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A Quick Read of Winter 2003 Contents Publisher: Joseph P. Irwin IM 80 Editor: John C. Dunn Associate Editor: Neil B. McGahee 08 True Grit 23 To the Point Assistant Editor: Maria M. Lameiras Assistant Editor: Kimberly Link-Wills Junior’s moved to smaller digs. Its next building was Herky Harris’ “giddyap” business style spurred his Design: Andrew Niesen & Rachel LaCour Niesen leveled by a wrecking ball. Through it all, this Tech career to the top and has proven invaluable to the institution has survived to “hold the dust.” Georgia Tech Foundation. Alumni Association Executive Committee

09 Planet of the Ape 25 Saving Lives, Saving Jobs L. Thomas Gay IM 66, president Robert L. Hall IM 64, past president Terry Maple, head of Georgia Alumnus David Rice’s manufac- Carey H. Brown IE 69, president elect/treasurer Tech’s new Center for turing business took a direct hit J. William Goodhew III IM 61, vice president activities Conservation and Behavior when a luggage company Janice N. Wittschiebe Arch 78, MS Arch 80, and former director of Zoo packed its bags and moved over- vice president Roll Call Atlanta, kicked off the seas. Not only did Rice’s compa- C. Meade Sutterfield EE 72, vice president communications Joseph P. Irwin IM 80, vice president and executive director Alumni Association’s ny survive the wound, it’s Homecoming events by shar- thriving as a maker of ing what he learned from bulletproof vests. Alumni Association Board of Trustees gorilla Willie B. 31 Buy Ad, Get Web Site C. Dean Alford EE 76 Homecoming Kimberly K. Barnes IM 84 12 Two friends’ shared dream of own- Claude S. Bridges III ME 65 New places and familiar faces ing a radio station has become Constance Callahan MS CP 93 were Homecoming highlights, reality in Yazoo City, Miss. Now Steve W. Chaddick EE 74, MS EE 82 especially the new Technology they are relying on their Tech edu- Tony S. Chan IE 94, MS Mgt 98 Square campus extension. And cation to make the station profitable. Ronny L. Cone IM 83 H. Keith Cooley ISyE 75 55,000 fans in newly expanded Thomas F. Davenport III IM 84 Bobby Dodd Stadium saw the Yellow 34 Not Rich Yet H. Stewart Davis IM 64 Jackets put the sting to the Wolfpack. An “aha!” moment led Vergil Daughtery to become Kathleen S. Day IM 78 the first person in the United States to patent a finan- Thomas M. Dozier IE 63 16 State of the Institute cial product traded on exchanges and could lead to Walter G. Ehmer IE 89 A. Donald Faulk Jr. IE 71 President Wayne Clough said untold riches. Anne Wise Fuller ME 83, MS PubPol 93 Tech is reshaping the campus Francis S. Godbold IE 65 to enhance its image as a 37 War Hero Charles A. Hall ChE 85, MS ChE 88 leader among the Medal of Honor winner Daveitta Jenkins CE 94 world’s technologi- and beloved Georgia Richard S. Lawrence IM 61 W. Andrew McKenna IE 69 cal universities Tech alumnus Gen. S. Gordon Moore Jr. Mgt 92, MS Mgt 97 and create an Ray Davis, whose mil- David C. Nelson BC 92 environ- itary career spanned Thomas E. Noonan ME 83 ment filled World War II and the Oscar N. Persons IE 60 with “inter- Korean and Vietnam Sheryl S. Prucka EE 82, MS EE 84 Thomas J. Quigley EE 84 sections of wars, was laid to rest in J. Gary Sowell IE 73 innovation.” his Marine blues. Richard J. Steele Jr. ChE 85 William J. Todd IM 71 19 Tech Gem 44 The Cowbell Tolls B. Kenneth Townsend ME 64 Georgia Tech Al Trujillo AE 81 The battle between Tech and Edward L. Underwood IE 71 and Atlanta cel- Vanderbilt for the coveted L. Michael Van Houten Jr. IM 65 ebrated the dedica- cowbell dates back nearly 80 years. Chris A. Verlander IM 70 tion of Technology Cheryl Johnson Weldon ChE 85 The bell’s origin has been traced, but Square, the Institute’s page 12 Samuel A. Williams EE 68 some mysteries remain. “crown jewel” that bridges the Downtown Connector and brings the campus and community together with 47 The Women’s Team Editorial Advisory Board top-notch educational facilities, shops, restaurants During the first event in the Georgia Tech Women on and a hotel. C. Meade Sutterfield EE 72, Chairman Wednesdays series, best-selling author and visiting Vice President Communications professor Gail Evans tells businesswomen what they Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees Private Equity Investor should and should not do to succeed in the working J. Gary Sowell IE 73 page 44 world. Alumni Association Board of Trustees Retired director BellSouth Technology Group Robert T. "Bob" Harty Executive Director, Institute Communications & Public Affairs John D. Toon Manager, Georgia Tech Research Departments News and Publications Office Letters...... 5 Living History...... 8 Advertising 190 North Avenue...... 9 Julie Schnelle (404) 894-0766 From the Hill...... 19 Alumni Association In the Black...... 22 Georgia Tech Foundation...... 23 (404) 894-2391

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The Write Stuff • Winter 2003 Showcasing Leadership Wright Way, Wright Stuff are some exhibits to view in the small field wider than the greatest ocean. My museum, mainly bicycle parts, reproduc- knees buckled for a moment taking it all he Alumni Association’s Leadership I recently visited Kitty Hawk, the tions, pictures and letters. Outside there in and thinking of that leap of faith. TGeorgia Tech — the annual training famed locale of the Wright brothers’ first are markers to show the distance of the They worked independently like session for our Alumni Club leaders — flight. The brothers owned a bicycle shop four flights that day and a large monu- many inventors have done — even self- was held Oct. 23 and 24. in Dayton, Ohio, and had that gut- ment atop the famed hill. Even with the financing the venture from their bicycle More than 80 of our finest leaders wrenching determination that drove their “Centennial of Flight” celebration this business. Their intense preoccupation from more than 50 alumni clubs quest for powered flight. The Wright year there was not a whole lot to see. But with their airplane was fueled not by eco- around the country joined us for an Flying Machine brought success on Dec. there is a great amount to feel. nomic necessity but from their persever- evening of fun 17, 1903, with Orville’s flight of 120 feet There is something quintessentially ance to cross the technological barriers with the Jackets’ — an expanse much greater than it American about Orville and Wilbur to human flight. victory over sounds. Wright’s historic achievement at Kitty Wilbur and Orville Wright are the Maryland, fol- The sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., are a Hawk. Standing atop that hill preparing original two guys in a garage. lowed by a day long way from Dayton, but that was the for flight must have felt like the tallest Todd A. Hartle, ICS 87 of brainstorm- best place for their experiments. There mountain and the view to the end of the Decatur, Ga. ing, training and presentations by Alumni Now he’s gone and taken his valiant spirit with him. I Association and Joe Irwin learned something the evening I danced with The General. Athletic The measure of a man is not his stature — Gen. Davis was Association staff members and the only 5 foot 6. It resides in his heart. Thank you, General, for Georgia Tech administration, headed the dance. by President Wayne Clough. Laurie Rothrock Dick We have some terrific alumni Alpharetta, Ga. leaders in these clubs and we applaud their efforts to connect you to Gen. Davis Awakened Pride Tech. They believe in what they’re doing, have a lot of fun and they know The passing of Gen. Ray Davis leaves me in the throes that Georgia Tech benefits from their of head shaking that would be more appropriate for a 17- efforts. year-old enlistee than a 71-year-old retiree. Our alumni clubs stay busy. Last Since meeting Gen. Davis two years ago, I had come to year the clubs: Laurie Dick and Gen. Davis regard him as a “fast-forward” mentor who was everything the • Held more than 300 meetings drill instructors at Parris Island told me that the Marine Corps showcasing Tech leaders and faculty, Dancing with The General was all about — purposeful, resolute, humble. He was an all- engaging more than 15,000 alumni around good guy, a man who had started out of college as a and friends I first met Gen. Ray Davis in 1995, when I interviewed cook in a bakery and found within himself the uncommon • Raised and awarded more than him for an article for TECH TOPICS. Later that year my husband courage of a titan. $128,000 in scholarship money for William Dick, IE 63, and I invited Gen. Davis, accompanied I arrived in Korea in March 1954, eight months after the incoming Tech students by his wife Knox, to be our guest and the keynote for the fighting had ceased. I was a Marine PFC, trained at Great • Told the Georgia Tech story to annual Air Force Academy Ball in Atlanta. My son, David, who Lakes as a radio repairman and about as callow and more than 12,000 potential Tech stu- attended Tech his freshman year before transferring to the Air unworldly as a young, Southern, Jewish kid could be. I had dents at some 140 high school fairs Force Academy, is a 1994 academy graduate. completed two years in Tech’s NROTC program and was a around the country Gen. Davis came in full Marine dress with a chest full of jock on the track team. • Championed the Roll Call and ribbons and the Medal of Honor around his neck. Seated next My first combat-zone duty was in Pohang, guarding sup- its tremendous impact on Tech to him at dinner, I quite unexpectedly became shy. When I ply trains and maintaining an airstrip. Gen. Davis was already • Served as the face of Tech. interviewed him, he had been dressed in casual slacks and a a god there — three and a half years after he led his men out Next time you get an invitation to shirt. Now I was seated next to a man whose face looked like of the Chosin Reservoir down to the evacuation port at a Georgia Tech Alumni Club meeting, it belonged on Mount Rushmore. Hungnam. I never saw real combat in Korea and returned to please respond and go. “Would you like to dance?” the general asked, standing Tech in 1955 to complete my degree. The grand opening of Technology and pulling out my chair. Even though I was aware of Tech’s obeisance in the Square was also Oct. 24 and it was I was inwardly shaking as I walked onto the floor. The worlds of technology and the military, I had never known that truly magnificent. You must see this general led me through a dance with music I couldn’t hear Gen. Davis was one of us. new “jewel in the crown” for Georgia through the drumming in my head. I was dancing with The In the spring of 2002, I called him and invited him to Tech. General, a legend beloved by men he had led through battle. have lunch with me and a couple of other Tech ex-Marines: Technology Square could not “It’s a different kind of music from what we were accus- Frank Faust, IM 57, and Bill Schaffer, IM 56, now a professor have happened without extraordinary tomed, isn’t it?” he asked, obviously mistaking the cause of in the economics department. He readily agreed — if we alumni generosity and the leadership, my wooden performance. would keep it low and private. I managed to lower him a full in particular, alumnus and President I breathed a sigh of relief when the dance ended and we rank in my introductions. (In my eight years in the Marines, I Clough and a long list of leaders at the returned to Knox, my husband and my son at the dinner had never seen a general and was discharged as a buck ser- Georgia Tech Foundation, including table. We were greeted by a plethora of young men and geant.) He graciously told me the only point of pride he Charles Brown, Julian LeCraw, John women who stood with cameras and autograph pads. wished for was that he had been a “mustang” — and had Staton, Buck Stith and A.J. Land. His address that evening was about white crosses and come up through the enlisted ranks. the need to keep America strong. That address resonates We met several times after that, just the two of us and even more strongly since Sept. 11. with other Tech admirers. I won’t claim to be a confidant, but I The last time I shook his hand was after an equally mov- have no doubt that The General recognized that he had ing address to commemorate Memorial Day this past spring awakened in me a latent pride in the Marine Corps and at Marietta’s National Cemetery. The voice resonated, though Georgia Tech. This diminutive tiger was emblematic of the the figure seemed more frail, the complexion grayed. We resolve that can be deep within us all. Joseph P. Irwin stood in the rotunda and spoke, had our photos taken and Fred Berman, EE 57, MS EE 61 Vice President and Executive Director parted with his farewell, “You must come to see us.” Atlanta Georgia Tech Alumni Association letters 11/4/03 10:33 AM Page 6

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a. Total No. Copies ...... 103,750 . . . . . 99,000 with alumni serving in harm’s way (Net Press Run) b. Paid and/or Requested hildren at Carmel Elementary School in Cherokee Circulation CCounty in metro Atlanta are sending letters and care (1) Outside-County Mail . . .95,247 . . . . . 90,980 packages to Georgia Tech alumni serving in the military Subscriptions Stated and deployed in Iraq to let them know they are not forgot- on Form 3541. (Include advertiser’s proof and ten heroes. exchange copies) In response to a request from the Georgia Tech (2) Paid In-County Sub- . . . . . None ...... None Parents Association last May, second- through sixth-grade scriptions (Include students at the school began the letter-writing campaign, advertiser’s proof and exchange copies). but were only able to get off one mailing before classes (3) Sales Through Deal- . . . . None ...... None ended for the summer. ers and Carriers, Street This fall, the students resumed the letter-writing proj- to thank the kids before school ended last year,” Harrison Vendors, Counter Sales, ect. said. “That was pretty exciting. We also wrote to the five and Other Non-USPS Paid Distribution. “I think they are able to see what heroes are,” Kim alumni on the Nimitz. They have e-mailed and sent pic- (4) Other Classes Mailed . . . .None ...... None Harrison, a special education teacher at the school, told tures. We were able to see their aircraft and learn about Through the USPS. the Cherokee Tribune. the jobs they are responsible for.” c. Total Paid and/or ...... 95,247 . . . . . 90,980 Harrison — whose son King is a management senior Requested Circulation This school year, students started off with cards and (Sum of b (1), (2), at Tech — is a member of the Georgia Tech Parents letters to Geoff Whitaker, ME 00, an Army soldier who was (3), and (4). Association. injured in Iraq. In September, the classes sent a care d. Free Distribution by Mail Eight classes at the school have written to several package and about 250 letters to the Nimitz. (samples, complimentary, and other free copies Tech alumni, including five sailors on the USS Nimitz and “After about five weeks, the care package arrived. (1) Outside-County as ...... None ...... None Navy Capt. Brian Dietzman, IntA 96. They are still waiting on the letters,” Harrison said. “I know stated on Form 3541 “Captain Dietzman called us in late May after he they have been in many different ports so communication (2) In-County as Stated . . . . .None ...... None received his letters from Kuwait. He wanted to make sure has been slow.” on Form 3541 (3) Other Classes Mailed . . . .None ...... None Through the USPS e. Free distribution outside . . . . .7,855 ...... 7,500 Bob Hope Was Real Credit the mail (carriers or other means) Sign of Home f. Total Free Distribution . . . . . 7,855 . . . . . 7,500 The letter about Bob Hope in the Fall issue of TECH (Sum of d. and e.) TOPICS brought back my remembrance of a football game in Home is where the heart is and Georgia Tech is g. Total Distribution ...... 103,102 . . . . . 98,480 the fall of 1944 — I believe it was Oct. 21 when Tech played never far from the thoughts of Jim and Sarah Leathers (Sum of c. and f.) Navy. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and others were at the game h. Copies not distributed ...... 648 ...... 520 of Charlotte, N.C. In August, the Leatherses named the i. Total (Sum of g. and h.) . . .103,750 . . . . . 99,000 and sat on the west side of the stadium. I was in the Navy V- drive to their seasonal home in Kearneysville, W.Va., 12 unit. All the Army and Navy units sat on the east side. Ramblin’ Wreck Road, complete with the signature j. Percent Paid and/or . . . .92 percent . .92 percent We were sure the celebrities would give us a brief visit, Requested Circulation imprint of Buzz. Jim Leathers, ME 55, is a retired vice probably when the game was over, so we were quite excited. president of Duke Energy in Charlotte. Their new drive This statement of ownership will be printed in the They never made the trip across the field and many of us is a fitting destination for two Ramblin’ Wreck children, Winter 2003 issue of this publication. were disappointed. Pictures of Bob Hope are on pages 194 Jamey Leathers, ME 81, of Rock Hill, S.C., and Susan and 195 of the 1945 Blueprint. I certify that the statements made by me above are Leathers Mitchell, ME 85, of North Potomac, Md. correct and complete. When Bob Hope died recently, I told my wife Jo Ann (my Tech sweetheart) that I still regret that he did not come over Joseph P. Irwin and say a few words to the military group. I did enjoy Bob’s Publisher movies and TV appearances. He was a real credit to the USA. Billy Wallace, EE 46 Stillwater, Okla. Tech Topics • Winter 2003 7 . $6.00 = $_____ Total 1-800-GT-ALUMS Merchandise Georgia Tech Alumni Assn. 190 North Ave. Atlanta, GA 30313 Tech fans to Tech BOBBLEHEAD available through your Bobblehead! Be one of the This unique product is only designed Buzz BUZZ own this newly Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Each piece measures over seven Each piece measures FIRST inches tall and weighs one pound. ______State and Zip City, ______Daytime Telephone ______Number Card Credit Circle One: AMEX Discover MasterCard Visa Date Expiration Phone Orders: Please Send Me: Buzz Bobblehead @ $14.95/ea. = $_____ Shipping GA Residents add @7% Sales Tax $1.05/ea. = $______Name ______Address Mail Orders: and , That girl was the best student I have That girl was the best her name even remember I don’t IM 61 John D. Wiley, Charlotte, N.C. OPICS T Alumni The Georgia Tech Hotel and The Georgia Tech IMHarry Wells, 63 Ga. Jasper, I want to thank everyone at the I was heartened and very pleased to Steve Collins, IM 70 Ga. Decatur, 20 or 30 seconds, I will tap you on the 20 or 30 seconds, I will almost out of the back. Lift your hands your hands sharply then force water, kick. This will down and give one scissors out of the water. cause your head to pop and deep breath Exhale and take another again.” let your body relax ever taught. She did everything perfectly. In about 15 minutes we started back. know that whatever kind of but I do now, she owes life she has had since that day, Lanoue. to Fred ECH Magazine The Georgia alumni Tech publications, T Your Comments Your Welcomed welcome let- ters to the edi- Please include tor. and telephone your full name, address Letters may be edited for clarity, number. space and content. to: correspondence Address Alumni Publications Georgia Tech 190 North Ave. Atlanta, GA 30313 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (404) 385-4637 changes to Send address [email protected] For advertising informa- and merchandise tion, contact Julie Schnelle at (404) 894- 0766 or [email protected] For general information, call (404) 894-2391 Alumni Association or visit the Georgia Tech site at www.gtalumni.org Web the Best Homecoming Ivins Great Talent Ivins Great Alumni Association for a great Homecoming. Everything was handled very it was the best well and Homecoming that I have attended in 40 years. Center is excellent and the Conference is a super area Square Technology entire Atlanta. I and addition to Georgia Tech hope the mayor of Atlanta appreciates what we have done together. see that Molly Ivins had been awarded and Prize for Progress the Ivan Allen Jr. talent, Science. She is indeed a great often intelligent, witty and, yes, offering barbed commentary on the political establishment. I have a drownproof- Lifesaving Incident The three of them startedThe three ing story and a tribute to swim coach Fred Lanoue. I swim coach Fred took drownproofing in the took drownproofing fall of 1956. In the summer . The front page contained a . The front of 1958, I was swimming with of 1958, I was swimming Please see the photocopy of a buddy of mine and two young ladies in Canyon Lake near Phoenix. talking about swimming across ness account. It appears from check that I deposited in a busi- the signature on the check that the signature division. This was a legitimate Mr. Burdell has surfaced Burdell in the Mr. Kraft Foods’ vending and OCS a purchase rebate I received from I received rebate a purchase Banking on Burdell I thought I had heard all the George I thought I had heard John R. Hollington Jr., IM 67 John R. Hollington Jr., Darien, Ga. Robert J. Stephenson, CE 54 Marietta, Ga. About half way across, one of the one of About half way across, I supported her while I explained Burdell’s Bride? Burdell’s Main Events P. Burdell stories until recently when we stories until recently Burdell P. summer saw him mentioned in my wife’s alumnae tabloid, issue of Agnes Scott’s corporate world. feature about Agnes Scott’s Class of ’58 about Agnes Scott’s feature and with it a separate storyreunion con- cerning classmate, Ramona a mysterious reported Cartwright. into the storyWell it’s that Ramona Cartwright married George It appears that Agnes Scott is Burdell. P. developing a legend of its own similar to our Burdell. the lake. I felt it was a lot farther across than it looked, but not wanting to appear set out. and we all “chicken,” I agreed girls became fatigued, which led to panic. I got up in her face and told her if her I would “drownproof” she would relax, I sent She calmed down and right there. the other two back. what we would do. “I want you to take a big one then take a few deep breaths, Your and hold it. Let your body relax. arms and legs will hang down and your In about under the water. face will drop Robert E. Lee Clough Wayne ECH magazine Tech’s was fea- reactor in a 1965 tured Vogue mink coat advertisement. featured a photo of Georgia featured The Summer 2003 issue of T D. Alwyn Stivers, ChE 45 St. Paul, Minn. The most disap- lab I one I only distinctly remember NE 91 George L. Fechter, Ga. Statesboro, It was disappointing to It was disappointing George Rezac, Math 69, ICS 70 Papillion, Neb. I received a check from the a check from I received checks haven’t bounced. OPICS Burdell at Kraft — the good news is the T Striking Likeness we’ve never been able to talk to Mr. our attention. While a mystery remains — Tech President Wayne Clough that Wayne President Tech bears a striking likeness to that of Robert the Confederate gen- E. Lee, eral. years, and alumni have been calling it to checks at Kraft Foods for a number of rebate checks and customer service Reactor Reaction George P. Burdell has been signing Burdell at Your Service at Your Burdell pointing thing about the was the para- closure noia of having a reactor on campus during the Olympics — as if someone could steal the nuclear material and then make a bomb in time to threat- en the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. had at the Neely Reactor but, for me and it was an to our degrees, others en route a reac- thing to have inspiring and proud tor on campus. read [in the electronic [in the read newsletter BUZZwords] about the end of Georgia even though reactor, Tech’s I I knew it was coming. the that realized hadn’t had even been reactor restarted after the Olympics. Customer Response Center at Kraft is alive Foods. It seems that George P. and well and living in Illinois. Kraft Customer Service claims the name employee. They belongs to a current at Burdell have no knowledge of the real Georgia Tech. letters 11/4/03 10:33 AM Page 7 11/4/03 10:33 letters living history 11/4/03 10:05 AM Page 17

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• Winter 2003 The Way We Were

CAROLINE JOE Tech Topics Tech True Grit Tom Klemis continues running family diner that is a Tech institution

