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A IT WAS the entire Tech student body reacting with a quiet, unimpressed "So what else is new" to the September integration when that wasn't the way most of them felt at all. It was Fred W. Ajax, caught in a political bind not of his own making magnificently standing up to angry members of the press as he tried to explain that they would not be allowed to come on the campus to cover the integration. The hooker being that just three days before this meeting, he had briefed the same people on the ground rules for press activity on campus while covering the same story. And, this too was done despite the personal feelings of the man. It was an artist named lane Wallace running one of Atlanta's most unbelievably successful one-man art sales in her basement with all of the work done by another artist whose work she loved. And, it was a daughter turned 14 with the bloom that only a first true love brings to her. And the final heartbreak that it brings to a father who is as selfish as all fathers anywhere when he suddenly realizes that he has lost forever a part of one of his loves. It was a demon named Cristabel who in the mysterious Ancient-Mariner man-
ner of Siamese cats walked into the house in late July and owned the entire place by the first of August. It was also New York in June. And all of the glory of renewed love it can bring you and your girl as you walk the crowded streets and sit in the theaters to watch the eight-times-a-week miracles unfold before eyes that never tire of the fantasy and truth of drama. And, it was the determined courage of a mother who at an age when most others are heading for Florida to live on Social Security and pensions suddenly decides to quit her secure job and search for another one in the country's most brutal city. And three days later it was the same woman calling to say that she found another one at a better salary. At an age when medicare is usually the major issue in life, she has become to us the symbol of free enterprise and the dignity and determination of the human soul. * * * A IT WAS Bert Drucker and Mary Nell Santacroce fighting for a place for Drama Tech and finally winning and then turning around and putting on a production of "Look Homeward Angel" that would have done the best theater companies in the country proud. And, it was a series of personal letters from Fred Wolfe. BE '22, who has just enough of his brother Tom in him to make reading and rereading them a joy. It was all of the Saturdays and Sundays of searching through the dusty catalogues and old books and yellowing letters during the research phases of a new history of Georgia Tech. And, it was the constant nagging fear that we could never do it as it deserved to be done. It was the 1961 football team, a noble dedicated group of young men who even when they lost seemed bigger than their opponents. And it was Chick Graning's honestly Christian attitude to Darwin Holt after the incident in Birmingham and how ashamed it must have made all of the purported adults feel after the way we carried on about the affair. It was Saturday night at the bridge table with Dick and Carol Inman and steaks for four. And, it was weekday 8:00 A.M.'s at the faculty lounge with Eskew, Beard, Tatum, Allen, Wohlford and a shocked Peter Sherry who never could quite adjust himself to the specTECH ALUMNUS
tacle of Wallace calmly strolling in with a Coca-Cola in his hand at that hour. A IT ALSO WAS the friendship of people like Tonto Coleman and Tom Hall and the devotion to Tech of people like George Griffin and Fred Ajax. It was the enthusiasm of Joe Guthridge and the quiet, effective operation of Jamie Anthony's office. It was 75th Anniversary Committee meetings in the office of Dorothy Crosland, the finest hostess anywhere near the campus. It was the beauty that comes from the cameras of Bill Diehl and Bernie Wenke and the typewriter of Frank Bigger. And, it was the efficiency and dedication of Mary Jane Reynolds in a job that she has long ago grown tired of. It was the dignity of Whack Hyder in a year when the banshees were beginning to howl for his scalp—a year in which he probably did the best coaching job of his career. And it was the Thursday morning meeting of the "Naked City" addicts discussing the psychological ramifications of the previous night's show.
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CONTENTS 2. RAMBL1N'—the editor takes a look back at the highlights of one man's year at Tech. 6. T H E U N F I N I S H E D C O M M E N C E M E N T SPEECH—a young alumnus has one of life's big moments smashed. 12. A NEW APPROACH TO AWARD—ACCEPTING—an alumni secretary suffers a similar fate. 13. MY MIND IS STILL OPEN—a teacher on loan from a high school talks about Tech. 15. POST SCRIPT: MARY LANE—the same teacher with Tech doing the looking. 16. CPM AND THE EAST STANDS—a new method is used to insure work completion on time. 23. THE SUDDENLY OPULENT EE'S—a quick look at a new building. 26.
THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL—all the news about the Institute and its alumni.
Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association I. H. Hardin, '24, Pres. . W. S. Terrell, '30, VP D. A. McKeever, '32, VP W.H. Ector, '40, Treas. W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary Staff
Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer Mary Jane Reynolds, Editorial Assistant Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Class Notes
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In this sketch, artist Jane Wallace returns to the pages of the magazine after a long absence to capture with her pencil the face of Eugene Miller, youngest man ever invited to give a Tech commencement address. The misfortunes of Miller's return to the campus along with his speech are documented for you beginning on the facing page of this issue.
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A T 7:45 A.M. on Saturday, June 9, the 1962 graduating class of the Georgia Institute of Technology began gathering in the dance studio above the Fox Theater for the annual commencement exercises. Thirty minutes later, longtime Alumnus photographer, Bob Bland, IM '62, (right) slipped his Leica from beneath his gown to take a final picture of his classmates. At that instant, Bill Diehl un-
loaded his own Leica to get this picture of one of his proteges catching an entire section of his class offguard. Within another 30 minutes Bland and his compatriots were on their way down the steps for one of the most confusing commencement ceremonies in Tech's history. For more about this and the text of a commencement speech that was never completed please turn the page. Photographed
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h w to succeed in business by really trying I am delighted with the honor of being invited here today. Not only does it give me a chance to visit the beautiful city of Atlanta again, but a chance to explore the Tech campus and meet some of the faculty and the students. I'm absolutely overwhelmed by the physical changes that have taken place since 1945. The old landmarks are still here—like Cloudman Dormitory where I lived, and the Tech tower—but modern architecture seems to have encompassed the rest of the campus. It reflects I think the spirit and the vigor of the new Tech, and I would like to congratulate Dr. Harrison and his faculty for the great progress that has been made here. And this progress extends well beyond the physical facilities. The quality of the graduate program as well as research facilities have helped make Georgia Tech's name and reputation outstanding throughout the country. Now let me get down to the business at hand, and frankly, I think I came here in the role of interloper. You members of the graduating class are here for only one clear-cut purpose. You want to receive the degrees for which you have labored so hard and long, or at least you have created the illusion of having labored so hard and long. Your friends and parents are here for one very clear-cut purpose. To cheer you for receiving your degree. So while I pose a temporary obstacle in the path of your receipt of the degree, I can do something to make this intervention relatively a happy one—by being brief. I would also like to propose another way which you members of the graduating class can add much joy to this occasion. And that's to be sure to congratulate your parents on their part in getting you here for this great day. Many of your parents have made punishing sacrifices to get you where you are this morning. And virtually all of them have put up with and even loved and helped you at times along the way, when to put it bluntly, you have been unmitigated pains in the neck. So, they too, deserve congratulations on your success. President Harrison invited me to speak today in JULY, 1962
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the hopes I could bring some words of advice to you starting out on your business careers that might make the path a bit easier. I don't know if I can— but I'll try. First, let me sketch a bit the business setting you are about to enter. It's obvious that we are living in exciting times. Dangerous times, true, but a time when the world is full of challenge and opportunities. At probably no time in history are important and exciting events occurring with such rapidity. The business world is equally as exciting. New ideas, innovations, and new products literally leap out upon us from all sides. Let me give you an example of the speed at which things are being developed. I graduated from Tech in 1945 which isn't a long time ago, and I don't think of myself as an old fossil. But in 1945, we didn't have such things as jet planes, transistor radios, television in everyday use, food vending machines, miracle fibers, compact cars, electric canopeners, snow-throwers, electric typewriters, teaching machines, filtered cigarettes, or Polaroid films. There were no 3-D movies or stereo phonograph sets or even long-playing records, and the twist was something that happened to your ankle if you stepped off the curb wrong. We are now living in a world where science and technology seem to reign supreme, and the technological man is king. The demand for people with your kind of education seems inexhaustible. First, there is the need by present industries to find new products, and better and cheaper ways of making things. McGraw-Hill estimates, for example, that one half of all the products you will buy in 1970 don't even exist today. Then, there are the demands placed by burgeoning new industries. For example, in the next decade, it's estimated that the race to the moon will cost this country $20-billion, and bring into being a new aerospace industry which will need 1-million workers in 10 years and this includes 100,000 engineers and scientists. It's estimated that to serve existing industry and new industries that this country needs 85 per cent continued on page 8
THE UNFINISHED SPEECH—continued more engineers and scientists than it had in 1959— and we won't get all we need. In many engineering colleges, enrollments are dwindling. That means for those who are in the field there will be great opportunities for you and at early ages. There is a general shortage of brainpower in this country—especially bright engineers, and scientists, and management men. You are aware of it I'm sure. You can't help but notice the company recruiters on the campus promising you everything under the sun and they mean it. It seems the only new engineering offices now being built are in sunny Florida, California, or Arizona. So, you couldn't come on the job market at a better time. You have the right kind of heads, bodies, minds, and training that will speed you toward economic success. You have the advantage of going to work in a period where jobs are hunting competent people, not to say outstanding people, rather than the reverse which was the case in times past. So economic success is virtually assured for all of you. It is certain, too, that the tax laws during your lifetime will see to it that virtually none of you get notoriously rich. The traits of
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But suppose you still want to be at the top of the ladder and survey the world from an executive suite. You might be interested in the kinds of people who are up there at the pinnacle. I don't survey the world from this vantage point, but I've talked with hundreds of company presidents who have, and you might be interested to see what traits they have in common. \# First of all they are smart, but not the smartest people in their companies if you want to use I.Q. as a gauge. Most of them have bachelors degrees, but again they are not the best educated in their companies. They have drive and ambition and are willing to work long and hard. A 60-hour work-week is not uncommon for the highest-paid man in a company.
