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1940s
Herb McAuley, EE 47, was inducted into the Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame. McAuley left Tech to join the Army Signal Corps during World War II, then returned to complete his degree. He worked as an assistant swimming coach under Fred Lanoue, then succeeded Lanoue and served as head coach of the Yellow Jackets for 23 seasons. He is a member of the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame.
1950s
Douglas Buddy Fowlkes, IM 52, was inducted into the U.S. Track and Field-Georgia Hall of Fame. He coached the Georgia Tech track and field teams from 1965 to 1992. In his time at Tech he guided three Olympic medalists, two world record holders, 10 NCAA champions, 50 All-Americans, 77 ACC champions and 126 All-ACC selections.
Will Gordon, IM 51, MS IM 56, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Bluefield College in Bluefield, Va., last December. Gordon was a professor of business at Bluefield for four decades before his retirement a few years ago. In 2009 he was honored as Faculty Emeritus.
Stanley P. Steinberg, Arch 54, was named to the Board of Directors for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Newnan hospital. He is also the independent director for GameStop Corporation.
1960s
Maxie Baughan, IM 60, was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. He played with the Eagles from 1960-65, making five Pro Bowls and leading the team to the 1960 NFL title. Baughan was Tech’s captain and an All-American. He is a member of the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
Robert “Syd” Spain, Arch 66, M Arch 74, M CP 74, retired from the University of Mississippi, where he served as executive director of Insight Park. Spain worked in research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and as an urban planner for the Atlanta Planning Department. He later served as associate dean of architecture at Auburn University and directed the development of the Auburn Research Park.
Jerry D. Warshaw, IM 67, was inducted into the National Apartment Association’s Hall of Fame. He is president of Warshaw Properties in Atlanta.
Alan N. Willson Jr., EE 61, received the 2012 Darlington Award. The Darlington Award recognizes the best paper bridging the gap between theory and practice, published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. Willson is a professor at UCLA.
1970s
Albert Brannen, Psych 78, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2013. He is a partner and team manager in the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips LLP.
Joseph B. Cofer, IE 72, was named a Tennessee Medical Association Public Health Champion. He is a general surgeon at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Edward A. Alex Gregory, Text 70, received the 2012 Mike Mansfield Award from the Japan-America Society of Georgia. The award recognizes those who foster goodwill between the United States and Japan.
Robert B. Howard, CE 71, EnvE 72, was recognized for his environmentally friendly backyard renovation at his home in Peachtree Corners, Ga. He has worked as an environmental engineer for the EPA since 1972.
Frederick A. Massey Sr., IM 76, is the owner and founder of Massey Automotive in Marietta, Ga. He recently helped lead a team of five churches to build a day facility for MUST Ministries in Georgia.
Ray W. Miller, ChE 72, was named chief business officer of Verdezyne, Inc. Miller is an Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni inductee at Georgia Tech.
Stefan V. “Steve” Stein, EE 77, was named one of Florida Trend’s 2012 Legal Elite.
Bryant Mason Stone, IE 72, retired after a 30-year career as a civilian engineer in the Air Force.
1980s
Michael A. Abt, CE 81, joined architecture and engineering firm Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Cannon, Inc. as manager of project services for the firm’s industrial and building services unit.
Gerald V. Trey Anderson III, BC 82, was elected as an officer of the Georgia commercial construction association. He is president of Anderson Construction Company in Fort Gaines, Ga.
Decie Autin (Dorothy Burnett), ChE 80, is a project executive with ExxonMobil working on the Papua New Guinea LNG project.
Constantinos A. Balaras, MS ME 85, PhD ME 88, was named vice president of ASHRAE. He is the research director at the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, in Athens, Greece.
Wayne Haynie, CE 82, was hired as the regional water practice manager in the Atlanta office of Burns & McDonnell. He is a registered professional engineer and serves in the Georgia Association of Water Professionals.
Steve Hopper, IE 86, co-founded StoneCross Group, a supply chain management consulting firm located in Atlanta.
Antonio McKay Sr., Cls 87, was inducted into the U.S. Track and Field-Georgia Hall of Fame. He is a two-time national champion, won two gold medals as a part of the 4×400 relay team in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and also earned an individual bronze medal in the 400-meter dash in 1984.
