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ALUMNI MAGAZINE, SPRING 1985

On October 13, 1985, Georgia Tech will celebrate its 100th anniversary. In observance of this historic event, this issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is the first of three dedicated to the Centennial theme, looldng at Tech's past, present and future.

This Centennial Issue: History and Tradition shows Tech during its early years, and recognizes some of the men, women, and events contributing to Georgia Tech's steady rise from its modest beginnings to an institute of national and international prominence.

CONTENTS 9 12 16 19 20 22 23 27 34 40 42 46 49 60

Injlfilling the New South Vision The Georgia Tech Legacy Eamblin'Wreck Ballad of a Great Fight Song Could You Pass Tech's First Entrance Exam?

A Student Composition in 1890 Why Tech Beat Cumberland 222-0 Tech's Past Research Heralds Its Future A Walk Through History The Making of History Presidents: The Men and Their Missions Builders of Men A Hundred Years of Honor Our Time in History

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vme and events have conspired for us to become the new founders of Georgia Tech. We lay claim to this moment, because it is Georgia Tech's monvent. This is uniquely our time in history."

History began for Georgia Tech when two far-sighted men began to think and talk about a technical school. The year was 1882, and the men were Nathaniel Edwin Harris, then a prominent Macon attorney, and Major J.F. Hanson, a manufacturer and the manager of the Macon Telegraph and Messenger. It was a time when technological schools were getting started in Europe, and Hanson convinced Harris that such a school was what Georgia needed to help continue the regeneration of the South's economy following the war.

"I would rather be the author of a law establishing such a school than to be governor of Georgia," Harris said. "Well, why don't you become the author?" replied Hanson.

Harris did become the author and he later became governor of Georgia as well. The bill creating Georgia Tech was approved and signed into law on October 13, 1885, by then Governor Henry McDaniel.

The road to establishing Tech was not easy. It took a groundswell of support from many areas, including editorials from many of the state's newspapers, to help influence final approval. The immortal Henry Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, already a champion of manufacturing expansion in Georgia and the South, fought vigorously for the concept that became Georgia Tech.

Five Georgia cities vied to become the site of the new school.

They included Athens, site of the University of Georgia; Atlanta; Macon; the town of Penfield which offered the campus and buddings of Old Mercer University; and the city of Milledgeville. The city of Atlanta, offering $100,000, a total of nine acres of land, and $2,500 in annual support, was chosen. A committee given the task of studying existing technical schools decided the curriculum of the new school should be of the most practical nature modeled after Worchester Free Institute

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The entire campus, faculty and student body in 1888

(now Worchester Polytechnic Institute) at Worchester, Mass.

The official opening ceremonies of Tech, with Dr. Isaac Stiles Hopkins at the helm as the first president, took place on October 5, 1888, at the Atlanta Opera House. One hundred twenty-nine students signed up for class during the first year.

An early faculty (left to right): D.B. (JvicM, J.S. Coon, E.E. West, President Issac Hopkins, F.O. Spain, Lyman Hall, A. Jessop, W.H. Emerson, and the Reverend Charles Lane.

What the first Tech students were taught during those early years was a direct result of President Hopkins' "shop culture" approach to engineering education.

Historians James E. Brittain and Robert C. McMath Jr., in A Doiuirnentary History of Georgia Tech's Beginnings, tell of the September 1888 headline of the Atlanta Constitution: "Hand and Brain. The Technological School Ready for Scholars." The newspaper interview with Hopkins, just a month before he opened the Tech classroom doors, revealed his strong commitment to the shop culture.

"After they have seen the philosophical principles applied in the shop they readily understand them when they are taught in the classes. The time is divided about half and half between the school and the workshop, or between brain and body, and the one whets the interest of the other."

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But the Worchester-style shop system began to fade away somewhat toward the turn of the century in favor of a more versatile approach to technological education.

Instead of the one degree offered in mechanical engineering, other degree offerings, including electrical and civil engineering, became available.

In the years to come, the evolution toward a more diversified education at Tech would continue.

Tech would target its efforts "to the fulfillment of the scientific and technical needs of the state of Georgia through education, research and service."

The opening of the Textile School in 1899, the first such school in the Southeast, typified Tech's early growth. It is an example of the Institute targeting its programs toward the development of the state's own resources.

In 1912 the Institute began a cooperative plan which allowed its students to alternate quarters of formal classroom training with quarters of working in industry for a combination of practical experience with technical theory. This innovation has allowed thousands of young men and women to secure an engineering education who would not have been able to do so otherwise.

World War I and II both had a tremendous impact on Tech's development. During the first war the campus was largely taken over by the military for teaming purposes, paving the way for the development of an extensive ROTC program. Later in the 1920s the Institute made a major effort, including a promotional visit by Charles Lindbergh, to secure an award from the Guggenheim Foundation with which to start an aeronautics school. The effort proved fratful; Tech was one of only six schools chosen to receive a $300,000 Guggenheim Award.

During the years immediately , following World War II student ', enrollment, the number of faculty, 'and the size of the campus all doubled because of many factors, mcluding the GI Bill of Rights,

added emphasis in graduate education (the degree of Ph.D. in engineering was authorized in 1946), and increased electronics research spurred by the war. During these years the Engineering Experiment Station (now the Georgia Tech Research Institute), authorized in 1919 and first funded in 1934, became a major force in research. It was also during this period (1948) that the official name Georgia Institute of Technology was adopted.

There were other significant changes in the makeup of the student body. In 1952 the first full-time women students were admitted to the main campus, and in 1978, with almost 2,000 women enrolled, the first woman student body president was elected. During the early 1960s the first blacks were enrolled at Tech.

Ehiring its first century, Georgia Tech has developed outetonding academic programs not only in the College of Engineering, but also by creating the Colleges of Architecture, Management, and Sciences and Liberal Studies. Its students, 129 in the beginning, now come from every state in the union and from 73 countries to provide an enrollment of 11,000 that includes more National Merit and National Achievement Scholars per capita than any other public university in the country. Tech's original faculty of four professors has grown to a fuU-time faculty of more than 520, and the Institute's research efforts have also more than kept pace, with annual expenditures exceeding more than $90 million.

From its modest trade school beginnings on the original nine-acre campus, Georgia Tech has expanded to the current 330 acres. Today it possesses students, alumni, faculty, and research facilities that are world-renowned . . . a tribute to 100 years of progress that have paved the way for an even brighter future.

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The Georgia Tech Legacy A Century of Tradition

By Karen Newehurch

Since the earliest years of its hundred-year history, Georgia Tech has enjoyed its renown as an academically demanding and intellectually challenging school. At the very mention of Tech's name, many people conjure up images of overworked students accompanied by their ever-present books and calculators, hard-nosed professors assigning excessive homework and impossible exams, and devoted scholars spending long hours in a hushed library or a cluttered chemistry lab. Although some of these ideas may be accurate, there

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Dress Her in White and Gold Perhaps the oldest and most visible expression of loyalty to Georgia Tech is the traditional school colors—white and gold.

The earliest recollections of the origin of these particular colors date to the first five years of Tech's existence.

Around 1890, the Class of 1892 selected three colors—white, gold, and blue—to be used as their class colors. In the fall of 1891, before Tech organized a football team of its own, a game was scheduled between Auburn University and the University of Georgia. Due

to the rivalry previously established in baseball games between Georgia and Georgia Tech (a rivalry that is still going strong after almost one hundred yers), the Tech students were invited to attend the game and cheer, of course, for Auburn. At a mass meeting, the students decided to attend as a large group and appointed a committee to recommend colors to be worn and cheers to be used. The committee suggested the colors white and gold. About 200 students attended the game, wearing for the first time Tech's new school colors.

By 1893, Georgia Tech was fielding a football team of its own and drawing crowds of enthusiastic supporters. Among these early football fans was a group of young women from the Lucy Cobb Institute for Girls who dressed in white and gold to cheer for the Tech team.

These girls were some of the earliest Tech supporters to show their allegiance by wearing the now-traditional white and gold.

Legendary Men and Beasts In 1927, a mythical student named George P. Burdell entered Georgia Tech and soon established quite a reputation for himself. A credible account of Burden's origin was revealed by William Edgar (Ed) Smith, a member of the class of 1930, in an article in the September 11, 1977 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. The Augusta, Georgia businessman said the creation of Burdell occurred during enrollment at Tech in 1927.

While filling out an application in the Administration Building, Smith was struck with the im-

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pish idea of also enrolling George P. Butler, the principal of Smith's alma mater, the Academy of Richmond County (Augusta, Ga.) and a loyal University of Georgia alumnus.

Although the prank seemed hilarious to Smith at first, he lost his nerve after filling in only George P. on the application and finished the name by using the maiden name of his best friend's mother. George P. Burdell was born. By secretly signing Burdell's fictional name, in addition to his own name, on all of his class rolls, Smith developed Burdell into a legitimate student. He even turned in separate exam papers for Burdell, changing the hardwriting and answers enough to convince many professors that George was actually a student in good standing. In 1930, George P. Burdell received a bachelor's degree from Tech and later a master's degree.

In the following years, other students adopted the task of keeping Burdell alive at Tech and elsewhere. With the help of his friends, George spent much of his time writing letters to the editors of various student publications and Atlanta newspapers, subscribing to magazines without paying for them, applying for major credit cards, and harassing insurance agents by ordering policies and then disappearing. During World War II Burdell continued his education at Harvard University before serving with the Eighth Air Force in England.

In the spring of 1969, the first quarter that Georgia Tech used completely computerized registration, Burdell beat the system by enrolling in not just a few courses, but in every course the school offered—over three thousand credit hours. The computer system improved but could not outwit George Burdell. In the spring of 1975 and again in the spring of 1980, he was on the official roster of every course on campus. As late as the fall of 1984, George was busily writing letters to the editor of the student newspaper. George P.

Burdell is not just a tradition of the past—he is certainly "a man for all seasons."

In addition to the fictional Mr. Burdell, Tech fondly remembers two unusual and endearing animals: a dog named Sideways and a bear named Bruin, but best known as Stumpy's Bear.

