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and the alumni who have come in contact with him, all are Joe Guthridge fans.

And, as you can readily see, so are we.

When he arrived here in 1958 fresh from a six-year term as director of student affairs at VPI, Joe walked into one of the biggest pairs of shoes on the campus—those of Fred Ajax, the man who made the Tech placement system a model in its field. But, the challenge seemed no problem to the new man. He just picked up where Fred had left off, made a few changes, and by the time he was ready for a new assignment had already boosted Tech's reputation in placement.

Joe is a Roanoke native and a graduate of Roanoke College. He comes from vaudeville stock (and watching him carry out a placement briefing will convince you that if vaudeville ever comes back he could make it as a song-and-dance man just as his father did for ten years).

This in a few words is Joe Guthridge.

But no one can put his personality on A N E W J O B NUMBER ONE—associate paper. You'll have to see it for yourself dean of faculties—went to old friend when he comes to see you.

Mario Goglia, who is returning to Tech * * * after two years as dean of engineering at A RECENTLY, we have been the happy Notre Dame. Mario—our cover subject of three years ago this month—was a recipient of a number of letters to the regents professor in the Mechanical En- editor. The Gator Bowl editorial drew a number of both pro and con letters. The gineering School here when he accepted the Notre Dame position. The little man Symposium on Science series has brought in a great number of letters. And, even with the razor-sharp mind and wit will be welcomed back to the campus with this column has been the cause of a few open arms by all of the members of our letters (which really surprises u s ) .

The one we remember best was from group and by Dr. Paul Weber, whose Ivy H. Smith, '20, an extremely loyal workload has been growing by leaps and alumnus of Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. bounds during the past three years.

Smith took issue with us in our "blast" * * * A THE OTHER N E W J O B carries three at the Gator Bowl ticket situation and titles—assistant to the president, director pointed out that most of the better tickets of development, and executive secretary must be sold to bond holders and Gator of the Georgia Tech Foundation. The Bowl Association members early in the year. He also stressed the fact that Tech man who will fill this rather complicated alumni have a tough time getting individbill of goods is a prematurely gray, short ual tickets to Tech home games and (naturally 5' 7"), personable Virginian when they do get them the location is who goes by the name Joe Guthridge. far from the best.

For those of you who have not heard We think that the Athletic Association this name before (and we suspect that has come a long way in alumni ticket you are legion since he just arrived on locations in the past few years. But, we the campus two years ago to take over admit that Mr. Smith has a valid point the job of placement director when Fred Ajax moved up to Director of Public of contention. The Tech Athletic AssociaRelations) let us hasten to add that he tion is doing its best to remedy this situhas already established himself as one of ation. We trust that the Gator Bowl is also considering new arrangements. the most respected administrators in Georgia Tech's history. The students, the faculty, the company representatives, A PREVIOUS EXPOSURE

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It seems redundant to add that our own height is an even 5' 7", close to the dividing line between the small and the average American. Like any good American group we have our lobby. The tipoff here comes by watching for the first drumbeaters when a Jimmy Thompson or a Stan Gann arrives on the campus.

This month, we are pleased to report, has been an exceptional one for our lobby. In one week, two new administrative positions were created at Tech and both of them went to members of the "short" circle. * * *

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CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor discusses short men and the recent rain of "letters to the editor."

5. THE MOST ERUDITE GATEKEEPER—meet Tommy Gresham, a reason for athletics.

6. A DAY FOR PARENTS—Tech's second annual Parents' Day in pictures and words.

10. THE GREAT ENIGMA—this month's Symposium on Science tackles the information problem.

14. SPRING, WIDE-ANGLE VIEW—one picture and a few words about the change of seasons.

16. WITH THE CLUBS—latest reports.

18. GANN'S NIGHT—Stanley, the new Tech quarterback has a big ball in the annual Tech " T " game.

20. NEWS BY CLASSES—an alumni gazette.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association Joe L. Jennings, '23, Pres.

R. A. Siegel, '36, VP Morris M. Bryan, '41, VP Frank Willett, '45, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer Mary Jane Reynolds, Editorial Assistant Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Class Notes

THE COYER Tommy Gresham, TE '60, is shown at his accustomed spot near the gate at Grant Field.

He is engaged in working his way through college on a football grant-in-aid. But Tommy is an exceptional gatekeeper. He will be one of the top two graduates at Tech fhis June.

For more about Tommy and athletics please see page Five.

Cover Photo—Bill Diehl, Jr.

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has made it possible for Georgia Tech to win another honor in the alumni field.

Tech recently became one of the 54 universities and colleges in this country to receive an Alumni Giving Incentive Award for "distinguished achievement in the development of alumni support."

The Incentive Awards program, designed to broaden the base of gift support for American Education, is sponsored by the United States Steel Foundation and administered by the American Alumni Council. Entries were received from more than 300 institutions. Although both improvement and consistently good performances in alumni giving were honored, the judges elected to give top honors in most cases to those fund raising efforts which had enjoyed spectacular gains in a short space of time.

Tech's specific award was an Honorable Mention citation in the Public Institution classification. This year's grand award of $10,000 went to Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. First place in the Public Institution category ($1,000) went to Douglass College in New Jersey. Other public institutions receiving Honorable Mention with Tech were Clemson, Michigan State, North Carolina, and Ohio State.

Criteria guiding the panel of judges in making the awards included the amount of funds raised by the alumni (Tech was seventh among state institutions in this category last year with $189,222); the number of contributors (Tech was third in this category back of Ohio State and Michigan, with 10,058); the percentage of contributors (Tech trailed Douglass College in this category 4 2 . 1 % to 5 0 . 3 % ) ; the size of the average gift (Tech was out of the first 15 in this category with $18.81. The winner was Missouri with $131.85); and the purposes for which the funds were raised (Tech, of course, uses Roll Call funds mainly for faculty supplementation).

Over the past four years, Tech is the only public institution to have over 40% participation each year in its fund effort. If you haven't made your 13 th Roll Call contribution yet, be sure and make out your check to the Georgia Tech Foundation and send it to us before June 30, 1960. Without your continued support, we have no chance of a 40% participation for an unprecedented fifth year in a row. And, more importantly, the faculty supplementation program will suffer.

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who appears on the cover of this issue can properly lay claim to the title, "The Most Erudite Gatekeeper in the USA." His name is Tommy Gresham, a textile engineering senior. In June he will be either the number one or number two graduate of Georgia Tech's 1960 class.

He has already picked up a roomful of trophies for his four years of outstanding scholarship and leadership at Tech. Early in May, he was named Tech's best all-round student when he won the Rotary Club of Atlanta's award and its outstanding Air Force ROTC student when he received the Armed Forces Honor Awafft. He is a cinch to receive either the Tau Beta Pi or the Phi Kappa Phi cup plus a series of other honor awards at the Institute's annual Honors Day in June.

Tommy Gresham is a member of practically every scholarship and leadership organization on the campus. He is that rare student: an outstanding scholar and a personable student leader.

He has actually worked his way through college as a gatekeeper for the Athletic Association. He came to Tech from Griffin, Georgia (his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gresham still live there) as a highly heralded high school halfback on an athletic grant in aid. In his freshman year, he played in one game, injured his knee, had an operation, and never played football again. But, under the Tech system, Tommy continued on a full athletic scholarship. If he finishes first in his class (at tms moment he is leading by a mere few thousandths of a point) he will be the second Tech athletic grant-in-aid student to be top man in his class in the past four years (Wade Mitchell topped the 1957 class).