They have good judgment and self-confidence. They tend to be doers rather than theorizers. They spend most of their time trying to figure out what the problem is, rather than solving it. Once they can define the problem, they turn it over to the problem-solvers for the solution. Most of them have the ability to work through people, or to stimulate their fellow workers on to better efforts. Their energies are mainly concentrated on their jobs. Most other things are relegated to a secondary role. They are willing to take chances, to operate in, and make decisions in areas of uncertainty. They are not organization men and they don't like people who have stereotyped ideas and personalities. They don't like young people who spend their time keeping their noses clean, their jobs safe, and yessing them. They don't want organization men to work for them. They want uncommon men. So that's a quick profile of the men at the very top of the business pinnacle. Since you are just starting out—you may want to know some of the things you can do fairly early in your career that will help propel you to the top, or at least close to it. First, rule completely out of your mind any thought that when you receive your diploma today, you're through with studying. That's sheer nonsense. The truth is that today you have just reached another plateau in your education, and you will have a lot more to reach. This is commencement time alright, but it means that you are commencing a new role, and you'll have plenty of additional educational hurdles to pass. Seventeen years ago when I received my sheepskin, I figured I wouldn't have to crack another textbook again. I thought I had it made. What a joke! I've gone to college 16 additional semesters since then, and it doesn't look like I'm close to being finished—and neither are you. Remember scientific developments are moving so fast that what you learned today is obsolete tomorrow, and you have to learn new information. Today, American corporations are spending $5billion to help make sure their employees keep abreast of developments in all fields. Why at many large companies, you can get your Master's or Ph.D. on company time. And thousands of other TECH ALUMNUS
scientists are paying their own way through college because they know they have to do it to keep abreast of their fields. Do you realize that when I went to Tech, aeronautical engineering students knew only about propeller aircraft—they didn't know a thing about jet plane design—and if those students weren't willing to bone up on jets after they left college, they would have a hard time making a living. My chemistry books didn't include all the chemical elements they know about today. So the only way a chemical engineer could keep up on his field was to continue studying whether by going to school at night or on his own at home. Since 1945, dozens of new specialties have developed that didn't exist before, jobs like plasma scientist, nose cone engineer, digital computer programmers, solid state circuitry engineer, reliability engineer, and space system engineer and scientists. Management is changing just as rapidly. Look at how the impact of automation has changed management thinking and management education. And, the architects and city planners have been affected just as much by the rapid change in our technology and the demand for new living concepts by our people. And there are going to be a great many new and exotic specialties in the years ahead—-specialties you may want to fill but can only do so if you keep abreast of your field. So don't think your education is over. It will never be. A second idea I want to suggest to you sounds so simple and trite as to be absurd, but let me tell you anyway. Work hard. Hard work channeled in the right direction is almost an unbeatable combination. I can recount dozens of stories about people who moved up the ladder because of this. All things being equal, the person who works one or two more hours a day, constructively of course, will get ahead faster than his co-worker who doesn't. The reason is simple. One more hour every day, calculated on a 40-hour work-week means the person is putting in 12 per cent more time on the job than the next person. Putting in this extra time means he can do more work, or do a given job better, or he can be learning additional materials, or getting more experience. And when you are just starting out on a job, JULY, 1962
don't worry about putting in long hours. They will accelerate your career in the same way that compound interest multiplies a savings account. Let me give you an example from my own rather limited experience. My first job was as a cub reporter on the Greensboro Daily News in North Carolina. The hours were four in the afternoon to one in the morning. My assignment was to write obituaries and to cover police and fire news as it occurred. Generally, nine at night to one in the morning was a pretty dead time. My colleagues used to spend the time playing cards or reading papers. I did this for a while until I hit on a different plan. I asked the book review editor if I could review books, and he said yes. So I spent the slow hours first reading books, then writing reviews. Pretty soon, I was reviewing a couple of books a week and was running out of shelf space for my blossoming collection. Next, I decided to try my hand at feature writing. The only problem was that no matter how I pleaded, the city editor didn't feel I should put my time on such articles. So I decided I was going to write them anyway. I developed story ideas, did my interviewing on my own time in the mornings, then wrote the stories on the 9 to 1 shift. Since no one was in a rush for them—and for that matter no one knew I was even writing them—I would polish them hour after hour, writing five or six drafts with loving care. I took them to the feature editor, he liked them, and pretty soon I was a feature writer. The interviews on my own time had given me the necessary reporting experience; the loving polish gave me additional writing experience. The moral of this story is don't watch the clock; it often gets in the way of opportunity. Clockwatchers generally end up waiting for time to pass, rather than putting time to use. Another pointer I would like to offer you consists of just two words—THINK BIG! Set big goals. If you want to marry the prettiest girl in Atlanta, fine. If you want to be president of Coca-Cola, or president of Georgia Tech, or an admiral in the Navy, or a Nobel Prize winner, or a Congressman, fine. Work toward such goals. It's true you may never reach them, but you'll be surprised how far you will go—and what's more, some of you will reach them. Continued on page 10
THE UNFINISHED SPEECH—continued But remember there's a corollary to thinking big. Think big, but chew off your goal in small bites. It's amazing what you can do if you take a big task and accomplish it bit by bit. Let me give you a couple more parables to illustrate these points: In the 1924 edition of the Blue Print under the picture of a man now sitting on this stage were these prophetic words, "Ambition: to be president of the Cotton-pickers." Now, I am sure that these words were written half in jest, but the man, himself, obviously believed them. For, today that man, John Baum, is vice president of one of the country's largest textile corporations. And in a few minutes he will receive the Alumni Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor that Georgia Tech can bestow on anyone. Before he is through with business life, John Baum may well reach that ambitious goal set for him when he was in your place. Another man I know very well used this same technique—set the big goal and' bite it off in small pieces—in working toward advanced degrees. He started in 1956, going to school two nights a week, four hours a night, three semesters a year. By 1959, he had his M.B.A. and by this past year, his course work for a doctorate was completed, and today he stands just a few requirements away from that doctorate. And you know what, I'm pretty sure that I didn't miss all of those nights I spent in school. Let me suggest another pointer you might keep in mind, too. Don't be too worried if you try something and fail at it. And don't try to plan your life in an effort to be a continual howling success. The man or woman who will never fail in life is probably dreaming pretty puny dreams. What you really want to do in life it seems to me is to take calculated chances. You'll find that most of the time when you do something rather than not do it, you have come out ahead. But even if you fail, remember it is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. Think of it in terms of a batting average. A batter who has a .300 batting average is considered pretty good. But remember a .300 hitter fails to get a hit in seven out of ten tries at bat. Yet that doesn't make him anything like a failure. But if you don't get up and swing at 10
the ball, you're absolutely guaranteed to get a .000 average. Now let me say a word about responsibility. It's an important concept. In the business world, there are two basic ways to get ahead. One is to do superlative work on the job you have; the other way is to take on additional responsibilities. I've been in business 15 years now and still I'm amazed at the fact that these basics haven't sunk into the minds of otherwise bright people. Yet it works out very simply in practice. I had a secretary once on Business Week who asked me how she could really get a sizable raise. I told her the only way would be to move out of the secretary's classification, and the only way she could do that would be to take on new responsibilities. She said "Fine, and what new responsibilities would t give her?" I made some suggestions, she took me up on them, and today she is an associate editor of the magazine and making three times as much money as she did as a secretary.
The shortest path to success is to become a top man in a specialty
There are two other things I would like to mention before my time runs out. I've discussed in general terms how you can get ahead on your job. But what if you are not going to be satisfied with a modicum of material success. Suppose you want to be famous, or have a yen to tidy up the world a bit. Or want to lead a very interesting life which it seems to me about 90 per cent of us do not succeed in doing. In ranging over this array of possibilities, I have come up with only one formula which I can certify as sure-fire. If you have a hankering for fame, I am confident that the surest way to get it is to specialize intensively. A very famous man put it this way: "If you are not a genius—and probably few of us here belong in this class—and if nevertheless you thirst for fame, stick to one thing and learn to do it superlatively well. Select a narrow specialty, if it is only the left hind leg of bees. Learn more about it than anyone else alive and become an authority on the subject. Then you will have fame of a sort." In my observation this expert was right. It is relaTECH ALUMNUS
tively easy to make a mark as a specialist. And I suspect it's relatively easy on the head, too." My advice is to concentrate on becoming a top man by synthesizing
But now if instead of courting fame exclusively, you want to be an effective leader of your fellow men and women, I have a suggestion about how to do this too. In a way, it was phrased vividly for me by the president of a large corporation who asked me: "Why is it that most of my very bright boys are so short on personal charm, and most of my personality boys are not particularly bright?" I don't know the answer to this question, but perhaps some great law of compensation is mysteriously at work to prevent the bright people from inheriting the world too fast. However, I do recognize the state of affairs that prompted the question, and it impels me to make the observation that if those of you who are very bright intellectually should take to being equally bright in leadership qualities, you would soon be having all the rest of us happily following you around. Now, on the other hand, if you aspire to do the most constructive thing possible in the general field of operations you select for yourself, I have an idea about that too. And it has the added advantage of providing you with the possibility of an extraordinarily interesting life. In this event, you will devote your excess energies to somewhat the reverse of the extreme specializations which I advanced as the surest road to fame. You will apply yourself to seeing and understanding, and then explaining how the manifold specialized operations in which we are engaged act and react upon one another to make up the whole. I don't know of any single term which clearly characterizes what I have in mind, but if I had to use a single term it would be to synthesize rather than specialize. As I look around the business community—as well as the larger national and international community—the gravest flaw I see is the inability of people who should be our leaders to take a tolerably broad view of what is going on and hence what needs to be done about it. Striking examples of what I have in mind can be found in the newspaper JULY, 1962
headlines every day. Take Africa for example. We are told what to do by military experts, economic experts, political experts, cultural experts, religious experts, to mention only a few specialists on the job. But how do we put all these specialized pieces into a meaningful and perhaps manageable whole? Virtually no one even starts to try and tell us. Yet such comprehension is a basic essential of an adequately enlightened community and is needed if this country hopes to be a leader in world affairs. So if you would embark on a goal that will give you perspective both in breadth and depth, not only will you be a scarce item, but the world will eventually beat a path to your door. And you will never need concern yourself about finding an interesting life. Top marks in business will bring greater rewards than those in school
By now I've run out of both time and ideas, so let me conclude on this note. Today, you are stepping out into a world of great new challenges and opportunities. You've had a wonderful training at Tech to prepare you for some of these challenges, and the economic environment you are entering is remarkably bright. Success in the business world is no harder to attain than success at college, if you will bring to it the same steadfastness of purpose, ambition, imagination, energy, and hard work that you did here at school. Not only that but the A's you may make in life bear all sorts of rewards that go beyond the A's you make at school. You are entering a world which is wonderful in its vitality, scientific ingenuity, and its potentiality for becoming civilized. Not only do you have a chance to help invent, design, produce and sell products and services that will make this country and others a better place to live, you even have an outside chance of helping eliminate man's historic inhumanity to man. So I congratulate you, and your parents, and Georgia Tech on your academic achievement celebrated here today, and I also congratulate you on the wonderful world you are formally entering. Reach out to meet it. And good luck in making the most and best of it. II
TECH ALUMNI GIVING WINS $3,000 IN AWARDS Only Princeton stood above your recent efforts in the category of sustained performance according to judges of the American Alumni Council competition. Tech with a total of $3,000 in prize money was the only Southern institution of higher learning listed among the six top winners in the fourth annual Alumni Giving Incentive Awards competition sponsored by the United States Steel Foundation and administered by the American Alumni Council it was announced on June 27 from Banff during the 47th annual conference of the American Alumni Council. The Georgia Tech National Alumni Association received $2,000 and a U. S. Steel trophy for second place in the Grand Awards for the "best sustained performance in alumni giving" by a university or college. First place winner in this category was Princeton University. The awards were presented for "distinguished achievement in the development of alumni support." Tech also was honored with the first place award of $1,000 and a trophy for the "best sustained performance" by a public institution in the nine-category competition BANFF, ALBERTA, CANADA—Georgia
Executive Secretary Roane Beard accepts the $3,000 check and Tech's trophy from Dr. W. Homer Turner in a hospital in Banff. Photograph by Joseph P. Consentino, The St. John's Redman
which qualified the winners for the grand awards' competition. This marked the second consecutive year that Tech had received first place in this category. More than 300 universities, colleges and schools in all parts of the United States and Canada submitted entries for the 1962 Incentive Awards, with the final selections made by a panel of judges experienced in the field of educational fund raising. Tech's record—over 40% of its alumni have contributed to the annual roll calls for seven consecutive years—is unmatched by a public institution in the history of alumni giving. The judging was done on the basis of results of campaigns prior to the 1961-62 year. During this year's campaign, which closed June 30, Tech alumni set a new record in percentage of alumni giving for a roll call with 12,230 of its alumni giving to the campaign, a percentage of 45.3%. Last year's record figures were 11,603 alumni contributors, a percentage of 44.2%. Chairman of this year's campaign was Dan McKeever, newly-elected vice president of the Association. For the sixth consecutive year, The Georgia Tech Alumnus was among the winners in the publications competition also sponsored by the American Alumni Council. The Tech magazine received a Special award for "significant editorial achievement" for its March, 1962 issue on "The State of College Humor." A picture from the February issue of the magazine (Snow Madness by Tech student Bernie Wenke) was also honored as one of the "25 best pictures of the year." In the national direct mail competition in connection with the conference, the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association received the third-place award for its dues and membership promotion campaign. Alumni Association Executive Secretary Roane Beard flew to Banff to attend the conference but was unable to attend the awards' ceremony. On his first night in Canada, Beard was stricken with acute appendicitis and was rushed to a local hospital where he received an emergency operation. He spent the week in the hospital and was presented the awards by Dr. Homer Turner, '25, executive director of the United States Steel Foundation. TECH ALUMNUS
by Mary Lane
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campus for a year, one of the South's most prominent high school teachers takes a look back at her experiences
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was the advice a fellow Waycross High School teacher gave me on how to act when I came to Tech—the only woman among thirty-one English professors and the first woman member of the department. Last May, I accepted Dr. A. J. Walker's offer to fill a year's vacancy left by Dr. Larry Rubin on a teachership to Poland: "I feel that the best value will be in your seeing the conditions under which we labor and the objectives we aim at," he wrote. "We in turn can learn from you much of what we have to expect from our students and gain a better understanding of high school problems." Frankly, I was, like Macbeth, full of saucy doubts and fears. Could 1 adjust to a college man's world after teaching high school boys and girls for over thirty years? When I made my reconnaissance visit to Tech in June, I was nervous as any freshman. On my way to the English department, I saw dozens of Techmen, casual in shorts and sneakers, who gave me opaque stares. They showed no surprise on seeing a woman in their domain. But maybe they mistook me for one of the fifty coeds on the campus. When my conference was over, Professors Haman and Hamrick invited me to lunch. Strolling back from "The Robbery," my heel struck a pebble and down I went. On that hot concrete I looked like Cleopatra stretched out on her barge. My new hat that I'd bought to boost my morale rolled into the shrubbery—along with my dignity. It took both men to hoist me. What a beginning to make on a new job! But I resolved to adjust no matter how often I fell down and had to be picked up. JULY, 1962
