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TECHTOPICS 14 Century of Singing Vol. 42, No. 3 • Spring 2006 • gtalumni.org This ain’t your daddy’s Glee Club — or your granddaddy’s. On the cover, choral activities director Publisher: Joseph P. Irwin IM 80 Editor: John C. Dunn Jerry Ulrich gets the guys in tune for an April 3 Managing Editor: Kimberly Link-Wills Senior Editor: Neil B. McGahee concert at Spivey Hall that will officially launch the Editorial Assistant: Leslie Overman Georgia Tech Glee Club’s centennial celebration.

Design: Ryan Giusti RESEARCH CENTER YERKES PRIMATE Crooning are, front row left to right, Tony Le, Joshua Alumni Association Executive Committee Lannu and Evan Moon and, back row, Christopher J. William Goodhew III IM 61 Smith and Colin Ake. Cover photo by Gary Meek Chairman Carey H. Brown IE 69 Past Chairman 12 Up to the Challenge Janice N. Wittschiebe Arch 78, M Arch 80 Chairman-elect/treasurer Ronald Yancey applied to Tech three times before he was admitted. He C. Meade Sutterfield EE 72 struggled to succeed at the Institute and help desegregate Atlanta’s lunch Vice chairman, activities counters — and become Georgia Tech’s first African-American graduate. William J. Todd IM 71 Vice chairman, Roll Call Walter G. Ehmer IE 89 19 New Orleans Renewal Al Trujillo AE 81 Joseph P. Irwin IM 80 President Wayne Clough is heading a national committee charged with President reviewing the work of agencies investigating the levee and floodwall failures in New Orleans during the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. 22 Scientists check time on evolution clock. Alumni Association Board of Trustees Philip S. Armstrong Jr. IE 65 22 Evolution Clocks John C. Bacon IE 67 Georgia Tech scientists have attracted a barrel of media attention around Laurie D. Bagley IM 84 Laurie L. Baker AE 67, MS AE 68 the world with their research findings that suggest chimpanzees are more C. Perry Bankston AE 71, MS AE 73, PhD 76 MEEK GARY similar to human beings than they are to great apes. Bird D. Blitch IE 97 James R. Borders ME 83 Constance Callahan MS CP 93 24 Manners Matter Gina D. Carr IE 84 Do you get a second chance to make a first impression? Not in a job Steve W. Chaddick EE 74, MS EE 82 Tony S. Chan IE 94, MS Mgt 98 interview, says Marge Dussich, who teaches Tech students how to mind Jerry Cox EE 63 their p’s and q’s — and pass the peas. Karl F. Dasher IE 93 Thomas F. Davenport III IM 84 Susan M. Davis Biol 91 27 Giving Back Thomas C. DeLoach Jr. ChE 69 Stephen L. Dickerson Honorary Alumni Stephen Zelnak and Warren Batts have given seven-figure gifts to Joseph W. Evans IM 71 Georgia Tech to establish a dean’s chair, renovate and expand a practice Anne Wise Fuller ME 83, MS PubPol 93 gym and bring vital new technologies to the marketplace. Charles A. Hall ChE 85, MS ChE 88 James P. Harris ChE 70 George H. Hightower Jr. Text 71 31 Restored Glory Andrew T. Hunt PhD 93 Scott P. Jennings ME 89 Although some folks in Washington, Ga., thought it was impossible, Mike Thomas H. Johnson IE 71 Todd and his wife restored the 17-room, full-service Fitzpatrick Hotel to its LeShelle R. May MS OR 89 past splendor in just 18 months. Neal W. McEwen IE 71 William C. Mizell Mgt 87 S. Gordon Moore Jr. Mgt 92, MS Mgt 97 33 Purpose-driven Career Oscar N. Persons IE 60 Randall E. Poliner EE 77 Molly Schreck travels around the country helping perform acts of Anthony J. Priest EE 88, MS EE 90 31 Old small-town hotel enjoys new splendor. kindness as a producer of the A&E reality series “Random 1.” Magd Riad IE 01 Brittany A. Robinson ChE 95 Julie L. Swann IE 96 43 Illness Forces Braine to Resign B. Kenneth Townsend ME 64 After nearly nine years in the job, athletics director Dave Braine announced that Crohn’s disease was forcing him to step down, a move Advertising that initiated a national search to find a successor.

Melinda McGuire (404) 894-0765 NEIL B. MCGAHEE E-mail: [email protected] 47 Networking Opportunities Alumni Association An improved job market and bright outlook have many companies recruiting more aggressively. That’s good news for job seekers who attend (404) 894-2391 the 23rd Annual Alumni Career Conference April 12. Departments 07 Mail Call 9 Alumni House 12 Living History 19 The Hill 24 Student Life 27 Giving Back 29 Bookmark TECHTOPICS (ISSN 1062-077X) is published quarterly 31 (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) by the Georgia Tech Alumni Burdell & Friends Association, Alumni/Faculty House, 190 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 43 Yellow Jackets 30313. Periodicals Postage paid at Atlanta, GA, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to TECH TOPICS, 47 Real World Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Alumni/Faculty House, 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA 30313. Georgia Institute of Technology is an Equal 43 Dave Braine announces his retirement. Opportunity/Affirmative Action institute. © 2006 by TECH TOPICS.

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RAMBLIN’ JEEP Numbers Count usinessWeek magazine’s Jan. 23 Bissue featured a cover story titled “Why Math Will Rock Your World.” It’s a fascinating look into how math is being utilized today in ways that have never been considered before. One of these new ways is in attempting to model human behavior so that marketers can find better, more effective ways to uti- lize their marketing investments. John Wanamaker (1838-1922) is generally recognized as the father of the department store. He had a couple of notable quotes that you’ll recognize. First and perhaps most famous is “the customer is always right.” Wanamaker also said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Mathematicians are working with other professions at companies like Google, Yahoo and IBM in efforts to Army 1st Lt. Mac Bryan, IE 03, thought some of his fellow 82nd Airborne Division soldiers stationed with him in Iraq were play- learn “which half.” ing a practical joke when they reported a vehicle with Georgia Tech and Alpha Delta Pi decals was stopped at a checkpoint. A There’s plenty of data for the stunned Bryan had his photograph taken after recognizing that the 1994 Jeep Cherokee had belonged to a friend, doctoral stu- number crunchers to study. Modern dent Tracey King, Mgt 02. King also was surprised when she saw the photo of Bryan and her old Jeep posted on an Internet day databases hold remarkable infor- message board. She last saw the Jeep when it was being towed away after an accident that badly damaged the SUV in 2001. mation about all of us. Using algo- rithms built to assess our tendencies gives insight into behaviors. Some Greetings Cheer Troops editions of the Technique and TECH and children were heartfelt, the math pioneers are even finding ways TOPICS. Techniques and TECH TOPICS were to translate language into math and ore than 450 Georgia Tech Among the letters in the packet great, and I really like the U.S. flag thus build models to deliver appropri- Malumni, faculty, parents, was one from Susan Sappington of and Georgia Tech pin. ate information to those interested. students and staff sent holiday Marietta, Ga., who wrote, “The It looks like I will be retiring The article goes further and pro- messages to Tech military personnel Christmas my late husband, Michael from the Air Force and returning to vides a sidebar about the math that serving overseas. E-mails from as far Lake Sappington, IE 70, was flying the States next summer. I hope “you need to know.” When I showed as Australia and Mexico were F-14s over North Vietnam was quite Georgia Tech continues this program this to my high school freshman collected, according to Amy a memorable one. You will also have to make our overseas family daughter, Jennifer, she looked at me Lancaster, Parents Program manager such a holiday this year. Be assured members feel a little closer to home like I was ill and walked away, iPod in at the Alumni Association, who there are many Georgia Tech friends during the holidays. hand. organized the effort. cheering for your safety and well- LT. COL. MIKE MCCARTHY, IE 83 Front and center in the sidebar was “Our Web department built the being. You make all of us so deeply Seoul, Korea calculus. Of course all Tech alumni have site so the Tech community could proud of your continued brave some knowledge of the subject. The submit online holiday greetings to work.” I WISH TO THANK Amy Lancaster article states: “To sidestep calculus is to our alumni deployed overseas,” she The letters elicited favorable and the Alumni Association staff for slam shut doors to growing realms in said. “The response was great. We responses from alumni serving organizing the campaign to deliver the 21st century job market, including made a 34-page book of greetings overseas, among them: holiday cards and letters from many of the most lucrative.” and sent copies to our Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech alumni and friends to I’ve been in the for-profit and non- serving around the world.” I RECEIVED A CARE package from deployed service members overseas. profit worlds for 25 years now. Can’t The project was advertised in the Georgia Tech Alumni Association The dozens of heartfelt wishes and say I’ve ever used calculus. It did chal- the campus newspaper and the here in Camp Striker, Baghdad, Iraq. copies of the Technique, Alumni lenge my mind though, and I believe electronic newsletters BUZZwords Great stuff. It is really appreciated. I Magazine and TECH TOPICS brought a that it helped to make me a better and ParentNews. “We even found it especially enjoyed the cards and the great deal of warmth to an otherwise thinker. And maybe that’s the lesson as promoted on a Georgia Tech sports copy of the Technique. cold, lonely holiday here in Korea. much as anything. blog,” Lancaster said. LT. COL. ANDREW S. RING, ME 89 Thank you. I hope this is a Tech Each alumnus was sent a Baghdad, Iraq holiday tradition that continues as package containing a bound book of long as we have men and women online greetings, handmade cards I JUST WANTED to let you know I serving on the fringes of freedom’s from both the Alpha Chi Omega received my holiday package from frontier. JOSEPH P. I RWIN sorority and a third-grade class at the Alumni Association and it was LT. COL. TOM FOLTZ, EE 84 President Friendship Elementary School and awesome. The cards from the families Seoul, Korea Georgia Tech Alumni Association

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Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation Thanks for the Thanks (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685)

TECH TOPICS resident’s Scholars have been to mechanical engineering student We formed a farm wagon and Publication No. 1062-077X Pwriting thank you notes to LINA TUCKER, “I just wanted to marched on the field at halftime Frequency: Quarterly Roll Call donors, who have been thank you for your nice note playing ‘Farmer in the Dell.’ Sisk No. of issues published annually: Four expressing their pleasure and regarding my Roll Call contribu- got called into the president’s Annual subscription price: None Publisher–Joseph P. Irwin, 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA surprise at receiving personal tion. It was nice to get the person- office the following Monday, 30313 letters from students. al connection from someone was told not to embarrass the Editor–John C. Dunn, 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA “As you have come to realize, helped by my donation.” school again and given $10,000 30313 once affiliated with the great insti- Industrial and systems engi- for new uniforms — a vast sum Managing Editor–Kimberly Link-Wills, 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA 30313 tution of Georgia Tech your life neering student KRISTINE JOHNSON of money in 1947,” he said. Owner-Georgia Tech Alumni Association, becomes even more blessed with a heard from DANA BOLSTAD, IE 91, Through the letter-writing 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA 30313 sense of pride and enthusiasm MS Mgt 95, who said, “It’s nice to project, public policy student resulting from exposure through put a real face to the donations I SAIRA AMIR, vice president of the Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security- holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total friendships and travel,” TERRELL make to the school. I do so happi- Student Government Association, amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: None SOVEY, IE 52, wrote to industrial ly because Tech made a real was able to connect with EMIL For completion by nonprofit organizations author- engineering student TARA HED- impact on my life. RUNGE, IE 94. ized to mail at special rates. The purpose, function DINGER after receiving her letter. “I can’t point to any one “I was SGA vice president and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes: Has “As I have been so blessed thing in particular that sticks out as well, though over a decade not changed during the preceding 12 months. and wanted to give back to Tech, from my experiences at Tech, but ago,” Runge wrote. “I thought sounds like the process will con- it gave me a unique perspective your note suggested that you Extent and nature of circulation tinue through someone as talent- on a lot of different things way are interested in politics. I cur- Average No. Fall 05 (Aug.) Copies Each Single Issue ed as you. Your enthusiasm and beyond what my engineering rently serve as communications Issue During Nearest to involvement will be an asset to curriculum taught me. From director for the Democratic Preceding 12 Mos. Filing Date Tech for years to come,” Sovey your note, I gather that your Party of Georgia. I wanted to a. Total No. Copies ...... 98,200 . . . . . 97,000 told her. broad experience at Tech will know if you would like to chat (Net Press Run) Randy McDow, director of also serve you well. I admire sometime about what you are b. Paid and/or Requested the President’s Scholars Program, your drive,” Bolstad wrote. looking to do after graduation.” Circulation said more than 2,100 letters were Johnson also received a reply (1) Outside-County Mail . . .91,087 . . . . . 90,234 Subscriptions Stated written by Tech scholarship from RICHARD LACKEY, IE 69, Heartwarming Article on Form 3541. (Include recipients. Although some stu- who wrote, “Thanks so much for advertiser’s proof and dents were sharing messages your personal note to me concern- The Winter 2005 TECH TOPICS exchange copies) they received with McDow’s ing the Roll Call. It took time and (2) Paid In-County Sub- . . . . . None ...... None was wonderful. The article about office and with Gerri Elder, thought — two things that are in scriptions (Include Jeffery Jones was very heartwarm- advertiser’s proof and Alumni Association manager of great demand at Tech and not a ing and it brought tears to my exchange copies). donor relations, the number of lot of extra to go around. So I (3) Sales Through Deal- . . . . . None ...... None eyes. Thanks, Jeffery, for helping responses was not tracked. count your note as a very valuable ers and Carriers, Street the victims of Katrina. Also, the Heddinger also received a commodity. Vendors, Counter Sales, article “Hurricane Aftermath” and Other Non-USPS response from JUSTIN HONAMAN, “Thank you for choosing was an incredible story of won- Paid Distribution. IE 96, who wrote, “Thank you so Tech. Your success will be thanks (4) Other Classes Mailed . . . .None ...... None derful Tech students helping peo- much for your detailed Alumni enough for my dollars and don’t Through the USPS. ple one-on-one. Thanks for letting c. Total Paid and/or ...... 91,087 . . . . . 90,234 Association card. I was also very forget to reinvest, as you wish to us know what has been done. Requested Circulation involved in campus organizations do, in those coming behind JODY SLOAN, MS CP 79 (Sum of b (1), (2), as a student and truly enjoyed the you,” Lackey wrote. (3), and (4). Tucker, Ga. d. Free Distribution by Mail experience. It will really help you Math major LAURA STILTZ (samples, complimentary, when you go to interview for jobs thanked BILL ANDERSON, EE 70, and other free copies and as an alum. I was impressed PhD 79. He replied, “It is good to WE WELCOME (1) Outside-County as ...... 6,648 ...... 6,227 that you took so much time to put hear that alumni support for the stated on Form 3541 YOUR LETTERS (2) In-County as Stated ...... None ...... None the extra detail in your card.” school is really helping someone. on Form 3541 One of the alums President’s In the 35 years I’ve been giving to The Georgia Tech alumni (3) Other Classes Mailed . . . .None ...... None Scholar GEORGE RAY heard from Roll Call, yours is the first card publications, Through the USPS was HOKE SMART, HTS 00, who I’ve ever received from a student. TECH TOPICS e. Free distribution outside . . . . .None ...... None the mail (carriers or wrote, “I am delighted to know If you’re trying to make us feel and the other means) that a fellow HTS student is important, then you succeeded.” ALUMNI f. Total Free Distribution ...... 6,648 ...... 6,227 receiving part of my contribution. President’s Scholar AMANDA MAGAZINE, (Sum of d. and e.) welcome Georgia Tech was a profound VERGES wrote to a fellow band g. Total Distribution ...... 97,735 . . . . . 96,461 letters to the piece of my life. member. The 1951 Tech graduate, (Sum of c. and f.) editor. Please h. Copies not distributed ...... 467 ...... 539 “I want you to remember who preferred to remain an include your i. Total (Sum of g. and h.) . . . .98,202 . . . . . 97,000 the great confidence you will anonymous donor, wrote, “We full name, address and j. Percent Paid and/or . . 93.2 percent 93.5 percent gain by walking across that stage were a pretty poor band in 1947. telephone number. Letters Requested Circulation and being handed your rolled-up We had no money, no uniforms may be edited for clarity, treasure tied with the Old Gold and few instruments. In the fall of space and content. This statement of ownership will be printed in the ribbon,” Smart said. “Employers 1947, we played Alabama at Georgia Tech Alumni Publications Spring 2006 issue of this publication. down the road will set you apart home. Alabama was known for 190 North Ave. Atlanta, GA 30313 I certify that the statements made by me above are from other candidates simply having the ‘million dollar band’ correct and complete. because your degree says — and they looked it. E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (404) 385-4637 Georgia Institute of Technology “Ben Sisk, our part-time Joseph P. Irwin Send address changes to: on it.” band director, had the band Publisher [email protected] COLIN WRIGHT, EE 94, wrote dress in jeans and plaid shirts.

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ENERGY CRISIS: ‘WHAT’S REALLY BEING DONE?’ Networking Event Fuels Oil Production Eruption

GARY MEEK By John Dunn ple say we’ll peak in 2020 or 2030. It’s the technological challenge we’re facing hirty years ago, complained an in the next decade or two. Talumnus to the laughter of the “We’ve got to do everything we crowded ballroom at the Capital City can,” he said. “We’re currently import- Country Club in Atlanta, the oil crisis ing about 60 or 65 percent of our oil of the 1970s created chaos at the gas from some very unstable regions.” pumps and severely infringed on his America’s transportation needs dating. Now the oil crisis is once again depend on liquid fuel, Shelton added. creating havoc in his life, he lamented The development of ethanol is one of to a panel of experts discussing energy the few liquid fuel alternatives to oil — and the economy at a Georgia Tech “about the only one we can use in our Alumni Network event. current infrastructure.” “What’s really being done and why Ethanol can be produced from corn haven’t we done these things during and also from excess pulpwood from the last 30 years?” he asked. Southern pine trees, he said. Sam Shelton, a mechanical engi- One alumnus asked about coal neering professor at Tech and a mem- gasification. ber of the panel, fielded the question The Southern Co. is building a $557 and remarked that the country is boost- million coal gasification plant in ing development of ethanol. Donald Ratajczak, left, looks on as Sam Shelton expresses his concern about America’s Orange County, Fla., of which the “It’s all about economics it seems,” dependency on foreign oil. “We’re currently importing 60 or 65 percent of our oil.” Department of Energy is contributing Shelton said concerning production of $235 million, Shelton answered. It is the alternative fuel. “Are we willing to “I’m shocked,” Ratajczak said. Hurricane Katrina accelerated part of DOE’s $2 billion, 10-year Clean put our future on our ability to get oil “Last year oil prices were down to $23 America’s crisis, Ratajczak said, cutting Coal Power Initiative that also includes from an unstable region of the world?” a barrel. We were at $55 a barrel before out 28 percent of the oil supply and 15 construction of coal gasification plants The alumnus interrupted. Hurricane Katrina. Of course, the hurri- percent of the supply of natural gas. in New Mexico, Minnesota and Texas. “But we’re still talking about oil,” cane did disrupt production and prices “Oil has been our fail-safe mecha- Another alumnus proposed that he said. “Thirty years ago we were talk- shot up to $70 a barrel. We all panicked. nism. It’s no longer there and that’s the the country aggressively pursue an ing about alternatives to oil. What’s out “A year ago we never thought big problem.” energy program to wean the United there that’s not oil?” we’d get to $43 a barrel. Then all of a Shelton observed, “Everyone in the States from foreign oil, making it a “Nuclear,” an alumnus in the audi- sudden China and India together world is running wild regarding oil national priority similar to President ence called out. increased their consumption of oil 1.5 production. The difference between the John F. Kennedy’s race to the moon. A crowd of about 120 attended the million barrels of oil a day. The world’s situations today with the situation in “Oil is cheap — it’s cheaper than Jan. 31 energy discussion, sponsored by demand was running at 1.5 million and the 1970s, when I got into the energy bottled water,” a member of the audi- Flag Bank and Morgan Keegan. Joseph 2 million barrels of oil a day. area is the oil production capability in ence said. “Why does our government W. Evans, IM 71, chair and CEO of Flag “We kept assuming that the combi- the Middle East and OPEC. Today not impose a tax on gasoline? I don’t Financial Corp., introduced the panel. nation of modern techniques in Russia, there is a geological limitation. It’s understand why we’re paying all this The Alumni Association has made the as well as whatever the hidden supply going to be very difficult for us to drill money to the Middle East when we event available by podcast. of oil in Saudi Arabia was, would be our way out of this.” could be paying it to ourselves.” Joining Shelton on the energy panel able to supply 1.5 million and 2 million Shelton said the United States Ratajczak offered, “I really do was Donald Ratajczak, a nationally barrels a day for a significant period of peaked in its oil production in 1970. believe we need a windfall profits tax renowned economist and consultant time. “One country after another every that a person can earn back by spend- with Morgan Keegan & Co., and “Obviously when China and India year is peaking in its oil production,” ing on increased capital exploration for Michael Drickamer, the company’s vice required 1.5 million themselves, that he said. “At some point the whole production.” president on equity research. Jeff meant Europe, the United States and world will peak in its oil production. Dickerson replied, “Oil is cheaper Dickerson, president of Dickerson Latin America all suddenly found we That’s just a geological fact. Some peo- than bottled water. That’s an interesting Communications, was moderator. had a demand crisis.” ple say we are peaking now. Some peo- observation.” Recipients of Gold & White Honors Announced he roster of Georgia Tech alum- Intellimedia Ventures; Glen The Dean Griffin Community — $15 million for the construction of T ni and supporters who will be Robinson, Phys 48, MS Phys 50, a Service Award will be presented to the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced saluted during the Gold & White researcher who chipped in $100 to Bill Todd, IM 71, president and CEO Computing Building. Honors celebration March 16 form Scientific-Atlanta and became of the Georgia Cancer Coalition, the The designation of honorary includes researchers, philanthropists its CEO; and Al West, AE 64, who first president of the Georgia alumnus will be presented to Jean and business leaders. transformed a computer game into a Research Alliance and the Alumni Duke, wife of Paul A. Duke Sr., ME The Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni $600 million-a-year business. Association’s vice chair of Roll Call. 45, IE 46; Aaron King, team dentist Distinguished Service Award will be The Distinguished Service Christopher Klaus, Cls 96, will for the Georgia Tech athletics pro- presented to Charlie Brown, BC 62, a Award is the highest honor be named the Outstanding Young gram for 40 years; and Bob leader in commercial development bestowed by the Alumni Association Alumnus. The founder and chief Thompson, Tech’s senior vice presi- in metro Atlanta; Ben Dyer, IE 70, co- for a lifetime of leadership, achieve- technology officer of Internet dent for administration and finance. founder of Peachtree Software and a ment and service to Georgia Tech Security Systems gave Georgia Tech The Gold & White Honors gala general partner of Cordova and the community. one of the largest gifts in its history will be at the Atlanta History Center.