We doubt very seriously whether any other group on the Tech campus can boast of a similar record.

Which brings us to another point—the fierce going-over that intercollegiate athletics have received at the hands of many educators, editorial writers, and laymen during the past few years. On any campus, in any city you will find these critics—the dreamers, the diehards— who are convinced that education means ivory-towerism. You'll find their articles (usually poorly documented and unrealistically researched) in the scholarly journals and even now and then in the mass media. "There is no place in education for intercollegiate sports," they say. "What we need is an excellent system of intramural athletics that will eliminate this intercollegiate nonsense with all of its evils."

Events of the past few months must have been a sore disappointment to this breed who thrives on every scandal that hits the athletic world.

The Van Doren farce, the theses ghostings, the college cheating scandals, all should have jarred their confidence in someone besides the athlete. Admittedly, the athletic world has its problems and excesses but then so does everything else in a society built upon competition.

But, the Tommy Greshams, and the Wade Mitchells, and hundreds of others who make their way through college via the athletic grant route make it all seem at least as worthwhile as any other program that we know about.

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\HE PARENTS took over the Georgia Tech campus on Saturday, April 23, when the Institute held its second annual Parents' Program in association with Engineers' Day. Over 1750 registered at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum for the morning session which featured a briefing on "Georgia Tech: 1960" by President Harrison and a complete "question and answer" period.

Aiding the president in answering the variety of questions fired out by the parents during the hour-long session was a panel of Tech officials including Dean of Faculties Paul Weber; Dean of the General College Ralph A. Hefner; Assistant Dean of the Engineering College Rocker T. Staton; Associate Dean of Students John J. Pershing; Associate Registrar Horace W. Sturgis; Georgia Tech Foundation President John P. Baum; Alumni Association President Joe Jennings; and Student Body President Oscar Persons.

After the questions (which ranged from Tech's grading system to recent curricula changes and from the integration problem to Tech's methods of discipline) a special luncheon was served. Then, as the pictures on the following pages indicate, most of the afternoon was devoted to tours of the Engineers' Day exhibits in the various departments.

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After registration and coffee, the crowd moves into the Alexander Memorial Coliseum and the Tech band plays "Ramblin' Reck" and "The Alma Mater" to get the program started.

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During the coffee session, a group of parents corner President Harrison for a private question-and-answer period on Georgia Tech.

After the president's brief opening remarks, the parents (right) began a gruelling set of questions for the panel (below) to answer.

During lunch, the glee club entertained and (bottom picture), the parents put on another question session with their sons.

Deep in thought, a pair of parents sit in the deserted chair seat section and daydream as they listen to the glee club's concert.

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After an orientation progran he parents get a look at the exh ts DURING THE AFTERNOON of Parents' Day, a great deal was happening on the Tech campus. The parents could visit the dormitories and fraternity houses, take in the final spring scrimmage at Grant Field, and visit the president's home during his reception. But the biggest drawing card of the day proved to be Engineers' Day exhibits produced by the students in the various schools and departments of the Institute. Regular tours sponsored by the Circle K Club were run from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M., giving the parents a chance to see more than one or two exhibits without running the risk of getting hopelessly lost on the expanding Tech campus.

In the judging for the best exhibit, first prize (the Bonner Spearman trophy) went to the Textile Engineering exhibit. Second prize went to Industrial Design, third to Industrial Engineering, and fourth to Ceramic Engineering.

But, as you can see by these pictures there was a great parental interest in all of the exhibits that day.

Waiting for a tour to get underway, a bewildered couple mull over the big day.

An extremely interested parent watches an IE student as he makes earring holders.

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A STUDENT'S SHADOW APPEARS ON THE WALL DURING A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION IN THE AE EXHIBIT.

The demonstration of the role of ceramics in today's world was part of this exhibit.

A mother sneaks a look through a transit during the Civil Engineering demonstration.

She saw a bathing beauty framed on the wall.

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THE GREAT ENIGMA

Words! Words! Words! Words! The glut of knowledge and a slownes of communication is now the greatest hindrance to scientific advance

by Laurence W. Ross, Assistant Research Engineer

of human endeavor, at some / \ stage in their growth, generate problems J L which threaten to end that growth. Science is no exception. Science's particular millstone is the information—the printed past—which science itself has created.

So much information is now being printed that no scientist can keep pace with his own field. This glut of knowledge, coupled with the resultant slowness of scientific communication, defines the information problem which is now the greatest hindrance to scientific advance.

Every person in technology must have information. The scientist in his lab wants to create new knowledge by building upon the old, just as the engineer in the plant wishes to avoid the mistakes of his predecessors. Neither of them, however, can A L L GREAT FIELDS

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cope with the torrent of information pouring forth in 50,000 technical journals, to say nothing of the books, conferences, patents and other items which are multiplying daily.

Unfortunately, even as they ponder this dilemma the printed literature is accumulating at a rate exponential with time. The printed past doubles about every ten years. And, there are ominous signs that the worst is still to come, since the world's great population centers have not yet been heard from. It is said that by century's end half the world's technical literature will be published in Chinese.

Once upon a time, when information was communicated by letters and by shop talk instead of disseminated like pollen on the breeze, there was not enough information to go around. The library TECH ALUMNUS

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Laurence William "Bill" Ross is a former editor of the Technique (1953-54) who received two Chemical Engineering degrees from Tech (B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956). After graduation he worked for a time as a process design engineer and then returned to the campus to work in the technical information field. He is presently an assistant research May 1960

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engineer in the Technical Information Section of Tech's Engineering Experiment Station and is becoming well known nationally for his own publications in the information field. His most recent article, "The Information Problem," appeared in McGraw-Hill's Weekly, Chemical Engineering, March 21, 1960.

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T H E G R E A T ENIGMA—continued of the Chemical Society 120 years ago consisted of a single bookstack. Shortly before the turn of the century when the sciences began their great surge forward, scientists began to lose touch, and so the first abstract journals were created to summarize the progress of science. Physics Abstracts began in 1898, the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature in 1901. The Catalogue collapsed with World War I, but Chemical Abstracts (nee 1907) took up the slack and became the greatest of them all. Between them, these secondary sources had the problem in hand.

B UT THE information problem had been born.

It grew as an inevitable consequence of scientific expansion, reached adulthood with the Second World War, and attained giant proportions with the opening of the Space Age. Today there are more than 300 abstract journals. Chemical Abstracts lists over 100,000 items annually, and has fallen a full two years behind in its indexing.

At this point, enters the information specialist.

When scientists despaired: "I can't read the titles as fast as they print them," they called for help, and there arose a new breed of technologist. He has a scientific or engineering background, broad interests, and a taste for the printed word. He has insight into the tangled jungle of library-land. His job is to get the facts.

The information specialist is not unique to research labs. Industry, faced with the threat of "technological surprise," requires his services more and more. A classic story relates how an electronics team spent $150,000 (some say $200,000) investigating the application of Boolean algebra to network synthesis, only to find that Russian workers had reported the identical program five years earlier. It had been available in an abstract journal all that time.

Speaking of the Russians, it should not surprise us to find them ahead of us in meeting the information problem. Their answer has been to employ whatever manpower is necessary to collect and disseminate information. At last count this amounted 12

to 15,000 people. The Soviets, producing only a seventh of the world's technical literature (we produce a fourth), are naturally eager to learn what we are doing. Visitors have been startled to hear Russian scientists mention American articles which they (the visitors) had not yet heard of. At times it appears that the Russians know more about our technology than we do.

