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Tech Mourns Loss of LegendaryLegendary LeadersLeaders Shirley Mewborn, Ivan Allen Tech Topics • Fall 2003 3 . OPICS T gtalumni.org ECH , Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Alumni/Faculty , Georgia Tech OPICS T Neil B. McGahee Maria M. Lameiras Kimberly Link-Wills ECH (ISSN 1062-077X) is published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) by (ISSN 1062-077X) is published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Joseph P. Irwin IM 80 Joseph P. ® Andrew Niesen & Niesen Andrew Rachel LaCour Niesen vice president Roll Call vice president OPICS John C. Dunn T Vice President Communications President Vice of Trustees Alumni Association Board Georgia Tech Private Equity Investor of Trustees Alumni Association Board director Retired Group BellSouth Technology Institute Communications & Public Affairs Executive Director, Research Georgia Tech Manager, News and Publications Office ECH Advertising Julie Schnelle (404) 894-0766 Alumni Association (404) 894-2391 T Alumni Association Executive Committee L. 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Georgia Institute of Technology Avenue, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institute. © 2003 by T Publisher: Editor: Associate Editor: Assistant Editor: Assistant Editor: Design: 7 5 0 0 Charmed Life 24 looking Birmingham, Ala. atop Red Mountain over- President’s Scholar President’s Michael Vincent faced Michael Vincent statue of Vulcan that stands statue of Vulcan Vulcan Restored Vulcan death as a 2-year-old in a ...... 22 efforts to restore the 56-foot efforts to restore nonfatal drowning, which he nonfatal drowning, Alumnus J. Scott Howell led miraculously survived. 27 ...... 27 ...... 24 ...... 41 ...... 15 ...... 17 ...... 39 ...... 23 ...... 47 page 27 ...... Despite predictions of a dismal season, head football Despite predictions coach Chan Gailey is optimistic about this year and the future. Football player Brian Lee graduated in May without contract. But he has a and with no pro much fanfare Tech. Georgia from degree Kim Skelton Dickie, Text 92, began a new chapter in 92, Kim Skelton Dickie, Text Atlanta bookstore her life when she opened a metro with story times and visiting authors. for children is career Darnell’s Engineer and former actor Brent helping people chart their emotional quotient. But he also enjoys success as a playwright and author. Father Nathan Calhoun sports a beard, ties back his over his white collar and rolls removes long hair, on his boss hog Harley. stereotypes New Chapter Acting on Experience Priest Motorcycle Q&A with Chan Gailey Reward One Jacket’s 190 North Avenue Living History the Hill From Foundation Georgia Tech In the Black What’s the Word What’s and Friends Burdell First Person. Jackets Yellow Real World 41 45 Departments Letters 29 31 33 page 24 Contents A life saved Fall 2003 The Annual Roll Call triumphed over tough times. raised $7.4 The drive supporting academics at Tech 26,320 donors. million from The College of Management, Global Learning Center for fall semester at and academic units will be ready Square. Technology When it comes to opportunity, Leo Benatar says you When it comes to opportunity, have to make choices. “Sometimes you take the risk, sometimes you don’t.” Reconnect to Georgia Tech Reconnect to Georgia during Homecoming Weekend Oct. 2 to 4, and get a firsthand look at by attending some of the educa- Square Technology tional, entertaining and fun seminars at the Global Learning Center. Alumni are invited to nominate candi- invited to nominate Alumni are dates for the Outstanding Alumnus Award Young and the Dean Griffin Community Service Award. can even nominate You yourself. Georgia Tech mourns the loss of Shirley Tech Georgia model for Clements Mewborn, EE 56, a role women in the field of engineering, and Ivan courageous and Com 33, Atlanta’s Allen Jr., visionary mayor who led the city to national (Allen photo by AP/WideWorld, prominence. Joe.) Mewborn by Caroline Great Year Great Cover Story: Legendary Leaders Honoring Alumni Technology Square Technology Grasping Opportunity Homecoming 7 23 17 15 13 10 0 A Quick Read of A Quick Read preview CORRECTED 8/8/03 6:34 PM Page 3 6:34 PM Page CORRECTED 8/8/03 preview letters 8/7/03 9:51 PM Page 5

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The Write Stuff • Fall 2003 Come See What’s New

PHOTO COURTESY OF VAN JONES MARTIN, CLS 66, FROM “DODD’S LUCK” Hyder Best Boss f you’re not planning a trip to Tech Thanks for the Isoon, here’s what you’re missing. The physical face of Georgia Tech has The letters in TECH Memories changed enormously. Consider this: TOPICS concerning Coach Technology Square will hold its John “Whack” Hyder were Bob Hope’s death at grand opening festivities on Oct. 23 excellent. I met him in the age 100 reminded me of and 24. This amazing complex will late 1970s as a student an incident that happened change Tech struggling to pay my own way when I was associate edi- and Midtown. through school. Although I tor of TECH TOPICS and The was a co-op student, I still the GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI Campus needed a job on campus. I Bob Hope, left, and Bobby Dodd MAGAZINE. Recreation worked for him at the Old Gym The Alumni Association’s Center is near- and knew him as “Mr.” Hyder new receptionist had been on the job long enough ing completion rather than “Coach.” to know that coach Bobby Dodd, who kept an office in the of Phase I, He ran a tight ship and was Alumni/Faculty House, received a lot of phone calls, including a few from crack- which enclosed a stickler for rules, but he was the kind- pots. And she thought she had one on hold on an early June afternoon in 1986. the Olympic est, most compassionate boss I think I’ll “It’s some guy calling for Coach, and he says he’s Bob Hope,” she Joe Irwin Natatorium and ever have. He often brought in chocolate exclaimed to me, wondering how to handle the call. “But what’s really weird,” she added a bevy of wonderful assets for chip cookies for me that his wife made. paused, “is that he sounds like Bob Hope. What should I do?” students, alumni and their families and I remember that football coach Bill Bob Hope calling for Bobby Dodd? “Put the call through,” I said. the faculty and staff at Tech. Curry once came by during lunch hour It was in fact the legendary comedian, who first met Dodd on an Atlanta golf The new Joseph Brown and was going to run with a blind man. course in the late 1930s. The two men maintained a friendship over the next 50 Whitehead Building, which houses the Coach Curry would run with the gentle- years, exchanging Christmas cards and getting together whenever Hope was in E. Roe Stamps III Health Services clin- man around campus, letting him know town or Dodd was visiting southern California. ic for students, is open. where obstacles were. Mr. Hyder told me Hope was calling to arrange a golf game with Coach Dodd and to invite him The Ford Environmental Science with great pride that Coach Curry was and his family backstage to one of Hope’s performances at the Fox Theater that & Technology building opened recent- the kind of person who would do this. week. ly and the Klaus Advanced Computing When Mr. Hyder respected someone, Gary Goettling Technology building is under con- you knew it was valid. Mr. Hyder had a Tucker, Ga. struction. The finishing touches are pride in the strength and people of being put on the Biomedical Georgia Tech that was truly awesome. Engineering building. The new gradu- I’ve often thought about Mr. Hyder if she ever writes anything from an objec- Prize for Progress and Service and who ate family housing complex is in the since graduating. In fact, he ranks tive point of view. I am still holding out decides? Surely Tech is not succumbing works. among the most influential indi- hope for that to happen. to the nauseous “politically correct” The research administration build- viduals I encountered at Tech, The Ivan Allen dogma of the liberal arts institutions. Tell ing annex is completed and renova- which really says something College took a step me it isn’t so. tion has begun on the old building. since there were (and are) so backward with Guy J. Lookabaugh, CE 52 Bobby Dodd Stadium at historic Grant many individuals of high recognition of this Kerrville, Texas Field is nearing completion. And the integrity at Tech. I was not character. Texas A&M list goes on. an athlete at Tech, just a had much more Sports Scholarships As an alumnus or friend of typical student, and Mr. insight and courage Georgia Tech, you owe it to yourself to Hyder meant a lot to me. I when it banned the In the days of yore, I had the oppor- see what’s happening here. Come and can’t imagine what he immature, obsessed tunity to fly many of the coaching staff to visit this fall. Here are a few more rea- meant to the people he Ivins from its campus. various high schools during the recruiting sons: coached. I conclude with protocols for the football team. Many of Family Weekend is Sept. 19 and Kate Brew, IE 81 Ivins’ own words, “I hate the prospects had manners and respect 20. This year the event will be com- Boca Raton, Fla. to see the well of public and wanted an education, not a turf- bined with Next Generation Weekend . debate poisoned with mis- thumping career on 100 yards of grass. when we host the next wave of Tech’s A Step Backward information — there is a lot Sports scholarships must be based great alumni base. This is also the of crap on the Internet.” And, in my opin- on the recipient’s ability to learn, not weekend of the Clemson game. The Summer 2003 TECH TOPICS was ion, this accurately describes Molly Ivins’ block and run. If the Institute starts offer- Homecoming 2003 will be held yet another outstanding issue. The publi- columns. ing bachelor of science degrees in bro- Oct. 3 to 5. Terry Maple, of Zoo Atlanta cation continues to make us Ramblin’ S. Joseph Ward, IM 51 ken field running, higher learning at resurrection fame, will give our Wrecks proud. The articles are always Richmond, Va. Georgia Tech is doomed. keynote seminar Thursday night. Also, thought provoking, diverse, researched I have a radical suggestion. Georgia President Wayne Clough delivers his and well written. I pass my issues along Politically Correct? Tech was chartered as a state-endowed State of the Institute address to the to family and friends. Their response is educational institution to teach engineer- Association on Oct. 4 at Lunch with complimentary, especially alumni from I read with dismay in the Summer ing, science and a mixture of academic the President. Check out our other colleges and universities. 2003 issue of TECH TOPICS that Molly Ivins knowledge to allow graduates to suc- Homecoming seminars on page 13. I must admit, however, my displeas- recently received the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize ceed in the real world — not the world of So come on back to North ure at learning that Molly Ivins was hon- for Progress and Service. commercialized sports. Return to the Avenue and visit the alma mater. ored by Georgia Tech. She certainly has I have been exposed for years to days of teaching, not those of financing a written exceptional political commentary, her newspaper column relentlessly training camp for the professional sports unfortunately all laced with venom and expounding the party line of the far left leagues. hatred for conservatives and Repub- interspersed with insults and name call- S.A. Sparks, IM 50 licans. I started reading her articles years ing, and totally devoid of thoughtful intel- Fayetteville, Ga. Joseph P. Irwin ago to get a perspective from both the lectual content. Georgia Tech is continuing its tradition of Vice President and Executive Director liberal and conservative points of view. I How could this happen? What is the recruiting scholar athletes, one of whom Georgia Tech Alumni Association continue to read her commentary to see criteria for selecting the recipient of the is featured on page 45. letters 8/7/039:51PMPage6 6 Tech Topics • Fall 2003 Summer T inthe the story interest andnostalgia Forgotten Drownproofing Not save ourlivesifashipgotblownoutfrom site. Thecoursewasintendedtohelp not mentionedonthedrownproofing Web drownproofing trainingincludedonetwist tined togoseasoon,theversionofhis we were already intheNavyanddes- Lanoue’s Since insistence,wealllearned. did notyetknow. ButwithCoach was muchaboutswimmingthatIreally to graduateinOctober1944. my lasttwoyearsatTech andmanaged member oftheV-12 program. Ifinished Navy andsenttoGeorgiaTech asa University whenIwascalledupinthe of mysophomore yearatClemson thought Iknewitall.Thatis,untiltheend creeks aroundS.C.,soI Beaufort, mer daysinthesaltwaterriversand to swimearly. We spentmostofthesum- south endofSouthCarolina andlearned proofing.com). Georgia Tech (www.drown- Lanoue’s workat coach Fred drownproofing and dedicated to Kearney’s Web site about Mike I read withgreat It wasobviousearlyonthatthere I grew upontheseaislandsat ECH T OPICS 1/2 HorizontalHouseRentalsAd depth. Intimeweallmanagedsomehow before risingbacktoanequilibrium we wouldsettlemuchlowerinthewater accepting wasafterthe“bobandgulp” did work. porpoisemove,and it of likeavertical test. Theactionrequired tobobwassort maybe 15minutes,inorder topassthe time. I’mnolongersosure howlong, had tomaintainthisforsomeperiodof air. Andourfeetandhandswere tied.We only whenweneededtogulpsomefresh “survive” bybobbinguptothesurface tied, butwewere required howto tolearn swim thepoolwithourhandsandfeet were required topass,wedidn’t haveto life jacket. forthattime, like a gave lotsofsupport time, afterwhichyoucoulddoitagain.It when wetwouldretain thatairforsome The thingmostofushadtrouble ofourNavytest,whichwe As part close-knit cottonand air. Thosetrousers were considerable pocketof in theairtotrapa heads, thenflipitup trousers behindour belt loopswiththe tom andgraspthe in thematthebot- trousers, tieaknot remove our taught ushowto to swim.He we were forced under usand sympathy andempathyforthestudent you through this.”Allinthatclassfelt Fielder said,“BearwithmeandIwillget tears. Withgreat compassion,Professor almosttothepoint of student fellapart, plex equationontheboard, anervous dent. Whileattemptingtosolveacom- Webb alsomentioned,Iwillrelate aninci- ofMaxwell’svirtues equations,whichDr. to hisstudents.Asextollingthe knowledgeofrigorousimparting subjects ed teacherwhoconstantlydelightedin personal interactions.” integrity andthepositivenature ofhis sense, perhaps,envyfortheunfailing ing andscholarshipinanother awe forhisenduringdedicationtoteach- impressions ofDanwillbeasense Webb wasrightinsaying“thelasting Computer Engineering.ECEChairRoger professor intheSchoolofElectricaland the passingofDanielC.Fielder, emeritus Delightfully Dedicated I haveneverknownamore dedicat- of I wasdeeplysaddenedtolearn Coach Lanoue’s lessons. but youcanseethatI’veremembered retired from E.I.DuPontCo.since1985, That gotone’s attentionquick. andlegsbroken!might havebotharms out thatwhenourshipgotblownup,we to doit—especiallysincewaspointed Florence, S.C. Olin K.McDanielJr., ChE44 It’s beenalongtime.I’ve [email protected] Send address changesto (404)385-4637 Fax: E-Mail: [email protected]. Atlanta, GA30313 Avenue190 North TechGeorgia AlumniPublications Address correspondence to: clarity, spaceandcontent. phone number. Lettersmaybeeditedfor include yourfullname,address andtele- welcome letterstotheeditor. Please T The GeorgiaTech alumnipublications, Your CommentsWelcomed ECH Legions willmisshim. confident heneverputtothetest. rocketthe powerful engine,whichI’m of hisgunmetalgrayOldsmobile88with Island andthathetookmeticulouscare remember thathewasanativeofRhode man, noonefailedtoheedhiswords. other classes.Beingsorespectful ofthe about thebuildingwere distractingto ed outthat“indiscriminate”wanderings tactfully point- about thebuilding.Hevery exams earlyandthenwantedtoamble tion tothe“sharpies”whofinishedtheir and great admirationforDr. Fielder. T OPICS Goodlettsville, Tenn. Hal Branch,EE51 In additiontohismanyfinetraits,I I recall Professor Fielder’s admoni- and the Alumni Magazine Alumni , 190 north ave/kim thurs 8/7/03 11:42 AM Page 7

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Courageous Leader Legendary Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen led city to prominence

van Allen Jr., the statesman mayor who maneu- He was a trailblazer mayor, setting Atlanta on a vered Atlanta through the turbulent civil rights course for dynamic growth, development and promi- Imovement of the 1960s and led the city to national nence. prominence, died July 2. He was 92. “He brought Atlanta from a little city to a big city “Ivan Allen was a courageous leader, a gentleman in every dimension,” said John Aderhold, EE 45, MS and a friend,” said former Sen. Sam Nunn, an attorney IE 67, an Atlanta business leader and developer. “He with King & Spalding. carried Atlanta when Atlanta needed carrying.” “Historians focus on what happened in the past,” Former Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders, who served in Nunn said. “Futurists project what they believe will office from 1963 to 1967, told the Atlanta Journal- happen. Few write or analyze in depth about what Constitution, “Atlanta has had many good mayors, but was avoided. Atlanta’s and Georgia’s progress is it’s never had a better mayor than Ivan Allen.” based on what did not happen in the 1960s, largely Tech President Wayne Clough, who was one of six because of Ivan Allen’s leadership. Ivan made Atlanta pallbearers at Allen’s funeral, said, “Ivan Allen is a too busy to hate, and he set an example of love and legend in Atlanta and for Georgia Tech. He was a compassion in his public life and in his private life. I national leader during the crucible of the development am honored that the Sam Nunn School of Internation- of the civil rights movement, and he has always been a al Affairs has a home in the Ivan Allen College.” loyal and dedicated Georgia Tech alumnus.” Allen’s life and involvement in the affairs of The funeral service was at First Presbyterian Georgia Tech, Atlanta and the state were remarkable Church of Atlanta, where Allen had been an elder. enough that he received Georgia Tech’s Alumni Allen, Com 33, came from a prominent family. His Distinguished Service Award in 1958 — three years father, Ivan Allen Sr., founded the Ivan Allen-Marshall before being elected mayor of Atlanta and reaping Co., a landmark office supply and furniture chain. national accolades for his courageous and visionary In an interview in 1990, Allen told the Alumni leadership. Magazine that when he was born in 1911, a black mid- Shirley Mewborn: Embodiment of Tech Education

hirley Clements Mewborn, one of Tech and was chairman of the Alpha Xi for Rochelle High School in her home- the first two women to graduate Delta national foundation trustees for town of Rochelle, Ga., Mrs. Mewborn Sfrom Georgia Tech in 1956 and a the last three years. was passionate about Georgia Tech role model for women in the field of A member of the Georgia Tech women’s basketball and was often seen engineering, died July 10 after a battle Foundation board from 1989 to 2001, as the guest coach on the bench. The with cancer. She was 68. she served as president of the Alumni program recently established the Mrs. Mewborn, who earned a Association in 1990-91 — the same aca- Shirley C. Mewborn Scholarship for degree in electrical engineering, is the demic year Tech’s football team won a engineering students on the women’s first — and to date only — woman to national championship and the basket- basketball team. serve as president of the Georgia Tech ball team went to the Final Four. She was named one of Atlanta’s Alumni Association. In March, she During her term, the Alumni Top 10 Businesswomen in 1991 and was received the 2003 Joseph Mayo Pettit Association received the Grand Gold a member of the Georgia Tech Alumni Distinguished Service Award, Award from the Council for Engineering Hall of Fame. She was a the highest award conferred by the Advancement and Support of recipient of the 1994 College of Alumni Association. Education as the best Association in the Engineering’s Distinguished Alumnus “Shirley Mewborn was a pioneer country for the second consecutive Award and the 1999 College of at Georgia Tech,” said President Wayne year. Engineering Dean’s Appreciation Clough. “We will miss her fine leader- She served as a member of the Award. In 1987, the Atlanta Business ship, her excellent judgment, her tire- School of Electrical and Computer Chronicle named her one of 15 business less energy and her warm smile. She Engineering Advisory Board, the executives who made outstanding con- was the embodiment of a Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Research Corp. board, the tributions to their professions and com- education.” University. She saw it as an opportuni- Legislative Network Steering munities. She successfully juggled a family ty. Committee, the Georgia Tech Advisory In July, Mrs. Mewborn was unani- and career. She and her husband, “Women didn’t go there to change Board, the National Campaign Steering mously elected to the Georgia Francis “Duke” Mewborn, also a 1956 Georgia Tech,” Mrs. Mewborn said. Committee and was chairman of the Technology Hall of Game, a prestigious Georgia Tech alumnus and retired “We went there to get an education and Georgia Tech Research Corp. board. award for leaders who have shaped the chairman of Baker Audio, reared two get out.” Mrs. Mewborn supported Georgia growth of technology in the state. daughters. Mrs. Mewborn retired as As a student, Mrs. Mewborn was a Tech through the Roll Call for 48 con- She was a member of the Atlanta vice president and treasurer of member of ANAK, Omicron Delta secutive years. She and her husband Lawn Tennis Association, enjoyed fish- Southern Engineering Co. in 2000 after Kappa, Tau Beta Pi national engineer- established the Shirley Mewborn ing and gardening and was a member a 41-year career. ing honor society and DramaTech. She Perseverance Scholarship Fund for of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church. Mrs. Mewborn didn’t set out to was a charter member, president and female students at Tech and the Francis Memorials be made to the Shirley make history when she arrived on cam- secretary of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She and Shirley Mewborn Endowment Mewborn Perseverance Scholarship pus in the fall of 1953 as a sophomore served on the advisory and house Council Fund. Fund for Women through the Georgia transfer student from Western Carolina boards for the Gamma Eta chapter at A star of the girl’s basketball team Tech Foundation. 190 north ave/kim thurs 8/7/03 11:42 AM Page 8

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wife delivered him because the white doc- 1969, we were known for gleaming sky- tor did not arrive in time. It would have a scrapers, expressways, the Atlanta Braves • Fall 2003 Eyewitness dramatic impact later when he was con- and, the price you have to pay, traffic fronting racial tensions. jams.” Ivan Allen appealed to the best, On one occasion, Allen debated Less than six months after taking whether to cross racial boundaries and office, Allen and the city faced a common

