Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 25, No. 03 1947

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Congratulations—Team and Coaches THE

GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS ENGINEERING and I N D U S T R I A L REVIEW Published every other month during the college year by the National Alumni Association of the Georgia School of Technology R. J. THIESEN, Editor H. E. K A U F M A N , Adv. Mgr.

L. F. ZSUFFA, Mgr.-Editor H. M. CHAMBLESS, Staff Assoc.

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GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ATLANTA, GA. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER MARCH 22, 1923 at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Vol. X X V

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NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD F. A. HOOPER, JR., '16 President LAWRENCE WILLET, '18 Vice-President JOHN L. DAVIDSON, '15 Vice-President CHAS. R. YATES, '35 Treasurer R. J. THIESEN, '10 Exec. Secretary Ivan Allen, Jr., '33 M. A. Ferst, '11 O. A. Barge, '12 Price Gilbert, Jr., '21 Chas. M. B r o w n , '25 J. J. Westbrook, '30 Oscar G. Davis, '22 R. H. White, Jr., '14

GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI FOUNDATION, Inc. OFFICERS A N D FRANK H. NEELY, '04 CHARLES A. SWEET, '08 W. A. PARKER, '19 F. E. Callaway, Jr., '26 Thos. Fuller, '06 W. H. Hightower, '09 Geo. T. Marchmont, '07 F. M. Spratlin, '06 J. F. Towers, '01 J. E. Davenport, '08 Y. F. Freeman, '10 Geo. S. Jones, Jr., '12

TRUSTEES President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer F. A. Hooper, Jr., '16 Wm. T. Rich, '10 R. B. Wilby, '08 C. L. Emerson, '08 Robt. Gregg, '05 Geo. W. McCarty, '08 Jno. A. Simmons, '15 A. D. Kennedy, '03 G. W. Woodruff. '17

GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ALUMNI MEMBERS J. C. HARRIS, '08 L. W. ROBERT, JR., '08 ROBT. B. WILBY, '08

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ALUMNI STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL B y Districts E. Geo. Butler, Savannah 6. W. E. Dunwoody, Jr., Macon R. A. Puckett, Tifton 7. R. A. Morgan, Rome W. C. Pease, Columbus 8. I. M. Aiken, Brunswick W. H. Hightower, Thomaston 9. W. H. Slack, Gainesville Forrest Adair, Jr., Atlanta 10. Wm. D. Eve, Augusta

THIS ISSUE Alumni Response Is Encouraging Congratulations to Team and Coaches Houston Alumni Exceptional Hosts Coach Dodd Remains at Ga. Tech Engineering Education and Construction Industry Prominently Mentioned and Armed Forces Missing in Action, "Gold Star" Alumni Service Citations, Sports

Elsewhere in this issue, there is an account of your brilliance and alertness that brought about your great 41-19 victory in the Oil Bowl game over the Gaels of St. Marys at Houston, Texas, on New Year's day; right here and now, though, we heartily congratulate each and all of you of the varsity, B teams, and coaching staff, upon your exceptional accomplishments, hard work, spirit, and deserved successes throughout the 1946 football season.

A loss, here and there, is not unexpected with a terrific schedule, such as you played; but 9 wins and two losses—one of which could so easily have been otherwise— certainly is a record of which you should justifiably be proud; and upon which ' you should everlastingly be complimented.

Faculty members, alumni, schoolmates and hundreds of other friends have joined in banquets and other deserved awards to you; but, try as all may, outward manifestations cannot carry all the praise that these many and fine friends, along with a host of others, would like to express, despite their sincerest willingness to do so.

Like other grand Georgia Tech teams, you have done much to uphold the great standards of the college; and you have added another major bowl victory, to round out Georgia Tech victories, in all but one; including the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and, now, the Oil Bowl.

Our alumni in Houston and other good friends in that most hospitable city were really exceptional and gracious hosts; and you won the admiration and praise of all by your exemplary conduct as well as for your excellent game and sportsmanship. So, again, the best of all congratulations to you, individually, the teams, the squads, and your coaches. All of you so well merit the best of all praise and good wishes.

Georgia Tech Reception Planned for Chancellor and Mrs. Paty A general reception is being planned for the alumni, faculty members, students and their respective ladies in honor of the newly elected Chancellor of the University System, Dr. Paty, and Mrs. Paty.

Preliminary plans will be made at an early gathering of alumni officers and college officials; and the big r e ception will be held during Commencement or sooner, as may be seen fit.

All Georgia Tech Alumni will be notified and invited in plenty of time, as soon as definite arrangements can be completed.

Los Angeles Alumni Organizing Club Much progress has been made on plans for the organization of a Georgia Tech Club in Los Angeles, California, including other cities or towns within a hundred mile radius of Los Angeles.

J. D. Weaver, '44, I. M. '43; and Howard Bolles, Ch. E. '34, are very much interested in forming the club and have obtained the names and addresses of about 40 alumni in the area. They greatly desire to have the names, classes and addresses of all former Ga. Tech registrants in the Los Angeles district.

If you live in the area; or know of other Ga. Tech alumni in that district, please send in your name and address, also that of the others to J. D. Weaver, 607 South Hill Street, Suite 803, Los Angeles 14, California; or to Howard Bolles, Bausch and Lomb Optical Co., Los Angeles 14, California.

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Alumni Response Is Gratifying On December 26, a general letter was mailed to the alumni in Georgia, by the Public Affairs Committee of the National Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Mr. Charlie Brown, Chairman; in the letter there was an outline of the imperative, immediate needs of Georgia Tech, and it requested the alumni to get in touch with the proper authorities in order for the latter to be duly informed as to the absolutely essential program for the college, to the mutual benefit of Georgia Tech, the University System of Georgia, the students, and the State, itself.

The response has been most gratifying and, although quite a few are yet to be heard from, many are speaking directly to those concerned.

As others of you, who live out of Georgia, are also undoubtedly interested and may want to communicate with your friends and authorities in the State, concerning the contents of the letter, we take pleasure in publishing it, herewith: NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Georgia School of Technology Atlanta, Ga., December 26, 1946 Dear Fellow-Alumnus: The Georgia School of Technology, your Alma Mater, and the only engineering institution in the State, has done much to promote the development of industry and the conservation of natural and human resources in Georgia.

This is being accomplished through the education of engineers and through fundamental and applied research for agriculture and industry. But this very important work of Georgia Tech is being seriously hindered by lack of classrooms and modern laboratories.

According to a recent legislative committee report, "several of the buildings on the campus are unfit for use. They are firetraps, which are not only endangering those occupying the buildings, but would endanger the entire plant if fire were to get started. These buildings should be dismantled and done away with at the earliest possible moment." In conclusion, the committee points out that Georgia Tech has contributed more to the industrialization of the State than any other institution and warns that if

the physical plant is not improved soon with new buildings, "it will be relegated to secondary standing."

Colonel Blake R. Van Leer, the far-seeing and progressive president of Georgia Tech in his last annual report stated that the educational plant is not only woefully run down but has not had any new construction of required academic buildings for over six years. In 1939 it was necessary to restrict the enrollment to 2,800 students.

Today, there are more than 5,000 enrolled, many of them veterans.

