The idea of a school of
technology as a much needed lover

to address the technological and
industrial needs for

the state in the region after
the American Civil War came to fruition

eight hundred eighty two by that
year the idea was in the hands

of three specific men and
it flourished one was

John Fletcher Hanson from Macon considered
to be the father of Georgia Tech.

He was a self-made industrialist
who was owner of a newspaper

the Macon Telegraph and
owner of a textile firm Another

was that Faneuil when Harris
a college educated attorney

with a Bachelor of Arts degree whose
career blossomed as a public policy maker.

At the founding of Georgia Tech in eight
hundred eighty five he had just waged

a successful campaign for
the state legislature and

he would also mentally go on to
become governor of the state

the third craftsman was Henry Grady
a college educated journalist and

editor of The Atlanta Journal Constitution
who had a love of

literature literature and
history as well as a keen eye for

economic growth as evidence by
the coining of the concept the new South.

These three men aggressively pursued a
vision for how technology could transform

the educational landscape and
the economy of Georgia.

Creating a brand new horizon for the South
with its long standing tradition of

Agriculture and
I dare say slavery as the economic driver.

I reference these extraordinary this
extraordinary moment in the history of

Georgia Tech to emphasize that
this institution has always.

It's always been a place of
innovation at the crossroads.

As embodied by the very men who were so
key in its founding and

industrialist who understood the need for
technological and and

just trio innovation rather
than just agriculture

a social scientists who understood
the need for knowledge and

leadership in support of public policy
making especially regarding more

progressive ways to determine
economic impact a humanist

a writer who had a way
with words a very astute

socio political and
economic critique and a vision for

seeing the linkages between technology and
human progress and

other words technology social sciences and
humanities work hand in hand

at the very founding of Georgia Tech and
they are continuing to do so

over one hundred twenty five later
years later as the ivy now and

College of Liberal Arts reaches new
strengths in support of the excellence of

Georgia Tech as a top tier twenty
first century global university.

So today we celebrate our past
our present and our future.

We recognize staff faculty students
alumni campus colleagues and friends

our gratitude extends to all for
what you have done and are doing and what

we hope that you will continue to do going
forward forward in support of excellent.

We are pleased that you
have joined us today

we are especially
delighted to have with us.

So many members of our
College Advisory Board and

I would like for the members of our
board to please stand and be Recchi.

Thank you.

We are deeply grateful for the time that
all of you have invested in making this

college the very best that it can be.

Thank you for your extraordinary
insights your guidance of leadership and

most certainly your advocacy.

At the college we believe in quote are
critical in free and self self reflection

this year we asked staff back
to the student center LUMS of

the college to share their
perspectives on the liberal arts so

see now what people are saying about
what makes this so distinctive

liberal arts a George attack
has been on campus for

over one hundred years since eight
hundred eighty eight and every single one

Georgia Tech's president has made
statements about how important it

was not only to have engineering
not only to have technology but

also to have the liberal arts
represented we apply our creativity to

see what we can accomplish by
bringing together disciplines and

really exploring that difficult
challenging but being

intersection among the humanities social
sciences and technology the most unique

aspect of Liberal Arts in Georgia Tech is
how inner disciplinary one can be bring

a perspective to the grand challenges of
the day that technology tries to solve.

I think nothing about either now in
college just truly the professors and

students and faculty staff can compile
together their interest in issues

that affect the whole world and make them
the cookbook here to Georgia Tech for

the legacy of I have now and I've been on
college are very much in twine and that I.

Allen's legacy in the city of Atlanta was
about social and civic engagement and

we are trustees of that and

we by the nature of what
we do in humanities and

social sciences are the living evidence of

the vitality of that technology
doesn't just happen in a vacuum and

it really is the strength of the I'm
now in college to help strengthen both

the skills and the understanding
of why the world works based on

human beings who are feeling people
who thank not thinking people who feel

we really bring a rounded approach
to thinking about the future and

to create in the future so that when we
build these technical systems we've taken

into account the ways that they fit
into society and culture how science and

technology impacts people in their day to
day life I think that in some ways they

create a bridge between the magination and
the current I.A.C. the standard heads.

Research at Georgia Tech
strong scientific and

technological from the truth economy and

the society and
even reach the ending result

of several people research we say
perspective our humanity itself.

I mean our college does research

that brings innovation at the crossroads
of multiple disciplines and

that is where in Georgia Tech which
is already a highly interdisciplinary

environment that encourages people
to work together to solve problems.

The students I have encountered
in the I have no college or

going to be thought leaders and they
come to us already knowing that they're

not going to get the traditional
kind of liberal arts education but

one that looks towards
the future our grand.

It's frequently remark that this training
provides increased competitiveness in

the employment market place in business or
government or in non profit organizations.

We want to teach our students professional
communication skills critical thinking

skills and into a culture of competence
college graduates borders are meaningless.

They raise their importance
to us we interact with so

many different types of
people on a daily basis.

We have programs leadership programs and
and advisory boards for students and

students run that emphasize
their leadership and

I think that they graduate from our
college with a lot of experience

as leaders want to see at Georgia Tech
has a long and proud history.

It started with nine hundred seventeen and
the foundation of putting R.G.C.

under Ivan Allen college
the supreme leadership development.

I mean on the college continues to
integrate itself as a major part of

the greater agenda at Georgia Tech.

It's been very exciting to see
Georgia Tech's liberal arts move more and

more to the forefront future of the I
mean Ellen college is right and

is critically important for
the overall INSTITUTE FOR

OUR I have an hour and Jack from all

of us to be either now in college liberal
arts techniques on either side you know.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congrats on one other hundred twenty five
years of Liberal Arts a church attack.

Well done.

Great to go.

I just like to wish I'd been out
of college some kind of happy one

hundred twenty fifth happy class
we sent ten are very happy and

ten you cannot say see
you happy anniversary.

Congratulations happy one
hundred twenty fifth.

Congratulations Here's another
hundred twenty five you carry every.

We're smart but
we like to have a little bit of fun too.

Now I like to offer a very warm welcome
to the Georgia Tech president but

Peterson and to First Lady that
Peterson are joining us this day

we have please Dr Keith an eleventh
president of Georgia Tech

to have you here to bring
your thoughts today.

Good afternoon.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Bell and I are really pleased to be able
to join you here in this celebration.

Given that this is the Founders Day
celebration in one hundred

twenty fifth anniversary I thought it
might be appropriate to talk a little

bit about some of the history
of the Ivan Allen college and

in particular just very
briefly a little bit about

the history of liberal arts at
Georgia Tech in two thousand and

ten just about a year after I got to
Georgia Tech we celebrated the institute's

one hundred twenty fifth anniversary was
founded in one thousand nine hundred five.

We actually didn't admit any
students until three years later but

we claim that the Institute was founded
in one thousand nine hundred five and

since day one liberal arts have been
a bear at play a very very important

role and the opening sentence in
the book engineering the new South which

Dean Royster mentioned states that quote
The Georgia School of Technology that

first opened its doors to students in
October of eight hundred eighty eight and

the institutional response to
far reaching social cultural and

economic changes and those changes have
continued for the past one hundred twenty

five years and they continue to
change today a strategic component of

the way we continue to prepare leaders is
the Ivan L. and College of Liberal Arts.

Society today needs individuals that are
well versed in the liberal arts that can

communicate effectively that understand
the role of public policy that understand

the impact of technology on
a whole host of items issues and

advance the printed prospectus and eight
hundred eighty eight included six academic

subjects and they're the ones that you
probably think they are there which shop.

I didn't really think that was
an academic subject but there was shop.

Mathematics physics mechanics chemistry
and English and it didn't take long for

English to expand in one thousand nine
hundred eight the English department began

teaching economic theory of general
history political economy and

physical geography among
several other subjects but

over the years it has continued to
expand and today that it ranges over

a whole whole host of subject areas and
what I find most interesting about

the Ivan Allen college is the connection
that many of the subjects that are taught

in the Ivan Allen college book warts
how they connect with technology and

those of you that were here and played
a role in the development of the strategic

plan understand that one of the things
that we talked about during

the development of that strategic plan was
it has something to do with technology

then we ought to be in that space
Georgia Tech to be in that space and

the Ivan Allen college does a tremendous
amount to help us make sure that we are in

those spaces that have something
to do with technology today.