Tech Topics Tech displayed incredible courage attend a black Community Chest fund-rais- tragedy. An Air France jet carrying 132 pas- ing event. He decided to go and the atmos- sengers and crew, including 106 of By William Todd, IM 71 was in a 1953 Ford with three phere became tense. Suddenly, to his sur- Atlanta’s arts and business leaders, crashed classmates returning from prise, a black woman wrapped her arms at Orly Field on June 3, 1962. Allen went to n the summer of 1961, when I Panama City beach late one about him in a huge hug and cried, “This is Paris to represent the city. Many of his Iwas 13, my father took me to a night. my baby!” close friends lost their lives in the crash. political event, the first that I can We had delayed leaving as It was the midwife who had delivered From the tragedy came the Memorial Arts remember. I recall it vividly. long as we could and now we him. The tension vanished. Center, later named the Woodruff Arts The three candidates seeking were pushing the car hard along As president of the Georgia Chamber Center, under the auspices of the Atlanta the office of mayor of Atlanta — the two-lane roads. When we of Commerce in 1961, he proposed a Six Arts Alliance. M.M. “Muggsy” Smith, Lester arrived in town, we decided to Point Forward Atlanta program, which Allen was president of the Georgia Maddox and Ivan Allen — were take a shortcut to deliver one of became the cornerstone of his platform in Tech Alumni Association during fiscal year campaigning in the parking lot of the boys to his house. We ended his successful bid for mayor that year. 1953-54 and was president of the Georgia a shopping center on a hot July up where we didn’t need to be. On the day Allen took office, Jan. 2, Tech Foundation in 1958. In 1990, Tech night. In a commentary on just We drove down a hill and 1962, he ordered “white” and “colored” named its liberal arts college the Ivan Allen how small town Atlanta was at were slowed, then stopped by the signs removed from City Hall and he College. Georgia Tech also awarded him an the time, the platform was a sight of a large crowd of highly desegregated the City Hall cafeteria. He honorary doctorate for public service. flatbed truck with bales of hay excited young African-Americans initiated immediate reforms in the police He graduated from Georgia Tech with I’m not sure what to say here. stacked around it and red-white- who were surrounding a white andAny fire ideas? departments and openly support- a bachelor of science in commerce in 1933. and-blue bunting in front. The car. As we got nearer we saw a ed civil rights. At Tech, he was president of the student candidates sat in fold-up chairs white man with white hair stand- On July 25, 1963, at the request of council and a member of ANAK, Omicron and each took a turn speaking ing on that car. I immediately rec- President John F. Kennedy, Allen testified Delta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra- into a bulbous, stand-up micro- ognized him and called out in before Congress in support of the civil ternity. He supported SAE throughout his phone. surprise, “That’s the mayor.” rights bill, which became the 1964 Civil life and for many years held an annual I can’t recall a single thing Mayor Allen was standing Rights Act. He was the only Southern elect- Ivan Allen Rush Party in the meadow that Muggsy Smith said, but my on the car with a bullhorn, wav- ed official to do so. behind his home. daddy and grandfather said he ing his arms. Allen was friends with the Rev. Martin After graduation, he began a lifelong was a nice man. Ivan Allen We couldn’t hear what he Luther King Jr. and hosted a dinner on career at the Ivan Allen Co. He was presi- appealed to the best in the was saying and couldn’t figure behalf of the city in honor of King when he dent of the company from 1946 to 1970 and crowd, urging the city to contin- out what was going on, but we received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1966. chairman from 1970 to 1995. ue to grow and prosper and realized the crowd was angry. We After King’s assassination in 1968, Allen In 1936, he married Louise Richardson become the greatest city in the saw the car on which the mayor and his wife, Louise, immediately went to of Atlanta. During World War II, Allen South. stood start rocking from the give support and sympathy to Coretta served as a supply officer in the Army. And then came Lester pushing of the crowd. Scott King, his widow. Following the war, Allen was executive Maddox. He said words that I called for my classmate During his two terms as mayor, secretary to Georgia Gov. M.E. Thompson embarrassed people, words that who was driving to throw that Allen’s “Forward Atlanta” campaign and he was chief of staff to Gov. Ellis we children were not allowed to Ford into reverse. attracted corporate support, and the city Arnall. In 1954, Allen made an unsuccess- say in our family — hateful, “Let’s get out of here, fast,” I experienced a burst of growth and prosper- ful campaign for governor. In 1960, he was mean-spirited words that were said with a strong sense of gen- ity. There were 50 major buildings con- elected Chamber of Commerce president. shocking. He got some of the uine fear. We left without attract- structed downtown, the Interstate 75/85 Allen received the Martin Luther King crowd riled up with the rhetoric ing the attention of the crowd or Downtown Connector was completed and Jr. peace prize in 1981. and the high-pitched anger he the police. the city’s first direct international air routes “Mayor Allen was a great friend to me was espousing. The next day, safe in our were established. personally, always complimenting me on He was connecting with houses with our parents, we Allen saw to the development of the the work I was doing and offering to help some of the crowd, and they learned of the trouble in Atlanta Civic Center and presided over the in any way he could,” Clough said. began to urge him on. I turned Summerhill and the courage and creation of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid “I was a student at Tech while he around to look at a gaggle of men leadership of Mayor Allen. Transit Authority, which replaced the old served as the mayor of Atlanta and it behind us. Their faces were red Forty years later, I relayed Atlanta Transit system. inspired me to see his example and good and their eyes bulging as they that story to Ivan Allen. When he In “Mayor: Notes on works on almost a daily basis. It was raised their fists in support and found out that we had skedad- the Sixties,” Allen impressive to have a Tech man as mayor of agreement with Maddox. Their dled, he said with a twinkle in wrote in 1971 with our city who was progressive, took risks in faces were filled with hate. It his eye, “Well, thanks a lot for co-author Paul the interest of our future and stood tall frightened me. coming to my rescue.” He knew Hemphill, “There is with the other great leaders at a crucial About five years ago, I sat full well that was the last place no adequate word to time in our history.” GT next to Mayor Allen at a meeting four skinny white teenage boys describe Atlanta’s physi- of the Rotary Club of Atlanta. I needed to be. cal and economic growth got up the courage to sit at this As I think back on witness- during the ’60s. You could Tech gives Allen most senior table because I want- ing this remarkable event by use ‘tremendous’ or ‘fantas- a symbolic Buzz ed to be near him. He was very being in the wrong place at the tic’ or ‘incredible,’ and you award in 1992. gracious. I told him the story. He wrong time, it feels a little like would be correct, but you recalled that hot, steamy night at Forrest Gump and his uncanny would still be understating the situ- Cambellton Plaza and remarked timing. And after recalling the ation. In that short span of 10 years, that it was even more frightening long-forgotten memory of that Atlanta grew as much as it had in all looking down from the flatbed scene, it makes me marvel at the its previous history, moving from being trailer into the eyes of the angry incredible courage of Ivan Allen. a somewhat sluggish regional distribu- men. It was courage that I saw. tion center to a position of one of the dozen In 1966, the summer after William J. Todd is executive director of or so truly ‘national cities’ in the United my high school graduation and the Commission for a New Georgia in the States. In 1959, we were known for Coca- before I entered Georgia Tech, I Office of the Governor. 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9 Tech Topics Shirley Mewborn Never Compromised her Principles • Fall 2003 CAROLINE JOE By John B. Carter Jr., IE 69 our volunteers and donors. We needed a first-class audio system so we could e all knew Shirley Mewborn play music and really be festive, she in different ways — wife, said. She knew someone who had a lit- Wmother, grandmother, sister, tle knowledge about sound systems aunt, friend, fellow alum, tennis part- and he would help us. ner, fishing buddy. But one thing we all The next week Duke shows up have in common, we knew her to be a with a design of a state-of-the-art sound warm and caring person who was system for the Basil Garden and the absolutely committed to doing the right lobby of the Alumni House. There was thing and doing it the right way. She no money for this fancy system. Duke never compromised her principles. said to let him worry about that. Shirley and several other students Duke and Shirley donated the were founding members of the Alpha entire system. Shirley is responsible for Xi Delta sorority, the first sorority on establishing the tailgating tradition at the Tech campus. For years the sorority the Alumni House before home football owned a house on Fifth Street that games that is the most sought-after Shirley and others helped buy. Shirley invitation for a pregame event. most recently spearheaded an effort to In the spring of 1991 when Shirley build a new Alpha Xi house, which will was about to go out of office, she and be named for Shirley and Gay Dull. Duke invited the Alumni Association In the fall of 1955 the Georgia Tech executive committee members and football team was invited to play the their wives to go fishing in Florida. University of Pittsburgh in the Jan. 2 After two days of catching reds and Sugar Bowl at Tulane Stadium. The trout, we were relaxing in rocking only problem was that Georgia Gov. chairs on the porch when Shirley said Marvin Griffin would not allow Tech to that it was about time for her to pass play because Pittsburgh had a black the gavel to the next president. running back. Senior and avid football She announced that for her last fan Shirley Clements didn’t think that hurrah she wanted to establish a socie- was right. So, Shirley and boyfriend ty of Alumni Association past presi- Duke Mewborn and other classmates dents. Her goal was to keep them gathered at Peter’s Park and proceeded involved in the association activities. to march on the governor’s mansion. They had all volunteered for nine Suffice it to say that Bobby Dodd straight years in a leadership role and white and gold attire lining the streets meaning of perseverance and patience. coached and Wade Mitchell led a team now was no time to let them get away. of downtown Orlando. Shirley summed it up best in her grad- of Yellow Jackets to beat the Pittsburgh The name of the society was to be the As we weaved our way through uation speech when she said, “You are Panthers 7 to zip to win the Sugar “Used to Bees” and a logo was the streets, the fans would yell, “Hello an advantaged class. Ahead of you are Bowl. designed on a cocktail napkin. Every Shirley, congratulations Shirley, way to the riches of opportunities. The same Shirley was an inspiring leader past president was sent a gold and go Shirley, we love you Shirley.” That principles and fundamentals that who stuck to her principles against all white shirt emblazoned with the newly must have happened more than a hun- brought you to this day will assure you odds and did the right thing. Georgia created logo with a letter from George dred times. When we got to the end of success in those opportunities. Tech is a better place for what she and P. Burdell explaining the new society. the parade route, Shirley remarked “Integrity — build a special rela- her fellow students did. She wouldn’t let us put her name what an incredible experience the tionship with people. Market integrity, In July of 1990 after Shirley became on the letter because she didn’t want parade had been and she had no idea service and the ability to solve prob- the first woman president of the the credit, but George Burdell tricked that many people knew her. Only when lems. Tenacity — nothing can take the Alumni Association, we talked about her as he had been tricking people for Shirley got out of the Wreck did she see place of persistence. Enthusiasm — to her goals for the year. I envisioned years. He added a P.S. naming Shirley, the huge magnetic signs on each side of be successful in doing something you playing up Shirley as the first woman the first woman to be a “Used to Bee,” the Wreck that read, “Shirley Mewborn, must feel good about it. Toughness — Alumni Association president in hopes as the society’s queen bee. And a queen President Alumni Association.” that quality that makes a Georgia Tech of inspiring young women to consider bee she was. She then realized that all the peo- graduate stand out from other bright enrolling in Tech, but that was not a Shirley loved and supported ple who were calling her by name did- scholars. Attitude — enjoy the trip. priority of Shirley’s. Georgia Tech athletics. In fact, there is a n’t really know her. She told this story Whether you see an opportunity or an She said, “John, it’s not about me fully endowed women’s basketball almost every time she spoke to stu- obstacle is based on your attitude, on or women at Tech, although I agree scholarship named after her. She dents and her message was no matter your perception.” more women should have the incredi- always had a message for the president how good you think you are or no mat- That sums it up. She said it all. ble opportunity Tech afforded me. of Georgia Tech, the athletic director ter how good others make you feel, Shirley cared deeply about Georgia What it’s all about is the person and head football coach. She would tell never, ever take yourself too seriously. Tech, gave far more of her time and Georgia Tech molds you into.” them that the only time there was a Shirley had many firsts at Georgia resources than she ever received. I don’t remember whether we had woman as the president of the Alumni Tech, but one stands out as especially Simply put, she was a great inspiration that old saying back then that Tech Association Georgia Tech won a nation- noteworthy. In March of this year she to all of us. doesn’t fit the mold, we make the mold, al football championship. That’s a pow- was the first woman to be awarded the We loved her and will miss her but that was clearly what Shirley was erful message. highest award an alumnus can receive and Georgia Tech will miss her. Shirley telling me. She saw the difference Tech In December 1990 in the Citrus — the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Clements Mewborn, Electrical made in her life and was absolutely Bowl Parade before we won the nation- Distinguished Service Award. Engineering 1956, a true Ramblin’ passionate about spreading that word al football championship, the Alumni There have been more than 120,000 Wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva to Tech students. She never ever turned Association Ramblin’ Wreck followed alumni who have graduated from engineer. down an opportunity to speak to stu- the Georgia Tech band. Shirley was in Georgia Tech and only 85 have received John B. Carter Jr. is president and chief operat- the rumble seat all decked out in white this award. That is less than one-tenth dent groups or attend student events. ing officer of the Georgia Tech Foundation and Shirley also liked to kick back and and gold and Duke was in the passen- of 1 percent. What a tremendous tribute was vice president and executive director of the have fun. She wanted to have tailgate ger seat. There were some 40,000 to Shirley’s service to Georgia Tech. Alumni Association when Shirley Mewborn parties at the Alumni Association for Georgia Tech fans dressed in their She has taught us all the real served as president. GT 190 north ave/kim thurs 8/7/03 11:42 AM Page 10

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• Fall 2003 Honoring Alumni Nominations invited for key service awards

he Georgia Tech Alumni The Dean Griffin Community Tech Topics Tech TAssociation invites you to nominate Service Award, named for Tech’s long- alumni for the Outstanding Young time dean of students, the late George Alumnus Award and the Dean Griffin C. Griffin, honors alumni who have Community Service Award. The recipi- performed exemplary community serv- ents will be recognized at the annual ice work. Nominees are judged on serv- Gold & White Honors event next ice in a long-term volunteer capacity, spring. impact on the quality of life of others, “It is such a great experience for leadership and ability to be proactive in past and current winners to come dealing with societal problems. together in one evening to celebrate our “We want to foster a greater alumni’s achievements,” said Joseph P. awareness of the awards and what they Irwin, IM 80, Alumni Association vice are meant to recognize in order to solic- president and executive director. “It is it a wider variety of nominees,” Irwin an honor to receive these awards and said. this allows our award winners to share The awards will be presented at that experience with their families, col- the second Gold & White Honors on leagues and friends and to celebrate.” March 18. Among the highlights of the The Outstanding Young Alumnus awards ceremony will be the naming of will be presented to an individual who honorary Georgia Tech alumni and the has graduated since 1982 and will not recipients of the prestigious Joseph reach the age of 40 before March 18. Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished The award recognizes the achievements Service Award. of young alumni based on their contri- Self-nominations are accepted. Passing the Gavel butions to Georgia Tech, to their com- Nominations must be received by Sept. Alumnus L. Thomas Gay, left, began his term as president of the Georgia Tech munities and to their professions. 30. Alumni Association for the new fiscal year on July 1. In a symbolic transfer of leadership, Robert L. Hall, IM 64, whose term as president ended June 30, pre- sented the traditional gavel to Gay, IM 66, at the June board of trustees meet- Nomination Form ing. Gay is the 69th president of the Alumni Association, which was founded in 1920. President of Gay Construction Co., an Atlanta general contracting firm, Please check the award for which you are nominating this person: ❏ Gay has served on the Alumni board of trustees for the past seven years. As a 2004 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award student, he was president of his freshman class and president of the Sigma ❏ 2004 Dean Griffin Community Service Award Alpha Epsilon fraternity. A Vietnam veteran, he served as a captain in the Nominee: ______Marine Corps. He also has a master’s in business administration from Georgia State University. Other officers of the board’s Executive Committee are Carey Home Address: ______H. Brown, IE 69, president-elect and treasurer; J. William Goodhew III, IM 61, vice president for activities; Janice N. Wittschiebe, Arch 78, MS Arch 80, vice Business Address: ______president for Roll Call; and C. Meade Sutterfield, EE 72, vice president for com- Home Phone: ______munications. Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80, is vice president and executive director of the Alumni Association. Alumni fill an additional 36 elected posts on the board Work Phone: ______of trustees. E-mail Address: ______Occupation: ______Karl Paul Heads Career Services, Title: ______School(s) Attended, Degree(s), Year(s): ______Alumni Relations Departments For the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, describe in 100 words or less on an arl Paul, IM 69, who retired from of 1969 25th Reunion Committee and attached typewritten sheet why this nominee should receive the award, including KHewlett Packard as North the Georgia Tech/Hewlett Packard activities, leadership and contributions to the Tech community. References or American human resources manager recruiting coordinator from 1980 to supporting materials may be provided. for the sales organization, has joined 1992. He has been a Roll Call contribu- the Georgia Tech tor for 33 years and a member of the For the Dean Griffin Community Service Award, describe in a narrative format on Alumni Thousand Club for 15 years. an attached typewritten sheet why this nominee should receive the award, focus- Association as Paul accepted an early retirement ing on community service activities for which he or she should be recognized. assistant executive package from Hewlett Packard after a Please include leadership positions, offices held, dates and a contact person. director for Alumni 29-year career in which he had worked References or supporting materials may be provided. Career Develop- in human resources and sales and mar- ment, Human keting in Atlanta and Colorado. From Nominated by:______Resources and 1997 to 2000, he built and managed an Degree/Class Year: ______Alumni Relations. 11-member human resources team for “Karl brings 1,400 Hewlett Packard employees Address: ______great passion and experience to our responsible for $10 billion in sales. E-mail: ______organization,” said Joseph P. Irwin, IM As a student, Paul was rush chair- 80, vice president and executive direc- man for Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity Phone Number: ______tor of the Association. and served on the student government Paul was elected to a three-year finance committee. During his senior All nominations must be received by Tuesday, September 30, 2003. Please term on the Alumni board of trustees in year, he was vice president of the fax information to (404) 894-5113 or mail to: Alumni Awards, Attn: Amy Willmore, 2000. He is a past president of the Cobb Bulldog Club, a student intramural ath- Georgia Tech Alumni Association, 190 North Ave., Atlanta, GA 30313. For more County Georgia Tech Club and was letics organization. information, call Amy Willmore at (404) 894-0795 or 1-800-GTALUMS (482-5867). Tech’s Roll Call/HP matching gift coor- He and his wife, Janis, live in Please photocopy this form for multiple nominations. dinator from 1986 until his retirement Atlanta and have two grown daugh- in 2001. He was a member of the Class ters. GTt to say here. Any ideas? 190 north ave/kim thurs 8/7/03 11:42 AM Page 13

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Homecoming Calendar • Fall 2003

omecoming is all about recon- ships that depend on a positive out- Hnecting — to Georgia Tech and to come of a nuclear threat. former classmates. Homecoming • Engineering a Poem, 10 to 11 Weekend Oct. 2 to 4 provides the a.m. Professor Thomas Lux, who holds best opportunity to see old friends the Bourne Chair of Poetry in the School and a great opportunity to get a first- of Literature, Communication and hand look at Technology Square. Culture in the Ivan Allen College, will Reunions are highlights of the demonstrate through readings of his weekend, with the milestone reunion own work and others how poems are classes — 1953, 1963 and 1978 — “engineered” by poets into “made objects,” much like bridges, buildings celebrating their special years with and industrial systems. their own special parties in great • Memory Changes in Normal places on campus. Human Aging, 10 to 11 a.m. There The slate of Alumni Seminars are three things to worry about growing during Homecoming will be present- older. The first is memory; the other two ed in the new Global Learning Center we forget. Professor Anderson Smith of that incorporate experiential computing 3:30 p.m., Alumni/Faculty House, host- at Technology Square, covering a the College of Sciences explains mem- and the human body. This session is a ed by the Georgia Tech Ambassadors. variety of topics including Tech’s ory changes in normal human aging. preview of the new Tech2Nite program, One-hour tours will depart about every involvement in research, innovation, • Artificial Intelligence in evening courses to enrich your life. 15 minutes. the economy, the arts and education. Interactive Drama and Art, 10 to • Getting Technology to Market, 11 a.m. Michael Mateas of the School 4 to 5 p.m. Marie Thursby, professor at Saturday, October 4 Thursday, October 2 of Literature, Communication and DuPree College of Management, leads • Ramblin’ Wreck Parade, time to Homecoming weekend festivities begin Culture shows how artificial intelligence, TI:GER (Technological Innovation: be announced. The parade route will at the Global Learning Center in when used as an expressive medium, Generating Economic Results), a col- begin on Fowler Street and wind Technology Square with a keynote opens up new forms of interactive art laboration between Georgia Tech and through campus. alumni seminar from 6 to 7:30 p.m., fol- and entertainment. Learn about current Emory University in which technologi- • Alumni Tailgate Party —Two lowed by a wine-tasting seminar with work in AI-based art and entertainment cally savvy engineers, scientists and hours before kickoff, Yellow Jackets will one of Atlanta’s top wine experts, and a new lab devoted to the study of business and law students study how to gather for the tailgate party under the Michael Venezia, director of education video games as an art form. This ses- deal with the challenges of commercial- big tent on the Tech Tower lawn. Meet for United Distributors Inc., who will sion is a preview of the new Tech2Nite izing technology. fellow alumni for great food and appear- present wines of northern California. program. • Adopt-A-Student, 11:30 a.m. to 2 ances by Buzz, the cheerleaders and • Tech Today, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. p.m. Alumni may gather in Room 301 of the Wreck and get ready to watch the Friday, October 3 Robert McMath, vice provost and dean the Student Center, where the Student Yellow Jackets beat N.C. State. Returning alumni can get back in touch of Academic Affairs, has been at Tech Alumni Association will match Tech • Georgia Tech vs. N.C. State — with campus life or learn something for more than 20 years as an adminis- grads with current students for a unique Bobby Dodd Stadium will be the site of new at an alumni seminar. trator, professor and friend of students. perspective of life at Tech in 2003. Take the gridiron matchup between the • Building Consensus Between He shares the “state of student life” on your student to Lunch with the Yellow Jackets and the Wolfpack. Game Palestinians and Israelis, 8:30 to the Georgia Tech campus. President, attend a class together or time to be announced 12 days prior to 9:30 a.m. “Will there ever be peace in • Fun with Math: Why You visit your favorite places on campus. the game. the Middle East?” Associate professor (Probably) Won’t Win the Lottery, • Lunch with the President, noon • Old Gold Reunion, immediately fol- Michael Elliott will discuss the huge 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Professor William to 2 p.m., Student Center Ballroom. The lowing the game, Alumni/Faculty House obstacles facing Israelis and Trotter, academic chair at the School of Alumni Association’s annual meeting, Ballroom. If you “got out” in 1953 or ear- Palestinians, especially conflict man- Mathematics, explores the world of lot- hosted by Alumni Association President lier, bring a guest and join your fellow agement within the current Intifada. teries. Is a lottery a good investment? Thomas Gay, IM 66, highlighted by alumni. Elliott also looks at Joint Environmental How should you pick numbers? What Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough’s To register for Homecoming activi- Mediation — Israelis and Palestinians about playing birthdays and anniver- State of the Institute Address. ties, visit http://gtalumni.org/homecom- trained to co-mediate disputes. saries? There are surprising answers. • Campus Walking Tours, 2:30 to ing. • Cinema Cities: Architecture as • Healthy Homes and Household Seen by Hollywood, 8:30 to 9:30 Chemicals, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. a.m. Professor Nancy Green-Leigh uses Professor Anne Steinemann of the REUNION PARTIES the subjective eye of cinematic artists in College of Architecture will address hid- order to better understand how people den health hazards in homes (and • Class of 1978 25th Reunion Party, 7 to 11 p.m., The Basil Garden at the respond to their cities as opposed to offices and schools), why they are such Alumni/Faculty House. For details, visit the 1978 Reunion Web page at the popular images Hollywood pro- a problem and how to make a healthier http://gtalumni.org/GetInvolved/events/1978reunion.html. vides. home. • Class of 1963 40th Reunion Party, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., Wardlaw Center. For • Georgia Tech in the War on • Estate Planning in Uncertain details, visit the 1963 Reunion Web page at http://gtalumni.org/Get- Cancer, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Professor Al Times, 2:30 to 5 p.m. Whether you are Involved/events/1963reunion.html. Merrill of the School of Biology and an Old Gold alum or a more recent • Class of 1953 50th Reunion Party, 6 to 11 p.m., Georgia Tech Hotel and chair of the Georgia Tech Cancer graduate, learn the latest tax-saving Conference Center. For details, visit the 1953 Reunion Web page at Research Council, presents a survey of strategies in estate planning. Lawton M. http://gtalumni.org/GetInvolved/events/1953reunion.html. the interesting projects that are begin- “Mac” Nease III, IM 65, outlines strate- • Buzz Bash — Fourth Annual All-Alumni Reunion Party, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., ning to bridge biotechnology and can- gies for ensuring that your wealth is Festival Area at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Looking for a way to catch up with old cer detection and intervention. transferred where you choose rather friends, make new connections and have fun all in one great evening? The • Korea: A Country Divided, 10 to than to pay taxes. Georgia Tech Alumni Association has the answer— Buzz Bash. Food and 11 a.m. John E. Endicott, director of the • Biomedia Art & Design drinks, live music, roaming street entertainment, fireworks and appearances Center for International Strategy, Innovation, 4 to 5 p.m. Professor by President Wayne Clough, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Marching Band, Technology and Policy, will discuss the Diane Gromala of the School of cheerleaders and Buzz make this an event you won’t want to miss. For details, political, military and economic climate Literature, Communication and Culture visit the Buzz Bash Web page at http://gtalumni.org/GetInvolved/ in North Korea and review the current at Ivan Allen College explores provoca- events/buzzbash.html. situation and the vital regional relation- tive new uses of computer technology living history 8/7/03 8:25 AM Page 17

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The Way We Were • Fall 2003

CAROLINE JOE “I asked the CEO at the time what the likelihood was of my becoming CEO in the future and he told me Opportunity the next CEO had already been picked,” Benatar said. “When I realized I wasn’t going to get that chance, I left the company.” Knocked Benatar was on the board of directors of a North Leo Benatar opened his own doors Carolina company called Engraph and the graphics firm was looking for a new CEO to take over for the founder, who was retiring. “They asked me to take the job and when I told my wife she said, ‘You’ve lost your mind. At 51 years old, you have taken leave of your senses. You had a job where you traveled around the world and had the respect of the company and now you want to do this.’ Ultimately, she said if it was what I really wanted to do, do it,” he said. Benatar saw the opportunity to do what he had always wanted to do — call the shots. “When I was in Europe, I had a lot of independ- ence and I liked it. I knew I wanted to be a CEO and to get the chance to run a company. I gave up a lot of security, but I thought I could do it and I figured if it didn’t work I could probably get a reasonable job doing something,” he said. When Benatar took over at Engraph, the company By Maria M. Lameiras your brother did, you’re out of here,’” Benatar recalled provided graphics and packaging to larger industries. with a laugh. “My brother was very bright, but he was He felt that the spectrum of things Engraph was doing he difference between success and subsistence always in the doghouse. He would miss curfew and was too broad and wanted the company to focus on depends on the ability to recognize opportuni- he loved to pull pranks.” what it did best. Tties and the courage to pursue them. Leo Benatar credited Griffin and Assistant Dean Fred “We were trying to compete with larger compa- Benatar has made a life’s practice of picking prospects Ajax with helping him make it at Tech. nies to sell things like toothpaste boxes to Procter & that would drive his career upward. “I told them I wouldn’t be able to stay if I didn’t Gamble or cereal boxes to Kellogg’s, but we couldn’t “It seems to me that opportunities come up and work. Fred Ajax was in charge of the placement office, compete in those areas. I said, ‘Let’s do something you have to try to make an assessment of where that and Griffin took me down there and told them, ‘Get where we can be the leader,’” he said. “Even if they opportunity could take you,” Benatar said. “Some- this boy a job.’ After that, both Dean Ajax and Dean were small niches, I knew we would grow if we times you take the risk and sometimes you don’t. You Griffin would help me get classes I needed with early picked growth markets and provided services others have to think about it, but people do sometimes spend registration cards to work around my jobs,” he said. couldn’t or wouldn’t provide.” too much time thinking and not doing.” Before graduation, Benatar’s Naval Reserve unit Benatar took over at Engraph in 1981, moved the From 28 years spent building a career as a top was called up for active duty in the Korean War. He company’s headquarters to Atlanta in 1982 and executive with Atlanta Paper Co. and Mead to leading got a deferment until graduation, but three months focused the company on vending machine graphics, a midsize graphics company struggling to find its later was sent to boot camp. flexible packaging for confections and labels for the niche, Benatar, IE 51, has not been near-sighted about After a two-year Navy stint, Benatar took a job pharmaceutical and personal care industries. The com- his career path. with Atlanta Paper Co. as an industrial engineer and pany grew 25 percent to 30 percent per year for 15 Benatar said he could not have achieved his goals attended graduate school at Tech at night. A year later, years and revenues ballooned from $20 million a year without his Tech education. a friend set him up on a blind date. to more than $300 million. “Tech was like a survival course. I liken it to “After that date was over, I told my friend, ‘That’s In 1992, Sonoco Products Co. acquired Engraph Coach Fred Lanoue’s drownproofing course. Tech the girl I’m going to marry,’” Benatar said. He and for $300 million. Benatar stayed on as executive vice threw you in the water and told you that you’d better Louise Cure dated for two years and were married in president until retirement in 1996. Meanwhile, he was learn how to swim,” he said. “It gave you more work 1956. They settled in Little Five Points and Benatar a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta than you could do and made you set priorities. You was made the night supervisor at Atlanta Paper. from 1990 to 1995, serving as chairman in 1994 and had to accomplish things in order of importance and Before completing his master’s thesis, the profes- 1995. Since then he has done part-time consulting for decide what to let go by the wayside. sor who was advising him left Tech. Benatar couldn’t A.T. Kearney and started Benatar & Associates, his “Like a survival course, it forced me to a disci- find another professor to support his thesis work, so own consulting firm specializing in advising small to pline I didn’t have before. It forced me to set priorities he decided to give up on completing the degree. midsize companies. He continues to serve on the and put things in perspective.” Mead Corp. took over Atlanta Paper in 1957, and boards of Mohawk Industries Inc., Interstate Bakeries An early Tech experience involving Dean George Benatar worked his way up as night supervisor, day Corp., Paxar Corp. and Aaron Rents Inc., and he a is a Griffin stands out in his mind. plant manager and department manager for planning, trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech Foundation. “It was my second or third week at Tech and I scheduling, purchasing and marketing. Benatar, 73, has no regrets about the risks he has was in The Robbery having a doughnut. George In 1965, Mead expanded to Europe and he was chosen or the opportunities he left behind. He said Griffin came through and saw my name on my RAT given the chance to direct the construction of overseas being a CEO exceeded his expectations. cap. He looked at me and said, ‘Boy, are you kin to Vic plants and sell the company’s multiple packaging con- “It was a lot more difficult than I had imagined Benatar (ChE 45)?’ I told him, ‘Yes, sir, he’s my broth- cepts to the Europeans. He moved his family, includ- because you had a lot of people who wanted the sta- er.’ He told me, ‘Be in my office in 30 minutes.’” ing his wife and three children — Morris, Ann and tus quo and we had to change the environment. We A nervous Benatar arrived for the impromptu Ruth — to Belgium for about three and a half years. had to persuade people that a better objective of the appointment and, as he stood outside Griffin’s closed He returned to the United States to become vice company would be to grow and not just be static,” office door, heard the gruff dean “chewing someone president of Mead Packaging Worldwide and in 1972 Benatar said. out” on the telephone. was made president of international operations. In “A CEO can have a vision for a company all he “I went in and he gave me that look and said, ‘Let 1980, Mead asked Benatar to move to the company’s wants, but if the people don’t sign on to that same me tell you something, if you give me half the trouble headquarters in Dayton, Ohio. vision, it is not going to happen.” GT from the hill 8/8/03 7:53 AM Page 17

