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Elouise B. and R. James Mitchell, IM 1952 Macon, Georgia • Graduated from Thomasville (Georgia) High School; starting player in basketball, track, and football. Right hall back on 1945 State Championship team; member of Thomas County Sports Hall of Fame.

• Two years in 82nd Airborne before entering Tech in 1948.

• Member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, served as vice president and house manager; Army ROTC and Bulldog Club of Georgia Tech.

• Began professional career with DuPont in

safety and accounting; Armstrong flooring sales with R.A. Siegel Company in Athens and manager of R.A. Siegel Company in Macon.

• In 1958 founded Georgia Cabinet Company, serving Macon and Warner Robins with special jobs in St. Simons, St. Mary's, Savannah, Clayton, and Albany, Georgia. Sold the business in 2003; continues to help current owner as needed.

• Married Elouise Booker after her graduation from Crawford W. Long Nursing School in 1951.

• Four children: Ruebush James Mitchell III, Susan Patterson, Margaret Rogers, and Charles Mitchell; three grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

• Hobbies include fishing and hunting; active in his Baptist church as deacon, Sunday school teacher, Royal Ambassador leader, and Meals on Wheels deliverer.

Gifts to Georgia Tech • Four charitable gift annuities to establish the R. lames Mitchell Endowment Fund for scholarships for students in the College of Management.

• Roll Call support for 52 years; support of Alexander-Tharpe Fund for 10 years.

Thoughts on Giving to Tech "Charitable gift annuities appealed to me as I was able to save on capital gains tax while receiving guaranteed quarterly income for my wife and myself for life. I have established a permanent endowment to support students with financial need who are enrolled in Georgia Tech's College of Management."

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Publisher: Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80 Editor: Kimberly Link-Wills Assistant Editor: Van Jensen Assistant Editor: Leslie Overman Design: Ryan Giusti Executive Committee Joseph W. Evans, IM 71, Chair William J. Todd, IM 71, Past Chair Alfredo Trujillo, A E 8 1 , Chair-elect/Finance C Dean Alford, EE 76, Vice Chair/Roll Call Steve W. Chaddick, EE 74, MS EE 82 Phillip N. Gee, ISyE 81 Cheryl J. Weldon, ChE85 Members At Large Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80, President Board of Trustees Ana I. Anton, ICS 90, MS ICS 92, PhD CS 97 Thomas G. Arlotto, ME 82 Jennifer M. Ball, Arch 94, M CP 01 Coe A. Bloomberg, ME 66 David A. Bottoms, Mgt 01 William B. Bourne III, GMgt 72 Marc A. Corsini, IM 80 Tracey M. Countryman, IM 98 Steven R. Cover,

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n December, we added another 2,000 or so young men and women to the ranks of Georgia Tech's alumni. They are no doubt a talented crowd and will impact the world in any number of positive ways in the many years to come.

Joe Evans, the chair of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association this year, gave a tremendous commencement speech in which he advised our newest graduates to be "wisely selfish" about their Tech degrees. It's a term attributed to the Dalai Lama and one that I hope will resonate long with these young alumni.

Being "wisely selfish" in this context means to understand that your time on campus is an investment and as such it has to be nurtured and managed so that it provides the kind of return that any great investment will.

All of us who graduated prior to the mid-'90s didn't attend a top 10 public university, but we're beneficiaries of the great rise in Georgia Tech's reputation and prominence as a world-class technological research university. But why did Tech soar in the rankings? You, as alumni, represent one of the critical components of that rise. And that's the message that Joe delivered to the graduates.

Alumni who care about their institutions impact their alma maters in ways that are both measurable and intangible.

Alumni are advocates — they help the institution connect in so many areas. Alumni are recruiters of great students. Alumni are leaders whose volunteerism guides and builds an institution's strength. Alumni hire other alumni — the key to generating lifelong, valuable connections to the institution. And alumni are generous philanthropically sharing their hardearned income with the institution to provide the foundation for further progress, growth and innovation.

Your support of Georgia Tech is hugely valuable to the Institute. President Bud Peterson will tell you that one of the reasons that he's here today is because of the remarkable passion that Tech alumni share for the Institute.

So as we close the books on 2009, we say thank you! Thank you for caring about Tech, its students, its future. Investing in the future Georgia Tech is every bit as important now as it was 101 years ago when we began this great mission to gather alumni support for the North Avenue Trade School.

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Letters Reflections of a 'Golden Oldie' Starting with the presidents reception on Thursday evening and ending with the win over Virginia Tech on Saturday, my wife and I participated in a number of Homecoming events that had been planned and delivered in an effective manner by the staffs of the Alumni Association and the Development Office.

It had been my pleasure for the first time since leaving Tech to be really involved in a meaningful way with the place that gave me my start some 50 years ago through my involvement on the party planning and fundraising committees for our golden reunion. David Jones and John Howard provided superb leadership in their respective roles as chair of those two committees. They were effectively supported

by Jessica Battista (party planning) and Pam Trube (fundraising) as we ultimately reached both our participation (200) and fundraising goals ($250,000 for need-based scholarships and $3 million overall). Working toward those goals led to a lot of telephoning and mailings that opened up lines of communications that in most cases had been dormant for more than 50 years.

Regrettably, my personal career in public and higher education had limited my support of Georgia Tech to the annual Roll Call and to some visits to football games as the guest of then President Crecine and President Clough, respectively, when I served as a president in the University System of Georgia at two institutions. I recalled taking advantage of the offer 10 years ago to play catch-up with Roll Call years as part of the fundraising effort for our 40th reunion. I used that personal experience in my fundraising talk to classmates this year.

Positive and heartwarming conversations were had with a number of my friends from the four years that I spent on the Flats and on the Hill. Initially, as a former student athlete, I started out calling my former teammates in football and basketball.

Toward the end, I spilled over into the other team sports and to some of my friends who were not athletes. It seemed impossible that

Foster Watkins was captain of the football team.

50 years had passed since we sat in classes together, participated in club and fraternity activities and were involved in leadership efforts on campus.

While we had a reasonable degree of success in our fundraising efforts even in this economically challenging time, much remains to be done in that area on behalf of Georgia Tech. As noted by our new president, G. P. "Bud" Peterson, alumni support at Tech ranks right at the top when compared to similar institutions and contributes to the culture that makes Tech such a special place.

Collectively we can do even better. Personally, I would be less than honest if I did not admit to a sense of disappointment and a bit of failure when all of those I called did not choose to come to Atlanta for Homecoming or give if they could not come.

Currently, I am involved with the student athlete dimension of things at Tech through my work with the Georgia Tech Letterwinners Club. I was late to a meeting last spring and was elected president in my absence. I have been challenged by that opportunity to be involved in a volunteer manner and look forward to working toward increased involvement of student athletes from volunteering and fundraising perspectives and making the athlete experience at Tech one that has a lifetime dimension.

Personally, I am a bit embarrassed by the budget deficit that Dan Radakovich inherited when he came as athletic director. Hopefully, former athletes and other friends of Tech

athletics will come to the table and assist Alexander-Tharpe personnel and him in closing that budget gap and funding endowed scholarships across all sports.

I know that all of us were inspired and encouraged by the enthusiastic presence and participation of President Peterson and Val throughout Homecoming weekend. His discussions of Tech and its future should be a source of encouragement to all of us and should generate a renewed interest in being a continuing player in that challenging and promising future.

I plan on being a regular attendee at "golden oldie" functions in the coming years.

I encourage and challenge all of my classmates to do likewise. I also volunteer to be a member of the party planning and fundraising committees in spring 2019.

J. Foster Watkins, IE 59 Clarkesville, Ga.

Roll Call Impacts Students I am a senior at Tech majoring in math and minoring in economics and Spanish. I got on the Washington, D.C., Georgia Tech Club e-mail list last summer when I was interning at the Department of Education's National Center for Education Research.

I was thrilled to see the club's push for supporting Roll Call. I would like all alumni to realize how directly these donations impact Tech students. Roll Call has made the Tech experience possible for me; my brother, a second-year mechanical engineering student; and many of my friends and classmates. Roll Call helped support me on my summer internship in D.C., my yearlong internship at the Georgia Senate Budget Office and my study abroad semester in Mexico City and Madrid. I will graduate in May. On behalf of the many students who have benefited from Roll Call donations, I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed and to encourage everyone to give what they can so that other students will have the fantastic Tech experience I have had.

Carola Conces Applied math, May 2010

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My Visits With Ed On reading the article and several letters in recent issues about professor Edwin Folk, I'm stimulated to add my bit.

Now in my 100th year, I have many pleasant memories of my visits with Ed, his wife and their children in their dormitory apartment. I graduated in 1931 with a degree from the Commerce Department, spent several years in the treasurer's office and at least one as manager of the bookstore and cafeteria before being taken away by the Army in World War II. My memory is that Professor and Mrs. Folk's apartment was open to faculty friends like me and also to student residents in their dormitory.

James H. Tipton, Com 31 Cambridge, Mass.

We Fenced in the 70s While I enjoyed the November/ December 2009 article Good Swordsmanship, fencing was around Georgia Tech long before the spring of 2005. In the fall of 1973 or 1974, a group of a dozen or more Tech students, including myself, started learning to fence on Saturday mornings in the old gym. We had to share helmets, gloves and foils, but it was a lot of fun.

David F. Colvard, ME 74 Raleigh, N.C.

And in the '40s I read with interest the article Good Swordsmanship in the November/December ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Unless I am mistaken,

fencing was a varsity sport at Tech prior to World War II. When I started in 1948, there was a Georgia Tech fencing club, which I later joined. The equipment we had was left over from the disbanded varsity, but most people bought their own equipment once they got into the sport. In addition to our own local activities, we were also active with the Atlanta Fencing Club and participated in some of their tournaments.

I left Tech in 1951 headed for Korea via the Air Force Aviation Cadet Program. I did not make it back until 1957, at which time I went on to earn my degree with the class of 1958.

R.O. Swift, IE 58 Austin, Texas

Tilmon Chamlee is juried at Tech in the early 1950s. Below is one of his Yellow Jacket covers.

Covers Were Profitable Thank you so much for printing three of my Yellow Jacket covers on page 97 [The Demise of a Humor Magazine] of the November/December GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

The Faculty Senate did end the Yellow Jacket — and my covers — in 1955. The covers were not only fun but profitable.

How about $30 per cover?!

Tilmon Chamlee, BS 54, Arch 57 Milledgeville, Ga.

Nerem Got Short Shrift I congratulate you on the new format of the GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. It is

attention grabbing. I am, however, concerned about the magazine's content, especially as it relates to the impact Tech has had as a leading national and international academic institution.

The article in the November/December 2009 issue about professor Robert Nerem illustrates my point. Professor Nerem has been widely recognized around the world as a change agent in the field of biomedical engineering. He has played a singular role

not only in advancing the scientific/ engineering foundation of the discipline but also in bringing together the relevant but often competing parties such as the NIH, FDA, NSF, academia, public policy experts, legislators and industry to accelerate the movement of important discoveries from bench to bedside. The article failed to give adequate and appropriate coverage to the impact Professor Nerem has had over his decades-long career in improving the public's health not only through his personal efforts but also through the work of his students, fellow faculty members at Tech and Emory and the coalitions he forged among

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complementary engineering and medical institutions around the world. He has done Georgia Tech proud and elevated its stature among other academic institutions. The article gave short shrift to his impact and legacy.

It is somewhat ironic that the accomplishments of a valued two-year Georgia Tech employee responsible for parking enforcement (Meet the Most Hated Man on Campus) in the same issue would receive more coverage than the 40-year career of one of the institution's most celebrated academic and intellectual giants.

The point I am trying to make is the magazine has been designed to make the reader want to pick it up and open the pages.

It now needs to focus on content and substance.

Paul Citron New Brighton, Minn.

bagged them for bulk mail shipping and took them to the Georgia Tech Post Office.

From that I know every address in Georgia from Abac to Zebulon.

I typed, on IBM punch cards, all faculty identification cards. We changed colors every year. My last year I typed one for myself so that I could park my car on the Hill. That faculty/staff decal is still on the windshield of my 1962 Buick wagon, "Big White."

The Office of Public Relations coordinated the graduation ceremonies, and I was pleased to "robe" such speakers as Jimmy Carter, Lester Maddox and Andrew Young. The supplier of cloth rental robes offered me a free gown for my graduation.

When the spring 1973 graduation occurred, the college had switched to disposable paperlike robes, but I took the man up on his offer and was the only graduate that year in a cloth gown.

Dick Fuller moved from public relations to another job and as part of his duties was Relatively Speaking the head of the Georgia Tech Police DepartIs editor Kimberly Link-Wills related to ment. Through him I got a second job Richard Link, who ran the news bureau in the early '70s? I worked as a student assistant working in the police department approving the timesheets of the part-time students who for three years in the Office of Campus gave out parking tickets.

Affairs, which became the Office of Public At the Student Center (new at that time), Relations when Dick Fuller took over. I knew Dick Link and [Georgia Tech Alumnus editor] I silk-screened the Georgia Tech pennants under a new boss in the PR office that Ben Moon, and my direct supervisor was astronaut John Young took to the moon. I Alice Chastain. didn't get one of The years I those pennants. spent in the So many Campus memories. I am Affairs/Public always grateful Relations office that as I learned were a really my profession, I good time in my also had interlife. My major relations with so was physics at David Robinson said his 1962 Buick wagon, "Big White," many of the a time when looked just like the one in the advertisement in its heyday. people behind you skipped a the scenes at master's and Tech who may have taught me even more. moved directly into the PhD program. I was I'm also proud that two of my three not ready for such a challenge, and today if daughters graduated from Tech [Erin I were attending Tech I would take the Robinson, STC 04, and Jessica Robinson, ID applied physics program as that is what I 08]. am doing today for Alcatel Vacuum David Robinson, Phys 73 Products.

Smyrna, Ga. I learned so much in my years as the Editor's note: As far as she knows, Linklowly student assistant. I mailed catalogs to Wills is not related to Link. all prospective Georgia Tech students,

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Good Things Do Happen I've been in Tampa since 1998 and seen stuff on the Suncoast Georgia Tech Club from time to time but just never got in touch. So it was a very pleasant surprise to meet the group at Tijuana Flats in West Chase in October. Good things do happen! It was a real pleasure to meet all the guys, girls and kids.

Ken Burnham, ChE 61 Tampa, Fla.

Remember the Mess Hall?

The Ramblin' Roll has been pretty sparse with any information about the Naval Air Station campus, which was set up to accommodate returning veterans after World War II. There must be alumni who remember that campus, the Navy mess hall, the trackless trolley rides to the main campus, etc.

How about some of you from the 1940s and 1950s sharing some of your memories with the rest of us?

Bruce Smith, EE 51 Hancock, N.H.

British Green in Scotland Your November/December issue had a good piece about Stewart Cink and the British Open at Turnberry Scotland. Stewart was wearing a British auto racing green cap and shirt, which he probably knew, but so far I have not seen any indication that others did.

Fred Bowyer, CE 58 Jackson, Tenn.

Admiration for Schuster I read of [provost Gary] Schuster's plan to return to teaching with admiration for him and some sorrow too. I judge he has helped Dr. Peterson settle in. I recall [former provost Jean Lou] Chameau as a civil and environmental engineering professor, I believe, who did much work in sustainable development.

I think it's fantastic that he went from Tech to be president of CalTech.

On another note, does anyone still call The Technique "The South's Liveliest College Fish Wrapper"?

Jerry Abbott, CE 55 Birmingham, Ala.

Ted Shuler is surrounded by thousands of bottles from his beer collection, housed in its own room.

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introduced and current breweries continue to redesign and relabel existing brands.

Back in the summer of 1989, Tech Topics Incidentally, I am a Georgia Tech did an article about my beer bottle collection. graduate of 1953 and was honored to have I would like to give some current facts on my played football under coach Bobby Dodd for collection. four years, including the undefeated SEC As noted in the article, the collection championship teams of 1951 and 1952 and consists of full, unduplicated bottles of beer the national championship team of 1952. My — no two alike. In 1989, when the Guinness wonderful wife, Martha, and I were married Book of World Records first listed my collection the summer before my junior year and are as the world's largest of its kind, it consisted now in our 58th year of marriage, having of 1,827 bottles from 82 countries. The four children, nine grandchildren and two Guinness Book repeated the list in its annual great-grandchildren. One grandson is a fine publication for eight consecutive years — baseball player and hopes to attend and play until 1996, when a fellow from Germany ball at Tech after high school. took over the record.

Our Memphis business, Shuler Today, the collection is comprised of Distributing Co., wholesale floor covering, is 9,355 full, one-of-a-kind bottles from 137 in its 69th year, started by my father and now countries. I have been greatly aided over the being run by third- and fourth-generation years by more than 260 donors ranging from Shulers. friends to strangers to breweries to foreign Ted Shuler, IM 53 nations.

Germantown, Tenn.

The display is now located in my company warehouse in a special 1,000Memories of 10 cent Beers square-foot room. Each bottle is displayed The newspaper in my hometown of separately and is listed on a computer Whitesburg, Ky, recently ran a picture showing the date received, the location in the showing the seats of our local soccer field display, the donor (if a gift), the size of the being painted over with the colors of our bottle, the name of the brewery and where I new consolidated high school. The article acquired it (if not a gift). Once again I said the old seats had been replaced with emphasize that while there are many of the some from the demolished Fulton County same brand, there are no two alike. The Stadium in Atlanta. collection continues to grow at a good pace Although I have not been in our local as numerous new brands are continually grandstand for years, since before we'd ever

heard of soccer and it was used for baseball and football, I may well have sat in some of those seats. That brought back some great memories, especially of seeing Hank Aaron crank so many balls over the fence at Fulton County Stadium.

In the early '70s there was a period when the Braves were having such a difficult time attracting fans that they instituted 10 cent beverage nights. This was great news for poor college students.

Here's what three friends and I could do for two bucks apiece: We pitched in a quarter to raise the dollar to park the car. Unreserved center field seats were also a dollar. That left 75 cents each for a box of popcorn, at a quarter, and enough for five of those big plastic cups of beer. Given the camaraderie of my friends, that's about the best two bucks I've ever spent.

Roy Crawford, ME 74 Whitesburg, Ky.

Strike Up the Band I still go to most Georgia Tech home games and have a fairly set routine. I drive to the Inman Park MARTA station, where there is free parking, then a train ride to Five Points and on to North Avenue and I am two blocks from the stadium. I stop at the Varsity and get a sandwich or two and a Coke, then I walk to the campus to the Kessler Campanile, where the Tech band warms up. I sit and eat and listen to the band.

When they finish "Up With the White and Gold" and "Ramblin' Wreck," they rush up to the library, and some of the horn players get on top of a monument at the fountain there. Then you start to hear the drum line getting louder as it nears the library. As soon as they get there, the place starts rocking. Then here come the "Sousas," and they strike up the Budweiser song.

When they finish that, they line up on Bobby Dodd Way with the Ramblin' Wreck in front, with cheerleaders in, on and around it. Next are the flag girls, then the band.

The band marches down Bobby Dodd Way to the stadium. They start playing "Up With the White and Gold," and I jump in just behind the last elements, which are the piccolos. The band is clearing the way, and it is a nice walk toward Bobby Dodd Stadium.

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Much of the scenery is almost exactly as it was 50 years ago, and at that point I reflect on the five years of toil and strife, the hours spent trying to keep from flunking courses, especially the courses with the designed purpose of flunking you out of school so you could go home in shame; the walks up and down Third Street (now Bobby Dodd Way) to the library and back to be able to study in an air-conditioned facility; all the late-night studies; missing your girlfriend who was far away; the Saturday classes each and every Saturday; the six-hour labs; the three-hour exams that would make or break you; the struggles to get in the classes you needed to graduate; the course you flunked because you spent too much time studying for the one you were flunking worse; and the pop quizzes that you were not ready for in the least.

A million memories descend all at once, rushing in with the music, and it all comes back and I can hardly talk even if I want to.

The band breaks off at the west stands, and I wind my way over to the east stands where my seat is in row one of the upper deck on the 10-yard line. The music from the PA makes the entire stadium pulsate. The frenzy is about to begin.

Allen W. Johnson, ChE 62 North Augusta, S.C.

Alumni Appreciative I went to check my mailbox, and I had three letters from alumni I wrote Roll Call thank you letters to. Each one was unique, but they all expressed how nice it was to hear that their gifts to Tech were actually being appreciated. One gentleman even said that he's been giving for 50 years and it still makes his day just to hear that someone is thankful.

One alumnus invited me to come visit the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, where he volunteers, and another asked me 14 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine

to let him know when I learn about a certain property of molecules that he has questions about. One alum told me about how Tech was when he was here a long time ago, when there were no females or AfricanAmericans. Each alumnus also stated how much Tech changed their life for the positive.

All in all, it's really amazing to hear from these alumni and learn their experiences at Tech. One alumnus said, "By all means share this with the folks who got this personal program up. It is a winner, as you are and as Georgia Tech was, is and will be."

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Thank You, Mentor Jackets My Mentor Jackets mentee and I met for coffee, and a planned short meeting lasted over two hours. Neither of us could believe how much we had in common. Thanks for the opportunity to work with a current student. I wish I had the opportunity when I was at Tech.

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I'd like to hear from Georgia Tech engineers, as well as the people who know about finances, if this is too outrageous to be considered. Besides being a permanent solution to a critical problem, it would create thousands of jobs everywhere because a huge project like this would require simultaneous construction all over the country.

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Thanks to Columbus Club Even though it was a misty day, we all thought that this was the Columbus Georgia Tech Club's best TEAM Buzz Day yet. The Columbus club members were all so kind to give time to the girls at the Anne Elizabeth Shepherd Home. The girls need so much in the way of interacting with positive role models, and the Georgia Tech alumni team is just the type of adults they need. Thank you for the checks to help us out with our Fantasy in Lights adventure.

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The 2010 winners are tireless volunteers, thoughtful philanthropists and passionate leaders. They will be recognized for their accomplishments and generosity during a celebratory dinner and awards ceremony Feb. 18 at the Atlanta History Center.

The Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association in recognition of exceptional and outstanding support of the Institute and a lifetime of professional and philanthropic leadership. The 2010 recipients are: lis, ME 59, MS IM 62, of Alpharetta, Ga., CEO of Collins and Arnold Construction Co. LLC. He is a member of the Campaign 2010 steering committee and an emeritus member of the Georgia Tech Foundation board of trustees. He was named to the College of Engineering's Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni in 1996, inducted into the College of Management Hall of Fame in 2007 and presented the Woodruff School Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008. s s , Cls 50, of Winter Park, Fla., retired chairman and CEO of Barnett Bank of Central Florida. He served three terms, including one as president from 1991 to 1993, on the Georgia Tech Foundation board and was a member of the Georgia Tech Advisory Board from 1971 to 1978, serving as its chair in 1974-75.

He established an endowment for scholarships favoring students from the greater Orlando area and football players.

James Thomas "Tommy" Greshim, TE 60, of LaGrange, Ga., president, treasurer and general manager of the Callaway Foundation. He has served on the boards of the Alumni Association, Georgia Tech Club of LaGrange, Georgia Tech Foundation, Georgia Tech Research Corp. and the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Georgia Tech has received significant gifts from the Callaway Foundation.

Recipients of the Dean Griffin Community Service Award, presented for positively impacting the quality of life of others while serving as a role model in the process, are: n Jr., IE 56, of Hiawassee, Ga., retired senior vice president of government and public institutions for First American Bank of Georgia. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 1974 to 1988. Through an endowment created for his 40fh reunion in 1996, he established the Margaret A. Guthman Keyboard Competiton, which in 2009 was expanded to showcase new music technology. Inventors came from seven countries to compete for more than $15,000 in prizes. ts,IE69,ofRome,Ga., retired president and general manager of Temple Inland Corp. He chaired the Board of Regents' search committee that brought G. P. "Bud" Peterson to Tech as its 11th president. He also has been actively involved in the Floyd County March of Dimes, United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs, Open Door Children's Home and Mercy Senior Care. He chaired the Rome-Floyd Development Authority and the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce.

The Outstanding Young Alumnus/ Alumna Award goes to a high achiever under age 40 who has contributed to Georgia Tech, the community and the business world. The recipients are: ch, IE 97, of Atlanta, executive vice president and co-founder of BroadSource, a leader in Telecom Expense Management software and services. He served as president of the Georgia Tech Student Foundation, helped launch the Georgia Tech Business Network and served on the Alumni Association Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2008. He currently sits on the advisory board for the Advanced Technology Development Center. es, CE 99, MS EnvE 01, of Peachtree Corners, Ga., environmental engineer with CH2M Hill; wife of Daniel James, EE 00; and daughter of Michael Percy, Cls 68. As the Young Alumni Council president, she has recruited

volunteers, created a student leader reception and Facebook group, expanded the Young Alumni Reunion and started a golf tournament.

Honorary Alumnus/Alumna status is presented to someone who did not attend the Institute but has provided outstanding service to Georgia Tech. The recipients are: re, ofWoodside, Calif., chair of Kelly-Moore Paint Co. Inc. and the widow of Bill Moore, IM 38, who died in 2004. She established a support fund for the Bill Moore Tennis Center in 2008 and a William E. Moore Athletic Scholarship endowment in 2007. She also endowed the Moore Family Scholarship Fund for women's tennis. er, of Atlanta, Georgia Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs since August 2006. In October, he announced his decision to step down from the position in order to return to the faculty. He will remain as provost, however, until his successor is hired. A July target date has been announced. Schuster arrived at Tech from the University of Illinois in 1994 to serve as dean of the College of Sciences. In April 2008, he was named interim president to lead the Institute after the departure of Wayne Clough and until his successor was in place. th, of Atlanta and Cashiers, N.C., widow of Buck Stith, CE 58, who succumbed to cancer Sept. 11. Goldand-white ties also include son-in-law Mark Thomas Miller, IE 88. She has participated in numerous Tech-related activities over the years, from Homecoming to the Gold & White Honors recognition ceremonies. The Stiths also hosted two Alumni Travel tours, through the French waterways in 1994 and Scotland in 2005. on, of Atlanta and Aspen, Colo., wife of John C. Staton Jr., IM 60. They established the Sue and John Staton Professor of Law endowment in the College of Management and the Sue Glenn Staton Scholarship Fund for athletes, with a priority for females. She has been a member of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund board of directors since 2008.

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I Life Jackets: Advice To Keep Your Career Afloat

'I Was Robbed of a True College Experience' At 36, spurned quarterback Donnie Davis finally overcomes resentment, earns degree

By Van Jensen

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onnie Davis was supposed to be the future of Georgia Tech football. This was 1991, a year after Bobby Ross led the Jackets to a national championship, and the continued success of the program seemed ensured when Davis agreed to join the team.

A gifted passer and fleet-footed runner out of Burlington, N.C., Davis was the natural successor to quarterback Shawn Jones. A high school Parade All-American, Davis was listed by many as even better than recruiting classmates Heath Shuler and Eric Zeier, who went on to star at Tennessee and Georgia, respectively, and then in the NFL. But as Robert Burns wrote, "The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry."

Ross stepped down as Tech coach after the 1991 season, and his replacement, Bill Lewis, struggled immediately. When Davis finally was made the starting quarterback in 1993, the Jackets stumbled to a 5-6 record.

The following season, Lewis brought in transfer quarterback Tommy Luginbill and pushed Davis to wide receiver. The team won a single game. As the Yellow Jackets floundered, Davis felt his chance to shine being taken away. He spoke out and sparred with Lewis publicly. The challenges on the field spilled over into his academic and social life.

"I was robbed of a true college experience, from enjoying what should've been a huge part of my life," Davis said.

Lewis resigned during the season, and Davis returned as quarterback of the 1995 squad, leading the Yellow Jackets to a 6-5 finish, including near upsets of Georgia and

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Arizona. But his NFL aspirations were shot.

He left school without earning his degree and joined the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League.

Playing against Kurt Warner in the 1997 Arena Bowl, Davis led the Rattlers to a championship and was named MVP. He returned to Atlanta in 2002 to play two seasons with the Georgia Force. When Davis decided to leave football behind, he reconnected with Zeier, by then working in banking. Zeier helped Davis get a job in mortgage banking in Atlanta.

Davis disliked driving past the Tech campus. And whenever acquaintances mentioned the Institute, he would steer the conversation in another direction.

Even though he enjoyed success in his

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new career at Capitol City Bank, Davis felt limited without a degree. "I just realized there was more out there," he said, "and the bridge to it was a degree. I felt like I owed it to myself."

Even as he looked to complete his education, Davis didn't consider a return to Tech. Still bitter over those old wounds, he began a distance-learning program through another institution.

Davis' one Tech connection was Joe Hamilton, HTS 07, who took over as quarterback in the 1996 season. A couple of years ago, Davis was a guest on Hamilton's radio show. Also there was Wayne Hogan, associate director of Athletics at Tech.

"I said, 'I'm not the biggest fan of Georgia Tech.' Wayne asked why," Davis said. "I started to think about it and realized I couldn't put my finger on it."

With Hogan's help, Davis enrolled for classes in January 2008. Because so much had changed at the Institute, Davis had to retake several classes and take others that hadn't been offered when he first was a student. Still, he graduated Dec. 12 with a degree in management and certificate in marketing.

He said the challenge was well worth the work.

"If I knew the effort, the sacrifice, I may have thought twice," Davis said about returning to Tech. "This institution does not give to alternative learning styles. But I was more than halfway through before I realized I was nuts."

Along the way Davis discovered his passion for international marketing. His goal is to become a marketing sales account executive at a global company. "And I will get there," he said.

Van Jensen

In returning to Tech, Davis also discovered a passion for sharing his experience and knowledge with current athletes.

Through telling his story, he hopes to impress the importance of academics, even to those with a future in professional sports.

"I tell these kids, if you have a focus beyond sports, if things turn bad in your sport, which they will, you can focus on that other interest," he said. "It's tough, sitting on the bus to class and hearing other students talk about your athletic performance.

That's a lot of onus on a kid."

Davis, now 36, praised the Athletic Association for improving how it supports athletes and helps them balance school and

"I just realized there was more out there and the bridge to it was a degree. I felt like I owed it to myself." sports. He now considers himself a part of the Institute, something unimaginable just a few years ago.

But when asked if he would want to talk to Lewis, his former coach, Davis gave a

pause before answering. "I would love to," he said. "I could not have done that years ago. I would've been reacting from anger.

I'd want to ask, 'How personal was this to you?' We never really sat down and talked.

He's never really addressed it. He's never said he screwed up. It's a hard pill for me to swallow."

Davis said that more than anything, he's happy to be in a position he might not have been in if he'd played in the NFL. "I want to let [Lewis] know he may have set me back, but he didn't sit me down," he said. "I'm so proud to be here at this time in my life, ready to begin a career, to know that I have a future."

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Keep Dreams in Focus "You can have a fulfilling, engaged, successful, passionate work life," Cie Murray told members of the Women's Alumni Network.

Murray, MBA 98, imparted advice from her book, Got the Power: 7 Tools To Produce the Work Life You Want, at an evening presentation at the Alumni House in late September. She is the president of Murray Empowerment Systems Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in empowering employees and improving work force performance.

In her book and her seminars, Murray recommends the use of the Thinker Locator Profile, a systematic tool she developed to help workers determine how they naturally work and tackle problems.

"When workers utilize the Thinker Locator, they are able to be their best selves, do their best work and produce their best results," Murray said.

Visioner is another tool she emphasized.

"It is important to establish a vision or a

picture of the results you want in the workplace by saying what you want," Murray said.

Don't focus on the blind spots, she said.

Instead, write a vision statement. Put that vision statement where you can see it and say it out loud every day.

"When you take your eyes off your prize, many times your prize will never get realized," Murray said.

Choose to make the right moves in the workplace, she said. "It's not about the big things that can cause us to not get what we want out of our work life. It's actually the choices and decisions that we make when the challenges occur."

When reprimanded by the boss, shake it off. When a rejection letter is received, shake it off, Murray counseled. "You listen to your voice mail and the love of your life says, Tfs over, baby' What do you do? Shake it off.

Shake off the feelings of resentment, disappointment, powerlessness, fear.

"We don't control our circumstances, do

we? But we do control our responses," Murray said. "Shaking it off gives you time to withhold your emotions and feelings so you can really take a step back and make the right moves. Many times we think the right move might be to change jobs. Many times it's about changing our attitudes." â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kimberly Link-Wills

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1 . David Bentley, IE 91, left, welcomed fellow tailgaters Mike Stanford, IE 84, and Bill Magee, IM 85, president of the Georgia Tech Club of Dalton/Norf hwest Georgia, aboard the bus he drives to every home game. 2 . It was a tough job, but Joe Tullio, PhD CS 05, provided a lap for the Chicago Georgia Tech Club's TEAM Buzz project at an animal shelter. 3 . Audrey Smith, Tom Pilsch, Tech's assistant dean of Academics, and Ed Smith, EE 47, chat during Living History's annual luncheon honoring World War II veterans. 4 . Jacksonville Georgia Tech Club members volunteered at the Children's Way 5K and Family Day Festival for their TEAM Buzz project. 5 . Everyone is reading the GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, including a bartender in New York City, where Allison Hickman, IM 89, Alumni Association vice president of Administration, snapped the photo during an Alumni Travel trip over Thanksgiving. gtalumni.org/pages/travel 6 . West Georgia/Carrollton Georgia Tech Club vice president Laura Helms, IE 02, and secretary Sally Carden, Mgt 99, sorted clothes and unloaded donations at the local Salvation Army for the TEAM Buzz project. 7 . The Atlanta Intown Georgia Tech Club hosted a corn hole tournament on the Fifth Street bridge before the Wake Forest game as a scholarship fundraiser. 8 . President G. P. "Bud" Peterson greeted Georgia Tech Legislative Network member Norman Wells, EE 57, at the first Legislative Day, a pregame gathering that also brought Gov. Sonny Perdue and state lawmakers to the president's residence. 9 . The Boston Georgia Tech Club hosted a party to cheer on the Yellow Jackets at the Head of the Charles Regatta in October. 1 0 . Jim Nicholson, EE 71, MS OR 73, and Rick King, EE 70, posed in front of the Ramblin' Wreck at a pregame tailgate party at Duke. Find a local Georgia Tech Club atgtalumni.org/pages/clublisting.

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Challenging Times Additional budget cuts force student fee increase

By Kimberly Link-Wills

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n a speech to the Association of Public Land-grant Universities Council on Government Affairs in mid-November in Washington, D.C., President G. P. "Bud" Peterson said declining state support and growing budget cuts have "created an enormously challenging environment for all of us."

Just days later, on Nov. 18, the Board of Regents voted to reduce the state-funded portion of Tech's current fiscal year budget by 8 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $20.3 million.

"To meet this target, $6.1 million will be saved through our six-day furlough program, and $1.7 million in revenue will result from the institutional fee increase," Peterson announced. "The remaining $12.5 million will come from campus reductions and other revenue sources, many of which already have been implemented."

Beginning with this spring semester, student fees will increase from $100 per semester to $200. Peterson called it "an option of last resort."

"Higher education is a unique entity," he said. "Unlike businesses in a recession, we cannot reduce production and inventory to align with our reduced demand. While our resources are shrinking, the demand for our services is rising."

Peterson said the fiscal year challenge "is considerable, particularly in light of the reductions already taken by the Institute. As a result of this latest action, Georgia Tech's reductions from the original FY 09 state appropriations now total $54.3 million, equal to a 19 percent cut over the two-year period."

In a November letter to the campus

community, Peterson wrote, "None of us has a crystal ball, but what is clear is that our nation's position as a leader in research and innovation will erode unless we make choices and investments that adequately prepare our students with the educational background and problem-solving and leadership skills necessary for a future we can only begin to grasp."

In speeches throughout the fall, Peterson said education should be considered an investment.

"There can be little doubt that investing in education is a smart thing to do. Education yields a big payoff for the individual, but it also pays off for society in big ways â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a more talented work force, higher tax revenues, lower social service and criminal justice spending. A state's growth and prosperity are directly tied to education.

Jobs are tied to education," he told the Association of Public Land-grant Universities Council on Government Affairs.

Collaboration among government, academia and business is vital, Peterson told the council in Washington.

"No single private organization or public agency has the capacity to fully understand and provide all the holistic green technologies that we urgently need now and in the future in order to solve the most pressing issues facing society today, things like health care, climate change and clean water," he said.

"While the global economy is experiencing challenges right now, it is the education that is taking place at our public and land-grant universities and colleges that will help turn things around and prepare the next generation of problem solvers."

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Science Road Show Nobel Prize-winning chemist makes stop at Tech

By Kimberly Link-Wills

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obel Prize winner Harry Kroto's wide-ranging "Science, Society and Sustainability" lecture at Georgia Tech in November covered chemistry creationism and C60.

Kroto, a co-recipient for chemistry in 1996, came to campus through the Honeywell Nobel Initiative, which takes prize winners in chemistry and physics to universities in China, India, the Czech Republic, Mexico and the United States for two days of interactions with students.

Science education is one of Kroto's passions. In 1995, he initiated the Vega Science Trust (vega.org.uk) to create educational films. When he "had to retire" from his teaching position in Great Britain, Kroto was invited to Florida State University, where he runs the Global Education Outreach in Science, Engineering and Technology (geoset.info).

Knighted in 1996, Kroto discovered C60, which he named BuckminsterfuUerene — Buckyball for short — in honor of the architect who conceived the geodesic dome the molecule seems to replicate.

"The really big surprises in science usually come from left field. No one predicted this molecule would selfassemble," Kroto said.

But Kroto did not dwell on the past, instead addressing the state of science today.

"Nanotechnology basically is 21st century chemistry," said Kroto, cautioning Tech students about an article that reported "60 percent of Americans think that

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nanotechnology is dangerous and unethical. ... There is a great level of ignorance out there which you have got to change."

Kroto sees a conflict between science and society.

"The Catholic Church only in 1992 accepted that Galileo was right —1992," he said. "It may take 1,000 years for the average American to accept that maybe Darwin was right. Think about it. It will have massive effect."

To illustrate his assertion that "nonsense is common now," he splashed photos on a big screen at the Ferst Center for the Arts from the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky "Busloads of kids are going there, busload after busload," Kroto said of the museum, which presents an account of the origins of the universe and man according to the Book of Genesis.

On the future of science and the planet, Kroto said, "I don't think we're going to solve our problems unless we split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The energy problem is a massive one."

It's a problem that must be addressed, Kroto argued.

"We can obliterate this world in 90 seconds. It can be done — easily. If you're going to go and do chemistry, for goodness' sake, don't make a more effective napalm. ... If you're going to be an engineer, don't create more land mines. ... If you're going to be a scientist, think about the humanitarian contributions," he said.

"Are we destroying our planet? I'm a scientist, I'm not sure, but it looks bad. It looks very bad."

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The College of Management received an anonymous commitment of $25 million, $20 million of which is a one-to-one challenge grant designed to inspire charitable gifts and commitments from other donors. The remaining $5 million will provide funds expendable at the discretion of Dean Steve Salbu.

"We are in direct competition with the nation's best business schools," Salbu said.

"In order to compete effectively, we must have the resources to attract and retain the finest faculty at all career stages because world-class faculty members are what drive the college's national and international reputation. The same holds true with our students. It is imperative that we endow substantial numbers of undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships. Our goal is to lead the top business schools in attracting and supporting the very best student talent."

To participate in the challenge, donors must make a qualifying gift or multiyear commitment to be fulfilled within five years. Those gifts and pledge payments will be matched dollar for dollar by the anonymous donor, mgt.gatech.edu

Online Master's Degree The College of Computing is offering an online master's degree in information security. Tech is the only university of its class certified by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education to offer the degree in an online format.

"Because of the growing sophistication of threats we face in cyberspace, organizations that both build new security solutions and those that must utilize such solutions to protect their information technology assets will need qualified IS professionals with advanced knowledge of the field to address new security challenges," said Mustaque Ahamad, a professor in the School of Computer Science and director of the Information Security Center.

The online degree program will offer the same course rigor and academic disci-

pline that is found in the traditional on-campus curriculum. Each student will be required to complete seven core courses and three additional courses in a self-selected technical or policy specialization. Core areas of study include information security, applied cryptography, network security, secure computer systems and strategies and policies. cc.gatech.edu/infosec

new technology and theory to allow computer users to create highly imaginative selfrepresentations. He is developing an identity modeling tool kit for constructing identities across interactive narratives/games and social networking applications, icelab.lcc. gatech.edu/gallery/loss_demo_movie.html

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Georgia Tech has been awarded an Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive processes of the modern war fighter.

The $10.5 million Bio-nano-enabled Inorganic/Organic Nanostructures and Improved Cognition Center is being led by Vladimir Tsukruk and Kenneth Sandhage, professors in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

The BIONIC center includes a group of core members from six departments within Tech's colleges of Sciences and Engineering, a researcher at Ohio State University and scientists and engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. is an industrial collaborator. gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html7 nid=47445

Zoo Atlanta this fall became the first zoological institution in the world to obtain voluntary blood pressure readings from a gorilla. This groundbreaking stride was made possible by the Gorilla Tough Cuff, a blood pressure reading system devised through a partnership with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

Created as a senior design project by biomedical engineering undergraduates, the Gorilla Tough Cuff operates in the same manner as the mechanism familiar to humans. The student team's biggest set of challenges was constructing a durable, comfortable cuff large enough to fit an adult male gorilla weighing upward of 300 pounds.

"This is a great step forward in the medical management and care of captive gorillas," said Sam Rivera, associate veterinarian at Zoo Atlanta. "Our veterinary and primate teams are extremely fortunate to have the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech and Emory as a resource." gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=47361

Architecture Schools The College of Architecture's academic programs were separated in mid-November into five schools: Architecture, Building Construction, City and Regional Planning, Industrial Design and Music. Master's and doctoral programs in city and regional planning also were created.

Seven specializations in city and regional planning will be offered: economic development, environmental planning, geographic information systems, land and community development, land use, transportation planning and urban design. Dual degrees and certificates will be offered in

Center of Excellence

Fox Harrell, above, received a CAREER grant for his advanced identity representation project.

Kenneth Sandhage is leading nano research through Tech's Air Force Center of Excellence.

InVenture Will Be on TV conjunction with Tech's schools of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Public Policy and with Georgia State University in historic preservation, law and real estate, coa. gatech.edu

CAREER Award Grant Fox Harrell, an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a five-year, $535,000 grant for his project, Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.

The Faculty Early Career Development Program is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty.

Harrell directs the Imagination, Computation and Expression Lab. His advanced identity representation project will result in

Georgia Public Broadcasting will air the finals of the annual InVenture Prize competition throughout the state in March.

Undergraduates may work as individuals or teams. Their inventions will go through a series of judging panels. Ten finalists will compete for a $15,000 first prize and a free U.S. patent filing.

"When I first saw the real-life application and the value of these inventions, we were on board," said GPB president and executive director Teya Ryan, inventureprize. gatech.edu

Foundation Report The Georgia Tech Foundation has made its annual report available online at gtf.gatech.edu. A print version of the report may be obtained by telephoning the Foundation at (404) 894-5072.

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I Office Space

A Conversation With Aaron Santesso

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orks by Henry Fielding and William Makepeace Thackeray share shelf space with Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in assistant professor Aaron Santesso's office in the Skiles building. A scholar of 17fh and 18th century British literature whose published books include studies of John Dry den and Jonathan Swift, Santesso joined the School of Literature, Communication and Culture faculty in 2008 to pursue a growing interest in technology and its impact on literature. Santesso, who received his bachelor's degree in English from the University of British Columbia and a master's and PhD from Queen's University, this fall led Tech freshmen in the reading of such classics as The Wizard ofOz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in a course on fantasy literature and seniors in a study of Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels in a course titled Science, Technology and the Enlightenment. He also organized and participated in a lecture about 007's relevance at Georgia Tech. He is co-writing a book on the history of surveillance and its relationship with literature to come out in 2010.

I'm from a little town in Canada in British Columbia, a very small town called Trail. It's the home of the world's largest lead and zinc smelter. It's about 7,000 people. The closest big city is Vancouver, about a nine-hour drive.

•d-d-d The mortifying, embarrassing truth is that I wanted to be a rock star. That was my dream when I was a kid. It was always very unlikely to happen because I can't sing at all. I do play some instruments, but the main instrument I studied was the oboe. There are very few heavy metal songs that feature blistering oboe solos. That dream lasted until my second year of university, and then it died a hard death. From that moment I knew I wanted to be a literature professor.

