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• O N N E W YEAR'S EVE of the year of our Lord, 1943, five young Army Corps officers sat in a bar in the town of Artesia, New Mexico, and, at the stroke of 12, declared with the optimism that was part of the now-extinct bombardier's make-up that on the same date 25 years hence, they would all meet again in that strange and cold, little town and drink a toast to what life had blessed them with. Just 18 months after that date, only one of them was still involved with life and until this year the survivor had given little thought to the fact that in 1968 he would have to find his way to Artesia and drink the toast and fling the glasses against the wall and curse the fates. The events of the past 12 months have positioned in the survivor's mind the frightening thought that perhaps the other four might have died in vain after all. That Waggoner went down over Merseberg, Germany in the violent air battle of November 2, 1944, for no better reason than a carload of holiday drunks die on a Florida highway. That Swiller and Taylor failed to return from a raid on Tokyo on that Christmas Eve for the same reason that a man falls dead on the street in Tyler, Texas. That Shanklin died on take-off from an unremembered Pacific Island the following June for the identical cause that an old lady in Clearfield, Pennsylvania never awoke from a night's sleep. These nagging doubts frighten the survivor, for even when he was uprooted for the Korean mess, they had never before crossed his mind. • Now the survivor has never been a man who waves flags or declares loyalty to his country in a voice calculated to get him elected to public office or to impress his superiors. From time to time, he has been known to hold his breath when a band like Auburn's plays the National Anthem as the hymn it should be or when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings America the Beautiful in front of the mountains of Utah or when the flag goes by in the arms of three Tech students on its daily trip to the flagpole. But he has always left the superpatriot bit to others, who like to use it.
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But the sudden, creeping, quiet and loud complaints by American youth and some oldsters, who should know better, about such things as military drafts, undeclared wars in Viet Nam, and the waste that they now say Korea was, have had an effect on him that is coming nearer and nearer to turning him into something he basically despises. He has heard young girls, including one of his own daughters, speak like the only responsibility of the young in this country is to sit around and enjoy the Camelot that those four and thousands of others have died for. He has heard the young men talk of going to graduate school to avoid the draft or of protest marches and teach-ins for this and that as if the only answer to all of their imagined woes was to extend that much-misunderstood phrase, academic freedom, into every area of our life. He has seen the restless, ceaseless marching for causes and the picket lines screaming insults at the U. S. Marines. He has heard the arguments for banning the bomb and admitting Red China to the United Nations. He has listened as the other side cursed the UN for reasons they never seem to be able to explain except by more cursing. And he has seen the men back of the sheets trying to preserve their own kind of law and their own kind of order by acts of terror. And he has suddenly grown completely sick of the entire mess. * * * A W E REMAIN a nation of televisionwatchers and movie-goers and radiolisteners and fancy-car-drivers and frug dancers and window shoppers and sports buffs and church-attenders and weekend loafers and gripers because the whiskey is the wrong brand and lovers and wives and husbands that somewhere along the way has failed as a nation of law-respecters and parents. The small minority who do the picketing and the marches do not concern the survivor nearly as much as the others who can't understand why they must be directly touched by a war that is not really a war nor do they bother him as much as those who respect only the laws they personally have selected as their own laws. When this nation begins to move away from responsibility and law and order it is TECH ALUMNUS
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directly on the road to the Rome that used to be. -:- * * • T H I S WAK that is not a war concerns all of us as surely as it does those proportionately few who are fighting it in that far-off, comic-opera place with its nasty terrain and confused people. Once the commitment was made to fight it, we were in it whether we liked it or not. The only choice left was to back the effort and get it over with. No matter how badly we think that the situation has been handled, it isn't logical or especially intelligent to walk around with signs of protest over U. S. policy when men we do not know are dying because of it. Only the fact that this war is undeclared saves from charges of treason those peace-criers who look so much like those in England during the signing of the Munich pact—you know, the-peace-in-our-time paper. Certainly, we all have the right to complain but never at the risk of the country we profess to be attempting to save from a fate worse than death. No manner of protest by any minority will change the facts of the coldwar/hot-war life. If the protesters think they are slowing down the individual fighting men by their demonstrations, they have another think coming. The only ones they will ever reach are those who would run in the fight anyway. The U. S. Marines have a special philosophy about battle that has made them consistently the finest fighting men in the world. They expect to get all of the dirty jobs in war and in their acceptance and the doing of them, they have a grace and style all of their own. Other units in Viet Nam and in prior wars have fought with just as much valor and success. But the difference is the expectation of the task and the lack of complaining about the doing. Soldiers constantly gripe about their work which is not surprising. But Marines seldom speak to outsiders. And that's why nothing will reach them from stateside. They will just shake their shoulders at the demonstrations and go on about their business. And while we are sitting in our fine, relatively safe homes during the holiday season, we might think about how fortunate we are to have men like these protecting us. And we might also try and figure out what we can do to make up for failing them so many times. B. W. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
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GEORGIA TECH Volume 44
ALUMNUS
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THE CC i/ER John Watts Young, AE '52, returned home to the Tech campus and in the course of two days talked of many things, among them fellow astronaut Ed White's walk in space. Here through the sensitive camera of Bill Sumits, Jr., who also returned home for the weekend, Tech's top young alumnus is caught during that lecture with the slide of White. Foj^more on Young see page 19.
CONTEfTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor vents his spleen. 7. THE EDUCATION OF DAN McKEEVER—a past president has his say. 10. MANY FRIENDS OF GEORGE P. BURDELL—a history of sorts. 19. RETURN OF JOHN YOUNG—an astronaut spends a busy weekend. 24. INSIDE VIEW OF OUTER SPACE—Young's major campus speech. 28. HOMECOMING FOR ALL SEASONS—a look at another alumni weekend. 31.
THE ANNUAL MEETING—official minutes by the Association secretary.
34. THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL—all the news in gazette form. 50. THE SEASON OF EXCITEMENT—football report on the 6-3-1 year.
THE G ORGI; TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES—Madison F. Cole, Newnan, president • Alvin M. Ferst, vice president Howard Ector, Marietta, vice president • L. L. Gellerstedt, treasurer • W. Roane Beard, executive secretary • D. B. Blalock, Jr. • Harrison W. Bray, Manchester L. Massey Clarkson • George W. Felker, III, Monroe • Dakin B. Ferris • B. Davis Fitzgerald • J. Leland Jackson, Macon • J. Erskine Love, Jr. • Dan I. Maclntyre, III • Grover C. Maxwell, Jr., Augusta • Daniel A. McKeever • George A. Morris, Jr., Columbus • Frank Newton, Birmingham • Charles H. Peterson, Metter • Kenneth G. Picha • William P. Rocker S. B. Rymer, Jr., Cleveland (Tenn.) • Talbert E. Smith, Jr. • Ed L. Yeargan, Rome • Thomas H. Hall, 111, associate secretary •
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ACK IN 1959, when I was asked to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Alumni Association, I immediately had visions of (1) better football tickets, (2) plenty of excellent fellowship, and (3) very little work. In retrospect, with the exception that I predicted correctly on the fellowship, my clairvoyant batting average turned out to be a flat zero. During my initial year on the board, we thought we had work cut out for us just wrestling with the critical problem of attempting to keep Tech's teaching salaries competitive on a national scale through your roll-call-supported faculty salary supplementation program. As it still remains, this program was the major one in the mind of each trustee of both the Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. But there were some other serious problems beginning to crop up that obviously needed attention from us if Tech were to continue to grow.
