The next time you sit down to a platter of hash browns scattered, smothered and covered, be sure to raise your cup of coffee to toast Clifford Nahser.
Mr. Nahser, BS 51, Arch 52, who contributed to the look of the Waffle House restaurants so popular to truck drivers and late-night revelers in the South, died Feb. 1 at the age of 82. He lived in Roswell, Ga.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. Nahser was approached by Waffle House co-founder Joe Rogers Sr. to help design new restaurants based off of the very first eatery, which opened in Avondale Estates in 1955. Mr. Nahser worked on a blueprint for one of the early restaurants and later helped design hundreds of them.
He served in the Navy aboard the USS Oklahoma City during World War II and attended Tech on the GI Bill. He spent several years working for an Atlanta architectural firm before overseeing the construction of schools as architect for the Atlanta Public School System, a position he held for 26 years.
Mr. Nahser opened a private practice, Clifford Nahser & Associates, in 1988 in Roswell and continued his work with Waffle House.
His brother Donald Nahser, Cls 62, recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “He used to say, ‘Anybody who’s ever traveled through the South by car has been in one of my buildings.’”
Other survivors include his brother Philip Nahser, Phys 59.
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