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Marion Luther Brittain Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953 [1]) was an American academic administrator and longest serving president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944. [2] Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief stint at the University of Chicago for graduate school, spent most of his life serving the ...
[194] [195] Among other centennial observances, a time capsule was placed in the Student Center, and a team of historians wrote a comprehensive guide to Georgia Tech's history, Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885–1985. [196] [b] In 1986, Pettit died of cancer, and Henry C. Bourne Jr. served as interim president. [197]
In September 2015, the Georgia Institute of Technology received a $30 million grant from the Kendeda Fund for the purposes of building a green building on the institute's campus. [3] The grant was the single largest donation by the Kendeda Fund and one of the largest ever received by the institute. [ 4 ]
The History of Freemasonry, Vol. 6 (Masonic History Co., NY, 1898) pages 1485-1486 online membership by state 1898 Weisberger, R. William et al. Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Essays concerning the Craft in the British Isles, Europe, the United States, and Mexico (2002), 969pp
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864 The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that ...
Smooth Ashlar Grand Lodge F&AAYM of Georgia John Wesley Alstork: 1909-1920: Olive Branch Grand Lodge of Alabama F&AAYM A. R. Robinson: 1920-1922: Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania F&AAYM Square S. Simmons: 1922-1941: Smooth Ashlar Grand Lodge F&AAYM of Georgia T. H. Pinkney: 1941-1942: Palmetto Grand Lodge of South Carolina Walter L. Turner: 1942-1952
Vaughan graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering chemistry in 1923. [1] While at Georgia Tech, Vaughan was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Delta Epsilon; a contributor to The Technique in 1918 and 1919; Assistant Editor (1922) and Editor-in-Chief (1923) of the Blue Print; Captain, R.O.T.C; and President, Emerson Chemical Society. [2]
The Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge in Atlanta, Georgia started in construction in 1937 and was completed in 1940. [1] It is a historic Prince Hall Masonic building located at 330 Auburn Avenue . An addition was added in 1941.