Alumni Magazine - Spring 2008 - (Page 59) eats, Triumphs and Tragedies took place at Grant Field on Oct. 21, 1943. Tech won 17-15. “Tech’s slim margin of victory was gained from the toe of freshman Dinky Bowen,” the Alumnus said. “Converting after both touchdowns, Bowen supplied the final edge when early in the fourth quarter he calmly booted a perfect placement from the Navy’s 20-yard line.” brochure, which includes a photo of him “with a long squirrel rifle of the vintage of 1835.” 15 10 11 In 1937, the year he graduated with a chemistry degree, Ashworth Stull founded American Resinous Chemical and conducted the research to plasticize polyvinyl acetate, which became white glue. Stull sold his company to Borden in the mid-1950s. His invention became Elmer’s Glue-All. When Charlie Yates, GS 35 (below), won the British Amateur in 1937, Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph McGill said his “infectious good humor and complete indifference to pressure … won the hearts of the Scots.” Yates later said Bobby Jones, ME 22, gave him his “lucky, red flannel, longjohn underwear” to take to the golf tournament, which he won using an old, rusty putter he had bought for $1. Gerald “Red” Murray, ChE 39, developed the O-Cel-O cellulose sponge in 1946. He sold the patent to General Mills a few years later. Russell Bobbitt, IM 40, played the first post-World War II tennis match at Wimbledon in 1945. “The Queen Mother, bless her heart, was just a great tennis fan,” he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution years later. The first game played in the South by a Naval Academy football team Alumni in Charleston, S.C., met at Henry’s Restaurant on Market Street on Nov. 10, 1943, to form a Georgia Tech club. “With Lt. W. Len Shipman serving as toastmaster in the absence of Ed Vinson, who has just become the father of an 8-pound boy, thanks were extended to Joe Dillard, ’39, for his efforts in getting the group together. Mr. J.H. Egan, (18)93, spoke briefly of his student days at Tech in the era before paved streets,” the Alumnus reported. “Following these talks an informal ‘bull session’ was held. … Mr. J.A. McCormack, (19)03, … told an entertaining story of the three Charleston boys in school at that time. Mr. McCormack was known in those days as ‘Monkey.’ ” Atlanta Journal sportswriter O.B. Keeler reported on the “Homecoming Smoker” of Nov. 26, 1943, at the Naval Armory. “It appeared that the late arrivals … were inserted with a shoehorn, and the estimate was at least 1,500 good old alumni and friends and Navy and Army and Marine trainees and guests of the Tech Athletic and National Alumni associations. And, with a lively boxing card, pictures of the Tech-Tulane football game, free cigars and cigarettes and no speeches whatever, two of the liveliest hours ever spent in the famous building finished at 10 o’clock.” In December 1944, Henry Lee Plage, IM 37, defied orders as captain of the USS Tabberer and turned around the destroyer escort to rescue 55 survivors of Typhoon Cobra. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and hailed in the book “Halsey’s Typhoon.” The Casablanca Club in Havana was the site of a Georgia Tech alumni dinner attended by 32 people on Dec. 22, 1944. “Attractive gold and white lapel badges were >>> Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Spring 2008 16 12 13 14 17 18 59
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