ANAK Society

The ANAK Society is the oldest known secret society and honor society based at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1908, ANAK's purpose is "to honor outstanding juniors and seniors who have shown both exemplary leadership and a true love for Georgia Tech".] Anak was a biblical figure said to be the forefather of the Nephilim, a race of giants. [ cite web | url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1453&letter=A | accessdate=2007-12-29 | title=Anakim | last=Toy | first=Crawford Howell | coauthors=Kaufmann Kohler | year=1901-1906 | work=Jewish Encyclopedia ] For unknown reasons, the society's name has sustained minor alterations over the years, from "Anak" in the 1908 "Blue Print", the first edition of Georgia Tech's yearbook, cite book | title="The Blue Print" | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | year=1908 | location=Atlanta, GA | url=http://hdl.handle.net/1853/12285 | accessdate=2007-12-21 ] to "ANAK" in recent editions of "The Technique", Georgia Tech's student newspaper.For example, see page six of the December 1, 2006 edition of "The Technique" [http://technique.library.gatech.edu/pdfs/news-2006-12-01.pdf] (PDF).]

The ANAK Society has adopted a number of symbols over the years, although it has never offered any official explanation as to their meaning. From its founding in 1908 to 1927, the society identified itself only by the name "Anak" or "Anak Society". In 1928 and 1929, the society adopted a "bend sinister gules", a type of diagonal red line borrowed from heraldry. The bend was dropped after 1930, following the introduction of a crest bearing the face of a cyclops and the Hebrew inscription ענק, meaning "Anak", both affixed to a capital letter "T". This loosely-drawn crest was replaced with a more professionally-illustrated version in 1940 (see right image). cite book | year=1940 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | location=Atlanta, GA | title="The Blue Print"| url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/16861 | accessdate=2007-12-22 | quote=Anak is the oldest honorary organization on the Tech campus, and is the highest local honor a Tech student may obtain. ] In later decades, the society adopted a simple lidless eye to represent itself; this symbol appeared on red ribbon armbands worn at ANAK "tapping" rituals cite news | work=The Technique | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | year=1949 | date=1949-11-01 | title=ANAK Taps Four at Homecoming Ball | quote=Just prior to intermission, five members of ANAK, led by Estes Mann, president of the society, circled the fringe of the onlookers and, one by one, located the new members and banded them with the traditional red ribbon. ] and a plaque outside the Paul G. Mayer Memorial Garden on Georgia Tech's campus. cite web | work=Monument Information | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/space/mon.cfm?ffn=002-2 | accessdate=2008-01-23 | title=Paul G. Mayer Plaque ] Most recently, ANAK published a modernized version of its crest, a lidless eye affixed to a capital letter "T", in "The Technique" in January 2008 to commemorate its . [ cite news | work=The Technique | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | accessdate=2008-01-24 | date=2008-01-18 | url=http://nique.blakeisrael.com/pdf/2008-01-18.pdf | title=The Technique, January 18, 2008 | format=PDF |format=PDF (see page 6)]

History

Founding

The ANAK Society was founded on January 1, 1908cite book|first=Robert C.|last=McMath|coauthors=Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W. Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed|title=Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885-1985|publisher=University of Georgia Press|location=Athens, GA|year=1985] cite web | publisher=Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management | url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/tech_questions.html#16 | accessdate=2007-12-21 | work=20 Common Questions about Georgia Tech | title=When was ANAK founded? | quote=The ANAK Society was founded in 1908 as a secretive honorary organization for upperclassmen. ] by four Georgia Tech seniors: George Wyman McCarty, Jr. (President), Harry Read Vaughan (Vice President), Lewis Edward Goodier, Jr. (Secretary) and Charles Atwater Sweet, Jr. (Treasurer). cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/display/xsl/MS156|title=Inventory of the ANAK Society Records, 1948-1983 (MS #156)|work=Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management Department|publisher=Georgia Tech Library|accessdate=2007-12-22|year=2002] The "guiding spirit" cite book | publisher=Cherry Logan Emerson | last=McMath | first=Robert C., Jr. | authorlink=Bob McMath | year=1994 | title=William Henry Emerson and the Scientific Discipline at Georgia Tech | id=ISBN 0-9639968-9-4 | quote=According to tradition within the Anak Society, Emerson was the guiding spirit behind its formation by a small band of senior leaders in 1908. ] behind these students was said to be William Henry Emerson, a professor of chemistry. Officer titles were named after famous cyclopes in Greek mythology: the president was Polyphemus; the vice president, Brontes; the treasurer, Stereopes; and the secretary, Arges."Constitutions", box 1, folder 1. [http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/display/xsl/MS156 ANAK Society Records (MS #156)] , Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.] Other charter members (all seniors) were G. A. Hendrie, C. A. Adamson, S. J. Hargrove, J. E. Davenport, L. W. Robert, W. R. Snyder, C. L. Emerson (son of William Henry Emerson) and G. W. Holmes Cheney. Additional members have been initiated each subsequent year, but following the tradition set by the society's founders, no more than 12 members may be initiated per year.

