Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 41, No. 07 1963

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THE MAY 1963

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A IN THE hustle and bustle of putting the finishing touches on a book manuscript, keeping a publications program going, and producing the March issue of the magazine (10 days late we might add before you do), we failed completely to notice that a pair of significant birthdays had brushed by us without so much as a single happy.

Looking back at the situation with a clearer head now, we realize that the March issue marked both the 40th anniversary of The Georgia Tech Alumnus and the 10th anniversary of the editorship of the ill-tempered incumbent. Obviously, neither of these events made any impression on a soul including us.

To tell the truth, it was the evening of April 24 before the thought suddenly struck us that we had missed a golden opportunity to make a great deal of typographical noise about something of little importance to anyone but us and a couple of other editors who had served their apprenticeships in this magazine.

In retrospect, our sackbrain stunt pleases us now—it prevented us from making a fool of ourselves for a change. * * * JL THE INCIDENT that brought the realization that the birthdays had gone by was the annual "Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame" banquet on the evening of April 24. This particular banquet was clothed in much more nostalgia than any of the rest of these events over the past eight years. For, in another sackbrain stunt, the entire "Hall of Fame" selection committee had gone eight full years without realizing that W. A. Alexander, the man who more than any other created the Georgia Tech athletic program, had never been selected to the Hall of Fame.

As secretary of that selection committee, we feel more chagrined than most for this unbelievable omission. When the matter was brought to the committee's attention, the committee all said, "We must have elected him. We couldn't have forgotten Alex." But we did. On a motion

by L. W. "Chip" Robert seconded by Buck Andel, the error of omission was corrected. And with Mrs. Alex, still a woman of great beauty and charm and grace, at the head table during the banquet, a lot of people in that crowd of

190 were reminiscing. It was a night worth savoring, a night of that strange mixture of joy and sadness that comes along once in a while to make life a little more bearable. * * * J^ AMONG the other seven honored that evening -was one Albert Staton, an imposing bear of a man with a manner so gentile as to be unbelievable. Al Staton had been an all-Southern tackle or end for four of the five years he played at Tech and a brilliant student and student leader. He and his brother, John, had become a joint legend as they played together on those great years immediately following World War I. Both of them had become successful businessmen, Al in South America and John as a vice president of The Coca-Cola Company here in Atlanta.

But to one man in that audience, Al Staton was much more than that. In March, 1923, he had edited the first issue of The Georgia Tech Alumnus. As such, he was an object of awe by the present editor. The idea of starting a magazine and an Alumni Association from scratch was to us a feat of much more impressive dimensions than any he accomplished in football or in the world of business. And so that evening as George Griffin was inducting Al Staton into the "Hall of Fame," the fifth in line of the editors of this magazine was indulging in his own brand of reminiscence built around type faces and advertising sales and raising money to start a magazine from absolute scratch. * * * ^ IT is too often true that those of us who come along in the good-time days dismiss the debt we owe those who have gone before us and made the good times possible. That evening we had worked ourselves up to the point where we wanted to walk up to Al Staton and George Griffin and Jack Thiesen and Howard Ector and Roane Beard and say, "What this magazine is today and what this Alumni Association is today is possible because of your sacrifices and effort." But, for one reason or another we never got around to it. So from one editor to all those who have preceded us, thank you for everything.

And, happy birthday to the collection TCCH ALUMNUS

of ink and paper and words and photographs that is The Georgia Tech Alumnus. * * * A SPEAKING OF GEORGE GRIFFIN, t h e

note in the February issue concerning histicket problems brought immediate results. It also brought us a little more prestige with George. Dale Cloninger, '62, wrote George after reading the item: "While reading through the February issue of the Tech Alumnus I happened to notice a small insignificant paragraph that much to my surprise pertained to me. How a young poor alumnus like me could go almost five months without missing even a dime is far beyond me, but I have to plead guilty because I did it. I guess I was so elated over the final outcome of the Alabama game I forgot about anything else.

"The money that was collected from the sale of the tickets I have done well without, so well that if you could, I would appreciate it if you would drop it by the Alumni office and they could consider it as part payment on the next alumni contribution period.

"The president of the 'Sackbrains' is definitely a purely mythical character for the only people I was ever associated with around Tech were mentioned above in quotes but without the first four letters. Certainly you must be considered as the most outstanding contributor to our alma mater, not only in financial gain for the school, but in service and tradition. As long as there is a class on 'the hill' it will be there because of a man called Mr. Georgia Tech." * * * A AS A RESULT of this letter, George came to us again for help. He has extra copies of the following Blue Prints: three 1931's, two 1932's, one 1936, one 1941, four 1945's, and a large number of 1942's, 1943's, 1953's, 1954's, and 1957's. If you need a copy of any of these volumes just write George and he will send you your copy, free of charge.

First come, first served. * * * A HAPPEN TO HAVE an old tuxedo around

you are not using. The Tech Glee Club, now grown to 50 voices, could sure use it. When a concert rolls around, 15 or so of the members have to miss the performance because of the want of a tux.

They can use either single or double breasted models. The Glee Club is planning to start a tux bank, lending out the garments as needed to members. Tuxedos or inquiries should go to Jim Landgrebe, president; Glee Club; Georgia Tech YMCA; 190 North Avenue, N.W.; Atlanta 13.

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THE MAY 1963

GEORGIA TECH Volume 41

ALUMNUS

Number 7

CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor belatedly acknowledges his debt to another editor and wishes the magazine happy birthday.

THE NIGHT PEOPLE—Atlanta Constitution re5. porter Barbara Milz, herself an evening school student, discusses the value of this unit of Georgia Tech.

RECESSION OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT— 9.

Fred Ajax opens the Alumnus special report for this issue on a high note.

12 FREE DISCUSSION—debate makes "hams" of us all.

15. IMPORTANCE OF BEING CO-OPERATIVE— the keynote talk during the 50th Anniversary celebration of co-operative education at Georgia Tech.

18. T-NIGHT GAME—Lothridge does it again.

20. THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL—the latest on the Institute, the clubs, and the classes.

35. ELECTION PAGE—vote now.

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

THE COVER The hand of a speaker making a point forms the introduction to a special report on Tech's Industrial-Faculty-Student Convocation which begins on page 9 of this issue. Featured in the series are photographs of men involved in debating with the emphatic gestures that were so much a part of these sessions.

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Published eight times a year—February, March, May, July, September, October, November and December*—by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Aaaociation, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. Subscription price (35c per copy) included in the membership dues. Second class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia.

THE FACE OF GEORGIA TECH XII

burn late on the Georgia TAfter Tech campus. the daytime flood of students departs the classHE LIGHTS OF LEARNING

rooms and halls, a new tide sweeps in to fill the parking lots, jam corridors, and continue the long campus day of education.

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These are not the young, laughing and joking, athleticsweatered men of the day. Rather, they are students in any one of the four departments of Tech's Engineering Extension Division, headed by Lawrence V. Johnson.

Supper-less and hurrying, these students begin to arrive Continued on page 6 Photographed for the Alumnus by Bill Sumits, Jr.

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THE NIGHT PEOPLE MAY, 1963

The Night People—continued

for the early evening (5 p.m.) courses.

Through the evening, the numbers increase to the 7:30 p.m. mark, when most of the students, this quarter, 1,315 strong, are on the campus, scattered among 10 campus buildings.

Their garb is different. They wear gray flannel suits, or the rough-and-ready, mud-caked boots of construction work. Some carry brief cases; others look as though they feel more at ease with lunch buckets.

Some are young with the usual first-year-of-shaving problems of some Tech freshmen. Others are older, some graying, some balding, and some, looking at first embarrassed at the difficulties of returning to school.

"This is the New Frontier in Georgia," smiled Robert S. Herndon, director of the Engineering Evening School.

"Adult education is THE frontier today in Georgia."

The evening program at Tech is no watered-down replica of the daytime program. In fact, to some, the offerings may appear mathematics heavy, with about 40 of its some 114 scheduled classes being in math.

This includes pre-freshman classes for persons struggling to pass the Tech regular entrance requirements and for those making up math deficiencies before heading to a liberal arts college.

Persons taking the college level courses are level-headed students. "Their grades run equivalent to, and perhaps higher, for the more mature student in the college credit courses," Herndon said of his student body with a touch of pride.

"When you come here at night, you know what you want, and what you're going after when you come in," he said.

"If a course is worth signing up for—it's worth doing well."

Like their daytime counterparts, the night students sometimes run into difficulties. "Usually, they're not putting in enough time," said Herndon. "At first they say they work, then we have to dig a little deeper, and we find out the student isn't actually putting in two hours of home study for every classroom hour."

The large, balding man leaned back in his chair, smiled briefly and continued, "You have to understand it's hard for some of them. Figure it out. Let's say the man is taking five hours of math—with ten hours of homework, this comes to 15 hours a week. Then, you add in his regular 40 hours work week, and that's 55 hours a week spent working—and working to get ahead."

He paused, then added, "Add to this family responsibilities and problems. It takes a lot to keep going."

Many of the evening school students are frankly working to get ahead. Some years out of school originally, they have found their skills need sharpening or their basic education needs to be broadened.

Some firms have tuitional reimbursement plans to help their students continue their education. "Evening school work definitely enhances the value of an employee," Hern-

don said. "For some, it is a sharpening of the tools of work.

For others, it increases production know-how, and gives him the skills needed on the job."

"A worker's attending evening school is tangible evidence to consider when an employer is thinking in terms of promotion," Herndon said. "Many of the students themselves admit their studies here generally help in receiving promotions within the ranks."

What does industry have to say about its employees attending night classes at Tech?

Ask Lockheed-Georgia.

"We go to all lengths we can to motivate and encourage our people to get their college degree—and they stay up with the 'state of the art'," said R. H. Hudson, manager of Lockheed-Georgia's training department. Hudson continued, "In our business, knowledge gets obsolete rather quickly. We encourage our employees to keep up."

Lockheed encourages its employees to go to school through a reimbursement plan that pays the employee 75 per cent of the tuition costs of the evening program courses they take.

Hudson said, "There's no question that this is a symptom of personal motivation in an employee. People work by habit, and if they put a lot of energy into one thing, they put it into their job, too."

Another note Hudson appended to his views on an employee who takes the time to go to school: "We know he's got a good wife!"

Echoing Hudson's warning about aircraft work, "If you stay still, you become obsolete," is evening school student, Carl Hollingsworth, who is also head of Lockheed's career development program at the Marietta plant.

"I had to take this course so I could talk to the engineers," he said. Although Hollingsworth, himself, is taking college level courses, as are 63 per cent of the students, he wanted to put in a special word on the pre-freshman courses Tech offers.

"This really gives people a second chance," he said.

"These pre-freshman math courses give a person an opportunity they can't get any place else in Georgia. No one else seems to care much about these people, any more, and it makes you proud of Tech that it knows the problems these people have. Many of them, you know, were graduated from high school before colleges toughened up on admissions. Without these courses, who or what could help them?"

The pre-freshman courses are popular, with about 25 per cent of the students enrolled in these courses that include speeded-up pre-freshman mathematics from beginning algebra to trigonometry, English, physics, and chemistry.

Some of the students in these courses are making up subjects they missed in high school. Others are taking the courses to brush up on the subjects after 20 or more years out of school in order to return to school again.

These, too, are working people, spending five hours a week in class on top of a full time working schedule. They receive no college credit for passing the courses, but the students, questioned, are firm about their reasons for being TECH ALUMNUS

in school.

"I want to go to art school, and no one told me I'd need algebra to get in," one bright-eyed coed who works as a secretary during the day, explained.

"My company wants me to go to school. They'll pay for the college courses when I finish these so I can get in," said a young man. "With the company I work for (Western Electric) you need an education to get any place—but they'll help you get that education."

The middle-aged students seem embarrassed at first in these pre-freshman classes. The embarrassment soon fades as the mills of the grades grind slowly—and exceedingly fine.

An older matron admitted, "I felt sort of foolish at first, my two teen-age children had to help me with my homework in algebra. Then, there finally came a point where our class zoomed in ahead of what the high school children were taking, so when my son needed help in algebra, I was able to show him how to do it. It was factoring."

She laughed nervously and added, "It's a helluva status symbol, but with the 'new math,' I'm the only mother in the block who can help her child with high school algebra."

This woman intends to return to college.

Trying to get a full picture of the evening school is like getting a description of an elephant from a committee of blind men.

"Don't make us sound like a trade school," a faculty member demanded. "We aren't turning out plumbers."

