The Game That Wasn't
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evere lightning strikes around Blacksburg, Va., resulted in cancellation of the Black Coaches Association football game between Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech on Aug. 27 — a first in Georgia Tech's 109-year football history. The only other time Tech came close to having a game canceled happened in 1980 against the University of Florida. In the second quarter, the teams were sent to their locker rooms for more than 20 minutes as a violent electrical storm passed over Grant Field, Georgia Tech declined to reschedule the BCA game, since the only mutually agreeable time was Dec. 1, only a few days after the Georgia game. "We brought these kids in a week early to practice for this game," athletics director Dave Braine says. "To ask them to practice for an additional week after the Georgia game is not fair."
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William Sangster, former engineering dean, dies at 74
Tech community set to give Atlanta a helping hand
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r. William M. Sangster, who directed the College of Engineering to national prominence during his tenure as dean, died Aug. 22 at age 74. Dr. Sangster came to Georgia Tech in 1967 as director of the School of Civil Engineering, and was named dean of the College of Engineering in 1974. He ardently recruited both women and African-American students into Tech's engineering programs, and during his tenure, Georgia Tech began awarding more engineering degrees to black students than any other college in the nation. Dr. Sangster retired as dean on June 30,1991, and was named director
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of Tech's international Conference. programs. In that role, Dr. He was a past Sangster coordinated chairman of the comTech's international promittee of the Accredigrams at several Eurotation Board for Engipean institutes and dineering and Technolrected the Institute's inogy, which oversaw ternational cooperative the accreditation of all education program. engineering curricula in the United States. Dr. Sangster was also Dr. Sangster and active in the athletic afhis wife, the former fairs of Georgia Tech. He Janice Gosdin, were served as Tech's faculty named honorrepresentative to the ary alumni National Collegiate of Georgia Athletic Associa"**% %i Tech in tion for more $ 1983. than 20 years and twice served as president of the Atlantic Coast
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eorgia Tech students, faculty, staff and alumni will roll up their sleeves and tackle 50 community service projects for the fourth annual TEAM (Tech Enhancing Atlanta Metropolitan) Buzz Community Service Day on Saturday, Nov. 11. Billie Pendleton-Parker, coordinator of the project, expects about 2,200 volunteers. Most of the projects involve beautification work at schools, nursing homes and community centers, but some volunteers will tutor children or visit shut-ins. Pendleton-Parker also wants alumni clubs around the country to participate in satellite projects in their cities. Last year, Houston club members worked to help clean their downtown area. "Every year," says Tech graduate student and 1999 TEAM Buzz chair Trey Childress, "we hope to get more faculty, staff and alumni involved in community service and let them see it's not a chore."