•d-d-d One of the courses I teach here is detective fiction and spy novels. We look at Ian Fleming in that class. ... I fell in love with the Bond movies before I ever read the books just because Sean Connery was so incredibly cool. Everybody wanted to be like him. I don't know how many people would want to be like the Bond of the books. He really sees himself as a remorseless killer, as a tool, as somebody who will not hesitate to do bad things. We talk about the shift from that guy to the Sean Connery character in the movies, why there's that move.

guess what his character is like. That's also how James Bond sees the world. ... He just sees people as Mr. Goodman and Mr. Badman or Sloppy or Terrorist or Gangster, with a capital letter for each of them. Surveillance people would love to be able to see the world that way. It's this wonderful fantasy of a world inhabited by easily readable people, easily interpretable people, people who can't deceive you.

•d-d-dI'm trying to encourage my students to move outside their comfort zones in terms of the way they see the world, to try to make their brains work in a slightly different way than they're used to.

We talk about questions they're going to face down the road, the big questions: What's the meaning of life? What do you do when you know you're going to die? Why bother getting up in the morning?

What's the point of going to that engineering job?

•d-d-d Short term, we need all the help we can get in improving people's writing and their reading ability. It's not just about reading Hamlet, it's about being able to read the newspaper in a smart way.

It's about being able even to watch TV in a smart way. It's about being able to recognize messages and arguments and respond to them.

•d-d-d •d-d-d We look at the question of what a hero is supposed to be. It's an interesting question to ask at this particular point in American history Do we want good people out there working for the U.S. government, or do we just want effective people?

•d-d-d I'm writing a book right now with my friend David Rosen, a professor at Trinity College in Connecticut. ... I've spoken with everybody from the heads of surveillance at Nevada casinos to the head of undercover operations at Scotland Yard. We talk with those guys about what their actual experience with surveillance is and how that might change the way we think about surveillance and represent it in literature and culture generally.

•d-d-d If you read Dickens, it's a very funny experience. He has quite realistic characters sharing his novels with characters straight out of medieval allegory. Dickens' books are filled with characters who have names like Sloppy. And Sloppy is sloppy. You don't have to

We teach things now, most English departments in America, that wouldn't have been taught even 25 or 35 years ago. I think we're always going to be teaching Shakespeare and Milton and James Joyce. I think English departments are going to change in ways that reflect the unbelievable impact of digital media. There's going to be a continued broadening of what we study and what we read and perhaps what's even considered literature. There's going to be an increasing focus on the impact of the computer as a writing vehicle and as a reading vehicle. We're doing both of those things now at Georgia Tech.

•d-d-d It's a great debate I'm having with myself, whether or not I want to buy a Kindle. ... I know it's strange since I'm in such a progressive department, but I do kind of have this old-fashioned kind of love for the actual book as an object. And there is something about holding that book in your hand and turning the pages. I like to see all the books I've read sitting up on a shelf. I can look at them and remember things just looking at the spines of the books.

— Leslie Overman

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I Student Life

She Was a Teenage CEO

By Leslie Overman

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hen freshman Jasmine Lawrence ran for president of Armstrong, Fitten and Hefner residence halls early in the fall semester, she was asked a question: What leadership experience would she bring to the position?

She managed her high school basketball team, but if she didn't want the presidency to slip through her fingers, she figured she'd need a better answer than that. So, after some hesitation, she revealed some information about her past she'd been keeping from her classmates.

"I said, 'This is a secret, it can't leave the room, OK?'" Lawrence said in retelling the story a couple of months later. As if reenacting the scene, she leaned across the table and said in a hushed tone, "I told them real quick, T ran a business for five years and made millions of dollars. That's my leadership experience.' I said, 'Shh, don't say anything.'"

In the hours that followed the meeting, word of Lawrence's high school extracurricular work as founder and CEO of the allnatural hair care line Eden Body Works spread through Facebook after her classmates' Internet research retrieved countless newspaper and magazine articles about Lawrence and video clips of the teen's television appearances on Oprah and The Today Show. Needless to say, she was elected president.

Lawrence settled into a seat in the Student Center on an October morning, fresh from a hall council meeting. Sporting a pale yellow, hooded Georgia Tech sweatshirt and jeans with her full, natural hair pulled back in a ponytail, she looked like any other busy student hustling between classes and club activities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not at all like an 18-year-old millionaire.

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Prior to Lawrence's arrival on campus in August, Eden Body Works' line consisted of nearly 30 products available internationally through her Web site and in a variety of stores, including Whole Foods and about 1,000 Wal-Mart stores.

Lawrence developed the first Eden product when she was just 11 years old, after the chemicals in a relaxer caused most of her hair to fall out.

"I was basically bald at 11," Lawrence said. "After that, I never wanted to use relaxer again. I was scarred for life."

Lawrence scoured stores, books and the Internet for all-natural alternatives to the hair care products she'd been using. When none surfaced, she concocted an all-natural hair oil out of the kitchen of her Williamstown, N.J., home.

At 13, Lawrence received pro bono legal and financial services and packaging and distribution advice through the National Foundation for Teaching

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Entrepreneurship to help her get the business off the ground. Her parents helped out with a $2,000 loan. Lawrence used money saved from her allowance as collateral.

Despite the extensive help she received from industry professionals through the entrepreneurship program, Lawrence said she wasn't always taken seriously. "It was difficult to do at 13 because a lot of people thought I was joking. My mom had to cosign on a lot of things for me that just became legitimately mine when I turned 18 this year."

Lawrence said the company grew mostly through word-of-mouth and her afterschool appearances at career fairs and expos and door-to-door sales pitches to stores. Soon local newspapers became interested in covering the story of the 13-yearold CEO. Not long after that Oprah, CNN and Fox News came calling.

What began as a family-run operation in Lawrence's home soon grew so large that a Chicago factory specializing in allnatural products was hired to manufacture the Eden line.

"It expanded pretty quickly," Lawrence said. "It's been five years now, but it went from just me making it out one bottle at a time to making 55-gallon drums of it a month."

Lawrence recalled how tears filled her eyes when she saw the products lining the shelves of her local Wal-Mart. She had developed a friendship with the store manager through her frequent trips there to pitch the Eden line. But it wasn't until Black Enterprise magazine nominated her for Teenpreneur of the Year that Wal-Mart decided to pick up her products.

In addition to TV appearances, Lawrence was invited to speak at business conventions and company events across the country. A speaking engagement for the

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Freshman Jasmine Lawrence looks just like any other shopper at the Student Center. Her reflection does not reveal that she is an 18-year-old millionaire.

Environmental Protection Agency as part of its Black History Month program led to an internship with the agency in Philadelphia.

Despite initial concerns that their daughter's teen years had become all work and no play Lawrence's parents were incredibly supportive. Until recently, her mother was working for her. "She totally became my number one employee," Lawrence said.

Before beginning her first semester at Tech, Lawrence halted production of all Eden Body Works products so she could concentrate on coursework and club activities. In addition to her work with the residence hall council, she's a member of the crew team."In high school it was fine. I could keep a 4.0 and get my homework done and still travel to California for the weekend and do this little speech," she explained. "But here, Tech is way too difficult. It's the type of school that needs your

hundred-percent attention. And I knew that when I was coming into it."

With parents in the military, Lawrence said she has dreamed about becoming a computer engineer since she was a youngster and attended an engineering academy.

"I've always been immersed in technology and computers, and I just fell in love with it. I think it was a Take Your Daughter to Work Day at my mom's job that made me realize I really want to be an engineer. I really just want to play around with things and figure out how they work."

Lawrence said her dream job is to work for the CIA in artificial intelligence.

"Eden Body Works was something that just happened for me. It was something I stumbled upon, cause and effect," she said.

"But engineering is something that I've been working toward and that, ultimately, I want to do as a career even if I don't have to."

Lawrence plans for Eden operations to

be up and running again this spring, but under new management. She will continue to be the "face of the business," appearing at speaking engagements, doing interviews and helping develop products. She also recently became a contributor to Seventeen magazine's new money section and Web site advice column.

For Lawrence, it's not about the money.

"It doesn't really matter to me," she said. "It's about how many people I reach.

It's the e-mails and letters from old ladies who say, 'Your product changed my life, I finally found something that works.' ...

And the before and after pictures."

Lawrence recalled her own before picture in which she's standing in front of a street sign for Eden Road. "I'm standing next to it, and my hair is like this short," she said, placing both of her hands within about an inch of her head. "There are patches and bald spots. Now I just wear my afro around campus because I can."

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I Ten Questions

Katie Faussemagne and Jerry Hitt: Admissions Gurus

By Van Jensen

Hitt: I think the quality's better. Some of them you read, and, boy, you get a good feeling about them.

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ech receives as many as 12,000 applications in a year. Almost all will come before Katie Faussemagne and Jerry Hitt. Hitt is the longest tenured member of the staff, joining Tech in 1965 and serving as director of Admissions from 1968 to 1991. Faussemagne, an adviser, arrived in 2000. While working feverishly in front of the Jan. 15 application deadline, they spoke about the admission process, the department's history and the mountain of essays they've read.

1. How is the process going this year?

Faussemagne: Last year we had a little more than 11,000 applicants. We admitted a little more than 5,000 and had a freshman class of about 2,600. We're trying to stay at that number, but we're already up 25 percent. Anything can make those numbers go up and down, like how we did in the NCAA tournament. An applicant wrote the only reason she knew about Tech was Paul Hewitt and the Final Four team six years ago.

2. How has admissions changed in your time here?

Faussemagne: When I came, my main goal was to work with female recruitment. I did a lot of work [as a college student] with fantasy theme analysis and how movies create fantasies among women. Disney has created this "someday my prince will come" theory of life, and that grew up with a generation. At Tech we decided to really go after those women we thought would be admissible, to work with them to get them to apply Women want to go into a major where they're going to make a difference, and Tech has a variety of programs where they can do that.

Hitt: When I started, there was the director, the associate director and one counselor. I never had more than three assistants.

And socially we played a little harder than they do these days.

We used to have a skybox overlooking Grant Field and the skyline of Atlanta. There was a long table, and it'd be covered with [application] papers. Now it's our first year paperless.

3. How is it reading essays on the computer?

Hitt: The computer went down one day; there's nothing you can do but go home. But I don't have to know much. You get in, click around and close it down. I'd rather read off of paper.

The computer puts more strain on your eyes.

4. Have the applicants changed much over the years?

Faussemagne: Every year I'm amazed at what these kids are doing inside and outside the classroom. They're doing research and missionary work. When I first started out, volunteering you would see a little, but now it's a mainstay.

5. Has the applicants' writing changed?

Faussemagne: The essays are much more imaginative. They haven't gotten better or worse with grammar and punctuation.

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6. Are there any crucial mistakes you see a lot?

Faussemagne: If you cannot form a sentence, answer a question or are completely off subject, it is going to hurt.

7. What are some of the most memorable essays you've read?

Faussemagne: There is one that's from a local student this year that had me crying I was laughing so hard. By the time I finished it, without looking at his scores, I e-mailed it to our director and said, "You have got to read this." There are ones that bring us to tears. The hardest are the ones where students are dealing with severe medical issues or family problems.

We're not grading you on the experience. What we're looking for is if you can express yourself.

Hitt: We got one that's the least interesting. Before she started her essay, she wrote that she had her mother read it, and her mother offered her $100 if she had the guts to send it. She made all kinds of grammatical errors.

8. What do you like most about the essays?

Faussemagne: The essays are the most fun part of the application. Because we can't do interviews, it's the one time students can express themselves. The essay can push you over the fence. I've read essays where I've said, "I want to follow them all the way through college."

Hitt: What we're looking for is what passions they have. A lot just drone on and rehash their activities.

9. What makes for a good essay question?

Faussemagne: I don't like essay questions where you can predict what [the applicants] are going to say. This year's question is, "Explain the aspects of your academic or extracurricular background that are especially important to you." I like this because it's so much of an open format, to give us a sense of who you are. There are some weird questions out there.

Rhodes one time said, "Take an ant, an hourglass and a match and end the essay with, 'This is how I saved the world.'"

Hitt: One year we asked what they would do if they took a year off between high school and college. Well, they were all going to go to West Africa and save the world.

10. What do you like to read for pleasure?

Faussemagne: I've got a 5-year-old, so I'm reading all children's books right now.

Hitt: I like Smithsonian magazine. One book I liked a lot was Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation.

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ACC Champions!

By Van Jensen

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onventional wisdom holds that Rome was not built in a day and elite football teams take several seasons to develop.

But one could forgive the Yellow Jackets for wanting to jump ahead of schedule.

In the year 2 A.G. (that's After Gailey) Georgia Tech rushed ahead of the pack in the ACC on the way to the Yellow Jackets' first conference title in nearly two decades.

There were some bumps along the way, but Tech proved the tripleoption offense works at the BCS level.

Now the Yellow Jackets are ramblin' on to Miami for the Jan. 5 Orange Bowl against Iowa.

Georgia Tech 37, Jacksonville State 17

Despite Errors, Opener Easy Win The Yellow Jackets started out the season with a big win at Bobby Dodd Stadium, though the team left plenty of room for improvement.

Tech players fumbled five times, dropped several passes and let a handful of potential interceptions slip through their fingers. After a big first half against Jacksonville State, the team was outscored in the final two quarters for a final margin of 37-17.

But those wondering if all the big plays last season from the triple-option offense were a fluke got a quick answer as junior B-back Jonathan Dwyer sprinted for a 74-yard touchdown on the game's first play from scrimmage.

"Just give me the ball and let me make a play" Dwyer said.

"That is what the offense is about."

Georgia Tech 30, Clemson 27

Kicker Shines in Dramatic Victory After an up-and-down season in 2008, kicker Scott Blair had the game of a lifetime in leading Tech over Clemson.

Blair helped the Yellow Jackets race out to a big lead with a 34yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas on a fake field goal.

Then, after Tech squandered a 24-0 lead in the second half, Blair knocked in two clutch field goals to first tie the game and then win it.

Tech's big first half also included Jerrard Tarrant's second punt return for a touchdown in the team's first two games.

Blair's final field goal came with less than a minute remaining to give Tech a 30-27 lead.

"I was just trying to treat it like a normal kick, not psych myself out," Blair said. "I wasn't paying attention to the score at all. ... I actually don't remember catching the ball or throwing the ball too much. I guess it was dreamlike."

Miami 33, Georgia Tech 17

Hurricanes Upend Perfect Start The Yellow Jackets couldn't continue their dominance of Miami in the team's first road game.

Tech allowed Hurricanes quarterback Jacoby Harris to complete 20 of 25 passes, and the triple-option offense never found a rhythm in dropping a 33-17 decision.

Georgia Tech had won four straight against Miami and rolled up 472 rushing yards in the teams' previous meeting but only managed 95 this game.

Nesbitt said later the loss was just the wake-up call the Yellow Jackets needed.

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Photos by Kelvin Kuo

Georgia Tech 24, North Carolina 7

Gritty Win Returns Tech to Top 25 After the loss to Miami, Tech found itself on the outside looking in at the top 25 teams, having been dropped from the polls. The Jackets' opponent, North Carolina, stood at No. 18 in the rankings.

By discovering a key to victory that would serve the team throughout the season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dominating time of possession â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tech reclaimed a spot among the top teams.

One fourth-quarter drive lasted 17 plays, covered 76 yards, chewed up more than eight minutes and was capped by NesbitTs 10yard touchdown run.

The defense also rebounded after being roughed up by Miami, allowing only a single score. Safety Morgan Burnett grabbed two interceptions.

"We took the challenge to step forward as a defense and as a team," Burnett said. "Everyone came in determined, and it showed throughout the day."

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Georgia Tech 42 Mississippi State 31

Nesbitt Throws MSU Bulldogs for a Loop Nesbitt has come to be known for his runs and pitches in Tech's option offense, but he reminded everyone that he came out of Greene County, Ga., High School as a throwing quarterback by completing 11 of 14 passes for 266 yards.

Thomas hauled in eight of those passes, racking up 174 yards including a 23-yard touchdown that helped Tech win a highscoring 42-31 tilt against Mississippi State.

It was a wild game in Starkville, Miss., as both teams scored on misdirection plays and combined to convert six fourth downs.

Tech forced five turnovers, including a fumble that Tarrant scooped up and returned 40 yards for a Yellow Jackets touchdown.

Nesbitfs arm was the big story, though, catching the Bulldogs off guard. The previous game, Nesbitt had rushed 32 times.

Georgia Tech 49 Florida State 44

Offense Explodes Against Seminoles The game against Mississippi State was nothing but a warm-up for the shoot-out Georgia Tech got into with Florida State.

The Yellow Jackets finally emerged with a 49-44 win after trading scores with the Seminoles all night in the tussle in Tallahassee.

Nesbitt returned his focus to the ground game, running for three touchdowns and adding one more through the air. Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder had a stellar game as well, completing 26 passes for 359 yards and five touchdowns.

But it was Nesbitt who came out on top. He threw a 73-yard touchdown pass to Thomas, then later sealed the game with a 22-yard touchdown run.

Nesbitt had to get the ball back first, though. After losing a fumble to a Florida State defender, Nesbitt raced after him and ripped the ball away to regain possession for the Yellow Jackets.

"The play he made to steal the ball back was probably the play of the game," Coach Paul Johnson said.

Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 23

Hokies, Goalpost Toppled Virginia Tech came into Bobby Dodd Stadium ranked No. 4, one of the most formidable Homecoming opponents the Yellow Jackets ever had faced.

By the time the night was over, the Hokies were sent back to Blacksburg with their heads hanging low while the party raged on Tech's campus.

After a tough first half, in which the Yellow Jackets had only 37 rushing yards, Nesbitt got the offense clicking in the second half to lead Tech to a 28-23 win.

His most dramatic score came in the fourth quarter. Nesbitt started out left, and when the Virginia Tech defenders stayed with potential pitch recipients, he sped through a hole for a 39-yard touchdown.

"We were our own worst enemy in the first half, only hurting ourselves," Nesbitt said. "We just went out in the second half and slowed the game down."

Fans rushed onto the field after the game ended. Some toppled a goalpost and eventually carried it to the president's residence, where President G. P. "Bud" Peterson and his wife, Val, joined in the Homecoming revelry.

Georgia Tech 34, Virginia 9

Jackets Dominate To Claim Revenge Over Virginia Following that emotional high, Tech avenged a Homecoming loss last season by winning 34-9 at Virginia.

The Yellow Jackets held the ball for more than 42 minutes, including a nearly 11-minute drive that marks the longest possession in team history. A-back Anthony Allen finished it off with a touchdown run, the 18th play of the drive.

It was time for the backs to shine as Dwyer rushed for 125 yards, and Allen had 103 yards and two touchdowns.

"When we had the 11-minute drive, we're coming in and looking at the guys lined up across from us and they're just dog tired," Allen remembered. "And we know we have them right then."

Georgia Tech 56, Vanderbilt 31

Dwyer Leads Ramblin' Backfield to Rout of Commodores Before facing Tech, Vanderbilt's coach, Bobby Johnson, was asked how to stop the triple-option offense. He said he didn't have an answer.

That was evident by the time Tech finished off a 56-31 victory while racking up a season-best 597 yards. Of the Yellow Jackets' 404

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rushing yards, Dwyer had a career-best 186 yards and three touchdowns.

"We have a lot of weapons on the offense, so each and every week somebody has a breakout game," he said.

Georgia Tech 30, Wake Forest 27, Overtime

Fifth Time's a Charm on Fourth Downs for Coach Johnson Johnson has come to be known for his willingness to try to convert fourth downs.

That strategy had served the Yellow Jackets well for most of the season. But against Wake Forest, Tech had been stymied each of the four times it tried to convert a fourth down.

With the game in overtime and the Demon Deacons up 27-24 after a field goal, Tech once again faced fourth down on the 5-yard line with about 18 inches to go.

Johnson sent out the offense again, but as a ploy to draw Wake Forest offside. When that didn't work, Johnson called a time out and prepared to send in the kicking unit. But Nesbitt grabbed his coach's ear and insisted he could get those 18 inches.

Johnson listened and sent the offense out again. Nesbitt rushed up the middle for two yards, and then he scored on the next play for a 30-27 win.

"I could see the defense they were in," Nesbitt said. "I just knew in my heart I could get it."

"I play to win," was all Johnson said to explain his decision.

Georgia Tech 49, Duke 10

Comeback Keyed by Long Return A kickoff return set the tone for Tech's big victory over Duke, as the Yellow Jackets' Orwin Smith bobbled the kickoff then raced 83 yards before being tripped up just before the end zone.

Photos by Eric Turner

Nesbitt busted in for a touchdown on the next play, his first of three scores including long touchdown passes to Stephen Hill and Demaryius Thomas.

Up to that point, the Blue Devils had jumped out to a 10-0 lead.

But Smith's score rallied the Yellow Jackets defense as well. They shut out Duke the rest of the way and allowed only 25 yards rushing for the game.

Dwyer added two touchdown runs and credited Smith for firing the team up.

"Once we saw the big play, we just kept following that, using that as momentum," Dwyer said.

Georgia 30, Georgia Tech 24

Comeback Not in the Cards After breaking a string of seven losses to Georgia last season, Tech found itself entering this year's rivalry game as the favorite.

Behind a strong running game, the Bulldogs went out to a 30-24 lead. But the Yellow Jackets got the ball back in time for one last drive and moved the ball into Georgia territory in the final minute.

A comeback wasn't in the cards this season, however, when four consecutive passes from Nesbitt fell incomplete.

Thomas earlier had done his best to get Georgia Tech back into the game, taking a pass from Nesbitt on one of the first plays of the second half and running 77 yards for a touchdown.

"It hurts. I know I'm hurting," Burnett said. "We were a higherranked team, but I think we got complacent."

ACC Championship: Georgia Tech 39, Clemson 34

Late Score Puts Jackets Atop ACC Tech and Clemson once again combined for plenty of late drama, and the Yellow Jackets once again pulled out a play at the

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end to win. Dwyer scored a 15-yard touchdown to put Tech up 39-34 with just more than a minute remaining, and Clemson couldn't answer. That gave Tech its first conference championship since 1998.

Nesbitt and Thomas again hooked up for a big play, a 70-yard touchdown pass. And Blair kicked four field goals, including two that qualified as the longest of his career. He first knocked one in from 48 yards, then later made one from 49 yards.

Tech overcame 233 yards and four touchdowns from Clemson's C.J. Spiller, the ACC offensive player of the year.