This brings us to the notorious attitude of American scientists toward foreign technical literature.

It has been noted that we account for a quarter of the world's output. Logically, therefore, we should read much more foreign literature than American, and should reflect this proportion in our own citations and footnotes. Instead, it is the other way around. Americans essentially ignore the foreign literature.

Patriotism has no place in the library. One humorist has suggested that since "foreigners have to think and talk in a foreign language, this gives you a tremendous technical edge." Fortunately, Sputnik has shaken some of this complacency out of us.

But we have digressed. If science is to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs, who grew too large for their own good, the information problem must be solved.

Let us see what the future holds.

The immediate future is not reassuring. The information specialist will become more and more important as all technologists come to realize their helplessness in the face of the information tidal wave. The fraction of effort devoted to communication and information in our laboratories will rise above the present 25 percent. Although this ought to be gratifying to information specialists, it cannot be regarded as healthy for science. If recorded knowledge doubles, can the cost of information be far behind?

something better than traditional methods will be required. Library scientists expect that the art of information will itself mature into a science, and confront the contemporary Hydra with a Hercules compounded half of theory and half of computers.

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pie. The literature, after all, appears in discrete ists and gives it to neurologists and cyberneticists. units: merely feed a computer certain key terms Not to be denied, the documentalists have authored (descriptors) and the machine finds all the items a stream of publications which (ironically) add which lie at the intersection of these terms, and more to the information problem than to its soluprints a bibliography of references. This is auto- tion. matic "information retrieval."

We must now leave the information researchers It sounds simple, but there are problems. What on their lonely (and windy) heights. If the future key terms shall be used? One man's "iodine" is does not appear very bright, we must nevertheless another man's "poison." The machine must have remember that a single decade may witness several in memory all the key words—from all points of scientific revolutions. Necessity is still the mother view—which apply to each reference. Think of the of invention. task of coding a single book for retrieval!

We can see why indexing—coding for retrieval —is the biggest cost item in automated literature HE INFORMATION PROBLEM has some facets retrieval. The point has been made that, with to- which are not so obvious. In the first place, our day's technology, automated retrieval is not cheap- conventional methods of technical reporting are er than the two-legged kind, but it does guarantee obsolete. It has already been mentioned that nobody 100 per cent retrieval. can read all the journals in his field. Abstract jourIt would seem that automation might be feasible nals are much more logical as the primary currency within limited fields of specialty, and this is now of technical knowledge. Indeed, why have journals being tested in the field of metallurgy. Predicatably, at all? Jacques Barzun has scored science for "inthese workers have been able to encode only three sisting pedantically on one restricted means of imyears of the literature, which is about as long as parting new-found truth."

Here is the heart of the information problem. the project has operated.

In science, "production" too often means "publication." Hear Barzun again: "Communication ocI H E INFORMATION PROBLEM will be solved if there curs by good luck, while everybody groans ritually is a breakthrough in technology which sees the at the bad writing, excessive length, and prevailing development of machines to read and encode auto- insignificance of what the journals print." The matically. It hardly needs to be said that these groaning is not merely ritual. machines will have to read all kinds of type, in all One other aspect of the problem is particularly colors, on all kinds of paper, etc. It will be very intriguing. Technical literature is now a healthy troublesome to feed them those 50,000 journals, proportion of all literature, and though it has not too. reached 50 per cent, the technical literature will So much for the computer half of our Hercules. double every decade while the total probably will A theory is also needed. The problems encountered not. In other words, science will some day enjoy a in coding for automated retrieval have sharply statistical superiority over art. Steve Allen has sugunderlined the lack of fundamental knowledge of gested, only half facetiously, that our poets have indexing and classification. Researchers in this field vanished because they now write song lyrics. But have been fascinated by the human brain. As Shera I suspect that our cultural talent is being absorbed says, "Behind the apparently simple act of selecting by science, and our erstwhile poets are writing a book from a library shelf lies an intricate pattern technical papers. of mental processes that are as yet but imperfectly I leave it to my readers to decide whether our understood . . ." legacy is more properly technical tomes than the The workings of the brain might provide the other kind. The technical will definitely prevail, model for retrieval theory. However, this takes the science will inherit the earth, and the information problem out of the hands of documentation theor- specialist will inherit science.

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WIDE-ANGLE FACE OF SPRING Photograph by Bob Wallace, Jr. SPRING ANYWHERE looks at you with a variety of faces. On a campus, this variety and the intensity of each face seem to be magnified by the energy of the young. At Georgia Tech, spring is clean-shaven seniors in coats and ties, heading for a company interview. It is also the sometimes unshaven, shorts-clad underclassman wandering across the

campus trying to force himself to go on to a 1:00 P.M. class or lab.

It is vivid color and sunlight and laziness and reawakening all in one afternoon. It is a time for taking stock. It is the wives of students congregating by the sundial, pushing carriages, chasing young children or just talking. And, as this picture shows, spring is also sunbasking fans watching outfielder Jerry Meyer slashing the two-on, two-out single which breaks a 1-1 tie with Tennessee; or it is Bobby Dodd taking the afternoon sun while his boys work out below; or it is a distant intramural Softball game or tennis match.

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ALBANY, GEORGIA—Dr. Walter Buckingham, newly appointed director of Tech's Industrial Management School, was the guest speaker at the April 14 meeting of the Southwest Georgia Georgia Tech Club. During the business meeting preceding Dr. Buckingham's talk, the following officers were elected: C. T. Oxford, president; William M. Dorsey, vice president; Lamar Reese, secretary; W. C. Beck, treasurer; George Whittlesey, Jr., sgt. at arms. Also elected were the following members of the board of governors: Leon Pipper; W. E. Broadwell; C. T. Oxford; and Bill Dorsey. R. M. Marbury, Jr. was selected scholarship committee chairman and W. E. Broadwell the new school liaison chairman. t*

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA—Six former Georgia Tech star athletes were inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame

by George Griffin at the April 28 meeting of the Greater Atlanta Tech Club. They were J. W. "Judy" Harlan, '22, Howard Ector, '40, and Frank Broyles, '47, all football stars; Whack Hyder, '38, basketball and baseball; Charlie Belcher, '38, track; and Tommy Barnes, '38. All six men were present at the meeting which also featured a talk on Tech's spring practice by Coach Bobby Dodd.

Retiring president Dan Kyker introduced Dodd to the over 220 members present at the meeting and heard a special report on Tech's "T" game ticket sales from the club's only female member, Paula Stevenson, '58. The proceeds of this game are used by the club to sponsor academic scholarships for deserving Atlanta area boys.