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News from Campus • Fall 2003

GARY MEEK

Exceeding College of Management Dean Terry Blum, left, unpacks EXPECTATIONS boxes in her new office. The college’s new home is Technology Square ready for fall located in the all-new Technology Square. By Gary Goettling

hile plans for Technology Square’s official week of hard tests,” explained biology major Chester, opening are taking shape, a number of retail nodding toward the Marble Slab Creamery, one of Wstores and Georgia Tech departments — Technology Square’s retail tenants. “We wanted to see including the College of Management — already have what’s new and what’s coming in. It’s really kind of begun to settle into their new spaces there. exciting — and the ice cream is fantastic too.” President Wayne Clough has appointed a faculty Henderson, an industrial engineering student, is committee to plan the official dedication, tentatively The waning weeks of summer are being spent on confident the campus addition will be a hit among stu- set for Oct. 23 and 24. The event is expected to include finishing touches such as signage, according to Deron dents. a talk by a nationally prominent business leader and a Foreman, facilities manager for the Technology Square “The kinds of stores here will motivate people to street fair. Details will be announced when they Research Building, which houses the Design Center. come over, so the distance won’t matter much,” he become available. “There are thousands of details in a project this size said. “Plus, it’s just so nice over here. It has really “This dedication will be a once-in-a-lifetime event and we’re finding out from day to day things that are turned out well.” for Georgia Tech and for most of us who will partici- missing or that need to be done. The retail component of Technology Square is pate,” said Clough. “Technology Square is a remark- “This is really going to be a great place once anchored by Barnes & Noble at Georgia Tech, which able addition to the Georgia Tech campus, and at the everything is open and operational,” Foreman added. serves as the student bookstore. Other businesses same time helps establish the technology center for “Everything here will be very accessible.” located in the development include LA Fitness, Atlanta. It is innovative in its concept and is one of the Academic units locating to Technology Square Starbucks, Posh Day Spa, T-Mobile, Parcel Plus/Copy key building blocks driving the Midtown renais- will be fully operational in time for the start of the fall Club and Modern Care Cleaners and Newstand. sance.” semester, and most of the business occupants are Six new restaurants complete the project: Fifth Technology Square was still suffused with the expected to be open by then as well. Street Ribs and Blues, St. Charles Deli, Moe’s smells of fresh paint and plaster when the College of August openings are scheduled for the 252-room Southwest Grill, Tin Drum Asian Cafe, Marble Slab Management began moving into its new building at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, the Creamery and Great Wraps. 800 West Peachtree St. on July 14. The new facility Economic Development Institute and the Center for The distance will be mitigated in large part by embraces 189,000 square feet of classrooms, offices and Quality Growth and Regional Management. The trolleys that went into service Aug. 4. The alternative- learning resource space, including executive education College of Computing’s Graphics, Visualization and fuel vehicles resembling old-fashioned streetcars oper- and interdisciplinary centers. Usability Center will set up shop in the Technology ate along a route connecting the central campus, “Now that we are in our new building instead of Square Research Building in September. Georgia MARTA’s North Avenue and Midtown stations and looking at blueprints, it exceeds our expectations,” Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Technology Square. The trolleys run every four min- said Dean Terry Blum. “It is more stunning than I Mathematics and Computing will unpack at utes and are available to the public. anticipated. Everyone involved has performed in an Technology Square in October, followed in December Technology Square’s only physical link to the outstanding way. It’s like an exquisite symphony, by the Advanced Technology Development Center. main campus, the Fifth Street Bridge, will be upgraded rather than merely outstanding solos!” If the verdict of two summer-session sophomores to invite pedestrian traffic and also provide an attrac- The college was preceded in the migration to from Marietta, Ga., is any indication, Technology tive new “gateway” to campus, according to Clough. Technology Square earlier in July by the Georgia Tech Square could quickly become a new center of campus “We’re going to beautify the street all the way Foundation and the Global Learning Center. The life. down from the bridge to the baseball stadium, leading Georgia Electronic Design Center, the state-sponsored On a sticky Friday afternoon in July, Stephanie you right to the center of campus,” Clough said. “We strategic initiative to foster growth in the broadband Chester and Blake Henderson spooned cups of ice want to make a statement with the Fifth Street telecommunications industry, arrived at its new offices cream while strolling across the brick plaza. entrance that says in a dramatic and recognizable way in March as the first occupant of Technology Square. “We walked over here to get our reward for a to everyone, ‘This is Georgia Tech.’” from the hill/CORRECTED 18 8/8/03 6:41 PM Page 18

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• Fall 2003 A ‘Magnificent’ Gateway Began with a Vision

By Gary Goettling Also penciled into the blueprints were the Georgia Electronic Design Center, the Advanced Technology Development Center, Georgia Tech book-

Tech Topics Tech ot long after he was named president of Georgia NTech in 1994, Wayne Clough was stunned to dis- store and the Economic Development Institute. More cover that the Institute didn’t figure into anyone’s would come later, along with space for retail business- development plans but his. es. The Fifth Street Project was rapidly becoming more “The maps from Central Atlanta Progress than your run-of-the-mill campus extension, but an stopped at North Avenue, and the maps from the innovative, high-tech urban development effort. Midtown Alliance stopped at the freeway,” recalled “The facilities at Technology Square were selected Clough, CE 64, MS CE 65. “Here’s a great institution to work together in a unique way,” Clough said. “For that people would fight over to have, and we were example, think of someone who has a business meet- somehow stuck in a no-man’s-land.” ing at the management college. It will be easy to get Undeterred, Clough began to assemble a blue- there, have a meal at the hotel or a breakout session at print for Georgia Tech’s growth over the next 30 years. the conference center or at the Global Learning Center. That vision included a break from Tech’s traditional If that person needs to talk to someone about broad- northern and western expansion and instead focused band technology, the Georgia Electronic Design Center east, across the Downtown Connector to Midtown. is right across the street. If you’re interested in starting What city planners and highway engineers had divid- a new business, ATDC is right there too. It is all ed in the 1960s and ’70s, Wayne Clough was deter- linked.” mined to reconnect. The other advantage of the mixed-use develop- Only one year into his presidency, the decision ment approach is that academic units such as the col- was made to purchase an eight-acre Midtown site on lege create enough interaction to make Technology either side of Fifth Street between West Peachtree Square a true extension of Tech instead of simply a Street and the Connector. In 1997, the Georgia Tech remote campus island in Midtown Atlanta. Foundation purchased the property for $11.9 million. By 2001, H. Hammond “Buck” Stith, CE 58, then With the real estate he needed in hand, Clough chairman of the Foundation, led the effort to work out assembled a group of top administration officials financing arrangements that raised $186 million in 30- including Bob Thompson, senior vice president for year bonds through the Development Authority of administration and finance, and Jean-Lou Chameau, Fulton County and underwritten by the Foundation. It dean of engineering at the time, to develop a plan for was a tremendous leap for the Foundation, but utilizing the property. absolutely necessary if the Technology Square com- Their efforts culminated in a presentation before plex was to happen, Stith said. the Georgia Tech Foundation in which Clough called The traditional fund-raising route would have for construction of a distance learning center — now taken years to raise enough extra money to construct called the Global Learning Center — along with a Technology Square, Stith said. hotel and conference center. He also offered a timeline “By leveraging the Foundation’s assets we were for their acquisition. able to build now, enjoy its benefits now and pay for it After the meeting, Foundation President John B. over time, just like you do when you take out a mort- Carter Jr., IE 69, broached an idea with the chairman, gage on a new home.” John Staton Jr., IM 60. Many of those benefits are shared with the wider “I asked what he thought about the Foundation community, said Joe Irwin, IM 80, executive director spending $50 million of its unrestricted funds — that and vice president of the Alumni Association. “As was the cost at the time — to build the centers and Georgia Tech grows, Atlanta and the state of Georgia hotel for Tech,” said Carter. benefit through the creation of new jobs and new Staton countered with the suggestion that bond- investment. Our role is not simply educating students, ing the project would be a better approach, and the but is also concerned with the area’s economic liveli- idea caught on with Institute and Foundation man- hood and vitality.” agement. Bonding would bring a greater amount of According to the plan developed by Thompson Tech funding; that, in turn, led to an increase in the scope of and the design commission, Fifth Street becomes a what was then becoming known as the Fifth Street major element of the Georgia Tech campus, bracketed Project. by the Biltmore Hotel on the east and the soon-to-be- “We’ve always felt that campus growth was constructed Klaus Advanced Computing Building on unfairly limited by the interstate, so being able to the west. build in Midtown is a huge plus for Tech,” said “These are two magnificent architectural struc- Staton. tures from different eras in the life of Atlanta and The Fifth Street parcel’s strategic location also Georgia Tech,” Thompson noted. provided an opportunity to create a new gateway to He added that the Klaus Advanced Computing campus. Building will serve as the “front door to the new-cen- “It represents, to use a technology buzzword, a tury sector of Georgia Tech now being constructed in ‘portal’ to the Midtown technology corridor and com- this area of the campus,” which includes the new tech- munity,” said Thompson. “More importantly, it repre- nology sciences buildings — biotechnology, environ- sents a two-way connection between Georgia Tech mental science and technology, and microelectronics. and the community of which it is a part, allowing all The completion of Technology Square this sum- who live, work, play and study in Midtown to make mer crowns a tremendous amount of work by the Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech community a part Georgia Tech leadership, said Foundation Chairman of their everyday lives.” A.J. Land, IM 60. As the idea gained momentum, a design and “It took vision to buy land on this side of 14th planning commission was formed to draw upon Street when the school had been growing the other Georgia Tech’s real estate development, planning and way,” he said. “It took vision to keep adding the financial expertise. Concerned with establishing the ingredients until it got to be large enough to where it project’s economic viability, the leadership group, made sense. And the driving force behind all this was which by now included Dean Terry Blum of the Wayne Clough, whose wonderful vision became College of Management, added the college to the site. Technology Square.” from the hill 8/8/03 7:53 AM Page 19

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• Fall 2003 Tech names six Incoming freshmen Chris Eells, left, of Lilburn, Ga., and Michael Vincent, of Trussville, Ala., get their to faculty chairs, RAT caps at FASET orientation.

Tech Topics Tech leadership posts

ix acclaimed educators have been named to fill Georgia Tech academic chairs and leadership Spositions. Ralph Merkle, inventor of encryption technology that allows secure transactions over the Internet, was appointed director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Merkle, widely recognized as one of the co-founders of public- key cryptography, has recently focused on nanotechnology or molecular manufacturing. He will join the College of Computing faculty as a professor of computing on Sept. 8. Catherine Ross, former executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, is the new director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, an Connecting with Students educational research arm of the College of Architecture. She is Alumni Association forges partnership with FASET the College of Architecture’s first endowed faculty member, hold- By Maria M. Lameiras with the Alumni Association is a perfect one, she ing the Harry West Chair for Quality Growth and ncoming freshmen are incoming alumni. Because said. Regional Development. Iof that, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and “FASET is very much involved in passing on Ross’s arrival is a homecoming of sorts. She came FASET have formed a partnership. Tech’s history and traditions and that is what the to Tech in 1976 as an assistant professor in the FASET — Familiarization and Adaptation to Alumni Association is committed to.” Graduate City Planning Program, became an associate the Surroundings and Environs of Tech — is The Alumni Association is providing financial professor in 1984 and a full professor in 1990. She has designed to help freshmen and transfer students support and seeking other sponsorships for the also served as vice provost for Academic Affairs, asso- become a part of the Tech community. FASET program. The Alumni Association’s Parent ciate vice president for Academic Affairs, co-director A major sponsor of FASET programs, the Programs department also conducts seminars dur- of the Transportation Research and Education Center Alumni Association is seeking to establish a similar ing each of the seven FASET sessions and is present and director of the College of Architecture’s doctoral relationship with students by reminding them that at each FASET “marketplace,” where students and program. they are Tech alumni long before they graduate. parents can pick up information on campus Diana Hicks was named “We don’t want to wait until current students resources. The Alumni Association is responsible chair of the School of Public Policy graduate before connecting with them because stu- for collecting and keeping parent data for all stu- in the Ivan Allen College, effective dents are just as much our alumni base as those dents and sharing it with campus departments. Sept. 1. She comes from CHI who have already ‘gotten out,’” said Allie The Alumni Association has long participated Research Inc. in New Jersey, Brubaker, assistant director of campus relations for in RATS Week during the first week of the fall where she served as a senior poli- the Alumni Association. semester through Traditions Night, but for the first cy analyst specializing in science “We want to build a relationship with them time this year will sponsor “Screen Under the and technology policy. from the moment they get on campus and that way Stars,” a free showing of “The Matrix: Reloaded” Before joining CHI Research, it won’t be as difficult to maintain that connection for incoming freshmen on Aug. 21 on the Tech Hicks was on the faculty of the after they graduate. Most students also do not real- Tower lawn. Science Policy Research Unit at the University of ize that once you’ve successfully completed one “The screening fits in with this year’s FASET Sussex in England, where she taught graduate courses semester at Tech, you are considered an alumnus, “ theme of ‘Reload Your Reality’ and being involved in science policy and sociology of science and directed Brubaker said. with our new freshmen fits in with the Alumni a graduate program. Because FASET is focused on getting students Association’s desire to reach out to our current stu- She was a visiting professor at the University of acquainted with Tech’s campus, academic environ- dents and increase awareness of what the Alumni California, Berkeley, in 1994 and taught an MBA ment, support services and rich traditions, the fit Association has to offer,” Brubaker said. course on innovation in Japan. Joseph B. Hughes, professor and chair of the Department of Jim Kranzusch was named Stephen Cross was named a Civil and Environmental executive director of Corporate Tech vice president and the direc- Engineering at Rice University in Programs for the DuPree College tor of the Georgia Tech Research Houston, was named chair of of Management. Kranzusch has Institute. Georgia Tech’s School of Civil held a variety of leadership posi- Cross has been director and and Environmental Engineering. tions in sales, marketing and gen- chief executive officer of the Hughes served as an assis- eral management, including a 15- Carnegie Mellon Software tant professor, associate professor year career with IBM as director of Engineering Institute, an applied and chair of Rice’s Department of retail operations. research laboratory, since 1996, and Environmental Science and Kranzusch will focus on was also a research professor in Engineering. He also served as co-director of the U.S. expanding partnerships between the college and the the Robotics Institute. He will also hold a joint Environmental Protection Agency Hazardous corporate community in the areas of MBA recruitment appointment as a professor in the School of Industrial Substances Research Center South and Southwest. services and executive learning and development. and Systems Engineering. from the hill 8/8/03 7:53 AM Page 21

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Military Heroes • Fall 2003 Georgia Tech salutes four Medal of Honor winners

everal years ago, Joseph P. Byrd, GE 38, was Sinspired to create a Georgia Tech memorial hon- oring four military heroes who received the Medal of Honor. Byrd of Lufkin, Texas, a retired lieutenant com- mander in the Naval Reserve and inventor of the Mark II oil field pumping unit, took the initiative to fund and design the memorial, which was dedicated May 19 at the Wardlaw Center. Appropriately, the tribute is across the walkway from memorials to Tech alumni who lost their lives during World War I and II, the Korean War and Vietnam. The plaques create a wall of honor leading to the plaza entrance of the Wardlaw Center. Byrd was unable to attend the ceremony, but his classmate, Marine Gen. Raymond G. Davis, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism dur- ing the Korean War, was there and paid tribute to Byrd. Davis, ChE 38, one of America’s most decorat- ed soldiers, and three other military heroes were rec- ognized at the ceremony. “I know I speak for all Medal of Honor recipi- ents in thanking Joe Byrd for his vision, his determi- nation and his commitment,” Davis said. “I know everyone will be very proud of what we have here.” Four memorial plaques herald the heroism of Joining Marine Gen. Ray Davis, ChE 38, at the dedication of plaques recognizing Tech’s Medal of Honor winners are Davis, who led a battalion under withering fire dur- Bill Byrd, President Wayne Clough and Joe Byrd IV. ing the Korean War to rescue a rifle company and held a pass that provided an escape route for two other Marine regiments; Army Air Corps Maj. also an admirer of President Wayne Clough and Marine regiments,” the memorial plaque reads. Thomas McGuire Jr., who during World War II hopes this memorial will be of importance to this McCampbell received the Medal of Honor for became America’s second-leading fighter pilot of all wonderful institution.” aerial combat during World War II in the battle of time; Navy Capt. David McCampbell, the Navy ace The Medal of Honor is the highest award for the Philippine Seas on June 19, 1944. The plaque of aces during World War II; and Maj. Gen. Leonard valor in combat, above and beyond the call of duty. reads in part, “McCampbell destroyed seven hostile Wood, America’s soldier-statesman who helped cap- The plaque to Davis notes the 1st Marine planes during a single engagement in which the out- ture the Apache chief Geronimo and later helped Division’s fight to break out of the Chosin Reservoir numbering attack force was virtually annihilated. kick off Georgia Tech’s football tradition. area in December 1950. “Against overwhelming Then in October 1944, assisted by one other pilot, Although Byrd was unable to attend the cere- odds and after being knocked to the ground when a they intercepted 60 enemy planes. McCampbell shot mony, his sons, Joseph P. Byrd IV and Bill Byrd, IE shell fragment struck his helmet and two bullets down nine planes that day, unequalled in the history 69, both of Atlanta, represented him. pierced his clothing, he led the first battalion of the of air warfare.” “My father always admired his friend and 7th Marines in a horrific four-day battle, which McGuire received the honor posthumously for classmate, General Ray Davis, one of America’s saved a rifle company from annihilation and opened seven World War II aerial victories over Manila from great fighting men,” Bill Byrd said. “My father is a mountain pass for the escape of two trapped December 1944 through January 1945. Institute of Paper Science and Technology Integrates with Tech

illiam “Jim” Frederick Jr., a professor at been awarded. The Board of Regents approved a mas- needs innovative technologies, and we look forward to WChalmers University of Technology in ter of science degree in paper science and engineering supporting their development through the new IPST Gothenburg, Sweden, has been and is applying for approval for a PhD. at Georgia Tech.” named director of the Institute of “The process of papermaking is one that is intri- Rousseau agreed that combining the resources of Paper Science and Technology at cate and very capital- and energy-intensive,” Ron Tech and IPST is “an opportunity to help shape one of Georgia Tech. Frederick will also Rousseau, who served as interim director, said. “It the most important industries in Georgia at a time maintain a faculty appointment involves going from a tree to a sheet of paper, so it when that industry isn’t doing as well as it has in the in the School of Chemical and covers many of the academic disciplines already in past. Biomolecular Engineering. place at Tech — like biology, chemistry and chemical “The paper industry’s decline is pretty simple. The Institute of Paper engineering, mechanical engineering — just about There have been lots of mergers and there is intense Science and Technology, a gradu- everything except aerospace.” competition from abroad. These companies have ate research facility serving the Rousseau said IPST would continue to offer only focused their research activities and some of their tech- paper and pulp industry, inte- graduate degrees. nical advances have been quite significant relative to grated operations with Georgia Tech July 1. “The School of Chemical Engineering already advancing their industry as opposed to the North About 60 students and 14 faculty members were offers a bachelor’s with a certificate in pulp and paper American paper industry,” he said. combined with Tech in the transition. engineering, so I doubt we will be expanding the pro- “Georgia Tech can provide a more stable base of IPST was established in 1929 in Appleton, Wis., as gram to include an undergraduate degree exclusively funding so they can refocus and continue their the Institute of Paper Chemistry. The school was in paper science,” he said. research efforts. It’s the best solution to help the indus- moved to Atlanta in 1989 and changed its name. Since Chairman of the IPST board of trustees A.D. try and make a contribution to Georgia’s economic then, more than 1,500 masters and doctorates have “Pete” Correll said, “The paper industry desperately development. GT foundation 8/7/03 9:05 AM Page 22

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• Fall 2003 Money Managers Tech Topics Tech CAROLINE JOE “We have participation from a lot of very well-informed trustees. That’s Developer been very helpful through the years. But managing $800 million plus is a Herculean task. John Carter and the A.J. Land staff run a big business.” Land said allocations to the Chairs Tech Institute have run as high as 6 percent of the endowment, although most Foundations limit allocations to no Foundation more than 5 percent. “I think the Foundation has done a great job,” Land said. “The investment committee over the last two years was able to preserve a major portion of the Foundation’s assets when a lot of peo- ple were losing money. They anticipat- ed some of the turnaround in the tech- nology stocks in time to get out or hedge their investments. I think the Foundation’s assets investment strategy stacks up very well compared with any foundation that I know of.” The Foundation has a well-diversi- fied portfolio that is managed by pro- fessionals, Land said. “The aspect of it that is not as exciting as it has been is the fact that the funds are down, which means that the distribution to the school is down,” he said. “At a time when the state is tlanta real estate developer A.J. cutting back, the Foundation is also dis- Land Jr. began a two-year term tributing less money. So the school gets Aon July 1 as chairman of the hit with a double whammy at a time Georgia Tech Foundation, which gener- when you’d like to be able to increase ates, receives and manages funds for the funding to the school. the support and development of “I think our challenge is in times Georgia Tech. when the investment returns are down Land, IM 60, chairman of Pope & as it is with the overall economy,” Land Land Enterprises, said the role of the said. “Now is the time for friends of Foundation is simple. Georgia Tech, alumni of Georgia Tech, “I look at the Foundation as being to really get behind fund raising. One really just a custodian,” Land said. of the biggest challenges the “You’ve got money that has been given Foundation has is how to help the to the Foundation from donors, from development office and the school. One alumni, and we act as a custodian and of its major goals is to raise $55 million manage the money, invest the money related to Technology Square. We are and distribute it back to the school, of committed to help raise that money.” course, honoring the wishes of the Carter said the Foundation oper- donors.” ates like a bank, serving as the fiduciary While the concept is simple, the for funds entrusted to it. Foundation is a big business operation. “The Foundation receives funds During the past dozen years, the A.J. Land, second from left, meets with Georgia Tech Foundation senior manage- from donors, invests those funds and Foundation has grown in total assets ment team members, left to right, Michael Condon, Mark Long, John B. Carter Jr., makes allocations to the Institute,” from $179 million to $1.1 billion. Jerome Posatko and Patricia Wichmann. Carter said. “The long-term goal is for During the past five years, through its investment return to exceed the June 30, 2003, it has outperformed the Serving as officers of the executive Michael A. Condon, chief investment annual allocation, which results in asset Dow Jones, Standard & Poor’s 500 and committee with Land are H. Hammond officer; Mark W. Long, MgtSci 85, con- growth and makes more money avail- NASDAQ indexes. Stith Jr., CE 58, past chairman; Don L. troller and corporate secretary; Jerome able to support the future priorities of Despite the economic downturn of Chapman, IM 61, vice chairman and T. Posatko, chief information officer; the Institute. the past two years, the Foundation chairman-elect; Hubert L. Harris Jr., IM and Patricia H. Wichmann, chief “We provide monthly accounting invested more than $190 million in 65, treasurer; and John B. Carter Jr., IE administrative officer. The Foundation reports to Georgia Tech, annual endow- Georgia Tech programs, faculty, stu- 69, president and chief operating offi- has a 28-member staff. ment reports to our endowment donors dents, land, buildings and operations. cer. The chairs of the Foundation’s Carter said the Foundation’s assets and annual contribution statements to The Foundation has 45 trustees, all standing committees also serve on the as of June 30 totaled more than $1.1 bil- our donors to assist them with tax alumni elected to four-year terms, who executive committee. lion. The investment assets as of June preparation,” Carter said. serve on one of six committees — audit, Carter heads the senior manage- 30 totaled $819 million. “And we prudently invest the budget-finance, development, invest- ment team that runs the daily opera- “Each trustee serves as a member funds entrusted to us for the benefit of ments, real estate and stewardship. tions of the Foundation and includes of at least one committee,” Land said. Georgia Tech.” GT in the black 8/7/03 11:38 AM Page 22

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Financial News and Giving Updates • Fall 2003

Roll Call Tops Goals During Sluggish Economic Times

CAROLINE JOE he 56th Annual Roll Call campaign vice president for the 56th Roll Call. Ttriumphed over a tough economic “Roll Call is recognized as one of the year to surpass its goals both in dollars best annual funds in the country. So and donors. The final count for the many donors contributed this year and Alumni Association’s Annual Fund drive the support of our graduates led the showed Roll Call raised $7,415,699 way. from 26,320 donors. “We saw new donors join the ranks “Roll Call has produced another and past donors increase their giving, great year, especially in light of tight all in the name of Georgia Tech,” economic times,” said Robert L. Hall, IM Goodhew said. 64, who served as Alumni Association Alumni giving increased 3.1 per- president during last year’s Roll Call. cent while the total number of alumni “We are increasing alumni donors and donors grew 3.2 percent. In addition, leadership contributors. This will pay increased support was found among huge dividends over the years to parents, friends, faculty and staff, said come.” Jim Shea, assistant executive director Tech President Wayne Clough for Annual Giving. applauded the Alumni Association Roll Unrestricted giving at Georgia Tech Call staff and its “wonderful volunteers” supports a number of key areas that for their successful efforts and “a great impact faculty and students in particu- outcome.” lar, said Joseph P. Irwin, Alumni Roll Call contributions are a major Association vice president and execu- source of unrestricted funds for aca- tive director. A strong annual fund trans- demic support and are used to target lates into greater financial flexibility, areas of greatest need. which allows Georgia Tech to continue Bill Goodhew, left, vice president for Roll Call, and Joe Irwin, right, executive “Alumni truly made a difference its growth while remaining among the director of the Alumni Association, present a Roll Call check for $7.4 million to once again,” said Bill Goodhew, IM 61, best schools in the world, he said. Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough to support academics at Tech.