In 1945, a black and white, long-J haired mongrel appeared on the Tech campus after being thrown i from a car in front of a famous local restaurant. Due to the injuries she received, the dog walked witlfB her head and shoulders about fif- I teen degrees out of phase with her hindquarters. Observant Tech am students affectionately dubbed the orphaned dog Sideways. During her two-year stay on campus, Sideways slept in a different dorm room every night and helped herself to free samples of food from the dining hall. She entertained herself during the day by following students to class, sleeping quietly through the boring lectures and staring intently at more stimulating professors. Sideways died in 1947 after accidentally eating rat poison; she is buried on the Hill near the Administration Building and honored with an engraved marble monument.

Stumpy Thomason. Bruin first came to Tech as a gift for the football team following its 1929 Rose Bowl victory over California.

Although the cub was the team's mascot, Stumpy Thomason took the responsibility for Bruin's care and feeding. Soon, Bruin became known only as Stumpy's Bear. After establishing his winter residence under the east stands of Grant Field, Stumpy's Bear became a familiar face on campus. The bear accompanied his owner on in-town and out-of-town trips, riding in the back seat of the car and drinking his favorite beverages, beer and Coca-Cola. As described by Dean of Students Emeritus George Griffin, Stumpy's Bear was "as smart as most Tech students with all the bad habits of modern youth."

Perhaps the most unusual animal in Tech's history is a four-hundredpound bear named Bruin, owned by a Tech football player named

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To Catch a Thief Two of the most conspicuous traditional symbols of Tech have also become favorite targets for pranksters and amateur thieves.

The top of the Tech Tower, the oldest builing on campus, is usually adorned with fiverfoot letters spelling out the word "TECH." However, thanks to ingenious thefts by inventive students at least once a year the word changes to "ECH." Successfully stealing the "T" has become such an art that a magnanimous fraternity once donated to the library archives detailed plans for the caper, complete with photos and instmctions detailing where tricksters should place their feet while negotiating the Gothic architecture.

One of the most vivid memories Tech students take from Tech with them is the piercing shriek of the steam whistle, which sounds at five minutes before each hour from 6:55 a.m. until 5:55 p.m. Some students,

however, actually take the whistle with them. The first whistlenapping occurred around 1902 or 1903 when two rival campus factions literally battled to determine which group would steal the whistle. The leader of the winning group was lowered headfirst out of a window overlooking the whistle to unscrew the prize from its fittings. After a stern warning from Dr. John Saylor Coon, the whistle was anonymously returned the next day. A subsequent whistlenapping took place in the fall of 1905 when four students took the whistle and, fearful of punishment, kept it hidden. It was not returned until 1949. In the fall of 1981, the whistle was again kidnapped, but this time it was held for ransom. Some Institute personnel housed near the whistle had complained so much about its disruptive blasts that the hourly signal was discontinued. The student body was outraged at the loss of the reliable timekeeper and the resulting confused schedules.

Several students took drastic action and kidnapped the whistle, promising to return it only if it could continue in its traditional capacity.

After long negotiations, a compromise, decision allowed the whistle

to return to duty with the duration of its sound reduced from ten seconds to five seconds. Although the method was unorthodox, the students of Tech successfully preserved the tradition of the whistle.

It's a Rat's Life Although Tech has several customs especially created for its freshman class members, one of the oldest and proudest of these freshman traditions is the wearing of Tech's gold-colored rat cap, which originated with the ANAK society of 1915. At that time, each class had its own colors, and the graduating seniors bequeathed thencolors to the incoming freshmen.

The introduction of the first military program on campus transformed the class hats into rat caps and initiated the idea of freshmen wearing special headgear.

The term 'rat,' which originally referred to first-year military students, gradually expanded to include all freshmen. Since then, the rat cap has been a distinctive symbol of membership in Tech's freshman class.

Karen Newchurch is assistant director of the Georgia Tech Office of Publications.

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Ramblin' Wreck

By Pain Rountree

A restored 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe wheeled onto Grant Field in 1961, leading an enthusiastic football team onto the gridiron battleground as an aroused crowd cheered its approval.

The event did not establish a new tradition at Tech, but it cemented one. The vehicle was Tech's first official Rambling Wreck car, and it was an instant success.

Since that time, the Rambling Wreck car has joined a much older tradition—the Yellow Jacket—as the official football mascot.

The distinctive white and gold Wreck has continued to grow as a tradition, "acting as mascot, school symbol and even ambassador to visiting dignitaries," said Vice President/Dean of Student Affairs James Dull.

The current Wreck is the last in the line of distinctive white and gold cars on campus. And while there was no official Rambling Wreck before 1961, several fraternities previously filled the vacancy, taking turns driving "various wrecks," said Dull.

The first reference to a Rambling Wreck vehicle on campus was applied to an old 1914 Ford owned

by Dean of Men Floyd Field. Tech's student newspaper, the Technique, first mentioned the car in its Nov. 20, 1925, issue as "the oldest Ford on campus."

A Technique article dated Dec. 16, 1927, was the first published source to call Dean Field's old Ford the "Rambling Wreck."

During that year, Field had considered trading his 1914 Ford for a newer model, a fact the student newspaper lamented. The

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December article said, "The old Tech traditions must be upheld whatever the cost, and besides this, there are too many miles yet left in the old Ford to be casually discarded in favor of the newfangled ideas while the tried and trusty standby awaits without."

In September of 1928, however, the Technique noted that the Tech tradition had "suffered a severe loss in the shape of Dean Field's Ford." Field had finally done away with his 1914 "Wreck" and purchased a "Lizzie."

The "Wreck" remained in the students' minds however, and in 1929 the Technique sponsored what became the yearly collegiate auto race from Atlanta to Athens. The event was known as both the 'Old Ford' race and the 'Flying Flivver' race. All cars had to be judged "sufficiently worn out" to enter.

Over the years, as cars became faster and more reliable, the race became more dangerous, and it was decided to end the annual event to Athens. Taking its place is what is known today as the "Ramblin' Wreck Parade," held each year during Homecoming Weekend.

In the late 1950s Tech officials decided that the school needed an official car that would be known forever as the "Ramblin' Wreck."

Dull, then dean of students, began the search for a pre-1940 vintage model by placing advertisements in local newspapers and making inquiries throughout the Atlanta area.

One day in 1960 as Dull was walking back to his apartment after a football game at Grant Field, he noticed an old, restored Ford parked outside his door. Leaving notes on the car for the owner to call, Dull waited for a response.

Around 9 p.m. that same evening, Captain Ted J. Johnson knocked on Dull's door.

Johnson, a Delta Air Lines pilot, had just finished restoring the 1930 Ford Cabriolet Sport Coupe with his son Craig, for whom it was a gift.

Although not responsive at first, over a period of months Johnson

Over the years, the Ford Motor Company has taken great pride in keeping the Ramblin' Wreck in top condition. In 1982, under the supervision of Tech alumnus Pete George, manager of the company's

Ramblin' Wreck makes its debut in 1961

reversed his decision and agreed to let Georgia Tech have the car for $1,000. In May 1961 Tech had a new Wreck.

Johnson said of the car, "For it to end up in glory as Tech's mascot makes it all so worthwhile, especially when I see the joy it brings to the faculty, the students, and the thousands of Tech fans."

Recently Johnson returned the purchase price of the Wreck to the Athletic Association in the form of a contribution to the Alexander Tharpe Fund, fulfilling a long-time desire to go on record as having given the Ramblin' Wreck to Georgia Tech.

assembly plant in Hapeville, Ga., the Wreck was completely restored.

The Ramblin' Wreck of Georgia Tech will continue to carry on the finest of Tech's traditions and keep the spirit of the white and gold alive for years to come.

Pam Rountree is contributing editor to The Whistle, the Institute newspaper.

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Ballad of a Great Fight Song

By John Dunn

Since the early days of Georgia Tech's athletic tradition, "Eambling Wreck" has served as an irrepressible, boisterous battle hymn. And although this rousing song gained fame as a gridiron anthem, its beginning is linked with baseball.

The Scottish drinking ballad, "Son of a Gambolier," is unquestionably the father of the "Rambling Wreck" tune, and there is more than a coincidental resemblance in some of the lyrics.

The now famous refrain, "I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech," apparently echoed about the countryside with indomitable enthusiasm very early in Tech's history.

The late Howard D. Cutter, a member of the first four-year graduating class, who received his degree in mechanical engineering in 1892, wrote in the NovemberDecember 1942 issue of the Georgia Tech Alumnus, now the alumni magazine, that "It might be in order to state that the 'Ramblin Wreck' had its beginnings during the first year or two after Tech opened. Some of the frills were afterward added."

Cutter continued, "We had no football team during the early days, but football was played on campus . . . We had a good baseball team, and I remember on one occasion almost the whole school went over to Athens to play Georgia. Duke Black of Rome pitched, and we brought home the .'bacon.' This was the beginning of the 'Rambling Wreck.' " The idea of having rambled over to Athens to compete in an athletic event evidently served as inspiration for the lyrics.

By the early 1900s, "Rambling Wreck" was an established tradition. The earliest existing published version appeared in the first Blueprint in 1908.

In 1910, Michael A. "Mike" Greenblatt became Tech's first bandmaster. R.L. "Beedy" Bidez, technical engineering 1912, was student band leader. In a September-October 1943 Alumnus Greenblatt recalled, "Among my first moves upon taking over the job was to inquire if there were any college songs in vogue at the 'flats.' . . . Bidez . . . said they were playing 'Rambling Wreck' to the tune of the 'Son of a Gambolier.' I got him to play it for me, and from his rendition, I made the first arrangement and score of the song for the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a hand-written manuscriptâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;little thinking that it would one day become the nationally recognized battle song of one of the great technological schools of the world, destined to ring triumphantly from the Rose Bowl."

Frank Roman, affectionately known to students, alumni, and friends as "Wop," joined the band in 1911 and succeeded Greenblatt as bandmaster. It was Roman who wrote the adaptation of the "Rambling Wreck," accompanied by many trumpet flourishes, that was played by every name band in the country and became nationally known by radio. His is the musical version that continues to be popular today. Roman also wrote the music to Tech's Alma Mater, to which Iver Granath, a 1924 graduate, wrote the lyrics.

The fame of the song spread to such proportions that in 1959 it was sung by Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at their face-to-face meeting.

A copyright question arose in 1979 when former Beatle Paul McCartney, in one of his multimillion-dollar music publishing acquisitions, bought the pubhshing rights to some 1,000 songs, which according to an article in the Washington Post included "Rambling Wreck."