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AlumniHouse Young Alumni Ready for Action, Adventure

By Neil B. McGahee meeting personal goals. We tried a pilot project last fall and it was very f you got out of Georgia Tech in successful.” Ithe last 10 years, you may be Chan said the council plans to facing an active spring. offer the mentoring program in April. “The Young Alumni Council is The Atlanta Brewing Company sponsoring events throughout the opens its doors Feb. 23 for the Young spring including cooking classes, Alumni brewery tour and reception. brewery tours, white-water rafting Seasonal beers, appetizers and a tour and a golf tournament,” said council of the brewery are offered for $22. chair Tony Chan, IE 94, MBA 98. On March 28, the King Plow Arts “We have been working Center at 887 W. Marietta St. in extremely hard coming up with new Atlanta will be the site of a cooking ideas for young alumni,” Chan class focusing on “Bold American” added. hors d’oeuvres. Cost of the class, Chan said other plans include a which will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., young alumni mentoring program, a is $60 and includes the hors d’oeuvres community service project and an prepared and a glass of wine. outreach program to attract new The Young Alumni golf graduates. tournament, co-sponsored by the Shooting a rapid on the Ocoee River are, left to right and front to back, Roberto Eduardo “The mentoring program is North Metro Georgia Tech Club, will Lopez, Math 04; Tony Chan, IE 94, MBA 98; Chrissy Stovall, ChE 01; James Stovall, CS 01; particularly exciting,” Chan said. be held at Stone Mountain on May Randy McDow, IE 95, MS PubPol 03; and Lauren McDow, Mgt 03. “We are pairing our young alumni 20. with other alums based on interests For those who prefer fast-paced for the kayak competition at the 1996 council, contact Chan at tony_s_chan and skill sets. The focus is career- action, the council is taking a wet and Atlanta Olympic Games. @hotmail.com or Young Alumni driven, but we want to take it further wild ride on June 26 through the For more information on these program manager Allison Sapp at and focus on interests, lifestyles and rapids of the Ocoee River, the venue events or to become involved in the [email protected].

Trustee Nominations Publications Receive Awards Alumni Association welcomes candidates for board From Education Council ominations are being solicited for trustees to serve on the Georgia Tech he Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine during the 2006 CASE District III NAlumni Association Board of Trustees for terms beginning July 1. Treceived a Grand Award and an conference in Nashville, Tenn., in Nominees must meet two conditions: Award of Excellence and TECH February. • Be an alumnus of Georgia Tech. TOPICS won an Award of The Georgia Tech Research • Have a significant record of supporting Georgia Tech through a variety Excellence from the Institute received of activities. Council for the two CASE awards. A nominating committee comprised of the current Alumni Association Advancement and John Toon, chair and the past three chairs will convene in March to review all candi- Support of Education Research News and dates and propose a final list of nominees. A ballot will be published in the District III. Publications Office Summer issue of TECH TOPICS. Alumni are invited to submit nominations by filling out the form below. Self-nominations are accepted. Please include a The Alumni manager, won the resume or biosketch and a photograph. Magazine received the Grand Award for Deadline for nominations is March 9. Grand Award in the speech writing. general news story or The speech, Nomination Form: series category for “Innovation in Our “Viewing Cancer in Future: The Challenges Nominee______Class/degree______a New Light,” a 24- Ahead,” was written for Phones: Home (_____)______Work (_____)______page special section that appeared Wayne Hodges, vice Home address ______in the Winter 2005 edition. provost for Economic City______State______ZIP______Managing editor Kimberly Development and Technology E-mail______Link-Wills received an Award of Ventures, and delivered at a national Company______Title______Excellence in the feature writing cat- meeting of electric membership Nominated by______Class/degree______egory for the Fall 2005 Alumni cooperatives. Phones: Home (_____)______Work (_____)______Magazine cover story “The Road Less GTRI also received a Special Home address ______City______State______ZIP______Traveled,” which chronicled the Merit Award for media relations Appalachian Trail journey of Gene projects for the ULTRA AP (armored Mail To: Trustee Nominations Espy. patrol) vehicle. Georgia Tech Alumni Association TECH TOPICS received an Award TECH TOPICS and the Alumni Attn: Jolie Rosenberg of Excellence from CASE for its 2005 Magazine are produced quarterly by 190 North Ave. NW issues. the Alumni Association’s Atlanta, GA 30313 The awards were presented Communications office.

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AlumniHouse Wittschiebe Saluted at Women’s Leadership Conference

GARY MEEK By Kimberly Link-Wills 20 years” as an entertainment attorney before packing her briefcase for ntertainment attorney Deborah Nashville, Tenn., and then Savannah, E Wagnon said it took “sheer gut Ga. Her list of clients includes such fortitude” for her to make it through names as Reba McEntire, Olivia Georgia Tech in the 1970s. Newton-John, Travis Tritt and Wagnon, IM 76, was a keynote Shakira. speaker for the Women’s Leadership “Imagine my relief when I saw Conference at which Janice your theme, ‘Awaken Your Passion, Wittschiebe, Arch 78, M Arch 80, was Reinvent Your Future,’” said Wagnon, rewarded for her fortitude and contri- who explained that she has learned to butions to the Georgia Tech communi- listen to her inner voice. ty with the Outstanding Alumna “When the truth is unveiled to Award. you, you’ll know it. Go wisely, Also honored were Bonnie Heck, thoughtfully and strategically with outstanding faculty; Cindy Jordin and your truth,” Wagnon said. Janice P. Rogers, outstanding staff; She decided to follow her passion Shannon Watt, outstanding graduate after the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and student; and Elizabeth Solomon, out- enrolled at Goddard College in standing undergraduate. Vermont to feed what she called her “Awaken Your Passion, Reinvent “starving soul.” Wagnon has since Deborah Wagnon, left, delivered the keynote address at the Women’s Leadership Your Future” was the theme for the Conference celebration at which Janice Wittschiebe, right, was the honored alumna. earned a master’s degree in fine arts mid-November student-organized and penned a novel.

conference, which included an Wagnon also fed an internal need

evening reception featuring food with to become a mother and adopted a When the truth is unveiled to you, you’ll“ a Spanish flair and flamenco dancing. “ baby girl in Guatemala. “I can’t “Ole,” called out Wittschiebe, know it. Go wisely, thoughtfully and remember what it was like without chairman-elect of the Georgia Tech strategically with your truth. her,” she said. Alumni Association, as she made her She advised the conference atten- way to the podium to accept the dees not to focus on the finishing line award from Marilyn Somers, director chair the Georgia Tech Advisory she went on to succeed in business as of their careers and of their lives. of the Living History program. Board and the second woman tapped a principal in Richard + Wittschiebe “The race is never over,” Wagnon “Her contributions to the Tech to lead the Alumni Association. Architects of Atlanta. said. “There is no maintaining the sta- community are enormous,” Somers Wittschiebe not only survived the Wagnon said she survived the tus quo in a moving world. said of Wittschiebe, the first female to male-dominated classrooms at Tech, “shark-infested Hollywood waters for “All of us are unfinished stone.”

GARY MEEK New Orleans, New Facility on Trustee Reunion Agenda

hard look at the reality of New expansion and the “unqualified suc- AOrleans’ future, a glimpse back at cess” of the hotel there. a golden venture by the Georgia Tech The purpose of the Georgia Tech Foundation and a here-and-now tour Hotel was to support the Institute and of the state-of-the-art Food Processing make the facility available to the cam- Technology Building topped the pus community and not necessarily to agenda during the January reunion of make money, Carter said. former Alumni Association trustees. “We’re not in the hotel business,” The rebuilding of New Orleans is he explained. “We don’t have the more than a matter of bricks and expertise on staff to hire chefs and mortar — it’s also fraught with housekeeping staff, purchase food and potential legal liabilities to contractors supplies, set room rates, conduct mar- and corporations relocating in the city keting and all the things associated while it is vulnerable to hurricanes. with running a hotel.” Joseph Hughes, chair of the Instead, the Foundation signed a School of Civil and Environmental 30-year lease agreement with McLean, Engineering, has toured New Orleans Va.-based Crestline Hotels and Resorts and said the devastation was “stagger- to operate and manage the facility. Former Alumni trustees take a look at state-of-the-art food processing technology. ing.” (See “New Orleans Renewal” on “They have run the hotel very Page 19.) well over the past two years and were North Avenue Research Area to tour development of new and emerging John B. Carter Jr., IE 69, president profitable in the very first full year, the Food Processing Technology technologies for the food processing of the Georgia Tech Foundation, told which is highly unusual in the hotel Division facility. The division, a industry. The building houses 36,154 the former trustees about the triumph business,” Carter said. research unit of the Georgia Tech square feet of laboratory and office of the Technology Square campus Trustees took a bus ride to the Research Institute, is dedicated to the space. GT

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CAROLINE JOE UpUp toto thethe ChallengeChallenge In the best Tech tradition, Ronald Yancey never gave up

By Gary Goettling “We had to sign a pledge that we

I tried to take a positive look at it and say, would be nonviolent,” he added. “If

or Ronald L. Yancey, the challenge “‘These are good people here. They don’t mean you wanted to go and demonstrate, Fof Georgia Tech wasn’t just the “ you had to sign a pledge that no mat- rigorous curriculum or the long hours me any harm. They were raised a different way; ter what happened, you would not studying but the empty circle of chairs they were raised to believe a certain thing.’ strike back. That was required.” that usually surrounded him in class When protesters threatened to — literally and metaphorically. organize a boycott during the 1961 Not by choice, he performed his raised to believe a certain thing,’” he preparatory for the engineering degree Christmas shopping season, “the mer- lab work alone and completed tests in said. he was determined to earn. chants downtown were terrified — ink to preserve and protect his Born in Atlanta to a part-time Toward the end of his freshman Rich’s in particular,” Yancey said. answers. He studied at the Tech library beautician and a postman who also year, Yancey applied to Georgia Tech “They were leading the merchants between classes but at night preferred owned a shoe repair shop, Yancey was once again. This time he received a to come to some agreement,” he said, the security of the library at the the second youngest of nine children. response — a rejection letter — and he noting that Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Atlanta University Center. He credits his parents with his drive to made plans to return to Morehouse in Com 33, also played a pivotal role in He received a few phone threats succeed in school. the fall. resolving the issue peacefully. “They during his three years at Tech — and “I loved school,” he said. “I like to During his sophomore year at asked us if we would call off the sometimes words of encouragement read. I love books — still do. Morehouse, Yancey became active in demonstrations until they could get from other students — but for the most “We all were expected to do our the campaign to desegregate lunch their own act together and try to get part, Yancey’s interaction with fellow best and going to college was a part of counters and facilities in downtown agreements from the other merchants Tech students was marked by purpose- that,” he continued. “There was no Atlanta. to desegregate.” ful indifference. way to take control of your future The group, headquartered at the All sides honored their commit- As the first black student to grad- without going to college. Education Atlanta University Center, was called ments, and the peaceful desegregation uate from Georgia Tech, where he was the key.” the Committee on Appeal for Human of downtown Atlanta still stands as received an electrical engineering After graduating from Booker T. Rights, Yancey recalled. Led by local one of the city’s finest moments. degree in 1965, Yancey set a coura- Washington High School in 1960 with civil rights leaders such as Lonnie King “It was good experience,” Yancey geous example for all minority stu- a total of 50 A’s and 10 B’s, Yancey and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, said. “We felt like it had to be done, dents who would follow him. It wasn’t mailed applications to Georgia Tech, its members picketed downtown busi- and we were right there to do it.” easy, but he harbors no regrets or bit- Massachusetts Institute of Technology nesses and sat at “whites-only” lunch In March 1962, Yancey applied terness. and Morehouse College. He received counters. once again to Georgia Tech, asking for “I tried to take a positive look at it no response from Tech and, deciding “We would go from one lunch reconsideration of his application from and say, ‘These are good people here. to stay close to home, accepted counter to another,” he said. “When the year before. He was admitted as a They don’t mean me any harm. They Morehouse’s admission offer. He chose we’d walk in, they would shut it transfer student for the upcoming fall were raised a different way; they were a dual major of math and physics as down. semester.

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BETTMAN/CORBIS COME EXPLORE. COME ESCAPE.

COME SHARE THE EXPERIENCE. GEORGIA TECH TRAVEL ADVENTURES

Alumni Campus Abroad in Sorrento and Orvieto, Italy June 3 – 14, 2006 12 day Land – Sorrento, Campania, The Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Isle of Capri, Orvieto, Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Florence

An Atlanta police officer takes down the names of African-Americans who participated in a 1960 sit-down protest at a “whites-only” lunch counter. Ronald Yancey, as a member of the Celtic Lands – Hosted by Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, was active in such protests. Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Clough June 7 – 18, 2006 12 day Cruise – Caen (France), Normandy In the meantime, Tech had been a project and program manager with a Beaches, St. Malo, Mont-St-Michel, Fowey integrated seven months earlier when Department of Defense facility at Fort (England), Cork (Ireland), Cobh, Dublin, Ford Greene, Ralph Long Jr. and Meade, Md. Sixteen years later, he joined Holyhead (Wales), Iona (Scotland), Isle of Lawrence Williams were admitted as the private sector with stints at BTM Mull, Portree, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, entering freshmen. President Edwin Corp., GTE and Lockheed-Martin. At Edinburgh Harrison, recognizing the inevitability of present Yancey is principal assistant engi- integration, was determined to neer for Engineering Solutions Inc., a accomplish the change without the defense contractor located in Hanover, violence by white students and the Md. attendant publicity that had marked He and his wife of 35 years, Sheila, Village Life on the integration at the University of Georgia. have four grown sons and reside in Dalmatian Coast None of those first three black students Columbia, Md. June 20 – 28, 2006 would graduate, however. Looking back, Yancey credits great 9 day Cruise – Venice (Italy), Ravenna A week before Yancey was to begin parents and his family’s strong Christian (Croatia), Split, Dubrovnik, Korcula, Pula classes at Tech, he received a phone call background with providing the focus, from Dean of Students Jim Dull asking support and perspective he needed to him to drop by campus for a candid talk. persevere at Georgia Tech. But Yancey “He gave me a tour of the campus,” admits there was a time when he was Yancey recalled. “He gave me a general almost ready to quit. It came during his Norwegian Fjords and feel for what to expect when I got on junior year, he said. He had missed two campus. He told me that he would act on homework assignments in one of his Baltic Sea Cruise my behalf and said, ‘I will do whatever I classes, and the pressure — both academ- July 6 – 18, 2006 can to help you.’” ic and social — was forcing Yancey to re- 13 day Cruise – St. Petersburg (Russia), If or when Yancey wanted to attend evaluate his choices. Tallinn (Estonia), Stockholm (Sweden), an athletic event, Dull suggested that he “Why am I doing this? Why am I Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Klaipeda, be notified in advance of the young man’s going through all of this?” he recalled Gdansk (Poland), Copenhagen (Denmark), expected arrival time and point of entry asking himself. As he was leaving the Skagerrak & Kattegat Straits, Flåm so protection could be provided at the class, the professor invited him into his (Norway), Bergen gates. office for a short talk. “He said, ‘There will be members of Yancey remembers the gist of the lec- the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ture: “‘Do you feel the enormity of what For additional information on the tours listed above or any of attending classes, unbeknownst to any of you’re doing here? You know there are a our other tours, contact Martin Ludwig, Director of Travel, the students. You won’t know who they lot of people that are counting on you. at 404-894-0758, 800-GT-ALUMS or are, the rest of the students won’t know There are people here on campus who [email protected] who they are, but they will be there.’” support you, and there are people on Not wanting to tempt fate, Yancey campus who want to see you succeed, never attended an athletic event while at whether you know it or not. Tech. “‘You’re about to let them down if Academically, “I don’t think I did as you don’t really get serious and start well as I wanted to,” Yancey said, even pressing this — no matter what it takes to though he graduated in the top third of finish.’ his class. “That,” Yancey smiled, “was the After Tech, he accepted a position as biggest lift I got.” GT gtalumni.org

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By Kimberly Link-Wills for the four-day Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January. Glee Club The Hawaiian holiday is just the latest high t is unclear when a group of Tech men first har- note in the storied history of the Georgia Tech Glee monized and called themselves a glee club, but Club, which has traveled around the world on mil- Iit is accepted that the singers represent the celebrating itary transport planes, been surrounded by Institute’s oldest student organization. screaming girls and even referred to themselves as “The Glee Club was first started in 1906 and “heckuva engineers” to appease Ed Sullivan. After was composed of some eight or 10 men who centennial traversing through what Ulrich calls “hills and val- would gather every afternoon under the Academic leys,” the male chorus is marking a century of Building and practice,” the Technique reported in melody making. an Oct. 9, 1917, article introducing new students to in song “Among the numerous things affected by the campus customs and clubs. war and changes which have “Two years later the GARY MEEK taken place due to it is the dis- faculty recognized the continuation of the Glee organization as a valuable Club,” a Dec. 4, 1917, one and began to take an Technique article said. “This interest in it, but no defi- will be the first time in the last nite steps were taken eight or 10 years that Tech has toward its improvement,” not had a Glee Club and the article continued. everyone will miss going to “Every year, however, it the performances and hearing improved little by little them practice every week over and in 1914, under the at the Y. The Glee Club is only direction of Mr. J.C. one of the many pleasures that Wardwell, the first big per- we are having to cut out this formance and road trip year due to the sacrifices was made.” made necessary by the war.” Tech student Michael While the young men Rohling, who received a were silenced, the campus grant to research the Glee welcomed the Wesleyan Glee Club for the Alumni Club for an appearance trum- Association’s Living peted with a huge front page History department, found photograph and April 2, 1918, an Atlanta Constitution arti- Technique article that said, cle dated June 20, 1907, “Oh, boys, the girls are com- that recorded the group’s ing, in large numbers too, and roots a bit differently: are going to take Tech by “One of the great social storm. The 40 charming organizations that helps to nightingales … will be ready make the thorny path at to render their most attractive Tech tread easier is a musi- program at the Tech YMCA.” cal club organized last The Technique took note of February under the sug- the Tech singers’ resurgence gestive title of the Tech on Nov. 26, 1920, with the Glee Club. statement, “Even the Glee “Many a dull hour has Club has come to life and taken on a different air out begins to display signs of pro- on the campus at the insti- gressiveness.” gation of this musical By October 1924, the club organization and many a was so popular that it drew fair maiden’s heart has about 200 voices to the fall try- beat the faster as she outs, according to the student caught the notes of three Reggae, rap, hip-hop, hymns — the Glee Club performs them newspaper. “Seventy-five sur- troubadours as they played in the moonlight all with panache. Director Jerry Ulrich, top, and the club, vived the first cut. This number will later be cut under her balcony window,” the Constitution said. which includes members, clockwise from middle, down to 50 as soon as the management decides “The membership of this club is as follows: Christopher Smith, Tony Le, Joshua Lannu, Colin Ake and who are the sheep and who are the goats.” Evan Moon, also are technologically savvy. Check out Lowndes C. Connally of Atlanta; R.J. Theison of A year later the Glee Club secured the “servic- www.gleeclub.gatech.edu for upcoming concert details. Florida; G.W.H. Cheney of Rome; George A. es of a theatrical director of great prominence and Hendrie of Atlanta; C.L. Emerson of Atlanta; Club don’t really care when the first song was ability, Mr. LeRoy Printz,” touted by the Technique V.H.N. Garrett of Richmond, Va.; Marshal Johnson sung. Director Jerry Ulrich said they already have as a World War I ace who also had directed the and Hunter Muse of Atlanta.” started celebrating the centennial — in Hawaii. male chorales at Princeton, the University of The vocalists of today’s Georgia Tech Glee The Glee Club served as the ensemble-in-residence Illinois and the University of California.

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GARY MEEK

The Georgia Tech Glee Club welcomed alumni singers to join them on the football field for the performance of the national anthem before the Homecoming game in October.