Three Milestone Reunion Classes Support Student Projects

he classes of 1953, 1963 and 1978 will be remem- “I always feel rejuvenated after expanded to students who receive scholarships, bering their student days this Homecoming and, interviewing the candidates for the including about 4,900 who receive Georgia’s HOPE Tthrough their class reunion gifts, are making Scholarship, more than 60 percent of new freshmen sure today’s students also have memorable experi- President’s Scholarships. I often tell receive some sort of need-based financial aid or schol- ences. arship money. In a typical year, about 7,000 of the The combined fund-raising goal of the 50th, 40th my wife that I think America is in good approximately 11,000 undergraduate students at Tech and 25th reunion classes is $7 million, including the hands. They are so outstanding, receive financial aid, scholarships or loans. Only 30 class projects plus donations to Roll Call, the percent of those students receive an institutional schol- Alexander-Tharpe Fund, Technology Square, renova- those young people.” arship and those scholarships meet only 11 percent of tions to the football stadium and other gifts to the demonstrated need. Institute. The 40th Reunion Class of 1963 chose to raise The Class of 1978, which celebrates its 25th The 50th Reunion Class of 1953 set a goal of rais- $200,000 to support need-based student scholarships Reunion this year, is raising $150,000 to help fund the ing $250,000 for the President’s Scholarship Program and set an overall fund-raising goal of $3 million. indoor track at the new Campus Recreation Center, to as its class project, with an overall fund-raising goal of “We wanted to do something we felt would make be named the Class of 1978 Indoor Track, and plans to $3 million for the class. a difference with the money we would raise and we raise a total of $1 million for its overall goal. The sus- “I always feel rejuvenated after interviewing the quickly focused on scholarships as a place where we pended, four-lane running track is one of the high- candidates for the President’s Scholarships. I often tell can certainly make a difference for a number of stu- lights of the new center and is surrounded by glass my wife that I think America is in good hands. They dents,” said Lynn Maddox, EE 63, 40th Reunion Fund walls and offers a spectacular view of the Tech campus are so outstanding, those young people, and I am vice chairman. and Midtown Atlanta. The center replaces the Student more than pleased and happy that we are supporting “We made the decision to support need-based Athletic Complex, which was completed in the spring them through our class reunion project,” said Dan scholarships because a significant proportion of stu- of 1977. Blitch, IE 53, 50th Reunion Fund co-chairman, who has dents coming to Tech need financial assistance. We all “Our class was one of the first classes to get to use served as a regional interviewer for the President’s know college has gotten enormously expensive and, SAC when it was opened, so there was kind of an Scholarship Program for many years in Athens, where even though Georgia Tech is a great bargain compared emotional attachment to that because of the tremen- he lives. “It is a wonderful program to financially help to private schools of similar quality, there are still al lot dous difference it made in campus life,” said Steve outstanding students and I think its benefits have been of people from moderate-income families who are Krebs, IM 78, vice chairman of the 25th Reunion Fund. spelled out many times to Tech.” very qualified to come to Tech, but who need help to “The athletic facilities for students were not very well The President’s Scholarship Program began in come here and we wanted to help a number of those developed before that time and we watched while 1981 with six scholarships. Today there are 319 students out,” he said. SAC was under construction for almost two years President’s Scholars and 955 President’s Scholar alum- Last fall, 30 percent of freshmen received need- while we were undergraduates. It was such a great ni. The average SAT of the freshmen President’s based financial aid and 31 percent of all undergradu- experience for us. We wanted to be a part of a similar Scholars is 1459 and their average GPA at Tech is 3.52. ates received need-based aid. When that number is experience for students who are at Tech now.” GT what's theword?8/7/0311:40AMPage24 24 Tech Topics • Fall 2003 use bytheinternationalconstruction industry. plan contestatSanDiegoStateUniversity. peted forfundingattheinternationalstudentbusiness Challenge 2003inMarch. Twenty venture teamscom- the GoldenPhone Award atthe14th Annual Venture plans. 20finalists selectedfrom 740submittedbusiness of 26inNew York City. TorexChallenge April wasone 2003Carrot CapitalBusinessPlan placing third atthe I Michael, youcandoit.’With the last was whisperingtohim,‘Comeon lungs, told breathing airintoMichael’swater-filled ambulance arrived.Rion,whowas arms andperformedCPRuntilan less toddlerfrom hisgrandmother’s Rion andRamonaSatskytookthelife- without oxygenforeightto10minutes. family laterestimatedhehadbeen n’t breathing andhadnopulse.His then franticallydashedtocallforhelp. in anddraggedhimfrom thecreek, Though shecouldn’tswim,jumped pocket ofairtrappedinsidehisclothes. surface,buoyedbya ing onthewater’s the creek, where shesawMichelfloat- deck. Panicked,sherantotheedgeof found onlyJessicaremaining nearthe lead hergrandchildren tothecreek, she dashed toward ChiggerCreek. to grabsomebread, anexcitedMichael house. As MaryVincent slippedinside in acreek about200feetbehindthe mother suggestedtheyfeedtheducks in Friendswood,Texas, whenhisgrand- home back yard oftheirgrandmother’s older sisterJessicawere playinginthe than itmayseem. President’s Scholarsismore fantastic Georgia Tech in August asoneof40 enrolled forhisfreshman yearat not yet—butthefactthatVincent made afabulousdiscovery—atleast realize howextraordinary hislifeis. T By NeilB.McGahee Tech Venture Teams WinBusinessPlanningFundingCompetition By MariaM.Lameiras Young manwhodrowned nowaPresident’s Scholar Life Charmed that MichaelVincent hascometo t hasonlybeenwithinthelastyear won majorbusinessplancompetitionsthisspring. wo DuPree CollegeofManagementventure teams “Steel fiberreinforced concrete hasbeenaround Torex produces steelfiberreinforced concrete for Advanced Audio Technology wonfirstplaceand Torex Internationalwon$250,000infundingfor Friendswood policeofficers James When policearrived,Michaelwas- When MaryVincent returned to In 1987,2-year-old Michaeland He’s notfamousandhehasn’t The HoustonChronicle , “I Auburn, Vincent saidthere wasno ships from Duke,Vanderbilt and Eagle Scout. and choirattainedtherankof team. Hewonawards inmath,science Society andcaptainofthecross country dent ofhisschool’sNationalHonor math section.Vincent wasalsopresi- the SAT, pullingaperfect 800onthe fourth inhisclassandscored 1500on munity. extracurricular activitiesandthecom- student, buthighlyinvolvedin Trussville, Vincent wasnotonlyagood Birmingham, Ala., nearhishomein school forgiftedstudentsin Baccalaureate School,asmallpublic and Ithinkabouthowluckyam.” ble thatIdidn’thaveanybraindamage call itanonfataldrowning. Itisincredi- it, Irealize Iactuallydrowned. They more. Hearingmygrandmatalkabout or sothatmyfamilyhastalkedaboutit 18. “It’sbeenwithinthelast10months had suffered,” saidVincent, whoisnow ment toseehowmuchbraindamageI all ofthesecooltoys.Itwasanassess- when Iwasabout4andplayingwith wasn’t adrivingforce forhim. knew” abouttheneartragedy, butit his already storiedlife. excited aboutstartinganewchapterin Tech Tower afterhisFASET orientation, Vincent satinthesunshineoutside alive!’” my fingerandIsaid,‘Damn!He’s hold ofhislittlefingerandhesqueezed breath Igavetohim,hecoughed.had Although hewasoffered scholar- With a4.2GPA, hegraduated As astudentatJefferson County “I remember goingtoaspecialist Vincent saidhe“kindofalways More than16yearslater, Michael ing problems inthehearing aidindustry:theinability a plantoprovide asolution foroneofthemostannoy- fundable venture team. received a$45,000servicepackage forbeingthemost Georgia Tech BusinessPlanCompetitioninMarch and served asfacultyadviser. Chris Power. PatDickson,anassistantprofessor, Warner andchemicalengineeringgraduatestudent Alicia Benyard, MikeBliss,DavidDevineand Andy student. MBA ty,” saidLukePinkerton,teamleaderandDuPree mixed intoconcrete toincrease strength anddurabili- in 20years.Fibersthediameterofasmallneedleget since the1970s,butthisisfirstmajordevelopment The Advanced Audio Technology teampresented 2003 Torex also wonthird placeand$2,500atthe students The Torex teamalsoincludedMBA News ofStudentLife progress atTech. keep hispersonalhero apprisedofhis said Vincent, addingthatheplans to wall rightwhenyougointohishouse,” ture ofusfrom thenewspaperon funny andopen.Hesayshehasapic- he was2. who breathed lifebackintohimwhen May, Vincent metformerofficer Rion, Recreation Center. into apart-timejobatthenewCampus the pastthree years,heisalsolooking certifiedlifeguard for chamber choir. A summer andplanstotryoutforTech’s to participateasaFASET leadernext the UltimateFrisbeeClubteam,wants he said,grinning.Hehopestoplayon his eagernessaboutstartingatTech. FASET experience.Hedidn’ttrytohide engineering, waspumpedupbyhis said. knew itwasabetterschoolforme,”he for President’s Scholarsweekend,I was offered thePresident’s Scholarship. doubt hewouldcometoTech whenhe But fornowheplanstoenjoythe “He wasareally neatguy, very At hishighschoolgraduationin “It’s great, Idon’twanttoleave,” Vincent, whoisstudyingelectrical “When Ivisitedinthefallof2002 Competition andthird inthe 2003Georgia Bowl. placed secondinthe2003Georgia Tech BusinessPlan Phone prizeforitstelephonesalespitch.Theteamalso $15,000 forfirstplaceandanadditional$1,000Golden microphone foruseinhearing aids.” DSP. Ourmicrophone willbethefirsttruly digital hybrids thatuseanalogmicrophones withsomebasic sumption. Today’s ‘digital’hearingaids are actually ing toenhancesensitivityandimprove powercon- microphones withonesthatusedigitalsignalprocess- Engineering,” Hawkinssaid.“Itreplaces existing DiCecco, SebastienHenryandLelandMarcus. studentsTrace Hawkins,Robert includes MBA understand peopleincrowded rooms. Theteam of current technologiestodifferentiate voicesand Advanced Audio Technology wasawarded “The technologywasdevelopedintheCollegeof Michael Vincent poseswithBuzzand the Ramblin’Wreck atFASET inJuly. Two-year-old MichaelVincent and out and,besides,it’scool.” ference toemployers.Ithelpsyoustand rent research anditreally makesadif- that letsyouseewhat’sgoingonincur- ham anditwasgreat. Beingabletodo at theUniversityof Alabama-Birming- materials scienceengineeringandmath able todoalittlebitofresearch in study program inhighschoolandIwas co-op program becauseIwasinawork high school.I’malsolookingintothe doing thethingsIdidn’tgettodoin computer scienceandengineering. classes heistaking,especiallymath, James Rion,whosavedhislife. “I amreally lookingforward to GT Tech Topics • Fall 2003 27 of the reconditioned statue of Vulcan. of the reconditioned Howell made a new top for Vulcan’s head, foiling Howell made a new top for Vulcan’s statue, still in pieces, made the The restored thunderstorms made it nearly impossi- Frequent checks of the weather via to frequent He resorted in the mammoth under- No one had been injured J. Scott Howell is perched on the shoulder J. Scott Howell is perched the anvil made it from St. Louis. In Birmingham, the anvil made it from it never quite hand, where workers stuck it in Vulcan’s fit right. it. He found the original finish and restored the birds. inside the statue, most notably He also found graffiti the names of the eight foundry workers who cast it in the right shoulder. early this summer to trip, again by truck, return seemed deter- Nature Mother Park. There, Vulcan resurrection. mined to thwart Vulcan’s ble for workers to safely climb inside the statue for the the bolts. But Howell time period needed to reconnect pieces of the statue swinging from couldn’t leave large cranes in the storms. to be within work if a storm appeared calling off radar, two hours of Birmingham. “That was a great thing. The people of Birming- “That was a great As work was finished on various pieces of the by the “amount of Howell said he was impressed of the spear and hammer Howell found pictures ham don’t have a replica, they have their original,” ham don’t have a replica, Howell said. statue, workers set them outside to settle, drawing driving of gawkers. Birmingham residents, crowds Martin, a to Lake Alexander City en route through stopped to check on their popular weekend getaway, icon’s progress. Everybody had passion people have for that sculpture. a story about that statue, everybody had a memory. They would write letters, send e-mails saying, ‘I met Park.’” my wife at Vulcan The hands and made replicas. originally in Vulcan’s hand in first spear never got put in Vulcan’s Birmingham, as the hand it fit into got twisted in ship- The statue originally had the St. Louis fair. ment from on two hammers, one for a hand and the other to rest feet. Only the one intended for the anvil at Vulcan’s Alumni Association News and Updates Alumni Association

ulcan has returned to Red Mountain, the bird to Red Mountain, ulcan has returned head, the cracks his hollow nests pulled from body and his skin tone in his cast-iron repaired

Restoration of the world’s largest cast-iron man cast-iron Restoration of the world’s largest the 56- Birmingham civic leaders commissioned was moved to a pedestal atop Red In 1938, Vulcan on the windy mountain- perch Vulcan’s secure To It didn’t help when a mayor decided to make In 1990, Howell was asked to take a look at the cranes up the Howell began by taking two large “That had to be the scariest thing I’ve ever done then climbed inside the statue to careful- Workers had been safely carried in pieces Once Vulcan most of the original Howell said, Surprisingly, By Karen Hill By Karen Birmingham’s 56-foot giant landmark Birmingham’s Mountain once again stands atop Red Vulcan Restored Vulcan V was the job of J. Scott Howell, IE 75, in his role as vice role was the job of J. Scott Howell, IE 75, in his of of Robinson Iron and general manager president Ala. Alexander City, and the Roman god of fire foot-tall statue of Vulcan, Exposition of for the Louisiana Purchase the forge, they moved him After the fair, 1904 held in St. Louis. to Birmingham’s fairgrounds. deposits that con- Mountain, named for the iron-ore tributed to Birmingham’s boomtown beginning. rich in coal, iron top that looked down over a region — and limestone — minerals needed to make iron ore filling him into Vulcan, concrete engineers poured heat- toes to chest. But over time, as the concrete from with the seasons, cracks ed and cooled in rhythm began to appear in the statue. placing a light safety, the local symbol of traffic Vulcan when all was well on in one hand that burned green had been a fatal wreck. when there and red city roads in the statue so they could climb stuck rungs Workers up and down to change the lightbulbs. They tossed burned-out ones into his head, alongside the bird nests. woebegone landmark, beginning the first of several studies on how to save it. By the late 1990s, pieces of city Alarmed the statue. began to fall from cast iron it. They asked closed the park surrounding officials man, while civic leaders Howell to fix their broken the pedestal focused on raising $14 million to restore and the park. arms, held in Vulcan’s mountain to gently remove place by bolts that had worn to half their original size. with heights,” Howell I’m not that great in my career. admitted. in 18-inch patches, layer by layer. the concrete, ly core with industrial-grade dia- strung They used a wire Gras beads,” Howell monds — “they look like Mardi toes. Vulcan’s from said — to clean the concrete Alexander City, to the mountain, he was trucked from facility, at Robinson Iron’s There, about 60 miles away. his the cracks that crisscrossed workers began to repair body. 2 to 3 inches thick, was still in good shape. cast iron, of the statue about 5 percent He only had to replace with new iron. restored to its original medium gray — even on the to its original restored Birmingham, naked backside that has mooned part of Ala., for six decades. burdell 8/7/03 9:01 AM Page 27 8/7/03 9:01 AM burdell burdell 8/7/03 9:01 AM Page 28

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taking and Howell wanted to keep it Liberty in place — added as anchors. that way. “It was extremely dangerous, “I sleep well at night with this 1/2 FERST AD and no statue in the world is worth one design,” Howell said. human life,” he said. “We had news Vulcan Park won’t reopen to the cameras on us constantly. One false public until January as restoration work move and all of sudden, it’s not just continues on a nearby sandstone tower local news.” and on the grounds. But for now, 13 After 11 crane lifts in nine days, years after his first close look at the the statue was back on its pedestal, this enfeebled god, Howell is finished. time secured around a stainless steel “He’s back up on his perch,” skeleton, with large base plates — simi- Howell said. “And certainly I check on lar to those holding the Statue of him every time I drive by.” Business Editors Honor Miller

ugene Miller, Chem 45, founder of Miller was a reporter and assis- Ethe Society of American Business tant city editor of the Greensboro Editors and Writers, was honored by Daily News in North Carolina and the organization in April for his role in served as Southwest bureau chief starting it 40 and associate executive editor of years ago. Business Week magazine. He was SABEW also a syndicated columnist for now has more Newsday magazine. than 3,500 In his business career, Miller was members rep- vice president of McGraw-Hill Inc., resenting news- senior vice president of the New York papers, maga- Stock Exchange, senior vice president zines and radio of CAN Financial Corp. and vice and television chairman and chief financial officer of stations nation- USG Corp. wide. Miller is a professor and execu- In public service, Miller wrote tive-in-residence at the College of speeches for Dwight Eisenhower’s Business at Florida Atlantic University. presidential campaign and was a He taught at the University of Houston consultant to Secretary of Commerce and Northeastern Illinois University Luther Hodges. A World War II veter- and the graduate business schools at an, he retired as a Naval Reserve New York and Fordham universities. commander after 23 years of service. burdell/WITH CORRECTED 29 8/8/03 6:30 PM Page 29

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The Buzz from Friends • Fall 2003

er, is director of South Gwinnett 1950s Youth Basketball, chairman of planned giving with the Georgia John O. Exum, IM 59, Tech Athletic Association’s and his wife, Shirley, celebrate Alexander-Tharpe Scholarship their 50th wedding anniversary Fund, founder of the Gwinnett on Aug. 23. Exum retired from County Georgia Tech Scholar- Printpack Inc. after serving as ship Fund and a senior leader- treasurer for 25 years. They ship class member of the have four grown children and 14 Gwinnett County Chamber of grandchildren and live in Commerce. He and his wife, Conyers, Ga. Paula, live in Loganville, Ga. Robert L. Porter, IM 55, They have two sons, Bert, 24, A New Chapter has been appointed regional and Paul, 20. Kim Skelton Dickie makes investment adviser with Colonial Walter W. Hubbard, IE children’s literature her business Brokerage, a wholly owned sub- 65, joined Honeywell Inter- sidiary of Colonial Bank, in national as president and CEO Atlanta. Porter recently relocat- of Honeywell Nylon Inc. in May. By Kimberly Link-Wills authors coming to visit, puppet shows, sum- ed to Atlanta from Thousand Hubbard lives in Cornelius, N.C. mer camps, birthday parties.” Oaks, Calif. Rick L. Hudson, IM 67, hen her husband accepted a job in Dickie can rattle off the names of chil- Randolph Cabell, EE 53, president and founder of R.L. WHouston, Kim Skelton Dickie left dren’s authors she and her boys — Mack, 4, MS EE 54, has produced a CD Hudson & Co. in Tulsa, Okla., BellSouth and Atlanta behind to devote her- and Cal, 2 — love. But she had never worked of Virginia Confederate Band was named the 2003 Small self to full-time motherhood. in a bookstore before she bought Hobbit Hall. music. The CD, released in Business Person of the Year by She began taking her two young sons to In fact, her only retail experience came as a April, consists of 16 favorites of the Tulsa Metro Chamber of a children’s bookstore as both a social and teenager clerking in a clothing store. the 19th Virginia Heavy Artillery Commerce. Hudson opened his educational outlet. There Dickie, Text 92, Sure, there have been “a few of those Band plus five songs of the O-ring distributorship in Tulsa in found what she wanted to do with the next days” when Dickie wondered what she had South recorded by the 1980 to serve the Oklahoma oil chapter of her life. gotten herself into as she tackled making the Crestmark Military Brass Band. industry. The business now sup- “I discovered a small independent book- transition between owners, boosting the The CD is available at plies seals and custom-molded store that had story times and author visits. I inventory and establishing a relationship www.amazon.com. Cabell lives products to manufacturers had a vision of opening a bookstore like it in with 200 publishers and vendors. in Boyce, Va., with his wife, across the country, has offices Atlanta,” Dickie said. “I wear about eight different hats right Mary Kay. in Arkansas, Ohio and South About a year later the family was back in now. I’m the owner, the marketing manager, Carolina, employs almost 60 Atlanta and Dickie set to work to make her the buyer, the bookkeeper and human people and is projecting $19 vision a reality. She attended a seminar in resources,” she said. 1960s million in sales this year. New York on how to open and manage an Dickie also spends one day a week on Stu Hyatt, IM 60, played independent bookstore. She visited the owner the sales floor getting to know her customers Harry W. Ellis, Phys 66, in the Victoria, British Columbia, of Hobbit Hall, a quaint bookstore in Roswell, and what they want. And she is working on PhD 74, has received the John Playmaker Hockey Tournament Ga., and sought advice. “aggressive growth,” which includes expand- M. Bevan Award for Campus in May for his home rink’s team She searched for a “warm and homey” ing the wholesale division and increasing the Leadership and Teaching in Burnaby, British Columbia. location for more than a year. During that number of book fairs Hobbit Hall stages in Excellence from Eckerd College The 70-and-Over team, the Coal time the economy soured and the only sites schools. in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he Miners, won all three games, Dickie found were in strip malls or in the Much of her time is spent on the phone is a physics professor and has outscoring its opponents 15-2. shadows of the monolithic chain bookstores. or on the computer as she writes the compa- been a faculty member since Hyatt was also inducted into the Dickie decided to put her dream on the ny newsletter and maintains the Hobbit Hall 1978. The award is presented Playmaker Seniors Cup 70-and- back burner and returned to BellSouth part Web site. When she goes to the store, Dickie annually to a faculty member for Over Club. He is now a “Hockey time. Out of the blue a few months later the can take her boys with her. They can look at fostering teaching excellence. Knight of Canada” and was owner of Hobbit Hall called and asked Dickie picture books, work puzzles, watch a puppet Ellis was cited for his leadership knighted by the chief magistrate if she would be interested in buying the shop. show, feed the fish in the pond or run around of the college’s general educa- of Saanish Township. Hyatt also “Hobbit Hall had everything I was look- in the yard. “At night I can work from home tion program, his success in played in the Snoopy Senior ing for. There’s nothing like this,” she said of and be there to put my children to bed. I have making the natural sciences Tournament in Santa Rosa, the converted 3,000-square-foot house in his- the flexibility to be with my kids. more accessible to non-science Calif., in July. toric Roswell complete with goldfish pond, “Owning your own business is fulfilling, students and for stressing Paul Kelman, CE 67, of garden and two-story playhouse. but I do have to battle the big guys,” Dickie active student learning. Atlanta, was made a fellow of She took the helm in March. In May the said, quickly adding that she has an edge on Nelson E. “Ed” the American Institute of store marked its 12th anniversary and grand customer service that the super stores don’t. Cobleigh, ME 66, recently Certified Planners in March reopening. “It was a huge success. People are “We know the moms and the kids by name.” retired as vice president of inter- based on achievements in the really excited about it again,” said Dickie, Dickie has always been determined to national business development field of urban and rural plan- who learned about public relations and pro- succeed — and to graduate from Georgia from Raytheon Missile Systems ning. He was cited for work in motion through jobs in event planning at the Tech. “I was a Tech fan from the time I could Group. Cobleigh is in the the revitalization of downtown Georgia Dome, World Congress Center, walk. Then I ran track on scholarship at process of publishing his first Atlanta including measures to Georgia Department of Trade and Tourism Tech.” book, which is based on his protect the environment and and for the Olympics. A hamstring injury after two seasons experiences as a fighter pilot in shape the region’s land use and Dickie’s public relations savvy has sidelined Dickie and she spent the remainder the Vietnam War. He lives in transportation infrastructure. helped Hobbit Hall land front-page coverage of her time at Tech studying and working in Paso Robles, Calif. Alan W. Legg, IE 69, was of its “Harry Potter” book release party and a football coach Bobby Ross’ office. Al Culbreth, IM 68, promoted to vice president of visit by “Good Morning Atlanta” during an Dickie said she learned something at received the 2003 Jacob W. quality assurance for National early morning story time. Tech that is helping her in business. “Tech Shoul Award from The MONY Computer Print in Birmingham, “I am really excited about children’s lit- taught me discipline — completing some- Group in Boca Raton, Fla., in Ala., in February. Legg and his erature,” she said. “We have story times and thing and doing it well.” April. Culbreth, a financial advis- wife, Ann, live in Birmingham. burdell 8/7/03 9:01 AM Page 30

