John Staton

John Curtis Staton (June 9, 1902 – September 16, 1990) was a college football player and Coca-Cola executive.
Georgia Tech.
Staton was an All-Southern end for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He played with his brother Albert Staton. John was elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1965. At Georgia Tech he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Coca-Cola.
Staton then joined Coca-Cola in 1924, becoming vice president before retiring in 1968. It was said it was him who designed the company's first cooler and developed its first fountain dispenser.