Yet, plumbers too may be attending the school. Men who wish to work with their hands often prefer the Technical Institute subjects where, going nights, it is possible to get a two-year technical degree in fields as building construction technology, civil engineering technology, electrical engineering technology, industrial engineering technology, or mechanical engineering technology.

During the past year, about 12 per cent of the students attending the evening sessions were enrolled in this program.

Even most faculty members questioned without knowing they were being baited into expressing their views on the subject did not agree on the college level program offered.

"Of course, you can't get a full four-year degree going to evening school. You need to get on the campus daytimes for something over a year for that," said one. He added, "You need that campus background."

Another said "Bah!" at this idea. "You can't get a degree at night, and we're not going to be having the program we need—industry needs and wants—until you can.

I say there's lots of room for improvement here."

One student wrestling through the long, drawn-out process of trying to work for a degree by going to evening school said, "It would sure make it better for me if you could.

I've gone this far, and I can't stop now. But, it's been worth it, and I feel it hasn't been easy.

"You get in the habit and you can go on. The first course is the hardest. Once you get in the habit, you're all right.

"I don't know how I'm going to make it when I have to MAY, 1963

get that final year or so in the daytime. Maybe I can work something out at the plant. They've been pretty good about helping me through so far," he said.

The Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station pointed out in a report it prepared for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, that one of Atlanta's needs is, "a program which would permit employed personnel to earn engineering and related technical degrees (including advanced degrees) at night," and which "would appeal particularly to the modern technical and scientific industries which are now in or could be attracted to the Atlanta area."

Another phase of the evening program is the group of adult education subjects. These 11 course offerings ranging from beginning algebra to steel design, correct English usage, rapid reading, or inert gas welding, include about seven per cent of the evening school students. These noncredit courses include the more readily-apphcable arts for the community and its workers.

Although students in the evening school ("Don't call it a night school," director Herndon warned) come from throughout the Metropolitan Atlanta area, the evening school is no "community college."

Like the daytime Tech curriculum, math and the sciences are stressed. There are no courses in lace-making for nice httle old ladies, nor are there "slimnastics" for paunchy men. There are no courses in short-story writing, poetry appreciation or lournalism I. The school's student body (though they probably never think of themselves as such) faces a curriculum that is technical, tough, and designed to be worked at—not enjoyed.

"The student's tuition fees ($7 a recitation hour and $5 a lab hour) have to pay for our program," he said. Herndon added, "Of course, we get the use of the classroom and the lights, heat and janitorial service—but the buildings are here, and they might as well be used at night, too."

A tiny (by today's standards) administrative budget doesn't appear to hamper the school in its administration.

Students often privately express surprise at the helpful attitude of the administrative staff housed in the Swann Building.

"That's the first registrar I ever saw who smiled—and then offered to help me select a course," said one.

"You don't go in there and fight a losing battle with a bureaucracy," admitted another. "That's the reason I signed up here in the first place. These people seemed genuinely interested in getting me back to school." (This is an oftenrepeated sentiment among the students.)

While Herndon might not recognize too many students in his student body—and few of them could recognize him for their hours on the Tech campus don't coincide, there is still a common esprit about the school.

It's a proud esprit rainy nights, supperless hours, and hard work hones to a fine edge.

If anyone ever writes a school song for the Georgia Institute of Technology Engineering Evening School, it will have to be a loud one with plenty of brass.

It will have to be music to stay awake—and study—by.

To set the pace for an

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convocation, Fred W . Ajax has his say about one of his great concerns

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An Alumnus special report on the Tech Industrial-Student-Faculty Convocation

THE RECESSION OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT

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HIS PARTICULAR CONVOCATION at Callaway Gardens is

the first of its kind ever sponsored by any Georgia Tech organization. It is called formally, the 1963 IndustrialFaculty-Student Convocation, and is jointly sponsored by two Georgia Tech YMCA organizations—the Executive Round Table and the Alpha-Y-Phalanx.

My particular part in this convocation was, first to secure leaders of industry to be on the program; and if you look behind me, you will see the men who make up the panel and who will later on make up various panels. We have on hand Lex Curtis of Westinghouse; D. R. McKeithan of Phillips Petroleum; Ike Carmack of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Stan Doll of the Ford Motor Co.; Howard Ector of the Trust Company of Georgia; Robert Rowland of Republic Steel; Hank Goehring of Reynolds Metal Co.; Charles J. Metz of Union Carbide; Sam Parry, formerly of Combustion Engineering, but more recently vice president of the Chattanooga Box Co.; Hugh Gordon of Lockheed-Georgia; and Hammond Smith, Director of the Fifth Regional District of the United States Civil Service Commission. Dillard Munford, a Georgia Tech graduate and owner of the Atlantic Co., could not be here tonight, but will be here tomorrow.

My other purpose in being here is to make what is sometimes called a keynote speech. You may not like or agree with some of the things I say, but I believe all of them to be true. My talk is sincere and is one of caution. It does not deplore the new inventions, the new equipment, the developments of the Nuclear and Space ages. But in this technical age, I feel there is a definite need for more respect for our heritage.

As we gather here, we are students, industrialists, educators, members of the faculty—a rather wide cross section of American life. I do not accuse anyone or all of these particular groups. But I do declare that there seems to be a distinct recession of the American spirit today. By that, I mean the lack of emphasis on the principles that made this country great, built first on the dignity of man. My remarks are more philosophical than factual. I could if I wanted to, for I am a former English professor, extol the big book by Mr. Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

I do not wish to do such a tragical thing, but if you have time, I think this book—though very dry in places—is worthy of your reading.

Now, what do I mean by this recession of the American Spirit? I refer—and each one of us is as guilty as the next— MAY, 1963

to the accumulation of ideas that we have in this country, of ideologies, if you please; and to all of the regulations and laws that have been made since the year 1930. I refer specifically to such things as personal and social security, as collective security, which I regard as a form of regimentation by the government and/or unions or other organizations.

To solve every problem today, it seems all that is necessary is to blame everything troublesome on the Communists. But I do not believe these things which I shall mention can be blamed on the Communists alone.

The idea of the welfare state—sometimes called the New Frontier philosophy—has reduced, it seems to me, personal worth and merit to the extent that it is highly dangerous to the true motivation of the American spirit. It has developed in us a dependence upon the government, either state, county, city, or federal. It has developed in us a sort of psychological serfdom and an insecurity dependent almost completely on a temporal power. We cannot blame all this on the Communists, nor on the government because this psychology has encroached itself into our thinking. So I ask you to stop a moment and reflect on how little is necessary for us to become entirely a welfare state, a state that was never intended by the founding fathers of this country.

How much will it take? I am afraid the answer is not much the way we are going at the present time to set up in this country an involuntary servitude of the individual to politicians, unions, and government brainwashing. To explain this, I think we should briefly review the history of the country very, very rapidly.

First, I should like to read to you, even though it is outof-date, a bit of marvelous prose written in a newspaper from South Carolina in 1850. It was given to me by an English professor and to the best of my knowledge, although I cannot prove it, I believe the city was Edgefield, South Carolina. Listen to what I call, regardless of time, what this country really was, and I quote: "America is a glorious country. It has longer rivers and more of them, and they are muddier and deeper and run faster and rise higher, and fall lower and make more noise, and do more damage than anybody else's river. It has more lakes and they are bigger, deeper and clearer and wetter than those of any other country. Our railway cars are bigger and run faster, and pitch off the track oftener and kill more Continued on page 10

AMERICAN SPIRIT-continued people than all the other railway cars in any other country.

Our steamboats carry bigger loads, are longer and broader, burst their boilers oftener, and send up their passengers higher, and their captains swear harder than the captains in any other country. Our men are bigger and longer and thicker, can fight harder and faster, drink more mean whiskey, chew more bad tobacco than the men in any other country."

Crude, yes. Immoral, perhaps. But the person who wrote this particular editorial really captures what I call the true American spirit.

But, back to our review. The people who pioneered this country in the 17th and 18th centuries deserve our sincere respect. They Were adventurers. They were idealists. They were believers in personal worth. In the formation of the thirteen colonies on the Atlantic seaboard they achieved a miracle. And yet, they virtually hewed out of this wilderness a land based on principles; a land that became steadfast on the Atlantic seaboard. In the 18th century, the thirteen colonies became involved in the War of Revolution.

They survived that. They also retained their ideals of the young country.

In the 19th century we have tbe picture, as the editorial rather beautifully points out, of the pushing away from the Atlantic seaboard, the pushing West—taking up the Midwest. We had men of brawn, of braggadocio, of pride in real new frontiers. These people—and many lost their lives —were following an ideal. They kept moving, kept working until they eventually found their place in the United States, and thus the far West was developed. Also in this 19th century, we had a great threat—the Civil War. It was definitely a threat to freedom, to all the principles of the nation, 10

to the country, to union, to liberty. And yet after the war was over, and despite the hard feelings, the country was saved, principles were saved, and those ideals survived.

The 20th Century we shall review mostly by decades.

From 1900 to 1920 we can very easily define as a period of consolidation of the East, Midwest, and the West and the South—a period of organization, a build-up of industry, a build-up of banking, a build-up of trade. We developed, and deserved, the phrase, "The Great Yankee Prestige."

Surely some of us had bad manners. But we also had courage, pride in the land—pride in the United States we maintained first of all. We became involved in World War I, greater trade, and final victory. Again, alongside Great Britain and others, this particular war cemented the pride in the individual, in the national competence and accomplishments of the United States. In the 1920's we invented mass production. But perhaps we overdid it. Because in the 1930's came the crash, the Great Depression. Again the threat to our ideals—a good chance for us to become cynical and throw everything away. There were dustbowls; there were breadlines. In fact, we only emerged from the Depression by a build-up for World War II. The 1940's brought World War II and a period of confusion after the war, particularly with veterans from the various military services trying to become civilians again.

We had confusion of personal worth and confusion of individual responsibility.

Then came the 50's—new science and the beginning of new technology and at the same time, the threat of the Soviet Union. Russian fires were set in various places. The United States rose to its responsibility and put them out.

We also, however, faced a new problem in the 50's—world competition with the Soviet Union on all fronts.

And now we come to the 1960's. Whether we like it or not, the role of the United States is that of world responsibility. We have inherited Great Britain, France, and practically all of the countries on the entire globe that are called the Free World. The Russian struggle is there—war or peace. We went through the great development of the Nuclear Age, which did not last very long as such but actually still continues; and we are now in what we quickly, sometimes too quickly, call the Space Age. We have new terms, new curricula, new books, new faces. All these things are good. But as an English professor sometimes I have to smile when I see desperate searchings for new words such as autonetics; nucleonics; solid state physics; SINS, which of course is a ship's inertial navigational system of our Polaris subs and missiles; rocketdyne; bioastronautics. Any scholar can easily look into most of these words and find they had to go back to the Greeks and Latins to find a word for the nuclear and space hardware.

All these are good. In fact, the research and development of today is so fast one can barely, if at all, keep up with the mere reading of new advancements in research and development. And if we look rather seriously, I think we shall find that in the field of technology and science, nuclear and/or spatial, research and development, plans of the TECH ALUMNUS

United States are going well indeed. But if we look a little deeper, I find that sometimes something is lacking—you can judge yourself by picking up one week's supply of newspapers. You will find an intense explanation of the mechanistic or materialistic world. And right here, I say is the threat to the true American spirit.

In all the years since 1930, and if you are going to blame anyone blame the fellow next to you, somehow in this great rush for materialism and mechanism we have overlooked one important thing—the dignity and worth of an individual man. The good old motivation—unmannerly and rough as it was—as exampled by Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, seems somehow to have been sidetracked in favor of a mechanistic organization. And again I warn you, we cannot sit idly back and blame this on any government, or even on the Communists. We can blame only ourselves. Some of this ideology has been accomplished intentionally, and a lot unintentionally. But it is here. And it is the most dangerous threat that we have faced to the true principles and spirit of this nation.

What are some of these qualities that seem to be receding so rapidly? I give you only a few—you can easily think of more: personal worth, personal responsibility, personal merit, not personal security. Security should be earned, not expected. Another quality is personal recognition for a job well done—pride in work for a superior performance. All of these things 1 maintain will be killed if we ever have a welfare state. Another is personal and group competition.

It is natural for Americans to want competition. If, for example, I am playing golf with Frank Bigger and I am defeated, he has every right to "crow" over me. I shall get him the next day. This competition of individual against individual, and even companies against companies, is the true American spirit; that is the true psychology; that is the way we are from birth. And I think psychology will prove that both we as individuals, as well as groups, are actually happier and richer because of competition.