Many of the Ivan Allen college faculty and
staff are breaking boundaries and

moving forward in an extraordinary in a
distal is interdisciplinary approach here

at Georgia Tech the college itself
is making a significant contribution

to the Multidisciplinary research in
innovation that considers the human and

social dimensions of problem
solving Georgia Tech.

Simon Allen college is well known for.

Distinctive research and curriculum that
bridges the boundaries and bridges the gap

between the humanities social sciences and
other technical disciplines.

When I accepted the job
here at Georgia Tech.

I was at the University of Colorado
at Boulder and hadn't started yet.

But the student body president at
that time was a young man named

Nick Well Nick now I think is that Oxford.

He's doing well I think he said
I think he's studying at Oxford.

But he was a student body president and
he called me and

sent an email we set up a phone
conversation he called me he said

President Peterson the students and
I have some issues.

We'd like to talk with you about and
I said well that's fine.

Nick why don't you put together white
paper and send it to me and then when I

get there we'll meet and we can talk about
it but remember a lot of people bring me

problems and I like people that bring the
solution since the second week I was here.

I met with those students and
they were incredibly very very it was

really my first interaction with Georgia
Tech student the very impressive and

Nick in his his fellow student leaders.

Number two on their list was to expand

the offerings in the liberal
arts that they felt like that.

If Georgia Tech and

they were going to be successful in
a global environment that they needed to

have a better understanding of the breadth
of subjects in the liberal liberal arts.

They thought that was essential in their
ability to be able to communicate with

people all around the world
as one would expect here

at Georgia Tech the I mean Alan college is
an innovator in education and research and

actually started some of
the end of a new innovations in

the one nine hundred sixty S. where they
were developing an approach that is and

that was and is today distinctively
different from the approach that

used to this used it many other
institutions where students can understand

learn and study about subjects in the.

Yes a great example is the importance
of connecting public policy and

technology in business government and

in our communities our students are
prepared to do that through the School of

Public Policy the Sam Nunn School
of International Affairs strives to

connect learning experience through its
interdisciplinary degree programs and

the Ivan Allen colleges
impact is far reaching.

If you have any doubt about how
important the Ivan Allen college is

to Georgia Tech think back to two
thousand and nine two thousand and

ten when we were trying to get well.

Should he be careful how I say
this when we had been invited

to join the A the Association of American
universities because you don't apply you

get invited but we were working very
hard to facilitate that invitation and

I had been in Colorado before
which was that a member and

listen to people talk about
why Georgia Tech should or

should not be admitted to the you and
it was interesting when I got here because

the conversation that I'd heard at the you
about Georgia Tech was very different

than the institution that I found the
breadth of subjects that were taught here.

The impact that I that I have an L.
in college had on our students and

on the academic programs that we had
we had not done a very good job of

representing that to be a membership and

when we were able to do that in a more
effective manner and they understood that

this wasn't just an engineering school but
it was a school it was an institution that

had three programs that were very distinct
distinctive because they connected.

Many of the subjects outside of
the traditional traditional science and

engineering to technological subjects and

advances in a way that was very
very unique the activities

of the Ivan Allen college
the activities of the faculty and

the impact that it has on
our students was absolutely.

And you know absolutely tremendous.

What was tremendously effective and
important in our response to some of

the questions that were raised it during
the time we were being considered for

admission to the and if we didn't have
an effective college liberal arts if

we didn't have the Ivan Eland college
level our Georgia Tech would not be in

the Association of American
universities today.

Congratulations on one
hundred twenty five years.

Gratulations the faculty the staff and
I want to thank the about your board for

being here and for all that you do and
I'm looking forward to the panel thank you

very much because well
thank you Dr Peterson for

joining us today taking time out of
your busy schedule to be with us.

I like to invite the panelists
to come to the stage

as

well now you see you keep this

in mind right here but

I have favorite game is

musical chairs that

while we do these last minute moves

those of you who attended our morning
panel again I think quiet and

rich to understanding of the breath
an impact of our search.

In bridging the liberal arts and
technology our dialogue this afternoon

is attended to explore even more
deeply the Multidisciplinary

environment in which we function from
the perspective of the liberal arts and

its commitment to reach
beyond our areas to others.

Our panel of this afternoon brings
together Georgia Tech faculty an alumni

whose education and
careers are intriguing models for

trance banditry learning leadership and
innovation.

They represent the public and
private sectors social sciences and

humanities engineering architecture and
computing as well as

the extraordinary potential that resides
at the intersection of these sectors and

this quite provocative era of
global challenge and opportunity.

I'm very pleased to introduce our
moderator Georgia Tech provost and

executive vice president for
academic affairs Raphael bras.

Dr bras professor of the in the school who
of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

And the School of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences is the first

Georgia Tech faculty member to hold
the new Harrison Brown family chair

before Georgia Tech he was a distinguished
professor and minister writer and

leader in engineering at the University
of California Irvine and

the message uses Institute
of Technology we and

advisory capacity to many governmental
agencies and private institutions.

Among them the National Science Foundation
the National Research Council NASA

the National Academy of Sciences
as well as Cornell Princeton and

Johns Hopkins University.

He is every Sippy in
an extraordinary a ray of honor.

And fellowships and a member of
the US National Academy of Engineering and

his wide ranks three years of influence.

Dr bras represents the multiple
strengths of Georgia Tech and

he will moderate our dialogue one
Georgia Tech the liberal arts and

the twenty first century innovation and
learning of robust broadcast.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure being here.

Thank you.
Putting be patient to say congratulations

to i'll And
this is a wonderful I'm to celebrate I

think that to be the the overarching
theme of our discussion.

They are your wonderful analysts.

But I know that you are all wonderful but

your time will be limited by the way

we have based on the instructions I've
been due in about forty five minutes.

So we what I will do is ask
them questions just to dinner.

It is them and maybe after half an hour a
holes will stop them half of them probably

have questions they've got great I will
now begin by troubles in the panel and

make some comments on ROFF was a question.

First of all it's a pleasure
to have here also

the dog us you know how it's been for
a while.

That's the all of the land
that Regional Commission.

So I think he repeats those everything but
I've tried to

go in the city bring in the city with the
weather bring in the regions the weather.

He's a good friend.

I'm a graduate I understand
all by five mile an hour and

a good friend of his challenges in
this CD and his imagination in solving

the challenges of this CD very well
recognized throughout the region.

And those of those that live
here very much appreciated.

But then can also pull professor.

Former dean FORMER CHAIR
been here forever.

You can also

founding director of that
out of power plant have

his the press and in the press to hear

those things which I love but
we found something in common for

many hours by now and
I really appreciate that.

I think the future of the rule of law

will be one of the pleasures
of the coming to

rules has been a friend of George.

He's a very successful
founder of Berkshire

if you are anywhere about anything
you know Berkshire capital.

He's a public he has
a benefactor of the poetry.

He has been an extraordinary supporter for
which I'm very appreciative

the community certainly which
is that way has a degree.

A recent degree a Ph D.
from Harvard University in literature and

religion about everything and anything.

All the time is the class here which

were changing conscience that.

But woke up.

They've been

a professor here Nancy

has written many influential books
very well known in the field.

I learned that she was retiring and
moving to try to convince her

Why do you want to go back to that weather
and she said but I was born there.

I said but I lived there for
forty years I don't want to go back.