By Maria M. Lameiras

n October 1993, when the wrecking ball demolished the Iold Junior’s Grill at the corner of Techwood Drive and North Avenue, owner Tom Klemis thought that was the end of what had become a Georgia Tech institution. What Klemis didn’t count on was how important the little grill had become to Tech students and alumni. “When my father and uncle took Junior’s over from the original owner in 1958, they only had a one-year lease on the property, but they were so grateful to have even just one year, to have the opportunity to show Georgia Tech how good they could be and then Georgia Tech would never let them go,” Klemis said. This year marks the Klemis family’s 45th year of run- ning Junior’s and the 55th year the grill has been a part of the Tech community. It’s all in the family at the longtime campus diner Junior’s Grill for Lula Klemis, left, Tom Klemis and Anne Pamfilis. The restaurant was opened in 1948 by Wilbur Gold Jr. in a strip of businesses on Techwood Drive that kids. She was there to feed the students. If they couldn’t “We were in the grill and the television was on for included a laundry, barbershop and the Techwood pay, she let them sign for it. If they needed money, she the announcement of where the 1996 Olympics would Theater. would lend it to them. When the year was over, every be,” Klemis said. “Everyone was so excited, but it was Brothers-in-law James Klemis and John Chaknis loan and every meal was paid for,” Klemis said. “She the saddest day of my life because I thought that was bought the grill in 1958 after the Board of Regents put an truly loved the students and her model is what typifies the end of Junior’s.” option on the property for future development of a park- our attitude toward serving the Georgia Tech community.” At the end of its lease in 1992, Junior’s was allowed ing lot. Gold was given the option of a year-to-year lease, True to his father’s wishes, Klemis enrolled at to remain open on a month-to-month agreement because but he chose instead to sell and the two Greek-American Georgia Tech in electrical engineering in 1970. He spent plans for the property weren’t yet settled. Finally, in brothers jumped at the chance to run their own college two years at Tech before a growing family forced him to October 1993, Junior’s doors closed for the last time and restaurant. drop out in favor of the working world. soon after the wrecking ball took the building down. “My uncle John owned the Campbell’s Drive-In “I had just come out of class and my wife told me “I still had the key to the door, but there was no restaurant near Avondale High School, but he sold it she was pregnant. At that point I realized I needed to get door,” Klemis said. “Before we closed, Brad Satterfield because he was looking for a place near a college cam- a job,” said Klemis, who went to work at Western Electric. from Tech planning had come over to ask if I would still pus,” Tom Klemis said. “He and my father were married In 1975, Chaknis suffered a heart attack and Klemis be interested in carrying Junior’s on if they could find to sisters, my mother, Lula, and my aunt, Harriet, and took a leave of absence from Western Electric to help his space for it. I told him I would, but I didn’t see how that they thought how wonderful it would be to work and own mother run Junior’s. would happen with the Olympics coming and all of the a business together as a family.” “While I was helping my mother, I made the decision property in the area spoken for.” Klemis was just 9 years old when his family took to take over the family business,” Klemis said. “I figured Meanwhile, without Klemis’ knowledge, petitions to over the grill and he remembers spending many hours that, for me, better than being an engineer was feeding save Junior’s were being circulated among students, there as a young boy. engineers. I know how they feel and think and I get joy alumni and staff. “I grew up at Junior’s. I would come down to the out of serving them. “I attended a feasibility meeting and I thought it store regularly to help out and so would my two sisters “Everyone in the family has worked at Junior’s. would only be a couple of folks,” Klemis said. “I walked and my cousins. There was an old-fashioned soda foun- Between myself and Mom and my Aunt Anne and all the in and I was shocked. There were all these folks around tain and Dad would always make us a sundae or an ice cousins, we balanced out the time, but it was hard on the and everyone in the room was a Junior’s customer. Greg cream soda,” he said. “On football Saturdays, Dad would feet,” Klemis said with a laugh. His aunt, Anne Pamfilis, is Wright (Arch 74) was the architect. He used to have give us a bag of hamburgers and send us over to the still a regular sight behind the cash register at Junior’s. eggs over light with bacon, and Jeff Coble (IE 91), who stadium to save our seats and he would come over after “When alums come back, they come by and what- always used to have a ham and cheese omelet, was the his shift.” ever they ate as students, that’s what they want. I always project manager.” As it turned out, the family was able to run the try to remember what they always had and say, ‘The In November 1993, work began renovating the restaurant in its original location until 1967, when the usual?’ They would always appreciate that,” Klemis said. space under the Tech Tower that once was The Robbery option on the building was finally exercised. They had to The always-smiling proprietor has an uncanny knack and had become a community activities room. move, but they didn’t go far. for names. Many times it only takes one introduction for In February 1994, Junior’s reopened in its new “By 1967, people weren’t getting haircuts nearly as Klemis to recall a customer’s name from then on. home, where it continues to serve the Tech community. often, so the barbershop space was available and we “If you can remember first names and what they At Junior’s 50th anniversary celebration in 1998, a stu- moved there,” Klemis said. “The only problem was that usually order, it is easy to put the food with the face. dent who had salvaged the original Junior’s Grill sign space was 800 square feet and the old Junior’s was Many students who used to eat here still write notes and presented it back to the owners and it hangs on the wall 3,000 square feet, so we went from having 60 stools to send Christmas cards or bring their families by,” he said. near the French Building entrance to the grill. 28. It was a hole-in-the-wall, but we still served 800 stu- In 1987, Junior’s expanded into what had been the “Junior’s raised me, it provided for our family. I went dents a day.” Engineer’s Bookstore next door. But talk of the Olympics to Georgia Tech, my son went to Georgia Tech (James By this time, the driving force at the restaurant was possibly coming to Atlanta had already begun. The Klemis, Biol 93) and my intention is to keep serving the Klemis’ mother, Lula. His father died of a heart attack in Georgia Tech Foundation purchased the property that Tech community and to be open to what the students 1964 at age 44 and Lula Klemis, or “Mom” as she came housed Junior’s and allowed the restaurant a five-year need,” Klemis said. to be known to countless students, stepped in to keep lease. “It is not the same campus today that it used to be, both the grill and her family going strong. On Sept. 18, 1990, Klemis was sure Junior’s demise but we strive to hold and maintain that family culture “Mom was truly a mom to so many Georgia Tech was near. here.” GT 190 north ave 11/4/03 10:35 AM Page 9

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Alumni Association News and Updates • Winter 2003

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Terry Maple, head of Tech’s new Center for Conservation and Behavior, told alumni that Willie B. went from being an “isolated gorilla, maybe even a crazy gorilla, to a natural gorilla to a social gorilla to a sexy gorilla.”

Planet of the Ape Terry Maple and Willie B. changed the way gorillas live in captivity

By Kimberly Link-Wills “For some reason I think I appeared from being an isolated gorilla, maybe even a crazy to Willie B. on the very first day and gorilla, to a natural gorilla to a social gorilla to a sexy erry Maple kicked off Homecoming 2003 by talk- throughout his life a little bit like one gorilla. When the offspring came, he had a harem by Ting about mating, mental illness and animal mag- then. He grew to be a really good father. He was very netism. of his kind. I’m not ashamed of that. playful with them.” Maple’s keynote speech, “What Willie B. Revealed I’m proud of that as a matter of fact.” Zoo Atlanta has produced the “most successful to his Psychologist,” drew a captive audience of alum- breeding colony of gorillas in any zoo ever. The popu- ni and friends to the new Global Learning Center to stimulating behavior and ultimately breeding. We lation is now 22 gorillas. Thirteen gorillas were born hear the story of Zoo Atlanta’s most famous gorilla, wanted to breed gorillas at the zoo and we hoped that there. All of them were raised by their mothers in nor- named for mayor William B. Hartsfield. Willie B. would be a breeder. We didn’t think he mal social groups. That’s a record unsurpassed,” “My first impressions of him were sad because would, but we hoped.” Maple said. when I arrived in Atlanta in 1975 he was living in The Yerkes Primate Center at Emory loaned Zoo “We did manage to liberate Willie into a natura- arguably the worst conditions of any gorilla that I’ve Atlanta 13 gorillas and the exhibit that put them in a listic enclosure with some fanfare, arguably the best ever seen,” Maple said. “Zoo cages at the time were naturalistic setting opened in 1988. The gorillas’ home gorilla exhibit ever in a zoo. But I don’t think he ever designed for ease of cleaning. There was nothing liv- is a crowning achievement for Maple, who stepped associated me with that enclosure,” Maple said. ing in there except him. Willie lived alone in this steel down as zoo director to return to Tech full time this “He reacted to me in an interesting way. Yes, I’m enclosure for 27 years and never met another gorilla.” year to create the Center for Conservation and large. There are larger people. I’ve seen larger people. Maple, a Georgia Tech psychology professor since Behavior. President George W. Bush also recently I’m also hairy. I’ve seen hairier people. But for some 1978, believed that abnormal behaviors in primates appointed Maple to the National Museum Service reason I think I appeared to Willie B. on the very first could be reversed with environmental and social inter- Board. day and throughout his life a little bit like one of his vention. “But I never dreamed that I would have to Willie B. was gradually socialized. When he was kind. I’m not ashamed of that. I’m proud of that as a become the director of the Atlanta zoo in order to fun- finally introduced to a female gorilla, she promptly matter of fact. If he considered me to be another goril- damentally change it.” slapped him in the face. la, that’s a good thing.” He was named the director of Zoo Atlanta in “That was the slap heard around the world. He Tears welled up in Maple’s eyes as he remem- 1984. Maple negotiated a deal that allowed him to didn’t lose his cool. He stood his ground,” Maple said. bered the eulogy delivered by former mayor Andrew maintain his ties to Tech and continue to conduct “He did not fight back, but he postured, swaggered, Young during the funeral for Willie B., who died in research at the zoo with his students. did his gorilla thing. Eventually those girls came to February 2000 at age 41. “We wanted to affect change in the zoological gar- appreciate his dominance. Some months later he was “I had a chance to study him, learn from him, den, to try to bring a more naturalistic approach to the able to get to know these girls.” communicate with him, understand him. I had a ways animals were exhibited. It started with one very One day a keeper called Maple and reported there chance to design something for him — and other goril- simple thing, that is, if you’re going to design for ani- was something the zoo director just had to see. Maple las, other animals,” Maple said. “I was able to feel the mals, just as when you design for people, you’ve got raced from his office to the gorilla exhibit to see Willie deep feeling that you have when you accomplish to know something about the critter you’re designing B. mating — in front of a large crowd of humans. something that maybe a lot of people said couldn’t be for. We must learn from the creatures everything we “We were beaming. We couldn’t believe it. It was done. can about how to design for them so they can live an incredible day for us. He proved to be one of the “That gorilla became a breeder. He became a sym- well,” Maple said. most successful breeders that we had. He produced bol for gorilla-kind. At his highest moment, he was the “If we put together a population of gorillas, we five offspring, including a male heir,” Maple said. most famous gorilla in the world. It was a proud would not only be simulating nature, we would be “Willie B. went through this progression. He went moment for all of us to be part of his true liberation.” 190 north ave 11/4/03 10:35 AM Page 10

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• Winter 2003 No Tests, No Stress Expressive AI Alumni give slate of seminars high marks at Homecoming Computer gaming emerges as 21st century art form Tech Topics Tech

By Maria M. Lameiras

omputer-based gaming has come a Clong way since Pac-Man. Today realis- tic gaming software exists in every possi- ble form, from action and sports to war and role playing. But the future will bring games that can do things we can only imagine, says Georgia Tech professor Michael Mateas. “Computer-based gaming is the major emerging art form of the 21st centu- ry,” Mateas told alumni at a Homecoming seminar, “Artificial Intelligence in Tech psychology professor Interactive Drama and Art,” held Oct. 3 in Anderson Smith says, “Even the best among us will experience the Global Learning Center at Technology memory changes as we get older.” Square. Mateas, who holds a dual professor- ship in Tech’s School of Literature, By Neil B. McGahee dent population is Asian, 7 percent is to retrieve events from the past, such as Communication and Culture and in the black and 4 percent is Hispanic,” he a wedding day,” Smith said, “while College of Computing, said Tech’s new ore than 160 Georgia Tech alumni said. “Women make up 27 percent of semantic memory provides no clue of Electronic Game Lab was created to antici- Mattended Homecoming seminars our students and 18 percent are from when or where you learned a particular pate the phenomenal future of gaming. in the new Global Learning Center at other countries.” fact or idea. For example, what’s the “We are at the same point in the Technology Square featuring a potpour- In the past, student retention has definition of orange or what was Mark development of it that cinema was at in ri of topics including a look at student been a challenge, McMath said, “but we Twain’s real name? Procedural memory 1903,” Mateas said. “Like cinema, as life, memory loss in aging and commer- awarded 4,000 degrees in 2003, the is a nonconscious memory like learning games mature as medium, it is going to cialization of technology. most ever given at Tech and our fresh- to ride a bicycle or swim.” require major efforts in both technology The Oct. 2 keynote seminar by man retention rate has soared to almost Smith said that aging takes a toll research and experimentation in design Tech psychology professor Terry Maple 70 percent. Tech has always been a on episodic and semantic memory, but and art. attracted 76 alumni, while the wine- tough school academically and it is still procedural memory remains intact. “Computer-based gaming is to the tasting seminar that followed drew 93 tough. That is one of the reasons we’re “I haven’t been on a bicycle in 21st century what film was to the 20th alums and was the best-attended event. having success keeping more students years,” Smith said. “But I know I could century. As in cinema, there is a lot of Current events seminars looking at the on campus.” still ride one.” technological research required and so it Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the McMath said a recent poll of Tech Marie Thursby, the Hal and John makes sense that at a school like Georgia divided Koreas also were major draws. students showed that rigorous academ- Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Tech there should be large-scale efforts to “Alumni were overwhelmingly ics was most valued by 82 percent of DuPree College of Management, understand this emerging art form and to positive in their responses to the pre- the respondents while 68 percent cited explained how Georgia Tech is dealing understand what it takes to develop new sentations,” said Vallee Donovan, assis- the prestige of a Tech degree. with the challenges of commercializing languages expressing the form and to do tant executive director of events for the An 85 percent six-year graduation technology through the TI:GER pro- the technological research necessary to Alumni Association. “They were eager rate would elevate Tech to the elite sta- gram. mature it,” he said. to learn from Tech faculty — without tus enjoyed by such schools as “TI:GER stands for Technological Mateas hopes EGL will unify comput- the stress of quizzes and project dead- Stanford, Cornell and MIT, McMath Innovations: Generating Economic er-based gaming research efforts across lines — and our faculty has so much to said. Results and is based on the simple campus, from the College of Computing, offer. We look forward to offering an John Shelly, IM 53, of Toledo, Ohio, premise that competitive advantage which is focused on the technological even broader range of topics next year.” unfazed by the numbers, just wanted to and innovation depends as much on infrastructure of games, to LCC, which is Alumni attending the “Tech know one thing. leveraging technology for competitive interested in games as media, to Today” seminar got a glimpse of “Do they still use those little blue advantage as it does on the technology Architecture, which is interested in game today’s student environment from books for tests?” he asked, referring to per se,” Thursby said. spaces. Robert McMath, vice provost and dean the bound testing booklets used by pro- The program, a two-year collabora- “We are engaged in the sort of oxy- of academic affairs. The 20-year veteran fessors since the beginning of time. tion between several Georgia Tech col- moronic practice of serious play … and professor and administrator used num- “Believe it or not,” McMath said, leges and the Emory University School that play is really necessary to develop bers to reflect the changes in the stu- “in this high-tech age, we still have a of Law, provides law, economics, man- languages and terminology to use to talk dent body at Tech. few courses that are tested on blue agement and science and engineering about games and the design of games. We “Many of you were here when books.” graduate students a multidisciplinary are also engaging in advanced prototyp- enrollment at Georgia Tech was well In the seminar on memory changes process for taking innovations from the ing, what could games be like in the under 10,000 students,” McMath said. in normal human aging, psychology lab to the marketplace, Thursby future, and new technological develop- “We have 16,586 currently enrolled and professor Anderson Smith quipped, explained. ments need to happen to get them there.” we expect to have nearly 25,000 by “There are three things to worry about Operating in teams, the partici- Mateas used the term “expressive 2015. Right now we have a 2-to-1 ratio growing older. The first is memory — pants consider economic, regulatory AI” to describe the practice of combining of undergraduate to graduate students, the other two I forget. and legal mechanisms before the tech- art and artificial intelligence research. but our projected growth is in graduate “Even the best among us will expe- nology research is completed, enabling “Animating the inanimate, bringing studies.” rience memory changes as we get students to take potential commercial life to dead matter, has been a dream, a McMath said the face of the stu- older,” he said. impact into account as they determine quest, for almost all of human history,” dent body has changed significantly Smith said there are three types of the direction of the research. Mateas said. “In the 20th century, this since the days of nearly all-white, all- memory — episodic, semantic and pro- “Our goal is for these guys to leave dream manifested in the birth of the field male classes. cedural. Georgia Tech and Emory and hit the of artificial intelligence in which circuits “Twenty-four percent of the stu- “Episodic memory allows a person ground running,” Thursby said. 190 north ave 11/4/03 10:35 AM Page 11

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PHOTOS BY CAROLINE JOE pieces you couldn’t even conceive of Alfred Merrill, chair of the Georgia doing without using AI technology.” Tech Cancer Research Council, The seminar was also a preview for says, “Cancer arises from defects • Winter 2003 alumni of Tech2Nite, an evening series in the machinery that regulates of personal enrichment rolled out this cell growth and death.” fall by Georgia Tech’s Department of Distance Learning and Professional Education. Art-minded alumni also were offered “Cinema City,” a seminar pre- sented by Nancy Green Leigh of Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning that examined how popular films repre- sent urban life and issues and how they influence the public’s perception about these issues. “What we are looking at in terms of planning cities is more broad than just Michael Mateas says Tech’s Electronic architecture. We are looking at a lot of Game Lab was created to anticipate the issues and social problems as well,” phenomenal future of gaming. Green Leigh said. “The portrayal of cities in movies can serve the purpose of intro- and software have replaced stone and ducing cities to people who live in subur- canvas as the mediums on which life is ban or rural areas and have never visited inscribed. a city by giving them an understanding War on Cancer “Since artists have been in the busi- of what city life is like, but they can also ness of representing life, and building serve to distort the image of the city to Technology, science disciplines position Georgia Tech representations of life forever, it is natu- someone who has no concept of their to help drive advances in cancer prevention, treatment ral that artists quickly became involved own of city life. with artificial intelligence and the field of “We have a love/hate relationship By John Dunn computing, diagnostics and monitoring AI with creating new artworks,” he said. with the city. City life can be depicted as and mechanism-based cancer therapeu- “In art practice, you are wrestling dangerous, dirty, evil, something to eorgia Tech is “perfectly poised to tics, Merrill said. with meaningful human experience try- avoid, you just don’t want to go there,” Gmake major contributions” to the Merrill’s research thrust is cell reg- ing to produce new artworks, but as you she said. “Films can also reinforce our war on cancer through its technological ulation by sphingolipid mediators, wrestle with creating these artworks, it love affair with cities by representing and interdisciplinary prowess, said which has led to the discovery that suggests new AI research directions, and them as glamorous, romantic and a place Alfred Merrill, who chairs the Georgia even the small amounts of sphin- the novel AI research you are doing then we want to be.” Tech Cancer Research Council and golipids that are in food can have an suggests methods and technologies for Green Leigh discussed several holds the Smithgall Institute Chair in impact on cancer cells. This is being new audience experiences. It keeps the themes in films that relate to city plan- Molecular Cell Biology. followed up under a cancer drug dis- feedback going,” he said. ning and policy, including crime and cor- “It is going to be an exciting new “It is interesting to get to questions ruption, race and place, inequality and era for Georgia Tech,” Merrill told “Understanding the causes that aren’t being asked by traditional AI isolation, postindustrialism and global- alumni at a Homecoming seminar of cancer has created a research. By combining art and AI, two ization and city futures. about the Institute’s front-line involve- new paradigm — a shift first-class disciplines, it actually opens up “Film can have a significant influ- ment in the “War on Cancer.” a whole new and exciting kind of vista of ence on public perception of these Research discoveries about the from search and destroy to AI research to view while enabling art issues,” she said. fundamental mechanisms of cell regu- target and control.” lation, which includes gene replication, gene function and programmed cell covery grant that is shared with Dennis death, have given researchers “a real Liotta and others at Georgia Tech and understanding of the underlying caus- Emory. es of cancer,” Merrill said. The Georgia Tech Cancer Research “Cancer arises from defects in the Council was created in September 2002 machinery that regulates cell growth at the initiative of Provost Jean-Lou and death,” he said. Chameau, who said its purpose was to And understanding the causes of “make a strong statement that, maybe cancer has created a new paradigm for to the surprise of many, there is a very cancer prevention and treatment — a significant amount of work done at shift from search and destroy to target Tech that is directly relevant to cancer and control, as it has been described by research.” The Cancer Research Andrew von Eschenbach, director of Council is currently centered in the the National Cancer Institute, he said. Parker H. Petit Institute for “The target and control paradigm Bioengineering and Bioscience. says that we now know what goes “A large part of cancer treatment wrong in the regulation of cell division and progress toward cures are in fact and cell death in cancer,” Merrill said, driven by advances in science and tech- “so we can begin to attack those specif- nology disciplines — ones where we ic defects, not merely kill all of the are strong,” Chameau said. dividing cells in the body, which is the Merrill said the council is responsi- cause of most of the side effects of cur- ble for developing a strategic plan for rent cancer treatments.” cancer research at Tech, providing net- Georgia Tech can play a strategic working opportunities for faculty, and role in the war on cancer because of its supporting and coordinating Tech’s expertise in research areas such as can- response to major state and federal cer biology and systematics, biosensing programs in cancer research, especially Nancy Green Leigh says film can skew public perception of cities. and bioimaging, informatics and bio- the cancer initiative in Georgia. homecoming 11/4/03 9:40 AM Page 12

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• Winter 2003 HomecomingHomecoming 20032003 omecoming spotlighted the old Conference Center, and surveyed the under the west and the new, but with Georgia new home of the College of stands and featured food, fun, a live

Tech Topics Tech H Tech’s football win over North Management. They also strolled band and fireworks. Carolina State, no one was feeling around the pedestrian-friendly cam- A capacity crowd attended the blue. pus that includes retails shops, restau- tailgate event on the quadrangle lawn One of Georgia Tech’s oldest tra- rants and the new Barnes & Noble in front of the Tech Tower. And even ditions, Homecoming highlighted the Bookstore at Georgia Tech. old Bobby Dodd Stadium at Grant “new” Technology Square — an eight- Edward Underwood, IE 71, on the Field featured a newly expanded sta- acre expansion of the Tech campus Alumni Association Board of Trustees, dium where 55,000 fans saw the across the Downtown Connector into served as Homecoming chair. Yellow Jackets put the sting to the Midtown Atlanta. The classes of 1978, 1963 and 1953 Wolfpack to enjoy a 29-21 victory. Alumni visited the new Global observed milestone reunions on Oct. 3. Learning Center, where all of the pop- Nearly 1,000 alumni attended the ular seminars were held, stayed at the fourth-annual Buzz Bash for all other new Georgia Tech Hotel and reunion classes. The Bash was held Tech Topics • Winter 2003 13 PHOTOS BY CAROLINE JOE Opposite top left: Quincey Kyles, IEOpposite top left: Quincey student 03, and Tech people who among the nearly 1,000 are Darragh Wright Buzz jammed with the band where attended Buzz Bash, At left, alumni take a campus tour to see both Shimmer. familiar and new landmarks. Below: 32, Ben Golden, Arch Cls 63, at the of Atlanta was joined by son Carl Golden, Old Gold Reunion. Bottom: are and Ms. Georgia Tech Mr. Kirsten Gibbs and Michael Paxten. homecoming 11/4/03 9:40 AM Page 13 11/4/03 9:40 homecoming 190 north ave 11/5/03 12:27 PM Page 14

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Campus Hospitality Family Weekend gives parents an inside look at Tech

ohn and Margaret Genter of Tampa, the Internet during class to research a Fla., marveled at the rows of com- subject, make a PowerPoint presenta- Jputer monitors built into the gleam- tion or even attend the class from his ing walls of Georgia Tech’s new dorm room. Global Learning Center at Technology Some of the 478 families attended Square. classes with their students, while others The parents of sophomore man- took guided campus walking tours or agement major John Thomas Genter attended seminars on topics such as were among the 1,600 students and Tech traditions, student inventions or families participating in Family “Being a College Parent.” Weekend Sept. 19 and 20. Next Generation Weekend, which “That is exactly what I would promotes family legacies at Tech, was expect at Georgia Tech,” the elder John also held at the same time. Genter said. Many of the 97 Next Generation Students and families took part in families brought their high school-age seminars, campus tours, a tailgate children to campus and attended semi- party, cheering on the football team and nars to learn about admissions stan- touring the Global Learning Center and dards and financial aid — including a its cutting-edge technology. mock admissions committee that Tom Gargis, top, leads parents of Georgia Tech students on a tour of the Global Learning Center. Another group, above, tours the campus during Family Weekend. Computer and communication reviewed sample student applications. labs include a 75-seat Distance “Family Weekend at Georgia Tech Association. “It’s a wonderful way to great example of collaboration between Learning Center auditorium, where is one of the marquee events of the showcase the campus, the programs the Alumni Association and all units on marketing director Michael Coleman fall,” said Joe Irwin, vice president and and the vitality of Tech to parents of campus. This year’s edition was our explained how a student could access executive director of the Alumni current and potential students. It’s a best yet.”

