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when Jane would be coming back to redeem the Wallace name. So bowing to popular demand, we present a Jane Wallace original as our March cover. * * * A BILL DIEHL — the photographer who
has been responsible for a great deal of the national acclaim that the magazine has received during the past two years— is, strangely enough, a writer by trade. For six years he was a city-side reporter for The Atlanta Constitution and for the past three years he has been the Southern Editor of Pulp and Paper, an international magazine of great repute. Not long ago while working on an article concerning the recruiting of engineers for the paper industry, Bill was exposed to Fred Ajax and the Tech method of placement. It so impressed him that he asked us if we might like an article for the Alumnus on this project. On page 10 of this issue with words and pictures by Bill Diehl you can see why we liked it. A
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completed, Associate Dean Fred Ajax has put on a brand-new hat. In a sweeping reorganization Dean Ajax has become Director of Public Relations Ajax. The Tech Public Relations department has added the placement office to its responsibilties. And a brand-new office— Publications—has been formed on the Hill. Moving in as head of publications is the editor of the Alumnus, who for the past two years has been head of publications services at the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station. Under the new setup all campus publications (including those of the Experiment Station) will come under the Office of Publications. The head of publications will continue to edit the Alumnus. Ajax will give up his duties as veterans coordinator and associate dean of students and will devote his time to publicrelations and placement. He has been acting director of public relations since the resignation of Leslie Zsuffa last April. Let us hasten to add that the Ajax article in this issue was planned long before the reorganization came about. If we had known that Ajax was to be the new boss, we might have approached it differently.
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CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor marks an anniversary or two on the calendar and speaks of nepotism in publishing. 6. PRESS CONFERENCE—Tech's president answers some questions about engineering education today. 10. ANY TAKERS—double-duty man Bill Diehl profiles Fred Ajax in pictures and text. 14. SPRING FOOTBALL PREVIEW—old favorite Ed Danforth takes a pre-practice look at '58. 15. SPORTS SCHEDULES—a complete listing. 16. FRATERNITIES AND EDUCATION—a special photo and text treatment of the Greeks. 24. NEWS BY CLASSES—an alumni Gazette. Officers of t h e G e o r g i a Tech N a t i o n a l A l u m n i Association Charles Simons, '37, Pres. I. M. Sheffield, '20, V-P Charles Thwaite, '33, V-P Walt Crawford, '49, Treas. W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary Staff
Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor . Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer Bob Eskew, '49, Advertising Mary Peeks, Assistant
THE COVER Just prior to a big event in his life — fraternity initiation — freshman Charles Neil Kelley of Logansville, Georgia talks with Bob Traylor in front of the Beta house. There is a great deal<more about pledge Kelley, son of C. A. Kelley, Jr., '33, in the Alumnus' special article on fraternities beginning on page 16 of this March issue.
Cover Art-Jane D. Wallace Published eight times a year — February, March, May, July, September, October, November and December — by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. Subscription price (35c per copy) included in the membership dues. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office. Atlanta. Georgia under the Act of March 5. 1879.
THE GREATNESS of any institution of higher learning is but a reflection of the ability, dedication and spirit of its faculty. It is my sincere belief that today's Georgia Tech faculty is as hard working and as dedicated as any group of men in this country. Georgia Tech's reputation for high standards and a fierce, uncompromising student workload can be traced directly to the tradition for hard work established years ago by the School's faculty. Men like Uncle Si Coon, William G. Perry, W. H. Emerson, Charlie Jones, R. S. King, Vernon Skiles, D. M. Smith, F. C. Snow, Froggy Morton, Horsepower Wood, and many others emphasized this spirit. And, believe me, it's still very much the vogue at Tech today. A young freshman has not been on the campus 48 hours before he gets the feeling that only hard work and dedication will get him through Georgia Tech. Think back to the time that you spent at Tech and you'll recall the disciplined studying and faculty dedication that epitomized this spirit. I am positive that this spirit is one of the main reasons why, in these competitive times, Tech is able to maintain the high quality of its faculty members necessary for a great institution of higher learning. I am equally positive that the faculty supplementation plan made possible through your Roll Call contributions is the other major reason why the top faculty members remain at Tech. Without this supplement during the past school year, many of our top,faculty members would have left Tech in order to proper! y support their families. Why at our last meeting of the Alumni Board of Trustees, Dr. B. J. Dasher, director of Tech's Electrical Engineering School, stated point blank that the supplementation program was the only thing that saved him three of his top teachers. And one of them according to Dr. Dasher had already handed in his resignation when the supplement came along and helped him stay at Tech. Your contributions to the Roll Call have added a new dimension to the spirit of the Tech faculty at a time when it was most needed. If you haven't sent in your 1957-58 contribution, do it today. The Roll Call closes on June 30 and the Tech faculty members deserve all the support we can give them.
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President Harrison makes a point during the informal press con ference organized by The Alumnus for this article. Asking the questions are, from left to right: Bill Hammack, staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine; Bill White, 1957-58 editoi of The Technique; and Bob Wallace, Jr., editor of The Alumnus.
Subject: Engineering Education and the Future Editor's Note: In early February, Dr. Edwin Harrison was questioned by three reporters on the state of engineering education and its responsibilities in the future. Also present was Alumnus photographer Bill Diehl, Jr. Here in pictures and words is a playback of this conference. Hammack—Have recent missile successes by the Russians pointed up any differences between American and Soviet engineering and scientific progress? Harrison—They may have in the popular mind. But I do not think that the Soviets have demonstrated anything new to the people who have been working in engineering and scientific programs in this country. Sputnik was no surprise to enginers and scientists. The greatest effect that the Soviet satellites had was a propaganda effect. And the Soviets have exploited this to the hilt. The fact that they could exploit these satellites for such full propaganda value is, to me, something to fear. The limited knowledge of engineering and science of the average
American is the answer to this. He looks on what the Russians have done as the products of super-scientists. People naturally fear what they don't understand. Cave men, armed with spears, feared the first man to use the bow and arrow. For he was armed with a weapon that increased the range of a small spear (arrow). And at that time f imagine people considered it the ultimate weapon. such events have followed each other through history. Wallace—Did sputnik really mean that Russian engineering and scientific education is superior to ours, qualitatively and quantitatively? Harrison—Sputnik doesn't mean it. But we know that quan titatively they are ahead of us because they are turning out graduates in a ratio of two to one. I just don't know how anyone can measure the quality of engineering and scientific education, but I see no reason why the Russians should not be as good as we are. They study more science. more mathematics, and they have a much greater motivaTech Alumnus
tion towards success in these fields, if you look on financial reward as motivation, and 99 and 44/100 percent of the people do. The Russians have excellent teachers. Thus, I would have to say that the quality of their engineering graduates is the same as that of anybody who has had that much training. White—Would you care to comment further on the social and economic status of Soviet engineers and scientists, including teachers, as compared to those in our country? Harrison—This is one reason youngsters don't work to become engineers or teachers. In the U. S., science and engineering professors only make l1/-; times as much as a laborer. In Russia a teacher makes 8 times as much as a laborer. To be a teacher in the Soviet Union means both financial reward and good social status. It is a real paradox that the Russians—the world's leaders in Communism— have learned better than we have how well pure, unadulterated capitalism really pays off when you want a man to put out. Socially, professional teachers do quite well in the U. S. But economically they are in bad shape. Hammock-What do you think must be done in engineering and scientific education to overcome this Soviet lead? Harrison—I'm not sure that they have a lead. There is not a great deal of evidence yet on whether the Russian engineer has creative ability and is able to use it in the atmosphere in which he lives. But assuming the lead is there or that the Russians will soon get this lead if present conditions continue—it's urgent that we do this: Offer the opportunity to every QUALIFIED, INTERESTED student to take a scientific or engineering program, and make an effort to interest as many young people as possible in gaining a technological education. One-half of the top 20% of this country's high school graduates do not go to college. The major reasons are financial and lack of incentive. A high school graduate can make so much a month without going to college right now that he sees no real reason to go. Just as appalling is the fact that only six out of every 10 students who begin high school, graduate. The reasons are the same: financial, lack of incentive, inability to adjust and marriage. White—What about a crash program in engineering and scientific education? Should we cram science and engineering down the throats of young men and women who may be embryonic lawers, salesmen, artists or expert machinists? Harrison—No intelligent educator ever recommended that. We want people who are QUALIFIED and INTERESTED to get into engineering and science. We don't want people to keep on telling our young folks that what science does is to produce more horrible weapons and develop a personality devoid of human understanding, a kind of social outcast. A scientist is not that type of person, and a scientific education does not develop that type of person. Our scientific system recognizes that we live in a democracy, where March, 1958