Yeah the problem is

killing it out of thought out or

some percent of all
the nature of invention and

innovation in science something that

a lot of respect nationwide is that
let me make a few comments and

try to get it going that way as I
said we're here to celebrate and

I will describe it to celebrate that

because those English
classes are back in three and

when I interviewed here I remember
being asked what do you think of

the liberal arts pretty

well I'm really not interested in just
that teaching of liberal arts but

I'm interested interested in the leaving
lovelier arts than the other words

the liberal arts being embedded I'm
being hard over everything we do I

need to see what's been going
on lately you see that that he's

doing his continuously increasing maybe
the most significant is if you really are.

And I like to start all my vision
of Georgia because a very important

to remember is to define
the technological research university

of the twenty first century we
find we don't know technology

and I love and I am always thrilled
to say we don't have that George that

we know who we are very
important twenty first century.

Looking forward.

We're not talking of a college or
certainly not talking of engineering only

gives us the challenge that we are in and
we need to develop

some ways that we can ask questions and

I'm just going to throw money
that you can use as background.

How how those are promoting
what are the opportunities

how the college probably
has become a combiner

How does the business person the engineer
the scientists of the twenty first of

the twenty first century
look with Labor are in mind

when we think of the challenges
of the issues of the future.

Think of them security climate environment

public health all of those so
caring in a very flat world

when you think of it that way it
is clear that it is not science.

Henri Paul.

It is not engineering alone.

It's certainly not computer science put

it all together we can not address
those problems will not be resolved

so that as a background
let me just begin and I.

I don't know what order my ride been going

so I think when you hear.

Maybe I'll start with Bruce and
Bruce you've had an enormous.

How about enormously business and
from there you have moved to other areas

looting the local feel really I
think interesting combination.

You clearly have a great upper important
science the From your perspective but

unique perspective but

I think it's it's quite important.

What college does is really quite
important here in integrating

the science and the and the arts and

I must say I was a student
here in the sixty's and

I think there really wasn't a lot of
progress from one thousand three hundred

sixty because they were just English
classes those were the only of those

were only the only you know
alternatives that you had and

it's the growth since then is is
amazing but I read a quote and

I want to I want to read a quote this
is out of Isaac Jacobson Steven Jobs.

I don't know what you think
about Stephen's personality but

he could be one of the giants
of this this century along with

Edison I seem to say he's
without a set and with Ford.

As an industrial and
this is the sort of last

comments that he's talking with
I succeed in that he said.

Edward Land Polaroid talked about

the intersection of the humanities and
science.

I like that intersection.

There's something magical about that
place there's a lot of people innovating.

And that's the not and
not the main distinction of my career.

Reason Apple resonates with people

is that there's a deep current
of humanity in our innovation.

I think great artist and
great engineers are similar.

They have both have a desire
to express themselves

in fact some of the best people working
on the original Mac. were poets and

musicians on the side in the seventy's
computers came a way for

people to express their creativity great
artists like Leonardo da Vinci and

Michelangelo were also great at science.

Michael Angelo knew a lot
about how to Cory stone.

Not just how to be a sculptor.

So I think you have to
put that all together and

I think we have a lot of
renaissance people here

at Georgia Tech at the school it's in
tracks a lot of intelligent people and

they just don't have a lot of outlets for
that and I think it's our problem.

Our it's incumbent upon us to be able
to give them those alternatives.

We have in the way we technology
is wonderful because it is that

fundamental strength of it's
got me through business.

It got me through the ology school as
well but you've got to have that and

you've got to you've got to have
the creative the creative side as well and

people are going to read and you know
they're going to educate themselves if

we don't educate them info we can give
them those alternatives it just makes it.

I think you see.

Let me quickly lose one person in
the panel you want to go anyway it was

Bowen or quickly respond to.

Comment on what Bruce has said

reminding us that today we're not only
celebrating the hundred twenty fifth

anniversary in effect of
the liberal arts at Georgia Tech.

But as many of us know who've been
listening to N.P.R. and other media.

This is the twenty fifth anniversary
of the World Wide Web And

I think it is no coincidence
that the i Phone Alan college

really came into being as a consequence
of restructuring that was taking place.

Approximately twenty five years
ago the units that make up

the Ivan Allen college have
benefited enormously by being able

to in effect expand and
the communication technology and

all that that means over the World
Wide Web This collaborative network

has allowed us not only to interact
with each other on campus but

obviously nationally and internationally
as well this morning as I was

driving in I was remembering
vividly the first time

I had enabled a modem
connection with Georgia Tech

one of those cradle modems that some
of you remember where you put it in and

then an extraordinary sound would come out
you'd say this is never going to work and

suddenly lo and behold people
houses computer H.T.S. in effect.

It was actually on line and

I could I could exchange some
simple messages with them.

I think that it's extraordinary to me to
think that that was only twenty five years

ago and how much that technology has meant

to and affect all of our collaborative
efforts not only within the college but

obviously within within
the institution as well.

So I quickly.

Make that comment fully Bruce's

reference to Steve Jobs but
only on that theme if I may have a dog.

You are in in the in that job of
bringing communities together and

bring in the region to gather
a every unit and community and

I would say and I've got to make community
aware not the only ones in that sphere and

that really to work together for
the betterment of the rounding area.

Following that I the that
he already got me that

communication should be thoughtfully.

It should be the way it should flow but

it's not always that way so
as you are experienced in that's a year.

How how Georgette big and
how that of an island call ACE

can help engage better in
the community and improve

that communication of which I think it's
key to solving the problems of the region.

Great question.

I wish I had a good answer for
you but let me offer some thoughts.

Not necessarily a definitive answer but

I had the occasion to speak
to a group of students and

faculty just earlier this
week about public policy and

an heiress these wrote about public
policy and in response to a question

I was asked specifically
about I said I researched

every student had an opportunity
Rex really had a Band-Aid

frankly they have a course of
the intersection of technology policy.

Just because no matter where you

come from out of this university
getting into the bigger world.

They've been truly your maturation as a
professional and as an adult is going to.

It you to think about the ethical and
human consequences and

intersections of the work
that you do I think

unfortunately too many of us as
citizens and as technical logical

to professionals come to those
questions mid career and

late career late life as opposed to
being aware of the possibilities and

the existence of the questers early
on when we're young and eager and

just beginning to to explore ourselves
in our in our disciplines and

I think if we had a better
framework early on.

Let's think about how
our work interests six

the very foundations of
human living of community

of interaction whether it's interaction
in a fictional way or interaction in

a collaborative way I think we had that
as a framework for beginning our career.

We were fried ourselves much more curious
about and much more willing to engage in

how we come together and natural human
intersections of community whether

it's across party lines across racial
ethnic lines are those kinds of things.

Our biggest challenges and they are seeing
getting communities to work together

to get them to break the barriers or
where they're different

to begin to see with their common and
build from there and always will.

And we can get them to come together
around what they have in common which they

found out they inevitably they find out
they have a lot more than they realize but

we find that we can make a lot
more progress but a big part

of our time is getting the stuff about
the defense of a why am I different and

begin thinking from the beginning of
my life where do we have a common

aspiration a common joy a common objective
so from the Georgia Tech perspective.

Once again I don't have
a definitive answer but

I offer you some thoughts encouraging
students in the technology side of of the.

The institution whether that's in
science or engineering to really get

more into exploration of
the liberal arts and humanities and

vice versa you press your nose
on the liberal arts to explore

issues of technology and
ethics in their work.

I think is the blend of the two
that is the real power of

the individual that we create or
have the potential to help create that

comment but I don't disagree with you.

Well that I fully agree with you and

I think this one thing to say
is the earlier the better but

I think it was the first book that
I think that we should have but

we do have some I think we should have
more something on the line of you know

these sort of integrated freshman seminars
where they take up all the range of

the group of students and begin to
reflect at the beginning of their career.

Absolutely.

But I mean in some cases.

I mean this is not a jab at the College
of computing that I'm in but

the ethics the students they don't.

It's not required until their junior year
and many of them take it in this sort of

going out the door and at that point I
feel it feels like an ethics binocular

vision as opposed to you know
have a freshman or sophomore

take this class because then they can
from the moment they start thinking

you know they can begin to think about
the ethical implications of their heels

on that and you are expert

understanding that cognition of
invention and innovation and

the science up that knowledge
going to one of the.

