Georgia Institute of Technology - Blueprint Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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SIXTY-SIX YEARS OF PROGRESS On November 21. lo 2, the General Assembly passed a resolution to consider the establishment of a technical school in Georgia. In 1885 the law was passed appropriating §65,000 for the institution, and on October 7, 1888, the installation ceremonies were held at the Opera House in Atlanta. On July 1. 1944. Dr. Blake Ragsdale Van Leer became the fifth president of the Institution. The succeeding decade has witnessed the steady growth of the student body, of the faculty and staff, and of the jjbysical facilities of the Institution. Research Station Callaway Apartments Smith Dormitory 12

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f ' liui !iiin fli ' unwillitigly forced into specialization lie- caust of ilic loMstant broadening of the field a a whole. I)ut it might he well to remember that, like the medical student, there is always the real need lor the gene?al practitioner. He is the liai-on man between the specialist and the |)ri)du(lion line. In other words, the man who knows and also can do. During my year in tlie mar- ket place. I have observed thai the engineer with the practical bent i a rarer bird than one would think and highly prized in the industrial field. I have met too many techni- cal men with training and intelli- gence who liave failed practically because of a lack of broad per- spective, who have not Iieen trained iha! a grasp of the whole problem is a necessity in this compftilive era. They have become -uch slave. ' to rule of textbook that powers of imagination are stultified. They are frequently unable to sift the less significant from the significant as affects the whole. Specialists, re- search men, of course, particularly when as toda each field has a lliousand facel.- , but also the man who can link the pilot line with the production line. 1 feel real aliility ir) this faculty to be partially a gift, and where this gift is recog- nized, it should be encouraged. But I am also convinced thai there should be general exercises which will tend to iJeveloj) the muscles of the minds of all engineering stu- dents to stretch beyond the labora- tory and the drafting board. I do not mean this to take on the lone of an address to the graduating class, but I sneaked this into the text as I feel sironglv on these matters. Haiard Reeves i-ikf ifftl Cliff nt l9Si. The great nnditional hero tmeticttn literature created by Horatio Alger is not yet • rnmvleie t ' lV im 0 high taxes and our atomic uay ot lite. Here is a man tcho fits that classic pattern established by the late 19th century creitor of the rags-to-riches ideology. Admittedly there are fete of his ilk left in this tcortd, but the basic fact that there are still some around should give us all some hope for the future. Hazard Reetes received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineer. ! ' ig from Tech in June of 1928 after a better.than.aeerage record as a student, .ifter graduation, he migrated to jVcii ' Yorfi City to sitend six months or so gaining experience before returning to his native Southland to tcork. He landed a job leith a recording company ot $2fj per leeek and became .0 infatuated uith the then infant sound industry that he niter returned to his native area. Today, fust IKenly-six years after his graduation, he heads three large corporations, alt giants of the sound field: Reeves Sound Studio, Incorporated, the East ' s largest independent ound company ; Cinerama, Incorporated, the engineering ' ompany that developed the giant of the 3.0 business ; and Reeves Soundcraft Corporation, a large company irhicb di- rects the operations of a number of companies manufacturing I variety nf products from color television cameras to magnetic film. In addition to these and other business activities. Hazard ' s president of the .Vcir York Georgia Tech Club, and a memt ' er of the Economic Club of Vctr York and the Society •. Motion Picture and Television Engineers, . ' in ardent fish, ' ■rman and ham radio ' enthusittst. Hazard lives in Neu; ey with his wife and tieo teen-age JOns. The horizons open to the sludenls of today are cer- tainly unlimited. He will live to see more wonders than Horalio ever dreamed of. and 1 l)elicve he will ii e longer to enjoy them. I have heard it asked, whether or not he looks to the future wilh optimism and as a challenge. I would not know. However, I feel that optimism or pe.ssimism are slates of mind whirh aic not governed by the time.-. The are facels of the individual per- sonality. Simultaneously, there will be the fellow who says the tank is half empty and the one who says the tajik is half full. I do not think we need worry abcnit the s|tiril of the youth of today. He is of the innnan race and his ability lo roll with the punches is as much a part of him as is his appetite. With i ion and purpose, Geor- gia Tech has kept abreast of tins swift tempo of scientific advance. Today, she has become a fountain- head able to liberally contribute to the ever increasing require- menis f(n- technically trained man- power. The men who have made her such have surely done the world a great sei-vicc les. all this 1 saw and wa grateful that I could see it. My Alma Mater has expanded in giith, her progeny had mtdtiplied in number, but her spirit was of the same durable stuff. Her sons of ' 28; long scattered to the four winds, came back, brothers still, and she bid theni welcome. For that and the other tfiings she gave us in a time gone by. (rod bless her. Haz.ard E. Rekvks Class of 1928 A new fwisT ' Sai b )ert udded tc the tr- dUionial T

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