Spring 2002
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Spring 2002 |
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The Olympic flame received a Rose-Hulman boost thanks to at
least two alumni and the campus community. On Jan. 8 the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay passed through the
city on the way to its final destination, the Salt Lake Olympic Cauldron in
Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium. Rose-Hulman alumnus Carl Troike helped in the
festivities that day by carrying the torch through downtown Terre Haute. The
1988 Rose-Hulman graduate is a production manager at Cabot Corp. in Tuscola,
Ill. Three days earlier, alumnus Warren Mickens, a 1977
mechanical engineering graduate, carried the flame on Poplar Avenue near
downtown Wilmette, Ill. "My mom briefly mentioned she had nominated me last
February, but I blew it off thinking it was very nice of her to do, but what
have I really done to deserve the honor? To say the least, I was very surprised
when the Airborne Express person came to my door asking me to sign for a package
from Nebraska. I was even more surprised when I opened the letter and it was
from Coca-Cola informing me of my nomination," Troike said. Mickens was nominated for the honor by Lucent Technologies.
At that time, he was vice president of network planning and engineering
for Ameritech and had just spent a long year improving the performance of the
Ameritech network.
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