Of the most urgent building projects required by Georgia Tech to educate properly and train 5,000 undergraduate students, which is the minimum enrollment considered reasonable for the next five years, there are 12 which it is estimated will cost about $9,000,000. This list of construction does not represent the complete needs of this great institution, but only those which are most essential at this time.

As a state institution, Georgia Tech is dependent upon the State Legislature for much of the funds required to carry through its program of necessary construction. In J a n u a r y 1947, the Board of Regents will recommend to the legislature that $2,875,000 be appropriated for the immediate construction at Georgia Tech of the following buildings: (1) Classroom Building to house the Department of English, Mathematics, and Economics $1,500,000 (2) New Textile Building, the construction of which will release the present building for classrooms 750,000 (3) Architectural Building, the construction of which will release space now used in the Physics, Civil Engineering & Ceramics Buildings 625,000 Sincerely yours, PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE NATIONAL GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

By Charlie Brown '25, Chairman

Houston, Texas, Exceptional Host City Georgia Tech alumni in Houston, Texas, and the many other grand Texans were most hospitable and exceptional hosts, during the stay of the team, the coaches, college officials and visitors to their great city for the Oil Bowl Game on J a n u a r y first.

It is a pleasure, indeed, publicly to thank, most sincerely and to praise highly the Houston alumni, and all others concerned, for the excellent entertainment and efficient manner in which everything was handled.

Alumni and Oil Bowl committees met the Georgia Tech team and official party at the Municipal Airport, on December 26. The official group and alumni visitors were entertained throughout the following day which concluded with a dance for the team, coaches, their dates, alumni and their ladies, during the evening.

The Oil Bowl Gridiron Dinner was an outstanding event on the night of December 29.

On the evening of December 31, the big, and brilliant Georgia Tech alumni party was held in the South American Room of the Rice Hotel. President Van Leer, Athletic Director William Alexander, Head Coach Bob Dodd and other Georgia Tech representatives were among those who were honored at the occasion.

Following the varsity's brilliant 41-19 victory over the St. Mary Gaels on January 1, the Oil Bowl, San Jacinto Inn Dinner Dance was a brilliant climax to the outstanding entertainment program. Awards were made to the members of the team, and the highly enjoyable affair continued late into the night. The Oil Bowl Association were the hosts at this most enjoyable, final event.

Among the Georgia Tech alumni in Houston who were prominent in the grand entertainment activities, in addition to the great work they did with the Oil Bowl officials, were: Jay Cannon, '35; Howard Tellepsen, '34; Ed Herrin, former end on the Jan. 1, 1929, Rose Bowl team; Jim Branch, '31, another football star; J. L. Joplin, '23; Jack Mason, '24; Jim Dent, '25; E. H. Warrington, '28; Wallace Knight, '32, and David M. Wood, '34.

Dave Wilcox, '35, eldest brother of the Wilcox group of football guards at Georgia Tech, now a contractor at Tyler, Texas, was among the foregoing hosts, together with former Lt. Cmdr. Lew Hassell, U.S.N.R., who headed the Navy V-12 physical training program at Tech. Lew Hassell is now a resident of Houston and a very active member of the Oil Bowl committee.

THE GEORGIA TECH A L U M N U S

January - February,

1947

School or Institute?

Rhodes Scholarships Available

Interesting letters continue to reach the Alumni office, in regard to changing the name of the college.

As previously announced, information cards will soon be mailed to all the alumni, on whom we have any kind of address; and, among other requests for personal data, a ballot will be enclosed for a general expression from all as to the preferred title for Georgia Tech.

The two following letters illustrate, in the meanwhile, very worth while thought, "pro and con," on the subject: "Pro" "In the November-December issue of the Georgia Tech Alumnus I read with interest the letter from Cherry L. Emerson with reference to the possible changing of the official name of Georgia Tech to be known as Georgia Institute of Technology rather than Georgia School of Technology, and I would like to pass on to you my comments for what they may be worth.

As an alumnus of Georgia Tech who has lived and visited various parts of the North American continent, I have found that Georgia Tech has in the people's mind been compared to similar technical institutes in the United States, consequently I think from the standpoint of the prestige of past graduates and future graduates that the name of the school should correspond and carry as much prestige as the names of similar institutions of learning in the United States.

I believe the majority of the graduates would favour this change and I am sure the future graduates as they come out into the business world, would be glad that this change had been made.

I watched with keen interest the success of the football team this fall and think that athletic director Bill Alexander and his staff of coaches should be congratulated.

Sincerely yours, M. L. BROWN, Jr., Ga. Tech 1914 President Seiberling Rubber Co. Toronto, Canada."

"Con"

Rhodes Scholarships are available to students of American colleges and universities who meet certain rigid requirements in fields of education, athletics, and personal character.

The qualities which Rhodes specified in his will as forming the basis of selection are: (1) literary and scholastic ability and attainments; (2) qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship; (3) exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates; (4) physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways.

Some definite quality of distinction, whether in intellect, character or personality, or in any combination of them, is the most important requirement for a Rhodes Scholarship.

Financial need does not constitute a special claim for consideration.

There is no restriction on a Rhodes scholar's course of study. The University of Oxford offers about the same variety of instruction as any large American university.

Rhodes scholars are appointed for two years in the first instance, with a possibility of a third year for a man who has made a good record, and who presents a plan of study for that period satisfactory to his college and to the Rhodes Trustees.

The stipend of the Rhodes scholars will remain for the present at 400 pounds as it was before the war. Many Rhodes scholars will receive an addition to this stipend through measures analogous to the GI Bill of Rights. The Trustees have voted that any Rhodes scholar not in receipt of such an augmentation to his stipend will be granted during the year 1946 to 1947 a special allowance, bringing his total up to 500 pounds. In addition, Rhodes scholars going to Oxford for the first time will receive from the Rhodes Trust a refund of one-half of their steamship fare.

"When Georgia Tech was first conceived, the Legislature of our State caused a committee of its members to study the benefits of such an idea, to travel to the sites of similar institutions and spare no pains in gathering facts to establish, if so, the advisability of such a school for the State of Georgia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was one of the institutions visited.

Upon the recommendations and supporting data, submitted by that committee, the Georgia School of Technology was established. Whether it be University, Institute, Seminary, Academy or High or Grammar School, it was some sort of school.

Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1944, gives the following definition for school: "An educational institution, in the widest sense including all establishments for systematic instruction of every kind and grade, from universities and colleges to establishments for teaching riding and dancing."

This same definition of a school probably prevailed intact at Georgia Tech's inception, for that is the name they chose, and wisely; for it allowed of growth of the place of learning without the necessity of changing its name later, since the word 'school' was applicable to any form of educational establishment into which it might later develop.

Now we all know that perennially there comes the inclination to seek a change — usually in the spring. We know, too, that the same old outfit unchanged wears worse on the ones on the campus than on those of us who are

Information and application blanks may be obtained from Professor W. G. Perry, who is the representative of Rhodes Scholarships at Georgia Tech, from Dean R. P. Booth, University of Georgia, Secretary of the Committee of Selection for the State of Georgia, or from Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

away from it most of the time.

The wife changes the furniture in the living room because she's grown tired of it exactly as it is and wants a change. The husband comes home, not knowing this and breaks his neck over a chair that's in a new place. This is the same effect that the old alumnus feels when he has to explain that he is not an alumnus of Siwash University, but of old Siwash College, its predecessor.

