Here's a picture of Adrian S. Van de Graaff from the '93 Corolla. He was on Yale's first 11 man football team in 1880 & later married one of the Jemison girls and all three of their boys were born in the Jemison Mansion. All three played for the Tide at the same time and Bully was our first All-American in 1915.(ninety years later the Britt family were the next family to put 3 boys on the Crimson Tide team at the same time) Bully's younger brother, Robert, invented the Van de Graaff Generator which enabled scientists to identify the properties of the plutonium atom which was the most important step leading to the creation of the atomic bomb. Robert later used his generator on silicon which led to the invention of the microchip.
Jacquetta & I toured the Jemison - Van de Graaff Mansion today. The old 26 room house will celebrate its 150th birthday in February. http://bama.ua.edu/~jharrell/PH106-S06/vandegraaff.htm