In 1984 the law firm Newton, Hopkins & Ormsby investigated the copyright situation as it applied to "Rambling Wreck" and found that a number of people have various versions of "Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech" that have been copyrighted.

According to attorney George M. Hopkins, Tech could compose its own version of "Rambling Wreck" and register its claim to copyright in that version of the work.

"Band music can be copyrighted for a particular arrangement of old songs," Hopkins said. "The original version of 'Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech,' however, is in the public domain and can be played by anyone without the payment of royalties. If a particular version of 'Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech,' which is covered by an unexpired registration, is played, for profit, then the owner is entitled to a royalty fee."

Two companies, ASCAP and BMfi handle blanket licenses for composers and publishers, and substantially all bands, mcluding Tech, have licenses to use any music arranged by the company.

Could You Pass Tech's First Entrance Exam?

The Entrance Exam (1888) and A Student Composition (1890) originally were published in A Documentary History of Georgia Tech'^ Beginnings, edited by Dr. James E. Brittain and Dr. Robert C. McMath Jr., in the Department of Social Sciences.

The week before Tech opened in October 1888, students arrived on the campus to take the required entrance examinations. A reporter the Atlanta Constitution who the campus on October 3 ushered into the chapel (which now houses the registrar's office), where he saw a large group of prospective students huddled over examination papers. As reported in the Cormtitutixm the following day, "The morning's work was the examination in mathematics. The eighty-four faces showed every variety of expression, from the occasionally puzzled look to the umrnistakable expression of satisfaction and the general air of earnest attention." The test consisted of ten arithmetic questions. A sample exam, one section of which was similar to the one over which those 84 scholars labored, is printed on the following page.

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Entrance Exam Arithmetic 1. Divide, b\ decimal division, twotenths by one tens of millionths.

2. Divide 34 bu., 2 pks., 5 qts., 1 pt., by 7.

3. A speculator sold 18 mules for $2,148.84, thereby making a profit of 20 per cent. What did the mules cost apiece?

4. If 450 soldiers are to be furnished with clothing, each suit requiring 0 yards of cloth one yard wide, how many yards of flannel 7i of a yard in width would U' required to line the suits?

5. Define notation, numeration, a factor.

4. Name the wars the colonies were engaged in before the Revolution.

5. Who discovered the Pacific ocean and when? (>. Name the presidents in order to Cleveland, and place opposite the name of each the length of his term of service.

7. Give the causes of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. 8. Mention the important facts in Jackson's administration.

9. Name the principal battles of the Civil War, and give the names of the principal generals.

10. What was the Missouri Compromise?

Time allowed, two hours.

Algebra 1. Add x2-xy + ab, x:i + 2xy-2ab, 4xy + 6x\ and 10x3 + 2xy-10ab2.

2. Subtract xl(,-y10 from x2 + 2xy-y10.

3. Multiply x ' 2xy+y 2 by x8-y8+3xy-3x ,y.

4. Divde (it >vz- 40xy + 12xy +1 OOz2 by 2x + 3y-l (V/..

5. Define a term, a coefficient, a monomial, a power.

Time allowed, two hours.

History of the United States 1. How many voyages did Columbus make to America? (live the date of each.

2. At what point was the American Continent proper discovered, and by whom?

3. Name the original thirteen states.

Geography 1. Bound Missouri, Idaho, and New Mexico, and give the capitals of each.

2. Where are the islandsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Malta and St. Helena?

3. Give the capitals and the principal cities of the following countries: England, France, Germany, Russia and Brazil.

4. Between what parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude does the United States lie?

5. Through what waters would you pass in going by steamer from Pittsburgh, Pa., to St. Petersburg, Russia?

6. Name the principal bays which touch the United States.

7. Name the great lakes of the I Fnited States in their order from east to west.

8. Mention the rivers of Georgia and Texas. it. Name the countries which lie on the eastern and southern coasts of Asia.

10. Mention the three largest states in our Union.

English Grammar 1. Define the parts of speech and give an example of each in sentences of your own composition.

2. What is the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb?

3. Give a sentence containing a verb in the active voice, and then change it to the passive; also a sentence using an infinitive as a noun; also sentences showing that the same word may be used as an adjective and as a noun.

4. Make short sentences showing the different uses of the participle.

5. Parse the italicized words in the following sentence: "James had returned home before the rain began to full."

6. Correct the following sentences and give reasons: "The man who I seen was named John "Smith"; "These sort of apples make good cider."

7. Write out the 3rd person singular of the verb "to do," in all its moods and tenses, active and passive.

8. What is meant by the terms: apposition, government, agreement? Illustrate by examples of each.

9. Give the three degrees of comparison of the following adjectives: good, beautiful, little, bad, ill.

10. Give the feminine of the following masculine nouns: author, singer, czar, stag, salesman, agent.

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Harris's composition contains the essence of the New South Creed and suggests that the creed was being disseminated successfully among the students as the founders had hoped.

Two drafts of the essay have survived, of which this is the second. A note at the end of the first one admonishes the author to "spell more accurately."

When our beautiful Southern Land was laid in waste by the cruel hand of War, the great question that confronted our fathers was "How must I make my livlihood? My slaves are free, my property is destroyed, and my money is worthless." It was too late for them to learn a profession. It was then they saw the importance of knowing how to do something.

Our Southern Land has an exhaustless supply of iron and all other minerals. Why should this mineral be mined here and then transported forth to be made into different machines to be shipped back South? Why is it our fleecy staple is gathered, ginned and compressed, and shipped forth to be manufactured in different uses and then shipped back? Why is it that all our products have to be transported forth, and then back before we can use them? Is it because we have not money? Is it because we are not as smart as Northern men? No! A thousand times no. It is this. "Our Southern young men have not had the training in the branch of i Mechanical Engineering."

Up to a few years ago most of our young men learned a profession and thought it a disgrace to work in a machine shop. But, of late, they are waking up. They see that something else must be done. This way of getting through the world without soiling their hands would not do. He sees that his teautiful Southern Land stands in need of something and he has gone to work to try and supply her wants.

What will the result of this work be? Instead of our minerals going forth they will stay here and be utilized. Which will make machinery much cheaper. Our cotton will be used here, and instead of our going forth for our supplies the Northern people will come South for theirs.

The day is not far distant when our Southern Land will have more manufactures than any other land, and the prospect of the Southern young men grows brighter each succeeding year.

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Why Tech Beat Cumberland 222-0 (And a Philosophy About Football)

By Coach John Heisman

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Coach John Heisman's account of the 1916 football season, which earned Tech the title Southern Football Champions, appeared in the 1917 Blueprint. The following year, Heisman's team won the notional championship.

It's not easy to say whether we contemplate the scores of each of nine football games of the season just closed with most satisfaction, or whether we take the keener enjoyment in calling back to the mind's eye vision after vision of actual plays without number in which our team gave a perfect exhibition of concerted action and of flawless teamwork. It has been said over and over by dozens and by hundreds that the teamwork of the Tech eleven this fall was the best ever seen, not only in the South but in the country. That is a strong sounding tiling for anyone to say; and yet it is, after all, no more singular than it should be true that the Yellow Jackets led the entire country in scoring points, which they undoubtedly did do.

A word about this point-scoring before we go further: The writer has often contended that this habit on the part of sport writers of totalling up, from week's end to week's end, the number of points each team had amassed in its various games, and comparing them one with another, was a useless thing, for it means nothing whatever in the way of determining which is the better of an evenly grouped set of college teams. Still the writers persisted, and some at each season's end would still presume to hang an argument on what they claimed it showed. So, finding that folks are determined to take the crazy thing into consideration, we at Tech determined this year, at the start of the season, to show folks that it was no very difficult tiling to run up a score in one easy game, from which it might perhaps be seen that it could also be done in other easy games as well.

Accordingly, in the Cumberland game the Jackets set all their sails to make a record run, and for the first time in our football career we turned loose all we had in the way of scoring sniff, and the result was a world's record of 222 points rolled up in 45 minutes of play.

Now, we don't take any particular credit in doing that. If that were all we were after we could have followed exactly the same line of action and, while not compiling as many points as against Cumberland, we could nevertheless have so heaped 'em up as to have been able, I dare say, to add at least another 100 to our season's grand total of 421. But even this 421 was a record for the entire country for the season, and here we find a lot of people and papers all over the country once more making much of it and printing our name in big type at the top of columns of flub-dub. My, my! But it's easy to fool some folks!

Do you realize that it's a whole lot easier to win a championship in anything after you have already done it once than it is to win it the very first time? What does the phrase "breaking the ice" mean?

Until you have once reached the top it's a terrible job to fight your way up there. You lack the precedents and the traditions that are bound to give you a lot of moral support on the second attempt.

Don't you believe that a mountain climber can make much easier work of the Matterhorn on his second attempt than on his first? Of course you can understand that.

And that is one large reason why we were able to win so staggeringly in the final game this year, our sole remaining obstacle to a championship, when it was such a hard job a year ago.

In a system of play it's unfair to single men out too much for praise.

To be sure we had our stars, as teams always must have; but the prettiest and best part of a good football team's work is that it teaches a man his place in the scheme of things. It teaches him to subordinate himself to the rules that apply to all, it teaches him to give help to others by showing him how others will help him. It's team work that makes the German army what it is in field maneuvers and it's team work that made the Tech team what it was this fall. Without team work Tech could still boast of some students who would have athletic talent, but it's only a sinking of self and a combination with others in concerted action that ever permits the eleven to score the points and win the games that our team scored and won this fall.

The lesson is not only for this fall's football, but for life, and for all time to comeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and for all of you.

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Tech's Past Research Heralds Its Future

By Mark Hodges

Several decades ago, Georgia Tech enjoyed a reputation based on its colorful football traditions and the ability of its engineering graduates to enter the working world with a running start. Today, the Institute

is becoming just as well known for the caliber of its research. In the past dozen years, Tech has evolved from a school whose predominant focus was undergraduate teaching to a major research university.

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L_Z Georgia Tech however, got a relatively late start in research.

Until the 1930s, faculty members did research informally and participated in research clubs. The first major step toward organizing this phase of the university's activities came in 1934, when several professors took on the legislature's charter to establish a State Engineering Experiment Station (EES). EES has grown into a fulltime R&D center but in the beginning it was a state program on campus operated by faculty members on a part-time basis.