In the 1909 "Blue Print", the society described its purpose as follows: " [The ANAK Society] is composed of men from the Senior Class of Georgia Tech who have shown themselves zealous in the development of college spirit. This organization is not here, primarily, as a social club or honorary society, but to do all it can to develop a better morale among the student body and improve all phases of college life." [ cite book | title="The Blue Print" | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | year=1909 | url=http://hdl.handle.net/1853/12286 | accessdate=2007-12-21 | location = Atlanta, GA ]

As the society's membership base grew, its influence and prestige likewise increased. By 1940, the ANAK Society was referred to as "the oldest honorary organization on the Tech campus" and membership as "the highest local honor a Tech student may obtain". These claims would generally go unchallenged throughout the rest of the century. Faculty recognition by the society, first initiated with the ANAK Award in 1942, would reach an equivalent level of prestige by the end of the century.

Transition to a secret society

For many years following the ANAK Society's founding, membership was not confidential. ANAK members would select new initiates by "tapping" them (tapping them on the shoulder) or presenting them with red ribbon armbands at Georgia Tech's semi-annual Interfraternity Council (IFC) dance. The ritual was dropped in 1961 when ANAK elected to become a secret society. From this point forward, ANAK membership was made public only upon a student's graduation, via a list of graduating ANAK members published in the "Blue Print" and the "Technique" each year and the ANAK Society's home page. [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/2000.html | accessdate=2008-02-25 | title=ANAK Graduates, 2000-Present | work=The ANAK Society | publisher=The ANAK Society | quote= [S] ince 1960 membership in the Society has been secret. Only when members reach graduation are they publicalysic announced in the Technique. ] A similar policy applies to faculty and honorary members, whose involvement with the society is only made known upon their retirement from Georgia Tech. cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/faculty.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | work=The ANAK Society | publisher=The ANAK Society | title=ANAK Faculty & Honorary Members ]

The specific reasons for ANAK's transition to secrecy remain unclear. One reason, cited in several editions of the "Blue Print", offers that the society changed its policies to protect its members from fallout associated with ANAK's civil rights activities at the time. According to Gary May, the society's faculty advisor, ANAK membership is confidential because "the members don't want to exert undue influence on processes or people because of their status as a member". In contrast, critics of the society suggest that the society acts in secret to shirk accountability for any negative consequences of its activities.

Modern organization

By the 21st century, ANAK comprised at least 1,100 graduates, faculty members and honorary members. Among current Georgia Tech students, only upperclassmen (junior and senior undergraduates) are eligible for regular membership. Honorary memberships for faculty members and distinguished alumni are also available. The society apparently selects members based on "leadership ability, personal achievement, strong character, and love for Georgia Tech". [ cite book | title="The Blueprint" | year=1994 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | location=Atlanta, GA ] Membership is unrestricted by race or gender, and academic achievement is not considered in the selection criteria. The society admitted its first female member, Carol A. Burtz, in 1976, 23 years after Georgia Tech began admitting women. [ cite web | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1970.html | title=ANAK Graduates, 1970-1979 | accessdate=2007-12-22 ]