This year, the club has awarded 15 scholarships and plans to award at least four more. New officers elected at the meeting were James "Polly" Poole, president; Bill Home, and Massey Clarkson, vice presidents; Ewell Pope, secretary; and Raymond Jones, treasurer. * * * * * BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—The Baltimore Georgia Tech Club met on March 19 at the beach house of Jack Lynch, IM '49. Twenty-five alumni and their wives attended the meeting which featured the 1959 Football Highlights and Tech's Bowl Highlights, v * * * * * GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS—The North Texas Georgia Tech Alumni Club held its quarterly meeting on March 7 at Grand Prairie, a mid-point location between Dallas and Fort Worth. Assistant Football Coach John Robert Bell spoke to the group on Tech's educational and athletic programs. During the business meeting President Jim Batson appointed a committee consisting of Charlie Shearer, Bill Wofford, and Joe Haas, to make arrangements for 16

group tickets and travel to the Tech-Rice game in Houston this fall. Late in February, the officers of the club had dinner with Tech President Edwin D. Harrison in Arlington, Texas where he was the inauguration speaker at Arlington State College. The next club meeting will be a dinner-dance in May. * * * * * GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA—Over 50 members and their wives were present for the May 6 meeting to hear Dean George Griffin's talk about Tech. During the business meeting presided over by retiring president Frank L. Asbury, Jr. these new officers were elected: Cecil F. Adamson, president; A. J. Merkle, III, vice president; and Hal H. Strickland, secretary.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—The South Texas Georgia Tech Club held a meeting in Houston on March 3. John Robert Bell, on a swing through the Southwest, was the featured speaker at the meeting. During the business meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year: Rollo Phillips, president; Adrian Bolch, vice president; Tom Williams, secretary; Billy Curry, treasurer; and Phil Tinsley, Mel Zemek, Art Joens, and George Pardue, directors. * * * * * NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Coach Bobby Dodd was the guest speaker at the March 21 meeting of the Nashville Georgia Tech Club. Coach Dodd briefed the alumni on Tech's overall sports program, its future in football, and the 1960 team. New officers elected during the business meeting were Joe M. McKinney, president; George T. Hicks, vice president; S. E. "Ed" Dyer, secretary; Wallace B. Rogers, treasurer; and George Volkert and John Charles Wheeler, directors. The other two directors who still have a year to serve on their two-year terms are Earl Horton and Charles Turner. J. B. Goldman, outgoing president, presided at the meeting.

MIAMI, FLORIDA—The Greater Miami Georgia Tech Club held a meeting at the Coral Gables Country Club on March 25. The crowd was small because of a mix-up in the mailing concerning the meeting. President O. K. Houston presided over the meeting and introduced speakers Dean George C. Griffin and Alumni Secretary Roane Beard. The word from Miami is that less than 25% of the alumni in the area received their meeting notices on time, despite the fact that they were all mailed on March 14.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN—The Milwaukee Area Georgia Tech Club held, of all things, a joint meeting of TECH ALUMNUS

Tech and Auburn alumni on March 26. Head Coach Lisle Blackbourn of Marquette University addressed the group after the dinner. A movie of the 1959 Tech-Auburn game (6-7 Auburn) was shown to close out the meeting. There were no casualties reported and future meetings of this type are now being planned. Fourteen Tech alumni, six Auburn alumni and their wives and guests attended the meeting.

Bill Schroeder is the present club president.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—Dean of Engineering Jesse Mason and Basketball Coach Whack Hyder were the featured Tech speakers at the April 21 meeting of the Georgia Tech Club of New York. Other special guests at the meeting included Joseph A. Keller, Jr., president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co.; Homer Carter, Jr.; and former Tech English Professor Mitchell Cox, now a vice president of the Pepsi Cola Co. * * * * *

told some of his stories and then spoke on the Georgia Tech Student, 1960, the admission problems, and the importance of alumni getting included in Who's Who in Engineering.

WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA—The WinstonSalem Georgia Tech Alumni Club held a dinner meeting on April 8. Forty alumni and their wives and guests were present to hear guest speaker Roane Beard give a brief talk on Tech and then conduct a question and answer session. Club President Jim Hartnett introduced Alumni Secretary Beard. The 1959 Bbotball Highlights were shown to close out the program.

The ANAK Society Proudly Announces the 3rd Annual GEORGE W. McCARTY AWARD for the outstanding

PINSACOLA, FLORIDA—President Edwin D. Harrison was the guest speaker at the March 18 Pensacola Georgia Tech Club meeting. Over 110 alumni turned out to hear the president speak of the problems of education in today's world. Officers elected at the meeting included John S. Hunsinger, president; Charlie Scruggs, vice president; George Griffith, secretary; and Carl Stapleton, treasurer.

YOUNG GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association Homecoming Day, October 22, 1960 Make Your Nomination Now Every Georgia Tech alumnus may nominate one man for this honor. Just fill in the coupon below and send it to Dean George Griffin, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 13, Georgia.

Your nominee must meet these qualifications: he must have received a degree from Georgia Tech and he must be 35 years of age or under.

Deadline for sending in nominations to the committee is July 1, 1960.

The selection committee (Dean George Griffin, chairman) will review all nominations and recommend five nominees to a special faculty committee for a final vote.

Each nominee will be notified upon his nomination and be asked to fill in a questionnaire about himself.

Those making a nomination will be sent a questionnaire concerning their nominee.

Use the coupon and make your nomination now.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—Alumni Secretary Roane Beard brought 30 members of the Richmond Georgia Tech Club up-to-date on Tech at the club's April 7 meeting.

Robert L. Branner presided at the business meeting at which the following officers were elected for the coming year: Robert L. Walker, Jr., president; John M. Ziegler, vice president; W. Drexel Daniels, secretary-treasurer; and Joe E. Roberson and B. G. Wolford, program chairmen.

WASHINGTON, D. C—Over 60 Tech alumni attended the April 6 meeting of the Washington Georgia Tech Club.

Lee Kendrick presided over the business meeting and heard reports from the bowling team; and Dick Stirni, the club treasurer. During the meeting the following new officers were elected: Carl Wesley Porter, president; Lloyd M. Tomlinson, vice president; and A. R. Stirni, secretarytreasurer. Alumni Secretary Roane Beard gave the alumni a quick look at Tech, 1960 in his talk and then presented the 1959 Football Highlights. *

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WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA—Sixty-six alumni and wives attended the spring meeting of the Worth County Georgia Tech Club on March 24. The meeting was held at Creighton's Restaurant in the fabulous International Bizarre at Riveria, Florida. President James L. Waugh, Jr. presided over the meeting and Louis A. Hawkins introduced the guest speakers, Alumni Secretary Roane Beard and Dean George Griffin. Beard spoke on the Tech building program and the growth of the Alumni Association. Griffin M a y 1960

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1960 "T" Game

GANN IS THE BIG MAI AS WHITES WIN, 185' 8" sophomore quarterback, personally of the 1960 "T" game proceedings as he Spassedtookthecharge White team to an 18-7 win over the Blues beTANLEY GANN,

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fore 16,000 on the night of April 29.

The cool "Eddie LeBaron of Northside High" hit on 11 of 13 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns, and personally accounted for the other score when he fooled everyone but his own coaches on a pitchout to Chick Graning who raced in for the final White six points.

Gann, making a strong bid for the starting quarterback job this fall, had strong support from senior Taz Anderson, an end who is back where he belongs after a couple of years as a back. Anderson caught five of Gann's tosses for 122 yards, and on at least three occasions simply snatched the ball away from the Blue defenders.

The Blues scored first in the initial period after White halfback Zollie Sircy dropped a punt at the White's 30.

Sophomore quarterback Bobby MacKenzie, stepping in for Marvin Tibbetts, who was injured on the first offensive play of the game, threw a 12-yarder to Tom Winingder for the score after he and Winingder had rushed the ball 18 yards on two plays. Hal Beaver added the point and it was 7r0, Blue.

Highly offended at this turn of events, Gann drove the Whites 62 yards in eight plays for their first score. Gann to Anderson aerials of 32 and 15 yards and a Gann to Williamson six-yarder for the score were the big plays in the drive. The point try by Ed Chancey was blocked and it stood at 7-6 for the Blues.

Sophomore center sensation Bobby Caldwell intercepted his first of three MacKenzie passes minutes later and raced 34 yards to the Blues 32 to put Gann and his boys back in business. Two plays later Gann fired a perfect 25-yard pass to Sircy to put the Whites ahead 12-7. Again the point try by Chancey misfired and at the half it was still 12-7.