Its purpose at that time was to apply research capability to the development needs of Georgia and this it did in several notable ways before World War II. One such program demonstrated that viscose rayon can be made from Southern pine pulp, a product in prolific . supply in Georgia. Another developed processes for cotton roving and spinning three to five times faster than the methods then in use in the state textile industry.

At the end of World War II, the federal government began to make large amounts of money available to universities for research. This funding allowed EES to grow in another direction which has become its principal strength: electronics. In 1948, the Station received its first contract for radar studies. Through this and other projects, EES developed a special interest and expertise in electromagnetic propagation, particularly in the microwave band of the spectrum.

EES' capabilities in higher frequency systems led to an extensive program in millimeter wave technology, which is today receiving considerable emphasis from the Department of Defense.< In the late 1940s, Georgia Tech acquired what was then the first electron microscope in the Southeast. This instrument made it possible for a group of materials characterization specialists to

undertake extensive studies of kaolin, a mineral found in abundance in Georgia. Their research was a critical factor in the establishment of a thriving kaolin industry in the state. During the 1950s, materials research in another division of EES focused on the needs of the aerospace revolution. These engineers developed high-temperature radomes, the ceramic cones on the tips of aircraft which protect radar antennas and act as windows for electromagnetic energy.

In 1960, EES began an effort to systematically transfer technology to Georgia businesses and industries through a statewide network of field offices. Staffed by resident

engineers, the offices assist client companies or coordinate assistance for them from sources at Georgia Tech. Economic development of a different kind also was organized during the 1960s for underdeveloped countries which needed modern enginering techniques to provide basic services for their people.

Despite this proliferation of interests, the Engineering Experiment Station remained a relatively small organization until the 1970s. Outetonding R&D programs had been established however, in areas such as electrical engineering, aerospace engineering and chemistry.

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Georgia Tech has established a diverse research program which has gained national prominence in such areas as textiles, aerospace, radar technology, and microelectronics.

Research in various phases and areas includes, counterclockwise from the top of the opposite page, early success in textile research; installation of thefirstelectron microscope in the South (1915); a strong aerospace research program.; development of advanced roAomes; health and safety research; and radar research and aevelopment.

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This changed in the 1970s and 1980s, the period when Tech research underwent its most intensive growth. In 1972, the contract volume of research Institute-wide stood at roughly $7 million. Today, it has mushroomed to approximately $85 million. This continued momentum is attributable to many things: a natural continuation of a foundation already laid, extensive federal funding for research and more administrative interest in a coordinated, expanded research program.

In the last area, the key ingredient was the ascension of Dr. Joseph Pettit to the helm of the Institute. As former dean of the College of Engineering at Stanford University, Pettit was not only the first president of Georgia Tech who came out of a vigorous academic research background; he also has a prestigious national reputation which has rubbed off on the Institute.

Pettit sought to fill faculty vacancies with candidates of high research interest and attainment.

He also emphasized the importance of research at Tech by establishing a vice presidency for research and by making R&D participation a more important consideration in salary raises and promotions.

In terms of research, Georgia Tech is not the same place it was a decade ago. This is certainly true of the Engineering Experiment Station which last year underlined its evolution by changing its name to the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). The new GTRI no longer simply serves the development needs of Georgia or efforts for national defense preparedness. It is seeking

involvement with large industrial clients, for cooperative research programs necessary to make the manufacturing economy more innovative.

Academic side research is moving in much the same direction.

Increasingly, these programs are organized by interdisciplinary topic areas, many of them of critical interest to America's changing manufacturing economy. A good example of this trend is the Material Handling Research Center.

This organization coordinates faculty researchers from various operating units to solve complex industrial problems of obtaining, storing and processing materials in a cost-efficient mannerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an increasingly complex and economically critical task in today's fast-changing economy. Funding for the center derives from a National Science Foundation grant and annual fees from corporate members in excess of $600,000.

These efforts bode well for the continued expansion and relevance of Georgia Tech research programs.

The economy of our country has become so technologically complex that few processes call for solutions offered through a single field of study. Academic institutions which can bring together ranges of capability into interdisciplinary efforts will be this country's research leaders in the remaining years of the 20th Century.

Mark Hodges is editor of Research Horizons, a publication of the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

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Superimposed on the seal is the two-stage, steam-driven air compressor that students used for over forty years in the mechanical engineering shop. This symbol of Tech's first degree program stands today on the Hill as a sculptural reminder of the Institute's beginnings.

The opposite side of the medallion focuses on Georgia Tech's achievements and its continued role in the future. Illustrating the theme of the Centennial, "Designing Tomorrow Today," the space shuttle is the dominant image. In addition to being a symbol of future technological advances, the space

shuttle is closely linked to Georgia Tech. The Institute has contributed to the success of the program through research involving the pressurized suit worn by the astronauts and the ceramic, heat-resistant tiles that protect the shuttle's exterior.

Also, two Tech graduates, John Young and Richard Truly, were among the first shuttle astronauts and are still active in the program.

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The past and present come face to face in the architectural designs of the buildings on the Georgia Tech campus. The dreams of the leaders of Tech, embodied in the growth and design of the campus, are interpreted by the architect's hand.

The structures tell a story of changing styles, changing times, and the ever changing mission of Georgia Tech.

The original campus consisted of only the Academic Building (now Administration) and the original Shop, which was destroyed by fire in 1892. They were stone and mortar representations of the aspirations of the builders of the "New South" and were constructed in that spirit. Designed in a Victorian Rumanian style, and built of Chattahoochee brick, machine pressed brick, and Georgia marble and granite, these buildings are reminders of the fledgling industrial South. With their prominent twin towers, they reflected the philosophy of Tech's beginning educational systemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an emphasis on equality between the shop and

Walk Through History: A Look at Georgia Tech's Architectural Heritage

By Warren Drury

academic curriculum. The juxtaposition of arts and technics can be seen in the Aclrrunistration Bukding, which contrasts machine molded brick ornament with smooth human made brick, and the rugged artisian granite column capital in the center of the porch with the smooth, shiny machine finished marble column.

Tech began to expand, under the presidency of Lyman Hall, beyond the original two buildings on the campus, and in its curriculum beyond the original course of study offered, mechanical engineering, to include civil and electrical engineering.

Makeshift student housing, famililary called "the Shacks," were built during this period, also Clarence Knowles Dormitory (now the Business Office), Jane Swarm Dormitory, and the Savant Electrical Engineering Building. These buildings' first priority was utilitarian, rather than representation of a particular style or type of design.

The most notable building is the Aaron French Textile Bmlding, designed by the Boston architec-

tural firm of Lockwood Greene.

The French Building was the first textile school buMng in the South and was constructed in the traditional heavy timber mill fashion.

The pure industrial aesthetic is accented by the heavy mullions which divide the windows into the form of

Following World War I, Georgia Tech began to transform its image from a trade school into a research facility. With funds collected through the Greater Georgia Tech Campaign of 1920, the campus had Paul P. Cret and Warren Laird of the University of Pennsylvania with to

A limestone corbel face of industrialist Andrew Carnegie adorns the keystone of the Carnegie Building, opposite page; the porch of the Administration Building, left, has a juxtaposition of "New South" materials versus traditional materials; below, details from the Harris Dormitory show corbels with a gear and a T-square.

a cross. A particularly appropriate symbol, the cross corresponded with the almost religious fervor of the "New South Creed" and the school's attempt to change Southern youth into industrialists through the Protestant Work Ethic.

After the turn of the century, the campus added several pieces of property including Grant Field. Industrialists Andrew Carnegie contributed the backing for the first library (now the President's Office) and John D. Rockefeller funded the Y.M.C.A. (now the L.W. "Chip" Robert Alumni/Faculty House).

The academic discipline of architecture came to Tech in 1907 and shortly thereafter Francis P. Smith, director of the department, became the unofficial campus architect. He designed the Joseph Brown Whitehead Hospital (now Dean of Students Bunding), the Mechanical Engineering Bunding, and the Power Plant. Each of his buildings for Tech used a BeauxArts approach to design with ornamental details of T's, GST's, and other symbols of Tech.

Tech's Francis P. Smith design a master plan for Tech. This plan established usage of campus properties and provided a more unified style for the emerging modern university, the Collegiate Gothic style, with classical ornamental accents, limestone quoined corners, oriel windows, and steep gables.

The first building in this style built at Tech was the Carnegie Physics Building (now D.M. Smith Building). The style was popular throughout the country for academic buildings throughout the 1920's and in a more simplified form during the Depression until World War IIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for instance, the Ceramics Building (now Naval ROTC), the Emerson addition to Lyman Hall, Brown and Harris Dormitories, and the ultimate examples on the Tech campus, Brittain Dining Hall and the Guggenheim Aeronautics School.

Brittain Dining Hall was a cooperative effort between several departments at Georgia Tech.

Designed by the architecture department, this building has a

ceramic rondelle designed and produced in the ceramic department placed before the entry of the building. The curtains were made'in the textile department, the site surveyed by civil engineering, the power requirements supplied by electrical engineering, and the president's clining table and large chandeliers were made in Tech's wood and metal shops.

Across the arcade that stretches from Harris to Cloudman Dormitories are corbels with the faces of famous scientists. Over the entranceway is a field of yellow jackets (representing the football team) and the Army and Navy Sheilds, evidence of the importance of the rnilitary to Tech at that time. Inside the Baronial hall is a large stained glass window designed by Julian Harris, ARCH '28, as a class memorial to the classes of 1928-32.

The window pictures the school's curriculum, athletics and rnilitary programsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;components of the well rounded engineer. In the three central panels of the window are the engineer of the past; present and future.

The Guggenheim Building was the last high Collegiate Gothic building constructed on campus. A winged GST shows Tech entering the age of flight with the aspiration of Pegasus which adorns the balustrade. Numerous WPA and PWA buildings continued to follow the Collegiate Gothic style,

Aaron French Textile Building, top left, the first textile school building in the South; portal of John S. Coon Mechanical Engineering Building, top right; Guggenheim Aeronautics Building, above center; and an ornamentation representing Georgia Tech's entry into the world of flight, a detail from the Guggenheim Building. Opposite page, top right, is the Carnegie Building, former library, now office of the president; details from Brittain Dining Hall, center, include stained glass window designed by Julian Harris, the Army and Navy shields, and a corbel of the face of Aristotle; below, Brittain Dining Hall, an example of high collegiate gothic architecture built in 1928.

