Alumni Lead Capital Campaign By Karen
Buttermore
emerged. That association preceded Crow, Pope and Land. Pope decided on a real estate career ALTHOUGH HE IS involved in while recovering from Korean War development projects throughout the wounds in a U.S. Army hospital in world, Ewell Pope, IM'50, feels so Osaka, Japan. When he was released strongly about his alma mater that he from the Army, Pope joined Adamsdevotes a portion of his time to serving Cates Real Estate Company as a as general chairman of the capital fund salesman. He remained there from 1952 campaign for a new intercollegiate until he formed his partnership with athletic center at Georgia Tech. Carter in 1959. Pope is chairman of the board of One of the most exciting days in Pope and I.and Enterprises, Inc., an Pope's career occurred in 1969 when he Atlanta firm which is currently o u t b i d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of 20 developing an office park in Atlanta, a international real estate syndicates and hotel in Maui, Hawaii, and is involved paid $21 million for an acre of land in in other non-real estate related Kowloon, Hong Kong. He, Crow and ventures. other equity partners built the Sheraton From 1965 to 1978, Pope was a Hong Kong Hotel en the property. partner in Crow, Pope & Land When the hotel opened in 1974, Pope Enterprises, Inc., which specialized in took a planeload of Atlanta friends and building, owning, leasing and managing business associates to the event. apartments and total communities. The Another international venture was a firm also developed a $55 million hotel highly successful office park in Jakarta, complex in Hong Kong, and numerous Indonesia. The complex won the other projects whose value exceeds $500 Madame Suharto landscaping award. million in the United States and In A t l a n t a , the Cumberland Southeast Asia. complex, including the mall and office Crow's current partner, A.J. Land, is and r e s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t s ; a Georgia lech graduate. His former Northlake and Greenbriar shopping partner. Trammel] Crow, is a Dallas, malls; the Atlanta Hilton; Fairington, Texas developer who is nationally Nob Hill, Riverbend and numerous known and respected. Pope's first other apartment and condominium partner was Frank Carter, an Atlanta c o m p l e x e s are a m o n g P o p e ' s real estate entrepreneur. The two men accomplishments. formed Peachtree Capital Corporation Pope and Tech classmates George in 1959. After participating in several Brodnax and Jim Murphy are involved real estate ventures with Trammell in S o u t h e r n Turf, a company Crow, the firm Crow, Pope and Carter specializing in the sale of grasses for athletic fields and golf courses. Among the company's customers are 1000 golf courses in the United States and 12 foreign countries. The Orange Bowl in Miami, A t l a n t a - F u l t o n County Stadium and the Augusta National Golf Course are Southern Turf customers. At Tech, Pope was an outstanding guard on the football team and was elected to United Press International's All Southeastern Conference Team in 1949. He was vice president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, president of the Lettermen's Club, and elected to Who's Who. He was a member of ANAK, Omicron Delta Kappa, and the Student Council. Pope and his wife Betty have two children and are active in the Northside Drive Baptist Church. Pope plays tennis and was a jogger years before it became fashionable. He enjoys reading on his many intercontinental flights. Ewell Pope
Ewell Pope, IM '50
MARCH 1980
Kim King, IM '68 ONE OF GEORGIA TECH'S most famous quarterbacks is playing a prominent role in shaping the future of the Institute's athletic program. Kim King, f'M '68, is associate chairman of the capital campaign for a new intercollegiate athletic center at Tech. He recently served on both the search committee for a new head football coach and for Tech's new athletic director. King is president of Kim King Associates, Inc., a commercial real estate development firm. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, he has been a key figure in the effort to bring the dream of a new varsity athletics center to reality. In January 1979. King was chairman of an athletic association committee appointed to interview professional fund raising counsel firms, to evaluate program plans, and keep all phases of the p r o p o s e d a t h l e t i c facility development on schedule. After Ketchum, Inc., a nationally known fund-raising firm, completed a feasibility study, it indicated a favorable climate for funding and construction of the, $4.5 million facility. King coordinated plans with Ketchum professionals and participated in the ceremony announcing the capital fund campaign at the Homecoming luncheon on Nov. 10, 1979. (Continued on next page)
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