{"84141":{"#nid":"84141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Mourns the Loss of Mayor Ivan Allen","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen Jr., former mayor of Atlanta, after whom Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s college of liberal arts is named, died July 2, marking the passing of a legend. Civil rights leader, entrepreneur, politician and visionary, Ivan Allen provided the ideal model for Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College, which is committed to promoting the crucial union between science, technology and the humanities and social sciences. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen Jr. was a legendary Atlanta figure-a former mayor who personified the city\u0027s emerging identity as a progressive and energetic capital of the South. Allen was a respected businessman and a loyal alumnus of Georgia Tech whose support of the Institute has been undaunted over the years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech has always been incredibly important to my father and to our family,\u0022 said his son, Inman Allen. \u0022Both as an alumnus and as mayor, my father recognized Tech\u0027s importance in his own life and in the life of Atlanta. He realized early on that Georgia Tech could play a significant role in the city\u0027s success and reach the highest levels of excellence as a university. Time has proven him right.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   \u0022 Georgia Tech was honored to have had a graduate of such courage, generosity, compassion and humanity,\u0022 said Ivan Allen College Dean Sue Rosser. \u0022We are indeed blessed.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 1966, the New York Times Magazine captured Allen\u0027s energy in this excerpt from an article about him: \u0022Ivan Allen is very much like Atlanta, a comparison he would like. He is successful, optimistic, young in spirit, and disdainful of anything that stands still. He is the perfect personification of that great American phenomenon, the civic shaker and business mover.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n   Perhaps more to the point, on March 2, 1971, New York City\u0027s former mayor John V. Lindsay described Allen\u0027s impact on history. \u0022Mayor Allen no longer sits in Atlanta\u0027s City Hall. But few Atlantans will forget what he did while he was there,\u0022 said Lindsay. \u0022When the urban history of America in our time is written, Ivan Allen Jr. will be singled out for the kind of praise few mayors have earned. Of him, it will be accurately said that he made a very real difference.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n   The Ivan Allen College was founded in 1990 to add a strong liberal arts dimension to the Georgia Tech education and to offer focused majors in humanities and social sciences, with an international, technological and professional emphasis. The liberal arts complement science and technology as part of the intellectual core needed to understand the human implications of knowledge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n   During its tenth anniversary celebration, the College decided to honor Allen on his 90th birthday by establishing an annual Founder\u0027s Day event on his date of birth, March 15.  It also instituted the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service, which has since been given each year to an individual with Georgia connections who, like Allen, personifies the ideals of the College. To date, the recipients have been former Governor and now U.S. Senator Zell Miller, former Governor and President Jimmy Carter, and award-winning columnist Molly Ivins. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen Jr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA Biographical Sketch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBorn: March 15, 1911, Atlanta, Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nParents: Ivan Allen Sr. and Irene Beaumont Allen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpouse: Married Louise Richardson Inman, 1936\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChildren: Ivan III (deceased), Inman, and Beaumont \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EB.S. (Commerce), Georgia Tech, 1933\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStudent Body President, 1932-33\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOmicron Delta Kappa\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDean\u0027s List Business\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJoined the Ivan Allen Company (office products) in 1933\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPresident, 1946-70\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChairman, 1970-95\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nChairman Emeritus, 1995-present\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCivic leadership\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Community Chest and United Way (president)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta Chamber of Commerce (president)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta Arts Alliance (chair and member,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n   Board of Trustees)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpellman College (member, Board of Trustees)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech (member, National Advisory Board)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia State Chamber of Commerce (president)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFDR Memorial Commission (member,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n   Board of Trustees)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGovernment\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMayor, City of Atlanta, 1962-70\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMajor achievements\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDevelopment of Atlanta\/Fulton County Stadium\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDevelopment of Atlanta Civic Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCreation of Metro Area Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDevelopment of the Model Cities Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDevelopment of Atlanta Arts Alliance Complex\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIvan Allen College of Georgia Tech named in his honor, 1990\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ivan Allen Jr., former mayor of Atlanta, after whom Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s college of liberal arts is named, died July 2, marking the passing of a legend.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-07-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84151":{"id":"84151","type":"image","title":"Former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84151"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}