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Ten outstanding leaders, including four business executives who were presented the Georgia Tech Alumni Association's highest award, were recognized for their exemplary achievements at the fourth annual Gold & White Honors event on March 15 at the Atlanta History Center.
Janice Wittschiebe, Alumni Association chair, and Bill Goodhew, past chair, presented the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Awards, the Association's recognition for a lifetime of leadership, achievement and service. Receiving the awards were:
Charles W. "Charlie" Brady, IM 57, chairman of AMVESCAP, the world's largest publicly traded asset management firm; David M. "Dave" McKenney, Phys 60, IE 64, chairman of McKenney's Management Corp., mechanical contractors for the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest; Joseph W. "Joe" Rogers Jr., IM 68, chairman and CEO of Waffle House, the second largest 24-hour restaurant chain in the country; and H. Milt Stewart Jr., IE 61, retired chairman of the Standard Group of Cornelia, Ga., and for whom Tech's industrial and systems engineering school is named.
The Outstanding Young Alumnus award went to Susan M. Davis, AB 91, the first female Buzz, a trustee of the Alumni Association and director of development for CARE USA.
A recognition that pays tribute to legendary dean of students George C. Griffin — the Dean Griffin Community Service Award — was presented to Stanley S. Sattinger, ME 62, president and co-founder of the all-volunteer Montour Trail Council in western Pennsylvania, and James R. Lientz Jr., IM 65, appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue as Georgia's first-ever chief operating officer, whose service to the Institute includes a current term on the Georgia Tech Foundation board and earlier service on the Alumni Association board of trustees, Georgia Tech Advisory Board and College of Management Advisory Board.
The designation of honorary alumnus was awarded to H. Inman Allen, James W. "Bill" Ray and Jean-Marie Rausch, who was unable to attend.
Allen is a generous benefactor of the Ivan Allen College, named for his father, the late Ivan Allen Jr., Com 33. Ray, a retired Army major general, served as vice president for facilities when the campus served as the Olympic Village in 1996, then vice president of business and finance of the Athletic Association and then joined Draper Associates, representing the Georgia Tech Foundation in the construction of Technology Square; Rausch, former mayor of Metz, France, and a visionary force in the founding of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, is the first honorary alumnus from Europe.
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