In 1926, the club broadcast on WGST radio from Oct. 30, 1931, read: “Glee Club will be discon- Elizabeth could arrange to hear the Georgia Tech three times and staged shows throughout the state. tinued for ensuing year.” Glee Club on its singing and flying tour of Europe.” A March 19, 1926, review of one tour stop said, The Depression years were followed by anoth- The conclusion of one such world tour resulted “Shorty Wiggins’ act, which consists of a sort of er war. It wasn’t until after World War II drew to a in a January 1951 headline in the Atlanta Charleston clog, was the hit of the show, he being close that the Glee Club enjoyed one of its most Constitution: “Tech Glee Club returns from 7,525- called back for encores so many times that he was popular and wide-reaching eras as military trans- mile jaunt.” completely exhausted and had to be helped off the ports flew the Tech men around the world. A photograph showed Glee Club singers Hal stage.” An Associated Press story dated Dec. 19, 1949, Graham, Paul Garnett and Jack Moss kissing the Glee Club news routinely made the front page from Frankfurt related that 27 men of the Glee Club ground after their return to Georgian soil. The of the Technique. On Oct. 14, 1927, the selection of 35 “and a blonde” had landed there for a three-week accompanying story documented the journey by singers made the front page alongside another tour of Germany, Austria and Great Britain. Air Force transport plane of 23 Glee headline: “Thousands greet Lindbergh on Grant “The singers, with Norma Club members who performed at mili- Field.” Jane Rader tary bases in Newfoundland, And then came one of the “valleys” Ulrich Johnson as sopra- Labrador, Greenland and Bermuda. described. A paragraph in the Oct. 11, 1929, edition no soloist, will Also on the bill was the “eye-easy of the Technique said, “The school’s Glee Club present service- Georgette Trio from the University of organization disbanded two years ago, but the stu- men with a pro- Georgia.” dent body has for more than a year been insistent gram including John Hunsinger, IE 54, MS IE 55, upon its reorganization.” Western songs, traveled to Korea and Japan for a It did regroup but may have still been singing spirituals and tunes two-month summer trip in the early in the cellar. On Jan. 24, 1930, the Technique report- from current 1950s that was coordinated by ed, “The Georgia Tech Glee Club made its initial Broadway success- director Walter Herbert with the appearance of the year at Marietta. The attendance es,” the article, USO. Hunsinger also was a foot- was very poor due to the extremely cold weather which appeared in ball player at Tech and was only and to the fact that the show was advertised only a the Atlanta Journal, able to sing on tour because the few days beforehand. The show is entitled ‘The said. It went on to trip took place during the off-sea- Suckers, or a Collegiate Version of a Modern Night say that “in London, son. According to Hunsinger, it Club.’ The second act is a desert scene and every- doubts were was coach Bobby Dodd who one has on an Arab costume.” expressed that King suggested that he try out for the The club choked again. A Technique headline George and Queen Glee Club in the first place.

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JAMES HOLDER “He’d call you over during practice and you’d think you were going to get chewed out for something you did in Saturday’s game,” Hunsinger said, expressing the relief he felt when all Dodd asked him to do was sing. In 1953, Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town” attracted an estimated 30 million television viewers. The 50 Glee Club members auditioned for 28 seats on the train that would take them to New York. Three songs were planned — “Ramblin’ Wreck,” “There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame” and the alma mater. Sullivan went beyond insisting that the men sing that they were “heckuva engineers,” according to the Technique. “The club sang ‘Dames’ at rehears- al and brought down the house, only to have Sullivan give it the axe.” Dick Lord, IM 57, auditioned for the Glee Club after that trip to New York. Today he sings with a barbershop quartet and was recently given a piece of music to learn. It was a song with which he was The Glee Club has learned that there’s nothing like a dame to elicit whistles and applause from an audience. Cody Schafer quite familiar — “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” good-naturedly played the part of the dame in Hawaii, where the singers began celebrating the group’s 100th anniversary. As a Glee Club singer Lord had the opportunity to meet a lot of “dames.” In those days Dick Clark’s dance show was tel- It wasn’t the end of the Georgia Tech Glee “Girls were a real rarity at Tech then, you evised live from Philadelphia every weekday after- Club, which appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” understand,” he said. “We had a reciprocal agree- noon. two more times, including a June 22, 1969, episode ment with the Brenau College chorus. The girls “It was a thrill for us,” Moore said. “There were that featured comedians Flip Wilson and Jackie would come and sing at our concert on campus lines of people outside and screaming girls.” Mason. every year and we would go to theirs. From Philadelphia The Techniques traveled to In the early 1970s, the Georgia Tech Glee Club “They had a lot of pretty young things. I made Brooklyn, where the quartet appeared for a week became the Georgia Tech Men’s Glee Club after the some good friends up there,” Lord said with a on stage in disc jockey Peter Tripp’s “Hit Makers of emergence of a women’s counterpart, according to booming baritone laugh. “That was a big deal for 1957.” Ulrich, who said the two groups “morphed” into the us to go up to Brenau every year. That and a few “We released two more records and recorded Georgia Tech Chorale. girls at Agnes Scott was about all the females we another, but we didn’t have another hit. That was The women’s club eventually was dissolved and, could find.” the end of The Techniques,” Moore said. for a time, the men’s group disappeared as well. Lord Lord returned to campus during Homecoming in October to share with Ulrich a 1953 78-rpm album of the Glee Club and Georgia Tech band playing together and sepa- rately. The music department has since pre- served the recording on CD. He said his best memories are of taking the stage at the Fox Theatre every year for the Glee Club’s annual concert there. “And because we all had tuxedos we would usher for the opera at the Fox. It was a good chance to see some opera and go backstage and meet the stars.” In addition to meeting the celebrities of the day, the young men witnessed history. The Glee Club was on the sidelines on Jan. 2, 1956, the day Pitt’s Bobby Grier became the first African- American to play in the Sugar Bowl, a game Tech won 7-0. Jim Moore, BS 58, Arch 59, was among the Glee Club singers at that bowl game in New Orleans. He also was one of the vocalists who enjoyed national celebrity as a member of The Techniques. “They are The quartet — tenor Chuck Poston, lead Buddy Funk, baritone Mike Tierney so bright and so and bass Moore — had a hit record in the fall of 1957. The 45-rpm “Hey Little Girl” talented and very sold more than 250,000 copies, enough to earn an invitation to perform on entrepreneurial. “American Bandstand.” “It was around this time that gradua- They take tion and military service had split the group and made it inactive. So with two of the origi- something and nal members and two substitutes — Jim Tinney became top tenor and Jim Falin became just run with it.” baritone — the quartet went to Philadelphia to become famous,” Moore said.

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COURTESY AIRTRAN AIRWAYS recalled coming to campus in the holidays, the club performed for ’80s and finding the Glee Club AirTran passengers in a concourse “about dead. There just wasn’t at Hartsfield-Jackson International much going on.” And according to Airport and at two company holi- the Technique in a February day parties in exchange for airfare 2000 article, the Men’s to the West Coast. Glee Club “did not The club, which has return until Dr. (Bill) changed its name back Caldwell brought it to the original back in 1998.” Georgia Ulrich came Tech Glee to Tech from the Club, is in New York per- rehearsals for forming arts a concert at school of Spivey Hall, an “Fame” April 3 event at fame to the Clayton State replace Caldwell University theater as director of choral activi- in Morrow, Ga., that

ties in 2003. will mark the official COURTESY THE JOURNAL OF SIGMA PHI EPSILON “When I came, 13 guys tried launch of the centen- The Glee Club sang for its supper — and air- out and two couldn’t match a nial season. fare to the West Coast — in the AirTran Airways concourse at Hartsfield-Jackson pitch,” Ulrich said, noting the Glee “The sky is the limit. It’s a International Airport in Atlanta in December. Club now is 60 voices strong. blast,” said Ulrich, who admitted The airline hired the singers to help put travel- “The Glee Club has been dor- some trepidation over his decision ers in the holiday spirit. There was no airfare mant, but not for long,” Ulrich to lead technical-minded students in 1908, when Glee Club members, left to right, said. “It has gone through hills and in the art of singing. “They are W.W. Porter, A.H. Sawtell and P.C. Herault were valleys. I would say singing extraordinarily creative. They’re photographed. The three men were Sig Eps ‘Ramblin’ Wreck’ on Sunset Beach doing some of their own arrange- and this photo appeared in The Journal of in Hawaii was a peak.” ments now. They are so bright and Sigma Phi Epsilon in 1908 and in the maga- The Glee Club sang for its sup- so talented and very entrepreneur- zine’s centennial edition in 2004. per — and for plane tickets to help ial. They take something and just get 20 singers to Hawaii. Over the run with it.” GT

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TheHill New Orleans Renewal President Clough, Tech faculty and students continue Gulf Coast aid national committee headed Aby President Wayne Clough is working toward the revival of New Orleans and protection of the city from future hurricanes. By Kimberly Link-Wills

President Wayne Clough led the first meeting of the National Academies/National Research Council’s 16-member Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects in mid-January, when the group had the opportunity to tour the areas hardest hit during the 2005 hurricane season and inspect levee and floodwall failures. In a letter to the committee members, Clough wrote that he first toured the devastated region by helicopter in November. “The flood damage is extensive and reaches over a wide area. There are no easy solutions and there is much emotion associated with the possible outcomes,” he said. Clough said the committee’s primary focus will be to review the work being conducted by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a team President Clough, below left, toured hurricane-devastated areas around New Orleans by helicopter and on the ground. He from the American Society of Civil Engineers that is has been named chairman of a national committee studying factors that resulted in the breaching of levees and floodwalls. investigating the design capacity of the hurricane protection system, forces exerted against the system ma furnace system to dispose of the tremendous vol- and the factors that resulted in the breaching of lev- ume of debris in the Gulf Coast region. ees and floodwalls. Other civil and environmental engineering pro- After graduating from Tech, Clough, CE 63, MS fessors and their research teams also have been work- CE 65, went to work on flood protection issues in the ing in the hard-hit areas. Mississippi River Basin for the Corps of Engineers. “I Professor Glenn Rix is determining the link know the history of these projects and relate closely between physical damage from Hurricane Katrina to their importance to the people living there,” he and the operational capacity and recovery of Gulf said. Coast ports. Professor David Frost is analyzing wind Clough is joined on the hurricane committee by and storm surge damage data to help define a zone professional engineers and academics from that is potentially subject to certain types of damage. institutions around the country, including MIT, In addition, associate professor Reggie Georgetown University and the California Institute of DesRoches gathered data on damage inflicted on Technology. bridges and the transportation network that could “It is now time for Georgia Tech to do what we help improve infrastructure design and rehabilitation. can with our special expertise to help in the very Over winter break, 46 Tech students and three large effort to rebuild,” Clough said. “As president I staff members spent five days in Mobile, Ala., helping hope to represent Georgia Tech and its commitment residents clean up their flood-damaged homes. to work on these issues until they are resolved.” The Tech chapter of Engineering Students Joseph Hughes, chair of the School of Civil and Without Borders and the Office of Community Environmental Engineering, told former trustees of Service contacted government agencies and nonprofit the Georgia Tech Alumni Association that Clough is organizations to determine where their help was “arguably the most visible civil engineer in academia most needed. today. When you talk about giants, he is at the head He called the damage in New Orleans alone The students tore out sheetrock, removed mold, of the list.” “absolutely staggering. There’s nothing that was on installed drywall and painted. To help them prepare Hughes, who toured the devastated region with television or that I can show you that comes close to for the trip, GTRI conducted a training session that Clough, asserted that it will be years before New expressing the extent of damage that took place.” included information on potential health and safety Orleans is protected from a hurricane of Katrina’s Hughes recalled seeing a sea of 40,000 to 50,000 hazards involved with the relief work. strength. refrigerators that had been removed from homes. Sarah Brackmann, assistant director of student “We can build things that would protect New “Everything in those refrigerators is now becoming a involvement for the Office of Community Service, Orleans in the future. I will probably be long since biological hazard,” he said. “There has never been a said the need for assistance remains. retired before they’re done,” Hughes said during the bigger solid waste problem in the United States.” “We want to do future trips over the spring and trustees reunion at the Alumni/Faculty House in At the request of the Federal Emergency summer,” Brackmann said. “That will be when we January. “We’ve got a period of 30-ish years, even if Management Agency, the Georgia Tech Research can really get to rebuilding the infrastructure in the we’re aggressive, when it’s not protected.” Institute is evaluating the feasibility of using its plas- affected areas.”

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STANLEY LEARY Energy Executive ‘We’re Named Chancellor etired Alliant Energy CEO Erroll R Davis is the first African-American Moving and nonacademic to be named chancellor of the University System of Georgia. The Board of Regents voted unani- mously in early Earth’ December to approve Davis’ appointment as Governor’s budget funds chancellor of Georgia’s 35 pub- nanotechnology center lic colleges and universities. By John Dunn President Wayne Clough eorgia Tech in January began DAVIS was a member of G moving dirt at the site of the the selection commit- former Neely Nuclear Research tee and said, “Mr. Davis was educated Center for construction of an $84 as an electrical engineer, held a number million nanotechnology center — of leadership positions in private indus- one of the Institute’s top budget pri- try that involved complex organizations orities now before the state and served on the boards of three top- Legislature. ranked universities. He brings the tal- “We’ve already received state ents and skills needed to guide our money for the design and some site University System through the chal- development,” said Andrew Harris, lenging days ahead.” a special assistant to President Davis, 61, retired as president and Wayne Clough. “We’ve been antici- CEO of Alliant Energy Corp. in July but pating the final installment of this remains board chairman. He also has money for the last couple of years.” served as the CEO of WPL Holdings Gov. Sonny Perdue included and Wisconsin Power and Light. the final payment of $38 million as the state’s share for the center in his budget now before the General DiSabatino Leaving Assembly. The state committed a total of $45 million to build the cen- Campus for Clemson ter. The Legislature will make its Tech starts site preparation for a nanotechnology research center. Gov. Sonny Perdue budget allocations in late March or included $38 million for the facility in the budget he sent to the state Legislature. ean of Students Gail DiSabatino in early April when the session ends. pletely finished, Harris said. “That’s our bread and butter,” DJanuary was named vice president “Two years ago the governor “We’re going to finish some of Harris said. “Full-formula funding for student affairs at Clemson University. and the Legislature put $2 million that square footage as we need it is our basic state funding for our She had been the dean of students and in the budget for planning to get over the next few years when we faculty, operations and mainte- assistant vice president of student affairs the ball rolling and last year they have additional researchers. When nance. The formula is based on at Tech since 1995. awarded $5 million for additional you do a building like this, you enrollment. If enrollment increases, “After an extensive national search planning, design and some of the need to be sure it’s big enough. then the formula funding increas- that netted more than 60 applicants, Gail site development,” said Harris, We’re building it so we can es.” was clearly the top candidate. She brings director of Government Relations. expand,” Harris said. Tech’s $55 million funding for- a wealth of knowledge and experience to Tech is committed to raise $39 mil- “The design has been complet- mula increase includes $31.4 mil- that position,” said James F. Parker, presi- lion in private funds for the center. ed. Actually, they’re moving earth lion for enrollment growth, $6.3 dent of Clemson. “Actually, we’re probably right now,” Harris said. “This will million for maintenance and opera- DiSabatino began working part time going to raise another $50 million in be the first nanotechnology research tion of new facilities, $5.4 million at Clemson in February and will take addition to that,” Harris said. “Tech center in the Southeast.” for increased energy costs and $12.1 over the post full time in late March. is going to put in nearly $100 mil- The center would ensure that million for increased fringe benefit At Tech she oversaw student clubs lion before the nanotechnology Tech is a pre-eminent, national costs, owing mostly to increased and organizations, student publications, research center is completed.” leader in nanotechnology research. health care costs. community service, leadership develop- Clough said the center will Harris said the center received A third priority not included in ment, student success and diversity pro- allow Tech to be “among the early aggressive support from House the governor’s budget recommen- grams and the Women’s Resource Center. pacesetters” on the frontier of nan- members Richard Royal, IE 62, and dation is $4.9 million for renovation She also created the sexual assault otechnology research. Ron Forster, MS PubPol 04, and of the old civil engineering building task force, which established the “This will provide our state Senators John W Grant III, IE on Bobby Dodd Way. Institute’s sexual misconduct policy, and researchers and our research part- 72, and Chip Rogers, Mgt 91. “It means we’ve got to go to oversaw the founding of GT SMART, a ners working in both organic and Another Tech priority for this work and try to get the General coalition made up of representatives from inorganic applications of nanotech- legislative session is $55 million in Assembly to support it. We’re ask- Tech and the surrounding communities to nology to have a facility second to full-formula funding, which Perdue ing the House and Senate address high-risk drinking among stu- none worldwide,” Clough said. recommended in the total of more Appropriations Committee to add dents. When it is built, not all of the than $1 billion proposed to support that to the fiscal year 07 budget,” John Stein, director of Success center’s square footage will be com- full-formula funding system-wide. Harris said. Programs, will serve as the interim dean of students.

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Global Strategy STANLEY LEARY Georgia Tech partners with India, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

wo Georgia Tech schools have formed partnerships Twith China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which has awarded an honorary doctorate to Tech President Wayne Clough. Georgia Tech and about 20 other American universities also have signed an agreement to collaborate with India on higher education and research. The pact with India, signed in December, is intended to make it possible for professors in the United States to teach and conduct research at colleges and universities in India via that country’s educational satel- lite and an electronic-learning system. Participating U.S. universities include Harvard University, the University of California at Robert Haley founded FOCUS to meet the goal of increasing the Institute’s minority graduation rates. Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Yale University and the FOCUS Program Helps Attract University of Texas. Clough receives doctorate from In October the School Shanghai Jiao Tong University. of Industrial and Systems Minority Graduate Students Engineering formed a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University to establish a By Rashida Syed American engineers at all three to focus on growing the pro- Sino-U.S. Global Logistics Institute. degree levels — and not for gram. The key is not to grow it early 300 minority college The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering the first time. FOCUS is an incrementally by individual students participated in established a dual master’s degree program with the uni- N important part of that suc- numbers but to really grow it the 15th annual FOCUS pro- versity in December. The partnership allows students cess.” significantly, and I think the gram at Georgia Tech, a four- admitted to the two-year program to study at either SJTU FOCUS was started in way to do that is to concen- day event promoting the or Georgia Tech’s campus. It establishes a summer 1991 to help expose qualified trate on the historically black Institute’s graduate program exchange program for students attending Tech and SJTU. minority college students to colleges and universities for held in conjunction with the “We are very pleased with the relationship we are Tech’s graduate programs. African-American students in observance of the Rev. Martin developing with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which Robert Haley, special assistant all disciplines.” Luther King Jr. holiday. includes aspects of research, student exchange and joint to the president, founded The increasing number of Commissioner Michael programs of study,” Clough said. FOCUS to meet the goal of universities that now have a Thurmond of the Georgia “Shanghai is a dynamic city of 18 million people that increasing the Institute’s program like FOCUS reflects Department of Labor was serves as a key economic engine for China. Shanghai Jiao minority graduation rates and the ongoing effort of business- among the keynote speakers. Tong University is a high-quality institution with strong to place a special emphasis on es to increase diversity in the The prospective students also leadership and plans for the future. The timing is right for encouraging minorities to pur- workplace, he said. met with faculty and graduate this partnership.” sue advanced degrees no mat- As the U.S. population students and visited class- ISyE’s Global Logistics Institute with SJTU is modeled ter which institution they shifts and companies begin to rooms, labs and Atlanta histor- after The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, a partnership chose to attend. conduct more business inter- ical and cultural sites. between Tech and the National University of Singapore. Clough said he is particu- nationally, diversity is a benefit Tech ranks first in the “The focus of the institute will be the Shanghai region larly pleased with the prece- that industry can’t ignore, number of bachelor’s, master’s of China,” said Chelsea C. White, the H. Milton and dent that FOCUS has set for Haley said, and universities and doctoral degrees in engi- Carolyn Stewart chair of Tech’s School of Industrial and other universities. “I am proud play a big role in increasing neering awarded to African- Systems Engineering. of the work that Robert Haley diversity in industry. Americans, a fact that White and Charles Liotta, vice president of research and his staff have done to “We must ensure going President Wayne Clough and dean of graduate studies, were joined by Georgia eco- make FOCUS what it is today. into the future that we contin- attributes, in part, to the suc- nomic development officials at the ceremony inaugurating This program has become a ue to emphasize advanced cess of the FOCUS program. the program with SJTU in October. model that other institutions degrees in all disciplines,” he “Georgia Tech is commit- “The programs being developed in Shanghai and want to emulate.” said. “We have to have a ted to celebrating diversity, Singapore are part of an overall strategy to foster Georgia Haley is looking ahead. diverse work force that mirrors and the FOCUS program has Tech’s evolution toward an international technological uni- “Going forward, I think the the consumer. The leading made an important contribu- versity that encourages its students to experience cultures charge is to continue the lead- companies will be the ones tion to our ability to attract from around the world while pursuing their disciplines,” ership that we have estab- that have a diverse work force, minority students,” Clough Liotta said. lished and build on a very suc- that really concentrate on said. “Diverse Issues in Higher During the next few years, Tech may expand its dual- cessful program so that we can diversity. That will be what Education recently recognized degree partnership program modeled after TLI-Asia Pacific maintain that leadership as we defines them.” Georgia Tech as the nation’s with some other top universities, Liotta said. move into the next 15 years. Rashida Syed is a writer for Institute leader in graduating African- Communications and Public Affairs. Students completing an 18-month TLI-Asia Pacific pro- “My responsibility now is gram earn dual master’s degrees from Tech and NUS.

