{"655599":{"#nid":"655599","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Atlanta battlefield buff honored for contributions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/charles-j-crawford\u0022\u003ECharlie Crawford\u003C\/a\u003E, a former member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/advisory-board\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences Advisory Board\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ewho turned his fascination with America\u0026#39;s historic\u0026nbsp;battlefields into a decades-long\u0026nbsp;mission to preserve them, has received the 2022\u0026nbsp;John Macpherson Berrien Lifetime Achievement Award\u0026nbsp;from the Georgia Historical Society. Crawford, who\u0026nbsp;received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E in 1971, served as the president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiabattlefields.org\/home.aspx\u0022\u003EGeorgia Battlefields Association\u003C\/a\u003E for 20 years, and has been a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/help-preserve-245-acres-williamsburg?ms=googlepaid\u0026amp;utm_source=Google\u0026amp;utm_medium=cpc\u0026amp;utm_campaign=245Williamsburg\u0026amp;ms=googlepaid\u0026amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMInqvuqu2J9gIVPxPUAR1T6wiiEAAYASAAEgKvtfD_BwE\u0022\u003EAmerican Battlefield Trust\u003C\/a\u003E since 1991. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel, Crawford\u0026nbsp;designed \u0026mdash; and still leads \u0026mdash; \u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;walking tour of historic sites in downtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-02-18 18:16:57","changed_gmt":"2022-02-18 18:16:57","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/neighborhoods\/atlanta-battlefield-buff-honored-for-contributions\/SQFTS2YH2FESVC44B7CJDYRTJI\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"54051","name":"Charlie Crawford"},{"id":"190005","name":"John Macpherson Berrien Lifetime Achievement Award"},{"id":"174717","name":"Georgia Historical Society"},{"id":"190006","name":"American Battlefield Trust"},{"id":"190007","name":"Georgia Battlefields Association"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}