [email protected] was a member of the North product development. Mr. Kuo sultant. Tech Topics • Summer 2003 41 GARY MEEK For Georgia Tech, none of these changes about ini- none Tech, For Georgia While this is a good notion in theory, it represents While this is a good notion in theory, his category will have the largest impact on most his category will have the largest state The rules Tech. schools, particularly Georgia experts say that the sliding scale is more consistent experts say that the sliding scale is more The like that used previously. than an arbitrary cutoff student athletes to have 16 second change is to require courses rather than 13. This is clearly a step in the core since it sends a message to the high right direction student athletes schools about adequately preparing for university work. since we have always tial eligibility have any effect who exceed the new criteria. student athletes recruited My only concern is what some schools might do with to open doors to skirt- the new sliding scale approach on high will be added pressure There ing the rules. schools to “help” a student athlete who has a low SAT past experi- grades and we know from by improving ence some will succumb to the pressure. What are the new rules for continuing eligibility? T that for student athletes to remain eligible they have to that for student athletes to remain graduation. toward meet stringent criteria for progress The most important calls for students to have complet- graduation by of their courses toward ed 20 percent by the end of the 40 percent the end of the first year, year by the end of the third 60 percent second year, The by the end of the fourth year. and 80 percent incentive for student ath- a strong intent is to create letes to graduate in five years.

ech has always been a school that has tried to play one of very few schools and we are by the rules two major changes in initial eligibility are here The first includes the use of a “sliding scale” rules. ry, which will address what are called incentives and what are which will address ry, to an intent to reward disincentives. These will relate those institutions that do a good job of maintaining an gradua- athlete’s eligibility and getting him through tion and to discipline those institutions that don’t do a estab- structure will be more there good job. Finally, aspects such as length of seasons, lished regarding expected to practice and so amount of time players are on. This is still a work in progress. How will academic reform affect Georgia Tech? How will academic reform affect Georgia are proposed for initial eligibility? What changes T T that have never been on NCAA will We probation. and do all we can to sup- continue to play by the rules port our student athletes to help them obtain an edu- them a meaningful career. cation that offers with high school grade point combined SATs to relate averages. In the old system, a student with a com- to par- of less than 800 could not be eligible bined SAT year, athletics freshman ticipate in intercollegiate of 800 will no an SAT In the future, of GPA. regardless longer be a limiting factor if the student has a GPA than 800 will be high enough. Even lower SATs including While many, allowed depending on GPA. earlier standards, from myself, see this as a retreat News from the World of Tech Sports of Tech the World News from A &

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he new rules come in a series of categories. The he new rules first deals with initial eligibility to participate in he impetus for academic reform is a good one and he impetus for academic reform well intentioned. The attempt is to bring back a What are the reform measures? What are the objectives of academic reform? By John Dunn President Clough Discusses President NCAA Academic Reform Rules T

T G collegiate athletics. The second deals with continuing It considers an eligibility after the student is enrolled. rate and what a student athlete’s academic progress must do to continue participating in college athletics. in this category is graduation The ultimate measure rate, which evaluates whether the student and the uni- the student versity have done their part to make sure chance to graduate. has an appropriate strong connection between college athletics and aca- strong demics with a focus on the student athlete. The NCAA concerned with intent is to say we as universities are student athletes and their success both in athletics and academics. What is being enacted today is not likely to is a lot of determi- be the last action taken since there needed to get are nation to make whatever corrections even keel. things back on a more because the NCAA schools with small ranges from — Division III, programs to those with large programs of try- Division II and Division I. It’s the old problem ing to make one size fit all that makes it challenging. 18 members of the Divi- are Even in Division I there and only six of those are of directors, sion I board Division IA that maintain football pro- conferences grams at a level with 85 full scholarships — the PAC ACC and SEC. By compari- 10, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, son, Division I also includes the Ivy League Confer- athletic-based scholarships. ence, which does not offer In Division IA, football generates much of the income This is not of the programs. to operate the remainder the case in non-Division IA to be schools, and it proves made factor when many decisions are a differentiating about the operation of sports programs. ing academic reforms concerning the eligibility of stu- concerning ing academic reforms evaluating dent athletes and annual eligibility reviews of student athletes. Clough, the academic progress as a Atlantic Coast Conference the who represents member of the NCAA and serves on of directors board are the executive committee, said while the reforms challenging will prove needed, some of the new rules Clough discussed Tech. even to schools like Georgia in of university presidents active role the increasingly the NCAA of athletics directors. and the changing role yellow jackets 5/14/03 12:41 PM Page 41 12:41 PM Page 5/14/03 yellow jackets yellow jackets 5/14/03 12:42 PM Page 42

