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- 1908
Anak is a senior society whose members are selected from those who have shown the greatest interest and zeal in promoting and helping in any movement which tends to uplift and develop the different phases of college life. The Great object of this society is to originate or help develop by carefully outlined plans such measures as will make for the betterment of the college. The efforts of the society have met with great success and as the influence of Anak grows even greater success will follow. The Glee Club, The Honor Code system, The Annual and our Commencement owe their life mainly to Anak.
- 1910
Anak is now in its second year and its past growth gives great promise of the future. It 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. To its efforts, in a great degree, are due our Glee Club, our Annual, the extension of our honor system, and the improvement of our commencement exercises. We feel that these accomplishments are things of which we may justly be proud.
- 1940
Anak is the oldest honorary organization on the Tech campus, an is the highest local honor a Tech student may obtain. Many members of the organization have gained national prominence since its founding in 1908, and they have served as an inspiration to the annual new members.
Members are elected twice yearly from the Senior Class. They are men who are outstanding among their fellow students by right of their popularity and their achievements for services to Georgia Tech.
- 1945
Anak was founded at Tech in 1908, and has the distinction of being the oldest honorary organization on the campus. To be chosen a member is the highest honor that any senior may obtain. The members of Anak are chosen as the most outstanding men in the Senior Class, as judged by their achievements and services to Georgia Tech. Announcement of new members is made at Anak's unique tapping exercises during the I. F. C. dances each semester.
- 1963
The Georgia Tech ANAK Society was organized on Jan. 1, 1908 to honor a few select men of the Senior Class who had shown themselves to be outstanding among their fellow students in their accomplishments and service on the Tech campus.
- 1994
Throughout the year, the members of ANAK identified problems and worked to realize projects that benefited the Georgia Institute of Technology, its students and its faculty.
Founded in 1908 by four Tech seniors (C. H. Baughn, Lewis Goodier, Charles Sweet, and George McCarty), ANAK is the oldest honor society at Georgia Tech. Since that time, ANAK has spurred the creation of many campus establishments such as the Georgia Tech Honor Code, The Technique, the Freshman Rat Cap, the Student Government, and the Mayer Japanese Garden (located near the Skiles Building). Another long term project of the organization is the funding of the George Wingfield Semmes Scholarship. The recipient of this esteemed scholarship need only be an engineering major here at Tech. The majority of these and many other projects were completed by the group on an anonymous basis.
Membership in ANAK was highly confidential and the members were not publicly recognized until the time of their graduation. Students who were asked to join the group were recognized by its members for their leadership ability, personal achievement, strong character, and love for Georgia Tech.
Constantly working behind the scenes, members sought no recognition for their service to Tech. To be invited to become a part of this esteemed organization had long been considered the highest honor that an undergraduate student could receive while a student at Georgia Tech.
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