We have our Bruce involves
a lot of well that

is the process of battle and

they are would be

the creation of probably over or three or

defining and you need more computer
algorithms are we wrong or are we right.

Knowing something I've been blowing for
many many years.

First of all you said it
right that it's a process.

OK Most people think of some kind of

a business blasted all of a sudden
there is a creative moment.

Well it does often happen you know you do
step on a bus and suddenly you figure out

how to do a mathematical problem that
you've been wrestling with for a long time

but in fact it is a process and that it's
only the prepared mind the one that's been

wrestling and struggling you've a problem
and the problem is other things that we

focus on so I would say that the thing
that's going across all Creativity

is that it's a problem
driven even artists writers

musicians are trying to solve problems
as well as formulate and solve problems.

I mean think about the problem
of perspective and

the Renaissance this is a problem
representation in our early twentieth

century changes in art you know
basically writing for example

Jack Kerouac toted the fact that he wrote
this you know on the road in one sitting.

Well and his girlfriend comes back many
years later and says No he wrote so

many drafts of that because he couldn't
figure out how to tell a story.

Well relating those problems and

solving those problems requires the same
kinds of cognitive processes that go into.

Nearing and science problems.

There are a couple of factors
I mean I don't you know I

don't pretend to say that I really
know all about scientific cognition.

But I know that there are certain aspects
of science because of cognition rather

like visualisation analogy
making mental stimulation

through spot experimentation these again
go across the sciences arts humanities.

I myself have been a professional
musician an opera singer and

I was always amazed even though
scientists that just write

about how to think about in visual
eyes and internal The even visual

internal body would produce these
amazing sounds not just from me but

from the students in the master classes
where I was watching this happen to and

the other thing is that I think that
there are certain characteristics

then this is where the liberal arts
would really come into play and

I think have come into play in my own life
because I started out at the College of

Liberal Arts Boston University as
a physics major and a mathematics major

physics and math were in the College
of Liberal Arts they still are but

because I had the opportunity
of taking a range of things from

German language the Russian poetry and
or insulation to music.

Because I wanted about world
arts instead of about science.

You had the option to take
a course in philosophy which

then led to a double major lead
to me going getting a Ph D.

in philosophy I didn't even
know the subject existed.

So the liberal arts I think
can hold certain things that I

think are very important for
creativity and innovation.

One is augmented flexibility
that is the ability to see

a problem from different perspectives
an ability to relate a problem from

different perspectives going in
formulating it to looking at it.

I mean I've tracked them
weren't innovations here in

Georgia Tech Research Labs and that.

One of the major things that's important.

Another is what I'm
calling epidemic awareness

but an awareness of the fact that every
enterprise you undertake and particularly

your scientific or engineering Enterprises
has with certain kinds of values.

What does it mean to be
a good scientist or engineer.

What does it mean to do good science or
engineering and

what does it mean to do a good stay
engineering as an electrical engineer

who's working with a biologist who has
a completely different perspective.

And if you don't understand and
value that first of all you can

reflect on your own perspective when you
are never going to be able to develop

another thing that's important which
is called interactive expertise

that is how are you going to be able to
interact with somebody from biology when.

After all when I read things like well but

they have weak minds they can't
do mathematics labor different

presuppositions in the biologists on the
other hand they're saying you know these

people they don't they don't really care
about you know the nitty gritty datapoints

they're just trying to average
over something at a model.

So I think that the you know there are a
range of characters this characteristics

that serious engagement
with the liberal arts

can develop and cultivate and
scientists in the years of visual

problems really sort of
integrate two of the experts.

And I think that for a long time the
Georgia Turk was really accomplished a lot

with its core curriculum and
we could remarkable in some of you.

Perhaps you've noticed
over the weekend the times

educational delight

Georgia Turk among all universities for.

I'm remembering correctly
that is an extraordinary.

Comment on the part of the times that U.K.
tional supplement and I think in part that

is a consequence of what Georgia Tech has
succeeded in doing with his curriculum.

I've just said I think it succeeded
in doing a lot with its curriculum

of requiring us to take
really courses with them.

Lab sciences within mathematics within
computer science within humanities and

liberal arts.

What it has not completely figured out yet

is how to bring all of those
together in the junior senior year.

How does one create that in
effect initial experience of

the importance of all of these disciplines
to bring them together in effect in

conceivably even senior design classes and
some of the discussions that we've had

really about the implications that this
might have for engineering are important

but I think the work that
I've had the privilege

of doing with Joe bang on this
summit on global issues and

leadership to bring students together
both at the undergraduate and

graduate level to confront some of these
major problems that are confronting

all of us has been one small experiment to

see to learn ourselves
how we can continue to

take advantage of this really remarkable
position the Georgia Tech is in but

then I was going to ask you with your
perspective here they do use the they

have a shot into the future but I think
you just gave me the answer right away.

They're reading minds.

And if not very hairs.

So I don't know those lines.

I may be out the door by.

Everybody.

I think given a challenge
on a person how far we have

in some way or other we mean there
are still some open questions

about the criminality of
the thinking that goes all we do

how do we highlight that come
back is not that far from

let's let's talk about what we
have seen are not different.

And in many ways starting with Steve Jobs

and I did read that book
he was referring also

how the real you know versions
would have all of those.

We have had included those people
thinking of the utilization of

the perception of the interocular So
that's what made it so.

So you may for thinking how

do we look twenty five years from now
take thirty because twenty five years

but

one thing you could give me one thing that

you would think that

one thing that would be in there
was a challenge leveraging off and

had Ted is really trying
to figure out ways to

think more creatively on their own I
think that we try in various ways.

Ways to do that but a lot of our education
is still what I would call menu driven so

they have to take some from here
some from there some from there.

And even you know but but
but there's very few and

ending experiences where they
are forced to confront problems

that actually integrate these and so
you know what I'm a big promoter and

have been a big promoter of problem driven
learning and problem driven education and

you know they need guidance to be
able to formulate the problems and

to understand all the various dimensions
of them and so I would like to see and

I see I would think to see that in the
future producing students who are really

good at integrative thinking
that if you want a lot out

of that but for
a slightly different amendment to it.

I think people basically have

the ability to think integrated
fully if they're exposed and so

I think it's not so
much of developing a set of courses or

curriculum that tries to put a framework
on the student integrated thinking

as much as giving them an environment for
exploring different dimensions

of a problem not just my problem from
their particular profession or or

scientific specialty by doing
that having them work across

different professional ways
of of thought you know having

a computer science major
with a religion major or

a philosophy major trying to deal with
an issue that offers them and invites them

the opportunity to think about through
an issue of a different perspective.

From the very beginning of their lives
their exposure to their own discipline and

I think it was just as all of
the window homes that wants that

the mind wants expanded never
treks to its original ground.

So if you put them in the environment if
you put them in the opportunity to have

to confront integrative approaches
to the larger challenges and

issues and opportunities.

I think they will naturally begin to adapt
their understanding of the fact that

there are other ways and other aspects
of dealing with these problems.

I bring your particular specialty to it
but I have to be open to other people

hoping to see the problems in a broader
concerts in Britain but I think you have

to take the straight jacket all the way
because that maybe it's not a four

year education maybe it's a five year
education than another major or something.

I mean the greatest thing that ever
happened to me at Georgia Tech was frankly

I got a WS of scholarship to
go to Germany for a year and

was thrown into a German university and
had to learn German and

you know I couldn't get a date or
buy toothpaste without speaking German and

you know it's different you know you
need to go to China or something but

you know that was
an incredible experience and

we also had a tech co-op experience where
people take that extra you hear it.

Is that that experience of being
out of the environment and

going into something totally different and
then coming back that I think

broadens the mind in some
way in some ways were so

pressured I see so many people
that just sort of go right through

go to business school get out you know
it's just there's totally on this track.

