Some miscellaneous trivia from Northeast Georgia’s past:Lanier Technical College announced last week its enrollment for the new school year will set a record with 4,613 students registered for classes.The school is 55 years old, having started on a campus in Oakwood along with what was then the Gainesville Junior College, now the University of North Georgia.Just to show how dramatic the growth is, in 1973 Lanier Tech’s enrollment was 235, and the school was planning an expansion that would increase the student body by 305. That expansion would cost $500,000 and allow the school to offer training in practical nursing, carpentry, automobile body repair and masonry.Lanier Tech’s future home was in the worksThat same year, 1973, planning was just beginning on extending Interstate 985 from Gainesville to Cornelia, the highway off which Lanier Tech is situated today. I-985 was known then simply as Ga. 365, as the present extension north from Gainesville is today.