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 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 Van Jensen on August 25, 2010
During Homecoming, current members of the Georgia Tech lacrosse club and alumni will gather as they do every year to celebrate their sport and play a friendly game.
This year has the added bonus of being the 40th anniversary of the team’s founding — sort of.
As club organizers and alumni are quick to point out, though [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Sept/Oct 2010, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on August 25, 2010
Carol Senf sticks out like a sore thumb in her own office in the Skiles Classroom Building. Senf, a professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, is friendly and dresses in warm colors. Her office, meanwhile, is something of a shrine to the macabre. Ever since Senf began researching Bram [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Office Space, Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics
By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress Debbie Reynolds opens the Ferst Center for the Arts season at Georgia Tech on Sept. 11 with her variety show, an evening of music and comedy that will include her impressions of Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn and songs from Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. At [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics, Ten Questions
By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
When Jerimiah McClary walked onto the Georgia Tech campus as a student, the promising freshman defensive lineman from Lawrenceville, Ga., weighed a trim 230 pounds.
Four years later, through a regimen of lifting and eating, he’d bulked up to nearly 300. His massive frame broke through the interior of one offensive line after another as the [...]
Posted in Excerpt, July/August 2010, Yellow Jackets
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
In a video commemorating the School of Psychology’s 50th anniversary, former chair Anderson Smith cracked that the program had been treated with “benign respect” for half a century.
Associate professor Jim Roberts was charged with chairing the anniversary committee. He said it was no easy task to gather information on the school, which has been housed [...]
Posted in Excerpt, July/August 2010, Tech Topics
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Technology Square has a new dining destination sure to entice students returning to their dorms after a night on the town and alumni seeking postgame grub this football season. A Georgia Tech-inspired Waffle House opened its doors June 9.
Sandwiched between Jazzy Nails and Tan Spa and Great Clips on Fifth Street, the restaurant has all [...]
Posted in Excerpt, July/August 2010, Tech Topics, Within Walking Distance
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 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
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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