It took all summer to assemble an outfit I thought glamorous enough for the first departmental meeting in September. Dr. Walker had written that it would be followed by coffee in the lounge so that my male colleagues could meet me. But on the appointed day I was so enamoured with the idea of living in. the city and teaching at the renowned Georgia Institute of Technology that I forgot the meeting. I was having my beauty nap when the department secretary called: "Aren't you coming to the meeting?" "Oh-h-h-h," I groaned, "I'll be there in a minute." There wasn't time for the new outfit. I threw on a shirtwaist dress, a pair of hose with runs in them, my old-lady lace-up shoes, and tore out of my apartment. My watch told me I was already fifteen minutes late. Desperate, I looked to the right and the left for help. Two men lounged in a parked truck just inside the Tech gates. "Will you take me to the Classroom Building?" I implored. "Sure, lady," one said in astonishment, "but where is it?" (I hadn't noticed that they were not wearing the pinstriped uniform of Tech employees.) I directed them, and we roared up the hill. I arrived breathless, and all the men stood. Forgiveness is sweet! But during the year I was late to so many meetings that Dr. Walker's patience almost wore out. Occasionally he'd give me a mirthless smile. Sometimes I forgot to go at all! "I don't believe you like our meetings," he said. "But I do," I insisted. "I love them, but I'm not used to going to meetings on company time. In Waycross High School we teach five solid hours, with thirty minutes for homeroom, fifteen minutes for yard duty, and fifteen minutes for lunch. After all these years, I'm so geared up for work that I can't re13
MY MIND IS STILL OPEN-continued member your leisurely meetings when everybody is fresh and full of ideas. Back home I'm so tired when ours come at the end of a grueling day that I try to hide behind somebody and go to sleep. I can't CEREBRATE." (That is a word I picked up at Tech.) Those meetings are just one difference I found between teaching in college and high school. Tech professors have such heavenly working conditions that they can be both human and scholarly. With only two or three classes a day, they have time for talk and coffee in their lovely lounge. Here and at the Faculty Club, where we lunched, I tried to keep my mouth shut and my mind open but never succeeded very long. They have time for conferences with students and, best of all, time for STUDY. They don't go to class poorly prepared the way I've done in high school many times. And they have privacy. My office was an Elysian retreat, with air-conditioning, telephone, typewriter, a desk as long as the Waycross post office, and a swivel chair. (I nearly swiveled myself to death the first quarter.) And their classes are blessedly free of interruptions. Rarely at Tech is the sanctity of the classroom violated. Nobody barged in with announcements of basketball and football practice, tryouts for cheerleaders, glee club, band . . . I knew, of course, that Tech had many extracurricular activities going on all the time, but they never impinged on the classroom. And not once did a fire drill galvanize a class into frenzied action. (A fire just wouldn't dare break out while a professor was enthralling a class with T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men.") The atmosphere was strictly academic. When the steam whistle blasted the end of the hour, students moved purposefully toward the next class or conference. I admit, though, the first few days I was scared. Professor David Comer tried to quiet my fears. "Don't worry," he said. "They're more frightened than you. They'll never suspect that you haven't been here for fifty years—or a hundred." (Those were his exact words!) And he was right. The men seemed to accept me. (I called the students MEN, and the professors BOYS, a distinction which seemed to please everybody.) One of my former Waycross students, a senior at Tech, cautioned me the first day: "Don't be too easy. You don't want them to say 'Aw, that old lady'll pass me!' " Most Tech students, I soon discovered, are more seriousminded about mathematics, a five-hour course, and chemistry, a four-hour course, than -ffiey are about English, a three-hour course. And I could see how they would be, with the emphasis on the point-average. 1 heard one student congratulate himself on not getting a hard English instructor: "I have all I can worry about with math and chemistry. I just can't afford to worry about English too." I saw men working problems on paper napkins in the cafeteria, sitting on the sidewalks—anywhere. They often came to me leaden-eyed from staying up all night studying for a quiz—but rarely for one in English. Some of them confessed to writ14
ing themes after they'd worn themselves out studying everything else. I told a class that it was a new experience for me to teach a subject that ranked third in the curriculum. "Maybe you're in the wrong school, Miss Lane," a fellow said soberly. Offended, I took as my text the importance of English IN ANY SCHOOL: "A former president of Columbia University once said that the ability to use one's native tongue with felicity and precision is one of the marks of an educated man . . . " I drove home the point, I thought, that engineers weren't excluded from the world of the educated. The class didn't look impressed. When freshmen came to me for conferences, I learned much about their problems. Of course, many blamed inadequate high school training for their shortcomings. Nearly all said that they didn't write enough and weren't graded hard enough. I winced when their criticism hit my old bailiwick. What they failed to consider, though, was how little time high school English teachers have, with their heavy academic schedules and extracurricular duties. Some freshmen admitted concentrating more on sports and other activities than on their studies. How they wished they'd worked harder! One troubled fellow who couldn't get the hang of themewriting asked me: "Can't you give me a formula—you know, like we have in math?" Another said that every time he opened his English handbook he got sleepy. And one student misspelled WHO four times in one theme. He spelled it Ho. I tried to help those bewildered freshmen who were deft with figures and clumsy with words. I used every trick I'd acquired in high school and all those I'd picked up from Tech instructors. My biggest shock came when a student said he'd learned so much in my class that he wanted to fail the course so that he could repeat it and learn some more. I obliged him with an F. Not only did I enjoy teaching my own three courses of freshman English but was privileged to audit a merit freshman course under Professor Russell and two sophomore courses under Professors Almon and Rainey. In these literature classes it was easy to keep my mouth shut and my mind open. Good as the instructors were, the students were better. Discussions crackled. Everybody listened to everybody else. The very expressions on students' faces told me that they'd come a long way from high school's "Silas Marner." At lunch one day last fall, Dr. Weber, Dean of Faculties, asked me in fun what I'd like to change at Tech. All I could think of, in this land of God's plenty, was to swap that ear-splitting factory whistle with its Banshee wail for a carillon, perhaps, something that would connote culture instead of the dinner pail. When he asked me this same question again at the end of the year, I told him that I'd still like to see this innovation. "But, better still," I said, "I'd like to see students have the same passion for good writing that they have for mathematics and chemistry." Actually, I'd be willing to keep my mouth shut about that dreadful whistle if English could become the fair-haired child at Tech. TECH ALUMNUS
Photographs by Bob Bland of Bill Diehl Associates
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MARY LANE, TEACHER Since 1924, the woman pictured on this page has devoted her life to the teaching of English in Georgia high schools. Last fall at the request of Tech's English department, she took a year's leave from her duties as department head at Waycross High School to teach at the college level. Her impact on the Tech campus was dramatic. The students who labored under her regarded Miss Lane with the traditional mixture of fear and admiration always accorded a serious teacher. Her colleagues were full of praise for her work. "She taught us that the gulf between high school and college teaching is not impassable; good teachers remain good teachers," reported her department head, Dr. A. J. Walker. But perhaps another Tech English teacher summed up Mary Lane best when he said, "She was always so obsessed with maintaining Tech standards in her classes. I never had the nerve to tell her that her standards were often higher than ours."
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by Frank Bigger
PM has come to the Southeast, and thanks to it, the 7,239-seat addition to the athletic stadium at the Georgia Institute of Technology should be completed more than a month ahead of schedule—44 days before Tech's Yellow Jackets are slated to take on Clemson's Tigers in their first home game of the season. You've never heard of CPM? It's a fairly new development. .#• The letters stand for Critical Path Method, a new scheduling procedure which is presently claiming the limelight in engineering literature. CPM might be termed just another application of good industrial engineering techniques. In the simplest terms, CPM is super-colossal planning ahead. CPM can save loads of valuable time and piles of money. CPM and related decision techniques are highly versatile. A Navy operations team used a system closely akin to CPM to help make the Polaris Missile operational two years ahead of schedule. With CPM a chemical plant cut 37 per cent from shutdown time for a periodic maintenance job, gaining a valuable 97 production hours per month. CPM is responsible for some spectacular construction achievements far more complex than the double-decking of the East Stands of Tech's Grant Field, although this marks the first time the method has been applied to construction of an athletic stadium. CPM is a system for helping the executive make up his mind. The human mind, without assistance, cannot weigh the complexities in the development of a missile such as Polaris, the erection of a 40-story office building, the output of hundreds of products for millions of consumers. CPM and other scheduling plans are coming to the rescue. Before describing how CPM came to Georgia Tech, it is necessary to look closer at how CMP works. When CPM is applied, the initial move is to analyze all the work to be done on a given project, break it down into individual tasks, and then estimate how long each will probably take and how much it will cost. This information is now diagrammed as a network showing which activities must await completion of other jobs and which tasks can be carried on simultaneously with other phases of the project. This scheduling network is based on obvious logic that people commonly apply to their everyday activities. The overall time estimate to complete the project depends on a key concept, the critical path. The critical path is the sequence of jobs in which any holdup can delay completion of the entire project. On the other hand, if these critical path jobs are rushed, the whole project can be completed early. Usually, we will find that most of the tasks do not lie on the critical path and should they take a little longer than planned, our project will still meet its completion deadline. If a project is not too complex, an executive or a person continued on page 18
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CPM AND THE EAST STANDS-continued Stands' second deck, CPM's money-saving abilities were not a consideration. The contracts had been let several months earlier. But Athletic Assn. officials were becoming concerned about time. The deck had to be completed before September 22, date of the first game. They were using a modified second deck plan worked out in 1951 and then laid aside because of the steel shortages resulting from the Korean conflict. Bob Eskew, business manager of the Athletic Assn., said that this seemed to be the most economical plan for'Stadium enlargement. The Grant Field seating situation had become so acute he could not even fill ticket demands from active Tech alumni. Work began on December 4, 1961. The completion date was set for September 1. This date had to be changed because of a discovery in an Alabama city. Birmingham had recently enlarged its Legion Stadium with a second deck. This deck remained empty through the 1961 football season after structural shortcomings were found. This has since been corrected. Tech officials were 20
sure their second deck would be sound, but they wanted no repeat of the Legion Field situation. They revised their plans, incorporating more reinforcing steel into their second deck. Work never ceased during this time, but the completion date was moved to September 15. Even with weather delays taken into consideration, this was cutting things too close for comfort. Now CPM came to the Tech campus through John Vail, assistant professor of mathematics. Vail had been discussing some operations research techniques with Leon Robertson, a Tech alumnus and former Tech instructor. During one of their discussions, the use of CPM on construction projects came up and Vail said he thought it would be particularly suitable for the Tech stadium since time was a critical factor. After Vail consulted with Tech officials, Robertson's firm, Arthur Andersen & Co., an accounting organization, agreed to use CPM on the stadium. Robertson and Dick Culberson, a manager in the Arthur Andersen administrative services div. in Atlanta, spent several hours with the prime contractor, Capital Construction Co., and with sub-contractors TECH ALUMNUS
to secure the necessary information. Capital Construction is headed by Roswell and Doyle Butler, both graduates of Tech. Contractors supplied the work schedules for the network. Culberson and Robertson then produced the network for the stadium. Doubtless, the contractors could have met their projected completion deadline, but CPM showed them how they could do even better. Tech Coach Bobby Dodd said the network looked "foreign" when Vail delivered it to him, but that he did not see any reason why it wouldn't work in Tech's case after being so successful on other projects. Jt showed that stadium work could be completed as early as August 8! Eskew said that he was still confused about CPM until a matter of days before it was to go into effect. Then he read an article about the scheduling technique in Fortune Magazine and the whole thing became clear to him. CPM took over construction scheduling on April 30 and things began to hum. The network contained 107 steps to completion, inspection and acceptance. It showed the earliest possible completion time for each step, the latest possible completion time for each step and where the critical path lay. This critical path appeared where the earliest and latest completion times were the same. As shown in the network diagram accompanying this article, the deck was being constructed in five units. All the sub-surface work and Unit One, the north ramp, had been completed before application of CPM. Critical paths are shown on the diagram in heavy unbroken and broken lines. Broken lines indicate the physical movement of the path where certain events are not on the path and the numbers for these events are skipped. Events 1, 37, 65, and 28 are all shown on the critical path since none of the other work could proceed on the units until structural steel had been erected. Earliest and latest possible completion times in all these events were the same. American Bridge Co., structural steel contractors, brought the world's largest land crane to the site to erect the steel. The crane weighs 100 tons and has a boom 170 feet long. Eskew was worried about what this monstrous machine would do to the paving on Fowler St. By doing a little figuring in the palm of his hand with a pen, an American Bridge engineer showed Eskew that the crane's weight was so perfectly distributed on its tracks, that it would exert less pressure on a given spot than a woman's high heel shoe. Alter completing Unit Two, the network called for the gigantic crane to move to Unit Five, the south ramp, to erect steel there. However, a smaller crane took on this work, freeing the larger machine for work on Unit Three. This work was to begin on the 18th working day, May 24. Work actually began on the 10th working day, May 14, and was finished in less than three days. It was not scheduled for completion until May 29. American Bridge employees found that footings had been placed so accurately by Capital Construction's workers, Continued on page 22 JULY, 1962
CPM AND THE EAST STANDS—continued under the supervision of George Samples, that they were able to complete steel work on all units on the 36th working day. The network had given them 51 days! Favorable weather in this period was also a factor contributing to the speed with which the steel went in. Other contractors began moving ahead of completion dates, even leaving network estimates far behind. Promenade decking, for instance, had to be completed on the 52nd working day. It was all in on the 36th working day! The longest stretch of the critical path in the network appears on Unit Four. This is natural since structural steel for this unit was erected last. The path is critical from Event 65 to Event 66. Here the path splits since there is one day's leeway shown from Event 66 to Event 73. But now the path becomes critical from Event 74 to Event 79. Events 80, 81 and 82 are not critical. The network indicates three days of leeway for Event 80, three days for Event 81 and five days for Event 82. The path is now critical from Event 83 all the way through Event 89 since earliest possible and latest possible completion dates are the same. Electricians took advantage of American Bridge's huge crane before it was moved away on June 22. Because Tech Athletic Association officials were concerned about the possibility of lighting not being available on the east side of the field for the Georgia High School All Stars Game on August 2, the electricians rigged the lights in their cages on the ground and had the mighty crane life the cages onto their columns which were already in position. "The beautiful part of this network," Eskew remarked, "is that it shows us how individual operations are progressing, and whether the sub-contractors are meeting their schedules. Adjustments can be made in work schedules because it also reveals slack time which can be put to use." He said that short cuts often show up on work schedules when CPM is used. "Now the painters, the iron workers, the plumbers, the electricians—all are ahead of their schedules, thanks to CPM," Eskew said. Tech officials who had been gravely concerned about time only weeks before, are now breathing easy with CPM on the job. Their smiles broaden as the work progresses. CPM is paying off. They know they will have those 7.239 new stadium seats in plenty of time for the September 22 kickoff. Except for option and priority seats, Grant Field is already sold out for the season. The $886,585 second deck project raises the seating capacity of the stadium to 51,254. Contractors are now certain they can finish the work on August 8, the date shown on the critical path network, without rushing any individual tasks. This is how the Critical Path Method has worked on the Georgia Tech stadium. It has made the proper impression. Because of its versatility and its time and money-saving features, it could have a tremendous effect on accelerating the already expanding economy of the Southeast. TECH ALUMNUS
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THE SUDDENLY OPULENT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
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HE GENTLEMAN pictured on this page is Dr. Benjamin J. Dasher, Jr., '35, director of the School of Electrical Engineering. His rich office surroundings are a reflection of the great change in the habitat of the Electrical Engineering students on the campus this year. The reason for the sudden rise in stature of the largest of Tech's engineering schools is the new $3,300,000 EE Building located at the corner of Atlantic Drive and 4th Street. Designed by the architectural and engineering firm of Robert and Company, Associates, the modern, four-story structure replaces the dingy building erected for $20,000 in 1901. The new air-conditioned building was designed to give maximum flexibility of space utilization without compromising its suitability for present needs. For more about this impressive addition to the campus, please turn the page.