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Tech Times Evolution Faculty Recognition Biology Eminent Scholar Education in the 21st Century: Global Renowned scientist Jeffrey Challenge and National Response.” Clocks of Man, Chimp Skolnick has joined the Tech faculty as YERKES PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER the Georgia Research Alliance eminent Medal of Honor By David Terraso scholar in computational systems biolo- Jim Meindl, director of the gy. He previously directed the Microelectronics Research Center and eorgia Tech scientists found that University of Buffalo Center of Excell- the Joseph M. Pettit chair and Gthe rate of molecular evolution ence in Bioinformatics. professor of microsystems in the of chimpanzees is closer to that of Skolnick brought with him 19 School of Electrical and Computer humans than it is to other apes. research scientists and technicians and Engineering, has been named the Appearing in the Jan. 23 issue of more than $1.5 million in federal fund- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Proceedings of the National Academy of ing, primarily from the National Engineers’ recipient of the Medal of Sciences, biologist Soojin Yi reported Institutes of Health. Honor. that the rate of human and chimp “He has relationships with phar- The IEEE’s highest award is given molecular evolution — changes that maceutical and technology companies, to individuals who have demonstrated occur over time at the genetic level holds three patents, has developed and technological pre-eminence in the field. — is much slower than that of goril- licensed software to biotech companies Meindl’s citation notes his “pioneering las and orangutans, with the evolu- and has founded an early-stage struc- contributions to microelectronics, tion of humans being the slowest of tural proteomics company. This is the including low-power, biomedical, all. from the gorilla’s molecular clock. mix of entrepreneurialism and scholar- physical limits and on-chip intercon- As species branch off along evo- This slowdown in the molecular ly acumen we seek in our scholars,” nect networks.” lutionary lines, important genetic clock correlates with a longer genera- GRA president Michael Cassidy, MS traits, like the rate of molecular evo- tion time because substitutions need TASP 87, said. IEEE Fellows lution, also begin to diverge. They to be passed to the next generation in Georgia Tech professors Ye found that the speed of this molecu- order to have any lasting effect on Leader at Lorraine Geoffrey Li, Gary May, Steven lar clock in humans and chimps is so the species. Yves Berthelot, a professor in the McLaughlin and Madhavan similar it suggests that certain “A long generation time is an School of Mechanical Engineering, has Swaminathan have been named fel- human-specific traits, like generation important trait that separates been named director of Georgia Tech lows of the Institute of Electrical and time, began to evolve 1 million years humans from their evolutionary rela- Lorraine. He replaces Hans Puttgen, Electronics Engineers for their extraor- ago — very recently in terms of evo- tives,” said Navin Elango, graduate who retired after leading the Metz, dinary records of accomplishment. lution. The amount of time between student in the School of Biology and France, campus since its founding. Li, an associate professor in the parents and offspring is longer in first author of the research paper. “GTL offers some extraordinary School of Electrical and Computer humans than apes. “We used to think that apes shared challenges and opportunities for Engineering, was elected for his contri- Since a long generation time is one generation time, but that’s not Georgia Tech’s faculty and students butions to signal processing for wire- closely correlated with the evolution true. There’s a lot more variation. In through innovative academic pro- less communications. of a big brain, it also suggests that our study, we found that the chim- grams, collaborative international May, the Steve W. Chaddick chair developmental changes specific to panzee’s generation time is a lot clos- research programs and trans-Atlantic in electrical and computer engineering, humans also may have evolved very er to that of humans than it is to economic development,” said was selected for his work in semicon- recently. other apes.” Berthelot, a native of France who ductor manufacturing and engineering In a large-scale genetic analysis The results also confirm that joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1985. education. of about 63 million base pairs of there is very little difference in the While Berthelot is based at McLaughlin, the Ken Byers profes- DNA, the scientists studied the rate alignable regions of the human and Lorraine, Steven McLaughlin, a professor in electrical and computer engi- at which the base pairs that define chimp genomes. Taken together, the sor in the School of Electrical and neering, was named a fellow for his the differences between species were study’s findings suggest that humans Computering Engineering, will serve contributions to information theory incorrectly paired due to errors in the and chimps are more closely related in Atlanta as deputy director of and applications to digital recording genetic encoding process, an occur- to each other than the chimps are to Georgia Tech Lorraine. technology. rence known as substitution. the other great apes. Swaminathan, deputy director of “For the first time, we’ve shown “I think we can say that this the Packaging Research Center at Tech, that the difference in the rate of study provides further support for Fulbright Winners was elected for his contributions in molecular evolution between the hypothesis that humans and Georgia Tech faculty members design tools and methodologies and humans and chimpanzees is very chimpanzees should be in one genus, Stuart Goldberg, David Goldsman and electromagnetic interference control for small, but significant, suggesting that rather than two different genuses Fei-Ling Wang won grants to lecture power delivery in digital and mixed- the evolution of human-specific life because we not only share extremely and research at overseas universities use systems. history traits is very recent,” said Yi. similar genomes, we share similar through the Fulbright Scholar Program, Most biologists believe that generation time,” said Yi. and Carol Colatrella was named a humans and chimpanzees had a Even though the 63 million base Fulbright New Century Scholar. Aerospace Professorship common ancestor before the evolu- pairs they studied is a large sample, Goldberg, an assistant professor in Mark Costello, MS AE 89, PhD 92, tionary lines diverged between 5 mil- it’s still a small part of the genome, the School of Modern Languages, is at has been named the Sikorsky associate lion and 7 million years ago. Yi said. “If we look at the whole the Russian State Humanities professor in rotorcraft technology in the According to the analysis, 1 million genome, maybe it’s a different story, University. Goldsman, a professor in School of Aerospace Engineering. years ago the molecular clock in the but there is evidence in the fossil the School of Industrial and Systems He has been on the faculties at line that became modern humans record that this change in generation Engineering, is at Bogazici University Oregon State University and the U.S. began to slow down. time occurred very recently, so the in Turkey. Wang, an associate professor Military Academy at West Point and Today, the human molecular genetic evidence and the fossil data in the Sam Nunn School of Interna- worked as a research engineer at clock is only 3 percent slower than seem to fit together quite well so far.” tional Affairs, is at Yonsei University in Boeing and at the Georgia Tech Korea. Research Institute. the molecular clock of the chimp, David Terraso is a writer for Institute while it has slowed down 11 percent Communications and Public Affairs. Colatrella, a professor in the School Costello will serve as the associate of Literature, Communication and director of the Georgia Tech Center of Culture, is collaborating on “Higher Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology. GT

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StudentLife MANNERS GARY MEEK MATTER Career Services provides etiquette advice on shaking and salting By Kimberly Link-Wills Look the part and act the part. Address the interviewer as Mr. or Ms. irst impressions are never more Have several questions prepared to show Fimportant than during job inter- the company has been researched prior views. to the interview. Write a thank you note “You have seven seconds to make a within 24 hours of the meeting. Send first impression, whether good or bad,” both an e-mail and a handwritten note to Marge Dussich, assistant director of recruiters who may be traveling a great Career Services, told Tech students dur- deal, Dussich advised. “But don’t be Marge Dussich, assistant director of Career Services, provides student Emily McClendon, a sophomore biology major, with a series of pointers on interviewing and dressing for success. ing a business etiquette seminar, an infor- sloppy in e-mails.” mation-loaded program offered once She asked rhetorically whether a is key not to begin eating until the entire makes “rash decisions,” Dussich said. each semester. bad first impression could be undone. party is served — unless the host tells Open sugar packets three-fourths Arrive five to 10 minutes early for “Do you get another opportunity? Not in guests to commence. across and when emptied place them on an interview, she advised, and decline a an interview. It takes at least 10 meetings Don’t order the most expensive item the saucer or under the rim of the bread cup of coffee or glass of water while to undo a bad first impression.” on the menu. Don’t order the least plate. Never use more than two sugar waiting. “It’s a spill waiting to happen.” Interviews conducted over lunch expensive either, she said. “As a rule of packets. “Otherwise you may appear Dussich said eye contact is essential, can be daunting, particularly when the thumb, go for the midrange meal or fol- excessive. You’re being observed,” she but don’t invade the interviewer’s per- table is set with a menagerie of glasses low the host’s recommendation.” said, noting that one should not make a sonal space and stare him down. Stand and utensils. Dussich handed out a place Dussich said if a napkin or utensil lot of racket when stirring sugar into cof- an arm’s length away. Carry a portfolio setting quiz — which fork is for which falls on the floor, leave it and get another fee. “Give it a couple of stirs and let it go.” in the left hand so the right remains free course, which glass is for which kind of when the server comes to the table. If a The lunch guest also should not for handshaking. When shaking, use a wine. diner must get up during the meal, that appear to be starving for a job. “Always firm grasp and one or two pumps of the To avoid confusion about where the person should leave only between cours- leave a piece or two of something on hand. bread plate is, Dussich recited a simple es and put the napkin on the chair or to your plate,” Dussich said. When every- Stand up — and sit up — straight. tip: “liquids right, solids left.” the left of the place setting. one at the table is finished eating, the Dussich said good posture exudes high She said the lunch meeting guest Food is passed to the right after first napkin should be set to the right of the energy and confidence, while stooped shakes hands first with the person who being offered to the person on the imme- place setting. shoulders project negativity and laziness. made the appointment or is the most diate left. Never serve yourself first, Finally, she offered advice on how to Good hygiene is a given, but even a senior in rank; waits to take a seat at the Dussich instructed, adding that bread behave once in the work force and listed deodorant-wearing interviewee will reek table until instructed where to sit; and and rolls should be eaten by breaking off workplace taboos, which include inter- of a lack of business sense if he or she is does not summon the waitstaff for any bite-size pieces and buttering them indi- rupting, swearing and telling off-color wearing ill-fitting or revealing clothing. reason. vidually. jokes. As for jangling jewelry, forget about it, “When everyone is seated, place the Pass salt and pepper together, but “Limit the sharing of personal prob- Dussich said. “And those things in the napkin on your lap with the crease don’t season food without tasting it first lems,” Dussich added. “Keep those at tongue — would you get rid of those!” toward you,” Dussich said, adding that it to avoid being labeled as a person who home.”

Marshall Scholar Aims to ‘Translate Basic Science to Clinical Applications’ By David Terraso cal work because it gets ders such as Parkinson’s dis- addiction, Parkinson’s disease and things to patients more ease and Alzheimer’s dis- schizophrenia. s the only 2006 Marshall Scholar directly. I feel business is the ease. At Children’s Healthcare, Haynes Afrom a Georgia public university, avenue to translate basic sci- A President’s Scholar, is using a software program that ren- Ryan Haynes will get the chance to ence to clinical applica- Haynes has made the most ders the brain’s cerebral cortex as a sharpen his business skills at the tions.” of the opportunities offered sphere, allowing doctors to measure the University of Cambridge later this year The program at at Tech in biomedical engi- thickness of the cortex in various as he pursues a master’s degree in nan- Cambridge, Haynes said, neering, working in the neu- patient groups. otechnology enterprise and a degree in will prepare him to take roengineering lab of assis- “We’re trying to figure out what bioimaging sciences at Imperial College nanotechnology and HAYNES tant professor Steve Potter the normal thickness is and then meas- London a year later. biotechnology solutions into and at Children’s Healthcare ure children who have frontal lobe “I feel that a lot of really good the marketplace. The Imperial program of Atlanta. epilepsy, figure out what atrophy basic science research just stays in the will allow Haynes to apply the things In Potter’s lab, Haynes is testing occurs in what area and correlate that laboratory when it could be out there he learns at Cambridge to medical how networks of neurons respond to with cognitive tests to see if there is a helping patients,” said Haynes, a senior imaging technologies, potentially bene- different amounts of the chemical certain area of the brain that’s more in biomedical engineering. “I like clini- fiting patients with neurological disor- dopamine, which is involved in drug affected than others,” he said.

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NICOLE CAPPELLO 'REAT 3HOWS Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts continues its outstanding 2005-2006 season!

Chick Corea and Touchstone Latin Jazz Pianist Friday, February 24 Nashville Bluegrass Band Graduates Embark on Journeys & Russian Country/Pop Stars Bering Strait of Opportunities, Challenges Saturday, March 4

ASA administrator Michael D. Griffin, Nkeynote speaker for the fall commence- North Carolina ment graduate ceremony, said America is “at Dance Theatre the cusp of a new age of exploration, one that Under Southern Skies will take robot pathfinders and pioneering astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.” Saturday, March 11 “I’m confident that over the course of your career you will have opportunities to Trinity Irish Dance tackle some of the most rewarding challenges Internationally Lauded Company one could imagine. We are undertaking a World leadership “requires the foresight Friday, March 31 sustainable, long-term, multigenerational to invest in the cutting edge of science and program that will enable human beings to technology,” Griffin said. “Throughout Dein Perry’s see and do things that have never been seen NASA’s history, our agency has shown the and done before,” Griffin said. ability to implement large-scale engineering Tap Dogs “If I were graduating from Georgia Tech projects and to conduct our systems engi- Designed & Directed by Nigel Trifﬁt today, I would want to work in the space neering work in ways not previously Saturday, April 8 business because that is where some of the thought possible. most exciting action will be in the coming “But what we have ahead of us repre- Lang Lang decades.” sents a challenge significantly greater than The Institute awarded 1,350 bachelor’s, when we first went to the moon. With that Classical Piano Virtuoso master’s and doctoral degrees during the challenge we will need bright young com- Saturday, April 15 two commencement ceremonies Dec. 17. puter programmers, engineers and scientists Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin delivered the who can make their mark on the space pro- The Sax Pack with address to undergraduates. Georgia Tech gram,” he said. Jeff Kashiwa, Alumni Association chairman J. William “I know that there are some of you who Goodhew III, IM 61, welcomed the newest are like me and simply can’t wait to get start- Kim Waters graduates into the fold. ed.” GT & Steve Cole Friday, April 21 Atlanta Ballet An Evening of New Works Friday, May 5 & Saturday, May 6

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Zelnak Contribution Funds Entrepreneurial Effort Dean’s Chair in Management, Batts endowment will bring products to market Gym Renovation, Expansion arren L. Batts, EE 61, lumnus Stephen P. Zelnak Jr., chairman, chief Wretired chairman of executive officer and president of Martin Marietta A Premark International in Materials in Raleigh, N.C., matched an anonymous Chicago and Tupperware Corp. challenge grant that establishes a $2.5 million dean’s chair in Orlando, Fla., has awarded in the College of Management and made a seven-figure $1 million to begin endowment contribution to of a Georgia Tech program modernize the known as TI:GER that brings freshman gym. vital new technologies to the The dean’s marketplace. chair in manage- TI:GER, an acronym for ment will be named Technology Innovation: for Zelnak, IM 69. Generating Economic Results, is “This has truly a collaboration between Tech’s been a banner year Colleges of Management, for our College of Engineering and Sciences and Management, Emory University’s law school. beginning with the “In a very short time, Warren Batts has awarded a $1 million endowment for the TI:GER program. successful comple- TI:GER has amassed an courses together and meet regu- funded slots,” Thursby said. tion of a $45 million extremely impressive track larly to work on other assign- “This wonderful gift from fund-raising pro- record for commercializing ments to solve the problems of Warren Batts will allow us to gram for the col- important new technologies,” bringing products to market. bring more students to work on lege’s new home at Batts said. “Our commitment to The program is similar to one these critical issues.” Technology the program is designed to Thursby started at Purdue TI:GER has won a number Square,” said Zelnak calls the management college expand the number of graduate University before coming to of honors, including recognition President Wayne an “excellent business school.” students participating in Tech. as 2005 National Model Clough. “Now we TI:GER, thereby expanding the One four-member team is Specialty Program in learn of Steve Zelnak’s generous commitment to establish number of new products com- researching commercialization Entrepreneurship from the U.S. the dean’s chair in management. Steve’s wonderful ing to the marketplace — prod- of a technology in its early Association for Small Business expression of philanthropy, coupled with the college’s ucts that vastly improve the stages developed by Jeffrey and Entrepreneurship and growing reputation and constantly improving rankings, quality of human life. I can’t Gross, a doctoral student in bio- Students for Free Enterprise. will allow us to recruit the finest candidates available dur- think of a better use for these medical engineering, to The program was created ing our search for a new management dean.” funds.” improve diabetes treatment. in 2002, mostly funded by a The Zelnak dean’s chair in management is the second Marie Thursby is TI:GER “The main obstacles to five-year, $2.9 million grant chair at that level among the Institute’s six colleges, join- executive director and professor commercializing research are from the National Science ing the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean’s Chair in the College of of strategic management in the rarely the technology, but issues Foundation, including support Computing. College of Management. The at the interface of business and from the Alan and Mildred Zelnak said the College of Management’s achieve- highly competitive, two-year legal issues with capturing Peterson Foundation, Georgia ments are apparent. program includes seven student value from the technology,” Tech Presidential Fellowships, “Georgia Tech has an excellent business school, and teams formed around the Thursby said. the Hal and John Smith Chair it’s getting better every day,” Zelnak said. “When it comes research interests of doctoral “There are four times as and the National Collegiate to teaching students how to be successful leaders in students. many PhD students interested Investors and Innovators today’s highly complex, technological business settings, Participants take three core in the program than there are Alliance. the College of Management is among the best in the country. My hope is that the dean’s chair will go a long way toward attracting a new leader who will take the college to even greater heights.” ORGT Resource Center Honors Templeton In addition to working to help the management college excel, Zelnak has a passion for Tech athletics, particu- The Outdoor Recreation Resource Center has larly basketball. His seven-figure donation to athletics been named for alumnus Miller Templeton, funds the renovation and expansion of the freshman gym, retired director of the Office of International the basketball teams’ practice facility adjacent to Education at Georgia Tech. Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Templeton, Phys 61, MS NS 63, played a role “When you’re competing at this level, the pressures in establishing and developing ORGT, which was on these young student athletes are considerable,” said founded in the 1970s. Templeton was recognized men’s basketball head coach Paul Hewitt. “Having prac- for his contributions as a founder and advocate tice facilities of the highest quality means our players have during the dedication ceremony in September. the best resources we can offer to help them improve and David D. Flanagan, IE 76, president of Elm refine their skills year-round and get the most out of their Street Development Co. in McLean, Va., made a abilities.” seven-figure gift to support Georgia Tech and Zelnak said, “Our basketball players and coaching name the center for Templeton. staff have worked so hard to achieve remarkable success Flanagan and dedication speaker H. Bryon over the past few years. They deserve the absolute finest “Bob” Gaar, CE 78, both praised Templeton as a when it comes to their practice facilities, and I am pleased “passionate advocate” for ORGT and “a tireless to be a part of making that happen.” mentor and friend to the many students who participated in the program over the years.” GT Miller Templeton was a founder of ORGT in the 1970s.

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Spirit of St. Louis, on Nor- GARY MEEK Curator Tells mandy Beach and at Yankee Stadium. The result is Story of Shutze “Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame,” written by Art Collection Martucci under the pen name Michael S. Class and pub- he coffee-table book lished by his company, Magic T“Philip Trammell Shutze: Picture Frame Studio. Atlanta Classicist, Connois- Anthony meets — and seur and Collector” is appears in famous photo- subtitled “The Story of a graphs with — such historical Collection” and was written figures as Buzz Aldrin, Jonas by Atlanta History Center Salk, Franklin R. Roosevelt, curator Rebecca B. Moore, Philip Shutze was hailed as the Lou Gehrig and Thomas who cataloged the more than “greatest living classical architect.” Edison. In many of the scenes, 1,000 pieces of furniture, including at the Ellis Island a collection of icons of 18th- silver, ceramics, glass and immigration station, Anthony and early 19th-century deco- paintings collected by Shutze, wears a Georgia Tech ball cap. rative arts. In his two-bed- Arch 12, and given to the The book is marketed as room apartment on Peachtree Atlanta Historical Society “real American history told in Street, Shutze’s upon his death. an exciting new way to cap- collection cov- Shutze stip- ture the attention and imagi- ered the walls ulated in his will nation of young adults in and filled his that the collec- grade six to grade 12.” custom panel- Dave McGill Marvels tion be displayed ing and cabi- at the Swan nets. He used Pace Writes the Book House, which he at Many Coincidences them every designed for on ‘Working Virtually’ day; they were emarkable coincidences have surprised David J. Edward and the furnishings McGill throughout his life and inspired the title Emily Inman. Lise Shade Pace, EE 87, R for his home. “The Prince of Coincidence” for a collection of stories, a The Swan wrote the business book There were number of which stem from his experiences at Georgia House, complet- “Working Virtually: boxes under Tech. ed in 1928, has Challenges his bed, in the Not the least of the coincidences concerns the pub- been owned by of Virtual oven and lication of McGill’s book of personal reflections that the Atlanta Historical Society Teams” in the bathtub. His blue and date back to his boyhood days in Slidell, La., where his since 1966. with Robert white Canton ware, which he father, Chambless McGill, Mgt 28, related colorful tales “Swan House, Atlanta’s Jones and used as his ‘everyday china,’ of his student days at Tech. landmark residence, is gener- Rob Oyung was stacked on open shelves Dave McGill arrived at Georgia Tech in 1966 as a ally regarded as Shutze’s without in his kitchen.” professor. Following his retirement in 1999 as director finest work,” Moore wrote. ever having In 2000 the Shutze collec- of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Alumni “Shutze drew upon English a face-to- tion was put in storage during Association named him an honorary alumnus. and Italian architecture, often face meet- restoration of the Swan He decided to publish his book through United consulting the photographs ing. All House. The release of the Writers Press in Tucker, Ga., and donate the proceeds to and drawings from the many three have worked for book coincided with the fall charity. scrapbooks he compiled in his Hewlett-Packard on virtual opening of the new perma- “Which charity?” Vally Sharpe, publisher of the travels abroad.” teams. Pace is an Atlanta-area nent Shutze exhibit on the ter- press, asked him. Hailed as the “greatest telecommuter who works for race level. McGill had not decided. living classical architect” by Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise The next day coincidence made the answer obvi- Classical America in 1977, architecture group. ous. McGill, a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church Shutze was a native of “We believe that as we in Chamblee, ran into fellow parishioner Steve Lane, Columbus, Ga., who earned a move into the future, various Mgt 75, of Tucker. Lane excitedly told McGill the parish full scholarship to Tech in driving forces such as the council approved his proposal to raise $50,000 to help 1908 and was in the first class economy, world political ten- rebuild Our Lady of Lourdes in Slidell, a sister church of architecture graduates. sion, work/life balance, per- that had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. In 1981, Tech architecture sonal preferences and a gener- McGill was astonished. It was the church of his students created the Philip ational change will lead com- boyhood, the church he and his family had attended in Trammell Shutze Alumni panies to use virtual teams as the 1940s and ’50s. Award and presented the first a norm and discover that the “Bingo,” McGill said. “I found my charity.” medal to Shutze himself, who virtual experience may be The book is available at www.unitedwriters died a year later at age 92. The preferable to meeting face-to- press.com. alumni medal was designed face,” the authors said in the McGill has written numerous articles and drawn by Julian Harris, Arch 28, who preface. Martucci Develops cartoons that have appeared in publications across the received the award the follow- They found “eight myths country and, for several years, he wrote a column for ing year. ‘Magic’ Pictures of virtual teams,” including the Georgia Bulletin. He has also written articles for Shutze didn’t start collect- the notions that an employee TECH TOPICs. His wife of 44 years, Carolyn, proofread ing seriously until he was in Michael V. Martucci, CE must be physically present in the alumni publications for several years and he his 60s, according to Moore. 81, MS IM 83, used digital order to climb the corporate assumed that role for another dozen years. He is co- “He did not have a curator. composite photography to ladder and that important author of two engineering textbooks now in fourth edi- He did not drive a car or trav- place his 12-year-old son, negotiations require face-to- tions. GT el extensively, yet he amassed Anthony, in the cockpit of the face meetings.