Sue Oltman, EE 83, served as a NOAA teacher at sea studying oceanographic patterns in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. She is a sixth grade teacher at Kittredge Magnet School in Atlanta.
Liset Robinson, Arch 83, M Arch 85, has been named educator of the year by the International Interior Design Association. She is currently an interior design professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.
Chuck Shaughnessy, EE 83, vice president of Harris Corporation’s LTE business, was appointed to its board of directors. He was recently featured in a press release from the Telecommunications Industry Association, the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks.
Charles Nils Smith, EE 85, was promoted to vice president of the signal exploitation and geolocation division at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
Edward Stoner, IM 89, was named the NACAD Athletic Director of the Year. Stoner is the athletics director at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Ore.
Douglas B. Turner, EE 88, is the president and owner of Control Southern Inc., named one of the 50 fastest growing private companies by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Bob Wallis, CE 85, opened Macrobatix, an Authorized Apple Retailer and Service Provider in Johns Creek. He was recently featured as the executive profile in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Scott Williams, AE 84, assumed command of the Air National Guard Readiness Center on Aug. 7. Williams is a brigadier general and previously served as director of the South Carolina Joint Force Headquarters Joint Staff.
1990s
Dorinda Carter Andrews, IE 97, was promoted to associate professor of teacher education at Michigan State University, a tenured position. She recently received the Outstanding Supervisor Award from the university’s student employee union.
Annie I. Antón, ICS 90, MS ICS 92, PhD CS 97, was named a professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech in July.
Don Bush, M Arch 96, has joined Lord, Aeck & Sargent as a principal and leader of the architecture firm’s science and technology practice area.
Cheri Carter, Mgt 92, was awarded the FedEx Five Star Award, the highest honor given to a FedEx team member. Carter is a senior human resources manager in Clarkston, Ga.
Derek B. Cook, EE 96, accepted the position of manager of pricing analytics at NCR Corporation in Duluth, Ga.
Evan W. Fleisher, IE 90, was promoted to senior supply chain business analyst at the Vitamix Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.
Robert Frost, PhD NE 90, led his company, Nuclear Safety Associates, to acquire a nuclear safety and risk technologies company in New Mexico.
Nomar Garciaparra, Cls 95, was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He played three seasons on the Flats, ending in 1994 with Tech’s first College World Series appearance.
Andrew Ibbotson, IE 98, was named Business Person of the Year by the Metro Atlanta Chamber. He was also named the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year at the TiECON Southeast Conference. Ibbotson is the CEO of Digital Assent in Atlanta.
Willie L. King Jr., MS CE 98, was recognized by The Network Journal as one of its annual 40 Under 40 Honorees. Winners were selected from a pool of top-level business executives nationwide.
Weldon C. Knighton, EE 99, was named director of engineering at Integrity Integration Resources in Plano, Texas.
Ricardo Leon, AE 98, co-founded KnackMaster, a tech startup in the Washington, D.C., area. The company uses mobile gaming to offer educational content for children. The company’s first app, Enzo and Friends, is now available.
Donald “Doc” Lumpkins, IA 95, was appointed to the Senior Executive Service as the new director for the national exercise division at the Department of Homeland Security. He will oversee the testing of the nation’s preparedness to deal with terrorism, among other threats and hazards.
Brian Ranck, Mgt 98, has joined the Atlanta office of J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Brian and his wife, Sherry, have two children.
Christopher Rawlins, Arch 95, starred in the film Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island by Design Onscreen. He is also the author of The Architecture of Seduction: Horace Gifford and the Invention of Fire Island, to be published next Spring. He is the principal of Rawlins Design, an architecture and interiors firm based in Manhattan.
Steven A. Rosser, CE 93, was named president of the Keewin Real Property in Winter Park, Fla. He previously served as Florida Land Manager for NVR Inc.
C. Brent Smith, IE 99, and Courtney Robinson Smith, Mgt 00, have returned to Midtown Atlanta from New York City. Brent accepted a position with Piedmont Office Realty as Senior Vice President of Strategic Investments.
James Taylor, EE 91, recently began a new job as the research coordinator of the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska.