You don't have any time
to think about it and

that I think is what's going to
cause the integrated thinking mainly

we're in an age of specialization the
silos get deeper and deeper and deeper.

You've got to do great work and
whatever but you.

Can't you can't raise yourself up
out of that with the ability to

be able to see it to view it broadly
view it in a different context or

to push driven and particularly
these days where you're given so

much information mostly people
are not looking around.

They've got their face in and
i Phone or something.

Time.

And they're not even viewing the world
around them so you can't really get all

the signals that are really out there and
then and try to touch it and

a great scene as well as a poet's shout
to him to see that one that they have.

I mean I just think that the international
context of what we're doing in the future

is crucial and
I think that what again we're

challenged to do in an institution like
this is really understand how this

integration that we're talking about of
disciplines also involves multiple multi

lingual environments that we're
increasingly creating I think this is so

evident as one crosses this campus in the
past ten years that this is truly become

an international campus I remember fifteen
years or so ago going to Stanford and

seeing in effect of course
an international campus but

Georgia Tech looks very very much like the
Stanford campus today in many ways ways.

And I think this is one one way of but
the other quick comment I would have I

think it's enormously important for
people to understand home court and

examples are and I think that goes both
recognizing homeport interviews for

faculty to work with other faculty
that are not in the discipline but

they in effect were educated in
those examples of two faculty or

three faculty collaborating.

Serve and is an important.

Mark for those students that we work with
and I think that that's extraordinarily.

The other thing is I think students
are increasingly an example for

all of us because a lot of
the collaborative work is already taking

place in the minds of students and
they simply want to be able to be

given the creative opportunity to expand
on the ideas with the work that they're

already doing that maybe before opening
up let me challenge him a little bit.

Some of the thoughts I agree with him but
in my last years of the north.

I used the freshman class.

I was very strictly a freshman
class self selected no major

and it was a program he was a year
long program that I directed and

I want to illustrate it to make
the point that it is not only

changing the think things but
the high schools and

the fools who are because I
used to say in talking to this

that part of our problem or
challenge to our truck this to them.

We were getting and rebuild them.

And the example on that which
is very real is the following we

would open this is that
we would get a hundred

they would come in for

the class and we would express
what was going on in the class and

it was very simple say
you'll get no lecture.

This is the last round of your.

Here's your problem for the year.

He's sounding possible problem.

There are many infinite answers possible.

Well we're going to provide resources
you have organized yourself in teams.

According to your.

Percent of the year they look at you like

we've seen no homework

grew up because

I'm out of work because the point that
we're still trying to figure out what

do I care.

Yes but when you when I'm not

that I just don't know what I
rather go for and you fill me with.

So that

there must be some questions.

All

right.

Yeah

right.

But that goes directly to my
comment earlier about needing

to expose students to
the intersections of ethics and

technology and and
well just the just the whole

concept of a technical problem is not
merely a technical problem to be solved.

There are human error
community there ethical or

moral implications of what you're
about to do The matter how

noble the intent of what you're going
to do and having an appreciation

from the very beginning of your studies
that you get if you want to learn

to be an expert at whatever mechanical
engineering computer starts with ever

having an appreciation that there
are other questions to be asked.

So that from the very
beginning of your work and

your work in teams you
have that awareness.

I should be asking these
kinds of questions and

seeking the end put of other folks who
might have a different perspective on this

so that as I am developing this technology
of this wonderful stuff at least have some

appreciation that there are there may be
some things that I can't see about it for

better or for worse.

We always want to look at the rose colored
aspect of technology and it's not to let

out the bottle that we say well we didn't
realize that was going to happen because

you got to take the time to think about it
but we don't have a tradition of teaching

students to think about those things from
the very beginning and to question it

not that is wrong with their
exploration but be aware that there's

it's a broader problem than just the
technical question you're trying to solve.

So I mean that that's my next thing or
just another important thing

that I think that we do very well
in Georgia Tech and that is for

the students who are interested in those
kinds of things that things might be in.

Having a college of a.

They all have to have very
strong technical status but

they know what they're talking about
on the subject of knowing what we're

talking about one of the most important
words in the Georgia Tech brand is rigor.

We like to use that word a lot
of students learn to be rigorous

sometimes actually quoted with how
many different full equations or

how much static for
use in a problem solving.

But one of the challenges for liberal arts
is explaining to the world what it is

that we do and how it is rigorous Not
long after the president's undergraduate

research award program began I got a phone
call from the person running the program

who was reviewing a proposal from
a student it was what she said the student

apparently wants to spend a semester
in the library studying philosophy and

there was a long pause and she said is
that research and I had to explain.

I had to explain that yes indeed it could
be and that it could be done rigorously so

it has the word like this for me to the
word rigor does apply to our faculty and

our students as well as the Word been
misappropriated how do we convey

to the rest of Georgia Tech and
the world that what we do is

rigorous if not rigor in the sense
of Applied differential equations

about the professor but
I could make up answers that

the old native Americans say you can't
just my journey to you want to while I'm

out a mile in my in my footsteps.

It's very easy for a technical student
dismissed the liberal arts stuff as and

until they actually have to get involved
in doing it and thinking it through and

because it's not in their comfort zone.

It's not easy for

them to think through the philosophical
implications of an issue to do a policy

analysis of a particular technological
problem because it's not easy.

Isn't that natural Only then did they
begin to appreciate the possibility.

That rigor exists in other disciplines and

in other ways of thinking and once again I
come back to it I'll beat this drum till I

walk out the door that if you
don't force that exposure.

And you don't invite
them into an environment

that offers the opportunity to see that
you have rigor come from other modes or

other professions not
just your chosen tribe.

They won't naturally come to that I don't
think not until they get to be much older

as adults the biggest problem that
I think I had questions about

is getting them to rein to read a book
you know much less Moby Dick top

where they say about reading Moby Dick or
yeah or yeah.

So you know it is rigorous.

Why is that here waiting screens right.

I can quickly give Richard in
an answer and him actually.

Celebrate another accomplishment
of the other now in college but

mentioning Jeremy Ferris as some
of you know several years ago.

Jeremy Ferris was little but

I think the second student at Georgia Tech
that was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in

Germany Ferris had in effect what he
called a triple major at the time although

it was not possible to do that at tech his
real major was international affairs but

he really had also done a major in
biology and another one in philosophy and

he would appear at various places talking

in a philosophical discussion about
really the philosophy of science and

suddenly start talking about Cell Biology
in a really detailed way and

the students around him the graduate
student said How in the world.

What are you saying how do you know
that he said I would just just came back

from a international conference where
I gave a paper on my work on us.

This is the kind.

This is we're going to for
someone who can begin to draw together

experience of learning from different
disciplines offered by this institution

for them or so.

Bruce mentioned two
reference points poetry and

the I found and
people posing in some ways but

I think that they are both
examples of the power of our

representation of tradition and
that poetry is our most ancient form

from oral culture of sharing focus and
and.

Transmitting knowledge and
wisdom across time across space and

now we have and the the new technology

of a tremendous power such as
doesn't often come into human hands.

It's printing press as a camera and

now we have computation as a power of
representation and that was exactly what

Steve Jobs figured out when he looked
at those fools at Xerox PARC and

he was the they were and they were
using the representation of power

and that is what we celebrate in twenty
five years of the interviews he wanted

at its Tim Berners Lee who understood
if we all looked at things in

the same way we could share
our knowledge more powerful.

So my question to the panel
is how do you imagine and

if none of you in think about the future.

I mentioned how we might be using

digital media technology and
MIT just say that our graduate program.

Nationally ranked by Princeton Review
this week by the way we're counting.

But impartially I mean
we have tremendous power

across campus and
computation of representation.

We have a lot of disciplines that
are too complex to put in a book.

How are we going to have was when
the future we're going to be

using I don't know because

twenty five years ago I could tell you
I'm going to use the World Wide Web.

I don't have the power foresight so
I can expect the only thing I would

say is that modeling and simulation is the
future and so is the future in education.