New Look for the Alumni Association

eorgia Tech Alumni Association marketing 16 potential logos and narrowed the final choices to Gmaterials will soon have a new look. six. Potential taglines were narrowed down to five “Marketing director Rena Moyers and I looked for inclusion in an online survey. at all the material that rolled out of here,” Joe Irwin, Irwin said, “The Ramblin’ Wreck logo and the vice president and executive director, said. “We tagline ‘Honoring Yesterday — Building Tomorrow’ found the visual image of the Association was very resonated strongly with our alumni. But the key The Georgia Tech Alumni Associaton’s new logo, inconsistent and fragmented. We had everything thing was ‘Georgia Tech Alumni’ in bold letters. If above, will be phased in over the next six months. from the Ramblin’ Wreck to Buzz to the Tech Tower. you go outside the South, the Wreck is just a jalopy We needed to communicate with a single, unified and the GT brand means nothing, but people every- over the next six months. “This will be the singular brand.” where know what Georgia Tech means.” piece of graphic communication for the Alumni Moyers said three alumni focus groups tested He said the new brand will be transitioned in Association. It is a look we can all take pride in.” Tech Topics • Winter 2003 15 PHOTOS BY CAROLINE JOE at the Global Learning Center. President Wayne Clough addresses club Clough addresses Wayne President officers attending Leadership Georgiaofficers Tech Alumni Marc Corsini, above left, and Daren Pietsch, above right, are Ramblin’ are Pietsch, above right, Corsini, above left, and Daren Alumni Marc and right, vice president Irwin, below Joseph P. of the Year. Volunteers Wreck Leong of Washington, Wesley of the Alumni Association, greets executive director the country. around 54 clubs from D.C. Ninety leaders represented The Triangle, N.C., Space Coast, The Triangle, the President’s Clubs receiving presented were Roll Call awards Men’s basketball coach Paul “This school is about so much Sun Coast, Fla., North Alabama, Sun Coast, Fla., North York, New Jersey/New Baltimore, Colorado, Jacksonville, San Diego and Columbus, Ga., clubs. Fla., Rome, Ga., Heart of Texas and Fla., Rome, Ga., Heart of Texas clubs all won North Carolina Western Awards. the Ramblin’ Wreck Houston, Golden from were Award Augusta, Atlanta Intown, Isles, Ga., Ga., Birmingham, Northeast D.C., North Washington, Tennessee, and Greenville- Metro-Atlanta Spartanburg. to the Sandersville, Ga., Radiant Augusta, Systems, Hampton Roads, Southern Northeast Tennessee, Power and Company/Georgia Golden Isles clubs for meeting their 56th Roll Call goals. Hewitt, keynote speaker at the luncheon, acknowledged the awards work of the alumni clubs. are than athletics,” he said. “We more school and consistently seen as a great Your a big reason. our alumni are part of are You work is so important. a big network of people who keep You this campus. apathy away from this Institute is so the reason are great.” Tech Alumni Association Tech A provid- Alumni Forum Young Networking sessions, coed sports luncheon, Marc At the awards based on points accumu- Awards given to the were Awards Buzz wenty-nine Georgia Tech alumni Tech wenty-nine Georgia for out- awards clubs received Leadership Georgia Tech to Clubs Pays Tribute T standing performance at the 2003 conference Tech Leadership Georgia held at the new Global Learning Square. Center at Technology more Gay welcomed Tom President 54 clubs to the than 90 alumni from on Oct. 24. conference to involve more ed insight into efforts graduates. recent events, wine tastings and sports- watching parties have been used suc- Austin, Triangle, cessfully by the Palm and District of Boston, West Columbia clubs to attract younger members. of the Birmingham, Corsini, president Pietsch, presi- Ala., club, and Daren dent of the Golden Isles, Ga., club, named the 2003 Ramblin’ Wreck were and Keith Year of the Volunteers Fiegh of the Hampton Roads, Va., club won the Best Friend of Georgia award. Tech lated for participation in Roll Call, scholarship student recruitment, funding, community service and cre- presented. ative activities were 190 north ave 11/6/03 4:32 PM Page 15 ave 11/6/03 190 north 190 north ave 11/6/03 4:27 PM Page 16

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• Winter 2003 The Present and Future of Georgia Tech

CAROLINE JOE Tech Topics Tech ‘Intersections of Innovation’

The following is an excerpt of President one-sixth of the square footage in use graduate experience over the past sev- crafted a high-tech, high-quality home Wayne Clough’s State of the Institute this year is new or renovated. eral years. New initiatives include pro- for the School of Psychology. address given to alumni during moting undergraduate involvement in The Library West Commons is a $1 Homecoming on Oct. 3 at the annual Student-Focused Education research, expanding study abroad million renovation of the first floor of Lunch with the President. Student-focused education is the opportunities, providing midsemester the west building where the traditional first goal of our strategic plan and lies performance reports and improving the library reference desk intersects with By President Wayne Clough at the heart of our mission as a univer- skills of our teaching assistants. sophisticated information technology. sity. The caliber of the students who Offering a rigorous curriculum to some The center is open round the clock, and s Georgia Tech achieves a new come to Georgia Tech continues to be of the brightest minds in the state and usage of the library has increased by an level of prominence and devel- very high. Our students consistently the nation requires quality educational astounding 56 percent since it opened. Aops an expanded vision of lead- exhibit one of the highest average SAT facilities. When classes began this fall, The West Commons is a test bed ership, the Institute is simultaneously scores of any public university in the we had 23 new or renovated class- for the information commons that will reshaping its campus to serve its needs, nation. We have been holding the size rooms and lecture halls. be part of the undergraduate learning express its intent and enhance its image of the incoming freshman class at a con- The new classrooms in the center to be built next to the library. as a leader among the world’s techno- stant level for the past several years, Management Building and the Global This innovative facility will be a hub for logical universities. largely because of space limitations for Learning Center at Technology Square undergraduate science labs and support The goal is to create a cohesive freshman labs. incorporate technology seamlessly and services. It has been approved by the environment filled with intersections of However, our enrollment contin- are designed for optimal lighting and Board of Regents and is awaiting a state innovation, where students, faculty and ues to grow. One reason is because we for clear sight lines. The Coulter School funding component, which we hope staff interact with each other, with new are deliberately growing our graduate of Biomedical Engineering emphasizes will be forthcoming when the state ideas, with the community that sur- enrollment together with our research team-based problem solving, so the economy gains steam. rounds our campus and with the enterprise. But undergraduate enroll- new U.A. Whitaker Building includes world. ment continues to rise because reten- group workrooms where students can Faculty Initiative One of the most visible compo- tion has gotten better. After hovering in write on the walls as they develop solu- Our faculty and staff drive the nents of our momentum has been the the mid-80s for many years, our fresh- tions together. process of knowledge discovery, reshaping of our campus. During the man retention rate has jumped to more The renovation of the John S. Coon whether it is helping students to dis- past year, we opened the largest group than 90 percent. We presented more Building demonstrates what we want cover the intricacies of their chosen dis- of new and renovated facilities in bachelor’s degrees last year than ever to do throughout the historic core of ciplines, or working side by side with Georgia Tech history. Nearly 20 con- before in our history. campus along Cherry Street. Outside students to make the research discover- struction and renovation projects were Increased retention is the result of we maintained the signature architec- ies that feed innovation. completed and are now in use. Roughly deliberate efforts to improve the under- ture, but inside construction workers We have attracted prominent Tech Topics • Winter 2003 17 GARY MEEK NICOLE CAPPELLO The international environmental Our newest buildings include envi- An aerial view of Technology best baseball stadiums in higher educa- tion, enabling us to host postseason and tournaments. playoffs has paid Second Nature organization as the first uni- Tech tribute to Georgia versity to incorporate sustainability our curriculum. concepts throughout sustainability also incorporating are We and daily into our campus structures operations. and friendly features, ronmentally especially significant or some are unique. The Management Building at one of only 13 is Square Technology Silver buildings in the nation to receive Building certification in the U.S. Green Council rating system called LEED — and Leadership in Energy Design. Environmental illustrates one of its most obvi- Square devices — white ous energy-saving the summer heat that reflect roofs ES&T rather than absorb it. The Ford Building has many similar energy-sav- but Square, as Technology ing features The most ambitious construction an are Our athletic programs Most Ambitious Project project ever undertaken by Georgia project When we Square. is Technology Tech we tend Square, talk about Technology to focus on its exciting academic, and economic development research is an additional opportunities, but there benefit. Despite being in the middle of has not had the Tech Georgia a city, nearby shopping and dining opportuni- ties of a typical college town. a big step in takes Square Technology a supportive of providing the direction campus. community around retail important part of campus life and gen- erate an enthusiasm that our alumni their lives. The re-cre- carry throughout ation of Bobby Dodd Stadium, the nation’s oldest Division I-A on-campus it to first-class stadium, has restored condition, and its unique setting among Atlanta shows us to the skyscrapers of our best advantage. The Russ Chandler Baseball Stadium also got a complete the grandstand to the from makeover, with the outfield wall. It now compares Building and Ford Environmental Building and Ford Science and Technology Building. Science and Technology which includes the Parker H. Petit Next door is the new Whitehead more also developing are We center equipped with sophisticated Biotechnology Building, U.A. Whitaker information technology. At right is the information technology. Campus Recreation Center, built Center, Campus Recreation Aquatic Center. the Olympic around pools The enclosed and refurbished give us the ability to host world-class swimming and diving events. Suspended above the pools is a vast gymnasium that can accommodate six basketball games at the same time, plus studios and weight dance and aerobic And high up fitness areas. and cardio under the eaves with a stunning view run- Atlanta skyline is a four-lane of the ning track. When it is finished next fall, the center will also include a leisure pool, courts for racquetball and squash, hockey a climbing wall, space for roller and indoor soccer and a parking deck. Building, home to Stamps Health our students full Services, which offers medical services, nutrition and wellness assistance and dental services, which at a university. rare are spaces for informal activities and reflec- tion. Following the demolition of the Hightower Building, a new “green” In near the Student Center. was created time, this space will be framed at the learn- other end by the undergraduate ing center and its landscaping further developed. The annex to the Student was, is the old bookstore where Center, much- to provide now being renovated needed space for student organizations and meetings. The Library Commons, above, is a West $1 million renovation that has made it a $1 million renovation Life Sciences and Engineering Complex, Many of the intersections of ideas expanding our interdiscipli- are We The research opportunities of The research ES&T Building, which is The Ford the Life from the street Across the from Fifth Street And across After years of straining the old Research Facilities Research scholars to hold endowed chairs during scholars to hold endowed as to our luster, They add the past year. academy mem- well as to our national faculty continue to berships. Our junior number of National win a remarkable Awards, CAREER Science Foundation young promising which honor the most engineering. In talent in science and spite of budget challenges, we began more of this year with a net increase to than two dozen faculty compared last fall. labs, and our in our research are has virtually dou- enterprise research bled during the past decade, both in also are We and awards. expenditures at our highest level in Institute history patents. and in invention disclosures And the arrival of the NSF Center of Arizona Excellence in Photonics from puts us in a tie with MIT for the most NSF Centers of Excellence in the nation. understanding toward nary thrusts how technology will impact the econo- Science and engineer- my and society. ing need to intersect with public policy and decision making, and the mix of Tech disciplines we have at Georgia a unique opportunity to develop offers that essential engagement. and promote Georgia Tech faculty and students have faculty and Tech Georgia been enhanced by several of the new facilities. The Life Sciences Complex, which began with the Petit Biotechnology Building, expanded to Science Environmental include the Ford Building and the U.A. and Technology AWhitaker Building. fourth building focusing on molecular science and engi- neering will enclose the quadrangle. This complex is a bricks-and-mortar growing Tech’s of Georgia expression intersections. interdisciplinary academic building on cam- the largest pus, gathers faculty and students from environ- schools around five different mental issues. The U.A. Whitaker Building is the new home of the Coulter School of Biomedical Engineering, which is a unique joint with Emory academic program University. Complex we Sciences and Technology for the Klaus ground will soon break Advanced Computing Building, which of a neigh- will complete the creation devoted to information tech- borhood nology and telecommunications work on campus. the Technology Hotel is Tech Georgia Building, another Research Square com- faculty from intersection where puter engineering and computer sci- ence faculty interact with members of design research. industry in broadband Athletic Complex beyond its Student limits, we opened the first phase of the 190 north ave 11/6/03 4:27 PM Page 17 ave 11/6/03 190 north 190 north ave 11/5/03 12:27 PM Page 18

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CAROLINE JOE it also pioneers a unique drainage sys- tem that collects the rainwater that falls Alumni Association President L. Thomas Gay welcomes

• Winter 2003 on its roof, then percolates it into the alumni to hear Clough’s ground rather than down the storm address in the Georgia Tech sewers. Hotel and Conference Center. The roof of the Campus Recreation

Tech Topics Tech Center is covered with solar cells, help- ing us with our energy needs and offer- ing an opportunity for experimentation. The new Tech Trolley is powered by natural gas. And we are paying as much attention to green space in the design of campus as we are to build- ings.

Community Connection Technology Square bridges the gap that was created when the interstate cut our campus off from our natural neigh- borhood of Midtown. The Department of Transportation plans to build a park over the interstate adjacent to the Fifth Street bridge, and we are in the process of improving Fifth Street on the west end of the bridge. Technology Square will not only be a place where Georgia Tech intersects the Midtown business community, it will also be an impres- sive new gateway to our campus. The restaurants, shops and pedes- trian-friendly sidewalks of Technology Square are designed to attract and serve dents of the Home Park neighborhood. Four Campuses ed opportunities for our students to people from the neighborhood as well Our faculty, staff and students Georgia Tech continues to strength- study abroad. In addition to 56 classical as from Georgia Tech, bringing added intersect with the community as volun- en its global ties. Our goal is to create a study abroad and exchange programs, vitality to this side of campus. teers. Organizations like MOVE and genuinely international university that we also have several with a distinctive While Technology Square focuses CEISMC provide structured opportuni- educates students from around the Georgia Tech flair. The School of on business and retail engagement, the ties for service. Fraternities and sorori- world to be leaders in a global econo- Modern Languages offers a unique year north side of campus is residential, ties contribute countless volunteer my. abroad in Germany with intensive lan- with single-family homes. We built the hours. And campus units from the Building an international universi- guage study, a semester at the Technical new R. Kirk Landon Learning Center to library to the athletic program collect ty involves developing education and University of Munich and an internship providing quality child care for the books and toys for less fortunate chil- research platforms in strategic locations at Siemens. Georgia Tech community and the resi- dren. around the world. In addition to the We now have more international NICOLE CAPPELLO Internet and satellite connections of the students here on campus than ever in Global Learning Center, which link us our history, and they enrich the life of to virtually every corner of the world, our campus in many ways. Georgia Tech now has three other cam- Georgia Tech is an outstanding puses beyond Atlanta. And this fall institution and that is reflected in our nearly 600 degree students are studying national rankings. We have demonstrat- on our campuses in Savannah, Metz, ed our staying power among the top 10 France, or Singapore. public universities in the nation. Once The Savannah campus opened this you get up there toward the top, it is fall with three new buildings to house difficult to move higher, but the College the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering of Engineering managed it this fall, Program as well as regional offices for with the undergraduate program now our Economic Development Institute joining the graduate program among and Advanced Technology the top five. There are many more sci- Development Center. This campus is a ence and management programs than component of the largest technology engineering programs, so the competi- corridor to be developed in Savannah’s tion is tougher there, but we are doing history and is designed to bolster high- well. The Forbes business school rank- tech development. ings just came out, and we are in the Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz has top 30 there. been granting graduate degrees for We intend to hold a steady, for- more than 10 years and has well-estab- ward pace, and the ongoing develop- lished research programs. This year it ment of our campus is an expression of has begun a year-round undergraduate that commitment. As we shape our program. Singapore is the world’s hub campus, we also are shaping our identi- for logistics and that is the focus of our ty — crafting a campus that not only initial research and education programs serves as a tool to help us achieve high- there. er levels of excellence, but also commu- Technology Square, with its energy-saving white roofs, can As a public university, we have an nicates our intent to be the technologi- be seen across the Downtown obligation to the state of Georgia, and cal university of the 21st century — a Connector at the top of this two-thirds of our students come from place filled with intersections of inno- aerial photo that also features inside the state. But once they arrive on vation where new ideas are generated the Tech Tower. campus, we do our best to make them and new knowledge discovered that citizens of the world. We have expand- make the world a better place. GT from the hill 11/6/03 4:24 PM Page 19

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CAROLINE JOE Grand Opening Mayor lauds Technology Square as capturing ‘heart and soul’ of Atlanta

t its grand opening on Oct. 24, Technology Square was hailed as the driving force for the Arenaissance of Midtown Atlanta. “While this is a historic moment, it is just one moment in time for this great institution and, just like Georgia Tech, Technology Square will be here for the ages,” Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough told members of the Tech community, Atlanta officials and other dignitaries. “There is more to be derived from Technology Square than what happens in the next year. It will continue to innovate for five years, 10 years, 100 years and 200 years.” Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, who joined Clough in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, lauded Tech and Clough for having the vision to pursue the proj- Cutting the ceremonial ribbon opening Technology Square are, left to right, Georgia Tech Foundation chairman A.J. ect. Land, Student Government Association president Nate Watson, Midtown Alliance head Susan Mendheim, Board of “This is the kind of development that makes the Regents chairman Joe Frank Harris, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Buzz and Tech President Wayne Clough. heart and soul of Atlanta,” Franklin said. “One hun- Square has transformed this section of Midtown from the Georgia Tech tradition of reaching out to the com- dred and eight years ago when Atlanta was the site of vacant lots and rundown buildings into a vibrant area munity and making a difference.” the Great Cotton Exposition, this was the kind of of commerce, a catalytic development project with a A.J. Land, chairman of the Georgia Tech development the leaders gathered there had in mind, combination of education, research, commerce and Foundation, returned credit to Clough and to the this kind of synergy and partnership.” hospitality that is truly a bridge from the Georgia Tech alumni who donated the money to fund the massive Ground was broken on the project more than campus to Midtown.” project. three years ago. Tech Student Government Association president “President Clough, this is your project and your “This is really about the people. It is about the fac- Nate Watson said the Technology Square development day and we thank you very much,” Land said. ulty and the students and the alumni, our friends and was a rumor on campus when he started at Tech and Susan Mendheim, president and CEO of the the people who work here and share barriers with us,” students couldn’t believe Institute leaders were plan- Midtown Alliance, said the defining moment of Clough said. “They are wonderful facilities, and they ning to expand the campus across the Downtown Technology Square was not the ribbon cutting, but the will do great things for Georgia Tech and for Atlanta, Connector when they were “afraid to walk across the gathering in 2000 among the weeds and vacant lots but they will also do great things for people and that’s Fifth Street bridge.” that once lined Fifth Street. what it’s all about.” Technology Square is the new home of the “When Technology Square was announced, that Clough applauded the teamwork that went into College of Management, Global Learning Center, gave us the economic stimulus we needed to get the projects, citing the city’s leadership, the University Economic Development Institute and the Georgia Tech everyone on board,” said Mendheim, adding that Financing Foundation, Georgia Tech Foundation and Foundation. The Advanced Technology Development 6,000 square feet of new apartments and condos, 7 Midtown Alliance and alumni Kim King, IM 68, who Center is housed in the Centergy complex adjacent to million square feet of new office development and $1.5 developed the Centergy project adjacent to Technology Technology Square. Technology Square also houses the billion in private investment has come into Midtown Square, and Thomas W. Ventulett III, BS 57, Arch 58, of new Georgia Tech Barnes & Noble Bookstore and the since 1997, creating 28,000 new jobs in the one-mile the Technology Square architects Thompson, Ventulett Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, as well as radius between 10th and Peachtree streets. & Stainback. restaurants and retail businesses. “Thank you for the vision, the hard work, for the Former Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris, chairman Calling Tech “Georgia’s true flagship university,” reality and for raising the bar for all that is ahead in of the State Board of Regents, said, “Technology Watson said Technology Square is “going to continue Midtown.” Anonymous Donor Pledges $36 Million for Nanotechnology By Robert Harty one of the nation’s premier centers for “This puts Georgia Tech on the ferent properties by virtue of their size. this cutting-edge technology and national map for nanotechnology,” said Scientists working in the field of nan- n anonymous donor has pledged research,” Perdue said at the annual President Wayne Clough. “Through a otechnology work with materials meas- A$36 million — the largest single meeting of the Technology Association unique public-private partnership, we ured in one-billionth of a meter — gift in Georgia Tech history — for the of Georgia. “Thanks to the generosity of will serve as a center for innovation in about 100,000 times smaller than the creation of one of the nation’s most an anonymous donor who recognizes the Southeast and throughout the width of human hair. advanced facilities for nanotechnology. the tremendous economic potential of world. I’m deeply appreciative for this Many experts have hailed nan- The new Nanotechnology Research this opportunity, the state will be able display of private philanthropy and to otechnology as the next great scientific Center on campus also will be matched to share the cost of this new facility.” the state for making this type of invest- and technological breakthrough. by $45 million in state support. Gov. The center will be the most ment in a critical research area.” Nanotechnology research has led to Sonny Perdue will include funds for advanced nanotechnology facility in the Nanotechnology, sometimes such simple advances as the develop- this project as part of his economic Southeast — the first of its kind in the referred to as the science of the small, ment of the flat television screen and development budget recommendations region — and will be one of the most allows scientists to manipulate individ- holds the potential to create microscop- to the 2004 Georgia General Assembly. sophisticated in the country, enabling ual atoms and molecules, making it ic machines that could repair damage at “If Georgia is to emerge as a leader the state to compete with other places possible to build machines on the scale the cellular level in the human body. in nanotechnology, we need to take where such facilities are planned or of human cells or build structures or Robert Harty is executive director of Institute advantage of the opportunity to build under construction. materials that assume dramatically dif- Communications and Public Affairs. from the hill 11/4/03 5:18 PM Page 20

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ANDREW NIESEN Still On Top • Winter 2003 Tech dismantles nuclear reactor, academic program remains strong

Tech Topics Tech By Kimberly Link-Wills

here were big hopes for Georgia Tech’s nuclear reactor when it was dedicated 40 years ago. The Twhite-domed building still stands, but Tech’s days as a university with a research reactor are over. “It’s a big empty shell,” said Nolan Hertel, a nuclear engineering professor and director of Tech’s now-decommissioned nuclear reactor. “It still looks like there’s something there, but when you come inside, there’s just a big hole in the floor where the reactor was.” The decommissioning process has been a long one — and expensive. Tech announced it would shut down the reactor in 1997. The actual dismantling of the reactor and removal of waste — carrying a price tag of $7.5 million — was completed more than a year and a half ago. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been processing paperwork since then to release Georgia Tech from its operating license. The reactor’s beginning was almost as quiet as its ending. “We have some old photos from when they con- structed it,” Hertel said. “There were houses right next to it. Basically it basked in anonymity. Nobody really thought much about it being there, except a few anti- nuclear people. “Even though it never presented a problem, I don’t think anyone would site one in the middle of a population center again,” he added. “A research reac- tor only makes neutrons. It doesn’t make electricity or boil water.” It cost more to dismantle the reactor than it did to build it. But when it went up in the early 1960s, the $4.5 million facility was the largest construction project Georgia Tech had undertaken, Hertel said. Much of the construction funds were raised by alumnus Frank H. Neely, for whom the facility is named. Neely, ME 04, wasn’t a nuclear scientist. He was the executive vice president of Rich’s department stores. “Frank Neely believed we were on the edge of the nuclear era. They went out and got some of the best guys available at the time to design it. It was actually quite a reactor for a research facility at a university in Tech professor Nolan Hertel stands at the edge of a 15-foot-deep crater where Tech’s nuclear reactor once was. terms of design and layout and capability,” Hertel said. An article in the February 1963 Alumnus reported: tory course where students maybe did three or four Despite the dismantling of university research “Georgia Tech and the state of Georgia made a great experiments with the reactor. reactors, enrollments in nuclear engineering programs stride forward into the nuclear age on Jan. 11 with the “A lot of the things that nuclear engineers used have picked up across the country in the past few formal dedication of the $4.5 million Frank H. Neely them for in the 1960s and ’70s — we measured neu- years, according to Hertel. Nuclear Research Center on the Tech campus. tron interaction parameters and things like that — we “All of a sudden in ’96-’97 companies that hadn’t “In addition to its use for training nuclear engi- no longer need to know because we already know it,” come to campus to recruit in 10 or 12 years started neers, the center’s reactor, expected to become opera- he said. coming again because they realized their work force tional in the late spring, will provide a nuclear energy Meanwhile, the cost of maintaining Tech’s reactor was nearing retirement. The NRC claims that two- source for countless industrial and government was between $200,000 and $300,000 a year. thirds of all their employees could retire right now research programs never before possible in the area “There were checks you had to do daily and because they have enough years in,” he said. and for numerous biomedical research projects to aid monthly and semi-annually and quarterly. Once a year “I think if you went across the country and inter- man in his struggle against disease.” we leak tested the dome. There were a lot of things viewed nuclear engineering faculty you’d probably In the summer of 1997, Georgia Tech announced that had to be done routinely to keep the license cur- find that 95 percent of them don’t do research in their the reactor would be shut down. rent,” Hertel said. reactors. But if you said, ‘Let’s tear your reactor “The Department of Energy considers them a The biggest cost in the dismantling process came down,’ they’d say, ‘No, don’t tear it down,’” Hertel national resource. They were disappointed when we with the disposal of waste from the reactor. said. shut ours down. They saw other universities shutting “It costs a lot to bury anything that is even sup- “I think what people perceive is that when you theirs down too,” Hertel said. “There are about 25 uni- posedly radioactive. Some of this stuff is buried at sev- tear it down, you lose some credibility as a program. versity research reactors now. At one time there were eral hundred dollars a cubic foot. There are all kinds of We’ve already come over that hump. Six years (after probably 70.” surcharges on it,” Hertel said, adding that the waste the decommissioning announcement) our academic He said only a few hundred Tech students actual- was shipped to burial grounds in South Carolina and program has the fifth or sixth largest undergraduate ly used the reactor over the years. “We had one labora- Utah. enrollment in the country.” from the hill 11/4/03 5:18 PM Page 21

