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Southern Tech, Chamblee From Red Scrapbook Part 3

This page is a collage of several things. 1. my mother's Grady Hospital pass from 1950. Even though she was married, to go to Grady Hospital's Nursing School, she had to live in the dorms. I'll do a separate post on that adventure, before Mama enrolled at STI.

2. Daddy's STI Schedule as a student.

3. The Cuba family. The man standing was one of Daddy's students.

4. A postcard from Holiday Inn. During this time period, Holiday Inn was a cheap and nice place to stay when traveling, and my parents always stayed at one. They were in a lot of Georgia cities, and when you stayed there, they had these postcards so everyone you wrote a letter to would know, you stayed at Holiday Inn in whatever city!

Note the green ink. Typewriters usually had black ribbons, or those black/red ones so you could type in red at times. But this has green ink. The address is given as GA Tech Apartments, but they were also called Tech-Lawson. Hmmm. E&R stands for Electronics and Radio. Dad got his 1st Class Radiotelephone Operator License from the FCC, required for his 2 year degree. He could have been an engineer at a radio station with that license, but became a telephone engineer for Southern Bell in 1970, years later.

An Alumni Dance ticket half.

Job Fair at Chamblee Library, in a shopping center. We often got groceries at Chamblee Plaza at Colonial Stores, which later became Big Star. Chamblee also had Colonial Bakery, a bread factory and Frito-Lay, a potato chip factory I later toured as a 5 year old. We also visited Mathis Dairy and petted cows. I didn't go to kindergarten until 1964.

Someone got a job lead that day.

Dad's fatherly advice to a student. He kept copies of all correspondence, as did my mother.

That Holiday Inn in Nashville. Why did they go there? My parents never talked about it.

All I have is the neat card. I wish they'd written something down about it.

There's also this map, with no markings.

Dad's telephone fraternity. I think this was taken on the Marietta campus in the 60s.

Dad watched his students graduate.

This is a tassel from 1951, courtesy of the SPSU Archives.

From the scrapbook.

Dad was an avid tennis player, from his youth.

His love of going shirtless wasn't well received in the 60s.

The KSU Archives is thrilled to launch a new project to preserve campus history and culture through t-shirts! T-shirts contain information about academic departments, student groups, campus events, and more that might not be captured anywhere else. In addition, they often showcase the creativity of our students and staff. To that end, the KSU Archives is now collecting digital photographs of t-shirts associated with KSU and SPSU for preservation in our Scholarly Online Access Repository.  

Why “Looking Fly?”

The KSU Archives collecting scope encompasses the rich history of two universities, Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University. When the two schools were consolidated in 2015, the KSU Archives assumed the responsibility of preserving and making available the records of both universities. In addition to referencing the fashion and style exhibited by the materials in this collection, this moniker pays homage to our dual mascot history. Since the KSU Owl and the SPSU Hornet are both creatures of flight, this name allows us to meet our mission of inclusivity, preserving the history and culture of both schools in our charge.  

Where can I see this collection?

The Looking Fly Archive is available to the public online through our Scholarly Online Access Repository.  

Can I contribute shirts?

Please! Contact our Outreach Archivist, Helen Thomas at [email protected] for more information. We are accepting loans of shirts to be photographed by our staff or high-quality digital photographs of shirts taken by donors like you.  

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