A wave of pride sweeps over us as we pass Vineville in Macon and read a sign "Wesleyan College — oldest chartered college for women," and we know that it is in truth a university but more proud of its tradition than of upgrading titles.

Since, for our Alma Mater, we do have a name that applies to any grade of school however great, and since, in future years we might easily outgrow the "Rooti-ty Toot" word (if we haven't already) it would seem much more fitting that we keep all our alumni in one basket and retain the name that has truly made a name: 'THE GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.' WM. A. PRYOR, Ga. Tech '23, Professional Engineer, Savannah, Ga."

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Alumni Elected to Ceneral Assembly

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Dodd Remains at Georgia Tech

Three graduates of Georgia Tech in the Georgia Senate are: Major Thomas Tobin Miller, Lakeland, '28; J. F. Darby, Vidalia, '36; and J. H. Woodall, Woodland, '08.

The House of Representatives will include among its membership, the following: E. Culver Kidd, Milledgeville, '36; J. L. Davis, Cartersville, '34; M. M. (Muggsy) Smith, Atlanta, '34; Walter B. Morrison, Mt. Vernon, '23; Albert M. Campbell, Canton,' 34; Charles R. Battle, '34, Villa Rica; William G. Pearlman, Americus, '23; and W. B. Cochran, Jr., Thomasville, '22.

Varsity Players Score Scholastically W. A. Alexander, director of athletics and former coach of football at the Georgia School of Technology, states that the college's 1946 football team is one of the best in the history of the school. Speaking from the scholastic viewpoint, Dr. Phil B. Narmore, executive dean, announced on Wednesday, November 27, that it is also the smartest group of players since football was first played at Georgia Tech in 1892. Out of a squad of more than 100 men, only two were dropped during the current season because of scholastic difficulties.

However, compared to the general group of students at Georgia Tech from 1907 through 1944, football players who received their letters in the sport did better in the number graduating, according to a recent survey completed by Professor Lloyd A. Moll, assistant director of the extension. Over this period, 427 men received their letters in football. Out of the 414 who left the college, 222 were graduated. This is a 53.6 per cent record and a significant figure. Some of those who left before graduation in recent years did so in order to enter the armed forces, so that the graduation rate in normal times would have been much higher. Taking the total enrollment of 25,000 students at the college during this period, 8,723 received their degrees, which gives a graduation figure of 34.9 per cent.

Since the highest percentage of "drop-outs" is always found in the freshmen year, the two sets of figures may not seem to be comparable because freshmen are generally eliminated from the list of letter-men by conference rules.

But even if the football graduation rate is corrected for the normal freshman rate of drop-out, the football players' percentage will still remain at 40 per cent or approximately 5 per cent higher than for the student body as a whole.

The survey also brings out the fact that participation in football and maintenance of a good scholastic average does not prevent many football players in engaging in other extracurricular activities. For example, 30 per cent of student council and class officers were football players, and 13 per cent of students on the honor roll played football. Furthermore, 37 per cent of all football players were enrolled in the R.O.T.C. course, which was in large part above and beyond their academic degree requirements.

To a small extent, the football letter-men seem to r u n in families. Thus, out of the 427 men, there were 17 pairs of brothers, 4 sets of three brothers, and four fatherson combinations. Three of these fathers carried the family representation further in that they were also included in the list of brothers playing upon the teams.

Out of the 427 letter-men, 67 made All-Southern teams, and 15 made All-American. Out of this group of 82 men upon these teams, 52 graduated.

Robert L. Dodd, Head Football Coach

Robert L. Dodd will remain at Georgia Tech as head football coach. In spite of intensive efforts by Baylor University to lure him to the Texas school, he has decided to remain in Atlanta.

In making his decision to stay at Tech, Coach Dodd made the following statement: "It is my desire to state to the general public that it is my intention to remain at Georgia Tech as head football coach.

"Baylor University was very considerate in offering me a similar position with that institution. All conditions surrounding their offer have been very attractive and the folks of Baylor with whom I discussed the proposition were exceptionally kind and hospitable in all our negotiations. I wish to thank them for everything they offered.

"My decision to remain at Georgia Tech was reached because of my very pleasant relations with Georgia Tech authorities, the fine group of players it has been my pleasure to coach and the many friends in Atlanta who have made my stay at Tech the most pleasant experience of my life.

"The coaching staff and I now are making all preparations for spring practice and we will make all efforts to keep football and athletics at Georgia Tech on the same high plane it has enjoyed in the past."

In his second season as Head Coach, Dodd won eight and lost two during the regular season, and finished by walloping St. Mary's in the Oil Bowl.

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McHugh Honored at Rhodes Dinner

January - February,

1947

Croup at Birmingham Club Meeting

—Courtesy Birmingham News Col. Van Leer, left. President of Georgia Tech; Robt. Gregg, 0 5 , President T.C.I.&R.R. Co., and W m . G. Moses, ' 2 3 , President Georgia Tech Club of Birmingham, Ala.

Dutton Accepts Government Posts —Constitution Photo - Carl Dixon Pat M c H u g h , versatile and brilliant, varsity halfback from Orrville, Ala., was selected by a secret mail ballot as the most valuable player on the Georgia Tech football team, during the past season, prior to the annual Joe Rhodes Memorial Dinner, given on January 1 3 , by Mr. and Mrs. James D. Robinson, Jr., heirs of the late " M r . Joe" Rhodes, Georgia Tech's great athletic benefactor.

Miss Frances Robinson and James D. Robinson I I I , children of the genial hosts, are shown presenting the beautiful Joe Rhodes Trophy to McHugh at the dinner which was attended by the varsity squad, the coaching staff, a number of the faculty members and a few other close friends.

Woodruff Resigns, Succeeded by Craves Line Coach Bob Woodruff has signed a three year contract with Baylor University at Waco, Texas as head coach. He is being replaced by Ray Graves, former Tennessee star.

Woodruff, like Graves and Bobby Dodd, was a former Tennessee player. He gained his coaching experience as line coach and assistant to Coach Earl Blaik at the U. S. Military Academy, serving in this position for two years before coming to Tech. The lines he developed, both at Tech and for the Army, were materially responsible for the successful records compiled by both schools, while he was associated with them. Although he will definitely be missed at Georgia Tech his many friends here are very happy to see him get an opportunity to act as head coach.

No other ass't coaches are following him to the Texas school.

As a very able replacement, Coach Dodd has added Ray Graves to his coaching staff. Graves and Woodruff were contemporary players at Tennessee. After graduation, Coach Graves played professional football, joining the Philadelphia Eagles as a center. Later he coached and scouted for that club.

Announcement of Coach Graves appointment was made at the annual Joe Rhodes dinner held in Atlanta on Monday, January 13, 1947.

One of the outstanding aeronautical engineers in the country, Donnell Wayne Dutton, professor and head of the department of aeronautical engineering at the Georgia School of Technology, has been invited by the War Department General Staff to become a civilian member of the Research and Development Division for the next year. In order to make Professor Dutton's services available for this very important undertaking, President Blake R. Van Leer has granted him a one year's leave of absence from his duties at the college.