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and the evolution of the Earth’s climate and life. ANDREW NIESEN Highest Medal “The theory of plate tectonics he published in 1968 is one of the major milestones of U.S. science in the 20th Alumnus, Tech professor receive century,” said Anthony Dahlen, chairman of the • Winter 2003 top science, technology honors Princeton Department of Geosciences. A professor of electrical and computer engineering lumnus W. Jason Morgan, a Princeton University at Tech, Dupuis, who has been awarded the National Ageophysicist, and Tech professor Russell D. Dupuis Medal of Technology, holds the Steve W. Chaddick are among the scientists and engineers who received Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics and is a Georgia National Medals for sci- Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. ence and technology — Dupuis is being recognized for his “contributions to the nation’s highest hon- the development and commercialization of light-emitting ors. diode technology, with applications to digital displays, President George consumer electronics, automotive lighting, traffic signals W. Bush announced they and illumination.” would receive the medals Dupuis is receiving the Medal of Technology as a at a White House cere- team with Nick Holonyak Jr., John Bardeen Chair mony Nov. 6. Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Morgan, Phys 57, Physics Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Princeton’s Knox Taylor Champaign, and M. George Craford, an engineer with Professor of Geography, Lumileds Lighting in San Jose, Calif. was honored with the “It is a strange team in some respects because the National Medal of work being cited is work that was done in three different Science for his theories places at three different times by independent groups,” said Dupuis. that describe how land W. Jason Morgan, Phys 57, However, the three men have been connected per- Professor Rick Trebino, left, and research masses move, volcanoes Medal for Science assistant Mark Kimmel built an apparatus that sonally and professionally for many years. Holonyak was are formed and many measures ultrashort laser pulses. features of the land and the PhD adviser for both men at the University of Illinois sea take shape. — Craford was Holonyak’s fourth PhD student and The award recog- Dupuis his 18th. Tech Professor’s nizes Morgan for his Dupuis has also collaborated with both men on work pioneering two research and papers over the years and as Dupuis began Invention Gets fundamental ideas — teaching PhD students, his students began collaborating plate tectonics and man- with Holonyak’s PhD students. R&D100 Award tle plumes. Dupuis credited Holonyak’s “hands-on” approach The first describes with his students with giving him direction in his career. eorgia Tech professor Rick Trebino’s inven- how the Earth’s surface Dupuis said he feels honored to be an heir of a long Gtion of a device that measures ultrashort consists of a dozen plates “bloodline” of distinguished scientists. laser pulses, something many researchers that move with respect to “George and I derive our technological birth from thought could not be done, has received an each other. This work Nick. I think of him as our technological father. Through R&D100 Award, one of the year’s most presti- provided a unified Professor Russell D. Dupuis, him I like to think I am ‘related’ to John Bardeen, Nick’s gious technology awards. Medal for Technology framework for understand- PhD adviser, who was the inventor of the transistor in The R&D100 awards recognize the 100 ing earthquakes and volcanoes as well as the formation 1947 and who received Nobel Prizes in physics in 1956 most technologically significant inventions of of mountains, ocean basins and other surface features. and 1972. And Bardeen’s adviser was Eugene Wigner, the year as determined by an independent panel The work also underlies nearly all current research one of the founders of solid state theory and also a Nobel of experts commissioned by R&D Magazine. into deposits of petroleum and other natural resources Prize winner in physics in 1963.” “Our device measures the shortest events ever created — ultrashort laser pulses,” said Trebino, who holds the Georgia Tech Alliance- Annual Rankings Place Tech in Top 10 Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optical Physics. “These pulses are easy to create, and .S. News & World Report has ranked Georgia Tech those areas,” Clough said. “One counter to that problem, they have many new applications, ranging from Uninth among the nation’s top public universities and however, is the generosity of our alumni. Our alumni giv- medical imaging to micro-machining to the rate of alumni giving No. 1. ing rate is first among all public universities and 18th telecommunications.” Tech made the magazine’s Top 10 for the fifth year overall. That is a very strong endorsement by our alumni Trebino said the pulses are difficult to in a row and this year moved up a slot to as to the value of their education.” measure due to a seemingly very fundamental 37th among all U.S. universities. The College of Engineering moved dilemma — in order to measure an event in "Year-to-year fluctuations in these into the top five nationally. The time, you need a shorter one. So how do you rankings sell magazines, but it’s the con- School of Industrial and Systems measure the shortest one? sistency of performance over the years Engineering again ranked No. 1, fol- “Many researchers thought the problem that measures academic quality,” said lowed by the aerospace engineering was unsolvable,” Trebino said. “But we solved it President Wayne Clough. “I’m pleased program at No. 2 and civil engineering nicely, measuring not only the pulse intensity to see that with increasing enrollments No. 4, down from the third spot last versus time, but also the color versus time. Our and decreasing budgets we continue to year. The graduate engineering program device works by using the event to measure be ranked among the elite in American ranked fifth in the country. itself, making a spectrogram of the pulse, and higher education.” U.S. News ranked the DuPree then using some clever mathematics — bor- Georgia Tech’s peer assessment, College of Management 36th in the com- rowed from astronomical imaging — to retrieve the school’s perceived quality among petitive business school rankings and cited the pulse.” other universities, was high enough the co-op program, the largest in the coun- The invention has been further developed to be ranked among the top 20 in try, as a “program to look for.” and commercialized by Trebino’s start-up com- the nation. However, Tech ranked “It is another very solid showing,” said pany, Swamp Optics. Devices created by the 65th in faculty resources and 69th in retention and Clough. “We’re consistently ranked among company have acronyms FROG, TADPOLE and graduation rates. The Institute also scored low in the per- the nation’s elite public universities and our GRENOUILLE (which is French for frog), centage of classes with less than 20 students. College of Engineering and its programs continue their although Trebino said Swamp is actually an “Unfortunately, our current budget situation, com- national prominence. For our School of Industrial and acronym for Simply Wonderful Apparatus for bined with increasing demand for a Georgia Tech educa- Systems Engineering to rank Number One in the entire Measuring Pulses. tion, will make it difficult to make notable progress in nation year after year after year is truly impressive.” in the black 11/4/03 6:10 PM Page 22

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• Winter 2003 Financial News and Giving Updates Tech Topics Tech Milestone Markers Reunion classes raise more than $5.9 million

he classes of 1953, 1963 and 1978 pre- Tsented more than $5.9 million to President Wayne Clough to support the Georgia Tech experience of today’s stu- dents during reunion parties at Homecoming 2003. The 50th Reunion Class of 1953 raised a total of $2,987,657, with $305,748 going to support the Class of 1953 President’s Scholarship as part of the President’s Scholarship Program. The President’s Scholarship Program began in 1981 with six scholarships. Today there are 319 President’s Scholars and 955 President’s Scholar alumni. The average SAT of freshman President’s Scholars is 1459 and their average GPA at Tech is 3.52. The 40th Reunion Class of 1963 raised $2,824,273 overall, with $269,116 dedicat- ed for the Class of 1963 G. Wayne Clough Scholarship, in honor of their classmate, for students in need of financial aid. Last fall, 30 percent of freshmen received need- based financial aid and 31 percent of all undergraduates received need-based aid. The Class of 1978, which celebrated its 25th reunion this year, raised $2,802,193, including $121,050 to help fund the Class of 1978 Indoor Track at the new Campus Recreation Center. The suspended, four-lane running track is one of the highlights of the new center and is surrounded by glass walls and offers a spectacular view of the Tech campus and Midtown. The center replaces the Student Athletic Complex, which was completed in the spring of 1977. GT

Top: Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, second from right, receives the Reunion Class of 1953 check from, left to right, Bob Krasnoff, Jim Bell, Jim Dellinger, A.D. Little and Dan Blitch. Not pictured is 50th reunion party vice chair Fred Johansen.

Middle: Members of the reunion committee of the 40th Reunion Class of 1963, includ- ing President Clough, are, left to right, Thos Muller, Lloyd Byars, Sam VanLandingham, Lynn Maddox and Jerry Cox.

Bottom: President Clough holds high the Class of 1978’s check presented by reunion committee members, left to right, Kim Keelin Sak, Stephen Krebs, Kathie Day, Steve Armstrong, Guy Long, Sandra Lewis Armstrong and Gavin Weldon. foundation 11/4/03 6:06 PM Page 22

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Money Managers • Winter 2003

CAROLINE JOE To the Point Herky Harris displays brisk management style at INVESCO, Georgia Tech Foundation

By Gary Goettling

y his own admission, Hubert L. “Herky” Harris Jr. is always in a hurry. It’s a trait mirrored in his Bmanagement style. “Part of my role is to create a sense of ‘giddyap’ in getting things done,” said the 1965 industrial man- agement graduate, who in August was named CEO of INVESCO North America. On July 1 Harris also began a two-year stint as treasurer of the Georgia Tech Foundation. His long- time involvement with Georgia Tech includes seven years on the Alumni Association Board of Trustees, including a term as president during 1996-97. “I have a full plate and then some — my cup run- neth over,” laughed Harris, who also helps manage his family’s 170-year-old farm. A division of the $345 billion London-based AMVESCAP PLC, INVESCO North America markets and manages investment products ranging from fixed income to value, core and growth equities. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company’s North American operation services about $120 billion worth of assets for individual and institutional clients through additional offices in New York, Denver and Herky Harris is CEO of INVESCO Louisville, Ky. North America and treasurer of Previously Harris served as CEO of AMVESCAP the Georgia Tech Foundation. Retirement. He remains involved as chairman and is credited with helping that division improve its prof- itability. extent they have excess resources, ought to look at the said. “It never crossed my mind to go anywhere else.” At INVESCO North America, Harris oversees one Georgia Tech Foundation. Supporting advanced edu- Harris later earned an MBA from Georgia State of the world’s largest investment managers as it strug- cation in Georgia through the Foundation is one of the University and in 1977 was a vice president of the gles to cope with a sluggish U.S. economy. best investments they'll ever make.” Citizens & Southern National Bank (now Bank of “We have to improve efficiency and try to refocus Harris’ management style is much like Harris America) when he accepted a position in the Jimmy our energy toward growth,” said Harris, who has himself — focused, brisk and straightforward. He Carter administration as assistant director of legisla- spent the past 15 years with AMVESCAP. eschews long meetings and exhaustive, multipage tive affairs in the federal Office of Management and “The issue here is the negative returns in the stock memorandums. Budget. He returned to Atlanta in 1983 as executive market over the past three years,” he added. “The “I like to get to the point, understand the prob- director of the International Association for Financial declining level of confidence that certain investors lem, figure out what we’re going to do about it, then Planning. Harris joined INVESCO five years later. have in the market affects us dramatically because our get about doing it,” Harris said. “I’m a very fortunate person,” he said. “As differ- entire business is driven around the market and mar- “Once you’ve got a game plan and once you’ve ent as my jobs have been, I’ve never had any job that I ket-related issues. That’s a bit out of my control, but set your direction, you’ve got to get everybody on didn’t like.” it’s still an issue that we have to work on.” board. No one person can make it happen,” he contin- The one constant job in his life — and in the lives Circumstances are different at the Georgia Tech ued. “The responsibility of the leader is to convince of generations of Harrises — has been at the family’s Foundation, where Harris oversees its financial the followers at whatever level they are — from the property in Walton County. The 800-acre holdings aspects. highest to the last-hired person — that the objectives include the original family homestead built around “The Foundation has had a very good run over we’re trying to accomplish are in everyone’s best inter- 1830 and a working farm where cattle, hay and pine the last several years,” he noted. “We were very fortu- est. With good teamwork and good chemistry among trees are raised. nate to have done our principal fund-raising campaign the team, oftentimes you can exceed expectations.” Harris is involved in the farm’s operation, which prior to the market sell-off, so we were very well pro- True to his Georgia Tech roots, Harris likes num- presents its own brand of challenges. Still, Harris said, vided for by our alumni and friends of Georgia Tech.” bers. “it’s a business, and we work at it every year with the Harris also credited the Foundation with a heads- “Numbers tell a story,” he said. “I like to have intent of making a profit.” up asset-allocation strategy that managed to avoid accurate numbers about the company in terms of rev- Another constant in Harris’ life has been his some of the more horrendous stock losses. enues, expenses and other relevant numbers. One of unusual nickname, Herky. Although of uncertain ori- The value of an independent, financially robust the things I focus on is being sure the numbers are gin or meaning, he gives credit — if that’s the right foundation for the ongoing support of Georgia Tech absolutely scrubbed clean so you don’t have any dis- word — to sister Mary Ann for assigning him the cannot be overstated, nor should it be taken for grant- parities.” nickname when he was a toddler. ed, Harris added. A graduate of Grady High School in Atlanta, “I’ve tried to get rid of it many times, but it keeps “It is the result of a lot of hard work by many Harris said that his one and only undergraduate edu- coming back,” he laughed. “A guy who has been people over many years,” he said. To ensure the future cation choice was Georgia Tech. around as long as I have ought to have a normal of the Institute, “Tech men and Tech women, to the “I never even applied to any other college,” he name, but unfortunately I’m stuck with this one.” GT what's the word? 11/4/03 5:27 PM Page 24

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NICOLE CAPPELLO Helping Hand Students build sign language tool

By Larry Bowie

amien Gaudry never took a course in sign lan- guage, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to Dbuild an instructional tool that could lend a hand to children who want to learn. Gaudry and two other Georgia Tech graduate stu- dents — Cindy Perreira and Russell Marzette — built an 18-inch-tall robotic hand that could eventually sign the 26 letters of the English alphabet. “We wanted to develop an interactive and fun device to teach children sign language, whether they are hearing impaired or not,” Gaudry said. “We thought it would help them to visually see the signs rather than hav- ing to look at them in books.” Graduate student Damien Gaudry demonstrates a The students worked on the project for two months robotic hand that can sign letters and numbers — a tool that teaches sign language. this year as their final project in a graduate-level introduc- tory course on mechatronics — an emerging technique in engineering that deals with the study of integration of motors are built in to control the hand and each motor come out of the mechatronics courses. Other notable familiar mechanical systems and components with new has its own circuitry.” inventions have been the self-playing guitar that actually electronic components and intelligence-based software. With fingers made from soldered brass tubing and takes requests, a machine similar to an ATM that dis- Students enrolled in the course, offered in Georgia rods and strung together by cables connected to a penses money called the CA$H-o-MATIC and a machine Tech’s School of Mechanical Engineering, must design, series of small motors, the robotic hand is surprisingly that deals cards and plays along with human players. build and present a mechatronic innovation that fuses agile. It takes about five seconds to sign a letter. “The mechatronic engineering techniques used in mechanics, electronics and information technology. In The hand rests on a microprocessor unit that con- this project are representative of the approach that’s the class, students are taught to engineer for complete trols the motion and all the circuitry to power the motors. used today to design devices and systems that possess “smart product” development for the market. The unit includes an LCD panel and a series of switches a degree of computer-based intelligence,” said professor During a project presentation, the students that allows the user to enter the letter or number he Charles Ume. “We expect to see the integration of explained they were able to program the hand to make would like the hand to display. mechanics, electronics and computing increase rapidly nine different symbols: the letters A to D and numbers Gaudry scrolls through the letters and numbers and in the near future due to consumer demands for smart one to five. That’s no small feat, considering the engi- selects the letter C. Once selected, the motors begin to products and intelligent machines.” neering involved in building a giant hand that signs. wind up the cables in the fingers, bending the joints until Tech’s state-of-the-art Mechatronics Laboratory, “I think the most difficult part was integrating electri- the hand produces the symbol, similar to the way a which supports these classes, was built with a grant from cal components and computer-based systems into one mechanical puppet might be manipulated. After the letter the National Science Foundation, a matching fund from mechanical system,” said Marzette. is signed, rubber bands connected to the back of each Tech and financial and equipment support from Siemens. Gaudry added, “Getting the electronics to work finger return the hand to the starting open position. Larry Bowie is a writer for Georgia Tech Institute Communications together properly was a challenge. Fifteen stepper The robotic hand is just one interesting invention to and Public Affairs. Miss India USA: Sophomore Captures Titles in State, National Cultural Pageants

By Maria M. Lameiras ing the two cultures and tion-and-answer portion. Miss India Nagarajan decided to compete in this respecting both and having Worldwide is the only international year’s competitions. eorgia Tech sophomore pride for your Indian her- Indian pageant. “It was more exciting than nerve- GMeghna Nagarajan wears itage and pride for the coun- In addition to capturing the overall wracking. I was not ever nervous, but it two crowns as the 2003 Miss try you live in,” said title of Miss India USA, Nagarajan also was definitely mind boggling,” India Georgia and Miss India Nagarajan, 19, an electrical walked away with the “Best Talent” Nagarajan said. “I met so many differ- USA. engineering major who award in the national pageant for her ent girls from different countries and it The second runner-up at the entered her first pageant two rendition of a popular song from an was interesting to learn what their cul- Miss India Worldwide compe- years ago. Indian film. At the Miss India tures were like and how they did things tition in San Francisco in The contestants of Worldwide pageant, Nagarajan won differently. The experience was definite- September, Nagarajan the pageants are the “Miss Beautiful Smile” award. ly something I will remember forever.” said the pageants cele- young women of “Singing is my greatest passion. Nagarajan is part of the India Club brate the culture of Indian origin, I’ve been singing since I was 5,” said at Tech and is involved in a community India and encourage between the ages Nagarajan, who moved to the United organization that raises funds and winners to engage in of 17 and 25 and States five years ago with her family. sends them to India to provide educa- charity work to bene- never married. She attended high school in Alpharetta, tion, food, clothing and shelter for fit others of their her- The pageants Ga., before enrolling at Tech in 2001. underprivileged children. itage. consist of four “I’ve done performances for my com- “I believe the most important thing “They are not segments — munity while I was in India and here as in the world is children and being like other pageants evening gown, well.” involved with providing them with the because they pro- Indian dress, tal- After placing in the top 10 in the basics they need to succeed in life,” mote the idea of fus- ent and a ques- 2001 Miss India USA pageant, Nagarajan said. GT

PRESTON MERCHANT Tech Topics • Winter 2003 25 STEPHEN BEREND Rice’s company also has won a contract to man- Economic Tech using the Georgia “We’re in 1967. He Tech out of Georgia Rice dropped perspective on life. I had seen “I had a different a flak jacket. The material I wore “In Vietnam made ballistic nylon luggage for 20 years “We David Rice is proud of the Interceptor vests of the Interceptor David Rice is proud his company manufactures in south Georgia.his company manufactures the Los Angeles and New York police departments, York Angeles and New the Los of Diplomatic Security and U.S. FBI, CIA, IRS, Office State Department. Army and is 15,000 pop-up tents for the ufacture bidding to make the military’s MOLLE — modular Tech lightweight load-carrying equipment. Georgia the con- secure is helping Savannah Luggage Works tract. has a Development Institute to help us bid. Tech Assistance Center. called the Procurement program helping us bid on government contracts. They’re They’ll come in and help you write your proposals,” Rice said. with the 1st Army and landed in Vietnam joined the in 1970 ready to Tech Cavalry Division. He returned to earn his degree. you and makes It matures in Vietnam. a lot of stuff Rice said. you see things differently,” that was used in flak jackets was ballistic nylon. When we started making luggage, lo and behold, was the first company to use ballistic nylon. It Tumi vests and that’s one was developed for bulletproof that this fabric is very tough,” of the selling features, he said. left we got into the body armor busi- and after Tumi So in that sense, my career Army. ness for the U.S. has sort of come full circle.” ss tt ss

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and sales operations for 1930s Cingular Wireless with responsi- bility for all national distribution John H. Ridley, Chem channels and sales operations 35, of Atlanta, was on hand to staff. Carter lives in Duluth, Ga. watch grandson Scott Bradley T. Fisher Craft, NE 65, graduate with his master’s was recently honored with the degree in applied biology from Minuteman medal at the 113th Georgia Tech in August. Ridley, annual Congress of the National a retired surgeon, serves on the Society of Sons of the American advisory board for premedical Revolution. The honor, which is studies for Tech’s College of the most prestigious award pre- Sciences. sented by the society, was established in 1951 and is pre- sented to those who have made 1940s distinguished and exceptional contributions to the national Jerry Hamack, AE 43, society. Craft has been an SAR was inducted into the member since 1991 and served International Astronautics as vice president general of the Association as an academician South Atlantic district in 1999. in 2000. Hamack lives in He has served as national Seabrook, Texas. trustee for Georgia and Switzerland for two years. Craft and his wife, Laurel, live in 1950s Decatur, Ga. Two Alumni David V. Hutton, IE 67, Goodman B. Espy, ME has authored a text entitled Named TR100 57, was given the 2003 Jack A. “Fundamentals of Finite Raines Humanitarian Award by Elements Analysis” published the Medical Association of by McGraw-Hill. Hutton is the Innovators Georgia in August. The annual Boeing Distinguished Professor award recognizes the physician of Manufacturing Engineering in wo Georgia Tech alumni are featured in who has made outstanding the School of Mechanical and Tthe October issue of Technology Review humanitarian contributions Materials Engineering at magazine that salutes 100 innovators age 35 beyond the normal practice of Washington State University. or younger whose technologies are poised to medicine. Espy, an obstetrician Hutton lives in Pullman, Wash. make a dramatic impact on our world. from Marietta, Ga., has dedicat- Leland Holliday, ChE Sanjay Parekh, EE 96, who developed ed his time and resources to 65, retired Aug. 1 after a 38- software that lets companies tailor services to helping provide medical treat- year career with Sasol North their customers’ locations, and Paul Q. Judge, ment and equipment to Albania, America and its predecessor MS CS 01, PhD 02, who wrote software that the poorest country in Europe. companies, including Conoco stops spam and viruses before they enter a Jim Jones, EE 55, and Chemicals and Vista Chemical network, are acknowledged in the his wife, Angie, celebrated their Co. Holliday lives in Austin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology publi- 50th wedding anniversary on Texas. cation. Oct. 24. Angie was awarded a Kenneth Kase, Phys 61, Parekh, 29, is chief strategy officer for “Mistress of Husband took office as president of the Digital Envoy, a Duluth, Ga., company he Sanjay Parekh, top, and Paul Judge, above, Engineering” degree by Dean Health Physics Society in July. formed four years ago. The product he devel- were bestowed with TR100 awards. George C. Griffin when Jim Kase is also senior vice presi- oped, NetAcuity, is used by eBay, AOL Time graduated from Tech. The cou- dent of the National Council on Warner, Microsoft and others to determine a a computer that runs a series of spam filters ple have three grown sons and Radiation Protection and visitor’s locality. and virus detectors, some based on algo- 10 grandchildren. Jones is Measurement. Kase lives in Palo “It traces connections back through rithms the team created,” the magazine said. retired from Saudi Consolidated Alto, Calif. Internet switching stations to the network Deployed at 700 corporations and uni- Electric Co. in Saudi Arabia. Don King, IE 60, complet- nodes where log-ons originate — almost versities, IronMail stops 95 percent to 98 per- Wiley L. Maloof, IM 54, ed a seven-day hiking and always in a visitor’s city or town. This is close cent of incoming spam without blocking launched a remanufacturing backpacking trip through the enough to give users local weather forecasts, legitimate mail, Judge said. He also founded facility for ink jet and toner car- High Sierra backcountry of or the addresses of nearby electronics stores, Spam Archive, a research storehouse of junk tridges in 2001 in Atlanta. Yosemite National Park in without them having to enter any data,” the e-mail, and his efforts led to his appointment Maloof lives in Atlanta. California on Aug. 4. The 53- magazine said. “NetAcuity also enables Web as the first head of the Anti-Spam Research McKinney V. “Mac” mile hike began at Yosemite sites to automatically tailor advertisements. A Group within the Internet Research Task Taylor, CE 52, was elected in Valley at 4,000 feet above sea billboard ad for Home Depot, for example, Force, a professional society. July to the Appalachian Trail level and ended at Red Peak could announce a sale at a store near the visi- To preview the future, Technology Review Conference Board of Managers. Pass at 11,050 feet above sea tor’s home. Indeed, Google uses NetAcuity to said it searches for the people creating it. “We Taylor lives in Richmond, Va. level. King, who retired in 2001, target area-specific ads.” combed through the rosters of universities, lives in Snellville, Ga. Judge, 26, is chief technology officer at companies, national laboratories and other Earl P. Morrow, CE 65, CipherTrust, an Atlanta data security start-up R&D outfits around the globe to find 100 of 1960s has retired as director of facili- company he joined while working on his today’s most exciting young innovators: the ties operations from Central master’s degree. lab dwellers, visionaries and deal makers Curtis L. Carter, IM 67, Michigan University in Mount “Leading a team of 10 developers (all whose work will utterly transform our world was promoted to senior vice Pleasant, Mich., after 18 years. older than he was), Judge produced IronMail, in the years to come.” president for national channels Previously, he worked for 23 burdell 11/4/03 5:07 PM Page 29

