Alexander-Tharpe Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: UA056
These records include minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund.
(one record center carton)
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This collection consists of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund by-laws and Board meeting minutes, covering the dates 1949 to 1985.
Established in 1949, the Alexander-Tharpe Fund honors Coach William A. Alexander and Mercer McCall “Mack” Tharpe, Tech football player and assistant coach who was killed in World War II. According to the Georgia Tech Athletic Association website, the primary purpose of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund, Inc. is "to raise the money necessary to pay for Georgia Tech's student-athletes' scholarships. The goal at A-T is to raise enough money in unrestricted annual giving to cover the cost of the number of scholarships allowed by the NCAA." The organization was initially called the Alexander-Tharpe Scholarship Fund, with the name changed to the Alexander-Tharpe Fund, Inc. in 1981.
The Athletic Association donated these records in February 1999 (Accession #1999.0302; old #1999-03-02).
(one record center carton)
Christine de Catanzaro encoded this collection summary in March 2006.
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