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GARY MEEK a significant step up relative to present practice. To put on their own and be self-sustaining. For a school like this in perspective, at most schools not even a majority Tech, with a small alumni base and arenas that hold of students who are nonathletes presently meet this crowds half those of some of the competition, we have • Spring 2003 standard for progress toward graduation. to work harder to succeed. Our ticket revenues will Meeting the criteria for continuing eligibility will never be as large as those of many of our competitors. be a challenge at Georgia Tech, but one that we have Also, we are situated right in the middle of Atlanta options to address. For example, we need to create a and have to compete for crowds with a host of profes- Tech Topics Tech more robust offering of summer courses and more sional teams. Our athletics director has to be clever, be flexibility in the time frames over which they are able to raise private funding and be at the top of his offered. This is something we need to do as a result of game to keep us competitive. We also have to look to switching to the semester system anyway, and such alumni for support more than is the case for the com- changes would help us in our efforts to improve the petition, and we are highly dependent on a strong graduation rates of all of our students, not just student conference affiliate that embraces revenue sharing. athletes. Also, we will have to make sure our academic Georgia Tech has one of the smaller Division IA support services for student athletes are first rate. programs with only 18 sports. The average ACC Dave Braine and his staff have proven they are up to school has 22. Schools like Stanford have 34. Dave and the task. He has done an exceptional job in improving his staff have done a great job of bringing in full sup- our graduation rate and ensuring the academic suc- port for all of our sports for the first time and in cess of our student athletes. adding women’s swimming. Last year 15 of our teams qualified for postseason competition, reflecting our greater breadth. We hope to add women’s and men’s When do the policies go into effect? school GPA for last year’s class was 3.85 based on a soccer next to bring us in better alignment with the ost of the policies that relate to initial and contin- transcript “scrubbed” to remove courses that don’t ACC, one of the nation’s premier soccer conferences. uing eligibility are in place. The student athletes M predict academic success at Tech. The good news is that, first with Homer Rice and coming in this fall will have to meet the new rules for Today, our entering classes are among the top, if now Dave Braine, we have had the experienced kind continuing eligibility. Recognizing this, our coaches not the best, for any public university in the nation. So of athletics director that we need to build our intercol- have worked hard to recruit the kind of student ath- any student coming to Tech today, including our stu- legiate athletics programs into a competitive posture, lete who can do well at Tech. I congratulate them on dent athletes, will have to compete in the classroom one that Tech alumni and friends can be proud of and their efforts and the success we are seeing. There are with folks who are very, very bright. one that has facilities that show us at our best. ongoing discussions about an approach for “incentives Fortunately, we believe many of the best student Dave and I both believe the athletics director of and disincentives” and this won’t be completed for athletes and their parents are seeking this kind of envi- the future will need to have a strong background in about a year. I expect we will be voting on the pro- ronment and will not duck out for something less that not only athletics but also finance and law. At Georgia posed package at the NCAA board meeting next April. would shortchange their abilities. Tech he will have to be able to build a support team that can address all of the complex areas within the Do you see the changes as positive? context of our unique circumstances. Are university presidents and athletics directors working in he changes are well intended, but I am concerned harmony? about several aspects for the future. First, there T he presidents, in essence, are saying it should be What do you foresee in the future for Georgia Tech athletics? will be individuals at some schools who will continue our job to set the standards. Our athletics directors believe intercollegiate athletics will play an integral to seek ways around the rules and there will be loop- T should carry out our programs consistent to these part of our future, but it will not be a straightfor- holes that can be exploited. Second, there is nothing in I standards. Our concern should be that these young ward task. Alumni, friends, coaches, faculty and the the new rules that challenges universities to look at people are getting an education and graduating. administration will need to pull together if we are to themselves and ensure student athletes are taking cur- Personally I work closely with Dave Braine in coming succeed. After this year we will be fortunate to have ricula that prepare them for life. We all have heard of to closure with all decisions that affect our student ath- first-class facilities for both baseball and football along places where courses are offered that are simply not letes. Dave is a recognized national leader who under- with those for most of our other sports. These will suitable. This will continue if nothing more is done. stands his job is to make Georgia Tech athletics suc- help us in our efforts to recruit not only good student At Georgia Tech, all of our curricula are excellent ceed within the rules that are established. athletes, but also to attract the best coaches as well as a at preparing student athletes for a life after gradua- fan base beyond our alumni. tion. I only wish more universities would follow this How are athletics directors reacting to the stronger emphasis on I suspect we will continue to see the flowering of simple precept. After all, only 2 percent of collegiate academics? our Olympic sports programs such as swimming, ten- athletes go on to compete in professional sports and, thletics directors by and large get a bad rap. The nis and baseball as well as soccer when we add that even there, they need an education of substance to largest majority of them are very serious about make their lives a success. In the end I believe we will A exciting sport. Beyond soccer, a sport like crew would their jobs and doing things within the rules. All of the have to continue to look at the effects of the new rules be a great fit with Georgia Tech and one in which we ACC athletics directors I know are concerned about to see if changes are needed. We also have to push our have had considerable success at the club level. their student athletes. Everybody has to realize this is