Olympic Envoys

Group from Tech will help prepare for Games' competitors

While teams of Olympic athletes are preparing for competition in the athletic arena, a group of volunteers are training as envoys to see that the Olympic teams don't get tripped up over protocol. Fifteen Georgia Tech alumni and a professor of international affairs are serving as volunteer envoys to Olympic teams from countries participating in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.

The envoy program will function at the Olympic Village, on Tech campus. The envoys are participating in a two-year training program addressing such issues as protocol and global diversity that concludes in June 1996, followed by full-time service during the Summer Games--from June 27 through Aug. 7, 1996.

Envoys and the Olympic team to which they are assigned include: