Marion L. Brittain

Marion L. Brittain
Brittain from The 1944 Blue Print
Born
Marion Luther Brittain

(1866-11-11)November 11, 1866
Wilkes County, Georgia, U.S.
DiedJuly 13, 1953(1953-07-13) (aged 86)
OccupationUniversity president

Marion Luther Brittain Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953[1]) was an American academic administrator and longest serving president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944.[2] Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief stint at the University of Chicago for graduate school, spent most of his life serving the educational community there. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory College in 1886, Brittain worked his way up the ranks from principal of an Atlanta high school to superintendent of education for the entire state of Georgia.[3]

In 1922, Brittain accepted the position of president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, then called the Georgia School of Technology, an office he would hold until his retirement in 1944. During his 22-year tenure at Georgia Tech, Brittain was credited with doubling student enrollment, establishing what is now the second-largest aerospace engineering faculty in the United States, and playing an influential role in securing Georgia Tech's position as a leading technical institute and research university. After his retirement, Brittain wrote The Story of Georgia Tech (1948), a history of the Institute published shortly before his death in 1953.[4]

  1. ^ "Obituaries". Time. July 13, 1953. Archived from the original on June 4, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  2. ^ Hild, Matthew; Morton, David (2018). Georgia Tech. Arcadia Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 9781467129602. Archived from the original on July 13, 2022. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  3. ^ Graham, Winzer (1917). Baptist Biography. Index Printing Company. pp. 43–44. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
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