Cynthia Warrick, MS PP 94, was named the interim president of South Carolina State University.
Ben Weissman, ME 99, was named a partner with Jordan & Skala Engineers, Inc., in Texas.
David Fuzzy Wells, AE 91, retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Col. after more than 20 years of active duty. His retirement ceremony was held at the U.S. Air Force Academy on June 14, 21 years to the day of his commissioning. He begins his civilian career as Technical Director of U.S. Pacific Command’s Cyber War Center in Ford Island, Hawaii.
Jeremy T. Wilson, HTS 95, won the 2012 Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction presented by the Chicago Tribune.
2000s
Charles Anderson, CS 05, is the owner and lead instructor at Rowbot Fitness, an indoor rowing facility in Atlanta.
Shane Bechler, ChBE 06, defended his doctoral thesis and received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has accepted a position with Thermo Fisher Scientific in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Courtenay Bird, MS DM 09, joined Union Metrics as the head of business development for TweetReach, a real-time analytics platform for Twitter based in San Francisco.
Steven Blackwood, Bio 07, graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in May and will continue his training in orthopedic surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
This July, Rachel Campbell, ID 05, got a thrill few designers can claim: watching the 60,000-plus runners of the annual Peachtree Road Race pour through the streets of Atlanta wearing a T-shirt bearing her design. Campbell, co-founder of the design firm LogosAtlanta, crafted this year’s winning design. And, of course, she proudly ran the race in her own creation.
Brad Edwards, IE 06, MS Stat 07, has started georgiatechticketstubs.com, displaying his collection of Georgia Tech football ticket stubs from 1924 to today.
Kelly Chickini Fierro, Mgt 01, was promoted to senior brand manager at the Coca-Cola Company.
Pete Fierro, ChE 00, was promoted to manager at A.T. Kearney in Atlanta.
James Fullton, Arch 02, joined Yale University’s Facilities Planning & Construction group as a senior planner in spring 2012. Fullton previously worked as an architect at Pickard Chilton in New Haven, Conn.
Woody Giles, M CRP 07, is a planner with Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh & Associates, an Atlanta-based planning, architecture and landscape architecture firm. The firm has been working on a unique approach to creating master plans for college campuses.
David Herren, Bio 07, graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in May and will continue his training in Ophthalmology at Vanderbilt University.
Jennifer Howard, IE 01, has joined the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce as the youngest member in the board’s three-year history. She is a financial adviser with Edward Jones.
Nickolas Kingsley, EE 02, MS EE 04, PhD EE 07, was named the director of engineering at Auriga Microwave in Chelmsford, Mass. He also serves as a steering committee member for the IEEE International Microwave Symposium.
Rob Kischuk, CE 00, received an investment from Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for his social search engine optimization platform for digital marketers and consumer brands. He is the CEO of Badgy, a social marketing startup in Atlanta.
Scott Marlette, EE 04, was honored with a TechFellow award for his outstanding leadership in engineering. He helped develop Facebook Photos and oversaw development for Groups, Events and Inbox functions. Marlette also created GoodRx, an internet startup that enables people to find the best prices for prescriptions.
Linda Thomas-Mobley, PhD Arch 00, is the winner of the 2012 Carol A. Kueker Construction Education Visionary Award by the National Association of Women in Construction Education Foundation. Thomas-Mobley is chair of the construction management program at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design. She also was named the 2012 Executive of the Year by the NAWIC San Diego Chapter.
David Moeller, ME 02, won this year’s Top Up-And-Coming Entrepreneur award at the TiECON Southeast Conference. He is the founder and CEO of CodeGuard, a current member of the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center.
Tara Murphy, IA 04, was named one of the 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under the age of 33 by Diplomatic Courier and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.
John J. Reap, MS ME 04, PhD ME 09, was appointed to the founding faculty of the engineering program at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. He is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the new program, which will offer its first classes this fall. He was previously an instructor of engineering at Virginia Tech.
Jennifer Vilbig, CE 07, was named president of the Dallas Section of the Society of Women Engineers.