As the ANAK Society is ostensibly a student organization at Georgia Tech, it is subject to the same rules and regulations as other student organizations. The society files paperwork with Georgia Tech administration and the Student Government Association, holds elections for each of its four mandatory officer positions (president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary) and is formally advised by a Georgia Tech faculty member. The president's name must be kept on file in the Office of Student Involvement, available to any student who seeks it. As of 2007, the society's current faculty advisor is Gary Stephen May, the Steve W. Chaddick Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering [ cite web | url=http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/bio.php?id=66 | accessdate=2007-12-22 | title=Faculty Profile - Gary S May | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology ] and an ANAK member since 1985. [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1980.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | title=ANAK Graduates, 1980-1989 ]

Influence

tudent organizations

The ANAK Society played a major role in establishing several of Georgia Tech's most active student organizations, including two student publications and the student government. The society's existence was formally announced in the first edition of the "Blue Print" in 1908. Four ANAK charter members served on the first "Blue Print" editorial board. By 1911, ANAK admitted four more 1908 "Blue Print" editors into the society, including Editor-in-Chief John G. Chapman. [Of the 1908 "Blue Print" staff, Emerson, Hendrie, McCarty and Sweet were charter members of ANAK. J. G. Chapman and G. W. Barnwell would join the society in 1909, M. F. Legg in 1910 and W. P. Barney in 1911.] These close relationships enabled the society to assert a great deal of control over the yearbook's direction in future decades. Along with several other clubs and societies, ANAK listed its membership roster and provided a group photograph in the yearbook.

ANAK and three Georgia Tech faculty members appointed the first staff of the "Technique", Georgia Tech's student newspaper. Eugene A. Turner, secretary of the Georgia Tech YMCA, and Albert Blohm, an adjunct professor of English, served as the newspaper's first editors, while W. G. Perry, a junior professor of English, acted as the "Technique"'s first faculty advisor. The "Technique" published its first edition on November 11, 1911, and has been in continuous weekly publication since that time, with a modern circulation of 10,000. cite web|url=http://www.nique.net/pdf/ads/adsbrochure.pdf|title=Technique Advertising Supplement | format=PDF |publisher="The Technique"|accessdate=2008-02-18|format=PDF]

In the absence of an official student government during the first few decades at Georgia Tech, the ANAK society acted as an unofficial student government and proposed an Honor Code, modeled on that of West Point's, in 1908. ANAK worked to set up a more formal organization, the Student Council (later the Student Government Association), in 1922, at which point it relinquished any decision-making privileges it had over the student body. [ cite book | title="The Blue Print" | year=1927 | location=Atlanta, GA | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | quote=The Student Council of Georgia Tech, a student governing organization, came into existence during the school year of 1922-23. At about this time the Honor Court had been abolished and the Anak Society nominated the Student Council to take its place on the Tech campus. | url=http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15062 | accessdate=2007-12-29 ]

Other student organizations ANAK claims to have established include a chapter of the YMCA in 1910 and the Ramblin' Reck Club in 1930. The former claim, however, contradicts evidence of a YMCA chapter existing before 1908, and possibly as early as 1901. In 1912, ANAK additionally formed the Koseme Society, a comparable honor society geared towards sophomores and juniors at Georgia Tech.

Traditions

The ANAK Society is credited with beginning a number of lasting Georgia Tech traditions. ANAK created the "Rat Cap", a gold baseball cap still distributed to new Georgia Tech students, in 1915 in response to distinctive freshman headgear popularized at other educational institutions at the time. [ cite web | url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtraditions/traditions/ratcap.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | work=Ramblin' Memories: Traditions, Legends and Sounds of Georgia Tech | title=RAT Caps | quote=Introduced in 1915 by ANAK. ] [ cite web | url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/trads/geot-trads.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | title=Georgia Tech Traditions | work=Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | quote=One of the oldest and proudest freshman traditions, wearing Tech's gold-colored rat cap, originated with the ANAK society in 1915. ] ANAK organized the first homecoming celebration combined with an alumni reunion around 1920, [The year of the first Georgia Tech homecoming is disputed. "The Technique" reports it took place in 1916, while ANAK reports 1919 and the Georgia Tech Alumni Association reports June 7, 1920.] cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/history.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | title=General History of ANAK | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society ] [ cite web | work=Ramblin' Memories: Traditions, Legends and Sounds of Georgia Tech | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | title=Homecoming | accessdate=2007-12-23 | url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtraditions/traditions/homecoming.html | quote=First one on June 7, 1920, was sponsored by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association to celebrate its reorganization. ] a tradition that continues to this day. [For details on the most recent Georgia Tech homecoming weekend (2007), see, cite web | url=http://www.gtalumni.org/site/Page/Homecoming | accessdate=2008-01-23 | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | title=Homecoming Weekend 2007 .]

