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T H E GEORGIA T E C H A L U M N U S
November
- December,
1946
Georgia Tech Housing Projects Memorialize Alumni and Other Friends
Sketch of Housing Project now under construction ot Georgia Tech. The buildings will memorialize prominent alumni and other outstanding friends of the college.
Two Georgians and one of the early manufacturers of Atlanta were honored at Georgia Tech when the three new dormitories now under construction on the campus were named for them. The dormitory at Williams and Third Streets was named Donigan Dean Towers, the second at Third Street and Techwood Drive for William H. Glenn, and the third at William Street and North Avenue for John M. Smith. The new dormitories are part of Georgia Tech's $4,000,000 housing program for veterans and should be completed by September, 1947. William H. Glenn William Harper Glenn was born in Cave Springs, Georgia, on December 20, 1871, and died in Atlanta on September 24, 1940. He was the first registrant at Georgia Tech and graduated with a B.S. in M.E. Degree in the second graduating class, in 1891. He joined the Georgia Railway and Power Company in 1891, and rose to the position of vice president and operating manager of railways. He resigned in 1920 to become president of the Shippers Compress Co., engaged in the compression and storage of cotton. He was a trustee of Georgia Tech, a former president of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, and an alumni member of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association He was married to Miss Annie Fitten, of Atlanta, a member of a widely known Georgia family. They had two children, John Fitten and William H., Jr. While Mr. Glenn's interests and responsibilities were numerous, he never failed to give unselfishly of his time and talents to the college that h e loved so well. He was a man of high character—public spirited, devoted to his family and his friends, and universally admired and loved by those with whom he came in daily contact. Donigan Dean Towers Donigan Dean Towers was born at Rome, Georgia, on March 1, 1882, son of Robert H. and March E. (Dean)
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Towers. He received his early education in the Marietta Male Academy and in the public schools of that community. He received his degree in Textile Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1902. In 1918 and 1919, he took special work in commercial law and corporation finance at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. After graduating from Georgia Tech, Mr. Towers entered the textile industry as an apprentice and worked for several years in what was then the Massachusetts Cotton Mills at Lindale, Ga. In 1905 he was made Superintendent of the Knoxville Cotton Mills at Knoxville, Tenn., and two years later returned to Georgia as superintendent of the Bibb Manufacturing Company's mill at Porterdale. In 1911 he became superintendent of the Canton Cotton Mills at Canton, Georgia. After six years here, h e became agent of the Mount Vernon Woodberry group of mills, Baltimore, Md., and in 1929 became superintendent and manager of the Worth Mills at Forth Worth, Texas. In 1928 he returned to his birthplace, Rome, Georgia, as superintendent of the Anchor Duck Mills, and in 1937 was elected vice president and general manager of these mills. On October 1, 1907, he married: Miss Pauline Embree. They had four children, Pauline, Evelyn, Robert and Mary Dean. Mr. Towers died J a n u a r y 2, 1946. Captain John M. Smith John M. Smith was born in Enniskillen, Ireland. When 14 years old he emigrated with the family to London, Ontario, Canada. There he received a common school education and learned the trade of a carriage designer. Immediately after the Civil War he came to the United States and worked for a short time in Chicago and then in New Haven, Connecticut, which was a great center for fine carriage building at that time. In 1869 h e came to Atlanta and set up his own business as a buggy and carriage builder. He was one of the original contributors to the building of Georgia Tech. Throughout his long business career he operated as an individual except for one year when he had a partner whom he bought out. Mr. Smith died in 1913.
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