A 6-foot slide rule that was missing for more than 35 years is the newest addition to the Alumni House collection of Georgia Tech memorabilia that includes a replica of the whistle, sheet music for "Ramblin' Wreck" and Dean of Students George Griffin's hat.

"This particular slide rule was an actual teaching tool here at Tech from the late 1940s until calculators made their way to classrooms," Marilyn Somers, director of Living History, said. "It was 'liberated' from a classroom or storage area in the mid-1960s."

According to Somers, shortly after the liberation, the slide rule came into the possession of Murray Schine, Text 68.

Schine, past president of the LaGrange Georgia Tech Club, presented the rule to Somers at the club's March meeting. Another alum, Gerald Murphy, IM 71, owner of Murphy & Orr Exhibits, agreed to repair a broken part of the slide section and hang it from the ceiling on the mezzanine level of the Alumni House.

"A group of friends 'came by' that slide rule and gave it to me as a gift," Schine said. "I was designated keeper of the slide rule. I've carried that thing everywhere for the last 30 years. This year I decided the statute of limitations had surely expired and it was time for the slide rule to go home."