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www.coa.gatech.edu Collegenewsletter of Architecture e winterc2003h r i 5 c a t6 7 ARCHITECTURE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY/MUSIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING CONTINUING EDUCATION INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PH.D. PROGRAM 8 9 10 Letter from the Dean as both a student and an alumna, has been an important leader and driving supporter of the College; and Paula Stevenson Humphreys (Textile Engineering) and Teresa While encouraging, we obviously have a Thomas (Chemical Engineering), who were ways to go. To this end, it is critical that we the first female members of the Georgia Tech increase the gender and racial diversity of the Band in 1954. faculty. Today, of the six academic program e Clearly today, Georgia Tech is not your directors of the College, three are women. mother’s university. This College has become The new faculty members for this year are increasingly diverse in its student body, its all women and/or minority individuals. Also, This year, Georgia Tech is celebrating faculty, and its alumni. A few numbers will while our undergraduate minority student “50 Years of Women at Tech” by recognizing help illustrate the point. This past fall, 946 population this year is nearly 20 percent and the important contributionsu Georgia Tech students enrolled in the College—626 under- our graduate minority student population is women have made to the Institute and its graduate students and 320 graduate students. about 41 percent, the College still must reputation worldwide. This issue of the College Nearlye 46 percent of these undergraduate increase its recruitment of African American, of Architecture newsletter not only offers a students and 40.9 percent of the graduate Hispanic, and Native American students. cbroad ranget of stories on our faculty, staff, students were woman with an overall College We ask for the support of all our alumni students, alumni, and friends, it also raises average of 44.1 percent of female students. and friends in advancing the diversity of the question of how well the College is doing Of course, female participation in the student objectives of the College and Georgia Tech. in fashioning the diversity of our programs, body has varied by program. Over the past especially with respect to gender diversity. three or four years, participation rates of As you will see in the various storiesr in female students have been as follows: Sincerely, this vein, we have spotlighted alumnae like Merrill Elam, a 1971 graduate of our ■ Architecture undergraduates have ranged Architecture Program, who holds international from 41 to 47 percent per year and gradu- standing in the architectural community; ates students from 31 to 39 percent; Thomas D. Galloway, Ph.D., AICP the late Thera H. Richter, the first female ■ Building Construction undergraduates Dean and Professor graduate from our City Planning Program and graduates students have been fairly in 1959; Professor Terri Laurenceau, whom constant at 20 to 21 percent per year; we recruited to Tech in 1999 for our ■ Industrial Design undergraduates have Industrial Design Program and who presently been fairly steady at 50 percent, climbing chairs the College Committee on Diversity; last year to 58 percent with its graduate Brenda Stokes, who graduated from the student body at approximately 40 percent; Building Construction Program in 1998 and, ■ City and Regional Planning graduates have ranged from 45 to 50 percent during the past two or three years. snap shots As a part of the campus-wide Family Weekend, the College of Architecture hosted a Parent’s Day Reception last October in the College atrium. At the reception, parents interacted with College faculty and staff and were able to view studio projects recently completed by the common first year, junior, and sophomore studios. 2 College of Architecture Newsletter 2003 College News Dean Galloway presents Tim Jackson joins College’s Georgia Tech selects new director keynote speech at 2002 Development Council for Music Department CIB Conference in Tokyo Tim Jackson, president Frank L. Clark, former Dean Thomas D. Galloway presented the keynote of Glatting Jackson chair of the Department speech at the 2002 CIB Conference in Tokyo, Japan Kercher Anglin Lopez of Music at the University last September. The theme of the 2002 conference Reinhart, Inc. recently of South Alabama (USA) was Urban Regeneration and Placemaking in the joined the College’s in Mobile, has been Twenty-First Century. The conference featured inter- Development Council, appointed professor and national speakers who described current research an advisory board com- director of the Music on a wide range of topics regarding this theme, prised of distinguished Department. He began not only industrial revitalization, but also improving alumni and friends. Aug. 1, 2002. quality of life, developing neighborhoods, achieving Tim Jackson earned “We’re excited about cultural diversity, and also succeeding sustainable his Bachelor of Civil Dr. Clark’s appointment, development associated with promoting public Engineering degree at Georgia Tech in 1978 and his and we look forward to his leadership,” said involvement and participation. Master of City Planning at Georgia Tech in 1981. Dean Thomas Galloway. “His passion for music In his keynote presentation, Dean Galloway Glatting Jackson is a 100-person consulting firm and technology should be an invaluable strength discussed the new realities of urban regeneration that provides community planning services from for our students, many of whom share the same and place making in the United States with a offices in Orlando, West Palm Beach, and Atlanta. such passion.” focus on Atlanta. He spoke about the principles Jackson has been with the firm since 1986. Clark joined the faculty of USA in 1992. governing regional growth patterns in the United Previously, he was a Senior Associate with Post, He served as acting chair of the University’s States, and implications for design, planning, and Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan; the parking manager Department of Music between 1996 and 1999, construction education. for the City of Savannah, Georgia; and an engineer when he was appointed full chair. While in Mobile, Although CIB is the acronym of the former for Foxworth Associates, Inc., in Decatur, Georgia. Clark coordinated USA’s music theory courses and French name for the organization, Conseil He has more than twenty-two years of experi- helped to design, install, develop, and supervise a International du Batiment, (English translation: ence in transportation planning, including multi- multimedia Musical Instrument Digital Interface lab International Council for Building), the council is modal planning, traffic impact studies, financial and classroom. now called International Council for Research and planning, corridor studies, and environmental Previously, Clark was a department coordinator Innovation in Building and Construction; however, documents, particularly focused on integrated land at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, it is still referred to as CIB. use, urban design, and transportation. He currently between 1983 and 1986. He also was an assistant serves as president of 1000 Friends of Florida, professor at Pacific University in Forest Grove, a not-for-profit group that advocates for smart Oregon, from 1986 to 1990. Between 1990 and growth throughout Florida. 1992, Clark was an assistant professor at the College of Architecture Dean Galloway established the Development University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, where Council in 1994 with thirteen members. Over the he taught music theory, conducted a jazz band participants mentor middle years, the size of the Council has grown and now and helped to design and develop the University’s and high school students has thirty-five members who are distinguished pro- Arts Resources Technology/Computer Assisted fessional and community leaders. In accordance Training Laboratory. with the College’s long-range strategies for academ- Clark is a member of the Technology Institute ic excellence, the group serves as a sounding board for Music Educators’ National Advisory Board for the Dean in an advisory capacity as well as the and is among the presenters in the College Music central fundraising arm of the college. Society’s Speakers Bureau. He frequently addresses the topics of multimedia applications, the growth of music technology, and the use of such technology in the music studio. In 1980, Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, California. The next year, he earned a master’s degree in French horn performance at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Arizona in 1990. Children navigate “Safety Town” to prepare for back to school safety. In Memory For the fourth year in a row, College of Architecture faculty, staff, and students volunteered to assist the Former Architecture Professor George Ramsey dies CHEM LABS of America, a community leadership laboratory, with program and design assistance. George Ramsey, a former architecture professor, died January 11, 2003 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he This year’s project, Zone Safety Atlanta, was designed had retired. Ramsey was a professor for twenty years, primarily at Georgia Tech, where he joined the to prepare youths for back to school safety. Architecture faculty in 1970 under the direction of P.M. Heffernan. The project featured an 8,000 square foot Professor Ramsey received a grant from the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture “Safety Town,” enabling the youths to practice to teach graduate courses in energy conservation and environmental design. He was an inspirational pedestrian, bicycle, and stranger safety. The actual teacher who instilled in his students a respect for the ethical role of architecture in creating sustainable model of Safety Town was designed and construct- futures. His students won numerous prizes, including National American Institute of Architects awards ed by more than sixty local middle school and high for passive solar designs and an award from Mother Earth News for the design of a self-sufficient village.