fellow institutions to live up to the words that are Stanford perhaps provides a good model for us a new day because the new rules are going to have an being used these days about academic integrity. because it has shown it is possible to have a strong impact. You are likely to see more reports of student nationally competitive sports program in a highly athletes being ineligible and there are going to be more competitive academic university setting. The key for What other changes going on at Georgia Tech impact athletics? frequent checks of eligibility than in the past. The Georgia Tech will be to continue to integrate athletics hen I talk with alumni groups I hear many com- upside of this will be more focus on academics and into its Institute-wide strategic plan so there is a close ments about our curricula and how this repre- W ultimately it will be good for college athletics. fit with our academic and institutional goals. sents a challenge for our coaches, student athletes and to our success in athletics in general. On the other What will the role of the athletics director be? hand, I hear little said about how the student body has agree with Dave Braine, who feels the job of an ath- What consequences will NCAA reform bring? changed over the past decade and how this impacts Iletics director is changing rapidly, not only because t’s going to be more challenging for some schools to athletics. There have been major changes in both areas of the new rules and the complexity of enforcement, Isucceed in intercollegiate athletics. Some will have to that seem to be little appreciated. but also because of changes in the financial aspect of raise their standards. I don’t think there is any ques- We have added a number of majors related to the college athletics. Never before has the challenge been tion about that. Hopefully that will happen across the liberal arts that have diversified the opportunities for so great on the athletics director to balance budgets board. For a school like Georgia Tech, the continuing all students, as well as student athletes. I believe we while addressing issues like Title IX and keeping facili- eligibility part of this equation is going to make it still need to make progress along these lines, but much ties competitive. The term “arms race” is being used to more challenging for us. For schools that have much has been done to make Georgia Tech a more well- describe the building of new athletics complexes and it broader curricula and much more flexibility in their rounded institution. Perhaps the most dramatic is not a poor choice of terminology. scheduling, this is going to be less of a stretch. There is change has been in the improvement of student quali- The business of collegiate sports is growing an unintended consequence as Tech brings in brighter fications upon entering the Institute. Twenty years steadily more complex and here in Georgia, state law students. It means our student athletes have to com- ago, the average SAT of a freshman at Tech was 1149, says that universities can’t provide funding subsidies pete with that category student. That’s a good problem but it was 1330 for last year’s class. The average high to athletics. Collegiate sports programs have to stand to have. GT yellow jackets 5/12/03 4:33 PM Page 43

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Farewell Berenato • Summer 2003 Competitor Women’s basketball coach leaves Matt Harpring finds Jackets’ hive for Panthers’ Pitt his niche in NBA gnus Berenato, only the second women’s bas- By Gary Libman Aketball coach at Georgia Tech, resigned May 1 to become the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh. att Harpring burst into Berenato recently finished her 15th season as the NBA spotlight this head women’s basketball coach, leading the season as Utah’s second- M Yellow Jackets to a 20-11 mark and an appear- leading scorer. Trailing only future ance in the 2003 NCAA Tournament — the fourth Hall of Famer Karl Malone, consecutive postseason berth. Berenato also Harpring averaged a career-high coached Tech’s first NCAA tournament team in 17.8 points per game. 1993. Because that average is six Berenato came to Georgia Tech in 1987 as points better than his previous assistant coach under her sister, Bernadette high, and because Utah is his McGlade. Two seasons later, McGlade was pro- fourth NBA team in five years, moted to associate athletics director and Berenato fans might believe that Harpring, took over the head coaching position. In her first Mgt 97, MS Mgt 98, catapulted to season at the helm, Berenato guided the Jackets stardom. to the championship of the 1992 National Women’s But the story isn’t that simple. Invitation Tournament. She also led Tech to three “Some nights he’ll score 25 or other NIT appearances in 2000, 2001 and 2002. 27 points and people will look at it She compiled a 223-209 record at Tech. and say, ‘Where does this all come Berenato, a Gloucester, N.J., native played from?’” said former NBA star and basketball at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, Md. interim Los Angeles Clippers After graduation, she began coaching at the high coach Dennis Johnson. “But I think school level until 1982, when she was named he’s always had it in him. head women’s basketball coach at Rider “Sometimes a man has to University in New Jersey. bounce around to a couple of Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough teams,” Johnson said at the Staples appointed a search committee for a new women’s Center in Los Angeles before Utah head coach, chaired by athletics director Dave beat the Clippers late in the sea- Braine, that will include administrators, faculty, son. “Now he’s found his niche.” Matt Harpring drives for a layup against the Atlanta Hawks. alumni and student athletes. The crew-cut, 6-foot-7 “Agnus has given a great deal to Georgia Harpring agreed. accuracy improved from .304 last been a physical defender. He’s a Tech over the last 17 years, and we wish her noth- Harpring began his NBA season to .431, fifth best in the terrific rebounder and he’s a tough ing but the best,” said Braine. career in 1998 as a first-round draft NBA. Overall the former Tech All- player.” “This was a tremendous opportunity for her pick with Orlando, a playoff team American shot .512 percent, eighth Harpring showed the same and her family. We will move forward with the with established scorers. But best in the league. skills at Georgia Tech, completing coaching search immediately, and I am confident Harpring, 26, said he felt stifled “When the coaches have con- his eligibility ranked