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THE GEORGIA TECH A L U M N U S
CLEMENT EVANS, '22, ELECTED CHAIRMAN NAT'L ASSOCIATION OF SECURITY DEALERS Clement A. Evans, '22, prominent Atlanta Investment Banker, a trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation, was elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers, at Sea Island, Georgia, on J a n u a r y 17, 1949. Mr. Evans, the first Southerner to hold this position, was born in Augusta, Ga., and is the grandson of the beloved and illustrious Confederate General, Clement A. Evans. A veteran securities man, Mr. Evans is a director of the Georgia Marble Co., Columbus Transportation Co., and Atlanta Laundries, Inc. He served in the Marine Corps in World War I. His firm bears his name and, in addition to Atlanta, it has branches in Macon, Augusta, Columbus, and Savannah, Ga.
January-February,
1949
E. P. CAULDWELL, '24, HEADS MILITARY ORDER E. P. "Jess" Cauldwell, B. S. in M. E., 1924, was installed as President of the National Sojourners, Fort McPherson Chapter No. 60, Atlanta, Ga., at the Fort McPherson Officers' Club, on Wednesday evening, December 15, 1948. The retiring President was Colonel Oliver A. Seaver. Lieutenant General Alvan C. Gillem, Commanding General of the Third Army, was the guest speaker of the occasion which was attended by the officers and their ladies of the organization. Among other honor guests were: Major General, Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff, Third Army, Leland S. Hobbs and Mrs. Hobbs; Brig. Gen. and Mrs. George W. Smythe. General Smythe is the new commander of the Georgia Military District. Also, Colonel H. A. Myers and Colonel Frank Ward, Commanding Officer of Ft. McPherson; Dean Raimundo de Ovies; Lt. Col. Burns C. Cox, Ga. Tech, B. S. 1924, and other prominent members and their wives.
PLACEMENT OFFICE MAKES FINE RECORD Georgia Tech's Placement Service is finding jobs for its graduates at the rate of 1,100 a year, a placement rate that is expected to prevail during 1949 and 1950. Since its organization 16 years ago, Tech Placement Service has found positions for 15,922 alumni and new graduates in every State in the Union, 204 in foreign countries and 40 in the United States Possessions. Of the number placed in this country, 8,164 are in Georgia. Present placements are for the class which finished in December, 1948. The Placement Service is now under the direction of Fred W. Ajax, Associate Dean of Students.
GEORGIA TECH'S ALMA MATER SONG It is a most interesting coincidence that, at this time, when F r a n k Roman's handsome memorial is being designed, a letter was recently written to the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, on the history of Georgia Tech's Alma Mater song, by Iver H. Granath, Arch., 1923, author of the words. Granath now lives at Fruithurst, Ala., where he has to take his affairs relatively easily to conserve his strength. We quote his letter, in part, as follows: "In 1919 Georgia Tech had 'Up With the White and Gold,' 'Ramblin' Wreck,' but no 'Alma Mater.' Visiting colleges had their Alma Mater songs. Perhaps it may have been mental telepathy on that October afternoon that made me feel that Tech also should have an Alma Mater song. Having played the violin in the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church at the age of 12, I thought, but I did nothing. Music had to be seasoned. Not until 1922 did the opportunity come. It was springtime when Frank Roman called me into the basement of the Tech YMCA where he had his shop. As you know, 'Wop' was also the bandmaster. Frank hummed a melody for me and I tried to hum it, too. I then suggested to Frank that he compose a lead sheet — you know, the treble clef only. When this was finished I took it out under the shed on Grant Field and wrote two verses in less than half an hour. The words were not only spontaneous but so sincere that I visualized Tech from the playing field to the classroom. Frank Roman, the master of music who made me feel very small in comparison with his genius, made the arrangement which is used to this present day. Signed: Iver Granath"
COL. VAN LEER SPEAKER AT OHIO STATE President Van Leer was the principal speaker at the banquet that celebrated the Diamond Jubilee Year of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on Friday evening, J a n u a r y 28. Dr. Van Leer was invited to make the address by Dr. H. E. Nold, Chairman, Department of Mine Engineering of Ohio State University; and he spoke on the subject, "The Social Responsibility of the Engineering Profession." GENE TURNER REPORTS
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It all goes back to the far off year of 1907 when I went to Georgia Tech to serve as Secretary to the Y. M. C. A. and to the friendship which began with many of you there. Just as the sons of many of you have grown up, so has this one of ours. He is becoming 'associated with me in the business' to speak your language. As he goes to China he will find associated with him on Y. M. C. A. Boards and among his colleagues, sons of men whom I knew when they were high school and college students. There are four such sons serving as Directors in the first Y. M. C. A. I served in China. Another is now at the Rochester Theological Seminary for a year of study. He came to the Y to study English and then into an English Bible Class. Today he is Editor of the Y. M. C. A. Press and has many translations of English books to his credit, plus compositions of his own. There are others like these who in their boyhood came into the 'Y' and had the direction of their lives changed. As Gene, Jr. and his wife go out to assume tasks of this significance, to make friends and train future leaders, I should like to bequeath them to you and to your friendship, if I may, to be your agents, even as my wife and I have been over the years, so that this task which Tech friends took up through me, thirty-five years ago, can continue and move on through perhaps even a more important generation. As for my wife and me, when we accept retirement in December, circumstances are such that it seems wise for us to settle at Tryon, N. C , where we believe our habits of life will enable us to make ourselves useful. Then there are several personal projects which have for some time awaited our attention. If any of you find yourselves in the neighborhood of Tryon we hope you will find our latchstring and let us give you a welcome. As ever, yours, Signed: Gene Turner"