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Burdell&Friends Restored PHOTOS BY GARY MEEK GLORY Renovated hotel thrives in rural Washington, Ga.

By Maria M. Lameiras and put in a parking lot,” said Todd, who worked as a chemical engineer for he Fitzpatrick Hotel has defied more than 14 years before he and his the odds. Twice. Despite wife began purchasing and restoring T naysayers, brothers Thomas and historic homes in his hometown of John Fitzpatrick built the “magnificent” Athens, Ga. The Fitzpatrick project is Fitzpatrick Hotel on the square in the couple’s first foray into restoration downtown Washington, Ga., in 1908 to of a commercial property. serve travelers brought into town by In just 18 months after opening, the mule-drawn trolleys from the train 17-room hotel reached “break-even” depot. status, justifying the outlay the Todds The hotel prospered during its and their partners, friend James Carter prime, but later fell into disrepair. and Christy Todd’s father, Amit Mehta, In June 2004, Mike Todd, ChE 87, invested to bring it back from near and his wife, Christy, reopened the destruction. Fitzpatrick Hotel, having painstakingly Thanks to the Internet and his restored it to its original splendor over a wife’s marketing skills, Todd said period of 18 months. The refurbished guests visit from all over the United structure contains all of the original States. In addition to the guest rooms, brick and the hotel has much of the a full-service original wood restaurant, a and interior ballroom and structures and three retail is furnished spaces on the Although some people thought it was an impossible task, alumnus Mike Todd and his wife, with period ground floor. Christy, restored the Fitzpatrick Hotel in Washington, Ga., to its past splendor in just 18 antiques, More than months. They were committed to maintaining the historic character, and the refurbished Fitzpatrick Hotel contains all the original brick and much of the orginal wood. many of them two dozen provided by wedding local residents parties were Jenna and booked in William Pope. Mike Todd, ChE 87, opens the doors of the 17-room 2005 and the Some in Fitzpatrick Hotel to guests from around the country. hotel was Washington booked solid did not the week of believe the hotel could be restored, the Masters golf tournament in Augusta much less returned to its original use, 50 miles away. after 50 years of neglect during which According to the hotel’s Web site, part of the structure collapsed and large www.thefitzpatrickhotel.com, citizens of cottonwood trees grew up through the Washington had doubts about the interior, Todd said. feasibility of the hotel from the Although the building was placed beginning. In an advertisement run in on the National Register of Historic the Washington Chronicle on Nov. 14, Places in 1982, Washington’s 1899, the Fitzpatrick brothers made it Downtown Development Authority, clear that the hotel was thriving — “We which purchased the property in 1997, were told time and time again that had not been able to find a buyer Washington was dead, that we could do Todd admitted having the same finding a suitable commercial project to committed to maintaining its historic no business. Was your prediction doubts about the rural town of less than tackle. character. correct? No! A thousand times no! Our 5,000 located 115 miles east of Atlanta. “Jim Carter called and said he “The city owned the building and, three large stores are always crowded. At Carter’s request, Todd and his found a building we might want to see. at one point, determined that it could We are doing twice the business we wife traveled to Washington to see the We went down to see it on a Friday not be saved. They were going to raze it anticipated.” rundown hotel, harboring little hope of evening with no intent of buying it,”

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GARY MEEK Todd said. “We felt it was too small an area, but when we saw it, we knew it was a wonderful building. It was in really bad shape, but it was beautiful. We had done so much historic renovation we knew what could be done with it. “We didn’t intend to be in the hotel business. Our focus has been on saving historic properties and restoring them to their original intent,” Todd said, adding that all of the partners are very “hands on” in the running of the hotel. “We have three employees. Christy and I work on Friday and Saturday. Christy’s father works on Monday and Mr. Carter takes nights two to three days a week.” Although he could have made the property into a bed-and-breakfast, Todd wanted to avoid that label. “We are a full-service hotel. If you come in at midnight, there’s someone at the front desk to check you in. That’s hard to do with just 17 rooms, but we always try to cater to our guests. We are seeing a lot of repeat business and word-of-mouth has been Many of the rooms in the Fitzpatrick Hotel are furnished with period antiques, some of which were provided by a local couple. our best marketing,” Todd said. The partners are planning an space on the second and third floors, first floor instead of trying to hide the of the people in Washington. They love annex to the hotel in a historic bank but we will be able to put in 12 to 13 original character of the bank.” the building, they love their down- building a few blocks from the guest rooms with little to no changes They anticipate opening the annex town. The city leaders, the people, the Fitzpatrick. other than adding the bathrooms,” in mid-2007. businesses, they are all working in the “The bank was built in 1914 and Todd said. “We’ve purchased a large Todd said the hotel has thrived same direction and that is the reason the first floor has been occupied safe to put in the lobby. We are trying because of tremendous local support. we can be successful even though we continuously. There has been office to maintain the bank lobby feel on the “The Fitzpatrick succeeds because are in a town of only 5,000 people.”

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Burdell&Friends The Ramblin’ Roll Purpose-driven Career 1960s James E. Arnett, IM 73, of Atlanta, is vice president and financial adviser Alumna produces ‘Random’ acts of kindness on reality show Donald C. Huff, CE 66, for the Duncan/Arnett HOWARD KORN acting director of the By Brad Dixon Group, a private client group Economic Development that provides asset diversifi- Administration’s Atlanta or Molly Schreck, Mgt 00, practicing ran- cation strategies for business office, received the Silver Fdom acts of kindness isn’t just a nice owners and people with a thing to do. It’s also her television career. Medal Award for Leadership high net worth. She works both in front of the camera from the U.S. Department of Norman “Buddy” and behind the scenes as a producer of Commerce for his role in Chastain, Mgt 77, has writ- “Random 1,” a reality TV series in which prompt deployment of eco- ten “After the Game,” a two men drive around the country in an old nomic recovery teams mystery thriller with an pickup truck looking for down-on-their-luck responding to a series of Atlanta setting. He lives in strangers to help. Schreck and two other pro- hurricanes that ravaged Marietta, Ga., with his wife ducers appear in supporting roles, following Florida in 2004. and two children. behind in an RV to track down resources Terrell Parrish, CE 65, Steve Cover, Arch 78, needed by the people they encounter. of Clemson, S.C., has joined M Arch 81, MS CP 81, of Schreck said “Random 1,” which the National Council of Atlanta, was appointed by debuted on the cable channel A&E in Examiners and Surveyors as November and airs at 11 p.m. Fridays, is Atlanta Mayor Shirley a development engineer for more real and grittier than similarly themed Franklin as commissioner of national exams. Parrish pre- programs that carefully screen candidates to planning and community viously worked at the Naval find charity recipients with whom audiences development. Cover, who Molly Schreck produces A&E’s “Random 1” series. Facilities Engineering can easily sympathize. will oversee day-to-day Command in Charleston, “We go into a city cold and walk up to operations of the planning Atlanta to Baltimore, where she first worked S.C., as a design engineer people cold,” she said, noting that they help and community develop- with Chester as an associate producer of and project manager. individuals others might give wide berth to, ment office, previously was “The Euphoria Project,” a documentary Roland M. Toups, ME such as a homeless alcoholic requiring reha- about the pursuit of happiness. the director of the environ- 60, MS ME 61, of Baton bilitation, a street musician with a broken They filmed the 10-episode first season mental and community Rouge, La., was re-elected to keyboard, an ex-stripper seeking legitimate of “Random 1,” which concluded Jan. 27, development department for an unprecedented third term modeling work, a mentally challenged man during a five-week trek through six states. Fulton County, Ga. wanting his first date and a 390-pound man as chairman of the Louisiana The show garnered good reviews and rat- John R. Harris, EE 73, needing a paid gym membership. State Board of Regents for ings and great response from viewers on its a partner at Morris, Manning “Random 1” doesn’t give away money. Higher Education. Toups is Web site, www.random1.com, Schreck said. & Martin, was recognized as Instead, the team stages impromptu fund- CEO of Turner Industries in “We’ve gotten hundreds of responses, saying a “Legal Elite” by Georgia raisers, searches out community assistance Baton Rouge. He received not just, ‘I liked the show,’ but ‘I liked your Trend magazine. Harris was and generally asks lots of favors. The show’s the Dean Griffin Community show, it made me feel differently about the honored in the intellectual financial philosophy initially stemmed from Service Award in 2004 and world and here’s what I’m doing about it.’” property category. A regis- not having much money to share. serves on the Georgia Tech Schreck doesn’t know yet whether A&E tered patent attorney, he “It stayed that way because we found it is renewing the show. Whatever the out- Advisory Board. advises clients on all aspects to be the best way to do things,” Schreck come, she is confident that the “Random 1” of intellectual property, said. “It shows viewers that you don’t need concept will live on and she’s committed to 1970s including patents, trade- a ton of money to help people, that you remaining a part of it, even though the could do this tomorrow if you wanted to.” marks, copyrights and trade unpredictable, unstructured nature of the tel- Schreck, who shortened her surname Mike Anderson, IE 79, secrets. evision business is sometimes difficult for a from Schrecengost for professional use, has of Atlanta, was named vice Larry Huang, IM 73, of self-confessed creature of habit. found great personal satisfaction from her president of corporate servic- Ponte Vedra, Fla., has been She signed up to attend a health food role on the show and learned how to work cooking school in New York during the pro- es at Georgia Power Co. appointed to the board of past her judgments about people. Anderson will oversee the directors of Wave7 Optics, a duction break. “If I can get this background “It’s an amazing experience to help an with natural foods, I would have something corporate safety and health, supplier of optical broad- individual,” said the 27-year-old, whose par- corporate and regional facili- band network equipment. else to offer ‘Random 1,’” she said, explain- ents raised her to always leave things better ing that many of the people they help ties, fleet operations and Bertrand Huchberger, than she found them. “Once you fully appear nutritionally deficient. labor relations departments. ICS 70, of Richmond, British immerse yourself in it, you realize that Schreck, whose favorite TV programs He serves on the boards of Columbia, has joined the there’s no other way to live your life.” are cooking shows, said she enjoys the busi- the Alexander-Tharpe Fund advisory board of Bulldog Her path to this road show began dur- ness side of her job much more than the on- and the Regional Atlanta Technologies, a provider of ing college when she took some acting class- camera part. In addition to helping locate Civic League and has served wireless security systems es, realizing that she could wed her interests resources for the needy, her duties include on the Eisenhower and sensor networks that in entertainment and business. An internship working with accountants and lawyers, Consortium on Science and monitor, track and secure with a local production company brought supervising the show’s merchandising and Mathematics, 100 Black Men assets in the global supply her to a major television conference, where finding inexpensive, often gritty music to of Atlanta, Georgia chain. she met budding filmmaker John Chester. complement the hard-luck tales on screen. Association of Black Elected Stanley C. Kimer, He had already been fulfilling the “Random She said her Georgia Tech education Officials Corporate MgtSci 77, of Raleigh, N.C., 1” philanthropic mission with buddy Andre was great preparation for all of it. “Tech Roundtable, Atlanta Area was promoted to director of Miller, a fitness trainer, for years before any taught me that you not only have to work Council of Boy Scouts of sales operations at IBM cameras filmed them. hard, you also have to work smart.” America, Southern Coalition Business Consulting Sold on the idea that their good deeds would make a great film project and be for Advanced Transportation Services, where he has been Brad Dixon is assistant director of communica- meaningful work, Schreck relocated from tions for the College of Management. and Optimist International. employed since 1979.

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H. Philip Paradice Jr., IM 71, chief of capacity development for the Alumni Among State’s Most Influential Citizens Economic Development Administration’s Atlanta en alumni have been named among Jack Guynn, MS IM 70, the presi- office, received the Silver Tthe “100 Most Influential Georgians” dent and CEO of the Federal Reserve Medal Award for by Georgia Trend magazine. Bank of Atlanta whose role includes “set- Leadership from the U.S. The magazine filled the roster with ting monetary policy, bank supervision Department of Commerce “individuals who wield influence in busi- and regulation and managing the nation- for his role in prompt ness, government, politics, public policy, wide payments systems. Guynn forecasts deployment of an economic education, the judiciary and other areas ongoing growth of GDP, employment and recovery team to a series of that impact every aspect of every income despite the devastating economic hurricanes that ravaged Georgian’s daily life.” BETHEA CASSIDY effects of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.” Florida in 2004. Georgia Trend also gave the maga- Jim Lientz, IM 65, Georgia’s first John C. Potter, CE 74, zine’s reasons for choosing each influen- chief operating officer, “whose tasks MS CE 75, was promoted to tial person to the list. Tech alumni are: include staff management and developing director of ordnance and Sally Bethea, MS CP 80, executive career paths as part of Gov. Perdue’s blue- explosives at the Army director of Upper Chattahoochee print for a ‘customer-friendly’ state gov- Engineering and Support Riverkeeper, who, “after 11 years of tire- ernment. Lientz, who retired as president Center in Huntsville, Ala., in less work cleaning up the Chattahoochee, of Bank of America’s mid-South division October. He and his wife, has helped lessen the doom along the in 2000, formerly chaired The Carter Frances, live in Huntsville 200-plus miles of river she watches close- Center’s Board of Councilors.” and have two grown chil- ly, from its headwaters near Helen down Joe Rogers Jr., IM 68, chairman and CLOUGH dren. to West Point Lake. The organization, GRIFFIN CEO of Waffle House, which has “nearly Bruce Roberts, CerE which has a $1.2 million budget and a 1,500 restaurants in 25 states — and a 79, MS CerE 80, of St. full-time staff of eight, has rallied consid- track record of quick response to natural Petersburg, Fla., married erable support for the maintenance of the disasters. Rogers, a hands-on kind of Karan Hill on Aug. 21. river, which provides water to 70 percent manager, was in Gulfport, Miss., the day Richard A. “Buck” of the population of the metropolitan after Hurricane Katrina hit.” Zachry Jr., Mgt 74, and his Atlanta area.” Julian Saul, IM 62, president of wife, Betsey, moved to Michael Cassidy, MS TASP 87, Shaw Industries Inc., which “manufac- Shekou in the People’s president and CEO of the Georgia tures enough carpet each year to wrap a Republic of China. Zachry is Research Alliance, which has “invested 6-foot-wide swatch around the equator director of Quality Systems $400 million to recruit top researchers in seven times. Saul, who is active in a num- GUYNN LIENTZ Asian operations of the advanced communications, computing ber of civic endeavors, is a board member Char-Broil Technical and biosciences over the past 15 years. So for the Dalton United Way and founded Consulting Co. Zachry has far, 51 world-class scientists have come to that organization’s Tocqueville Society for been with the Char-Broil Georgia as GRA eminent scholars, bring- individuals who contribute at least organization, which manu- ing more than $2 billion in federal funds $10,000 annually.” factures gas grills in and investment capital, creating more William J. Todd, IM 71, whose job Columbus, Ga., since 1992. than 4,000 jobs and 125 new companies.” as president and CEO of the Georgia Wayne Clough, CE 63, MS CE 65, Cancer Coalition is to “raise awareness president of Georgia Tech, “ranked by and funding to fight cancer in Georgia, 1980s U.S. News & World Report again this year where 35,000 new cases are diagnosed as one of the nation’s top public universi- each year. The coalition, created in 2001 Rodney Bogue, BC 88, ROGERS SAUL ties. Georgia Tech continues to prosper by Gov. Roy Barnes, is halfway through and his wife, Sandy, under Clough’s leadership. He was its 10-year plan to raise $1 billion. Todd announce the birth of a son, named last year to the National Science would like to increase the private contri- Reagan Jimmie, on Oct. 4. Board by President Bush and recognized bution to the program as the GCC tries to Reagan joins his sister, Riley, by the American Society of Civil expand research and treatment.” at the family home in Engineers for his lifetime contributions to Sam Williams, EE 68, the president Warner Robins, Ga. The education.” of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of family was the subject of a Sam Griffin, IM 58, editor and Commerce, “focused on developing new story about their open adop- publisher of the Bainbridge, Ga., Post- business in targeted industry clusters, tion of Riley in the Feb. 7 Searchlight and “southwest Georgia’s such as biosciences, telecommunications, issue of Woman’s World mag- steadfast defender of open records and TODD WILLIAMS computer software and services. Williams azine. Bogue is general man- freedom of information.” An award-win- is a master of forging partnerships and ager of fabrication for ning columnist, Griffin assails “government secrecy through bringing diverse leadership together to address issues such as SteelSouth Metal Buildings editorials and litigation.” public transit, education, cleaner water, arts and culture.” Inc. in Warner Robins. Brad Douglas, IM 86, was appointed assistant Alpharetta, Ga., announce Group at Miller Buckfire Co., Bret Austin, on Sept. 26, one engineer at the Johnson commissioner for procure- the adoption of their daugh- an independent investment day after the family returned Space Center. ment by Georgia Gov. Sonny ter, Claire Elizabeth, on Oct. bank. After graduating from home after the Hurricane Andrew Kurdila, PhD Perdue. He is charged with 22. Feckoury is an account Tech, he earned an MBA from Rita evacuation. Bret joins 88, was named the W. streamlining and moderniz- ing state procurement func- executive with Aspect Harvard Business School. his sister, Brynne, and two Martin Johnson professor of tions, an initiative anticipat- Software in Duluth, Ga. Franklin, wife Kelly and son brothers, Jacob and Callan mechanical engineering at ed to save $135 million by Franklin Harris, Biol William live in New York. “Cal,” at their home in Virginia Tech on Nov 7. 2009. 89, Mgt 89, was promoted to Craig M. Harvey, IE Houston. Harvey joined Kurdila joined the faculty in Kevin Feckoury, IM managing director and head 85, and his wife, Dawn, Lockheed Martin in August 2005 and is renowned for his 83, and his wife, Deana, of of the Financial Sponsors announce the birth of a son, as a human factors design work in dynamical systems