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Both boards urged President Harrison to call on them for support in his efforts to solve these problems. The president took them at their word. Initially, he turned to the Foundation for funds to support an analysis of the Institute's current strengths and weaknesses by a top team of consultants. The funds were immediately made available and Arthur D. Little, Inc. was chosen to take that look at Tech through the eyes and ears of the experienced outsider. As it turned out, this program was considered so important by one of the state's leading business organizations that the company agreed to pick up the cost of the survey, and the Foundation funds were never needed for this purpose. The report—published in the December, 1963 issue of the Alumnus— not only brought out Tech's strengths, weaknesses, and areas of concern for the future, it also demonstrated an effective new tool for the Tech administration: how a relatively minor
grant can point the way to increased support from private, local, state, and federal agencies. The report suggested immediately establish a campus planning office and with the help of the Foundation this was done the following year. It also strongly urged Tech to enter into a long-range, land-acquisition program to allow for orderly growth. When you have over $15,000,000 worth of buildings on the drawing boards and very little land on which to put them, this becomes a first-priority program in a hurry. That year, again with the help of Foundation funds, the firm of Perkins and Will of Chicago was hired to produce a master campus plan for Tech's expansion of the coming 20 years. This study was reported in the May issue of this magazine and Tech already has the "right of eminent domain" for the first phase of the campus renewal area. Joe Guthridge, director of development, working with the Perkins
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D A N M C K E E V E R - cont. and Will group and the campus planning office, did his job so well that Tech's first urban renewal project was approved by the federal agencies concerned in only 10 days after it reached Washington, which has to be a new record for cutting red tape. This project will add over 60 acres to the campus to the west across Hemphill Avenue. A second phase of an additional 30 acres in the renewal area is now in the planning stage. But the biggest change in Georgia Tech was not the land expansion or the new building program, it was the administrative reorganization which grew out of a third project, backed by the Association and Foundation. This time, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a nationally-known management consul-
tant firm, was called in to work with the president in a program that was long overdue. On October 13, the new administrative structure that the president evolved with the help of this company was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System, just eight days after the president presented it to the Tech faculty in the stormy session of October 5 (see box for a report on that session). That same day, President Harrison presented his program to both the Foundation and Association boards and was commended highly in separate resolutions by both groups. The administrative reorganization—• most extensive in Tech's 77-year history—will be made in two steps to allow for orderly transition from the existing administrative setup. Under the first step which will be phased in
immediately, Tech will have five vice presidents responsible for the major operational areas of the institution and reporting directly to President Edwin D. Harrison. The organizational structure under which Tech has operated since 1948 has had nine and at one time as many as 12 chief administrators reporting to the president. In explaining the reasons for the adoption of the new plan President Harrison said, "In recent years, Tech has emerged into a complex operating organization with numerous and varied programs in undergraduate and graduate education, in basic and applied research, and in extension teaching and services. The responsibilities for properly using all of these activities to assist the State of Georgia in attaining its rightful place in the technological and industrial world of today TECH ALUMNUS
and tomorrow have burdened the existing administrative and operating structure to the point where its revision has become a necessity. "The two major shortcomings of the existing structure;—designed for an institution with a maximum of 5,000 students, mostly at the undergraduate level, and for a blue-sky research budget of $1,000,000—are the inability to develop current short-term and longrange institutional plans to carry out our goals and responsibilities and the lack of specific policy and procedure guidelines to permit the simplification of routine administration. Tech now has grown to an institution of over 7,200 students with almost 1,000 of them in graduate schools and our total research budget is at the $7,000,000 level. We can no longer operate with any degree of effectiveness under the 1948 organizational plan which has been modified two or three times in the past decade in stop-gap attempts to make it fit the size of our faculty, student body, budget, and short-term growth plans." The new plan provides for the establishment of five vice presidencies. These positions cover areas of Planning, Development, Financial Operations, Academic Affairs, and Special Projects. Dr. Paul Weber, Tech's current Dean of Faculties, will become Vice President for Planning and will serve as Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs until that position is permanently filled. Joe W. Guthridge, currently Director of Development for the institution, will become Vice President for Development in an expanded program that will better coordinate all of the areas of development which have become so important to present-day universities. Jamie R. Anthony will become Vice PresidentController and will direct the financial operations of the institution. These three appointments were effective November 1. The heaviest responsibilities under the new plan will be in the office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. President Harrison said in October that he had already started screening outstanding administrators with technical backgrounds in order to fill this post as soon as possible. Under the first step of the plan the following administrators will report to this Vice President: Dean of Engineering; Dean of the General College; the Directors of the Cooperative Division, the Extension Division, the Engineering Experiment Station, and Southern TechNOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
nical Institute; the Deans of Research Coordination and the Graduate Division, the Director of Libraries, and the Director of Program Development and Evaluation. The Registrar and Director of Admissions will eventually report to the Vice President for Academic Affairs but for the present will continue to report directly to President Harrison. The Vice President for Academic Affairs will also serve as President of the institution when President Harrison is away from the campus. His general administrative function will be to provide leadership and direction to the academic, research and related substantive programs of the Institute. Dr. Paul Weber, the new Vice President for Planning, will serve as chief institutional planning officer for Georgia Tech, advising on the organization and direction of planning efforts in all divisions, departments and schools, evaluate plans, and prepare and maintain a comprehensive longrange plan for the development of Georgia Tech. Mr. Jamie R. Anthony, the Vice President-Controller, will serve as the principal officer of administration in the areas of financial and administrative services and controls. Those reporting to him will include the directors of physical plant, purchasing, personnel services, auxiliary services, research administration, and both the computer systems coordinator and the internal auditor. Mr. Joe W. Guthridge, the Vice President for Development, will be a principal advisor to the President. He will supervise the work of the director of public relations, the director of alumni affairs, the director of publications, and the director of resources development. Temporarily he will also be responsible for the work of the director of placement, the campus planner, and the campus architect. The other top administrator still to be named is the Vice President for Special Projects who will assist the President directly in the development of basic institutional policies and administrative guidelines and evaluate their use and effectiveness. He will also participate, as directed by the President, in key internal and external relationships and undertake special assignments to relieve the administrative load on the President and the other Vice Presidents as directed. Dr. Jesse W. Mason, Dean of Engineering for 17 years, declined the position as Vice President of Special
Projects although everyone concerned including Dr. Mason agreed that he was the best man for this position. As President of the institution, Dr. Harrison relieved him of his responsibilities in a statement to the faculty on October 5 in order to "develop the unified administrative team we must have to continue the growth of Georgia Tech." This action brought on the faculty reaction of October 5. Dr. Mason, of course, will continue in his faculty rank as professor of Chemical Engineering. The search is on now for a man to fill this position. "He probably should come from this campus and know it extremely well in order to fulfill this important position," said President Harrison. The final implementation of the second-phase of the plan is expected to take from two to three years. Basic differences from the first plan will be the appointment of a Vice President for Student Affairs, and the creation of the Colleges of Science, Industrial Management and Architecture, each of which will have its own Dean. This along with the General College and the Engineering College will eventually give Tech five major academic areas. Now I have no illusions that these projects combined have solved all of the many problems associated with a growing, vigorous technological institution in this age of science and technology. Just as an example we might -look at the Tech undergraduate scholarship program which is by everyone's admission woefully inadequate if the institution is to attract the cadre of superior students (who are in financial need) that it must have to sustain its reputation for quality. Only the efforts of many of our alumni clubs and some foundations and corporations have kept this from being a disaster area. Eventually, the Association and the Foundation will probably be asked to step into this area with your help. And there are other areas that need attention immediately. The Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation have proved one important point over the past six years — strong alumni organizations can help build a better institution and yet not meddle in the affairs of that institution. Everything you have done as alumni has been a vital growing influence for a better Georgia Tech. And if this is all I have learned in the past six years (which it isn't, obviously) it has been a most liberal education.
By Robert B. Wallace, Jr.
The alumni of Tech have been involved in many quaint operations none stranger than how they ever got organized
T H E M A N Y rR O F GE;ORGE P. ÂŁIU GENESIS of what has how become one of America's strongest and proudest alumni organizations was distinguished by a series of false starts spanning a period of a quarter of a century. Previous references to the evolution of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association in historical sketches and official school literature consistently placed the Association's birth around 1920. But a few documents in a tin box buried deep in a forgotten file of the present Alumni Association reflected a much earlier attempt at organizing the alumni at Tech. According to those authentic documents forwarded to the Association by Frank Neely, a 1904 graduate, back in 1949 and then promptly assigned to limbo until 1961, the original date of a petition for a charter for the Alumni Association of the Georgia School of Technology was June 28, 1906. And, the first annual report of the Association by Secretary-Treasurer R. H. "Pud" Lowndes begun iff 1908, completed in 1911, but never published, indicates that many organizational attempts dating back to 1896 were made before the charter was finally granted by Fulton County on June 20, 1908, almost two years after the application was first made. After a series of smokers in 1896 failed to get an alumni organization started, an informal group of alumni
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ures available indicate that roughly $850,000 of the $735,121 pledged was finally collected), but the campaign itself did stimulate the growth of Georgia Tech. And for this reason was important. The Association, in 1923, took its next step forward by inaugurating publication of the Georgia Tech Alumnus which began as a ten-times-a-year publication with Albert H. Staton, an exceptional athlete and student at Tech, as editor. Staton was the first paid secretary of the Alumni Association after its reorganization. The first issue was made possible by a grant of $300 from the Georgia Tech Athletic Association. Publication of the first four issues was supported by personal contributions from Y. Frank Freeman, W. A. Alexander, Joseph Rhodes, and L. W. Robert, Jr. In recalling those early struggles, Staton said recently, "As in so many other school enterprises, the initiative for the organization of the Alumni Association was taken by that great friend and good servant of Tech's Coach Alex. In the summer of 1922, he talked with Mr. Y. Frank Freeman, another grand man and loyal supporter, who agreed to finance the project. Alex approached me with the idea that I might try to get lists of the alumni together, and form the nucleus
of an Association. Being married, and with a young mouth to feed, I grasped at any offered straw, and went to work. "From the beginning, Tech alumni showed the loyalty to their university, which has characterized them to this day. As I wrote, asked and sought by all means, the addresses of past graduates, the answers poured in, with the needed addresses, and with badly needed pecuniary assistance. We can truly say that the Tech alumni's friendship for their college has a firm financial base. "The first months were spent in getting lists from the school records, and from friends and alumni, but our files filled rapidly with the needed names and addresses. Also, we established modest dues, but many voluntary gifts were made by alumni, to help finance the establishment of the Association. I wish I could remember the names of all our early benefactors, but after forty years, I do well to remember my own children's names. We also managed to hold a small meeting, chiefly Atlanta alumni. " P e r h a p s the most entertaining achievement of the first year's work was having Dr. Coon's portrait painted. My father-in-law, M. Woods White, not a Tech alumnus, but a loyal supporter, had as a house guest an Austrian painter, whose name I have also TECH ALUMNUS
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forgotten. He had come to Atlanta to paint the portraits of a few 'grandes dames' of our burgeoning city, and agreed, under gentle pressure, to paint the good Dr.'s portrait. He was moved to do so, I believe, more by the character of Dr. Coon, then by the financial consideration. He was particularly intrigued by the Dr.'s philosophy of life, as expressed in some of his pungent aphorisms. "The sayings that most entertained the kindly artist were, 'Lots of people are killed by automobiles, but not near enough!' Dr. Coon did not like the automobile. It made him hurry, it poured forth a nauseous exhaust, it made a horrendous noise; all things that he detested. He did succumb to his wife's insistence, however, and finally bought an electric vehicle, high enough to walk into with a top hat on, and which his wife drove for many years. It must have been one of the last electrics in Atlanta. "Another of the doctor's sayings that intrigued the Austrian portrait painter was, 'There is nothing wrong with lynching, they just lynch the wrong people!' to which we can all perhaps agree. At any rate, he finished the portrait, and it hangs now in the Library, I believe, a fine likeness of the old gentleman, and a wondrous good painting as well." NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
Staton remained as secretary and editor until June of 1923 when he left to go to South America to carve a successful career for himself in industry. His place was taken in November, 1923, by R. J. "Jack" Thiesen who remained as secretary and editor of the magazine until 1951 when he moved over to the Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation as executive secretary, and Howard Ector, secretary of the Foundation since 1947, came in as secretary and editor of the magazine. In May of the same year, Ector resigned from alumni work to return to the business world, and W. Roane Beard, a 1940 graduate, was named executive secretary of the Association and editor of the magazine. Beard, assistant to Thiesen from 1947 through 1950, was the natural choice to succeed Ector. Under Beard's direction, the Association experienced the greatest growth period in its history. In March, 1953, the current editor took over the magazine after serving as associate editor for five months. The magazine's circulation has now reached over 18,000, a far cry from the early circulation figures. In the past seven years, the magazine has received over 26 national awards in competition with other alumni magazines. During the first 23 years of its existence, the Alumni Association was strictly a dues operation forced to live within a very limited budget. That it was able to create the platform on which the Association has been able to build so successfully over the past 15 years is a tribute to the efforts of Al Staton, Howard Ector, Jack Thiesen and the hundreds of George P. BurdelPs who worked so hard in the formative years. The placement service is started During the year 1923, the Association created what has become one of Tech's most important assets, its alumni placement service. Nine years later, the Tech placement operation was formed under the direction of Dean George Griffin, then an associate dean of men. Under Griffin and his associate, Fred W. Ajax, both the senior and alumni placement operations rapidly became among the most respected of all university placement organizations. Ajax, an English professor at Tech for nine years, moved into administration in 1940 on a loan basis from the English department.