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however, the ornamental symbols of the previous time disappeared. The old Naval Armory, which was demolished, the Old Gym, and the Athletic Office were part of a WPA Classic style. Tech also has an example of Streamlined Modernism in P.M. Heffernan's design of the Hinman Research Building.

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campus to the new and modernistic Price Gilbert Library, Hightower Textile School, and a proposed classroom building. These buildings were built with the same materials as the old Collegiate Gothic campus, but without their historical ornamentation. In its place were the clean, simpler lines of the American Modernist movement. The library is the most conceptual building of the three, in its attempts to avoid the closed-in, dungeon-like feel associated with libraries and introduce open airy spaces dissolving the walls surrounding the reading room and creating an interplay between interior and exterior space.

During the post World War II period, the campus also acquired much needed married housing, the Callaway and Burge Apartments.

They were designed by the firm Burge and Stevens in the European Modernist style and were part of a heating experiment for the Engineering Experiment Station with one half of the units using radiant floor panels and the other using radiators.

From the late 50s till the present, the majority of campus buildings have been designed in innumerable styles by several Tech alumni firms 37

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including Edwards & Portman; John W. Cherry; Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothchild and Pascal; Cooper Carry; and Robert & Company. Each of the additions continued Tech's push against its boundaries to the north and west.

In 1963, amidst the growing support of Urban Renewal, Tech commissioned the Chicago firm of I Perkins & Will to provide a master >plan for the campus which included the acquisition of Urban Renewal

Property to the west of the campus. Perkins & Will set the present boundaries of the campus, devised the present arterial loop with the Tech Parkway diverting throughcampus traffic, and proposed future development zones on the campus.

The Office of Campus Planning, established at the time of the Perkins & Will report, works along the recommendations of that report in the placement of buudings.

Recently, Tech added the Woodruff Residence Hall, the Advanced Technology Development Center, the College of Management/Industrial Systems Engineering Complex, and the Georgia Scientific and Technical Research Foundation.

As Tech enters its second hundred years, it follows an architectural legacy that shows the Institute's growth, diversification, and heritageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a legacy of which it can be proud.

Warren Drury, who received his master of architecture degree from Tech in 1983, prepared his thesis on The Architectural Development of Georgia Tech. He is now an architectural intern with an Atlanta firm.

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Jill C. Sewell is assistant director of the Georgia Tech News Bureau and managing editor of The Whistle, the Institute newspaper.

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Oscar Wilde once penned, "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

In the case of two soon-to-be published histories of Georgia Tech, three women and six men accepted the challenge of writing about the school's first 100 years. One book is a fascinating and scholarly narrative history of the Institute's evolution as a leading technological school, the other a pictorial history that combines photographs and text to recreate the sociological development of Tech.

The narrative history, Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985, was researched and written by six historians from the School of Social Sciences who are experts in the subdisciplines of urban history, history of technology, social history, economic history, Southern history and history of educationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dr. Ronald H. Bayor, Dr. James E. Brittain, Dr. Lawrence Foster, Dr. Augustus W. Giebelhaus, Dr. Robert C. McMath and Dr. Germaine M. Reed. They examine the role of the Institute in the promotion of industrial activity, economic growth and technological development in Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, while exploring Tech's contribution to the national growth of engineering and scientific education.

The companion work, Georgia Tech: A Pictorial History provides a candid and human glimpse at Tech through the efforts of Dr. Annibel Jenkins and Dr. Sally Jackson, both of the Department of English, and Dr. Gene Griessman, professor of sociology, director of national media relations in Tech's News Bureau and freelance writer.

Griessman, who is editor of the book, said readers will see Tech's first 100 years unfold through a myriad of photographs and accompanying text that together focus on "student life, faculty life, attitudes and values ."

The two historical approaches are "intentionally different and we think they complement each other," McMath said.

The pictorial provides "the human flavor of the campus," while the other is "a more scholarly document," Griessman explained.

The books are the first histories of Georgia Tech to be written since two well-thumbed-through volumes titled The Story of Georgia Tech, by M.L. Brittain, a former president of Tech, published in 1948, and Dress Her in White and Gold, by the late Robert B. Wallace which came off the press in time for the Institute's 75th birthday.

Centennial Co-Chairmen Dr. Paul Mayer, a Regents' professor of civil engineering, and Warren Heemann, vice president for Institute Relations and Development, approached Brittain and McMath about doing a "new" history after conferring with President Joseph M. Pettit.

"They said they wanted a scholarly history, which should be analytical and would put Georgia Tech into a larger context," McMath said. "It's time now to have one that can look at Tech in a broader context. We're mature enough, and sure enough of ourselves as an Institute," he said.

After meeting with their Social Sciences colleagues, Brittain and McMath agreed to take on the project of writing a narrative history in time for the Centennial, under a research contract with the Georgia Tech Foundation Inc. that allowed them time off from their classrooms to pursue the project.

As for the pictorial, Dr. Annibel Jenkins said the idea developed from conversations with Heemann in the spring of 1982 about her desire to do a series of short biographical studies on Tech figures. As the idea evolved, the Centennial Committee decided a more social history of Tech and its students should be the basis for the second Centennial publication, and the Foundation agreed to underwrite the project. Dr. Sally Jackson joined Jenkins as co-author, and Griessman came into the project as editor in 1984.

Where does one begin to set down 100 years of an institution's life on paper? In the case of the narrative history, McMath said,

"We worked backwards from the deadline. We sat down at the beginning and sort of parceled out the work." Each author tackled a chronological area and they set out on a "scouting expedition" to learn what information was available and where. Their sources included the Georgia Tech archives in the library, the archives of the Atlanta newspapers, the Atlanta Historical Society, where they researched faculty minutes, board meetings, minutes, presidential correspondence, trustee records, shop correspondence, letter books, school catalogs, yearbooks, school papers, and others.

The historians spent close to six months researching the book before "doing any serious writing," McMath said. They also had to make it readable.

Smoothing out the writing styles was one task that had to be accomplished, McMath pointed out.

"We wanted basic continuity," he said, while also allowing "a little bit of the personalities" of the six authors to come through the pages.

"It's probably a better book than if just one author had done it," Brittain said.

Other than space and time limitations, and a few missing links, McMath and Brittain said the hardest part of writing a history was that so many people have their own ideas and remembrances of how things came about. "History is unlike some disciplines where only the ones trained know something about it," McMath said. "Everyone has an interest in how the story gets told and the objectivity becomes more difficult. I would hope frankly that it will stimulate some discussion about the nature and mission of Georgia Tech."

Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 has 50 chapters, approximately 500 pages and will include 12 to 16 pages of photographs.

"I feel it will ihuminate Georgia Tech's history in a way none of the other histories have done," Brittain said.

A company of authors (left to right): Drs. Annibel Jenkins, Sally Jackson, Gene Griessmnn, Ron Bayor, Gerry Reed, Lawrence Foster, Bob McMath, Augustus Giebelhaus, and Jim Brittain.

"I think we're going to have a university history that compares very favorably with the best university histories in the country," McMath added.

Putting together the pictorial history of Tech produced similar trials, tribulations and gratifications. Though the work has been long and laborious, Jackson said, "It's been abolutely the most delightful project I've ever worked on."

When it was decided the book would be written, Jenkins said she and Jackson began a "campaign" in various Tech publications to solicit information and old photographs.

They also trekked to various towns to interview people about their memories of Tech. "We received some fascinating material," she said. "I enjoyed the people, they're wonderful."

In addition to notices in the Institute's publications, the authors mailed out letters to graduates asking for information for the book.

Much of the material, such as scrapbooks and interesting anecdotes, have come forth through word of mouth that the pictorial was underway.

"When people hear about your projects, they volunteer information," Griessman said.

Such eagerness to help led to their decision to keep the project open until the last possible day.

Jenkins, Jackson and Griessman have been both pleased and frustrated by the great amount of information they have managed to gather, simply because they cannot possibly include all of it in their book.

"We have some lovely tapes and a lot of interesting information that we in no way could use," Jenkins said The pictorial is scheduled to be approximately 288 pages, divided into six sections. It will show a candid side of Tech, contain anecdotes from over the years and many of the legends and traditions of Tech, and feature some interesting personalities connected with the school.

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Dr. Gene Griessman is director for National Media Relations and professor in the School of Social Sciences.

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Isaac S. Hopkins

Lyman Hall

1888-1896

1896-1905

Born in Augusta, Ga. in 1841, Hopkins graduated from Emory College in 1859 and went on to Georgia Medical College where in 1861 he received a M.D. degree. He never practiced medicine but instead became an itinerant Methodist minister serving both white and black congregations. He later taught natural science at Emory and then taught physics for two years at Southern University in Alabama. He returned to Emory in 1877 as professor of Latin and became vice president of the College in 1882. In 1885 he was elected president of Emory.

He was nominated for the Tech presidency in April 1888, at a salary of $3,500 per year. The Hopkins presidency was not particularly successful insofar as growth was concerned, and his style of management was not particularly well-suited to the needs of the newly established technological school that was trying to survive in an adverse financial climate of legislative skepticism and frugality.

However, the school survived despite many obstacles, and several well-regarded faculty members were recruited, including his successor, Lyman Hall. ' He resigned in 1896 to return to the Christian ministry.

Born in Americus, Ga., on February 18, 1859, Lyman Hall was the son of a prominent merchant of the region, attended public schools in Americus, and for three years was a student at Mercer College, prior to his appointment to West Point where he graduated in 1881.

He became a mathematics instructor and when Georgia Tech was founded became its first professor of mathematics, a position he held until he was named president in 1896.

One of Hall's first tasks, upon being named president, was securing funds for a permanent dormitory. Successful in this project, he then turned his attention to the need for upgraded laboratories and equipment. Again successful, he enlisted the aid of Aaron French, a Pittsburgh industrialist, for the support of a textile department.

French responded generously and the building that housed the new program was named in French's honor. Hall saw to it that the humanities were not excluded from the curriculum—in 1904 the Department of Modern Language was approved—and he personally solicited funds from Andrew Carnegie for the library building. Hall acquired notoriety by suspending the entire senior class of 1901 because, with one exception, they did not return to campus from Christmas holidays on December 31, 1900.

