Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 73) 25 Years rs Ago Bucky Johnson, below, was hired as Tech’s first full-time director of bands in 1983. The first Georgia Tech band was formed in 1908. The marching band will mark the centennial in part by performing in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Johnson now is the mayor of Norcross, Ga. In 1968, editor Bob Wallace, writing in the NovemberDecember Georgia Tech Alumnus, lamented the use of a computer to produce the alumni directory. Some names were reversed and others omitted entirely. “But the classic goof of them all occurred in the process of extracting the names of cities for the geographical section from the ZIP codes, which is the way magazine mailing lists are kept in this age. Somehow the city of Clearwater, Fla., came out Anna Maria, and the city of Sarasota appeared as Aripeka, a fact that we have received few complaints about simply because the alumni in those two places never thought to look under the A’s for their names. We are not sure that some other cities didn’t suffer a similar fate because we are afraid to check.” 40 Years rs Ago 75 50 Years rs Ago A Mrs. Homecoming was crowned for the first time in 1958. Linda Johnson, above, was awarded the title, “set up to give Tech’s 1,200 married students a queen of their own,” according to the Alumnus. She stood with Homecoming queen Betty Lindstrom, a Brenau College student and daughter of Tech alumnus Frank Lindstrom, CE 35. “Mrs. Johnson, the wife of Tech senior Billups Johnson (IM 58), was selected from a group of 22 wives of Tech students in a contest sponsored by the Dames Club, the official and very active campus organization of Tech wives,” the Alumnus said. “The two girls … had a busy and exhausting day on Nov. 15.” Years rs Ago From the Nov. 3, 1933, edition of The Technique: “Tom Mix, the all-time greatest film star in creation, is ridin’ your way, in person, high in the saddle, heading a monstrous stage roundup of thundering hoofs, cracking whips, spinning ropes and flaming guns. The sensational Westerner arrives Saturday, Nov. 4, for a three-day engagement at the Georgia Theater in Atlanta and he’s bringing Tony, the wonder horse; a picked congress of his riders, ropers and shooters; a herd of the famed Tom Mix thoroughbred horses; and last, but not least, Mrs. Mix, the premier aerialist of the show world, whom he wed after a romantic courtship under the big top of the Sells-Floto circus.” 100 Years rs Ago The Georgia Tech Night School was established in 1908 with an appropriation of $2,500 from the Atlanta City Council. M.L. Brittain wrote in “The Story of Georgia Tech” that 103 students enrolled for the first term to take classes in English, mathematics, chemistry, applied electricity, foundry, forge shop, machine shop, textiles and wood shop. GT Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Fall 2008 73
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