He never went back to English teaching and has served Tech as cooperative director, dormitory proctor, veterans' coordinator, associate dean of students, placement director, and finally director of public relations. In 1949, a drastic budget cut formed the dean of students to return the alumni placement system to the Association. With the guidance of the Tech placement director, Alumni Secretary Roane Beard and Bob Eskew and Tom Hall (associate secretaries, 1955-65) and Mary Bowie have done such a good job on this program that it has remained permanently as an important part of the Association's responsibilities. A key man for a key year The key year in the growth of the Alumni Association was 1947 and the key man was George McCarty, an outstanding Tech alumnus whose name is attached to many important projects ranging back to his student days when he was one of the principal organizers of the ANAK Society. On February 21, 1947, McCarty wrote a letter to the trustees of the Alumni Association recommending that the Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation proceed with plans to adopt a regular annual alumni roll call on or before July 1, 1947. This required scrapping the dues-membership concept and asking instead for money from alumni on an annual basis based on the- ability of the alumni to pay. The Association Board immediately ratified and organized the plan which turned out to be one of the best moves that a Tech alumni group has ever made. The first year of the roll call gave the Association little to brag about— 1,356 alumni contributed $22,550, which represented contributions from 7.6% known alumni. But, by 1965, 14,920 alumni gave $279,609 for a record-breaking 52.4% of the known alumni. In 1961, Georgia Tech was recognized nationally for "The Best Sustained A l u m n i P e r f o r m a n c e " among all public supported institutions of higher learning. The award, a handsome trophy and a $1,000 check, was presented by the American Alumni Council and the United States Steel Foundation. Tech was cited mainly because it was the only public supported institution of higher learning to receive contributions from over 40% of its alumni for six consecutive years. This high percentage of contri13
ister the expected windfall of funds to the best advantage of Georgia Tech. There was no such organization in existence at the time, so the creation of a new corporation for this purpose became the first objective of the two hard-working agents. Realizing that—in order to exist and prosper—such an organization must have an outstanding group of leaders, the agents approached several of Tech's most successful alumni and asked their help in founding a corporation to administer the insurance dividends for the best interests of Georgia Tech. Most of the Tech alumni, well aware of the financial difficulties under which the school had to operate, were eager to help the institution secure additional funds in any way that appeared legitimate. The insurance agents had little trouble securing the backing of six outstanding Tech leaders in the Atlanta area. By early 1931, plans to form the new corporation were well underway, and the agents could start 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th selling policies. 47-48 Roll Calls 64-65 In the fall of that same year, the six men (Y. Frank Freeman, '10; WilTHE GROWTH OF THE GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ROLL CALLS . liam H. Glenn, '91; Robert Gregg, '05; George Marchmont, '07; Floyd McRae, '10, and Frank Neely, '04) with the helping several Eastern universities aid of Bob Jones, '22, had a petition GEORGE P. B U R D E L L - c o n t . increase their operating funds through for a charter drawn up and submitted butions from alumni has been pre- this particular plan. And the two ex- to the State of Georgia for approval. viously reserved for the top private Recks, G. M. (Pup) Phillips and Early in 1932, the Georgia Tech institutions in the country, and no Everett Strupper, reasoned that what Alumni Foundation, Incorporated, was other public institution in history had the plan had done for the Ivy Leaguers, chartered by the state as a non-profit ever come close to this figure for over it could just as well do for Georgia organization devoted to the causes of two years running. Tech. higher education in Georgia. In acThe following year, Tech repeated The plan was a rather simple one— cordance with the charter provisions, its $1,000 victory among public insti- at least on the surface, it appeared these six petitioners became the first tutions and added a second place simple. Insurance policies would be governing Board of Trustees of the $2,000 award for the "Best Sustained sold to the Tech alumni with the pro- organization. And such is their loyalty Alumni Performance" among all in- visions that the dividends, if any, to Tech that three of the men (Freestitutions of higher learning. Only would accrue to Georgia Tech rather man, Marchmont and Neely), are still Princeton was judged above Tech in than to the individual policy holder's members (Trustees-Emeriti) of the the 1962 competition. account. Thus two birds would be now 21-man Board of Trustees of the In 1963 and 1964, Tech's roll call slaughtered with a single stone: the Foundation. Mr. Glenn of the original again broke all records and both years individual alumnus would gain addi- board is now deceased, and Dr. McRae it won the first-place award among tional protection for his family, and retired from active trustee work durthe school would acquire some much- ing the thirties because of the demands public institutions. The beginning of the Georgia Tech needed operating capital. The entire of his medical practice. Mr. Gregg reFoundation grew out of even stranger plan looked so foolproof that the two tired from the Board during the late circumstances than that of the* Asso- enterprising agents decided to go forties upon his retirement from the ahead and test it on the Tech alumni. business world. ciation. However, before the actual policy Back about the time that the Roaring Twenties were about to give way selling could begin, one big wrinkle The dividends never rolled in to the Depressing Thirties, a couple of had to be ironed out of the plan: Tech The first meeting of the Board of ex-Jacket gridiron greats—then work- was a state school, and selling policies ing as insurance agents—came across whose dividends might accrue to the Trustees was held on February 22, a plan that looked like a natural to state would be a bit difficult if not 1932, in the downtown offices of Wilhelp their struggling Alma Mater in a downright impossible. The agents had liam H. Glenn. At this meeting, Y. financial way. The company for which to look around for an independent or- Frank Freeman, now an executive of they labored had been successful in ganization to hold, invest, and admin- Paramount Pictures, was elected as NUMBER OF DONORS
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the first president of the organization. Other officers elected at the meeting were Robert Gregg, vice-president, a n d George March mont, secretary-treasurer. T h e remainder of the meeting was spent in reading and discussing the charter and by-laws of the infant organization. No financial report was m a d e at this meeting as the insurance dividends h a d not yet started rolling in. I n fact, the dividends never did roll in and by the end of the first year of the Foundation's existence it h a d become apparent to the members of the Board of Trustees that the insurance scheme would never produce the expected windfall of funds for Georgia Tech. Only 32 policies had been sold. And the first-year dividends amounted to the grand total of $378.96. Cash contributions and bank interest brought the year's receipts u p to $462.37, a rather insignificant beginning for an organization that was to furnish Tech with over $1,800,000 in grants as well as build an endowment of its own of over $1,500,000 in 30 years.
The rebirth of the Foundation At the end of the first 10 years, the Foundation had still been unable to accomplish a single one of its original objectives. T h e failure of the insurance plan, the nation-wide depression, and the general a p a t h y of the large corporations and benevolent foundations toward the plight of the state-supported institutions of higher learning, all contributed to this failure. By this time the assets of the Foundation only amounted to $2,796.50. And, excepting a few scattered student loans, the Foundation had been unable to help Tech in a n y way. I n the early forties, a group of Tech alumni—headed by Cherry Emerson, F r a n k Neely, George M a r c h m o n t and Alumni Secretary J a c k Thiesen—decided to try to resurrect a n d rebuild the Foundation. T h e advancing age and indicated retirement desires of President M. L. Brittain were mainly responsible for this move to make the Foundation financially able to carry out its original purpose—to aid the school monetarily. T h e Foundation leaders felt t h a t to attract the best possible replacement for Tech's soon-to-be retired president, financial aid for the institution beyond t h a t granted by the state was imperative. T h e y also felt t h a t if Tech were to maintain and strengthen her position as one of the country's leading NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
engineering schools, the institution would have to undergo a tremendous expansion program in the coming postwar decade. It was obvious that the present or future state support would be financially inadequate for such a n expansion, and rebuilding the Foundation could well be the first step in securing additional aid for the school. T h e first active step toward the rebuilding of the Foundation was taken on September 8, 1943, when a meeting of the Board of Trustees was held. At this meeting the Board approved changes in the charter a n d by-laws which were suggested by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association's Executive Board. These changes, designed to strengthen the Foundation's organization, included an increase of the number of governing trustees from the original six to a minimum of 14 a n d a maximum of 2 1 . Through the original charter of the Foundation, the National Alumni Association had the power to elect trustees to fill any vacancies on the Foundation's Board. As soon as they were notified that the Foundation Board h a d approved the charter a n d by-law changes, the National Association's Board met and selected eight new m e n to the Foundation Board. From that time until the present, the two governing boards have worked in close cooperation to aid Georgia Tech in any way possible.
A failure leads to success T h e new 14-member Board of Trustees of the Foundation met for the first time in November of 1943. And at that meeting Cherry Emerson unveiled the plans for a fund-raising campaign designed to p u t the Foundation on its financial feet. T h e campaign, a simple class-competition plan, h a d as its goal a grand total of $300,000 by the end of the year, 1944. Selling points of the plan were to be the need for a Greater Georgia Tech a t the end of World W a r I I and for a n expanded budget for the use in building a great postwar faculty. None of the funds were to be spent until the end of the war. Until t h a t time the funds would be invested in government bonds. Not a penny of this money was to be used for athletic purposes, a policy still in operation in the Foundation. T h e fund-raising campaign was given the blessings of the Foundation Board of Trustees a n d got underway immediately. T h e original goal of
$300,000 was never reached during this drive, but the Foundation did realize over $175,000 by the fall of 1945 and became a financial force to aid Georgia Tech. This campaign also served another very important purpose—helping to lay the groundwork for the Annual Roll Call campaigns which have contributed increasing amounts to the Foundation treasury a n d have supported the National Alumni Association.