Civil rights

Beginning in the early 1920s, the ANAK Society involved itself in a number of civil rights activities. In 1921, ANAK spearheaded an effort to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from setting up a chapter at Georgia Tech. The effort was successful and the Klan instead set up a chapter at the University of Georgia. [ cite journal | journal=The Hueman Press | volume=1 | issue=4 | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/aasu/press/HuemanPressApr05.pdf | format=PDF | accessdate=2007-12-23 | date=2005-04-25 | title=The KKK at GT | last=Holder | first=James | publisher=Georgia Tech African American Student Union |format=PDF]

Around 1960, ANAK held a series of secret dinner meetings with the families of Ford Greene, Ralph A. Long, Jr. and Lawrence Michael Williams, Georgia Tech's first three African American students. The goal of these meetings, facilitated through the Georgia Tech YMCA, was to discuss the range of potential situations that could arise when the three students enrolled at Georgia Tech the following year, as well as appropriate reactions to each of these situations. When Greene, Long, and Williams enrolled in the fall semester of 1961, ANAK members discreetly kept a close watch on the three students for the first two weeks to ensure their safety. As a result of ANAK's efforts and those of other Institute and city organizations, none of the students was involved in any serious incident, paving the way for continued peaceful racial integration. [ cite web | title=Tech Integrates Peacefully | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | accessdate=2007-12-22 | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/proj-int.html]

Philanthropy

A philanthropic organization, the ANAK Society annually awards two undergraduate student scholarships, the George Wingfield Semmes Memorial Scholarship [ cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title=George Wingfield Semmes Memorial Scholarship | work=Foundation - Endowed Scholarships | url=http://www.finaid.gatech.edu/scholarships/found_end.php#semmes | accessdate=2007-12-21 ] and the Merri Gaye Hitt Memorial Scholarship. [ cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title=Merri Gaye Hitt Memorial Scholarship | work=Foundation - Endowed Scholarships | url=http://www.finaid.gatech.edu/scholarships/found_end.php#hitt | accessdate=2007-12-21 ] Semmes and Hitt were both Georgia Tech alumni and ANAK members; Semmes, the Class of 1910 [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/semmes.html | publisher=The ANAK Society | accessdate=2007-12-21 | title=The George Wingfield Semmes Memorial Scholarship | work=The ANAK Society ] and Hitt, the Class of 1977. [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/hitt.html | publisher=The ANAK Society | accessdate=2007-12-21 | title=The Merri Gaye Hitt Memorial Scholarship | work=The ANAK Society ] Additionally, the society annually recognizes distinguished Georgia Tech alumni with the Joseph M. Pettit Distinguished Service Award (formerly the ANAK Service Award). [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/pettit.html | publisher=The ANAK Society | accessdate=2007-12-21 | title=The J. M. Pettit Distinguished Service Award | work=The ANAK Society ] Finally, since 1942 (annually since 1947), the society has presented the ANAK Award to an outstanding Georgia Tech faculty member. [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/anakaward.html | publisher=The ANAK Society | accessdate=2007-12-21 | title=The ANAK Award | work=The ANAK Society ] This award is considered "the highest honor the undergraduate student body can bestow on a Georgia Tech faculty member". For example, upon his retirement in 1999, Georgia Tech professor David J. McGill recalled winning the ANAK Award in 1990 as the highlight of his teaching career, despite having also won two Outstanding Teaching Awards (in 1974 and 1986) and being named the Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year for the state of Georgia in 1996. [ cite journal | journal=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | url=http://www.gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/spr99/profile.html | year=Spring 1999 | volume=75 | issue=4 | last=Dunn | first=John | title=Teachers' Teacher | accessdate=2007-12-22 ]

