Faces in the News
NEWS BY CLASSE 3—cor t'd 'AA
C. P. Rather, '23, will become chairman of the board for Southern Natural Gas Company, Birmingham, effective May 5. As board chairman, Rather will be the company's chief executive and operating officer. He joined the company in 1936 as vice president. John C. Douglas, '34, has been appointed a vice-president of the newly formed Mining and Metals Division of Union Carbide Corporation. He joined the corporation in 1934 and had been a vice-president of the Metals Division in Alloy, W. Va. since 1955. Ellwood S. Moorhead, '36, a native of Washington, D.C., has been appointed manager of marketing for the newly established Yale Hoisting Equipment Division. Serving as district manager of hoist sales for the southeast since 1955, he will now reside in Forrest City, Arkansas. Charles S. Perry, '39 a veteran of 18 years with Douglas, has been appointed vice president— development engineering of the Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division. He will direct a development organization at division headquarters, Santa Monica.
Jackson S. Smith, Jr., '42, has been promoted to vice president-director of marketing for The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, distributor of S&H Green Stamps. Smith was named "Outstanding Electrical Engineer" in his graduating class from TecHT Ralph A. Clack, '52, has been appointed Product Manager for all Lorain products for the Thew-Lorain Company, Division of Koehring Company, Lorain, Ohio. A civil engineering graduate, his career has been spent in the construction business. 30
^' J' Osborne, EE, has been appointed a vice president and chief engineer with Bowaters Southern Paper Corporation, Calhoun, Tennessee. Joe Wasser died January 28 in San Diego, California. He was with the General Services Administration. 1
Ati Edward E. David, Jr., EE, was a •*» contributor to the book "Listen to Leaders in Engineering." His article was on computing. Mr. David is Director, Computing-Information Research Center with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. Howard McCall, Atlanta manager of AER C o r p o r a t i o n , is n o w P r e s i d e n t of t h e Buckhead Rotary Club. Harr w 'AR y - Little, EE, has been ap•** p o i n t e d Chief, C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Planning and Engineering Section at the Marshall Space Flight Center. He lives at 2415 Mastin Lake Road, N.W., Huntsville, Alabama.
Richard D. Domback, ME, has been • ' named manager of engineering and tool design at Armstrong Cork Company's Closure Plant, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. '4Q Richard H. Brad field and F. B. • " Sheetz, '60, have announced the formation of Sheetz & Bradfield, Architects, Inc., with offices at 1139 Spring Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Buck Mickel, CE, is now vice president and assistant general manager of the Daniel Construction Company, Greenville, South Carolina. C. E. Salter, ME, has been transferred by Shell Oil to the New York City office as a senior engineer. Mark Smith, Jr., CE, has been installed as Lieutenant Governor of the 14th Division of the Georgia District of Kiwanis International. H e is president of Smith & Plaster, Inc. and lives at 1436 Valley View Road, Dunwoody, Georgia. James F. Williams has been elected as one of the more than 150 business and government executives from the United States, Canada and abroad to participate in the 47th session of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is M a n a g e r , Sales P r o m o t i o n w i t h t h e Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia. 'AQ Norris W. Hendrix, EE, died Janu•** rnry 2, 1965. He was an engineer and geologist with Robert W. Harrison and Company. His widow lives at 9909 Bassoon, Houston, Texas. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aronin, « " IE, a son, Ivan Jacob, December 14 in Atlanta, Georgia. Thomas W. Berry, Jr., ChE, has been promoted to manager of the New Orleans district sales for Hooker Chemical Corporation's eastern chemical division.
Joe A. Fleming has been named Florida branch manager for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Tampa, Florida. Dr. William M. Goldberger, ChE, has been named Chief, Minerals and Metallurgical Processing Research at the Columbus, Ohio Laboratories of Battelle Memorial Institute. Engaged: Harold Kenneth Reed, Jr., GE, to Miss Sandra Gann. Mr. Reed is with the firm of Reed, Flemming and Associates, Columbia, South Carolina. M. Warren Bolton, IM, has been *J ' promoted to vice president of Provident Indemnity Life Insurance Company, Norristown, Pennsylvania. Thomas C. Bush, ME, has been named manager of the Vidalia-Lyons area for Georgia Natural Gas. Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cerny, ME, a son, Paul Quinn, December 12. Lt. Col. Ralph A. Cone, U S A F , IE, has been selected to enter the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia. 'CO Married: Fuller E. Callaway, 111, *»*• IM, to Miss Annette Cash, December 31. They live in Atherton, California. Mr. Callaway is president of the Own Company, San Francisco, California. Richard L. Churchill, Phys, is now marketing manager, nuclear products group with Metals and Controls, Inc., a division of Texas Instruments. He lives at 67 Upland Road, Attlesboro, Massachusetts. Thomas G. Joyce, an associate with the Atlanta architectural firm of Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild & Paschal, heads the firm's new office in Huntsville, Alabama. 'CQ Adrian D. Bolch, Jr., ME, has been **** transferred to Headquarters, Economics & Planning Department and promoted to Planning Specialist with Humble Oil. He lives at 5723 Portal Drive, Houston, Texas. Paul H. Friedman, IE, has moved to Atlanta from High Point, North Carolina to become plant manager for Delmar Cabinet Company. The Fried mans and their three children live at 3114 B Briarcliff Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia. James E. Scobey, Jr.. EE, served as EPE-D Encoden Instrumentation Engineer for the Explorer XXVI which was launched from Cape Kennedy in December. He is with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Leon B. Spears, Jr., IM, is a general contractor with offices at 3098 Piedmont Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia. 'RA Married: Lt. Cmdr. Render CrayJ H " ton, USN, Tex, to Miss Patsy Robertson, January 3. Commander Crayton is stationed at Lemoore Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. John Millican, IM, has been transferred to Special Assignment in the IE Department with Buckeye in Foley, Florida. 'EC J J
Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. James R. McCord, ChE, a daughter, Valerie TECH ALUMNUS