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 GTalumni on June 24, 2010
By J. Paul Oxer
In the summer of 1970, I read an article in the Atlanta Constitution about draft legislation in both the Georgia and Florida assemblies to provide funding for 4-foot-wide bicycle lanes on key routes. Georgia’s then-Gov. Lester Maddox was well known for his support of cycling and for his press stunt of riding [...]
Posted in Excerpt, In Retrospect, July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on May 3, 2010
In the March/April issue, we asked if anyone could explain or identify the people in a photograph from our filing cabinet.
“I’m the one sitting on the hood of the car,” Steven Marzec, MatE 94, said in an e-mail. “Some other pictures along with the article were published in the Summer 1993 Alumni Magazine. The others [...]
Posted in In Retrospect, May/June 2010
By GTalumni on April 30, 2010
The members of the notorious Committee of Five, a brazen band of fraternity brothers who, fueled by a “two-kegger night,” stole the whistle in late August 1978, have never been unmasked. Until now.
Posted in Excerpt, In Retrospect, May/June 2010
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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