our people can choose their own vocations. But I would like to emphasize this at the same time, EVERY CHILD educated today, male or female, should be given an opportunity to take courses in science and mathematics from competent teachers in order that a wise choice of careers can be made. Unfortunately, parents do not encourage their children to take tough courses, because the parents like to see their children bring home the high marks. If this country is to get the utmost from its educational processes, parents should encourage their children to take the tougher courses. Nor do teachers encourage students to take the tougher courses. And if a child has his own choice of a tough course or an easy one, he will usually take the easy way out. Too many teachers today say, "Who am I to tell a youngster what courses to take?" This is one of the inborn weaknesses of the methodology school of teaching. If one out of 15 students registered in U. S. schools today would take science and engineering, we could satisfy our present technological needs. But in years ahead, we may need a larger proportion of students because the world is growing more scientific every day. Today we live in a scientific world, whether we like it or not. You can tell me that a man is not educated if he has not had the humanities, and I will agree with you. But I will also say that if he has not had courses in science and mathematics he is not educated. In our day and age, a man with a scientific background is not likely to be as terrified by the thought of what the Russians can do with any weapon as much as a man who has no understanding of these things. Science certainly does not concentrate on instruments of war and destruction. It already has given this world penicillin, the iron lung, radioisotopes, the sulfa drugs, etc. Scientists are not principally bomb-makers, or evil people. There is not a scientist worth his salt who does not believe that there is a master planner who puts all these things together. Wallace—What does Georgia Tech propose to do to help educate more scientists and engineers? Harrison— We intend to increase the size of the student body by a modest amount, shooting for 7,000-7,500 by 1965. We will select entering students as carefully as possible to insure the highest possible graduating percentage. If we succeed in this new selection system, we could double the number of graduates without doubling the student body. We don't intend to initiate any new degree-granting schools, e.g., missile guidance engineering, etc. But we will continue to introduce additional scientific background material in our basic engineering and scientific courses. White—How broad should an engineering and scientific education be? Does an engineering student need any more humanities than he gets now? continued on page 8
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Harrison—The engineering and scientific educators in this country believe in making their curricula as broad as humanly possible. An engineering student needs humanities and the arts just as liberal art students need science. The humanities program is being increased at Tech.
Harrison: "I don't know how anyone can possibly measure the quality of scientific and engineering education."
Hammock—How are you and the rest of the heads of our engineering and scientific colleges going to get an adequate staff of teachers? Horrison—We'll go looking like everyone else. I hope we are going to be able to pay salaries adequate for outstanding teachers. We will educate our own through graduate programs, and look to graduate schools of other institutions. We hope to continue to offer the extras that mean so much in attracting and keeping outstanding teachers: opportunities to do research, consulting work; and providing adequate clerical help. Such installations as our research reactor, radioisotopes laboratory, and the new electrical engineering building will be of tremendous help. They will attract good men in all fields of engineering and science. Wallace—Since it costs more to educate an engineer than any other professional man except a doctor, what can be done to provide educational opportunities for young men and women who show promise of becoming engineers and scientists, but who are financially unable to attend college? Harrison—The only thing I know to do is to encourage as many full-money scholarships to be given on a competitive basis as we can possibly get. I would not emphasize "based on need." I would consider with much more emphasis "based on ability." I would prefer to keep out federal subsidies. I think that industry—and they are doing a real job now in the scholarship field—will be pleased to pick up the tab. The only scholarships I would go along with would be based on ABILITY.
Hammock: "What about the economic status of Russian engineering teachers as compared to ours?"
Harrison: "In Russia, a teacher of science makes 8 times as much as a laborer, here he makes W-i times."
Hammock—In addition to the teaching facilities at Georgia Tech, you have the Engineering Experiment Station, the South's largest in its field. What is it doing in this satellite and missile race, and more important what can it do in the future? Harrison—Some of our top work here, of course, is classified. Our electronics and ceramic work at the present seems by far the most promising. Tech's radar development group has long had an excellent international reputation in its field. At present, our young ceramics group is making some real contributions to missile development through the development of a new, much-needed material that will lend itself to the mass production of nose cones, radomes. nozzles and other important sections of rockets and missiles. The Engineering Experiment Station is now taking on and will continue to take on Government research contracts that are directly and indirectly related to national defense. And don't forget that the most important by-product of this research at Georgia Tech is the fact that it offers a great S
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deal of help in providing the needed, competent and imaginative teaching staff required in this age of scientific and technological growth. White—Would you care to comment on what you think of the chances of Dr. Killian helping to give our research and development program a shot in the arm? Harrison—Dr. Killian is a very capable individual. If anyone can bring order and organization and direction into our scientific program, he is the man. Wallace—Do you think that immediate steps should be taken in high schools to give full coverage to scientific courses? In Georgia, for instance, the high school curricula are now being set up on a more uniform base with certain scientific and mathematical subjects designated as required, not elective, courses. What do you think of this move? Harrison—I'm all in favor of it. In Atlanta and the other major cities, we get pretty good coverage in science. Any student who wants science can get it. I believe that everybody in high school should have at least two years of science and two years of mathematics. And if the high school student plans to go on to college, he should take four years of mathematics and three years of science. Hammock-Now for one of the big questions: Where can we get competent high school teachers for science and mathematics? Harrison—Here's an idea that they are trying in New York City and in the state of Ohio. They are making use of engineers and scientists who live in the area. True, they may not have teaching certificates because of the lack of education courses, but they are qualified to come in and teach the courses in their specialties. I am sure that the professional engineers and scientists in the State of Georgia will be glad to cooperate under this type of arrangement. Other sources might be retired college professors, retired engineers, retired scientists, etc. The State Board of Education could and should make provisions for this type of a plan on an emergency basis. In closing I would like to suggest that all high schools should require four years of English and that requirements for other humanities courses be unchanged. I suggest that everybody be required to take a language. It will make the students work. We can eliminate credit for such courses as band, glee club, dramatics, driving, all of which lead to credits toward high school graduation in some Georgia schools. Don't get me wrong, these are all good activities and I would like to see them continued, but on a strictly extra-curricular basis. I am not opposed to these courses but I am opposed to students taking them instead of the others they should take. I should like to re-emphasize that I don't think that we should try to make scientists or engineers out of everybody. But even if a person is going to be a businessman, lawyer or preacher, or even a journalist, he still should have a scientific background in today's world. March, 1958
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White: "What about a crash program in scientific and engineering education? Do you recommend this idea?"