second in that we will hire a head coach who will build upon under coach Chuck Daly. fidence in you and the players career scoring with 2,225 points the success that our women’s basketball program “In that situation, you have to have confidence in you, you gain and second in rebounds with 997. enjoyed this past season.” fit in however you can to be on the confidence yourself,” Harpring Three wonderful memories remain court. My role was to defend, hus- said. from his senior year — having his tle and rebound,” he said in the That confidence includes jersey retired before his last home locker room after the game in Los other areas of his game. game, receiving a standing ovation Angeles, his knees wrapped with “My biggest strength is that I from ACC fans at the conference ice and his feet soaking in a bucket play hard every night,” he said. tournament and graduating. of ice water. “That sounds like a given, but a Harpring, who won an ACC After two years, Harpring lot of people in this league don’t. I postgraduate scholarship, said not was traded to another established try to be fundamentally sound in enough NBA players finish their team in Cleveland for one season every aspect. Shooting. Passing. education. “I graduated at a good and then to Philadelphia. Defense. Rebounding. I don’t want school taking real classes. I know Harpring averaged a people to look at any one thing that when I’m done playing I’m respectable 11.1 points per game and say, ‘He’s not good at it.’” going to be able to use my for Cleveland and 11.8 for Coach Johnson said, “I think degree.” Philadelphia, but his career blos- he’s one of the more complete Harpring said he’d like to somed after Philadelphia released players in the league, but people own a business after he finishes him and he signed a four-year, $18 choose to write about other playing. But that could be many million contract with the Jazz in things.” years away. 2002. Teammates appreciate his After the Jazz narrowly beat “I’m getting more of an toughness and rivals admire his the Clippers 94-89, Stockton noted opportunity to have the ball in my tenacity. “He plays the game nose that Harpring stole a pass and hands here and they look for me. first,” said the Clippers’ Lamar scored a key layup in the final sec- They call plays for me. That’s Odom. “He dives in. He has a full- onds. what makes it fun this year,” he back’s mentality.” “It shows that he competes,” said. Guard John Stockton, the Stockton said. “He’s not just sit- The Jazz also encouraged NBA’s all-time leader in assists, ting at the other end of the court Harpring to shoot three-point said, “We needed him and he’s and waiting for his next shot. He’s shots. He worked at it and his filled the need. He’s scored. He’s playing the full game.”GT Real World 5/12/03 3:33 PM Page 45

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Laid Off KARA SZCZEPANIEC Coping skills simplify job search

By Maria M. Lameiras ounding the pavement and sending out hundreds Pof resumes may seem the wise thing to do after being laid off, but taking a more measured approach will serve a job seeker better. During a study performed by Georgia Tech’s School of Psychology in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor, laid off workers were tracked for six months to determine what strategies they used to cope with job loss and to search for new work. Psychology professor Ruth Kanfer said the data showed that those who searched more intensely were more successful, but there is a difference between intensity and frenzy, she said. “You may have a programmer who loses his job after two decades and who finds his skills obsolete. If he stops and examines his strengths and skills and takes full stock of his knowledge and competitiveness in the job market, he may wind up with a very differ- ent job than before,” Kanfer said. “If that programmer is laid off from an obsolete job but he still looks for that kind of job, he will not be successful.” Statistics across the labor force show the average time spent in one job is now less than four years. As Historically, most of those people grew up in an envi- point,” she said. “The way to positively increase your retirement age rises, that means a person can expect to ronment where their parents worked their entire search behavior is to prepare yourself, to be in good do 12 or more job searches in their lives, Kanfer said. careers with one company and this job loss is a poten- physical and mental health so you will be able to Continuous professional development is key for keep- tial loss of identity,” Kanfer said. search more effectively and have better outcomes.” ing up with a changing job market. “Older workers see their self-esteem and their A meta-analysis of the study done afterward by “If you keep your skills up while you are still employment as more closely linked, so losing their job Kanfer, Tech graduate student Tracy Kantrowitz and employed, it will have big payoffs down the road,” affects their sense of self. Instead of a gold watch, they professor Connie Wanberg of the University of she said. “We have come to understand this about our get a pink slip — it is a huge hit. Minnesota found that there is a strong relationship physical being, but not our professional lives. We “Protecting their self-esteem and self-worth between focused job search and success. know if we eat right and live healthily, it doesn’t mean through other activities becomes much more impor- Kanfer said some laid off workers worry so much we won’t get cancer, but our chances of being able to tant. It helps shore up their willingness and motiva- about searching for a new job that they don’t actually survive go up. If you keep up your skills, it doesn’t tion to search in what is a tough employment environ- go out and do it. mean you won’t be laid off, but you may be able to ment.” “They get up and get dressed and leave as if they deal with it better.” Job searchers who dealt with their negative emo- are going to work, but they leave the house and don’t Dealing with a layoff is often tougher emotionally tions in constructive, active ways — such as a change go anywhere. They don’t have a plan. Strategic and for older workers. in their exercise program — stayed more focused. planned search is much more satisfying — and more “For workers in their 40s and 50s, nothing is more “If you just wake up and search, search, search likely to get results — than less focused and haphaz- central to their identity than family and work. until you go to bed, you have to burn out at some ard search.” What Do You Do When You Are 50 and Out of a Job?