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AFTER YEARS OF POVERTY, A LOOK OF LUXURY
Westinghouse Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Newton Barnette in one of new labs which are a far cry from old ones.
The South end of the new Electrical Engineering Building is dominated by the circular structure which has been identified as everything from a reactor to a new-type particle accelerator by outsiders. Actually it houses the auditorium shown at the left. Down one of the spacious hallways come two EE professors, Dr. William B. Jones, Jr. and Dr. David L. Finn (left to right).
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Tfye- InstituteNew Nuclear Engineering School established
IN JULY Georgia Tech took two giant strides forward into the Nuclear Age with the establishment of a School of Nuclear Engineering and a Nuclear Sciences Research Division. The new school offers a graduate program leading to a master's degree in nuclear engineering and the research division will function as a part of Tech's Engineering Experiment Station. According to Dr. William B. Harrison, who heads the new school and research division, the graduate nuclear program actually has been offered at Tech for the past five years, but courses were taken through other departments. Students pursuing nuclear studies were regarded as members of the School of Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, for instance. T h e new School of Nuclear Engineering will provide for the administrative needs of these students. The most significant addition to Tech's nuclear program will be the $4.5 million reactor facility due for completion late this year. "When the reactor goes into operation," Harrison said, "opportunities will be greatly expanded for our graduate research. "The reactor will increase possibilities for these studies by advanced studeijfc," he added, "and although the present nuclear program is limited to master's degree level, we are preparing to offer the Ph.D. in nuclear engineering as soon as possible." Thirteen faculty members honored on retirement
THIRTEEN well-known Tech staff members were honored upon their retirement during the annual faculty dinner held May 15. Seven other members of the staff received recognition for completing 25 years' service to the Institute. 26
Leading the retiring members on years of service was Earle E. Bortell, associate professor in the School of Physics, with 41 years at Tech. Closely following Professor Bortell were William B. Johns, Jr., director of the School of Engineering Mechanics, with 40 years; Miss Mary Eleazar Brown, administrative assistant to the Dean of Faculties, with 40 years; and Dr. Homer S. Weber, director of the School of Mechanical Engineering, with 38 years. Other retiring members included Ernest W. Aldredge, associate professor of Industrial Management; Winfield A. Brooks, associate professor of Industrial Engineering; Claude J. Brown, shop technician, Engineering Experiment Station; Albert E. Cannon, professor of Applied Biology; Dr. Joseph G. Mayton, lecturer in Modern Languages; Francis J. Mee, lecturer in Engineering Mechanics; Alfred T. Navarre, associate professor of Ceramic Engineering; Harry C. Savage, Jr., associate professor of Engineering Mechanics; and Miss Bessie C. Sharp, bookkeeper. Engineering Extension Division. Receiving awards for twenty-five years of active service were Robert L. Allen, professor of Mechanical Engineering; Albert E. Cannon, professor of Applied Biology; Norris C. Dean, associate professor of Physical Training; Horace O. Foster, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering; Chandler H. Holton. associate professor of Mathematics; Fred Lanoue, professor of Physical Training; and Mrs. Martha E. Tallent, telephone operator, Office of the Controller. Tech gets first-of-its-kind research project
A $40,000 TECHNICAL assistance contract with Georgia Tech for study of economic potentials in Carroll County has been approved by the Area Redevelopment Administration of the U. S. Commerce Dept. It is the first program of its type in the nation. The project, to be carried out by Georgia Tech's Industrial Development Branch is designed to help Carroll County organize and
implement a systematic balanced, longrange development program. Results of the project will also prove valuable to other redevelopment areas in planning for economic development to create new employment opportunities. Included in the Carroll program will be basic surveys of the county's economic assets and liabilities; assessment of markets, raw materials and transportation facilities; studies of the labor force and retaining needs; analysis of industrial sites; and contact with industrial firms to help them locate or expand in the area. Over the past five years, Tech's Industrial Development Branch has conducted feasibility studies of Georgia's economy and has analyzed development problems of a number of local areas. The Carroll study will dovetail with this previous work. One of the principal features of the Area Redevelopment Act, signed into law by President Kennedy a year ago, is the provision for technical assistance projects to help local redevelopment areas work out imaginative and effective programs and to break bottlenecks holding back economic advancement. Tech Library Receives High Honor PRICE GILBERT LIBRARY at the
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stitute of Technology has been selected as one of 12 new Regional Technical Report Centers in the nation, according to the National Science Foundation ( N S F ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce. These centers will make more widely available the unclassified results of government-sponsored research and development programs. Planning and coordination of the report center system will be carried out by the Office of Technical Services, Department of Commerce. Funding and other assistance for beginning the system will come from NSF's Office of Science Information Service. Three agencies produce an estimated 90 per cent of the government's unclassified TECH ALUMNUS
technical reports. These are the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Adm., and the Atomic Energy Comm. They have agreed to provide copies of their reports for deposit at each of the centers. The new system is designed to ease a long-standing problem of disseminating news on results of projects to scientists and technicians. Other universities and libraries selected as report centers include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Crerar Library (Chicago), Southern Methodist University. University of Colorado, Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, Mo.), University of California (Los Angeles), Columbia University, Carnegie Library (Pittsburgh), University of California (Berkeley), University of Washington, and the Library of Congress. Parents' Day d r a w s over 850 to campus
OVER 850 parents of Tech students attended the fourth annual Parents' Day held on the campus, April 28. The parents received an inside view of the Institute through a program arranged by the Parents' Day Committee, and the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. Tech's Jack Hine receives top chemistry honor
DR. JACK HINE, regents' professor of chemistry at Georgia Tech was the eleventh recipient of the Florida Section, American Chemical Society Award. The formal presentation of the Florida Section Award was made during the annual Meeting-in-Miniature banquet at the Hotel Robert Meyer in Jacksonville, May 11. The presentation was made by the Florida Section Chairman, Dr. Harry H. Sisler, Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Florida. This award was first presented in 1952 to Dr. Paul Gross of the Chemistry Department of Duke University, and it has been presented annually since then to one from the South who has shown outstanding ability and contributions in research, teaching, and administration, or particularly a combination of these. Hine, one of Tech's best-known scientists, was born in Corondo, California, June 2, 1923, and received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas in 1943, after which he worked as an assistant research chemist with Cities Service Oil Company until 1945. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1947. During 194748, he was a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and during 1948-49, a du Pont Fellow at Harvard. He joined the faculty of Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in 1949, was promoted to associate professor in 1951, to the rank of professor in 1954, and to Regents' Professor in 1958. In addition to the American Chemical Society membership, Doctor Hine • is a member of the Chemical Society of London. He has contributed numerous papers to the periodical literature and is author of the book Physical Organic Chemistry, JULY, 1 9 6 2
the second edition of which he has just completed. His research interests have been in reaction mechanisms and the effect of structure on chemical reactivity, particularly for organic polyhalides. Big day for the scholars
THE TWO TOP scholastic awards of 1962 at Georgia Tech went to Stanley S. Sattinger, Jeffersonville, New York, who received the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Cup, and Richard Dillon Barksdale, Oakland, Florida, who received the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Cup. Mr. Sattinger is a student in the School of Mechanical Engineering, and Mr. Barksdale is majoring in Civil Engineering. The cups were presented at the annual Honors' Exercises of the Institute held on June 7. Dr. Vernon Crawford, chairman of the Honors' Committee presided and President Edwin D. Harrison extended greetings. In addition to the two top honors, 30 other individual scholastic awards were presented; and groups of students were inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma freshman scholarship society, the Tau Beta Pi national honorary engineering fraternity, and the Phi Kappa Phi senior honor society. Interfraternity Scholarship Cups were presented to Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Chi, and Chi Psi. Five more top scholars visit Tech
DURING the past two months, five of the world's leading scholars including a Nobel Prize winner have visited Georgia Tech under the auspices of the Neely Visiting Professorship Fund, established by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Neely, '04, of Atlanta. Dr. Walter Marshall, Director of Theoretical Physics Division, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, the sixth of the 196162 series of top scientists or engineers brought to the campus through this Fund, talked to students and faculty members on April 26 and 27. On the 27th he conducted a seminar, "The Present Understanding of Magnetism in Iron-group Metals and Compounds." An internationally recognized authority on the theory of solids, Doctor Marshall was a special lecturer at both the University of California and at Harvard University before assuming his present duties at Harwell. Dr. Milton E. Raville, Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Mechanics at Kansas State University, was the seventh of the 1961-62 series. Doctor Raville visited Tech on April 30 and May 1 to present lectures on "An Extension of the Rayleigh-Ritz Procedure," and "The Education of Aerospace Engineers." Doctor Raville has been a member of the Kansas State University engineering staff since 1947, and professor and head of the Department of Applied Mechanics since 1956. The 1936 Nobel prize winner in chemistry, Dr. Peter J. W. Debye, Professor-