Harrison: "I certainly don't. We just want the people who are qualified and interested in this type of education,"
Wallace: "What does Georgia Tech propose to do to help educate more scientists and engineers for tomorrow."
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RED w. AJAX rushed from his office, one arm waving frantically overhead in search of a topcoat sleeve, his hat placed jauntily, but with precision, on his head. "Dean Ajax . . . " a student stammered as he raced by. "Not now, boy, not now . . . come back at twelve-seventeen, I'll have three or four minutes free by then." He wasn't kidding, for it is recruiting time at Georgia Tech and recruiting time means no time at all for Fred Ajax. Someone once called it "hunting season at Tech" and it is a name that fits the way a pair of bell bottom britches fit a sailor. From January through May every year, the Tech campus — more precisely the office of Fred Ajax — is the frantic, confounding, ofttimes perplexing hub of one of the most gruelling sports in the business world today— recruiting manpower. The quarry is the Tech student, whose diploma automatically enrolls him in today's throttle-out race for men and brains. The game warden in this complex battle is Fred Ajax, who came to the placement service from the English department on a part-time basis in 1940 and has been there ever since. Today he literally has to run like hell just to stand still, and if he stops to take a breath he could find himself a year or two behind. None-the-less by sheer energy or work or willpower or divine providence or just because he happens to be Fred Ajax he gets the job done. He also finds time to act as Coordinator of Veterans Affairs (which carries its share of headaches); Acting Public Relations Director (which carries its share of ulcers); Associate Dean of Students (a miscellaneous title which could mean anything) and helps occasionally with alumni placement. It is a paradox that Ajax, whose career is finding the right man for the job and the right job for the man, has no training at all for this job. A native of Corinth, Miss., he graduated with an A.B. in English at Emory in 1930, received his M A . the following year and became an associate professor at Tech in the English Department. Summers he worked diligently on his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. In 1940, Dean of Students George C. Griffin asked him to "come on over a couple of days a week and help me out" and he did, concentrating on the placement service. By 1941 the placement service had taken over all his time. Ajax took a leave of absence from the English Department that year and he's never been back. It would probably be fairly safe to assume that the folks in the English Department have seen the March, 1958
last of Ajax — unless they look out the window and see him passing by occasionally. Since there are only so many hours in the week, some things have had to be sacrificed, among them his Ph.D. thesis, which never quite got finished ("I have the feeling lately I won't be needing it, anyway") and more trips to companies than the three or four a year he makes now ("At last count I was 157 trips behind schedule. I'm not counting on catching u p " ) . Also because of the time element and in order to mastermind the five-month recruiting seasons, Ajax runs the placement service like a commanding officer about to lead a charge over the top. Everything runs by clockwork—and by the Ajax System, neatly outlined in a precise, taut set of rules lightheartedly called "Rules of the Road." These include everything the recruiter needs to know from the location of the men's room ("down the hall from my office, marked Faculty") to lunch ("leave your material in the interviewing rooms and assemble in my office").
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RECRUITER on first contact with Fred Ajax is likely to have the feeling he has just been caught up in a tornado. The phone rings incessantly (Ajax phone conversation is courteous but lean: "Ajax speaking . . . don't know . . . Goodby." Click). The door to his office is always open, draws students like the Pied Piper's flute. He may summon his secretary two or three times (by the simple process of calling across the hall to h e r ) . He may stare at the recruiter from over or under or around a stack of mail or company pamphlets ("Propaganda . . . but very necessary"). And he will probably ask the time at least twice during the course of twenty or thirty minutes of conversation. All of this is neither designed to drive recruiters mad or to show any lack of respect for them. It is the Ajax system and since it seems to work beautifully it is not likely to be changed. "It may seem a bit on the wild side," said one of his assistants, "but things seem to get done that way." Ajax has two student assistants, John Coleman, a junior, and Dick Tinius, an ex-Marine pilot and freshman M.E. Both have to attend night school in order to hold down their jobs. Little wonder. On an average day recently, Ajax and Company conducted group interviews with Convair Aircraft, McDonnell Aircraft, the U.S. Bureau of Ships, Georgia Highway Department, Sears-Roebuck, Duquesne Light & Power, Gulf States Utili-
ties, West Virginia Pulp & Paper, American Sugar Company and American Oil Company. In addition, they signed up more than 200 students for personal interviews growing from the group talks. This was just a part of the job. In addition they had to dig up transcripts for companies requesting them, arrange interview times (every 20 minutes during the entire day with an hour out for lunch), answer phone calls, letters, telegrams inquiring about the latest trends in student thinking, salaries, and the like, greet half a dozen company representatives arriving for the first time, arrange for taxis to get interviewers to the airport after their last interview and other problems which crop up unexpectedly throughout the day. "You never know what's going to happen next," says Ajax. "I guess that's one reason I love this job. One minute I'm liable to be talking to some veteran about the number of hours he ought to carry next quarter and the next minute I'll be shooting the breeze with some guy on the west coast about salary ranges. Sometimes that phone jingles so much I think it's going to have a nervous breakdown."
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AJAX — cont. After 18 years in the business of placing students, Ajax also can tell almost from the moment a company man enters his office what the outcome of the interview will be. He knows, for instance, that salaries are pretty much alike and that ofttimes it is other things which will guide the graduate's decision. He knows that a company in the midwest, especially Chicago and Detroit, has two strikes on it because Tech students shy away from these locations. "Other things are important too," adds Ajax. "A student who doesn't feel he is fully matured and doesn't want to make any decisions just yet will very often pick a job which has a long training
"Nobody is man enough to tell the student what job to take. Their daddy can't or their wife can't or their mother can't. In the end he's got to make the decision."
period, nine months or a year. That way he'll have a long time before he has to call his hand." Finally, there are those students who narrow their choice down to two or three companies, all with similar locations, comparable salaries and just about the same attributes. Then, very frequently, the student's future rests on the flip of a coin—and it happens more than once. During the course of the recruiting period, the average student at Tech will get 20 job offers and could have more if he didn't tire of taking interviews. Some are bound to overlap. "This year there won't be as many offers," points out Ajax, "mainly because of the business recession. I'm optimistic, though. I think this will change before
the end of the year. Anyway, that doesn't change our job. No matter how many jobs there are loose, there will still be the same number of interviews."
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J . HI Fred Ajax took over the placement since service 18 years ago. Then the top starting salary was between $125 and $150 a month. Today the average minimum salary, with no experience, is $475 and jobs can range as high as $600. "Aircraft, electronics, oil and chemicals will skim off the cream," Ajax will tell you, "because they pay top prices and are the most sought-after industries." This is especially true of electronics and aviation in this age where people talk about trips to the moon the way they used to talk about a trip to the corner drugstore. The most impressive offer Ajax can remember came from an aircraft company which gave a graduating student with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering a $600 starting salary, paid all expenses to California and then picked up the tab for tuition, books and all expenses for him to take both a Master's and Ph.D. at UCLA. And in the bargain they added $390 a month if he would drop around to the plant 20 hours a week at his convenience and put in a little time. "Of course," said Ajax, "you can't always tell what's going to happen. Once in a while we'll have a company with a bad location and a small starting salary
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"Okay boys, today we have the first major oil company to visit the campus. These jobs are so complicated I'm iioing to try to explain them myself. So hear this."
compared to some of the other big cookies. That's when we have to say, Boys, how about helping ole' Fred out and go by and at least talk to these fellows.' So a couple of them go by and by golly sometimes they sign up!"