he unemployment rate rose in April from 5.8 your abilities are,” Hannabach said. “That’s the key. • Look for the same position in the same indus- Tpercent to 6 percent. Employers reduced pay- You’ve got to be very honest with yourself through- try because you enjoyed what you were doing and rolls for the third straight month, cutting 48,000 jobs out this process. Don’t try to fool yourself.” the industry is in good shape economically. after slashing 124,000 in March. When looking for a job, it is essential to know • Look for the same job in a different industry Losing your job is a devastating experience, but what strengths you have to take to the marketplace because you liked what you did but you saw some what happens when you are 50 years old and sud- — and you need to know what you enjoy doing, he shortcomings in the industry. denly unemployed? How do you start over at 50? said. • Look for a different job in the same industry, John Hannabach, a career counselor and former “Strengths are determined by what your abili- where you didn’t particularly like what you did but director of Career Services at Tech, told more than ties and your interests are,” Hannabach said. “You thought there were great opportunities. 75 people attending an Alumni Career Conference want to go over the accomplishments that you have • Look for a different job in a different industry. seminar in April the first step is to give yourself an made — they don’t have to be work related, but “When you’re over 50 years old and you decide honest evaluation and review your career options. many are going to be. What kind of things did you to look for a different job in a different industry, that “The first thing that you’ve got to do is be do that you just couldn’t wait to tell somebody kind of a change might be a little more difficult,” extremely introspective and to really look within about? You look for those kind of things.” Hannabach said. “That’s almost like starting over. and identify who you are, what your skills are, what After losing a job, consider four options: Continued on page 46 Real World 5/12/03 3:33 PM Page 46

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You’re probably not going to achieve making the same • Summer 2003 kind of salary that you were making before. But that’s an option that shouldn’t be ruled out.” Once you know who you are, what you like to do, what your skills and abilities are and what your Tech Topics Tech strengths are, you’re ready to start, he said. “The way most people are going to find their next job is through networking,” Hannabach said. “That’s an overused expression, but it’s very real. Networking means making contacts with everybody you know — letting them know you’re in the market and what it is that you’re looking for. Start with what I call the ‘A contacts’ — those people that we all know. They could be alumni, hairdressers, barbers, doctors, dentists — contacts that we all have.” Use those contacts to reach the people in charge of hiring. “What you want to do is get to the hiring manag- er, the decision maker. Your ‘A contacts’ may not know that hiring manager, but they may know some- one who could be a bridge to that hiring manager. That’s part of networking. You’re looking for some- body who can give you a lead to somebody who is looking to make a hire,” he said. “Networking is the most effective way of doing a job search. It takes time, but it is very effective.” Lengthy job searches can be discouraging, but be persistent, he said. “The biggest detriment to someone in this situa- tion is frustration and lack of patience,” Hannabach 20th Career said. “Jobs are out there if you’re 50 years or older, but it takes time to uncover them, do the interviewing and to have the decisions made. It’s the sellers’ market Conference today. Companies can pick and choose who they are looking for.” When interviewing for a job, the candidate should Annual event features job fair, workshops, networking have a positive attitude, confidence and enthusiasm, Hannabach said. “You need to hone and develop those three char- ore than 800 alumni participated in a job fair, Todd said the ability to communicate shows acteristics,” he said. “A can-do attitude is vitally Mworkshops and networking sessions during up in every job specification on every level. important — not only in the job search, but in the job. the 20th annual Alumni Career Conference at the In the past, Georgia Tech was not as good at Your attitude is significant. You should demonstrate Cobb Galleria in April. helping develop communications skills as it is confidence in your own skills and abilities and exude There were more than 40 companies at the today, and nothing symbolizes the transformation enthusiasm. You know who you are and you know conference interviewing alumni to fill positions, better and speaks to the role and need for commu- what you want to do.” said Jennifer Gillilan, Mgt 93, director of Career nication better than the introduction of poetry on Hannabach said resumes should be prepared with Development for the Georgia Tech Alumni campus, he said. care and free from errors. Have someone proofread Association. “Last January, I went to a poetry reading at your resume, he said. “The conference was very successful,” Gillilan Georgia Tech,” he said. “There were 250 people in a A carefully written resume should “resonate with said. “Every event, every workshop was well room designed for 100 people. There were stu- accomplishments and results — not job responsibili- attended. The Young Alumni Networking event for dents, faculty, people from town — and it was ties,” Hannabach said. “Pump it up with accomplish- the classes of 1992 to 2002 was outstanding.” wonderful. Georgia Tech has two endowed chairs ments. Keynote speaker Bill