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years for LTV Steel in Aliquippa, of the company in January. GARY MEEK Pa. He and his wife, Sarah, Chesser is currently on the have moved to Grand Rapids, board of directors of Itron Inc., a Mich., to be near their daugh- meter reading and automated • Winter 2003 ters and grandchildren. communications equipment Dick Simmons, ChE 61, company for which he was pre- MS ChE 64, accepted a position viously chairman and CEO. as vice president of the fuels Chesser has also served as and energy group for DeWitt & president and CEO of Atlantic Co. in Houston after retiring Energy Inc. and at GPU Energy. from Methanex Methanol with 10 Chesser and his wife, Susan, years of service. Simmons lives live in New York City but will be in Kingwood, Texas. relocating to Kansas City. Larry Taylor, IM 62, has Douglas O. Cochran, “re-retired” as a major general CE 76, was elected president of after serving for 20 months with the Georgia Railroad the Marine Corps Reserve dur- Association in June. He is chief ing the mobilization and deploy- engineering officer for Georgia ment of more than 21,000 & Florida RailNet and previously Marine reservists after the terror- served as vice president of ist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. engineering for Gulf & Ohio Taylor first retired from the Railways, road master with Marine Corps Reserve in 1997 Georgia Southwestern Railroad and from Northwest Airlines in and track supervisor and bridge 2001. Taylor lives in Atlanta. supervisor with Norfolk Southern John Whiteside, AE 64, Corp. He and his wife, Jo, live in Wells Burke, left, and Andy Ibbotson are the power behind Synthis Corp. retired in July after 27 years as Leesburg, Ga., and have two a U.S. Navy civil service engi- children, John, a senior chemi- neer working on the Fleet cal engineering major at Ballistic Missile program at the Georgia Tech, and Jessica, a Fortuitous Friendship Lockheed Martin complex in junior history major at Furman Classmates’ start-up company realizes rapid growth Sunnyvale, Calif. Previously, University. Whiteside was in the Air Force N. Jan Davis, Biol 75, t a time when many companies are tread- underlying Synthis Design Platform, the compa- for 12 years. He continued in has been named director of the Aing water — or drowning — Synthis Corp. ny now also licenses its technology to select the Air Force Reserve for 16 safety and mission assurance is experiencing a wave of success. OEM customers and plans to release a new years before retiring as a lieu- organization at NASA’s Marshall Launched by six Georgia Tech classmates process-modeling application in early 2004 tar- tenant colonel. He and his wife, Space Flight Center in in the fall of 1999, Synthis released its first prod- geted at specific verticals within the business Monika, will continue to live in Huntsville, Ala. Davis, an engi- uct, Adalon, two years later. It now is being process-modeling market. San Jose, Calif., near their son, neer and astronaut who has used in 25 countries around the globe to help Synthis has operated profitably from the Randall Whiteside, AE 94. flown on three space shuttle design, sell and implement enterprise-class Web beginning without any outside investment. But missions, joined NASA in 1979. applications. company president Ibbotson said the company She now will direct the safety, Synthis moved into the Advanced receives other kinds of support from Tech and 1970s reliability and quality activities of Technology Development Center at Georgia ATDC. all Marshall Center programs, Tech in January 2002 and signed its 100th cus- “Georgia Tech and ATDC have provided us Joe Braun, EE 72, has including establishing and tomer before the end of the year. Rapid growth with a great group of people to draw from in become a senior manager at assuring compliance with NASA has continued in 2003. Synthis hit the 250-cus- terms of experience and knowledge. Being a PricewaterhouseCoopers in safety and mission assurance tomer mark in July. part of the Georgia Tech family really has done Tampa, Fla. Braun lives in Lutz, strategies, policies and stan- A technology company specializing in a lot for us,” Ibbotson said. Fla., with his wife and four chil- dards and implementing meth- process-modeling tools, Synthis is powered by Tech brought the six founders together. dren. ods for identifying and assess- Wells Burke, CS 00, CEO, and Andy Ibbotson, “When we started Synthis in late ’99 we George Carellas, IE 71, ing safety risks. IE 98, president. were hitting the peak of the Internet bubble. was awarded the Environmental George Dabney, EE 74, Burke said Adalon is an easy-to-use model- There was a lot of excitement about starting a Protection Agency Bronze merged his engineering compa- ing tool that helps unify key software develop- software company and potentially retiring in a Medal for Commendable ny, Dabney Engineering, with ment functions. couple of years,” Ibbotson said. “We put togeth- Service in June. Carellas, chief Shooshanian Engineering Inc. of “Adalon provides a bridge between busi- er a very talented, all Georgia Tech team and set of sustainability and steward- Boston to form SEI Companies. ness-focused designers and technically focused out to make our mark. ship for the deputy assistant Dabney was named principal software architects and developers. Our product “We initially funded the company by sell- secretary of the Army in the and board member of the com- enables companies to visually design Web ing our expertise in custom Web application Pentagon, was recognized for bined company and will contin- applications based on clearly defined business development, charging consulting rates that are “outstanding leadership as a ue to manage Houston opera- process flows and automatically convert those unheard of in today’s economy. Fortunately, we founder of interagency partner- tions of the firm. The company process designs into a best-practice technology had enough good sense to reinvest our profits ships that protect the environ- provides engineering services framework for development. This ultimately in product development instead of spending it ment, create mutual success ranging from mechanical and results in the faster delivery of a better-quality all on fancy office space and extravagant par- among the military services, electrical to fire protection and solution,” Burke said. ties,” Ibbotson said. states and the EPA, and serve communications technology. “Adalon is the first tool built from the “By the time the bottom fell out of the con- as an example of the best con- Dabney and his wife, Barbara ground up to support business process design sulting business, we had a great new product to duct a public servant has to Hall Dabney, EE 75, have been for Internet applications,” he said. “With market and were well on our way to achieving offer America.” Previously, married 28 years and have Adalon, we have created an integrated environ- sustained profitability as a product-based com- Carellas was chief of the three grown children, Caroline, ment to define and track requirements, visually pany. Southern regional environmental David and Tressa. The couple model the process foundations of an application “Not getting carried away with our initial office of the U.S. Army live in Tomball, Texas. and to create high-quality documentation and success as consultants, taking advantage of the Environmental Center. Tony F. Hancock, ID 77, best-practice code frameworks at the touch of a many resources Georgia Tech has to offer and Michael J. Chesser, AE was promoted to director of button.” carefully managing our growth through these 71, was named chairman and packaging innovation in the Capitalizing on the success of Adalon and uncertain economic times are three major rea- CEO of Great Plains Energy in consumer packaging division at more than three years of investment in the sons why we are doing so well today.” September and will take charge Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. in burdell 11/6/03 4:17 PM Page 30

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June. Hancock lives in St. Blair Caplan Marks, excellence in the engineering R. Allen Russell II, Mgt unit’s projects. He is also a Charles, Ill. CerE 78, received a Leadership field, professional work experi- 76, received a successful liver member of the external advisory John B. Handy, IE 73, Award from Women in ence, professional affiliations transplant on Sept. 5, 2002, at board for Georgia Tech’s School • Winter 2003 was promoted to the rank of Aerospace in September. Marks and community service. Núñez, Vanderbilt University in of Civil and Environmental major general in the Air National is director of Lockheed Martin principal of TEI Engineers & Nashville, Tenn., to correct a Engineering. Guard in June. Handy is the Aeronautics Co.’s C-5 Avionics Planners, co-founded the firm in birth defect found in 1999. His Jenifer Beard Cistola, mobilization assistant to the Modernization Program in 1991 and has built an organiza- Web site describing the three- IE 81, accepted the position of Tech Topics Topics Tech director of the Defense Contract Marietta, Ga. tion that has offices in Lake year journey is at http://geoci- vice president of CableLabs in Management Agency and is Tom Menges, ChE 78, Mary, Tampa, Tallahassee, Fort ties.com/stingem_2000/liversto- Louisville, Colo., in August. responsible for managing the has been promoted to presi- Lauderdale, Sarasota and ry.htm. Russell has been an Cistola is responsible for the reserve component support to dent/general manager of Oxy Jacksonville, Fla., and in area manager with BellSouth in Go2Broadband project, an e- the agency and serves as an Permian, a unit of Occidental Atlanta. Atlanta for 21 years. He and his commerce platform that sup- adviser to the director and the Petroleum, in Houston. He lives H. Philip Paradice Jr., wife, Lynn, have been married ports the retail sale of cable agency’s senior leadership in Katy, Texas, with his wife, IM 71, was awarded the U.S. 26 years and have two sons, broadband and video services. team. Handy formerly com- Dawna, and their two children. Department of Commerce Silver David, 12, and Mark, 18, a Cistola lives in Broomfield, manded the District of Columbia Gregory S. Miller, CE Medal for Personal and freshman aerospace engineer- Colo., with her husband, Ed, Air National Guard. Handy’s 77, was appointed county engi- Professional Excellence by ing major at Georgia Tech. The and twin 16-year-old daughters. civilian occupation is director for neer for Washington County, Commerce Secretary Donald L. family lives in Peachtree City, Peggy A. Cloninger, EE federal health care studies with Oregon, in June. Miller lives in Evans in Washington, D.C., on Ga. 81, MS EE 82, announces the Logistics Management Institute, Portland, Ore. Sept. 18. Paradice, chief of Richard A. Standard, adoption in December 2002 of a a nonprofit study center in John Nestor, EE 79, was capacity development for the MS Arch 77, has joined the daughter, Danielle Renee Keti, McLean, Va. presented the John A. Curtis Economic Development Atlanta office of Leo Daly as a born Sept. 29, 2002, in the Douglas Humme, EE Award by the American Society Administration’s Atlanta region, principal and director of hospi- republic of Georgia. Cloninger, 77, was granted his professional for Engineering Education for provided economic develop- tality design. An award-winning who earned her PhD in 2000 engineer license by the state of presenting the best paper at the ment assistance to the state of registered architect with 24 from Georgia State University, is Nevada in October. Humme, Computers in Education North Carolina, which has been years of experience, Standard an assistant professor in the who holds professional engi- Division session during its annu- impacted by job losses and has designed more than 5,000 school of business at the neering licenses in 10 states, is al conference. Nestor, an asso- plant closures in the textile, fur- hotel rooms for Marriott Corp., University of Houston-Victoria the electrical department man- ciate professor of electrical and niture and manufacturing sec- McKibbon Hotel Group, and lives in Sugarland, Texas. ager for CHPA Consulting computer engineering at tors. Intercontinental Hotels and Michael J. Cooper, IE Engineers in Houston. Lafayette University, joined the Gene Patterson, IM 79, Regent Partners. 86, was promoted to associate Tim Jackson, CE 78, MS faculty in 2000 after serving as was promoted to national professor of finance at Purdue CP 81, has been elected presi- associate professor and associ- account executive with University in August. Cooper dent of 1,000 Friends of Florida, ate chair of computer engineer- Hercules’ Pulp and Paper divi- 1980s lives in West Lafayette, Ind. a private not-for-profit group that ing at the Illinois Institute of sion. Patterson lives in Brett Costley, EE 89, advocates smart growth. He Technology in Chicago, where Kennesaw, Ga. J. Gregory Anderson, MS EE 91, and his wife, Penny, lives in Longwood, Fla., with his he directed the computer engi- Dallas Robinson, ME CE 89, and his wife, Jill, announce the birth of a son, wife, Carol Daniel Jackson, IE neering program from 1993 to 75, has been named plant man- announce the birth of their first Robert Nicholas, on July 26. 81, and their three sons. 1995. He has a PhD and a mas- ager of Terra Industries’ child, Andilee Lavelle, on July Nicholas joins sister Grace at Mark Janney, CerE 74, ter’s degree in electrical engi- Verdigris, Okla., and Blytheville, 31. Anderson is a project engi- the family’s home in Vernonia, recently retired from Oak Ridge neering from Carnegie Mellon Ark., manufacturing facilities. neer with Rosser International in Ore. Costley is an engineer at National Laboratory in Oak University. Robinson, who joined the com- Atlanta. The family lives in Intel Corp. and serves on the Ridge, Tenn., after a 19-year Andrés E. Núñez Jr., pany in 1995 after working with Buford, Ga. Vernonia City Council. tenure. Janney has taken a new CE 75, MS CE 77, received the Thermalkem and Agrico David C. Brewer, ME Ray Davis Curry, ICS position with Porvair Fuel Cell Engineer of the Year award from Chemical, had been the manag- 83, was promoted to colonel in 80, of Portland, Maine, recently Technology in Hendersonville, the Tampa Bay American er of Terra’s Port Neal, Iowa, the U.S. Air Force in June. He is earned a master’s degree in N.C., as senior research engi- Society of Highway Engineers in plant. He and his wife, Sharon, assigned to Headquarters Air library and information science neer. July. The award recognizes have relocated to Verdigris. Education and Training from the University of South Command at Randolph Air Carolina. Curry is owner of Force Base in San Antonio. Curry Thought Solutions Brewer is the chief of the pro- Scott Davis, CE 89, IE grams division in the Civil 89, was promoted to vice presi- Construction Manager Engineering Directorate. He dent of construction for D.R. Bill Miller retires, oversaw massive campus building projects recently received the Horton in Atlanta. He and his Meritorious Service Medal and wife, Kristi Faith Davis, Met 89, his fourth oak leaf cluster for his have two children, Elizabeth illiam A. “Bill” Miller, who has been respon- biomedical engineer- tour at Luke Air Force Base. and Mary Margaret, and live in Wsible for overseeing the most massive ing, research and Brewer, his wife, Martha, and Kennesaw, Ga. campus construction projects in Georgia Tech’s academics in accor- their son, Matthew, 10, live in Tim Eichenlaub, MS IM history, retired in October as manager of capital dance with Tech’s Universal City, Texas. 82, has joined Prometheus projects for Tech’s facilities office. campus master Michael Brown, BS 82, Partners in Atlanta as a manag- Miller, CE 62, MS CE 71, spent the past 12 plan. started a design company, Mike ing director. Prometheus years managing projects topping $500 million Projects included Brown Design, in Atlanta in Partners is a private equity firm that have changed the face of the campus. Technology Square, the Ford August 2002. The firm special- specializing in smaller middle- In preparation for the 1996 Olympics in Environmental Science and Technology izes in exhibits, museums, dis- market recurring revenue serv- Atlanta, Miller, as director of Olympic Planning, Building, Parker H. Petit Building for plays and retail interiors. Brown ice businesses. Eichenlaub was was responsible for developing and managing Biotechnology and the Campus Recreation lives in Atlanta. formerly a managing director in more than $320 million in Olympic-related con- Center expansion; the renovation of the J.S. William R. Calhoun Jr., the merchant banking group at struction and renovation projects. Coon Building, a $1.1 million project completed CE 81, has been named execu- GE Commercial Finance. Over the past several years, Miller has in April; and the planning of the Christopher tive vice president of The Clark Larry Gibson, ME 85, been in charge of what he termed “the most Klaus Advanced Computing Building, the Construction Group in was appointed to factory man- significant project in the history of Georgia Undergraduate Learning Center and new green Bethesda, Md. Calhoun leads a ager of Unilever’s Clinton, Tech.” spaces throughout campus. business unit in Clark’s mid- Conn., site in January. Gibson Miller oversaw the organization of the cam- Miller served in the Army Corps of Atlantic region and is responsi- lives in Clinton. pus into complexes centered on computing, Engineers for 30 years, retiring in 1992. ble for overseeing the acquisi- William G. Grip, CE 82, tion and construction of the a Navy commander, recently burdell 11/6/03 4:17 PM Page 31

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Negotiations began. Wesolowski quit his job in September to devote himself full time to acquiring WYAB. Paperwork was filed with the FCC on Christmas

Buy Ad, Get Web Site • Winter 2003 Eve and approved in March. The owner agreed to finance the sale. Two Tech friends buy radio station offered on eBay “We put down the smallest down payment on the cheapest radio station in America,” Wesolowski said. By Kimberly Link-Wills On April 1, he officially became the station’s CEO and Adkins its president. Although Adkins remains in California, he travels to Yazoo City frequently. att Wesolowski and Mike Adkins are the proud owners “Mike is the chief engineer. He wrote the automation for the station. He of WYAB 93.1 FM, a 4,100-watt “little blowtorch” in rebuilt the transmitter. He works for nothing, but with the understanding that Yazoo City, Miss., they found listed on eBay. he owns half the radio station,” Wesolowski said. M He and fiancee Danielle Harvey, MgtSci 99, relocated to Yazoo City, where Wesolowski, PubPol 00, was the sports director at WREK and a play-by-play baseball announcer during his student days at she volunteered as the station’s accountant until landing a job teaching math at Georgia Tech. Dorm mate Adkins, EE 98, MS EE 99, studied radio Yazoo County High School in August. frequencies. The two became friends and hatched a plan to launch Wesolowski oversees the day-to-day operations, sells advertisements and their own radio station. records 80 percent of the station’s commercials. WYAB, which plays “oldies,” “During the summer of 1998, Mike just pored through every- runs on an automated computer system about 17 hours a day. thing possible to figure out how to do it. We printed out thousands of The technical education Wesolowski and Adkins received at Georgia pages,” Wesolowski said. “Basically we came to the determination Tech has enabled them to offer their advertisers something their Yazoo City that we probably wouldn’t be able to do it because all the frequencies competitors can’t. were taken already, certainly in Atlanta.” “As part of our incentive for people to advertise with us, we give them Then they heard about Federal Communications Commission free Web sites if they spend a certain amount of money each month. We license auctions in which radio frequencies can be obtained. They have our own Web server with high-speed Internet. Mike set up the server learned how to petition the FCC and sought out available frequencies and I design the Web sites,” Wesolowski said. throughout the Southeast. “Then I decided it would be a good idea to make friends with the “It is unbelievably complicated and it’s a very long process,” local newspaper. We couldn’t maintain a news staff if we wanted to. I Wesolowski said, explaining they have petitioned the FCC for frequen- said, ‘If we can have access to your news sources, we’ll give you a free cies in Georgia, Florida and Alabama but are still waiting for a license Web site.’ Now we can produce quality newscasts and not have to worry auction, which has been postponed time and again since 2000. where we’re going to get material every day. And the Yazoo Herald has a Still, they were undeterred. Web site.” “It wasn’t all talk. We bought two FM transmitters, one of them from Wesolowski and Adkins pooled their savings — less than $40,000 Georgia Tech in fact. We bought the old WREK backup transmitter. We — to cover expenses until they could make WYAB profitable. bought another transmitter off of eBay. It was all in anticipation of a station “The old owner left us with about $600 a month in sales. For a sta- we were going to get one day. Mike wrote software for us to be better pre- tion like this, you really should be able to do about $15,000 a month,” pared for a license auction,” Wesolowski said. Wesolowski said. “We lost $10,000 our first month. Now we’re within Meanwhile, Adkins took a job with Boeing in California and about $1,000 in sales of being profitable. But we knew we were just Wesolowski began working as a network administrator at Revenue going to go through hell the first year or two.” Technologies in Atlanta. This first taste of radio station ownership hasn’t sidetracked “In January 2002, I really began looking in earnest to find a cheap radio plans to scoop up available frequencies when the FCC does have a station, I mean the cheapest radio station in America,” he said. “We looked at license auction. And the business partners continue to watch for a bunch of cruddy little AMs. I looked at lots of those. We were trying to get small radio stations on the market. They hope to one day own more something that could be more than it was, a fixer-upper.” than a dozen stations around the country. In April of last year, Wesolowski spotted an article in a radio trade maga- “I want to get this one stable, hire a general manager and zine about the first person to try to sell a radio station on eBay. move on,” Wesolowski said. “He wanted $210,000. I think he thought that after all the publicity, the price The radio station owner and his fiancee became husband and would skyrocket,” Wesolowski said. “He didn’t get any bids.” wife on Nov. 8. But the honeymoon already may be over. Wesolowski and Adkins both visited the 880-square-foot fabricated building “I told Danielle these next couple of years are going to be in Yazoo City shortly after the radio station was listed on the Internet auction site. the worst of her life, then after that everything will be OK.” “The transmitter was just awful. There were no sales. There was a dedicated staff of two. But it was a FM radio station for approximately $200,000,” Mike Adkins climbs the WYAB radio tower in Yazoo City, Miss., to upgrade the station’s transmitter. Wesolowski said.

was awarded his sixth Navy and fied financial planner and regis- Edward at the family’s home in Alyssa Levy McElrone, viously served as manager of Marine Corps Commendation tered principal at Harmon Batavia, Ill. Kluber is co-founder Psych 85, and her husband, regulatory and legislative affairs Medal while assigned to the Financial Advisors in Atlanta. of the architectural and engi- Dorian, announce the birth of a and pricing. Newsom joined First Naval Construction The couple live in Roswell, Ga. neering firm of Kluber Skahan + daughter, Dorian Wren, on July SCANA as a sales manager in Division, Naval Amphibious Daryl C. Jones, ME 84, Associates, which he started 10. Dorian joins brother Devlin 1999. Base, in Little Creek, Va. While MS ME 88, was promoted to with his brother, Mike Kluber, EE at the family’s home in Atlanta. Tom Owens, IM 84, cele- serving as assistant chief of regional partner by Shelter 87. John F. “Jeff” Newell brates his 10th anniversary in staff for the division, Grip devel- Development in September. Melanie Pate III, AE 85, is a lieutenant November with Cracker Barrel oped and coordinated key Jones heads Shelter’s Atlanta Langsett, MgtSci 85, was colonel in the Air Force and is Old Country Stores Inc. Owens, financial programs and merits regional office and is responsi- made a partner at Deloitte & currently serving as the Air regional facility manager for the for Operation Iraqi Freedom and ble for expanding its affordable Touche in Atlanta in September. Force military aide to President company, recently had the north Operation Enduring Freedom. housing development and Langsett leads the firm’s George W. Bush and is a and central Georgia districts He also created the first naval acquisition business. Jones employee benefits consulting colonel selectee. He and his added to his responsibilities. construction division campaign joined Shelter in 1994 as vice practice in the Southeast. She wife, Nancy, live in Washington, Owens lives in Lebanon, Tenn. plan and directed a reserve president of information systems and her husband, Kevin, and D.C. Daniel Warren Plonk, force realignment to provide and later became senior vice their children, Weatherly and J. Brett Newsom, IE 86, MS ME 85, was promoted to increased reserve Seabee president of the company. Cameron, live in Tucker, Ga. has been named director of director of transportation plan- readiness. Grip is assigned to Jones and his family live in Mark Lassetter, EE 83, pricing and regulatory affairs for ning and operating systems for Navy Exchange Service Atlanta. and his wife, Angela, announce SCANA Energy. Newsom’s Norfolk Southern Corp. in Command in Virginia Beach, Va. John Kluber, ME 84, and the birth of their daughter, responsibilities include all rate Atlanta in August. Plonk, who Jack Harmon II, ICS 86, his wife, Shawn, announce the Aubrey Leigh, on Sept. 7. She and pricing decisions, the sales earned his MBA from Virginia and Susan Margletta were mar- birth of a daughter, Diane Leigh. joins brother Dane, 5, at the team, and governmental and Tech in 2003, lives in Newnan, ried June 14. Harmon is a certi- Diane joins brother Grant family’s home in Roswell, Ga. regulatory affairs. Newsom pre- Ga. burdell 11/4/03 5:07 PM Page 32

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Lisa Powers, BC 86, has Square for Georgia Tech and ChE 93, and his wife, Cathy, Atlanta and Craig is a mechani- anniversary of Pegasus Group joined CUH2A as director of the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal announce the birth of a daugh- cal engineer for Factory Inc., the general contracting