The tompanies begin to catch on T h e fact that the Foundation was able to establish itself through a fund campaign among the Tech alumni helped to bring from outstanding corporations large gifts for the benefit of Georgia Tech. T h e first such gift was a check for $100,000 presented to the Foundation by the Georgia Power Company late in 1945. T h e Foundation appropriately used these funds to set u p the South's first AC-Network Calculator which was completed in November of 1947. I t was the fifth calculator to be installed at a n American university and the first to be owned b y a foundation rather t h a n a group of power companies. Although the Georgia Power Company, in effect paid for the calculator, it has consistently refused free use of the network board, preferring to pay for the time at the same rate as the other power companies who use it. Since its completion, the calculator has been used for the design of a half billion dollars of transmission and distribution systems. Other Southern corporations soon joined the Georgia Power Company in contributing large sums of money to the Foundation although the Georgia Power check still remains the largest contribution from a n industrial organization. Some of this money has gone into relatively large projects such as the AC-Network Calculator, Tech's outstanding Fluid Flow Laboratory, the president's h o m e a n d a promotional movie on Georgia Tech. But the largest portion of these funds has been used in financing the great number of projects necessary for the efficient operation of the school. T h e success of the Roll Calls a n d the solid program of industry contact established by the Foundation a n d the Association during t h a t period eventually led to the Tech-Georgia Development Fund, a new organization formed in 1955 to aid the two leading 15
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The President's Home, presented to Tech through the Foundation by an alumnus, is one of Tech's many buildings not paid for through the use of State of Georgia funds.
universities in the Georgia University System. These projects—for which funds are not available through the state's budget because of custom, statute or Regent action—concentrated on supplementing the salaries of outstanding Tech professors who otherwise would not be financially able to stay at Georgia Tech because of the many inducements offered them by other institutions and by industry. The Foundation also has offered use of its funds for the moving expenses of professors whom Tech has managed to lure away from industry or from other schools. Other past projects include Tech's membership in the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, where over a million dollars a year in peace time atomic research is accomplished, and membership in the University Center, responsible for bringing some of the world's outstanding scholars and scientists to lecture in the various colleges and universities of Georgia. Current projects in addition to salary supplementation and moving expenses include aiding the members of the faculty in publishing books and scientific papers and in attending special conferences in their specialties. They also include financial aid to Tech's extensive guidance and Resting program for the present-day students. In November of 1950, the by-laws and charter of the Foundation were completely revamped and brought up to date. And in November of 1954, the name of the organization was changed to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Incorporated. This latest move was made to eliminate the confusion that might have been created by the use of the similar names of the two Tech alumni
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A problem that had to be solved In his annual report of 1956, Dr. Paul Weber presented in no uncertain terms what he considered the major problem at Tech, a problem that he would doggedly attempt to solve during 17 months as acting president: "In spite of increases in allocation of funds from the Regents for 1956-57, which will permit some additional faculty to be hired for next year, the departmental teaching loads will be just as high, if not higher, next year. The effect of overloading a teaching staff is not only to lower the standards of instruction but also to reduce opportunities for study, research, and other activities which enable a faculty member to keep up to date in his field, improve his teaching, and enhance his professional reputation. "It cannot be overemphasized that Georgia Tech's greatest need is for higher salaries. Although the salaries for next year will be approximately 13 percent higher on the average than they were two years ago, we are still not competitive with the leading engineering schools of the country, and we are far below what our faculty members can obtain in industry. "In seeking additional personnel, Georgia Tech's aim is to employ the best men we can attract to the institution. To achieve this aim, we must increase our salaries substantially and we must be able to promise no more than reasonable teaching loads. It is very difficult to interest promising young men in teaching at Georgia
Tech when they can obtain much higher salaries in other engineering schools and in industry. Furthermore, our low salary scales have been responsible for many resignations of faculty members who we would like very much to have kept on the staff. Almost inevitably when a professor resigns, we have to employ a replacement of comparable qualifications at a higher starting salary than the salary paid the man who resigned. "We lost more staff members at the assistant and associate professor level through resignations than we gained through new appointments. The quality of our staff declined. The American Society For Engineering Education reports that a survey of 93 of the 150 accredited engineering colleges indicates that these institutions want to hire over 1,000 additional engineering teachers for the fall of 1956-57. It must be remembered that Georgia Tech is in competition for new teachers with the leading schools of the country. The much higher salaries paid at these schools, together with the tremendously higher salaries offered to men of such qualifications in industry, make it imperative that Georgia Tech salaries be increased a great deal during the next few years. If this is not done, Tech will decline in importance as an engineering institution, even if we should be able to add the finest facilities in the nation." The beginnings of a new idea By the following year, Weber's appeals and continuing efforts to aid the faculty salary situation had paid off handsomely from two sources. The Regents had secured an additional $300,000 for the operation of Tech, and the Georgia Tech Foundation's faculty salary supplementation program was initiated with the 1957-58 year. These two items, though seemingly unrelated, were tied together through a campaign that was conceived by, of all people, two Georgia graduates—Senator (then just former Governor) Herman Talmadge and Atlanta lawyer, Robert Troutman, Jr. In March of 1955, these two Georgia men approached Tech alumni leaders Ivan Allen, Jr. (now mayor of Atlanta) and Walter Mitchell and asked for their aid in getting a program started that could be one of the most important in the history of the two institutions. The plan, initially called the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Program, consisted of four steps: (1) TECH ALUMNUS
each school was to carry out a study of its own needs; (2) the alumni associations and foundations of the two schools were to radically increase the tempo of their respective alumni rollcall drives; (3) the alumni leaders of the two institutions would then go to the General Assembly jointly to try to get state funds increased to the two institutions; and (4) a concentrated solicitation of business and industry was to be set up jointly by the two schools to secure even more funds for the major needs at Tech and Georgia as established by the studies. The year of the breakthrough Allen and Mitchell bought the idea immediately and began laying plans to convince the boards of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association and and the Georgia Tech Foundation that Tech would benefit greatly from this program. Enlisting the aid of Fred Storey, the president-elect of the Alumni Association, the men soon sold the Tech alumni leaders on the concept. By that summer, the first two phases of the program had already gotten under way at Tech and Georgia. A study committee consisting of Chairman Cherry Emerson of Atlanta; Fuller Callaway of LaGrange; and William Wardlaw, Jr., and William A. Parker, both of Atlanta, was immediately appointed and the needs study was on its way. Outstanding business and industry leaders, both alumni and non-alumni of Tech, were named to head the various subcommittees making this detailed study. During his 17 months as acting president, Dr. Paul Weber set the stage for the Tech faculty supplementation program, one of the most important developments in its history.
The Tech speaking team of 1957-58 that did so much to raise funds for both Tech and Georgia, left to right: Fred Storey,
Bobby Dodd, Ivan Allen, Jr., President Harrison and then alumni president Charles Simons. They traveled the country a year.
Every one of the subcommittees came up with the identical number one need at Georgia Tech—better salaries for the teachers. The key to the campaigns was established by the needs committees, and the concentrated alumni campaign was kicked off in the fall of 1955 with Allen as the Tech chairman and Talmadge as the Georgia chairman. To set the pace for this new concept of the alumni roll-call campaign, Tech's Association and Foundation trustees increased their own pledges at a special joint meeting of the two boards in August of 1955. Thirtythree men who had been giving a total of $6,984.00 per year to the roll call pledged $27,450.00 per year for the coming five years. The campaign was a success with a record-breaking $162,182.00 coming in from Tech alumni alone, compared to $71,900.00 the previous year. In addition, special gifts totaling over $70,000 came to the Tech Foundation as a result of the stepped-up direct mail and personal solicitation campaign.
between the two foundations. The approach to the Georgia Legislature was inaugurated through the Board of Regents with the presentation of the Georgia Tech needs and alumni support to the Board of Regents in late 1955. It was completed by a presentation of the joint Tech and Georgia efforts for higher education at a dinner for the lawmakers in Atlanta in January, 1956. These efforts led directly to the increased state appropriation for the 1956-57 year. On March 26, 1957, Acting President Weber had one of the most satisfactory days of his life. On that day, the announcement was made by President Ivan Allen of the Georgia Tech Foundation that the Foundation in a move unprecedented in the state's higher education annals had voted $90,000 to supplement salaries of members of the Tech teaching faculty for the 1957-58 year and another $60,000 for the contingencies that might arise during the year. Weber's answer to this windfall for which he had worked so hard was measured and complete: "This is a red-letter day in the history of Georgia Tech. The grants which the Georgia Tech Foundation made today for faculty salary supplementation and other contingencies totals $150,000 and constitute the most important development in the operations of Georgia Tech in many years. "On behalf of the Institution, I would like to thank the alumni and friends of Tech and the many local and national corporations whose contributions have made possible this
A red-letter year for Tech Meanwhile, the new Joint TechGeorgia Development Fund had begun its first year of soliciting business and industry for funds to help the two schools. With top Tech and Georgia alumni contacts making the actual solicitations and the firm of Grizzard and Haas planning the campaign, the first year of the new approach was a successful one with over $200,000 pledged to the joint fund to be divided NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
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GEORGE P. B U R D E L L - c o n t faculty supplementation and the other grants of the Foundation. "One of the many fine experiences that comes with working at Georgia Tech is rediscovering the unquestionable loyalty and support the faculty and administration receive from the alumni. In the past this alumni support has meant a great deal to the school. But never in the history of Georgia Tech has it meant as much as it does today. Ivan Allen, Fred Storey, Walter Mitchell, Oscar Davis, and all the other leaders of this fine program of alumni support deserve the gratitude of every faculty and alumni member of the Georgia Tech family. "All of the grants are subject to approval by the Board of Regents and will go to teaching faculty. These grants will enable Tech to keep many of its faculty members who otherwise might be lost to other colleges or to industry in today's highly competitive engineering and scientific talent market. The grants will mean also that Tech can now step into this market to add more, well-qualified members to its faculty. "I know that the alumni of Georgia Tech feel a great deal of pride in knowing that their contributions are being used where they are most needed. For no institution of higher learning can be any stronger than its
faculty. And this is the type of support that makes for a strong faculty. "The Governor, Legislature and Board of Regents have done their best, through increased allocations and special grants, to insure the continuing advance of higher education in Georgia. The increased support granted Tech this year by the Board of Regents makes this Foundation grant all the more important. As Ivan Allen said in making the Foundation announcement, 'The day is past when the South and its institutions can be considered the Nation's poor relations.' The Foundation indicated their confidence in this philosophy when they pointed out that—with alumni support—they saw this type of a program as a continuing responsibility for the future growth of Georgia Tech. Alumni leaders who mean something
"Georgia Tech is indeed fortunate in having alumni leaders who are so intensely interested in their college's welfare that they will take the time and effort to solicit business and industry as well as the alumni to produce such financial aid of their institution. We who are on the Tech faculty of today owe a real debt of gratitude to those who have gone before us and developed such loyal and interested alumni." The year's successful program
proved to be a great stimulus to both future Tech roll calls conducted by the National Alumni Association and industry-business solicitation by the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund. Tech's alumni contributions have continued to climb with each passing year. The reason why Tech is competitive
The Joint Fund continued a similar rate of growth to that of the roll call, and by 1965 had an annual goal of $400,000 for the first time. Few ideas have ever meant so much to Georgia Tech as the one conceived in the minds of two Georgia alumni in the year 1955. The faculty supplementation program that grew from this idea has increased each year and by the 196566 year had reached a figure of over $280,000, including the contingency allotment for upgrading the faculty. The program had been credited by both Weber and his successor, President Edwin D. Harrison, as the main reason for the fact that Tech has managed to hold onto almost all of its key teachers during the past six years. It is also one of the major reasons why Tech has been able to add additional top teaching talent to its faculty during recent years despite a fierce national competitive market for scientists and engineers.
