After three long, winding weeks, Rearview Mirror is back. There’s much to talk about in the world of sports and history, and sports history, but it’s time to get back to the grind. So we drop back in on the eminent engineer who was just placed at the helm of the newly christened Institute.
The organization that Blake Van Leer now led was almost unrecognizable to the one Marion Brittain had held control of just a few years prior. When Tech’s school became an institute, all the degree-granting departments became schools in their own right. Exactly thirty three days after Tech became the Georgia Institute of Technology, Van Leer’s radical reorganization kicked into overdrive when the amount of personnel reporting directly to the president was slashed from almost two dozen to barely half of that number.