2nd Lt. Robert W. Smith, CE '51, is stationed with the Eighth Division's Specialist Training Regime at Fort Jackson, S. C. Prospects for Fort Jackson's 1952 track team were bolstered considerably when Smith, a track star during his days at Tech, reported for workouts. MARRIED: Wray Grason Succop, Arch '51, and Miss Virginia Gwendolyn Lenkerd were married May 11 at the Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta. Mr. Succop is employed by Gregson and Ellis, Architects, in Atlanta. Burney L. Tucker, Jr., Arch '51, was recently presented awards for outstanding airmanship as a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps in World War II. The award ceremony was telecast over KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, and the presentation was made by Gov. Howard J. Pyle of Arizona. The awards were the Distinguished Flying Cross with Gold Star in lieu of second, third, and fourth Distinguished Flying Crosses, and the Air Medal with Gold Star in lieu of second through sixteenth Air Medals. Mr. Tucker is now employed by Varney and Associates, Architects and Engineers in Phoenix.
CECIL L. RAMSEY, JR., '51 Lt. (j. g.) Arthur J. Van Suetendael III, CE '51, is serving as executive officer, second in command, on the minesweeper USS Curlew off the northeast coast of Korea. He was assigned to the USS Curlew in September, after completing a course at the U. S. Naval CIC Team Training Center in Boston, Mass.
1952 Marcus C. Adams, Robert B. Sayer, William R. Shawver, Ernest C. Scheller, and Stuart L. Richmond, all '52, have been called into the Air Force and were stationed at Lockland AFB, San Antonio. They arrived at the same time and rented a furnished house in San Antonio together. Sayer has gone to Keesler AFB in Biloxi for an electronics course, Adams will also take an electronics course at May-June, 1952
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Keesler, Scheller is attending a weapons course at Lowry AFB in Denver, and Richmond is attending the Armament Systems School at Lowry. Albert Joseph Bouvette, ChE '52, of Atlanta, has received his commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve from the Officer Candidate School at Newport, R. I. Charles Henry Eitel, Jr., IE '52, of Savannah, Ga., received a commission as ensign from the Naval Officers Candidate School at Newport, R. I., recently. Billy Baker Holland, Arch '52, of Statesboro, Ga., recently received a commission in the Naval Reserve at Newport, R. I. Eugene E. Holman, IM '52, is working with Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company at their Baltimore plant. He has finished the training course and is now a production foreman in the Making Ivory Bar Department. Marion H. Massee i n , '52, of Fitzgerald, Ga., received a commission as ensign from the U. S. Naval Officers Candidate School at Newport, R. I. ENGAGED: Lt. Mason Harris McKnight, Jr., CE '52, to Miss Alice Mitchell Davis, of Atlanta. Lt. McKnight is stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. MARRIED: Paul Eugene Peniston III, TE '52, and Miss Laura Pinckard Tatum were wed May 27 in a ceremony taking
place at the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta. Mr. Peniston, now serving with the U. S. Navy, is stationed at Newport, R. I., where he is attending Officers Candidate School. ENGAGED: Ens. Travis L. Story, Jr., IM '52, to Miss Glenna Shirley Zent. The wedding will take place June 14 at the Mikell Chapel of St. Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta. Ens. Story is now on Navy duty in the Mediterranean. ENGAGED: Charles Harold Taylor, ME '52, to Miss Bettye Louise Milton of Waycross, Ga. Mr. Taylor is a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army. Milton Edward Volker, CE '52, of Baltimore, Md., has been commissioned as ensign in the Naval Reserve at Newport, R. I.
To prove that Tech is still providing the Ordnance Officers, here are 7 of them at Aberdeen Proving Ground. They are Edwin R. Purcell, ME '51; J. C. Campbell, ME '50; Herbert J. Kizer, IM '51; Kenneth B. Clary, ME '51; Victor J. Caruso, ME '51; and Gordon E. Dasher, ME '51. 29