It's the future in science that's
happening now in engineering.

That's happening now.

And so I think that this is
this is our fundamental the new

representation on medium.

That's now going from
just you know the world.

If you scientists to the world of

everybody else that it's the medium
that's being pushed down now.

For example high school biology is
being taught to computational media and

simulation.

So I see the future for those more and

more at the other think of science as this
notion of distributed cognition and so

that we humans distribute our cognition
over artifacts that then make

us smarter and make us capable of having
more cognitive powers and so we increase

our cognitive powers and I think that we
and computational systems are really not

in the sense of recruits well of us going
into them and whatever this sort of stuff.

But we're becoming more and more
a distributed cognitive system that like

with the pencil in the paper
we couldn't think.

Well we can't think without
the computer it's beginning to be

more and more the case.

I think that's fascinating
because I think it's a tool.

I mean I think there's a slide rule
out there which I hand carried around

sort of some others did too but
you know it's a it's a tool.

I had a I worked in a group in the
Pentagon called Systems Analysis Group we

sort of had to put together great studies
and the rand company did a great study on.

Fighter aircraft.

You know and they are limits on fighter
aircraft what we found out was that

it didn't matter what kind of armament
you put on those fighter aircraft there

are people that are called aces and they
go up and they feel people when they get

in the sky and so
you have to it's how you use the tool and

so are you cognitive Are you really
great about how you use the tool and

can you see the bigger
picture with that too.

You can see a much bigger picture with
that to which you can sort of you know

you have to stay grounded and

you were going to have those of my for
up if I have the last word.

But I I would say and
I put this us the challenge to all of us

because there's something very marked
with the faculty many of the issues.

The problem is realizing that times change

and we will be all that maybe we
do not have all the answers and

that in fact somebody else came up with
a better way of communicating in a day and

creating you have perfect
examples of that right.

The Internet where one way it is this is
just an incredible great little think.

Disputed that.

If Tim Berners Lee had
not had the love for

you of doing that and
I want to be and I know.

Ignoring of but for the government and

by the way the guy who told one of the
problem we're going to give you a penny or

he said I don't want any

less where wheeling all
that will never go ahead.

But let me and by banking and
I have one thing for you.

I have the same problem with your house I
live in Vienna Austria for seven months.

I tried to learn German
it would not work but

I had a wife who saw about
sold all my problems.

Thank you very much.

Thank you to panel thank you.

Our panelists are stepping down to earth.

Part of our program we really do
want to thank them once again for

helping us to think about what
it means to mark a moment.

It's one of the things that we
recognize in marking moments.

Is that we acknowledge that
the best is yet to come.

That whatever we are marking
now means that it's better

to look ahead and
imagine what might be in the future.

So join me and thanking all of them once

again thank

the kind of trance Barry thinking
that we have focused on today under

the banner of one Georgia Tech is also
the legacy of a great Georgia Tech

alumnus transport formation of the leader
of this city and the man for whom.

This college is named I mean Alan Jr
who was mayor of Atlanta for

two terms from one nine hundred
sixty to one nine hundred seventy.

I'm in now in college is proud to be among
those who are supporting a wonderful

new venture a documentary about
Mayor Allen that will air

on Georgia Public Broadcasting this year.

Our next guest is the producer
of that documentary.

A Cantrip spirit to the Alan
values his work and

this very powerful medium helps people
to understand what it means to cross

boundaries rediscover our commonalities.

We're delighted to have him have him give
us a special sneak peek of this program.

Please welcome Mr David Duke.

Thank

you thank you for
anyone over forty years old.

I usually have to start
by saying that my name is

actually David Hughes due
that I'm a native Atlanta.

And I'm not from Louisiana.

So having said that I also.

All of my academic background
is in English literature.

Along with studies and
history in music and

fact my focus was on the works of Dickens
so I have indeed bred a lot of books and

a lot of very long books and
I'll have to say those studies and

form and inspire are every
bit of my vocation in life.

The filmmaking part but also even
the running the small business part of it.

So I am all for what you're doing here.

This film which we'll see just a segment

of today it's really been a labor of love
for me and for my colleague John do.

John would you please stand.

This is a story that I really
wanted to tell for for

many years a new Mayor Allen personally.

When I was a young man and
he was an old man.

I happen to be an alumnus of the same
school that I've been Alan and

Lester Maddox both attended O'Keefe
which is now part of Georgia Tech

when I was there it was a high school and

I entered O'Keeffe high school in one
thousand nine hundred sixty seven

which was right in the middle of the city
of Atlanta schools being integrated.

And I could tell you some pretty wonderful
stories about that school at that time

that I don't have time to tell you today.

Maybe that's another film.

I actually went to school
with Lester Maddox his nephew

from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Although I never met
Lester Maddox I have eaten fried

chicken at the picnic restaurant.

Which is now also part of Georgia Tech and
I was here in Atlanta.

Growing up one of the infamous axe
handles and all of that news broke.

There is a pain that I carry with me
to bed every night that I have for

years and that is that the incredibly
polarized society that

we now have that we live in and
I wonder sometimes that

our politicians don't realize that
maybe John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

had competing ideas that they did not
agree with each other and that this

country never could have been started
without the meeting of those ideas.

Life really is not just about
relationships life is relationships and

I believe that filmmaking.

And in our case public T.V.

filmmaking can do more than just
educator entertain and it can.

Give people a meeting place that
can replace the old town square

which was not as diverse as it should have
been but was a valuable thing to have

a weight in our films we try to bring U.N.

so that you actually know you feel that
you've known the people in the film and

usually their voices are the only
voices in the film and.

Often there's no narrator at all other
than the real people who are in the film.

We just step outside of out of the way and

give give people the opportunity to
know them and that speaks for itself.

Of what I've been Alan did and
the other people that he

managed to cooperate and partner
with here in Atlanta in the sixty's.

I think should be a role model for
our society today.

It's one of the reasons I wanted
to do this film I have been really

thrilled that mildest son has been able
to sit with me in interviews of people

ranging from the student leader of Snick

at Atlanta University who started
the student protest here at two and

a young and Jimmy Carter and just so
many others because it's not just history.

It's our future.

I'm really encouraged and inspired by the
very existence of the I mean Allan college

and the vision in the practice
of using technology not only for

information and not even only for
education but to build relationships

to help eliminate the fear
that people have of the other

to reinstate the healthy exchange of
competing ideas in this country and

to foster respect.

And even love for people who are different

from what we are because without
this I don't think that we will.

Thrive I don't think we will even survive

as a society in the world with
the challenges that we have today.

So my humble but

ambitious hope is that this film will
strike a chord with people that will speak

to people other than just preaching to the
choir but it will raise some awareness.

Not by my message or
John's message but by the actual Life

of Ivan Allen and those many others
that were key to that period.

Now what you'll see today is
a nine to ten minute segment.

Only this focuses on only one of them
of his life and this is his testimony.

To the to a congressional committee on
the a public Public Accommodations Act.

So I hope you enjoy it and my son and

I will be around they answer
questions if you have any afterward.

Thank you very much

about the time he was read to
I was just going to have to

do some for him and I came back to him so

he threw it back to my hometown having
to would you say that I was president at

the time of Commerce when I've been out
of savings maybe one of the things he

would testify accommodation had to sort of

I probably would not have a testimony

in the South who had similar
sentiments time they were and

they were certainly true
if he took a public stand.

Some people take the big risk that he will

reveal but a few to testify

to this will consume his cool.

He said there's no way but I can let
it affect the mother of John Kennedy.

I think you might be around in that
case I need you to do it said about

talked to her to do

just the right thing was on
the Commerce Committee it was

the Commerce Committee that was holding
the hearings on the public accommodations

portion of the bill and third was
the chief opponent on the committee

would not go before the Judiciary
Committee things fundamentalists

of that go before the district
because the chairman

of the bad without would never let the
bill out of this committee that's how so

many other things had been it was
said that Jamison had an extra pocket

right there will never get out of
this committee put together the last

people who would come in
very careful not to have

just saw them make this just an issue
of the South versus the north and

so came and

spoke against the Bill Bradley the leader
of a neighborhood organization in the.

