• The Georgia Tech Archives is very pleased to announce the processing of three important collections relating to the history of Georgia Tech.

  
  The Georgia Tech Ledgers Collection consists of about 480 ledgers and a few ledger sheets containing accounts payable and receivable records, student rolls, time sheets, dormitory records, budgets, and some correspondence. The ledgers primarily document student and financial records at Georgia Tech, but they also provide particularly rich documentation of the day-to-day operation of the first fifty years of the school's existence (1885-1935). The ledgers from the earliest years of this time period (1887-1920) represent some of the earliest extant manuscripts produced by Georgia Tech.

  The George C. Griffin Papers contain the personal and business records of Griffin, who was Dean of Students at Georgia Tech from 1946 to 1964. From his first days as a sub-freshman in 1914 until his death, Griffin spent 70 years involved with Georgia Tech. His dedication to the school and its students earned him the nickname of "Mr. Georgia Tech." His personal papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, certificates and awards, and materials for his book, Griffin: You Are a Great Disappointment to Me. They mainly date from the period following Griffin’s retirement in 1964. The papers reflect Griffin's deep involvement in a variety of Tech-related activities, including Georgia Tech sports, his fraternity (Pi Kappa Phi), the Alumni Association, and the Class of 1922. This collection forms a nice complement to the George C. Griffin Photograph Collection. Many of the photographs from this collection have been digitized and are available in the George Griffin Digital Collection.

  Founded in 1947 as the Georgia Tech Dramatic Club, DramaTech Theatre is Atlanta's oldest continuously operating theater company. The DramaTech Theatre Records include production files and administrative materials, programs from plays and performances, membership rolls, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting the company from its earliest years until about 2004. Photographs from this collection are currently being processed and will be made available in the near future.

  These and all other archival collections are available to all interested researchers at the Georgia Tech Archives, which is located in the Library Annex on the Georgia Tech campus. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information, please call 404-894-4586 or send an e-mail to archives@library.gatech.edu.

The mission of the Archives and Records Management Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology is:

• to collect and preserve the history of the campus;
• to promote research and scholarship through collections relating to the academic curriculum;
• to provide a research experience for students in the use of primary sources;
• and to preserve the legal and administrative documents of the Institute.