Tech History

In my junior year at Tech (1965-66), I was a member of the Ramblin’ Reck Club and had responsibility for the Wreck. I will never forget my experience at Knoxville that year for the Tennessee football game. The game was on national television, and it was hot. Close to 100 degrees at game time. All went well for more

In 1958, an Atlanta publicity firm came to Georgia Tech’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity house with a proposition. They were promoting the film Alexander the Great, and volunteers were asked to help. Dressed as Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who searched for truth, we were not supposed to find truth, but instead we sought the most beautiful woman more

For many Tech grads, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world where “Buzz” was just something you got from downing too much coffee during finals week. But for much of the Institute’s history, the mischievous mascot we all know and love took a less definite form. From the early 1900s, when athletes and fans were more

In 1927, a young man by the name of George P. Burdell enrolled at Georgia Tech. Since then, he’s gone on to a few notable accomplishments: multiple degrees from the Institute, military service, serving on Mad magazine’s board of directors and being cheated out of Time magazine’s 2001 Person of the Year award, to name more