Late in the scoreless third quarter, the Whites again started a drive for a score with Anderson taking a Gann pass for 16 yards from deep in the Whites' own territory.

This drive carried into the final period and covered 74 yards. The score was set up by the most perfect play of the evening a 28-yard pass from Gann to Williamson that put the ball on the Blues' two. After three fruitless tries at the Blue line, Gann swept to the right on the option and pitched out to Graning at the last second. Graning went on in without a defender near him. Gann's try for the two points was inches short and the final score stood at 18-7.

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. . . a hand in things to come

Shaping another sun 7000 degrees . . . an inferno approaching that of the sun's surface has been created by the scientists of Union Carbide. The energy comes from the intensely hot carbon arc. Through the use of mirrors, the heat is reflected to form a single burning image of the electric arc at a convenient point.

Called the arc-image furnace, it extends the limits of high-temperature research on new materials for the space age.

For years, mammoth carbon and graphite electrodes have fired blazing electric furnaces to capture many of today's metals from their ores and to produce the finest steels. But, in addition to extreme heat, the carbon arc produces a dazzling light that rivals the sun. In motion picture projectors, its brilliant beam floods panoramic movie screens with every vivid detail from a film no larger than a postage stamp.

The carbon arc is only one of many useful things made from the basic element, carbon. The people of Union Carbide will carry on their research to develop even better ways for carbon to serve everyone.

Learn about the exciting work going on now in carbons, chemicals, gases, metals, plastics, and nuclear energy. Write for "Products and Processes" Booklet I, Union Carbide Corporation, 30 E. 42ndSt., New York 17, N. Y. In Canada, Union Carbide Canada Limited, Toronto.

S2ANLL>1LL3 a hand in things to c o m e

Captain Jack H. Gilbert, '22, has recently been named secretary of the International Road Federation's board of directors. Captain Gilbert is presently executive vice president of Capitol Engineering Corporation, consulting engineers. He was formerly with the United States Navy Civil Engineering Corps. He was elected to his new post during the International Road Federation's mid-December meeting held in New York City. ' Q O Harvey Thomas Phillips, of Atlanta, *»** died March 14 in a local hospital.

Prior to his retirement several years ago, he was president of Phillips & Crew Piano Company and vice president of Montgomery Knitting Mills. ' f l O Caldwell Haynes, ME, was fatally "" burned in an electrical accident in his home January 19. He was in the insurance business in Jacksonville, Florida.

John Sheldon Davidson, CE, died September 2, 1959. His widow lives at 736 East 41st Street, Savannah, Georgia.

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»1 C George H.- Sparks, CE, City Utilities IJ Director for the City of East Point, Georgia for 25 years, is retiring due to ill health.

Evan T. Mathis, ME, died of a heart attack March 23. He had been president of the Citizens Bank in Americus, Georgia since 1946.

Noye H. Nesbit, ME, retired January 1 from Standard Oil Company after 41 years of service. He is now superintendent of Purification at Gwinnett County's new water plant at Duluth, Georgia.

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Otis O. Rae, EE, retired May 1 after more than 40 years of service, with Westinghouse Electric. He had been southeastern regional vice president sijice 1954. Mr. Rae holds the Westinghouse order of merit for distinguished service, which is the company's highest award. He lives at 804 Cumberland Road, N.E., Atlanta.

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» 1 Q Clayton P. "Red" Smith, CE, died 1 3 April 7 at his home, 124 Clarion Avenue, Decatur, Georgia. He was an assistant maintenance engineer with the State Highway Department. Mr. Smith had been with the Highway Department for 24 years.

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John Wayt, CE, has retired as vice president of American Bakeries. He was located in Atlanta.

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Robert M. McFarland, Jr., Com, has been named regional director of the Insurance Information Institute, with offices in the Trust Company of Georgia Building in Atlanta.

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Edgar Collatt, Ch.E, died February 10 of a heart attack. He was owner and operator of Rebuilt Meter Company.

Mr. Collatt's widow lives at 4037 North Stowell Avenue, Shorewood, Wisconsin.

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Walter M. Mitchell, TE, has been named chairman of the Chairman's Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. He is vice president of The Draper Corporation in Atlanta.

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a son and daughter, who live at 600 San Servando, Coral Gables 43, Florida.

Frederick Daniel Saunders died March 6 in veterans hospital in Clearwater, Florida.

He had been in the construction business in Clearwater for a number of years.

Colonel John W. McDonald, USA, Com., retired February 29 after more than 30 years service. Prior to his retirement he was awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon with medal pendant.

M. Oliver Saggus, Arch, has been elected a director of Standard Federal Savings and Loan Association. He is a partner in the Atlanta architectural firm of Saggus, Williamson, Vaught and Spiker.

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Joseph H. Chaille has been named vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. He was formerly a second vice president. Mr. Chaille has been with the company since 1929. His business address is 393 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York.

Ken C. Thomas, ME, has been appointed vice president in charge of manufacturing and engineering with Armco Drainage and Metal Products, Inc. in Middletown, Ohio.

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John H. Pritchard, Arch, of Tunica, Mississippi has been elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.

He has been president of the Mississippi Chapter, AIA and has served on the National Board of Examiners.

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General Haywood S. Hansell, USA (ret.), ME, is currently with Apparatus Industries, Defense Electronics, Lange Vijuerberg 11, The Hague, Holland.

Julian Alexander Wilson, Com, has been promoted to Brigadier General in the U. S. Army, Infantry. He is stationed in Washington, D. C. and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

Robert Armstrong Goodburn, EE, assistant chief engineer for Florida Power and Light, died January 18 of a heart attack. He had been with the company since 1932. Mr. Goodburn is survived by his wife,

Howard B. Johnson, Com, has been elected a director of the Fulton County Federal Savings and Loan Association. He is president of Atlantic Steel Company in Atlanta.

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John H. Pritchard, Arch '28, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Election to the College of Fellows is the highest honor bestowed for service to the architectural profession. Pritchard is the senior partner of the firm of Pritchard and Nickles, architects and Engineers of Tunica. He is a registered architect in the states of Miss., Ark., Tenn. and Texas. He is a past president of the Miss, chapter of AIA as well as a director of its Gulf District.

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William C. Ripley, Com, has been appointed manager of Pitney-Bowes' sales and service office in Greenville, South Carolina.

His business address is 506 Rutherford Street. halo L. Lamar, EE, has been promoted to division engineer with South-Eastern Underwriters Association with headquarters in Atlanta.

Lt. Col. James E. Barnhill, TE, has assumed duties as the District Executive Officer, U. S. Army Ordnance District, Birmingham, Alabama.

J. Harvey Wilson, ChE, has joined the Technical Service of Rayonier in New York City. He was formerly with Celanese Mexicana, S. A.

DIGITAL PROCESSORS

Ray G. Behm, IM, has been elected a city commissioner for the City of West Palm Beach, Florida. His home address is 927 Belvedere Road.

M. G. Mitchell, CE, is Assistant General Sales Manager for Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, with offices in the McCormick Building in Chicago, Illinois.

Jason T. Pate, IM, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 2 at his home in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Jason owned and operated Radio Station WAS A in Harve de Grace. He is survived by his wife and three children.

Our Tactical Systems Laboratory applies advanced techniques to the design and development of airborne and ground-based digital data processing systems. If you have at least 2 years of design, system integration, testing or production experience in digital systems, your talents may find application in the solution of our technical problems. Write to Mr. S. L. Hirsch.

