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AlumniHouse GRIFFIN AWARD Community service honorees applauded Ray Anderson, IE 56 Time International magazine recently heralded Ray Anderson as one of its “heroes of the environment.” He also was awarded the 2001 George and Cynthia Mitchell Prize for Sustainability for being a “pioneer in using innovative approaches to change past practices and eliminate waste.” As founder and chairman of Interface Inc., a global manufacturer of modular carpeting, Anderson has been championing the green movement from the inside. His goal is to eliminate the company’s negative environmental footprint by 2020 in an effort called “Mission Zero.” Anderson graduated with highest honors when he received his Georgia Tech industrial engineering degree in 1956. He has since received honorary doctorates from Northland College, LaGrange College, North Carolina State University and the University of Southern Maine. He has served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, Student Success Center Steering Committee and the Georgia Tech Foundation board, among others. Anderson has worked with the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, Rocky Mountain Institute, Georgia Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land Chattahoochee River Land Protection Campaign, among others. Anderson co-chairs, with former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, an advisory committee to the Presidential Climate Action Project, charged with compiling a plan for the next president to address during the first 100 days in office. David T. Smith Jr., ChE 63 In 1999, David Smith retired as manager of the Hercules Inc. plant in Brunswick, Ga., after a 36-year career with the company. He then turned his focus to the community as the assistant director of the Brunswick and Glynn County Development Authority. An active member of the Golden Isles Georgia Tech Club, Smith has served as treasurer for several years. He also has served on the club’s scholarship selection committee. The Alumni Association has consistently recognized the Golden Isles Club for its achievements in scholarship fundraising. Smith was elected to the Glynn County Board of Education in 2004 and served as chairman for the past two years. He is past president of the Brunswick Rotary Club and served as assistant governor of Rotary District 6920 until recently. He also is a past president of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce, Habitat for Humanity for Glynn County and the Coastal Georgia Community College Foundation. Smith remains an active board member of Habitat for Humanity, the Community College Foundation and the Coastal Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He serves as a director of the Coastal Bank of Georgia. He is married to Barbara Shockley Smith, a high school guidance counselor at Glynn Academy in Brunswick. They are residents of St. Simons Island. They have three grown children and five grandchildren. Rice Recognized as Outstanding Young Alumnus Troy Rice, IE 01, has a “can do” attitude. His energy, enthusiasm and proactive work ethic have helped him excel in his career, community service and in leadership roles as an alumnus of Georgia Tech. He was the recipient of the Ramblin’ Wreck Volunteer of the Year award in 2005. Rice is president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches and the Georgia Tech Young Alumni Council, a 31-member team working to engage young graduates across the country through programs geared toward getting involved and giving back to Tech and their local communities. Rice serves as the manager of Supplier Performance for Florida Power & Light and is responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of suppliers constituting a $2 billion annual spend. Rice also is a six sigma blackbelt counselor and has trained 18 candidates for six sigma certification. As a student, Rice was a member of Theta Chi fraternity and the Georgia Tech Student Foundation and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. As president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches, he has focused the group on three major initiatives: community service, scholarships and networking. Rice established a local golf tournament, which has raised $10,000 for scholarships in two years, and manages quarterly community service events in which local alumni have volunteered hundreds of hours to work with Habitat for Humanity and other organizations in the Palm Beaches area. Rice also is active with the American Heart Association, serving as a team captain for the Heart Walk and volunteer speaker at local businesses and hospitals. He has been a top fundraiser for the past two years, generating more than $25,000. He and his wife, Tracy, live in Juno Beach, Fla. Jones Continued from Page 9 fessor in the College of Management, teaching a course for MBA candidates and upperclassmen on capital markets and financial institutions. He said, “Among several factors that position Georgia Tech for global leadership, none is as important as the involvement and participation of our alumni. Each of us can make a difference with our time, our talent and our treasures.” He and his wife, Libby, have endowed the Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair in Management, the Jones Career Center within the College of Management, as well as an athletic scholarship at the director of athletics’ discretion for Georgia Tech athletes. Inducted into the College of Management’s Alumni Hall of Fame in 2004, Jones serves on the executive committee of the Foundation Board of Trustees, for which he previously served as chairman of the Development Committee. He also is a member of the National Campaign Steering Committee for Campaign Georgia Tech. He also has served on the Alexander-Tharpe Fund board and the Ivan Allen College Executive Advisory Board and was a charter member of the Hill Society. He and Libby, an attorney, have moved back to Atlanta after more than 30 years in metropolitan New York. They have two grown children. Stamps Continued from Page 9 Charitable Foundation was recognized in the January 2008 Condé Nast Portfolio magazine as among the nation’s most generous. It noted the Stamps Foundation helped establish a prosthetic rehabilitation facility for the U.S. Army. Stamps’ Summit Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Palo Alto, Calif., and London. He is co-chairman of the Investment Committee of the Georgia Tech Foundation board, an emeritus member of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Board and former member of the Entrepreneurship Program Development Steering Committee, Ivan Allen College Executive Advisory Board and the Advanced Technology Development Center Ad Hoc Advisory Committee. Stamps was named a distinguished alumnus of the College of Engineering and the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1995. He was inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 2001. He and his wife, Penny, live in Coconut Grove, Fla., and have two adult children. 10 TECHTOPICS | SPRING 2008

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