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ALuMNI NEWS Brothers, enjoyed meeting The A.J. Kramer Mentorship Program I many of you at the 2015 Norris Pig Dinner and Couser n the fall of 2014, undergraduate brother Adrian Kramer proposed an idea that would have Golf Tournament. Ithe potential to change the dynamic of Gamma Tau for years to come. His proposal was for a Please help us mentorship program between undergraduate and graduate brothers, designed to foster enduring increase attendance relationships and to beneft all parties involved through personal and professional growth. next year by asking a brother you know to join us. I’d like to see more graduates make this a “must attend” Commitment How to Sign Up event every year. • 1 on 1 relationship between an 1. Got to: http://tinyurl.com/GTFIJIMentorContract House Corp. would like to thank Brother undergraduate and graduate 2. Fill out the survey about your interests and brief George Stewart ’69, owner of Stewart • You must be communicative and career history and electronically sign contract Consulting Group, for providing the chapter responsive to your mentee; mentees with a utility audit and Brother Eric Salo will reciprocate or be removed from the 3. The Graduate Relations and Professional DK ’01, owner of Design Security Systems, Development Chairs will match brothers based program on preferences for his continued work on the house alarm • Aside from set mentorship program events system. With support from graduate brothers like them, Gamma Tau continues to (1-2 events), the mentor and mentee will 4. In the beginning of Fall 2015, you will receive be the best fraternity on campus. decide their own time commitments an email about your match and how to proceed from there Also, much appreciation goes to the undergraduates who took on the project of hanging framed composites from years past in the upstairs hallways. The composites How Sweet It Is! add a real sense of history and warmth. The next time you visit Landon-Nelson Hall please make sure you go see them. ongrats to Marc Katz ’94 and his success Thank you for continuing to fulfll Cas Coca-Cola Freestyle VP of global your pledge contributions to the Capital Campaign. The chapter is relying on you to operations. Marc was part of an interview in see that all of your pledge amount is paid in the latest edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni a timely manner as we continue to pay down Magazine in an article by Roger Slavens titled “Coca-Cola Freestyle’s Winning Formula.” our loans. The Georgia Tech home football schedule Below is an excerpt from the article: is set and everyone is excited for another Adapting micro-dosing for beverage dispensing, the Freestyle machine employs winning record. We are asking graduate printer toner-sized cartridges flled with highly brothers to consider making Landon-Nelson Hall their tail-gating location. Come enjoy concentrated ingredients. When a specifc technology is the dispensing nozzle itself the chapter house facility, music, food, and beverage brand or mix of favors is selected boasts three patents, Katz says. “To make fun. by a consumer, these ingredients combine sure favors don’t mingle from drink to drink, Why not join House Corporation? We’d according to proprietary recipes with either only pure still or soda water touch the plastic love to have you. I know you will fnd it soda water or still water in precise, accurate part of the nozzle—the favor ingredients are gratifying to share a little of your time amounts to deliver the perfect-tasting drink. mixed mid-air,” he says. and knowledge with our graduate and “And favors like vanilla or cherry aren’t In effect, each Freestyle dispenser behaves added like you add a favor shot to your like a mini, ultra-high-tech, personalized undergraduate brothers. coffee,” Sanders says. “They are added at bottling plant, Katz says. He should know— Fraternally, the appropriate ratios to provide a consumer- he spent nearly 20 years in bottling and preferred consistent taste. For example, Sprite engineering operations before joining the orange and Coke orange have different levels Coca-Cola Freestyle team. “And each of these of orange that are unique to their recipes.” machines can dispense up to 125 different Marc D. Perla, GT ’92 To illustrate how complex the Coca-Cola beverages plus consumers’ custom recipes,” Freestyle micro-dosing and dispensing he says. House Corp. President 2015 Have alumni news? Football tailgating @ landon-nelson Hall We want to hear from you! Send your personal updates, accomplishments, adventures, and photos to our Account Manager Kasey Breedlove at kbreedlove@ 9/3 alcorn state 10/17 Pittsburgh 11/28 georgia thelaurusgroup.net, or simply fll out the tear-away form at the bottom of your cover 9/12 tulane 10/24 Florida state* * Homecoming & annual letter and return it in the mail. We want to 10/3 north Carolina 11/12 Virginia tech Whiteout game share it in the next issue of The Gamma Tauk! 5