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theory, control theory and computational mechanics. Bryan LaBrecque, ME 81, has been promoted to president and chief operating Tranquil Soul Music officer of Atlantic Southeast Airlines in Atlanta. He and his wife, Pamela Burel Alumnus Stanton Lanier composes instrumental melodies LaBrecque, ISyE 81, and CAROLINE JOE By Maria M. Lameiras shared it with her husband, who worked their son, Steven, live in at The Weather Channel. Peachtree City, Ga. Their f it hadn’t been for The Weather “He gave it to the people who are in older son, Brett, is a freshman Channel, Stanton Lanier might never charge of the music on the channel. In at Tech. I have made it to the piano recording February and April of 2003, two pieces Wonya Lucas, IE 83, of studio at George Lucas’ Skywalker on ‘Still Waters’ were played on The Atlanta, was named one of the Sound last summer. Weather Channel during the ‘Local on 50 most powerful women in In October, Lanier released his the 8s’ forecast,” Lanier said. business by Black Enterprise fourth independent CD of instrumen- As a result of those broadcasts, magazine. Lucas is the general tal piano pieces, “The Voice,” which Lanier received CD orders from people manager of Weather Channel was produced by Grammy Award- in 30 states. Networks. winning producer Will Ackerman and “People would e-mail me stories Aaron C. MacDonald, recorded at Skywalker Sound in about what the music meant in their Biol 87, and his wife, Keremy, California. lives. A 23-year-old man in Connecticut announce the birth of a son, Named one of “Ten Independent who was in the hospital due to a car Noah Wayne, on Aug. 30. Artists You Should Know” by accident and had been burned badly Noah joins Aaron, 5, and Elli, ChristianityToday.com in 2003, Lanier, said the music gave him hope to make it 2, at the family’s home in Chem 86, has played piano since he through each day,” Lanier said. “It’s Anderson, S.C. MacDonald is was 6 years old. very humbling to feel like you are mak- a neurosurgeon. “I wanted to quit when I was 11 ing a difference in the lives of other peo- Andrew Meyer, ME 80, because I was into basketball and ple.” of Santa Ana, Calif., was other things and I thought piano was In April 2004, Lanier produced his named vice president of cor- sissy, but my mom didn’t let me quit. third CD, “Draw Near,” and the next porate marketing at MSC “Instrumental music doesn’t have a language She kept me at it,” Lanier said, adding month left his job as a financial planner Software. Meyer has more barrier,” says composer Stanton Lanier. that he began composing in high to devote himself full time to music than 20 years of marketing school — “mostly love songs for a jun- through his nonprofit organization, experience with software and the verse or expressing the theme of that ior-year girlfriend.” Music to Light the World. technology-based companies, verse.” At Tech, Lanier took a break from When he began composing for his including Worksoft, Websense After writing his first instrumental composing because of his busy academic fourth CD, Lanier sought to move his and Scientific Atlanta. piece in May 2000, Lanier began compos- schedule, but kept his fingers limber at music to the next step and contacted Mauro Pereira, EE 86, of ing about one a month and performing pianos he discovered around campus, Ackerman, who received a Grammy Campo Grande, Brazil, a pro- them at his church. including an old upright in the lobby of Award for best new age album in 2004. fessor at Universidade “People started to ask, ‘When are the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, where “This was my first time out of my Catolica Dom Bosco, won a you going to do a CD?’ It became a self- he was a brother. basement studio. I wanted to get more cre- prize from Siemens for his fulfilling thing at that point. By “In 1997, my first child was born ative input and have someone who could doctoral dissertation. Christmas 2001, I had composed 10 and I wrote a song called ‘So Many Gifts’ coach me with my composing,” said Douglas D. Selph, Econ pieces and I self-produced a digital about all of the gifts I had received in my Lanier, who agreed to record at Skywalker 86, was named a partner at recording of pieces called ‘Walk in the life from my birth through my son’s Sound after Ackerman told him it had the Morris, Manning & Martin Light.’ I gave it to the people on our birth,” he said. “In the summer of 1999, I best piano studio in the country. “I’d been law firm. He works in com- Christmas card list, to clients and co- felt a real stirring to what my sense of building credibility for my music little by mercial lending, real estate workers and friends. We ended up giv- purpose was. I had written all this music little, but this was a huge leap to have Will development and finance ing a couple hundred copies out,” Lanier over the years, but I had never invested Ackerman producing and to record at groups, representing large said. in recording it. In January 2000, I bought Skywalker Sound.” money center banks, life As those copies began circulating, a synthesizer and a computer I could use Within a month of the release of insurance companies and people began asking for CDs they could to record music in a home studio. “The Voice,” nearly 1,000 copies had sold other institutional lenders. He give as gifts and Lanier eventually gave “During the same window of time I through the Web site. E-mails pour in and his wife, Kim, have two out several hundred. started sampling instrumental music and from around the world. daughters, Annabelle, 9, and Over the next year, he wrote 10 I felt the inspiration to try to create “Instrumental music doesn’t have a Martha, 7, and live in Atlanta. more pieces and by Christmas 2002, he instrumental melodies for the first time. had produced a second CD, “Still language barrier. If people love the piano What was unique was that I would take Waters,” and created a Web site, and want peaceful, beautiful music to 1990s my inspiration from scriptures or Bible www.stantonlanier.com, to promote and help them relax or reflect, then that’s that verses that held meaning in my life at distribute his music. One of the CDs vision I have, to bring peace to the soul,” Dan Alexander, ChE 98, that time. It is like the piano is singing ended up in the hands of a woman who Lanier said. and Heather Greenlee Alexander, IE 00, announce the birth of son Braden James Air Force and transferred to Jason Barnes, Econ 94, tion from Georgia State announce the birth of their on June 6. He joins brother Wright-Patterson Air Force was elected as a partner at University in August. She first child, daughter Lucy Ryan at home in Florence, Ky. Base in Dayton, Ohio. Barker, Patton Boggs law firm. He teaches math at East Coweta Hope, on Dec. 8. Kim is a full- Dan is a packaging engineer his wife, Mary Beth, and their and his wife, Jennifer, live in High School in Coweta time mother. The family lives at Procter & Gamble. Heather daughter, Kate, live in Dallas. County, Ga., and lives in in Atlanta. is a full-time mother. Loveland, Ohio, and are Melissa Barronton, TE Sharpsburg, Ga. Jeff M. Brandon, IE 97, Brian Barker, EE 96, expecting another child in 97, received a master’s in sec- Kim Oliver Bell, Mgt 97, and his wife, Amy, announce was promoted to major in the May. ondary mathematics educa- and her husband, Chuck, the birth of a son, Thomas

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Martin, on Sept. 7. He joins Bryan Fioble, Mgt 99, Elizabeth Gernert June 4. sister Bethany and brothers and Eva Shen, Mgt 00, of Sillay is a neurosurgeon. Joshua and Timothy at home Atlanta, were married July 9. Michael Smith, CE 94, in Newnan, Ga. Brandon is a Bryan is a software analyst and his wife, Carol, financial specialist for at Media Ocean and Eva is a announce the birth of a son, Wachovia Bank in Newnan. developer at The Home Luke Michael, on July 10. Aimee Cardoza, IntA Depot corporate office. Luke joins his sister, Grace, 97, and Brian Cardoza, IE Mike Garrett, IE 96, 2, at the family’s home in 96, of Fayetteville, Ga., and his wife, Suzanne, Decatur, Ga. Smith is a civil announce the birth of a son, announce the birth of a son, engineer. Anderson Michael, on Nov. Tyler, in February 2005. Tyler Renee Johnson 28. Brian is president and joins twins Camden and Smith, Mgt 96, and Stan W. CEO of the Fayette County Austin, 3, at the family’s Smith, Text 95, announce Development Authority and home in Rome, Ga. the birth of a son, Samuel Aimee is director of Ashley Sedki Joseph, on May 20. Samuel Outbound Marketing and Goodrich, Mgt 94, and joins his brother, Hunter, 5, Courtroom Connect. Steve Goodrich, MS Mgt at the family’s home in Greg Chalker, ChE 96, 98, announce the birth of a Loganville, Ga. Stan is oper- and his wife, Tami, son, William Collier, on Oct. ations manager for Mallen announce the birth of a son, 11. Steve is senior manager Industries in Norcross, Ga. Davis Gregory, on Nov. 25. of EarthLink’s channel sales. Renee is a full-time mother Davis joins sister Mallory The couple are writing a and working on her doctor- Rachel at the family’s home book, “Best Hikes with Dogs ate. near Richmond, Va. Chalker — Georgia and South Matthew Stewart, is a group manager at Carolina.” ChE 99, and his wife, CapitalOne Financial Corp. Brian James Gray, EE Stephanie, announce the Uyen Chapman, Mgt 90, was promoted to opera- birth of a son, Harrison 97, and Leon Chapman, IE tions manager for Northrop Luke, on Sept. 13. Harrison 97, of Alpharetta, Ga., Grumman’s CDC Programs. joins his brother, Jake, 2, at announce the birth of a He and his wife, Lesley On Top of Iztaccihuatl the family’s home in daughter, Elizabeth Peterson Gray, EE 91, live Chris Crecente Jr., ME 98, of Greenville, S.C., climbed 17,159 feet Savannah, Ga. Stewart is a Autumn, on Feb. 3, 2005. in Peachtree Corners, Ga., to the summit of Iztaccihuatl, an extinct Mexican volcano, in production engineer with Leon is a database engineer with their daughters, Julie October. Crecente, a computer programmer with Michelin Tire of Englehard Corp. at careerbuilder.com and Ann and Ashley. North America, began the climb with two co-workers. When they Matt Stone, TE 97, and Uyen is a full-time mother. Todd Ham, CS 94, was became ill, Crecente pressed on alone with a guide. his wife, Kristen, announce Joel Brian Derry, ChE a co-recipient of the the birth of their first child, 96, is quality manager at Geospatial Intelligence Bryce Matthew, on July 2. Faulk and Foster Real Estate, Achievement Award pre- married last March. Patrick, AE 98, won the NASA Space Stone is a plant manager. which performs site acquisi- sented by the U.S. a University of Florida post- Flight Awareness Astronauts The family lives in tion and project and con- Geospatial Intelligence doctoral associate, will Personal Achievement Award Simpsonville, S.C. struction management serv- Foundation for helping pio- receive his doctorate in soil in August. The award is given Clint Richard ices in the telecommunica- neer a means of real-time and water science in May. to individuals for outstanding Thompson, IE 92, and tions industry. He and his access of gigabyte-size data Hoon G. Kang, MBA efforts toward the success of Anita Burson were married wife, Maggi, son Fenner and sets using limited communi- 91, of Atlanta, was elected to human space flight missions. March 12, 2005, in daughter Georgia Blanche cations links from opera- partnership in KPMG, an Greg Ramsey, CE 96, Carrollton, Ga. live in Monroe, La. tional military theaters. Ham audit, tax and advisory firm. of Marietta, Ga., married Betty Tong, ME 93, MS Cam Cannon Erion, is a systems engineer and Additionally he serves as Dana Michelle Hix on Oct. 8. ME 95, completed training AE 91, and Brad Erion, AE lives in Alexandria, Va. lead partner of the firm’s He is an engineer with in general surgery at Johns 90, of Muskegon, Mich., Valori Skipper Harris, Korean practice. Kang is a McGee Partners Inc. The Hopkins Hospital in July announce the birth of a son, HTS 97, Mgt 99, and Jon H. CPA in Georgia and Ramseys live in Smyrna, Ga. and returned to Duke Andrew Christian, on March Harris, BC 97, of Grayson, California and a member of Holly Richards, ChE University in Durham, N.C., 8, 2005. Brad is materials Ga., announce the birth of a the American Institute of 98, and Keith Stanton, ChE to continue training in car- and machining manager for daughter, Emma Grace, on Certified Public Accountants. 98, announce the birth of a diothoracic surgery. Hayes-Limmert. Cam is pur- Nov. 7. Jon is preconstruc- Amanda Smith son, Jack Robert, on Aug. 10. Richard M. Wells, suing a master’s at Grand tion manager for New South Martin, Mgt 99, and Jack joins sister Sydney, 2, at MBA 94, was elected to part- Valley State University. Construction in Atlanta and Timothy Martin, ME 00, of the family’s home in Baton nership in KPMG, an audit, Eric Ferguson, CS 90, Valori is executive director Lilburn, Ga., announce the Rouge, La. Keith is a process tax and advisory firm. Wells an Air Force lieutenant of the Georgia Home birth of their first child, engineer for Air Products is a CPA and a member of the colonel, has been named Furnishings Association. Emily Elizabeth, on Aug. 31. and Chemicals and Holly American Institute of commander of the 78th W. Hobson Hogan, Amanda is a full-time moth- teaches high school physics. Certified Public Accountants Communications Squadron ISyE 96, and his wife, Fancy, er. Timothy is a project man- Alice Torres Roby, and the Georgia Society of at Robins Air Force Base in of Chapel Hill, N.C., ager for Clyde Bergemann. Chem 99, and Darrin Roby, Certified Public Accountants. Warner Robins, Ga. The announce the birth of their Jill Hoffmaster CE 00, of Sugar Hill, Ga., He and his wife, Stephanie squadron provides informa- first child, Nicholas, in O’Keefe, ME 99, MS ME 00, announce the birth of a E. Wells, Mgt 94, live in tion technology support and January. Hobson received an and Bobby O’Keefe, IntA 00, daughter, Erin McKenna, on Atlanta. communications for nearly MBA from the University of announce the birth of a son, Sept. 18. Alice is a chemist at Marc T. Willingham, 25,000 base personnel. He is North Carolina in 2001 and Sean Ellis, on Oct. 16. They MetaMetrix in Norcross, Ga., EE 95, and his wife, Stacey, currently assigned to the is an investment associate live at Laughlin Air Force and Darrin is a project man- of Atlanta, announce the Pentagon and will assume for FMI, a Raleigh, N.C., Base in Texas, where Bobby ager at Osbourne and birth of son Andrew Dyson his new command this sum- consulting firm. is an Air Force captain. Jill is Associates in Roswell, Ga. on Jan. 6. Willingham works mer. He and his wife, Sonja, Patrick Inglett, Biol a full-time mother. Karl Sillay, EE 95, of in Tech’s information tech- live in Alexandria, Va. 97, and Kanika Sharma were Jeffrey Osterlund, MS Nashville, Tenn., married nology department.

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John T. Wood, Arch 94, was named an associate at CMH Architects, a Birming- ham, Ala., design firm that ‘Ouchless’ Doctor focuses on retail, office, hos- pitality and education archi- tectural design. Wood, his Bo Kennedy eases pain of young patients in emergency room wife, Chere, and son Nicholas live in Birmingham. t one time, pediatric emergency philosophy that has seen him through Jennifer Stoudt Amedicine physician Robert M. “Bo” many a long night: When you’re Woodson, ChE 99, a chemi- Kennedy could guess, without even interacting with people, work on the cal engineer with Imerys, and looking, how many patients were assumption that they are doing the best her husband, Damon, of waiting for treatment in the St. Louis they can, all things considered. Macon, Ga., announce the Children’s Hospital emergency From his mother, an elementary birth of daughter, Persephone department. The loud cries of school teacher, he picked up a love for Kathleen, on Sept. 1. frightened children, many in pain, children and from his older brother, Allen Zachry, CE 99, always tipped him off. Monty, a pediatrician in Dallas, he and his wife, Jenny, of Park Kennedy decided they could do acquired a nickname, Bo, a childhood City, Utah, announce the better. “We have worked hard to mangling of the word brother. birth of their first child, Zoe become the ‘ouchless’ emergency With that brother he undertook a Isabelle, on Sept. 30. Zachry is department,” said Kennedy, Chem 75, 5,200-mile, cross-country bicycle trip in a structural engineer with who is also a professor of pediatrics at June 1976, just after he graduated from Summit Engineering Group. Washington University. Some of his Some of Bo Kennedy’s innovations have Georgia Tech and before he went off to innovations have changed emergency changed emergency treatment worldwide. the Medical College of Georgia. room treatment worldwide. He left Georgia for his pediatric 2000s nitrous oxide or “laughing gas,” often Kennedy pioneered the use of training at Children’s Hospital and, in used in dental procedures. In small buffered lidocaine — injected with tiny, 1983, inaugurated the field of Heather Greenlee children with facial lacerations, nitrous 30-gauge needles — to blunt the pain of emergency medicine as the first faculty Alexander, IE 00, and Dan oxide had joyous results. member with a full-time presence in starting an intravenous line. Alexander, ChE 98, announce “One 2-year-old with facial the department. “A major part of my research has the birth of a son, Braden lacerations was screaming at the idea of He and his wife, Carol, have four involved the use of ketamine,” he said. James, on June 6. Braden joins putting on topical anesthetic gel, but children: twins Greg and Scott, 19, both “We performed the first and one of the brother Ryan at the family’s when he was given the nitrous oxide, freshmen at Washington University; few comparative trials that has home in Florence, Ky. his screams turned into giggles,” Julie, 16; and David, 13. The Glendale, supported a worldwide resurgence of Heather is a full-time mother Kennedy said. “Then his mother, who Mo.-based family enjoys backpacking use of this drug for painful procedures and Dan is a packaging engi- was standing at the bedside trying to vacations — the more rigorous, the neer at Procter & Gamble. such as realigning broken bones and calm him, started laughing — and all better. And Kennedy still likes to ride a Guillermo Barrios, debriding burns. We are now the tension just melted away.” bike. He commutes to work by bicycle MBA 03, and Gina MaLusa, collaborating with our psychiatrists to Kennedy’s childhood, spent in several times a week. MBA 03, of Atlanta, announce see if it mimics part of the mechanism Virginia and Georgia, charted the the birth of a daughter, Nicole of schizophrenia.” course for his career. From his father, a This article is adapted from the Washington Marie, on Sept. 2. Guillermo Kennedy also took a fresh look at Presbyterian minister, he learned a University Record in St. Louis. is operations risk monitor for SunTrust Bank. Gina is a CitiGroup quality manager. October. She is a develop- David Droogleever, CE Bergemann project manager. birth of a son, Yusuf, on Aug. Elena Trebits Berry, IE ment editor at John Wiley & 05, was commissioned a Amanda is a full-time mom. 16. Qureshi is a firmware 00, and Matt Berry, CE 00, of Sons in New York City and naval officer after completing Joshua “Josh” engineer at General Electric Marietta, Ga., announce the lives in West New York, N.J. officer candidate school at McManus, Mgt 03, was security headquarters. birth of their first child, Jason Civjan, ID 00, MS Pensacola, Fla., on Nov. 22. named vice president of devel- Darrin Roby, CE 00, and Nathan Andrew, on Oct. 24. HCI 02, married Catherine James Freedman- opment for the nonprofit Alice Torres Roby, Chem 99, Matt is a project manager for Nelson in December. Aponte, CmpE 02, and Allied Arts of Chattanooga, of Sugar Hill, Ga., announce Winter Construction and Margaret Ashton Stephanie Killgore, of Tenn. His duties include coor- the birth of a daughter, Erin Elena is the director of con- Cook, Biol 01, and Johnson Alexandria, Va., were married dination of the annual cam- McKenna, on Sept. 18. Darrin version for GMAC Insurance. H. Cook, Mgt 02, of Mable- June 18 in St. Petersburg, Fla. paign, major gifts and planned is a project manager at Karen Souther Brand- ton, Ga., announce the birth He is an electrical engineer at giving. Allied Arts raises and Osbourne and Associates. stetter, IE 01, and Benjamin of a son, Michael Timothy, on the Army’s night vision labs distributes more than $2 mil- Alice is a chemist at E. Brandstetter, CE 00, of Dec. 5. Margaret is a physical at Fort Belvoir, Va. lion annually to arts organiza- MetaMetrix in Norcross, Ga. Hebron, Ky., announce the therapist at Wellstar Cobb Peter K. Martin, IntA tions in Hamilton County. He Eva Shen, Mgt 00, and birth of son Adam Lawrence Hospital in Marietta, Ga., and 00, was elected to the and his wife, Kristy, Mgt 96, Bryan Fioble, Mgt 99, of on Oct. 9. Karen is a full-time Johnson owns Impact Media Lawrenceville, Ga., city coun- live in Red Bank, Tenn. Atlanta, were married July 9. mother and Benjamin is Solutions in Atlanta. The cil. He works for Hood Bobby O’Keefe, IntA Eva is a developer at The director of transportation at Cooks live in Mableton, Ga. Insurance. His wife, Amanda 00, and Jill Hoffmaster Home Depot corporate office Brandstetter Carroll Inc. Mark Covell, ME 01, a Syfert Martin, IntA 99, is self- O’Keefe, ME 99, MS ME 00, and Bryan is a software ana- Paul J. Carman, ME 01, fighter pilot with the Marine employed. They have an announce the birth of a son, lyst at Media Ocean. was commissioned a naval Corps, finished advanced infant daughter, Charlotte, Sean Ellis, on Oct. 16. The Leslie Vincent, Mgt 00, officer after completing offi- training at Air Station and live in Lawrenceville. O’Keefes live at Laughlin Air of Lexington, Ky., an assistant cer candidate school at Miramar in November and Timothy Martin, ME 00, Force Base in Texas, where professor of marketing at the Pensacola, Fla., on Nov. 22. was deployed to Iwakuni, and Amanda Smith Martin, Bobby is an Air Force captain University of Kentucky, Natanya Civjan, Chem Japan, in January. Covell Mgt 99, of Lilburn, Ga., and Jill is a full-time mother. received her PhD in manage- 00, received her PhD in bio- pilots an FA-18C Hornet with announce the birth of daugh- Omar Qureshi, MS EE ment from Tech in August. chemistry from the the 314th Marine Fighter ter Emily Elizabeth on Aug. 03, and his wife, Naz, of Husband Michael Vincent, University of Illinois in Attack Squadron. 31. Timothy is a Clyde Bradenton, Fla., announce the MS CI 00, works at Sapient.