And still another quality would be fair play by companies, government, and unions and any other organizations so involved. Their fair play should be shown in regard to their employees and all business and industrial groups. There should be, and there must be, a slowing down of that particular psychology that says the new Madison Avenue management breed of men can solve all problems by merely pushing buttons in a computer machine and fire a trusted employee in a plant located in Tifton, Georgia, without even having seen the plant at all. I don't believe that any computer is smart enough to evaluate the humanity of a plant in Chattanooga or Tifton. The individual is there. Help can be given by the computer, but no rash decisions should be made by the new Madison-Avenue management experts living in New York, never having seen Tifton.

Now what can we do as individuals to stop this recession of the American spirit? I give you a few things. As an individual—and these all apply to us as individuals—let us simply restore the concept of hard work and thrift. Secondly, let us be alert to oral and written attacks on American spirit MAY, 1963

or motivation; on personal worth; on competition. Thirdly, let us most seriously think about this new welfare, mechanized state. Let us think seriously. Let us seek to make boundaries. For after all, we as citizens elect our representatives in government. We, therefore, have every right to set boundaries on the welfare state. Lastly, and above all, let us always remember that the true relationships of man to God Almighty is that of love and humility, and that the true relationship of man to man is one of helpfulness and cooperation.

In closing, I believe I could do no better than read a quotation from the late Stephen Vincent Benet. Most of you have probably seen this play on TV or have read it.

It is called "The Devil and Daniel Webster." It is, of course, based on the old theme of Faust.

Jabez Stone wanted something, and so he sold his soul to the devil. When the time came for the pay-off, like Faust, the New Englander Jabez Stone wished to "welsh," and in talking with the devil, the devil made a deal with him. He would let him out of the bargain, but he demanded a trial by jury. The only restriction the devil put on the deal was that he would pick the jury and Jabez Stone could pick any lawyer he wanted. Stone picked Daniel Webster, the great legislator and lawyer. The devil, naturally having plenty of ammunition, went down in the realms of hell and picked such renegades as Benedict Arnold, Bluebeard the Pirate, and all other absolute rascals that he could find. Picture the scene; the eloquent and talented Daniel Webster pleading for the soul of Jabez Stone with a hand-picked jury of murderers and renegades.

As we take up the quotation, Webster is making his final plea to that jury. I quote: "He began just as simple and easy as a man could talk. He spoke of the things that everybody has known and felt. The freshness of a fine morning when you are young. The taste of food when you are hungry, and the new day that's every day when you are a child. He picked them up and turned them in his hands.

They were good things for any man, but without freedom they sickened. And when he talked of those enslaved in the sorrows of slavery, his voice got like a big bell. It wasn't a spread-eagle speech, but he made you see it. He admitted all the wrong that had ever been done, but he showed how out of the wrong and right, out of the suffering and the starvation, something new had come. And everybody had had a part in it, even the traitors. There was sadness in being a man but it was a proud thing, too. He showed what the pride of it was until you couldn't help feeling it.

Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. He wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey."

And so in closing, I do hope that I have been able to give you some ideas. All can easily be summarized in this simple caution. In the rush of our modern-world of ideas, mechanisms, materialisms, let us not overlook the importance of man.

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The camera of Tech junior Bill Sumits, Jr. catches industrialists, students, and faculty members in the process of point-making, which brings out the " h a m " in us all

EVERYONE MAKES A POINT IN FREE DISCUSSION

â&#x20AC;˘ has molded you into the pattern that American business and industry today seeks in a new employee, you possess 17 qualities in a particular order.

These characteristics were debated, discussed and finally listed by a group of 12 industrial representatives taking part in the Industrial-Faculty-Student Convocation held in late March at Callaway Gardens. It was the first convocation of this nature ever staged by Georgia Tech organizations. It was a thumping success. Even though the problems came faster than the solutions, as Sam Parry of Chattanooga Box Co., official recorder for the sessions said, each group was made richer. They came away knowing one another better, and that is half the battle.

The convocation was an outgrowth of a fall gathering on "Faculty Relations," also held at Callaway. It was by chance that Sam Parry happened to be at the resort on that occasion and took part in infopnal talks with students on conditions in American industry today. These straight-forward discussions were of such interest that they fathered the March gathering co-sponsored by Alpha-Y-Phalanx and the Executive Roundtable of the Tech YMCA. A sense of apprehension, of uncertainty, was apparent among the students present who were facing their first test as a part of American business and industry.

Parry had a remark which seemed to have a profound and telling force on the entire assembly: "Men and women,

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don't be afraid of the day you have never seen. Do not have apprehensions that may never materialize."

Something of the same sentiment was stated by Howard Ector of the Trust Co. of Georgia: "Make a commitment to your God." Principle segments of the two-day program were divided into three panel discussions followed by open discussions.

Panel topics posed a series of questions: 1) "What Does Business and Industry Need in the New Employee?" 2) "What Does the College Graduate Want in His Employment with Business and Industry?" and 3) "What Is Georgia Tech Providing in the College Graduate? What Should It Provide? What Can It Provide?"

The 12 industrial representatives, named in opening remarks of the convocation kickoff speech by Dean Fred Ajax which appears elsewhere in the magazine, answered the first question by listing the following characteristics as being most desirable in a fledgling worker: 1. Flexibility. 2. A willingness to devote sufficient time to working in order to do a good job. 3. Ability to sell self and ideas. 4. Intelligence. 5. Determination. 6. Honesty.

7. Loyalty. 8. Character. 9. Persistence. 10. Scholastic achievement. 11. Initiative. 12. Sound judgment. 13. Write clearly and concisely. 14. Ability to express yourself. 15.

Personal appearance. 16. Ability to get along with people.

17. Ability to represent the company to the public.

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It is impossible to detail here all of the comments prompted by the panel's list, however, some remarks by William N. Cox, Jr., professor of Industrial Engineering, are worthy of note.

"You can't fit people into a formula," Cox stated, "but there are guide posts to be used. Companies need all kinds of men. If they did not, then there would be no use for many of you here today."

In discussing what makes a good employee, Cox asked these questions of the students: "Do you expect to receive or earn your salary? Do you want charity? What, if anything, does the company owe you? Is it a question of you fitting company needs, or does the company have to fit what you have to offer? Can you justify doing less than your best?"

There was much discussion about whether or not there is any correlation between the grades students make and the successes they attain in later life. Conclusions reached were in the affirmativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with exceptions. Further, it was decided that since the American society is becoming more highly technical and specialized, the better students will, in the future, be more successful.

Questions from students on showing creativity in the first months of a new job also provoked much discussion and it was asked why creativity was not included in the characteristics needed in new employees. The industrial men MAY, 1963

concluded that a person's creative abilities could not be determined in an interview and generally are discovered after the employee is on the job.

There was trouble getting into the next topic, but the convocation hit its stride on "What Does the College Graduate Want in His Employment with Business and Industry?"

The students could not come up with clean-cut and orderly lists. They all wanted different things in a variety of orders.

Let's look at lists from three students.

STUDENT A:

1. Opportunity to prove himself.

2. Wants his company to be concerned with him as a human being, not as a machine.

3. Wants his company to be interested in his philosophy.

4. What is the company policy as it pertains to the total welfare of the country?

5. Wants company that is interested in competition.

6. If I know I'm right, I want to have access through the line organization to get a hearing and be told if they think I'm wrong or right.

7. Sound management attitude.

8. Financial position of the company.

9. A company that seeks jobs that fit me.

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Student - Faculty - Industry Convocationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;continued 10. A growing industry and to know that if I'm the most competent person for the job, I can become president.

STUDENT B:

1. Wants opportunity that offers challenge.

2. Wants to join a company where men who do the best jobs are rewarded.

3. A company which fosters a competitive attitude.

4. One that takes pride in my accomplishments.

5. A company in which I can take pride.

6. A company in which I feel the young technical men / are competent.

7. Where the management practice is to reward men correctly, where they are paid for doing the job, not according to seniority.

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1. Location of company on the seaboard of Virginia.

2. A company with plant or plants in the same location.

3. A progressive company which analyzes its position to see where it is heading.

4. A small company.

5. Wants to supervise small group of men.

6. Where people will respect me for what I am and do, whether I'm right or wrong.

No specific conclusions were reached in the final discussion on "What is Georgia Tech Providing in the College Graduate? What Should It Provide? What Can It Provide?"

The industrial men expressed their pleasure with Tech graduates, and faculty and students had a field day kicking around such topics as the much-touted five-year program to cover the "humanities," the inadvisability of job-hopping, too many extracurricular activities, and serving apprenticeships before regarding oneself as a professional.

In concluding remarks, Sam Parry again appealed to the students to forget their fears of tomorrow: "If I envy you students for anything here today, it is that you have the game ahead of you and not behind you.

"So I say, while I believe this convocation is of great benefit to both you and industry, many of your worries and fears are minor compared to the great job that is to be done.

And as R. W. Rowland of Republic Steel so forcefully pointed out earlier, 'let's get to work, get knocked down, as you will be, but get up fighting, after you've asked the help of Almighty God, and place American business on a higher ethical and moral plane.' "

THE ENTHUSIASTIC ELOQUENCE OF STAN DOLL OF THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY IS REFLECTED IN THESE INFORMAL PORTRAITS.

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THE MPORTANCE OF BEING CO-OPERATIVE The president of the University of Cincinnati discusses the values of co-operative education, some 50 years after it began at Tech

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T is WITH MUCH PLEASURE that I bring you the official greetings of the University of Cincinnati during the celebration of your seventy-fifth anniversary as a great educational institution and the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of co-operative education on your campus. As distinguished universities and as two of the first three or four institutions to have adopted the co-operative system of technical education, Georgia Tech and Cincinnati have long and enviable records as pioneers and leaders in the field of higher learning. They have similarly proud traditions as institutions that long ago recognized the validity and the importance of a close relationship between education and industry for the greater good of our country. It is with this background in mind that I have called my talk "Education and Industryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Partners in Progress," a slogan used by Northeastern University when it celebrated its golden cooperative anniversary three years ago.

Incidentally, if you do not already know it, allow me to tell you how very much your administrators have your personal welfare at heart. When your President and my valued friend Dr. Harrison first called me about joining you this evening, he repeated several times that a brief talk was all that I was being asked to give. Then Mr. Wohlford wrote me a kind note expressing his pleasure at my agreement to come and give a short talk. Most recently Mr. Wallace sent me some historical background material on the co-operative program at Georgia Tech and commented that though this was a "brief" summary it represented all that I would really MAY, 1963

need. And now, finally, I notice that the lectern is placed in such a way that the clock is staring directly at me. Very well, I will take the hint.

From the day in 1909 when your former President Kenneth G. Matheson appointed a committee under the chairmanship of Professor T. P. Branch to study the co-operative system, through the introduction of the program with twelve students three years later, through the first quarter-century of experience, and then in the years since 1928 when Professor J. E. McDaniel began making the arrangements to enlist co-operating industrial firms in the eastern half of the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;throughout this period and into 1963, your fine institution has given to our society a total of nearly three thousand outstanding co-operative graduates. Their higher education, involving a wedding of theory and practice, has been peculiarly effective in fitting them to enter a world filled with unsolved problems and therefore also a world full of challenges and opportunities.

These graduates, and those to follow for many years to come, learned and will have learned from their distinguished faculty both how to make a living and how to live. The one without the other means little. And the co-operating employers, by recognizing the co-operative student's job as an integral part of his educational experience and program, have helped bring about the same desirable end. The successful co-operative student has learned, in the words of the Continued on page 16 15

Co-operative Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;continued system's originator, Dean Herman Schneider of the University of Cincinnati, that "it is good for a man to sweat his way towards the truth."

You at Georgia Tech and we at Cincinnati and perhaps forty or fifty of our sister institutions which have long used the co-operative system of technical education also have long known that it has many values, and, when properly administered, few limitations. But our knowledge, at least until very recently, came from experience and the records of our co-operative students and alumni, not from any scientific study or survey; the knowledge therefore also was somewhat impressionistic. In the period of more than fifty years after the initial establishment of the co-operative program in the United States (I have to be careful here since the Russians doubtless dispute this priority with Cincinnati), the literature on the subject was almost wholly in the form of articles and pamphlets, all limited in scope. Thus, information about the basic design and the most logical pattern of education-industry partnership was for more than five decades virtually unavailable, at least in written form.

Recognizing and deploring this lack, a group of men headed by the great inventor Charles F. Kettering in 1957 decided to do three things: First, make a systematic study of the co-operative program as it functioned on a number of campuses during the previous half-century; second, try to establish factually the values and limitations of co-operative education, with its underlying philosophy of the educational worth of combined work-study experience; and third, if it seemed desirable, make recommendations regarding the potential of the program as a means of meeting the country's growing need for more well-educated people in the fields of science, technology, business, and the professions.