• Winter 2003 business development at the Center. He has recently taken ter, Chloe Bay, on Dec. 21, Automation Systems in Atlanta. company they founded together firm’s Chicago office. Powers an assignment in Chicago on 2002. Clemensen is an applica- The family lives in Newnan, Ga. in July 2002. The company is lives in Chicago. the McCormick Place tions engineer with Solvay Craig S. Gilden, ME 93, focused on construction and Douglas W. Robinson, Convention Center expansion. Advanced Polymers in Atlanta. MS ME 94, and Rebecca telecom and is serving Puerto CE 81, a principal in the Atlanta He is a licensed professional The family lives in Atlanta. McNally Gilden, ME 94, Rico and the Caribbean. Tech Topics Topics Tech office of Walter P. Moore engi- engineer in six states. Heather Ezell Dautel, announce the birth of a son, Virginia and Jorge are living and neering and consulting firm, has John W. Bolton Jr., CE IM 93, and her husband, Jason Michael, on March 5. working in San Juan. been named managing director 92, and his wife, Holly, Michael, announce the birth of a Jason joins sister Alexandra at Dana Thompson of structural engineering opera- announce the birth of a daugh- son, Stewart Charles, in June the family’s home in Ann Arbor, Lowenthal, MgtSci 96, and tions. He is responsible for ter, Eleanor Lindsay, on Oct. 24, 2002. Stewart joined brother Mich. Craig and Rebecca both Todd Simon Lowenthal, IE structural project delivery and 2002. Bolton is area sales man- Andrew Poe at the family’s work at Ford Motor Co. in 96, announce the birth of a client service and as office man- ager for Tensar Earth home in Charlotte, N.C. Dautel Dearborn, Mich. daughter, Alexandra Danielle, ager for all disciplines in Technologies Inc. and is is the manager of the compli- David Glantzberg, ME on June 6. Dana is assistant Atlanta. responsible for sales and mar- ance/registrations division for 94, and Theresa Schlitt vice president of sales process Earl B. Smith, ME 88, keting activities in three regions Wachovia Capital Markets in Glantzberg, MS EE 95, and technology for HomeBanc has accepted a faculty position in the South and Mid-Atlantic Charlotte. announce the birth of a son, and Todd is in sales and mar- in the College of Engineering at states. The family lives in Ron Davis, Mgt 95, is an Kyle Christopher, on Aug. 8. keting. The family lives in Prairie View A&M University in Huntersville, N.C. assistant professor of computer David is a former sales engineer Kennesaw, Ga. Prairie View, Texas. Smith is Jimmy Bonk, IE 97, and information systems at the and project manager for Nortel Katie Lubke, MS MatE involved with outreach pro- Kelly Reese Bonk, EAS 97, University of North Alabama Networks and will be taking time 99, and her husband, Dave, grams and is on the faculty announce the birth of a son, and an adjunct instructor in off to stay home with Kyle. announce the birth of a son, advisory council at the universi- Dustin James, on July 14. The computer information systems Theresa is a senior systems Noah William, on July 28. Lubke ty. His areas of research are family lives in Dawsonville, Ga. at Northwest Shoals Community engineer for Raytheon in is a fuel system design engineer fuzzy logic, robotics and intelli- Michael Bosley, Biol 99, College. Davis lives in Muscle McKinney, Texas. The family at Visteon in Dearborn, Mich. gent control. Smith lives in graduated from the Emory Shoals, Ala. lives in Allen, Texas. The family lives in Milan, Mich. College Station, Texas. University School of Medicine in Brian S. Dietzman, IntA Gil Hearn, EE 95, and Ramon Maldonado, Mgt May. He and his wife, Brandice, 96, is a candidate in the mas- his wife, Kelda, announce the 93, was recently promoted to live in Atlanta. ter’s degree program in interna- birth of a daughter, Allie lieutenant commander in the 1990s Marty Boyd, CE 94, MS tional affairs at the George Bush Elizabeth, on July 12. The family Navy Reserve. Maldonado was CE 97, and his wife, Stephanie, School of Government and lives in Atlanta, Ga. promoted while serving with the John Armstrong, MS announce the birth of their first Public Service at Texas A&M Tasha Huster commander of the Air Fleet Arch 91, had his first book, “The child, Chloe Capes, on July 1. University. Dietzman and his Johnson, CE 94, and her hus- Mediterranean in Naples, Italy. Way We Played the Game,” The family recently relocated to wife, Joanna, live in College band, Derek, announce the James Chad Mangum, published in September 2002 Loganville, Ga., and Marty is a Station, Texas. birth of their son, Teague Mgt 99, has opened a Quizno’s by Sourcebooks. The book consulting engineer with Carter R. Mark Dougall, Mgt Richard, on June 9. The family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga. chronicles the true story of the & Sloope Inc. 90, and his wife, Regan, lives in Nashville, Tenn., and Mangum lives in Conyers, Ga. 1903 Benton Harbor, Mich., Tom Brooks, CE 90, has announce the birth of their first Johnson is a transportation Randy McDow, IE 95, High School football team in its been promoted to assistant ath- child, Ryleigh Elizabeth, on July engineer for Gresham Smith MS PubPol 03, has been pro- quest to win the nation’s first letic director at the University of 7. Dougall is the principal of and Partners. moted to director of the organized state championship Michigan. He was also recently Dougall Law Offices, a practice Ryan J. Judge, Mgt 98, President’s Scholarship Program in Michigan. Armstrong is work- named the 2002-03 Big Ten focused on real and intellectual and Wendy E. Jones, IE 00, at Georgia Tech. He continues ing on a second book and Conference Marketer of the property transactions. He is also were married June 14 at to serve as the faculty sponsor doing architectural work at I*F Year. Brooks, his wife, Jennifer, a Tennessee Rule 31 listed Peachtree Road United of the a cappella club and as Design, a design-build firm in and their daughter, Haven, live mediator. The family lives in Methodist Church in Atlanta. recruitment adviser to Delta Benton Harbor. Armstrong lives in Ann Arbor, Mich. Nashville, Tenn. Wendy is a business analyst Sigma Phi fraternity. McDow in St. John, Mich., with his wife Brent Bryan, Mgt 93, Heather Duda, Mgt 99, with Cendian Corp. in Atlanta lives in Atlanta. and son. and Victoria Cobb Bryan, and Raymond Baxter Oliver III and Ryan is a technology man- Chris Nichols, ChE 95, Susan Whitaker Text 92, announce the birth of were married Oct. 18. Duda is ager with Southeast Pet Inc. in and Ginger Wilde Nichols, ChE Aspinwall, Mgt 97, and their daughter, Jill Alexandria, manager of sales and retailer Austell, Ga. The couple live in 00, have moved to Thomasville, David Aspinwall, Econ 97, on Aug. 30. Jill joins sisters relations for the National Smyrna, Ga. Ga., where Chris is on staff with announce the birth of a son, Katie, 5, and Darby, 1, at the Association of Convenience Brian Kessler, ME 94, YoungLife. Ginger works in the Benjamin Michael, on May 7. family’s home in Auburn, Ga. Stores. The couple live in and Rebekah A. Hall were mar- computer systems engineering Ben joins brother Matt at the Brent is a sales engineer with Alpharetta, Ga. ried May 28 in Florence, Italy. group at Merck & Co. family’s home in Marietta, Ga. Aircond Corp. and Vicki is a full- Dean Dummitt, ME 92, Kessler earned his MBA in Leonardo “Lenny” David is a marketing manager time mother. and Heather Lemke August from Georgia State Ortiz, IE 97, and Beth for Bekaert Corp. and Susan is Tasha Akins Bucy, IE Dummitt, Chem 93, announce University. He is lead consultant Cunningham Ortiz, Psych CEO of DSMB Inc. 97, and her husband, Jeff, the birth of a son, Nathan Dean, for NewEnergy Associates. The 97, announce the birth of their Christine “Tina” announce the birth of a son, on May 10. Dean is a regional couple live in Atlanta. second child, Alex Michael, on Rowland Atchison, IE 91, Nathaniel Ben, on Jan. 9. Ben sales manager with Luzenac William “Cott” Lang May 19. Alex joins sister Isabel and her husband, Joe, joins sister Madison at the fami- America and Heather is the total III, CS 96, and Jill Anna, 3, at the family’s home in announce the birth of their ly’s home in St. Augustine, Fla. quality systems site manager at Chambers Lang, Biol 97, Oklahoma City, Okla. Lenny is daughter, Claire Rose, on May Christopher T. Burke, Graphic Packaging in Macon, announce the birth of a daugh- an engineer in the systems 10. Claire joins brother Trevor, 3, AE 93, and Tonya M. Sager Ga. The family lives in Macon. ter, Lucy Elizabeth, on June 28. engineering division for Tinker at the family’s home in Marietta, were married Aug. 2 in Helen, William J. Flanagan, Cott is the chief engineer for Air Force Base in Oklahoma Ga. Atchison is a senior engi- Ga. Burke is a nuclear engineer. Psych 97, has joined VCommerce Corp. in City and Beth currently works in neer at MEAG Power. The couple live in Vidalia, Ga. Management Psychology Group Scottsdale, Ariz., and Jill is a a home day care. Brent Bandy, CE 91, MS Jennifer Cauchon, MS in Atlanta as a partner. Flanagan veterinarian practicing in Jeffrey Osterlund, MS CE 91, has been named a prin- ID 98, and Ron Germain were lives in Roswell, Ga. Phoenix. The family lives in AE 98, and his wife, Sherri, cipal at Walter P. Moore, an married Aug. 16. The couple Craig Fox, ME 98, and Scottsdale. announce the birth of their son, engineering and consulting firm live in Marietta, Ga. Jennifer is a Wendy Tyson Fox, IE 97, Jorge Lopez, CE 98, and Carson Scott, on Sept. 17. in Atlanta. Bandy, who has been freelance graphic designer and announce the birth of a daugh- Virginia Malcome, IE 00, were Carson joins sister Natalie at the with the firm since 1992, served is working on starting a compa- ter, Katharine Anne, on Jan. 13. married Nov. 30, 2002, in San family’s home in League City, as manager for the company on ny, JenCau Designs. Wendy is a senior systems ana- Juan, Puerto Rico. The couple Texas. Osterlund is an projects such as Technology Patrick Clemensen, lyst for Global Payments Inc. in also recently celebrated the first upgrades project manager for , Arch

Tech Topics • Winter 2003 33 Christian Rogers CAROLINE JOE 93, MS Arch 02, joined 93, MS Arch in Architects TurnerBatson Birmingham, Ala., as a project in August. Rogers is a architect member of the American and has Institute of Architects theater and experience in retail, design and in cus- residential tom audio, video and lighting and per- systems in churches Durango, Colo. Roberson is a engineer with senior process VECO USA. “He got on the Dean’s List that first quarter and “He got on the Dean’s Ken chose industrial management over engineer- children, Now Ken and his wife, Paige, have three “My dad was very encouraging of me to go wher- experiences for his early Tech And he’ll provide have season tickets this year and we go as “We Ken can imagine the pride he would feel watching to “When I graduated, my grandfather was there I have is that he left me relics “One of the greatest , ChE 96, and her son demonstrated in adapting to Tech’s tough aca- son demonstrated in adapting to Tech’s demic environment. stayed on it every quarter until he graduated — except so that was for one summer I had him working for me, my fault,” George III said with a smile. ing with the long-term goal of working on the business end of Cleveland Electric, the family business on his of the company is Ken’s side. The president mother’s IM 60. uncle, James R. Cleveland Jr., Nicholas, 8, Bennet, 4, and Isabel, 3, who Ken hopes will be fifth-generation grads. wanted to go ever I wanted to go to school, but I really how I will be and that’s all on my own to Georgia Tech with my kids,” he said. young family. much as we can. The kids love to sit and watch the game and take it all in and they love it when Buzz Ken said. comes around,” Tech. graduate from his children ever participate he’s I think that was the proudest and ear talk about someone just beaming from been. You cap on,” that was him. He even had his RAT to ear, Ken said. neat to be a part cap. It is really of a tradition his RAT like this.” , Mgt 90, and her hus- Bridget Bapst Maryellen Stutsman Radosta band, Pete, announce the birth child, Patrick Ryan, of their third 4. Patrick joins sister on March John at the Megan and brother Ga. home in Alpharetta, family’s Roberson husband, Mark, announce the birth child, Briana of their third Josephine, on June 4. Briana Will and sister joins brother home in Katie at the family’s , IE , ME 94, and her Jennifer Peckham Hobbs Laureen 95, and Michael Johnson were married June 24 in Positano, Peckham is a sales engi- Italy. neer with Eaton Cutler Hammer. The couple live in Boise, Idaho. Pellegrino husband, Joseph, of announce Farmingdale, N.Y., Jocelyn the birth of a daughter, Sabine, on May 25. Pellegrino is a manufacturing engineer at in Huntington, N.Y. Telephonics Ken, who also works for Cleveland Electric, had Yellow day one as a hardcore up from “I grew sports goals conflicted with his Ken’s However, wanted to play soccer at the college level “I really Ken stayed at Furman for only two years before “I had to go to school for the summer quarter on a George III said he is still amazed at the speed his George III served in the Navy for four years before George III served in the Navy for four years working in heavy industrial equipment sales and with working in heavy industrial equipment sales four General Electric and Cleveland Electric. After business, he years in his own mechanical construction doing environmen- worked for Williams Service Group returning to waste cleanup before tal and hazardous in December which he retired Cleveland Electric, from 2002. choice when it came to choosing a college. more Jackets fan,” said Ken. “My dad would take me down all the time to football games. That was when there they had an Astroturf field and they’d blow the whistle loud after everyreally game, I loved that when I was a I never real- kid. I always wanted to go to school there, else.” ly wanted to go anywhere One of the top high school soccer to go to Tech. desire and a players in Georgia, Ken was torn between Tech school with a varsity soccer program. I could fulfill that and I wanted to go somewhere all the while wanting to finish at Georgia Tech. dream, with Furman program a five-year dual degree had years, then trans- I could go to Furman for three Tech. so that’s degree a Tech and graduate with fer to Tech what I did.” transferring to Tech. acceptance because I’d come to Tech provisional he said. mind,” but I didn’t early, , ME George A. Harbour III, IM 62, and Ken Harbour, IM 87, are members of a four-generation Tech family. Tech members of a four-generation IM 87, are George III, IM 62, and Ken Harbour, A. Harbour Stefanie George , MS Mgt 96, announce Chad Lee Payne 91, and Payne the birththeir son, Benjamin of “Ryan” Payne, on Aug. 5. Ryan at the fami- Jordan joins brother Ga. home in Alpharetta, ly’s engi- Chad is senior software in Atlanta neer for Linn Software and Stefanie is a principal busi- ness analyst for IT enterprise applications with Inovis. Atlanta Braves. The couple live in Stone Mountain, Ga. , , Mgt any people hang their college degrees on an any people hang their college degrees four Georgia wall, but Ken Harbour has office No, Ken isn’t a marvel of longevity and education- a marvel of longevity No, Ken isn’t in 1997, died in 1957 and George Jr. George Sr. kept very detailed being an engineer, “My father, during the Great attended Tech George Jr. “My grandfather was an avid stamp collector and took the opportunity to heart and was a George Jr. “When I was in high school at the Georgia Military wishes, George III applied only to his father’s True exactly the kind you’d be “My grades weren’t Kristin Patterson Jennifer Patterson Tech Tradition Tech four generations Harbour clan spans By Maria M. Lameiras M Tech diplomas hanging on his, the first earned in 1904 Tech and the last in 1987. graduate a fourth-generation Tech He’s al prowess. 1987 from and only the industrial management degree is his own. The others belong to his great-grandfather, George TE 04; his grandfather, George A. Harbour Sr., George A. ME 36; and his father, A. Harbour Jr., Harbour III, IM 62. tradition lives on in the Harbour clan, said but the Tech George III. journals about the family and the family connection to he said, poring over several volumes of Georgia Tech,” “When my handwritten journals kept by his father. Rome, Ga., from to Tech came George Sr., grandfather, of the first A. French one in 1900, he was awarded with his tex- scholarships and, after graduating in 1904 of a professor became tile engineering degree, for several years.” mechanical drawing at Tech and his education was financed through Depression sacrifice. my father told me my grandfather had to sell a good bit of his stamp collection to send my father to col- lege,” George III said. “He was very fortunate to be able to go to college.” devoted and dedicated alumnus, said his son. Academy in Atlanta my father came to me and said, going to col- you’re do you want to know where ‘Well, and lege?’” George III said. “He took me over to Tech He had just this huge office met with George Griffin. thinking, ‘Golly Pete, and I was intimidated. I remember who is this guy?’ But he certainly spoke well of the school and he encouraged me to come and partici- pate, that my time would be worthwhile.” Harbour Jones, also His first cousin, Stephen to Tech. and earned his followed the family tradition to Tech in 1969. industrial management degree of, and I’d been accepted by the Navy ROTC proud George III said. “After a couple of quarters,program,” setting the not really said, ‘You’re my Navy professors with your grades,’ and made it known woods on fire that would have to change because I had to graduate on time because of my Navy commitment.” 99, and Tim Edmunds were Ga. married Aug. 9 in Decatur, Patterson is a corporate for the account representative Mgt 92, and Eric Cross were Mgt 92, and Eric Cross married Aug. 23 in Boothbay Maine. Patterson, mill Harbour, for director merchandising Solutia Inc., and her husband live in Acworth, Ga. United Space Alliance in Houston. burdell 11/4/03 5:07 PM Page 33 11/4/03 5:07 PM burdell burdell 11/6/034:17PMPage34 34 Tech Topics • Winter 2003 algorithm isbased. ied theEuropean modelon whichtheBlack-Scholes have a“lastday?”Daughterywondered ashestud- time withinaspecifiedperiod. American options,whichcanbeexercised atany exercised onthelastdayofanoption,asopposedto European option.European optionscanonlybe The assumptiongaveavaluetoanexpirationless Daughtery decided,wouldneverworkinreality. Nobel Prizefortheirworkinoptionspricing. in partbyoneoftwoeconomistswhowonthe1998 Black-Scholes option-pricingalgorithm,developed be atimeelementinreal-world applicationsofthe never beingabletofigure outwhythere neededto before ithappens.It’saproduct hedesignedafter whether itwillfall,andhowmuchtimepass sion —whetherthepriceofsomethingwillrise, the three gamblesthatispartofeachoptionsdeci- place.” uct asthenextbigthinginderivativemarket- outstanding. Thegeneralconsensusseesthisprod- overall feedbackfrom marketparticipantshasbeen ment fortheNexTrade Futures Exchange,said,“The ple withdisabilities. dent ofanonprofit group thatbuildshousesforpeo- children inNorthCarolina, where heisthepresi- able toretire incomfortatsomepointtime.” but Ithinkit’sareasonable certaintythatIwillbe 000) annually,” Daughterysaid.“Iamnotrichyet, at greater than$1quadrillion($1,000,000,000,000, enormous. money couldbemadefrom XPOs,butitcouldbe Fla., opensandJuly2014. NexTrade Futures Exchange,basedinClearwater, each tradethatuseshisproduct betweenthetime exchanges oroverthecounter. States topatentafinancialproduct tradedon Wallman —tobecomethefirstpersoninUnited Securities andExchangeCommissionerSteven forming abusinesspartnershipwithformer every nightfor17years. Georgia Tech classroom. Hepuzzledoveritalmost pricing algorithmpresented yearsearlierina reaction toaportionoftheBlack-Scholesoption- exchange bymid-June2004. applying forpermissiontoopenasafutures XPO, toNexTrade Futures Exchange,which is his product, theExpirationless American Option,or through it. cial algorithmandispoisedtodriveaBrink’struck A By Karen Hill product tradedonexchanges Alumnus patentsfirstfinancial Yet, But…’ ‘I’m NotRich “Essentially, there isnodifference between sell- But howcouldsomethingthatisexpirationless One ofthebasicassumptionsinthatalgorithm, Basically, Daughteryhaseliminatedthelastof Frank Bachinsky, director ofexchangedevelop- Daughtery liveswithhiswifeandtwoteen-age “We havethefirstpatentsinamarketestimated No oneiswillingtospeculateonhowmuch Daughtery willgetafractionofthevalue His “aha!”momentledhimin2001—after Daughtery nevercouldletgoofhis“huh?” Daughtery, Mgt90,MSEcon95,haslicensed real-world applicationofaworld-famousfinan- lumnus Vergil Daughteryfoundaholeinthe al optionsisthatyoudonothavetoberightonthe overtradition- other way. Theadvantage oftheXPO direction butdonotlosemoney ifpricesgothe tage ofanoptionisthatyoumakemoneyinone Ramblin makesmoneyandBuzzloses.Theadvan- mandatory. Butifthepricefallsfrom current levels, money andRamblinloses,becauseperformanceis if thepricerisesfrom current levels,Buzzmakes is notmandatory, Daughterysaid. soifthepricegoesagainstanoption,exercise tion,” the road. An optionis“theright but nottheobliga- even ifitwastwoorthree growing seasonsdown Trader Buzzcouldkeephisoptionuntilneeded, order, worthzero. Iftheoptionwasexpirationless, good moneyforsomethingthatwindsup,inshort he can’tuse(itexpires worthless)andsohehaspaid commodity plussaleofoption. combined, apriceabovethemarket—saleof for theoption.Ramblinstillreceives, from thetwo makes themarketpriceplushereceived worthless (Buzzlostthebet)andFarmerRamblin been paidforanoptionbyTrader Buzzthatexpires August, FarmerRamblinstillwinsbecausehehas so plentifulthatthepricefellto50centsabushelby anyway. Butifthere wasabumpercrop, withcorn Ramblin wasobligatedtosellhimat$5abushel to $10abushel,Trader Buzzwon,asFarmer the scarcity ofcornmadethepriceskyrocket August. Ramblin tobuy1,000ofhisbushelsfor$5perthat summer andboughtanoptionfrom Farmer bushel paidtheprevious summerto$5abushelthat that thepriceofcornwouldrisefrom the$1a ing inMarch of1900.Trader Buzzmighthave bet associated withagriculturalcommodities. specified time.It’sahigh-riskmarkethistorically buy orsellanassetatapredetermined priceovera ment. coming tofruition.” agreement thathas“noreasonable expectationof decided, where contractlawvoidsasvaluelessany “In eithercase,youneverhavetodeliver.” selling themtheBrooklyn Bridge,”Daughterysaid. ing someoneanexpirationlessEuropean optionand For afutures contractunderthissameexample, Trader Buzzlosesbecauseheboughtanoption If adrought hitbetweenMarch and August and For example,takeatradernamedBuzzwork- Options are traditionallydefinedasarightto So hedecidedtosimplytakeoutthetimeele- That wouldneverflyinthereal world,he graphic boundaries.” is reduced across markets,timezonesandgeo- stock andotherassetprices—more value—asrisk value forallinvestorsandshouldleadtohigher speculate andhedge,”hesaid.“Thiswillincrease swaps andoptions—tocreate anewwaytoinvest, between different assetclasses—futures, equities, uses. Bachinsky said. ability toapplythemanymarketwesochoose,” rationless options,Bachinskysaid. Board ofTrade inthefutures market. weights ChicagoMercantile ExchangeandChicago Exchange thatare formingtochallengetheheavy- nent innewexchangeslikeNexTrade Futures Burdell hastosellhimat$55. rockets to$1,000ashare, hegetsquiteadealwhen R Usinventsacure forcancerandthestocksky- loan from Jacket. Jacket. his share untilBurdell actuallysellsthestockto porary passfrom Mr. Tax Man,whowon’tcollect immediately from thesaleofoption,plusatem- stock slidesallthewayto$1.Hegetssomecash price risesandsaveshimfrom furtherlossesifthe share. ThisguaranteesBurdell amodestprofit ifthe $20 ashare orcanbuyitifthepricerisesto$55a Yellow Jacket,whomustbuyitifthepricefallsto way. Burdell cansellanexpirationlessoptiontoMr. stock risesbacktoatleastwhathepaidforit. think theonlythinghecandoiswaitandhope price promptly fallsto$25ashare. Burdell might might buystockinWrecks RUsat$50ashare. The and taxadvantages—totakeitout. options. Hefoundtwogoodreasons —liquidity find agoodreason tokeepthetimeelementin the whimsofMotherNature. Daughterycouldn’t include thetradingofthingsthatweren’t subjectto realized lossifyouare wrong onpricedirection. overtraditionalfutures isthatyoudon’thavea XPO timing, justthepricedirection. Theadvantageofthe “XPOs willbeusedtohelpmanagerisk Daughtery saidXPOshaveawiderangeof “They havestructural benefits.We havethe NexTrade isnowdevelopingwaystosellexpi- Daughtery’s XPOcouldbecomeakeycompo- From Jacket’sperspective,ifsomeoneatWrecks Burdell gets,basically, aninterest-free, tax-free But expirationlessoptionsgivehimanother In amodern-dayexample,George P. Burdell Over timetheoptionsmarketexpandedto Vergil questionedafamous Daughtery financial algorithm. LNMARLER ALAN , , ME , , ChE