Dwyer and Nesbitt both rushed for more than 100 yards for Tech.

"We went out there and just realized that we're not going to lose this game," Dwyer said. "There's no way we're going to lay down and give up."

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By Joe Irwin eorgia Tech's vision is to "define the technological research university of the 21st century and educate the leaders of a technologically driven world." It's a world-class aspiration for a world-class university.

As the Institute prepares students for productive careers, it also is growing its research enterprise. Georgia Tech has consistently ranked among the nation's top 10 public universities for more than a decade. In that same time period, the dollar volume of research at Tech has nearly doubled, and now the Institute also ranks among the top 10 in research expenditures among universities without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's broad research agenda includes disciplines such as energy, sustainability disease treatment and diagnosis, climate change, music technology

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and financial analysis, along with dozens of other areas in order to improve human life in our increasingly complex and interconnected world.

When G. P. "Bud" Peterson accepted the presidency at Tech last winter, he was asked about his primary motivation for coming to the Institute.

"I believe if we are going to find solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing our society today, they're going to be discovered, designed and developed at places like Georgia Tech," he said. "Already, faculty members throughout the Institute are making groundbreaking discoveries that are bringing us closer to managing and curing cancer, identifying clean and sustainable sources of energy and fostering a solid foundation for economic recovery and responsible growth. Our potential for the future is tremendous."

The inspiration, the invention and the innovation that exist today at Georgia Tech come from a passion for learning, a desire for discovery and a challenge to understand

not only what is but what might be.

The research enterprise at Georgia Tech is impressive. In fiscal year 2009, Georgia Tech's sponsored research awards were $483 million. Research is now the single largest component of Tech's approximately $1.2 billion budget. It is so important to the Institute that in November President Peterson announced a change to the leadership structure to provide a greater opportunity to unite the efforts of Georgia Tech's centers, institutes and academic faculty with the research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

An internal search has begun to select an executive vice president for research who will report directly to the president and serve on the president's cabinet. The individual selected will have overall responsibility for all research at Georgia Tech: facultybased research as well as research conducted at GTRI and the Enterprise Innovation Institute.

Technology is ubiquitous in society today. Georgia Tech's expertise in technolo-

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Computing Solving Biggest Problems

By Van Jensen

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wo facts will dominate the future of computing, according to Richard Fujimoto, a Regents professor and chair of the computational science and engineering division in the College of Computing.

First, the vast amount of data now available â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including genomic information and security surveillance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will require new super-fast computers to process. Second, the algorithms and software needed to run those computers doesn't yet exist.

Tech is one of the only institutes of higher education to place such a focus on what Fujimoto calls "high-performance computing." The academic unit was formed in 2005 with all new faculty brought in under Fujimoto. He said the division likely will become a separate school as early as 2010.

"It's very much a game changer," Fujimoto said. "Computing has become central to so many disciplines and to solving the biggest problems out there. The work

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going on here is a key enabler for the Institute to address the challenges in the world today."

Those challenges include health care and national security. Georgia Tech is the lead partner of the Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics, a National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security-funded organization that includes researchers from Stanford and Princeton.

FODAVA's goal is to synthesize surveillance data to predict terrorist attacks.

In the area of bioinformatics, researchers are striving to examine genomes on a large scale to find indicators for health problems.

That information then could be used to provide personalized health care to individuals.

The impact of advanced computing already is widespread, Fujimoto said. He pointed out that Pringles used computerbased modeling to design the shape of the brand's potato chips. The curvature of the potato chips is optimized to avoid wind resistance, decreasing the number of chips

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that are lost on conveyor belts, he said.

To bolster its efforts in hardware development, the Institute received a $12 million award from the National Science Foundation in October to build two nextgeneration computing systems.

Computer designers now are forced to move away from Moore's Law, which posited that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years.

"Computing is going through a revolution," Fujimoto said. "Moore's Law reached a breaking point in 2005 because processor chips would get too hot. The fastest computer now has hundreds of thousands of cores.

That will grow to millions."

A key to the success of advanced computing at Tech lies in the ability to bring together researchers from different disciplines, Fujimoto said. "It's a particularly good fit for Georgia Tech because it's connecting between computing, science and engineering."

hrough our research and partnership with siness and industry, we're an economic engine for Georgia and the Southeast â&#x201E;˘

gy is driving this growth.

In essence, the sponsored research dollars generated by Tech almost double the investment made by the state of Georgia in the Institute each year. No other university in the state comes close to that kind of performance.

"The growth and caliber of research we have at Georgia Tech have helped us achieve pre-eminence in education as well as an integral role in developing much needed economic solutions," Peterson said. "Through our research and partnership with business and industry, we're an economic engine for Georgia and the Southeast, with an annual impact of more than $2 billion.

In 2008 alone, Georgia Tech programs helped Georgia companies save or create 20,000 jobs."

The sheer breadth of research being conducted is unusual. Rare is the university that can start from very basic scientific research and push it all the way to practical application and commercialization. The commercialization expertise at Tech has led the Institute to be well known as a place where work from the laboratories transforms into companies and robust economic development. It's also created significant international partnerships including Georgia Tech Ireland and the growing enterprise at Georgia Tech Lorraine in France.

GTRI is a stand-alone research operation headed by Steve Cross, vice president and director, that works closely with the

senior vice provost's office in both the research and teaching missions of Georgia Tech. GTRI's portion of the almost half-billion dollars in sponsored research exceeds $150 million, most of which is with departments of the federal government, including the Air Force, Army and Navy, as well as state governments. Overall, about 20 percent of Georgia Tech's research is achieved in concert with private industry. The ease and breadth of research interaction with industry, from very basic work to applied problem solving, is in the spirit of Tech's heritage.

Contributing to Tech's effectiveness is its leadership in interdisciplinary research.

The in-house opportunities that exist for collaboration between professional disciplines

are truly distinctive and set the Institute apart from other universities.

This opportunity for collaboration is one of the key characteristics that helps attract the best faculty and researchers to Georgia Tech. Biologists can work hand-in-hand with computer scientists. Physicists can work with electrical engineers.

Mechanical engineers can work with chemists to develop solutions to complex problems. It's a unique environment that Tech invests in and encourages.

The converging areas between disciplines represent vast economic, scientific and medical opportunities for modern society. The challenges of today are multidisciplinary Take environmental sustainability It's a challenge that calls for all of the expertise humans can muster. It's not just environmental science. It's physics, biology, chemistry, all of the engineering disciplines, architecture, management and public policy.

The ability to put focused, high-level expertise from a variety of disciplines together to solve problems is beneficial and productive and differentiating.

But it goes further at Georgia Tech.

There is a strategic research agenda. Mark G. Allen is senior vice provost for Research and Innovation at Tech, as well as Regents professor and the Joseph M. Pettit professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He believes that Tech must make strategic investments in research areas that are critical to and congruent with the

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'Dancing With Nature' Is Key to Cures

By Van Jensen rofessor Ravi Bellamkonda's biomedical engineering lab has charged itself with the modest tasks of curing cancer and healing broken spinal cords.

"We seem to pick hard problems," he said with a smile.

Bellamkonda, who obtained postdoctoral training from MIT and a PhD from Brown, said the two very different research areas do have a common element.

"Our overall philosophy is that we're dancing with nature," he said. "It's not like automotive engineering, where you know every component. The human body, we don't know all that's in there. It's always an experiment."

At the most basic level, the key to biology is the action of proteins and sugars, said Bellamkonda, a member of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint effort of Georgia Tech and Emory. If researchers can manipulate certain proteins and sugars to behave as they want, they could potentially affect tumors and stimulate healing in spinal cords.

It's through materials engineering, often at the nano scale, that Bellamkonda's lab seeks to "nudge nature."

The motivation for tackling cancer is in part personal for Bellamkonda. His motherin-law is a breast cancer survivor. He lost a grandfather and uncle to cancer. But largely, finding ways to cure cancer and heal damaged spinal cords is a public service.

"My bottom line is our research is in part funded by taxpayers," he said. "We have a responsibility to use that support wisely."

A recent paper from Bellamkonda's lab revealed a modified enzyme and delivery system his team had developed to dissolve the scar tissue that prevents spinal cord regeneration.

When spinal cords are injured, neurons die immediately and for days afterward from inflammation. To fully treat such an injury would require better managing the inflammation, removing scar tissue and stimulating growth, Bellamkonda said.

So far, researchers haven't made it to that final step. And even if that gap is bridged, no one knows if the nervous system's connections between brain and body will be able to reconnect correctly.

The first goal is to improve the known areas, Bellamkonda said.

"We can do better managing the injury," he said. "We'll make progress there first. We can probably rescue a lot of neurons, and that's a big deal."

His lab's main focus on cancer is in developing a better knowledge of tumors.

Particularly they've focused on characterizing the blood vessels within tumors that are a key indicator of how the tumors grow.

Understanding a tumor would allow doctors to know the best course of treatment immediately instead of trying different treatments and waiting months for results, he said.

While much of the previous cancer

research was to identify single proteins associated with specific tumors, Bellamkonda is searching for "functional markers," more complex cancer states that correlate to the molecular structure of the tumor.

"Biology has a lot of redundancies," he said. "If I look at one protein, I miss the whole picture."

For a long time, biology wasn't seen as an area of focus for engineers, Bellamkonda said. But engineering allows scientists to control proteins and sugars using materials, imaging and other tools. This is key to overcoming problems such as cancer.

"All engineering schools have realized biology is an area of importance," he said.

"Tech has made a humongous push."

He credited Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering, and Robert Nerem, founding director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, for that push. Tech's bioengineering program already is ranked in the top five.

"There are lots of partnerships," Bellamkonda said, "and we have really, really good students."

As Tech moves forward in planning its strategic vision, Bellamkonda is a key part of that team as co-chair of the "big idea" committee. His goal is to set up Tech to tackle key global issues of health, energy, the environment, security and information.

"At Tech, the philosophy is, 'Let's roll up our sleeves and do something,'" he said.

"We stand a good chance of making a dent in these problems if we hire the right people and are organized the right way."

needs of the state, the nation and the world.

An example of such an area is bioscience /bioengineering/biomedical engineering. By definition, bioengineering is the application of engineering principles to the study and control of biological processes.

The goal of bioengineering research is to develop, through an integration of engineering and the life sciences, a better understanding of basic mechanisms in disease and new concepts and techniques that may be applied to problems in medicine and biology.

From the 1995 opening of the Petit

Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, funded in part by the generosity of Pete Petit, ME 62, MS EM 64, to the Ford Environmental Science and Technology building to the Molecular Science and Engineering building to the Biomedical Engineering building, funded in part by the Wallace H. Coulter (Cls 34) Foundation, Tech has invested more than $200 million in facilities alone to set the stage for the future.

These multipurpose facilities allow for colocating faculty from different disciplines to work together in research instead of the silos that traditionally exist in higher education.

The fastest growing engineering academic program today is biomedical engineering, an area that has been in existence for just a decade. Tech's joint program with Emory is now the second-ranked biomedical engineering program in the country.

The program's inception is illustrative of this concept of converging fields. Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering and triple degree holder from Tech in aerospace engineering, is the program's founder after leading the Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering program to its top ranking.

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plentiful. Manu Piatt, PhD BME 06, an assistant professor in biomedical engineering, works in tissue remodeling for regenerative medicine and was named a 2009 Georgia Cancer Coalition distinguished cancer scientist. Andres Garcia, a mechanical engineering professor, does significant research focused on cellular and tissue engineering, areas that integrate engineering and biological principles to control cell function in order to restore and/or enhance function in injured or diseased organs. Mark Borodovsky, a Regents professor in the College of Computing, part of the Coulter

Department of Biomedical Engineering and director for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, and his research group work on the development of machine-learning algorithms for computational analysis of biological sequences â&#x20AC;&#x201D; i.e.

DNA, RNA and proteins.

Another significant strategic investment for Georgia Tech is in microtechnology and nanotechnology The ability to work in multidisciplinary collaboration again is integral to the advancement of science and technology. The continuum of research in these fields is impressive. From the Center for

Organic Photonics and Electronics to the Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technology, Georgia Tech is poised for future development in a large number of fields.

The newest facility is the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Building, partially funded by a grant from the Marcus Foundation but also from significant contributions from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and alumni leaders like Steve Chaddick, EE 74, MS EE 82; Thomas Quigley EE 84; Julian LeCraw Sr., IM 52; and William Coley EE 66, as well as Georgia

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In particular, energy and water are two defining issues. At best, the restriction of these resources will greatly reduce lifestyles around the world; at worst, people will be literally fighting to get to these resources. As technologists, our job is to provide solutions to these larger issues, j j

Tech and the state of Georgia. The building houses 30,000 feet of clean-room space for both inorganic and organic work. This is unusual. Typically cleanroom facilities exist separately. Inorganic research creates the latest generations of electronic chips, for example, while organic clean-room operations typically focus on the life sciences.

By facilitating the capability to coexist, both benefit from each other. For example, biochips can be created using both broad fields of experimentation and expertise. Inorganic microfabrication techniques can be used in concert with biologic science to produce drug screen arrays.

The $100 million investment in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building sets the stage for Georgia Tech not only to extend research capacity but to probe beyond the micro into the nano, and Tech now has several nanomedicine centers to try to understand and cure disease.

Allen talked about the importance of energy and sustainability a major research area for the Institute.

"In particular, energy and water are two defining issues," he said. "At best, the restriction of these resources will greatly reduce lifestyles around the world; at worst, people will be literally fighting to get to these resources. As technologists, our job is to provide solutions to these larger issues."

Three institutes exist beneath this umbrella today: the Strategic Energy Institute, the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and the Institute for Paper Science and Technology.

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intelligent generation and distribution of energy.

The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, funded by a generous gift from Byers, EE 68, is set up to study, understand and educate society about the intelligent use of such resources as energy and water to build a sustainable future.

The Institute for Paper Science and Technology focuses on the intelligent use of our forests and, in particular, the study and development of biofuels. The institute recently welcomed an experienced paper industry executive, Norman Marsolan, as its new leader.

President Peterson has suggested another piece â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to utilize portions of Georgia Tech itself as test beds to demonstrate the latest energy research and sustainable solu-

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tions that are developed at the Institute.

A fourth area for Georgia Tech's strategic investment in research is highperformance computing. The tremendous increases in computational ability have enabled researchers using micro and nano techniques and tools to solve interesting problems of great relevance and complexity.

Improving the efficiency of combustion engines may not sound all that difficult, but it is, combining fluid mechanics with the understanding of chemical reactions under extreme conditions. A small improvement can have a significant impact on energy use for the future. The ability to model real-world problems like this utilizing high-performance computers enables true understanding and improvement.

On the life sciences front, the ability to model the operations of an entire cell could potentially provide the keys to solving disease through identification of the causes and learning how to treat cell mutation. Allen believes high-performance computing also will impact computer science in fundamental ways.

For years, following the development of the silicon microchip, growth in electronics followed Moore's Law â&#x20AC;&#x201D; named for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which states that the number of transistors that can be placed on a chip will double every two years. We're nearing the stage where adding more transistors increases heat too much.

Now instead of adding more transistors, computer hardware companies are adding more computers on each chip using concepts like dual core processors.

Increasing the number of computers on

Tech Is on the Map With Grid Projects

By Van Jensen

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n an ideal world, engineers could design a smarter and more efficient electrical grid that could incorporate alternative energy sources.

But Deepak Divan knows we don't live in an ideal world.

"The challenge is not, 'Can we wipe the slate clean?'" said Divan, a professor of electrical engineering and founder and director of the Intelligent Power Infrastructure Consortium, which partners researchers with manufacturers and utilities. "We can't afford to do that. So we need to ask, 'What is the new infrastructure we need to put in place? And how do we get it there without upsetting the entire economy?'"

Divan's research focus at Tech is on developing holistic methods to improve the existing grid. He stresses the importance of creating systems and tools that are economically feasible and designed for the real world.

As technological advances continue to increase the demand for carbon-neutral energy, the strain on the grid will only increase, Divan said. Part of the problem comes from the splintered nature of the electrical infrastructure.

"Today, the grid is poorly controlled," he said. 'Wind and solar, how are you going to work those in when you can't control the damn thing?"

Divan noted that more than 3,000 utility companies and groups control the grid, and laws differ from one state to another. "How do you make electrons behave differently in one state than another?" he asked with a laugh.

Students at Tech are pushed to come up with solutions to problems with the grid as it currently exists, and that means studying not just technology but also economics and public policy, Divan said. They're then encouraged to commercialize those inventions, potentially through Tech's business incubators.

Two projects to come out of Tech could soon be put to use on the grid. Smart Wires involves a snap-on device that allows electricity to be redirected when the lines become congested, alleviating outages. The ofher development is a system to track electrons in the grid in the same way that oil is tracked through pipelines.

It would allow utility companies to better track their service and guarantee electricity comes from a renewable source.

"Rapid adoption of new technologies can't be driven by technological advances alone," Divan said. "That way you're not just working in an ivory tower."

Divan came to that view after building a successful company out of research he conducted as a professor at the University of Wisconsin.

He spent nine years running Soft Switching Technologies, then returned to academia when he saw "a huge market opportunity."

Divan has firm convictions about the future of energy. He said there aren't enough resources for people to rely on biofuels. Instead, he promotes inorganic energy sources such as solar, wind and nuclear. He recently finished a book, Inorganic Energy, which he hopes will be published in 2010.

Because Georgia Tech is a leading engineering institution, it needs to play a leadership role in the debate over the future of energy, Divan said.

"When we're in the top five, we have to play a dominant role in shaping the debate," he said. "We think everything is here for Tech to be a major player. And I have a firm belief that energy is the first problem we should solve."

Professor Andres Garcia conducts research focused on cellular and tissue engineering, areas that integrate engineering and biological principles.

a chip increases complexity enormously both in hardware and software. Allen views this as the "extension of Moore's Law" as opposed to the end of it. Computer scientists and engineers are challenged by this fundamental paradigm shift and how to take advantage of it. Supercomputers of the future will have tens or hundreds or thousands of core computers to manage, so libraries and code will have to be rewritten to take advantage of the changes.

"At Georgia Tech, we have a history of tackling new frontiers with the realities of

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future needs in mind," Allen said. "As we look to high-performance computing to drive advanced breakthroughs in science, health, energy and other industries, true leaders in the field will emerge only by rethinking current systems and developing new computational methods that address today's challenges with massive data processing and energy efficiency."

Georgia Tech is conducting breakthrough research into new, exotic materials to potentially augment silicon. In particular, the research into graphene â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a sheet of

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graphite molecules one single layer thick â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is promising and exciting.

Epitaxial graphene has extraordinary electronic properties that offer the possibility of greatly enhanced speed and performance relative to silicon; this material may serve as the successor to silicon in integrated circuits and microelectronic devices.

Tech students learn about hot topics in their fields and experience cutting-edge research firsthand through the undergraduate research program. It provides them with an opportunity to expand and apply class-

To keep the research engine at Tech running, we must have 'fjfcess to resources, so we're working very hard in ashington and elsewhere to make the case known to the right institutions and people that Georgia Tech is innovating and investing in the right areas/ â&#x201E;˘ so we're working very room knowledge and work with some of the nation's hard in Washington and best faculty. elsewhere to make the case known to the right Undergraduate research is available in all six colleges institutions and people at Tech, as well as GTRI. that Georgia Tech is Many research projects are innovating and investconducted in interdiscipliing in the right areas. nary teams or centers of We must be thoughtful, study. strategic and careful," Allen said.

Undergraduate research is not done just in a scientific Georgia Tech is consetting. Students do research tinuing to partner with in literature, social sciences, business and industry architecture and business. in privately funded Nearly 40 percent of underresearch, another way to graduates participate in ensure continued structured research for acagrowth for the research Georgia Tech alumni Pete Petit, left, and Steve Chaddick both have been enormously demic credit, and Tech's goal generous to help advance research at the Institute in a number of disciplines. program and for the is to exceed 50 percent. economy.

Undergraduate students who complete at excellence, ranging from photonics to the An important funding source that is least nine units of research and write theses engineering of living tissues. Tech is the truly transformational is unrestricted on their work can receive a special research nation's only university with three National monies provided by private philanthropy designation on their transcripts.

Institutes of Health nanomedicine developfrom alumni, foundations, corporations and ment centers. other donors in the form of faculty chairs, While Georgia Tech has a leading Tech is the top public university in engiresearch program that is enriching the eduendowments, scholarships and fellowships. neering research expenditures, both overall cational experience of undergraduates, conTheir value is far out of proportion to the tributing to the economy and impacting and by federal funding. Funding from the real dollars given because these are leverlives around the world, it is poised to conNIH increased from $4.8 million in 1999 to agable dollars. front the same economic challenges facing $18.9 million in 2009. Many are concerned These investments allow faculty and research programs at colleges and universiabout what the impact will be to the NIH researchers the freedom to dream up the ties throughout the nation. and other important funding sources as our next big thing. The gifts from alumni connation works through its economic chaltributors Petit, Byers and Chaddick are just The economics of research will only get lenges. tougher. Georgia Tech received numerous three examples of hundreds that have made Adding to the challenge are dwindling federal stimulus awards to keep needed a difference for Georgia Tech and for our research going; however, those awards are state support dollars, another situation society. not designed for the long term. The Institute being experienced by colleges and universiResearch at the Georgia Institute of has numerous projects that depend on fedties throughout the nation.

Technology, through private and public eral funding. For example, Georgia Tech is "To keep the research engine at Tech partnerships, indeed will help achieve its home to or a partner in 21 federal centers of running, we must have access to resources, world-class vision.

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n Dec. 4,1949, the Atlanta Journal Magazine published a photograph of Tech president Blake Van Leer and his wife, Ella, seated on either side of a picture window in their new home, called "an interesting study in traditional architecture adapted to modern needs."

Sixty years later, the current occupants of the president's residence, G. P. "Bud" Peterson and his wife, Val, recreated the serene scene of Georgia Tech's first couple enjoying a few quiet moments of down time.

In actuality, President Peterson burst into the home in between meetings at his Carnegie Building office on campus, about

a 15-minute walk from the residence, which is protected from 10th Street by a stone wall and curving driveway on a slope and surrounded by Tech's tennis courts, track and family housing.

Ella Van Leer is credited with planning the structure, designed by the architectural firm Toombs & Creighton. The house was constructed with a $100,000 gift from an anonymous Georgia Tech alumnus.