Accordingly a twelve-man national Committee on the Study of Co-operative Education was formed which, including your President Edwin D. Harrison and the speaker, received a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to make the indicated study. The Committee selected a competent staff to collect facts and report its findings. Special questionnaires and tests were devised and sent to numerous co-operative freshmen, seniors, alumni, faculty members, co-ordinators, and employing firms. These written items were supplemented by hundreds of personal interviews. Both our Universities effectively assisted the Committee in its research.

The results were placed on 18,000 IBM cards and run through the appropriate machine^, seventy times. In order to maintain a proper perspective, control studies were made on selected non-co-operative campuses of engineering, business administration, and the arts and sciences. (There are times, I think, when we carry the control-test business a little far: I am reminded of a famous biological-sciences professor at the University of Chicago, A. J. ("Ajax") Carlson. He was the very model of a scientist and was always crying for the facts, the facts in any situation. And once, when his wife had twins, he demonstrated his scientific 16

While President Langsam makes his presentation, program chairman Jim Wohlford, director of Tech's co-operative program who also acted as master of ceremonies looks on.

devotion and consistency by having one of the children baptized and keeping the other one free for purposes of control testing!)

The research staff's findings, as reviewed by the Committee, were published in book form in 1961 under the title Work-Study College Programs. To the gratification of the Committee the facts, comprising 1,260,000 IBM items, clearly demonstrated that the partnership of education and industry had led to progress for both, and, indeed, for society as a whole. Any limitations of the system were clearly shown to be the result only of faulty administration. You, as persons intimately connected with the system are aware of this; but for all the rest of the world there now is available a scientific study to show why co-operative graduates tend, in many areas, to be ahead of their contemporaries who followed the conventional programs.

The Committee found a mass of evidence to indicate that the coordination of a campus educational program and work experience really does satisfactorily relate theory and practice for most students. Thus the student simultaneously is provided with a deeper motivation for study and finds his studies more meaningful. The work experience, moreover, impresses on the student a firm sense of responsibility for making his own effort, and thus speeds the process of his own maturing. All this, of course, has a positive value for societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly a society in which there is much concern over the apparent lack of motivation and responsibility among an increasing number of students following the conventional programs.

Again, because of their early and regular contacts with co-workers from differing backgrounds, the co-operative graduates in general develop broader understanding of other TECH ALUMNUS

people and greater skill in human relations than do their opposites in the regular collegiate programs. Particularly important in this area is the value gained from contacts with mature adults in a variety of situations, for this has helped to break down the normal segregation of college students into a community made up largely of adolescents and young adults.

Most college students are concerned about their future life work. They are interested in the range of occupations open to graduates and to the potentials and limitations of those fields. They also want to know the relevant qualifications for particular jobs and want to measure their own fitness for those jobs. Here again the co-operative system offers abundant opportunity for direct answers to these and related problems, thus saving both the individual and society much waste motion and, on occasion, frustration and heartache. Indeed, the co-operative students get an unusual introduction to the meaning and dignity of work and to the basic characteristics of our national economy. They also make valuable employment contacts early in their business career.

Of great significance to society in general and to industry in particular is the proved fact that the co-operative system makes higher education both possible for, and attractive to,

many able young people who would not otherwise go to college. The chance to earn while learning and the practical aspects of the program have a special appeal to young men and women who have great academic talent but whose families have had no college tradition.

Three other values of the plan are of specific help to all concerned. Through their co-operating students, who alternate study periods in class and on the job, the faculty members are better able to keep in touch with developments in business, industry, and the professions. Moreover, an institution using the co-operative system can more efficiently use its facilities to educate more students. The exact proportion of gain here varies with the circumstances, but some colleges and universities can accommodate from 30% to 40% more students with their existing plant and equipment than would be the case with the customary program. Finally, the co-operative system can and does provide for industry a flow of trained manpower already familiar with the operation of a particular business.

On the basis of all this, then, you may well be proud at Georgia Tech of your pioneering and leadership in a program that has achieved so much, and that doubtless will spread to other institutions and areas of our country during the ensuing years and decades.

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Georgia Power Company President Jack McDonough, '22, accepts the first J. E. McDaniel Award in behalf of his company from President Harrison. The award, voted by a panel of industrialists, faculty members and students, was for the Power Company's outstanding contributions to Tech's co-op program. It was named for the late Professor James E. McDaniel, who boosted the co-op program to its present high status.

During the 50th Anniversary Program, a good crowd of industrialists, alumni, students, and faculty heard two panel discussions and took part in the evening's program on April 5 which closed out the festivities.

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Lothridge drops back to throw during the White and Gold's best drive of the night.

T-Night Game Sets a Record

WHITES WIN, 9-6, BACK OF LOTHRIDGE ARECORD CROWD of 20,205 turned out

J\_ on a perfect spring night, April 26, to see the 1963 T-night game, sponsored by the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club.

What they saw was tough defensive football as the Billy Lothridge-led White and Gold squad defeated his old sidekick, Billy Martin, and the Black and Gold squad, 9-6. Lothridge, the clutch man from Gainesville who at times had a very average evening, kicked a field goal with 3:29 left in the third period to win the game.

The Black and Gold, after fending off a series of White and Gold drives with tough clutch line play and stolen passes (Weinman stole one at his own 3 to halt a drive and Cavan repeated at his 4 to stop another) for over a quarter and a half, got its initial 1st down when Priestly hit Martin with 7:12 in the half. The ball was on the Black and Gold 41 then the same duo hooked up for 21 yards to the enemy 38 and the drive was on. A minute later on a 4th and 4 situation, Priestly again found Martin with only one man guarding him (a cinch situation on this night) and they had the 1st down at the 24. Cavan gained 2 and then Priestly (the night's most imprtssive passer with 6 for 9) threw a strike to Doug Cooper who had worked himself clear in the end zone. With 3:47 in the half, a bad snap cost specialist Bunky Henry a string of 25 extra points for the spring.

Offended by the sudden turn of events, the White and Gold crew came roaring back to tie it on a 12-play, 63yard drive after the kickoff. Sophomore 18

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quarterback Tommy Bleick started the drive, but after a couple of short runs and a personal foul penalty had taken them to their own 46, Lothridge came in to take charge. He faked a throw and gained 2. Then, on the best call of the night, he handed off to Mendheim on another pass fake and the veteran fullback went 15 yards to the enemy 41 where a post-whistle personal foul cost the Black and White another 15. Lothridge then hit Williams, the second best pass-catcher of the evening, for 13 yards and after two tries threw another strike to Danny Faulk at the 5. On the next play, Lothridge and Mendheim encored their fake again and Mendheim swept to the right and tied it with 27 seconds on the clock. Lothridge's P A T attempt was partially deflected and it was 6-6. Before the half ended, little Bruce Fischer gave the crowd a thrill by dodging several Whites and finally throwing to Johnny Nix who was downed at the Whites 34 as the end came.

The Whites picked up in the 2nd half and reached the enemy 30 before Weinman made an unbelievable steal from Ted Davis at the 9 to halt that one.

After Priestly punted, the Whites came right back, this time reaching the 16 before the end came. On 4th down, Lothridge kicked one 32 yards from a difficult angle to make it 9-6 with 3:29 showing on the board for the 3rd period.

The Black and White spent the rest of the evening threatening to pull it out but never quite made it. Alternating Priestly and Fischer, Coach Charlie Tate saw his boys drive to the White 20 where Priestly was injured on a 16-yard run. Fischer

had to go the rest of the way and was stopped on this drive when Ted Davis threw him for an 11-yard loss. The Black and Gold reached the White 5 later and the 2 near the end of the game but fumbles, cost them the score both times.

The running of fullback Jimmy Barber and the pass catching of Martin carried them on both drives. Lothridge was called to the bench for safety's sake with 2:22 left in the third quarter after a phone call from Coach Dodd to the bench. He only was used for punting and to kill the clock after that.

If this game was any indication, Tech should have its strongest kicking game in years this year. Priestly punted 7 times for a 40.7 average, Lothridge 6 for 34.1 including one out-of-bounds on the onefoot line. Fischer added a short 11 yarder that went into the end zone. And not a single punt was run back a yard. No one could remember that many punts with a zero return total in one game.

Enemy scouts, press observers, and the Tech coaching staff were unanimous in their praise of the Tech defensive play.

With speed replacing strength and experience in the interior lines, both teams repeatedly came up with the big play in the key defensive situations. The passers, who did more throwing than usual, were constantly harassed by enemy linemen.

And the deep pass defense impressed the press box denizens, especially that of backs Ed Weinman and Jim Cavan of the Black and Gold and Johnny Gresham and Eddie Jordan of the White and Gold.

Once the curse of inexperience gets out of this team it may surprise a lot of folks. Tackles John Battle and Tom Ballard and guards Jimmy Seward, Buddy McCoy, and Bubba Shell all showed promise. And guard Joe Colvin, the sophomore sensation of the spring practice, looked the best of the lot until he was injured early in the 2nd period.

Other injuries were to Gerry Bussell (broken collarbone) and Priestly (injured ankle). Colvin may require a knee operation but is expected back in the fall. He rose from number 6 to number 1 left guard during the spring. Some of the best linemen and backs didn't play in the game and with the cadre that did, this team should match the 5-5 record predicted for it by Dodd at his annual Greater Atlanta Alumni Club appearance on April 24. If the enthusiasm shown in spring practice carries over, the team may do even better.

Tech will open its 1963 season a week early when Florida's very strong Gators come in on September 14 for a TV appearance. It might be the best team to play Tech all season. But Dodd has a habit of getting ready for that first one.

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Institute of Radio Engineers, Science, the Wiesner was named special assistant for Physical Review, etc. He has been awarded science and technology by the President in honorary degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1961), the Lowell January, 1961. When the new Office of Science and Technology was set up in the Technological Institute (1962) and the UniExecutive Office of the President in 1962, versity of Michigan (1962).

Wiesner was named its director.

Minister-businessman to present Wiesner received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michi- Baccalaureate Address gan at Ann Arbor in 1937; the same Uni- DR. WILLIAM M. SUTTLES, pastor of the versity awarded him his M.S. in 1938 and Haralson Baptist Church, Haralson, Ga., his Ph.D. in 1950. will deliver the baccalaureate address to the Upon graduation from the University, 1963 graduating class of Tech. The exercises Wiesner joined the staff there and remained will be held on June 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the in Ann Arbor for two years. In 1940 he Alexander Memorial Coliseum. was appointed Chief Engineer of the Library In addition to being a minister, Dr. Sutof Congress in Washington, D. C , and tles is a well-known businessman and eduwhile there he developed the recording and cator in the Atlanta community. He is vice acoustical laboratory and did some record president and personnel director of Rich's, preservation work. In 1942 he joined the Inc., as well as a member of the faculty at staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Georgia State College.

Technology, Cambridge, Mass., where he A leader in civic affairs, he has served remained until 1945 when he went to as chairman, Manpower and Education work at Los Alamos, New Mexico, with Committee of the Georgia Nuclear Adthe University of California's Los Alamos visory Commission; trustee, George M. Laboratory. In 1946 Wiesner returned to Sparks' Scholarship Fund and Georgia State MIT and in 1952 he became Director of its College Athletic Assn.; chairman, Men's Research Laboratory of Electronics.^.

Council, Atlanta League of Women Voters; Wiesner has done research on scatter and secretary, Atlanta Kiwanis Club. communications techniques and radar problems. While at MIT he assisted in the estab- New School of Information Science lishment of the Lincoln Laboratory, which gets green light worked on the development of the radar, THE BOARD OF REGENTS has authorized a computer and communications systems for School of Information Science at Tech with the continental air defense system. Prior to Dr. William F. Atchison as acting director. coming to Washington to serve as Special According to Mrs. J. Henley Crosland, diAssistant, he served on numerous advisory rector, Libraries, who has guided efforts to committees to the Department of Defense secure the school, the master's degree proand the White House on scientific and tech- gram in information science will be offered nical matters. In 1948 he was Staff Director next fall.

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The program will train science and engineering personnel for professional practice and research in information science.

Mrs. Crosland said the master's degree program will provide two areas of specialization. The first is designed for students interested in professional careers as science information personnel, or literature analysts, in scientific and technical libraries and in industrial and research institutions. The second is for students concerned chiefly with information as a science, or the science of information as a formal academic discipline.

Courses for the first area of specialization will get under way at Tech this fall. Both specialities will require for admission undergraduate preparation in scientific and technological fields. This includes a bachelor's degree awarded by an accredited institution of higher learning. Admission of students with other educational backgrounds will be made only by special permission.