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Photographed for the Alumnus by Bill Sumits, Jr.
H E YOUNG MAN grinning as he gets his first look at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum and pensive over one of his up-coming speeches is Commander J o h n Watts Young, pilot on the first manned Gemini flight and a 1952 highest honor graduate of Tech in Aeronautical Engineering. His return to Tech on November 12 and 13, just 233 days after he first orbited the earth, was an occasion for rolling out red carpets and on his part enough public appearances and speeches to completely exhaust anyone b u t an astronaut. He arrived in Atlanta with his vivacious wife, Barbara, at 11:28 A.M. on the 12th and was driven to the Governor's office where he was made an Admiral in the Georgia Navy, to which Navy career man Young quipped, "What kind of ships do we have?" He went through the ordeal of a press conference while his wife spoke to the Tech Dames Club. Then came the speech to the students and faculty a t the Coliseum, the ANAK initiation and the dinner at which he was made an honorary citizen of Atlanta, heard November 13 pro-, claimed J o h n Young Day in Georgia, and made another speech. Saturday, more of the same. B u t then by turning the page, you can follow his schedule and read some of his words about his personal homecoming.
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Barbara Young, left, was not left out when the awards were passed out during her husband's day. She received a bracelet from Dr. Harrison soon after Executive Secretary to the Governor, Doug Barnard, right, declared Saturday as John Young Day.
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In his major speech, Commander Young talks about the space program and his own feelings about Apollo IT IS a great pleasure to come back to Georgia Tech. Dr. Harrison and I have been corresponding on the probability of cornering all the engineers, in one building since September of 1962. Looking at your faces I can see that Georgia Tech hasn't changed its curriculum since I left. You all look overworked and, frankly, like you haven't slept in months. No doubt that's from the all night poker game in Smith Dorm. Most of you probably want to hear how things are going—on the outside. The truth is that outside of the manned space program I haven't been
able to keep up with the real world either. Today I'd like to present a view for you of our manned space program in its technical perspective. Every spacecraft mission is a tribute, in the main, to hundreds of engineers who have worked precisely as you are being trained here at Tech to work—with 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, as T. Edison would say. When you have lived with several space projects as I have, you soon become convinced that the major effort of the engineering talent in our space program is in max-
imizing mission success in order to minimize the risk to astronauts. For obvious reasons I am all in favor of this approach. Let me review for you briefly the history of manned space flight in the United States—-where we have been and where it looks like we're going. As you know, the first program was Project Mercury which got under way in 1959. Unmanned tests, incidentally, included the world's record for the lowest orbital perigee. In a blaze of flame and smoke a Mercury Redstone lifted a little over an inch, shut down TECH ALUMNUS
its engine, and settled back on the p a d without tipping over. Several engineering fixes later, Al Shepard was launched on the first suborbital flight in M a y of 1961. Project Mercury was a n amazingly successful program considering t h a t we were venturing into an area which contained a lot of unknowns. It was in Project Mercury that we learned how to go about manned space flight missions—as well as how not to. At that time we developed designs and procedures for insuring mission success. A lot of people still believe that our m a n n e d space program involves luck. T h a t simply, within every means that we have at our disposal, is not so. Success is built on things like rigid specification requirements, intelligent systems designs, equipment reliability, and involved and realistic testing a n d retesting of the components in each and every spacecraft. It, in short, involves a lot of h a r d work at the engineering level. If there is luck in our space program, we build it ourselves. These designs, procedures and techniques are the major things that Project M e r c u r y taught us. We also found that weightlessness, or zero-G, didn't h u r t five p i l o t s — i n c l u d i n g G o r d o n Cooper on his thirty-four hour "flight" in M a y , 1963. We found that if astronauts were properly protected they could function effectively in the spacial environment. Project Mercury was Dr. Bob Gilruth's baby a n d initially it involved less than a hundred engineers and technicians at the N A S A Space T a s k Group at Langley, Virginia. From that nucleus came the N A S A M a n n e d Spacecraft Center at Houston, Texas—now over 4,600 strong a n d growing. As a Gemini pilot I can say that it is very assuring to have a group behind you that has the mental anguish produced by the developmental experience of one m a n n e d program still fresh in mind. E a r l y in 1961 Project Gemini was begun. Gemini was fathered by J i m Chamberlain, a remarkable engineer to whom the project owes much of its success and today's basic Gemini design is unchanged from the days of M r . Chamberlain's engineering guidance. T h i s spacecraft is a n unusual research vehicle. I t is more complex and the Gemini missions are more involved a n d extended t h a n those of t h e M e r c u r y series. W e found we needed two m e n to perform satisfactorily the more complicated work a n d experiments. Of course, there are m a n y other differences between Project M e r c u r y and NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
Gemini. T h e Gemini has the capability to stay in orbit for more t h a n two weeks with its souped-up environmental control system, a space radiator, cryogenically stored oxygen for breathing, and power provided by the electricity making fuel cells. It h a s a long-life, hypergolic, rocket propulsion system for a t t i t u d e control a n d translation in space. I t can, therefore, rendezvous and join with another space vehicle, and it is designed to allow people to get outside—for "extra vehicular activity." T h e present Gemini program manager is Chuck Mathews—one of the most technically competent, a n d hardest working engineering managers a t the M a n n e d Spacecraft Center—a place which is frighteningly like Tech when it comes to plain, hard, technical work. T h e first manned flight of Project Gemini took place on M a r c h 23 of this year, and, as you know, Gus Grissom was the command pilot and I was the pilot. Gus h a d a lot to say about the pilot input into the design of the spacecraft and, in fact, some of his fellow astronauts have been known to call Gemini the Gusmobile. Our flight progressed very close to the planned mission with the only problem being a shorted electrical converter due to a loose nut floating in zero-G. We were in orbit after five minutes a n d thirty-four seconds of what the T V shows as noise, smoke and fire. Inside it was quiet a n d the ride was as smooth as glass. T h e orbital speed of the spacecraft was about 17,500 miles-per-hour. T h e apogee of the first orbit was about one h u n d r e d a n d twenty-three nautical miles with a perigee of eighty-eight nautical miles. During the first orbit of the flight, Gus performed the world's first manually controlled, modification of orbit over Texas at orbital perigee. T h e " b u r n " lasted for a minute and fourteen seconds. It was accomplished by firing the translation rockets and slowing the spacecraft speed down about fifty feet-per-second. T h i s dropped apogee altitude thirty miles so t h a t during the second orbit the Gemini 3 spacecraft attained a n apogee of about ninety-three nautical miles a n d a perigee of eighty-seven nautical miles. D u r i n g the second orbit, over t h e Indian Ocean, Gus fired the forward a n d A F T thrusters in a series of maneuvers to accomplish a translational movement. T h i s action lasted fifteen seconds, using a ten-foot-per-second burn, a n d changed the orbital p a t h
one-fiftieth of a degree. T h e completion of this planned maneuver proved the capability of minute changes in orbital p a t h in Gemini as desired. T h i s demonstrated the capability of the type of orbital changes required to accomplish a rendezvous mission. During the third orbit, Gus fired the translation rockets again in a preretrofire maneuver. T h e maneuver resulted in a reentry perigee of forty-six nautical miles. T h e spacecraft would have reentered in the event the retrorockets did not function. W e also performed every inflight test of the flight controls, the navigation system a n d the other on-board systems that we could devise. I think that we put about six orbits of testing into a three-orbit flight. On the whole, the spacecraft performed perfectly and I felt that we h a d an excellent workhorse, earth orbital vehicle for all the missions that we h a d planned for it. T h e flight was the first in which a spacecraft was manually controlled through the reentry phase. Gus performed two banking maneuvers during this period with the spacecraft in the proper attitude to gain lift as planned. T h e spacecraft touched down in the Atlantic, on the orbital path, about 58 miles short of the predicted landing point due to at least four different factors—all of which we have corrected for Gemini 6 and subsequent flights. Last J u n e , J i m M c D i v i t t a n d E d White in GT-4 circled the earth sixtytwo times during their four-day flight. On this flight we gained further experience in on-board orbital maneuvering, a feat that, as far as we know, the Russians have not yet accomplished. During the third revolution of GT-4, E d White carried out the first (but far from the last) extra-vehicular activity in the United States m a n n e d spaceflight program. I n order to do this, the cabin of the spacecraft h a d to be depressurized. E d a n d J i m depended upon reliable spacesuits for using the spacecraft oxygen supply, for suit pressurization a n d breathing, and on the ship's environmental control system for suit temperature control. T h e pressure suit was m a d e superreliable. I t had such features as a double zipper, self-locking, quick-hose disconnects, a n d a bulky, thermalmicro meteoroid outer garment, which was designed to stop micrometeorites —tiny particles t h a t zip along at forty kilometers per second. T o stop such a particle h e also h a d a triple visor on the pressure suit helmet which consisted of extra thick plexi glass, a 25
J O H N Y O U N G - cont. lexan-impact visor, and a gold-coated sun visor. The extra-vehicular activity life support system included an umbilical line and an emergency oxygen chest pack. The umbilical cord—that thin gold line—consisted of an oxygen line, an electrical biomedical, and communications line and a safety tether. The safety tether, incidentally, was strong enough to haul in a baby elephant. Ed was outside Gemini 4 for twentyone minutes. He became the first man to control himself in space during extra-vehicular activity with a maneuvering unit, which you have probably heard referred to as a "space gun." With the aid of the "space gun," Ed was able to maneuver to specific points and to control himself in pitch, roll, and yaw. When he ran out of maneuver thrust he returned to the spacecraft using the tether. He experienced absolutely no disorientation. Maneuvering in space by an astronaut outside the spacecraft is a vital technique in the development of manned space flight capability. This first extra-vehicular activity experience provides basic knowledge about maneuvering in space that will find application in later space missions: for example, in transferring from one vehicle to another, in assembling a space station, and in making external repairs or adjustments to a spacecraft. During this flight we accomplished several firsts: for the first time, to our knowledge, the cabin of a spacecraft was completely depressurized. It was an excellent test of the spacecraft environmental control and coolant systems, ability to handle the thermal extremes of space since Ed and Jim were up for four days. Later in August the eight-day flight of GT-5 with Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad set an endurance record of one hundred and ninety-one hours, and, for the first time the United States established a lead over the Russians in man-hours in space. < Gordo now holds the individual record for time spent in space. What is more important, we have the assurance that we can endure in space for eight days —with no significant effects on the crew. This is the amount of time proposed for our first lunar missions. The fuel cells, which were flown for the first time on Gemini 5, were a resounding success. As you probably know, the fuel cell works on a prin26