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quite an experience. It is a combination of Who's Who in Industry, the $64,000 Question and a three-ring circus. Still, Ajax manages to get across to the students every bit of pertinent information he has on hand on the company in question. It may be a small company which needs only a few engineers or a big one like Magnolia Petroleum Co., looking for every conceivable type of engineer produced on the Hill. From the front of the room, Fred Ajax lays down the facts, strolling to and fro, gesturing, biting the words off in his Barrymorelike enunciation (sugar becomes sug-aah and American rolls out as Amedican). He lights cigarettes, stops each student as he enters the room to make sure he has picked up the propaganda and also making sure that he reads it ("Anything I miss you'll find in there"). All of this is geared to make the student's final decision on whether to make a date for a personal interview as fair to the company as possible. "Okay boys," he begins, "today we have the first major oil company to visit the campus this year. These jobs are so complicated I'm going to try to explain them myself.
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"Good grief son why did ycu have to ask that question in front of our company. They'll wonder what kind of engineers Tech turns out if they hear many like that."
"This is Magnolia Petroleum Company . . . a completely integrated oil company. The jobs here fall into five classifications: Production, which means all activities involved in getting crude oil from either underground or underwater. Slightly an outdoor job, boys. "Next we have what is called geophysics and when we use this word we mean simply those activities involved in finding new oil reserves and this means electronics boys. "Third, we have manufacturing or refinerying. That is all those activities which make gas or gasoline products from crude oil including petrochemicals, which are miscellaneous by-products. "Then there is research and development which could mean production-wise
or in the petrochemicals end and finally we have marketing or lubrication engineering. That's sales engineering of all oil products in bulk. "For production we want ChEs, MEs. EEs, CEs, and IEs. In geophysics, Physicists, EEs, MEs, and Mathematicians. Refinery, ChEs, Chemists, MEs, EEs and IEs. In research and development, ChEs, Chemists, MEs, CEs, Mathematicians, Physicists, and EEs. And in marketing. ChEs, MEs, CEs, Chemists and IEs. "You have the literature, lads . . . READ IT. "Alright—any takers?" With Fred Ajax at the helm you can be sure there will be plenty of takers— and plenty of winners. Placement has become a science and an art with him.
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have been an integral part of the Tech campus scene since the school first opened its doors in 1888. Actually one local chapter of a national fraternity—Alpha Tau Omega—was chartered before the first class was held on the Hill. Today, Tech's 26 chapters with campus houses (Delta Upsilon, the Institute's newest, and Alpha Xi Delta, the sorority, have no houses as yet) take a real load off the shoulders of the administration by feeding over 1,700 students per day and housing close to 700. With construction of dormitory space costing Tech over $3,000 per student, this represents a considerable saving in housing alone. The fraternities through an emphasis on a highly competitive intramural athletic program are a great aid to the Institute's athletic and physical fitness program. And more and more, the IFC and the individual fraternities on the campus are pushing scholarship and leadership as the top attributes of the fraternity man. For the past quarter, the scholastic average of all fraternity men was 2.1931 while that of non-fraternity men was 2.1865. This year, the IFC has inaugurated a tutoring system to help the individual RATERNITIES
Atlanta bandleader Bill Clarke has been playing Tech dances since 1934. "They've changed a great deal," he says. "But the big change is the death of the stag line at all dances. Going steady killed it."
fraternities bring the averages of their low men up to the standard. But it is in the social areas that the fraternity system offers the greatest relief to a college administration—and brings it its biggest headaches. In addition to the big allfraternity dances sponsored by the IFC, the individual fraternities hold hundreds of dances, house parties, rush parties, after-game parties, etc., all of which must be chaperoned and all of which must be monitored by the Office of the Dean of Students. To help supervise these parties, the IFC created an Honor Board just four years ago. The Board has 13 members, one for every two fraternities housed on the campus. It is self-perpetuating and is charged with maintaining the conduct of fraternity men at a high level. Each member of the Honor Board checks two fraternities (not his own) every Friday and Saturday night during the school year. He comes in unannounced, at odd hours, and looks for drinking in the house, parties running past scheduled times, unauthorized chaperones, rowdiness, gambling, and other offenses. If an infraction is found on one of these checks,
the fraternity is given a warning (Honor Board Penalty). Two warnings in one quarter bring the offending fraternity in front of the IFC Trial Board (see page 20). Last year, Tech's fraternities, through the IFC, started out to sell themselves to the rest of the campus through a vehicle they called Greek Week. The week-long celebration featured nationally-known speakers, special religious services, panel discussions on important student problems for both fraternity and non-fraternity men, and an all-school dance and concert featuring a nationally-known orchestra. The idea was so successful that the IFC has made it an annual affair on the Tech campus. The snobbery angle of fraternities so often cited as one of the negative sides of the fraternity system is completely absent on the Tech campus. Fraternity men dress the same as non-fraternity men and wouldn't be caught dead in class wearing a tie (except at interview time and during Hell Week when some of them are forced to dress up). A non-fraternity man can get elected to office on the campus. And no one is looked down upon just because he doesn't happen to belong to a fraternity. Working together on a common problem helps strengthen the bonds. The honor board meets and discusses the past weekend's party inspections.
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N ITS SEVEN-YEAR HISTORY, the 1FC Trial Board has handled no case as well publicized as the February trial of the SAE's for a house party rule violation. Here is a synopsis of events that led to the trial: February 14—SAE's and dates left for North Georgia on authorized house party. House mother (who was to be one of the two required female chaperones) became ill and was unable to make the trip. Unable to find another female chaperone, the fraternity went ahead with the party with one married couple as chaperones and the caretaker and his wife serving as the substitute, unauthorized chaperones. February 15—Biggest snow in 15 years hits Georgia. House party snowbound but photographer gets through. February 16—Pictures appear in papers along with story. February 17—House party returns to homes. University of Georgia suspended six coeds who attended party for breaking rule which prohibits coeds from attending offcampus house parties during school year. Papers make a big thing of this. February 18—SAE's turn in party report to Dean Pershing who immediately brings charges of violation. Papers having a field day now and stay at it for a week until February 24 when trial on these pages was held. February 26—Announcement by Dean Pershing that the SAE's had been found guilty and can hold no social functions till May 1, 1958 with the added stipulation that they can have no house parties until spring of 1959.
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N ONE AREA—hazing—this is a transitional period for Tech's fraternities. Slowly but surely with gentle nudging from the administration and the national fraternities' main offices, the concept of Help Week is replacing Hell Week, the hazing week that has brought most of the bad publicity down on the Greeks over the years. During Help Week the pledges do work for outside charities as well as spruce up their own houses. Today at Tech, hazing is confined to the house and has a military look about it. Most of the antics that the pledges are forced to do are borrowed from West Point, Annapolis or the Aviation Cadets, and the paddle, long used for punishment, is in most Tech houses merely a decorative showpiece. Today, hazing at Tech looks something like these pages. Heading for initiation, the blindfolded pledge class follows a guide into the fraternity rites. TWO HOURS LATER, PLEDGE KELLEY BECOMES ACTIVE KELLEY AND RECEIVES HIS CONGRATULATIONS.
