i l ( j C James Walter Houseal, CE, retired Uw contractor, died October 4 in a Cedartown, Georgia hospital. He played fullback on the Tech teams in 1902-3 and was captain in 1904. ' ( I D Cherry L. Emerson, former vice UO president of Georgia Tech, died October 26 in an Atlanta hospital. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1945, he had served as president of Robert and Company. At the time of his death he was a consulting engineer with A. Thomas Bradbury, Atlanta architectural and engineering firm. ' f l Q Henry w- Blount died October 27 at UD his home in Waynesboro, Georgia. He had been a member of the Georgia State Board of Education for ten years. Mr. Blount is survived by a daughter. M. H. Wright died August 4, 1949. M O The death of Campbell King has I *• been brought to our attention. His widow lives at 4012 Morrison Dr., Lynchburg, Va. ' 1 / 1 Thomas Everett Martin died May 1*1 1, 1959. His widow lives at 86 Oakview Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey. ' 1 Q Thomas Brooks Williams, Taunton, IO Massachusetts, died in June 1958. His widow lives at 380 West Brittannia Street, Taunton, Massachusetts. I O | | H. J. Price, of 18 Tuston Street, fcU Elberton, Georgia, died September 2. Mr. Price was an architect and builder prior to his retirement several years ago. »OQ A. L. Chason, Jr., Ch.E., has moved fcO from Birmingham to Atlanta. He lives at 860 Loridan Circle. John O. Chiles has been elected to serve on the Board of Trustees, Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. He is president of Adams-Cates Company in Atlanta. Joe L. Jennings, TE, Executive Vice President of the West Point Manufacturing Company, West Point, Georgia, has been elected President of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association for the coming year. ,f
Nenian c )A - Thompson, EE, died NoL *t vember 7 at his home, 2625 Lanark Road, Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Thompson was stores department manager for the Alabama Power Company. Robert Watson (Baby) Roane, TE, superintendent of Davenport Hosiery Mills in
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, died unexpectedly October 12. While at Tech he was captain of the basketball team and was All-Southern guard for two years. His widow lives at 112 South Crest Road in Chattanooga. Reuben Williams, Atlanta, died in September, 1959. No further information was available at this writing. ' 9 R }ohn C " Hal1, Com -> President of i-V Cobbs, Allen and Hall Mortgage Company, Birmingham, Alabama, has been elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association for the coming year. Sanford McNeill Ayers, Arch, a partner in the firm of Ayers and Godwin, died October 31 in an Atlanta hospital. His widow lives at 374 East Paces Ferry Road, N.E., Atlanta. Solomon Jackson Yeoman died of a heart attack October 23. He was first vice president of the Commercial National Bank in Anniston, Alabama. ' O Q Wister H. Ligon, CE, President and ^ 0 Director of the Nashville Gas Company, Nashville, Tennessee, has been elected president of the American Gas Association. ' O Q Robert B. Alexander, EE, has been ^ 3 appointed assistant vice president in charge of marketing for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland with offices in Baltimore. Alfred M. Carlsen died May 22, 1959. Carra L. Lane, ME, has joined Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company as Manager of Plant Operations with headquarters at 6 East 44th Street, New York 17, New York. He is responsible for six domestic divisions and subsidiaries. Mr. Lane lives at 611 Palmer Road, Yonkers, New York. William S. Terrell, Com., head of the Terrell Machine Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been elected to serve on the Board of Trustees, Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.
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>Q1 Captain James R. Cain, USN, has 0 I retired from the Navy after 28 years active duty. He had been President of the General Court Martial Board at the Third Naval District Headquarters in New York City for the past three years. Captain Cain lives at 704 East 58th Street, Savannah, Georgia. Paul L. Dorn, Com., President of the Crown Candy Company in Atlanta, has been elected to serve on the Board of Trustees, Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. »QO Roy L. Burt, CE, Assistant Project 0 * . Manager with the U. S. Army Engineers in Los Angeles, died April 18, 1959. His widow lives at 2440 Purdue Avenue, Los Angeles 6, California. Dr. Charles Fore Wilkinson, Chairman of the New York University Post-graduate Medical School, died September 29 at his home in Westport, Connecticut. Prior to becoming Chairman and professor at New York University in 1949, he was associate director of the Division of Medicine, W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Dr. Wilkinson is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. ' Q Q Lawrence C. Smith died October 11 0 0 at his home, 3 Park Lane, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. He was a wholesale furniture manufacturer's representative. ' f M Harold E. Davis, CE, is a liaison w " engineer with the New England Iron Works in Orange, Connecticut. Major Charles U. Edwards, CE, died January 8, 1959. T. J. Judge, EE, recently presented a paper before the 14th Annual Engineering Conference of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. His topic was "Mill Experience." Mr. Judge is Coordinator and Division Power Plant Engineer with International Paper Company in Mobile, Alabama.
J. P. Craven, ME '28, has been elected a vice president of The Babcock and Wilcox Company and placed in charge of the boiler division's manufacturing department. Craven, who formerly was manager of the division's erection department, will make his headquarters in Barberton, Ohio. He joined Babcock & Wilcox as a student engineer in 1928 and has served the company as a technical specialist and district erector. Tech Alumnus