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LITTON INDUSTRIES Electronic Equipments Division Beverly Hills, California

Irvin M. Massey, IM, is a partner in the general insurance firm of Rives, Massey and Hedges, 223 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia.

Leo Kelley, ChE, has joined Coe & Payne, an Atlanta floor covering firm, as a partner.

Asa T. Bearse, Jr., ME, has been promoted to Southeastern Regional Sales Manager for Malsbary Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of steam cleaning equipment. He lives at 1305 Bernadette lane, N.E., Atlanta.

Harvey Hardy, AE, is chairman, Florida Section, American Institute of Mining Engineers. He succeeded Maywood Chesson, '48.

Mr. Hardy's mailing address is Box 509, Bartow, Florida.

Edward E. David, Jr., EE, Director of Visual and Acoustics Research-at

Bell Laboratories, was presented the first annual Outstanding .Young Man of the Year Award in February by the Summit, New Jersey Area Junior Chamber of Commerce.

David was the first recipient of Tech's George W. McCarty ANAK Award as Outstanding Young Alumnus of the Year 1958.

Paul A. Duke, ME, has been elected vice president and director of L. B. Foster Company. He has managed the company's regional office in Atlanta since 1955.

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pointed regional sales engineer for receiving tubes at General Electric in Atlanta.

Eugene Stone Love, AE, has been named one of the top ten career men in federal government for 1960. The selection was made by the National Civil Service League.

Norman A. Smyth, Arch, '32, has been promoted to operations manager for the Daniel Construction Company's Greenville, S. C. Division. Chief estimator for Daniel since 1954, Smyth will now be responsible for the company's operations in the state and parts of North Carolina and Florida.

Smyth is vice president of the Greenville Georgia Tech Club, and active in many civic activities in that area. Prior to joining Daniel, he was president of the Norman A. Smyth Company.

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Mr. Love is chief of the Aero-physics Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Langley Field.

I J Q John Robert Rankin, Jr., EE, has " 0 co-authored an article on Methods of Rating Circuit Breakers which appears in Electric Light and Power. Mr. Rankin is a professor at Rutgers University. ' A Q J' Frank Cheely, ChE, has been proT U moted to director of the Chemical Engineering Division, Research and Development Department at the Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Robert A. Collinge, IM, is a senior industrial engineer with Pacolet Manufacturing Company. He lives with his wife and four children on Longview Drive in Gainesville, Georgia.

Engaged: Louis M. Johnson, Arch, to Miss Mary Ann Mills. Mr. Johnson is with the Crane Company in Atlanta.

Wilbur Barrett Ratterree, ME, has received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Iowa State University.

William T. Smith, IE, has been promoted to assistant district manager in the Dealer Building Products Department with Johns Manville in Atlanta.

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James B. "Jim" Ramage, IM '37, C.L.U., has been cited by his company for the record 1959 sales of the district which he heads. His district of the Henry C. Johnson Agency sold a heavier volume of assured home ownership mortgage loan plans (total loans involved $4.2 million) than any of the 640 districts in the U. S. Ramage also led his district to second place in overall Equitable Life sales for 1959. The unit, under his leadership, has taken honors prior to 1959 in both mortgage loans and life fields.

NEWS BY CLASSES-conr/nued ' C | | William B. Erb, IE, has been elected **U president and a member of the Board of Directors of Polyco, Inc., plastics manufacturer in Smyrna, Georgia.

Theodore M. Forbes, Jr., Chem., is a partner in the law firm of Gambrell, Harlan, Russell, Moye and Richardson. His business address is 825 C & S Bank Building, Atlanta 3, Georgia.

R. G. "Bob" Larsen, IE, a group supervisor in duPont's Kinston plant, methods and planning section, has been transferred to Wilmington, Delaware as assistant to the production manager of the Dacron-Textile Rayon Manufacturing Division.

Earl S. Wirtz, IE, died March 1 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident several days earlier. At the time of his death, Mr. Wirtz was a plant industrial engineer with the Ethyl Corporation in Pittsburg, California. ' C I Carl J. Kaminsky, Jr., EE, has been v I appointed development engineer in site test equipment design with IBM at Kingston, New York. His home address is Birch Street, Forest Glen Park, Kingston, New York.

Ralph Z. Parks, IM, is now pastor of Bethsaida Baptist Church in Riverdale, Georgia. His home address is Route 1, Riverdale. /. L. Pentecost, CerE, is co-author of a technical paper which appeared in the March issue of the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. The paper was entitled "A 4000° F Laboratory Kiln With a Unique Temperature Control System." He is chief research engineer on the Development Engineering staff of Aeronca Manufacturing Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. ' C O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. **£. Norris, ChE, a daughter, Xaura Claire, March 29. Mr. Norris is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Madisonville, Tennessee. His address is Box 332, Madisonville.

Engaged: Charles Hicken Pauly, Phys, to Miss Mary Ann Robb. The wedding will take place in May. Mr. Pauly is with the Washington, D. C. office of Westinghouse Electric.

Married f John B. Powers, ChE, to Miss Patricia Ann Giovanoni, November 28. Mr.

Powers is with Shell Chemical, Plastics & Resins Division in St. Louis. Their home address is 3150 St. Catherine Street, Floressant, Missouri. ' C O Martin Clark, EE, received his *JO masters degree from North Carolina State College in February. He is now a member of the Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Burlington, North Carolina.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Hartman, ChE, a son, Donald, Jr., January 19.

Don is a technical salesman for Shell Chemical Company. Their home address is 8124 York Avenue South, Minneapolis 20, Minnesota.

Daniel J. Tolan, Phys, died March 10 in an Atlanta hospital. At the time of his death he was an engineer with the Kollsman Company in Atlanta. ' E l Born to: Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Castro, *» • EE, a daughter, Ana Maria, January 16. Mr. Castro is Southeastern Regional Engineer with International Telephone and Telegraph's Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company in Atlanta. Their home address is 6350 North Hampton Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

Engaged: Arthur Andrew Lamas, CE, to Miss Tassie Irene Soublis. The wedding is scheduled for May 1. Mr. Lamas is president of the Lamas Company, Inc., an Atlanta building construction firm. ' E C Fred P. Powell, TE, is associated *J*J with the Atlanta branch office of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company in Atlanta and Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Robert A. Rives, ME, is a partner in the general insurance firm of Rives, Massey

and Hedges, with offices at 223 Peachtree, Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Talbert E. Smith, Jr., IE, a son, Spencer Holland, March 10.

Engaged: William Harman Taylor, Jr., AE, to Miss Linda Richards. The wedding will take place June 24. Mr. Taylor is with the Trio Manufacturing Company of Forsyth, Georgia.

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released from the Navy in May and will return to work with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.

Engaged: Franklin Pierce Prosser, Chem, to Miss Brenda Lau. The wedding will take place June 18. Mr. Prosser is working on his doctorate at Penn State University.

Engaged: Lt. Dewey Wayne Waddell, Jr., EE, to Miss Charlotte Adams. The weddingtook place April 17. Lt. Waddell is stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta, Georgia. i r i Clyde A. Bullard, Jr., CE, Marine w 1 Aviation Cadet, is undergoing preflight training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida.

John A. Curtis, ME, has been named sales representative in the Indianapolis (Indiana) district of Allis-Chalmers Industries Group.

Married: Robert Lee Groover, IM, to Miss Dorothy Ann Boothe, April 9. Mr. Groover is with Brooke Distributors of Miami, Florida.