Emeritus of Chemistry at Cornell University, lectured on the campus on May 8 and 9. He spoke on the subjects "Spotlights on Science in the Early Years of the Century," and "Structure Determination by Scattering of Radiation." An internationally renowned scientist, Professor Debye is founder and co-founder of several sub-disciplines, and is known to all chemists and physicists for the major role he has played in the development of modern science. The distinguished visitor was born in Holland in 1884, and became a U.S. citizen in 19^6-. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Aachen, and a Ph.D. degree from Munich University. Doctor Debye has received honorary doctoral degrees from Oxford University in England, Sofia University in Bulgaria, and Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Switzerland; and in the United States from Harvard University, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, Colgate University, and Boston University. Before joining the staff of Cornell in 1940, he served on university faculties in Germany and Switzerland, and has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad. In addition to the Nobel prize, he is the recipient of the Rumford Medal (Royal Society, London); Lorentz Medal (Royal Dutch Academy); Max Planck Medal (West Germany Physics Society); two American Chemical Society awards, and others. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and academies in both the United States and Europe. Professor Joe Mauk Smith of the University of California, Davis, California, spoke at Tech on May 14, on the subject, "Transport Rates Within Porous Catalysts.'' The lecture presented experimental observations and theoretical concepts relating transport rates to geometrical properties of alumnina systems. In addition to his wide academic experience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, Purdue University, University of New Hampshire, and Northwestern University, he has conducted extensive research for several large chemical and petroleum companies, as well as for the United States Government. He received a Fulbright Research Scholar Award for study in the Netherlands, and was a Humble Lecturer in Science; Peter C. Reilly Lecturer at Notre Dame; and, in 1960, was the recipient of the William H. Walker Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. R. M. Evan-Iwanowski, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University, visited the Tech campus on May 24 and 25. During his visit, Dr. Evan-Iwanowski delivered two lectures on the subjects "Dynamic Stability of Plates," and "Stability of Shells-Nonlinear Theories." His teaching experience started at Warsaw Polytechnical Institute. In 1949, he was an Instructor at Cornell University 27
seniors present. The winner of the Blake R. Van Leer Memorial Scholarship was Edward Allen Sessions, who entered Tech Six Tech alumni were among the 131 in the summer on the Co-op plan. Others killed in the tragic June 3 crash of a present were Mike Robinson, Howard while completing his Doctorate, and he chartered Air France jet at Orly airport Tellepsen, Jr., Christopher Vamvakias and has been associated with Syracuse Uninear Paris. The Atlanta A r t Association James H. Watts. Bill Hendrix was chairversity since 1954. had chartered the plane for a tour of Europe and it was taking off for the return man of the nominating committee. Officers Interested in anything which moves elected for the coming year were: Billey flight with 106 Atlantans aboard when it a n d / o r deforms, he is presently engaged in E. Curry, president; A. J. Mundy. vice crashed and burned with only two survivors, research on the stability of thin-walled president; Robert G. Groves, secretary; both stewardesses. shells, and is starting a program on dynamic Sidney Loudermilk, treasurer; and James stability of structural elements. He is asTech men killed included Paul G. Barsociated with the Oak Ridge National nett '22; D. Randolph Berry, '41, (and M. Morris, director-at-large. Laboratory, Applied Mechanics Section of Mrs. Berry); Fred W. Bull, '33. (and A new award was given for the first the Reactor Division; and with Babcock Mrs. Bull and two children and his time. It was for the "Most Outstanding and Wilcox Laboratory in Alliance, Ohio. mother, Mrs. Mary Bull); Thomas G. Alumnus in the South Texas Alumni AsLittle, '35, (and Mrs. Little); David G. sociation." The winner was Robert B. Murphy, '42, (and Mrs. M u r p h y ) ; and Melanson. Guest speaker was Alumni Sigma Xi honors nine Tech men Vassar Wooley, '17. Also killed in the Secretary Roane Beard who talked about crash were Mrs. Percy H. Perkins, wife of several aspects of Georgia Tech life and D R . ROBERT H. KASRIEL, associate profesP. H. Perkins, Jr., '27; and Miss Dorothy showed slides of the campus and some sor of Mathematics at Tech, delivered the Brine, a research assistant at the Tech faculty personalities. 1962 research prize lecture at the annual Engineering Experiment Station. Additional Sigma Xi initiation and awards banquet. details on Tech alumni lost in the tragedy June 5. Doctor Kasriel was the first prize HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA — Dr. M. J. Goglia, are listed in the class notes section under winner in the faculty category for his Dean of the Georgia Tech Graduate the individual alumni involved. paper on "Stability of Certain Quasi-open . School, was guest speaker at the Huntsville Mappings" in the annual research comGeorgia Tech Alumni meeting on May 26. petition sponsored by this leading national Dr. Goglia told sixty-five alumni and scientific research society. His talk was on guests about the long range academic and "Topological Methods in Analysis." The research program now being developed at second prize in the faculty award comthe institution. At the meeting the followpetition was shared by Dr. H. A. Flaschka, ing officers were elected: Paschal E. ReddChemistry, and Dr. M. L. Meeks, Physics. ing, Jr., president; Verne Hutchens. vice BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA — Tech coach. president; Bill Fiser, treasurer; and Bob Jack Griffin, was the featured speaker at First prize for a doctoral student went Puckett, secretary. the May 11 meeting of the Birmingham to Olin M. Fuller, Jr., Chemical Engineerclub. Over 80 alumni, friends, and prospecing. Second prize was shared by Arne Hative students turned out to hear Griffin's aland, Chemistry; and Robert Techo, MACON, GEORGIA — Alice and Bobby Dodd appraisal of the 1962 Tech team. During Chemical Engineering. and the Goodloes were the special guests the business meeting, David L. Thompson, at the annual ladies night meeting of the Wilbur J. Stiles, Mathematics, was Macon Georgia Tech Club held May 29. Jr. was announced as the winner of the awarded first prize for a student working Coach Dodd, of course, was the speaker $850 Birmingham Club's annual scholaron a master's degree. at the meeting attended by 152 Tech ship award. First prize in the undergraduate catealumni and guests. New scholarship winners gory went to John A. Copeland, Physics; announced by the Club that evening were CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE — Over 100 and the second prize to Jesse H. Hall, Thomas R. Losson and James A. Wilkes. alumni from the Chattanooga area turned Chemistry. The two students entered Tech in the sumout on May 19 to hear special guest speaker Prior to the banquet, the society initiated mer co-op section with funds provided by Bobby Dodd talk about the coming football 33 new faculty and student members. season and the relationship of Tech's athletic the Macon Club and the Atlanta Club unNew officers of the Georgia Tech Chapder the Atlanta Club's matching-grant proprogram to its educational programs. ter of Sigma Xi include Dr. W. H. Ebergram. Officers elected at the meeting inhardt, Chemistry, president; Dr. Robert cluded A. J. "Duck" Swann, Jr., president; H. Fetner, Applied Biology, vice-presiCINCINNATI, O H I O — The Georgia Tech Robert E. Pendleton, first vice president; dent; and Dr. Clyde Orr, Jr., Chemical Club of Cincinnati heard Dr. Rocker Staton, A. I. McCowen, Jr., second vice presiEngineering, treasurer. Dr. E. H. Loveland, associate dean of engineering, speak on dent; and Donald D. Comer, secretaryPsychology, was reelected to serve as secre"Tech's recent accomplishments and future treasurer. tary. Outgoing president, D r . E. W. Mcplans'' at the April 11 meeting. During the Daniel, Electrical Engineering, presided at business meeting, the following new ofthe initiation and banquet. ficers were elected: Dean Lennard, presiN E W YORK CITY, N E W YORK — The New dent; Jack Prall, vice president; and John York Georgia Tech Club held its regular Rinell, secretary-treasurer. spring meeting at Reeves Sound Studios on Tech alumnus named chaplain at All Saints May 17. Ninety-four Tech men and Mrs. Dot Crosland were present. Guest speakers HARWOOD (WOODY) BARTLETT, Matljc- '56, DENVER, COLORADO — Registrar William were Coach Bobby Dodd and Alumni Secrehas been assigned as college chaplain and Carmichael spoke to the Denver Georgia tary Roane Beard. Coach Dodd talked an assistant on the clergy staff at All Saints Tech Club at its June 20 meeting. Carabout athletics at Tech, with emphasis on (Episcopal) Church. He replaces the Rev. michael brought the members up-to-date the football team. A question and answer James M. Coleman, w h o has accepted on the campus through a slide presentation. period followed. Beard talked about the another assignment. institution and the Alumni Association. Bartlett, editor of the Blue Print and HOUSTON, TEXAS — The South Texas president of O D K while at Tech, graduated Georgia Tech Alumni Club held its spring from Virginia Theological Seminary on meeting May 22 with 85 present, including NORFOLK, VIRGINIA — The Tidewater May 24, 1962. Prior to attending the wives and five high school seniors who will Georgia Tech Alumni Club held a dinner seminary, he served three years as an Air enter Tech in the summer or fall of 1962. meeting on May 18 at the Lafayette Force officer. Adrian Bolch presided at the meeting. RigYacht. Lenny Frieden, '50, presided at the don Currie, chairman of the scholarship meeting. Officers elected for the coming Bartlett's father, George P. Bartlett, committee, introduced the high school year were: Bob McGraine, president; is also a Tech graduate, class of 1923.
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lanta-Fulton County Planning Board. Vassar Woolley was killed in a plane crash in Paris, France, June 3. He had been on a tour of Europe with members of the Atlanta Art Association. Mr. Woolley was chairman of the Seydel-Woolley, Inc. in Atlanta.
April 5 after a long illness. He was an architectural engineer with the Federal Works Agency until his retirement in 1960. His widow lives at 116 Greenwood Avenue, Decatur, Georgia.
William S. Lovell has been re-elected councilman for his 15th term for the town of Savannah Beach, Georgia.
I « Q Walter K. Krauth died May 30 in an Z O Atlanta hospital. He was a scaffolding engineer for Safway Steel Scaffolds Company. His widow lives at 521 West Lyle Avenue, College Park, Georgia.
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7 j Q W. W. McCrea retired April 30, 1 3 1962 from Southern Bell after 40 years of service. At the time of his retirement he was staff building engineer in Operations-West, Atlanta, Georgia. He lives at 2732 Memorial Drive, S.E., Atlanta, Georgia. 1M William C. McBride died May 23 at L\ his home, 109 Sybil Lane, Marietta, Georgia. He is survived by his widow.
California, died December 29, 1961. /•". Hammond Hardin, ME, of Sea Island, Georgia, died in March of 1962. He is survived by his widow. Ray Cowles Werner, ChE, died June 8 in an Atlanta hospital. He was associated with Travelers Insurance Company at the time of his death. His widow lives at 758 Wildwood Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Redding Sims, EE, of New Orleans, Louisiana, died June 6 while touring England. Formerly of Washington, Georgia and Atlanta, he had lived in New Orleans for a number of years. Prior to his retirement, he owned the National Blowpipe Company. He is survived by his widow.