"Other alumni and the faculty made handsome contributions, such as building two porticos and donating linen, china and trees and shrubbery for the lawn," the Atlanta Journal Magazine reported.

The south portico looked out across Rose Bowl Field and the skyline of Atlanta.

Ella Van Leer is said to have admired the

view so much that she painted it on the wall of the basement game room. Today, the Petersons watch television in the lowerlevel family room, where the president's woodworking skills are evident through an entertainment center, shelves and a dollhouse he built. Ella Van Leer's handiwork evidently was painted over long before the Petersons moved in.

Groundbreaking for the home took place May 22, 1948, with an invocation, greeting by Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation president Cherry L. Emerson, an oral history of the site presented by Ella Van Leer, displays of the architectural renderings and finally the groundbreaking itself led by Fuller E. Callaway. A luncheon at the building site concluded the festivities.

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Inside the program was a history of "a site gifted by nature with beauty and soft breezes and endowed by mankind with historical and legendary tales."

When the house was featured again, this time in the Sept. 15, 1974, Sunday edition of the Atlanta journal and Constitution with Joseph and Florence Pettit in residence, the article reported that the president's home was located on the "highest spot on the Tech campus. It was in the days of the Old South that Solomon Landis, a designer and builder of many of the antebellum homes in Atlanta, chose this spot to build his own home and to create beautiful gardens, of which traces still remain."

Written more than a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, the article also said, "During the War Between the States, a handful of brave Confederate sharpshooters used the house as an outpost and held off the Yankee invaders.

But the house was captured, torn down and the lumber used by the Federal troops to build a hospital just north of the site. Solomon Landis returned during Reconstruction days and built a second house for his family. It burned down in 1898."

Ella Van Leer wrote a Gone With the Wind-like version for the SeptemberOctober 1948 edition of the Georgia Tech Alumnus.

"As the Federal forces neared Atlanta, one night 'Honest Jack' Jones, state treasurer, came with several men on horseback to this home of S. Landis, whose good wife told of her fright, watching the men get picks and shovels from the barn and with lanterns go off with her husband; and how relieved she was on his safe return," she wrote. "He never would divulge his secret. However, for years and even within the memory of his grandchildren, men have dug for hidden treasure, especially among the roots of a fine tulip tree which grew by Tanyard Creek on what is now the Rose Bowl Stadium. Even as far as the present, O'Keefe School people could be seen searching for the phantom gold."

Today, Val Peterson is focusing on old gold and white. Although she has done

Val Peterson says the president prepares Sunday night dinners and sometimes serves them in the sunroom, which looks out on the heated pool. She says the president used to do a lot of woodworking, but these days cooks and does yard work to relax.

"When we were interviewing here, we were brought into this room and served breakfast" at the formal dining room table, which is owned by Georgia Tech, says Val Peterson. "I thought, 'Hmm, I might be living here.'"

no redecorating since moving in, she says any changes that are made, particularly to aging draperies, will respect Tech's colors.

When the Van Leers became the first residents in 1949, the Atlanta journal Magazine society editor said the "prevailing color of the decorative theme is aqua. It is found in the monotone carpeting of the hallways and stairs, in much of the woodwork and the walls downstairs. The foyer is papered in an interesting documentary print on an aqua background. The paper was printed on the original presses used just after the Revolution to issue grants to Gen. Nathaniel Greene and Gen. Anthony Wayne, the latter having been, appropriately enough, among Col. Van Leer's forebears."

The aqua theme is a faded memory, as is the foyer wallpaper, replaced by a mural of the Georgia Tech campus commissioned

by President Wayne and Anne Clough.

In a documentary for the Alumni Association's Living History program, then-President Clough said the mural took nearly a year to complete and is meant to depict the Georgia Tech campus of about 1915. The inclusion of Kennesaw Mountain as well as a monument to George P. Burdell were what Clough called examples of "artistic license."

In 1949, the home was described as "majestic in proportion and classic in

Val Peterson has mixed her tables, pillows and rug with Institute-owned furnishings in the living room. A terrace off the room increases the living space to accommodate large gatherings at the president's residence.

In her upstairs sewing room, Val Peterson works on a bog coat. She is hand stitching Tech symbols, including the Kessler Campanile, the Varsity, Buzz, a RAT cap and the Wreck, on the coat. A stitched thoroughfare, the Downtown Connector, winds from the front of the jacket to the back.

design. Its rooms are spacious and stately, planned especially for entertaining. Yet it is homelike and livable, an effect achieved by the use of family portraits, objects of art

and antiques collected by the Van Leers and by such personal touches as the yellow jackets Mrs. Van Leer herself painted in gold on the white walls of the powder

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President Wayne and Anne Clough commissioned the mural painted in the foyer of the president's residence while they were living there in the 1990s.

room â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just for the sake of Tech said, T think you need to speak to them, Bud.' We came in and he got tradition." two kitchen chairs and he put them Alas, Ella Van Leer's yellow right in front of the door and we jackets are gone, but the home climbed up on them," Val Peterson remains the site of stately gathersaid. ings and livable accommodations for the Petersons. This fall, the She praised the behavior of the students. first family hosted 120 guests for Legislative Day, a party that "The police said, 'Move back, move back.' They moved back. Then included Gov. Sonny Perdue and they were going, 'Speech, speech,'" Georgia lawmakers, and 70 peoshe said, mimicking how the presiple for a pregame gathering of dent put a finger to his lips to quiet members of the Board of Regents the students. "And they hushed." and their families.

A surprise party took place A reporter and cameraman from Eric Turner an Atlanta television station capOct. 17, when hundreds of Peterson is interviewed after students arrived at the residence with a tured the Petersons surrounded by Georgia Tech students descended goalpost from the stadium to celebrate the Homecoming victory. cheering students. Even after they on the president's residence with went inside, Val Peterson continued a goalpost after the Yellow to watch the festivities from the Jackets' win over Virginia Tech. they saw the goalpost being carried down window of her sewing room.

The Petersons were making their way the street.

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Burdell & Friends

After 25 years, WREK DJ is still all revved up and ready to go

By Leslie Overman

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on Kincaid didn't attend the 1984 Homecoming game, but he remembers that Tech played Duke. Perhaps it was all of the North Carolina plates he spotted while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Fowler Street after the game ended, trying to make his way to the infirmary to fill a prescription for the man seated beside him in the car, a sick Joey Ramone.

The night before, Kincaid and a few other WREK DJs "finagled" their way backstage at a Ramones show in Marietta and persuaded the band to do an on-air interview while they were in town. The rockers had one stipulation: Dee Dee Ramone had to be back at the hotel room in time to

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watch wrestling. Later that night as Dee Dee watched wrestling on TV at a Holiday Inn near campus, Kincaid was stuck in traffic with Joey searching for a drugstore.

"I remember sitting over there, and he's telling me stories," Kincaid recalled. "They just played in California in some little club, and the kids tore the seats up. The owner said the only other time that had happened was when the Rolling Stones played there in 1965."

Unfortunately, no pharmacy would fill an out-of-state prescription for Joey.

"He had to go through the rest of the weekend sick, I guess," Kincaid said. "You think with all the drugs they could get, somebody could find them penicillin.

Crazy."

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During his lengthy run at WREK, Kincaid, Text 90, has collected a lot of interesting anecdotes and trivia. There was the time Michael Stipe recited the opening lines of "Ramblin' Wreck" when REM played the Student Center ballroom during Homecoming '82. There was the reference to WREK FM's automation system in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.

This fall marked Kincaid's 25th year as DJ of Personality Crisis, a two-hour block of "the latest or greatest in the new music category," according to the WREK Web site.

A lot has happened at the radio station during Kincaid's tenure. Specialty shows have come and gone, the old reel-to-reel automation system, aka George R, went digital and the station's offices moved from the

coliseum annex to a n e w studio space in the Student Center. Kincaid's presence is one of the few mainstays in the past quarter of a century.

On a S u n d a y night in October, Kincaid walked into the 91.1 office suite about 10 minutes before Personality Crisis' 10 p.m. start time wearing a black WREK T-shirt and jeans. With a baby face and bright blue eyes, he looked m u c h younger than his 45 years.

After exchanging a few words with p r o g r a m director Curtis Stephens — in addition to getting permission from the general m a n a g e r to keep r u n n i n g a radio show, an a l u m n u s always m u s t be accompanied by a student in the studio — Kincaid cued u p a couple of CDs and with a few deft strokes o n the mixing board started the s h o w with a prerecorded intro: "Personality Crisis is b r o u g h t to you b y Stomp and Stammer, Atlanta's m o n t h l y music, film and art magazine. ..."

the spontaneity, which is actually a lot better," he said.

Kincaid entered Tech in 1982 b u t waited until his sophomore year to join WREK. "Once I started working here, I just extended the college career," he said.

He has been a p r o g r a m director and music director at the station, hosted several

In fact, one of the N e w Kids just about got into a fight with one of the fraternities."

A n d it w a s n ' t any affinity for white and gold that lured Kincaid to Tech w h e n it was time to go to college — it w a s the Institute's proximity to club 688, a n o w defunct Atlanta music v e n u e still spoken about in hushed, reverent tones b y those w h o h a d a chance to see shows there during the '80s. Before picking a dorm, Kincaid studied a m a p of c a m p u s to see which was closest to the Spring Street club.

"I never liked the band, but I s a w the Red H o t Chili Peppers the first time they played Atlanta, which w a s at 688, a n d the Flaming Lips the first time," recalled Kincaid, w h o said he also s a w the Jesus and M a r y Chain, pointing to program director Stephens' Tshirt.

"I started going there in '83, and it closed in '86," Kincaid said. "I think I figured out I w a s there almost 360 nights in three years."

These days, he learns about n e w b a n d s through word-of-mouth. H e doesn't have as m u c h time for shows because he works nights doing quality control w o r k for a court reporting firm.

"It's not m y ideal job, b u t right n o w it's work," he said.

"The job before this, I did voice w o r k for a company. It was a telephone thing where people could call in a n d hear scores. It basically w a s for gamblers. ... That was a startup that w e n t under."

One w o u l d think h e ' d be well suited for a career in the music industry, particularly broadcasting, with his extensive on-air experience. H e is a contributing writer for Stomp and Stammer, which underwrites Personality Crisis. But he's never been interested in pursuing a career in radio.

"I've never really ever given a serious effort at trying to w o r k at some commercial radio station. There's not really m u c h point.

They're going to tell you w h a t to play," he said.

I just have this aversion to record companies selling MP3s. You're buying air. You're not buying a physical product. I'd rather have something I can pick up."

Kincaid h a d n ' t uttered so m u c h as a w o r d o n air. Unless he's interviewing musicians, he keeps speaking to a m i n i m u m , cutting into the music just a few times d u r i n g the s o u n d block to let his audience k n o w w h a t they've been listening to.

A p o p track from a girl b a n d played as Kincaid lifted a plastic bag off the floor a n d began to sort through CDs h e ' d pulled from his h o m e library. Selections for the night included albums by Chet Baker, A d a m a n d the Ants, Electric Six, XTC, Jerry Harrison of the Talking H e a d s , Q u e e n a n d Tom Waits.

Kincaid said that over the years the show's s o u n d has digressed a bit from the n e w wave, p u n k rock focus o n which it was founded.

"As I've gotten older, it's evolved into more of a lot of other things that I just think are good music that should be played, things that I like or things that I've heard.

Sometimes things I d o n ' t like too," he said.

"Sometimes in the old days, I w o u l d think out s h o w s a whole lot more. These days, a lot of times it's just like I allow for

shows, filled in for DJs o n other shows and helped organize contests at the station. For the most part, WREK w a s the only student organization he w a s involved in d u r i n g his eight years at the Institute. "This wasted enough of m y time," Kincaid explained.

From the beginning, it w a s music that drew Kincaid to Georgia Tech. The Atlanta native began attending concerts o n c a m p u s w h e n he w a s still in high school.

"I w e n t to a couple of these things that were called c h a m p a g n e jams at Grant Field," he said. "Pink Floyd played there, the Rolling Stones, N e w Kids o n the Block.

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"People I know who have done shows where they let them have a little bit of freedom, usually the shows don't last very long ... because people like to be hit in the head with the same junk over and over again.

ThaPs the nature of commercial radio."

Personality Crisis listeners, on the other hand, are not likely to hear the same track twice, even if they want to.

"I try not to repeat myself from week to week," Kincaid said. "I don't even think that's necessary, as much as there is out there that can be heard."

Stephens chuckled as he looked down at a CD Kincaid passed across the table to him.

On the cover a man's face had been superimposed on the body of a teenage girl dressed in a gingham outfit, bobby socks and platform shoes. It was the album Neu!

by German vocalist Andreas Dorau.

"Are you going to play this?" asked Stephens.

Kincaid pursed his lips in contemplation. "I'm going to have to listen to it," he said. "I think it's really dance-y maybe techno-y stuff. I don't know, we'll see. I may throw it on tonight.

"Sometimes the listeners hear this stuff for the first time the same time I hear it for the first time. I probably have 10,000 CDs, and I have not listened to so many of them.

I buy them anyplace and everyplace. I usually don't pay full price for anything. IPs either used or cheap or from salvage stores or Goodwills."

Kincaid doesn't own an iPod. In fact, he recorded a Personality Crisis promo in which he testified to being iPod-free. "I just have this aversion to record companies selling MP3s," he said. "You're buying air. You're not buying a physical product. I'd rather have something I can pick up."

A trancelike, techno beat filled the room.

Kincaid had popped in the Dorau CD after all.

"This is what you asked for," he said, looking over at Stephens and shrugging his shoulders. "The listeners are having a good listen. You see how much I paid for that?"

He flashed the CD case with the price tag still intact. "One big dollar. I'm probably getting my dollar's worth here."

In 2004, Kincaid's voice was absent from the Atlanta airwaves after he suffered a heart attack. He had heart surgery and was in the hospital for two weeks.

"I got to talk about that on the air a few times," he remembered. "I was just bemused by the entire thing when it was

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going on. IPs kind of weird to sit and say that, but iPs true. I thought I had the flu. I walked into the doctor's office, and they did an EKG and said, 'We're calling an ambulance.'"

A couple of friends, including Stomp and Stammer editor Jeff Clark, filled in for him at WREK. Kincaid was back on the air just six days after being released from the hospital.

A few Tech alumni and members of the Atlanta music scene launched a Web site and organized a benefit concert to raise money to help cover the longtime DJ's medical costs. Kincaid, who was working as a contract employee at the time, didn't have health insurance.

Among the WREK alums who offered support was Thomas Peake, who died this past September. (An article about him appears on page 78.)

"It's starting to get weird. A lot of people have passed away who worked here who I've known," said Kincaid, who noted the loss of former WREK staff members Witt Mills, Mike Mitten and Joe Wreen. "ThaPs

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not supposed to happen this young."

Kincaid was silent for a moment, then glanced up at the clock. It was nearly midnight, and he hadn't swapped out CDs for several minutes. He slipped on a pair of headphones, pressed a few buttons and leaned toward the mic as the red "On The Air" box mounted on the wall of the studio lit up.

"You're listening to Personality Crisis.

This is WREK Atlanta. Lot of music tonight, not a whole lot of me. That may be good, that may be bad, I don't know. Depends on if you like listening to me talk. ..."

A few minutes later, Kincaid began packing up his CDs for the drive home.

"Sometimes I think, you know, maybe iPs time to stop this nonsense and do something else," he said. "They don't seem to not want me coming down here and doing it, and I've not gotten to the point where I completely hate it. It's still fun and something to do, and at this point in time it's like, What the hell am I going to do on Sunday nights if I don't do this?'"

Ramblin' Roll 1940s Richard Collier, AE 48, won two bronze medals in the World Senior Games held in October in St. George, Utah. He competed in tennis singles and doubles in the 85-89 age group. Collier lettered in tennis for four years and in basketball for three years as a student at Georgia Tech. In the 1944-45 season, he was the Southeastern Conference's leading scorer.

1950s J a m e s E. Warner Jr., Arch 50, worked for several architectural firms before opening Warner & Summers Architects. He retired from Warner Summers Architecture and Interior Design in 1993. A naval aviator during World War II, Warner continued service in the Naval Air Reserve before volunteering for two more years of active duty He retired from the Navy as a commander in 1966. Warner and his wife, Betty whom he married in June 1952, have one son and two daughters. The couple live in Atlanta.

1960s John Collins, IM 69, has been named CEO of Nichols Bros. Boat Builders of Freeland, Wash. Collins, a veteran executive in the metals industry most recently was the president and CEO of Sustainable Solutions International LLC, a Birmingham, Ala.-based consulting firm specializing in improving competitiveness by implementing sustainable flow-based, process-oriented operational and organizational strategies.

James Arthur "Flip" Lyle, IM 67, of El Paso, Texas, is the champion in the 60-64 age group of the Southwest Challenge Series, a duathlon and triathlon championship. Lyle has been champion for 15 of the 19 years of the Southwest Challenge Series, the largest and oldest multisport series in the world. Lyle has competed in 283 triathlons and 93 duathlons.

Leo A. Vecellio Jr., MS CE 69, has been elected chair of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation board of trustees.

Vecellio, who is the chairman, president and

Pilots Reunited With Planes Twin brothers, both P-51 pilots in World War II, were reunited with their war birds at the Oshkosh fly-in and aviation convention in Wisconsin this past summer.

Bill and Buck Pattillo, both in the class of 1950, also were taken on flights in the planes they had not seen since the end of the war. During World War II, both were assigned to the 352nd Fighter Group, the "blue-nosed bastards of Bodney" Bill flew 35 combat missions in the P-51 he called Sweet and Lovely. On April 1,1945, he destroyed six and damaged one enemy aircraft in Germany before being shot down by ground flak. He was a POW until the end of the war.

Buck flew 37 combat missions in his P-51, Little Rebel. On April 16,1945, he destroyed three FW-190s and two ME-190s.

After the war, the brothers enrolled

CEO of West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Vecellio Group Inc., has been involved with ARTBA leadership for more than 10 years, serving as chair in 2007-08 and as a longtime Transportation Development Foundation trustee.

1970s Gary B o t t o m s , IM 75, president of The Bottoms Group, has been listed among Atlanta magazine's 2009 Five Star Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers. Bottoms was one of 16 insurance professionals in the Atlanta area named to the list.

Charles H. Brewton, BMgt 73, has completed his second trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, to teach MBA courses in business ethics and strategic management for the Center for International Training Cooperation. Brewton was the commencement speaker for the class of 2009. He currently is director of marketing for Tennessee State Parks in Nashville.

at Tech and joined the Georgia Air National Guard.

In 1948, the Pattillo brothers were assigned to the 36th Fighter Group in Germany, where they helped organize the Skyblazers Air Force aerial demonstration team. In 1953, they became members of the original Thunderbirds, with one Pattillo flying right wing and the other left wing.

Curt Harrington, MS ChE 77, partner in the Long Beach, Calif., patent and tax law firm of Harrington & Harrington, has been appointed vice chair of the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization Taxation Law Advisory Commission for the 2009-10 term.

Luther Hendrix, MS EE 78, has been appointed lead consultant to Kevin Kennedy Associates, a privately held global engineering and scientific consulting firm.

Elaine Hubbard, AMath 72, MS AMath 74, PhD AMath 80, of Woodstock, Ga., was the recipient of the 2009 Barbara G. Ingram Citizen of the Year Award presented by Preservation Woodstock. The award recognizes someone who works to preserve the city's history and heritage and has demonstrated service to the city. Hubbard, who serves as vice president of Preservation Woodstock, has been elected 2010 chairwoman of the organization. She is a retired math professor from

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I Ramblin' Roll Kennesaw State University and a textbook author.

Kevin Johns, M CP 77, director of economic development for Palm Beach County, Fla., will head Austin Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services beginning Jan. 11. Johns is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Frank McCloskey, GMgt 72, received the 25th Anniversary Diversity Leader Award from the American Institute for Managing Diversity Inc. at an October reception in his honor. As Georgia Power's vice president of diversity, he oversees the development and implementation of strategies that help sustain a culture of excellence through inclusion by improving leadership and work culture. McCloskey, who has been with Georgia Power for 37 years, is a member of the Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and the boards of directors of the Anti-Defamation League and Men Stopping Violence.

M i c k e y S m i t h , HS 76, CEO of Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, Fla., was elected for a three-year term to the Medical Group Management Association board of directors at the association's annual meeting in Denver. A board-certified medical practice executive, he serves on MGMA's professional development advisory committee and in the national leadership development trainer group.

Don H. Stafford, CE 70, was awarded the Stars and Stripes Presidential Citation of Merit by the Canadian Society of Value Analysis at an awards dinner in November in Ottawa.

The award recognized his work in the creation of the value management program at the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Stafford is president of Robinson, Stafford & Rude Inc., an international value management and facilitation firm in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Lanny Thomas, EE 74, of Rome, Ga., has been appointed the electrical engineer representative to the Georgia board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors

by Gov. Sonny Perdue. Thomas is the president of Allison-Smith Co. LLC. A registered engineer in Georgia and Florida, Thomas holds professional contracting licenses in those states and North Carolina. Thomas and his wife, Susan, Arch 79, M Arch 80, have two children.

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Whatley Named Woman of Distinction Clemmie Whatley, one of the first two black women to graduate from Georgia Tech, was presented the outstanding alumna award by Marilyn Somers, director of Living History for the Alumni Association, at the student-organized Women's Leadership Conference on campus in October.

Whatley, MS AMath 73, went on to earn a doctorate from Emory University and is the founder of Educational Dynamix, a company that helps children learn math through music.

She also is the mother of two Georgia Tech alums, Tamara Whatley, IE 94, and Melvin Whatley, Mgt 99.

"This is a lifelong learner," Somers said of Whatley. "This is a woman filled with a passion for mathematics."

Other winners of Women of Distinction awards were Lynn Fountain, principal research scientist with the Georgia Tech Research Institute; Julia Kubanek, associate professor in the School of Biology; Kathryn Smith, a graduate student in biomedical engineering; and Melissa Minneci, a mechanical engineering student.

1980s Herbert V. Congdon II, EE 86, received an Impact Innovation Award from Tyco Electronics at a ceremony that was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He was recognized for an innovation that affected a product or significantly impacted the organization's operations.

