Story by Rachael Maddux / Photos by James K. Holder II Unwitting pedestrians strolling the Tech campus over the summer may have wondered if the school was considering changing its mascot from the Yellow Jacket to the Orange Barrel. But just as students began trickling back into dorms and classrooms, the neon construction partitions faded [...]
On Nov. 17, 1911, the first issue of The Technique student newspaper was published. There have been many student-run publications at Tech over the years, but The Technique (its tagline still “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper”) is the most enduring. To mark its centennial, we combed through the archives and picked out eight memorable covers. To view [...]
1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | Friends 1930s Karl A. Bevins, EE 39, of Atlanta, on July 29. He served as traffic engineer for the city of Atlanta until his retirement in 1978 and was first-chair clarinetist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Bruce Winston Hafley, Cls 39, of Atlanta, on June 28. He served in the U.S. Army during World War [...]
By Alumni Magazine staff and Christina Lee Everyone knows Tech students think big. So it should be no surprise that now, more than ever, there’s a growing awareness among the student body that a Tech degree is made even more valuable by connecting to the alumni network before graduation. That’s something that the Alumni Association [...]
Seven Handle Circus may be one of the hottest startups to come out of the Georgia Tech community in quite some time. You can’t download its source code, and it’s not the product of countless hours spent tapping away on a laptop in the Clough Commons Starbucks. It’s no app—it’s a band. Still, the guys [...]
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | Friends | Births & Weddings 1950s Randy Cabell, EE 53, MS EE 54, wants classmates to know that his band, The Fowler Street Five, popular at Tech in the 1950s, reformed in 1995 and has a number of recorded favorite songs [...]
Dean Alford’s curriculum vitae features a wealth of experience in the energy industry, a variety of roles in government, positions with a broad swath of charitable and civic organizations and several committee postings at Georgia Tech, from which he received an electrical engineering degree in 1976. To that list, Alford recently added one more item: [...]
The annual Leadership Georgia Tech event in September honored the Alumni Networks and alumni volunteers who made outstanding contributions to the Institute. The Networks Competition pitted Networks against each other to increase alumni involvement and awareness of the Tech brand in local communities, with winners receiving money for their local scholarships. In the White & [...]
David Zweighaft, IM 84, has been featured on MSNBC’s Your Business while giving accounting advice to business owners. Zweighaft, the managing partner of DSZ Forensic Accounting and Consulting Services and adjunct professor of forensic accounting at New York University, is a CPA and certified fraud examiner. Here, he shares his 10 most important accounting tips [...]
For his 77th birthday, John Burson enjoyed a low-key celebration with some coworkers. The surprise is not that Burson, ChE 55, MS Met 63, PhD ChE 64, is still working beyond retirement age, it’s the location where he was working: a combat emergency room in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is the fourth deployment since 2005 for [...]
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