Kenneth G. Matheson

Marion Luther Brittain

1906-1922

1922-1944

K.G. Matheson was born in Cheraw, S.C., in 1864, and attended the South Carolina Military Academy where he graduated in 1885. After receiving his master's degree in English at Stanford, Matheson came to Tech in 1897 where he was rapidly promoted to the rank of full professor. A week after Lyman Hall's death, in 1905, Matheson was elected chairman of the faculty and acting president.

There was keen competition for the post and it took the Board of Trustees almost a year to finally name Matheson president.

Matheson was a quiet and diplomatic man who could be demanding if he felt the occasion called for it. However, the constant shortage of funds and the political struggles that went with his position eventually wore him down and he confided to friends that he wanted to avoid the fate that had befallen Lyman Hall. Consequently in September of 1921, he resigned to accept the presidency of Drexel Institute at Philadelphia.

Born in Wilkes County, Ga., in 1866, the son of Dr. J.M. and Ida Callaway Brittain, he received the A.B. degree from Emory. From 1911 to 1922, the year he became the president of Tech, he served as State Superintendent of Education.

Fumding improved, new buildings began to rise, and the campus began to take on the look of English Collegiate during Brittain's presidency. In 1930, Brittain received word that his efforts to bring aerospace engineering to Tech had been fruitful: the Guggenheim Foundation had chosen Tech.

Under Brittain, Tech gained accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, then saw it threatened when all the State's Colleges were suspended because of Governor Gene Talmadge's interference in the system. Tech's Board of Trustees was replaced by the state Board of Regents, a concept Brittain supported; one of the Board of Regents's first official acts was to strip Tech of its School of Commerce. Tech's placement system was implemented, under the influence of George C. Griffin, and the Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation began operation in 1932 with $462.37. In 1934 the Engineering Experiment Station finally received funds to begin operation after years of waiting. When Brittain retired in 1944 at the age of 78, he had served as president longer than any otherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;22 years.

Blake R. Van Leer 1944-1956

Van Leer was born in Mangu, (now Texas) Okla., in 1893, and was educated at Purdue and the University of California. Prior to coming to Tech, he was Dean of Engineering at the University of Florida and later held the same post at North Carolina State. When he accepted the presidency of Tech, he was chief of the Facilities Branch of the Army Specialized Training Division.

During his presidency Van Leer reorganized the administration, enlarged the curriculum, sponsored the creation of faculty committees and guidelines, enlarged the campus â&#x20AC;&#x201D;presiding over the construction of the Textile Building, the Architecture Building, and the Price Gilbert Library. He helped create Southern Tech and fought for its existence, was the first president to welcome full-time female students on campus, the first to live in the president's home on 10th Street, and the first to award a Tech doctorate.

In 1956, Van Leer was stricken with a massive heart attack and died. The "Colonel," as he liked to be called, was a man of principle and a strong administrator.

Dr. Edwin D. Harrison

Dr. Arthur G. Hansen

Dr. Joseph M. Pettit

1957-1969

1969-1971

1972-

Harrison was born in Arkansas, received his undergraduate training at the U.S. Naval Academy, and served in the Navy until 1945, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. He then returned to graduate school at Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he earned his M.S. in mechanical engineering in 1948, and earned the Ph.D. in 1952, also in mechanical engineering, from Purdue. At the time he was named Tech's sixth president, Harrison was dean of Engineering at the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Harrison guided Tech through the tense and difficult years of the civil rights movementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tech became the first major state university in the Deep South to desegregate without court order, in 1961â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he remained popular with students and faculty alike while anti-Vietnam and student power demonstrations convulsed campuses elsewhere.

He presided over what has been called the "biggest building boom" in the Institute's history, which, was the culmination of earlier efforts, continued throughout his presidency.

He left Tech to become Executive Vice President, Services, with J.P. Stevens and Company on March 1, 1969.

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Arthur G. Hansen, at the age of 44, became Tech's seventh president on May 28, 1969, barely three months after Harrison's departure. He was born in Wisconsin, earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue in electrical engineering and mathematics, respectively, and took his doctorate in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University.

Hansen came to Tech in 1966 and held the post of Dean of Engineering when he was named president.

He instituted major administrative changes and moved the school toward a more formalized organizational structure. The building boom continued during his presidency.

Under Dr. Thomas E. Stelson, Hansen's successor as Dean of Engineering, there was a big push toward "mission-oriented" research contracts.

Hansen resigned his post at Tech to become president at Purdue University, a post he held for eleven years. He then moved to Texas in 1982 where he became chancellor of the Texas A & M University System, a position that involves oversight of four universities and various state agencies.

Pettit, born in Rochester, Minn, in 1916, spent much of his youth in Portland, Ore. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938, he went to Stanford for graduate study in electrical engineering and received his doctorate in 1942. lTvoring World War II, Pettit joined Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory, and at war's end returned to Stanford where he became a faculty member and eventually dean of the School of Engineering.

The recruitment and retention of quality faculty members and students has been the top item on Pettit's priority list since he became Tech's eighth president in the spring of 1972.

Sponsored research has increased dramatically; technology-based industrial development involving partnerships between the Institute and private enterprises has flourished with Pettit's support, an achievement exemplified by the new ATDC facilities on 10th Street. The push toward graduate education has progressed: the number of doctorates granted has remained fairly constant, while the number of master's degrees has increased by two-thirds.

The physical expansion of the campus, which was slow during the early years, has increased substantially during the past three years.

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D.M. Smith When D.M. Smith entered Vanderbilt as a student in 1904 he learned to love two things: academia and football. He came to Georgia Tech in 1913 as an assistant professor in mathematics and brought with him both passions. Smith combined his interests in the now famous tutorial program he and Coach W.A. Alexander originated and developed specifically for Tech athletes. As a professor, Smith had humor, preception, and great teaching ability, which made him a campus favorite, uniquely able to influence entire student bodies at Tech over his 41-year career. He was promoted to head of the mathematics department in 1934, a position he held until his age dictated he step down in 1950. After his retirement in 1954, he continued to tutor Tech athletes, a job for which he would accept no payment. He died in 1962.

Dr. William Henry Emerson One of Tech's first four professors, Dr. William Henry Emerson, was selected to be head of the Department of Chemistry when Tech opened for classes in 1888. As thedirector of the program, he shaped the standards, practices and ideals of the department for 36 years.

Emerson later became Dean of Engineering, and in 1910 was named Tech's first Dean, a position he held until his death in 1924. He also acted as president of the School of Technology in 1918 when President K.G. Matheson was away on a World War I assignment. One of

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few early professors at Tech to be a Southerner, "Big Doc" as his students nicknamed him, was a native Georgian. A fervent tennis player, he believed in faculty control of the athletic program and strongly supported college athletics.

Meticulous and thorough, he was elected to the Georgia Academy of Sciences. The motto he chose to be engraved on the chemistry building, "In the first place I would put accuracy," is a reflection of his own beliefs. His son, Cherry L. Emerson, ME '08, EE '09, also became Dean of Engineering at Tech, in 1945. Under President M.L. Brittain, Cherry Emerson was a parttime vice president and in 1943 he was president of the Alumni Association.

Dr. Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs Dr. Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs Sr. was chosen to head Tech's chemistry department when Dean Emerson died in 1924. The son of University of Georgia Chancellor W.E. Boggs, Gilbert Boggs had been on Tech's chemistry faculty since 1903 and was popular with the students because of his involvement with campus projects and support of student committees. Boggs had a reputation with the students as an honest and just instructor and a charming and gracious administrator. He became the head of both the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering. When he died in 1941, at age 65, the entire student body gathered on Grant Field to honor him, paying tribute to the "sturdiness and uprightness of . . . a great scholar, a great teacher, and a great friend."

MEN Dr. John Saylor Coon When Dr. John Saylor Coon was a professor at Cornell he was asked to join the faculty of a one-year-old School of Technology in Atlanta.

He had a reputation as an eccentric and unorthodox man and was not sure Georgians would like his style.

Just a few years after Coon arrived at Tech though, he had established his reputation as one of the most beloved professors on campus. The mechanical engineering building bears his name today. Coon, or "Uncle Si" as he came to be known, taught mechanical engineering and headed the Department from 1889 to 1923. A rigid disciplinarian, he espoused his life's philosophies in the classroom alongside theories of engineering.

Addressing his students as "boys," his lectures were profound enough to prompt several of his students later to write a book of his most memorable sayings, including one of his most famous, "There is a great difference between ingenuity and brains. Genuis is nothing but the will to take pains. Boys, patience is genius." Perhaps the most accurate description of his life's work was in the resolution three of his students drafted upon Ms death in 1938. They called him "a builder of men."

John Henry Henika With his long gray beard and bespectacled eyes, Professor John Henry Henika looked the part of a pioneer. He was, in fact, a pioneer of education. "Uncle Heinie" as students called him, came to the Georgia Tech "flats" in 1892 to

B U I L D E R S teach woodshop. He left academia a year later to work commercially, and returned in 1901 as a fuUtime faculty member in mechanical engineering. His concern for his students extended to all aspects of their lives. In many ways he was a faculty advisor before the role was coined. Henika taught several generations of Tech men from 1892 until his retirement in 1945 and served under five Tech presidents.

Even after retirement he continued to work in the Shop until he fell in 1950 injuring his hip. He died on Feb. 19, 1951 at the age of 95 and attributed his longevity to "moderate living and the Bible."

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national honor society to the Tech campus. In his later years, the obstinate dean wore a hearing aid, and with his particular brand of humor, would terminate an uninteresting conversation by simply

MEN turning off the aid. He retired from Tech in 1945 and was named Dean Emeritus. His energy level was such and the job he created so demanding that three men were hired to replace him.

