ALUMNI APPOINTED TO ATHLETIC BOARD
Students Win High Ceramic Honors
President Blake R. Van Leer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ga. Tech Athletic Association, has appointed John O. Chiles, '23, to the Board as one of the three alumni members succeeding L. W. (Chip) Robert, '08, whose three year term expires on J u n e 30, 1950. Mr. Robert was named as honorary member for an unspecified term of years, on the Athletic Board. Both Mr. Chiles and Mr. Robert need no introduction to Tech alumni and other friends of the college throughout the nation. They are nationally prominent business and civic leaders, and they have very materially and loyally aided Georgia Tech from the time they were students to the present day. President Van Leer, Georgia Tech, the Athletic Association and all others concerned are to be congratulated on the appointments.
FORMER DEAN FEATURED IN "SATURDAY EVENING POST" Dr. Robert Sarbacher, former Dean of the Georgia Tech Graduate School, was featured as "an unaverage cross between Beau Brummell and Albert Einstein" in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Dr. Sarbacher, now Founder, President and Director of Research for the National Scientific L a b o r a t o r i e s of Washington, D. C , was lauded principally for his work as an eminent electronic scientist and nuclear physicist who has handled intricate research for the Army. But, in an article entitled "Look Out — Here Comes a Genius!," Author Sidney Shalett also paid tribute to Dr. Sarbacher's "sharp" attire, conversational prowess and agility on the dance floor. "Sarbacher's capacity for enjoying himself," says Shalett, "is outstripped by an even greater capacity for hard work and intensive concentration." President Blake R. Van Leer, of Georgia Tech, stated that Sarbacher was "a genius with an unlimited capacity for hard work." Van Leer added that Tech was still benefiting from ideas imparted by Sarbacher during his three years at the college. Dr. Sarbacher called his postwar acceptance of the deanship at Georgia Tech "a rounding out of my academic experience." During his stay, he represented Tech on the Governing Board of the Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge, Tenn. May-June, 1950
Jesse D. Walton, Jr., ceramic senior, wins top American Society Award. Two other Ga. Tech students win honorable mentions from the Ceramic Society. Shown left to right are: Dr. Lane Mitchell, director of the School of Ceramic Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mr. G. H. Mclntyre, Ferro Enamel Corporation, judge the American Ceramic Society's student awards contest; Jesse D. Walton, ceramic senior from Georgia Tech, winner of the top student award, the Ferro Enamel Corporation prize of $500; and William M. Brusse, Jr., and Manville May field, Jr., both students of ceramic engineering at Georgia Tech, who won honorable mention prizes.
The top student award of the American Ceramic Society, The Ferro Enamel Corporation prize of $500, was won by Jesse D. Walton, Jr., a senior ceramic engineering student from Georgia Tech, it was announced on April 25, by President H. M. Kraner, at the annual meeting of the society in New York City. Walton, a married veteran from Atlanta, Ga., and now living at the Georgia Tech Lawson Apartments, Chamblee, Ga., received the award for his research work on porcelain enamels. In addition, two other Georgia Tech ceramic engineering students won honorable mention awards. They are Man-
ville J. Mayfield, 686 Sherwood Rd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga., and William Brusse, Jr., another veteran living at 656 Yorkshire Rd., N. E., Atlanta. There were more than two dozen entries from 12 colleges for the ten awards in this nation-wide contest. According to Dr. Lane Mitchell, director of the Georgia Tech School of C e r a m i c Engineering, who accompanied the students to New York, the three awards won by the Atlanta school indicates the increasing recognition being given to research and ceramic engineering in the South by the ceramic industry.
CLASS MENTIONS (Cont'd) 1945 Lawrence M. Steinheimer, Jr., is in the insurance business in Savannah, Ga., and lives at 2003 Bull Street, Savannah. 1946
Jens B. Flock, Lt. (j.g.) is with the U. S. Navy Supply Corps, stationed at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Edward R. Foss, Jr., is Highway Engineer for Juan Giral Co., c/o Creole Petroleum Corp., Quiriquire, Venezuela, S. A. 1947
Dade W. Moeller is on loan from the U. S. Public Health Service to the Atomic Energy Commission and is en-
gaged in research on methods for the treatment of radioactive wastes. 1948 William H. Bottomley, Jr., is Sales Engineer for Ingalls Iron Works, Co., Birmingham, Ala. Jack C. Webb is with Pan American Refining Co., Texas City, Texas. Charlie A. McGill is Industrial Engineer for Chance Vought Aircraft, Dallas, Texas. 1949
William G. Williams is in the Production Department of Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America, with offices at 99 John St., New York, N. Y. 15