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Gold & White Honors Gala Recognizes 10 of Tech’s Top Alumni and Friends At the Gold & White Honors Gala to be held on Feb. 12, 2015, the Alumni Association will bestow honors to 10 outstanding members of the Georgia Tech community. These honorees are an inspiration to the next generation of alumni leaders, and the proceeds of the event go to support Alumni Association student programs. Last year’s gala raised more than $411,000 for student development. For more information about the event and how you can become sponsor, visit gtalumni.org/gold&white. Below, find out more about the 2015 honorees and the awards they will receive. the joseph mayo pettit distinguished service award is the highest award given by the alumni association. it honorsalumniwhohaveprovidedoutstandingsupport of the institute and alumni association and who have providedleadershipintheirchosenprofessionsandlocal communities. Niles Bolton, Arch 68, is chairman and CEO of Niles Bolton Associates, a multidisciplinary architectural design firm with offices in Atlanta, Virginia and California. He founded the firm in 1975, and later designed the $75 million main dormitory for the 1996 Olympics and the $7.8 million Graduate Learning Center at Tech. He is a member of numerous GT and professional boards, including the College of Architecture Executive Advisory Board, GT Arts Advisory Board, GT Foundation Board of Trustees, GT Campaign Steering Committee, GT Strategic Planning Steering Committee and the Georgia State Board of Architects and Interior Designers. He is a former Alumni Association trustee. Joseph Evans, IM 71, is chairman and CEO of State Bank and Trust Company, which operates 20 branch offices in Atlanta and Georgia and perennially ranks as one of the best performing community banks in the U.S. He is heavily involved at Georgia Tech, serving as a current member and past chairman of the College of Business Advisory Board, a trustee of the 0 6 8
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Georgia Tech Foundation, member of the Campaign Steering Committee and much more. He is also a former chair of the Alumni Association Board. Professionally, he also is the director of the Southern Trust Insurance Company and a general partner in the Howell D. Evans Family Partnership, LP. He was named to Georgia Tech’s College of Business Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2006.
Meade Sutterfield, EE 72, is an angel investor, president and CEO of SSPCS Corp., former Yellow Jackets varsity football player and former chair of the Alumni Association Board. He also serves as a member of the advisory boards to Council Capital and Antares Capital. Charles co-founded and served as president of PowerFone Inc. from 1992 to 1994, and purchased Johnson Communications Corporation and served as its president from 1986 to 1992. In 2002, he co-founded the Central Eurasian Leadership Academy to provide business training to young leaders from the region, matching them with mentors from the U.S. and Europe. He is a member of numerous GT and professional boards, including the GT Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees and College of Engineering Advisory Board. Janice Nease Wittschiebe, Arch 78, M Arch 80, is a principal at architectural firm Stevens & Wilkinson and former co-founder of Richard + Wittschiebe Architects Inc., which merged to become Richard Wittschiebe Hand and then integrated into Stevens & Wilkinson. Early in her career, she worked on the programming and code research for construction for all the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. With Tech, she is a member of the College of Architecture Executive Council, a trustee of the GT Foundation and GT Athletic Association, and a former chair of the Alumni Association Board and GT Advisory Board. She also has served as a design instructor for the College of Architecture. Professionally, she is a past president of the American Institute of