Research administration changes announced by President

IN A MEMORANDUM to the faculty dated April 19, President Harrison announced changes in research administration at Tech. The changes have been approved by the Board of Regents and will go into effect on July 1, 1963.

A new position, Associate Dean of Faculties-Administrator of Research, has been created as a staff position to the Dean of Faculties. R. E. Stiemke, currently director of the Engineering Experiment Station, has been assigned this position. Wyatt C. Whitley, currently associate director of the Engineering Experiment Station has been named director of the Experiment Station. The position of associate director of the ExperiContinued on page 22 TECH ALUMNUS

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THE INSTITUTE-confinued ment Station will not be filled for the time being. Harry L. Baker, Jr. will assume the post of assistant controller of the institution, relinquishing the post if assistant director (contracts) of the Experiment Station. He will continue as president of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, contractual corporation associated with the institution.

"The direction and conduct of research within academic departments," Harrison said, "will continue to be the responsibility of directors and heads through the appropriate college deans to the Dean of Faculties."

"The overall administration of our research," Harrison said, "as well as the instructional programs, is the responsibility of the Dean of Faculties. Because of the need for uniform procedures for processing research proposals to be submitted to outside agencies, and because grant and contractual commitments for this research must be fulfilled with the necessary administrative and financial control, it is necessary that one individual be charged with the immediate administration of all of the research functions of the institution. For these reasons, and because of the increased research activities and diversification of fund sources, the Associate Dean of Faculties-Administrator of Research will assist the Dean of Faculties in supervising the administration of Georgia Tech's research program."

Three well-known scientists lecture on campus

PROF. H. R. CRANE of the Physics Depart-

ment, University of Michigan, visited the campus April 11 and gave the first M. A. Ferst Lecture. His subject was "Creative Thinking and Experimenting." At 11 a.m. on the same date, Prof. Crane delivered a talk to the joint Electrical EngineeringPhysics Seminar on "Precise Determinations of the Gyromagnetic Ratio of the Free Electron."

Professor Crane's M. A. Ferst Lecture discussed ideas of the great French scientist Poincare and others on the subject of creativity. His thesis presented that creative thinking, like playing tennis or bridge, is an activity rather than a phenomenon, and that it can be cultivated through coaching and practice. The nature of the creative process was discussed, with examples from classroom and laboratory experiences.

Dr. Vance Sailor, leader of the Nuclear Cryogenics Group of the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Physics Department, gave a seminar and an address at T-ech on April 11.

Chairman of the Nuclear Cross Sections Advisory Group of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Research Division since 1961, Dr. Sailor was sponsored at Tech by the Neely Visiting Professor Fund.

Dr. Sailor's seminar was on "Experiments with Polarized Neutrons."

Dr. Edwin Hewitt, professor of Mathematics, University of Washington (Seattle), gave a Mathematics Colloquium at Tech on March 28. His subject was "Fourier Trans22

ism, and many body problems, was also brought to Tech by the Neely Visiting Professor Fund.

"The Electronic and Transport Properties A n d still more distinguished visitors of Lead Telluride" was discussed by Prof.

Pratt before a joint electrical engineeringDR. AIHUD PEVSNER, discoverer of a new atomic particle, the eta meson, visited Tech physics seminar.

Dr. Wyllys G. Stanton, founder of the April 15 and 16 and gave a physics seminar American Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a lecture.

Director of the high energy nuclear gave a seminar at Tech on April 24.

Dr. Stanton, who is now a consulting groups at John Hopkins University and the Berkeley Bubble Chamber, Dr. Pevsner was engineer and professor of Industrial Engisponsored at Tech by the Neely Visiting neering at the University of Alabama, spoke Professor Fund, established by Mr. and Mrs. on "New Approaches to Basic Probability Frank H. Neely of Atlanta to bring leading Theory."

Prof. Frank H. Westheimer, Department scientists, engineers and educators to the of Chemistry, Harvard University, gave two campus.

Dr. Pevsner's seminar was on "The Most lectures at Tech on April 24 and April 25.

Prof. Westheimer was sponsored by the Recent Elementary Particles: The Pion Resonances." His lecture was entitled "Ele- Glidden Co. as a visiting lecturer in Amerimentary Particles: The Problem Children of can universities.

On April 24 Prof. Westheimer spoke on High Energy Physics."

Dr. D. W. Pritchard, chairman of the De- "The Mechanism of the Enzymatic Decarpartment of Oceanography at Johns Hop- boxylation of Acetoacetic Acid." His April kins University, gave two talks at Tech on 25 lecture was on "Nuclcophilic and General Base Catalysis of Phosphate Ester HyApril 23.

His visit was co-sponsored by the Ameri- drolysis." can Geophysical Union Visiting Scientist Program in Oceanography, the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi, and the Neely Visiting Professor Fund.

Dr. Pritchard's talks were "Physical and Chemical Hydrography of Estuaries," and "Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of Major Ocean Currents."

Behruz Cinici, architect, and Fuat Zadil, ALBANY, GEORGIAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The SOWEGA Georgia assistant director, Campus Development, Tech Club held its spring meeting on March Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 27 with over 40 alumni in attendance. Tech's Turkey, visited Price Gilbert Memorial chief recruiter, Spec Landrum, was the Library recently. They are touring the east- principal speaker and discussed the athletic ern United States to study plans and de- program in detail. During the business signs of university libraries before beginning meeting the name of the club was changed to construction of a new library building. The the Albany, Georgia Tech Club by a vote Tech library was first on the itinerary pre- of those in attendance. Dick Richard handled the arrangements for the meeting. pared by the UNESCO adviser.

Dr. W. L. Hyden, a member of the chemistry staff at Belmont College, Nash- ATLANTA, GEORGIAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Over 180 Tech alumni ville, Tenn., gave a lecture and seminar at turned out for the annual "Hall of Fame" meeting of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech on April 26.

Formerly the director of research in the Tech Club on April 24. The late W. A. Textile Fibers Division of Du Pont, Dr. Alexander, one of the most-honored coaches Hyden was brought to the campus by the in the history of intercollegiate football, headed a list of eight former Georgia Tech Neely Visiting Professor Fund.

Textile engineering students and faculty athletic greats inducted into the Georgia members heard Dr. Hyden speak on "Crea- Tech Athletic Hall of Fame by George C. tivity in Research" at 10 a.m. in the Textile Griffin, chairman of the Hall of Fame Auditorium. He also held an informal selection committee.

Guest speaker for the annual occasion seminar for graduate students and faculty was Coach Alex's successor and top protege, members.

Dr. Hyden was a Du Pont Fellow at Bobby Dodd, who reviewed the Jacket's 1963 spring practice and previewed the Johns Hopkins University where he received the doctorate. His research work with Du coming football season for the Atlanta area Pont spanned a period of 26 years and was alumni.

The other illustrious Tech athletes selected concerned with cellulose products and for the honor this year included the late textile fibers.

Prof. George W. Pratt. Jr., a member of Jim Ison, baseball; Bobby Kimmel, basketthe Materials Theory Group of the Depart- ball; Buddy Fowlkes, track; Johnny Hiles, ment of Electrical Engineering, Massa- swimming; and Al Staton, Paul Duke, and chusetts Institute of Technology, gave a Billy Teas, football.

Mrs. W. A. Alexander, widow of the Tech seminar at Tech on April 25.

Prof. Pratt, whose research interests in- immortal, accepted the plaque in Alex's clude theoretical solid state physics, appli- honor. And Bob Ison. '40, a Tech allcation of field theory to solid state, magnet- American himself, accepted for his late forms." Dr. Hewitt is currently a Visiting Lecturer for the Mathematics Assn. of America.

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uncle who died in February. All of the other honorees including Al Staton, who flew up from South America for the ceremonies, were present in person.

New officers elected during the meeting presided over by outgoing president, Massey Clarkson, included Randolph Whitfield, president; Chester Courtney, vice president; A. Tom Bradbury, vice president; Richard C. Kidd, secretary; and Allen S. Hardin, treasurer.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—Coach Bobby Dodd drew 146 alumni to the March 2 meeting of the South Texas Georgia Tech Club. Introduced

by Charles Fleetwood, Dodd reviewed the Tech athletic program and the growth of the Institute for the alumni. Bob Melanson handled arrangements, and J. C. "Jake" Shelor, handled publicity. Billy E. Curry is the club president.

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, May 16. President Edwin Harrison will be guest speaker.

CHARLOTTE, N O R T H CAROLINA — The Char-

Georgia Tech Club held its "Ladies Night" meeting on March 8 with 160 present, including alumni and wives plus a few guests.

Guest speaker was Coach Bobby Dodd who did his usual fine job. Bill Terrell talked about the Annual Roll Call and the need for participation. Bill is a vice president of the National Alumni Association.

President Edwin Harrison joined the meeting late after giving an address at a meeting of AIEE and I R E . Roane Beard, Alumni Secretary, expressed thanks to the Charlotte Club and urged continued interest in the Roll Call. Statistics showed the Charlotte Club in 8th place among clubs in total donors, but not in the top 10 in percent participation.

Jack Baker, ' 3 3 . president, presided at the meeting. Officers and directors of the club were introduced. They are Dave Williams, Rudy L. Mansfield, Gresham Thomas, J. Ed Council, Jim Buchanan, Jim Rigdon, Jake Barnhardt, and Don Voyles. The 1962 Football Highlights were shown at the conclusion of the meeting.

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Ohio Georgia Tech Club was activated on April 9 when 41 alumni attended the stag meeting. Bruce Warnock of Lakewood, Ohio, made the arrangements. Guest speaker was Roane Beard, Alumni Secretary, who talked about Tech and the alumni association and showed slides of the Tech campus and the 1962 Football Highlights.

Officers elected for the charter year included Campbell L. Smith, president; John R. Harwell, vice president; Bruce Warnock, secretary-treasurer; and Ernest W. Harwell, president emeritus.

A meeting is planned for Saturday, September 14, 1963 at the Sleepy Hollow Club, Brecksville, Ohio. There will be golf in the morning, luncheon, and then a viewing of the Tech-Florida football game. All interested should call Bruce Warnock at National City Bank, 861-4900.

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alumni and friends turned out in miserable weather conditions to hear Dr. Walter Buckingham speak on Automation—Its Impact on Business. According to a report from the club officers, Dr. Buckingham's talk was very enlightening, witty and thought provoking. All persons were most impressed by him and also the Industrial Management Program at Tech. H e was accompanied by Mr. Leo Parrish, a graduate student teacher.

Georgia Tech Alumni Club meetings on record was held in Huntsville, Alabama February 21 when 250 alumni, wives and guests turned out to hear Coach Bobby Dodd.

Among significant statements by Coach Dodd were that there is tremendous pressure on the coach to win; he has no immediate plans to retire from coaching; he has six of the best assistant coaches in the business; no section has a monopoly on football—it runs in cycles; and it's getting

TAMPA, FLORIDA—Bob Wallace, Tech publications director and author of the forthcoming history of Tech, Dress Her in White and Gold, spoke to the Florida West Coast Club at the March 28 meeting in Tampa.

Wallace, introduced by Marshall Lockridge, brought the members u p to date on Tech's programs and talked about some of the research for his book.

At a recent Mexico City Tech Club meeting, Dr. Phil Narmorc, retired Regents' Professor, (standing left) and Dr. Homer Weber, retired director of the M E School (sitting left) were greeted by Albert Staton, Jr. (standing right) and Mrs. James Webb, Jr. and Mrs. Albert Staton. (See picture above.)

Viewing the Charlotte Tech Alumni award to be presented this summer for the "best engineered" racer in the city's Soap Box Derby are club member Charlie Witmer ( L ) , Roane Beard, Bobby Dodd, and Drew Hearn, Tech alumnus who is also Charlotte's derby director for 1963. (See picture below.)

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Tech Club held a stag dinner meeting on April 10 with 29 present. Guest speaker was Roane Beard, Alumni Secretary, who talked briefly about the institution, the association, and the foundation. Slides of the campus were shown, followed by the 1963 Football Highlights.

Officers elected for the ensuing year were John A. Prall, president; John E. Rinell, vice president; and Stan Berman, secretarytreasurer.

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HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA—One of the largest

tougher to win at Tech due to admissions policies and academic demands.

Fred Martin introduced Coach Dodd.

Paschal E. Redding, president, served as master of ceremonies.

