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7 5 Years Ago Georgia Tech, a landlocked school, was designated as a Naval ROTC unit — one of six colleges or universities so appointed in the United States in 1926. Sixty freshmen were accepted into the first class and trained in 24-foot whaleboats on Piedmont Park Lake.
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10th anniversary is something to sing about. Who better to do the singing than Jose Carreras? The acclaimed Spanish tenor headlines the anniversary season of the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts with a Jan. 25 performance. Andrea Hoffer, acting director of the Ferst Center, says the occasion calls for a big star. "Jose Carreras was like pie in the sky. But he said he'd do it. He's only doing three engagements in the United States during the year." Hoffer also is excited about kicking off the anniversary season with the Dance Theatre of Harlem on Oct. 12. "It was a difficult date to get. They had to rearrange their routing to do it." The anniversary season includes performances by jazz musician Diane Schuur on Oct. 27; Sandra Bernhard on Nov. 3; classical musicians Katia and Marielle Labeque on Dec. 5; Penn & Teller on Jan. 11 and 12; The Parsons
Dance Company on Feb. 23; "Rigoletto' by Teatro Lirico D'Europa on March 1; and Rockapella on March 23. The Callaway Foundation helped turn the vision for a Georgia Tech Theatre of the Arts into reality when it donated $3.75 million of the $7.5 million needed to construct the center. Ground was broken in December 1989. The theater officially opened on April 13,1992, with a performance by pianist Andre Watts. The center was later renamed for Robert Ferst, ME 38, treasurer of the Georgia Tech Foundation for nearly 30 years. He established the Robert H. Ferst Scholarship Fund in 1987 and was awarded the Joseph M. Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award. After Ferst died in 1991, his widow, Jean, made a $500,000 donation to the theater, GT Ticket information may be obtained by calling the Ferst Center box office at (404)894-9600 or by visiting www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu.
Record 15,000 Enroll at Tech (^ eorgia Tech's en\J rollment on campus has jumped to 15,000 — and its enrollment at satellite campuses totals nearly 500 more students. There were 15,073 students attending Tech's main campus as of midSeptember—10,710
undergraduates and 4,363 graduate students, says Barbara Hall, associate vice president for enrollment services. Another 498 students enrolled in such off-campus programs as Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France, Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Pro-
gram in Savannah, distance learning, study abroad and foreign exchange, Hall says. Tech's comprehensive enrollment reached 15,571. Of this total, 11,043 are undergraduate students and the remaining 4,528 are graduate students, GT
5 0 Years Ago Frank Lloyd Wright was world famous as the architect who most influenced the 20th century when he visited Tech in the fall of 1951 to give a lecture. In addition to attending a reception given by the Georgia Chapters of the American Institute of Architects, Wright and his wife were treated to a picnic by Tech's architecture students. 2 5 Years Ago Jimmy Carter was elected president of the United States on Nov. 2, 1976. Carter spent the 1942-43 school year at Georgia Tech before transferring to the Naval Academy. "The Tech experience was wonderful for me," Carter recalled. "Tech was much more difficult than I thought it would be. I've been to four universities, and Tech was the most difficult."
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