By Leslie Overman on August 31, 2010
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Randy Cabell, EE 53, MS EE 54, and his wife, Mary Kay, who was the first female professor at Georgia Tech, took a cruise last October from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Lisbon, Portugal, that included about a dozen stops along the west coast of Europe. A [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Class Notes, Uncategorized
By Leslie Overman on August 31, 2010
Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson launched the new 25-year strategic plan for the Institute to a packed auditorium of faculty, staff and students Aug. 31 at the Ferst Center for the Arts.
With the tagline “Designing the Future,” the strategic plan outlines goals and initiatives for creating the Georgia Tech of 2035, an institute [...]
Posted in Alumni News Blog
By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
Decades before students began donning a plush costume, black tights and Chuck Taylors to bring the Yellow Jacket to life, a Tech mascot of a different sort made a buzz on Grant Field, this one crafted from paper, plywood and steel.
A photo in the 1948 Blueprint shows two students kneeling on the field during a [...]
Posted in In Retrospect, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
Anita Lamb never had it easy finding fashionable clothing to fit her lean, 5-foot-10-inch frame. She laughed recalling how as a teenager she would unfurl the hem to add a couple of inches to a pair of pants or pull a pair of khakis down low on her hips to make them appear longer.
Now she [...]
Posted in Alumni House, Excerpt, Life Jackets, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
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George Norman Bisanar, GS 27, of Concord, N.C., on June 28, at the age of 102. Mr. Bisanar moved to Concord in 1940 to oversee the Coca-Cola Bottling Company’s local operation and held the position [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Obituaries, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
Arthur Hansen, who led Georgia Tech from 1969 to 1971 as the Institute’s seventh president, died July 5 in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 85 years old.
Dr. Hansen arrived at Tech in 1966 as the dean of engineering. He assumed the president’s office, vacated by Edwin Harrison, on Aug. 1, 1969. The choice of Dr. [...]
Posted in Obituaries, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Class notes from the print edition.
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Class Notes, July/August 2010
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Jeanne Rolfe Ferst, wife of the late Robert H. Ferst, ME 38, died May 27 at her home in Atlanta. She was 91.
Though she attended the University of Chicago, Mrs. Ferst became a proud supporter of Georgia Tech after marrying into one of the Institute’s most dedicated alumni families in 1940.
During Tech’s Capital Campaign, Mrs. [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Former Georgia Tech football star and NFL player Nick Rogers, Mgt 03, died May 3 in a single-vehicle accident in College Park, Ga., when his car hit a utility pole. He was 30 years old.
Mr. Rogers, a two-year starter at defensive end at Tech, earned second-team All-ACC honors in the 2000 and 2001 seasons. In [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
When the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta opened its doors in May for an event headlined by David Byrne, the music venue’s merchandise stand was stocked not with Talking Heads T-shirts and albums but with signed copies of Byrne’s book Bicycle Diaries, a collection of observations and thoughts from his travels through cities of the world [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Tech Topics
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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