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homa club area christened its new club in the most unsual way on record. As the 35 members arrived to the March 1st meeting they were handed a Math quiz (Given: y = 3x 2 —6x—5; find the coordinates of the max. or min. point of the curve that this question represents. Be sure to tell which (max. or min.) and how you make your decision), and a slate of the nominations proposed by the nominating committee. The scores on the quizes have not been tabulated but the unanimous decision of the club's slate of officers is as follows: Richard I. Lowndes, III, president; Ben H. Wilkins, Jr., vice president; J. J. Colvin, secretary; and Sam McLean, treasurer.

Featured speaker for the evening was Tom Hall, associate alumni secretary. Following the meeting the members viewed the 1962 Football Highlight film.

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Q Q Julian J. Jones, of 3746 Wieuca " 0 Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, died March 13 after a long illness. His widow lives at the above address. He is also survived by a daughter and two sons, all of Atlanta.

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'IE John M. Reifsnider, EE, of 2742 ' *» Scottwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, died March 1.

Blanchard Drake Smith, EE, died March 9 in an Atlanta hospital. He was a designing engineer for Scripto. His widow lives at 18 Peachtree Circle, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

'1 0 Lewis R. Sams, who recently retired ' " as executive vice president of Retail Credit Company after 40 years of service, has been elected president of the Munich American Reassurance Company, Atlanta, Georgia. ' O f l Walter George Mercer, ME, retired LW Dawson, Georgia cotton broker, died in January at his home. His widow lives at 618 Orange Street, Dawson, Georgia.

'Ol Harry B. Brock, Gadsden, Alabama, ™ ' died in February. He was owner and operator of Brick Hill Hereford Farm. He is survived by his widow who lives at R F D 7, East Gadsden, Alabama. ' 0 0 John O. Chiles has qualified for the fcW Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adams-Cates Company, Atlanta, Georgia. > 0 7 Robert L. Gresham retired from the ^ ' Southern California Water Company in April and is now associated with a fellow alumnus, Carlton Greer George, Com. '23, Real Estate and Industrial Broker in Los Angeles, California.

' O Q Ralph M. Buffington, Arch, has won ~ " 6 awards given by the Church Architecture Department of the Southern Baptist * n 7 lames (*• Ison, one of Georgia Tech's Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. He lives at 1710 Welch Street, Hous" • first nationally known athletes, died ton, Texas.

February 26 at his home. His death preceded his already scheduled election to the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame. He was a ' 0 0 William D. George, EE, was killed trustee of the Georgia State Hall of Fame. ^ * * in an automobile accident in Geneva, Mr. Ison was one of the founders of the Switzerland February 12. He was there as Ison Finance Company. His widow lives U. S. delegate to a meeting of the Radio at the above address.

Consultative Committee of the International Telecommunications Union. Mr. George was consultant, to the chief of the Radio Physics Ernest D. Ivey has been made a Division at the National Bureau of Stand• I Fellow of the American Institute of ards, Bolder (Colorado) Laboratories.

Architects. He is a senior partner in the P. S. Rhyne, EE, has been appointed Genfirm of Ivey and Cook, Atlanta, Georgia. eral Defense Manager with Southern Bell in Atlanta, Georgia.

'10 Frank B. Robert, a partner in the Melvin L. Tye, of Americus, Georgia, l~ Atlanta Textile Machinery Company, died February 26, 1963. died March 14 after a long illness. He is survived by two brothers, L. W. "Chip" ' O f l H. Griffith Edwards, Arch, has been Robert, and A. Pierce Robert, with whom * • " made a Fellow of the American Inhe lived at 445 Peachtree Battle Avenue, stitute of Architects. He is a senior partner N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. in the firm of Edwards & Portman, Atlanta, Georgia. ' 1 A Edward L. Stewart died February 1 ^ 8, 1963. He lived at 70 Madison Street, Newnan, Georgia. ' 0 0 ^r' Charles L. Harman, President of Benjamin Hicks Woodruff died January 0C of Bluefield College, Bluefield, Vir34

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ginia, has been appointed to the board of commissioners of the National Commission on Accrediting, representing the American Association of Junior Colleges.

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Charles Trout, of 19 Arc Way, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, died March 4 at his after a long illness. His widow lives above address.

' Q E James M. Crawford has qualified for w w the Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adair Realty Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Charles B. Rogers, EE, died February 27 after a long illness. He had been with the Georgia Power Company for 35 years.

His widow lives at 2410 Sewell Road, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Douglas C. Sievers. Chem, has been promoted to the position of senior research associate in the Tennessee Eastman Company Research Laboratories, Kingsport, Tennessee. He lives at 1405 Brightridge Drive, Kingsport, Tennessee. ' Q C James Harrison Finch has been made » " a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is senior partner in the firm of Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild & Pascal, Atlanta, Georgia.

Charles E. Wilson has acquired principal ownership in the Bradford Tire Company in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been with the company for 12 years and was formerly vice president and general manager. ' 0 7 Alvin B. Cates, Jr. has qualified for W ' the Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adams-Cates Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. John W. Clegg, ChE, has been named President of the North Starr Research and Development Institute, 968 S.B.A. Tower, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota. ' Q Q w- AVerlander, IM, has been J 3 named a new director to the board of Roy D. Warren Company in Atlanta, Georgia. He is president of American Heritage Life Insurance Company. ' A 1 James B- Curley, TE, has been pre" ' sented the "Distinguished Service Award" by the Textile and Needle Trades Division of the American Society for Quality Control. The award was made for outstanding contributions to the organization and the trade. Mr. Curley is on the staff of the Avisco Technical and Textile Service Department of American Viscose Corporation at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.

Lt. Col. Douglas W. Winfree, Jr., USAF, IM, has been selected to attend the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Ft. McNair, Washington, D. C. in August. He lives at 1314 Lemcke Road, Xenia, Ohio.

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NEWS BY CLASSES-confinued "Use of Winds Aloft Observations to Forecast Direction of Movement of Typhoons."

He is a meteorologist at Fuchu Air Station, Japan.

• M O Lt. Col. Charles A. McLeod, USA, " * * CE, has been awarded the Army Commendation Metal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) for meritorious service as a logistics staff officer at Headquarters, U. S. Continental Army Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia.

Dr. Irving Michelson is on a sabbatical absence from Illinois Institute of Technology for the spring semester. He is a visiting professor at the Universite of Nancy in France.

Dr. Michelson is a professor of mechanical engineering and Director of the Aeronautics Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

Engaged: Auburn Edward Thompson to Miss Barbara Elizabeth Ficht. The wedding will take place this spring. Mr. Thompson is a writer and producer with WSB-Radio in Atlanta, Georgia.

MC Lt- CoL Holden C. West, USAR, re*" cently attended a reserve officer orientation class at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. He lives at 734 Dogwood Circle, Macon, Georgia. ' A " ! Howard H. Callaway, has been * ' elected a director of the Young Presidents Organization. He is president of Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, Pine Mountain, Georgia.

Joe K. Dillard, EE, Manager, Electric Utility Engineering Department with Westinghouse Electric, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been made a Fellow in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for "contributions to electric power system engineering in conversion and transmission research." He has been with Westinghouse since 1950.

Noel C. Turner has qualified for the Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adair Realty Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

M Q Herbert M. Barnum, CE, is a part• «* ner in the firm of Williams, Sweitzer & Barnum, consulting engineers and land surveyors. Mr. Barnum heads the company.

His business address is 401 Lowell Drive, Huntsville, Alabama.

Doyle A. Graham, IM, is now vice president and general manager of Schine Hotels, Inc. He is located at Miami Beach, Florida. ' A Q ^" Travis Brannon, Jr., IM, has been •** named secretary of the Atlanta (Georgia) Merchandise Mart. He is a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Hansell, Post, Brandon and Dorsey.

Dr. Charles D. Spielberger, Chem, is now professor of psychology at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fred J. Turner, Jr. has been appointed 36

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'CI Engaged: Edwin Joseph Baron, IE, *» I to Miss Anne Andrews. The wedding will take place May 4 in Atlanta. Mr. Baron is with Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia.

Gerald W. Davis, TE, died of a heart attack March 19 at his.home, 610 Ansley Forest Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. He had been associated with Burlington Industries since 1953. Mr. Davis is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Davis of Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Dr. Robert Fulton Dye, ChE, is now Director of the Mississippi Industrial and Technological Research Commission, Port Gibson, Mississippi.

Engaged: Heinz William Kruse, IE, to Miss Irene Davenport. The wedding will take place June 22. Mr. Kruse is with the Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. Herbert E. Riedl, IE, is now personnel manager for Ekco Containers, Inc. He lives at 129 South Waverly, Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sadow, a son, Scott Clifford, March 19. They live at 30 G G Riverview Gardens, North Arlington, New Jersey. ' C O James R. Brown, Jr. has qualified for * » ^ the Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adair Realty Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Duane LeRoy Franklet, ChE, a son, Duane LeRoy, Jr., February 20. Their mailing address is Route 1, Box 182-E, Seabrook, Texas.

Married: Charles W. Harrison, IM, to Miss Jackualyn Cox Yeager, April 20. Mr. Harrison is with Adair Realty Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

James R. Mills, IE, has been named one of the top 20 salesmen with AUis-Chalmers Industries Group. He is a sales representative in the Beaumont, Texas district.

Ernest L. Moorehead, ChE, is now with Clark Brothers Company, Division of Dresser Industries. He lives at 6169 Paris Avenue,. Apartment 109, New Orleans 22, Louisiana.

Engaged: Eben Fletcher Tilly, Jr., IM, to Miss Nancy McFadden. Mr. Tilly is with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as their Atlanta, Georgia representative. ' C O Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Randolph J v w. Cabill, EE, a daughter, Katherine Ann, February 27. They live at 245 Charles Court, Satellite Beach, Florida.

John K. Porter has qualified for the Million Dollar Club for 1963 in Atlanta real estate. He is with Adams-Cates Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert E. Russell, IE, has been named one of the top 20 salesmen with the AllisChalmers Industries Group. He is a sales representative in the Atlanta, Georgia district.

Robert Wielage was the architect for the Hibbs Medical Building, Tampa, Florida, which has won the Health Citation Award

in the 10th Annual Design Awards Program sponsored by Progressive Architecture, national architectural magazine. ' C ^ Engaged: Samuel Arthur BuckJ " master, Jr., IM, to Miss Lacy Wright.

The wedding will take place March 20. Mr. Buckmaster has his own firm, Buckmaster Realty and Investment Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Alexander C. Lamas, AIA, Arch, has opened his own architectural firm at 721 Juniper Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

H. Carlos Puckett, IM, is a sales representative with Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.—Lamp Division. He lives at 107 Lancaster Lane, Greenville, South Carolina.

Ben C. Scales, CE, is now with Rust Engineering Company. He lives at 538 Cloudland Drive, Birmingham 16, Alabama.

R. M. Sharp, ChE, supervising engineer in Humble Oil's Technical Division, Baytown, Texas, has been granted a U. S. patent. It discloses a device for improving the performance of chemical reactors which contact flowing gases with powdered catalysts. ' C C D. C. Aubrey, ChE, has been pro**** moted to senior chemical engineer in the petrochemical section of Chemicals Technical & Coordination at Humble Oil in Baytown, Texas. He lives at 421 Burnet Drive, Baytown, Texas.

Dawson J. Hall, ME, has been named District Manager of the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Roots-Connersville. He had been in the company's Atlanta office for 3 years prior to this promotion. His business address is 1023 South Caldwell Street, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Maj. Robert D. Lambourne, USA, has been awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service as chief of Radar Maintenance Instruction Branch and supervisor of the Sensory Equipment Division, Target Acquisition Department, U. S. Army Artillery and Missile School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Capt. George Ragovis. USA, ChE, has been assigned to the U. S. Army Military Assistance Command, Headquarters, Vietnam.

Capt. Richard J. Smith, Jr., USA, IM, recently completed annual winter training with the 8th Transportation Battalion's 11th Light Helicopter Company stationed at Nellingen, Germany. Capt Smith is a pilot and has been overseas since October, 1961. » C C / . Robert Bridges, ChE, has been ***• transferred by the Chemical Division of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Augusta, Georgia where the company recently announced the formation of the Columbia-National Corporation.

Married: William Anthony Cashin, Jr., EE, to Miss Jane Haralson. April 20. Mr. Cashin is with Minneapolis Honeywell in Birmingham, Alabama.

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The opportunities for bright young scientists like John Mitchell are virtually unlimited at American Oil. American Oil offers a wide range of new research opportunities for: Chemists— analytical, electrochemical, physical, and organic; Engineers—chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical; Masters in Business Administration with an engineering (preferably chemical) or science background; Mathematicians; Physicists.

For complete information about interesting careers in the Research and Development Department, write: J. H. Strange, American Oil Company, P. 0 . Box 431, Whiting, Indiana.