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Whitefield W. Mayes, Wayne Robertson, IE Georgia Tech. Previously, she “Outstanding Individual interaction. He retired from the MS CE 64, has been named 69, started a business, served as counsel to both Contribution Award” for 2002. Army in 2001. AnnElla is finish- • Fall 2003 director of military transportation EnergyAce Inc., in Decatur, Ga., Cornelius & Collins in Nashville, Curtin, vice president at ing her bachelor’s degree in engineering for Wilbur Smith in October 2002. Robertson Tenn., and Fox Law Group, a Bankers Mutual Capital Corp. in industrial design. The couple Associates in Columbia, S.C. lives in Decatur. Los Angeles and New York North Palm Beach, Fla., served live in Lilburn, Ga. Mayes recently retired from the entertainment firm. From 1995 as president of the organiza- John H. Hatcher, EE Tech Topics Topics Tech Military Traffic Management to 2000, Wagnon was lead attor- tion’s Florida chapter for nearly 88, MS EE 89, and Jancie Command’s Transportation 1970s ney for the Nashville office of five years and was a member of Stinecipher Hatcher, MS Chem Engineering Agency after a 37- John Mason Partners Ltd. its international board of direc- 90, announce the birth of a year career in the Army. Mayes Richard E. Davis Jr., IM Entertainment law firm. tors and Chapter President’s daughter, Leah Frances, on will maintain offices in Columbia 71, retired in June as a captain Council. Curtin was cited for April 18, 2002. Jancie is a certi- and Richmond and Newport after a 31-year career in the “almost single-handedly” saving fied pharmacy technician with News, Va. He and his wife, U.S. Navy. Davis most recently 1980s two Florida chapters of the CVS/Pharmacy in Duluth, Ga., LouDean, live in Newport News served as chief of naval educa- organization from “near oblivion” and John is a principal engineer and have three adult children, tion and training at the Naval Air Steve Adams, ME 83, and for his “tireless effort to with Ciena in Alpharetta, Ga. Jeffrey, Elizabeth and Catherine. Station in Pensacola, Fla. has joined Tractebel Energy as recruit members.” Curtin lives in The family lives in Duluth. Gordon Moulton, IM 65, Stuart L. Oglesby, IM director of origination at the Jupiter, Fla. Kelley Kitta Hundt, EE was named “Mobilian of the 79, has joined D.B. Alex Brown company’s North American John K. Dewberry, IM 88, and her husband, Greg, Year” by the Civitan Club of as vice president of institutional headquarters in Houston. Also, 86, has led his company, announce the birth of a son, Mobile, Ala. Moulton, president consulting and private client he and his wife, Apryl, celebrat- Dewberry Capital Corp., in the Garrett Arnold, on Feb. 20. of the University of South services at the firm’s Atlanta ed their 20th anniversary this sale of 3.41 acres located in Hundt is an information technol- Alabama, was honored for his office. Oglesby lives in Atlanta. year with a trip to Hawaii. The north Fulton County, Ga., and ogy manager for Georgia Tech’s citizenship and contributions to Richard A. Standard, family lives in Tomball, Texas. purchase of a quarter acre in Economic Development Mobile. He has been a profes- MS Arch 77, has joined the Jeff Amason, CE 88, Midtown Atlanta for a mixed-use Institute. The family lives in sor, dean and vice president Atlanta office of Leo A. Daly as and his wife, Andrea, announce development. The master- Alpharetta, Ga. during a 37-year career with the a principal and director of hos- the birth of a son, Reilly Elijah, planned urban campus will Ronald L. Johnson, MS university and was named presi- pitality design. Standard has on June 13. Reilly joins sister include office buildings, a OR 85, commanding general dent in 1998. Moulton led the designed more than 5,000 hotel Cassidy and brothers Tanner 23,000-square-foot boutique and division engineer for the creation of the University of rooms for such clients as and Wyatt at the family’s home center of shops, restaurants and Pacific Ocean division of the South Alabama Research Park Marriott Corp., McKibbon Hotel in Medina, Ohio. Amason is a galleries, high-rise condomini- Army Corps of Engineers, and the university’s Cancer Group, Intercontinental Hotels senior project manager with the ums and village-style apart- received the Black Engineer of Research Institute, as well as and Regent Partners. His proj- Westfield Group. ments. Dewberry Capital is an the Year Award for Professional development of the sculpture ect experience also includes Jim Anderson, IE 87, Atlanta-based holding company Achievement in Government park at the university’s large office buildings and multi- and his wife, Sunnidawn, focused on the acquisition, from BlackEngineer.com. A Children’s and Women’s use facilities, churches, condo- announce the birth of their development and management 1976 graduate of West Point, Hospital. Moulton is credited miniums, schools, theaters and fourth child, Benjamin Thomas, of real estate and corporate Johnson is the first African- with numerous activities in the retail and recreational facilities on Feb. 1. He joins sister business assets. American to serve as the Army’s community in support of the for private clients such as The August and brothers Patrick and Camey Craig Gardner, senior engineer in the Asian- arts, music, education, econom- Bankers Bank, Songy Partners, Zachary at the family’s home in MgtSci 86, and her husband, Pacific region. He leads a force ic development and quality of Black & Decker and Contel. He Sharpsburg, Ga. Anderson is a Michael, announce the birth of of 1,700 from Alaska to Korea. life. A native of Donalsonville, has also designed projects for partner with the law firm of their first child, Noah Michael, Johnson has served in a variety Ga., Moulton also holds an MBA the federal government and the Drew, Eckl and Farnham in on Jan 13. Gardner, who of combat and staff commands from Emory University. cities of Rome, Douglasville and Atlanta. worked with Lockheed Martin in in the Army. He also has a mas- Rogers Redding, Chem Albany, Ga., Mount Vernon, Cathy Baker, IM 86, and Marietta, Ga., in C-130J pro- ter’s degree in military arts and 65, took over in July as vice N.Y., and Tallahassee, Fla. Stephen Ryle, AE 86, were gram control, is taking a year off science from the U.S. Army chancellor for academic affairs Paul Stansbury, Phys married Sept. 21, 2002, in to stay home with her son. The Command and General Staff at the University of Colorado at 70, MS Phys 71, PhD 78, has Carrabassett Valley, Maine. family lives in Savannah, Ga. College and has been an Colorado Springs. Redding pre- been made a fellow of the Stephen is a private contractor James A. Godsey, EE instructor and assistant profes- viously was vice president for Health Physics Society. for Lockheed Martin and Cathy 80, MS EE 81, was promoted to sor in the math department at academic affairs and provost at Stansbury, a senior scientist in is the vice president of lodging colonel in the U.S. Air Force in West Point. Johnson has Northern Kentucky University. the Department of Energy’s for Sugarloaf/USA Ski Resort. April. Godsey graduated from received the Legion of Merit, the Redding will continue his avoca- Pacific Northwest National The couple lives in Carrabassett the Air Force Test Pilot School in Meritorious Service Medal and tion as a football referee in the Laboratory, was recognized for Valley. 1986 and received a doctorate the Army Commendation Medal. Southeastern Conference. He his “significant administrative, Mark Cawthorn, TE 80, in electrical engineering from Ronald J. Kern, ICS 84, lives in Colorado Springs. educational and scientific contri- was promoted to division man- the Air Force Institute of and Michele Warner were mar- Myles Smith, IM 63, MS butions to the profession of ager with Mississippi Power Co. Technology in 1995. He is cur- ried May 31 at St. Francis CP 81, has been named to the health physics.” Stansbury in Meridian, Miss. Cawthorn rently the chief of the Electro- Cabrini Church in Omaha, Neb. College of Fellows of the joined the laboratory in 1990 lives in Meridian. Optics Sensor Technology Kern is a business systems ana- American Institute of Certified and specializes in the assess- Ann Savage Champlin, Division of the Air Force lyst with AmeriCold Logistics in Planners, the professional affili- ment and reduction of radiation IM 81, and Jeffrey John Research Laboratory at Wright- Atlanta. The couple live in ate of the American Planning risks in the workplace and envi- Fracas, IE 83, were married Patterson Air Force Base in Snellville, Ga. Association. Smith is one of only ronment. He teaches a course Dec. 27 in Braselton, Ga. Ann is Ohio, where he directs research M. Mark King, EE 81, eight honorees in Georgia ever on behalf of the Columbia an account executive for in electro-optic and infra- was promoted to corporate to receive the honor. Smith, a Chapter of the Health Physics Sterling Commerce and Jeff is a red sensor and countermeasure director of labor relations with community development repre- Society for those preparing for senior systems analyst for technologies. Godsey, his wife, Michelin North America in sentative for Georgia Power, is the certification exam and is an AmQUEST Inc. The couple live Charlotte, and their two sons January. King lives in the company’s viability expert adjunct professor of radiologic in Jefferson, Ga. live in Beavercreek, Ohio. Tuscaloosa, Ala. for the Atlanta region. He works science at Washington State Jeffrey A. Cooper, ME Rick Gordon, Psy 81, Eric Kivi, AE 84, a lieu- with policy-makers to ensure University. 89, graduated from Florida State and AnnElla Guthrie tenant colonel in the Air Force, adequate infrastructure in com- Deborah Wagnon, IM University Law School with high- Gordon, Cls 84, both returned graduated from the U.S. Army munities for economic develop- 76, has joined Hunter Maclean est honors in May. He and his to Tech in the 2002 fall semes- War College with a master’s ment. He joined Georgia Power law firm in Savannah, Ga., as a wife, Suzanne, live in Tallahas- ter. Rick is working in the human degree in national security stud- in 1982 after working for more partner and head of its enter- see, Fla. systems engineering branch at ies in May. In June, he was than 14 years as a vice presi- tainment division. Wagnon also Chris Curtin, IM 80, was the Georgia Tech Research assigned as the deputy group dent and principal for two plan- was recently named to the awarded the Turnaround Institute while pursuing a mas- commander of the 347th ning and consulting firms. President’s Advisory Board at Management Association’s ter’s degree in human computer Operations Group at Moody Air burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 31

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CAROLINE JOE skills such as presentation and com- “When I was working in engi- munication. My acting experience has neering I used to set aside Friday Acting on Experience helped me with this process and I got nights as my time to write, but I was- • Fall 2003 into teaching emotional intelligence to n’t writing anything. I would do laun- EQ consultant others.” dry or pay bills or clean up, all the taps creative side Darnell uses a 133-question, things I needed to do to ‘get ready’ to as author, playwright multiple-choice test called the BarOn write the next week. My girlfriend — Emotional Quotient Inventory to now my wife, Andrea Robbins — told determine what areas a client needs to me, ‘You always say you’re going to focus on in his management style. write, but you never write.’ Studies have shown that emotional “Now it’s like a dam has burst,” intelligence is a better predictor of he said. success than IQ, he said. One of the books he has penned “I’ve done a lot of work with is entitled “Big Mama’s Country engineers and other highly technical Cookbook,” dedicated to Darnell’s 99- people and they always score really year-old grandmother, Ruby Sansom, well in areas of self-regard, assertive- who the family affectionately calls Big ness and stress management, but it is Mama. The Southern-style recipe col- when you get to things like empathy, lection contains all of his grandmoth- interpersonal relationships, social er’s signature dishes, as well as responsibility and flexibility that their recipes, stories and photographs from scores tend to drop,” he said. other family members. By Maria M. Lameiras The “world premiere” brochure “Many of these people have man- Another book is a children’s for the play’s opening bills the pro- aged processes and projects so well story called “The Great Adventures of rent Darnell isn’t a redneck auto duction as “an offbeat love story that they have been promoted to man- Pierre the Singing Worm,” based on a Bmechanic drug dealer, but he’s about an agoraphobic young man age people rather than processes and play he wrote for a children’s troupe played one on TV. who hasn’t left his basement room in they don’t do it well. It is a tough step called The Magic Theater, which he Darnell is, however, a play- 13 years and a quirky young woman for them to take because they are helped found in San Antonio in the wright, actor and management devel- with one leg whose life revolves smart and they know how to do their early 1990s. opment and environmental consultant around celebrities, television and jobs and solve problems, but they Darnell drew on his business who specializes in helping people ele- movies. As they fall in love and begin reach a limit in their careers if that’s experiences to write “Common vate their “EQs” — or emotional intel- to exploit each other’s fears and per- all they focus on. I give them this test, Courtesy: How to Get What You Want ligence — to master skills their IQs ceptions of the world, the dark sur- then I take those scores and create and Save the World Just by Being don’t cover. prises do not end until the final cur- development plans that help them in Nice” and “The Performance of An engineer with more than 15 tain.” those areas.” Presentation,” a book that teaches years of experience in construction Interestingly, it is Darnell’s re- The reactions Darnell gets from how to use basic acting techniques and environmental engineering and entry into the engineering work force his clients have been amusing at and the art of rhetoric to create busi- project management, quality manage- that has led to his recent successes in times, he said. ness presentations. ment and teaching, Darnell, ME 81, writing. “I’ll go over the test with these “Common courtesy has disap- has continued to cultivate his creative “I went to work for Beers people and they look at me like I have peared nowadays,” Darnell said. side. Construction as a project manager a crystal ball or something,” Darnell “There is no ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ “I’ve always written plays and and, when it was bought by Skanska, said. “Engineers also love this because anymore. I use an example in the skits and sketches, even as a kid,” he I had the opportunity to go to it is a number. I was going over the book of overseas travel. A lot of said. “I pursued engineering, but I Sweden,” he said. test scores with one client and he said, Europeans view us as ‘ugly acted in community theater all After two years in Sweden, ‘When I get everything to 150 am I Americans’ because of our behavior. through college and after graduation. Darnell became head of Skanska’s done?’ I had to explain to him that it “Imagine if a French person I even left engineering for a couple of new international management devel- doesn’t work that way.” walked up to an American on years to try to act and write full time opment program, which the company So far, Darnell has consulted Peachtree Street and asked, in French, in the early 1990s. used to train its upper-level engineers mainly for engineering and technical directions to something and — when “I got a few parts — I had a and executives to manage people as firms, but he feels the concepts are he didn’t understand — asked again, speaking role on ‘In The Heat of The well as projects by focusing on inter- applicable to people in all fields. in French, only louder and slower. Night’ as a redneck auto mechanic personal skills, creativity and EQ. “It’s not about being soft, it’s Then, when the American still didn’t drug dealer — and had some plays After two years, Darnell’s con- about giving the right emotional understand, he got mad and walked read in New York, but it’s really a tract with Skanska was finished and response and about being able to have away. That’s what we do overseas all tough business. I started working in he returned to Beers as a project man- more balance in your profile. It evalu- the time.” engineering again in 1994 and started ager. Last year, he started Brent ates your strengths and weaknesses Helping people develop them- my own consulting business in 2002.” Darnell & Associates, a consulting — too much self-regard is arrogance selves through his work — both in In September, one of Darnell’s firm based on the concepts he taught and too much empathy can get you consulting and in writing — has been plays — “Straightaway Dangerous” around the globe in Skanska’s man- walked on. It’s not about caving in, satisfying, Darnell said. — is being produced by Atlanta’s Not agement program. it’s about understanding how to han- “Some of these skills are life- Merely Players, a nonprofit theater “I was teaching construction dle each situation,” he said. changing things. Not only will some- company that specializes in plays by, managers who manage multiple proj- Working for himself has also one be a better employee or manager for and about people with disabilities. ects, which is a highly stressful job, given Darnell more time to write. In for it, they will be a better person,” he Darnell serves as the group’s play- but they can’t manage people how one year he has written four books said. “It is really rewarding for me wright-in-residence and is on its they manage projects,” Darnell said. and two plays as well as “polished when someone really feels this has board of directors. “In general, technical folks lack ‘soft’ up” a half dozen more scripts. made a difference for him.”

Force Base in Georgia. Kivi, his al manager of operations in Liliana Maldonado, MS Maldonado, global vice presi- water infrastructure of Puerto wife, Jeannine, and their three Smyrna, Ga. Sterigenics is a SanE 80, was selected as one dent and director of the water Rico, her birthplace. In October daughters, Laura, 14, world leader in the sterilization of the country’s most powerful business group at CH2M HILL, 2002, she received a profes- Christina,13, and Emily, 7, live in of medical devices using ethyl- Hispanic executives in technolo- has been with the company for sional achievement award at the Valdosta, Ga. ene oxide. Lindsay, his wife, gy and business by Hispanic 20 years. Her recent work Hispanic Engineers National Tom Lindsay, ChE 84, Vicki, and their two children live Engineer & Information includes a $2.1 billion program Achievement Awards has joined Sterigenics as gener- in Kennesaw, Ga. Technology magazine in April. to revamp the water and waste- Conference. She is also co- burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 32

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holder of the patent for the VIP EE 80, retired in October from in a wide range of projects for ness in Dubuque, Iowa, special- Eric joins sister Katie, 5, and process for biological nutrient the Naval Reserve as a com- public and private clients involv- izing in the movement of refrig- brother Greg, 3, at the family’s • Fall 2003 removal and author of numerous mander with 22 years of serv- ing design of bridge structures, erated and frozen freight. home in Newnan, Ga. technical and management ice. He works in purchasing for as well as the inspection, reha- Daniel Floyd, ChE 97, D. Scott Hagan, Mgt 97, papers. Pechiney Plastic Packaging in bilitation and renovation of exist- and Rebecca Woo, Biol 96, of Statesboro, Ga., earned a Tom McGowan, IM 85, Chicago and lives in Gurnee, ing structures. were married May 25 in master’s degree in divinity from Tech Topics Topics Tech president and founder of TMTS Ill., with his wife, Kim, and son, Steve Diamond, ID 99, Augusta, Ga. Dan is a senior Emory University’s Candler Associates Inc. in Atlanta, has a Douglas, 8. and Victoria Grace Welsh were engineer with the Dow Chemical School of Theology in May. patent pending on an improved Randall S. Ward, IM 88, married Sept. 14, 2002, in Co. and Rebecca is a first-year Hagan is a member of the low-nitrogen oxide, high-efficien- was named director of sales in Norcross, Ga. The couple live in obstetrics and gynecology resi- South Georgia Conference of cy combustion turbine. TMTS the West for Innovation Hillsboro, Ore. Diamond dent at Baylor University the United Methodist Church. supplies consulting engineering Associates, based in Johnson designs sports products for pro- Hospital in Houston. The couple William H. Harrison services on energy, combustion City, N.Y. The company special- fessional and college teams, live in Houston. Jr., Arch 95, principal of and air pollution control. He also izes in pharmacy automation including Georgia Tech, for Nike Josh Fowler, CE 97, and Harrison Design Associates in presents short courses for the and robotic systems. Ward relo- in Portland, Ore. his wife, Kim, announce the Atlanta, has joined The American Society of Mechanical cated from Carmel, Ind., to Mary Catherine birth of a daughter, Agatha Buckhead Coalition as a direc- Engineers and the Air and Monument, Colo. Dudley, Mgt 98, and Bob Gayle, on April 6. Fowler is a tor. The coalition is a nonprofit Waste Management Wanda Jackson Schmitt, ME 98, MS ME 99, civil engineer with Design South civic association of top-level Association. Williams, Biol 88, a physician, were married May 3 in Atlanta. Professionals Inc. in Anderson, north Atlanta business people. James E. “Jimmy” joined a new practice, Kids First Mary Catherine is a business S.C. The family lives in Jancie Stinecipher Moore Jr., ME 87, MS ME 88, Pediatric Group, in Stockbridge, analyst for Hewitt Associates Spartanburg, S.C. Hatcher, MS Chem 90, and PhD 91, has accepted a faculty Ga., in April. Williams lives in and Bob is an engineer with GE Andrew Fritchley, ME John H. Hatcher, EE 88, MS EE position in the biomedical engi- Jonesboro, Ga. Power Systems. The couple live 96, and Elizabeth Lovejoy 89, announce the birth of a neering department at Texas in Marietta, Ga. Fritchley, Mgt 97, announce daughter, Leah Frances, on A&M University. Moore’s Eric J. Dykes, ME 96, the birth of twin sons, Aaron April 18, 2002. Jancie is a certi- research is in the area of cardio- 1990s and his wife, Amy, announce the Edward and Nathan Andrew, on fied pharmacy technician with vascular mechanics. He holds a birth of their son, Ethan Garrett, July 16. Andrew is a senior pro- CVS/Pharmacy in Duluth, Ga., patent on a vascular stent and Tavie North Allan, ICS on July 17. Ethan joins sister duction manager with Milliken & and John is a principal engineer has founded two start-up com- 90, and her husband, Rick, Emma, 2, at the family’s home in Co. and Elizabeth is vice presi- with Ciena in Alpharetta, Ga. panies. announce the birth of a daugh- Dacula, Ga. Dykes is vice presi- dent of West Georgia Health The family lives in Duluth. Paul Nemec, CerE 81, ter, Octavia Palmer, on April 9. dent of network services at Systems, both in LaGrange, Ga. Beckie Strickland has taken a job as a systems Octavia joins sister Mackenzie Summit Systems in Buford, Ga. The family lives in LaGrange. Hayes, TE 97, and her hus- engineer with Veridian at the family’s home in Norcross, Tyler P. Elder, EE 99, M. David Galin, EE 90, band, Kevin, announce the birth Engineering in Huntsville, Ala., Ga. Allan runs her own busi- recently obtained his profes- and his wife, Sharon, announce of a son, Aidan Bryte, on May supporting the Army’s Coman- ness, Two Fish Concepts, which sional engineering license in the birth of a son, Jeremy Alex, 10. Aidan joins sister Aylah che program. He is also a cap- provides scripture-based learn- Florida. Elder is an electrical on May 18. Jeremy joins sister Blake at the family’s home in tain in the Air Force Reserve. ing tools and services. engineer at GRG Consulting Rachel, 2, at the family’s home Bainbridge, Ga., where Hayes is Nemec, his wife, Susan, and Tricia M. Anderson, Engineers Inc. in Orlando, Fla. in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Galin is an industrial engineer for the children, Ashley, 18, and Ben, ChE 98, and John Chambard His project experience includes a patent attorney with the law Georgia Department of Labor. 16, live in Montgomery, Ala. were married May 10. work with health care, casino firm of Renner, Otto, Boisselle & William H. Hemphill II, George Nicholos, Arch Anderson, who works for and science laboratory building Sklar in Cleveland. EE 90, of Stone Mountain, Ga., 84, received his law degree ExxonMobil, and her husband design. Elder lives in Maitland, Jeffrey T. Gaskins, AE earned a master’s degree in from the Regent University live in Houston. Fla. 94, heads the L-3 Communica- divinity from Emory University’s School of Law in May and is Chris Annunziata, IntA William Gregory tions Joint Operations Group Candler School of Theology in currently a forensics architect 93, and Melissa Lynn Love were “Greg” Elliott, ME 95, and his Aeronautical Engineering May. with the TAF Group in Virginia married May 26 on the island of wife, Susan, announce the birth Department in Richmond, Ky. Keith Hollingsworth, IE Beach, Va. Nicholos lives in St. Martin. Annunziata is an of their first child, Scott Gregory, The group is the contractor 90, MS IE 92, PhD 95, of Chesapeake, Va. attorney. The couple live in on May 29. Elliott, a licensed responsible for executing the Atlanta, was awarded tenure at Rebecca Lane Atlanta. professional engineer, earned Special Operations Forces Morehouse College as director Oesterle, MgtSci 83, has been Jim Brzostowicz, CE his MBA from Clemson Support Activities’ workload in of economics and business in named manager of global pack- 95, and Tricia Copeland University and is a project man- supporting the global war on the spring. Hollingsworth was aging development for battery Brzostowicz, Cls 95, ager with Fluor Corp. The family terrorism for the United States also the inaugural recipient of maker Energizer Holdings Inc. announce the birth of a daugh- lives in Greenville, S.C. Special Operations Command the college’s Outstanding at the company’s headquarters ter, Alison Elizabeth, on Aug. 17, John Fisher, ME 91, and headquarters in Tampa, Fla. As Faculty Award in his division. in St. Louis. Oesterle lives in St. 2002. Jim is a civil engineering his wife, Kimberly Ann, engineering manager, Gaskins Jason B. Hurst, CE 96, Charles, Mo. manager for a private consulting announce the birth of a son, is responsible for all design, has become a shareholder in Marcus H. Sachs, CE firm and Tricia is on leave from Ryan Matthew, on May 15. Ryan production support, testing, Columbia Engineering, a gener- 81, recently transferred from the DuPont. The family lives in West joins sisters Nicole and Rachel documentation and configura- al civil, transportation and traffic White House Office of Chester, Pa. at the family’s home in Franklin, tion management for projects engineering firm headquartered Cyberspace Security to the Scott Carter, CE 90, Tenn. Fisher is operations engi- associated with the company’s in Norcross, Ga. Hurst, a project Department of Homeland was promoted to district mainte- neering manager for MAHLE- Army Aviation Program manager, has been with the Security to serve as the cyber nance engineer for southwest Tennex North America in Management Office. Gaskins company since 1997. program director in the Georgia for the state Murfreesboro, Tenn. and his team design highly spe- Perdita Jordan, IE 95, a Information Analysis and Department of Transportation in Mita Shukla Fitzjohn, cialized mechanical and electri- documentation engineer for Infrastructure Protection March. Scott and his wife, Mgt 92, and her husband, Jon, cal modifications to the Special Turner Broadcasting System, Directorate. Sachs retired from Jamie Williams Carter, ID announce the birth of a daugh- Operations Aviation fleet of recently received AOL Time the Army in January 2002 after 90, and their daughters, Malorie ter, Averie Kiran, on Dec. 9. Blackhawk, Chinook and Little Warner’s Andrew Heiskell a 20-year career. He and his and Rebecca, live in Tifton, Ga. Fitzjohn is currently an e-busi- Bird helicopters. Community Service Award. wife, Diane Heredia Sachs, Daniel “Rob” Dean, ness consultant for Grainger Daniel Habicht, ChE 93, Jordan has volunteered for Psy 83, live near Chantilly, Va., MBA 95, was recently promoted Industrial Supply based in Lake and Christine Lang more than 12 years with the with their two daughters. to registered associate at Hayes Forest, Ill. The family lives in Habicht, ChE 93, announce Open Door Outreach Center Lou Sorell, MS ChE 81, Seay Mattern & Mattern and Grand Rapids, Mich. the birth of a son, Eric Matthew, and other organizations focused joined Goodwin Procter in New serves as bridge department Evan W. Fleisher, IE 90, on April 22. Dan is an engineer on serving families. She also York as counsel in March. head in the firm’s Roanoke, Va., has been named president of for BP-Amoco Fabrics and volunteers with the American Sorrell lives in Katonah, N.Y. office. Since joining the firm in Tri-State Logistics Inc., a full- Fibers in Austell, Ga., and Stroke Association and partici- Brian K. Vander Yacht, 1995, Dean has been involved service truck brokerage busi- Christine is a full-time mother. pates in Turner-sponsored vol- Tech Topics • Fall 2003 33 . $6.00 = $_____ Total 1-800-GT-ALUMS Merchandise GT Alumni Assoc. 190 North Ave. Atlanta, GA 30313 Tech fans to Tech BOBBLEHEAD Tech Alumni Association. Bobblehead! Be one of the This unique product is only designed Buzz BUZZ own this newly available through your Georgia Each piece measures over seven Each piece measures FIRST inches tall and weighs one pound. ______State and Zip City, ______Daytime Telephone ______Number Card Credit Circle One: AMEX Discover MasterCard Visa Phone Orders: Date Expiration Please Send Me: Buzz Bobblehead @ $14.95/ea. = $_____ Shipping GA Residents add @7% Sales Tax $1.05/ea. = $______Name ______Address Mail Orders: GARY MEEK “Maybe I’m not the one who appeals to the seniors “Sometimes I over stereotypes. Calhoun also rolls parking his Harley outside a fast food He recalled Calhoun often rides with other motor- On his days off bonded by their love of Harleys or Some bikers are “I’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo for a couple huge group of people neglected, people who didn’t feel huge group to them. like anybody was relating but that’s fine with me. I don’t mind if I and retirees, appeal to the younger kids,” Calhoun said. “I want to still a lot of antiquat- are down barriers. I think there break ed ideas about what it means to be a servant of God.” a priest, with long hair and a motorcycle?’ ‘You’re hear, But a lot of times I get people wanting to talk. They’ve got a chance to talk to a priest. I don’t look like a priest. I look like a normal guy.” A restaurant. and man climbed out of a dump truck “Somehow it came up that I was the motorcycle. admired a priest. He told me about his life, some of the issues he the door to him sharing a It opened had with his family. lot.” cycle enthusiasts. “Sometimes we’ll meet up at a biker bar I don’t really we hit the road. before and have a burger guys. The guys I ride with all roughneck know any real have white collar jobs,” he said with a laugh. “No matter what you do for a living, everybody has a kind of cama- raderie. It’s the same way with hiking. I hike the a in sections. Everyone I meet is from Appalachian Trail a bond.” walk of life, but immediately there’s different leather jackets or tattoos. of years. I’ve been looking for the right design. One of my with a lot seminarian friends got a big one, a Celtic cross neat looking. But I haven’t of colors in it. It was pretty been able to find a tattoo parlor that I feel comfortable yet.” patronizing athan Calhoun sports a scruffy beard and ties back beard athan Calhoun sports a scruffy dons a his white collar, He takes off his long hair. “I’ve had a lot of people tell me they feel comfortable Father Calhoun, Cls 96, does not fit the stereotypical Father Calhoun, Cls 96, does not fit the while He has never fit into a mold. Calhoun realized that hap- “It wasn’t a particular event or anything bat. ‘Go to “One day I felt like I had been hit with a supportive of his decision, Friends and family were “When I first told my mother I had withdrawn from Studying for the priesthood rivaled the engineering After earning a bachelor’s in philosophy and a master He began wearing his hair longer after he was A parishioner kick-started Calhoun’s hobby a couple I was kind “He came to mass one day on his Harley. with the boss hog of all Yamaha the He replaced Call of the Open Road Call of the over stereotypes rolls Father Calhoun By Kimberly Link-Wills N talking to me — peers and young adults and teens. in some way. crowd Everyone has to appeal to a different would be a cut out of the same mold, there If we all were leather jacket and roars off on his Harley. off leather jacket and roars methods are image of a Catholic priest. His charitable Vinny’s unorthodox as well. In May Calhoun organized wheeled in Ride, a fund-raiser in which 120 motorcyclists de Paul Society. nearly $4,500 to benefit the St. Vincent that he was not cut out Tech he was a student at Georgia for engineering. Alabama for two quarters. I pened. I was in a co-op job in typing on a computer. did a lot of sitting in my office I started doing Actually I was teaching myself to type. thoughts and some journaling on the computer and typing things, mainly on God and faith on different reflections and life in general,” Calhoun said. you need to be.’ I thought orig- That’s where the seminary. At the end of first. at Tech inally I would finish my degree I knew it wasn’t the first week of classes that next spring But I do somewhat miss well spent to stay there. energy the science and math I used to do.” in out of Tech surprised when he dropped yet some were 1994. you going to do now?’ I she asked me, ‘What are Tech, She I’m thinking about going to the seminary.’ said, ‘Well, was kind of speechless after that,” Calhoun said. in some ways “It’s harder Tech. curriculum at Georgia because your life is taken over somewhat, but it’s not as It’s nearly as challenging in terms of technically difficult. conform- living in community, the pressure, the intensity, hav- of morning and evening prayer, ing to a daily routine of people for four years, ing meals with the same group the spiritual direction.” in June 2000. Calhoun was ordained of divinities degree, Catholic priests at St. Lawrence He now is one of three Ga. in Lawrenceville, Church “My pastor kept trying to get me to cut it, but I ordained. him. I’ve had it in a ponytail for about a year now. resisted Every now and then I get an older lady in the parish who should get your hair cut.’” really ‘You will say, of years ago. and thought one day of infatuated with motorcycles maybe I’d get one. He had connections with this place that had riding lessons and he paid my tuition. By the time I magazines finished, I was sold. I started looking through that up and rode Yamaha and cycle traders. I finally got a until this past spring. I sold it to another priest,” Calhoun said. — a 100th anniversary edition 2003 Harley- motorcycles other Calhoun said seven Davidson Heritage Springer. riders. motorcycle are Atlanta archdiocese priests in the But he’s the only one with a Harley. burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 33 8/7/03 9:02 AM burdell burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 34

