Milo A. Johnson, Jr., ME '50, has been appointed development engineer, manager of Mechanism Development, at the Owego, N. Y., facility of IBM's Federal Systems Division. Johnson joined the company in 1941. After military and educational leaves, he returned to IBM in December, 1949 and the following August entered the engineering training program. His most recent assignment has been as project engineer, manager of Mechanism Development at Owego. branch of Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. Mr. Flagler is president of the Flagler Company, located at 305 Techwood Drive, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Merritt Pope, EE, has qualified for the 1960 Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters. He is with the Volunteer State Life Insurance Company in Panama City, Florida. Wiley P. Ballard, Ch.E., is co-patentee of a patent assigned to Texaco, Inc., covering improvements-in the recovery and utilization of normally gaseous olefins. Mr. Ballard is assistant supervisor of Fuels Research with Texaco. His home address is 4235 Sunken Court, Port Arthur, Texas. L. B. Barnes, TE, has been promoted to controller with Fulton Cotton Mills in Atlanta. Prior to this appointment he was chief cost accountant. Joseph Hubert Taylor, EE, of 1974 Longdale Drive, Decatur, Georgia, died April 23 in Jacksonville, Florida of a heart attack. He was a senior engineer with American Telephone and Telegraph at the time of his death. He had been with the company for 15 years. His widow, daughter and son live at the above address. Eugene Miller, Ch.E., associate managing editor of Business Week since 1954, will become director of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company's public affairs and communications July 1. Dan C. Kyker, EE, is the 1960 president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kyker is with General Electric in Atlanta. Paul H. Richards, EE, received his Doctor of Theology degree in June from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He is now pastor of Parkway Presbyterian Church in Metairie, Louisiana. /. E. House, EE, has been named president of the newly formed company, Semco Electric Controls, Inc., Houston, Texas. Semco designs and manufactures all types of special control systems, variable speed drives and special static process control systems. His business address is 2308 Bingle Road, Houston 24, Texas. July 1960
John E. McDaniel, Jr., IE., has joined John A. Denie's Sons Company, building materials firm of Memphis, Tennessee, as sales engineer. James D. Murphy, Jr., IM, has been appointed manager of the warehouse division of Atlantic Steel Company in Atlanta. Saul D. Wills, ME, has joined the staff of REF Manufacturing Corp., Mineola, Long Island, New York, as project engineer. He lives at 2 Meryll Place, Bethpage, L. I., New York. John Cronin, Jr., IM, a representative in Miami, Florida for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, has qualified for the 1960 Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters. /. Trent Howell, Arch, received his Master of Theology degree in June from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He is now pastor of Hapeville Presbyterian Church, Hapeville, Georgia. Wesley F. Johnson, GE, has been appointed Division Sales Supervisor of the Georgia Power Company's Rome, Georgia Division.
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Ralph L. Day, IM, assistant professor of marketing administration at the University of Texas, has been selected to attend the Ford Foundation—sponsored seminar in New Developments in Business Administration at the University of Chicago in August. He lives at 7725 Woodrow Avenue, Austin 5, Texas. T. Earl Dudney, IM, has been named to head the Leominster, Massachusetts sales office of the plastics division of Eastman Chemical Products, Inc. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Forbes, Jr., Chem, a daughter, Margaret Paty, May 10. Dr. James A. Jordan, Jr., IM, will join the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta this fall as assistant professor of teacher education. He is currently teaching at the University of Chicago. Lewis B. Nichols has joined the Roy D. Warren Realty Company, Inc. He will man-
age the company's new northside office located at 5636 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Chamblee, Georgia. William D. (Bill) Beard, IM, former Atlantian, died unexpectedly May 15 in Miami, Florida. Bill was a salesman for the Formica Corporation, a subsidiary of American Cyanamid. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Beard, Sr., live at 2445 Sagamore Drive, N.W., Atlanta. Married: Samuel Jones Mitchell, Jr., IM, to Miss Ethel Scott, May 21. Mr. Mitchell is with the Copeland Sausage Company. They reside in Gainesville, Florida. Robert Harold Walling, IE, has been named visiting assistant professor of law at Emory University. He holds law degrees from Emory and Yale. Mr. Walling is Deputy Assistant General, Tax Division, Law Department, for the State of Georgia.
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Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Brian, Jr., ME, a son, Ben Frank, III, March 31. Ben is a shift supervisor with the Film Department, DuPont, at Old Hickory, Tennessee. They live at 2505 Midvale Drive, Nashville 14, Tennessee. Robert F. Pickens, IE, is now planning and control engineer for International Latex Corporation's Manchester, Georgia plant. He lives with his wife and daughter at 513 Farris Boulevard in Manchester.
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Dr. T. F. Davenport, Jr., Chem, has joined Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge as a chemist in the Research & Development Department. Married: James Malcolm Fiveash, ME, to Miss Clara Liles, June 18. Paul L. Webb, EE, has been promoted to chief engineer, Electronics Division, U. S. Naval Weapons Plant in Washington, D. C. His home address is 313 Branch Circle, Vienna, Virginia.
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Married: Charles W. Davis, Ch.E, to Miss Kay Donham, April 30. Mr. Davis is with Alcoa as sales development engineer in East St. Louis, Illinois. Fred E. Ehrensperger, ME, received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from Tech this past June. He is employed by Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia. His home address is 2185 Leith Avenue, East Point, Georgia. Joe Bush Hobart, Jr., ME, has been promoted to engineer-insulation with U. S. Gypsum and transferred to Chicago. He was formerly project engineer in Greenville, South Carolina. Harvey Hochman, AE, was killed in a helicopter accident in April. His widow, Mrs. Sylvia Hochman, lives at 400 Argyle Road, Brooklyn 26, New York.
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Leonard F. Bradley, ME '32, has been named Southeastern district engineer for the National Coal Association. Bradley, a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, resides in Atlanta.
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