A summary of the history of Florida Tech's presidential searches written from the perspective of historian and professor Gordon Patterson.
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Florida Tech says goodbye to a nearly 100-year-old tree and beloved campus landmark.
Read More »Brothers Scott, Richard and Eric Adams sparked a digital revolution in the ’70s and ’80s with impacts lasting through today.
Read More »Florida Tech, then Brevard Engineering College, launched its first computer course in 1959—without a computer.
Read More »Florida Tech held its first homecoming in January 1972. The four-day event proved to be a debacle.
Read More »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…
Read More »The telegram arrived just before Thanksgiving 1966.
Read More »“There’s [sic] some good memories,” Hank Hughes declared with a sparkle in his eye.
Read More »The small woman moved with precision as she rearranged the bookshelf.
Read More »Dateline: 1977/1983 Prologue: The Three Mouseketeers The mouse seemed perplexed. It looked as if it had lost its way. Had it forgotten where it wanted to go? Ed Kalajian’s eyes narrowed when the tiny creature moved. This was not Kalajian’s first rodent sighting since the relocation of Florida Tech’s civil engineering department to the Frueauff Building. In the mid-1980s, the…
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