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unteer programs including clothing business called plants. He lives in Oak Forest, Laine joins sister Reilly, 3, at the named division director of man- Habitat for Humanity and Take Doodlebugs. The Web site is Ill. family’s home in Atlanta. Paula agement engineering for HCA in • Fall 2003 Our Children to Work Day. http://www.doodlebugs.ws. Tom Sever, CE 93, and is a business analyst for Hewitt Las Vegas. Yanko is responsible Jordan was one of 15 award Steve Mount, ME 94, his wife, Tracy, announce the Associates and Andrew is an for managing the labor produc- recipients to receive a $3,000 and Pam Tucker Mount, ME birth of a son, Austin James, on attorney for McKenna Long & tivity at 18 hospitals. donation to the nonprofit organi- 95, announce the birth of a March 13. Sever is a traffic sig- Aldridge in Atlanta. Karl Yngve, EE 93, and Tech Topics Topics Tech zation of their choice and a per- daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on nal engineer with Gwinnett Lee Ann Smith Terry, his wife, Jennifer, announce the sonal gift of $2,000. She lives in April 17. The family lives in County. The family lives in Mgt 91, and her husband, birth of their first child, Brian College Park, Ga. Darlington, S.C. Monroe, Ga. Brent, announce the birth of a Alexander, on July 10. Yngve is Keith J. Kilpatrick, EE Gwen Ottinger, AE 97, Natasha Haynes Shull, son, James “Jamey” Ryan, on an engineering supervisor with 97, earned his MBA from the and John A. Haddon were mar- MgtSci 91, and James L. Feb. 22. Jamey joins sister Corning Inc. in Wilmington, N.C. University of California at ried April 18 in Des Allemands, Shull Jr., CerE 90, announce Jessica at the family’s home in The family lives in Wilmington. Berkeley’s Haas School of La. Ottinger is a PhD candidate the birth of a son, Kurtis James, Lawrenceville, Ga. Terry is a full- Business in May. Kilpatrick, who in energy and resources at the on Feb. 17. Kurtis joins brother time mother. served as the student body University of California-Berkeley. Erik and sisters Karin and Brian C. Thomas, Mgt 2000s president of his class during his The couple live in Oakland, Kristen at the family’s home in 98, of Mason, Ohio, has joined MBA studies, plans to stay in Calif. Murrysville, Pa. Natasha is a Graydon Head & Ritchie in Karen Adams California and start a company Mark E. Pellegri, EE 93, full-time mother and James is Cincinnati as an associate in the Abernathy, CE 00, and her with fellow Georgia Tech alumni and Michelle Di Maio were mar- an engineer with Siemens commercial litigation client serv- husband, Jason, announce the in San Francisco and Los ried May 25 at the Bona Allen Westinghouse Power Corp. ice department. Thomas gradu- birth of their first child, Amelia Angeles. Mansion in Buford, Ga. Pellegri Lisa Carter Sichel, ISyE ated from the University of Morgan, on March 30. The fami- Stacey Hutcherson is an engineer for Cox 91, and Neil Todd Sichel, CE Dayton School of Law in 2001. ly lives in Pensacola, Fla., where Lewis, ME 97, and her hus- Communications. The couple 91, announce the birth of a son, Richard Tyler, IE 90, Abernathy is a full-time mother. band, Jeff, announce the birth live in Alpharetta, Ga. Brandon Carter, on March 24. earned his real estate sales Judd Baker, ME 01, and of a son, Matthew Braden, on Daniel C. Prudhomme, Brandon joins brother Evan at license in January and began Susan Grunow were married April 2. Matthew joins brother Mgt 96, and Allison Hogg the family’s home in Cincinnati. as a Realtor with Esby Dec. 28 in Kokomo, Ind. Baker Brooks, 2, at the family’s home Prudhomme, IE 97, announce Neil is regional sales manager International in Salt Lake City. In is a first lieutenant and C-17A in Liberty Township, Ohio. Lewis the birth of a son, Matthew for Carthage Mills and Lisa is a April, Tyler also began as real pilot in the U.S. Air Force at is a technology leader with James, on Feb. 19. Matthew logistics manager for Procter & estate development director for Charleston Air Force Base in Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. joins sister Claire at the family’s Gamble. Salt Lake Neighborhood South Carolina. The couple are Donald “Doc” home in Conyers, Ga. Dan is an Jacques Andre Housing Services, a neighbor- residents of Mount Pleasant, Lumpkins, IntA 95, and account executive with The Soileau, CE 93, and his wife, hood and community develop- S.C. Kimberly Telsch were married Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Beth, announce the birth of a ment organization. Tyler lives in Luke Barratt, IE 00, and June 1 in Reisterstown, Md. Allison is a full-time mother and son, Philippe Chatelain, on July Salt Lake City. Sarah Larson Barratt, IntA Lumpkins serves as director of freelance Web site consultant. 9. Philippe joins brother Joe Vaccaro, ME 91, 00, announce the birth of their the domestic preparedness divi- Amy Latimer Rice, Mgt Jacques, 2, at the family’s home and Andie Bailey Vaccaro, first child, a daughter, Brooklyn sion for the Maryland 92, and Jim Rice, EE 92, in Eunice, La. Soileau is the TE 92, announce the birth of Sullivan, on June 20. Luke re- Emergency Management announce the birth of their son, president of Gulfgate Construc- their daughter, Emilia Daven, on cently took a job as an industrial Agency. The couple live in Patrick Ronald, on Oct. 23, tion, a utility contractor in May 10. Emilia joins brother engineer with OkiData; Sarah is Baltimore, Md. 2002. Jim is an information sys- Lafayette, La. Jeremy at the family’s home in a full-time mother. The family Joseph W Mahn, ME 92, tems project leader with United Lisa Konie Stacholy, Alpharetta, Ga. Joe is a senior has relocated from Owensboro, was promoted to production Parcel Service and Amy recent- MS Arch 91, has been appoint- project engineer for AMEC, an Ky., to Mount Laurel, N.J. manager at Hueck Foils Inc. in ly left AJC International as an ed to a four-year term with the industrial engineering consulting H. DeWayne Johnson, Blythewood, S.C. Mahn lives in operations manager to be a full- advisory group of the Small firm in Decatur, Ga., and Andie EE 01, and Tameika M. Cutter Columbia, S.C. time mother. The family lives in Project Forum for the American is a full-time mother. were married May 24 in Lisa Richter Alpharetta, Ga. Institute of Architects. The group Elizabeth “Betsy” Savannah, Ga. Johnson is a Marchbanks, ISyE 94, and Sameep Sanghavi, EE provides small firms and project Wallace, Arch 96, and consultant with Cadillac, Jay Marchbanks, ISyE 93, 97, and Rema Sukumaran were architects with nationwide Christopher Scislowicz, Hummer and GM. The couple announce the birth of their first married April 19 in Wayne, N.J. knowledge-based networking, ME 96, were married Oct. 6 at live in Tallahassee, Fla. child, Megan Alyssa, on Jan 5. The couple live near St. Louis. resources and support. Wolf Mountain Vineyards in Joy Glover, STC 01, and The family lives in Atlanta. Dustin G. Scharff, IE Stacholy is the principal of LKS Dahlonega, Ga. Betsy is a man- James Pearson Walters III were Randy McDow, IE 95, 94, and Cathy Axon Architects Inc. in Atlanta and agement consultant with married May 17 at Emory coordinator of the President’s Scharff, IE 96, announce the lives in Dunwoody, Ga. Neighborhood Reinvestment University’s Glenn Memorial Scholarship Program at Georgia birth of their second son, Paul W. Stegenga, MS Corp. and Christopher is a man- United Methodist Church in Tech, earned his master’s Joshua Gray, on March 28. Arch 90, and his wife, Kathy, ager with Accenture. The cou- Decatur, Ga. Glover is working degree in public policy in May Joshua joins brother Jacob, 2, and sons, Paul Jr., 3, and ple live in Atlanta. for Emory Healthcare while at Tech. McDow lives in Atlanta. at the family’s home in Owen, 2, have relocated to a Erik Weston, Mgt 93, completing a nursing degree at Elizabeth Gramling Alpharetta, Ga. new home in Suwanee, Ga. and Devon Kuzela Weston, Emory University. The couple McFarland, TE 95, MS TE 98, Joseph Schimmel, EE Stegenga is principal of Mgt 92, announce the birth of live in Suwanee, Ga. PhD 01, and her husband, 90, and his wife, Heather, Stegenga + Partners in Atlanta. their second daughter, Virginia Chrissy Prues, ChE 01, Keith, announce the birth of a announce the birth of their third James B. Summers, Louise, on April 4. Virginia joins and James Stovall, CS 01, of son, Caleb Alexander, on March child, Mara Yael, on June 19. Psy 93, of Mobile, Ala., was sister Molly at the family’s Athens, Ga., were married Aug. 26. McFarland is a senior engi- Mara joins sisters Rose awarded the P.D. McGehee home in Decatur, Ga. Erik is 9 in Lilburn, Ga. Chrissy is pur- neer at DuPont Textiles and Michelle, 4, and Ilana Paige, 2, Memorial Award for medical director of product management suing a doctorate in pharmacy Interiors. The family lives in at the family’s home in writing by the University of for Convergent Media in at the University of Georgia and Camden, S.C. Pembroke Pines, Fla. Schimmel South Alabama’s Department of Alpharetta, Ga., and Devon is a James is working for Deloitte Keri Paarz Michaelis, is a tax attorney with Cohen, Medicine in May. Summers, a full-time mother. Consulting. Mgt 95, and her husband, Chase, Hoffman & Schimmel in physician, is currently training in Thomas Wicinski, EE Ke Zhao, Arch 03, is Charlie, announce the birth of a Miami. diagnostic radiology at the 90, and his wife, LeighAnn, working at Seiber Design in son, Luke Edward, on April 21. Paul Selman, ME 98, University of South Alabama announce the birth of a daugh- Atlanta as an architectural Luke joins brother Foster at the recently earned his professional Medical Center in Mobile. ter, Lauren Marie, on June 17. intern. Zhao has been with the family’s home in Chicago. engineering license for the state Paula Ross Surdykow- Wicinski is marketing director firm, which does custom restau- Michaelis is a human resources of Illinois. Selman works for ski, MgtSci 94, and Andrew for FedEx Services. The family rant, commercial and residential manager with Accenture in Sargent & Lundy in Chicago, Surdykowski, Mgt 93, lives in Germantown, Tenn. architecture as well as interior Chicago and co-owns a custom where he is involved in the announce the birth of a daugh- Sandy Yanko, HS 92, of design, since October 2002. infant and children’s gift and design of commercial power ter, Laine Caroline, on April 9. Henderson, Nev., has been Zhao lives in Atlanta. Tech Topics • Fall 2003 , 35 , ME 42, , Cls 42, GT Worth Franklin Manus Worth Carlton L. Lee Blanton Haskell of Atlanta, on May 20. He was a brigadier gen- Air Force retired football eral. A Georgia Tech he attended the Institute player, years prior to his enlist- for three ment in the Army Air Corps in 1941. After earning his wings and commission as a second lieutenant, he served as a flying then as a B-29 com- instructor, mander assigned to the 41st Bomb Squad in Guam. His long military took him to com- career mand positions at Air Force the globe. Mr. bases around Lee attended the National War D.C., in College in Washington, 1961-62. He was a command than 5,000 hours pilot with more of flying time. He flew the B-29 on 36 combat missions totaling than 470 flying hours dur- more II and the Korean War ing World His military decorations War. included the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Star and an Air Medal Bronze oak leaf clusters. with three Ga., on June Cls 40, of Decatur, of Savannah, Ga., on May 23. ITT from He was retired Rayonier. was a retired sales manager for was a retired Besser Co. Survivors include BM 72. son Rudy Griffin, , IM , Cls George writes that he learned to keep a clear writes George be authentic, leaders must behave with con- “To “The walk away. also learned when to George He writes that it is important to have something writing style makes matter-of-fact George’s failed and wound up shutting it down. Over time failed and wound up this day I feel respon- jobs. To 2,000 people lost their sible for this fiasco.” meditation. He also learned how to head through and how to be a well- balance work and family busi- person instead of a one-dimensional rounded nessman. get in sistency and self-discipline, not letting stress to han- the way of their judgment. They must learn and stay cool and calm. dle any kind of pressure being in Handling unexpected challenges requires athlete, they peak condition. Like a professional sharp and need consistent habits to keep their minds their bodies in shape.” giving back. of your life is about final third stage of Psychologist Erik Erickson calls this the in a the time in our lives when we are ‘generativity,’ and give back to oth- our wisdom position to share without the ers. It is also an excellent time to grow or of advancing in your career day-to-day pressures making the quarterly numbers.” on to write “Authentic moved to move on to. George Federal Leadership” and to teach at IMD and the as the Polytechnic, both in Switzerland, and serve school of manage- Yale at the executive-in-residence ment. perfect “Authentic Leadership” a fairly quick read, for a job interview for a plane ride or as preparation greedy that not all CEOs are or simply as a reminder and only out for their own best interests. and other jour- Science before being assigned to Los before Alamos, N.M. In 1948 he returned to the Oak Ridge he where National Laboratory, developed instrumentation for crystallography, use in biology, spec- analytical chemistry, and the Human troscopy Davidson Mr. Genome Project. in 1985 won a national award image detector for an electronic and chro- for electrophoresis His work was pub- matography. lished in Pat Rudisell Griffin W. Mercer Dye Sr. Mercer W. , 43, of Atlanta, on June 30. He Brig. Gen. and his brother, Dye, CerE 40, founded Harold Dye Construction Co. in 1946. in 1993, he After his retirement was a co-founder of his son’s businesses, Court Makers Inc. and Dye Aviation. nals and he gave presentations and Japan. in France, Taiwan Davidson held four U.S. Mr. patents. An active worker in the he helped integrate community, Oak Ridge lunch counters in the as a 1950s and volunteered telephone worker for the CON- Helpline for 24 years. TACT 48, of Chamblee, Ga., on March 31. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at and had served Georgia Tech Griffin Mr. as chapter president. , CE 43, of Atlanta, on , IE 48, of Rome, Ga., on Jackson B. Davidson John McElmurray Joseph S. Carruthers William L. “Billy” , ChE 43, of Kingsport, Tenn., Cothran July 19. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Bronze the Cothran received Mr. Star for his service as a first II. War lieutenant during World on EE 44, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., II, he War April 19. During World was a member of the special engineering detachment in sup- port of the Manhattan Project and was deployed to Oak Ridge on March 11. He served in the on March Pacific Theater in the Navy dur- II and worked as War ing World a chemical engineer for Eastman Co. from Tennessee in 1981, 1949 until his retirement as a the same year he retired Naval Reserve lieutenant com- mander. Camp May 20. While a student at he was a football Georgia Tech, letterman a member of and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Camp served in the Mr. Marines during World Merchant II. He later founded Camp War Oil Co. III Force veteran. He was presi- Force dent of Buchanan Hardwoods Inc. George, who served as CEO of the medical tech- who George, myself I have always surrounded “As a leader, you who “The key is having people around both his seems comfortable sharing George as I occurred in my career failure “The greatest and “Meanwhile, my candidate resigned , ing direct sales and service support — and provide ing direct their that empowers and rewards the environment efforts.” to 2001 and 1991 from nology company Medtronic 2002, points 1996 to from as chairman of the board a good out in his straight-to-the-point style that himself and surrounds the burden leader shares with a top-notch staff. knowledgeable and expe- more with people who are titled “It’s rienced than I am,” he writes in a chapter Not Just the CEO.” up for your complement your weaknesses and make but how lack of experience. This seems obvious, teams? It is many CEOs fail to do so in building their only appoint people danger sign when leaders a real with whom they feel comfortable.” highs and lows. career to join Honeywell. I was leaving Litton Microwave individual as my suc- an exceptional had groomed corporate cessor and thought I had support from as I handed in my resigna- As soon management. tion, I lost all power to influence the decision. Litton chose successor, Instead of my recommended six a factory operations expert we had recruited of himself, he put a hold on Unsure months earlier. the organization and began running all R&D projects writes. George like a factory,” became the highly successful CEO of a major media tried to sell the business, In the end Litton company. , CE 39, of Vero , IM 39, of Houston, Marvin George Oliver Amos “Cap” Wallace A. Buchanan Wallace had served as commander of a Naval Reserve surface unit. Mitchell Jr. Beach, Fla., and Atlanta, on July 4. He spent 42 years with CBI as CEO Industries and retired and chairman in 1982. He was of Butler National Golf president Ill., and a Club in Oak Brook, member of Kappa Alpha frater- nity and the Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame and Survivors the Hill Society. include son Marvin G. Mitchell III, ME 68. The family requests that memorials in his name be sent to the Marvin G. Mitchell Scholarship Fund at Georgia Tech. Jr. Wright on June 25. He had a distin- in the home guished career estate devel- building and real was Wright Mr. opment industry. a member of Delta Sigma Phi the fraternityGeorgia Tech, at Houston Homebuilders Association and the Professional Engineers Association. 1940s IM 48, of Selma, Ala., on April 8. A member of Phi Delta Theta at he was an Air Georgia Tech, , , ME , EE 38, , Cls 31, of Atlanta, eorgia Tech alumnus Bill George emphasizes alumnus Bill George Tech eorgia putting the customer first in his new book, “In contrast to what share- model for management must be the role “Top Headlines broadcasting the downfall of power- the downfall Headlines broadcasting Neal Hamer Higgins Loehr H. Turner George G. Foulds James A. Castellaw Rees Mahone Authentic Leader Authentic of success secrets Bill George shares By Kimberly Link-Wills G ful CEOs have done much to tarnish the images of ful CEOs have done much to tarnish the executives whose lavish lifestyles and company perks rival those of pop stars. But IE 64, attributes suc- George, cess in business to leaders who build customer relations. holder value advocates argue, the purpose of any company boils down to one thing: serv- ing its customers. Ultimately, how well it serves all on its success will be measured If it is its customers, especially less powerful ones. can sustain superior to everyone else in its field and the create this advantage over the long term, it will writes. value,” George ultimate in shareholder that managers do not slip customer focus, being sure into an internal orientation. Executives must recog- actually serving cus- nize the employees who are and serv- innovative products tomers — by creating and by provid- quality products ices, by producing “Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Secrets “Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Lasting Value.” Creating , Cls 35, of Atlanta, on May 1930s of Clearwater, Fla., on April 20. of Clearwater, of as vice president He retired engineering and long-range planning for International Minerals and Chemicals. He Navy commander was a retired of the USS Roselle, a fleet Loehr also Mr. minesweeper. 38, of St. George, Utah, on Nov. 19. Sr. 11. He worked for Bell Aircraft II and retired War during World Metal Virginia in 1975 from Products. CE 38, of Macon, Ga., on June 15. He served in the Army in the War South Pacific during World from Castellaw retired II. Mr. Bethlehem Steel after 37 years of service. Andrews on July 5. He founded Andrews and Simpkins Co. and later ran Southeastern Feed Inc. He at age 72 and served as retired a Meals on Wheels volunteer for 15 years. burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 35 8/7/03 9:02 AM burdell burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 36

