Southern Tech, Chamblee From Red Scrapbook Part 3
This page is a collage of several things. 1. my mother's Grady Hospital pass from 1950. Even though she was married, to go to Grady Hospital's Nursing School, she had to live in the dorms. I'll do a separate post on that adventure, before Mama enrolled at STI.
2. Daddy's STI Schedule as a student.
3. The Cuba family. The man standing was one of Daddy's students.
4. A postcard from Holiday Inn. During this time period, Holiday Inn was a cheap and nice place to stay when traveling, and my parents always stayed at one. They were in a lot of Georgia cities, and when you stayed there, they had these postcards so everyone you wrote a letter to would know, you stayed at Holiday Inn in whatever city!
Note the green ink. Typewriters usually had black ribbons, or those black/red ones so you could type in red at times. But this has green ink. The address is given as GA Tech Apartments, but they were also called Tech-Lawson. Hmmm. E&R stands for Electronics and Radio. Dad got his 1st Class Radiotelephone Operator License from the FCC, required for his 2 year degree. He could have been an engineer at a radio station with that license, but became a telephone engineer for Southern Bell in 1970, years later.
An Alumni Dance ticket half.
Job Fair at Chamblee Library, in a shopping center. We often got groceries at Chamblee Plaza at Colonial Stores, which later became Big Star. Chamblee also had Colonial Bakery, a bread factory and Frito-Lay, a potato chip factory I later toured as a 5 year old. We also visited Mathis Dairy and petted cows. I didn't go to kindergarten until 1964.
Someone got a job lead that day.
Dad's fatherly advice to a student. He kept copies of all correspondence, as did my mother.
That Holiday Inn in Nashville. Why did they go there? My parents never talked about it.
All I have is the neat card. I wish they'd written something down about it.
There's also this map, with no markings.
Dad's telephone fraternity. I think this was taken on the Marietta campus in the 60s.
Dad watched his students graduate.
This is a tassel from 1951, courtesy of the SPSU Archives.
From the scrapbook.
Dad was an avid tennis player, from his youth.
His love of going shirtless wasn't well received in the 60s.
This ends the Chamblee part of the Red Scrapbook, though there is a lot more, and pages are not always in chronological order!