Congdon, a market manager with Tyco, lives in Conover, N.C. T. Andrew "Andy" Cooper, BC 81, of Albany, Ga., has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to the state licensing board for residential and general contractors as a residential contractor representative. President and owner of Gary Cooper & Sons Inc., he is a member and past president of the Home Builders Association of Albany and Southwest Georgia. He has three children.

R a m o n a Marsalis Hill, ISyE 83, was appointed the associate provost of graduate and continuing studies at Spring Hill College in

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Mobile, Ala. She is responsible for creating and managing innovative degree and certificate programs responsive to the regional work force needs for adults returning to school to secure undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Kelly McCutchen, Mgt 89, executive vice president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, was named its president and CEO in November. Before joining the foundation in 1993, he was assistant vice president in the trust department of Trust Company Bank in Atlanta. A former Alumni Association board member, McCutchen lives in Atlanta with his wife, Mary Kay, and their two children.

S u s a n Mitchell, ME 85, was hired as director of marketing and sales at Rolyn Companies. Headquartered in Rockville, Md., Rolyn is an award-winning, privately held disaster recovery and restoration firm, which won an award for its reconstruction efforts on the Tabernacle in Atlanta following the 2008 tornado

and currently is assisting with recovery efforts at the Westin Peachtree and flood-damaged buildings. She and her husband, R o b e r t Mitchell, ICS 84, live in North Potomac, Md. Alex Munoz, Mgt 88, of Cumming, Ga., was appointed to the board of directors of the Tommy Nobis Center, a nonprofit community rehabilitation center headquartered in Marietta, Ga., that develops and provides job training, employment and vocational support for people with disabilities. Munoz is the founder of CSR, a management consultancy that specializes in startup and turn-around engagements. He has a master's in information systems from George Washington University.

Alex Wan, IE 88, won the Atlanta City Council District 6 seat in the Dec. 1 run-off election.

Wan is director of development for Jerusalem House, the city's oldest and largest provider of permanent, supportive housing for homeless or low-income individuals and families living with HIV /AIDS.

Terry Woods, ESM 83, MS ESM 84, PhD ESM 91, was named the FDA Federal Engineer for 2009 and was selected by the National Society of Professional Engineers as one of the Top 10 Federal Engineers of the Year for 2009 in recognition of her work in MRI safety and compatibility requirements for medical devices and for her leadership in the development of voluntary consensus standards for the safety of medical devices in MRI scanners.

Woods is the leader of the Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health medical device laboratories in Silver Spring, Md. Woods writes fhat she and her husband, J o e Vignola, ESM 85, MS ESM 86, PhD ME 91, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Catholic University of America, "probably also hold the record for most ESM degrees in one household." They live in Berwyn Heights, Md., with daughters Amelia and Isabella.

1990s Elizabeth Bacon, EE 96, MBA 08, was inducted into the order of "merite agricole," an honor bestowed by France's Ministry of Agriculture to those who have benefited French agriculture and products. In 2002, she launched LaGrange, Ga.-based II Vino Imports, which imports wines from small, family-owned vineyards in France.

S c o t t P. Belanger, PhD EE 96, joined the staff of SRI International at its Ann Arbor, Mich, office. His responsibilities as a principal engineer include technical leadership, business development and management of project execution in the areas of communications, radar and remote sensing systems. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Ann Arbor.

Wendy Lemoine Bosnians, ChE 97, and her husband, Olivier, announce the birth of a son, Lucas, on Sept. 3. He joins sisters Silvie, 2, and Eliza, 4, at home in Durango, Colo. Bosmans is an engineer with BP America.

Jim Brennan, ME 97, and his wife, Joy, announce the birth of daughter Olivia Grace on Sept. 30. Olivia joins sister Anna, 2, at the family's home in Decatur, Ga. Brennan is a senior product marketing manager with Red Hat. Allan Dziwoki, MS MoT 99, has been promoted to vice president of business services at MitsubisJii Electric Cooling and Heating Solutions. Dziwoki, who joined the division in 2000, will oversee the business services group for Mitsubishi Electric, specifically focusing on operations, training, information technology and service.

Leslie Owen Hamlin, ISyE 96, and Shawn Roy Hamlin, Arch 95, BC 99, M Arch 99, announce the birth of a daughter, Lillian Kathleen, on June 21. Lilly joins brother Owen, 2, at the family's home in Atlanta. Leslie is the director of business intelligence at Skylight Financial, and Shawn is an architect at Perkins+Will.

Lara O'Connor Hodgson, AE 93, has launched the company Nourish, for which she serves as CEO. Sold in airports and specialty stores across the country, Nourish creates formula-ready bottled water. The bottles have volume measurements, a large mouth to add formula and a nipple top. The company also offers 10-ounce bottles of purified spring water fhat are spill-proof and affixed with a sippy top for toddlers. Nourish products were included in gift bags at the Primetime Emmy Awards in September.

Gustaf Kamp, Arch 93, of Portland, Ore., has joined Waterleaf Architecture. Kamp has 12 years of architectural planning, design and construction experience with a focus on emergency service projects including extensive fire and rescue work

R u s s e l l L e a k e , CmpE 99, and his wife, Miriam Moon, celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary on Nov. 8. Leake is an engineer for Cisco Systems Inc. in Atlanta.

C h r i s t o p h e r R a w l i n s , Arch 95, had his work featured in the American Institute of Architects' New York Now exhibition in the fall. Rawlins is writing a book about beach house architect Horace Gifford, for which he won a fellowship from the Fire Island Pines Artist-in-Residence Program. He is the president of Rawlins Design, an architecture and interiors practice engaged in projects in the United States, United Kingdom and Asia.

M e l i s s a S a n d l i n , MS ME 98, received a community service award at the Women of Color technology awards conference in Dallas. Manager at Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems Engineering, Manufacturing and Logistics Talent Management in Baltimore, she has been a participant in the company's DiscoverE program for the past five years, introducing engineering as a profession to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. She also leads a Northrop Grumman mentoring group aimed at getting local high school students interested in pursuing engineering careers.

Eric Waller, CE 92, MBA 98, has accepted the position of GE/Safran/Thales business director within the Honeywell Aerospace Regional Aircraft and Component Customers customer business team. In his previous role, Waller served as the integrated supply chain director for the air transport and regional strategic business unit. Since joining Honeywell in 1998, he has served in various ISC and business leadership roles.

2000s David Alvord, ME 07, MS ME 09, married Tara Mclntyre on July 19. He is an acoustics analyst and engineer on the Constellation program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and is the son of Larry Alvord, APhys 82, and Laurie Alvord, TE 83.

S u z a n n e Camp Bird, Arch 02, and Cameron Bird, Arch 02, announce the birth of a son, Christian Cameron, on Sept. 11. He joins his sister, Madeleine, 4, at the family's home in Houston. Suzanne is an intern architect at Jackson & Ryan Architects. Cameron, an intern architect at Curtis & Windham Architects,

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I Ramblin' Roll is pursuing a master's degree in architecture at the University of Houston.

Charlie Brubaker, MS CS 06, PhD CS 09, won the College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis, "Extensions of Principal Component Analysis." The college voted to recommend the work for the Association for Computing Machinery Doctoral Dissertation Award, which each year recognizes the best computer science dissertation in the country.

Marijane E. Cauthorn, Mgt 00, married Montgomery C. "Monty" Sanders on May 24.

Cauthorn is finishing her third year at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. The couple live in Atlanta.

R a c h e l M. C h e s l e y , Chem 03, married Paul P. Thienprayoon, Mgt 03, on Oct. 3.

Chesley is completing her residency in pediatrics and starting a fellowship in pediatric hematology / oncology at Children's Medical Center of Dallas. Thienprayoon, a captain in the Air Force, is a B-l bomber pilot stationed at Dyess Air Force Base. They live in Dallas.

Newbill Cycles 600 Miles To End Hunger Ivano Newbill, Mgt 94, arrived in Washington, D.C., in October for a global hunger summit after 12 days on the road. In an effort to raise awareness for the cause, he made the trip from Atlanta to the Capitol â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all 600 miles of it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by bicycle.

The former Yellow Jacket and NBA player has been a volunteer with Friends of the World Food Program, a nonprofit dedicated to building support in the United States for the United Nations World Food Program, for several years. Now co-chair of the WFP Atlanta Committee, he speaks to groups to help raise money and awareness about hunger.

Newbill said he has a challenge for everyone he meets. "I've been telling people lately, just make sure within a three-mile radius that no one's homeless, no one's hungry and nobody's illiterate, and your community will be better."

Newbill, who works part time as a facility manager at his church, may soon return to Georgia Tech. He is considering pursuing an MBA in international business because he believes that "global hunger and water problems can be solved if the global business community comes together."

Myisha Franklin, IE 04, and DuQuay Allen, CmpE 04, were married Sept. 26. Franklin is a senior data analyst with AmeriCold Logistics, and Allen is a senior systems analyst with Horizon Software International. The couple live in Lawrenceville, Ga. Katie J o n e s , CE 03, has joined Dewberry's water and wastewater practice in the company's Raleigh, N.C., office. She will provide process engineering and project management services. A registered professional engineer in North Carolina, Jones is pursuing a master's degree in environmental engineering at Georgia Tech.

Erin King, IE 03, MS IE 04, married Greg Kennedy on Sept. 19. King, who works for Naval Air Systems Command headquarters as a systems engineer, is pursuing a second master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in systems engineering. She and her husband live in Maryland.

Christina M. Nguyen, Arch 02, passed the architectural registration exam and is a licensed architect in North Carolina. Nguyen currently serves on the North Carolina depart-

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ment of the Environment and Natural Resources Headquarters/Green Square Complex team. A LEED-accredited professional and member of the U.S. Green Building Council, she joined O'Brien/Atkins in 2007 and has been a key team leader for the firm's LEED study program. Nguyen, who received a master's degree in architecture from North Carolina State University in 2007, serves as Tech's President's Scholarship Program regional committee chair for the Triad area.

Alexandra Pajak, MS HTS 07, of Atlanta, is the Bethune Elementary Communities in Schools program coordinator and arranged

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for seven students, their parents and state Rep. Kathy Ashe to deliver blankets, diapers and toiletries to the Gateway Center for the homeless in November. Communities in Schools provided some of the funds.

Melissa Bell Wheeler, Mgt 04, has earned certified fraud examiner designation. Wheeler is a staff accountant in the audit practice of Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen LLP, an Atlanta-based certified public accounting and advisory firm at which she is a member of the forensic and litigation support team. Wheeler received a master's degree in professional accountancy from Georgia State University.

In Memoriam 1930s William Clarence Coulbourn, AE 35, of Huntington, N.Y., on May 5. While a student at Tech, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity Frank Ladd DuValle, Cls 34, of Fairhope, Ala., on Oct. 20. Mr. DuValle retired as a vice president of Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. He was a president of the Mobile Carnival Association.

Claude Mercer Gray, EE 32, of Birmingham, Ala., on Oct. 5. A steam engine enthusiast, Mr. Gray drove the train at fhe Bkmingham Zoo for 20 years, retiring at the age of 94. In 1933, he became the first Birmingham police operator to broadcast by radio. He served in civilian service with the Federal Communications Commission during World War II and then returned to Birrningharn to start an engineering business for radio and television. A ham radio operator, he was a member of the Amateur Radio Club, Alabama Elistorical Radio Society, National Railway Historical Society and Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum.

Samuel Malone Troutman, ChE 37, of Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 23. Mr. Troutman worked for U.S. Steel for 41 years. He sang in the choir at his church and was a member of fhe Amateur Radio Club and the Alabama chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, assisting in the repair of the Alabama Theatre's Wurlitzer pipe organ.

1940s Robert Alderman, ME 43, of Atlanta, on Nov. 7. He served as a counter intelligence officer in the Pacific theater during World War II and retired as a Reserve officer in 1965. As a civilian he worked as a senior air conditioning engineer with Carrier Corp. and for 27 years with fhe General Service Administration.

Louis Palmer Bondurant Jr., Cls 45, of Atlanta, on Oct 22. He joined his fafher in business and became president of L.P. Bondurant & Sons.

He later worked in customer relations with Servomation Corp. He received the Purple Heart for his service in the European theater during

World War II. A member of the Golden Legion of Phi Delta Theta, he volunteered with the Olympics and Paralympics in Atlanta in 1996.

Trenholm Lowell Brownley, EE 48, of Richmond, Va., on Sept. 26. Mr. Brownley retired in 1982 following a 35-year career with E.I. du Pont that included management positions in fhe United States and Europe. He served in the Marine Corps before attending Tech.

Benjamin Willingham "Ben" Carmichael Sr., ChE 41, of Atlanta, on Sept. 17. During his engineering career, Mr. Carmichael worked for Tech's Engineering Experiment Station, the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.

He was a Navy officer during World War II and a deacon and life elder at his church.

Herbert Clinton Eggar, MS IE 48, of Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 20. Mr. Eggar was a retired sales engineer with Hydro Conduit Corp. A retired Navy lieutenant commander and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, he served as a missionary in Japan. He played the piano, clarinet and saxophone.

James "Jamie" Daniel Ellington Jr., Text 48, of Atlanta, on Oct. 16. APhi Delta Theta fraternity member at Tech, World War II veteran and registered professional engineer, Mr. Ellington retired from the Southern Sizing Co. after 30 years of service. In retirement, he volunteered at D.H. Stanton Elementary School.

George A. Ewing, M 45, of St Simons Island, Ga., on Sept. 16. A member of Chi Phi fraternity at Tech, he worked with Fulton Bag and Cotton Milk before joining J.H. Ewing and Sons in 1950. Mr. Ewing moved fhe company into shopping center development. He served as a member, state director and trustee of fhe International Council of Shopping Centers and was fhe fourth Georgian to be designated a shopping center manager by the council. He served as director of the Atlanta Real Estate Board; was a life member of the Realtors Million Dollar Club; and received the Phoenix Award from the Atlanta Board of Realtors.

Samuel Walker Freeman Jr., Cls 49, of Roswell, Ga., on Nov. 13. Mr. Freeman gradu-

ated from Auburn University in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering and spent 38 years working in various engineering positions with General Electric Corp. He was a deacon at his church.

Tolbert Tracey Gentry, Ck 44, of Charlotte Courthouse, Va., on Oct. 10. A retired Marine Corps brigadier general, he left Tech to participate in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. He received his wings of gold in June 1943 and flew combat in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was a recipient of the Legion of Merit, Dktinguished Flying Cross and eight air medals and a member of the Golden Flying Eagles. He also was an ordained elder at hk church Albert Brown Gordon, ChE 47, of Lewkville, Texas, on Nov. 17. He worked for B.F. Goodrich in Ohio and later retired from Ross & Roberts Co. in Shelton, Conn. A member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a Tech co-op student, he served four years in the Navy before graduating.

J o h n S. Hard, IM 41, of Lexington, Ky, on Oct. 12. After earning a master's degree in psychology from Emory, he worked for American Enka Corp. and Monsanto Co. in labor relations and personnel management. Mr. Hard served five years in the Navy as a supply officer, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a former member of the Civitan Club in Decatur, Ala., and the Masonic Lodge in Dandridge, Term. While living in Tennessee, he also was a volunteer for Jefferson Memorial Hospital and Noah's Ark Animal Rescue and Adoption.

William L. Imershein, TE47, of Solomons, Md., on March 18. Mr. Imershein was fhe retired CEO, secretary and treasurer of Novelty Cord Tassel. At Tech, he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Alpha Phi Omega and participated in the Army ROTC and co-op programs.

A.N. Kaplan Jr., TE 42, of Asheville, N.C., on March 5, 2008. He began his career in the family textile business. After graduating from Wake Forest University's Bowman Gray Medical School in 1956, Dr. Kaplan practiced pediatric medicine in Miami for 40 years. Dr. Kaplan was an Army captain and firing range instructor during World War II.

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James Edward Lockery Sr., ME 42, of Spartanburg, S.C., on Nov. 9. Following service in the military, he worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., from which he retired in 1983. After being commissioned as an officer in the 9th Air Force, he served in the Repair and Reclamation Division in England and France during World War II, achieving the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Lockery was a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Henry Eugene McAuliffe Jr., Cls41, of Vero Beach, Fla., on Oct. 24. A graduate of Columbia University Mr. McAuliffe's career with Mobil Oil included stints in Colombia and England.

William Patrick McGuire Jr., ME 41, of Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 3. Mr. McGuire retired from Tennessee Eastman Corp. He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa while at Georgia Tech.

J o s e p h P. Neary, MS Chem 42, of Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 16. Mr. Neary retired from the Deer Park, Texas, plant of DuPont after a 34year career with the company. Earlier in his career, he worked as a research chemist with Chambers Works and taught organic and inorganic chemistry for four years at the University of Scranton, from which he received a bachelor's degree.

T h o m a s E. Roberts Jr., EE 43, of Saratoga, Calif., on Sept. 9. Dr. Roberts retired from Ford Aerospace Corp. after a career in which he developed and patented many innovative engineering projects. He served as a first lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps during World War II and earned a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University.

John Morris Ryan, IM 49, of Chapel Hill, N.C., on Oct. 19. He retired in 1991 following 17 years working with Exxon in Houston. Dr. Ryan received a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953 and began a long career as a petroleum economist working in a variety of positions in companies related to Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1958.

He had assignments in Europe, India, Pakistan and Australia and was a member of the oil industry group that negotiated with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. While serving in the 334th Infantry Regiment of the

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84th Division in fhe Army during World War II, he was wounded and captured in the assault on Germany in November 1944 and imprisoned until the end of war.

Leonard Barquell Sheffield Jr., Cls 49, of Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 19. Mr. Sheffield, who retired as the owner of Allied Building System, joined the Marine Corps after high school and served in the Air Force during World War II and the Korean War. While on a training flight during World War II, the B-25 he was aboard crashed, and he suffered skull and spinal fractures. He later was assigned to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Ill's staff. Mr. Sheffield started an auto parts manufacturing and distribution company, which he later sold; became a stockbroker and opened a brokerage firm; and owned an auto leasing company and a coal mine. A member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Tech, he was active in the Kiwanis Club and Boy Scouts. Survivors include his son Leonard B. Sheffield III, IM 78.

Frank Ogle Shoemaker, Cls 40, of Palos Park, 111., on Oct. 5. An Army veteran of World War II, Mr. Shoemaker was the founder of Anchor Abrasives Co. He began his career with Titan Abrasives and managed the Bendix-Besly plant in Jackson, Mich., before founding Anchor Abrasives in 1971. He was a member of the Grinding Wheel Institute, Unified Abrasives Manufacturers' Association and Chicago-area Spring Manufacturers Institute. He also was a Service Corps of Retired Executives counselor.

George E. Wagener Jr., IM 49, of Lawrenceville, Ga., on Oct. 11. Mr. Wagener was employed

by Georgia Power and later by Southern Company for 38 years. He worked as a consultant in retirement. An Army veteran, he was wounded in the Battle of fhe Bulge and received the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He sang tenor in church choirs for more than 30 years, participated in the Gwinnett Choral Guild and twice performed at Carnegie Hall.

Walter G. Wanamaker Jr., ME 43, of Milford, Conn., on Oct. 22. Mr. Wanamaker was employed by Avco Lycoming for 26 years, traveling the world as a test engineer. He served for many years with U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 73. After graduating from Tech, he joined the Army Air Corps as a first lieutenant and served as an in-flight test engineer on

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wartime bombers. In retirement, he was a key contributor in restoration of the World War IIera flying boat Excambrian, a Sikorsky VS44 now on display at the Bradley Air Museum. Up until his death, Mr. Wanamaker volunteered at the Sikorsky archives indexing reference materials.

1950s Robert Dupree B a c o n Sr., ME 57, of Matthews, N.C., on Nov. 6. Mr. Bacon, who received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War and a Mason.

Robert Emory "Bob" Bruce, Cls 56, of Williamson, Ga., on Aug. 30. Mr. Bruce retired in 1989 following a 32-year career as a pilot with Eastern Air Lines. At fhe time of his death, he was employed by the Federal Aviation Administration, which he joined in 1990.

Hal Shipley Daniell Jr., IM 57, of St. Simons Island, Ga., on July 25. He was a clergyman.

Riley O. Etheridge, EE 51, of Columbia, S.C, on Oct 19. Mr. Etheridge retired as president and CEO of Resource Electronics, formerly Dixie Electronics, in Columbia. He worked for RCA for 18 years in various locations across the country. A Navy veteran, Mr. Etheridge served on the USS Melvin.

Avanda "Van" Willard Floyd Sr., IM 58, of Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 27. An Army veteran, he was the president of Southern Drillers Inc. for about 30 years and was active in the Water Well Drilling Association.

Philip Conrad Hemby, Arch 58, of Savannah, Ga., on Sept. 15. An Army veteran of the Korean War, Mr. Hemby retired from the architectural section of the Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District after 23 years of service.

Davison Richardson Ingman, EE 51, of Hiram, Ga., on Sept. 24. He retired from the Army Corps of Engineers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ingman, a licensed professional electrical engineer in Georgia and South Carolina, worked on the Apollo 11 mission as an engineer with NASA. A World War II veteran, he was a tent mate of Perm State coach Joe Paterno during boot camp.

Mr. Ingman was a Master Mason and a member of the York Rite.

Institute Alumnus, Professor Cecil Johnson Dies After flying B-24s in World War II, Cecil Johnson found campus life at Georgia Tech to be a bit dull. In a 1998 interview with the Alumni Association's Living History program, he recalled that he went through school constantly thinking he might transfer. But he liked his major courses in general engineering, and the discipline he learned through the military helped him stick it out.

Cecil Gray Johnson, who, despite being a less-than-enthusiastic Tech student, earned three degrees from the Institute and later spent 37 years teaching in its classrooms, died Oct. 25 at the age of 83.

Professor Johnson, GE 48, IE 49, MS IE 57, retired as an industrial and systems engineering professor emeritus in 1992 but continued to teach, most recently at Worcester College of Oxford University in 2001. Throughout much of his career at Tech, he supplemented his professor's salary with a job as a consultant with Delta Air Lines, spending one day a week for 35 years working with the airline.

Professor Johnson grew up in Nanafalia, Ala., the youngest of six children. His father died when he was just 6 years old. He studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Alabama

before joining the Air Corps in 1943. He served as a lead B-24 pilot in the 8th Air Force, completing 20 combat missions over Germany.

He enrolled at Tech in 1945. He was a member of Alpha Pi Mu, ANAK, Omicron Delta Kappa and the Order of Omega; editor of the Technique; and president of Kappa Sigma fraternity and the General Engineering Society.