IN ADDITION TO FAR-REACHING PROGRAMS INVOLVING FUELS, LUBRICANTS AND PETROCHEMICALS, AMERICAN OIL AND ITS AFFILIATE, AMOCO CHEMICALS, ARE ENGAGED IN SUCH DIVERSIFIED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS: Organic ions under electron impact • Radiation-induced reactions • Physiochemical nature of catalysts • Fuel cells • Novel separations by gas chromatography • Application of computers to complex technical problems • Synthesis and potential applications for aromatic acids • Combustion phenomena • Design and economics: new uses for present products, new products, new processes • Corrosion mechanisms • Development of new types of surface coatings.

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NEWS BY CLASSES-confinued

John P. Craven, '28, has been placed in charge of The Babcock & Wilcox Company's Boiler Division, Barberton, Ohio. Craven, who has been vice president, manufacturing, of the division, will have responsibility for all divisional activity.

James R. Owens, '29, has been named Director of the Electric Division with the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division. Owens joined the company in 1938 as a distribution engineer, and has been Superintendent of Electric Distribution since 1952.

Dr. Nathan Sugarman, '33, has joined the 'Polyfibron' Pilot Fiber Laboratory of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Division, W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass., as research associate.

Sugarman, an authority on cellulose and viscose rayon, spent 12 years at Tech.

R. P. Kytle, Jr., '36, has been elected a vice president of Reynolds Aluminum Sales Company and has been named general manager of a new six-state Southern sales region with headquarters in Atlanta.

Kytle serves as a Georgia Tech alumni advisor.

William C. Painter, Jr., '38, was recently elected a Commissioner of the City of Decatur, Georgia. He had previously served on The Board of Appeals and the Citizens Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal. He has been with the Engineering Dept. of Southeastern Underwriters Assoc, since graduation.

Nathaniel G. McLean, '39, has been elected to the Management Board of Personal Products C o m p a n y , Milltown, N. J., a division of Johnson & Johnson. Mclean has been manager of operations for the Cel-Fibe Division since 1959. He joined Personal Products in 1958.

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formation of a new firm, The David Gracer Company, Mutual Funds, 50 Broad Street, New York 4, New York.

Donald M. Hankins, TE, has been assigned to the Atlanta, Georgia sales office of National Aniline Division of Allied Chemical. He is a demonstrator and technician for the Atlanta area.

James D. Moye, IM, a member of the Georgia Agency of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, has been honored for placing more than a million dollars of business with his company in 1962. This is the fifth year he was so cited. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters. Mr. Moye's office is in the Bank of Georgia Building, Atlanta, Georgia.

Vernon T. Roberts, Jr., Arch, has formed a partnership for the practice of architecture under the firm name of Strickland and Roberts, with offices at 1023 Forrest Avenue, Gadsden, Alabama.

Married: Robert L. Simerly, IE, to Miss Betty J. Lee, on March 24. They live at 38 Fort Wayne Apts., Trustees Garden, Savannah, Georgia.

Capt. Donald C. Tellelbach, USA, CE, has been assigned to the U. S. Army Element, M A A G , Vietnam, APO 143, San Francisco, California. j"T Ray K. Allen, TE, has been pro* * ' moted to the position of General Overseer of Production Engineering and Quality Control at the Monaghan Plant of J. P. Stevens & Company, Greenville. South Carolina. He lives at Piedmont Avenue Extension, Piedmont, South Carolina.

Robert A. Browne, IM, has been transferred to a sales territory in Chicago by DuPont's Photo Products Department. He is a technical representative for x-ray products.

Harry L. Dukes, USA, TE, has been promoted to major at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas where he is a student at The Command and General Staff College.

Dr. R. W. Pike, ChE, presented a paper at the national meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers in New Orleans in March. He is with the Research and Development Division of Humble Oil in Baytown, Texas.

Married: Robert H. Probert, IM, to Miss Geraldine Smith, October 20, 1962. Bob is southeast sales engineer with Sel Rex Corporation of Nutley, New Jersey. His business address is 1000 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta 9, Georgia.

Richard M. Schmidt, ME, has joined the staff of the Mechanical Engineering (Weapons) Department of the University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California.

If any of our readers know the address of F. L. Segars, IM, please so advise the Alumni Office.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Homer S. White, Phys, a son, Homer, Jr., March 14. Mr. White is with the Woodman Company. They

live at 2236 Polor Rock Place, Atlanta 15, Georgia. ' C O William B. Campbell, Cere, has been ^ ^ elected vice president of Lexington Laboratories. He will continue to serve as Research Program Director. His business address is 35 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge 42, Massachusetts. / . P. Curtis, ME, has been named one of the top 20 salesmen with the Allis-Chalmers Industries Group. He is a sales representative in the Indianapolis. Indiana district.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Edwards, IM, a daughter, Cynthia Anne, February 9.

Their address is Box 157, Portland, Arkansas.

Lt. Kenneth L. Furbush, USAF, is in pilot training at Webb AFB, Texas. He will fly T-37 and T-33 jets during his training.

Married: Arthur Gene Linton, CE, to Miss Alice D. Harbor, April 20. Mr. Linton is with the Georgia Highway Department, Atlanta, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Manner, IM, a son, Charles, February 23. They live at 145 Casdon Drive, Marietta, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. Schill, ME, a daughter, Susan Marie, July 27. Mr. Schill is with A. M. Lockett in Houston, Texas. They live at 4810 Glenmont Drive, Bellaire, Texas. / . W. Schmidt, IE, has contributed an article in the March issue of the Bobbin, textile trade magazine. Jack is with Oxford Manufacturing Company and lives at Forrest Hills Circle, Vidalia, Georgia.

Married: Fred E. Smith, Jr., IE, to Miss Constance Lewis, February 16. Mr. Smith is with Reynolds Metals Company. They live at 18 Malvern Avenue, Apartment 6, Richmond, Virginia. ' C Q Adir Aronson, IM, has received his * Âť ^ masters in business administration from Georgia State College and is now a systems representative for the Atlanta office of RCA's Electronic Data Processing Division. He lives at 2620 East Wesley Terrace, N.E., Atlanta 5, Georgia.

Married: Gerald Francis Craig to Miss Sandra M. Poole, March 16. Mr. Craig is with General Foods Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.

Married: John Williford Duskin, Jr.. Phys, to Miss Geraldine Westmore. Mr. Duskin is working toward his doctorate in Math at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Engaged: Robert Duncan Gotsch, IM, to Miss Barbara Marie Marsh. The wedding will take place April 27.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Graves, ChE, twins, Julie Ann and John Walter, December 9. They live at 415 Inwood Drive, Bayton, Texas.

Lt. Jimmie M. Hester. USA, TE, is a member of the 80th Ordnance Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Married: Lt. Philip Roger Hunter, U S A F , Phys, to Miss Emily G. Boland. The wedding took place February 2. Lt. Hunter is stationed at Mountain Home, Idaho.

TECH ALUMNUS

J O H N T. S O D E R S T R O M

In what other business could you go so far in your first year?

A native of M a d i s o n , Wisconsin, he retired as a Chief Petty Officer after 2 0 years in the N a v y a n d joined our H o n o l u l u A g e n c y in August, 1 9 6 1 . His sales in the calendar year 1 9 6 2 totaled 8 9 policies for $ 6 9 0 , 5 3 4 . _ H e was honored as the Company's first year M a n of the M o n t h in A p r i l , 1 9 6 2 .

WALTER W.

MAUER

W i t h seven years experience in sales and service in t a n g i b l e g o o d s , he became a member of our Harrisburg A g e n c y in June, 1 9 6 1 .

During his first 1 2 months he sold 39 cases for $ 9 1 6 , 3 8 4 . In M a r c h , 1 9 6 2 he was selected as the Company's first year M a n of the M o n t h .

PATRICK J. R O A C H

Each of these five men recently finished his first full year-with Massachusetts Mutual. And they averaged over $900,000 in sales.

Can you think of any other business where such rapid achievement would be possible?

As you read the biographies at right, you will notice that these men held widely different types of jobs before thev joined Massachusetts Mutual.

H o w do you feel about your present job? Are you advancing as fast as you'd hoped? Do you really like the work you're doing? Or would you rather be in business for yourself like these men â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in a business w h i c h rewards you in direct proportion to your achievements?

If so, you should investigate the potential of a career w i t h Mass Mutual. It is one of the oldest and strongest life insurance companies in the country w i t h 2.6 billion dollars in assets. And it has an outstanding record of dynamic g r o w t h .

Just write a personal letter about yourself to Charles H. Schaaff, President, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass. It could well be the most important letter you've ever written.

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A graduate of M a r q u e t t e University, and a practicing attorney for six years, he joined our M i l w a u kee A g e n c y in A p r i l , 1 9 6 1 , and in his first 1 2 months he sold 3 9 cases for $ 7 4 7 , 4 0 0 . In each of the last 15 consecutive months he sold over $30,000 and in M a y of 1 9 6 2 was chosen first year M a n of the M o n t h .

R O N A L D D A V I S BALSER G r a d u a t e d from t h e W h a r t o n School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1 9 6 0 , he joined our A t l a n t a A g e n c y in A p r i l , 1 9 6 1 .

His 1 9 6 2 ordinary sales amounted to 80.5 policies for $ 1 , 5 3 3 , 9 9 6 .

In each of the last 13 months his production exceeded $ 3 0 , 0 0 0 .

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A graduate of the University of M i a m i , he served three years w i t h the USAF. A f t e r nine years of business experience first as a Tax Assessor, a n d later as a store manager he joined our M i a m i Pierce A g e n c y in M a r c h , 1 9 6 1 .

His 1 9 6 2 sales totaled 52 cases for $ 6 2 7 , 2 5 0 .

Some of the Georgia Tech alumni in Massachusetts Mutual service: William C. Gibson, '39 Donald I. Rosen, C.L.U., '49 Henry F. McCamish, Jr., C.L.U., '50 Eric A. Newsom, Jr., '59

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tJacesmfytHews John L. Taylor, '47, has been named an engineering manager for water and waste valves in Rockwell Manufacturing Company's Municipal and Utility Division.

Taylor will be located in Atlanta and will cover the Gulf Coast states plus North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.

T. B. Truscott, '49, has been promoted to project leader within Chemstrand Company's Acrilan Development Department, Decatur, Alabama. He joined Chemstrand in 1956 as an engineer in the Acrilan plant, before transferring to Acrilan Development.

Raymond E. Hicks, '50, has been named an engineering manager for water and waste valves in Rockwell Manufacturing Company's Municipal and Utility Division. Hicks will headquarter in Philadelphia and concentrate his activities in New England.

Claude A. Petty, Jr., '50, has been elected Vice President and General Manager of the Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and will also serve on the Board of Directors.

Prior to his appointment, Petty had been Director of Physical Plant Department at Georgia Tech since 1956.

Claude W. Jenkins, Jr., '52, has joined Enjay Chemical Company as a technical sales representative. He will be based at the Eastern District regional office in Plainfield, N. J. and will be concerned with marketing Enjay additives for petroleum products.

John F. Morgan, '52, has been named to the newly created post of superintendent, chemical products, at the Reynolds Metals Company Hurricane Creek Alumina Plant, Arkansas.

Morgan came to Hurricane Creek from Reynolds headquarters at Richmond, Virginia.

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NEWS BY CLASSES continued Ben H. Hutchinson, Jr., EE, received his masters in electrical engineering from M I T in February, 1962. He was married August 18, 1962 to the former Margaret Fox. Ben has been with the Lincoln Laboratory since graduation. His home address is 200 Commonwealth Road, Cochituate, Massachusetts.

Lt. Joseph B. Hutchison, USA, IE, recently completed an eight week officer helicopter pilot course at The Primary Helicopter School, Camp Wolters, Texas.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meyer, Jr., IE, a daughter, Catherine Marie, December 21. Mr. Meyer is with DuPont. They live at 5407 Suejean Drive, Richmond 34, Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Newsom, Jr., IM, a daughter, Caroline Ann, February 23. Eric is with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. They live at 2722 Dresden Court, Chamblee, Georgia.

Engaged: Grattan W. Rowland, Jr., IE, to Miss Sara Joan Jordan. The wedding will take place June 22. Mr. Rowland is with the Square D Company in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joel Weinstock, IE, a daughter, Shari Lee, January 28. They live at 47 Eastern Parkway, West Caldwell, New Jersey. ' f i n ^a"^ T- Barber, CE, served as second " " lieutenant with the Army Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia from August 1960 to February 1961 and again at Fort Hood, Texas from November 1961 to August of 1962. The Barbers have two children, Paul, Jr., born May 5, 1961 and Madalyn Monique, born February 8, 1963. Mr. Barber is with Barber Brothers Construction Company. They live at 2257 Cloverdale Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Married: Lt. Wallace Benjamin Bruce, Jr., to Miss Olivia Gene. Lt. Bruce is stationed at Sandia Base, New Mexico.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dasher, ChE, a son, Kenneth Alan, March 20. Mr. Dasher is with Procter & Gamble Company.