i o n Paul G. Barnett was killed June 3 Liin a plane crash in Paris, France. He had been touring Europe with members of the Atlanta Art Association. Mr. Barnett had been an engineer with Southern Bell for 30 years. His widow lives at 3456 Piedmont Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. W. L. Kling, CE, retired April 1 from Combustion Engineering, Inc. in Chattanooga. He was in the Nuclear Engineering Department. Mr. Kling now lives at Rock Springs, Georgia. Paul O. Strihling, Jr., TE, died in April, 1962. His widow lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Claude E. Anderson, Sr., EE, died in May of a heart attack. He is survived by his widow, who lives at 920 East Currahee Street, Toccoa, Georgia. Married: C. Pomeroy Goree, ME, to Mrs. Frank M. Stevens, June 1, They live at 3660 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. John Wilson Spears, Sr., EE, died May 25 at his home, 3518 Roswell Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. He was a retired manufacturers representative. Mr. Spears is survived by his widow who lives at the above address. >*
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' 0 0 Raymon<l R- Collier, of Dawson, OUVGeorgia died recently. No further information was available at this writing. James H. Conely, CE, retired as Lieutenant Colonel from the Air Force at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas last October after more than 31 years' active duty. At the time of his retirement he was Deputy Base Commander for Civil Engineering at Carswell. He is now employed in a civilian capacity as Chief of the Facilities Section, Directorate of Civil Engineering, Headquarters, 2nd Air Force, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. David Daniel Smiley died April 25 of a heart attack. He was superintendent of Salisbury and Cone Mills prior to his retirement a year ago. His widow lives at 213 West Thomas Street, Salisbury, North Caro-
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' 0 0 Frederick W. Bull, his wife and two 00 daughters were killed in a plane crash June 3 in Paris, France. They had been touring Europe with members of the Atlanta Art Association. Mr. Bull was a partner in the consulting engineering firm of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. There are no immediate survivors. William F. Mitchell, ME, has been awarded Chemical Market Research Association's award for 1962. Accompanying this award is a $1,000 scholarship to be given to the school of the recipient's choice. Mr. Mitchell will contribute this to Georgia Tech. He is vice president of General Mills, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. »Q J George M. Chastain, Jr., ChE, has v T been promoted to manager of the Hercules Powder Company plant at Lake Charles, Louisiana. He lives at 813 Henrietta Lane. Lawrence Wood Robert, III died lune 10 at his home, 248 West Andrews Drive, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. He was national sales representative for the Coca-Cola Company. Mr. Robert is survived by his son, L. W. Robert, IV; daughter, Mrs. Helen Schendl, and father, Mr. L. W. Robert, Jr. • Q E Thomas G. Little was killed in a 0%3 plane crash in Paris, France, June 3. He had been on a European tour sponsored by the Atlanta Art Association. His wife was also killed in the crash. Mr. Little headed his own architectural firm in Atlanta. They are survived by a daughter 29
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and son, both of Atlanta. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Richards, Raymond C. Broach, ME, a son, Lee Wiley, May 27. Mr. Rich'21, Atlanta Gas Light ards is president of Southwire in CarrollCo. vice president and ton, Georgia. Macon division manager, retired on June 30, W. C. Vereen has- been elected a diafter 32 years with the rector of the Southern Company. He company. Broach joined the company as a house- is president of Moultrie Cotton Mills and heating engineer. He be- Riverside Manufacturing Company. came Macon manager in 1942 after serving five Daws L. Echols, GS, has announced years as manager at the formation of Echols & Lynn Rome, Ga. Company, Industrial Realtors, with offices Thomas O. Ott, '27, has at 405 Vaughn Building, Dallas, Texas. opened an office in Spartanburg, S. C. as a con- I Q Q William T. Harbin, ChE, is now sulting engineer. He re- 0 0 plant manager for Thompson Chemsigned as senior textile ical Company at their Hebronville, Massaengineer for Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc. chusetts plant. His home address is 32 in April to enter busi- South Angell Street, Providence 6, Rhode ness on his own. Ott is Island. a registered professional engineer and a member ' Q Q Virgil W. Mourning, IM, was killed of numerous engineer0 3 May 22 in a plane crash in Missouri. ing societies. He was a representative in the new business Colonel John G. Turner, department with the Dodge Division of the '33, has been nominated Chrysler Corporation. His widow lives at by President Kennedy to 32950 Grimsby Lane, Franklin, Michigan. be promoted to the rank Dillard Munford, ME, has been elected of Brigadier General, president of the Young Presidents' OrU. S. Army. Turner, holder of the Legion of ganization, an international group of young, Merit with Oak Leaf successful chief executives. Mr. Munford is Cluster, currently is the president of the Munford Company, Inc., Chief of Staff for 6th Atlanta, Georgia. Region, Army Air Defense, Fort Baker, Calif. ' A f l LL CO1- Paul F' Cottingham, USAF, W. B. Hambright, '36, H U recently graduated from the U. S. formerly Atlanta distri- Air Force's senior professional school at bution superintendent the Air University War College, Maxwell for Atlanta Gas Light Air Force Base, Alabama. Paul D. Cunningham, retired engineer Co., has been named the new Macon division for the Georgia Power Company, died manager replacing the April 11 at his home, 1262 Euclid Avenue, retiring R. C. Broach, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. His widow lives at '21 (see above). Ham- the above address. bright joined the company in 1934 and has D. Randolph Berry was killed in a been in his present posi- J y l | plane crash June 3 in Paris, France. tion since 1945. He was vice president of Scripto in AtDavid G. Bowser, '38, lanta. Mr. Berry was in England on a busihas been elected vice president — ferroalloys ness trip and had joined his wife, who was for the Interlake Iron also killed in the crash, in Paris for the Corp. of Cleveland, return flight home. Mrs. Berry was a memOhio. Bowser has man- ber of the Atlanta Art Association tour. aged Interlake's ferro- They are survived by two children who live alloys operations since at 376 Manor Ridge Drive, N.W., Atlanta, 1959. He joined the Georgia. company in 1957 when Edward Graf, USAF, ME, has been proit acquired Globe Metalmoted to lieutenant colonel. He is a project lurgical Corp. '*&' officer in the Ballistic Systems Division of David A. Armstrong, Air Force Systems Commandant at Los '47, is the new director Angeles, California. of marketing at InterMajor James P. Smith, Jr., USAF, IM, state Electronics Corp., has received a regular commission in the Anaheim, California, a U. S. Air Force. He previously held a resubsidiary of Interstate serve commission. Major Smith is a materiel Engineering Corp. Armstrong was product man- staff officer at Robins Air Force Base, ager of data display Georgia. systems at General Dynamics/Electronics prior to his appointment. plane crash June 3 in Paris, France. An architect with Aeck Associates in At-
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lanta, he had been sent to Europe by his firm to observe architecture in European countries. He and his wife, who was also killed in the crash, had joined the Atlanta Art Association tour for the return flight home. .They are survived by four children who live at 87 East Wesley Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. John F. Thompson, ChE, has been appointed plant manager of Monsanto Chemical Company's Kearny, New Jersey plant. Fy| Q Alvin M. Ferst, Jr., IM, has been H O promoted from assistant vice president to vice president and superintendent of plant management and construction for Rich's, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. Lt. Colonel Charles A. McLeod, USA, CE, has completed the 16-week associate course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Macon Crawford Pippen, IM, died May 23. He had been associated with the Exchange Distributing Company for the past 16 years. He is survived by his widow and three children who live at 2157 Mountain View Drive, Birmingham, Alabama, and a brother, Tom S. Pippen, '40, also of Birmingham. ' A A ^' DouSias Garner, ME, has reH H ceived an award for the conception of an attitude control system at Langley Research Center, Virginia. Married: Dr. Erling Grovenstein, Jr., Chem, to Miss Lillian Anne Enloe, June 23. Dr. Grovenstein is professor of chemistry at Georgia Tech. Charles R. Johnson has been named director of plant operations at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia. C. Barry Neill has joined H. Clay Moore and Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. I 1 C Major Ebbin P. Scott, USA, recently T U graduated from the U. S. Air Force Command and Staff College at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. f J *J Mimms I. Cleveland, ME, has been H U appointed manager of installation and service engineering for Turbines, Gulf Coast Territory, with General Electric in Houston, Texas. Walter A. Ketcham, AE, has been appointed general marketing manager for Alabama for Southern Bell. His offices are in Birmingham, Alabama. William E. Scott, ME, died May 16, 1962. He was a sales representative for the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company. His widow lives at 2880 Mockingbird Lane, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia. IM "I George B. Campbell, EE, has been Hi elected a vice president of the Alabama Power Company. He is in charge of the adaptation and application of electronic data processing to the operation of various departments. He lives at 1345 Panorama Drive, Birmingham 16, Alabama. William E. Ehrensperger has been promoted to assistant manager of the construction department with Georgia Power Company in Atlanta, Georgia. TECH ALUMNUS
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Under C. Hobbs, EE, has formed a consulting Arm under the name of Hobbs Associates. His business address is P. O. Box 386, Corona Del Mar, California. C. T. Nixon, ChE, has been appointed vice president of Ashcraft-Wilkinson Company in Atlanta. John T. Paradise, IE, has been appointed Southeastern District Manager of Distributor Sales with SKF in Charlotte, North Carolina. J. Nelson Willis, IM, has been named general manager, communications _ systems and services-sales, with Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, New York. *ÂŁ
Robert S. Brooks, TE, has been appointed a product manager, Textile Dyes, for Allied Chemical's National Aniline Division, New York, New York. John W. Cronin, IM, has been appointed general agent for one of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company's Philadelphia agencies in Miami, Florida. Arthur Henderson, Jr., ME, was chosen recently to present one of his research papers at the Specialist meeting on the High Temperature Aspect of Hypersonic Flow at N A T O , Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium. He is an Aerospace Technologist, Head, Helium Tunnels Sections, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. Wesley F. Johnson, GE, division sales supervisor for Georgia Power Company in Rome, Georgia, has been named Rome's outstanding Young Man of the Year by the Committee of Senior Citizens of that city. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal. Ernest Mastin, Arch, Atlanta, won second prize in this year's architectural competition sponsored by the Georgia Concrete Masonry Association. Alan E. Thomas, IE, has been granted a Sloan Fellowship for 1962-63. He entered MIT in lune to work on his masters in Industrial Management. Mr. Thomas is with Southern Bell in Nashville, Tennessee. Sidney F. Williams, Jr., ME, has received a second honor at the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratories, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. In addition to being the Mechanical Engineering Department's nominee for the Director's Technological Achievement Award, he received a cash award for "Sustained Superior Performance" of his duties. Emory D. Ayers, CE, has received a Master's Degree in Business Administration from New York University. Mr. Ayers is employed as an Industrial Engineering Consultant with Union Carbide Corporation. Lt. Joseph E. Brown, USA, ChE, has completed the chemical officer career course at The Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Married: L. Massey Clarkson, IM, to Miss Judith E. Hull, May 19, 1962. Massey is JULY, 1962
with Courts and Company. They live at 1630 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Apartment 11, Atlanta 9, Georgia. Louis Drane, Arch, recently elected secretary of the Georgia Tech Club of Savannah, Georgia, is recovering from a fractured hip suffered in an auto accident. Jesse D. Walton, Jr., Ceramics, research engineer and head of the Ceramics Branch at the Georgia Tech Experiment Station, attended the 64th Annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society in New York City. He served as session chairman for the Society's Ceramic Metal Systems Division. Captain Roy L. West, U S A F , Arch, recently graduated from the U. S. Air Force Command and Staff College at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. C I Married: James Clinton Clark, EE, *" to Miss Charlotte Adams, June 9. Mr. Clark is a partner in the firm of Mauldin-Clark & Associates, Columbus, Georgia. Born to: Captain and Mrs. Charles R. Eckerman, USAF, IM, a son, Brent Robert, April 13. Captain Eckerman's address is Headquarters, 17th Air Force, D C S / C o m munications, APO 12, New York, New York. Will C. Gordon, IM, will join the faculty of Bluefield College, Bluefield, Virginia in September as professor of business administration. Phillip Reese Upchurch, IE, died unexpectedly May 13 in Augusta, Georgia. He was district service manager for Westinghouse in Atlanta. His widow lives at 542 Oakdale Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' C O Blakely Dewey Ellis, Arch, of Val* * ^ dosta, Georgia, is this year's winner of the Georgia architectural competition sponsored by the Georgia Concrete Masonry Association. Edward R. Evans, ME, is an administrative assistant with the U. S. Forest Service. He lives at 491 East Bald Mountain Road, Sonora, California. C. E. Quentel, EE, is manager, Systems and Electronic Products Sales for the Square D Company. He will remain in Milwaukee. Mr. Quentel lives at 5159 North Santa Monica Boulevard, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. McKinney V. Taylor, CE, a daughter, Patricia Carolyn, March 16. They live at 1001 N . W. 14th Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ' C O Robert C. Freeman, TE, has been **%* transferred to the Charlotte District Sales Office with Chemstrand as a salesman. Born to: Dr. and Mrs. Robert Techo, ChE, a son, Eric Alan, March 20. ' C A Engaged: Frank Homer Bell, Jr.; IM, ** to Miss Jeanne Anne Jewett. Mr. Bell is with IBM in Atlanta, Georgia. George L. Harlow, IE, is a lieutenant commander with the U. S. Public Health Service Sanitary Engineering Commissioned Corps. He recently received his masters in sanitary engineering from the University of Michigan. His home address is 3393 Grange Road, Trenton, Michigan. Married: Howard King Hubbard to Miss