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Deaths Former Vice President Thomas Stelson 1920s was rectified. Mr. Johnson spent the duration of the war Was ‘One of the Giants of Georgia Tech’ in the South Pacific in com- Robert B. Alexander, mand of the radar room of etween 1974 and 1988 Tom’s vision and willingness to EE 29, of Sykesville, Md., on the USS Lexington. Following BThomas Stelson increased take a risk. He recreated the Dec. 24. the war, he returned to Coca- annual research spending at Bioengineering Center and agreed Willis P. Lanier, Com Cola and worked in Biloxi, Georgia Tech from $8 million to to my proposal to start the Emory- 27, of Memphis, Tenn., on Miss., Mobile, Ala., and $112 million. Georgia Tech Biomedical Oct. 20. Nashville. When the Mr. Stelson, the former execu- Technology Research Center that Nashville plant was sold to tive vice president at the Institute, became the foundation upon 1930s Wometco, he stayed on and died Nov. 13 at age 77. He served as which much of our current bio- eventually became chairman head of the civil engineering engineering efforts have been Edwin J. Barnhill, TE of the board. department from 1970 to 1974, STELSON based.” 38, of Atlanta, on Dec. 24. He James L. Newton, when he was named vice president In 1980, Mr. Stelson took a retired from the military as an Arch 31, of Hampshire, for research. Mr. Stelson, a resident of Sandy leave of absence from Tech to become assis- Army lieutenant colonel. He England, on Nov. 8. Springs, Ga., retired in 1990. tant secretary for conservation and solar was a member of the Joseph F. Oliver, TE College of Engineering Dean Don energy in President Jimmy Carter’s adminis- Alexander-Tharpe Fund and 37, of Atlanta, on Jan. 8. He Giddens told the faculty and staff newspaper tration. He also was the founding adminis- a 48-year contributor to Roll served in the Army during The Whistle that Mr. Stelson was “one of the trator of the Hong Kong University of Call. World War II and retired from giants of Georgia Tech.” Science and Technology and was instrumen- Matthew T. Barnhill, the Army Reserve as a lieu- “He saw the importance of interdiscipli- tal in the signing of a 1985 contract between ChE 32, of Fairhope, Ala., on tenant colonel. He began nary research long before it became popular Georgia Tech and China to develop science Oct. 21. working for Stodghill and Co. and, more importantly, he invested resources and technology. Kerby E. Calloway, as a co-op student and contin- in promoting this. He was the principal driv- Mr. Stelson also helped the School of GE 38, of Marietta, Ga., on ued until he retired in 1978. er, under President Joe Pettit, in aligning Mathematics create the Center for Dynamical Dec. 23. He served in the Survivors include a son, Joe F. resource allocations and organizational struc- Systems and Nonlinear Studies and he Army during World War II “Skip” Oliver Jr., Mgt 74. tures at Tech so as to promote research at a endowed the Stelson lectures in honor of his and worked for Georgia James F. Parker, AE time when the Institute was just beginning to father, who was a mathematician. Power as an engineer for 35 38, of Tustin, Calif., on Nov. emerge as a research-intensive place,” He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and years. 13. Giddens said. doctoral degrees at Carnegie Mellon Clayton L. Cammack Charles E. “Ted” “My own career was impacted through University. Sr., Com 30, of Clearwater, Perdue, Cls 38, of Fla., on Nov. 19. He was a Thomaston, Ga., on Dec. 31. retired general manager of He was a retired vice presi- played basketball and tennis Inc., a contract manufacturer After graduating from Tech, Baker Cammack Hosiery dent of Thomaston Mills. for the Yellow Jackets. After in Warrenton, Ga. Survivors Mr. Byrd joined Cities Service Mills in Burlington, N.C. E.E. Sack, AE 36, of graduation, he received a include a son, James E. Oil Co. and retired from the Survivors include a son, Lompoc, Calif., on July 31. He Navy ROTC commission and Barrow Jr., IM 70, and a company in 1982. He was a Clayton L. Cammack Jr., IM was a retired Navy com- served aboard the submarine grandson, James A. Barrow, sophomore at Tech when 59. mander. USS Hoe in World War II. In IE 91. World War II began and he Argyle Campbell Edgar J. Swint Jr., Cls 1995, Mr. Abell was inducted Thomas P. Brooks, IM enlisted in the Army Air Crockett Jr., CE 38, of 38, of Rome, Ga., on Jan. 9. into the College of 40, of Sarasota, Fla., on Nov. Corps. He was a B-17 pilot Bradenton, Fla., on Nov. 21. He was a Georgia Power Engineering Hall of Fame. He 21. He served in the Army with the 483rd Bomber He served as an Army ord- employee for 47 years and was one of three alumni who Air Corps during World War Squadron, serving in North nance officer in World War II retired in 1983 as superin- contributed more than $1 mil- II and was a retired American Africa and Italy. He was and attained the rank of tendent of the Rome district. lion to build the Bill Moore Airlines captain. active with Boston Avenue major. He was a partner in He was the first person out- Student Success Center in Colgan H. Bryan, MS Methodist Church and Tulsa Barge and Co. general con- side the Atlanta metro area to 1993. When told the lobby AE 48, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on community affairs, serving on tractors of Atlanta for more be elected president of the would be named for him, Mr. Jan. 4. He was an engineering the boards of the German- than 20 years. Georgia Power Ambassadors. Abell declined, suggesting professor at the University of American Society of Tulsa William E. Edwards, He served on the boards of instead that it be dedicated to Alabama for more than 60 and the Tulsa Czech Club and EE 35, of Avondale Estates, directors of the United Way Georgia Tech alumni who years. After earning a mas- helping teach disadvantaged Ga., on Feb. 25, 2005. Campaign and Boys Homes, served aboard submarines ter’s in physics from Duke in residents. He and his wife of James Edward was a member of the Rome during World War II. 1940, he was hired by the uni- 56 years, Mary, traveled to all Johnson, GeoS 37, of Lions Club for 45 years and a William Tullos Alley, versity to teach navigation, 50 states and visited more Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 23. member of Second Avenue EE 49, of Sandy Springs, Ga., aerodynamics and aircraft to than 70 countries, many of He was a member of Beta United Methodist Church, on Nov. 23. He was chief more than 1,000 fighter pilots. them on Georgia Tech Theta Pi fraternity, Naval where he served as a Sunday engineer of the South Atlantic In 1952, he was named chair Alumni Association trips. ROTC and the baseball team. school teacher for more than Division Hydropower Branch of the aerospace engineering Donations may be made to After graduation, he served 30 years. of the Army Corps of department and remained in the Charles R. Byrd as personal assistant to Engineers and was awarded that position until 1968. He Endowment for Chemical Robert W. Woodruff, CEO of the Army Meritorious Award continued to teach full time and Biomolecular Coca-Cola. Following the 1940s for Civilian Service. until he retired last year at Engineering at Tech. Other attack on Pearl Harbor, he James E. Barrow, ME age 95. The National Society survivors include a son, was mistakenly drafted into Nelson D. Abell, ME 41, of Fayetteville, Ga., on of Professional Engineers Dennis C. Byrd, ChE 77, and the Army although he was an 44, of Monroe, La., on Jan. 12. Dec. 26. An ensign in the named him the 1986 Engineer a daughter, Rebecca Byrd ensign in the Naval Reserve. He was chairman of Abell Navy, he served as a flight of the Year. Muegge, Text 79, MS Text 84. He held the ranks of private Corp., a fertilizer and plastics instructor during World War Charles R. Byrd, ChE Harvey Lee Cohen, and ensign until the mistake manufacturer in Monroe. He II. In 1956, he founded JEBCO 48, of Tulsa, Okla., on Dec. 2. CerE 44, of Atlanta, on Nov.

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18. As a lieutenant in the Army CALVIN KNIGHT/LAKELAND LEDGER as a lieutenant colonel in 1973. in World War II he helped lib- Mr. Thornton was buried at erate the Gunskirchen Lager George Harris, Florida Banker, Arlington National Cemetery concentration camp. Mr. Cohen alongside his brother, William was the co-owner of CoBock Father of Congresswoman, Dies N. Thornton, a Navy admiral, Construction Co. in Atlanta and his mother and father, eorge W. Harris Jr., IM Bush a 537-vote victory over and Montgomery, Ala. William O. Thornton, a quar- 56, chairman and Al Gore. She was elected to Edward S. Cook Jr., EE G termaster general in the Army. president of Citrus & Congress in 2002 and re-elect- 41, of Gainesville, Ga., on Dec. Lucius H. Traylor Jr., Chemical Bank, a resident of ed last year. 21. ME 42, of LaGrange, Ga., on Bartow, Fla., and father of In 1958, Mr. Harris went Emil J. Dalbo, IE 49, of July 22. Congresswoman Katherine to work for his father-in-law, Atlanta, on Dec. 7. He was the Duncan P. Walker,AE Harris, died Jan. 13. Ben Hill Griffin, a citrus and founder and president of Dal- 47, of Rancho Palos Verdes, He enrolled at Georgia cattle magnate who that year Craft Inc. in Tucker, Ga. Calif., on Oct. 17. He was a Tech in 1952 and met Harriett became the majority stock- A.L. Devries, ChE 45, of flight test engineer for 44 years Griffin, a student at Agnes holder in Citrus & Chemical White Plains, N.Y., on Feb. 13, at McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Scott College in Decatur, Ga., Bank. Although he could have 2005. Banker George Harris was the North American and Convair and a Polk County girl. started working at the bank Robert W. Eck, CE 48, of father of Katherine Harris, the and was aboard the first test “We had a blind date our on a junior executive level, Alexandria, Va., on Nov. 15. former Florida secretary of state flight of the DC-9 airliner. freshman year and dated Mr. Harris chose to work first Elwyn L. Gaissert, IM who oversaw the 2000 presiden- William Lee Walthall, quite a bit after that. We got as a teller. In 1963, he became 45, of Roswell, Ga., on Nov. 24. tial election ballot count. ME 49, of Newnan, Ga., on married right out of school,” the bank’s youngest chief He served on the Fulton Dec. 14. He worked for Mr. Harris told The Lakeland executive officer at age 29. He of governors of Polk Museum County Board of Education, Georgia Power for more than Ledger in a 1984 interview. attempted to look older by of Art; as president and direc- the Roswell Housing 30 years and retired as manag- The Harrises spent the shaving his head, a tradition tor of the Florida Bankers Authority, Roswell City er of Plant McManus in next two years stationed at he continued the rest of his Association; as chairman of Council and as mayor pro-tem. Brunswick, Ga. the Navy base in Key West, life. the board of trustees of Polk C.P. “Roy” Goree III, IM Fla., where Katherine, their Mr. Harris served on the Community College; and as a 41, of Venice, Fla., on Nov. 16. first child, was born. board of directors of the member of the Supreme Robert Guin Grove Jr., 1950s Katherine Harris is best Lakeland Economic Court of Florida Judicial IE 47, of Houston, on Nov. 1. known as the former Florida Development Council, Council. He served with the Army William Andrew secretary of state who over- Community Foundation of Other survivors include a Corps of Engineers during Atchison, MS IM 59, of saw the disputed 2000 ballot Greater Lakeland and Florida son, George W. “Walt” Harris World War II. He was involved Decatur, Ga., on Nov. 18. He count that gave George W. Chamber of Commerce; board III, Mgt 82. with the construction industry flew C-46 transports in World and prestressed concrete for War II, dropping American many years in Texas and King Inc., a specialized fastener Charles E. Rogers, ChE from 1946 to 1986, when he paratroopers over Normandy Georgia. He was a member of distributor. He was issued 48, of Charleston, W.Va., on retired as executive vice presi- on D-Day. In 1961, he joined April Sound Church and the numerous patents related to July 5. dent. The North Carolina Delta Air Lines and was instru- Montgomery Historical aerospace fastening systems. Hilyer S. Smith, IM 43, Society of Engineers named mental in the development of Society. Survivors include a son, John of Davidsonville, Md., on Nov. him its engineer of the year in DeltaMatic, the first computer- Steven C. Hale, ME 40, O. King III, MgtSci 97. 6. He served 23 years in the Air 1985. Mr. Thies served on the ized reservation system. of Vero Beach, Fla., on Nov. 13. John W. Kirby, IM 48, of Force, retiring in 1966 as Georgia Tech Advisory Board Robert E. Bass Jr., IE T.W.E. Hankinson, ME Huntersville, N.C., on Dec. 10. deputy chief of the Frequency and was inducted into the 56, of Flat Rock, N.C., on Jan. 44, of Hampton, Va., on July William S. Rambo, Cls Management Division. He College of Engineering Hall of 19. He was a member of Kappa 19. He worked for the National 42, of Anderson, S.C., on May chaired the aeronautical com- Fame in 1994. Alpha fraternity. After gradua- Advisory Committee for 21. munications services subcom- R. Spencer Thompson, tion, he served in the Air Force, Aeronautics, the predecessor of Walter A. Reiser Jr., mittee of the Federal Cls 40, of Nashville, Tenn., on attaining the rank of first lieu- NASA, and retired in 1981. ME 43, of West Columbia, S.C., Communications Sept. 1. tenant. He was an industrial Marble J. Hensley Sr., on Dec. 30. He was a professor Commission’s industry adviso- James O. Thornton, GE engineer for Westinghouse until CE 49, of Chattanooga, Tenn., emeritus at the University of ry committee. In 1984, he was 42, of Oldsmar, Fla., on March his retirement in 1991. on Nov. 2. He served as a South Carolina School of Law. awarded the Distinguished 6, 2005. Born at Fort Maynard L. Bobo Jr., Navy petty officer during Following graduation from Service Medal from the Federal McPherson, Ga., Mr. Thornton ME 50, of Roswell, Ga., on World War II and was senior Tech, he served as a captain in Aviation Administration for his was a member of the Army Nov. 26. vice president of ARCADIS, an the Army at the end of World contributions to the advance- ROTC at Tech and served as a Maurice Ray Brewster infrastructure engineering and War II and in the Korean War. ment of civil aviation. navigator in the Army Air Jr., IM 56, of Paris, on Aug. 4. environmental firm. He was After his military service, he James R. Smoot, Cls 43, Corps in Europe during World After serving as a lieutenant in director of traffic and planning earned law degrees from South of Atlanta, on May 1. He left War II. As a member of the the Navy, he was employed by and traffic engineer for the city Carolina and Harvard and Tech to serve in the Army dur- 760th Air Squadron 460th IBM and Hughes Tool Co. At of Chattanooga in the 1950s. accepted a post on the Harvard ing World War II and later Bombardment Group, he flew the time of his death, he was He was a past president of the Law School faculty. worked as an architect for John on more than 60 combat mis- studying French at the Univer- Institute of Traffic Engineers. Charles P. Richards, IM Portman, Arch 50. sions and was awarded the sity of Paris. M. Eugene Hill, ME 46, 40, of Atlanta, on Jan. 1. He Howard M. Taft, Cls 41, Purple Heart and the James D. Brock, BC of Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 9. played offensive and defensive of Stone Mountain, Ga., on Distinguished Flying Cross. 59, of Connelly Springs, N.C., John O. King Jr., IM 42, guard for the 1940 Yellow Feb. 12, 2005. While in Italy during the war on May 13, 2005. of Lakemont, Ga., on Jan. 13. Jackets football team that beat Austin C. Thies, ME 43, he met his wife of 56 years, Thomas Marion Bryan He was a member of Phi Delta Missouri 21-7 in the Orange of Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 12. Caterina. As an aerospace engi- II, TE 50, of Jefferson, Ga., on Theta fraternity and served in Bowl. He served in World War He was awarded the Purple neer for the Department of the Nov. 10. He retired in 1990 as the Army in North Africa in II as a captain in the Army’s Heart for his service as an engi- Army, he worked on Wernher president of Jefferson Mills and World War II. After the war, he 705th Coast Artillery Anti-air- neering officer in the Navy Von Braun’s rocket develop- was a former president of the worked in sales at Westing- craft Battery. After the war, he during World War II. He ment team at Redstone Arsenal Georgia Textile Manufacturers house. In 1952, he founded J.O. founded ABCO Builders Inc. worked for Duke Power Co. in Huntsville, Ala. He retired Association. He volunteered

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with the Crawford W. Long 1960s Museum, the Tumbling Waters Society, the Jefferson Historical Former Magazine Designer John McKenzie Dies James M. Bartos, Mgt Commission and the Jefferson lumnus John Stuart McKenzie, a former 64, of Palmdale, Calif., on April Library Board. Brenau designer for the Georgia Tech alumni 12. University awarded him a dis- A magazine, died Nov. 10 at age 83. William Holbrook tinguished service award for Mr. McKenzie became associated with Bowers, Cls 62, of Atlanta, on his years as a trustee. the Georgia Tech Alumnus in 1955 as salesman Nov. 1. Walter L. Clark, IM 59, for the printing company that produced the Robert W. Caldwell, of San Antonio, on July 23. publication. In his March 1957 column, editor Text 60, of Madison, Ala., on Pledger C. Coalson, IM Bob Wallace said McKenzie was officially the May 5. 59, of Ocilla, Ga., on Dec. 4. printing salesman, but “unofficially, he was Winston L. Duke, Phys George A. Cochran, chief critic, father confessor and an exception- 63, MS NE 64, of Barrington, CE 56, of Victoria, Texas, on ally loyal friend to the editor.” Ill., on Dec. 12. He was a April 22, 2005. Wallace said McKenzie was an “artist, William James nuclear physicist and attorney typographer, journalist and becalmer of excit- of jokes in the lighthearted columns he wrote for Commonwealth Edison for Corbett, ChE 55, PhD 64, of ed editors by profession and alumnus of Tech for the Georgia Printer magazine, which he co- Harbor Springs, Mich., on Dec. 24 years. At Tech he was presi- and Emory by intention.” founded in 1979. The Alpharetta, Ga., resi- 14. He was chairman and CEO dent of Delta Tau Delta. After attending Tech, McKenzie, Cls 46, dent retired as vice president of Stein Printing Douglas Jon Forsythe of Silbond Corp., a chemical , earned a journalism degree from Emory Co. in 1995. He also worked as a freelance company in Weston, Mich. Mr. ME 64, of Titusville, Fla., on University and worked briefly as an editorial calligrapher. Oct. 6. He was a NASA engi- Corbett taught chemistry and cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal. According A native of Canada, Mr. McKenzie worked at the Georgia Tech neer for 35 years. to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. served as a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber Harry A. Guess high-temperature research cen- , Math McKenzie later related the story that he drew in World War II. He served as president of the 64, MS Math 64, of Chapel Hill, ter from 1964 to 1968 and a cartoon that “attacked the state fire commis- Art Directors Club of Atlanta, chaired the helped develop processes for N.C., on Jan. 1. He attended sioner, whereupon the Journal building was board of the Printing Industry Association of Tech on a Navy ROTC scholar- forming parts from fused silica, condemned as a fire hazard.” Georgia and was a founding member of a cal- a unique ceramic material used ship and served in the Navy The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also said ligraphy guild he named Atlanta Friends of on Admiral Hyman Rickover’s today in many industrial appli- Mr. McKenzie would make himself the butt the Alphabet. cations. staff at the Atomic Energy Edward P. Dicks III,IE Commission. He earned a PhD from Stanford in 1972 and 54, of Cupertino, Calif., on Jan. Charles S. Hedges Richard D. Neal Rudy A. Rubesch Jr. , CE , Text 53, , worked at the National 28, 2005. 57, of Slidell, La., on Dec. 23. of Kingsport, Tenn., on Sept. AE 56, of Bellevue, Wash., on Robert E. “Bob” Ducey Institutes of Health studying Thomas H. Jenkins Jr., 10. Nov. 20. Sr. mathematical population , IM 50, of Martinez, Ga., on IE 52, of Birmingham, Ala., on Walter J. Overend, AE Bolling Hall Sasnett Nov. 20. He was a member of genetics and biostatistics. He Jan. 6. He served in the Coast 55, of Greensboro, Ga., on Oct. Jr., Cls 51, of Atlanta, on Nov. the Tech football and wrestling enrolled at the University of Guard. He was an industrial 28. He served in World War II 18. He was a member of the teams and Sigma Nu fraternity. Miami in 1979 and earned a engineer at U.S. Steel for 33 as a trainer for Royal Air Force Tech swim team and Chi Phi He was president and owner medical degree in epidemio- years. pilots. When the United States fraternity. Mr. Sasnett founded of Ducey’s Automotive in logic research. In 1985, he Arthur Joseph Klingon, entered the war, he transferred Gate City Oil Equipment Co. Martinez. In 1961, he received established the epidemiology CE 50, of Waynesboro, Pa., on to the 31st Fighter Group and and Universal Epsco, a manu- an apostolic blessing from department at Merck Research Oct. 7. He was a retired Air flew more than 340 missions in facturer of fuel dispensers. Mr. Pope John XXIII for his work Laboratories and worked there Force lieutenant colonel whose North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sasnett and his son, Bolling III, in Catholic missions. He until he retired in 2003 to assignments included the He was awarded the Silver patented several devices that coached youth football, base- become the first director of the Tactical Air Command, the Star and the Distinguished are still used in the oil industry ball and track and led a junior University of North Carolina atomic weapons program and Flying Cross. He worked for 38 today. basketball team to two national GlaxoSmithKline Center of tours of duty in Korea and years as manager of perform- Benton A. Siegel Jr.,IE championships in the 1970s. Excellence in Pharmacoepide- Mack Lynn Epperson, Vietnam. In June 1965, he was ance engineering and pro- 54, of Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 11. miology and Public Health. Theodore R. Smith Arch 51, of Kingsport, Tenn., appointed nuclear weapons grams at Delta Air Lines. He , CE William S. Mitchell, EE on Dec. 26. officer assigned to the Joint was instrumental in the design 55, of Hamilton, Ga., on Nov. 62, of Cocoa, Fla., on Nov. 22. John Wesley Ford Jr., Chiefs of Staff. He received the of several airliners including 21. In 1937 he joined the Albert H. Segars Jr.,EE IM 53, of Atlanta, on Jan. 11. At Meritorious Service Award, Air the McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 Civilian Conservation Corps 60, of Sandersville, Ga., on Tech, he was a member of the Force Commendation Medal and DC-9, the Convair 880 and and worked in an Oregon Nov. 17. He was an electrical Alpha Sigma chapter of the and two Bronze Stars. At Tech, the Boeing 757 and 767. He national forest. He served in engineer for the Dupont Co. Kappa Alpha Order. He Mr. Klingon was a cadet was awarded the Colwell the Navy in World War II and Jack Wilson, IM 62, of received the Knight colonel in the Air Force ROTC Cooperative Engineering Korea. Mr. Smith worked as a Tampa, Fla., on Dec. 5. He was Commander’s Accolade in and a member of Alpha Tau Medal for his contributions to special projects engineer for the one of the Tampa Bay area’s 1976. He worked for J.M. Tull Omega fraternity. the aviation industry. Georgia Department of prominent real estate develop- from 1955 to 1970, then opened Frank V. McMillen Jr., B. Reid Presson Jr., EE Transportation for 25 years. He ers and civic leaders. He was Ford Steel Co. IE 51, of Chapel Hill, N.C., on 58, of McKinney, Texas, on established Family Initiative credited with securing public Homer Gay Hargrove, March 17, 2005. Sept. 24. Residences, a nonprofit organi- financing for the Tampa Bay ChE 56, of Maitland, Fla., on John A. Natress, IE 50, Paul D. Rotenberry, IM zation providing housing for Buccaneers’ stadium and lead- Jan. 9. He was an engineer for of Gainesville, Fla., on Nov. 30. 58, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., on the mentally ill. ing the task force that brought Westinghouse for 42 years. He was an industrial and sys- Oct. 30. He played football Edwin C. Vousden, IE the Super Bowl to Tampa in Robert E. Harris, CE 50, tems engineering faculty mem- under Bobby Dodd and was 52, of Lakeland, Fla., on Sept. 2001. He chaired the Greater of Tucker, Ga., on Dec. 3. He ber at the University of Florida inducted into the Georgia Tech 29. Tampa Chamber of Commerce also earned a degree from the and served as associate dean of Athletic Hall of Fame. He was Ralph O. Wilson Jr., IM and Tampa Bay Partnership. Woodrow Wilson School of the college and executive vice a retired partner of a Roanoke, 50, of Hinton, W.Va., on Nov. Three Florida governors Law. president of the university. Va., construction firm. 16. named him to civic panels.