Lt. Marion T. Heeke, USA, IM, recently participated in an annual service practice firing at the McGregor (N.M.) Firing Range. He is assigned to the 59th Artillery Headquarters Battery in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Lyman A. Johnson, Jr. has been appointed a representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is with the P. L. Bealy Smith Agency in Atlanta.

Mr. Johnson lives at 2389 Lanier Place in Atlanta.

Married: Allen M. Lubel, ME, to Miss Iris Mazor March 5. Their address is 2627 South Lane, Birmingham 9, Alabama.

Married: Gerald Earl McQuaig, EE, to Miss Edna Gail Leach.

Robert H. Probert, IM, has been named sales manager of Sel-Rex Corporation's new Atlanta office. His business address is 1000 Peachtree, N.E., Atlanta.

Engaged: Lt. Robert Lee Thompson, USN, IM, to Miss Sandra Wells. The wed-

William R. Johnson, EE '37, has been named a fellow in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ". . .for contributions to the development of a major electric generating and transmission system." Johnson is presently chief electric generation and transmission engineer for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of San Francisco, Calif.

He is a past president of the San Francisco Section of AIEE and a member of the International Conference on Large Electric Systems.

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Eugene Stone Love, AE '47, assistant chief of the Aero-Physics Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Langley Field, Va., has been selected by the National Civil Service League as one of the top ten career men in the Federal government for 1960. The award was presented to Mr. Love at a dinner in Washington, D. C. on March 15. Love has spent 12 years in government work at the Langley Research Center. ding will take place in the spring.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Thomas G. Whatley, IE, a son, Thomas Gibson, Jr., January 19. Their address is 184 Perimeter Drive, S.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico.

IT Born to: Lt. and Mrs. James H. 2 Archer, Jr., IM., a daughter, Pamela Lynn, January 27. Lt. Archer is stationed at Biggs AFB, El Paso, Texas, with the 9th Weather Squadron. Their home address is 7209 Aero Vista Boulevard in El Paso.

Robert H. Davis, Jr., CE, has opened an office to do land surveying and civil engineering at 700 Martina Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

Engaged: Lt. Henry Olin Everitt, Jr., IE, to Miss Janice Shores. The wedding will take place June 18. Lt. Everitt is stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

Lt. William I. Fox, Jr., USA, CE, has completed the transport-helicopter pilot course at the Army Aviation School, Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Engaged: William Joseph Gregg to Miss Patricia Ann Thornton. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Gregg is with the Hewitt Contracting Company in Columbus, Georgia.

Ensign Carlton S. Hall, USN, IM, has qualified as a carrier pilot after training aboard the USS Intrepid in the Atlantic.

Robert P. Lofblad, Jr., AE, recently received his masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and is now a development engineer "A" in the Dynamics Group of the Aerojet-General Corporation in Sacramento, California. His home address is 2927 Marconi Avenue, Apartment 90. Sacramento 21, California.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Rich, IE, a son, Bryan Walter, March 12. Mr. Rich has recently been named manager of the Sales Service Department at Kellogg

Switchboard and Supply Company. Their address is 140 Forest Boulevard, Park Forest, Illinois.

Engaged: Charles Leslie Simpson, IE, to Miss Polly Brooks. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Simpson will receive his MBA degree is June from the Harvard Business School and will then join the First Nattonal Bank of Atlanta.

AN APOLOGY In the March issue of the Alumnus this item appeared in the 1958 section of the Class Notes section: Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard, IE, a son, Charles Leonard, Jr., January 18. Mr. Leonard is in the General Electric Manufacturing Training Program. Their home address is 281 Washington, Marblehead, Massachusetts.

The item is absolutely correct except for one small error: the name should be Charles L. Aydlett. We cannot explain how we turned Charles Aydlett into Charles Leonard. We can only apologize.

' E Q Married: Meriwether Adams, ME, J 3 to Miss Eedeelove Henderson, March 11. Their address is 124 West Benson, Decatur, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Andrews, EE, a daughter, Lori Marie, February 4.

Mr. Andrews is an engineer with Sperry Microwave Electronics Company at Clearwater, Florida. Their home address is 2329 Ella Place, Clearwater, Florida.

O. B. Barker, III, ME, has completed the training program at Bailey Meter Company and has been assigned to their Philadelphia district office as a sales-service engineer.

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L. S. "Larry" Bowers, ME '48, has been named Lennox market manager of national accounts according to a recent announcement from Lennox Industries, Inc. As market manager, he is in charge of all Lennox sales and services to large grocery, drug, oil, and other "chain" firms. Bowers operates out of the corporate offices in Marshalltown, Iowa. He joined Lennox in 1955 as a territory manager in Kansas City. Bowers and his wife and four children live at Marshalltown.

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Robert Johnson, Missile and Space Systems Chief Engineer, reviews results of a THORboosted 5000 mile flight with Donald W. Douglas, Jr., president of Douglas

Missile is space veteran at the age of three The A i r Force THOR, built by Douglas and three associate prime contractors, shows how well a downto-earth approach to outer space can work. Since its first shoot in 1957, it has had more than fifty successful launc'hings . . . at a variety of jobs from re-entry vehicle testing at ICBM ranges to placing satellites in orbit.

Initial planning for THOR included volume production tooling, ground handling equipment and operational systems. This t y p i c a l Douglas approach made the giant IRBM available in quantity in record time, and THOR has performed with such reliability that it has truly become the workhorse of the space age.

Douglas is now seeking qualified engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians for programs like ZEUS, DELTA, ALBM, GENIE, ANIP and others far into the future.

For full information write to Mr. C. C. LaVene, Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica, California, N Section,

DOl/Gi MISSILE AND SPACE SYSTEMS • MILITARY AIRCRAFT DC-8 JETLINERS • CARGO TRANSPORTS AIRCOMB* • GROUND SUPPORT EQUP I MENT

Alan E. Thomas, IE '49, has been appointed commercial engineering staff operations supervisor—East for Southern Bell in Atlanta. Thomas joined Southern Bell in 1949 as a student engineer and has served the company since then as a district supervisor, a supervising service foreman, a plant manager, and as staff public relations manager. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, and a founder of Alpha Pi Mu, the national industrial engineering honor society.

NEWS BY C L A S S E S - c o n f i n u e d Engaged: John William Bessman, Jr., Math, to Miss Mary Ann Orlando. The wedding will take place in August. Mr. Bessman is attending graduate school at the Catholic University and is associated with the Department of Defense, Washington, D. C. Navy Ensign Thomas L. Bransford, IM, is attending the Combat Information School in Brunswick, Georgia. He recently graduated from OCS at Newport, Rhode Island.

Married: Barbara Jane Cass, Arch, to Mr. John Gregory Wilson, March 4 in Atlanta.

Engaged: Tommas Hill Cobb, IM, to Miss Elizabeth Barber. Mr. Cobb is president of Medical Management, Inc. in Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Dolan, IE, a daughter, Kelley Christine, April 1.

Their address is 430 Spring Valley Road, Richardson, Texas.

Marrie*d: E. Larry Fonts, IM, <o Miss Lucy Cole, March 19. Mr. Fonts is attending graduate school at Georgia Tech. Their home address is 1278 University Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

Engaged: Lt. Richard Wayne Jennings, USA, IM, to Miss Marcia Sparks. The wedding will take place June 25. Lt. Jennings is stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Married: Donnelly Lamar Logue, IM, to Miss Carol Pittman, April 2. Their address is 71 Rockefeller Drive, Ormond Beach, Florida.