According to Major General Henry S. Aurand, director of the Division, he will serve on a panel of engineers and scientists and cover the field of aeronautical and mechanical engineering. Among the functions of the panel will be to maintain a continuing survey of fundamental research in government and private laboratories of the United States, and to function in an informational and advisory capacity to the Division. Furthermore, Professor Dutton will attend in his official governmental capacity all important scientific and engineering conferences.

Professor Dutton was born in St. Louis, Mo., on September 24, 1913, received his B.S. degree in 1935 from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and his M.S. degree in 1940 from the Georgia School of Technology. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1940 as an assistant professor in aeronautical engineering, he did engineering work for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Monocoupe Aircraft Corporation, and Allis-Chalmers Co. Upon the death of Professor Knight in 1943, Professor Dutton was appointed head of the department and director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics. Under his direction the staff has continued research work on Professor Knight's jet-propelled helicopter and completed many wind-tunnel research problems on military and commercial aircraft.

Professor Dutton holds membership in the Georgia Engineering Society, I. Ac.S., A.S.E.E., Tau Beta Pi, Aviation Committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and others.

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Engineering Education and the Construction Industry

By DR. BLAKE R. VAN LEER, President Georgia School of Technology (Abstract from paper presented November 11, 1946, at twenty-sixth Annual Convention of Carolinas Branch, Associated General Contractors of America, Augusta, Ga.) It is an honor and a pleasure to address the Carolinas Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America today. You are the builders of America—your work can be seen all over the land—in our cities, in the valleys, on the mountains, and over our rivers. Every kind of construction activity is represented in this audience—buildings, highways, airports, railroads, and public works.

During World War II, the construction industry was responsible for the successful execution of a construction program amounting to more than fifty billion dollars.

In the peak year of the war period, the work accomplished represented fourteen to sixteen billion dollars.

Prior to the war your great industry was among the top ones in the United States, being outranked only by manufacturing and trade. Figures of 1939 show the construction industry added more than ten billion dollars to the national income. For the first nine months of 1946, despite shortages of steel, trained personnel, building materials, strikes, and lack of other essential items of construction, four billion, three hundred million dollars' worth of contracts were awarded on all types of construction. A significant trend indicated in the last figure is that more than two-thirds of this construction is for private enterprises.

But to you and me the most important fact about these construction figures is that one sixth of the national total is being spent right here in our eleven southeastern states.

In dollars, this amounts to three-quarters billion dollars, and one-third of this amount (one-quarter billion dollars) is being expended this year in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Before we can produce goods and services which will increase our people's standard of living, you folks will have to complete the necessary construction. Therefore, a great responsibility rests on you and your association.

According to government and industrial experts, the fullest development of our nation's resources cannot take place unless a minimum of twenty billion dollars' worth of annual construction is achieved in the very near future.

If the present trend of industrialization and development of resources in Georgia and the Carolinas continues, it means that the 150 members of your Branch and the 50 members of the Georgia Branch will be sharing the major part of more than one billion dollars of construction per year.

In order to do this, you will have to expand your facilities and increase your personnel. Already, joint contractor-union apprentice training programs are being developed in our area. The excellent plan utilized in Atlanta has been receiving favorable national publicity. However, the supervision and management of your extensive construction projects will require college-trained men, chiefly civil engineers developed at North Carolina State College, Clemson College, and the Georgia School of Technology.

Some of the country's outstanding construction men were trained as engineers. I have in mind Frank Crowe who built Boulder and Shasta Dams; Adolph Ackerman, formerly with Dravo Corporation of Pittsburgh, Cherry Emerson, now Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech; and others too numerous to mention; as well as the thousands who carried on with the Seabees and Army Engineers during the war.

Georgia Tech is prepared to offer the construction industry two things. First—Personnel in the form of a wellbalanced young engineering graduate, an ideal man to learn the game. To add to the value of this product we are now training each year a number of graduate students in all branches of engineering including structural design and hydraulic engineering. Second—Services in the form of an Engineering Experiment Station which is prepared to carry out numerous investigations in the field of the construction industry. We are, or soon will be, set up to conduct investigations on hydraulic structures by means of models, concrete and masonry materials, soils and foundations, sanitary problems, or others that can be conducted by laboratory or field tests under the direction of competent research engineers.

We feel, in turn, that the industry has certain obligations to technical education if it uses its graduates. I mean that the young engineering graduate must be dealt with fairly to develop in him all the valuable potential he has in the form of native intelligence and technical training. It is very discouraging to young engineers to work on a project where the laborer and the bricklayer receive more salary than they do. He must not be allowed to drift into impotence by keeping him in an aimless rut. In too many instances a fine engineer and construction man has been spoiled because it was too easy to keep this man on a drafting table, surveying, doing quantity take-offs, costkeeping, or other work of a sub-professional or borderline nature. Naturally his training with you should carry him through these things but it should not hold him there if he has the stuff. It is up to your industry to keep up the training of these embryo engineers so they reach full stature and develop for the benefit of you, the public, and themselves. Do not let them stagnate, but put them through a definite training program, keep testing them on more responsible technical work; and if a man proves his worth, then reward him for it.

Besides taking this valuable product of the technical school and further training it properly, I feel that the construction industry should do more of what other industries have done for engineering education. Help us train engineering students by contributing to the usefulness of worthwhile engineering schools. We need new and better equipment in our laboratories and we need funds for supplementing faculty salaries to insure the best men on our staffs. Good teachers, like construction materials today, are scarce and the competition is keen—not so much between schools, but between schools and industry or Government.

You can afford to do these things because you are prosperous and your future is bright with hope.

The only limits to the growth, development, and services which the construction industry can render to mankind are those imposed by the human imagination. So long as the human mind can conceive of something more beautiful, something more useful, something more convenient, there will be an increasing demand for the genius, the knowhow, the energy, and the drive of the construction industry.

Yours is a great future: difficult, fraught with hard work: but it is a future to be crowned with great achievements and magnificent services to this and future generations.

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Weddings and Engagements

Alumni and Service Mentions

ALMSTEAD-FARRIS Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Ruth Almstead of Pittsfield, Mass., to Mr. Eugene H. Farris, on October 12, 1943.

Mr. Farris graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1943, and is now connected with the Pittsfield works of General Electric Company.

ASHURST-FERRIS Of interest is the announcement of the marriage on December 20, 1946, of Miss Sara J a n e Ashurst to William Darius Ferris, Jr., of Decatur, Ga. Mr. Ferris received his B.S. degree in I.M. in 1941. Since his discharge as captain in the infantry, he has been affiliated with the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. BAGGETT-ROACH An announcement of interest is that made by Mr. and Mrs. Mathew John Baggett of the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mildred Lucille Baggett, to Charles Stowers Roach. The marriage 'will be an event of J a n u a r y 31 at the Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta.

Mr. Roach was graduated from Georgia Tech in 1940 with a B.S. in E.E. Since his release from the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, he has been affiliated with the General Cable Corporation of Atlanta.

BURNETT-FELKER Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hopkins Burnett of Danville, Va., announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Leila Royster Burnett, to George Walton Felker III, during December, 1946.

Mr. Felker received his B.S. in T.E. from Georgia Tech in 1936. He was released from the Army with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, in March, 1946.

CALDWELL-STRICKLAND Mr. and Mrs. Halleck C. Young announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Marjorie Louise Caldwell, to Sanford Edward Strickland, of Bristol, Tenn., on January 16.