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1970s taught undergraduate business was a Navy pilot. Hinger and 2000s Augusta National. He was courses at the Atlanta campus a co-pilot flew to a world-class named an honorary alumnus of the University of Phoenix. aviation record for turboprop in 1965. Frank Acree, Econ 75, of Blair Radford Smith,EE Jimmy L. Gill, IE 72, CE aircraft last year. Decatur, Ga., on Nov. 26. He 04, of Alpharetta, Ga., on Oct. 76, of Denton, Texas, on Nov. 8. Kelvin L. Solomon,EE was an office manager for 10. Student He was vice president and sen- 83, of San Francisco, on May 2. H&R Block. ior project manager of URS Barry Thomason, AE 81, S. Jack Alhadeff, Psych Friends Julie Chlopan, 20, an Corp. in Tampa, Fla., and of Los Angeles, on Dec. 18. He 76, MS CE 81, of Atlanta, on industrial and systems engi- Dallas. worked for Lockheed and March 8, 2005. He was a James Hal neering student from Tallaha- Fred E. Grim, ME 72, of Northrop. After earning an hydrologist with the U.S. Armstrong, 89, of Atlanta, ssee, Fla., on Nov. 25. She was Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Aug. MBA from the University of Geological Survey. on Dec. 11. He was a profes- the Alpha Kappa Psi philan- 5. Southern California, he became Joseph A. Compton, sor of engineering at Tech for thropy chair and a research Blane D. Hargrove, EE an independent consultant. EE 71, of Baltimore, on Feb 16, 32 years. He served as assistant in the Kanfer- 75, of McKinney, Texas, on 2005. pianist, choir director, deacon Ackerman psychology lab. GT May 12. James K. Davis Jr., M 1990s and Sunday school teacher at William A. Lawrence, Arch 77, of Atlanta, on Dec. 3. Peachtree Baptist Church. Math 72, of Tucker, Ga., on He joined Georgia Power in Peter X. Bellini, AE 96, Robert D. Hayes, 80, of Aug. 3. 1972 as a minority recruiter MS AE 98, of Centennial, Colo., Panama City, Fla., on Nov. 12. James B. Pye, IE 71, of and was the highest-ranking on Aug. 14 after a long battle He was a professor of electrical Covington, La., on March 22, black executive when he with cancer. Survivors include engineering at Georgia Tech for 2005. retired in 2003 as senior vice his wife, Heather Nisbett 30 years. Mr. Hayes served Robert W. Steffen, Phys president of employee and cor- Bellini, EAS 98. three years as an Army Air 75, of Redondo Beach, Calif., porate relations. He traveled Daniel C. Hager Jr., ME Corps meteorologist, studying on Nov. 18. with former mayor and U.N. 97, MBA 99, of Bluffton, S.C., weather patterns and develop- ell your classmates what ambassador Andrew Young’s on Nov. 14. He was a senior ing early radar technology. Tyou’ve been up to. E-mail us team to sell Atlanta as the site 1980s mechanical engineer with the Carl J. Reith, 91, of at [email protected] for the 1996 Olympics. Nevamar Co. in Hampton, S.C. Atlanta, on Nov. 8. He started or send a fax to (404) 385-4637. William Joseph Geib, Keith Newell Boyd, ME Eugene W. Hammond in the grocery business as a Drop us a line at: IM 79, of Conyers, Ga., on Dec. 88, of Norcross, Ga., on Dec. III, MS MoT 97, of San Diego, $15-a-week stock boy and Ramblin’ Roll Tech Topics 30. After he graduated from 19. He was an adjunct profes- on Jan. 5. His interests includ- retired as chief executive of the 190 North Ave. Tech, he earned an MBA from sor in the Continuing ed tennis and running and he Colonial Stores supermarket Atlanta, GA 30313 Georgia State University. He Education Department at Tech. participated in fund-raising chain. Mr. Reith funded a golf Send address changes to: retired from Delta Air Lines Eric R. Hinger, ME 82, of runs for St. Jude’s Children’s scholarship at Tech and hosted [email protected] after 31 years and recently Omaha, Neb., on Nov. 26. He Research Hospital. golf team members to play at

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YellowJackets Illness Forces Braine to Resign

NEIL B. MCGAHEE By Neil B. McGahee letics at Georgia Tech on June 3, 1997, succeeding the legendary Homer Rice. national search is under way to He continued Rice’s campaign to A find a successor to Georgia Tech provide top-notch athletic facilities. athletics director Dave Braine, who Bobby Dodd Stadium, the oldest contin- announced his retirement in January. ually used stadium in Division I foot- “Dave Braine leaves Georgia Tech ball, was refurbished and the capacity with a long list of accomplishments and expanded to 55,000. The Russ Chandler his leadership will be missed,” said baseball stadium was razed and President Wayne Clough, who hired replaced with a $9.7 million venue seat- Braine in 1997. “He leaves big shoes to ing more than 4,000 fans. The Aquatics be filled.” Center, built for the 1996 Olympics, was A search committee, chaired by transformed into an enclosed arena that Clough and including faculty represen- will host the 2006 NCAA swimming tative Dan Schrage, Alumni Association and diving championships in March. President Joe Irwin, IM 80, former Tech Braine is a devotee of the Total football standout Chuck Easley, IM 86, Person Concept, a program conceived and Student Government Association by Rice that stresses academics and life president David Anderson, is charged skills in addition to athletic success. with making a selection from an expect- “Everything we do at Tech is ed deluge of applicants. designed to enhance the college experi- “It’s a really desirable position, so ence of our student athletes,” he said. it’s safe to say a lot of people are inter- “We want to make sure that all student ested,” Irwin said. athletes have an opportunity to gradu- Clough said the candidates must Athletics director Dave Braine announces his retirement during a press conference. ate. It is our goal to give back a better have experience in Division I-A sports, person than we brought in.” be able to hire good coaches, appreciate six-week period last summer,” Braine sive back and place-kicker. From 1966 to Baseball coach Danny Hall said, Tech’s stringent academic environment, said. “I thought I had cancer and I was 1985, he held assistant coaching and “He’s given my staff and players every- field winning teams while abiding by scared to death. My doctor told me I administrative posts at schools from thing we need to be successful. He has the rules and respect the importance of didn’t have cancer, but I had Crohn’s Florida to California, including a two- provided an atmosphere where kids can university governance and institutional disease, an incurable gastrointestinal ill- year stint as Pepper Rodgers’ secondary compete athletically and get the support control. The athletics director also must ness that usually affects people between coach at Tech. needed to earn a Georgia Tech degree.” manage a $55 million budget. the ages of 15 and 35. He said the stress In 1985, he was named athletics Football coach Chan Gailey said, Two high-profile alumni candidates of my job was impeding my ability to director at Marshall University in West “A guy that has coached himself under- have said publicly they are interested — fight the disease.” Virginia and charged with rebuilding a stands the unique situations that a coach Cam Bonifay, IM 74, former general man- In recent months Braine shouldered football program that had not had a goes through, and he knows what a ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa criticism over Tech’s first-ever NCAA winning record in many years. In football player goes through to go to Bay Devil Rays baseball teams, and Bill probation, a five-year contract extension Braine’s third season, the Thundering school and play major college football.” Curry, Mgt 65, former Tech All-American for football coach Chan Gailey and a Herd advanced to the I-AA national Braine said he informed Clough in and head football coach. court-ordered reinstatement of a football championship game and he established December that he would not be able to Braine’s resignation, announced player indicted on a charge of conspira- a reputation as a program builder. fulfill the last year of his contract. during a Jan. 11 press conference, came cy to distribute marijuana. He was named the Virginia Tech “I never thought I would see this after almost nine years as head of Tech “I took 10 days off this fall and felt athletics director in 1988 and spearhead- day,” he said. “As a kid, my favorite sports, a run highlighted by a trip to the very good,” Braine said. “But as soon as ed a campaign for Big East Conference class was recess. I’m 62 years old and NCAA men’s basketball championship I got back to Atlanta, my stomach start- membership. Under his leadership, the I’ve been playing games — in one way game, bowl games in nine consecutive ed doing flip-flops again.” Hokies vaulted into the national spot- or another — all my life, so I can’t com- football seasons and the school’s best Braine’s contract with Tech was to light in football while winning the plain. performance in the annual national all- have run through 2007. National Invitation Tournament title in “I’ve had a good life, but there sports rankings. Braine said he was Braine earned his bachelor’s and men’s basketball and capturing the all- comes a time when it’s time to go and being sidelined by health problems. master’s degrees at the University of sports trophy five consecutive years. my mind and my body have told me, “I lost more than 28 pounds in a North Carolina, where he was a defen- Braine was named director of ath- ‘Hey, it’s time to go.’” Tech Asks NCAA to Re-evaluate Terms of Probation fter an NCAA investigation revealed that 17 aca- extending through 2007 and a requirement that Tech played a collegiate sport for Georgia Tech during that Ademically ineligible Tech student athletes vacate all football records for the 1998 through 2002 time period and our subsequent self-imposed scholar- improperly competed over a six-year period, the seasons plus 2004 — winning seasons that resulted in ship cuts. Institute offered to voluntarily impose a year’s proba- bowl trips — Tech appealed. “After careful consideration and a thorough eval- tion, a reduction of six football scholarships for the “We fully believe that our shortcoming was due uation of the NCAA ruling, we feel like there are some 2005-06 season, a reduction of 3.9 men’s track and to a failure to monitor a handful of student athletes issues that should be re-evaluated. The conclusions of field scholarships and two women’s track and field from a period of 1998 to 2004,” President Wayne the infractions committee’s report are substantial and scholarships and a $5,000 fine. Clough said. we want to make sure that our case has been ade- But when the infractions committee added an “We have owned that responsibility as evidenced quately evaluated before we accept the committee’s extra year of probation, six more scholarship cuts by a rigorous self-imposed study of every athlete that decision,” Clough said.

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2006 BASEBALL PREVIEW FOOTBALL RECRUITING STANLEY LEARY ‘Quality Class’ Gailey optimistic despite restrictions By Neil B. McGahee Scout.com and the sixth-best all-purpose back in the nation eorgia Tech football coach by Rivals.com, is already GChan Gailey said he was enrolled at Tech. pleased despite signing only 15 “We are very excited about recruits on Feb. 1, national Jamaal,” Gailey said. “He’s not signing day, because of scholar- a speed burner, but he’s fast ship restrictions. enough — more like Joe “We got a quality class Burns.” with a lot of speed and athleti- Signing to play football for cism and high character,” the Yellow Jackets were: Ben Gailey said. “We had specific Anderson of Aiken, S.C., needs at wide receiver and ranked among the nation’s top Baseball coach Danny Hall and his fourth-ranked Yellow Jackets return eight starters and eight pitchers. linebacker and we got those. Of 30 defensive tackles by course, you can never have Scout.com; Austin Barrick of enough defensive backs and Moody, Ala., rated the No. 33 we got those too.” tight end in the nation by Tech Fields Strong Bullpen Tech was restricted to 79 Scout.com; and Shane Bowen scholarships for the 2006-07 of Pickerington, Ohio, an all- Hall’s 13th season may be unlucky — for opponents and 2007-08 academic years district safety. after being placed on NCAA Earls and Evans were By Neil B. McGahee year’s ACC Rookie of the Year, earned second- probation in November. joined on the roster by Trevor team honors. The catcher/pitcher hit .366 with 10 “The probation hurt us in Bray of Chesapeake, Va., rated anny Hall began his 13th season as Georgia home runs and led Tech with six saves and a 2.85 the number of players we the No. 22 fullback in the DTech’s head baseball coach with his team ERA last season. could recruit, nation by occupying a familiar position — ranked in the “Shortstop is our biggest hole to fill,” Hall but not the Scout.com; preseason top five by Baseball America magazine. said. “We lost our All-American Tyler Greene to quality. We We got a lot Sedric Griffin The No. 4-ranked Yellow Jackets returned the draft. Two guys are vying for the starting job

were straight “ of speed and of Winnsboro, eight starting fielders and eight pitchers from last and I don’t think I’ll be able to make a decision

up with them athleticism S.C., ranked year’s Atlantic Coast Conference championship before the season. Mike Trappani will play second about the “ the No. 21 team. base. He graduated last year, but has one year of problem and and high player in “Our pitching staff may be the deepest it has eligibility left. He was an All-ACC selection last we were able character. South ever been,” Hall said. “The majority of our year and co-captain. Whit Robbins, a junior from to assure Carolina by starters and bullpen are back.” Calhoun, Georgia, will start at first. them that it Rivals.com; The Yellow Jacket pitching staff is almost “We have a lot of depth at catcher too,” he didn’t affect television or bowl and linebacker Robert Hall of evenly split with eight right-handers and seven continued. “Wieters may be the best sophomore appearances,” Gailey said. Hawkinsville, Ga., an Atlanta lefties. prospect in the country and Andy Haranick, who Nine out-of-state football Journal-Constitution Top 50 pick. “All of our juniors are back and they solidify was drafted last year, decided to come back. Jason players — from Florida, Others were quarterback our pitching,” Hall said. Hanniger is a very talented freshman from Alabama, South Carolina, Byron Ingram of Stone “Blake Wood was our California. Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Mountain, Ga., a Journal- number one starter last Georgia Tech Featured in First “Wieters reminds me Virginia — signed with the Constitution Top 50 pick; safety year and he will fill that College Baseball Video Game of Jason Varitek in that he’s Yellow Jackets. DeRon Jasper, a Scout.com role again and Matt a switch hitter and very “I would have preferred to Georgia Hot 100 player from Wieters will be our closer.” Georgia Tech is one of the featured knowledgeable of pitching. sign closer to 50 percent Dunwoody; and Quincy Kelly Other returning pitch- teams in the first-ever college baseball It remains to be seen if he Georgia players as we have in of Decatur, Ga., ranked the No. ers include right-handers video game. has the same leadership the past,” he said. “Georgia is a 40 running back in Georgia by Tim Gustafson, Tim Robb, Authentic down to the ping of alu- qualities, but I think he’s in great football state — we will Rivals.com. Jared Hyatt, Brad Roulon minum bats, MVP 06 NCAA Baseball line to be another great always recruit Georgia first.” Other recruits were and John Goodman and by EA Sports features 128 collegiate Tech catcher.” Georgia-grown wide Laurence Marius of Key West, lefties Ryan Self, Lee Hyde, teams battling for a spot at the NCAA The outfield — left receivers Demaryius Thomas Fla., ranked the No. 26 corner- Tim Ladd, Jake Sullivan, College World Series in Omaha, Neb. fielder Steven Blackwood, of Dublin, ranked the No. 22 back in the nation by Ryan Turner and Michael The game also provides a live center fielder Danny Paine prospect in the state by Scout.com; wide receiver Hutts. Two freshmen, ESPN ticker, ESPN Radio Sportscenter and right fielder Jack Scout.com, and Correy Earls of Dominique Reese of Auburn, David Duncan, a 6-9 left- updates every 20 minutes and news Kendall — returned intact. Macon, No. 30 on Scout.com’s Ala., ranked No. 27 in hander from Ohio, and from ESPN.com. The Yellow Jackets Georgia Hot 100 list, will play Scout.com’s Alabama Hot 50; Chris Hicks, a right-hander opened the season on Feb. opposite Calvin Johnson. and linebacker Osahon Tongo from Alpharetta, Ga., are 11 against Georgia Gailey said Earls has great of Naperville, Ill., rated the No. expected to see time on the mound. Southern. Hall said the Jackets’ goal is a trip to speed while Thomas is a big 33 linebacker in the nation by Four starters, including two preseason All- Omaha and the College World Series. target that would complement Scout.com. Americans, return to the infield. “To get to the World Series, you have to pitch the 6-5 Johnson. “I think we got a quality Third baseman Wes Hodges and well, be very consistent and be a little bit lucky,” Running back Jamaal class,” Gailey said. “But you catcher/pitcher Matt Wieters were named to Hall said. “We take a lot of pride in the fact that Evans of Irving, Texas, ranked really find out how well you Baseball America’s preseason All-America team. we have consistently gotten to a playoff position. as a four-star prospect by recruited in about a year.” Hodges, a junior, led Tech hitting with a .397 That’s the test of a good program but we’ve got to average and 106 hits in 2005 while Wieters, last do a better job of closing the deal.” GT

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RealWorld Best-selling Author Claims ‘The World is Flat’

ur society is living on an air documentary on He said he wrote “The World is world there is no such thing as an “Omattress that the air is slowly outsourcing in India Flat” so at least his two daughters American job. It’s just a job and it’s going out of. One day if we don’t do he was approached by would understand how the world going to go to the most efficient, something we’re going to wake up and people offering to do they’re growing up in differs from that smartest, most effective person who find our head on a really hard, cold his taxes, write of his childhood in the 1950s, when his can do that job.” cement floor,” said Thomas L. software, read X-rays parents would tell him, “Tom, finish Friedman said globalization is Friedman, author of the best-selling and even track his lost your dinner, people in India and China now all about individuals globalizing book “The World is Flat: A Brief luggage — all from are starving.” themselves. History of the Twenty-first Century.” Bangalore. Then the CEO of Infosys Now he tells his daughters, “What’s really cool and exciting Friedman, a columnist for The New Technologies Limited in India told him, “Finish your homework because and frightening about this era is that York Times who came to Georgia Tech “The global economic playing field is people in India and China are starving it’s built around individuals — as a College of Management IMPACT being leveled and you Americans for your jobs and in a flat world, oh individuals competing globally against series speaker, said while working on a aren’t ready.” they can have them because in a flat individuals.”

GARY MEEK Career Conference Provides Networking Opportunities

By Leslie Overman ment manager for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who will high- he improved job market has many light some of the region’s growing Tcompanies increasing their industries. The breakfast cost is $10. recruiting efforts this year, said Lara Joe Evans, IM 71, chairman and Stickney, senior manager of Alumni CEO of Flag Financial Corp., will pres- Career Services for the Georgia Tech ent a 12:30 p.m. luncheon address, Alumni Association. The bright “Taking Your Career from Good to outlook is good news for those Great.” He will focus on business attending the 23rd Annual Alumni strategies used by major companies Career Conference, to be held April 12 and how job seekers can apply those at the Cobb same strategies Galleria Centre to their own in Atlanta. Schedule of Events career-planning The Career efforts. Tickets More than 100 companies were represented at the 2005 conference. Lara Stickney, senior Conference pro- Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta for the box manager of Career Services, advises alumni to do their homework. “Research and under- vides an oppor- Wednesday, April 12 lunch are $10. stand the company’s products, operations and services. Prepare specific questions.” tunity for alum- • 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Career From 9 ni and company Conference check-in, walk-up registration a.m. to 2 p.m., recruiters to • 8 to 9 a.m. — Breakfast featuring Rosita alumni will meet face-to- Smith, business development manager for meet with com- face. More than the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, pany represen- 100 companies “Where Are the Jobs? Job Search Strategies tatives. Inform- were represent- in the 21st Century.” Tickets are $10. -al, on-site inter- ed at the 2005 views with the conference, and • 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Career Conference representatives about 1,000 session will be from 2 alumni attend- • 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. — Lunch featuring to 5 p.m. ed. Companies Joe Evans, IM 71, chairman and CEO of Alumni returning for Flag Financial Corp., “Taking Your Career should “do this year’s con- from Good to Great.” Tickets are $10. their home- ference include • 2 to 5 p.m. — On-site interview sessions work,” Stickney Internet Security said. “Research Systems, Prime and understand “What opportunities are available distributed to all participating compa- Engineering and the company’s to you in other industries? What other nies. The CD will serve as a year-round Printpack. products, operations and services. companies are hiring people with your recruiting tool for employers. Alumni can register for the event Prepare specific questions about the background and skills?” said Stickney, An employer data book will be at http://gtalumni.org/careerconfer- company, something to help you who likens the experience to a career distributed to alumni at the conference. ence. The deadline for registration is 5 engage in conversation with the “progress report” for participating It will list the participating companies, p.m. April 7. employers.” Registered companies are alumni. their recruiters’ contact information Companies interested in register- listed on the Association’s Web site, “It’s a good way for alumni to see and their current and upcoming job ing can visit http://gtalumni.org/site/ www.gtalumni.org. if they’re on par with fellow alumni. openings. Page/Employer for more information. Alumni not actively searching for Are you progressing at the same rate as The large number of participating An 8 a.m. breakfast address, a job are still encouraged to attend the your peers?” she said. companies and alumni networking “Where Are the Jobs? Job Search event because it allows them to net- Alumni registered for the event opportunities make this year’s Career Strategies in the 21st Century,” will fea- work with fellow alumni and learn may submit their resumes online by Conference a valuable opportunity, ture Rosita Smith, business develop- about what companies have to offer. April 11 for inclusion on a resume CD Stickney said. GT

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