Nabil Wilf, Bio 06, IA 06, has held several national and international awards, including a Boren Fellowship, Fulbright award, Critical Language Enhancement award and Gates Cambridge Scholarship. He completed his PhD at Cambridge in 2011 and works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
Ezequiel Zorrilla, ChE 04, and Gioconda Narvaez Zorrilla, CmpE 04, celebrated the induction of their 2-year-old son, Wolfgang Gutierrez Zorrilla, into American Mensa. He may be the youngest member of American Mensa. Ezequiel is an international marketing manager in Miami.
2010s
Seletha R. Butler, MBA 10, had her article, “All on Board! Strategies for Constructing Diverse Boards of Directors,” published in Virginia Law & Business Review. Butler joined Georgia Tech’s Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business in 2011 as an assistant professor of business law and ethics.
Jenny Drinkard, ID 11, developed a new modular storage system for college dorm rooms sold by Quirky, a New York startup that helps inventors put their designs into production, where she is an intern.
Blake Gleaves, CE 11, was one of four participants selected for the Commercial Rotational Leadership Development Program at Sapa Extrusions North America.
Melissa McCoy, ChBE 12, was accepted to Singularity University at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Calif. She is also the co-founder & vice president of TOHL.
Krystal Persaud, ID 10, was hired as a full-time junior industrial designer at littleBits, a company focused on teaching science to kids.
Robert Rhinehart Jr., CS 12, won a capital investment seed from Y Combinator. His company, MEOW, plans to provide cell phones to the 3 billion people in the world who don’t yet have them.
Christopher Stubel, EE 14, will be cycling across the country from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., on a ride called the Journey of Hope. He will be accompanied by a team of 100 Pi Kappa Phi members from chapters all over the country.
Patrick Whaley, ME 10, had his patents for weighted apparel approved by the U.S. Patent Office. He won first place at the 2010 Georgia Tech Inventure Prize and is the founder and CEO of TITIN weighted apparel.
James White, Mgt 12, was one of three Americans in the 2012 Palmer Cup at the Royal County Down Golf Club to take his singles match to the 18th hole.
Births
Jason Albert, EE 98, MBA 08, MS BC 08, and Keri Robertson Albert, Mgt 99, recently celebrated the first birthday of their son, Camden. Big brother Carson is now 3.
Benoit Robinot-Bertrand, MS IE 01, and his wife, Lisa, welcomed son Julien on March 5. He joins sister Madeleine, 1, at home in Austin, Texas.
Donna Blalock, CE 01, and Jeremy Blalock, Cls 01, welcomed daughter Gwenyth Claire on May 29. Donna is a stay-at-home mother to big sister Kellen, 2, and Jeremy is a project engineer at GulfStream Aerospace in Savannah, Ga.
Bird Blitch, IE 97, and his wife, Anna, welcomed son Bird Daniel Blitch Jr. The elder Blitch is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees.
Margaret Watts Bolton, ME 03, MS ME 06, and Ken Bolton, ChE 97, welcomed daughter Catherine Laine on May 13. Both Ken and Margaret work for Johnson and Johnson, making medical devices in Switzerland.
Todd Cox, Mgt 99, and his wife, Haley, welcomed son Andrew Wyatt on Jan. 6. The family resides in Birmingham, Ala.
Jessica Stelzner Culverhouse, Biol 04, and David Culverhouse, AE 03, MS AE 04, welcomed son James Daniel on March 14. They live in Falls Church, Va.
Nathalie Andrae Curry, PTCh 03, and her husband, Stewart, welcomed son Wesley Peden and daughter Caroline Eliane on March 31. The family lives in Greenville, S.C.
Robert A Ford, CE 02, and his wife, Jessie, welcomed daughter Catherine Rachel on Feb. 29. She is named after her aunt, Rachel Tatum Finch, CEE 08. Robert is a pediatrician with Primary Pediatrics in Warner Robins, Ga.
Stephen Gatto, AE 07, MS AE 08, and Meaghan Gatto, IE 08, welcomed son Oliver Stephen Gatto on April 25. Stephen is an advanced concepts engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft and Meaghan is a demand planning manager at Landis+Gyr.
Erika Geist Hamrick, ME 96, and her husband, Spencer, welcomed daughter Megan Elizabeth Hamrick on May 25. Erika is an engineering manager at Caterpillar. The family resides in Locust Grove, Ga.
