secret history

A summary of the history of Florida Tech's presidential searches written from the perspective of historian and professor Gordon Patterson.

Florida Tech says goodbye to a nearly 100-year-old tree and beloved campus landmark.

Brothers Scott, Richard and Eric Adams sparked a digital revolution in the ’70s and ’80s with impacts lasting through today.

Florida Tech, then Brevard Engineering College, launched its first computer course in 1959—without a computer.

Florida Tech held its first homecoming in January 1972. The four-day event proved to be a debacle.

Dateline: 1978 The knock on the door was unexpected. It was barely seven o’clock in the morning.  Three days earlier, Stanford (Stan) Zone, on June 9, 1978, had graduated from Mel High.  His mother woke her sleeping son and told him that there was a man from Florida Tech there to give him a ride to work.  Forty-two years later, Stan Zone is still…

The telegram arrived just before Thanksgiving 1966. 

“There’s [sic] some good memories,” Hank Hughes declared with a sparkle in his eye. 

The small woman moved with precision as she rearranged the bookshelf.