Alumni remembrances will be made available as podcasts throughout 2008 on the Alumni Association Web site.

A collection of alumni anecdotes "filled with humor, derring-do, accomplishments and every human emotion" are being made available as podcasts as part of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association's centennial celebration.

The Centennial Series begins Feb. 1 with four stories. A new story will be added each week throughout the Alumni Association's centennial observance. The clips are available in audio and video formats and vary between three and a half and five minutes in length at www.gtalumni.org/100.

Modeled after the successful feature on National Public Radio's StoryCorps, the series allows visitors to the Alumni Association's Web site to view and listen to clips and download them. Each added clip will be available on the site for the duration of the series.

Since its start in 1994, the Living History Program has conducted nearly 700 interviews with alumni, faculty and friends, compiling thousands of personal remembrances.

"It is a treasure trove of history that is filled with humor, derring-do, accomplishments and every human emotion one can imagine," said Marilyn Somers, founding director of the Living History Program.

The initial interviews are with Anne Marie Eaton, who enrolled in the industrial engineering program in 1942 and is Tech's oldest living alumna at 100; G.B. Espy, ME 57; Robert Broward, Arch 52; and John Endicott, retired international affairs faculty member and former director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy.

The podcasts add a new dimension to sharing the stories of alumni, faculty and friends, Somers said. Articles about alumni and faculty who have appeared in Living History interviews are featured in Tech Topics, as well as Living History's "Telling It Like It Was" Web page.

"This gives us a grand way to let others enjoy what we all have come to treasure so much," Somers said.