Married: Cecil Kenneth Nelson, TE, to Miss Joyce Ann Gaddy, February 13. Mr. Nelson is with J. P. Stevens, Inc. at their Piedmont, South Carolina plant. Their home address is 417 Jones Avenue, Gree"nville.

Engaged: Lester Marshall Petrie, Jr., ChE, to Miss Patricia Hunnicutt. The wedding will take place June 12. Mr. Petrie is working on his masters at MIT. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. F. Clark Price, ME, a daughter, Leigh Ann, March 28.

Their home address is 4300 Pershing Avenue, Macon, Georgia.

Lt. Melvin W. Sorrow, USA, IE, has completed the ten week officer basic course at

the Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

George L. Word, III, IE, has been appointed sales representative for the Birmingham, Alabama District Sales Office of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation. His home address is 2512 Beverly Drive, Birmingham, Alabama.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Elward, IE, a daughter, Erin Leigh, March 9. Their address is 228 Hartfield Street, Jackson, Mississippi.

Engaged: Edgar Wiggin Francisco, III, IM, to Miss Anne Salyerds. The wedding will take place this summer. Mr. Francisco is a member of the Industrial Management faculty at Georgia Tech.

Engaged: Harvey O. Haack, CE, to Miss Margie Chapman. The wedding took place April 22. Mr. Haack is with Convair Astranautics in San Diego, California.

Engaged: George William Leeling to Miss Helen McElheney. The wedding took place April 23.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Liiciani, CE, a daughter, Linda Carol, March 19.

Their address is 139 Savoy Avenue, Elmont, New York.

George W. Swancy, Jr., EE, has joined the Long Lines Department of American T & T. He is presently in the Long lines interdepartmental training program in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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William T. Smith, IE '49, has appointed to the newly created post of assistant district manager for Johns-Manville Sales Corp. His home office will be in Atlanta. Smith joined Johns-Manville in 1949 as sales representative at Atlanta and has since represented the building products division of the company in Greensboro, N. C ; Macon; and Raleigh. He and his wife (the former Virginia Miller of Atlanta) and four daughters live in Raleigh at the present.

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New England Life's Bill Ackerman makes a business of serving California businessmen Bill Ackerman works with men with ideas and companies with potential. For example, Bill handles the business life insurance for organizations in which H. W. Jamieson and R. F. Denton, Jr., have an interest.

Bill gets a deep sense of satisfaction from the knowledge that he's contributed to the growth and strength of young businesses. Since joining New England Life in 1946, he's seen many of the men he's insured become successful executives. And Bill, himself, is a success. He's a life member of our own Leaders Association and of the top national organization, the Million Dollar Round Table.

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Space-age careers at Boeing PLASMA PHYSICS

SEATTLE AREA

Experimental physicist with Ph.D. in physics for the staff of the Plasma Physics Laboratory, Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, to conduct studies in the field of Basic Experimental Micro Wave Plasma Physics, Basic Transport Properties of Plasmas and in Theoretical and Experimental Quantum Plasma Physics.

OPERATIONS & WEAPONS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

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M.S. or Ph.D. in math, physics, electrical or aeronautical engineering to obtain data on the anticipated operational environment of the devices under study by Advanced Design Staff. Devise analytical models of procedures describing operation of the devices in order "to estimate the operational utility of same under study. Studies compare Advanced Design products with other companies and demonstrate anticipated utility to the customer.

ELECTRONICS-TELEMETRY

This year, engineering and science alumni will find more challenging and rewarding careers than ever at Boeing.

Advanced missile and space-age programs are expanding, and the proportion of engineers and scientists to Boeing's total employment is growing steadily. Boeing programs include the Dyna-Soar boost-glide vehicle, Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM, BOMARC defense missile system, B-52G missile bomber, KC-135 jet tanker-transport, the Boeing 707 jetliner, and lunar, orbital and interplanetary systems and advanced research projects. A few of the many immediate openings are listed below: ADVANCED CONFIGURATION DESIGN

WICHITA AREA

M.S. or Ph.D. in A.E. to create configuration of new vehicles proposed by potential military or civilian customers. Creative design of vehicles based on general parameters of missions (payload, performance, etc.). In addition to configuration, special features such as handling payload (i.e., cargo, passengers) and comparison with competitors proposals are investigated.

INFRARED

SEATTLE AREA

Electrical engineer or physicist with advanced degree to set-up and direct an Infrared System Group involved in: (1) Studies and analyses of infrared systems, techniques and phenomena, (2) Definition of models and parametric relationships, and (3) Synthesis of advanced infrared sub-systems (search, track, terminal guidance, mapping, surveillance, and scientific instrumentation) for integration into larger systems.

SEATTLE AREA

ELECTRONICS-RELIABILITY

Electrical engineer with B.S. degree minimum (graduate work or equivalent experience desired) to organize and manage reliability programs; to establish requirements, evaluate reliability data and initiate corrective action for missile components and tactical test equipment.

ELECTRONICS-DIGITAL COMPUTER

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B.S.E.E. with good knowledge of telemetry systems, transducers, and systems providing inputs into telemetry systems, to work on telemetry systems integration. This requires ability to represent the company in meetings with the customers and associate contractors.

ELECTRO-MAGNETICS

SEATTLE AREA

Ph.D. in electrical engineering or physics to direct and participate in the work of a research group engaged in the theoretical and experimental investigation of the propagation and reflection of electro-magnetic waves in the presence of a plasma.

WELDING ENGINEERING

SEATTLE AREA

Engineers with degree in Met.E., Mech.E., E.E. or equivalent, to maintain weld equipment, design tools, develop techniques and direct proper use of this equipment, and establish processes for all types of welds used in the unit, including weld settings for qualification programs.

PERFORMANCE & STABILITY & CONTROL ANALYSIS

SEATTLE AREA

Aeronautical engineers at B.S. and M.S. level to conduct performance analysis and stability and control analysis. Each field is intimately associated with flight testing and wind tunnel testing.

Performance assignments include preparation of sales presentations, operating instructions and preliminary design work in connection with new aircraft; stability and control assignments cover wing and tail design as well as studies concerning detailed control systems.

GEOASTROPHYSICS

SEATTLE AREA

Theoretical physicists or astronomers with Ph.D. in physics or astronomy on the staff of the Geoastrophysics Laboratory, Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, to carry out theoretical research studies in the field of Geoastrophysics, particularly in connection with the phenomenology and physics of the planetary system.

Excellent support is available for research in Solar Physics, Solar Terrestrial relationships and Upper Atmosphere Physics.

SEATTLE AREA

Engineers with advanced E.E. degree or particularly applicable experience to design and integrate digital computers in advanced military and space programs, involving internal logic design of the computers and the external organization of the associated equipment used in the guidance and control system.

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS & PROGRAMMING

SEATTLE AREA

SEATTLE

Mathematicians or engineers with B.S. to Ph.D. degrees to work in engineering computing and analysis areas. Analysis positions involve correlation and conversion matrix studies, trajectory simulation programs, error analysis and simulation studies and many others. Computing positions involve programming a wide variety of complex engineering problems to be solved with highspeed electronic data processing machinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;digital and analog.

Advantages you'll enjoy at Boeing include up-to-the-minute facilities, unexcelled research equipment, insurance and retirement programs, and a company-paid graduate study program (M.A. and Ph.D.) designed to help you get ahead faster.

For further information write: Mr. Stanley M. Little, Boeing Airplane Co., P. 0. Box 3822- UGT, Seattle 24, Wash.

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