'(11 Maxwell Ohlman, first president of " i the American Stamp Dealers A s s o c , died Nov. 30 at the Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn, N . Y. He began a career of stamp trading & auctioneering in '01 and was still in that field at the time of his death. 'Ifl B"8- General Homer W. Hesterly, '" CE, military and civic leader in Tampa, Fla., died Dec. 15 at his home, 1115 Bay Shore Blvd. He formerly was commander of the 116th Field Artillery in Tampa, retiring from the National Guard in '54. Ml
Ernest D. lvey, Arch, has been made a life member of the Georgia Engineering Society. He is with the architectural firm of lvey & Cook in Atlanta. '19 W. A. Aichel, CE, retired contract• *• ing manager for the Atlanta sales office of Bethlehem Steel Co., died Jan. 3 in an Atlanta hospital. He had been in ill health for the past year. Otis A. Barge, ME, has become associated with Barge & Co., Atlanta contractors and engineers, upon retirement as Board Chairman of Barge-Thompson, Inc. Mr. Barge is known through the southeast for his work in the construction industry. He founded Barge-Thompson in 1950. Barge & Co., located at 250 Piedmont Ave., N . E., Atlanta, is a partnership composed of 3 other Tech alumni: Alvin Barge, ' 4 1 , Joe Baggarly, '42, and Argyle Crockett, '38. »10 A. P. Hill, EE, engineer in the AtU lanta area for Western Union Telegraph Co., retired Jan. 1. He has been with the company since 1916. At the time of his retirement he was area field engineer with headquarters in Atlanta. Willis J. Milner, Jr., CLU, EE, has joined Piedmont Life Ins. Co. as Agency Management Consultant in Atlanta. He is also consultant for the Georgia Agency of the Life Ins. Co. of Va. and special consultant for that company. His business address is 1222 Peachtree St., N. E., Atlanta 9, Ga.
Bureau for 1958. He is associated with Charles A. Rawson & Associates, Atlanta.
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Guy E. Manning, EE, is Vice President and Chief Engineer for Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. His address is 207 East Ohio St., Chicago, 111. '00 C. S. Coleman has been elected LL sales manager at Stockham Valves & Fittings in Birmingham, Ala. William Callaway Summers, CE, of 744 Kennolia Dr., S. W., Atlanta, died Jan. 18. He had been with the Ga. Highway Dept. since '27 and was assistant office engineer at the time of his death. ' O Q Fulton Rep. M. M. (Muggsy) fcW Smith, TE, has been chosen "Man of the Year" by the Atlanta Northside Kiwanis Club. He received this honor for his effort in backing civic and charitable drives in the city during 1957. »04 William O. Britt, Jr., ME, died last ^ ™ November. He was owner of the Britt Mfg. Co., Thomaston, Ga. C. H. Denicke has been elected vice president-sales of Stockham Valves & Fittings in Birmingham, Ala. ' O C Slade B. Gamble, M E , has joined t v Rust Furnace Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa. as sales engineer for specially designed furnaces. Pleasant Harvey Lewis, Sr., Com., retired credit manager for Harry Sommers, Inc. in Atlanta, died Feb. 21 in an Atlanta hospital following a long illness. He retired in '57 after 31 years of service. His widow lives at 558 Seal PL, N . E., Atlanta. Louis A. Hawkins, Com., has been installed as president of the Insurance Board of the Palm Beaches, Inc.
'9fi William L. Carmichael, TE, Regis*•" trar at Georgia Tech, is president of the Southern Association of College Registrars. William F. Spaulding, TE, vice president in charge of sales with the William Skinner & Sons Co., textile mfg. firm of N . Y.. died Nov. 23 in an Atlanta hospital. He had lived in Darien, Conn, for the past 25 years, returning to Atlanta last Sept. '97 Charles A. Talmadge died last Au™• gust 30. N o further information was available at this writing. His widow lives at 648 E. Park, Apt. 13, Tallahassee, Fla. '00 Lionel W. Hodges of Washington. fc" D. C. died Oct. 18. He was employed by the U. S. Government Post Office Dept. His widow lives at 1711 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington 6, D. C. ' 9 Q ^aln Parry> GE, Vice President and ~*J General Manager of Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., was initiated into the honorary society of Pi Tau Sigma in February. Lambert A. Holloway died Nov. 1 of a heart attack. He was with the Electronic Installations Div. of the Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. His widow lives at 15 Godfrey Rd., Upper Montclair, N . J.
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'01 M. Weldon Rogers, TE, has been *»l elected to the board of directors of Exposition Cotton Mills Co., Atlanta. He was president of Ely Walker Dry Goods Co. in St. Louis prior to joining Exposition. »00 *•« former of the
Scott Hudson, II, Com,, died Feb. 8 in an Atlanta hospital. He was a member of the Board of Directors Highlands Country Club in N . C.
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'1 T M. L. Shadburn, CE, State Highway ' I Engineer, has been elected Vice President of the American Association of State Highway Officials. '1 Q I0 24
Charles A. Rawson has been elected president of the Atlanta Convention
Robert P. "Rip" Williams, EE '31, died February 14 in a Washington, D. C. hospital. At the time of his death, Mr. Williams was president of the consulting engineering firm, Williams Engineering Co. Prior to organizing his own business in 1957, Mr. Williams was vice president of the Rheem Manufacturing Co. A past president of the Washington Tech Club, he is survived by his wife, the former Sylvia E. Lantz. Tech Alumnus
AGENCY ORGANIZATION GENERAL AGENT David G. Hunting 1
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What is this company's role in the progress of a man's career? From the start David Hunting had his sights set on a management career. As he puts it: "The big thing which led me to choose the insurance business and New England Life was the good prospect of an early opportunity in management. And there were no barriers to keep a man from progressing rapidly." Dave did progress rapidly. After four years of experience in the field and home office, he felt he was ready for management responsibilities. New England Life did, too. In 1952 we put him in charge of a new agency in Philadelphia. Dave now had his own business — without needing to raise capital. He had strong financial and administrative support. At the same time, he was free to make his own decisions and employ his own ideas. In five years Dave has led his agency to a position among the top third of all our agencies. Much of this success is due to the competence of the young men he personally selected and trained. (His 16 associates average about $10,000 yearly income.) Dave's organization chart, above, shows the extent of his present operation. New England Life's role in furthering a career is then essentially this: to provide latitude for individual expression in an atmosphere of full company support. And this holds true whether a man chooses a management career or prefers to develop a clientele of his own. If career opportunities of this sort appeal to you, write for more information to Vice President L. M. Huppeler, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass. A BETTER
No wonder he points with -pride to his organization chart. In five years David Hunting (Amherst '4.6; MBA Harvard Business '^8) has led his agency to a place among the top third of all New England Life agencies.
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Alumnus Heads Linotype Company J. A. Keller, ME '39, is the new president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York. Keller joined the company, largest manufacturers of typecasting equipment in the world, in December, 1955 as vice president for operations. Later he became executive vice president and a member of the company's board of directors. Before joining the Linotype Company, Keller was vice president and general manager of F. L. Jacobs Company in Detroit, Michigan.
