{"50033":{"#nid":"50033","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Alumni Honored at the 2008 Gold \u0026 White Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year, ISyE alumni who are making an impact through their passion, dedication and excellent work to advance the Institute and society are recognized at the Alumni Association\u0027s Gold \u0026amp; White Honors ceremony. This year, the alumni of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering who received awards at the event were:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EE. Roe Stamps IV\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1967, MS IE 1972\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Tennenbaum\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1958\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDean Griffin Community Service Award\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003ERay C. Anderson\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1956\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOutstanding Young Alumnus Award\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETroy W. Rice\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 2001\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHonorary Alumna Award\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECarolyn J. Stewart\u003C\/strong\u003E, Honorary\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore about ISyE\u0027s award winners:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EEdward Roe Stamps, IV\u003C\/strong\u003E is a champion of Georgia Tech and its students.  He is vice chairman of the Campaign Georgia Tech Steering Committee and has supported students at the Institute through funding such facilities as Stamps Field, the Penny and Roe Stamps Student Center Commons and the Dr. Edward Roe Stamps III Health Services named for his father, who served as a doctor at the former Georgia Tech infirmary.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStamps also has established the Stamps Leadership Scholars Awards offered to the top 15 entering freshman each year and has been a supporter of the President\u0027s Scholarship Program for several years.  \u0022These are incredibly talented kids,* he says.  \u0022Many of them will have an important impact on the world we will be living in.  I enjoy the opportunity to give them a little boost at this stage in their lives.*\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Stamps Family Charitable Foundation was recognized in the January 2008 Conde\u0027 Nast Portfolio magazine as among the nation\u0027s most generous.  It noted the Stamps Foundation helped establish a prosthetic rehabilitation facility for the U. S. Army.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoe is founding managing partner of Boston-based Summit Partners, a leading private equity and venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Palo Alto and London.  He is co-chairman of the Investment Committee of the Georgia Tech Foundation board, an emeritus member of the H. Milton Stewart School of ISyE Advisory Board and former member of the Entrepreneurship Program Development Steering Committee, Ivan Allen College Executive Advisory Board and the Advanced Technology Development Center Ad Hoc Advisory Committee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStamps was named a distinguished alumnus of the College of Engineering and the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1995.  He was inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 2001.  He and his wife, Penny, live in Coconut Grove, Florida, and have two adult children.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Tennenbaum\u003C\/strong\u003E became extremely active as a co-op student. A sampling of his student memberships include Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Physics Club, Yellow Jacket Club, Scabbard and Blade, Triangle Club, World Student Fund Committee and St. Patrick\u0027s Council.  He performed in DramaTech, served on the staffs of the Rambler, Technique and Engineering publication and was a resident assistant and a cheerleader.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an alumnus, Tennenbaum hasn\u0027t slowed down.  After earning an MBA from Harvard and pursing a successful career on Wall Street, he followed an entrepreneurial impulse and founded his own private investment firm, Tennenbaum Capital Partners.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe continues to be one of Georgia Tech\u0027s most enthusiastic cheerleaders and remains actively involved in the affairs of the Institute, serving as a vice chairman on the Campaign 2010 Steering Committee.  He is an emeritus member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and the Stewart School of ISyE Advisory Board and served on the Class of 1958 40th Reunion Committee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETennenbaum was recognized as both an ISyE and College of Engineering distinguished alumnus in 1994, and he was named to the Industrial and Systems Engineering Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 1996.  He has two grown children and is married to Suzanne Stockfisch.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERay C. Anderson\u003C\/strong\u003E was recently heralded by Time International magazine as one of its \u0022heroes of the environment.*  He also was awarded the 2001 George and Cynthia Mitchell Prize for Sustainability for being a \u0022pioneer in using innovative approaches to change past practices and eliminate waste.*\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs founder and chairman of Interface Inc., a global manufacturer of modular carpeting, Anderson has been championing the green movement from the inside.  His goal is to eliminate the company\u0027s negative environmental footprint by 2020 in an effort called \u0022Mission Zero.*\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnderson graduated from Georgia Tech with highest honors in 1956.  He has since received honorary doctorates from Northland College, LaGrange College, North Caroline State University and the University of Southern Maine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, Student Success Center Steering Committee and the Georgia Tech Foundation board, among others.  He has worked with the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, Rocky Mountain Institute, Georgia Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land Chattahoochee River Land Protection Campaign, among others.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Anderson co-chairs, with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, an advisory committee to the Presidential Climate Action Project, charged with compiling a plan for the climate and environment for the next president to address during the first 100 days in office.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETroy Rice\u003C\/strong\u003E has a \u0022can do* attitude.  His energy, enthusiasm and proactive work ethic have helped him excel in this career, community service and in leadership roles as an alumnus of Georgia Tech.  He was the recipient of the Ramblin\u0027 Wreck Volunteer of the Year award in 2005.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERice is president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches and the Georgia Tech Young Alumni Council, a 31-member team working to engage young graduates across the country through programs geared toward getting involved and giving back to Tech and their local communities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERice serves as the manager of Supplier Performance for Florida Power Light and is responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of suppliers constituting a $2 billion annual spend.  Rice also is a six sigma blackbelt counselor and has trained 18 candidates for six sigma certification.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a student, Rice was a member of Theta Chi fraternity and the Georgia Tech Student Foundation and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.  As president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches, he has focused the group on three major initiatives: community service, scholarships and networking.  He established a local golf tournament, which has raised $10,000 for scholarship in two years, and manages quarterly community service events in which local alumni have volunteered hundreds of hours to work with Habitat for Humanity and other service activities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERice also is active with the American Heart Association, serving as a team captain for the Heart Walk and volunteer speaker at local businesses and hospitals.  He has been a top fundraiser for the past two years, generating more than $25,000.  Rice and his wife, Tracy, live in Juno Beach, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarolyn J. Stewart\u003C\/strong\u003E had an early career with the U.S. Post Office and in volunteerism.  Much of her time was spent with libraries, arts, community, service and historic preservation organizations.  She also authored two books on the history of telephony in the state of Georgia that are in the National Archives.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe has made no secret of her pride in the family\u0027s close ties to Georgia Tech.  In 2006, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering became the fourth named school in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering as the result of a $20 million gift commitment from Milt and Carolyn Stewart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMilt Stewart earned his degree in industrial engineering in 1961. He and Carolyn\u0027s two children both attended Tech as well.  Jeb, a member of the Class of 1991, earned his industrial engineering degree at Southern Tech.  Jill graduated from Tech with a management degree in 1993.  Both Stewart children married Tech graduates.  Jeb\u0027s wife, Stephanie, is a 1997 civil engineering graduate.  Jill\u0027s husband, Glenn Archer, is a 1991 management graduate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECarolyn Stewart supported Milt\u0027s dedication to Tech as he served and they worked together on committees.  He served as an Alumni Association trustee and president and later as a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation\u0027s board.  The Stewarts also funded the Institute first school chair in 1999.  They established the H. Milton Stewart Endowment Fund for ISyE Programs and the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair Professorship.  In addition, the Stewarts support scholarships for female student from Habersham High School.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EE. Roe Stamps IV, IE 1967, MS IE 1972, Michael Tennenbaum, IE 1958, Ray C. Anderson, IE 1956, Troy W. Rice, IE 2001, and Carolyn J. 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