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Marilyn Monroe wore a Georgia Tech sweater on the Sept, 9, 1952, cover of Look magazine,
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President Dwight D, Eisenhower painted a portrait of golfer Bobby Jones and presented it to him in a ceremony at the Augusta National Golf Club in 1953,
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Ed Sullivan required the Glee Club to smg "heckuva engineer" when it performed "Ramblrn' Wreck" on his "Toast of the Town" television program in 1953.
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Reginald S. Fleet, ME 16, was a founder of Rocket Chemical in 1953, In 1970, the company name was changed to WD-40.
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Robert B. Wallace Jr., IM 49, became editor of the Georgia Tech Alumnus in 1953, In his 17 years at that post, Wallace also traveled with the football and basketball teams, served as the coliseum announcer for basketball, covered campus issues under four Georgia Tech presidents and served as faculty adviser to the staffs of the Technique and Rambler. He died m 1970 at the age of 48,
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The faculty senate gave the ax to the Yellow Jacket, the student body's 50-year-old humor magazine, in May 1955, The Yellow Jacket staff anticipated its fate, and the cover headline of the final issue, which went to press before the faculty vote, read RIP The Rambler, the "official feature magazine of the Georgia Institute of Technology," debuted in October 1956, The fashion section contained advice for Tech men in the photo captions: "If the braided band (on a Lee Hunt Club hat) isn't rakish enough for the gay blades, it can be dressed up with brushes like a Tyrolean"; "For the sportsman, the Skol coat with toggle leather buttons and turn-up collar is the latest thing, The four-eyelet, black pebble-grain shoes are the first black tie-ups to ring the college fashion bell"; and, "Sheen cotton slacks and desert boots keep the man casual, comfortable and still well dressed, Ready for action!"
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Burt Reynolds turned to acting after he blew out his knee in his sophomore year playing for Florida State in a mid-1950s gridiron game against Georgia Tech, according to the Burt Reynolds Museum,
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Students marched on the state Capitol to protest Gov. Marvin Griffin's demand that Tech refuse to play Pittsburgh
in the 1956 Sugar Bowl because Pitt had a black player, Tech did play the football game and defeated Pitt 7-0,
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Tech hired its first female faculty member, math instructor Mary Katherine Cabell, in I960, "Tech alumni have a new scapegoat for their football ticket frustrations, It is an electronic digital computer located in Tech's Rich Electronic Computer Center," said the Alumnus m October 1961, "The computer was called in to help with the tough job of making the decisions on who gets the best season tickets this year by Athletics business manager Bob Eskew ... Before the computer, it took Eskew and his staff six weeks to deal out tickets, This year, without fanfare, the computer parceled out all of the season tickets in 30 minutes, an average of over 900 ticket decisions per minute."
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Lew Russell "Pete" Robinson, Cls 59, earned the nickname "Sneaky Pete" when he stunned the drag racing world by coming from virtual obscurity and winning the 1961 National Hot Rod Association nationals, He died during a caialifying race in 1971,
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Fred Wolfe, EE 22, returned to campus Nov. 11, 1961, for a DramaTech production of "Look Homeward, Angel" based on the book written by his brother, Thomas Wolfe, He told students in remarks before the curtain was raised, "Tom said, 'You can't go home again.' Speaking objectively, that is true, because Georgia Tech is not the Tech of 39 years ago, But in spirit, I am home again."
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Elizabeth Ziegler put seven sons through Tech and was named an honorary alumna in 1962, Her Tech men were WT. Ziegler, ChE 32; C.W Ziegler, ME 35; WE Ziegler, TE 39; WH. Ziegler, ME 40; WR, Ziegler, IM 41; John Ziegler, ME 49; and ER, Ziegler, IM 50,
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Six Tech alumni were among the 130 people killed in the June 3, 1962, crash of an Air France jet chartered by the Atlanta Art Association at Orly Airport outside Paris. The Alumnus identified them as Paul G, Barnett, Cls 22; D, Randolph Berry ME 41, and his wife; Fred W Bull, ME 33, and his wife, two children and mother; Thomas G, Little, Cls 35, and his wife; David G, Murphy Cls 42, and his wife; and Vassar WooUey ChE 17, chairman of the board of the Seydel Woolley Co. After the accident, Atlanta Mayor Ivan >Âť
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