He is survived by his wife; sons, Scott, III & Bobby; daughters, Katie & Lynn, and father, all of Atlanta. Matthew M. Chapman died Nov. 18 after a long illness. H e was sales manager of the Pipe & Pumps Division of the Grinnell Co. in Atlanta. Frank Ridley, Jr., G E , vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., has been named to the Advisory Board of the C & S N a tional Bank in Atlanta. R. W. Schilling has been elected treasurer of the Atlanta Board of Education. He is associated with the Bank of Georgia in Atlanta. David J. Bloom has been appointed vice president in charge of Southeastern corrugated sales at Mead-Atlanta Paper C o . He joined the company in '34 and has served in all of the company's divisions. John E. McKinley, Jr. died Jan. 29 in Tallahassee, Fla. while on a business trip. He was president of 3 companies engaged in Marine Insurance in Coral Gables, Fla. While at Tech Mr. McKinley played football and was on the track team. H e is survived by his wife; son, Richard, both of 6800 SW 85th Ave., Miami; another son, John E. McKinley, III, who lives in Faison, N . C.
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Henry H. Herring, Chem., has been appointed assistant manager of D u Pont's new sales development section, Explosive Dept., which will provide technical services to customers & develop sales for its chemical & specialty products. Joseph F. Hutchinson, ME, former manager of automotive engineering at Goodyear Tire & Rubber in Akron, Ohio, has been named assistant to the development manager of tire divisions. His home atf1 dress is 2070 Strabler Rd., Akron, Ohio. Lt. Col. John E. Wood, Jr., M E , has been promoted to Colnel at Ft. Levenworth, Kansas where he is a member of the Staff and Faculty of the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College. He lives with his wife and 2 daughters at 224 Meade Ave., Ft. Levenworth, Kans. 'QQ
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Dr. Albert G. Edwards is now pastor at the First Presbyterian Church
in Raleigh, N . C. He lives with his wife and 3 children at 1531 Caswell St., Raleigh. Jason Thomas Pate, IM, is listed in the 6th edition of "Who's W h o In The East". Jason is president and manager of radio station WASA in Havre de Grace, Md. John William Cheney, E E , an electrical engineer with Western Electric, died of a heart attack Oct. 24. His widow lives at 2809 Wesleyan Lane, Winston-Salem, N . C. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dames, ME, a daughter, Annella, Jan. 3. Their address is 35 So. Midland, Arlington, N . J. Howard Ector, I M , business manager of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, has been elected president of the College Athletic Directors Business Managers Assoc.
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Elmer G. Bandy, E E , has been promoted to lieutenant colonel in Vaihingen, Germany, where h e is a signal plans and intelligence officer.
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Monsanto Chemical Company's Inorganic Chemicals Div. at St. Louis, Mo. R. M. Lang, I M , has been appointed Paint Sales Manager, Southeast Paint Dist with U. S. Gypsum. Prior to this appoint ment he was a line salesman, Atlanta District. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James P. Poole. IM, a daughter, Donna Parrott Poole, Jan. 12. Polly is with Guardian Life Ins. Co.. 46 Fifth St., N . E., Atlanta. Dr. Kurt E. Shuler, Chem., former!} head of the High Temperature Process Group, Heat Div., National Bureau of Standards, has joined the Research Staff of the General Motors Corp, Warren. Mich, as Science Advisor to their basic science activity. James L. Murphy, Jr., Ch.E., rockel project e n g i n e e r with Thiokolc Chemical Corp. at Huntsville, Ala., recently addressed the Central Chapter of the GSPE in Newnan, G a .
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Capt. Thomas Garanflo, U S A F , has been assigned to the 963rd Airborne Early Warning & Control Sq., 552nd AEW & C Wing at McClellan A F B , Calif. He is one of the youngest, if not the youngest, command pilots in the U . S. Capt. Garanflo lives with his wife and 4 sons at 443 I Morpheus Lane, Sacramento, Calif. Engaged: Alwyn Mann Ingram, Jr. to Miss Edith McCamy Crowe. Mr. Ingram is president of the Ingram Truck Leasing Co. of Atlanta.
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Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Miller, a daughter, June, F e b . 27. Eugene is associate managing editor of BUSI-
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Moj. Robert E. Collier, USAF, G E , has been named associate professor of aeronautical design at the Air Force Academy near Denver, Colo. After graduating from Tech, Major Collier received his MS in A E from the Univ. of Mich, and completed the Air Force Guided Missile Course. Ray M. DeShon, M E , has been appointed Eastern Area Sales Manager for the Long Lines Dept. of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in White Plaines, N . Y. H e has been with the company since 1946. Richard G. Glover, Ch.E., has been appointed product sales manager of acids, heavy chemicals & specialty chemicals for
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First PL, Baldwin, L. I., N . Y. Herschel B. Miller, C E , has been named Atlanta District Manager for the Raymond Concrete Pile C o . in Atlanta. H e had been manager of the Houston, Texas district since 1951. Henry Sanders Rowland, III, I F . has been awarded one of the first Gleason Works Foundation, Inc. fellowships for 2 years of study at Harvard Business School.
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A. Dunson D unaw ay , IE, has opened an Atlanta branch of Dunaway Associates, Serv-A-Station, a bookkeeping & business management service devoted exclusively to service stations. His
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Alumnus Joins Air Conditioning Co. Robert M. Cox, ME '43, has been assigned as sales engineer to the New York office of The Trane Co. Cox, an 11-year veteran in industrial and commercial refrigeration, joined the company recently. He is a member of ASHAE and ASRE.
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office in Atlanta is located at 1036 Peachtree Bldg., Suite 117. W. C. (Cliff) McGahee, IE, has been named assistant manager of Pollock Paper Corp's Atlanta and Birmingham plants. N. A. Jacobs, Arch., formerly of Atlanta, has opened offices for the practice of architecture at Gainesville, Ga. Raymond A. Jones, Jr., CE, assistant vice president of the J. A. Jones Construction Co. with headquarters in Atlanta, has been named vice president of the firm.
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'[Jfl Charles B. Bottoms, Jr., IM, has **V been transferred by the Coca-Cola Co. from Jackson, Miss., where he was District Representative, to Miami, Fla. He is now Resident District Representative, Fla. District Office, SE Region of the Bottler Sales Dept. His business address is 155 Hampton Lane, Key Biscayne Island, Miami 49, Fla. Clifford D. Bowers, Arch., has joined the architectural firm of Kemp, Bunch & Jackson, with offices at 33 South riogiui St., Jacksonville, Fla. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. William Henry Hitch, ME, a son, William Robert, Dec. 16. Bill is Assistant Director of the Co-op Division at Georgia Tech. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Knapp, II:, a son, Robert William, November 12. Don recently received his MS degree from the Univ. of Southern Calif, and is now a sales engineer, airborne systems projects, at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City. Married: William Colvard Newberry, HE, to Miss Mrytle Gross, March 15. Mr. Newberry is with the Georgia Power Co. in Macon, Ga. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Claude A Petty, Jr., E E , a son, John Andrew, Jan. 22. Claude is Director of the Physical Plant at Georgia Tech. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. William C. Schwartz, IM, a son, William John, Feb.
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ROLL CALL SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF LAST YEAR'S RECORD-BREAKER
15, the 11th Georgia Tech Roll Call holds a slight edge over the record-shattering 10th Roll Call in both number of contributors (8,306 to 8,067) and total alumni contributions ($151,678 to $150,562). You still have time to help make this the biggest alumni fund drive in the history of statesupported education by mailing your contribution now to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. The Roll Call sponsored by the Association closes June 30, 1958.