Nancy C a m p in June. Mr. Hubbard is with General Electric in Syracuse, New York. F. C. Immich, EE, is a representative of the engineering and loss control division of Travelers Insurance Company in New Orleans. He lives at 1817 Airline Park Boulevard, Metairie, Louisiana. Bobby D. Jones, EE, is the new president of the Rome (Georgia) Junior Chamber of Commerce. He is commercial sales engineer for Georgia Power Company in Rome, Georgia. Robert M. Sharp, ChE, has been promoted to supervising engineer in the Cracking a'rfo Light Ends Department, Process Technical Division at Humble Oil, Baytown, Texas. Married: Benjamin I. Stegall, Jr., IE, to Miss Doris Ilene Schoenberg, March 4, 1962. Mr. Stegall is an account executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith at their Wilshire Boulevard Office, Los Angeles, California. ' C C Captain John Anderson, Jr., USAF, ^ ^ IE, has been named co-winner of the U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Trophy in the current graduating class at the Squadron School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He is now assigned to Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. James A. Bushong is now a project engineer with the U. S. Navy, Resident Office in Charge-Pacific Area, San Bruno, California. Captain Charles E. Connors, Jr., USAF, IM, has been re-assigned to George Air Force Base, California following graduation from the U. S. Air Force Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Thomas W. Donaldson, IM, recently graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a masters degree in industrial engineering. His address is 6 Ward Street, Suffern, New York. Captain Robert S. Greever, USAF, AE, has been re-assigned to Kelly Air Force Base, Texas following graduation from the U. S. Air Force Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Captain Leland H. Gregory, Jr., USAF, IM, has been assigned to Dow Air Force Base, Maine, following graduation from the U. S. Air Force Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Henry C. Howard, USAF, AE, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force at the Pentagon, Washington, D. C. where he is assistant for systems integration in the Office of Space Systems. Edward H. Johnson, Jr., USCGR, TE, was recently commissioned Ensign in Yorktown, Virginia. He is assigned to the Coast Guard Base, St. Louis, Missouri. James Chamblee Meredith, ChE, recently received his masters degree in public health from the University of North Carolina. He is with the U. S. Public Health Service at Baltimore, Maryland. Married: Homan Rees Phenix, Jr., IM, to Miss Frances Haavie in lune. Mr. Phenix is with Delta Airlines in Atlanta, Georgia. Captain James A. Weatherman, USA, EE, has completed the 40 week officer fixed wing aviator course at Fort Rucker, Ala. 31
tjocestntfje^ews George H. Childers, '43, has been named manager of the product planning group for Kelvinator division of American Motors Corp. He joined the company in 1960. In his new position, Childers will be responsible for product development of all Kelvinator appliances. Leo T. Bowles, '48, has been appointed manager of the new "product planning and application engineering" sub-section of General Electric's Receiving Tube Department at Owensboro, Ky. Bowles has served as manager of product planning in the department since 1960. Howard Smith, '48, has been appointed supervisor of textile service in the southeastern division of National Starch and Chemical Corp. Smith has been with the company for 13 years and since 1960 he has been in charge of its textile service laboratory in Atlanta. James T. French, '49, has been elected national president of Alpha Pi Mu, the industrial engineering honor society for a two-year term. French was instrumental in the founding of the society at Tech in 1949 and has served it as executive secretary and national vice president. Dr. E. L. Pollitzer, '53, has been named assistant director of the process research department at Universal Oil Products Co., Des Plaines, 111. Pollitzer, formerly research coordinator for UOP, joined the company in 1953 after receiving his master's and Ph.D. degrees<c-from Tech. Herbert L. Ellis, '58, has been named "Young Man of the Year" in the field of religion by the Atlanta Jaycees. Ellis, placement director at Georgia State College, has been chairman of the Covenant Presbyterian Church's youth activities and is now a member of its Board of Deacons. 32
NEWS BY CLASSES - confinued ' E C Jesse G. Bagwell, IM, is now with ÂŤ " Downs Realty Inc., 21 West Washington, Orlando, Florida. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. L. E. "Gene" Berrey, Jr., IM, a son, Jeffrey Eugene, April 26. Mr. Berrey is a sales representative with Florida Power & Light Company. They live at 10371 SW 45th Street, Miami 35, Florida. Robert C. Kirk, CE, is attending Graduate School at Georgia Tech. He is also associated with the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station. His address is 1297 Conway Road, Decatur, Georgia. ' K " 7 Patrick E. Bolger, IE, has transferred *Âť * from the plant department to the sales department as a sales representative with American Telephone & Telegraph Company. He lives at 287 Juniper Street, Park Forest, Illinois. Lt. Jerry C. Kelley, USAF, IE, is completing his tour of duty with the Air Force at Little Rock, Arkansas as a B-47 Co-pilot. He was married April 3. The Kelleys' address is Box 1213, UR AFB, Jacksonville, Arkansas. ' C O Robert B. Adams, IE, has been trans* ' * ' ferred to the home office of Bethlehem Steel Corporation to be administrative assistant to the manager of records planning. He lives at 1321 Crestwood Road, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Engaged: Lt. Michael Paul Charles, USAF, Phys, to Miss Marjorie Erickson. The wedding will take place August 30. Engaged: Lt. Morris Roop Copetand, Jr., USAF, TE, to Miss Diane Bosserman. The wedding will take place August 4. Lt. Copeland is stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Married: Herbert Lee Ellis to Miss Carol Ruth Kindsvater, April 14. They live at 1075 Woodland Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Married: Charles L. Jedlicka, ME, to Miss Elizabeth Lane. Mr. Jedlicka is a senior engineer in the Aerospace Mechanics Department at the Martin Marietta Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. They live at 1739-D Waverly Way. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. McCleskey, IE, twin sons, Edward Ray and Scott Clifford, April 3. They live at 314 Medorah Drive, West Monroe, Louisiana. Lt. Thomas V. Schill, USA, ME, was recently made an Honorary Kentuckian by the 100th Division, a Kentucky reserve unit on active duty at Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas. Major James I. Scott, USA, AE, has completed the 16 week associate course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Spearman, IM, a daughter, Cynthia, March 5. Mr. Spearman is now overseer of Wet Finishing at the Hannah Pickett Plant of J. P. Stevens. They live at 103 McDonald Drive, Rockingham, North Carolina. K Q Married: James Maxwell Akridge, *"** ME, to Miss Frances Goode, June 9.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Akridge are employed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Silver Spring, Maryland. Married: Cecil A. Best, IE, to Miss Mary Ellen Brucke, March 17. Mr. Best is an industrial engineer in the Directorate of Supply and Transportation, Brookley AFB, Alabama. They live at 1109 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ken Britting, ME, a son, Kenneth R., Jr., March 28. Mr. Britting is with Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut. Lt. Roderick L. Carmichael, 111, USA, IM, was recently assigned to the staff of Joint Task Force Eight on Johnson Island to support Operation Domonic, a joint Department of Defense-Atomic Energy Commission nuclear test series in the Pacific. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cobb, a son, Richard N., April 24. They live at 5220 Hearthstone Road, N.W., Roanoke, Virginia. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Duggan, AE, a son, Brian Mark, March 5 in Hermosa Beach, California. Mr. Duggan is with Systems Development Corporation. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Eason, EE, a son, Harold Robert, April 17. Mr. Eason is a development engineer with Union Carbide Nuclear Company. They live at 143 North Alabama Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Flagler, IM, a son, Richard Warren, Jr., December 8, 1961. Mr. Flagler is with Burlington Industries in Halifax, Virginia. Sam H. Fowlkes, HI, USA, IM, will be separated from the service in August and will return to work with IBM in Birmingham. His mailing address is 275 West Vermont, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Robert H. Gavron of Forest Hills. L.I., New York, died March 10, 1962. N o further information was available at this writing. Leonard Greenstein, IM, has completed his tour of duty with the Navy and is now attending the Junior Executive Training Program at Rich's, Inc. He lives at 1012 A Cumberland Rd., N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Captain Richard A. Grimes, USA, IM, recently completed the associate chemical officer career course at The Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan. Alabama. Married: John Wyman Gunter, IM, to Miss Kay Seckinger, June 24. Mr. Gunter is employed by Colonial Stores in Atlanta. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Lovick O. Hayman, Jr., AE, a son, Donald Lovick. April 30. Mr. Hayman is with the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston. They live at 5602 H.M.C. Street, Houston 21. Texas. Lt. Philip R. Hunter, USAF, Phys, has received a regular Air Force commission on the basis of his performance of duty. He previously held a Reserve commission. Lt. Hunter is stationed at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Married: James Joseph Hurst, Jr., Ceramics, to Miss Judith Burns Edwards, May 5. Mr. Hurst is employed by the physics department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. They live in Bellport, Long Island, New York. Married: John P. Imlay, Jr., IM, to Miss Geraldine Edwards, June 23. Mr. Imlay is TECH ALUMNUS
with the Univac Division of Sperry Rand in Atlanta, Georgia. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Myron E. Leibu, a son, Bruce Evan. Mr. Leibu has formed an industrial electronics distributing firm under the name of L & S Electronics, Inc., 475 West Merrick Road, Valley Stream, L. I.. New York. Lt. Crawford O. Murphy, Jr., USAF, IE, is being re-assigned to Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi following graduation from the U. S. Air Force Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Married: George Washington Murphy, III, TE, to Miss Sandra Jane Lawson, June 16. Mr. Murphy is a textile engineer with United International Corporation training for a position in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lt. David W. Ramsey, USAF, ME, is on a four-month tour of duty with the U. S. Air Force support unit in Turkey. He is permanently assigned to a Tactical Air Command Unit at England Air Force Base, Louisiana. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Rose, IM, a son, Thomas Edwards, Jr., May 23. Their mailing address is P. O. Box 11665, Tampa 10, Florida. Tommy is with U. S. Gypsum. J. R. Spencer, ChE, has completed his freshman year of medical school at the University of Florida. He lives at 271-1 Schucht Village, Gainesville, Florida. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Patten Wilson, IM, a daughter, Jeannette Denise, February 20. Mr. Wilson is with IBM, Data Processing and Programming, Poughkeepsie, New York. Lt. Jerry C. Adams, USAF, IE, received his U. S. Air Force pilot wings following graduation from pilot training at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. He is now assigned to Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. Engaged: Robert William Beisner, ChE, to Miss Jeanette Hogan. The wedding will take place August 4. Mr. Beisner is with Union Carbide Chemical Company in the Research and Development Department, Charleston, West Virginia. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Olin S. Bullock, IF. a daughter, Vicki Rene, April 27. Their address is Route 8, Maryville, Tennessee. Engaged: Lt. Ronnie Albert Bradley, USN. Ceramics, to Miss J o a n n a Garrard. Lt. Bradley is serving aboard the USS Richard H. Kraus, Norfolk, Virginia. The wedding will take place in August. Lt. Robert W. Caldwell, USA, TE, recently participated in a field training maneuver in Germany. He is executive officer of Company C, 8th Division's 16th Infantry, stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Lt. George S. Edge, USA, CE, was recently made an Honorary Kentuckian by the 100th Division, a Kentucky Reserve Unit on active duty at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Lt. R. K. Elderd, Jr., USA, is a wire officer in Karlsrude, Germany. His address is A Company, 17th Signal Battalion, APO 164, New York, New York. Engaged: Lt. Edward AI Eppinger, USMC, ME. to Miss Mary Ann Duncan. The wedJULY, 1962
ding will take place in July. Lt. Eppinger is stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Albert A. Gandia, IM, has been appointed manager of the Condado Branch of Banco Popular. His address is Box 1186, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Married: Pedro Pablo Gomez, EE, to Miss Elizabeth Ujfalussy last November. Mr. Gomez is enrolled in the General Electric Technical Marketing Training Program. Their address is 51 Waldorf Place, Schenectady, N. Y. Married: Richard Hemsley, IM, to Miss Kelleen Penn, June 23. Mr. Hemsley is employed by Pratt & Whitney, West Palm Beach, Florida. Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Grey Hodges, USMC, IM, a son, Christopher Grey, May 7. Grey is communications officer at Marine Corps School. His address is Quarters 2903-E, MCS, Quantico, Virginia. Married: Lt. Albert Campbell Holt, USN, Phys, to Miss Edith Hanna in June. Lt. Holt is stationed at Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS DuPont. W. LeRoy House, IM, is now assistant vice president with the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta, Georgia. Charles Islets, IM, is a plant engineer for a Savannah industry. A second son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Islets in May, 1961. They live at 318 Sharondale Road, Savannah, Georgia. Allen O. Jones, IM, won recognition as one of his company's leading underwriters recently. He is with Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Engaged: John Gwyn Jordan, Jr. to Miss Lana Rae Mueller. The wedding will take place in the fall. Mr. Jordan is with J. Gwyn Jordan & Company in Atlanta, Ga. Kenneth Kramer, IE, recently completed six months active duty at Fort Dix, New Jersey and is in his second year on the Manufacturing Training Program at General Electric. His address is 947 James Street, Syracuse, New York. Married: Ronald J. LaChance, IE, to Miss Sharon Gail Grist, May 12. Mr. LaChance is with Delta Air Lines. They live at 1890 Myrtle Drive, S.W., Apartment 208, Atlanta, Georgia. Frank C. Leister, IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant and reassigned to the 4th Data Processing Unit in Stuttgart, Germany. His mailing address is 4th Data Processing Unit, APO 46, New York, N. Y. Lt. Howard L. McKinley, Jr., USAF, EE, has been named distinguished graduate of the U. S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he received his masters degree. He is now assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Lt. Philip D. Meadows, USA, ME, has been assigned to the U. S. Army Chemical Center and Chemical Corps Materiel Command, Army Chemical Center, Maryland. Engaged: Alan D. Rosenberg, AE, to Miss Sandra Fendrich. Mr. Rosenberg is employed by the Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington. The wedding will take place in August.
