Gala Weekend Planned for Homecoming Grads
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X-lll—Vol. XXXIV GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1950 No. 49 ^Jo (jeorcjia ^Jecli ^Alumni Gala Weekend Planned RETURNING FOR HOMECOMING, 1950 A most hearty welcome to you on behalf of the faculty, stu dents, and administration of Georgia Tech. We hope you will For Homecoming Grads attend all the festivities that have been arranged and will also visit the buildings and laboratories to see fAie many additions and improvements which have been made on the campus since you were students here. Attention Seniors Record Number of Activities We have broken ground recently for the erection of the finest In order to organize for place To Be Held by Tech Groups architectural building in the country, and plans and specifica ment, to get information to notify tions are now being drawn for a new library building. The our active companies, and to ex By Dick McClosky plain the qualification records, project which is now consuming most of our time and energies is Many functions and activities have been planned by the students, we are asking that all seniors and faculty, and alumni for the Georgia Tech homecoming week end of October the Alexander Memorial Campaign. I earnestly solicit your graduate students who expect to 27 and 28. Prior to the start of homecoming festivities on Friday evening, assistance in this effort to build another valuable asset to Georgia complete their work in March October 27, the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association will hold its Tech as a living memorial to one of our great alumni. 1951, June 1951, and September annual meeting in the auditorium of ANAK, Tech honorary group, will 1951, to meet with us at 11:00 the new Harrison Hightower textile tap new members, followed by the I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you, your wives, and a. m., Tuesday, October 31, in building. Time for this important awarding of prizes to the winners of friends personally while you are visiting your Alma Mater. the Georgia Tech Gymnasium. meeting will be 5:00 p.m. Friday, at the homecoming displays. Whether or not you already which time the meeting will be called Yours cordially, have a job, whether or not you to order by National Alumni Presi The Alumni Barbecue in the Tech Blake R. Van Leer plan to do graduate work, and dent Oscar G. Davis, class of '22. Gym will begin at noon for all alumni, President whether or not you are uncertain Saturday morning classes will be friends, faculty and guests. The about using the placement sys dismissed and the Tech campus will classes of '05, '10, '15 ,20, '25, '30, '35, '40 and '45 wil} have special tables. tem, all students in the above be open for visiting by the Alumni. Another group, the members of the classes are urged to attend this Information centers for the Alumni band from 1909 to 1913, will be the Over $55,000 Collected meeting, so that important school will be set up at the Tech YMCA guests of Mr. H. A. Greenblatt at his and alumni records may be set desk and the alumni office in the old table. up. Knowles building. As Students Begin Drive If it is impossible to attend At 10:30 a.m. Saturday the annual The guests will be welcomed by this meeting, all students in the Ramblin' Reck parade will begin at Colonel Blake R. Van Leer and By Bert Edleson above classes are asked to see me the north end of Peters Park on Alumni President, Oscar G. Davis '22. As of 2:00 p. m., Thursday, October 26, the 1,920 Tech students who personally after October 31. Third Street in front of the SAE During the luncheon the Tech band had been contacted had contributed $55,040.85 toward the construction of Your cooperation with us in and ATO houses. This parade, spon will entertain the assembled guests. the proposed Alexander Memorial Building. This solicitation on the part of this undertaking and your at sored by the Tech Ramblin' Reck Reunion Parties Held the students is the first time such a drive has been conducted in the history tendance at the meeting in the club, will feature rebuilt junked auto Among the many reunion parties of the school; that is, asking the stu Georgia Tech Gymnasium at During his very full life, Coach mobiles, converted into mechanical will be a dinner dance at the Druid dents to contribute toward a pro 11:00 a. m., Tuesday, October 31 Alex was awarded practically every monstrosities in keeping with the Hills Country Club on Friday night ject. From the above, it is very evident will be sincerely