ciple which is the reverse of electrolysis—bringing H. and 0 2 together to produce H 2 0 and electricity. For longer flights, fuel cells have a significant weight-saving advantage over batteries of about two to one. The fuel cell is one of the key design factors in our lunar Apollo spacecraft because it would take a tremendous booster to haul heavy batteries to the moon and back—and that is not to say our Saturn C-5 lunar booster is small by any means. Rendezvous in space is our next major objective in Project Gemini, for it is critically important to the Apollo lunar mission. The technique we will use on our initial rendezvous flight is relatively straight forward in concept. After launching, the spacecraft will be placed into a catch-up orbit below and parallel to the target's orbit. At this time the spacecraft will be between 1,100 and 6,000 miles behind the target. The spacecraft's lower orbit with a higher velocity and shorter orbital period will cause the spacecraft to catch up with the rendezvous target. At a predetermined position relative to the target, the spacecraft will make a thrusting maneuver to begin the transfer trajectory. During this transfer phase, a number of small velocity corrections will be made. The Gemini on-board computer will calculate these velocity changes using on-board radar data and the inertial platform and will cleverly solve, faster than real time, some orbital mechanics, linearized, differential equations. The braking end of the terminal phase of the rendezvous will be based on a combination of radar data and the crew's visual observation of the target. Gemini 5 was the first spacecraft to carry the radar set and the rendezvous program in the on-board computer. In order to test these systems in flight, a rendezvous evaluation pod was carried in the spacecraft. It weighed seventy-seven pounds and carried flashing strobe lights and a radar transponder. Pete Conrad planned to eject the pod from the spacecraft at a predetermined time. Then Gordo and Pete would perform a series of maneuvers to put the spacecraft in position with the rendezvous evaluation pod as the target. Radar measurements were to be taken, computations and maneuvers performed, and the rendezvous completed, providing a valid test of the entire system. The pod was ejected, but, as you know the entire effort was abandoned shortly afterwards, when a cryogenic
oxygen heater failed, requiring (we thought at the time) the computer, radar, and platform to be shut down to minimize electrical load. However, twenty-three minutes of rendezvous evaluation pod radar data were recorded. A specially configured transponder was set up at Cape Kennedy and tracked successfully at extraordinary ranges. A rendezvous with an imaginary target was successfully performed on Gemini 5 using a series of four maneuvers based on ground computations. In addition to the dropping of the oxygen pressure for the fuel cell 02 supply, other difficulties encountered in the GT-5 flight included faulty attitude thrusters, and accumulation of water from the fuel cell, which was in danger of exceeding the on-board storage capacity. This necessitated powering-down the spacecraft for periods to limit the amount of water produced in the power generating process. Both these difficulties placed limitations on some of the experiments that were to be performed on the flight. But in spite of these problems, the GT-5 crew carried out nearly all the scheduled experiments and mission objectives. One of the main purposes of this flight was to study the effect of eight days in space on the pilots and this was achieved. Extensive medical tests have shown that Gordo and Pete are both in excellent physical condition. I think their performance on their exhaustive tour to Greece, Turkey, and Africa has shown to the world that this is the case. As you know, the planned launch of GT-6 on October 25 with Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford was scrubbed when the Agena target vehicle failed to achieve orbit. Gus and I were the backup crew on that flight and, needless to say, we were all very disappointed. We hope to put the GT-6 manned spacecraft in orbit while the GT-7 manned spacecraft is in its 14-day mission. For the purpose of the GT-6 mission, the GT-7 spacecraft will serve as the rendezvous target. The GT-7 spacecraft will be equipped with a radar transponder, acquisition flashing lights, and other minor modifications. GT-7 will be placed in a one hundred and sixty-one nautical-mile, circular orbit. GT-6 lift-off will be the same as it would have been with Agena. Nominal rendezvous will be the same as it would have been with Agena. Nominal rendezvous will be efTECH ALUMNUS
Leaving the Coliseum, Young wears the traditional ANAK armband as he was tapped along with Frank Hulse, president of Southern Airways, after his address.
fected on the fourth orbit of GT-6, although the rendezvous may go as late as the sixteenth orbit. Although the two spacecraft will not be able to dock, there is no foreseeable problem in staying in close proximity. They will come as close as had been planned for Agena, except for docking. Each spacecraft will do station-keeping on the other very much like formation flying airplanes. We feel this will demonstrate a very real potential rescue capability with two space vehicles. There will be no significant constraints imposed on the GT-7 mission. It will be carried out as currently planned. GT-7 will be the maximumduration mission for the design—open ended through fourteen days. This flight will permit evaluation of the effects of long duration spaceflight. Some nineteen experiments have been planned for the GT-7 mission in support of future flights. The key to the GT-7/6 mission—we call it the "Spirit of 76"—will be the launch pad 19 turn around. It will require a tremendous performance by the Cape Kennedy engineers and technicians, NASA, the many contractors, and the Air Force to clean up the pad, install and properly test the GT-6 Gemini booster and spacecraft, and launch it ten days after GT-7 has lifted off. The morale of these men for doing this job is very high, and barring unforseen damage to the pad, unexpected major or component failures we should make it with time to spare. Following GT-7/6, we will have five additional Gemini flights. These will involve further extra-vehicular operations and will investigate several techniques for rendezvous. There will also be a continuing program of medical and scientific experiments, all designed to support and provide operational experience for our moon program. Project Apollo will have sufficient energy for deep-space operations. The development of the spacecraft and launch vehicle for the lunar flight is proceeding on schedule. Flight testing of boilerplate Apollo spacecraft and early model Saturn launch vehicles has begun. Testing of the Apollo launch escape system at White Sands Missile Range is nearing completion. As you know, Project Apollo is deNOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1965
signed to fly three astronauts to the moon, and following a two-man lunar surface exploration, return all three safely to the earth's surface. The first lunar landing is scheduled to take place by 1970, and technically is an exciting challenge to many engineers all over the country. I saw an article the other day by an eminent scientist who said we would not get anyone back from the moon before the turn of the century. Fortunately, no one has told the engineers on the Apollo Project. I'll bet we make it before 1970, and I'm betting a lot more than money on this one. During Project Apollo, we will learn more about the moon's composition and environment. The moon is a big place, a lot of square miles, none of it under water, and it will probably require many trips and lunar bases before we explore it in the detail that we would like. After Project Apollo, there will be other manned missions, to nearby planets. Please note that all these missions will require engineers. We are just now beginning to explore these planets, having made one unmanned probe of Venus, and a successful flyby of Mars. I can predict manned exploration of the planets. I don't know when, but it could be and probably will be done sooner than our present time tables predict. The first manned fly-by missions to Venus or Mars are
being studied for the mid-1970's. But concentrated development of high energy propulsion systems or other technical breakthroughs could accelerate this schedule. Someone has predicted our first manned landing on Mars or one of its moons will wait until the 1980's; this type of prediction is based on present technology. What will our technology be in 1-975? I don't know anyone who can, for certain, guess right on that. One could almost guarantee, however, that there will be technical advances that we haven't even imagined yet! Who can safely say that the year 2000 will not find man on his way toward manned exploration of the stars? I believe this is one of the technical challenges of the next century. Our future is indeed filled with exciting prospects. As we look forward to this future, we can remember the words of Dr. Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry who stated: "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today, and the reality of tomorrow." To which I will be bold enough to predict that these realities of tomorrow will be developed by you all—the engineers of tomorrow. I wish you every success in your endeavors. They certainly won't be easy, but they will surely be interesting and rewarding. 27
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The alumni return to the campus for many reasons among them a chance to hear key members of the 1 9 6 5 Tech faculty talk about the world in which all of us live
A HOMECOMING r O ? ALL S=fi ONS HE MACHINE AGE came alive as the professors talked: an age in which one machine begets another within a finite number of months, and where one speaks of generations of computers and laboratory machines; an age in which engineers must maintain their ability of self-renewal to keep abreast of their own inventions. Then an architect took the lecturn and said that it is indeed possible for man to create an orderly and decent environment for himself, but the men who are especially trained to do this, the architects, are going to have to take the initiative. Finally, there was both comic relief and pathetic commentary provided by a presentation of what the Theatre of the Absurd has to say about the nakedness of man standing amofig his wonderful machineries. This was the Sixth Alumni Institute: a lively, all-day session held October 29 as part of Homecoming activities. Leading off the program was Dr. William Atchison, chief of Tech's Rich Electronic Computer Center who talked about the "Computer As An Intellectual Tool." He said that where-
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as people used to be excited about how fast a computer could calculate, the big interest now is in applying computers to non-arithmetic tasks: in designing machinery, translating books and journals from one language to another, and in storing on magnetic tape the contents of a library so that information is instantly available when a question is asked. He mentioned how computers can be used to teach courses and noted that "there is no loss of face if you ask a computer a silly question." Dr. Atchison stated that there are many things that, with computers, are technically possible. The important point is that there be men capable of using them to the best advantage. Dr Arnold Ducoffe, director of the School of Aerospace Engineering, followed with a discussion of how the rate at which the world is changing is definitely some function of engineering, and, how at the same time, these revolutionary changes are creating a need for still more engineering accomplishments. He illustrated his points with facts from the aerospace industry where the accomplishments of technology have been most dramatic in