Mr. Strickland graduated from Georgia Tech in 1945 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management.

CAMPBELL-McLAIN Miss Flora Alderman Campbell, of Spring Hill, Tenn., recently became the bride of Warren Clifford McLain, Jr. Mr. McLain was graduated from Georgia Tech in 1942 with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. Since his release from the Navy he has been connected with the Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport, Tenn.

HAWKINS -LUNSFORD The betrothal of Miss Josephine Anne Hawkins to George Edward Lunsford, Jr., is announced by the brideelect's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Richard Hawkins, of Atlanta, the marriage to take place on February 1.

Mr. Lunsford attended Georgia Tech before entering the Navy, serving overseas for three years. He resumed his studies at Tech and was graduated with a B.S. in I.M., in December, 1946.

STORM-HARDY Mrs. John Storm announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Alice Ray Storm, to Lieut. Harvey Boland Hardy, U. S. Naval Air Corps, the marriage to take place in the spring.

Lieut. Hardy received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1943. In 1942, he was All-American guard on the football team. He is now stationed at Pensacola, Fla. WORLEY-LONGINO Mrs. Samuel Moore Worley announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Sammy Isabel Worley, to Lieut. Walter Bruce Longino, on November 2, 1946.

Lieut. Longino graduated from Georgia Tech in 1941 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management. He is now stationed in San Francisco, Calif.

1908 F. Hammond Hardin, B.S. in M.E., recently retired as President of the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels, and is living at Avondale Estates, Ga. He was awarded a Fellowship by the ASME at their last annual meeting.

1913 Robert E. Davis, Special Textile, is President of W. B. Davis & Son, Fort Payne, Ala., which concern has delivered more than 50,000,000 pairs of socks to the Army alone, and won the "E" Award for a job "well done."

1917 Lee M. Sterne, Sr., B.S. Chem., is Sales Manager for the Tristate Sales Co., Albany, Ga. Lacy Weddington Sewell, is Superintendent, Specification Unit, U.S.V.A., Atlanta, Ga. 1919 Robert Houston Jewell, is Vice President, Crystal Springs Bleachery, Chickamauga, Ga. Morgan L. McNeel is Vice President, McNeel Marble Co., Marietta, Ga. 1921 Scroop D. Hooker, B.S. in E.E., is District Service Manager, Otis Elevator Co., Bronx, N. Y. Henry Clay Moore, B.S. in M.E., is with Moore-Broach Engineering Co., Walton Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Jean W. Schenck, Textile, is President of Lily Mills Co., Shelby, N. C. 1922 Emmett W. Hines, B.S. in M.E., has been named New York zone manager of the Otis Elevator Company.

James E. Home, B.S. in M.E., is Vice President and Gen. Mgr. of Farquhar Machinery Co., Jacksonville, Fla. 1923 Thomas C. Drew, T.E., is Director of Research & Development, Beaumont Manufacturing Co., Spartanburg, S. C. Hugh Hill, is a partner in the firm of Haines, Jones & Co., Insurance, Savannah, Ga., and is President of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce.

Roy K. McDonald, is Publisher of the News-Free Press, Chattanooga, Tenn.

1924 Joseph H. Brock, is General Purchasing Agent for Eastern Air Lines, Miami, Fla. William A. Levins, Textile, is a Textile Broker in Atlanta, Ga. He served as a Major in the Army in World War II. 1926 Franklin Edward Cater, B.S. in T.E. and G.S., is President and Treasurer of Ray-Ser Dyeing Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. He is also connected with several other concerns in Chattanooga.

E. R. Dooley Culbertson, T.E., is Vice President and Manager of Armena Lime Mine & Forms, Inc., Albany, Georgia.

Henry H. Eagar, Jr., M.E., is Superintendent, StandardCoosa-Thatcher Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

John P. Holmes, T.E., is Vice President of Celanese Co., Inc., New York.

Leroy A. "Swamp" Staples, M.E., is a structural Consulting Engineer, Guaranty Bank Bldg., Alexandria, La. 1927 M. Berry Grant, is President of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., of Allentown, Inc., Allentown, Pa. 1928 H. Sanders Rowland, is Vice President, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., of Providence, Rhode Island. He is also President of the Providence Chamber of Commerce. {Continued on next page)

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ABBEY Mr. and Mrs. Ted H. Abbey, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., announce the birth of a daughter, Sandra Eloise, on September 22, 1946.

Mr. Abbey graduated from Georgia Tech in 1941 with a B.S. in Industrial Management. He served four years in the U. S. Marine Corps and was a Captain in that branch of the service. He is now in business in Atlanta with the Abbey Steam Specialty Company.

JEFFERIES Lt. James Stocker Jefferies, U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Jefferies, of New London, Conn., announce the birth of a son, William Lawrence, on December 17, 1946, at the Lawrence and Memorial Associated Hospital, New London.

Lt. Jefferies received his B.S. degree in General Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1946.

SWEET Charles Atwater Sweet, vice president of Iselin-Jefferson Company of New York, and chairman of its finance committee, long prominent in the textile industry, died J a n uary 11, 1947, at his home, No. 10 Vine Street, Bronxville, New York. Among other outstanding activities, he was vice president and a trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation.

Born in Phenix, R. I., the son of Charles Atwater and Carolina Andrews Sweet, he was graduated from Georgia Tech in 1908 with a B. S. degree in textile engineering.

A director of the Cotton-Textile Institute, Mr. Sweet was treasurer and a director of the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York and a trustee and vice chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of Textile Technology of Charlottesville, Va. He was a vice president and trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation, as stated; president of the Anchor Duck Mills, Rome, Ga., a director and treasurer of the Royston (Ga.) Mills, and a governor of the Merchants Club of New York.

He resigned as president of Wellington-Sears Company of New York in 1945, to join the Iselin-Jefferson organization.

Mr. Sweet belonged to the Georgia Tech Club of New York and was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. He was captain of the Ga. Tech football team, during his senior year.

He is survived by a widow, the former Emily Carnes Ransom of Columbus, Ga., whom he married in 1912; also, two sons, Charles A. Jr., and Robert R., and two grandsons.

KEETON Roy Charles Keeton, Georgia Tech class of 1922, died unexpectedly December 6, 1946, in Birmingham, Ala., while in that city on business. Mr. Keeton was Southeastern manager for the Vanette Hosiery Mills, of Dallas, Texas.

He had been employed by that company for 13 years.

He was a member of the Atlanta Athletic Club, the S.A.E. Fraternity, and was active in the Peachtree Road Christian Church, in Atlanta.

Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Walter L. Kelley, of Atlanta; a niece, Mrs. Thomas Geer, of Pittsburgh, and four aunts.

LITTLE James Robert (Jimmy) Little, B.S. in I.M. 1944, lost his life in the fire on December 7, 1946, which destroyed the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta.

Jimmy served as a Lieutenant in the Navy during the war. At the time of his death he was a student in the College Sales Class of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Charlotte, N. C , and was in Atlanta on business when he perished in the disastrous fire.

Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Little, Sr., of 2135 Malvern Road, Charlotte, N. O , he is survived by a brother, Geo. B. Little, Jr. Jimmy Little was a campus leader and a member of the S.A.E. Fraternity, at Ga. Tech.