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21. Their address is 6660 Canyon Creek Trail, N. E., Atlanta, Ga. »C1 Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Wallace JI Arkowitz, TE, a daughter, Erica Lee, Feb. 2. Their address is 720 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N . Y. Bob Bossons, IM, has joined the coaching staff at the Univ. of Minnesota. Prior to this move he was with Duke for one year and was former assistant line & defense coach at Georgia Tech. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. William L. Mullett, ME, a son, Daniel Buchanan, Oct. 29. Bill is with Westinghouse Electric at the Bettis Plant. Their home address is 1701 Parkline Dr., Pittsburg 27, Pa. Robert R. Patterson, Arch., has opened a real estate brokerage office, Patterson Realty Service. The company is located at 931 W. Peachtree, N . E., Atlanta. He will handle all phases of real estate, but will be principally engaged in residential sales & development. ' C O Married: Joseph E. Chapman, III, J t Phys., to Miss Winifred Isleib, March 30. Mr. Chapman is a field engineer with Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp., Box 5428, Corpus Christi, Texas. Married: James Henry Fair, Jr., IE, to Miss Florrie Stevens, March 8, Mr. Fair is production manager with Pre-Stress Concrete Co. in Charleston, S. C.
j Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Garrison, Jr., EE, a daughter, Grace Madolyn, Nov. 28. Chuck is in the Computer Engineering Dept., Bendix Radio Div. Their home address is 225 Burke Ave., Apt. B., Towson 4, Md. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Quentel, EE, a daughter, Debra Lynn, Dec. 4. Mr. Quentel is supervisor, Adjustable Voltage Systems Section, Industrial Controller Div. with Square D. Their home address is 5159 • No. Santa Monica Blvd., Milwaukee, Wis. Cadet William J. Wolff, Jr., USAR-ret., ME, died Feb. 12 in an Atlanta hospital of injury received several months ago in a plane crash. He had been in the Air Force since shortly after graduating from Tech. His parents live at 402 E. Wesley Rd., N.E. ' C O Adrian D. Bolch, Jr., ME, is main«*0 tenance engineer in the Engineering Div. at Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown, Texas refinery. He was married in August '56 to Miss Nancy Elizabeth Bowers. They live at 1126 Bertha, Apt. N - l , Houston 6, Texas. Louis E. Fay, III, Ch. E., is with Bendix Corporation's Solid States Group. He lives with his wife, the former Dr. Alice D . Autry, and their 2 children at 1420 Coats Rd., Oxford, Mich.
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YEARS 0 1 EXPERIENCE TO HELP YOU SOLVE ELECTRICAL SUPPLY PROBLEMS
For a third of a century our organization has worked closely with electrical supply wholesalers to help them meet their problems in serving the rapidly expanding electric industry. This experience is at your command to help you.
EDGAR E. D A W E S & CO. E. E. DAWES, '18, President
405 RHODES BUILDING STEEL CITY ELECTRIC CO. WAGNER MALLEABLE PRODUCTS CO.
March, 1958
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ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA SPANG-CHALFANT (Conduit Division) PLASTIC WIRE & CABLE CORP.
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Full-time, off-the-job GRADUATE
STUDY CENTER. New York's Coliseum Tower houses one of three special study centers set aside for W.E.'s Graduate Engineering Training Program. Other centers are in Chicago and
Winston-Salem, N. C. Product design principles are one of the many technical subjects our engineers cover in Introduction to Western Electric Engineering, the first phase of the program.
ENGINEERING TRAINING helps speed careers at Western Electric Right now, Western Electric engineers are back "on campus" in a unique new Graduate Engineering Training Program. They're attending courses at special study centers established by the company in Chicago, New York and Winston-Salem, \ . C. It's a rare chance to study advanced engineering and get full pay at the same time. These "students" are guided by a teaching staff of top Western Electric engineers, outside experts and professors from leading universities. They're learning the latest technical developments . . . boning up on everything from manufacturing processes to computer applications. When the program reaches its peak, some 2,000 to 3,000 Western Electric engineers will attend each year. .. studying in an atmosphere as close to a university graduate school as is practical for industry. This engineering "university" was born because of the everincreasing complexity of Western Electric's job as the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell Telephone System. Today \V. E. engineers are right in the middle of exciting fields like microwave radio relay, electronic switching and automation. Graduate engineering training is designed to spur their development and advancement throughout their entire careers. How Graduate Engineering Training would work for you The program gets under way after approximately six months on-the-job experience. First off: 1. A nine-week Introduction to Western Electric Engineering helps you learn about your W.E. engineering field, sharpens your skills in getting ideas across. Technical subjects include communications systems, product design principles, military electronic systems. 2. Another nine-week program, General Development, starts after your first year with us, helps broaden and strengthen your engineering background. Besides technical subjects like engineering statistics, measurements and instrumentation, and electronics, you receive grounding in human relations and the socio-economic importance of engineering. 3 . To meet continuing needs for formalized technical training, Advanced Development offers four-week courses tailored to the individual needs of the engineers selected to attend. These courses are designed to help develop creative engineering abilities. Computer applications, switching theory, feedback control systems, and semi-conductor devices and circuits are sample topics covered in this phase.
Besides taking part in the Graduate Engineering Training Program, engineers are eligible for our Tuition Refund Plan for after hours study at nearby colleges. In short, there's a unique opportunity at Western Electric to develop a professional career .. . and work in the exciting world of communications.
Western Eleerri MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY
Knowledge born in the classroom often sparks on-thejob ideas. These engineers are working on transistor manufacturing problems.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGINEERING GRADUATES (Supervisory and administrative opportunities exist in each field) Analysis for manufacturing operations: Machine and tool requirements—M.E., E.E.; Space requirements—M.E., I.E.; Test facility requirements—E.E.; Personnel requirements— I.E.; Electric power, light and heat requirements— E.E.; Raw material requirements— Chem. E., Met. E., Phy. S c ; Procedures and processes—M.E., I . E . , T i m e a n d m o t i o n studies — I.E., Investigation of manufacturing difficulties-M.E.; Quality control-M.E., E.E. Planning telephone central offices: Equipment requirements — E.E.; Power and cable requirements—E.E. D e v e l o p m e n t and design: New machines and tools—M.E., E.E.; Material h a n d l i n g methods—M.E., I.E.; N e w e q u i p ment and processes—M.E., E.E.; Repair shop methods—M.E.; Testing facilities—E.E.; Testing methods—E.E.; Job evaluation studies— I.E.; Wage incentive studies—I.E.; Production control studies—I.E.; Improved chemical processes—Chem. E., Met. E., Phy. S c ; New application for metals and alloys—Chem. E., Met. E., Phy. S c ; Raw material test procedures—Chem. E., Met. E., Phy. S c ; Service to military on electronic devices—E.E. For further information write: Engineering Personnel, R o o m 1034, 1 9 5 Broadway, N e w York 7, N. Y.
UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM
• Western Electric has major manufacturing plants at Chicago and Decatur, III.; Kearny, N. J.; Baltimore, Md.; Indianapolis, Ind.; AJIentown and Laureldale, Pa.; Burlington, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, N. C.; Buffalo, N. Y.; North Andover, Mass.; Lincoln and Omaha, Neb.; St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. Distribution Centers in 32 cities. Installation headquarters in 16 cities. General headquarters: 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Also Teletype Corp., Chicago 14, III.
