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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