Todd, IM 71, told a noon in poetry, and there are only 20 endowed poetry “If you can quantify those accomplishments by audience he was in transition as president and chief chairs in higher education nationwide. The place putting a number with it — achieved 6 percent executive officer of Encina Technology Ventures has figured out that a well-rounded person can increase in sales — those numbers jump off a resume when he was asked to join the staff of Georgia Gov. learn to communicate with many media, including page at somebody.” Sonny Perdue as a special assistant. poetry.” Include a cover letter that also emphasizes a posi- Todd said creativity, communication and com- Todd said a willingness to commit to a project tive attitude, confidence and enthusiasm, highlighting mitment are strengths that can distinguish a job is essential in the job market. accomplishments and results that are in the resume. candidate. “By commitment I don’t mean lifelong com- Hannabach said the Internet is another avenue to “Creativity defies analysis,” Todd said. mitment to an employer, I mean commitment to a be tapped, but should not be a sole means of search. “People say you’re born with it or you’re not. But mission,” he said. “Increasingly, it seems to me, “Don’t ignore the Internet, but don’t post your creativity can be learned — even nurtured and employers are seeking to find a match between resume online and sit back waiting for all of these job developed — just as an appreciation for art and their mission, as crisply as they can define it, and offers to come in, because it won’t happen,” culture can be learned and developed.” the interest and passions of the skill sets of the peo- Hannabach said. Just as a person not skilled as a musician can ple with whom they are talking.” “If you see a posting on the Internet that looks learn to appreciate symphonic music, a person can There are many worthwhile missions, he said. interesting, rather than post to the site, look up the nurture creativity and improve the ability to be a “I feel that business in general is a calling — company that is listing the position, go to its Internet creative problem solver in business. that work is dignified and inherently noble,” Todd site and look at the career openings and post your “I believe in the value of arts and culture to said. “And with that philosophy, I believe that pro- resume directly to the company,” he said. help promote a creative mind,” Todd said. spective employees need to buy into the vision of Hannabach is a career counselor with Right “Creative people take risks,” he said. the organization that they are considering or where Management Consultants and is president of Hancon, “Sometimes they take on too much risk, but the they are now. And if they can’t buy into it, they’re an independent consulting organization specializing best of them learn from those errors.” in the wrong spot. I believe in commitment.” GT in career coaching and career-related activities. GT Tech Topics • Summer 2003 41 GARY MEEK The second change is to require student athletes The second change is to require of these changes about ini- none Tech, For Georgia his category will have the largest impact on most his category will have the largest state The rules Tech. schools, particularly Georgia limiting factor if the student has a GPA high enough. than 800 will be allowed depending Even lower SATs including myself, see this as a While many, on GPA. say that the experts earlier standards, from retreat consistent than an arbitrary cut- “sliding scale” is more like that used previously. off courses rather than 13. This is clearly a to have 16 core since it sends a message to step in the right direction student the high schools about adequately preparing athletes for university work. since we have always tial eligibility have any effect who exceed the new criteria. student athletes recruited My only concern is what some schools might do with to open doors to skirt- the new sliding scale approach on high will be added pressure There ing the rules. schools to “help” a student athlete who has a low SAT past experi- grades and we know from by improving ence some will succumb to the pressure. Please explain the new rules for continuing eligibility. T that for student athletes to remain eligible they have to that for student athletes to remain gradua- towards meet stringent criteria for progress tion. 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The third set of rules has to do with a new catego- set of rules The third eorgia Tech has always been a school that has has always Tech eorgia one of very and we are tried to play by the rules In the future, an SAT of 800 will no longer be a an SAT In the future, here are two major changes in initial eligibility are here The first includes the use of a “sliding scale” rules. priate chance to graduate. called incentives and what are which will address ry, to an intent to reward disincentives. These will relate those institutions that do a good job of maintaining an gradua- athlete’s eligibility and getting him through tion and to discipline those institutions that don’t do a estab- structure will be more there good job. Finally, aspects such as length of seasons, lished regarding expected to practice and so amount of time players are on. This is still a work in progress. How will the academic reform affect Georgia Tech? How will the academic reform affect Georgia are proposed for the initial eligibility? What changes T G to relate combined SAT’s with high school grade point combined SAT’s to relate averages. In the old system, a student with a com- of less than 800 could not be eligible to par- bined SAT athletics in their freshman ticipate in intercollegiate of GPA. regardless year, few schools that have never been on NCAA probation. and do all we will continue to play by the rules We can to support our student athletes to help them them a meaningful obtain an education that offers career. News from the World of Tech Sports of Tech the World News from A

