{"66178":{"#nid":"66178","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The First Tech Graduates: Smith and Crawford","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: Georgia Tech\u2019s first graduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following excerpt is number 54 on the list \u201c125 Pieces of Tech History,\u201d featured in the September\/October 2010 issue of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1890, H.L. Smith and G.C. Crawford were Tech\u2019s first graduates. Smith won a coin toss to determine who would receive the first degree, which is now housed in the archives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was the greatest honor I ever received,\u201d Smith later said. After graduation, he became a superintendent at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: Georgia Tech\u2019s first graduates.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: Georgia Tech\u2019s first graduates."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-05-13 11:38:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:45","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66179":{"id":"66179","type":"image","title":"H.L. Smith Diploma","body":null,"created":"1449176931","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:51","changed":"1475894587","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:07","alt":"H.L. Smith Diploma","file":{"fid":"193291","name":"smith_diploma2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith_diploma2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith_diploma2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":761258,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smith_diploma2.jpg?itok=FXMhjTL4"}}},"media_ids":["66179"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13148","name":"first graduates"},{"id":"13150","name":"G.C. Crawford"},{"id":"13149","name":"H.L. Smith"},{"id":"12148","name":"Ramblin\u0027 Through Time"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}