Dean William Vernon Skiles Dr. William Vernon Skiles believed in hard work—for himself and others. As a math professor he demanded perfection. As dean he exerted full control over students, especially those who were "in trouble." Known as a "student's dean," he was very active in the campus social life and accompanied the football team to big away games. A part of Georgia Tech for 40 years, he began his Tech career as an assistant professor of mathematics and executive dean in 1906. During World War II, he set up and administered the program of training workers and specialists for industrial plants and members of the armed forces at Tech. A member of Omicron Delta Kappa, he was instrumental in bringing the

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Honor Dedication Leadership Integrity Ideals Innovation Talent Patriotism Challenge Achievement Courage Legend Loyalty Adventure ()n the following pages you'll meet some of the men and women who made these concepts the foundation of Tech's future. The sketches were written

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Presidential Visits Four American presidents have visited the Georgia Tech campus during its first century. The first was President Theodore Roosevelt who stopped at Tech on Oct. 20, 1905, while on a visit to his mother's home, Bulloch Hall, in Roswell. A few years later, President-elect William H. Taft visited Tech on Jan. 16, 1909, speaking to a crowd of about 600 on the role of character and integrity in engineering.. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the Tech campus on Nov. 29, 1935, to dedicate the nation's first public housing project, Techwood Homes, located to the south of the Tech campus. He addressed a crowd of more than 50,000 at Grant Field.

President Jimmy Carter, who also < is Tech's first alumnus to win the highest office in the land, visited the campus twice while president of the U.S. IJuring the first visit on Feb. 20, 1979, Carter was awarded an honorary doctor of engineering degree.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, joins Tech President M.L. Brittain at, a football game at Grant Field.

It was a long way from room 308 in Rnowles Dormitory in 1942, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 1977, but Georgia Tech alumnus and former President Jimmy Carter made the trip. Carter spent the 1942-43 school year at Tech before transferring to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Above average scholastically, he had declared general engineering as his field of study. Although Carter admitted it was his life long ambition to go to the Naval Academy (he won an appointment before coming to Tech where he made up deficiencies in math), Tech has had a profound influence on his family. His cousin

Hugh Carter Jr. is a 1964 Tech graduate and his son Jack also attended Tech. Dirring his presidency, Jimmy Carter and his official White House party came back to the Tech campus twice in one year. It was February 1979 when Carter delivered a major foreign policy address in Alexander Memorial Coliseum and was presented with an honorary doctor of engineering degree along with the Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Later in August, the President returned to campus to conduct a White House seminar on energy.

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Feminine Feats It was 1952 before Georgia Tech accepted women for admission to its regular academic program. The first two women to enter Tech were Mrs. Elizabeth Herndon, a World War II widow, and Miss Diane Michel, from Houston, Texas.

Michel later became one of the first two women to receive a degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology when she graduated in 1956 in industrial engineering, along with Shirley Clements, an electrical engineering transfer student with three years on the Tech campus.

After graduation and beginning a career, Shirley Clements married Duke Mewborn, who had also attended Tech. She is continuing to establish "firsts." In June 1984, Shirley Clements Mewborn became the first woman to be elected to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees.

Nearly four decades earlier, however, Mrs. Annie Teitlebaum Wise, a native of Budapest, Hungary, was the first woman to graduate from Tech's Evening School of Commerce. Wise received her Bachelor of Commercial Studies degree in 1919, a full year before the Georgia Legislature actually legalized the enrollment of women in the Evening School of Commerce. Wise also achieved another first for women in 1919; she became Tech's first woman instructor when she was hired as an instructor of commerce by the Evening School.

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Amy Wepking, a 1981 mechanical engineering graduate, in 1978 became the first woman to be elected president of Student Government Association. Helen Gould, a 1982 industrial engineering graduate, was the first woman to become president of ANAK, Tech's highest senior honor society.

Kelly Braun, a 1984 computer science graduate, was the first woman editor of the Technique during her senior year.

When George Griffin entered Georgia Tech's apprentice class in 1914, he never imagined that over the next 70 years he would directly influence the lives of thousands of Tech students and alumni.

Nevertheless, Dean of Students Emeritus Griffin has indeed given tirelessly to Georgia Tech by serving in capacities including math instructor; coach for football, track, cross country, and tennis; editor of alumni publications; and assistant dean and dean of students. Among the organizations established by Dean Griffin are the Georgia Tech Placement Center, numerous state alumni clubs, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Alumni Placement Service. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to Georgia Tech, he received the 1955 Alumni Distinguished Service Award. As expressed by Chancellor Vernon D. Crawford of the University System of Georgia. "No man has carved a niche for himself in the annals of the Institute in any way approaching that which Dean Griffin has fashioned."

Desegregation Arrives Desegregation came to the Georgia Institute of Technology on Sept. 18, 1961, with the enrollment of three black students窶認ord Green, Lawrence Williams and Ralph Long Jr. Nine days later, the three began attending classes, without incident,

largely as a result of President Edwin Harrison's positive leadership, the school administration's careful planning, and the willingness of both faculty and students to accept the change.

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During Tech's celebration of the 75th anniversary of its opening, the late U.S. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren visited the campus as one of four major speakers of the celebration. It was Warren's first visit to the South since the controversial 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, Brown vs. Board of Education, which overruled the "separate but equal" precedent and ordered school desegregation. His appearance produced mass pre-publicity, threatening phone calls, and a promised picket line, but in fact, when Warren spoke, no picketers showed and a record number of people, over 3,600, packed the Alexander Memorial Coliseum to hear the Chief Justice. Warren later wrote of his visit to Tech that "the event in which I was a participant was delightful in every respect."

Winston Churchill When Winston Churchill visited Georgia Tech on February 25, 1932, as the guest of honor at a joint military and Naval parade of Reserve Officer Training Corps units on campus, the alumni magazine described him as "one of the outstanding statesmen of the British Empire, internationally famous speaker and author." At 57, Churchill visited Tech and Atlanta on a speaking tour throughout the U.S., during what historians call his

Wilderness Years (1929-39), a period when he was not holding public office. Interestingly, in 1932, Churchill saw Communism as a threat to the free world, but did not foresee the coming of World War II, the global conflict that would prove to be his time in history. In his slow, growling cadence, Churchill warned of the menace of Communism, but stated with assurance, "Whatever the future brings, we can face it together, like good companions."

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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones, a 1922 mechanical engineering graduate, is called the greatest amateur golfer of all time. He made 1915 U.S. Amateur Championship and became America's first teenage golf prodigy by advancing to the quarter-final round. He was already a national celebrity when he

entered Tech at age 16, but classmates said Jones refused to be anything but another student. In 1930, Jones won the Grand Slam of golf, which at that time consisted of the British Amateur and Open and the U.S. Open and Amateur. This achievement, never accomplished before or since, climaxed his career.

By 1930, at the age of 28, Jones had won the British Open three times, the British Amateur once, the National Open four times and the National Amateur five times, as well as two Walker Cup matches.

St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, not only made Jones an honorary member of the golf club, but also an Honorary Burgess of the Borough, the first American to be so honored since Benjamin Franklin.

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John W. Heisman Under the direction of John W. Heisman, whose genius as a football innovator earned him such nicknames as "the Magician" and "the Wizard," Georgia Tech became preeminent in football. Heisman, known as "Heis" to friend and foe alike, became Tech's first fulltime football coach in November 1903.

During his 16 years at Tech, his football record was 102 wins, 29 losses, and seven ties. He was the architect of Tech's 222-0 victory

over Cumberland College in 1916, and in 1917, he coached Tech to its first National Championship in football. While football was his profession, the stage was his passion and during the summer, he enjoyed i playing in stock theatrical enterprises, often cast as a "heavy."

Heisman also coached Tech's baseball teams to excellence, achieving a record of 161 wins and 97 losses.

Leonard Wood has been called the father of Georgia Tech football. An Army captain stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga., Wood was an experienced football player who matriculated to Tech in 1893 to help shape a football team that was one year old and winless. Physics professor Ernest West coached the team during its fledgling first year in 1892 when Tech lost its contests with Mercer University in Macon, 12-0; Vanderbilt, 20-10; and Auburn, 26-0. Wood not only brought experience, but leadership to the team. In 1885, Wood had participated in the capture of the Apache, Geronimo, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. When Tech began its rivalry with Georgia in Athens on Nov. 4, 1893, Wood was captain and led Tech to a 28-6 triumph. The game was filled with heated emotions and had its share of controversy even then. Wood went on to join with Theodore Roosevelt in the Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, earned the rank of major general, and served as governorgeneral of both Cuba and the Philippines. Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is named in his honor.

When John Heisman resigned as head football coach at Georgia Tech following the 1919 season, he recommended his assistant, W.A. Alexander, for the job. Alex, as he was called, was the right man to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Heisman. He had played football under Heisman in 1906 and 1907, and was captain of the Scrubs from 1908-11. Alex became Heisman's assistant coach in 1911. As head football coach, Alex engineered his own legendary career, and was accorded virtually every honor

available in his chosen profession.

His 1928 football team in post season play defeated California in the Rose Bowl, and was declared the national champion. Alex was the first coach to place his teams in all four major post season bowl games. Coach Alex planned and developed Tech's athletic program, and at the time of his death in 1950, he was planning an athletic building which became a posthumous memorial to himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alexander Memorial Colliseum.

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Bobby Dodd Robert L. "Bobby" Dodd, an AllAmerica quarterback at Tennessee, was recruited straight out of college in 1930 to become Tech's backfield coach. He became Coach W.A. Alexander's right-hand man and in 1945, when Coach Alex resigned as head football coach because of his health, he tagged Dodd to succeed him. Dodd quickly established his coaching genius, and five years later, when Alex died, Dodd became athletic director. During his 22 years as head football coach, Dodd's teams won 165 games, lost 64, and tied eight. His teams went to 13 bowl games, nine of which he won. Dodd was the first coach to win six consecutive bowl games. He produced 22 All-America first-team players while he was head coach.

Dodd's record as an administrator distinguished Tech's athletic program as being one of the best managed, most respected in the nation. In 1966, the Football Writers of America named Dodd "National Collegiate Coach of the Year."

Olympic Gold An Olympic gold medal was first awarded to a Tech athlete in 1928 when track star Edward B. "Ed" Hamm set an Olympic record of 25 feet, 4% inches in the broad jump at the Amsterdam Olympics.

