Timothy Singleton, IM 59, MS IM 65, of Dahlonega, Ga., on July 31. Singleton spent his life on the run. He came to Tech on a football scholarship, was co-captain of his freshman team and later a varsity letterman. And he starred on the Yellow Jackets track team: three years as a letterman, team captain and winner of numerous hurdles championships. While working on his master’s degree, he taught and coached at the Lovett School and West Georgia College; he later became dean of men and cross-country coach at Georgia State University. By then he’d become involved with the Atlanta Track Club, through which he founded the Peachtree Road Race in 1970. That first year, 110 runners pounded 10 kilometers down Atlanta’s most famous street; in July 2013, entrants numbered more than 60,000. Singleton’s own career as a runner totaled 73 marathons, more than 500 road races and 11 rim-to-rim runs of the Grand Canyon. He also co-authored two management textbooks, made three trips to Bulgaria on the Fulbright Scholarship Exchange, served as a visiting scholar at China’s Yangzhou University, and taught at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University of North Georgia, where he was honored as professor emeritus upon his retirement. He has been inducted into the Druid Hills High School Athletic Hall of Fame, the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, and—of course—the Peachtree Road Race Hall of Fame.
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