The ANAK Society has donated a number of gifts to Georgia Tech. In 1921, the society donated a staircase connecting Tech Tower to the D. P. Savant Building. [ cite web | work=Monument Information | title=Anak Society Staircase | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/space/mon.cfm?ffn=035-3 | accessdate=2007-12-22 ] The staircase bears a plaque naming ANAK as the benefactor, [ cite news | work=Monument Information | title=Anak Society Plaque | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/space/mon.cfm?ffn=035-19 | accessdate=2007-12-22 ] one of very few conspicuous declarations of the society's existence on the Georgia Tech campus. On September 26, 1947, ANAK presented a life-size bronze bust of Georgia Tech football head coach William A. Alexander to the Georgia Tech Athletic Association to commemorate the society's 40th anniversary. The bust was sculpted by Julian H. Harris, a noted sculptor, architect, and Georgia Tech professor from 1936 to 1972. [ cite web | url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/df/pdf/HARRISJ.ULI.pdf | accessdate=2007-12-23 | format=PDF | title=Julian Harris | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | quote=Above is a picture of life-size bronze bust of William A. (Bill) Alexander, Coach Alex, presented to Georgia Tech by ANAK at their fortieth anniversary banquet in 1947. |format=PDF] Along with the Class of 1924, ANAK gifted a portrait of William Henry Emerson, Georgia Tech's first dean, to Georgia Tech in 1924. The portrait was painted by noted Atlanta artist Kate Edwards. After being lost some time in the 1980s, the portrait was found and restored in the early 1990s. It has hung in the atrium of the Lyman Hall Building since October 15, 1992. [ cite journal | journal=Tech Topics | year=Winter 1992 | title=After 68 Years, 'Big Doc' Emerson's portrait officially unveiled | url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/win92/68years.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | volume=29 | issue=2 ] Along with the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society, [ cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/odk/history/history_timeline.htm | accessdate=2008-01-23 | publisher=Omicron Delta Kappa, Georgia Tech Chapter | title=Timeline ] ANAK was involved in the dedication of the Paul G. Mayer Memorial Garden on May 30, 1987. The garden, located between the Georgia Tech Library and the William Vernon Skiles Classroom Building, features a plaque bearing the lidless eye symbol of the ANAK Society.

In 2002, the ANAK Society donated a collection of its records from 1948 to 1983 to Georgia Tech. The records are publicly available through the Georgia Tech Library's Archives and Records Management Department and include constitutions, anniversary dinner invitations, and member directories.

Controversy

In recent years, ANAK's influence and status as a secret society has raised suspicion and controversy among Georgia Tech students. In particular, the society had "fallen under heavy scrutiny" during a series of student government election scandals in the late 1990s.

In 1998, Marc D. Galindo, a Georgia Tech student and ANAK member, [ cite web | publisher=The ANAK Society | work = The ANAK Society | title=ANAK Graduates, 1990-1999 | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1990.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 ] defeated competitor Vikas Chinnan in Student Government Association elections after Chinnan was disqualified for repeated campaign violations. The disqualification, however, was eventually overturned by the Undergraduate Judiciary Cabinet (the judiciary branch of student government).cite news|first=Scott|last=Lange|url=http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/mar6/news2.html|title=Election Code violation charges plague runoffs|work=The Technique|date=1998-03-06|accessdate=2008-03-10] Although Galindo had committed a similar (but not identical nor a repeated) campaign violation, the Elections Committee did not disqualify him. Galindo had used a work-related staff email account to distribute campaign information while Chinnan had repeatedly used academic email distribution lists not available to the general public. [Georgia Tech SGA Election Committee Minutes, 1998] Allegations of corruption erupted when two members of the Elections Committee turned out to be Galindo's fellow ANAK members; however, no proof of wrongdoing was ever uncovered. It should be noted that Chinnan, at the time of the election, was dating Anu Khurana, then the president of the ANAK society. Chinnan had agreed with and acknowledged that Galindo had not wanted to him to be "disqualified on a technicality". [cite news|first=Greg|last=Scherrer|url=http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb27/news1.html|title=Runoff election Monday|work=The Technique|date=1998-02-27|accessdate=2008-03-10]