Brian Heinlein, Arch 04, and his wife, Angie, welcomed William Art on May 23. He joins sisters Olivia, 5, and Chloe, 3. Brian is an Architectural Intern and CAD Manager at Revit Architecture.
Marilyn Phillips Jorgensen, Chem 01, and her husband, Cory, welcomed Quinn Isaiah on April 2. The family lives in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ami Lott Mayo, Mgt 00, and Jeff Mayo, Mgt 02, welcomed son John Randall on June 9. Ami is an Office Manager for Asset Advisors Group. Jeff is a Regional Sales Manager for Silverpop Systems. The family resides in Atlanta.
Jim Paisley, Mgt 02, and Katie Rasberry Paisley, CE 04, MS CE 05, welcomed son James Warren on February 14.
Paul Pitney, ME 00, and his wife, Christina, welcomed son Luke Alexander on Oct. 13, 2011. He joins brothers Joshua, 5, and Nathan, 3. The family lives in the St. Louis area.
Jason Prentice, Mgt 02, and his wife, Dawn, welcomed son Collier Blake on July 4. He joins big sister Kaitlyn Jade, age 2, at home in Hoschton, Ga. Jason was a basketball player at Tech. Collier’s name is in part a tribute to the late Jason Collier, Mgt 03, Jason’s former teammate. Jason works as a general manager for Scientific Games.
Steven Pütz, CE 10, and his wife, Katie, welcomed son Mason Alexander on July 19. The couple lives in Atlanta, where Steven is a foundation manager for Berkel and Company Contractors.
Dale Russell, Mgt 01, and Mary Frances Russell, STC 03, welcomed son Jackson Walker on April 27 in Shreveport, La. Dale is an Air Force Captain stationed at Barksdale AFB.
Priscilla Harmon Sager, ME 04, and Brenden Sager, MS Econ 08, welcomed daughter Evelyn Harmon on July 18. The family lives in Atlanta.
Kristen Brosnan Signell, MSE 99, and her husband, Steve, welcomed twins Iris and Colden on March 20. Kristen is a materials scientist for GE Global Research. The family lives in Long Lake, N.Y.
Scott Andrew Turner, EE 98, and his wife, Denise, traveled to South Korea to adopt a son, Minho. Scott is a software team lead at UL PureSafety in Nashville, Tenn.
Weddings
Brian Amory, EE 10, and Allison Warburg on Oct. 23, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Amory works as an electronics engineer.
Zachary Aten, Econ 10, and Mary Lacis, Arch 11, on July 28 at Georgia Tech’s Academy of Medicine. Zachary works in nonprofit management and Mary is in law school at Georgia State University.
Russell Brown, Mgt 02, and Carly Sinclair Brown on April 14. Russell is a partner and head trader at Cornerstone Investment Partners.
Jeff Burton, ME 08, and Tara Daniels on May 12 in Seattle. Jeff is an engineer at Boeing.
Paige Guy, Mgt 07, and David Todd, Mgt 07, on April 14 in LaGrange, Ga.
Deidre Meiggs, MS Chem 10, PhD EAS 10, and James Harrison on Feb. 11. She is an assistant professor at Life University.
Tom Minderman, IE 10, and Christina Morton, IA 07, in March 2012 in Atlanta. Christina works at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant, and Tom is a manager in energy trading for Competitive Power Ventures. The couple lives in McLean, Va. Groom’s parents: Peter Minderman, ChE 79, MS ChE 81, and Ellen Garvey, IE 80.
Adam Pratt, BC 08, and Amanda Rigg, IE 10, on May 18 in Atlanta. They live in Atlanta, where Adam is a project engineer at McCarthy Building Companies and Amanda is a team lead in client support at Surgical Information Systems. The newlyweds left in the Ramblin’ Reck to begin their honeymoon.
Nicole Erickson Roe, BC 09, and Geoff Roe, BC 09, on June 9.
Matthew Swanburg, Mgt 07, and Peter Williams on Sept. 8. The couple lives in San Francisco, where Matthew works as a senior merchandiser for menswear at Gap.
Torion Lenette Wright, Mgt 04, and David Kent Jr. on April 28 in Atlanta. She is currently the assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
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