terms of speed, power, and size. The wingspan of the newest Lockheed transport, the C5A, will be greater than the distance of flight of the Wright Brothers' plane. The payload of the Vanguard rocket of 1958 was 3.25 pounds — that of the 1965 Titan, 7,500 pounds. In this fantastic world of advanced engineering, the Ph.D. has a half-life of just about ten years, he said very matter-of-factly, meaning that approximately fifty percent of what he will need to know at the end of the decade is completely unknown today. He explained that the problem of obsolescence is a major reason that engineering schools today are no longer emphasizing "how to put something together according to present technology." Instead, they concentrate on theory, on "why something is true, in looking for the reason behind a phenomena." While a student may specialize in "a tiny piece of aerodynamics," he must have a thorough knowledge of math, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, engineering mechanics, etc. "No longer do we just have to worry about the masses of air that pass over the wing—we have to TECH ALUMNUS
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worry about what the molecules are doing." "Engineers can no longer just work — they have got to read, study, and keep abreast of the latest developments." "The books, literature, and reports an engineer must read today to stay abreast the flight of present technology are," he said, "staggering compared with what was required just twenty years ago." "What you say today," he commented laconically, "has to be very carefully planned so that what you say tomorrow won't be obsolete. "Our average faculty member who works fifty to sixty hours a week, spends at least fifteen percent of his time in the library." In elaborating on the importance of theory in engineering today, he explained that it used to be that engineers could get along fairly well by employing the practical method of trial and error. Little theoretical understanding was needed. If something worked—fine, if not—then retarild it. Later it was the fashion to test practical ideas in the laboratory, but, unfortunately, there are many things today that cannot be simulated in the lab. Outer space is one of these. Man dares to explore space on the basis of his theoretical understanding of the phenomena he will face. Like Dr. Atchison, Dr. Ducoffe emphasized in his remarks that it will 30
be necessary in the modern world of technology to continue to train people at higher and higher levels. "But with all this technology we must make sure we guide technology—that it doesn't guide us." Architect and alumnus, John Portman began his talk by noting that our "entire intellectual world is under attack—we are entering a new age," but that "transition is the flagship of opportunity." This new world, he said, "is calling for a new kind of architect—an architect that must demand and take charge of development. The architects, must get ahead of growth and become initiators, so that they can make the right things happen at the right time." Portman, a developer of the Peachtree Center, said he has made it his business to know the building birth cycle—to know when there is a need for a particular development, to ascertain if it is feasible, what the realty costs will be, how to finance the project, to design it, and finally, how to carry through the construction process into reality. The greatest architectural idea, he said, is nothing until it becomes a reality, and architects must take more initiative in accomplishing the concrete. He used Peachtree Center as an example of an effort to prove what can be done with a "do-it-yourself, private enterprise, urban renewal effort with
a master plan." It is to be a city within a city, renewing the heart of downtown Atlanta. The first building in the complex, the Merchandise Mart, has been a going concern for four or five years, the executive office building has just been completed, and the 600-room Regency Hotel is on the way up to join the Atlanta skyline. Portman said that property acquisition is the biggest deterent to private development since property owners will often raise their prices with such a new center growing nearby. "This puts us in an awkward position, but we do not want the power of condemnation," Portman said. "We believe in free enterprise." He went on to explain that a major defect in the federal urban renewal program is that as soon as the land is accumulated and cleared, it is chopped up into little pieces again and sold. There is no plan for future development and "there is uncontrolled growth once more." When Regents' Professor of Chemistry Dr. Bill Eberhardt took the stand before the alumni, he told them that they who had once taken freshman chemistry, would not believe the marvelous advances in chemistry possible today because of extremely sophisticated equipment. Of course, most of this machinery is obsolete in two, three, four, or five years, and this makes equipping laboratories very expensive. Of necessity, the Chemistry TECH ALUMNUS
During the seminar, Tech's Atchison, far left, talked of computers and our world and Chaikin, far right, smiled as his players acted out an example of the absurd drama.
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The minutes of the A n n u a l Meeting of the Georgia T e c h National A l u m n i Association A. M C K E E V E K , 1964-65 president, called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. in the Wilby Room of the Price Gilbert Memorial Library. Mr. McKeever welcomed all alumni visiting the campus for Homecoming. 1. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting, held October 24, 1964, and published in the November-December, 1964 issue of The Georgia Tech Alumnus were approved as published. 2. Mr. McKeever made announcements about the day's program and urged everyone to attend the Alumni Luncheon held at 11:30 a.m. in the Old Gym. 3. Treasurer Gellerstedt gave the financial report. He stated that the total income for the year was $145,825.35 and expenses were $149,934.24. He also stated that the Association had an operating reserve of $106,629.53. The report was approved as presented. 4. Vice President Howard Ector introduced and inducted the 1965 National Advisory Board. This recognition is given to alumni outside the
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School at Tech now has over $450,000 in major equipment, he stated. Much of it is being used by undergraduates and not just by professors and graduate students. One of the most interesting things, Dr. Eberhardt said, with a smile, is that the more expensive and up-to-date equipment is, the easier it is to do experiments. Cheap and old equipment is much harder to work with. The last session of the day featured Dr. Milton Chaikin of the English department commenting on The Theatre of the Absurd as a phenomenon is related to surrealism in the visual arts. It deprecates reason and emphasizes the despair arising out of man's existence. Man's existence is absurd—he is both victim and fool. It is a commentary on the erosion of humanistic values of our age, of the debasement of taste, of the era in which the individual has become a member of the lonely crowd, and in which scientific destruction has become a reality. "To some," Dr. Chaikin said, "the idea of progress has been disproved. Our society has become an air-conditioned nightmare." He used works from Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett as examples of the style that has come to be known as The Theatre of the Absurd. The lectures concluded a stimulating day.
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State of Georgia who have made a distinct contribution to Georgia Tech. The term of office is for one year. Those recognized were: Ivy H. Smith, '20, Jacksonville, Florida, representing District I — Alaska, Florida, Hawaii and Overseas; Gladstone I. Teasley, '30, Knoxville, Tennessee, representing District II — Alabama and Tennessee; Russell B. Newton, '20, Spartanburg, South Carolina, representing District I I I — Atlantic States; Mr. Sidney Goldin, '30, New York, N. Y., representing District IV — Northeastern States; William A. Walters, '50, Chicago, Illinois, representing District V — Midwestern States; James C. (Sonny) Griffith, '25, Shreveport, Louisiana, representing District VI — Southwestern States and Mississippi; and Monroe J. Willner, '50, Santa Ana, California, representing District VII — Far West. (Absent). 5. Howard Tellepsen, Jr., president of the Student Body, introduced the Homecoming Queen, Miss Susan Landise; Mrs. Homecoming, Mrs.
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H O M E C O M I N G - cont. Gary Williams and their respective attendants. A good round of applause followed. 6. Vice president Alvin M. Ferst introduced and inducted four new honorary members into the Alumni Association. Those inducted were: Mr. James A. Dunlap, Chairman, Board of Regents, University System of Georgia; Mr. Joseph W. Guthridge, Vice President, Development, Georgia Institute of Technology and Executive Secretary of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Incorporated; Mr. Carl J. Reith, President, Colonial Stores, Incorporated; and Mrs. William T. Rich, widow of Mr. William Rich, class of 1910. Mrs. Rich was unable to attend the meeting and was represented by Dr. and Mrs. Arnold L. Ducoffe. 7. President Edwin D. Harrison was called on for remarks. Dr. Harrison congratulated the new members of the National Advisory Board and the new Honorary Alumni. He urged all to continue to support the Alumni Association in order to make Tech a better institution. 8. John C. Staton, president of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Incorporated, expressed appreciation for the assistance made possible through the continued support of the Roll Call. Mr. Staton then recognized the members of the Board of the Georgia Tech Foundation present at the meeting. He stated that the salary supplementation program grows each year i s size and effectiveness. He recognized that special projects such as the recent campus study and reorganization and the Urban Renewal Project are possible because of the alumni support. A very large sum of scholarship money is available through matching funds. 9. Mr. McKeever spoke about the Association and the time he has been on the Board. The Roll Call which 32
began not too many years ago, he stated, has produced the basic funds that have become available to the President as seed funds to do things and to get things started. Everything that the Association does continues over a number of years. The research program is continuing each year and gaining and progressing. The scholarship fund pushes on and we want this to become a real challenge. The "Tech Today" program will continue to be planned under Matt Cole's administration. Mr. McKeever stated that this program will be a great help to the school. The plan is to bring key alumni, state officials, business and civic leaders to the campus and give them a two-day weekend program to show them what Tech is and what Tech can be with their help. 10. Madison F. Cole, '41, took the gavel as 1965-66 president of the Association. He expressed his gratitude for service on the Board this past year and thanked all those concerned. Any year the Alumni Association meets begins a new era and a progressive era, stated Mr. Cole. He hoped we would have two aims this year— double the amount of money received from the Roll Call and carry out the plans for the "Tech Today" program. Mr. Cole announced that the George McCarty — ANAK Award annually presented at this meeting to the "Outstanding Young Alumnus" would be presented at half-time, November 13, to Commander John W. Young, AE, '52, the Tech Astronaut. Young and his wife will be with us for the TechVirginia game to receive this award. He urged all alumni to be at the Alumni Luncheon. 11. Secretary Beard, on behalf of the 1964-65 trustees, presented a gift to Mr. Dan McKeever, retiring president of the Association. 12. Mr. Cole recognized the new members of the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Association that were present. The meeting adjourned at 10:30.
