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ormer President Jimmy Carter, architect John Portman, and Steven Jobs, the founder of Apple Corp., are featured speakers at EDUCOM's conference on information technology hosted by Georgia Tech on Oct. 14-17 at Inforum in Atlanta. The theme of the conference is "Preparing for the Renaissance: Computing and Communications for Technology, Science and the Arts." EDUCOM is a non-profit consortium of more than 600 colleges and universtities concerned with computing and communications issues in higher education. Carter, Cls '46, will address the role of the U.S. and its universities concerning global communications. Portman, BS '50, will speak about the vision of
Former President Carter an architect, and Jobs, president and founder of NeXT, will speak on interpersonal computing for the decade ahead. Other featured speakers are Robert Allen, chairman and CEO of AT&T, and Donna Cox, a computer artist and associate professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Program chair John Gehl of Tech's College of Computing said EDUCOM '90 will have sessions dealing with issues of policy, management, instruction, and research and technical development.
or a week this past summer, the campus of East Tennessee State looked like the staging area for a cartoon zoo when dozens of brightly colored lions, tigers, turtles, birds and other species of college mascot converged on the Johnson City, Tenn., university. The occasion was the annual summer camp for collegiate cheerleading squads and mascots. And when it was over, the more than 80 mascots attending the camp had voted Georgia Tech's inimitable Buzz the best. The instructors who run the camp held their own election for the best mascot, and once again Buzz flew away with the honor. Unlike most college mascots, the physical demands of playing Buzz are
such that two people, each clad in identical costumes, alternate in the role at most sports events. This year, students Tynis Royal and David Piech share the job. "No one is supposed to know the difference between the two Buzzes," says Bobby Williams, cheerleading coach and spirit coordinator. "Tyrus and David spend a lot of time learning to act and walk exactly alike." Tecbnotes continued page 11
Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees Officers Shirley C, Mevvborn EE '56
president Oliver 11. Sale Jr. ME '56
past president John C. Staton Jr. IM '60
president-elect 'treasurer 11. Hammond StitH |r. CE'58 rice president, act/rides G. William Knight IE '62, MSIM '08 rice president comtnuniaUons Frank H. Mater Jr. IM '60 rice president Roll Call fohn B. Cartel |r. 11' '60 rice president 'executive director James M. Langley rice president
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Trustees Kay Elizabeth Adams IMGT '74 Theodore Arno 11 TEXT '49 James D. Blitch 111 IE '53 Stanley 1„ Daniels ARC! 1 '60 II. Guy Darnell )r. IM'65 Joseph T. Dyer IE'69 Edwin C. EcklesARCH '52 Jack J. Eaussemagne IM '65 Frank B. F'ortson EE 71 Albert E. Gandy IE '56 Don I>. Giddens AE '63, MSAE '65, l'HD'67 fereW. Goldsmith IV IM '56 Thomas B. Gurley EE '59 , Hubert 1.. HarrisJr IM '65
P. Owen Herrin [r. IM 70 Brian D. HogglM '61 G. Paul Jones Jr. ME '52
[venue Love-Stanley ARCH 7 Jay M. McDonald IM '68 Thomas 11. Muller Jr. IE'63 Michael Percy CLS '68 Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker IMGT '80 James Richard Roberts III IM '60 Louis Gordon Sawyer Sr. NS '46 W. Clayton Sparrow Jr. PHI'S '68 Francis N. Spears III CE 73, MM E '80 George A. Stewart Jr. AE '69 11. Milton Stewart lr. IE '61 1 (award T. Tellepsen Jr. CE '66 S.Joseph Ward IM '51