Talked about how I had gone
through in his neighborhood and

after the second verse I was
trying to do the same thing.

It was it was vinyl the bank would testify
this is going to be a good thing for

the self and I had a hard time finding
them testify before Congress wants

to the cameras so

much of the question was to
say listen to the just a bit

wrong would have been a traffic jam about

a passing segregationist

the side of the supergame
was rooted in state's rights

of property owners the freedom
of business owners to organize

their businesses to not be
interfered by the state pursuit that

very vigorously the other side was
the fourteenth Amendment protection

should apply equally for our citizens
regardless of race or intentional.

Like I have and I was really in a bind
because you had the Brown decision that

was being applied and there is a public
accommodation and transportation.

But you also had state segregation

critical to the bill ride the federal
government was able to regulate

private enterprise and
it was the power of Congress to

regulate interstate commerce and so
it was actually in retrospect a pretty

controversial way legally took
still Congress's power and

it was not without many critics but
was the calling card for segregationist

that all of these issues were issues
that should be left to the States.

One of the things they gave of
powers of the fact that it was so

deeply rooted in American legal and
political tradition but

there had been this constant debate within
American politics over the rights of

states and localities versus the rights of
the federal government and that was being

played out in this dramatic scale dramatic
way in every community across the region

chairman of the Democratic step asking

questions you stop beating your wife kinds
of questions that was closed down all

of the small independent restaurant tours
in the state of Georgia in the gallery

who were listening there on the side
of of past story and of Ivan Allen and.

And they started applauding them and

got upset that Pastore
didn't silence them for.

Platic This made the papers the next

of the finest sections of Atlanta Georgia
this was the blue bloods.

This was the finger asked his mind

and some of those closest
to him Stop speaking to

the alan said to have protection
at their home to keep them safe.

It takes a lot of courage for

somebody like that to stand there like

that resolute to fashion
something that you believe.

Sure enough the president was right.

His standing especially the band
members are back with us and

he won his second election handily
not because he took that but

see what we were back there
would be the other way run that

was a rat slave for him to do and
he had not be one of my heroes

or

them like a segregationist

were making things out of just
to support their views and

they were segregationist and they didn't
believe the race or should be together but

they also had a good argument that had
a long standing and American tradition.

The country was coming to realize is.

It was not morally acceptable that
the rights of African-Americans

would be trampled by the radical
freedom of the property owner.

It was no longer acceptable to have
two different sets of conditions and

laws one for white people and
one for black people and

that was the war in Iraq and
the one nine hundred sixty S..

Thank

you David.

We look forward with great
anticipation to this documentary and

all of you should know that we are keeping
close contact with the project and

will announce the airing date for
G P B through the college newsletter.

Now this moment underscore for

you that we celebrate founders day
because of what we do in the college.

But we also celebrate it because of
what the college is about we seriously.

That we are the official
trustees of the I'm going now.

And you know they say we are very proud
of that and we see an urgency and that.

And we use that to direct much of what
we do in terms of its value and impact.

Now it's time to turn to
another special moment.

Of recognition as president.

Peterson.

Pointed out earlier.

In the English department.

We had some of the first courses.

At Georgia Tech.

But in one thousand eight
hour English department

the GAN offering of course
an economic theory.

My next hundred thirty four a Department
of Economics was established.

Now coincidentally that same
year that very same year

a future member of our
economics faculty was born.

William A Schaefer.

Professor Schaefer joined us in one
thousand nine hundred sixty four and

today we recognize his fiftieth
year at Georgia Tech bill.

If you would please join
me on stage I want to go

well this is very odd.

I guess so

I guess fifty years was enough but
you should know about him.

We can put that on table because
he is still teaching with us.

That's the important thing back
to Schaefer is emeritus professor

of economics.

He has directed major and
to and to streets that is for

the states of Hawaii and Georgia and
the province of Nova Scotia with

special interests and regional economic
contributed to the literature on

constructing region enter
industry models and

economic impact analysis and
put out put applications and on.

Teaching and theory of region No science

is deliberate paper in
France Germany Denmark and Switzerland.

He has author a CO or

see three books including impact
studies on the Atlanta Braves.

And chiefs the Montreal Expos
festivals and

tourism his most recent book
economic impact models which was

published electronically has
been translated into Farsi.

Professor Schaefer is president and

fellow of the Southern Regional
Science Association and

a Fellow of the North American Regional
Science Council of the man and economics.

He has twice served as
chair of economics and

has been a board member of
the Georgia Tech that association for

more than twenty years bringing his
expertise to the Finance Committee.

Dr Shafer founded
the Georgia Tech chapter of

the International Economics Honor Society.

I'm a cry and sometime.

He has been a popular
teacher who was recognized

as the faculty of the year by the Georgia
Tech Student Government Association

throughout his career at Georgia Tech.

He has engendered community
among colleagues and

students through activities
such as annual fireside and

his infamous speech parties hosted
with his wife in their home.

And the economic spring picnic
a tribute to his activities is

the fact that our economics group
is today one of our most active

groups on campus and
though he is not standing next to me

I will make sure that he knows how much
we appreciate his fifty years of service.

Thank you.

Each spring we recognize members of the
college family who demonstrate that out on

that a C.
principles of leadership service and

achievement they're nominated and
chosen back committee of college faculty.

Each The ward carries a stipend
of one thousand dollars.

By conferring that
Ivan Allen Jr legacy awards.

We demonstrate that the Allen values and
principles remain resounding only relevant

in our time and help to light pathways for
making the world a better place.

The awards are made possible through
the generosity of Colonel Stephen Hall and

Mrs.

Pam Hall now Pam is not here today.

But Steve is please stay.

Thank you.

Of the thank you for
all that you do for us.

There are four that I see you warts.

Joining me to present the first one
is John tone professor of history

technology and society and associate
dean for undergraduate studies and

I have an album out.

Well I'm

pleased to announce that
Caroline Gwen is the winner of

the twenty fourteen I have an Allen junior
Legacy Award for undergraduate students.

Caroline.

Joining me on stage.

Thank you.

Caroline is set to graduate
in May with a Bachelor of

Science degree from the school of
literature media and communication.

But the concentration in biomedicine.

She will graduate in honors
I guess in two ways.

Her G.P.A. and
her major is a four point zero so

I suppose they'll be an indication
of honors on your transcript.

She has also been a student in
the Honors Program at Georgia Tech.

Caroline's professors described
her as one of their best students.

She was a top performer in two
courses taught by the director of

the honors program Dr Knoebels who's here
and who nominated her for this prize and

on a personal note I had Caroline
in my history of medicine class and

I can attest to her intellectual powers.

Caroline's achievements
go beyond the classroom.

Of course I've seen her in action
as a key member of the student

advisory board to this college.

She's president on campus
of move which stands for

mobilizing opportunities for
volunteer experiences.

This is Georgia Tech's largest community
service organization with twenty

five officers and sixteen committees
all of which Caroline manages.

For three years she has led the freshman
day of service on this campus increasing

student participation and funding for
that program dramatically every year.

She's president of rethink
the student run disability and

advocacy at the organization on campus.

She was Georgia Tech's
delegate to the A.C.C.

leadership symposium last year she
has been a leader in our orientation

programs for
incoming students and freshman.

If all of this activity calls to mind
the legacy of former Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.

Well good because it's a post.

But I haven't finished Caroline has helped
create educational opportunities for

adults with learning and
developmental disabilities.

She's been an internet St Josephs hospital
and a volunteer at Grady Hospital.

She scored a did the M.L.K. Day of Service
in the English Avenue neighborhood.

There's more but
I'm not going to cover everything.

Caroline in short is the kind of
students which makes the job of

professors like me bright and shiny and
make it a pleasure to work here.

