I May-June,
1936
T H E GEORGIA TECH
Alumni Enjoy Annual Smoker A large number of Atlanta and visiting alumni greatly enjoyed the annual smoker of the alumni association as held at the Capital City Club on the night of Thursday, March 26. These highly entertaining and good fellowship gatherings have won a big place in the interests of the alumni and it was planned to hold them more frequently in the future. Regent "Red" Barron and Coach Alexander were the only ones called on for a few informal remarks and their brief and interesting statements were quite in keeping with the occasion. Alumni, dating from 1894, represented by Ferd Kaufman, down to the very recent years of which Billy Wardlaw III, Ed Van Winkle, Charlie Griffin and Al Holder may be cited as examples, were unanimous in voting for the continuation of the affairs when the matter was presented to them by Frank Spratlin at the conclusion of the festivities. Football heroes of every era were present. Once again, Ferd Kaufman provided the starting point, Ferd having played as a lineman in the year '94. Other notables on hand included Everett Strupper, the galloping ghost of '17; George McCarty, '08; Bob Lang, famous guard of '16; Ben Sinclair, a whirlwind tackle for five years from '07 to '12; Henry Granger, the huge tackle of '25, now connected with the Coca-Cola Company in Fort Wayne, Ind.; Froggy Morrison, now Major Morrison, of the Tech R. O. T. C., the star quarterback of '16; Roy Goree, who made football history in '12; Red Barron, a five-year star who finished in '22, and who now is one of the state's leading educators, having been named recently as a member of the board of regents; Owen Pool, center and captain on the team of '26; Pup Phillips, '19, the first of Tech's nationally famous centers, and the diminutive Al Loeb, '13, one of the world's wonders among lightweight football linemen in his day. Other prominent Tech graduates present included George Marchmont, Jake Harris, Dan Maclntyre, Charles Sweet, a celebrated kicker of early years, who now is located in New York; Al Holder, a comparatively recent graduate, who is the badminton champion of New York and a golfer who customarily shoots in the 70s; Mack Tharpe and Roy McArthur, both coaches now at Tech. As is the custom at all the general gatherings of Tech alumni, there were no requests for funds. George Marchmont assisted Jack Thiesen as master of ceremonies and announced the entertainment numbers in masterful style.
Graduating Class To Give Lyman Hall Portrait To Georgia Tech Mrs. Marjorie Conant Bush-Brown, wife of Professor Harold Bush-Brown, head of the Architectural Department at Georgia Tech, has been selected to paint the portrait of Dr. Lyman Hall, second President of Tech. The portrait of Dr. Hall will hang in the M. L. Brittain Dining Hall and will complete the gallery of portraits of Presidents of Tech. The painting will be a gift to the school by the class of 1936. Mrs. Bush-Brown has gained nationwide fame with her excellent portraits. She studied art in America, and in France in the studios of Cottet and Lucien-Simon in Paris. She has painted professionally for twenty years, and has exhibited in the Corcoran Biennial, in Washington, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the New York and Pennsylvania Academies. Recently Mrs. Bush-Brown held an exhibition of her
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Georgia Author Honor Day Speaker
H. Stillwell Edwards (Courtesy Atlanta Journal)
Harry Stillwell Edwards, Georgia author, was selected to deliver the annual Honor Day address before students, faculty and parents and visitors at the Naval Armory at Georgia Tech May 15. Honor Day, which previously has been devoted to the public distribution of prizes, gold T's, certificates and other awards given outstanding students on the basis of their scholastic records, will be enlarged in its activities this year. The military exhibitions of the ROTC units of Tech and an allday open-house inspection of Tech's facilities will be among the additional features of the day's program, it was announced. The military display will present mass and unit drills and demonstrations in numerous fields of military and naval science and will be held at night at Grant Field. The shops, classrooms, laboratories and other facilities at Tech will be open to the inspection of the visitors, and each department will present exhibitions of the progress being made in new fields of technical interest. Included will be ingenious exhibitions of the qualities of liquid air, heliocopters, the recent discovery of a new process of making cloth from waste rayon and similar advances studied or conceived at Tech. paintings at the High Museum in Atlanta. The exhibition included thirty-five paintings. Mrs. Bush-Brown is at present engaged in painting and teaching art in Atlanta. Her interest in college activities is augmented by the fact that her husband is Professor of Architecture at Tech and her brother, Dr. James B. Conant, is President of Harvard University. Mrs. Bush-Brown will begin the painting of Dr. Hall's portrait in the near future, and it is expected that it will be ready for presentation by the next semester.