appreciated. honor and tribute that could be be spirit of "Beat K e n t u c k y." The for the Class of 1940. Atlantians, and that the students are whole-heartedly Sincerely yours, stowed upon any person in his chosen trophy, a gold plated spitton, will be in most cases their wives, attending behind the project to honor the late Fred W. Jjax, field. He was the first coach to put presented by the Ramblin' Reck Club are: Hop Huggins, J. W. Lemon, T. B. Coach W. A. "Bill" Alexander. Associate Dean of Students. his teams in the four major bowls. to the organization sponsoring the Siler, R. L. Roland, Lindsey Neely, Students themselves carried on the His 1929 Golden Tornados went out most unique "Wreck." C. M. Neel, Irvin M. Massey, W. S. solicitations in a concentrated drive to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and At 12:30 in Rose Bowl field the Cox, C. A. Cook, Jim Chapman, Jr., in the various classrooms. Students topped California 8 to 7 in the famous Homecoming Dance annual freshman cake race, spon Marvin Blumberg, Warner Morgan, were asked to pledge as much as game where the wrong-way run was sored by the Bulldog club, will be held. J. E. Anderson, Dan Maclntyre, Wil possible to be paid off over a twenty- the winning margin. The Orange Bowl To Feature Awards Cakes will be distributed as prizes to liam B. Owens, John Tufts, and John five month period. The returns re was next on Coach Alex's list of bowl the winning freshmen. W. Cherry. Those attending from out- ceived to date from the small frac appearances, with the Jackets trounc And ANAK Tapping A sellout crowd of spectators, esti of-town are: C. N. Mayo, Waycross, tion of the students contacted indicate ing Missouri to the tune of 21-7 in mated at 45,000, will be on hand at Georgia; A. B. Lee, Danville, Vir the drive will be a great success. Climaxing the varied events of the 1940. Texas overpowered Tech in the 2:30 p.m. Saturday to watch under ginia; J. T. Teat, Charlotte, N. C; With other successful campaigns in Homecoming week-end at Georgia Cotton Bowl in 1943, but the Engi dog Georgia Tech kick off to powerful C. D. Wheeler, Augusta, Georgia; the near future, the new Alexander Tech will be an informal dance held neers played Tulsa in the Sugar Bowl Kentucky. Unbeaten Kentucky is Alex Ormond, Savannah, Georgia; Memorial building will be a reality. in the gymnasium tomorrow night the following year and edged out the rated No. 4 in the nation, and is J. F. Scruggs, Barnesville, Georgia; A Sad Day At Tech from 8:00 until 12:00. Albert Cole Oilers 20 to 18. Coach Alex's all time pointing toward a SEC champion Ed Samoden, Piney River, Virginia; man and his bafrd will provide the It was a mighty sad day around record of 133 wins, 95 losses and 8 ship. They must win over Tech, who J. D. Nations, Macon, Georgia; James music for the dance, which is sponsor the Flats on April 23, 1950 when it ties is a record in itself and one to is also unbeaten, untied, and at pres C. Chunn, Chattanooga, Tennessee; ed by the Bulldog Club. was learned that the great and be be mighty proud of. ent leading in the SEC. In event of a B. Huff, Rome, Georgia; L. H. Mac loved "Coach Alex" had passed away. For a number of years, Bill Alex Highlight of the evening entertain Tech victory, there will be a shirt-tail intosh, Opelika, Alabama; J. C. Mer Death came as quietly as the night. ander served on the football rules ment will be the formal tapping cere parade by all freshmen down Peach- rill, Jr., Jacksonville, Florida; G. W. Coach Alexander went to sleep as usual committee of the National Collegiate mony of the ANAK Society. The new tree street. Morriss, C. D. Flanigen, Bob Cross- but never woke up. With the morning, Athletic Association and was respon members will be tapped by President After the game the fraternities field, Griffin, Georgia; J. C. Collier, Tech's greatest coach was gone. He sible for many of the progressive Bruce Sams and greeted by Vice will play host to their alumni, in or Barnesville, Georgia; T. E. Burke, wa's not only mourned by people here changes and additions to these rules. President George Schnabel, Secretary- der that old classmates may renew Hapeville, Georgia; Harry C. Bowen, at Tech and vicinity but his passing In 1932 he, Bob Zuppke and Amos Treasurer John Cain, and Mickey acquaintances, and to all visiting Shelman, Georgia; George Bestor, was felt by the sports world as a Alonzo Stagg revised the rules in an Sermersheim. students from Kentucky and else Gadsden, Alabama; Morris Gelders, attempt to make the game safer.