IVENUE LOVE-STANLEY Tech shaped her life
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he Georgia Tech experience wasn't always a pleasant one for Ivenue Love-Stanley, the first AfricanAmerican woman to earn an architecture degree from the Institute in 1977. "From a support standpoint, you just didn't have that. I felt that if you were not extremely talented and you were not a white male, many of the professors didn't have time for you. As far as having another black female, there were not any in the college," Love-Stanley says. Still, Love-Stanley, who arrived on campus with a math degree from Millsaps College, credits her success in business to her Georgia Tech education. "I am where I am because of Tech. It taught me the value of hard work. It was the foundation that put me where I am today. It wasn't easy, it wasn't that friendly of an environment, but it made me all the more determined," she says. Something else happened at Tech that shaped LoveStanley's life. She met Bill Stanley, the first AfricanAmerican to graduate from Tech with an architecture degree in 1972 and the first to become a registered architect in the South. "My first day at Georgia Tech was his last day on
SANDRA ADAMSON FRYHOFER Smile ami sin/ 'ah'
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andra Adamson Fryhofer, ChE 79, has propelled her career using both her brains and beauty. A talented twirler of batons, hoops and knives during football games, she won the 1976 Miss Georgia pageant while a Tech student and went on to compete in the Miss America contest. Fryhofer took the stage in Atlantic City and said she wanted to be a doctor. Although she did not become Miss America, she did become a physician. Dr. Fryhofer didn't stop there. The internist at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital went on to become the youngest — and second female — president of the 115,000-member American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. She is adept at using the media to
campus. Bill had just finished his thesis. When my parents dropped me off, I went on this excursion to find 'the black house' that I had heard about," she recalls. Love-Stanley had heard it through the grapevine that "the black house," a fraternity of sorts, was the place where African-Americans from colleges throughout Atlanta gathered. In front of the house, she came upon Stanley, who had been tying a mattress to the top of his car. "Here was this guy with a huge Afro. He had a Kool in one hand and a bottle of Boone's Farm in the other," she laughs. "He offered to pick me up that night and give me a tour of the city and show me the architecture. "That first date was a disaster. He didn't have any money. He ran out of gas and I had to put gas in his car. But there was just something about him. I was very sheltered, very conservative. We were like oil and water, but the rest is history. We dated for six and a half long years," Love-Stanley says. Ivenue Love and Bill Stanley married in December 1978. She became his business partner as well in 1983, when she joined his architectural firm and the name was changed to Stanley, Love-Stanley. Both have served on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association board of trustees. They have established two scholarships for minority students. And their firm helped design the Aquatic Center for the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 2001, Love-Stanley was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is only the second woman in the state of Georgia to become an AIA fellow. — Kimberly Link-Wills
get health messages about everything from heart disease to menopause out to the public. Her smarts and smile have taken her from "CNN Headline News" to "The Today Show" and from magazines such as Ladies Home journal to Working Mother. Speaking of working mothers, Fryhofer and I sband George, an attorney, are the parents of 12-yearold twins. In 2000, Fryhofer was named to the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Alumni Hall of Fame. She also is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Fryhofer currently serves as the medical correspondent for "CNN Headline News" and maintains a week-
ly column — "Vital Signs by Dr. Sandy" — on the CNN Web site. "Of course I still maintain my private practice and continue to see patients in my office every day," Fryhofer says. — Kimberly Link-Wills Fall 2002 • GEORGIA TECH 5 1