They live at 2498 Eclipse Court, Cincinnati 31, Ohio.

Engaged: James Thomas Ford, ME, to Miss Julee Lynn Floyd. The wedding will take place June 6 in Panama. Mr. Ford will return to Georgia Tech this summer to work toward his master's degree. His mailing address is P.O. Box 2030, Balboa, Canal Zone.

F. H. Kirkland, TE, is now quality control manager with the William Carter Company, Barnesville, Georgia.

John L. McCranie, USAF, IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. He is now assigned to Keesler AFB, Mississippi.

Engaged: Lt. Heidt Fortson Neal, III, USNR, IM, to Miss Elizabeth Lee. The wedding will take place May 4. Lt Neal is serving aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Mediterranean area.

James Wesley Tate, ME, is a design engineer with the Electronic Equipment Division of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri. He lives at 460 Raven Lane, Florissant, Missouri.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Toups, a daughter, Vicki, February 10. Leon is working on the 6555 Aerospace Test Wing on the Atlas Missile as lead mechanical engineer at Cape Canaveral. They live at 116-B Northwest Drive, Patrick AFB, Florida.

Ronald C. Wicks, ChE. is a chemical engineer with the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

'CI Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ban* J ' chetti, AE, a daughter, Debra Lynn, February 6. Mr. Banchetti is in the Astronautics Division of the Chance Vought Corporation. They live at 20359 Anza Avenue, Torrance, California.

Ronald Brown, USAF. IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant at the U. S. Air Force Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. He is now assigned to Keesler AFB, Mississippi.

Pvt. Edward V. H. Chow, CE, recently completed with honors an ordnance supply course under the Reserve Forces Act at The Ordnance Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Born t o : Lt and Mrs. Harvey B. Clarke, a son, Christopher Andrew, February 23.

Lt. Clark is in the Automatic Data Processing Department of the U. S. Army Research and Development Agency at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

James L. Daniel, IE, is an industrial engineer at Dobbins AFB, Marietta, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Kinloch F. Dunlap, III, IM, a son, Cruger Harroll, November 21, 1962. They live at 32650 Merritt Drive, Garden City, Michigan.

Married: Lt. John Moultrie Fleming, Jr., USN, Math, to Miss Georgia Ivey in March.

Lt. Fleming is attending the U. S. Naval Nuclear Power School at Bainbridge, Maryland.

Lt. Jack G. Gathright. USA, has been appointed Detachment Commander of the 61st Signal Detachment. Fort Bliss, Texas.

Rodney Gilbert, AE. is now program engineer for the Churchill Research Range in Manitoba, Canada. His address is c / o Pan American World Airways, Program Engineers Office, Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Married: Kenneth F. Howell to Miss Phyllis M. Scott of Macon on November 24. He is a systems engineer with IBM. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Jenkins, IM, a son, David Alan. November 23. Mr. Jenkins is a managerial trainee with G. E. Switchgear Division in Chamblee. They live at 1829 Tobey Road. Chamblee, Georgia.

Lt. Thomas L. McCnIlough, USA, IM, took part in the annual winter field training exercises with the 4th Armored Division's 51st Infantry near Grafenwotir, Germany. He is a platoon leader in Company A of the infantry's 2nd Automatic Rifle Battalion in Ulm, Germany.

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Engaged: David Lafayette Richardson, Arch, to Miss Jacquelyn Davis. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Richardson is with Cobb Matthews, Macon, Georgia architect.

Engaged: Theodore T. Robin, Jr., M E , to Miss Helen Jones. The wedding will take place in June in Macon, Georgia. Mr. Robin is attending graduate school at Georgia Tech.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Bobby J. Studdard, IM, a daughter, Julia Anne, March 30. They live at 216 Mimola Avenue, Sandersville, Georgia.

Engaged: Julian Hudson Tolbert to Miss Helen Ross. The wedding will take place June 8. Mr. Tolbert is on the management training program with the Fulton National Bank, Atlanta, Georgia. ' C O Lt. Raeburn V. Coalson, U S A F , EE, *)ÂŁâ&#x20AC;˘ has received a regular U. S. Air Force commission. He formerly held a reserve commission. Lt Coalson is assigned to the Site Activation Task Force at Minot AFB, North Dakota.

Lt. Thomas A. Edwards, U S A F , ME, has been reassigned to Hickam A F B , Hawaii following graduation from t h e . U . S. Air Force course for communications 32

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Lt. John G. Elam, USAF, EE, has been awarded the silver wings of a U. S. Air Force navigator following graduation from navigator training at James Connally AFB, Texas. After further training at Stead A F B , Nevada, he will be assigned to Charleston AFB, South Carolina.

Married: Roger N. Everett, AE, to Miss Jane Bearse, June, 1962. Mr. Everett is with Sandia Corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Engaged: Ens. George Alfred Harbour, III, USN, IM, to Miss Carol L. Cleveland.

The wedding will take place this summer.

Mr. Harbour is serving with the Navy aboard the USS Harwood.

Lt. Edward L. Harney, Jr., USA, I M , has completed the officer orientation course at The Chemical School, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

Married: Robert Dudley Hayes, Jr., IM, to Miss Dana Ball, April 20. Mr. Hayes is with Johns-Manville Sales Corporation in Lima, Ohio.

Engaged: Charles Alfred Hays, Jr., IM, to Miss Lane Schreeder. The wedding will take place June 15. Mr. Hays is with the Georgia Marble Company.

Engaged: John A. Henderson, IE, to Miss Carolyn Akin. The wedding will take place in June in Hazlehurst, Georgia.

Ens. R. William Lippke, Jr., IM, received

his commission at Newport, Rhode Island March 8. He is in the Civil Engineer Corps and is currently stationed at Port Hueneme, California.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McRae Mellichamp, USAF, IE, a daughter, Jennifer Leigh,' February 26. They live at 1224 Vanderburg Avenue, Larson AFB, Washington.

Engaged: Lt. Carlton Donald Penn, USAF, ME, to Miss Barbara Martin. The wedding will take place June 22 in Atlanta.

Lt. Penn is a project engineer in the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base. His mailing address is Box 2229, Edwards AFB, California.

William E. Rushin, USN, IM, was commissioned in June and is now a student aviator at the Navy's Base Jet Squadron (Training), Meridian, Mississippi. His address is BOQ C 114, USNAAS, Meridian, Mississippi.

John S. Searcy, Jr., EE, is with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He lives at Apartment D-203, 6837 Riverdale Road, Riverdale, Maryland.

E. P. Shrewsbury, Jr., ME, is in the Design Liaison Department at Astronautics.

He is a design engineer. He lives at 5280 Clairmont Mesa Boulevard, Apartment 4, San Diego 17, California.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Harry S. Taylor, USMC, IM, a son, Keith, March 14. Lt. Taylor is in flight training at Whiting Field, Milton, Florida. They live at 3190 Torres Avenue, Pensacola, Florida.

Engaged: Roxie William Townes, IM, to Miss Jane Orr. The wedding will take place June 29. Mr. Townes is with Travelers Insurance Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lt. Lon H. Wessinger, USAF, IM, has been awarded U. S. Air Force pilot wings following graduation from pilot training at Reese A F B , Texas. He is now assigned to Perrin AFB, Texas to fly F-102 aircraft. ' C O Married: James Alton Arline, ME, O v to Miss Lucy DeLoach April 20.

Mr. Arline is with McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri.

Married: Paul Dennis Baker, EE, to Miss Marjorie Benton, April 14. Mr. Baker is with Western Electric Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Engaged: Lt. Dennis Lynn Barre, USAF, ME, to Miss Margaret George. The wedding will take place in May. Lt. Barre is stationed at Olmsted AFB, Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Married: Braxton Bragg Comer, IV, IM, to Miss Charlene Holloway, February 16. Mr. Braxton is with the Reeves Brothers Textile Manufacturing Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Cadet James M. Jefferson has been named to the Superintendent's Merit list for outstanding academic and military achievement at the Air Force Academy.

Lt. Lamar A. Long, USA, ChE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Chemical School, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

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Everywhere, New England Life agents are tearing up their contracts Of course, you don't destroy a good thing unless you've got a better one. This agent has. So have New England Life agents everywhere. It's a brandnew New England Life contract with many major improvements.

Over the years we've told you about the careers of so many of our agents that it seems appropriate to share news of this new development with you.

It isn't every day an agent happily tears up his

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If you have ever thought about a career in life insurance or if you're starting to think a little about it nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;-why not take that necessary preliminary step and write for more information.

Address John Barker, Jr., New England Life, 501 Boylston Street, Boston 17, Massachusetts.

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VOTE F i YOUR 1963-64 OFFICERS, NOW

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EADING THE list of candidates nominated to lead the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association during the 1963-64 year is William S. Terrell, '30, of Charlotte, N. C. The nominating committee (George L. Wood, Jr., '26, chairman, and Harry Dewar, '32, and R. A. Siegel, '36) named the following men to run on the slate with presidential-nominee Terrell: Daniel A. McKeever, '32, vice president; Madison F. "Matt" Cole, '41, vice president at large; and Howard Ector, '40, treasurer.

The committee also named the following alumni for three-year terms as trustees: Frank Newton, '25; William P. Rocker, '32; Ed L. Yeargan, '32; and Dan I. Maclntyre, '40.

For Trustee — Frank Newton has been with the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. since 1925 and is currently serving as vice president and general manager in Birmingham, Alabama. One of the city's top civic leaders he is on the Board of Directors of eight different organizations and is president-elect of the city's Chamber of Commerce.

The Board El n Under Article VIII of the amended Bylaws, four trustees shall be elected by the members of the Association each year for three-year terms. In addition, the immediate past president (Ira H. Hardin, '24, in this case) and six alumni named by the incumbent president also will be members of the new Board. The other 12 members of the Board include the Association officers and carryover trustees with one or two years to serve on their elected terms.

For Trustee—Ed L. Yeargan joined the Battey Machinery Company of Rome, Georgia as a salesman and has been its president since 1950. A top civic leader in the Rome area, he is a trustee of the Darlington School and the Methodist Children's Home.

The Nominee; For President — An outstanding Tech leader in the Charlotte area, William S. Terrell is currently serving as vice president with the Association. He is owner of the Terrell Machine Company of Charlotte, North Carolina.

For Vice-President — Daniel A. McKeever has been a member of the Association's Board of Trustees for the past three years and has headed many of the important committees including the Roll Call Committee. Currently a vice president of the Association, he is head of J. E. Hanger, Inc. of Atlanta.

For Vice-President-at-Large — Madison F. Cole, a life underwriter with The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, is currently serving as a member of the Association's Board of Trustees.

He lives in Newnan and is active in civic and church activities there.

For Treasurer — A former secretary of the Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation, and once the business manager of Athletics at Tech, Howard Ector is currently a trust officer with the Trust Company of Georgia. He is now serving in the Treasurer's post.

MAY, 1963

W. S. Terrell, '30

D. A. McKeever, '32

M. F. Cole, '41

W. H. Ector, '40

For Trustee — William P. Rocker has been employed by Southern Spring Bed Company since 1931 when he began as a co-op student at Tech. He was named president of the company in February, 1962. He is currently an appointed member of the Board of Trustees of the Association.

For Trustee—Dan I. Maclntyre, III, is currently head of Dan Maclntyre Insurance Agency in Atlanta. He is that rare species, a Republican senator in the Georgia State Senate as well as one of the city's outstanding civic leaders. He has just completed his third year as chairman of the Board of Management of the Northside Branch of the YMCA. How to Vote All active members of the Association who desire to confirm the above nominations for officers and elected trustees or who wish to present write-in candidates may do so by filling out the official ballot on this page and mailing it to the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta 13, Georgia. This vote is for election. Be sure to sign your ballot.

Frank Newton, '25

W. P. Rocker, '32

E. L. Yeargan, '32

D. I. Maclntyre, '40

BALLOT FOR NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES, 1963-64

Q My check in box indicates approval of nominees or I vote for the following write in candidates: FOR PRESIDENT: , FOR VICE PRESIDENT: FOR VICE PRESIDENT (at large):, FOR TREASURER: FOR TRUSTEES (vote for four).

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Mail before June 20 to Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Atlanta 13, Georgia

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