> TECHNOLOGY PARK|/TTWNT4 **» >^ TS* - % "V, \ in a row. Things are looking good here. So good that 16 new firms have come to Technology Park in just the past year. So good that close to 1,200 people are now working here. But it's not only numbers that say success for Technology Park. It's also the kind of firms who ve found homes here. Continental Telephone Labs. Sangamo-Weston. Beckman Instruments, Informatek, Ebasco and Mariner Marine are a few of the names you'll probably recognize. And every year the list gets longer Technology Park is looking good. In fact, about the only thing we have more of than new tenants are baby ducks. For further information, contact Charles R. Brown. President, Technology Park, (404) 448-7280. For Aliiirinus of the "Old School" When you come to Atlanta for a Tech game you can be sure there will be a crowd. Not only at the game, but often in your hotel. Many hotels are so busy creating glamorous lobbies or catering to conventions that you and your accommodations take a back seat to the activity downstairs. You don't want the hassles. All you want is a chance to relax, and to enjoy the game^ Now you can. Guest Quarters was created, and has flourished, quietly, because people are rediscovering how nice it feels to be a guest. We don't believe in huge lob­ bies or conventions. If we catered to them we couldn't cater properly to you, our guest. We're of the "Old School" because we treat every guest with the same unparalleled service, so characteristically Guest Quarters. At Guest Quarters our smal­ lest room is our suite. Every guest receives one, and for no more than the price of a single room. When you stay at Guest Quar­ ters for a Tech game, you can entertain in your spacious living room while you have privacy in the separate bedrooms. You can order from room service or even cook, if you like, in the fully-equipped kitchen. All for the price of a single room. For Tech Alumni we're going even further. During Tech weekends we are offering to individuals or groups an unbeatable combination of Our 1 bedroom suites (2 people) $26 per night Our 2 bedroom suites (4 people) $36 per night This low rate includes bus transportation to and from the game. Should your alumni group care to have a get-together, we offer our meeting rooms at no charge. We will also make a box lunch available. Truly a suite deal. Make your reservations early. Call Dee, collect, (404) 394-6300. Reserve A Room — We Give You A Suite We Believe in a Higher Standard of Lodging. 7000 Roswell Road Atlanta, Ga. FALL 1978 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 1 ACC BASKETBALL Welcome Georgia Tech WE ARE INVITING YOU to subscribe to ACC BASKETBALL which covers the classic battles between Carolina, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, N.C. State, Virginia, Wake Forest AND NOW GEORGIA TECH and their en­ counters with non-conference foes. Stories, photos, statistics and columns selected from the sports pages of the Raleigh newspapers and mailed once a week beginning December 4, 1 978 through the NCAA finals in a 4-1 2 page newspaper section. Also, stories are carried on major developments in other ACC sports. SUBSCRIBE NOW ... Mail this subscription coupon today. The cost is $ 1 2.90 for 3rd class mail and $ 1 7.00 for 1 st class mail within the continen­ tal United States. For areas outside the continental United States, please inquire. ACC BASKETBALL is in its 6th straight year and last year it went out to 51 states and 1 0 foreign countries. Joe W. Guthrklge __£H!2!£LG-I.FZ_ ACC BASKETBALL " The News and Observer, P.O. Box 191, Raleigh, N.C. 27602 Vice President Enclosed please find check •, money order • for $12.90 •, $17.00 •. Send me ACC Guthridge Dies BASKETBALL for 15 consecutive weeks beginning December 4, 1978. NAME: MR. Joe W. Guthridge. vice president for ADDRESS I development and public relations for Georgia CITY .STATE. ZIP. Tech. died September 25 at his home of an apparent heart attack. He had been associated CIRCLE ONE: otttnded N.C. State, Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest, Maryland, Virginia, Clemton, Georgia Tech, other (specify) with Georgia Tech since 1958. Mr. Guthridge. 