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. 68 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine
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