A similar incident occurred at Georgia Tech the following year. During student government elections in 1999, rumors circulated that Wendy Horowitz, a candidate for Student Body President, was a member of ANAK. "Conspiracy theories" and "intense debate" ensued among students regarding the society's intentions, benevolent or otherwise. Horowitz lost the election, a result widely attributed to her purported ANAK affiliation. It was later revealed that Horowitz, in fact, had served as president of the ANAK Society for the 1999–2000 term. [ cite news | url=http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/00/april/10/honors.html | date=2000-04-10 | accessdate=2007-12-22 | work=The Whistle | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title=Georgia Tech honors its own at faculty/staff awards ceremony ]

As a result of these controversies, a general feeling of distrust towards the ANAK society propagated throughout the Georgia Tech campus, epitomized by an anonymous email circulated in 1999 that accused ANAK of "being the 'lapdog of President Clough' [and] improperly influencing elections, scholarships, and the press, among other things". Critics expressed concern that ANAK members were eschewing accountability for "their mistakes, their bad ideas, and their bad decisions" under the guise of eschewing "praise for their accomplishments". The Student Government Association's policy towards secret societies was called into question, resulting in a Joint Campus Organizations Committee (JCOC) resolution to consider the issue of accountability among student organization leaders. The controversial JCOC resolution, strongly opposed by ANAK representatives, would "require candidates for officer positions to recognize all campus affiliations including position and duration of involvement". cite news | work=The Technique | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-05-28/news/1 | accessdate=2007-12-26 | date=1999-05-28 | title=Highly contested ethics resolution fails in SGA | last=Dykes | first=Jennifer Dead link|date=October 2008] The resolution failed, ensuring that ANAK membership rosters and meetings would remain confidential.

Notable members

The ANAK Society has granted honorary membership to a host of notable individuals associated with Georgia Tech, including former United States senator Sam Nunn, cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1960.html | accessdate=2008-03-10 | title=ANAK Graduates, 1960-1969 | work=The ANAK Society | publisher=The ANAK Society] former Georgia Tech football head coach Bobby Dodd, former Georgia Tech basketball head coach Bobby Cremins, sportscaster Al Ciraldo, former United States president Jimmy Carter (inducted 1946), [ cite web | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1940.html | title=ANAK Graduates, 1940-1949 | accessdate=2007-12-25 ] and most of Georgia Tech's presidents. Notable ANAK members who were active in the society as Georgia Tech students include former Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr. (inducted 1933), cite web | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1930.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | title=ANAK Graduates, 1930-1939 ] [ cite journal| journal=Tech Topics | publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association | url=http://gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/fall03/190Nave.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | date=Fall 2003 | title=Courageous Leader: Former Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Com 33. | volume=40 | issue=1 ] former United States astronaut John W. Young (inducted 1952) [ cite web | publisher=The ANAK Society | work=The ANAK Society | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/grads/1950.html | accessdate=2007-12-22 | title=ANAK Graduates, 1950-1959 ] [ cite web | url=http://www.johnwyoung.org/bio/education.htm | title=Biography | publisher=Astronaut John W. Young | accessdate=2007-12-22 | last=Holland| first=Dana ] and former Georgia Tech football head coach William A. Alexander (inducted 1912). [ cite book | year=1912 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title="The Blue Print" | location=Atlanta, GA | accessdate=2007-12-31 | url=http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14390 ] George P. Burdell, Georgia Tech's most famous fictional student, has been a member of the ANAK Society since 1930.

ee also

* Collegiate secret societies in North America

References

External links

* [http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/anak/ Home page of the ANAK Society]