Married: Thomas Hazlehurst Setze, CE, to Miss Virginia Ann Cochran in June. Mr. Setz is employed by Texaco, Inc., Tampa, Florida. Lt. Patrick F. Skrmetti, TE, is with Battery D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines. He suffered a broken leg during training exercises in the Philippines and is now at The Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida. He would welcome mail and visitors. Born to: Lt. and Mrs. David K. Smith, a daughter, Kathryn Frances, April 20 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Engaged: Roger Wayne Soltis, ChE, to Miss^yLaura Woody. The wedding will take place in August. Mr. Soltis is a major project manager in the Pioneering Laboratory with Owens-Corning Fiberglas in Granville, Ohio. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Whatley, Jr,. ChE, a son, John Bennett, February 17. Jack is employed at the cellophane research and development laboratory at DuPont. They live at 3535-C Hanover Avenue, Richmond 21, Virginia. Married: Harold Woods, HI, IM, to Miss Linda Karen Lentz. The wedding took place June 16 at Daytona Beach, Florida. 'R1 Engaged: John Palmer Anderson, ^ ' Math, to Miss Mary Agnes Harris. Mr. Anderson is attending Graduate School at Georgia Tech. Lt. Ernest C. Blackard, Jr., USA, ME, has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Lt. Richard M. Bramblett, USA, IE, has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical School, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Pvt. Walter H. Brasington, Jr., USA, IM, has completed advanced individual training at The Armour Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Engaged: William Nicholas Brown, IE, to Miss Jeanelle Layton. The wedding will take place July 15. Mr. Brown is with Montag, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. Lt. John B. Byrd, Jr., USA, ChE, has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Corps, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Engaged: Ben E. Chilcutt, BC, to Miss Ann McBride. The wedding will take place July 16. They will live in Kingsville, Texas where Mr. Chilcutt is with the Naval Civil Engineering Corps. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Conway, ME, a daughter, Cherry Lynn, February 18. Their address is Route 5, Sharp Drive, Carrollton, Georgia. Married: Lt. Baxter O. Deal, Jr., USA, ME, to Miss Patricia Joan Tatum, August 4, 1961. Lt. Deal is assigned to Detachment 1, 60th Ordnance Company, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. Barry E. Duggan, EE, is an associate engineer with General Dynamics. He was married in June, 1961 to the former Susan Putnam. They live at 3824 Bonnie Drive, Fort Worth 16, Texas. Pvt. Robert R. Elliott, USA, IE, has been assigned to the Defense Atomic Support Agency as an operations assistant in the 33
NEWS BY CLASSES - continued Data Division, Washington, D. C. Lt. Peter W. Gissing, USAF, IE, has been awarded his U. S. Air Force pilot wings following graduation from pilot training at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. He is now assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware for aircrew duty on the C-133 aircraft. Married: Walter Lee Hughey, IE, to Miss Dorothy Canning Hines, Ma,y 12, 1962. Mr. Hughey is with the Georgia Department of Labor. They live at 794 Piedmont Avenue, N.E., Apartment 11, Atlanta, Georgia. Lt. Harold C. lsgette, USA, EE, has completed the material maintenance officer course at the Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Lt. David O. Lawson, USAF, ChE, recently received his U.S. Air Force pilot wings following graduation from pilot training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. He has been assigned to Robins Air Force Base, Georgia for aircrew duty on the C-124 aircraft. Lt. John E. Morton, Jr., USAF, CE, has been awarded his U. S. Air Force pilot wings following graduation from pilot training at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia and is now assigned to Sewart Air Force Base, Tennessee. Married: Ensign Herbert Franklin Nicholson, Jr., USN, EE, to Miss Jean Lunsford, June 10. Lt. William W. Ranck, USA, has completed the officer orientation course at the U. S. Army Air Defense Center at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is now assigned as a platoon leader in the 8th Missile Battalion ( H A W K ) , 7th Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas. Engaged: James Holland Rector, IM, to Miss Linda Gearreald. Mr. Rector is with the First National Bank of Atlanta. The wedding will take place in September. Engaged: William Ellis Ransom, IE, to Miss Susan Kay Thornburg. Mr. Ransom is with the Naval OCS at Newport, Rhode Island. Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Arnoldo L. Rodriquez, IE, a son, Arnoldo Luis, May 22. Their address is Apartado 1730, San Jose, Costa Rica. Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Wilton M. Rooks, AE, IM, a son, Robert Wilton, April 10. Lt. Rooks is stationed at Tullahoma, Tennessee. Lt. Julian S. Rose, USA, has completed the Infantry Officers Orientation Course at Fort Benning. He is now assigned to the 21st Infantry, 1st Battle Group, Munich, Germany. His permanent mailing addfess is 937 Fifth Avenue North, Jacksonville, Fla. Married: Lt. Richard Essex Simmons, Jr., USA, ChE, to Miss Teresa Carrigan, December 22, 1961. He is now with the 1st Chemical Battalion, 100th Chemical Group, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Married: Lt. Bridges Wade Smith, Jr., USAF, ME, to Miss Elisabeth Palmer, June 16. Lt. Smith is serving with the U. S. Air Force at San Antonio, Texas. James Robert Smith, IE, has completed the training program at Goodyear Tire & Rubber and is now sales engineer at Good34
year's St. Marys Molded and Extruded Goods plant. His mailing address is R F D 1, St. Marys, Ohio. Married: Preston Carl Upshaw, Jr., IM, to Miss Katherine Annette Gilman, April 6. Mr. Upshaw is with the Citizens and Southern Bank in Atlanta, Georgia. AOC Charles M. Walker, USN, IE, is attending Naval Aviation Officers Candidate School at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. His address is Battery IV, Bldg. 659, U. S. Naval School of Pre-Flight, NAS, Pensacola, Florida. John D. Wiley, USA, IM, has been promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the Division Public Information Office as Editor of the Division Newspaper. His address is DIO 3rd Armored Division, APO 39, New York, New York. Lt. Charles E. Whaley, USA, IM, has completed the field artillery officer orientation course at the Artillery and Missile Center, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. David E. Whisnat, Phys, has received the degree of Master of Arts in American Literature from Duke University. He attended Duke this past year on scholarships from the Woodrow Wilson and Danforth National Fellowship Foundations.
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* " • been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Lt. Thomas J. Beaird, USA, Arch, has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Married: Richard B. Bell, IM, to Miss Gail Lucinda Howard, June 16. Mr. Bell graduated from Navy OCS in June and Was commissioned Ensign in the U. S. Navy Reserve. Married: Milton Edward Berry, ME, to Miss Susan Browne, June 9 in Atlanta, Georgia. Married: Lt. Roger Keith Borkenhagen, USA, IE, to Miss Dolores Fornara, June 23. Lt. Borkenhagen is serving with the U. S. Army Chemical Corps at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Married: William Robert Calvert, CE, to Miss Patricia Ann Rains, April 28 in Atlanta, Georgia. Engaged: Don Lamar Camp to Miss Lorene Yonce. The wedding will take place in September. DeLand Carmer, USCGR, ME, was recently commissioned Ensign in the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve at Yorktown, Virginia. He has been assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Lt. Daniel C. DeCarlo, USAF, IE, is in navigator training at James Connally Air Force Base, Texas. Married: Patrick William Drennon, CE, to Miss Susan Coats, June 10, in Atlanta, Georgia. Lt. John G. Elam, USAF, EE, has entered navigator training at James Connally Air Force Base, Texas. Married: Lt. Thomas H. Eubanks, Jr., USMCR, IM, to Miss Mary Frances Wat-
son, May 12. Married: Raymond D. Gent, USN, IM, to Miss Betty Ann Hines. Mr. Gent received his commission in the Navy upon graduation from Tech and is now assigned to the U. S. Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia. Engaged: Donald Gunn Gentry, IE, to Miss Jane Rash. The wedding will take place September 8. Engaged: Andrew Moore Hepburn, ME, to Miss Alice Keiley. The wedding will take place June 30. Mr. Hepburn is with Pratt & Whitney at West Palm Beach, Florida. Engaged: James Lloyd Killebrew, IE, to Miss Sandra Robertson. The wedding will take place July 15. Mr. Killebrew is a management trainee with Chicopee Mills, Chicopee, Georgia. Married: John Thomas Lowe, Chem, to Miss Suzanne McGouirk, June 10. Mr. Lowe will begin work on his doctorate in chemistry this fall at the University of Illinois. Theodore D. Matthews has joined the Department of Highway and Traffic in Washington, D. C. as a traffic engineer. He was formerly traffic engineer with the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His address is 2419 University Boulevard, Adelphia, Maryland. Robert S. McCamy, Jr. is now with F. H. Ross & Company as a chemical salesman. His address is 1266 Stephens Avenue, Baton Rouge 8, Louisiana. Married: Walter Jackson McCloud, CE, to Miss Jacqueline Williamson, June 16. William F. McClure, Jr., CE, has joined the American Air Filter Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Lt. William N. Petty, USA, Chem. has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Engaged: Lance Pittman, TE, to Miss Sandra Shaffer. Mr. Pittman is with Bonnie, Ltd. of New York. Victor C. Roberson, Jr., IM, is with General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Greenville, South Carolina. A son, Michael Wayne, was born January 16, 1962. Their address is Box 111, Taylors, South Carolina. Robert F. Salmond, IM, has joined Shell Oil Company's Marketing Service Department in Atlanta with offices in the Fulton National Bank Building. Lt. William C. Sorrells, USA, AE, has completed the air defense officer orientation course at the Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas. James C. Sweat, IM, has joined the American Air Filter Company in Louisville, Kentucky. Pvt. James E. Wagoner, USA, IM, has completed military policy training at the Provost Marshal General's School, Fort Gordon, Georgia. Married: James Mack White, Chem, to Miss Yvonne Burke, June 29. Mr. White is a chemist with the Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Married: Fred L. Williams, III, CE, to Miss Sonja Massey, June 2. Mr. Williams is with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Ogden, Utah. TECH ALUMNUS
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on that sub-supervisory plateau Moving upwards in industry can be an erratic and chancy process. Advancement during your first few years may indeed be rapid and promising, but when you reach that first sub-supervisory plateau, your continued advancement may depend upon getting a "break," the same "break" that a number of others may also be waiting for. This is the time to consider your course of action if you, for one reason or another, do not appear likely to get this break. We are offering you the opportunity to make a break for yourself before you become rutted or taken for granted. We are offering recent graduate engineers—aeronautical,electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, and aerospace—with one to three years experience the opportunity to j oin a proven career development program for advancement to the $9,000 level within six months to 3 years depending on your experience. "We" are the many facets of the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons, the organization within the civilian Navy that is responsible for creating a vast array of subsurface, surface, air and space weapons—combining the original functions of naval ordnance and aeronautics. Because the Naval establishment maintains direct control over the design, development, test and evaluation of all its programs, BuWeaps engineers are given far greater responsibilities across a broad spectrum of activities than can be achieved anywhere else. In
this, the supposed "Age of Specialization," the BuWeaps engineer may become involved in the design, management, procurement administration and advance planning for as many as seven or eight unrelated programs. We would like to talk to you about broadening your professional capabilities and increasing your management experience. If selected for this management program, you will be given a variety of onthe-job training and assignments under individual guidance until you have acquired the breadth of knowledge required for advancement to GS-12 ($8,955 and up). You should be able to do this within three years—less if your experience and abilities warrant. At this point, a great many doors will open to you, rather than just one. But before you reach this level, and as soon as you join this Program, you are entitled to all the benefits of Career Civil Service. This means 3 weeks paid vacation (4 weeks after three years), 8 paid holidays and 13 days sick leave each year, partly-paid, group life and medical insurance, unusually attractive retirement policies . . . and the time off, encouragement and financial help to take job-related graduate courses given right at Naval headquarters, and at local universities. To get full details on this outstanding management development program, get in touch with Harvey Jackson, Personnel Coordinator.
Bureau of Naval Weapons Munitions Building, Room 2206 • Washington 25, D.C.
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