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 [...]
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By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
Mireille Murad may be the only owner and operator of a modeling agency that Georgia Tech has ever produced.
“It’s like being a mommy to everybody and really impacting their lives. Some of the girls call me Coach,” says the 26-year-old Murad of her role at Atlanta-based Element Model Management.
“Discovered at the mall,” Murad, Psy 07, [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Excerpt, 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
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William D. Evans Jr., IM 38, of Winston-Salem, N.C., on May 10. He worked for many years with Crawford & Company in Raleigh and later was vice president of safety for Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. in Jacksonville, [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 24, 2010
“I’m breathing,” McKinley Conway retorts when asked about his health.
While he says his body is giving out part by part, his mind is sharp. Conway, AE 41, who turns 90 in November, recently completed his autobiography, A Bad Case of Old Age: Enjoying a Great Life One More Time, a textbook-size tome. It’s his 47th [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Excerpt, July/August 2010
By Van Jensen on May 3, 2010
Tilt to Live is a deceptively simple game. Designed for the iPhone, it allows players to control an arrow onscreen by tilting the device. The arrow must avoid waves of red dots to survive.
Posted in Burdell & Friends, May/June 2010
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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