Alumni Magazine - Spring 2008 - (Page 60) made for the party, and the music of ‘Ramblin’ Wreck’ was given to the club’s orchestra, which played it well,” the Alumnus said. “The alumni and their ladies made quite a hit too by singing the famous song, accompanied by the musicians.” J. Calvin Jureit, CE 49, revolutionized the homebuilding industry in the 1950s with the Gang-Nail, a connector plate made of galvanized steel with nail-like prongs that held together two adjoining pieces of wood in a roof truss. Tech awarded its first PhD, in chemical engineering, to William Lloyd Carter in 1950. Carter had earned a bachelor’s in chemical engineering at Tech in 1944. 23 19 Hazard Reeves, ME 28, was a co-founder in 1946 of Cinerama and developed its stereophonic sound system. Reeves netted millions when he sold out, but he blamed Hollywood for Cinerama’s demise. “That group fouled up one of the most gorgeous concepts,” he told Tech Topics just months before his death in 1986. In 1948, Paul Jones Mitchell Jr., ChE 38, developed a way to stabilize the taste and texture of peanut butter. Before he received a patent, the process fell into public domain. Ed Negri, ME 47 (below), took over the family business, Herren’s Restaurant, 84 Luckie St., Atlanta, soon after graduation and remained in the front of the house until the establishment famous for its sweet rolls shuttered in 1987. Junior’s Grill opened as a North Avenue burger joint in 1948. When its location was acquired for development prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics, Junior’s moved onto campus and into the former location of the Robbery between the Administration and Carnegie buildings. 24 20 21 22 25 S. Bradford “Skeet” Rymer Jr., IM 37, took charge in 1950 of Dixie Foundry, the company his father founded in 1917. Eight years later, the company bought and changed its name to Magic Chef. Sales grew to more than $1 billion annually. Magic Chef merged with Maytag in 1986 and Rymer became chairman of the executive committee of the board of trustees. On Sept. 30, 1951, Eugene Espy, IM 50 (above), reached Mount Katahdin in Maine and became the second person to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in a continuous thru-hike. S. Alton Newton, ChE 48, MS ChE 49, was named a Rhodes Scholar while pursuing graduate studies at MIT in 1951. Other Tech-produced Rhodes Scholars are Will Roper, Phys 01, MS Phys 02, and Jeremy Farris, IntA 04. 26 27 60 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Spring 2008
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