Tech Topics • Winter 2003 35 Beau Teague Justin Broan Tracy Justin Broan Mahesh Thadhani Jeanine Pavel Teague 92, and his wife, Tina, announce the birththeir first child, of Kaleigh Mahesh, on May 23. The family lives in Mission Viejo, Calif. SciTechCult 97, MS IDT 99, SciTechCult announce the birth of their first child, Luke Ryan, on July 26. Beau is an information architect with IBM and Jeanine is a full- The family lives in time mother. Marietta, Ga. IE 98, and Methodist Church in Acworth,Methodist Church Ga. The couple live in Acworth. , , , CE 99, , TE 96, Edwards has been studying Hebrew since she has been studying Hebrew Edwards “It is important to learn because even Hebrew Once she finishes her coursework at Ben-Gurion, and I’ve is in microbiology Tech from “My degree “But it is not just for the diseases I will be able to a challenge “Not everyone is built for this, but it’s Darrell Stogner Darrell lage and had lunch in a Bedouin home. They are very are lage and had lunch in a Bedouin home. They house.’ much of the philosophy ‘my house is your you are Once you have tea with them in their house, very They are warm and friendly people.” like family. arrived in Israel in July. to take English from though everyone is required here not fluent. When you a young age, most of them are to speak take a patient history effective it is much more to the patient in their native language and it makes comfortable,” them more she said. will spend two months at the end of her fourthEdwards year doing hands-on fieldwork in India, Ethiopia, applying for her residen- Kenya, Nepal or Peru before cy in the United States. in infectious diseases, which in always been interested is veryits nature international because the United States has a limited scope of infectious diseases,” she said. not the doctor in it is for the people. If you are treat, Some of is no doctor. some of these countries, there these people spend their lives without health care. exciting for me,” she said. really and it’s Clint Strange MarthaStogner Lora Glenn Stewart and Megan Abel were married and Megan Abel were Aug. 23 at Acworth United CompE 95, MS EE 96, announce the birth of their on Haley, Carolina daughter, Aug. 1. The family lives in both Plantation, Fla., where Martha work for Darrell and Inc. Motorola and Kelly Murphey Stewart, ME 00, announce the birth of their first child, Jonathan Glenn, on Aug. 11. The family lives in Sharpsburg, Ga. EE 95, and , IE , MS HP 90, PhD 94, Kathleen Klee Julia Chinn Smith 95, and her husband, Jack, announce the birth of their son, Jackson Gillespie, on Jan. 26. Julia is the global messaging at Certegyarchitect Inc. in St. Petersburg, Fla. The family lives Fla. in Tampa, Spillane and her husband, John, announce the birth of a son, Evan Paul, on Jan. 16. Evan 2, at the joins sister Lauren, Pa. home in Wayne, family’s announce the birth of a daugh- Regan Faith, on Oct. 2. The ter, family lives in Suwanee, Ga. “People tell you not to travel into the Arab coun- Although she is taking all of the “normal” classes in which you “I am taking systems of microbiology “Every is global medicine day and we Wednesday , EE Israel in the Negev Desert, and it is really peaceful Israel in the Negev Desert, and it is really than watching it different Being in Israel is really here. on the news. I did have concerns when I first thought as to whether I was making the right of moving here and was decision and would be safe. When I got here some, I got to see how it really able to travel around was. Bank, but it is not like it is on the tries or into the West news. I’ve found that most of the people I’ve met are normal and they just want to live their lives and people that causes all just the other 1 percent It’s be happy. the fear.” a first-termAmerican medical student would take, said she is also being exposed to curriculum Edwards in the United what she would receive from far removed States. go system by system and focus on the bacteria that in each system. In the United States, can be present you would focus on certain prevalent bacteria that are that are bacteria also doing rare we are Here there. countries,” she said. now found only in third-world spend the day conducting patient interviews in another language or working with Bedouins in the desert. My very we spent a day in a Bedouin vil- here first month , Mgt , Chem 97, Amy Edwards, Biol 01, and fellow medical students enjoy a boat trip in Eilat, Israel. Biol 01, and fellow Amy Edwards, , MgtSci 97, and Jeff Rothwell Jr. Jeff Chalene R. Rubano Jennifer Guerin 92, and his wife, Christina, announce the birth of a son, A. Rothwell III, on June Jeffrey 24. Rothwell is a principal at Group Environmental Greenleaf Inc. The family lives in Ga. Lawrenceville, 94, and her husband, Bob, announce the birth of a son, Joseph Paul, on July 11. Rubano is a power quality engi- The Energy. neer for Progress Fla. family lives in Lake Mary, Skudlarek Jason Skudlarek , , BC 93, and , ChE 97,

Since arriving in Israel in July, Edwards has visit- Edwards Since arriving in Israel in July,

“Beersheva, where I live, is in the southern“Beersheva, where part of Edwards, Biol 01, is among the 33 members of Biol 01, is among the Edwards, per- Edwards in medical school, Prior to enrolling “I first learned after graduating about the program studying at years She will spend her first three “What attracted me initially was the international pro- she participated in a study abroad At Tech, “I think I caught something on that trip. Ever since Casey Rose Tom Rogers Tom n the four months since starting medical school, Amy than 6,000 miles from has moved more Edwards home, begun learning a new language and had By Maria M. Lameiras International Perspective medical school Alumna chooses goals suited to globe-trotting ed Jordan, Jerusalem and the West Bank and is plan- Jerusalem and the West ed Jordan, ning a visit to Egypt. lunch in a Bedouin tent in the Negev Desert. of the the Class of 2007 in the Ben-Gurion University in International and Negev MD Program Health Medicine in collaboration with Columbia University’s degree Health Sciences Division. It is the first medical with specific skills in designed to train doctors program international medicine. the National Institutes at formed biomedical research of Health. I was working at NIH and one of the doctors Tech. from school and gave knew I was applying to medical there said. Edwards me a brochure,” Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical Ben-Gurion’s School in Beersheva, Israel. Beyond the basic medical found in American med- sciences and clinical rotations ical schools, she will learn health, health about refugee infectious diseases economics, disaster relief, care and nutrition. She will also complete coursework in epi- and biostatistics, medical anthropology demiology, communication. cross-cultural who has been said Edwards, aspect of the program,” in studying overseas since high school in interested Marietta, Ga. “All of my family is still in Georgia, but I guess I’ve always been ‘that one’ in my family.” gram in biology and international to Costa Rica. affairs intrigued with working and studying I’ve been really a lot to enjoy traveling and I feel there’s I really abroad. be learned who trav- out in the world,” said Edwards, she to Bolivia, where eled last summer with her parents Indians. worked with doctors in clinics for the Aymara I and his wife, Stacey, announce and his wife, Stacey, Bella, on the birtha daughter, of Aug. 5. Rogers, an information technology consultant, and his family live in Atlanta. Alicia Funderburg Rose forming arts centers. Rogers lives in Birmingham. Mgt 93, announce the birth of a Adley Leighann, on daughter, June 1. Adley joins brother 5, at the family home in Tanner, Ga. Casey is a proj- Alpharetta, ect manager for Young Contracting in Atlanta and Alicia is a full-time mother. burdell 11/6/03 4:17 PM Page 35 11/6/03 4:17 PM burdell burdell 11/6/034:17PMPage36 36 Tech Topics • Winter 2003 Arlington, Va. time mother. Thefamilylivesin Pederson Inc.andLanaisafull- Greeman-engineering firm the Rockville,Va., branchofthe vice president andmanagerof Rutherford, onJan.15.Justinis ofason,Holden birth Tracy 95, and Lakes, Ill. Training CommandinGreat Navy basictrainingatRecruit 99, recently completedU.S. company. Neil ispresident ofamarketing Kristy isafull-timemotherand family’s homeinLargo,Fla. joins hersister, Emma,atthe Elizabeth, onAug.27.Clara ofadaughter,the birth Clara Williams Williams Mountain, Ga. to Jacksonfrom Stone daughter, Akilah,haverelocated Williams andhiswife,Opal, Jackson, Miss.,inAugust. Jackson StateUniversityin and GeneralScienceat Physics, AtmosphericSciences of chair oftheDepartment Phys 94,PhD96,wasnamed Pacific Corp. sales operationswithGeorgia in Marietta,Ga.Williamsis Emily Kayatthefamily’s home on Aug.28.Racheljoinssister ond daughter, RachelSuzanne, oftheirsec- announce thebirth MBA 03,andhiswife,Karen, The coupleliveinRoswell,Ga. is amanagerforDeltaAirLines. Aug. 30inBigCanoe,Ga.Winn and ShawlLobree were married Atlanta. Engineering. Thecouplelivein School ofAerospace adviser atGeorgiaTech inthe Williamson isanacademic married Sept.27inAtlanta. IE 99,andReedRawsonwere Mass. ple reside inFramingham, engineer forRaytheon.Thecou- Maine. Yazdani isanelectrical ried Sept.1atPophamBeach, and AnneValentine were mar- live inBuford, Ga. Mroczka husband, technology law. Sheandher she practicesbusinessand Mahaffey andMcGarity, where associate withAndersen,Tate, Law inMay2002.Sheisan University ofGeorgiaSchool 99, graduatedfrom the Kurt A.Welday Kurt Kevin Williams Lorianne Williamson Kristy Kottich Quinton LWilliams Navid Yazdani Julie E.Winn Paige Younkins , Biol94,announcethe Lana Rutherford Christopher , CE98,MS99, , Mgt92,announce , Mgt92,and , Mgt94, , EE97, , CE94, , Chem , HTS Neil , MS , Peoria, Ariz. He andhiswife,Amber, livein architect forProficient Systems. September. Bauerisasoftware published byAPress in Unix andLinuxAdministration,” had hisfirstbook,“Automating Smyrna. Ga. Smyrna. Orlando, Fla.Thecouplelivein June 14atWalt DisneyWorld in Trimble Burgess in Lawrenceville, Ga. as adistributor. Thecouplelive for EagleRockDistributingCo. May andJonathanisworking University andwillgraduatein attending lawschoolatEmory Elan inBraselton,Ga.Lisais were marriedAug.3atChateau Jonathan Sims Squadron-6. with HelicopterCombatSupport Navy flyingMH-60Shelicopters junior gradeandpilotinthe where DeCiccoisalieutenant Va.,The coupleliveinNorfolk, ried Aug.30inPensacola,Fla. and JessicaDreiling were mar- Science. Associates Inc.Engineeringand ronmental scientistwithTN& 23 inAtlanta.Hinkleisanenvi- Warrington were marriedAug. Hinkle logical innovations. related toscientificandtechno- graduate studentsindisciplines available toundergraduateand applied forthe100openings 2,500 studentsnationwide Homeland Security. More than from of theU.S.Department Scholars andFellowsProgram in thenewHomelandSecurity receive oneof100fellowships 03, CSwasselectedto Austell, Ga. with SoutheastPetInc.in Ryan isatechnologymanager with CendianCorp.inAtlanta. Wendy isabusinessanalyst Methodist Church inAtlanta. 14 atPeachtree RoadUnited Ga.,wereSmyrna, marriedJune and RyanJ.Judge,Mgt98,of pany isfocusedonconstruction together inJuly2002.Thecom- tracting companytheyfounded Group Inc.,thegeneralcon- ofPegasus first anniversary ple alsorecently celebratedthe Rico.Thecou- San Juan,Puerto were marriedNov. 30,2002,in 00, andJorgeLopez,CE98, 2000s Lisa Beyer Kirk Bauer Daniel DeCicco James “Jimmy” V. BlairDowling Wendy E.Jones Rebecca Allyson Virginia Malcome , Biol01,andJason , IE02,were married , Mgt02,and , IE01,and , CmpE01, , Mgt03, , IE01, Kelly , Math , IE00, , IE The coupleliveinOrlando,Fla. with Walt DisneyWorld Resort. are labormaintenanceanalysts Antonio. BothShawnandNicole were marriedSept.20inSan 02, and working inSanJuan. Virginia andJorgeare livingand RicoandtheCaribbean. Puerto and telecomisserving engineering group. Co.computersystems Merck & YoungLife. Gingerworksinthe Ga., where Chrisworksat 95, havemovedtoThomasville, ChE 00,andChrisNichols, ofDefense. the Department Huntsville, Ala.Ericworksfor Atlanta. Thecouplelivein 02, were marriedJune7in 01, and houseCoopers inAtlanta. Tony workswithPricewater- Orientation atGeorgiaTech. Merideth workswithFASET Atlanta were marriedJuly19. and The coupleliveinHattiesburg. mer scienceandengineering. and ispursuingaPhDinpoly- Materials and HighPerformance Mississippi SchoolofPolymers the UniversityofSouthern graduate research assistantat Hattiesburg, Miss.Ottsisa Goff were marriedAug.9in PolyTextChem 00,andKelly Aeronautics Co.inMarietta, Ga. program atLockheedMartin the C-5avionicsmodernization October. Sheisanengineeron Achievement Awards in the HispanicEngineerNational advanced degreeat category Promising Engineerinthe ME 01,wasnamedMost live inMountPleasant,S.C. Base inCharleston,S.C.They pilot atCharlestonAirForce LaGrange, Ga.JohnisaC-17A were marriedMay10in SooOk Hausmann lives inSharpsburg,Ga. Glenn, onAug.11.Thefamily oftheirfirstchild,Jonathan birth CE99,announcethe Stewart, Stewart lives inCollegePark,Ga. Disabilities inAtlanta.Shumpert Defects andDevelopmental with theNationalCenteronBirth an ASPH/CDCresearch fellow Health inMay. Sheiscurrently SchoolofPublic Birmingham University ofAlabama- in publichealthfrom the 00, received amaster’s degree Tony Valdug Kathleen Mullins Shawn Montague Daniel Otts Ginger WildeNichols, Nicole Shumpert Merideth Ray Nicole L.Zirkelback John Urso Kelly Murphey Nicole Stout Eric Demirjian , ME00,andGlenn , AE01,and , , Mgt00,of , STAC 00, , AE01, , IE03, , Biol , Mgt , AE , IE , ings. created award-winning oilpaint- Aircraft. Inhisspare time,he data systemsgroup ofHughes career withtheelectro-optical Caldwell wentontoasecond retiring asacaptain,Mr. chief ofnavaloperations.After Rico andascomptroller forthe the CaribbeanSeainPuerto served asinspectorgeneralfor Washington University, he anMBAfromearning George mander oftheUSSTaluga. After Command inItalyandascom- NATO’s Strikeforce Southern the underseawarfareofficer for Office ofNavalIntelligence,as and CentralAmerica,inthe service asanattachetoMexico guished Navycareer included Peto. Mr. Caldwell’s distin- manding theS-45andUSS Pacific submarinecombat,com- 1936 andspentWorld War IIin the U.S.NavalAcademyin on June14.Hegraduatedfrom Jr. International. was retired from U.S.Steel of Fairhope,Ala.,onAug.9.He Howard, CE71,MSSanE72. B. Survivors includesonRobert ning toassembleinhisgarage. mental aircraft thathewasplan- Howard purchased anexperi- wrote in1932.LastyearMr. of thefirstgraduatingclass which heand11othermembers Georgia Tech’s AEDepartment,” of written copyof“TheHistory in Jacksonville.Hekeptatype- craft overhaulandrepair facility for theNavyaschiefofair- lieutenant colonelandworked War II.Mr. Howard retired asa Pacific TheaterduringWorld AirCorpsinthe tor intheArmy 1. HeservedasaB-29naviga- 32, ofJacksonville,Fla.,onAug. returned toEagleandPhoenix during World War II.He Weapons DivisioninthePacific Automatic Aircraft Artillery commanded the392ndAnti- in1938.Col.Pritchett the Army Columbus, Ga.,before joining Eagle andPhoenixMillsin ternity. Hewas amanagerat fra- founding ofPhiPsihonorary Tech, hewasinstrumentalinthe 28. WhileastudentatGeorgia TE 30,ofDecatur, Ga.,onSept. mander. He wasaretired Navycom- of Coronado, Calif.,onJune2. 1930s , Cls35,ofChapelHill,N.C., Virgil D.Gath Virgil HughCaldwell Robert Walter B.Howard William M.Miller Brumley D.Pritchett , ChE37, , IM39, , AE , Co. after37yearsofservice. turing divisionofGeneralMotors tive intheautomotivemanufac- War II.Heretired asanexecu- duringWorldChina andBurma Force andservedinIndia, 51st FighterWingofthe14thAir at age13,wasacaptaininthe who obtainedhispilot’s license Kappa Phifraternity. Mr. Brooks, Georgia Tech divingteamand 8. Hewasamemberofthe 48, ofAnderson,S.C.,onAug. 23. 47, ofVersailles, Mo.,onJune and operatorofHouse 2002. Hewastheretired owner 43, ofWichita,Kan.,onSept.5, 1940s years there. for localchildren duringhis12 where heestablishedaschool him andhisfamilytoMexico, with RayonierInc.Hisjobtook as afieldchemicalengineer during World War II,heworked second lieutenantintheArmy Gainesville, Ga.,onMarch 3.A Wilson Jr. Yosemite NationalPark. 10,000-foot HighSierraLoopin record tohikethe14-mile, became theoldestpersonon Atage86,Mr.California. Welch him from Pennsylvaniato andtook nearly halfacentury Westinghouse Electricspanned engineering career with Skipjack andUSSNautilus.His nuclear submarinesUSS carrier USSEnterpriseand the designteamsforaircraft Washington, D.C.Hewason of thenuclearNavy,” in Rickover, knownasthe“father the NavyandAdm.HymanG. he workedasanengineerwith the ROTCduringWorld War II, Harvey Firestone. Amemberof Fordas wellHenry and lab, where hemettheinventor got tospendaweekatEdison’s sored byThomasEdisonand Alabama” inacontestspon- boyin was namedthe“smartest Sept. 16,his90thbirthday. He ME 35,ofSantaCruz,Calif.,on Phi SigmaKappafraternity. Tech’s Founder’s Counciland also wasamemberofGeorgia achievement andservice.He in 2002forhislifetimeof Tech EngineeringHallofFame was inductedintotheGeorgia retirement in1972.Mr. Pritchett Manufacturing Co.untilhis neer atSteelHeddie later workedasasalesengi- Mills assuperintendentand Gene G.Guenther Kenneth M.Brooks Robert D.Reisman Robert James “Harvey” William P. Welch III , ChE38,of , IM , IM , IE , burdell 11/4/03 5:07 PM Page 37