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22. He served in the Army Air Law in 1974. Mr. Pryor retired Robert F. Sasser, Cls Henry R. Hair, Cls 54, of Earle English Thorn- Corps in England during World after 32 years with Lockheed 44, of Atlanta, on June 19 in Lilburn, Ga., on July 17. He let- well, IM 58, of Atlanta, on Jan. • Fall 2003 War II. He retired from the Georgia Co. Livorno, Italy. He served as a tered in football at Georgia Tech 28. A fourth-generation Atlantan, General Services Administration John Robert Rankin cartographer and fire com- in 1951, 1953 and 1954. He he was the great-grandson of after 35 years of service and III, Cls 42, of Atlanta and Sun mander with the 93rd Chemical practiced with the 1952 national Capt. James W. English, who later worked as a loan officer for City Center, Fla., on May 27. An Mortar Battalion attached to championship squad but was was elected mayor of Atlanta in Tech Topics Topics Tech two credit unions. Army Air Force veteran of World Gen. George Patton’s Third not on the roster because of low 1880 and founded Fourth Frank Coxe Mills Jr., War II, he worked as a stockbro- Army during World War II and grades. In 1954, he made the National Bank. Mr. Thornwell MS AE 47, of Savannah, Ga., on ker and was instrumental in the helped liberate the Buchenwald Southeastern Conference squad was inducted into the Alpha Nu July 8. He served as assistant founding of McNeel, Rankin and concentration camp. In 1950 he with 24 receptions, 270 yards Kappa honor society at Georgia chief of construction for the Co. He retired in 1986 from founded Sasser & Co. and for rushing and four touchdowns. Tech and was a member of Savannah District of the Army Dean Witter Reynolds. more than 20 years directed his He was inducted into the Kappa Sigma social fraternity Corps of Engineers for nearly 20 Stephen M. Richards, firm in mechanical design and Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in and the Ramblin’ Wreck Club. years. He joined the Navy in EE 48, of Tampa, Fla., on June construction of commercial and 1975. Mr. Hair was drafted by After graduation, he served two 1941 and taught at the 12. A member of Tau Beta Pi industrial complexes in Georgia the Los Angeles Rams and years aboard an aircraft carrier Pensacola ground school before engineering society at Georgia and Tennessee. Mr. Sasser later played briefly for the Canadian in the Pacific, then began his embarking on a two-year tour Tech, he served in the European was a founding partner of Football League. Mr. Hair profession in the securities busi- aboard the USS Suwanee. He Theater during World War II as Heritage Commercial Realtors launched his own company, ness and was associated with retired from the Naval Reserve captain of the 123rd Ordnance and managed his family-owned Delta Building Services, in the Montag and Caldwell Inc. Mr. in 1951 as a lieutenant com- Bomb Disposal Squad of the firm, Heritage Investments. early 1970s. Thornwell also operated inns in mander. Mr. Mills taught engi- Third Army and received the Theodore G. Steimer, Claude E. Johnson, EE Lakemont and Clayton, Ga. neering at Clemson and Soldier’s Medal of Valor for CE 41, of Clifton Park, N.Y., on 54, of Huntsville, Ala., on June E. Reynolds Wheeler Georgia Tech, worked for recovering war crime docu- Jan. 15, 2002. He served as a 25. He was retired from the U.S. Jr., IM 50, MS IM 57, of Stone Goodyear in Akron, Ohio, and ments in Czechoslovakia in Navy lieutenant in the Pacific Civil Service. Mountain, Ga., on Dec. 28. An Douglas Aircraft in California 1946. A pioneer in the develop- during World War II. Mr. Steimer Don J. Jones, ME 55, of Air Force veteran, he retired before joining the Army Corps of ment of the Port of Tampa and worked for Republic Aviation Marietta, Ga., on June 21. He from Colonial Stores. He then Engineers in 1962. in the sulphur industry, Mr. Corp., the engineering firm of served in the Army Air Corps put his entrepreneurial skills to Harold A. Montague, Richards served in numerous Voorhees, Walker, Foley and during World War II and while work in a number of successful Arch 44, of Roswell, Ga., on capacities from chief engineer Smith in New York City and as a attending Georgia Tech began a small businesses. He con- May 29. A World War II veteran, to president and was affiliated structural engineer for the New career at Newcomb and Boyd tributed to Roll Call for 51 years he worked for Robert and with Texasgulf Sulphur, Pan York State University Construc- Consulting Engineers that and was a faithful football sea- Company, designing such build- American Sulphur, Port Sutton tion Fund. In retirement, he trav- spanned nearly 48 years until son ticket holder. Survivors ings as Atlanta’s Civic Center Inc., Rivergulf Terminals, Brim- eled to all seven continents. his retirement in 1994. include sons E. Reynolds Auditorium. He hosted Georgia stone Terminals, PakTank Corp., Mitchell L. “Mike” Joseph A. Ogle, MS ME Wheeler III, IM 76, and Bruce Tech graduate students from ThermoTank Terminals and Weiss, Cls 46, of Atlanta, on 55, of San Antonio, on Feb. 26. Rodgers Wheeler, IM 86. Switzerland for 15 years. Pasco Terminals during a career May 14. He attended Georgia Charles W. O’Rear, Text Shepherd Green that spanned from 1949 until Tech until he enlisted in the 56, of Greenville, N.C., on May 1960s “Shep” Pryor III, AE 47, of retirement in 1996. He was a Navy. During World War II, he 5. He was an assistant profes- Atlanta, on May 7. He joined the director of the Tampa Chamber was stationed in the South sor at East Carolina University. James “Jimmy” Oliver Army Air Corps in 1942 and of Commerce and the Tenness- Pacific. He later opened his own James R. Rigby, CE 50, Bradford, CE 63, of Roswell, later served as director of instru- ee Tombigbee Waterways business specializing in com- MS EM 62, of Dunwoody, Ga., Ga., on July 20. ment flight training for the B-25 Authority and a member of the mercial building materials. on June 4. He fought in the Susan Rainey at Blytheville Air Force Base in Florida Waterways Commission. J. Frank Willett, EE 45, Battle of the Bulge in World War Clemmons, IE 68, of Houston, Arkansas. After being promoted Charles S. Roach Sr., of Lexington, Va., on Oct. 11, II and went on to work at on June 2. She was manager of to captain, he transferred to EE 40, of Atlanta, on May 17. He 2002. He served as president of Lockheed. Mr. Rigby retired the G.L. and H.S. Clemmons Arizona for night fighter training served as lieutenant command- the Georgia Tech Alumni from the Fulton County Trust. and to await transfer to the er aboard an oil freighter during Association in 1961-62. Mr. Department of Planning and Jeffrey L. Jenkins, IE Pacific Theater. Mr. Pryor went World War II. Mr. Roach worked Willett also had been president Community Development in 65, of Augusta, Ga., on June 27. on to earn a law degree from as a manufacturer’s agent in the of the Atlanta Georgia Tech 1982. He was preceded in He was the quality assurance the Woodrow Wilson College of electrical industry. Club. As a student, he was run- death by son David L. Rigby, manager for GIW Industries Inc. ner-up to the national collegiate ESM 74. William F. Lord, IM 62, tennis champion for two con- Powell Sheffer, ME 53, of McLean, Va., on May 31. A secutive years. of Augusta, Ga., on June 15. He retired Navy commander who John Bachman Dies had retired as a manager at served in the Vietnam War, Mr. 1950s Babcock & Wilcox. Lord received a degree in com- ohn H. Bachman Jr., CE 62, of Spartanburg, S.C., who John G. Shropshire, IE puter science from the Naval Jserved on the Alumni Association board of trustees from Jack C. Bryant, ChE 53, 58, of Manassas, Va., on July Postgraduate School and 1997 to 2000, died May 23. of Seneca, S.C., on April 26, 10. He was a retired operations attended the Armed Forces He was president of the South Carolina prestress division of 2001. He served in the Marines research analyst for the Staff College. He was commis- Tindall Corp. and had been with the company since 1967. in the Pacific Theater during Department of Defense. sioned in the Navy in 1963 and He served as a lieutenant in the Navy aboard the USS World War II. His career as a Charles Mabry Tanner was a surface warfare officer off Wallace L. Lind and was discharged as a senior lieutenant. He nuclear engineer spanned 40 III, EE 58, of Georgetown, the coast of Vietnam during the worked as a professional engineer in Georgia and was a mem- years. He worked for E.I. Texas, on July 6. He was a Navy war. He later served as a project ber of a number of organizations, including the National Society DuPont at the Savannah River veteran of World War II and the director at the Bureau of Navy of Professional Engineers and the South Carolina Society of Plant, the U.S. Atomic Energy Korean War. He served as a Personnel. Mr. Lord retired from Professional Engineers. Commission and as a senior communications officer aboard the Navy in 1983 and became a Mr. Bachman was a communicant of the Episcopal Church reactor inspector for the Nuclear the destroyer USS Hank and program manager of information of the Advent in Spartanburg and a former member of St. Regulatory Commission. later worked in telecommunica- systems. He retired from Bede’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, where he served as senior Paul Ray Cheney, IE 50, tions for Rockwell International Kathpal Technologies in 2000. warden and treasurer. He also served as treasurer of St. Bede’s of Dawsonville, Ga., on May 19. in Richardson, Texas. Mr. Tanner Rosser A. “Ross” Day School. He served in the Navy aboard volunteered thousands of hours Malone, Arch 60, of St. Survivors include daughter Kim Bachman, Mgt 89. the USS Leon in the Pacific at the Children’s Medical Center Petersburg, Fla., on April 23. He Memorials may be made to the John H. Bachman Jr. Theater during World War II. Mr. in Dallas, St. David’s Hospital in was president and CEO of Endowment Fund in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Cheney retired as an engineer- Austin, Texas, the Georgetown Human Resources Inc. in St. Environmental Engineering. ing consultant in 1992 and later Visitors Center and Georgetown Petersburg and performed with operated an Internet business. Medical Center. the Ross Malone and the burdell 8/7/03 9:02 AM Page 37

37 Tech Topics Massachusetts at Sun Life of 1976 to 1988. After retirement, Georgia Tech, although he did Canada, EDS and at Harvard he continued to teach part time not have a college education. Former FABRAP President, University, where he was a and regularly led summer art After the war, he was offered a Harvard fellow. Mr. Wooden also and design history classes in scholarship to attend Tech, but • Fall 2003 Teacher Bill Finch Dies served as a captain in the Air Europe. Mr. Payne had just fin- turned it down because of fami- Force. ished teaching a course in auto- ly obligations. In 1950, Mr. Smith ames Harrison motive design during the spring bought the patents for a self- J“Bill” Finch, Arch Friends semester. He earned a bache- propelled lawn mower. That 36, the former presi- lor’s degree in industrial design mower became Snapper, and dent of the FABRAP Julia “Judy” Morgan from the University of Cincinnati Mr. Smith designed the first logo architectural firm who Brown, 90, of Atlanta, on July and a master’s in art history — a turtle in top hat, bow tie worked on the design 3. She had worked as a secre- from Emory University. Mr. and spats. Mr. Smith served as of Fulton County tary at the School of Civil Payne came to Tech from a suc- president and CEO of the com- Stadium, the Georgia Engineering. cessful career as an industrial pany until 1979. Power building and Barry W. Crouse, 60, of designer. He worked on the Claudius L. Taylor, 94, Coca-Cola’s head- Atlanta, on March 16. He was teams that designed the of Roswell, Ga., on June 14. A quarters, died July 27. dean of the graduate school at Olympic torches for Atlanta and graduate of Emory University, Mr. Finch, of the Institute of Paper Science Salt Lake City. He designed she married James L. Taylor, a Alpharetta, Ga., was and Technology. He had been electric football games, Char- Georgia Tech chemistry profes- part of the design part of the IPST management Broil grills and the packaging sor. She left her teaching job at team for the Fulton team for 14 years and worked for Chiffon margarine. He also Girls High School in 1942 to County Stadium in to create a dual degree pro- designed the logo for the start a family. Mrs. Taylor was 1960 and went on to gram with Georgia Tech and National Hockey League recruited in 1960 to teach work on more than 60 assisted in the integration of the Players Association. His English at Atlanta’s newest high sports complexes in the United States and Canada, including academic programs. Mr. Crouse Neapolitan Table, a coffee table school, W.F. Dykes. She taught Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium and the home of the New was the faculty adviser to the resembling Neapolitan ice there until 1967. England Patriots. Career projects also included the Five Points Georgia Tech Flying Club and cream, is part of the permanent Azalie Mulkey MARTA station and the headquarter buildings of First National was one of only 300 pilots in the collection of the Art Institute of Williams, 84, of Arlington, Va., Bank and Southern Bell. country with a designation of Chicago. He was awarded fel- on June 7. After retiring from In 1937, Mr. Finch received the Princeton Prize and master certified flight instructor. lowship in the Industrial Design Seydell-Woolley & Co. as a pur- attended graduate classes at Princeton University. He was an He also was active in Society of America in 1988. chasing agent, she worked part associate professor of architecture at Georgia Tech from 1946 Techmasters, the Tech chapter Bill Smith, 90, of time as a secretary at Georgia to 1964. He was awarded the Philip Trammel Shutze Medal as of Toastmasters. He received McDonough, Ga., on June 29. Tech. a distinguished College of Architecture alumnus in 1992. his bachelor’s degree in paper During World War II, he helped Mr. Finch fought in the battle of Iwo Jima and was award- science and engineering from design the Bell Aircraft plant ed the Bronze Star for his World War II service. He received the Rutgers University, his master’s and the interior of the B-29 Legion of Merit for service during the Korean War. He retired as from the University of Maine and Superfortress. Mr. Smith also a colonel after 37 years in the Marine Corps Reserve. a doctorate from Duke taught applied engineering at He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and University. Mr. Crouse also was had served as president of the Atlanta chapter. a veteran of the Army Signal Corps. t’s the way you let your Yo Ishizuka, 45, of Georgia Tech classmates Southern Tradition Band. Mr. Berenato, former Georgia Tech Yokohama, Japan, on June 30 Iknow what you’ve been up to. Malone also was the author of a women’s basketball coach and when a tree limb crushed his The Ramblin’ Roll and TECH TOPICS book, “Tales from Sowega: Old a longtime family friend, deliv- car in Atlanta. A professor of is the best way to keep up with Times There Are Not Forgotten.” ered the eulogy at the memorial industrial engineering at Sophia classmates, roommates and team- He was a member of Chi Phi service. Survivors include wife University in Tokyo, he came to mates, and help them keep up with you. fraternity at Georgia Tech. Janice Morelock Leven, ICS 80. Georgia Tech in May to conduct Whether you’ve made an addition to your family, gotten a research in industrial systems promotion, changed occupations, started a business, written 1970s 1980s engineering. Mr. Ishizuka was a book or won an award, it’s time for you to Bee in Touch. expected to complete his work Foster Edward Brown, Robert Craig Hiers, IM at Tech in early July. He is sur- IE 74, of Houston, on June 20. A 85, of Atlanta, on Feb. 10 of a vived by a wife and two daugh- Who: ______graduate of Harvard Business pulmonary embolism. He was ters in Japan. School, he was president of BP employed by Blockbuster. Ruth Scott Milam, 67, What: ______Solvay Polyethylene North Bruce Richmond, IE 80, of Atlanta, on May 9. She mar- America and had been with the of Kennesaw, Ga., on June 16 ried Edward L. Milam III, Arch ______company for more than 20 of myelodysplastic syndrome. 67, in 1966. Mrs. Milam was the years. He was a managing partner executive assistant to the presi- When: ______Carol Copeland with Accenture and was affiliat- dent of The Foundations, a Crumpler, Biol 79, of ed with the Council of Logistics group of philanthropic organiza- Submitted by: ______Savannah, Ga., on May 18. She Management and the tions including the Robert W. was a homemaker and mother Warehousing Education and Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead, Degree: ______Year: ______of two sons. Survivors also Research Council. He helped Lettie Pate Whitehead, Lettie include her husband, John Paul fund his Georgia Tech educa- Pate Evans and Trebor founda- Phone: (_____) ______E-mail: ______Crumpler, ME 79. tion by building model airplanes tions. Mrs. Milam retired in 2000 Jerry Dean Leven, EE and selling them to hobbyists. after 26 years of service. Her Street: ______78, of Dawsonville, Ga., on June Mr. Richmond went on to win retirement gift from The 13. He was a member of national and international model Foundations was a Georgia City: ______State: _____ ZIP: ______Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He plane flying competitions. Tech Alumni Association cruise began his engineering career Jeffrey L. Wooden, EE through the Caledonian Canal in Clip and Mail To: with NCR in Peachtree City, Ga., 81, of Sutton, Mass., on March Scotland. Ramblin’ Roll, Tech Topics and ended it at Glenayre 30. He was a software project C. Lee Payne Jr., 69, of 190 North Avenue Electronics Inc. in Duluth, Ga., manager at Availant Corp. in Jasper, Ga., on May 10. He Atlanta, GA 30313 where he served as a software Waltham, Mass. He had worked directed the industrial design E-mail: [email protected] engineering manager. Agnus in similar positions in program at Georgia Tech from Tech Topics • Fall 2003 39 ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAC EVANS When I graduated from Tech, I Tech, When I graduated from At one time I worked for Mitel, a the plant’s When I reviewed That first night 25 of us went to I learned several things that day. EE 69, MS Phy Michael E. Murphy, GT received more than 50 job offers — than 50 job offers more received of the textile many of them as a result and ceramics courses I had taken as electives. Canadian company that had automated insertion equipment for printed circuit assemblies in and other front-end cards hav- they were where Shannon, Ireland, Having problem. ing a quality control an Irish name helped get me selected for a two-month assignment in Ireland. that all they I discovered processes, needed was a little feedback to correct It is surprising how many the problem. people do not get feedback so they can make changes. Dirty Nelly’s, one of the best-known I made a big There taverns in Ireland. of drinks. mistake. I bought a round 20- were Later when I was served, there of me. In plus drinks on the bar in front if you buy someone a drink, he Ireland, to buy you feels it is his responsibility an insult if one back. It is considered you don’t drink the one bought for you. People want to do a quality job. Feedback is the key to solving prob- And you should never buy a lems. in an Irish tavern. round 71, lives in Flowery Branch, Ga., and is a information technology con- semi-retired sultant. As a graduate stu- After about 12 hours, and said, “I have a final exam to study for and I don’t have time for a rev- olution.” dent, my final exam in solid state physics under was the last Stanford Dr. one of the week. Dr. told the class he Stanford was going home and us to slide our directed exam papers under his door when we fin- office ished. no one had left the exam I did my best to room. answer all of the ques- I tions because I figured had flunked my term had Stanford Dr. paper. given my paper no grade, got only writing, “You’ve I remember Georgia Tech students Tech Georgia I remember morning in 1969, a One Saturday as a studious bunch. the University of liberal arts major from of the Georgia stood in front Georgia students Library and asked Tech Tech and conduct a to burn their draft cards I’ll of the library. “sit down” in front student who one Tech never forget the protester pushed his way around Still I was to be kidding” on the cover. cannot You the first to leave the class. when I saw the “A” believe my relief next to my student ID. The Georgia Tech Experience Tech The Georgia I lived in the Harris Hall dorm had small We Dean of Students Jim Dull “invit- details, Dean Dull laughed so hard he details, Dean Dull laughed so hard given “Dorm were couldn’t stop. We months and for three Room Probation” had to do our own maid service. ten to the weather reports before climb- before ten to the weather reports ing up the Hill. Maids would year. during my freshman week. once a clean our dorm rooms They had their own keys and would our entering to change knock before bed linens, sweep the floor and dust. with bunk rooms beds, windows that opened but had no and steam screens radiators. One day I decided to surprise my from when he returned roommate class. I had about 20 guys help an inner tube from me stretch the radiator to the doorknob. all hid and waited for my We But we had to return. roommate about the maid. She forgotten opened the door with the master key attached to her clothing and when the door opened, the inner tube snapped loose, catching her keys and ripping The poor maid, stunned and her dress. raced out of the her clothing tattered, screaming. room to explain what had ed” us to his office that we were all figured happened. We out of the dorm. going to be thrown explaining the But when we were

hen I enrolled at Georgia Tech in Tech at Georgia hen I enrolled was an optional two- 1965, there

That two-week period had more Augustus L. and Miller Templeton Phy 61, MS NS 63, was Templeton, playing Stanford Dr. I remember During my time at Tech, It’s funny how much this By Michael E. Murphy Tech was a source of lessons in and out of the classroom of lessons was a source Tech Learning Experience W impact on me than any course I took at in The setting was a campground Tech. The purpose of the orien- Georgia. rural you for was to prepare tation program your first before environment the Tech hats, George class. I learned about RAT fight Tech’s and Georgia Burdell P. the first songs. I will always remember the speaker told meeting where group us to look at the person on your right and the person on the left and realize not complete that they will probably at their college courses to gain a degree Tech. Georgia of the camp- in charge were Stanford building to which I was ground the impact assigned. I didn’t realize these two guys would have on my aca- demic life. An alumnus, my first math instructor. he had enjoyed his time as a student In the instructor. and he was a great knew of late ‘60s everyone at Tech I have never met Miller Templeton. anyone else like him. the guitar as accompaniment songs during the to protest era. He was a War Vietnam teacher of solid state great physics, the smartest person that I have ever met and always a little ahead of his time. was nothing like a trip there up the Hill to help me appre- ciate life. I’ll always remem- a three- toward ber trudging drawing class hour freshman morning and on Saturday asking myself, “Do I really want to do this?” One very cold day when the rain was to my clothes and freezing my face, I crawled up the Hill on the icy sidewalks only to find out that classes had been canceled for the day. experience taught me. When times get tough, I think back on my “Hill which makes a molehill Encounter,” out of any obstacle. I also learned to lis- week orientation program prior to the prior week orientation program start of classes. first person 8/7/03 11:46 AM Page 39 8/7/03 11:46 first person Tech Topics • Fall 2003 41 ANDREW NIESEN If I tell an athlete what to do for four years — e have raised the bar tremendously in the ACC in the e have raised the bar tremendously and now we have to meet that challenge. To We had an excellent recruiting year last year and, had an excellent recruiting We Facing tougher competition will help us recruit, more decisions because, when they graduate, you more want them to be decision makers. when to get up, when to go to bed, what to eat, what to wear — he won’t be a decision maker when he graduates. I want my players to be decision makers in then responsible, the game of life, so if a player proves I want him to participate in the decision-making process. The Atlantic Coast Conference invited the University to join the conference. Tech of Miami and Virginia Tech? How does that affect W succeed we have to be very smart about the young we have to be a junior-senior and people we recruit, have to have good, experienced foot- laden team. We ball players and keep them coming. If you look at the consistency and conti- best college football programs, nuity is their key to success. the nation in our program, around given the interest we’ve got a good chance for another excellent recruit- this year because we be better recruiters We’ll ing year. know what the demands We know the school better. under my a year and what it takes to win. With are and what it belt, I have a better feel for the conference takes to win at this level. so it’s a wash in cer- but the competition will be stiffer going to get a better player but You’re tain respects. it’s going to take a better player and team to win. If we ACC championship, then we put our- can win the selves in a position to win the national championship. The competition will be such that, if you win, you jump right to the top of the heap. an easy major for athletes. offer doesn’t Georgia Tech Can we remain competitive? I look for two things when evaluating an athlete. tionships — the players are not out on their own com- tionships — the players are pletely — and peer issues within the school and the depend on people in the university have to You team. systems — not just in athletics, but support services All these other parts have to do along with academics. for us to do our job. their jobs in order What do you look for when recruiting a student ath- lete at Georgia Tech? don’t think any system of discipline or motivation is have to go with what you You better than another. t’s a lot easier to determine a good student than a students, you get a good With good football player. have been successful with, and through the years, I’ve have been successful with, and through had success explaining what had to be done and hold- ing people accountable to do what must be done. In stay on them that first year college, you have to really you let them make responsible, then, as they prove barometer from his GPA, his SAT or ACT or his or his SAT his GPA, from barometer extracurricular activities. Does he have a full plate or consider all You at home? extenuating circumstances but that and he might not make a 1300 on the SAT, he’s got so many things going on that if he comes here and concentrates on football and academics, he can can also You that fairly well. can gauge You make it. sprint time, his vertical leap, his gauge his 40-yard and how quickly he changes hand-eye coordination but you also have to judge the heart and the direction, mind and mental toughness. That’s the subjective area. That’s always the toughest, no matter the level of play. does he play? When the going gets One, how hard can he make deci- tough, how does he perform? Two, sions at critical points in the game? That’s the key to How does an offensive being a good football player. lineman handle a stunt? Does he go for the right guy? the two biggest criteria as to whether he can These are play football or not. What is your style of discipline and how is it better? I I

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han Gailey, a 29-year veteran of coaching — 13 han Gailey, — pros years in the college ranks and 16 in the head football coach at was named the 11th Chan Gailey There are so many more moving parts in college so many more are There My philosophy has been that you have to earn Communication is a key issue. Our communica- — backgrounds all different Athletes come from

osing those 10 players really hurt us, but you can’t osing those 10 players really for the problem. was only one reason say there do have the same philosophy of player motivation they Guys want to be great, that I had in the pros. By Neil B. McGahee

want to be successful. I don’t see that as being any dif- of them is a dangling in front Maybe the carrot ferent. — in the pros It’s a very tangible carrot little different. they see the dollars and they know if they perform, in college athletics is a The carrot they get the money. of the dream of earning a degree, — the dream dream doing something for family pride and even the dream They can see it, but they can’t of playing in the pros. hold on to it. you have football, then you have football. In the pros, academics, family rela- are football. In college there I

L C How do you motivate college players? Your back- How do you motivate college players? Your ground is more at the pro level. Is there any differ- ence? what you get, but I think we can help an athlete get can get You issues in his classes and in his life. through a player the best schedule and tutoring, but if you don’t stay on top of him on a daily basis — make sure he’s attending class and going to tutoring and doing the things that give him the opportunity to succeed — he may fail. It’s an issue of coaches knowing exactly the student athletes stand academically and where day one to exactly what they’ve got to do to get from graduation day. with the aca- greatly tion this summer has improved hoping to find ways to are demic support people. We with our faculty. better establish relationships every time. you can’t fit them into the same square Our student athletes have so much on their plates that I hope we just dealing with daily issues is a struggle. with the academic side so they relationships can create anyone. We’re not trying to strong-arm can see we’re out to help these guys get a degree. Eleven student athletes, including 10 football play- ers, were declared academically ineligible for the 2003 season and have been dismissed from school until next spring. What happened? Georgia Tech in December 2001. Gailey, former offen- in December 2001. Gailey, Tech Georgia a Dolphins, endured for the Miami sive coordinator by injuries. Despite inaugural season, marred rocky was optimistic as of a dismal fall, Gailey predictions season. he talked about football and the coming yellow jackets 8/7/03 8:33 AM Page 41 8/7/03 yellow jackets yellow jackets 8/7/03 8:33 AM Page 42

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• Fall 2003 I all the tools available for earning his degree. It would Atlanta Falcons All-Pro linebacker be an easy thing to create an easy degree, but then you Keith Brooking, Cls 98 dilute the degrees of all those who came before. Tech is not for everybody. We’ve always been about academic Tech Topics Tech quality. Tech has carved a niche for itself in academia to be the very best in the world. It’s the same for football — the goal is the national championship. That’s why you lift weights every day, why you run in 100-degree weather. You plan to win. I’m always asked to predict wins and losses. I always say the same thing — 13-0. If you don’t have those expectations, why play the game?