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T G lete to participate in collegiate athletics. The second deals with continuing eligibility after the student is It considers an athlete’s academic progress enrolled. rate and what a student must do to continue partici- in pating in college athletics. The ultimate measure this category is graduation rate, which evaluates whether or not the student and the university have the student has an appro- done their part to make sure strong connection between college athletics and aca- strong demics and the focus is on the student athlete. The NCAA con- intent is to say we as universities are cerned with student athletes and their success both in athletics and academics. What is being enacted today is a is not likely to be the last action taken since there are lot of determination to make whatever corrections even keel. needed to get things back on a more because the NCAA that ranges from is an organization pro- to those with large schools with small programs grams — Division III, Division II and Division I. It’s of trying to make one size fit all that the old problem 18 are makes it challenging. Even in Division I there and only of directors, members of the Divison I board Division IAsix of those are that maintain conferences at a level with 85 full scholarships football programs ACC and SEC. 10, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, — the PAC By comparison, Division I also includes the Ivy athletic- which does not offer League Conference, based scholarships. In Division 1A, football generates of the much of the income to operate the remainder This is not the case in non-division IA programs. factor to be a differentiating schools, and it proves made about the operation of when many decisions are sports programs. ing academic reforms concerning the eligibility of stu- concerning ing academic reforms evaluating dent athletes and annual eligibility reviews of student athletes. Clough, the academic progress as a Atlantic Coast Conference the who represents member of the NCAA and serves on of directors board are the executive committee, said while the reforms challenging will prove needed, some of the new rules Clough discussed Tech. even to schools like Georgia in of university presidents active role the increasingly the NCAA of athletics directors. and the changing role yellow jackets 5/13/03 1:33 AM Page 41 1:33 AM Page 5/13/03 yellow jackets yellow jackets 5/13/03 1:33 AM Page 42

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GARY MEEK over the past decade and how this the house. As we look at these young impacts athletics. Yet there have been people and try our best to make sure major changes in both areas that seem we are bringing in the best young per- • Spring 2003 to be little appreciated. son who can succeed at Georgia Tech, As to the curricula, we have added there’s much more involvement with XXX undergraduate majors over the the admissions side. Will this person past decade, including a number in succeed? Tech Topics Tech areas related to the liberal arts. These In the long haul the role of the ath- majors have diversified the opportuni- letics director is changing because the ties for all students, as well as student budgets of our athletic programs are athletes. I believe we still need to make growing. Georgia Tech’s budget for its progress along these lines, but much athletic programs is almost $30 million has been done to make Georgia Tech a a year. Part of it is TV contracts; part of more well-rounded institution. it is additional revenues and the need Perhaps the most dramatic change to add sports. At Georgia Tech we have has been in the improvement of student far too few sports. We only have 18 and qualifications upon entering the we need to go to 20, particularly since Institute. Twenty years ago, the average the average for an ACC school is 22. SAT of a freshman at Tech was 1149, Our goal is to add women’s and men’s but it was 1330 for last year’s class. The soccer to bring us to 20. average high school GPA for last year’s Stanford has funded 34 sports. It class was 3.85 based on a transcript competes in a lot of sports in intercolle- “scrubbed” to remove courses that giate athletics we only have as club don’t predict academic success at Tech. sports — like crew, field hockey, ice Today, our entering classes are hockey, lacrosse. We have great club among the top, if not the best, for any teams but they’re not intercollegiate, public university in the nation. So any they’re not funded from the athletic student coming to Tech today, includ- department. What we’re trying to do is ing our student athletes, will have to help them succeed. year and 80 percent by the end of the pleted for about a year. I expect we will compete in the classroom with folks Dave Braine has funded all the fourth year. The intent is to create a be voting on the proposed package at who are very, very bright. scholarships that we have available to strong incentive for student athletes to the NCAA board meeting next April. Fortunately, we believe many of us. Men’s swimming is now fully fund- graduate in five years. While this is a the best student athletes and their par- ed; women’s swimming is fully funded. good notion in theory, it represents a Do you see the changes as serving an overall ents are seeking this kind of environ- If we are going to compete successfully significant step up relative to present positive goal? ment and will not duck out for some- in the ACC, we have to have a requisite practice. To