He was working with American Art Metals, manufacturing aluminum doors for banks, and in his spare time taking courses at Tech for a master's degree when a fraternity brother asked him in 1955 to return to campus to teach a production control class. At the end of the

Gary R o g e r s Kelly Sr., IM 53, of Midway Ga., on Oct 14. A retired Air Force major, he was a distinguished pilot and flight instructor.

a member of his class' 50fh reunion planning committee. Mr. Meredith's survivors include brother Cham Meredith, ChE 55, MS PHE 57.

the Library board at Wright State University. Mr. O'Hara was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy at the age of 17.

Huston Lincoln "Paddy" La Clair Jr., IE 51, of Foley, Ala., on Nov. 15. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the golf team at Georgia Tech.

Charles A. Murphy, CerE 59, MS Met 66, of Augusta, Ga., on Oct. 19. He worked in applied research and development at Georgia Tech after receiving his degrees and later in manufacturing sales engineering and management positions wifh several industrial companies, retiring as a vice president.

L e e Walton Rabun Jr., IM 50, of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Sept 23. A member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Tech, Mr. Rabun was a Navy veteran and law school graduate. He served as a board member and president of fhe men's Bible class at Iris church.

Duke Cole Meredith ChE 50, of Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 2. An employee of ICI for 40 years, he was serving as manager of hazardous material housing throughout the country and directing cleanup of chemical spills when he retired from the company in 2005. Mr. Meredith enrolled at Tech after serving in the Navy. In retirement, he captained several tennis teams and volunteered with an organization serving the homeless. He also served two years as president of the Wilmington Georgia Tech Club and was

first quarter, he asked his students what they thought he should do for a living.

They thought he should teach. So he taught another quarter, and another, asking his students the same question at every quarter's end.

"I had planned to stay there for a year and then go back to industry," he said. "So for the next 35, 36 years I asked the question every quarter."

During his career, he also was editorin-chief of the journal of Industrial

Engineering for 10 years and served on the board of directors of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, from which he received the Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award in 1992. A Presidential Scholarship was established in his name at Georgia Tech that same year.

Professor Johnson continued to perform research and write during retirement. He wrote textbooks as well as a novel, a history of the Georgia Tech Executive Round Table and a collection of family anecdotes, which he told Living History he was writing because he was tired of retelling the same stories over and over.

Professor Johnson's survivors include his daughter-in-law, Kim Johnson, MS ICS 87.

Cecil B. Rainwater Sr., ME 50, of Atlanta, Robert M. O'Hara, EE 50, of Kettering, Ohio, on Nov. 4. Mr. O'Hara spent his entire career wifh the Mead Corp. He started out as a file clerk at the Atlanta Paper Co., purchased by Mead in 1957; was promoted to president of Mead Paper in 1972; and named president of the Mead Advanced Systems Group in 1974. He taught business strategy and served on the Friends of

on Nov. 11. H e was the founder of Rainwater Construction Co. A B-24 bomber pilot as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, he served on the board of directors for Pinnacle Port in Panama City, Fla., and several terms o n the advisory council for Butler Manufacturing Co. B e n W a n - en R o b e r t s , ME 55, of Buford, Ga.,

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Rich's Executive, Distinguished Alumnus Alvin Ferst Dies

By Leslie Overman

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hose familiar with the Georgia Tech campus surely know Ferst Drive, though they may not know the men for whom it is named.

The family name already was well established on campus by the time Alvin Ferst enrolled at Georgia Tech. His uncle Monie Ferst, the founder of Scripto, had graduated from Tech in 1911. His uncle Frank was a star football player under coaches Heisman and Alexander before earning a degree in 1921. The Ferst Center for the Arts is named for his cousin Robert, who graduated in 1938.

Alvin M. Ferst Jr., IM 43, who left his mark on campus just as the Fersts who went before him, died Sept. 30 in Atlanta.

He was 87.

Mr. Ferst retired as executive vice president and treasurer of Rich's in 1980 after a 35-year career with the department store chain and founded a business and real estate consulting firm that he ran for 10 years.

His many civic activities included serving as director of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Central Atlanta Progress and as president of the Atlanta Traffic & Safety Council.

He also gave back to Tech as a longtime fundraiser and volunteer, serving on committees charged with setting the direction of research and long-range planning at the Institute and raising money for the Centennial Campaign. Mr. Ferst was president of the National Alumni Association in 1966-67, during which time he helped start its Thousand Club. He served as president of the Georgia Tech Foundation from 1979 to 1981 and later was a trustee of the organization. In 1983, Mr. Ferst received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award. He was inducted into the College of Management's Hall of Fame in 2006.

An Atlanta native, Mr. Ferst said in a 1996 interview with the Alumni Association's Living History program that

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he never considered going to any school but Georgia Tech, but he wasn't sure how he was going to get there. His father lost his business during the Great Depression, and times were tough. "My Uncle Frank came over to see me one day and said, 'You're going to Georgia Tech.' He gave me an allowance each year, which was enough for my tuition and books, and I had to scrape and scratch to make the rest of it work."

While at Tech, Mr. Ferst was a member of the tennis team, ANAK, Omicron Delta Kappa, Skull and Key and the Technique and Blueprint staffs; vice president of the Interfraternity Council; and president of Phi Epsilon Pi and the Bulldog Club.

Following graduation, he spent about a year in Philadelphia as an industrial engineer for Philco Corp. before serving in the Navy Seabees during World War II. On his return to Atlanta after the war, Mr. Ferst was unable to find a job in industrial engineering. He paid a visit to Tech dean of students George Griffin, who

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set up an appointment for him to talk with Frank Neely a 1904 Tech graduate and executive at Rich's. Mr. Ferst was offered a job, which he turned down repeatedly, hoping to hold out for an industrial engineering position. But within a few weeks, he returned to Rich's and accepted the offer.

"I didn't want to work in the retail business," Mr. Ferst told Living History.

"Finally, I realized I couldn't find anything like what I wanted, so I decided I'd had some manufacturing experience at Philco, I'd had some construction experience at Seabees. I would work at Rich's for a couple of years, and that would give me wellrounded experience so I could go into the consulting business. But what happened was I worked there 35 years, and then I finally pulled out and went into the consulting business."

Memorials in his name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation for the Charlotte and Alvin M. Ferst Memorial Scholarship Fund.

on Nov. 16. Mr. Roberts retired from Lincoln Electric after 38 years of service and relocated to Buford in 1999 to be near family. In 1976, he cofounded Fabricated Metal Products Inc., at which he obtained a patent. A member of Chi Phi fraternity, he returned to Tech to complete his degree after serving in the Navy during the Korean War.

partment's GSA/capital programs division in 1987 as a construction projects manager. He retired in July because of health issues. Mr. Bergman, who received an MBA from San Jose State University in 1971, was involved in the founding of synagogues and was a past president of Torah Academy and a co-founder and president of the Mikvah Jewish ritual bath of San Jose.

S a m Rutland, ChE 51, of Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 17. For 25 years Mr. Rutland was president of Rutland Plastics Inc., a Charlotte company he founded. A member of the Society of Plastics Industries Inc., he served as president of the vinyl dispersions division and as a member of the national executive board of directors. He also was a member of the Plastics Pioneers Association and Society of Plastics Engineers, which awarded him its President's Cup. A Navy veteran, Mr. Rutland was a carrier pilot during World War II and the Korean War.

Charles "Charlie" Willis Brown Jr., IM 61, of Mooresville, N.C., on Oct. 11. After serving in the Navy, he joined the family's confectionery brokers business, Charles W Brown Co. He was a member of the National Confectionery Salesmen's Association, the Southern Salesmen's Candy Club and the Carolina Confectionery Salesmen's Club, for which he also served as president. In 1978, the Southern Tobacco & Candy Association named him Southern Candy Knight. He later worked with Insight Unlimited educational products and the AMS Computer Store and in real estate before moving to the Lake Norman area in 1987 to serve as president of Applied Human Resources Inc. He

Robert Ken "Bobby" Woo Sr. CerE 59, of Tucker, Ga., on Oct. 11. After serving two years in the Army and earning an accounting degree from the University of Georgia, Mr. Woo worked as a certified public accountant and certified financial planner. He retired in 2000 and began working alongside his wife, Sally Lam Woo, ChE 66, at Oriental Art, her gallery in Atlanta. In 1967, Mr. Woo and his wife were featured in Life magazine with their newborn child, Robert Ken Woo Jr., the 200 millionth American citizen.

Bert Robertson Yarbrough, ME 54, of Eustis, Fla., on Sept. 15. A self-employed importer, he operated a shop in Winter Park and worked for J.C. Penney for many years. He served two years as a naval officer in the Pacific fleet.

1960s Charles Hershel Batten, CE 60, of Locust Grove, Va., on Oct. 24. Mr. Batten retired from the Florida Public Service Commission, National Transportation Safety Board and Batten Associates. He received a master's degree in safety systems from the University of Southern California and served in the Army Reserve as a sergeant first class.

David L. Bergman, IE 60, of San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 9. A registered professional engineer, he worked with such companies as Matthews Conveyor, Boeing, Lockheed and Intel before joining the County of Santa Clara Facilities De-

published a book, I7K Power ofPositive Pessimism,

in 2002 and received the International Society of Poets' 2005 Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award. He also was a skilled dancer, participating in Society of Stranders conventions.

Herbert Ray Gresham, Text 61, of Conyers, Ga., on Nov. 14. Mr. Gresham was a purchasing agent for Mobil Oil and Mobil Chemical for 25 years. He graduated from Georgia Tech as a second lieutenant and served three years active duty in the Army and 10 years as company commander of the 48th Brigade unit of the National Guard in Covington, Ga. Bruce J e s s e Harris, IM 63, of Fort Myers, Fla., on Nov. 21 from renal failure. He was the owner of Harris Computing. Earlier in his career, he worked for IBM and Continental Airlines. He played clarinet in a community band.

John W. Kirkpatrick, Phys 68, of Lansdale, Pa., on Oct. 21. Mr. Kirkpatrick was an engineer in nuclear manufacturing with BWX Technologies, now B and W, in Lynchburg, Va. He retired in 2006 following 33 years of service. Mr. Kirkpatrick received a master's degree in physics from Lynchburg College and served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. A flying enthusiast, he was a member of the Philadelphia Glider Council and Wayne Oratorio Society and sang in the choir at his church.

William Radcllffe "Bill" Koch, IM 66, of Niceville, Ha., on Sept 18 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Labor Day. Mr. Koch wrote the Eufaula Tribune column "Across the River," which chronicled happenings in Quitm a n a n d Clay counties. A Naval ROTC scholarship recipient, he completed naval aviator training in 1969 and became an instructor pilot.

During active duty, he received a master's degree in systems management from the University of Southern California in 1977. H e continued to serve in the Naval Reserve while working for barbecue grill manufacturer W C . Bradley and Vitro Services. While working for defense contractors, including CS A Ltd., in support of Operations Iraqi a n d Enduring Freedom, Mr. Koch drove throughout Iraq and Kuwait. He wrote about his experiences in the Daily News.

While living in Florida, he operated a sporting goods and g u n shop as well as boat repair and warehouse resale businesses. He was a member of the Order of the Daedalians.

C h i n g H s i u n g L e e , MS EE 61, of Raleigh, N.C., on Aug. 7. Born in Hupei, China, he graduated from Nanking University and m o v e d to the United States in 1959 to study electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. H e worked for Curtiss-Wright and General Instrument and retired from RCA in 1987.

J . B r a c k e n P a l m e r II, IM 64, of Dublin, Ga., on Nov. 1. H e operated J. Bracken Palmer CPA for m a n y years and recently became a partner in H o o d & Palmer CPA, PC. Mr. Palmer was a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of CPAs and past president of the local Heart of Georgia chapter of CPAs. A member a n d former president and treasurer of the Dublin Lions Club, Mr. Palmer w a s a recipient of the Melvin Jones Fellow Award.

A l a n G a r y R e s t e r , IM 62, of Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 25. Mr. Rester, w h o received a master's degree from Emory University, was a property manager for Mitchell Co. for about 23 years.

J o h n W. S a l t s m a n Jr., CE 64, of Naples, Ha., on Sept 28. Also a graduate of the Kentucky Military Academy and University of Louisville Law School, Mr. Saltsman worked in the bridge construction industry and practiced law. H e was a member of the Kentucky and Florida contractors associations, the Kentucky and Florida bars and the National Arbitration Society.

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Football Record Setter, St. Pius Coach George Maloof Dies Fans filled the stands of the St. Pius X George B. Maloof Stadium in October not to root for the home team but to honor the school's longtime coach.

A player on Bobby Dodd's undefeated 1951 Yellow Jackets team, George Maloof, IM 53, spent nearly three decades coaching St. Pius' football team to gridiron glory. Following a long battle with cancer, Mr. Maloof died at his Atlanta home on Oct. 4 at the age of 79. His funeral was held in the St. Pius stadium, which was renamed for him in 2004.

In 26 seasons as head football coach at St. Pius X, Mr. Maloof led the Golden Lions to a 168-85-12 record. In 1968, St. Pius became the first Catholic school to win the Class AA state championship. Mr. Maloof twice was named Georgia Class AA Coach of the Year in the 1960s.

In 2003, Mr. Maloof received the Touchdown Club of Atlanta's inaugural Legends of the Game honor. He was inducted into the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association's Hall of Fame in June.

An Atlanta native, Mr. Maloof lettered in football, baseball and basketball at the Marist School before attending Tech, where he lettered in football and baseball.

He scored four touchdowns in Tech's 1951 matchup with Georgia, a record for most touchdowns in a game. The Yellow Jackets won the game 48-6 and finished

1970s S t e p h e n T. Fisher, Cls 71, of Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 26. A retired Marine Corps colonel, he was a program manager with AMTI. He was a member of the Navy ROTC as a student at Tech and would travel from Maryland to Georgia to attend Tech football games.

Marvin Barry Gordon, IE 78, of Virginia Beach, Va., on Sept. 28. Mr. Gordon was an engineer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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the season positioned at No. 5 in the Associated Press rankings.

Following graduation, Mr. Maloof served two years in the Air Force as a second lieutenant. He was named Most Valuable Player for the 9th Air Force football team and was selected to play in the Fort Bragg All-Star team. In 1956, he returned to Marist as assistant football coach. He was named head coach at St. Pius when the school opened in 1958.

During his tenure at the school, Mr. Maloof also coached baseball and basket-

was an administrative law judge in the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings for the past seven years. Also a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Georgia School of Law, he began his career as a contract administrator with Scientific Atlanta and later served as general counsel for Atlanta Life and as director of legal services for the State Merit System of Personnel Administration. Mr. Hackney was affiliated with the administrative law section of the Georgia Bar Association and Georgia Administrative Judiciary.

Jeffrey L. J a c k s o n , ChE 77, of Virginia Beach, Va., on Nov. 25. A chemical engineer, Mr. Jackson received an MBA from Lamar Univer-

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ball for eight years; taught math and mechanical drawing; and served as athletics director, assistant to the principal and head of boys discipline. In 1982, his contributions to education were recognized with the Papal Medal, Benemerenti, awarded by Pope John Paul II. Mr. Maloof was named the Archdiocese of Atlanta's Man of the Year in 1983.

In a 2003 interview with Georgia Trend, Mr. Maloof said he turned down an opportunity to join Georgia Tech's coaching staff in the late 1960s. "I was away from home enough as it was, and going into college coaching would have kept me away much more," he told the magazine.

"The college assistant is always on the road. ... It would have been nice going back to Tech but not at the expense of my family time."

Two of Mr. Maloof's children followed him into high school coaching in Georgia. Son Kevin is head coach at Dacula, and son Keith coaches at Norcross.

Mr. Maloof's legacy at St. Pius remains strong despite having retired from the school more than 20 years ago.

The Atlanta journal-Constitution reported that members of the football team this season wore Mr. Maloof's initials on the back of their helmets to honor the ailing former coach, who watched one home game from the comfort of his car parked on the track.

sity in Beaumont, Texas. He was a Sunday school teacher, a volunteer with the Judeo Christian Outreach Center and a volunteer coach for his children's sports teams. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Sampson Jackson, ChE 75.

Stanley Vernon Karling, M CP 74, of Miami, on Sept. 13. He worked for the Metro-Dade County planning department for 32 years before retiring in 1993. A saxophone player, he attended college on a band scholarship and played in jazz and big bands throughout his life. Mr. Karling, who earned a private pilot license in 1947, served in the Marines during the Korean War, receiving the Purple Heart. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Research Scientist, Studebaker Enthusiast John Brown John Lee Brown, who after receiving a bachelor's degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1950 began a nearly fivedecade career at the Institute's Engineering Experiment Station, died at his Marietta, Ga., home Sept. 23 of prostate cancer. He was 83.

Mr. Brown worked for the Engineering Experiment Station, and later the Georgia Tech Research Institute, for 45 years, retiring as head of the materials characterization laboratory in 1995, at which time he became a forensic consultant in material failure analysis.

In the early 1950s, he began operating the facility's electron microscope, the only electron microscope in Georgia at the time.

Mr. Brown was a retired fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, retired member of the Electron Microscopy Society of America and past chairman of the Southeastern Electron Microscope Society. His expertise in microscopy and

d i a r i e s H.S. Mallis, AE 72, of Scarsdale, N.Y., on Oct. 15. Mr. Mallis, who received an MBA from the University of Utah, began a career in banking after retiring from the Air Force as a captain following service in Asia and Europe. darinda Sue "Cindy" Paul, MS IM 76, of Meridian, Idaho, on Nov. 21. Ms. Paul, who received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Seattle University before attending Tech, lived in Seattle while working for Kenworfh Trucking. A native of Idaho, she later moved to Boise, where she was employed by the state of Idaho for 22 years until illness required that she retire.

She played guitar in a band named the Strawberry Revelation.

Kelly Wirges Sager, AMath 75, MS OR 77, of Lake City, Minn., on Sept. 5. Mrs. Sager worked for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, for 20 years. She was an avid gardener and golfer and a hospice volunteer.

J a m e s R. Tindall, IM 71, MS HS 76, of Roswell, Ga., on Feb. 22. Mr. Tindall was the president of Healthcare Technologies Inc.

Outside of scientific research, Mr. Brown spent time collecting and restoring antique cars, Studebakers in particular. His fascination with the cars came after he returned to Tech on the GI Bill following service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. "I lived in a house off east Ponce de Leon, and I would take the trolley to class," he told the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in

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materials analysis allowed him to become involved in Shroud of Turin research, contributing papers and appearing in documentaries on the subject.

1980s Ken G. Kreikemeier Jr., BC 87, of Marietta, Ga., on Oct 20. Mr. Kreikemeier formed KGK Constructors, a residential general contracting corporation, in 1994 and spent the next 15 years building high-end, single-family homes throughout Cobb and Cherokee counties. He began his career working as a project engineer and project manager with Harden Construction. An avid golfer, he participated in many charity events and attended the Masters golf tournaments annually with his father.

Robert J a m e s Simmons, Arch 84, M Arch 88, of New York City, on Oct. 17, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Mr. Simmons began his career at Nix Mann in Atlanta and later worked as an associate director for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in its New York office.

Valerie Dial Thomas, EE 83, of Decatur, Ga., on Oct. 1. She served as executive director of facilities services for the Atlanta Public Schools System for the past 12 years. A co-op student at Tech, she was a charter member of the Nu Beta chap-

2006. "In 1948 there was a strike, so I was forced to stand on Ponce with my thumb sticking out."

He recalled being given a ride to campus in "this really interesting-looking car," a Studebaker. "After I graduated in 1950, the first thing I did was buy a 1948 Champion."

Mr. Brown went on to become a member and president of the North Georgia Studebaker Club. Among the cars on display at the 2006 Georgia Tech Auto Show were his 1957 Golden Hawk and 1968 Avanti.

ter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and was involved with the Georgia Tech Afro-American Association and National Society of Black Engineers. As an alumna, she served as president of the Minority Affairs Committee and was involved in many Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization committees. The Atlanta building in which she worked was renamed for her in December.

2000s John Michael Behnken, ME 07, of Alpharetta, Ga., on Nov. 1. Mr. Behnken worked with OnSpeX Consumer Product Evaluation and was pursuing an MBA. Survivors include his wife, Angela Muhlberger Behnken, ID 05. Memorials in his name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation for the John Michael Behnken Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Friends Edith Helen Blicksilver, 83, of Atlanta, on Oct. 14. A graduate of Smith College, she w a s an English professor at Georgia Tech for more

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I In Memoriam

Former WREK General Manager Thomas Peake

By Leslie Overman

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n a post on the WREK FM Web site in late September, Thomas Peake, a fixture at the station in the late '80s and early '90s, was credited with helping reshape it into the "current hybrid of iconoclastic disdain and yet reverential awe for music of all types, careening happily from punk rock to jazz to world to electronic."

As a student at Tech, Mr. Peake hosted the punk-rock show Throttle and did a lot of behind-the-scenes work at the station, including serving as general manager during his senior year.

He also wrote and created art for the North Avenue Review and taught a screenprinting class through the Student Center's craft center.

Mr. Peake, who lived in Atlanta, died Sept. 21 in a fall while hiking in the Grand Canyon, where he was vacationing with his wife of three years, Dena.

Within days of his untimely death at the age of 39, more than 400 people had signed on to a Facebook memorial page to express their condolences and share memories of him. And on the evening of Sept. 29, about 400 people gathered at the Trolley Barn in Inman Park to celebrate the life of the former DJ, writer, artist, community volunteer and boiled peanut enthusiast.

He received bachelor's degrees in both history, technology and society and science, technology and culture from Georgia Tech in 1993 and turned an early love for writing into a career as a freelance copywriter, or, as he preferred to call himself, a "rhetorical engineer."

Much of his writing was devoted to his love for music. He wrote about the Atlanta music scene and reviewed concerts for local and national publications, including Creative Loafing.

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tion Mr. Peake continued a "determined shift toward more adventurous programming" started by general manager Arthur Davis in the mid-1980s. "Thomas was really our philosopher king for a few years, and his energy and enthusiasm for the programming and the radio station was infectious. There are so many great little things that happened during his tenure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the WREKology 'zine' program guide, shepherding of new shows and show hosts, fundraiser concerts by nationally known bands. There was a powerful DIY ethic in Thomas, and it really came out beautifully during his tenure at WREK." Dave Slusher, Chem 90, said Mr. Peake helped shape the way he listens to music. He recalled hours spent in the studio with Mr. Peake compiling music for tapes to run on the reel-to-reel automation machine.