Earlier that year, Hamm, CLS '30, set a world record with his broad jump of 25 feet, 11% inches at the Olympic tryouts held in Cambridge, Mass. His Olympic record stood until Jesse Owens broke it in Berlin in 1936. Since then, only one Tech athlete, Antonio McKay, has won a gold medal in the Olympics. McKay, who also won a bronze medal in the 400 meter finals, won a gold medal in the 1600 meter relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

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Randolph Scott Before visions of Hollywood caught his fancy, Randolph Scott, the son of a Charlotte, N.C., textile engineer, attended Georgia Tech. In the fall of 1919, Scott entered the freshman class, joined the football team coached by John Heisman, and became a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. By April of 1920, however, Scott had determined that

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a career as an engineer was not for him, and he withdrew. He left to explore America's adventurous young film capital. Scott, 6-foot-2 and broad shouldered, started off as an extra in Hollywood, but soon was co-starring in films with Alan Ladd and Cary Grant. In the early 1930s, Paramount Pictures starred Scott in a series of Zane Grey western movies. His career was launched, and by the 1940s, Scott, along with John Wayne, had made the transition from "B" movies to major budget productions. He became one of the top 10 money makers in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. He made his last film in 1962, cmstarring with Joel McCrea in a film directed by the late Sam Peckinpah, "Ride the High Country." The award winning film was named the best picture of the year by both Newsweek and Film Quarterly.

You might say Arthur Murray danced his way through Tech. A student in 1919, Murray was a polished dancer who decided to use his talent to help pay his way through college. Murray established dancing classes in Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and was soon teaching the largest dancing classes in the world. In the spring of 1919, Murray was fascinated by wireless radio receiving and transmitting, and demonstrated some of the showmanship that would later make him renowned as the world's most famous dance instructor. Murray got the idea of holding the world's first dance to radio music. He had the band at Tech play music on campus which was transmitted to the roof of the Capital City Club where he conducted a dancing class with "wireless music." The event attracted the attention of newsreels and newspapers. The band music, of course, included "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech." In

1923, Murray came upon the idea of teaching dancing by mail. As a result, he said later, he found an unexpected use for the mechanical drawing experience he gained at Techâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;drawing the footprint diagrams of the dance steps. The rest is history.

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Y. Frank Freeman "In a large glass case on the second floor of the Alumni House on campus, there is an Oscar award on display. The honorary award was given to Tech alumnus Y. Frank Freeman for "unusual and outstanding service during his 30 years in Hollywood" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Freeman's second Oscar, the Gene Hersholt Humanitarian Award "for outstanding philanthropic contributions to the film industry," is displayed in the Tech library with his director's chair and other movie memorabilia. Freeman, who was called "Mr. Hollywood," graduated from Tech in 1910 in electrical engineering, but after graduation got his start in theatre management in Georgia. He rose over a brilliant career to be vice president of Paramount Pictures, using his formula for success: "common

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Freeman signed the charter that created the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., in 1932 and that same year he financed the first publication of the Georgia Tech Alumnus magazine. He was president of the Alumni Association in 1922-23, the first president of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, and was a trustee emeritus of the Foundation until his death in 1969.

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As a leader in the U.S. space program, astronaut John W. Young in many ways symbolizes America's pioneering spirit. Now chief of the NASA Astronaut Office, Young was a Navy test pilot when President John F. Kennedy announced to the world that the United States would put a man on the moon. A 1952 aeronautical engineering graduate, Young was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1962 to become an astronaut. He served as pilot with Gus Grissom on the first manned Gemini flight in 1965, and a year later was the command pilot on Gemini 10. In 1969, Young was command module pilot for Apollo 10. Young journeyed to the moon on his fourth space flight as commander of Apollo 16 in 1972.

Almost a decade later, on April 12-14, 1981, he commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia, heralding the beginning of a new era in space technology.

Just 18 months later, he was at the shuttle controls again, as commander of the ninth shuttle mission. In his career, Young has lived the adventure of taking space travel from the realm of science fiction to a familiar reality.

When Richard H. Truly made his first flight into space in November 1981, he was the pilot of the second voyage of the Space Shuttle Columbia, and the second Georgia Tech graduate to pilot the spacecraft.

Alumnus John Young had commanded Columbia's maiden flight.

Since that flight, Truly, a 1959 aeronautical engineering graduate, has commanded another space flight in the Space Shuttle, was promoted to commodore in the U.S. Navy, and was named the first commander of the six-month-old Naval Space Command in Dahlgren, Va. As an astronaut, he commanded the eighth Space Shuttle flight, from Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1983, and piloted the second shuttle flight from Nov. 12-14, 1981. He was also designated as the backup pilot for Columbia's first flight. His second Space Shuttle flight in 1983 was the craft's first night liftoff and night landing. Truly also flew on the second and fourth two-man crews on Space Shuttle approach and landing test flights in 1977. He joined NASA in 1969 after 10 years of service in the Navy as a Navy pilot, and is the. first astronaut to return to Naval Service from NASA.

Beyond the Call of Duty The Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor in combat, above and beyond the call of duty, has been awarded to three Georgia Tech alumniâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Major Thomas B. McGuire Jr., class of 1942; U.S. Marine Major General Raymond G. Davis, chemical engineering, 1938; and Major General Leonard Wood, who helped establish Tech's football program.

McGuire, a junior at Tech when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, was awarded the medal for conspicuous gallantry in action on Christmas Day, 1944, when his outnumbered fighter squadron defended bombers on a mission in the Pacific Theater. He was lolled in action on January 7, 1945. At the time of his death, he had shot down 38 Japanese planes and was America's second leading air ace. In 1949, the Air Force base at Fort Dix, N.J. was named in Ms honor.

Davis was a lieutenant colonel when he received recognition for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War and commanded a battalion of the First Marine Division.

During December 1-4, 1950, Davis led Ms battalion into an attack against an encircling enemy force in a daring rescue of a beleaguered rifle company, and he seized and defended a vital mountain pass proriding the only escape route for two Marine regiments in danger of being cut off by numerically superior hostile forces.

During Tech's early history, Leonard Wood, a Medal of Honor recipient, enrolled in 1893 and helped establish the football program. Wood had been awarded the medal eight years earlier for Ms participation in the capture of Geronimo in 1885.

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Georgia Tech has announced a Centennial Campaign to raise $1 million for each of its one hundred years. The $100 million campaign is the largest launched for private support in the history of the Institute.

Campaign chairman J. Erskine Love Jr., announced the challenging goal on March 1, at a black tie dinner for current and former trustees of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association.

President Joseph M. Pettit headed a list of guests that included trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc.; trustees of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund, Inc.; directors of the National Advisory Board; members of the central administration, and deans and directors of Tech's colleges, schools and departments, and other special guests.

"Those of us associated with Georgia Tech in 1985 stand on the threshold of its second century," Dr. Pettit said. "Time and events have conspired for us to become the new founders of Georgia Tech. We lay claim to this moment, because it is Georgia Tech's moment. This is uniquely our time in history."

Love told the audience that the Campaign Planning Committee has been at work since the winter of 1984 and has gifts and pledges of $33,569,739.

"I believe that this is our time in history, that we can and should become the New Founders of Georgia Tech," Love said. "If not we, who? If not now, when?

The Centennial celebration is probably the most important milestone in Tech's history, and I believe it offers an unprecedented opportunity to make a quantum leap forwardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to make a good institution great."

Warren Heemann, vice president for Institute Relations and Development, is executive director of the Centennial Campaign.

"The Centennial celebration and particularly the Centennial Campaign provide an unprecedented opportunity of all who hold Georgia Tech in esteem," Heemann said. "Through such ambitious efforts, we can reach beyond the day-to-day demands of our lives and participate in events which are far more significant, far more enduring than the work of any of us as individuals. Together we can set an inspiring course for the Institute's second century and do much to assure its good fortune for generations."

In addition to Pettit, Love and Heemann, other members of the Centennial National Campaign Executive Committee include: George Woodruff, honorary chairman; Charles R. Yates, senior vice chairman; Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr., vice chairman; M. Lamar Oglesby, vice chairman; Cecil J. Silas, vice chairman; John Weitnauer, vice chairman; Alvin M. Ferst, secretary; Thomas E. Williams, treasurer; and Dell Sikes, campaign manager.

E. Rembert DuBose, president of the Alumni Association, presided at the reunion dinner for Alumni Association trustees.

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In addition to scrapbooks and interviews, the authors reaped information from old Blwq/rints, Techniques, Tech catalogs, the Library Archives, Atlanta Historical Society, and the Atlanta newspapers' collections of clippings and photographs. A former student newspaper and yearbook photographer, Deloye R. Burrell, now a professional photographer, made available his extensive negative file for the project. Tech photographers spent countless hours photographing old photographs for the book.

The authors also laud the library's Ruth Hale, for her help in verifying information for the book, and Dean of Students Emeritus George C. Griffin, for his incredible memory of names and faces.

The narrative history is scheduled for publication in October. The decision on the date of publication for the pictorial is pending. Both books will be marketed by their publishers, the Alumni Association, the Tech Bookstore, and other bookstores throughout Georgia.

"I've learned a lot about Tech, and I've discovered how difficult it is to nail down a historical fact," Griessman added, citing instances where he found two or three versions of one event. He said he also learned that "the writing of history is a selective process and your own values dictate those selections."

As Thomas Wolfe conveyed in his short story, "The Lost Boy," Jackson said the book with its pages of precious photographs prompts one to wonder, 'Where did it all go?' Somehow it captures a lost time."

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PhD/I.E., 1961 • James Altman, B.I.E., 1957 • Phil Bush, Small' wonder tlxtt a gaining number of GeorgiaTech alumni think'that a tamer BS/I.M., 1983 • Sandra Catanese, BS/C.S., 198.3 • Eugene Crouch, BS/Ap. Psych., 1973 • David Dalho, BS/I.M., 1975 with American Software is one of the best decisions tlxy ever made!

Denise Fredette Dale, BS/I.M., 1980 -Jean Early, BS/I.M., 1984 Michael Eckert, BS/M.E., 1970 -James M. Edenfield, BS/I.M., American Software: The Power of The Right Decision. ™ 1981 -James H. Ferguson, BS/I.M., 1964 -Jay Flowers,BS/I.M., 1981 • Frank Fuerst, MS/I.M., 198.3 • Michael Keesee, BS/I.M., 1963 • MatthewMcKenna, BS/I.E., 1980 • Michael Memmel, BS/I.E., 1978 • Colleen Shine, B.I.E., 1984 • James Smith, o m r i A i SPONNOR BS/M.S.C, 1981 • ThereseViscelli,BS/Tex., 1977 • Kimberly THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS COMPANY Walter, B.I.E., 198a • Mary Scott Willis, MS/O.R., 1978 443 E Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta. (IA W305 (404) 2614381 ®w > A™ K » »>ri« ..,.-. IM

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