Linda Lee, Dec. 30. Ed is with the C. Lee Cook Co. in Louisville, Ky. His business address is 916 So. 8th St. Cecil Trainer, IM, has been promoted to plant superintendent at Southern Wood Preserving Company's Baldwin, Fla. treating plant. He has been with the company since Jan. '57 and was assistant to the safety engineer prior to his promotion. ' C C Lt. Charles Maurice Swartsel, AE, u u was killed Jan. 25 near Iwakuni Marine Base, Japan in a plane crash. His widow lives at 802 Ingraham Ave., Haines City, Fla. Engaged: Henry Clifford Smith, Jr., IE, to Miss Jo Beth Garrard. Mr. Smith is with Mead-Atlanta Paper Co. in Atlanta.
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FLOYD FIELD DIES AT 85 Floyd Field, 8 5 , retired dean ot students and teacher at Tech, died in Atlanta F e b . 13 after a three-month illness. Dean Field h a d been with Tech over 30 years when he retired in 1942. H e was appointed dean of students in 1925. A native of Oregon, Dean Field received his P h . D . from Harvard. H e was an untiring worker for the Y M C A in the Atlanta area for years.
Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Harris IM, a daughter, Lisa Suzanne, Dec. 15. Their address is 63 Highland Ct., Apt. 9, Wilmington 2, Del. Lt. James C. Ivey, Jr., IM, is stationed at Maiden AFB, Mo. Thomas F. Kelley, IE, is an associate engineer in the Navigation Systems Dept of the Aeronautical Equip. Div. at Sperry Gyroscope Co., Great Neck, N. Y. Lt. Robert M. Little, IE, is stationed at »C"J William C. Beasley, TE, is now JI quality control superintendent at Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Allison F. Loewenstine, IE, is an assis Landrum Mills, Landrum, S. C. E. Harry Brown, Ch. E., has joined the tant engineer in the Indicating Systems Development Dept., Soap Products Div. of Dept. of the Aero Equip Div. of Sperrv Gyroscope at Great Neck, N. Y. Procter & Gamble at Cincinnati, Ohio. Engaged: Lt. William R. Maulding, IM. Lt. Frank J. Christy, IM, is in primary to Miss Rena J. Samples. The wedding will pilot training at Bartow AFB, Fla. Engaged: Carl McKinley Floyd, IM, to take place in April. After completing his Miss Madge Black. Mr. Floyd is with military service, Lt. Maulding will be associated with the Lincoln-Mercury Div. oi Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh, Pa. Lt. Richard Boyd Gookin, IM, is in pri- Ford Motor Co. Married: Peter R. Tatro, ME, to Miss mary pilot training at Bartow AFB, Fla. Jane Fielding Aug. 25. Since leaving Tech. Mr. Tatro has served as Asst. Flight Deck The ANAK Society Proudly Announces the Creation of the Officer aboard the USS Wasp, and is now GEORGE w. MCCARTY AWARD in flight training in Pensacola, Fla. His for the outstanding Young Georgia Tech Alumnus of the Year home address is Star Rt. 14, Myrtle Grove Station, Pensacola. to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Robert E. Thompson, Arch, is stationed Georgia Tech National Alumni Association at Maiden, AFB, Mo. Homecoming Day, November 13, 1958 Lt. J. Norman Wells, EE, is currently an Make Your Nomination Now instructor in the radio branch of the Every Georgia Tech alumnus may nominate one man for this honor. Just fill Officers Dept. at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. His in the coupon below and send it to Dean George Griffin, Georgia Tech. address is Tech. Science Div., O.D., Ft. Your nominee must meet these qualifications: he must have received a degree Monmouth. from Georgia Tech and he must be 35 years of age or under. »CO Lt. Walter O. Dodd, AE, is in basic Deadline for sending in nominations to the committee is June 1, 1958. J O multi-engine training at Goodfellow The selection committee (Dean George Griffin, chairman, W. Roane Beard, Fred Smith, Dan Kyker, James McCarty and Bob Wallace, secretary) will review all AFB, Texas. Engaged: Ens. Jerry Goldwasser, USTs. nominations and recommended five nominees to a special faculty committee. IM, to Miss Penny Joseph. The wedding will All nominees will be notified upon their nomination and be asked to fill in a take place June 15. questionnaire about himself. -^-. Married: Troy Norris, IM, to Miss Lois Those making a nomination will be sent a questionnaire concerning his nominee. Ann Chambers, March 22. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Freddie R. Teagiu , •1 DEAN GEORGE GRIFFIN, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 13, Ga. IM, a daughter, Angela Jean, Nov. 29. I nominate for the George W. McCarty Award: Freddie is with Combustion Engineering. Inc., Chattanooga, Tenn. Their home address is 3614 So. Terrace (Brainerd), ChatClass and Course Name of Alumnus tanooga. Honorary Signed:. Fred J. Turner recently retired as chairman of the board, Southern Bell Telephone Address & Telegraph Co.
Married: Lt. Robert Glenn Bowman, Jr., IM, to Miss Betty Ann Rudd, Feb. 22. Lt. Bowman is stationed at Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kans. Lt. Richard H. Driskell, CE, was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio in March '57 to attend the Installations Engrg. School. He was married to Miss Vi Feazell June 1 and she accompanied him when he was assigned to Bordeaux AFB, France. He is now serving at Laon AFB with the 38th Installations Sq., APO 17, N. Y., N. Y. Married: Thomas Lay ton Gossage, Ch.E., to Miss Virginia Eastman, July 26. Lt. Preston Don Graham, IM, is stationed at Shaw AFB, S. C. Lt. William Dan Graham, IM, is stationed at Shaw AFB, S. C. Warren K. Heath, IM, has been named vice president of the Fla. Office Supply Co. He is co-owner of the company. Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Slater E. Marshall,
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Jr., IM, a son, Slater E., Ill, January 17 in Seattle, Wash. A. H. Nix has completed his initial training at Delta Air Line's flight training engineers school at the Atlanta Airport. His permanent address is 2111 Alabama Ave., Selma, Ala. W. John Parks, HI Arch, has joined the architectural firm of Kemp, Bunch & Jackson, with offices at 33 So. Hogan St., Jacksonville, Fla. Lt. Marion T. Ruple, EE, is stationed at Goodfellow AFB, Texas where he is in basic multi-engine training. Henry Pierce Still, Jr., CerE, has written a paper which appeared in the Jan. issue of The American Ceramic Bulletin. Mr. Still is with the Norton Co., Worcester, Mass. Richard J. Veenstra, Arch, has joined the architectural firm of Kemp, Bunch & Jackson, with offices at 33 So. Hogan St., Jacksonville, Fla. Engaged: Regis V. Walker, CE, to Miss Doris Cooper. The wedding date will be announced later. Mr. Walker's address is 1738 Indianapolis Blvd., Whiting, Ind.
Tech Alumnus
Bill Diehl, Jr.
Coming Up: A Special Event in Alumni Publishing For its next issue, The Georgia Tech Alumnus joins with 152 other alumni magazines in this country and abroad in the sponsorship of an unusual special survey of "American Higher Education, 1958." This 32-page supplement, which will reach a total of 1,350,000 readers, is the product of a unique cooperative venture by alumni editors in all parts of the United States. Months in the making but current in its conclusions, this special report will reach you at a time when your attention is on education's problems through recent developments in the news. T h e roster of subscribing magazines reflects the diversity of higher education today, including institutions large and small, publicly and privately supported, church-affiliated and general, women's and men's, co-ed, technical and liberal arts, new and old. We hope you'll be looking for this special report in *Jk MAY, 1958
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