She's accepted a full time position as
a health care analyst starting this July.

But before Caroline leaves us for
Hoboken is it.

We are proud to name her
the twenty fourteen winner of

the Ivan Allen Jr Legacy Award for
undergraduate students.

Thank

you.
Graduations to Caroline.

Now Chris during the graduate
student legacy award is caricature

of a professor of literature at the school
of their chair media and communication and

associate dean for graduate studies at

the college has selected as
the recipient of this year's Ivan Allen

junior Legacy Award for a graduate
student as young Webber and beyond.

Please join me.

Thank you

all read from Professor Michael Hofmann's
nomination letter for Johann.

Johann Webber demonstrated outstanding
leadership qualities and engagement

as the founder and chair for three years
now of Georgia Tech bicycle Committee.

One of the most active Institute wide
committees currently in existence and

I want to add impactful
years ago he recruited me.

Dr Hoffman and

also Michael Elliott as faculty
representatives for the bike committee

because the both of us are regular bike
commuters again Dr Hofmann not me.

Although I wish I could
be as an active member

of the bicycle committee I witnessed
in person leadership and engagement and

the really substantial improvements he and
the bicycle committee achieved for

cyclists on campus all the road
signs in the substantial increase of

the number of bike racks were
realized thanks to his work and

these are only the most visible signs
in addition Johann served as the vice

president for campus organizations for
graduate student government and

he's currently the grad S.T.A.
executive vice president.

He also spends a considerable
amount of time volunteering for

the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition each month.

Academically he's always maintained
an exemplary record as a student.

This is evidenced by the fact
that the School of Public Policy

hired him repeatedly as a T.A.A.
Moreover he teaches now for

the second time independently for
the School of Public Policy and

another achievement he had a paper as
sole author selected for publication

in The Journal transport policy one
of the leading journals in the field

personally and now I'm returning to my own
voice which is a little more comfortable.

I guess.

That's a no Johann as a result of his
participation in the second annual

I've been Alan college paper conference
for graduate students which the graduate

student advisory board members organized
each year and Johan Spey paper for

that conference was one of the highlights
of it on a stellar panel I might say.

So later at this afternoon I'll
be giving Johann another prize.

Because he won a second prize for
his paper.

In the competition and

the paper is called Policy Analysis
of open streets programs as.

The tools.

So please join me in congratulating public
policy doctoral student Johann Weber and

receiving the twenty fourteen
legacy graduate student award.

Thank you.

Graduations to Johann.

Janet Mari.

Professor of digital media studies in
the School of the richer media and

communication and associate dean for
research and faculty affairs.

She will present the faculty to see award.

From.

It's my pleasure to present me of
the school of history technology and

society with the Ivan Allen
faculty of Legacy Award for

twenty fourteen you want to come up and
be embarrassed and

thank you

Douglas clamming is an outstanding
teachers scholar and

campus citizen who has devoted his
professional life to helping people

comprehend the very world in which I
have been now and created his legacy.

So twentieth century South.

He has done so with a blend of style and
sensitivity that may or

alland would greatly admire.

The eloquence in these remarks
belong to Steve us all men but

I share the admiration.

During his more than fifteen years at
Georgia Tech Professor Fleming has

to a thousand seven hundred graduates in
this survey course in U.S. history in U.S.

history since eight hundred seventy seven
which covers topics from reconstruction

through the election of Barack Obama
the course has achieved legendary status

among students because Professor Fleming
structures it around a single question.

What in the century and a half since the
Civil War has freedom meant for Americans

and posing this question repeatedly as
he moves across the span of events.

Professor planning shows students
the true complexity of U.S.

history like Mayor Allen and
his contemporaries Dr King flamming raises

the specter of a universal ideal
of the broadest appeal freedom and

then asked his audience to weigh
that ideal against the actual lived

experience of real people and
edition to the survey course has regularly

taught courses on the history of the new
south the Vietnam War and the sixties and

all of these courses which consistently
attract scores of students and

earn outstanding reviews but
I mean take students directly to

the worlds of Mayor Allen in them
students encounter the Tamal truest

freedom struggles which swept up
the mayor and his contemporaries and

which still reverberate in our
city state region and nation.

These are not easy topics but
they are essential for

our community here at Georgia Tech.

The course is draw upon an extensive body
of scholarship that is there and professor

of planning numerous accolades and
a Guggenheim fellowship his prize winning

first book creating the modern South is
an exemplary study of a century of life at

Crown Mills located in the north
Georgia mill town of Dalton since its

appearance in one nine hundred ninety five
the book has been required reading for

every graduate student working in southern
history his second book bound for

freedom examined black southerners who
chose to leave the region in the decades

following the Civil War and
moved to the promised land of Los Angeles.

And he followed that with a broad based
examination of black migration America.

And so in the West His current project
supported by the Guggenheim tells

the story of the passage of the Civil
Rights Bill of one thousand nine hundred

sixty four and the particularly
the influence of a network

of African-American lobbyists who have
not previously been fully appreciate it.

So it intersects directly with
the story that we celebrate today.

And the dish and to his teaching and
scholarship clamming contributes to

the campus community through
activities such as his mentorship of

a think big learning community devoted
to understanding the city of Atlanta.

The Ivan Allen Legacy Award holds
Mayor Allen as an exemplar suggesting what

we might aspire to as faculty
at Georgia Tech here in Atlanta.

It is a great pleasure therefore
to present it to such a to Serafin

colleague as Dave Douglas.

Thank you thank

you for

the recognition very well deserved.

A lot of the scholars enter act far and
wide and

represent the College of the world.

Lars and I'm pleased to present
the legacy award to a college.

The college has some back to home.

E.A. to receive the twenty fourteen
now and Junior Legacy Award for

the show you please join me on stage and

she is actually easier to.

Michelle earn her Bassam of Science
degree in one thousand nine hundred nine

graduating with highest honors
in history technology and

society and winning the most prestigious
award H.T.S. can give to an undergraduate.

She accomplished this.

And three years while also working for the
Department of Housing and the Georgia Tech

alumni association and serving as
the Senate in turn with the general.

GA General Assembly.

The history technology and society faculty
remember her award winning research on

the evolution of traffic management and
the development of traffic engineering and

also for her leadership and
DAs Lang personality.

But I've been Allen college recognizes
her as this year's outstanding a lot for

her complet for for her accomplishments.

Since leaving Georgia Tech.

Earned her law degree in two thousand and

three graduating from
the University of Georgia.

For five years she worked in
the Fulton County Public Defender's Office

before moving home to Cherokee County
to work as a prosecutor.

There she fell in love with
traffic law which is appropriate

given her Georgia Tech expertise in
traffic management and ingenuity.

She was elected judge last year

the first female judge in
the history of Cherokee County.

But Shell is working now to create
a mental health court in Cherokee County.

To improve students' abuse treatment.

And to create modern
streamlined procedures that

take into account new technologies and
reduce paperwork.

Another fitting focus for
Georgia Tech alone.

She has also created a support group for
women holding elective office.

Michelle lives in Canton Georgia
with her husband of thirteen years.

Tony who is a Georgia Tech graduate and
her two children three children.

Three months old is the youngest
when we are proud to see her back on

campus today as the very word
the alumna recipient of the.

In college I mean Alan
junior Legacy Award.

At.

To each of our Ivan Allen Jr Legacy Award
recipient here scholarship and

civic involvement our source of
great pride and inspiration.

Please give all of our recipients.

One final round of applause.

At permit

me to end today by thanking the very
hard working now and college staff and

faculty who have worked to
make this program possible.

Some of them are in the room but
others are doing the things that

they have to do but for those inside
please stand and be acknowledged.

Among

at.

Thanks to all of you for continuing
to make the story of the liberal

arts at Georgia Tech a vibrant and
very much ongoing academic enterprise.

It is my sense that together
we can look toward another

one hundred years at least
excellence in the liberal arts.

Thank you for
joining us in our celebration today

have a good afternoon at.