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Interesting Times By Hoyt Coffee Depression, a New Deal and Total War Expansion, Another War and the Women Desegregation, Activism and a New Direction Olympics and Beyond
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John B. Carter Jr., IE '69, Publisher John C. Dunn, Editor Hoyt Coffee, Associate Editor Shawn Jenkins, Stall Writer Everett Hullum and Nao Yamashita, Design Robb Stanek, AE '90, Advertising
lversions Lucky Lindy Lands at Tech George P. Burdell Rose Bowl Bear Wrong Way Reigels Coach Heisman Dies Greater Georgia Tech Sputnik to Space Shuttle A Deadly Day in Dallas President Addresses Nation from Tech Saturday Magic at Grant Field Cumberland O-Tech 222 A Novel Relationship Bobby Jones Out-Polls "Babe" AP Ranks Jones Greatest Golfer The Big Step Nobody Noticed Atlanta's Titanic American Hero Mr. President Mister Georgia Tech Winston Churchill Addresses Students Sam's School
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Revolutions In Resetirch By Gary Goettling • • • • • • • • • • • Cover: See identifications on page 4.
Illustration by Eddie Ross
Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (ISSN: 1061-9747) is published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) for Roll Call contributors by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Alumni/ Faculty House, 225 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0175. Georgia Tech Alumni Association allocates $10 from a contribution toward a year's subscription to its magazine. Periodical postage paid at Atlanta,GA., and additional mailing offices. © 1998 Georgia Tech Alumni Association. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Alumni/Faculty House, 225 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0175. Editorial: (404) 894-0760/0761. Advertising: (404) 894-9270. Fax: (404) 894-5113. E-mail: editor@alumni.gatech.edu
Officers Francis N. Spears CE 73, MS CE '80, President Hubert L. Harris Jr. IM '65, Past President Jay M. McDonald IM '68, President Elect/Treasurer N. Allen Robertson IE '69, Vice President/Activities David M. McKenney PHYS '60, IE '64, Vice President/ Communications David Peake IE '61, Vice President/Roll Call John B. Carter Jr. IE '69, Vice President and Executive Director
Trustees William H. Avery ChE '65 Charles W. Bass IE '69 John H. Bachman Jr. CE'62 Ann G. Badding IM 78 Richard A. Beard HI IM'67 Roswell S. Bowers IM 7 1 Daniel H. Bradley IM '61 Mary Melinda Coker EE'87 Preston Crum Arch '67 W. Elliott Dunwody III Arch '52 Michael P. Franke IE '66 Phil Gee IE '81 Sherman J. Glass Jr. ChE 71, MS ChE 72 William Goodhew III IM'61 H. Craig Hayes IM '65 Thomas N. Herrington IM'59 Patrick H. Hickok IE 70
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Neil H. Hightower Text '63 Sharon R. Just CE '89 John E. Lagana IE '68 Jack Lawler Text '52 Gary S. May EE '85 S. Howard McKinley IM '60 James G. Pope EE '65 Tydings Robin Jr. ME '61, MS NE '63, Ph.D. '67 Michael Sappington IE 70 Marvin Seals III IM'65 Ronda R. Sides IE '83 Warren D. Shiver ME '64, MS ME '67 R. Joe Taylor IM '56 Albert S. Thornton Jr. IM '68 Herbert S. Upton EE '65 Charles L. Wallace IM '64 Norman Wells EE '57 Paul H. Williams ChE '60 Janice N. Wittschiebe Arch 78, M Arch '80
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