SEDDON Information has recently reached the alumni office concerning the death of Mr. E. A. J. Seddon, B.S. in E.E., 1903.

Mr. Seddon died of a heart attack on December 28, 1945.

Alumni and Service Mentions (.Continued) 1929 Guy T. Henry, C.E., is President, Central Indiana Gas Co., Heating Research Corp., Muncie, Indiana.

1930 H. O. Jeffries, C.E., is Manager of Industrial Sales Co., 537 Morgan St., N.E., Atlanta, Ga., dealing in Engineering and Design, House Plan Service, Real Estate and Appraisals.

C. Lynn Strickland, M.E., is President of Lynn Strickland Tire Service, Birmingham, Ala. 1932 William Hubert Joiner, E.E., is Division Engineer for Georgia Power Co., Augusta, Ga. He served as Captain, Ordnance Department, and received a Citation for Meritorious Service.

1933 Robert L. Hood, Jr., M.E., served as a Colonel, C.A.C. Reserve, and is now living at 1125 Forest Lane, Anniston, Ala. Chares B. Mauldin, C.E., is associated with W. A. Mauldin, Building Contractor, Greenwood, S. C. George Wilson Page, Gen. Sci., is owner, Auto Supply Stores, in Hartwell and Lavonia, Ga. He served three years as a Naval Lieutenant in World War II. Frederick G. Storey, is an executive officer of Georgia Theater Company, Atlanta. He entered the Navy as an Ensign in 1941 and was released as a Commander, in 1945.

1934 John McGee Cheatham is Vice President, Dundee Mills, Inc., Griffin, Ga. During the war, he served as Lieutenant, U. S. Navy.

Albert B. Hammond, is Vice President and General Manager, The Berryton Mills, Berryton, Ga. Clair Almon Short, Jr., M.E., is Group Project Engineer for Allison Division of General Motors Corp., Indianapolis, Ind. He saw three years of active duty as a Major in the Ordnance Dept., with service in Australia and New Guinea.

1935 William B. Steedman, Jr., M.E., is Assistant Manager, W. B. Steedman Co., Athens, Ga. He served as Lt. Comdr., USNR. 1936 E. Culver Kidd is Owner and Manager of Culver & Kidd Drug Company, Milledgeville, Ga., and was recently elected to the State Legislature from his county.

Delos M. Spring, Jr., Gen. Sci., was a Captain in the C.A.C, and since his release in July, 1946, he has become associated with General Electric Supply Corp., Atlanta, Ga. (Continued on page 12)

Xmas Greetings Greatly Appreciated We are grateful, indeed, to the many of you for your kind Christmas and New Year greetings.

In the December issue of the ALUMNUS, we addressed our sincerest thoughts to all; and our very best wishes to each of you for Christmas, the New Year, and always.

It, in turn, is most pleasant to acknowledge with thanks your many kind thoughts, as well.

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Alumni and S ervice Mentions (Continued from page 11) George A. Smith, A.E., former Major in the Ordnance Carl Reisman, I.M., is Personnel Manager of Surgical Department, is now an Attorney at Law, 825 Citizens & Selling Co., Atlanta, Ga. He was released from the Navy Southern Bank Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. with rank of Lieut. Commander.

1937 Bernard M. Schmitter, C.E., is construction engineer, Edwin R. Granberry, M.E., is President, The Granberry Turner Construction Co., New York. He was a Major in Securities Index, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. Ordnance Dept., and served two years overseas.

Walter D. Harper, M.E., served 4V2 years as an officer Hunter W. Stewart, I.M., is a Lieut. Commander, U.S.N. in the Signal Corps, and is now a partner in the firm of His address is: Commander Service Force, Atlantic Fleet, W. D. Harper & Sons, Architects and Engineers, Florence, Norfolk, Va. S. C. 1942 Lawrence C. Hays, Jr., is a Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Ira Eugene Campbell, Jr., I.M., is a partner in an equipMarine Corps. His address is: U. S. Naval Mission, APO ment business at 242 Nelson St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga. He 676, c/o P.M., Miami, Fla. He received the Purple Heart is a former Lieut., U.S.N.R. with Star, the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Commendation William T. Clearman, Jr., P.H.E., since his discharge as Letter.

Lieut., U.S.N.R., has established the firm of Blakely EngiLeo J. Spencer, Jr., M.E., served in the Navy from July neering and Electric Equipment Co., Blakely, Ga. 1941 to March, 1946. He is now an Application Engineer Harold T. Gaymon, served four years as Captain in the with B. F. Sturtevant Co., Atlanta, Ga. Ordnance Dept., and is now Estimating Engineer for 1938 Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., Atlanta, Ga. Robert Ramsey Voorhees, M.E., was discharged from Thomas K. McKamy, E.E., served 14 months in North the army with rank of Major in February 1946, after hav- Africa. He is now with Century Electric Co., St. Louis, ing served five years. He is now a Sales Engineer with Mo. Roller Bearing Company of America, Trenton, N. J. William H. Reeves, Jr., C.E., a Lieut. Colonel with the 1939 Army Engineers, served 18 months in the ETO, and atJack B. Pearce, a Major in the Army Air Force, served tended Ft. Leavenworth C. & G. School. He is now with with the 361st Fighter Group. He received the Bronze the Bridge Department, Florida State Road Dept., TallaStar with six battle stars. He is now owner of the hassee, Fla. Lucky Strike Bowling Alley in Atlanta, Ga. Reed E. Shipley, Ch.E., is a graduate student and asC. C. Smith, E.E., has been appointed special head- sistant at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. quarters electronics sales representative assigned to the He served as Lieut, in the Air Force.

Westinghouse Southeastern District with offices at Atlanta, Eugene A. Smith, E.E., is a partner in Read-Smith Co., Ga., by the Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Atlanta, Ga. As a Captain in Ordnance Dept., he served John Albert Swint, M.E., a former Major in the Ord- in ETO and SHAEF. nance Department, is in charge of Service, Engineering George W. Stradtman, Jr., I.M., is Personnel Director for D e p t , Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Mich.

C. M. Jones & Co., Calhoun, Ga. He served four years 1940 in the U. S. Army.

Marshall J. Mehaffey, since his release from the Navy, Jack Craig Tennison, I.M., a Lieut. U.S.N.R., was Execuhas become associated with Lanett Mill, Lanett, Ala. tive Officer of the Destroyer-Minesweeper McCook, and George H. McKee, Jr., E.E., served 4% years in the served ZVz years. He is now with Tennison Bros., Inc., Army and was discharged as a Captain. He is an Elec- Memphis, Tenn. trical Engineer, Applied Engineering Department, Western David E. Willis, M.E., is with the Louisiana Division of Union, New York, N. Y. Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, Baton Rouge, La. He Allen J. Patten, E.E., former Captain in the Signal In- was Lieut., Ordnance Dept.; served three years overseas telligence Service, is now with International Business and received six battle stars.

1943 Machines Corp., Houston, Texas.

Robert Marion Cox, M.E., a former Lieut, (j.g.), served Paul C. Rhyne, Jr., Arch., served in nine Pacific Campaigns, on duty aboard the U.S.S. North Carolina. He is three years in the submarine service. Since his release now Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the D. E. Rhyne he has become associated with Florida Hill York Corp., Miami, Fla. Cotton Mills, Lincolnton, N. C. Roy Nathan McCowen, Jr., E.E., served with the 4th Alfred D. Roach, I.M., is Vice President and Secretary of the Atlanta Royal Crown Bottling Co., Atlanta, Ga. He Infantry Regiment. He is now District Engineer for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Atlanta, Ga. served as Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy.