57. was responsible for the Institute's public relations program, fund rais­ ing activities, the alumni association, and stu­ dent placement activities. He had served as Let Ramada Inn - Atlanta executive secretary of the Georgia Tech Foun­ dation Inc. since I960. Mr. Guthridge joined Tech in 1958 as direc­ Central Take the Sting tor of placement. In I960, he was appointed assistant to the president, director of develop­ ment, and executive secretary of the Georgia Out of Home Games Tech Foundation. He organized the develop­ ment office and inaugurated two urban-renewal SPECIAL RATES FOR GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI programs which increased the area of the Insti­ tute from 85 acres to 385 acres. $20 SINGLE AND $26 DOUBLE In 1965, Mr. Guthridge was named vice president of development and. in 1971. he was (404) 873-4661 given the additional responsibility for public relations. He was a graduate of Roanoke Col­ lege in physics, and was elected an honorary alumnus of Georgia Tech by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. Prior to his career at Tech. Mr. Guthridge served as associate director of student affairs at Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State Uni­ versity in Blacksburg. Virginia. He was a na­ tive of Roanoke. Virginia. Tech President J. M. Pettit was in China at the time of Mr. Guthridge's death. Vice Presi­ dent for Academic Affairs Vernon D. Crawford said, "I never saw him when he wasn't enthu­ LOCATED 5 MINUTES FROM GEORGIA TECH siastic about his job and Georgia Tech. I never Also Facilities are available for Conventions, saw him when he didn't have a good word for Meetings, Social Functions, and Banquets. what he was doing or who he was working Choose from any of 20 meeting rooms that AMAD, with. He was always cheerful in his job. We will accommodate groups from 20 to 800. will miss him as an administrator and I will INN ( miss him as a personal good friend." I-85 North at Monroe Drive / Atlanta, Georgia 30324 (Continued on pg. 16) 2 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Ue orgia FALL 1978/Volume 55, Number 1 IV ^ V.*L 1 ALUMNI MAGAZINE "Memories of 1928' Vice President Guthridge Dies 2 A Special Man 4 W. J. Holman, Jr. suggested and coor­ dinated new memorial fund. STAFF A Special Gift 5 Class of 1928 establishes memorial fund. Karen Buttermore. Editor Publications Committee: Don Chapman '61, A Special Class 6 Chairman. William E. Cherry '70, Geoffrey Various members of the class of 1928 are C. Gill '64. Ben Lilly '61, James Hewell, Jr. interviewed. '52, Bob Bridwell '74. An Expert On Alumni Tours 8 GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL Milton Blanton has gone on the last eight ALUMNI ASSOCIATION alumni tours. ATLANTA. GA. 30332 Placement Enjoys Record Year 9 OFFICERS Dr. Donahue says it's the best year in a Bernard Kroll '57 President decade. Richard K. Whitehead. Jr. '57 Past President J. Frank Smith. Jr. '55 President-Elect Rose Bowl, Olympics Top Stories 10 RichardB. Bell '61 Vice President Major athletic news was made in 1928. Talmage L. Dryman '45 Treasurer Robert H. Rice '49 Executive Director A Pictorial Tour of the Campus 11 Term Expires 1979 Pictures and a map of campus. Robert S. Armstrong. '60; Donald L. Chap­ man. '61; Charles K. Cobb. Jr. '56; E. Re- Gearing: It's Good To Be Back 16 mbert DuBose. '48; Joe T. LaBoon. '48; Al­ Alumnus returns as new Industrial Man­ bert N. (Bud) Parker. '58. agement dean. Term Expires 1980 Crawford Reviews German Tour 17 John B. Chapman. '50; Clayton H. Griffin, Tech vice president recalls educational '45; James R. Hewell, Jr., '52; David M. and cultural .events. McKenney, '60; M. Lamar Oglesby, '50; Guy C. Rhoad. '47. Experiment Station: An Integral Part of Tech 20 Station and academic research are coor­ Term Expires 1981 dinated. Carey H. Brown. '69; Ken G. Byers, '66; Ben J. Dyer. '70: George W. Mathews. '48; R. C. Plumlee. '54; W. Tom Towles. '50. The Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is published three times a year for active alumni by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. Atlanta. Georgia 30332. FALL 1978 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 3 A SPECIAL MAN... By KAREN BUTTERMORE Development Committee, the M.I.T. Alumni moved into the Sigma Chi house which was Fund Board, a trustee of the Foundation for located on Spring Street. "The woodshop. ma­ Economic Education and a trustee of New York chine shop and foundry were very important in University. He served as president of the New- those days, as well as academic subjects." burgh. New York Community Chest organiza­ After earning a degree in Electrical Engi­ Jack Holman tion, and as president of the Society of Alfred neering. Holman was hired as an instructor at P. Sloan Foundation Fellows of M.I.T. Yale University where he earned a master's Holman received the "Man of the Year" degree in Electrical Engineering. He then fol­ GENEROSITY, LOYALTY AND vision — these Achievement Award from the Graduate School lowed in his father's footsteps by joining the three words aptly describe Jack Holman's rela­ of Business Administration of New York Uni­ Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp. in New tionship with Georgia Tech.