Tech did not play well last year in the Georgia game or the Silicon Valley Classic. What happened? irst of all, I am responsible for each game, so it is Fmy fault how we played in those games. Last year I took some things for granted about our work ethic. I assumed some things were in place in regard to men- tal toughness and I assumed incorrectly. Football is a tough game for tough people and we have to work on Going Pro toughness — mental and physical. Each game is a fight for 60 minutes, and I assumed the players under- Tech athletes continue heritage stood that. I won’t assume that anymore. We will fashion our work ethic and our practices of playing professional sports to make sure that we know what it will take to be suc- cessful. We will continually talk about it — not just for By Neil B. McGahee Former Jackets have also done well on the base- 60 minutes — but for 12 or 13 games. You can’t play ball diamond. one good game then relax. Toughness has to become a Following Georgia Tech’s 1900 baseball season, way of life. fter stellar athletic careers at Georgia Tech, pitcher Weldon Henley signed a contract with Connie A lot of players understand that but they aren’t more than 400 Yellow Jacket athletes have Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics, becoming the first Tech conditioned to do it. That’s why we tackle every day Agone on to play the games they love for a liv- athlete to play a professional sport. Four years later, we legally can in spring drills, that’s why we run ing. More than 80 of those are playing professionally he made more history when he pitched the first no- Oklahoma drills. We have to do a better job of disci- now. hitter for the fledgling A’s. pline and that’s the job of the coaches and the players. “Given the athletic heritage of Georgia Tech, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that so many of Tech has sent 133 players to baseball’s profes- sional ranks since Henley signed his contract. You said that you intend to simplify the offense. Are our athletes go on to professional careers,” athletics Currently, 29 former Jackets appear on major and we talking 3 yards and a cloud of dust? director Dave Braine said. “It reflects well on the minor league rosters. implifying the offense will allow us to be a better- excellent preparation given them by our coaches.” Kevin Brown, Cls 83, was a first-team All- disciplined football team. We will be closer to 3 “Indian Joe” Guyon, an All-American running S American pitcher for Tech in the 1980s after joining yards and a cloud of dust than five wides every snap. back on Tech’s 1917 national championship team, was the Jackets as a walk-on. The 6-4, 200-pound right- Nothing is set in stone. We’ll have to play percent- the first Yellow Jacket football player to reach the hander is a starter for the L.A. Dodgers. He is one of ages, not high-risk plays. That tends to eliminate pros, playing for the 1920 Canton Bulldogs in Ohio five players in major-league history to represent four flashy five-wide, triple-option, reverses and reverse alongside the legendary Jim Thorpe. Since then 214 different teams in the All-Star Game. When the passes. It’s going to be a more conservative offense at more Jackets have followed him into pro football. Dodgers signed Brown in 2000, his $15 million salary times. Twenty-two Tech football players currently play was the highest ever paid in Major League Baseball. The objective is to win the game, so sometimes for professional teams. Another All-American, outfielder Jay Payton, Cls you take a military approach — you use tanks or Two former Yellow Jackets — Jason Bostic, Cls 95, was a first-round draft pick of the New York Mets infantry or the Air Force. There are a lot of different 99, and Joe Burns, Cls 02 — play for the Buffalo Bills in 1994 and maintained a respectable .278 batting ways to win the battle, so you try to pick what your of the National Football League. average over five years. Payton was traded to the team does best and exploit those advantages and your All-Pro linebacker Keith Brooking, Cls 98, was Colorado Rockies at the end of the 2001 season and opponent’s disadvantages. the first player from the state of Georgia ever selected as a first-round draft pick by the Atlanta Falcons. he hit .335 with eight homers and 28 RBIs. After 43 years as a player and manager in the Has any decision been made concerning a starting Tech’s all-time leading tackler has played five seasons Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves minor league sys- quarterback? for the Birds. Another Tech linebacker, Recardo tems, shortstop Bobby Dews, Cls 61, can be found ight now it looks like we may be playing a Wimbush, Cls 03, is also a Falcon. coaching the bullpen for the Braves. Pitcher Darren younger quarterback. If we do, a young quarter- Former Jackets Kelly Campbell, Cls 02, Nick R Bragg, Cls 91, a 1990 All-American selection, also back can only handle so much offense. As he expands Rodgers, Cls 01, and John Carmen, Cls 00, play for plays for Atlanta. his capabilities, you expand your offensive weapons. the Minnesota Vikings, and Dez White, Cls 01, plays Cam Bonifay, IM 74, is director of scouting and That’s true for all positions. If you have a strong offen- for the Chicago Bears in the NFL North Division. player personnel for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He sive line, then you make sure you capitalize on it. If Other NFL players include Felipe Claybrooks, was inducted into the Tech Hall of Fame in 1988. you have a strong tight end, you utilize him. Cls 00, Cleveland; Marco Coleman, Cls 92, Jacksonville; Dorsey Levens, Mgt 94, New York After graduating, Bonifay played minor-league ball for a year in the St. Louis Cardinals system, then How do you feel about the 2003 season? Giants; Charlie Rogers, Cls 99, Miami; Travares landed a job scouting for the Cincinnati Reds and ’m excited about the future here at Tech. I’m always Tillman, Cls 00, Houston; Rodney Williams, Cls 99, later for the Cardinals. one who’s looking at the positive and looking ahead. Seattle; and Chris Young, Cls 02, Nick Ferguson, Cls I The Pittsburgh Pirates hired him in 1988 to be Learn from what happened in the past and move on. 97, and Lee Flowers, Cls 95, Denver. director of scouting. In 1993, he was named general At some point you have to trust that we’ll get the job Will Heller, Cls 02, and Marvious Hester, Cls 02, manager and remained in that position until 2001, done. We can’t afford to have the same amount of signed free-agent contracts with Tampa Bay, Kerry when he joined the Devil Rays. injuries we had last year. That will really take its toll. Watkins, Cls 03, is with the New England Patriots and Former Tech teammates Nomar Garciaparra, Cls We don’t have the depth now with the missing play- Luke Manget, HTS 03, is vying for a place kicking 95, and Jason Varitek, Cls 94, anchor the infield for the ers, but we’re optimistic about some young players spot with the New Orleans Saints. stepping in to contribute early. yellow jackets 8/7/03 8:33 AM Page 43

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Boston Red Sox. Garciaparra, only the fourth Tech player ever to reach 100 hits in a season, plays short- Former Pirates GM Enjoys Scouting for Tampa Bay • Fall 2003 stop, while Varitek, a three-time All-American selec- tion and Baseball America’s 1993 College Player of the By Gary Libman pitcher for the American League in this year’s All- Year, is catcher. Varitek is the only Tech baseball play- Star game, through a working agreement with the er whose number has been retired. am Bonifay, IM 74, spent 19 consecutive days Mexico City Reds. The only thing I said when I left Infielder Mark Teixeira, Cls 02, a first-team All- Con the road this summer evaluating amateur was to truly evaluate (me), pull out both sides of American selection and Baseball America’s 2000 and minor league baseball players for the Tampa the ledger — the plus moves and the minus College Player of the Year, was the fifth pick overall Bay Devil Rays. moves.” by the Texas Rangers in the 2001 Major League The team’s director of player personnel and Five months after his dismissal, Bonifay Baseball draft. After a year spent in the minors, he scouting visited six cities from North Carolina to joined Tampa Bay as director of player personnel. has moved up to the major-league roster. California as part of a six-month stretch on the He added the job of director of scouting in August Kris Wilson, Cls 98, a 1997 All-American selec- road and away from his wife and children 80 per- 2002. His son, Jonathan, 28, scouts for the team. tion, is a right-handed pitcher for the Kansas City cent of the time. Bonifay has been evaluating players since he Royals. He came to Georgia Tech on a football schol- “I have two functions,” Bonifay said by phone became a part-time scout for the St. Louis arship to play quarterback, but was redshirted as a while traveling from North Carolina to South Cardinals in 1976 and has seen thousands of freshman and decided to concentrate on baseball. Carolina. “As head of the scouting department, I games. Marlon Byrd, Cls 99, plays outfield for the have to get ready for the amateur player draft in “I don’t get tired of watching, and when I’m Philadelphia Phillies, pitcher Doug Creek, Cls 91, April and May, so I travel across the country there, the games are very interesting,” he said. plays for the Toronto Blue Jays and pitcher David watching high school and college players, usually “But I do try to not watch and break away for a Elder, Cls 98, is with the Cleveland Indians. in a different city every day. few days.” The minors are loaded with Tech talent. Jason “Then after the draft it’s out to see the minor Bonifay said he’s always loved athletics and Basil, Cls 01, plays third base for the Kane County league teams that we have, and of course seeing industries involved with sports, perhaps because Cougars (Oakland A’s), Kevin Cameron, Cls 02, is a tournaments to get ready for next year’s draft. So his father, Bob, was a general manager in the right-handed pitcher for the Quad City River Bandits it’s a continuous cycle of evaluation.” minor leagues. (Minnesota Twins) and Chris Goodman, Cls 03, pitch- Despite the grueling schedule, and being Cam Bonifay nurtured that love at Mark es for the Arizona Royals (Kansas City Royals). Third away from the three of his six children who still Smith High School in Macon and at Georgia Tech, baseman Heath Honeycutt, Cls 99, a 1998 All- live at home, the former Pittsburgh Pirates general where the first and third baseman followed his American third team selection, plays for the Potomac manager said he enjoys what he’s doing and feels brothers Ken, IE 68, and Brannon, IM 71. Cannons (Cincinnati Reds) along with Tech team- no need to run another team. As a freshman Bonifay played first base while mates Steve Kelley, Cls 02, and Brian Prince, Cls 02. Bonifay, 51, said he’d return to the spotlight as Brannon, a senior, played third for the Yellow Richard Lewis, Cls 01, plays second for the a general manager only if the team could spend Jackets team that reached the NCAA regional Greenville Braves (Atlanta Braves), Victor Menocal, enough to be successful. playoffs. Cam was also a place-kicker for the foot- Cls 02, plays shortstop for the Lakewood Blue Claws “From 1993 to 1998, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ ball team that appeared in the Peach Bowl his (Philadelphia Phillies) and right-hander Andy (player) payroll did not increase to more than $24 sophomore year and the following season defeat- Mitchell, Cls 01, pitches for the Frederick Keys million,” he said. “We went down to $9 million in ed Iowa State in the Liberty Bowl. (Baltimore Orioles). Corey Vance, Cls 01, and David ‘97. Meanwhile, the other teams were paying from Bonifay played one more year before graduat- Newhan, Cls 96, play for the Colorado Springs Sky $32 million to $100 million or more. So I was ing with a degree in industrial management. Sox (Colorado Rockies) and Rhett Parrott, Cls 02, a caretaker to an organization undergoing That summer he played minor league base- pitches for the Tennessee Smokies (St. Louis change, but not moving forward with ball. Cardinals). the rest of the industry.” From 1976-87 he held scouting posi- Matt Murton, Cls 04, plays for the Lowell When he was fired as general man- tions for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Spinners (Boston Red Sox), Tyler Parker, Cls 03, is a ager in June 2001, midway through the Cardinals before spending 1987-88 as an catcher with the Peoria Chiefs (St. Louis Cardinals) Pirates ninth consecutive losing season, assistant coach at Georgia Tech. and Jeff Watchko, Cls 03, pitches for the Casper some reporters criticized Bonifay’s trades Later in 1988 he joined the Pirates Rockies (Colorado Rockies). Jason Perry, Cls 03, is and free agent signings. and worked as director of scouting with the Modesto A’s (Oakland A’s) and infielder “All I know,” Bonifay said and became general manager Matthew Boggs, TFE 01, plays for the Florence two years later, “is that it’s in 1993. Freedom of the Independent League. very easy to make more deci- Even with limited In 1949, the Philadelphia Warriors of the fledg- sions that can be successful if resources, he achieved at ling National Basketball Association signed Tech bas- you have a higher payroll. least one major success. The ketball star Jim Nolan. Since then, 40 Tech men and There were some decisions I Sporting News named him one woman have moved up to the pros. made that didn’t turn out to Major League Executive Kenny Anderson, Cls 93, one-third of Tech’s be worth a darn, but there of the Year in 1997 when “Lethal Weapon 3,” which included Dennis Scott, Cls were some fine trades and fine the Pirates, with only a 91, and Brian Oliver, Cls 90, begins his 12th year in decisions made while I was $9 million payroll, the NBA as a point guard for the New Jersey Nets, general manager. remained in the division while Jon Barry, Cls 93, begins his 11th as a guard for “I traded for Jason race until the final three the Detroit Pistons. Guard Travis Best, Cls 95, was Schmidt, the starting pitcher games of the season. traded to Miami by Chicago in the offseason. for the National League in this “It’s impossible (to win Jason Collier, Cls 02, a 7-foot center, patrols the year’s All-Star game,” Bonifay a division with that level of lane for the Houston Rockets, Matt Harpring, Mgt 97, said. “And I was able to obtain payroll),” Bonifay said, “but MS Mgt 98, Tech’s second all-time scorer and Esteban Loaiza, the starting we almost pulled it off.” rebounder, is a forward with the Utah Jazz and Stephon Marbury, Cls 99, runs the point for the Phoenix Suns. Georgia Tech and golf have been linked since Fourteen Tech track athletes have competed pro- All-American forward Tom Hammonds, Mgt 89, Bobby Jones, ME 22, was a golf sensation. He went fessionally in meets in the United States and Europe. played in the NBA fast lane for 13 years before mov- on to win the 1930 “Grand Slam” as an amateur and David Krummenaker, Mgt 98, is currently competing ing on to a faster lane — as a 200-mph pro-stock drag is regarded by many as the greatest golfer in history. in the 800 and 1,500 meters, while Angelo Taylor, Cls racer in National Hot Rod Association competition. Nine Tech golfers — Stewart Cink, Mgt 95; 00, America’s gold medalist at the 2000 Sydney Tech alumna Kisha Ford, Mgt 98, the all-time Michael Clark, Mgt 92; David Duval, Cls 93; Tripp Olympics, runs the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. leading scorer in women’s basketball history, played Isenhour, Mgt 90; Matt Kuchar, Mgt 00; Bryce Molder, Two women compete on the pro circuit — Lynn in the WNBA from 1997 to 2002 for the New York Mgt 01; Troy Matteson, CE 03; Matt Weibring, Mgt 02; Houston, IE 99, MS IE 00, in the high jump and Liberty and the Miami Sol. and Kris Mikkelsen, Mgt 02 — play on the PGA tour. Natasha Alleyne Gibson, Mgt 02, in the triple jump. yellow jackets 8/7/03 8:33 AM Page 45

45 Tech Topics Coaches Applaud 70 Percent Graduation Backup tight end Brian Lee (No. 88) defends Georgia Tech’s football program has No Pro the quarterback during the 2002 season. • Fall 2003 been recognized by the American Football Coaches Association for graduat- Contract ing 70 percent or better of its freshman Georgia Tech degree class. Tech is one of 32 Division I-A schools honored nationally. is Yellow Jacket’s reward “Academic achievement for our stu- dent athletes has always been our priority By Michelle Hiskey at Tech,” athletics director Dave Braine said. “This honor confirms our commit- rian Lee graduated from ment to their success.” Georgia Tech on May 3 without The study involved the freshman much fanfare. His shining class from the 1997-98 academic year, B moment on the football field came including those who entered but did not three years ago, a last-minute touch- receive financial aid until after their initial down catch to beat Central Florida. year, or who transferred from another Lee doesn’t have a pro contract. institution and subsequently received a He has been a backup tight end, a grant-in-aid. role player counted on by his team The overall graduation rate of the but seldom noticed by outsiders. 102 Division I-A schools that responded Also easily overlooked among was 59 percent. the hype of draft day and other ACC Expands to 11 players’ NFL The Atlantic Coast Conference signing bonuses expanded its league to 11 with the addi- is the increasingly tion of football powers Miami and Virginia valuable reward Tech. Lee received on In May the ACC approached Big graduation day: a East Conference members Boston virtually free col- College, Miami and Syracuse about join- lege degree. ing the ACC. The remaining Big East His story is schools — Connecticut, Rutgers, one you don’t usually hear about. Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Virginia Only 2 percent of college football Tech — filed suit to stop the move. players ever get a pro paycheck. A Boston College and Syracuse were diploma is the biggest payback most first Lees to get a degree. His out-of- move into his first apartment. He later dropped from consideration in favor players will receive from their athletic state scholarship totaled $93,200 for only owns a TV, clothes, a bed and of Virginia Tech after the University of skills. tuition, room, food and books. If he the computer Tech gives its students. Virginia lobbied vigorously for its archrival Lee owes no bank for his man- had worked a minimum-wage job, he Lee plans to scavenge yard sales for to be admitted. agement degree. It’s a piece of paper would have had to put in 60 hours a furniture. He’s trying to budget to Miami, a Big East member since more valuable now because of the week for five years to make that buy a used truck. He has been driv- 1991, weighed counteroffers, but finally enormous debt facing most students much, before taxes. ing his grandparents’ 1991 Olds, with opted to jump to the ACC. today — nearly $17,000 in federal Starting out what he calls “real 135,000 miles, no air conditioning “We have raised the bar tremen- loans for each undergraduate bor- life,” Lee is better off than the aver- and front windows that don’t roll dously in the ACC and now we have to rower in 2000, according to the Public age college student who carries down. meet that challenge,” football coach Chan Interest Research Group. The average $2,748 in credit card debt, according Lee left with grueling memories Gailey said. “Facing tougher competition student debt for Georgia was $9,041 to the Credit Education Bureau. Lee of earning his education: two-a-day is good.” last year, a figure that is rising, has about $2,000 on his credit card, workouts in the summer, the 5:45 according to the Georgia Student but plans to pay that off quickly. a.m. winter workouts on frost, the 1.1 MVP Leads Academics Finance Commission. Lee already has started his job as GPA his first semester (a B, a C and Alumnus James Stevens began work For young adults like Lee, 23, an a unit manager for Waffle House. two Fs) that he managed to bring up July 1 as director of Academic Services athletics scholarship always has been Anyone inclined to pooh-pooh that to a 2.1. His resume states that he put for the Athletic Association. valuable, as measured in dollars and prospect should consider this: Even in 65 hours a week in football duties A former Tech football and baseball pride. during this economy, Lee will make from August through bowl season. standout, Stevens, IM 75, has been a pro- His family couldn’t afford the nearly $45,000 managing his own in- The combination of school and sports fessor of aerospace studies at the cost of higher education. “I’d have town store. is hard at Tech. Of 14 guys in his Institute for the past three years and com- needed loans if I went to junior col- “It really fit well from where I recruiting class, he said, only half mander of the Air Force ROTC. lege,” he said. come from and my work ethic,” Lee made it this far. He was recruited as Carole Moore, who formerly directed His mom is a secretary in said. “It’s a blue-collar job with the top tight end in Alabama in 1997. the academic services program, returns Florence, Ala., and his dad works for white-collar pay.” Waffle House CEO Lee moved into his new place to full-time academics as a special assis- the city’s electricity department. Lee Joe Rogers Jr., IM 68, started at the with a bunch of memorabilia — jer- tant to the vice provost. is an only child. “We didn’t have same level. His father, Joe Rogers Sr., seys from five bowls, a game ball President Wayne Clough praised enough money for me to be spoiled,” founded the chain with a partner. from last season, his framed recruit- Moore for significantly improving academ- he said. “When you can’t afford the Lee feels fortunate starting out ment letter. His first house, he says, ic advising services during her tenure Happy Meal at McDonald’s all the debt free. He knows students who will have a room just for all this. through improved graduation rates, high- time, that makes you hungry for suc- owe five-figure amounts. “I can’t “This is something my kids and er GPAs and sustained academic cess in a way that can’t be simulated imagine being in that position,” he grandkids can be proud of,” he said. progress for student athletes. by anything else. I wouldn’t trade said. “I get to make money for His diploma will shine in its Stevens was quarterback under foot- that for anything. It’s put me right myself, not make it to give to some- frame, the most valuable prize he ball coach Bill Fulcher in 1972 and ’73 where I sit now.” one else.” ever got from football. and was named the most valuable player His extended family drove four After the commencement cere- ©2003 The Atlanta Journal- in the 1972 Liberty Bowl. He also played hours to see him become one of the mony, Lee’s mom, Terri, helped him Constitution. 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GARY MEEK Career Roundtable Entrepreneurial networking session draws young alumni

By Neil B. McGahee “I went to the recruiters and consulting tables. I think the recruiting discussion ore than 80 recent Georgia was most helpful because they had a lot Tech graduates attended the of good information on how to meet MYoung Alumni Career recruiters, ways to format our Roundtable and Networking session resumes.” July 17 sponsored by the Alumni A small sea of faces surrounded Association. A spin-off of the popular entrepreneur Leland Strange, founder Executive Network for older graduates, of Peachtree Software, as he talked the session was targeted for Tech alum- about the differences between corporate ni who have “gotten out” since 1996. jobs and entrepreneurial ones. “We were delighted with the “I’ve literally been an entrepreneur turnout,” Jennifer Gillilan, Mgt 93, all my life, even while I was at Tech,” director of career development, said. he explained. “I have started more than “We expect to make this a quarterly 20 businesses, everything from a little event.” sandwich shop to manufacturing to Networkers participated in round- software development. table discussions in entrepreneurship, “In entrepreneurship, you have to working at a start-up company, consult- be willing to take a chance. Ideas are a ing, using a headhunter, making a dime a dozen — people come to see us career change and pursuing an MBA. all the time with ideas, but few have Experienced senior alumni moder- the gumption to go ahead and make ated discussions in which their younger something of it.” counterparts answered questions, Jerald Gaines, ME 02, a consultant shared career opportunities and dis- with DeLoitte Consulting in Atlanta, cussed challenges in building new wanted information on seeking an careers. MBA. “This was a wonderful situation “I really got a lot of information Entrepreneur Leland Strange discusses business strategy at the Young Alumni Career that allowed our newer alums to pair from some of my peers,” he said. “A lot Roundtable and Networking session on July 17 sponsored by the Alumni Association. with the older, more experienced ones,” of the alumni are trying to do the same Gillilan said. “We plan to analyze the thing I want to do. That’s inspiring.” clearer perspective on just what is Manas Tungare, CS 03, between round- feedback we’re getting from the partici- Gina Hafez, IE 01, is also interested involved.” table sessions. pants so we can tailor the programs to in an MBA. Two alumni discovered a possible “We want to automate the process even better meet their needs.” “I came to the session with a cyni- working relationship while attending as much as possible,” Bury explained. Sarah Trbavich, EE 02, attended the cal mind-set, but this is a great opportu- the sessions. “Right now we’re working out of file session to test the job market by talking nity to get information from other peo- Rob Bury, Mgt 03, works at a real cabinets. I found out in conversation to other alumni as well as the speakers. ple,” she said. “I want to pursue an estate development firm in Atlanta and with Manas that he has been develop- “I want to see where the markets MBA in entrepreneurship and the is searching for a way to streamline the ing software to do exactly what we are going and where I fit in,” she said. workshop made me focus and get a bid process for contractors. He met need. We’ll be talking soon.”

Program for Top-level Executives Wins Top National Award

he Georgia Tech Alumni Executive Network, an development for the Alumni Association, said the mented by industry or profession for structured net- Tinnovative new career assistance program devel- Executive Network is aimed at a highly specific working activities. In addition, geographic-based oped by the Alumni Association’s Career group of career executives. groups of six to 10 alumni, led by a trained facilita- Development department, has captured a national “We are seeing more and more of our senior- tor, meet across the metro area every month for job- Seal Of Excellence Award in Alumni Relations from level alumni who have been affected by corporate seeking alumni who need the regular support of the Council for the Advancement and Support of downsizing and related layoffs,” Gillilan said. “We other alumni in a small group setting. Education. realized the value of networking for those at the Karl Paul, IM 69, who joined the Alumni The program, which started in July 2002, is executive level and decided the best resource we Association as assistant executive director for aimed at career executives with a minimum of 15 could provide for them was each other — helping Alumni Career Development, Human Resources years of experience who graduated from Georgia them connect with alumni with their same level of and Alumni Relations in August, was instrumental Tech in or before 1988. experience. After the first meeting of the Executive in the formation of the group. The CASE Circle of Excellence Awards recog- Network, the demand and interest was so signifi- “We had about 110 people at the first meeting nize “top alumni programs nationwide that can be cant that we made it a monthly program.” and have had an average of over 80 at each subse- used as models for other institutions,” said Robert L. At the Executive Network’s monthly meeting, quent meeting,” Gillilan said. Hall, IM 64, past president of the Georgia Tech guest speakers are brought in to discuss career-relat- She added that some alumni have secured six- Alumni Association. ed topics appropriate for senior level executives. figure jobs through networking with Georgia Tech Jennifer Gillilan, Mgt 93, director of career Afterward, participants break into small groups seg- alumni. GT