W. Lewis Perryman, Jr., I.M., former Lt. (j.g.), U.S.N.R., Herbert S. Saffir, C.E., served two years in the A.U.S. was gunnery and executive officer of a destroyer, and He is a designer with Hardesty and Hanover, Consulting served 17 months in the Pacific theater. He is now Vice Engineers, New York, N. Y. President and Treasurer of Slaughter and Perryman, Inc., 1941 Dallas, Texas.

Howard L. Burpo, Jr., I.M., a survivor of the U.S.S. Thomas E. Roberts, Jr., E.E., served 3% years in the SigHornet, received five battle stars, Asiatic-Pacific theater. nal Corps and was discharged as 1st Lt., in September, He is now Technical Representative, Thermoplastics 1946. He is residing in Donalsonville, Ga. Dept., Bakelite Corp., New York, N. Y. Frank W. Rose, C.E., is with Roy Richards ConstrucCharles Mason Goodman, Jr., I.M., is Survey Engineer tion Co., Carrollton, Ga. for Southern Bell Telephone Company, Jacksonville, Fla. William Josiah Sanders III, is with Builders Supply He is a former Naval Lieutenant and served 28 months Company, Tullahoma, Tenn. A former Lt. (j.g.) U.S.N.R., in the southwest Pacific. he served on the U.S.S. Mertz.

William Allen Parks, Chem. Eng., served in the MediAnthony Zagarella, C.E., a 1st Lieut, in the Signal terranean area as a Captain in the Engineering Corps. He Corps, served 3% years. He is now with Clarke, Rapuis now chemical engineer for Tennessee Eastman Corp., ano and Holleran, New York, N. Y. (Continued on page 22) Kingsport, Tenn.

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Graduate student Duke won the respect of all who played against him by his fine offensive and defensive play. He was rated first team All-America by UP, AP, American Football Coaches Assn., and Grantland Rice's selection in Collier Magazine. He was also placed on the All-SEC team as were teammates Bobby Davis and Frank Broyles. Davis was also looked upon with favor by those

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who choose All-Americans, being placed on several second and third teams. Bill Healy, outstanding guard, was placed on the All-SEC second team.

Paul Duke was honored by the Atlanta Touchdown Club by receiving, along with Charley Trippi of Georgia, the award for the most valuable player in Dixie. Duke has one more year of eligibility left, since he played under the naval program during the war, but may not return to Tech.

1947 Grid Schedule Announced

Tech Tank Men Open Schedule

Tech fans in the Atlanta area will have plenty of opportunity to see their team in action during 1947, with seven out of ten games being played at Grant Field.

Two new opponents have been added to the schedule, Alabama and The Citadel replacing LSU and Ole Miss.

The complete schedule is as follows: Sept. 24—Tennessee at Atlanta.

Oct. 4—Tulane at New Orleans.

Oct. 11—VMI at Atlanta.

Oct. 18—Auburn at Atlanta.

Oct. 25—Citadel at Atlanta.

Nov. 1—Duke at Atlanta.

Nov. 8—Navy at Baltimore.

Nov. 15—Alabama at Birmingham.

Nov. 22—Furman at Atlanta.

Nov. 29—Georgia at Atlanta.

Georgia Tech's 1947 swimming schedule opened Dec. 28 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and will include a meet with the University of Havana in Atlanta.

The schedule: Dec. 28-29, All Star Meet, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Jan. 17, N. C. State, Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 18, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Jan. 24, Clemson, Atlanta.

Jan. 25, Tennessee, Atlanta.

Feb. 8, Georgia, Athens.

Feb. 15, Duke, Atlanta.

Feb. 22, Florida, Atlanta.

Feb. 28-March 1, AAU Meet, Athens.

March 8, Georgia, Atlanta.

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SECOND ROW — Deane Gaines, Charles Murdock, Ray Enders, Jimmy Castleberry, Walter Kilzer, Jack Griffin, Dan Bradach, Rollo Phillips, J. D. Ison, Robert Jordan, Ralph Slaten, Joe Brown.

T H I R D ROW — George Brodnax, Bill Busbin, Billy Williams, Dinky Bowen, Joe Daniels, Tommy Carpenter, Bob Davis, Jim Nolon, Clay Matthews, Jack Bills, Bill Healey, Jimmy Southard, Jim Luck.

FOURTH ROW — Luke Bowen, Tom Coleman, Paul Duke, George Mathews, Frank Broyles, Raymond Smith, Charles Brembs, Jim Still, Pat McHugh, Alex Williams, Tommy Fancher, Frank Ziegler, Billy Queen.

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Tech Wins Oil Bowl Came Still smarting from their disasterous encounter with Georgia the Yellow Jackets from Georgia Tech loosed their venom upon a hapless, though fighting, St. Mary's team before 22,000 rain-drenched and shivering fans at Houston, Texas in the third annual Oil Bowl on New Year's day.

Tech started with a bang, scoring one touchdown in the first period and three in the second to pile up a 27-0 lead.

George Broadnax led off by taking a pass from Frank Broyles to score the initial touchdown. Johnny Mcintosh drove through the middle of the Gael line for fourteen yards and six points as the second quarter started. Pat McHugh intercepted a St. Mary's pass and went 72 yards on a breathtaking run. Jim Still bucked over for another to emphasize Tech's superiority. At this point the Gaels came to life, as Paul Crowe took Rabbit Jordan's kickoff and slid and scampered 84 yards to score.

In the third period the Jackets continued to show their power by marching 63 yards for the fifth score of the afternoon. This drive was climaxed as Broadnax caught his second touchdown pass of the day. The Engineer's final tally was set up when All-American Paul Duke intercepted a pass on the Gael 27, Mathews passing to Walt Kilzer for the score. A 55-yard march, and a recovered fumble gave the Gaels their last two touchdowns.

Tech's pass defense was excellent, as the alert Engineers intercepted eight of St. Mary's aerials. At the same time they completed nine of 17 attempts, slinging the wet ball with remarkable accuracy.

Tech's exhibition of power caused Jimmy Phelan, St. Mary's coach to remark, "Tech can take on any team and come out well, I think. It is as good as any team out our way."

Georgia Tech has now played in more major bowls than any other team, having played in the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl and the Oil Bowl.

Ca. Tech 41 — Furman 7 The Georgia Tech regulars, tired from an arduous schedule, took a well-earned vacation and watched the reserves beat Furman 41-7 at Grant Field, Saturday, November 23. The game gave Coach Dodd an excellent opportunity to examine his reserve strength in preparation for the coming Georgia contest.

In a wide-open game Tech picked up 496 yards to Furman's 250. The Engineers scored the first three times they got the ball on drives of 64, 57, and 82 yards.

Furman's lone touchdown came on a line plunge from the one by Harry Blanken.

Tech coasted the second half trying two field goals, neither of which was successful. Dinky Bowen got four out of five extra points to r u n his string for the season to 18 out of twenty. Final Score: Tech 41, F u r m a n 7.