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Lighting, a specialty lighting tribution with J.C. Penney Co. showroom in Wichita. Mr. Julius Colman Jr., IE Reisman was a member of Tau 54, of Easley, S.C., on Oct. 10, Epsilon Phi fraternity. 2002. He served in the Army Air • Winter 2003 Stanley Smith Force during World War II and Simpson Jr., ME 46, of entered Georgia Tech after his Destin, Fla., on July 5. He was discharge. Mr. Colman served the retired vice president of in numerous management posi- Brandt Engineering Co. His tions with Ford Motor Co. both father, Stanley Smith Simpson in the United States and Japan. Sr., graduated from Georgia R.L. “Buck” Doyal Jr., Tech in 1922 and had been a IM 50, of Atlanta, on July 30. His founding member of the Delta father, R.L. “Shorty” Doyal, Tau Delta fraternity chapter. His played football at Georgia Tech son also was a Delta Tau Delta. under John Heisman, then Thomas E. Stevens, TE coached his son in football, 42, of Roswell, Ga., on June 3. basketball and swimming at He was a letterman in both bas- Boys High School. Buck also ketball and baseball at Tech ran track at Boys High before and served on a Navy subma- moving on to Georgia Tech to rine in the Pacific during World play football for Bobby Dodd. In War II. the late 1950s, while running the Howard Stillwell, IM 46, family insurance agency, R.L. of Roswell, Ga., on July 30. He “Shorty” Doyal and Sons Inc., set a 100-yard dash state Buck and his brother, Larry record at Boys High School in Doyal, Cls 52, founded Doyal & Atlanta. Mr. Stillwell served as a Associates, a real estate broker- Navy lieutenant junior grade age and development company. aboard an ammunition ship and Buck served as president of the two destroyer escorts in the firm. War Hero Gen. Ray Davis Dies Pacific Theater during World Carlton Pierce “C.P.” War II. Two of those ships were Fountain, Arch 53, of Atlanta, en. Ray Davis, one of the country’s most Bronze Star, two Distinguished Service medals, destroyed. Mr. Stillwell, who on Oct. 4. He was an Army Gdecorated soldiers, died of a heart attack a Purple Heart and two Legion of Merit awards. helped launch and served as paratrooper and owned an Sept. 3. In 1991, a portion of Georgia Highway 42 the first president of the architectural firm in Atlanta for Gen. Davis, ChE 38, was awarded the south of Stockbridge was named the Gen. Ray Cherokee Town and Country 35 years. Mr. Fountain’s archi- Medal of Honor for leading a Marine battalion in Davis Medal of Honor Highway. In May, Gen. Club, helped build a start-up tectural achievements included a horrific four-day battle, rescuing a rifle compa- Davis was on the Georgia Tech campus to see company into Chicago Title. Bible Baptist Church in ny and opening a mountain pass for two the unveiling of a plaque heralding his heroism. Arthur Weiner, EE 48, of Savannah, Ga., St. trapped regiments during the Korean War. Even after his long military career ended, Atlanta, on Sept. 4. He served Bartholomew’s Episcopal His military career spanned World War II Gen. Davis continued to campaign for veterans as a second lieutenant in the Church in Atlanta and a Georgia and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He rose issues. He lobbied Congress to build the $18 Signal Corps with the Allied Tech Research Institute build- through the ranks to become a four-star general million Korean War Memorial in Washington, Occupation Forces in postwar ing. and the second highest-ranking Marine. When D.C., and Gen. Davis served as the master of Germany. Mr. Weiner worked as Thomas J. Garrett, Cls he retired in 1972, Gen. Davis was the assistant ceremonies at its dedication in 1995. an electrical engineer with the 50, of LaGrange, Ga., on Aug. commandant of the Marine Corps. Georgian Roland Marbaugh served under U.S. government and several 24. An Army Air Corps veteran A resident of Stockbridge, Ga., Gen. Davis Gen. Davis in Korea. He told the Atlanta defense contractors. His work of World War II, he worked as a went on to serve his state as executive vice Journal-Constitution of the admiration he had for included classified projects for mechanical contractor until his president of the Georgia Chamber of the war hero. “He was only 5 foot 6, but he was the Army and Air Force. retirement in 1992. Commerce. the biggest man I ever knew.” John William Yopp Jr., Louis Gordon, EE 51, of “He was a legendary warrior that Marines Gen. Davis was laid to rest wearing his Cls 49, of Cumming, Ga., on Stone Mountain, Ga., on Aug. love and admire and respect and hold up as dress blues. Flags on state buildings flew at July 31. He served in the Army 16. He served in the military for one of their greatest,” Georgia Sen. Zell Miller half-staff in his honor. More than 400 people, Air Corps during World War II four years during World War II told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. including Gov. Sonny Perdue, Sen. Miller and a and as an Air Force first lieu- before enrolling at Georgia At Georgia Tech, Gen. Davis was a mem- dozen generals, filled the sanctuary of Conyers tenant during the Korean War. Tech. After graduation, he ber of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, the First United Methodist Church, where Gen. Mr. Yopp was the publisher and worked for IBM for 34 years. President’s Gold T, Scabbard and Blade and Davis taught Sunday school for 20 years. editor of John W. Yopp Robert N. Lassetter Alpha Chi Sigma. He also was an ROTC captain Hundreds of others watched the funeral service Publications Inc., which was Sr., EE 54, of Jacksonville, Fla., and a member of the Technique staff. on video screens set up in neighboring build- founded by his father in 1914. on Feb. 2, 2000. He was retired During a Living History interview for the ings. William Young, IE 47, from Paxson Electric Co. Alumni Association, Gen. Davis said, “I always Gen. Davis is survived by his wife, Willa MS IE 49, of Tallahassee, Fla., Survivors include son Mark felt a need to be where the action was. That’s all “Knox” Davis; a daughter, Willa Davis Kerr, Biol on Feb. 18. He retired as presi- Lassetter, EE 83, and brother part of the Tech background.” 73; two sons, Raymond G. Davis Jr. and Gordon dent of refining for Kerr-McGee William L. Lassetter, EE 57. Wounded six times, Gen. Davis was the Miles Davis; a granddaughter, Shana Kerr, Biol Corp. James T. Madry, ChE recipient of more than 40 military awards, 02; six other grandchildren; and two great- 50, MS ChE 53, of Statesville, including the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, a grandchildren. 1950s N.C., on Aug. 25. A Korean War veteran and Medical College of J. Edward Bobo, IE 59, Georgia graduate, he practiced William “Tom” Atlanta, on Sept. 11. He retired member of Lambda Chi Alpha of Statesville, N.C., and Atlanta, medicine in Florida and North Musgrove, IM 53, of Marietta, from Lockheed after 43 years of fraternity. on Aug. 16. A member of Beta Carolina until his retirement in Ga., on April 9. A retired Marine service. A private pilot, he was Theta Pi fraternity at Georgia 1996. Corps major, he was a veteran the first president of the 1960s Tech, he served as a Navy pilot Thomas A. Mitchell, of the Vietnam War. Mr. Lockheed Flying Club and had and was an engineer with ME 58, of Loganville, Ga., on Musgrove worked for the also served as president of the Gary Linden Brown, AE Newport News Shipbuilding and Oct. 6. A mechanical engineer General Services Administration Atlanta chapter of the Society of 64, MS AE 66, of St. Petersburg, PPG Industries. Mr. Bobo retired for 45 years, he owned Mitchell until retirement. Flight Test Engineers Club. At Fla., on Aug. 15. 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• Winter 2003 Tech Rhodes Scholar Dies Lauren Kathleen of Fame in 1976. Mr. West was ATDC director Wayne Hodges Brown, Biol 99, of Chapel Hill, the 1964 recipient of the said Mr. Wilson “gained the eaborn Alton “Al” Newton Jr., Georgia Tech’s first Rhodes N.C., on Aug. 21. She was a College Sports Information community support necessary SScholar, died Aug. 19. third-year student at the Directors of America’s Arch to turn a vacant tract of land into a thriving community of soft- Tech Topics Tech Mr. Newton, ChE 48, MS ChE 49, attended the University of North Carolina at Ward Award for outstanding Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1949 to 1951, the Chapel Hill School of Medicine contributions to the field and ware and electronics compa- year he was named a Rhodes Scholar. He used the scholarship pursuing a career in pediatrics. was inducted into the organiza- nies. The center he helped build to study at Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in She volunteered with Sojourners tion’s National Hall of Fame in attracts visitors from all over the physical chemistry in 1953. in Houston and St. Joseph’s 1969. An avid tennis player, Mr. world as a model of what small A longtime resident of Bethesda, Md., he moved to Hospital’s Mercy Mobile Care, West had been a doubles communities like Warner Robins Conway, Ark., in 2001. He died in a hospice where he was which serves Atlanta’s home- champion in state seniors com- can do.” being treated for Alzheimer’s disease. less. Ms. Brown’s survivors petition. Mr. Newton worked for the CIA for 28 years. Much of his include her father, Ray R. Jerry Wilson, 61, of work as an analyst focused on nuclear capabilities of foreign Brown, IE 71. Perry, Ga., on Oct. 1. He was governments. Before joining the CIA in 1959, he did engineering Joel Trent Dailey, ME associate director of Georgia work for Standard Oil in Louisiana. Mr. Newton also served in the 94, of Loganville, Ga., on Aug. Tech’s Advanced Technology Army Reserve, retiring in the 1980s as a colonel. 23 in a motorcycle accident. He Development Center. Mr. Wilson While at Georgia Tech, Mr. Newton, who graduated first in was the chief engineer of his class, was a member of Phi Delta Theta and ANAK. Lombardini USA Inc. An educa- tion fund has been established for his 1- and 4-year-old daugh- t’s the way you let your Georgia Tech classmates project engineer at Honeywell was named director of develop- ters. know what you’ve been up to. Defense and Space Systems in ment for the College of Constance Reid I The Ramblin’ Roll and TECH TOPICS Clearwater, Fla., and retired Engineering. Survivors include Heyward Skubic, Mgt 91, of is the best way to keep up with from the Army Reserve with the daughter Hope Holley, an Holden Beach, N.C., on Aug. classmates, roommates and team- rank of lieutenant colonel. Mr. employee in the School of 15. She resided in New York mates, and help them keep up with you. Brown was the undefeated sen- Polymer, Textile and Fiber City for a number of years. In Whether you’ve made an addition to your family, gotten a iors champion in last year’s St. Engineering. 1999, she and her husband promotion, changed occupations, started a business, written Petersburg Tennis League. He Howard H. Huggins, moved to their beach residence a book or won an award, it’s time for you to Bee in Touch. was president of the Boca CE 71, MS SanE 79, of in North Carolina. Ciega High School band boost- Nicholasville, Ky., on July 9. He ers club for 13 years and in his was the traffic engineer manag- Friends Who: ______honor a Gary L. Brown Memorial er for Lexington-Fayette County Band Scholarship has been Urban Government. A retired Edgar Byron Bennett, What: ______established at the school. lieutenant commander, he 92, of Atlanta, on June 3. When Harold Frederick “Hal” served 20 years in the Navy he was forced to retire at age ______Craig, IE 61, of Mobile, Ala., on Civil Engineering Corps. 65 as principal of Bass High Aug. 25. He was a member of Survivors include son John H. School in Atlanta, Mr. Bennett ______the Georgia Tech marching Huggins, ChE 00. took a job with Georgia Tech to band and an officer in the Co- Ronald Ovetsky, IE 72, develop a system and procure ______op Club. A licensed profession- of Dunwoody, Ga., on Aug. 11 equipment for microfilming stu- al engineer, he served as a proj- of brain cancer. While recover- dent records. Before retiring ______ect engineer for Degussa Corp. ing from a serious car accident from Tech in 1999, he put mil- for 28 years. in 1975, he decided to pursue a lions of images on microfilm. ______Carl L. Horton, Cls 64, career in medicine. Dr. Ovetsky Survivors include sons Edgar B. of Atlanta, on Sept. 30. He eventually became the chief of Bennett Jr., ME 70, and James ______served as a sergeant in the staff at Northside Hospital in Bennett, ME 79. Marine Corps and retired from Atlanta and maintained a med- Kevin Brennan, 46, of ______Norfolk Southern Railway after ical practice as a pulmonary Atlanta, on Aug. 2 of pancreatic 30 years of service. specialist. Dr. Ovetsky also cancer. A professor in Georgia ______Donald Edward restored and raced vintage Tech’s School of Electrical and Overton, MS CE 68, of sports cars. Computer Engineering, he spe- ______Knoxville, Tenn., on Aug. 28, James “Richard” cialized in research to help 2002. He was an associate pro- Smith, IM 75, of Trussville, develop microelectronic devices ______fessor of civil engineering at the Ala., on July 31. A football play- that were faster, smaller, cheap- University of Tennessee. er at Georgia Tech, he had er and better. The applications When: ______been the part owner, vice presi- of his semiconductor research 1970s dent and general manager of affected cell phone technology, Submitted by: ______Courtesy Pontiac, Buick, GMC fiber optic communications, CD Bill Adams, IE 70, of Inc. players and flat panel displays Degree: ______Year: ______Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 of James M. “Mike” for computers. Mr. Brennan held injuries sustained in a car acci- Steele, Phys 73, of Falls several patents and had pub- Phone: (_____) ______E-mail: ______dent. He was the president of Church, Va., on Aug. 11 of lished three widely used text- Simple Solutions Inc. colon cancer. Mr. Steele was a books, including “The Physics Street: ______James E. Baldwin Jr., senior program manager at of Semiconductors with CE 76, of Augusta, Ga., on BBN Systems and Technologies Applications to Optoelectronic City: ______State: _____ ZIP: ______Sept. 23. in Arlington, Va., where his work Devices.” Earlier this year Mr. Douglas R. Holley, TM included the development of Brennan was awarded Georgia Clip and Mail To: 73, of Fayetteville, Ga., on Sept. software for the Navy. Mr. Steele Tech’s Distinguished Professor Ramblin’ Roll, Tech Topics 25 of a heart attack. He enjoyed performing in commu- Award. 190 North Avenue returned to Tech in 1997 to lead nity theater and served as vice Edward “Ned” West, Atlanta, GA 30313 fund-raising efforts for the president of production at the 91, of Atlanta, on Aug. 30. He E-mail: [email protected] School of Polymer, Textile and Little Theatre of Alexandria in retired after 24 years as the Fiber Engineering. He recently Virginia. sports information director at Tech Topics • Winter 2003 41 The Jackets will make 13 additional appearances Hoops,” five games on ESPN and two on ESPN2. That to 12 should the Jackets reach number could increase NIT. the finals of the Preseason television, including a Feb. 7 game at on regional ACC contests on regional (ABC) and nine Tennessee networks. ACC play begins Jan. 11 against North Carolina in against North Carolina ACC play begins Jan. 11 appears on national television 10 times dur- Tech Chapel Hill, while Maryland comes to Atlanta Jan. 17. Chapel Hill, while Maryland comes to ACC champion Duke visits on Jan. 31 and Defending follows on Feb. 10. North Carolina appear- ing the course of the season, including three ances on Fox Sports Net’s “ACC Sunday Night Head Yellow Jackets basketball coach Paul Hewitt says the key to success this year is defensive rebounding. “We rebounding. Jackets basketball coach Paul Hewitt says the key to success this year is defensive Head Yellow have to understand this is a priority.” News from the World of Tech Sports of Tech the World News from

eorgia Tech tips off its fourth season under head tips off Tech eorgia in its basketball coach Paul Hewitt with a feather Tech will play at home against Louisiana- Tech most often on heard “Experienced” is the word B.J. Elder and All-ACC junior guard Third-team talented on the perimeter this year more “We’re players devoted the off- Hewitt said his frontcourt McHenry is the guy that everybody around “Tony adds Moore Clarence of 6-5 forward The return “Mo had some things he needed to work through Hewitt said the key to success this year is defen- he have to understand this is a priority,” “We 6 The Jackets play two exhibition games on Nov. ACC-Big plays Ohio State on Dec. 3 in the Tech Other notable home games include St. John’s first-

By Neil B. McGahee Jackets basketball team combines talent experience and maturity, Wiser, Faster Wiser, G Lafayette Nov. 18 in the nationally televised game on Lafayette Nov. ESPN. letter Athletic Center as 11 floor of the Edge the third The Jackets posted a winners and four starters return. and ACC, fifth best in the last year, 16-15 record NIT. advanced to the quarterfinals of the postseason second-year point Marvin Lewis join senior guard Bynum, who Will Jack and junior guard Jarrett guard backcourt. Arizona, to anchor a strong from transfered including the than any team I’ve ever been around, Hewitt said. “On the frontcourt, teams at Villanova,” just not proven we have very good players. They’re Robert Theodis Tarver, yet. Guys like Luke Schenscher, cracked the starting lineup McHenry and Tony Brooks last year and they will play major minutes this sea- son.” to offset season to intense weight and agility programs Chris Bosh, who left for the the loss of 6-10 forward Ed Nelson, who transferred. NBA, and 6-8 forward out and breaking feels is a play or two away from here showing what he can do,” Hewitt said. “He and Luke in my opinion, the two smartest players out there. are, they both see things When we get scouting reports, very well.” taking a Before another dimension to the frontcourt. averaged personal leave of absence last season, Moore per game. almost 10 points and five rebounds very close to the program but he remained last year, him an awful lot,” and the other players respect going he’s Hewitt said. “When Mo steps on the floor, to give you everything he’s got.” sive rebounding. when I times last year on the road were said. “There didn’t instill the importance of making those stops or getting those rebounds.” Alexander Memorial Coliseum and 10 at and Nov. 18. NIT play on Nov. begin Preseason of last year’s Challenge, a rematch postseason NIT Ten Jackets won 72-58. Yellow which the first round, Alexander Memorial Coliseum on Dec. 21 ever visit to Yellow The Commonwealth on Dec. 29. and Virginia Jackets face St. Louis on Dec. 13 in the annual Chick- fil-A Peach Bowl Holiday Classic for Kids at Philips Arena. cap. The Jackets were selected to play in the Preseason selected cap. The Jackets were National Invitation Tournament. yellow jackets 11/4/03 12:52 AM Page 41 12:52 AM Page 11/4/03 yellow jackets yellow jackets 11/4/03 12:50 AM Page 43

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Joseph takes charge, inherits ‘cupboard completely full’ • Winter 2003

By Neil B. McGahee will play a much more up-tempo kind of game this year — take more shots s a point guard at Purdue in the and hopefully score more points. We early 1990s, MaChelle Joseph will play with four guards and one Awas the Boilermakers’ on-floor player inside and open the lane up for coach. Fast-forward a decade and she’s penetration.” back at the helm again. That inside player is center Fallon Joseph, Georgia Tech’s top assis- Stokes, a 5-10 junior who is as effective tant coach under Agnus Berenato, was working the ball inside as shooting named head women’s basketball coach from the perimeter. In the final games last spring after Berenato resigned. leading up to the NCAA Tournament “I love it,” Joseph said. “I was a invitation, she averaged 20 points and point guard my whole career, so I’m seven rebounds per game. used to running things. It’s all on my “Fallon Stokes is one of the pre- shoulders now. It’s an exciting chal- mier players in the league,” Joseph lenge. Of course, that might be different said. “I challenged her this year to step after my first loss.” up and become an elite player, offen- Joseph said the transition was sively and defensively.” smoother than she could have ever Joseph said she is counting on her imagined. three fifth-year seniors — Alex Stewart, “Agnus left the cupboard com- Nina Barlin and Megan Isom — to pro- pletely full,” Joseph said. “We have 13 vide leadership as well. players returning who went to the Stokes, Stewart and Isom earned NCAA Tournament, including five sen- third-team All-ACC honors last year. iors. She also allowed me to do the X’s Stokes was runner-up to Mallory in and O’s every day for the last two years scoring and rebounding, while Stewart in practice and game situations, so I led the conference in assists and free already know the system. Some other throw percentage. first-year coaches have had to relocate Senior Nina Barlin and red shirt and learn about the school and the freshman April Johnson return after players, but I have the advantage of knee injuries curtailed their playing knowing these players for two years. I time last year. Tech also has a pair of recruited most of them.” promising freshmen in guard Stephanie Joseph said she would concentrate Higgs and forward Kentrina Wilson. on defense. Joseph has set three goals for this “We have to play better defense season — a first-ever winning record in this year,” she said. “We started playing the ACC, back-to-back bids to the some really good offensive basketball NCAA Tournament for the first time toward the end of last year. We were and a top 25 ranking. third in the ACC in scoring and led the “Those are my goal for these sen- league in 3-point field goal percentage, iors because they paid their dues in this but our defense hurt us. program and I’d like to see them “We’re also a very good rebound- rewarded,” she said. ing team. We were in the top three in The Jackets open the season at every rebounding category in the Florida Atlantic, then head to the league last year.” Paradise Jam Tournament in the U.S. The now-departed Sonja Mallory, Virgin Islands Nov. 27 through 29. the 6-5 center who dominated the lane The Jackets also face six teams that by sheer size and strength, led the played in last year’s NCAA rebounding game. Tournament and another that reached “We pounded the ball inside with the Women’s National Invitation Women’s coach MaChelle Joseph directs guard Megan Harpring, one of 13 returning Sonja in the paint,” Joseph said. “We Tournament. players who carried the team to the NCAA Tournament last year. Six Standout Athletes Inducted into Georgia Tech Hall of Fame

lympic gold medalist Derrick Adkins, four-time All- four times. He was named ACC Player of the Year in ACC Championships and nine All-ACC citations. Tech’s OAmerica golfer David Duval, All-ACC quarterback 1992 and 1993, All-ACC four times and won the ACC team captain in 1992 and 1993, Pasha-Ali set a school Shawn Jones, All-America kicker Scott Sisson, six-time individual championship in both 1991 and 1993. He has record in the outdoor 400 meters and ran on six Tech- track All-American Nelrae Pasha-Ali and 1982 football gone on to a successful career in the PGA Tour with 13 record relay teams — 4x100, 4x400, sprint medley, dis- team captain David Lutz were inducted into the Georgia victories, including the 2001 British Open. tance medley, indoor 4x400 and indoor mile. Tech Athletic Hall of Fame on Nov. 14. Jones was a second-team All-ACC choice in 1990 Sisson, Mgt 96, earned All-America and All-ACC Adkins, ME 93, won a gold medal in the 400-meter and 1991 and conference Rookie of the Year in 1989. He first-team honors in 1992. He finished his career as all- hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and was finished his career as the ACC and Tech career leader in time leader in points, field goals and PATs. His game-win- world champion in 1991 and 1993. He was a member of total offense. He still holds the Tech career record for ning field goal at Virginia in 1990 helped Tech win the Tech’s national champion 4x400 relay team in 1992 and most passes completed (652) and attempted (1,217). A UPI national championship. 1993 and was a seven-time All-American. team captain in 1992, Jones is one of only three four-year Lutz was Tech’s team captain in 1981 and 1982, a Duval, Cls 93, won all three National Player of the starters at quarterback in Tech history. four-year starter on the offensive line and was named to Year awards as a senior in 1993 and was only the third Pasha-Ali, Mgt 93, was a six-time All-American in the All-South team by Southern Living magazine. He collegiate golfer to be named a first-team All-American the 400-meter and 4x400 meter relay. She won eight played 13 years in the NFL for Kansas City and Detroit. yellow jackets 11/4/03 12:50 AM Page 44

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JIM BLAYLOCK For Whom the Cowbell Tolls • Winter 2003 Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt compete for little-known trophy

By Neil B. McGahee The bell was originally painted Tech’s white and gold on one side and Tech Topics Topics Tech innesota and Michigan vie annu- Vanderbilt’s black and gold on the Mally for one-year ownership of the other and the score was painted on the Little Brown Jug, a 100-year-old crock, sides of the bell. In 1949, for the 25th- Purdue and Indiana play for the Old anniversary game, Cavaleri Sr. had it Oaken Bucket and Georgia Tech and silver plated with a bronze plaque on Vanderbilt battle for the Cowbell. each side where the winner and the Cowbell? score was engraved. You may have never heard of it, The trophy only missed one game. but the cowbell tradition goes back 79 “The one game missed was the years. 1936 game,” Cavaleri Jr. said. “Dad was Times were tough in 1924 and Ed leaving Grant Field after the 1935 game, Cavaleri Sr. had to make a choice. An won by Vandy, when two Tech students avid Georgia Tech fan, the Atlanta and knocked him down and wrestled the West Point Railroad conductor could bell away from him.” only afford to attend one football game It seemed the bell was gone forev- a year. In those days, Vanderbilt was a er. Cavaleri Sr. posted a notice on the powerhouse in the Southern bulletin board of the YMCA, now the Conference and the Tech-Vandy game offices of the Georgia Tech Alumni Ed Cavaleri Jr. holds the cowbell that goes to the Tech-Vanderbilt game winner. was always a memorable one. Association, asking if anyone knew “On his way to the first game in where the bell was. The old cowbell was forgotten. the bell back home to Augusta, Ga. 1924, Dad stopped at a hardware store “A few hours later, someone called “About five years ago, I began to The series was renewed in 2002 and bought a cowbell,” Ed Cavaleri Jr. Dad and told him the bell was in Sylva, wonder what happened to that old and on Oct. 4 of this year, Tech and said. “After the game, someone sug- North Carolina,” Cavaleri Jr. said. “Dad bell,” Cavaleri Jr. said. “I looked around Vandy met for the 36th time. A few gested he give it to the winner of the made some frantic calls and the bell Tech’s athletics department and found weeks later, the old bell was assigned a game.” mysteriously arrived in Atlanta on a nothing there. I finally found it in the place in the athletics museum at the For the next 43 years, until the bus minutes before kickoff of the 1937 back of a trophy case in the student Edge Athletic Center, freshly engraved schools ceased play in 1967, Cavaleri Sr. game. We never have found out who center. It was tarnished so bad I almost with Tech’s 24-17 win over the and the bell made the annual trip to took it or why.” didn’t recognize it.” Commodores. either Grant Field or Dudley Field in Tech left the Southeastern Georgia Tech athletics officials told “It’s very gratifying to see Dad’s Nashville to watch the Jackets play the Conference in 1964 and the final game Cavaleri Jr. that the two teams would old bell back where it belongs,” Commodores. with Vanderbilt was played in 1967. probably never play again, so he took Cavaleri Jr. said.

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News for Your Career • Winter 2003

NEIL B. MCGAHEE the past, women have tried to follow that unwritten Success Tips code by emulating men. “In the 1980s we were all supposed to be running Best-selling author tells women, around in these blue suits with pinstripes and floppy little neckties trying to be junior men. That’s just ‘We need to play as a team’ ridiculous,” Evans said. “What we need to be is By Maria M. Lameiras smarter women. We need to learn to be comfortable being women and knowing we are different and being omen in business need to treat other busi- OK with that. We need to be more authentically our- nesswomen more like their best friends than selves. We need to know the game so we can choose Wtheir worst enemies, said Gail Evans, former not to play it,” Evans said. CNN executive and best-selling author. Women recognize that there are inequalities Evans, a visiting professor in Georgia Tech’s between the number of men and the number of College of Management, spoke in October at the first women in power in the corporate world and in the Georgia Tech Women on Wednesdays event. rate of compensation for men versus women, but “The single most important thing women need to Evans said “things will change when women in the do is stop talking about each other. We need to just United States decide they want a change.” shut up about each other,” said Evans. “We are the majority of the population and things The impact of one woman’s word about another will shift when we want them to. This is about ‘us ver- carries 10 times the weight of the same comment by a sus us’ and we need to change that and make it ‘us for man, Evans said. “Guys love it when we get into it us.’ None of this is about ‘us versus them,’” she said. with each other and they use it. “We as women haven’t played the game together well “We need to take care of ourselves and we need enough to learn what we can accomplish together. We to help each other. Women have brains and talent, but need to realize that for every woman who succeeds, I we have a hard time presenting ourselves. There are succeed a little and for every one who fails, I fail a lit- always things we don’t know and we don’t notice Visiting professor Gail Evans signs copies of her books tle. We are viewed as a group and we need to play as a about ourselves and we need to contribute to each after speaking at the first Women on Wednesdays quar- group.” other by telling each other about them.” terly event sponsored by the Georgia Tech Alumni Women can help one another through mentoring, Association Women’s Advisory Committee. Another important thing women in business need networking and supporting each other’s businesses, to learn is the whole premise of “She Wins, You Win,” Evans said. said Evans, author of “Play Like A Man Win Like A Korea, Brazil and the Netherlands at the same time it “Any woman who gets to any level is obligated to Woman: What Men Know About Success and Women was on the bestseller list here,” she said. “The things mentor another woman. It doesn’t have to be a big for- Need to Learn” and “She Wins, You Win: The Most women are struggling with here are exactly the same mal, structured process. Just look at another young Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to things women are struggling with in every society.” woman’s career and help her move along.” Know.” More than an overall guiding principle, there are The number of businesswomen who tell her they “We have yet to come to the understanding that many “little strategies” women need to learn that hate networking surprises Evans. we are all on the same team. Guys understand that come instinctively to men, Evans said. “Women are great at networking, but we need to they are on the same team and they play as a team, “You have to look at how little boys play games. drop the ‘work is work’ attitude that everything we do but over and over what I hear from women is, ‘Other They play to win and they win because the game is for work needs to be hard and not fun. Forget that. We women make it harder for me,’ or, ‘My woman boss based on their rules,” she said. “You have to learn to network with anyone and everyone we’ve ever known makes it harder for me,’” she said. toot your own horn. Boys learn how to do these things in our lives. Men wish they could network like us. “I also hear from the other side that, once a at 4 years old, but we don’t like it. You have to become “But we need to realize networking is not about woman gets promoted, all of the friends she had are your own PR person. Boys who boast and brag are handing out 50 business cards. We need to learn how no longer her friends. The women who weren’t pro- often the most popular and are the ones who get into to bring our personal networking tactics into our busi- moted seem to think that the woman who was pro- the game, but girls who even think about bragging ness lives. Women tend to think that you have a busi- moted is now ‘one of them,’ but that is the moment aren’t. You have to learn ways to let people know ness life and a personal life and never the twain shall the woman needs the most support from her friends.” you’re doing good work so you get the credit for it.” meet, but they are not separate. The lines intertwine After leaving college in 1963, Evans began a suc- There are many “unwritten rules” in the business and it’s not a violation of anything to ask someone a cessful career in politics before she married and fol- game that women don’t understand because when question or use someone from your personal life to lowed her husband’s career to Atlanta and the Soviet they were made up, women weren’t in the game. In help you in business.” Union. When the couple returned to Georgia with their three children, Evans began doing freelance research and public relations for international corpora- Gail Evans’ Advice ance. “A woman gets promoted most often after she’s tions. actually been doing the job for five years.” ■ Evans joined CNN when it began operations in to Businesswomen Women need to consider each other in business. 1980 and worked her way up to executive vice presi- “When you are getting ready to move business dent of domestic networks for the news group. ■ Don’t sit in the periphery at meetings. If there’s an around, consider a woman. I’m not saying choose a After her first book’s success — it stayed on the undesignated seat at the table, take it. You will be “in woman just because she is a woman, but look to see New York Times, Business Week and Wall Street Journal direct eye contact with the power.” if there is a woman available and put her on the list. bestseller lists for several months — she retired in 2001 ■ Don’t speak in the conditional voice. “You may Choose the best, but consider a woman and about to devote herself to speaking engagements because “it have thought of this, but …” Evans said, “That is not 30 percent of the time you will choose that person.” ■ was more fun empowering other women than worry- communicating with power. Say, ‘We should …’” Help women who need it. “The way boys play is ing about international news.” ■ Don’t take on duties without authority. “Your job has that the one who is the best player is out there help- The incredible amount of feedback she received a description and if the bosses want you to do some- ing the one who is the worst player because guys are from women led to the second book. thing else, let them ask. You are the only one who clear on the fact that a team is only as good as its “I hear so many women talking about how frus- gets hurt by taking on those extra responsibilities.” weakest player. Women don’t work on making the trated they are. When I wrote my book, I thought I ■ Speak out. Men are promoted based on potential. weakest person on the team better. We want to get was writing it for U.S. businesswomen in their 30s, 40s Women are promoted based on historical perform- rid of them.” GT and 50s, but the book was on the bestseller list in