Tech History

Georgia Tech alumni Phil Breedlove, CE 77, and Sandy Winnefeld, AE 78, rank among the most important military figures in the world today. They also happen to be Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers—and former PIKE house dwellers—who have leaned on their Tech experiences and close friendship throughout their careers. Unless you attended Tech in the more

In 1968, Ron Blum, CE 71, and some fellow Lambda Chi Alpha brothers agreed that they needed a mascot. “We decided to add some class and some pizazz to the fraternity—to get a dog,” he says. “I do not remember who decided that a St. Bernard was the dog of choice.” Since then, the fraternity’s more

“I like to collect,” says Joe Belcher, in what is certainly a frontrunner for understatement of the year. Belcher, Cls 91, has turned the 1,500-square-foot basement in his Franklin, N.C., home into a Georgia Tech “man cave” overflowing with memorabilia. His collection includes about 100 pennants, dozens of bobbleheads, two gate signs from the old more

I actually rode in the original Ramblin’ Wreck to grammar school for several years before Dean Dull purchased it for Georgia Tech. The Model A Ford was purchased in its original unrestored shape by my family’s neighbor, Ted Johnson, who was chief pilot for Delta Airlines. The car was for his son, Craig, who along more