put this in perspective, at he changes are well intended, but I thing less that would shortchange their number of sports that we compete in to most schools not even a majority of stu- Tam concerned about several aspects abilities. maintain ourselves in an all-sports con- dents who are non-athletes presently for the future. First, there will be indi- ference. We need to add, for example, meet this standard for progress towards viduals at some schools who will con- men’s and women’s soccer because the graduation. Are university presidents and athletics directors tinue to seek ways around the rules and working in harmony? ACC is a great soccer league. We may Meeting the criteria for continuing there will be loopholes that can be be the only school in the ACC that eligibility will be a challenge at Georgia he presidents, in essence, are saying exploited. Second, there is nothing in it should be our job to set the stan- doesn’t have soccer. Tech, but one that we have options to the new rules that challenges universi- T As the budgets get bigger, you’re address. For example, we need to create dards. Our athletics directors should ties to look at themselves and insure carry out our programs consistent to going to be looking for athletics direc- a more robust offering of summer student athletes are taking curricula tors who have MBAs, who can manage courses and more flexibility in the time these standards. Our concern should be that prepare them for life. We all have that these young people are getting an a budget of $50 million a year, who can frames over which they are offered. heard of places where courses are deal with the complexity of the rules This is something we need to do as a education and graduating. Having said offered that are simply not suitable, and this, personally I work closely with and regulations that you have to deliv- result of switching to the semester sys- this will continue if nothing more is er in order to be successful and manage tem anyway, and such changes would Dave Braine in coming to closure with done. decisions that affect our student ath- what is in essence, the commercial side help us in our efforts to improve the At Georgia Tech, all of our curricu- of the enterprise — ticket sales, enter- graduation rates of all of our students, letes. Dave is a recognized national la are excellent at preparing student leader who understands his job is to tainment, marketing. I think in the not just student athletes. Also, we will athletes for a life after graduation. I future athletics directors will have law have to make sure our academic sup- make Georgia Tech athletics succeed only wish more universities would fol- within the rules that are established. degrees or MBAs. port services for student athletes are low this simple precept. After all, only 2 first rate. Dave Braine and his staff have percent of collegiate athletes go on to How are athletics directors reacting to the proven they are up to the task. He has compete in professional sports and, What consequences will NCAA reform bring? stronger emphasis on academics? done an exceptional job in improving even there, they need an education of t’s going to be more challenging for thletics directors get a bad rap. our graduation rate and insuring the substance to make their lives a success. some schools to succeed in intercolle- Most of them are really serious I academic success of our student ath- In the end, I believe we will have A giate athletics. Some will have to raise folks. All of the athletics directors in the letes. to continue to look at the effects of the their standards; I don’t think there is ACC are very serious about their stu- new rules to see if changes are needed. any question about that. Hopefully that dent athletes and what is going to hap- We also have to push our fellow educa- will happen across the board. When do the policies go into effect? pen to them. Our athletics directors are tional institutions to live up to the For a school like Georgia Tech, the ost of the policies that relate to saying, “You tell us what we need to do words that are being used these days continuing eligibility part of this equa- Minitial and continuing eligibility and we’ll do it.” Everybody has to real- about academic integrity. tion is going to make it more challeng- are in place. The class of student ath- ize this is a new day. These new rules ing for us. For schools that have much letes coming in this fall will have to are going to impact folks. You’re going broader curricula and much more flexi- meet the new rules for continuing eligi- Would you comment on other changes going on to see more reports of student athletes bility in their scheduling, this is going bility. Recognizing this, our coaches at Georgia Tech that impact athletics? being ineligible. There are going to be to be less of a stretch. There is an unin- have worked hard to recruit the kind of When I talk with alumni groups I more checks and the criteria are going tended consequence as Georgia Tech student athlete who can do well at hear many comments about our curric- to be a lot stiffer on student athletes as brings in brighter students. It means Tech. I congratulate them on their ula and how this represents a challenge far as their ability to stay eligible. efforts and the success we are seeing. for our coaches, student athletes and to our student athletes have to compete There are on-going discussions our success in athletics in general. On What will the role of the athletics director be? with that category student. That’s a about an approach for “incentive and the other hand, I hear little said about ave Braine has been much more good problem to have. GT disincentives” and this won’t be com- how the student body has changed Dinvolved with the academic side of