Tech Topics - Spring 2008 - (Page 11)

AlumniHouse Five Women Earn Honorary Alumna Status Jeanne Ferst Jeanne Rolfe Ferst has maintained the strong ties to Tech established by the family of her late husband, Robert Ferst, a member of the Class of 1938. Perhaps most notably, FERST LeCRAW POOLE SOMERS STEWART she sits on the advisory board for the Robert Ferst ed the portrait of her husband that same year he earned his degree in Carolyn Stewart Center for the Arts. But her influence hangs in the Poole Boardroom on industrial management. Carolyn J. Stewart had an early truly stretches around the world. She campus. She also owned Dorothy Gay There are plenty of Tech ties in career with the U.S. Post Office and in was a member of the President’s Panel the family. Her brother, Joe, Poole Antiques for many years and volunteerism. Much of her time was on South Asian Relief Assistance, the collected treasures on travels throughgraduated with an industrial spent with libraries, arts, community, Advisory Committee on Voluntary out the world with her husband. management degree in 1959. Two service and historic preservation Foreign Aid with the Agency for In addition to their dedication to sisters married Tech men. Julian’s organizations. She also authored two International Development within the Georgia Tech, the Pooles have been brothers Roy, Veazey, Buck and books on the history of telephony in U.S. State Department and the active members of Northside United Rupert all received Tech degrees too. the state of Georgia that are in the President’s Commission on Hostage Methodist Church, the World However, Joanne and Julian’s National Archives. Compensation. children, Suzanne Olsen, Elaine Baker Methodist Council and the Capital She has made no secret of her She chaired the Fulton County City Club. and Julian LeCraw Jr., all attended pride in the family’s close ties to Economic Development Advisory She remains a vocal supporter of other universities. Georgia Tech. In 2006, the H. Milton Board and was a member of the board the Yellow Jackets by turning out for She applauded her husband’s Stewart School of Industrial and of the Fulton County Economic home football games. service as president of the Georgia Systems Engineering became the Development Corporation and the Tech Foundation during its $712 milfourth named school in the Georgia Southern Center for International lion Campaign for Georgia Tech and Tech College of Engineering as the Marilyn Somers Studies. his recognition as a winner of the result of a $20 million gift from Milt As director of the Alumni A retired real estate broker, she Joseph M. Pettit Alumni Distinguished Association’s Living History Program, and Carolyn Stewart. serves on the Georgia Higher Service Award in 2001. Milt earned his degree in industriMarilyn Somers preserves the stories Education Savings Plan board of A golf enthusiast, she is a member al engineering in 1961. He and of Georgia Tech’s graduates, faculty directors, the Kennedy Center’s of the Piedmont Driving Club, and friends for future generations. The Carolyn’s two children both attended National Committee for the Peachtree Golf Club, Capital City Tech as well. Jeb, a member of the Class videos she produces also provide docPerforming Arts, the Commission on Club, Atlanta Country Club, Rolling of 1991, earned his industrial engineeruments of the Institute’s history. Presidential Scholars and the Georgia Rock Club and the Seminole Golf ing degree at Southern Tech. Jill graduSomers joined the Alumni Public Telecommunications Club. ated from Tech with a management Association as director of public relaCommission. degree in 1993. Both Stewart children tions in 1989. She launched the Oral Her late mother-in-law, Helen married Tech graduates. Jeb’s wife, History Project in 1994. Dorothy Poole Ferst, was named an honorary alumna Somers was the executive director Stephanie, is a 1997 civil engineering Dorothy Gay Poole grew up in in 1970. Her late father-in-law, Monie graduate. Jill’s husband, Glenn Archer, of the Women’s Chamber of Gay, Ga. She enrolled at Agnes Scott Alan Ferst, a 1911 mechanical engiis a 1991 management graduate. College at age 15. While a student, she Commerce of Atlanta from 1984 to neering graduate, received the Alumni The Stewarts worked together on 1989. During her tenure, Somers creatmet a young man, a Tech student by Distinguished Service Award in 1956. committees to support Georgia Tech. ed the Atlanta Dogwood Festival the name of James P. “Polly” Poole. Robert Ferst received that same honor He served as an Alumni Association Poster Project and managed the orgaThe 1942 edition of the Blueprint feain 1987. trustee and president and later as a nization’s membership of more than tures a photograph of the young lady member of the Georgia Tech with the caption “Miss Dot Gay for J.P. 500 women. Joanne LeCraw Foundation’s board. The Stewarts also Actively involved in many comPoole.” funded the Institute’s first school chair Joanne and Julian LeCraw now munity organizations, Somers has Polly Poole graduated that spring in 1999. They established the H. divide their time among homes in been associated with the Girl Scouts of 1942 with an industrial manageAtlanta, Sea Island, Ga., Delray Beach, for more than 30 years and currently is Milton Stewart Endowment Fund for ment degree. He and Dot married in ISyE Programs and the Carolyn J. Fla., and Highlands, N.C. But their editing a book for the Trefoil Guild, a August of that year. He also began his Stewart Chair Professorship. In addihearts are never far from the Georgia Girl Scouts alumnae group. She is a Navy service. Together, the Pooles tion, the Stewarts support scholarships Tech campus. Joanne Delany has been past president and a member of the reared three children, Gayle, Pamela for female students from Habersham a faithful Tech supporter since she board of directors of the Current and Donna. High School. married Julian LeCraw in 1952, the An accomplished artist, she paint- Historians at the Atlanta History Center and served as a tour guide for the Atlanta Preservation Center/Fox Theatre for more than a dozen years. Somers has a graduate degree in communication from Georgia State University. Land Continued from Page 9 Roll Call Endowment Council committees. He served on the College of Management and Georgia Tech advisory boards and the Alexander-Tharpe Fund board. He was named to the College of Management Hall of Fame in 2005. The campus benefits from the College of Management’s Lynne and A.J. Land Graduate Study Room at Technology Square as well as his key contributions to the Class of 1960 Yellow Jacket Park and renovations of the Swann and Savant buildings and Sigma Chi fraternity house. He and his wife, Lynne, have two grown children and three grandchildren. Tennenbaum Continued from Page 9 Tech Steering Committee. He is an emeritus member of the Georgia Tech Foundation board, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and the Industrial Systems and Engineering Advisory Board and served on the Class of 1958 40th reunion committee. Tennenbaum was recognized as both an Industrial and Systems Engineering and College of Engineering distinguished alumnus in 1994, and he was named to the Industrial and Systems Engineering Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 1996. Tennenbaum has two grown children and is married to Suzanne Stockfisch. TECHTOPICS | SPRING 2008 11

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