The Atlanta Inquirer

HONOR TEENS
TECH

Authoritative sources have indicated that four teen-aged youths who went with their parents to Georgia Tech on Wednesday and picked up application blanks and catalogs are all honor students.

An eyewitness report that the parents who went along with their sons in the station wagon trip to the Georgia Tech campus are respected and substantial citizens lends credit to the view that the Wednesday afternoon's visit represents a serious effort to gain admission to the South's foremost technical college.

W. L. Carmichael, Georgia Tech registrar, has indicated that Negroes have secured entry blanks several times in the past but have never filed applications. There are those in the Negro community, however, who feel that in this

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latest case the Negroes are likely to follow through. One prominent citizen, recalling a conference which grew out of last year's Equal Opportunity Day celebration, stated that at least two parents underlined the strong interest of their sons in the field of engineering and their own feeling that the high cost of training in this area is greatly increased when the student must go out of state because of racial barriers.

The ACCA report, Second Look, and subsequent articles and studies have approximately three times more for Georgia Tech than all the Negro senior college units combined are receiving.

Meanwhile an official of the Georgia Tech Placement Bureau indicated that Tech graduates something over 1,000 engineers each year and that they are hired readily at beginning salaries averaging $500 a month but often start at a considerably higher figure.

The Tech official further stated that Tech graduates find jobs in the North, in other sections of the South as it becomes more widely industrialized and in the Atlanta area itself. He indicated that Lockheed is one of the prime employers of engineering graduates.