Tech Trackmen Schedule 7 Meets Georgia Tech's 1947 track team, runner-up in last year's SEC and SEAAU meets, opens its campaign for the Conference honors this year against the University of Florida, April 5, in Gainesville, Fla. The schedule: April 5—Florida, at Gainesville, Fla. April 12—North Carolina, Atlanta.

April 19—Tulane, Atlanta.

April 26—Georgia, Atlanta.

May 3—Duke, Durham, N. C. May 10—Auburn, Auburn, Ala. May 16 and 17—Conference Meet, Birmingham, Ala.

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Returning lettermen will enable Coach Roy McArthur The Jackets tried mightily but were found wanting as to fill every position with experienced players, and indithe University of Georgia Bulldogs powered their way to cations point to the best hardwood season in years. ' a smashing 35 to 7 victory over the Engineers from GeorSpider Jim Nolan, six foot nine inch center who was S i a T e c h i n t h e season's finale for both teams at Athens on high scorer in the Southeastern Conference as a freshNovember 30 before a capacity crowd. man is the only first-stringer to return from last year's It was a case of too much Charley Trippi, as the versatile squad. However, Red Broyles all-SEC guard in 44-46, Georgia senior gave ample evidence why he was an Herb Bergman, all-conference on the 42-43 team, Wesley unanimous selection for Ail-American honors. The Bulldo s Paxson, another all-conference nominee, and Dick Collier, S were "right" outrushing the stout Tech line, while their back leading scorer in the Conference in 1945, will provide s were piling up yardage.

Tech enough power to enable Tech to play on even terms with took the opening kick, and using a new shift colany team in the country. lected six off-side penalties during the first half but failed to dent the Georgia line. The first half was a hard fought The 20 game schedule is as follows: batUe with GeQrgia pushing over t w o t o u c h d o w n s to g0 Dec. 13 University of Chattanooga Home into a half-time lead of 14-0. Tech came out fighting in Dec. 14 South Carolina Home the third period, but an intercepted pass set the stage for Dec. 19 Davidson Home another Georgia touchdown a few minutes after the secDec. 31 Boston College Boston Garden ond half started. Georgia's fourth touchdown came on an Jan. 2 University of Detroit Detroit eighty-two yard push which started late in the third period Jan. 4 Michigan State College Lansing and was climaxed by Smith's running catch of Rauch's Jan. 11 Tulane Home pass in the Tech end zone as the fourth quarter started.

Jan. 15 Auburn Auburn At this point Tech came to life with a slashing 74-yard Jan. 17 Alabama Home drive for their only touchdown of the afternoon. Dinky Jan. 20 Kentucky Home Bowen, whose play has been outstanding all season, conJan. 25 Tennessee Home tributed runs of 22, 12, and 17 yards during the march Jan. 29 Auburn Home while Jimmy Jordan went 16. The payoff came when Jan. 31 Tulane New Orleans Bowen took a pass from Still, picked up his interference Feb. 1 Alabama Tuscaloosa and went twenty-eight yards for a touchdown. Bowen Feb. 4 Georgia Athens also kicked the extra point.

Feb. 7 Tennessee Knoxville Tech, however, had little opportunity to rejoice, for on Feb. 14 North Carolina Chapel Hill the first play after the kickoff the everpresent Charley Feb. 15 Duke Durham Trippi rounded the Jackets' left end and galloped 66 yards Feb. 19 Georgia Home for Georgia's last touchdown. Jernigan came in to kick his Feb. 22 Kentucky Lexington fifth point after touchdown for the afternoon. Tech still Feb. 27 through March 1 Southeastern had enough steam for one more drive which started from Conference Tournament. their own 30 and went to the Bulldog's 6 before it stopped.

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New Registration Method Installed

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Registration for the winter quarter at Georgia Tech began on Thursday morning, January 2, and continued through the first of this week. The entire registration this quarter was worked on an altogether different basis from previous registrations.

This quarter freshmen received their schedules as usual, and sophomores, juniors, and seniors had their schedules made out in their respective departments during the holidays, after they had filled out a tentative list for courses which they would take this quarter.

The gymnasium was used as a location for issuing the schedules. After receiving his schedule, t h e student proceeded to the Naval armory where he had to acquire a course card for each of the courses on his study list. After receiving a course card for each subject these cards were turned in and a fee card was given in their place. This fee card then enabled each student to pay his tuition and fees.

This system which was used is similar to t h e one used at Purdue University and is undoubtedly one of t h e best possible arrangements that can be made for registering a large student body.

The course cards which each student received included Tech Lands All-Southern Back on the faces not only the name of the course b u t exact time and days which t h e course was taught. For each Georgia Tech has landed t h e widely sought Frank course at a certain hour, only a limited number of cards (Moose) Miller, Decatur High's All-Southern halfback. were issued. In this way none of the classes will be overMiller, who had 12 college offers, follows his prep coach—Louis Woodruff—to the Flats. Woodruff was re- flowing as no students were admitted without course cards. cently added to the Jackets athletic staff.

Of course, the lack of course cards at certain hours often The lanky 160-pounder, playing left halfback on De- necessitated a change of schedule, b u t in this way the catur's T formation, led the Bulldogs to the NGIC chamstudents as well as the professors will be benefited as pionship the past t w o years. He also topped the NGIC the classes will be more of average size. scorers in 1945 and '46, tallying over 100 points each season.

(Continued on page 24) 1944 Nelson Dyer Abell, M.E., was in the submarine force, Pacific fleet. He is now with Ford, Bacon & Davis Construction Corp., Monroe, La. Earl Adam Bohner, Jr., M.E., was released from t h e Navy as Lt. (j.g.). He is continuing his studies at t h e State University of Missouri.

Theodor J. deVries, Ch.E., was discharged from the Navy as Ensign and has accepted a position in t h e development laboratories of the Publicker Industries, Inc., located at Eddington, Pa. John Humes Durden, M.E., former 1st Lt., Corps of Engineers, is Heating Engineer with Campbell Coal Co..

Atlanta, Ga. David Oliver Gunson, E.E., is with Curtiss-Wright Corp., Airplane Division, Columbus, Ohio, after having served three years in the Navy.

P. Thomas Taccone, M.E., served in ETO and SWPA as 1st Lt. in Corps of Engineers. He is now residing at 139-55 Pershing Crescent, Jamaica, Long Island, New York.

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New Registration Method Installed (Continued

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By the use of the course cards it enables the registrar to give each department a complete list of students scheduled for courses at each hour, by merely inserting the course cards in an I.B.M. machineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the machine does the rest. This eliminated the necessity for registration in each class as each instructor was given a list of the students in his class before the class was opened.

Tech Swimmer Wins National Honors Johnny Hiles, Tech's 17-year-old freshman swimming ace, has won first place in the All-American rating for the 220-yard swimming race, according to the 1947 Intercollegiate Swimming Yearbook.

The Tech freshman from Atlanta was a star of the r e cent Ft. Lauderdale meet. His time for the 220 is 2:17.4.

The previous record of any Tech man is 2:18.4. The collegiate record of this country is 2:07.6, and the top A.A.U. record is 2:07.1, held by Bill Smith.

According to Coach Fred Lanoue, Hiles, who is a freshman and will have three more seasons before graduation, is one of the best all-round swimmers Tech has ever seen, and one of the best in the South.