{"686845":{"#nid":"686845","#data":{"type":"news","title":"60 Years Later, Finally Another Yellow Jacket in the Family","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Cole Rogers got the notice four years ago that he\u2019d been moved off the waitlist and admitted to Georgia Tech, he knew exactly who to call first.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis grandfather, Peter Petrecca, had studied \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Eaerospace engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Tech and had a long career in aviation, engineering, and product development. No one would celebrate the news more, so Rogers called him with the news before he even told his parents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPetrecca had raised three daughters and exposed them to engineering and making things. But none had been interested enough to make it a career \u2014 or study at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThen Cole came along, and I had another opportunity,\u201d Petrecca said. \u201cWe made model cars and motorcycles together and did other things. I wasn\u0027t sure he was going to go the engineering route, but I was thrilled when he got accepted.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow Rogers is graduating with his \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Eindustrial engineering bachelor\u2019s degree\u003C\/a\u003E, and in the sometimes funny way history echoes itself, he\u2019ll walk across the stage exactly 60 years after his grandfather finished his own degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a path that probably has been quietly paved throughout Rogers\u2019 life, during all his visits to his grandfather\u2019s house.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/60-years-later-finally-another-yellow-jacket-family\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeter Petrecca has been the lone Georgia Tech engineer in his family for decades. That changes in December when his grandson graduates exactly 60 years after Petrecca finished his degree.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Peter Petrecca has been the lone Georgia Tech engineer in his family for decades. That changes in December when his grandson graduates exactly 60 years after Petrecca finished his degree."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2025-12-10 17:44:48","changed_gmt":"2025-12-10 17:47:20","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678819":{"id":"678819","type":"image","title":"Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025-1262-t.jpg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeter Petrecca, left, with his grandson Cole Rogers \u2014 Georgia Tech engineers who graduated 60 years apart. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1765388709","gmt_created":"2025-12-10 17:45:09","changed":"1765388709","gmt_changed":"2025-12-10 17:45:09","alt":"Peter Petrecca and his grandson Cole Rogers in McCamish Pavilion.","file":{"fid":"262904","name":"Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025-1262-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/10\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025-1262-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/10\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025-1262-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":687553,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/12\/10\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025-1262-t.jpg?itok=4rAwJjkG"}}},"media_ids":["678819"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}