{"57675":{"#nid":"57675","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nash Siblings Honor Parents with lSyE\u0027s First Junior Faculty Endowment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAttending Georgia Tech is often a family tradition. But few families can claim the business success of the Nash family: H. Ronald Nash, IE 1970, of InterWest Partners venture capital groups Dallas, Texas, office; Michael R. Nash, IE 1974, vice president of CT Communications in Concord, North Carolina; and Deborah Nash Willingham, IE \u002778, vice president of Windows Marketing at Microsoft.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three siblings have joined together to fund an ISyE junior faculty endowment in honor of their parents, Mary Anne and the late Harold R. Nash, EE 1952. The fund will provide resources to recruit and retain some of the best young faculty in the industrial engineering field. The Nashes encourage the School to use the fund to attract and support female applicants to the faculty. \u0022The growing presence of women at Tech was one of the seminal transitions during our time there, and we all identify with the need to accelerate that trend. Outstanding role models play an important part in that development,\u0022 state the Nashes in their commitment letter.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three Nash siblings aren\u0027t the only family members to attend Georgia Tech. Mike married Ellen Evatt, TEXT 1973. Another sister, Mary Alice, married Arthur Ivey, CE 1981 . Ron\u0027s son David is now a junior in ME, and Mike\u0027s daughter Jennifer is a sophomore in architecture.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth Deborah and Ron are members of the ISyE Advisory Board. Chair John Jarvis is pleased with both the family\u0027s personal and financial commitment. \u0022Many families send multiple generations to Georgia Tech, but only a select few choose industrial engineering as their \u0027family\u0027 major,\u0022 he says. \u0022I am proud to know them and especially appreciate their collective decision to create the Nash Family Endowment Fund.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2001-02-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}