"When I recorded those with Thomas, they were always worlds better than when I worked by myself," Slusher said. "He was always willing to dig deeper, look harder, branch out and go into kind of less familiar territory. He helped instill in me the sense of exploring for new music as being more important than wrapping yourself in the familiar."

Slusher and Campbell have teamed up to try to unearth recordings from Mr.

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Peake's years at the station and make them into podcasts. A few already are available at peakecast.org.

Alumni with cassette tapes of Mr. Peake's time on air are encouraged to submit them to Slusher and Campbell so they can digitize them.

"We've got a wish list of things we know he's done on the air. It's kind of like the BBC hunting down lost episodes of things," Slusher said, adding they're particularly interested in finding tapes of Mr. Peake's Sunday Special broadcasts.

When not attending concerts or writing, Mr. Peake spent much of his free time helping those in need. He began building houses in high school and volunteered with such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and VISTA throughout the rest of his life. While living in Denver, he was a mentor with Big Brothers and Big Sisters and helped establish a snowboarding program for disadvantaged teens. A connoisseur of boiled peanuts, he sold them at a local farmers market to raise money for the East Atlanta Kids Club, for which he was a frequent volunteer.

In an effort to continue Mr. Peake's dedication to helping others, his wife has launched the Peake Foundation. Friends and family of Mr. Peake are being asked to "find a project, little or big, and get involved" in the next year and then report their experiences at peakefoundation.org. Participants also will celebrate their good deeds on Oct. 8, 2010, what would have been Mr. Peake's 41st birthday.

Some of Mr. Peake's friends already have done something to make him proud. On Dec. 20, a handful of bands played at Eyedrum in Atlanta to celebrate his life. Proceeds from the concert went to the East Atlanta Kids Club.

Calverts Declared Dead Some 19 months after John Calvert, ME 83, and his wife, Elizabeth, went missing from the Hilton Head Island, S.C., resort they owned, a judge declared them dead.

The Calverts were last seen March 3, 2008, heading to a meeting with Dennis Gerwing, who managed the finances of the Harbour Town resort. It was later revealed that Gerwing had stolen millions of dollars from clients including the Calverts.

Investigators questioned Gerwing on March 11, 2008. He committed suicide later that day. A suicide note implied that he had murdered the Calverts. Searches in South Carolina and Georgia have turned up no sign of the couple.

On Oct. 22, a DeKalb County, Ga., Probate Court judge officially declared the couple deceased. The Calverts split time between Hilton Head and Atlanta.

The Calverts' family has established scholarships in each of their names. Donations to the John L. Calvert Memorial Scholarship may be sent to the Beta Theta Pi Foundation, P.O. Box 6277, Oxford, OH 45056. John Calvert was a Beta Theta Pi fraternity brother at Georgia Tech, and the fund will support a student at the Institute. than 30 years. She specialized in ethnic women's literature and was involved in international academic exchange programs. She also was a past president of the Georgia-South Carolina College English Association and served on the permanent book review staff of the Atlanta journalConstitution. Memorials in her name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation.

John T h o m a s Etheridge, 87, of FayetteviHe, Ga., on Oct. 2. He was a professor of industrial management at Georgia Tech for 35 years. A Navy veteran, Mr. Etheridge received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Mississippi.

Myree Wells Maas, 88, of Decatur, Ga., on Sept. 23. After graduating from Agnes Scott College in 1942, she worked as a fashion buyer for Davison's, where she met her future husband, Joseph Maas, IM 45. Mr. Maas died in 2006. The couple owned and operated the Casual Corner stores in Decatur, Ga. Darrell Russell McClure 54, of East Point, Ga., on Sept. 12. Mr. McClure was a security officer at Georgia Tech.

Helen Bernice Harrold Naugle, 89, of At-

lanta, on Nov. 20. Dr. Naugle was a retired Georgia Tech English professor. She had studied 18th century English literature, receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Mississippi College for Women, a master's from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from the University of Alabama. In addition to Tech, she also taught in Puerto Rico and Guam and at Woodward Academy during her career. In retirement, she shared her love for literature by teaching at Elderhostel and North Atlanta Senior Services.

Emory Guy Orahood Jr., 87, of Atlanta, on Nov. 20, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease. A Clemson University electrical engineering graduate and World War II Navy lieutenant, he retired from Reliance Electric Co. as executive vice president and chief operating officer after nearly 35 years with the company. Mr. Orahood was one of the founders of the Big Brothers Association of Atlanta and a former advisory board member for the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center.

J u d e e J a k e s H a a s Rickner, 58, of Tulsa, Okla., on Aug. 15. Mrs. Rickner was a founding member of the fine arts board of Georgia Tech.

She majored in speech and English at the University of South Florida and graduated summa

cum laude before working for ABC in Jacksonville, Fla., and later with TWA as a stewardess.

She was the first chairperson of the Scottish Rite Medical Center Foundation and a vice president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation board.

Pierre Leonard Schrichte, 74, of Doraville, Ga., on O c t 1. A paratrooper with the Army Special Forces, he worked for Eastern Air Lines and finished his career at Georgia Tech. Survivors include his daughter Anna Schrichte Saadatjoo, EE 83, son Pierre Stefan Schrichte, EE 84, MS EE 85, and grandson Matthew L. Schrichte, a student in the Ivan Allen College.

J e r r y W a y n e T e m p l e , 64, of Atlanta, on Sept 24, after an eight-year battle with prostate cancer. A high school football player, he received a bachelor's degree in finance from Georgia State University and worked for Robinson Humphrey and later Jeffries in Atlanta before relocating his family to Richmond, Va., where he worked for Wheat First Union and BB&T He returned to Atlanta in 2007 because "he could only survive being away from his beloved Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Varsity for so long," his family said. Memorials in his name m a y be made to the Alexander-Tharpe Fund, 150 Bobby D o d d Way N . W , Atlanta, G A 30332.

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Yellow Jackets

The Most Unlikely Tennis Superstar

By Van Jensen

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he upper echelon of women's professional tennis is filled with the tall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Russians like Dinara Safina and Maria Sharapova â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and powerful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sisters Venus and Serena Williams.

When you hear Irina Falconi, all 5 feet 4 inches of her, explain her plans to crack the Women's Tennis Association top 10, you can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow.

Falconi, a sophomore at Tech, is as unconventional as they come.

She's small-framed and doesn't have a booming serve. Eschewing the standard strategy of playing back, she's prone to rushing the net. She spent her formative years learning the game from her father, who taught himself how to play And she put the brakes on her promising pro career to attend college, something almost unheard of for elite players.

"Most girls are bang-bang from the baseline," Falconi said. "I can do that, and I can also do other stuff. My game has a lot of variety."

Falconi also has a lot of success. In her first year she won 30 singles matches on the way to being named an All-American and, with teammate Amanda McDowell, a senior, claimed an Intercollegiate Tennis Association doubles championship.

Over the summer and fall, Falconi played on the Pro Circuit and won two singles titles. In early November, she narrowly lost in the finals of the ITA indoor championship in New Haven, Conn., on a Sunday, and then rushed back to campus to take two tests the following day.

"Someone asked me the other day if I even went to school," said Falconi, a history, technology and society major. "I strongly believe in balancing priorities. When I'm at a tournament, tennis is a priority.

When I have a test, academics are a priority. But it is tough."

Falconi calls being a Yellow Jacket "an ideal situation." However, her route to Tech is about as surprising as her style of play She was born in Ecuador and moved to the Bronx at 3. Her father, a professional soccer player at the time, began taking Falconi's older sister to nearby public tennis courts for fun. Then only 4 years old, Falconi would tag along, swinging a racket nearly as tall as she was.

No one in the family had played the game before, but quickly they recognized Falconi's talent. She picked up a few lessons at private academies when the public courts were covered in snow, but otherwise her only coach was her dad until she turned 14.

At that point, the family relocated to Florida, and Falconi had a random encounter that would pull her further into tennis.

"We were at this park, and these guys said to play with them,"

Falconi said. "One of them said, T have to introduce you to Brenda Schultz.' Soon I was working every day after school with her."

Schultz, a former top 10 player, took in Falconi as a pupil. Instead of forcing her to become a more conventional player, Schultz embraced the unpredictability of Falconi's game and helped her develop into a highly regarded prospect.

"It was amazingly lucky," Falconi said of the encounter. "The cards were laid out right."

Within a year, she was playing in pro tournaments. While trying to plan her next step, Falconi heard from others in pro tennis who disparaged the college game and called it a step backward.

But Falconi's coach asked her to meet with Bryan Shelton, Tech's women's tennis coach, in 2007. At the time, the Yellow Jackets were coming off a national championship, and Shelton had been named ITA Coach of the Year. Shelton, IE 89, was a former pro himself and competed in Wimbledon six times.

"I was blown away, but I was focused on taking a year off to play professionally," Falconi said. "In that year I didn't talk to him at all."

Continuing to play as a pro, Falconi noticed her performance suffering as she increasingly worried about making enough in winnings to cover her travel and training.

Six weeks before the 2008 school year was to begin, she played in a tournament in Houston against a player from the University of North Carolina. Falconi lost 0-6, 7-6, 0-6.

"That match was the last straw," she said. "I had been losing matches I shouldn't have, and my confidence was pretty low."

From the locker room she called her mother and said she was going to college. The next day she was talking to a friend about her plans, and the friend reminded Falconi about Georgia Tech.

Falconi e-mailed Shelton and learned he still had a spot on the team, but they had to rush to get her registered. "It was one of the most stressful times," she said, "but it was one of the best decisions I've made."

Contrary to what many of her pro peers expected, Falconi has only improved in college. She said Shelton treats his players as individuals and develops them as if they were professionals.

Over the summer, Falconi focused on increasing her athleticism and offered a warning to opponents by saying her play is "day and night" better than last season. Her goal is to sweep the team, singles and doubles championships and to make the ACC All-Academic team.

Then, of course, there's that other goal.

"I want to play professional tennis and be top 10 in the world," she said. "If I can do that, that would be awesome."

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A Good, Long Run

By Van Jensen

motivated and disciplined. Our athletes to some extent toil in anonymity before getting Since sprinting to Georgia Tech in 1984 as a any attention. So all those years, you really transfer from South Carolina, Alan Drosky, IM have to be intrinsically motivated. Those are 87, MS Mgt 89, has been maintaining the Yellow the type of students Georgia Tech attracts.

Jackets'foothold as national leaders in distance running. As a student, Drosky was twice an AilAmerican and five times an All-ACC track performer. After taking over as cross country coach 19 years ago, the Riverdale, Ga., native has coached three All-Americans and eight NCAA championship qualifiers. He's also in his 14th year as coach of the women's track andfieldteam, which he led to an ACC title in 2002. A member of the Tech Athletic Hall of Fame, Drosky was named ACC Coach of the Year in 2002.

Why did you transfer to Tech after two years at South Carolina?

If you'd asked me back then, I'd have said Tech had a great distance and middle distance group. And I knew academically it was a step up. Looking back now, my high school sweetheart stayed here and went to Georgia State. We did the long-distance thing. It was a pretty rocky couple of years.

Having been married for 22 years now ... that was a much bigger factor than I admitted. I basically got tired of her breaking up with me to date other people.

You've been at Tech for the past quarter century aside from a few months in 1989 and 1990 after you finished graduate school. What were you up to?

I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. I was a substitute teacher, and I was still trying to run. I was close to being a national class runner, trying to qualify for the Olympic trials in 1988. The job opened up here and the head coach called and asked if I'd be interested, and I jumped at the opportunity.

What is it about Tech that attracts so many great runners?

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"You love the good times, when you have an NCAA champion or you see people qualify for nationals.

But I also love seeing individuals overcome obstacles, deal with the hard times and learn and grow from them."

What distinguishes the very best runners from ones who are just very good?

In order to compete at the highest level, there's a benchmark of talent you have to have. The ones who can really excel can combine that talent with an all-or-nothing mentality, who really invest heart and soul.

There are some very talented individuals who don't quite reach that level. Twenty-two hours of the day they're away from us, and the really successful ones are the ones who handle that time best.

Has track and field changed much since you got into it?

It has gotten away from scoring competitions. Conference and national meets are scored, but the majority of meets, we go and compete, and we may have athletes achieve

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qualifying marks, but there's no score. I think that's hurt track and field. Fan interest in the sport has suffered because they want to know how we did. ITs not like most sports, where it's team against team and there's a winner and a loser. Last year it led us to start a Georgia Tech and Georgia dual. Georgia won the first installment, but it was a great meet. It was a great experience having kids on the team ask, 'Hey coach, whaTs the score?'

Has coaching changed?

Things like NCAA compliance, paperwork I guess. The administrative part has increased tremendously. But the actual coaching I don't think has changed. I think I've changed. I started in 1990, and I was 26. Here I am 19 years later. I find myself saying things like, 'This generation of kids is different' I'm saying things my old coaches or parents would say. In reality, they probably haven't changed.

What do you enjoy about coaching?

The opportunity to help young men and women develop and grow. The important role that a coach can play, I cherish that. I love leaving here every day and going down to practice. You love the good times, when you have an NCAA champion or you see people qualify for nationals. But I also love seeing individuals overcome obstacles, deal with the hard times and learn and grow from them.

For you, is running fun or is it work?

I've always described it as an arduous task. It was never training for the enjoyment, it was training for the competition, to reach the goal. And iTs difficult. I have guys on the team who ran sometimes 80, 90,100 miles in a week. That can wear you down. But, in it, you find a real sense of enjoyment and accomplishment. When you know you can go out and run for hours, iTs a pretty neat feeling. But iTs not easily attained. As a coach, yes, it becomes work. I have 45-yearold knees!

Eric Turner

Coach Alan Drosky, IM 87, MS Mgt 89, often leads Georgia Tech's distance runners in practices through Atlanta. Piedmont Park is a favorite running spot.

Your wife, Kim, also was a star runner in college. Should we assume your two daughters will follow in the family footsteps?

I don't want to push them. They may tell you differently. I got a sense from both of them there's a hesitancy because immediately there are expectations, because Mom and Dad were Division I collegiate runners. They are talented, but they have to grow at their own rate. I have to work to separate Dad and coach. It's so easy for me to fall into the coach role when we talk about running, and that's not always what they want. They may just need Dad to pat them on the back and say, "Good job." I'm still working on being better at that.

What's your advice to the average person getting into running?

On one level the sport is simple. The more you run, the better you get. If one is looking to improve their fitness, run more.

But be patient, just like you would add more resistance if you were lifting weights. You have to patiently increase what you can tolerate, and over time you can make some great gains.

Where do you enjoy running around Atlanta?

Piedmont Park is where we do a lot of our running. I usually head there and the surrounding neighborhoods. On weekends, Kennesaw Mountain is one of my favorites and along the Chattahoochee River. Since 1984 I've been coming downtown. I love running downtown. Some people don't like it.

There's a lot of character out there on the streets of Atlanta.

You also have become a blogger. How did that start?

My wife two years ago suffered a brain aneurism and spent three weeks over at Emory. At a Web site to keep people updated I chronicled her story. It was very cathartic for me, and people were very engaged.

Since then, I have a blog for the team, and we have a family blog where I post stories now and then about riding on my Hurley, vacations, different things.

Are there any similarities between Hogging and running?

I enjoy how, through athletic competition, you can touch other people, like the feeling that was on campus after the football team beat Virginia Tech.

I enjoy how, through the written word, you can move people.

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I Sports Briefs

A native of Lawrenceville, Ga., Tew was a member of the 2003 Georgia cross country championship team at Brookwood High School. He is a member of Tech's track and field team and took off the 2009 cross country season to train for the marathon.

Though Tew spent much of Thanksgiving on his feet, he said he didn't miss the feast.

"Food always tastes best when you have worked for it," he said, "and this Thanksgiving was extra delicious."

ACC Coach of the Year Johnson Extends Contract In November, Paul Johnson agreed to extend his contract as head football coach through the 2016 season. Within a few weeks he was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second straight year.

Johnson received 24 of 40 votes from members of the media who cover ACC football.

Under Johnson, the Yellow Jackets have finished consecutive seasons with more than nine wins. In his second season the team finished with 11 wins. Johnson's career record is 127-45 in 13 seasons.

"It goes without saying how much we value what Paul Johnson continues to do for the Georgia Tech program and the energy he has created within the Yellow Jacket family," athletic director Dan Radakovich said. "We remain committed to Paul in every way, and we foresee a long-term relationship with much continued success in the coming years."

Johnson said, "We appreciate the confidence Dan Radakovich and the Georgia Tech administration have shown in our program. We look forward to the opportunity to continue to build the program at Georgia Tech."

Student Nathan Tew Takes Atlanta Marathon Title While most people spent Thanksgiving gorging on turkey and stuffing, Nathan Tew, a third-year materials science and engineering major, celebrated in a very unconventional way.

Tew completed the Atlanta Marathon in two hours, 34 minutes and 24 seconds, nearly six minutes ahead of the next-best runner in the Nov. 26 race.

Volleyball Team Makes NCAA Tournament First-year coach Tonya Johnson led the Yellow Jackets volleyball team to an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament after a 22-9 finish to the regular season.

The team dropped straight sets to Baylor in its first match. It was the first time the Jackets made the tournament since 2004, when the team reached the Sweet 16.

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Derrick Morgan Named Top ACC Defender For the first time, Georgia Tech's football team had a player named ACC defensive player of the year, as defensive end Derrick Morgan earned the award.

Morgan, a junior science, technology and culture major, has 12.5 sacks on the season, most in the ACC and sixth most in the nation. He also leads the ACC with 17 tackles for loss, and he forced two fumbles and recovered two fumbles.

"I am honored to be selected for this award because there are so many outstanding defensive players in the ACC," Morgan said. "I really owe it to my teammates and coach Johnson, and I will accept the award on behalf of them."

He also was named an All-American.

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January Georgia Tech clubs in the Delaware Valley and Detroit

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It's back to class for Tech students on Jan. 11 as the spring semester gets under way.

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t Yep, they're dudes, the aii-maie Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which combines "a wicked comic sense of humor with a devoted respect and true talent for classical dance," will perform at 7 p.m.

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February Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires will be among the beautiful sites visited during the Alumni Travel tour "Treasures of South America" from Feb. 13 to 27. gtalumni.org/tours

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Gold & White Honors will be presented for the Joseph M. Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award, Dean Griffin Community Service Award, Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna and honorary alumni Feb. 18 at the Atlanta History Center.

The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, endowed by Richard Guthman, IE 56, in honor of his wife, Margaret, will bring inventors and composers from around the world to the Georgia Tech campus on Feb. 27 and 28.

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In Retrospect

The Story Behind

By Kimberly Link-Wills

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im Gibson's name does not figure prominently in the annals of Orange Bowl history, although he had a hand in Georgia Tech's 27-12 loss to Florida in 1967.

Neither was Gibson ever credited publicly for the cartoons he drew and posted outside the locker room to boost team morale or submitted to the Technique to entertain the student body.

And Gibson has never been recognized for creating the GT logo.

First, the Orange Bowl.

"We were winning. We had Florida backed up to the 3-yard line, it was third down. The call would obviously be a pass. We blitzed, a full blitz," remembered Gibson, IM 68. "Steve Spurrier backed up for the pass and we're blitzing in, and he gives the old Statue of Liberty play.

"He gives the ball off to the fullback. I look up, and here comes this big, 220-pound guy and he steps on my head and I reach up and grab something. It turns out I grabbed his pants and pulled his pants down to his knees. He ran 98 yards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the longest run in Orange Bowl history at that time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with his pants down."

Actually, Larry Smith is credited with running 94 yards from scrimmage. No matter, Gibson still gets calls at his Palm Coast, Fla., home every time footage of the run is shown on some highlight reel.

Now, Gibson the cartoonist.

Gibson penned cartoons for the Technique and for the locker room bulletin board under the pseudonym The Fearless Seven.

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said. "It made for so much humor among the players that it actually promoted morale. I would get up early, paste up the weekly cartoon, then go to breakfast. By the time lunch came around, everybody had seen it and was enjoying the humor.

"I was the only non-architecture major and football player to take all of the fine arts classes in the architectural school," said Gibson, who explained there were just too many labs to allow him to major in architecture and play football. "There were some architecture majors on the team, but it took them like eight years to get out."

His mother dissuaded him from going to art school. He wouldn't make any money, she said, advising her son to accept the football scholarship to Georgia Tech.

He went on to earn an MBA at the University of North Carolina and is now president of Adsil Inc., a manufacturing company with three patents on glass film technology.

"Jim's quantitative ability kept him from his true calling," said friend Mike Glad, IE 68, of Salida, Calif. "His wit and drawing talent did and should have continued to amuse us. I wish the bulk of his work had survived as Bobby Dodd, Bud Carson and Kim King were part of that experience.

"Without question, Jim designed the current GT logo. I remember seeing it on cartoons prior to its formal incorporation," Glad said.

Here's Gibson's play-by-play: "Coach Dodd asked Buck Andel, who was our equipment manager, if I could come up with some ideas for a logo for our helmet.

Tech and Notre Dame were the only teams that didn't have any thing on their helmets. We had a white version one year with gold stripes, then one year we had a gold helmet with white stripes. I came up with a bee first. I wanted it to be aggressive, but bees don't sting from their fronts, they sting from their tails," he began.

"My initials are J.G. I was doing the old-style J with a line across the top. I was in a class that was not too exciting, sitting in there doodling and came up with the idea and sketched it out two or three times.

There were about two weeks left [of the spring quarter]. I handed it in to Buck Andel and took off for a summer job," Gibson continued.

'We came back for pre-fall practice and there it was stuck on the helmets," he recounted.

The GT logo did not immediately take the campus by storm.

"The old Tech T and the yellow jacket were the standard. In fact, we didn't even have Buzz yet," Gibson said.

"I was living in Atlanta and going to the games, probably in '72, '73, and all of a sudden the logo was on more things besides the helmets. After a while, my alumni bulletins would come with GTs on them."

Now it's everywhere.

"I never envisioned it would be synonymous with all things Georgia Tech," Gibson said.

His reaction?

"I should have gotten that copyrighted," Gibson said, laughing rather than crying. "That's my alumni donation! The royalties I would have gotten!"

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