By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
Late on Friday and Sunday nights, a group of mostly graduate students takes over the Campus Recreation Center pool. They mark off a 25-by-15-meter rectangle with white PVC pipe on the bottom of the pool.
A lead disk coated with plastic is dropped in the center of the makeshift field. Two co-ed teams of six players [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Student Life, Tech Topics
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Class notes from the print edition.
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Class Notes, July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
By Marilyn Somers and Kimberly Link-Wills
Alan Poindexter’s enrollment at Georgia Tech was part of his planned trajectory into the sky.
“I had always wanted to be a Navy pilot. I knew that one of the ways to become a Navy pilot was through the ROTC program,” said Poindexter, AE 86, who followed his future wife to [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By GTalumni on June 28, 2010
By G. P. “Bud” Peterson
Our space program, once the envy of every nation on Earth, has been showing its age of late. Its ambitions, though laudable, are starting to appear a little outdated. Technologies that once dazzled the masses now seem almost everyday and routine. Visions of new planetary terrain, once the fodder of science [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Among the Ramblin’ Wrecks at the Johnson Space Center in Houston are these 78 — including three astronauts, three married couples and four students. See the guide below.
1. Dave Link 2. Jessica Calhoun 3. Pete Cyr 4. Johanna Pineiro 5. Heidi Brewer 6. Kelly Rodriguez 7. Sarah Graybeal Ruiz 8. Myra (Dawson) Smith 10. Krista [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Alumni working at the Marshall Space Flight Center are, standing left to right, Carl Lester, ChE 78, assistant chief, nonmetallic materials branch; Corky Clinton, AE 73, MS AE 76, PhD AE 82; Jared Dervan, ME 04, MS ME 05, flight systems design engineer; Mickey White, AE 68; Melanie Dervan, ChE 04; Greg Schunk, ME 83; [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Alan Alemany, ME 07; Derrick Bailey, AE 07; Arthur Beller, EE 68; Ellen Proper Brown, ISyE 85; Terence Burke, ME 82; Michael Canicatti, EE 90; Janine Captain, PhD Chem 05, and husband James Captain, MS Chem 01; Robbie Coffman, AE 04; Jon Cowart, AE 83; Taylor Dacko, aerospace engineering co-op student; Joe Dant, AE 05; [...]
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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 Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
On the first floor of Tech Tower is the Atlanta outpost of Georgia Tech Lorraine, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. There, Catherine Bass manages academic programs and student affairs and Florence Stoia manages the administration and faculty affairs. Both French natives, Bass and Stoia recount the run-ins with gypsies and bulls that keep them [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Tech Topics, Ten Questions
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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