Those attending the meeting were: J. D. Ambrose, '28; J. D. Askew, '30; Walter W. Ballew, '15; Dale L. Barker, '49; Roane Beard, '40; David L. Bergman, '60; D. Braxton Blalock, Jr., '34; Arthur B. Boazman, '25; Charlie Brown, '25; James R. Brown, '52; Jay L. Cannon, Jr., '35; Willis W. Castleberry, '34; W. Paul Clark, '33; S. B. Cockrill, '20; Madison F. Cole, '41; Arthur T. D'Alessio, '60; Charles M. Davis, '55; Oscar G. Davis, '22; R. B. Dodds, '25; Arnold L. Ducoffe, '43; Paul A. Duke, '45; Howard Ector, '40; James Eliopolo, '50; Harry Erdberg, '26; Sam P. Eschenbach, '33; George W. Felker, III, '36; Dakin B. Ferris, '50; Alvin M. Ferst, '43; B. Davis Fitzgerald, '43; John W. Fountain, '25; R. R. Garrison, '23; L. L. Gellerstedt, '45; James E. Gilbert, '38; Jack F. Glenn, '32; Sidney Goldin, '30; Jose I. Gonzalez, '44; Berry Grant, '27; Samuel Green, '15; George Griffin, '22; J. C. Griffith, '25; Allen S. Hardin, '53; Ira H. Hardin, '24; E. T. Harrison, '60; Louis A. Hawkins, '25; A. C. Herring, '50; Frank Hollberg, III, '56; Joe L. Holloway, '60; C. D. LeHardy, '33; Allen P. Livar, '18; Albert L. Loeb, '13; J. Erskine Love, Jr., '49; Fred C. Lutter, '55; Wm. J. Manly, Sr., '18; George T. Marchmont, '07; J. W. Mason, '20; Grover C. Maxwell, Jr., '50; Joe H. McCullough, '38; Thomas T. McDugald, '60; Dan McIntyre, '40; Dan A. McKeever, '32; William F. Moss, '60; Robert D. Neill, '43; Russell Newton, '20; James Nichols, '28; Ray D. Page, '60; William D. Parker, '54; Leon M. Pearsall, '20; Hans J. Petermann, '50; Charles H. Petterson, '51; Lee H. Poe, '25; Albert Polak, '07; James P. Poole, '42; James B. Ramage, '37; L. W. Robert, '08; J. Tom Roberts, '20; Curry S. Robey, '25; William P. Rocker, '32; Albert W. Rose, '22; Rockwell Rowe, '30; Robert W. Russell, '50; Hugh W. Russey, '29; I. M. Sheffield, '20; Charlie R. Simons, '37; Ivy H. Smith, '20; W. A. Snellgrove, '38; John Staton, Sr., '24; John Staton, Jr., '60; G. I. Teasley, '30; Wm. S. Terrell, '30; Robert B. Wallace, Jr., '49; W. Al Walters, '50; R. Fulton Webb, '22; Paul Weber, Hon.; Ernest G. Welch, '28; Randolph Whitfield, '32; Chas. F. Whitmer, '41; Frank Willett, '45; C. L. Williamson, '30; John Woodall, '25; Ed L. Yeargan, '32; W. R. Ziegler, '41; W. T. Ziegler, '32. Respectfully submitted, W. ROANE BEAED
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ig the meeting were: 28; J. D . Askew, '30; r, '15; D a l e L. Barker, I, '40; David L. Bergrton Blalock, Jr., '34; zman, '25; Charlie s R. Brown, '52; J a y 35; Willis W. Castleaul Clark, '33; S. B. adison F. Cole, ' 4 1 ; 3sio, '60; Charles M . G. Davis, '22; R. B. old L. Ducoffe, '43; r, Howard Ector, '40; '50; H a r r y Erdberg, lenbach, '33; George 36; D a k i n B. Ferris, st, '43; B. Davis Fitzl W. Fountain, '25; 23; L. L. Gellerstedt, Gilbert, '38; J a c k F. ey Goldin, '30; J o s e ; Berry Grant, '27; 5; George Griffin, '22; 5; Allen S. Hardin, in, '24; E. T. HarriHawkins, '25; A. C. i k Hollberg, I I I , '56; '60; C. D . L e H a r d y , ivar, '18; Albert L. skine Love, Jr., '49; '55; Wm. J. Manly, T. Marchmont, '07; ; Grover C. Maxwell, . McCullough, '38; ugald, '60; D a n M c A. McKeever, '32; '60; Robert D . Neill, on, '20; J a m e s NichPage, '60; William son M . Pearsall, '20; nn, '50; Charles H . e H. Poe, '25; Albert P. Poole, '42; J a m e s L. W. Robert, '08; 20; Curry S. Robey, Rocker, '32; Albert Rockwell Rowe, '30; 1, '50; H u g h W. Rusheffield, '20; Charlie T...Âť
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The coveted honorary alumni awards went to James Dunlap, chairman of the Board of Regents; Joe Guthridge, Tech's vice president for development; and Carl Reith, president of Colonial Stores (top to bottom on the right) and in absentia to Mrs. Wil-
liam Rich, who was represented at the ceremony by her daughter, Mrs. Arnold Ducoffe and Dr. Ducoffe, head of Tech's AE School. Vice president Al Ferst, shown with the Ducoffes, made the presentations to the four distinguished new alumni.
THE QUEENS, SUSAN LANDISE AND MRS. CAROLE WILLIAMS
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Recent Graduates Impress Harvard Two Georgia Tech graduates are among 14 students in a class of 671 at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to be named Baker Scholars. They are Walter G. Cornett, III, of Lakeland, Florida and William W. George of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The designation of Baker Scholar represents the highest scholastic honor given Master in Business Administration students prior to graduation. The first two and a half per cent of the class are elected each fall by the faculty on the basis of scholarship during the first year in the two-year M.B.A. Program. Another two and a half per cent are named in the spring, shortly before graduation. Both Cornett and George were previously honored at Harvard Business School by their selection as two of five outstanding young men from colleges in the Southeast to be awarded J. Spencer Love Fellowships for their two years of study at the school. Cornett graduated from Tech in 1963 and George in 1964. The M.B.A. program is designed to equip outstanding college graduates for managerial positions of responsibility in business, government and other organizations.
A Comet in the Lab UNDER very low temperatures and pressures that simulate the conditions of outer space, a Georgia Tech student is creating in the laboratory the cold, solid gases that are believed to make-up a comet hurtling through the heavens. Don Bivens is forming and studying frozen ices of ammonia, nitric oxide, acetylene and ethylene that spectrum studies by astronomers indicate form most of the substance of comets and also appear on the surface of Jupiter and perhaps other of the outer-most planets. Bivens is one of a group of Ph.D. students in chemical engineering conducting their research in the area of cryo34
genics or very low temperature research, under the direction of Dr. Henry A. McGee, Jr. The work is being supported by grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "This is exciting work on the very frontier of science," Dr. McGee says. "When a student forms an hypothesis and starts his experiments he has no real idea what will actually happen. These experiments are in the tradition of the true nature of research." Dr. McGee goes on to say that NASA is not the only agency interested in studies of what happens to matter at very low temperatures. Many chemical and oil companies are now excited by this new dimension of preparative chemistry. What was not possible at normal temperatures can sometimes be accomplished at these very low temperature ranges.
A Year for Volunteers IN ITS first year on a voluntary basis the Georgia Tech Army ROTC has enrolled 590 freshmen for an increase of 102 percent over last year's 581. Furthermore, 72 additional freshmen wanting to join the Army corps had to be turned down because they were physically disqualified. Given a chance to choose the service these students seem to be showing that to join is "the thing to do." "Many freshmen have brought their friends in," Col. C. B. Drennon, Jr. says. "Seventy-two freshmen that indicated at preregistration that they were not interested changed their minds and came to us later." According to Department of the Army sources, the Tech enrollment is easily the best that has been achieved by any school the first year ROTC has been put on a voluntary basis. Colonel Drennon, a Tech alumnus, is equally proud that 78 percent of 422 returning sophomores have decided to continue the program they began last year when ROTC was compulsory. There are now 89 juniors enrolled in advanced ROTC in contrast to last year's 80, and
84 seniors have signed up—an increase of two. Colonel Drennon believes there are a number of reasons for this success story. In the first place he launched an intensive campaign to let incoming students know exactly what the Army ROTC could offer them. Then campus student organizations invited officers to talk to students at freshman camp and faculty members and the administration were very cooperative. Finally, Colonel Drennon believes that this generation of students at academically rigorous Tech have fortitude and a sense of loyalty. He says that when a survey was taken of freshmen enrolling in ROTC summer quarter—they were not required to sign their names—44 percent said they joined because they "thought it was the thing to do" and only two percent to avoid the draft. One hundred and twenty freshmen also signed up for Navy ROTC at Tech this year—a figure about the same as last year—and 312 for the Air Force unit.
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Genus Academicus JH the black watch of time! I To be a victim of the hands that move on the goldtrimmed face is a fate that befalls most modern men. Even the denizens of academe' serve time, for the ivory tower is only too wellequipped with clocks which dispel any remnant of the myth that on the campus there is a timeless, leisurely, search for truth. Such freedom does not exist. In the classroom there are hourly, weekly, and quarterly deadlines. Then there are deadlines for getting research proposals in to supporting agencies, progress reports and papers—for publication and for delivering at conferences. Conferences fall regularly at irregular intervals everywhere from the boardwalk at Atlantic City to Helsinki and Muscle Shoals, representing groups like the Association for the Advancement of Vacuum Thought and the Institute for the Escalation of Warfare Upon Bacillus Limpidimus. On campus, there are also faculty conferences and committee meetings —but with no concluding deadlines. And there are meetings with students: freshmen who fear becoming dropouts and who cry for mercy or a tutor; sophomores and juniors who want reasons for majoring in a particular field; seniors begging for the last passing grade needed to graduate—or for the more fortunate—glowing recommendations for graduate schools or employers; graduate students needing guidance and inspiration to help them through the exacting and poverty-stricken years. All of these punch time off the professor's clock. So do the government agencies and businessmen who want professors to consult with them for the good of country and the health of free enterprise. The demands are enormous—especially considering that the professor usually has a family that needs to see him occasionally. Nevertheless, he is expected to be a wise counselor, a brilliant researcher (or executive of research), a businessman-consultant, an articulate citizen, a member of the faculty club, a writer with a clear and precise style, and an exciting lecturer. He must also, of course, keep up with the latest developments in his own field as well as be aware of the rest of the world in a general sense. It should not be surprising, therefore, that the professor sometimes seeks escape from additional tasks by unavailability. Since it is rare for a professor to have his own secretary to keep track of him, it is relatively easy for the evader to escapes: A campus can be very spacious and when a telephone call breaks the bookish quiet of an empty office, the culprit may be visiting in the faculty club, consulting with students on the library steps, or at work in any one of a half dozen laboratories. When he misses committee meetings he can plead professorial absentmindedness. UnavailabiKty and vagueness probably contribute to the myth of academic timelessness, but they are, in reality, largely premeditated. The Genus Academicus has to have some protective devices. Perhaps we will next hear of the formation of a Ban the Clock Committee. It's been ticking too loudly lately. M.V.L.
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speaking, the boys prefer scrambled eggs over fried ones, toast over biscuits, and especially like all kinds of Danish pastries and donuts, all of which seems a bit un-Southern. Luncheon favorites are fried chicken, roast beef and hamburger steaks—not surprising—and at supper spaghetti is a big favorite. French fries are always preferred over creamed potatoes, rolls over cornbread, and fruit pies and cakes over puddings. Students, like the rest of the American public, are also subject to food fads. "Last spring, for instance, there was the grapefruit diet: if you ate half a grapefruit before your meal you could eat everything else you wanted and still lose weight. Consumption of grapefruit halves tripled," continues Boyd sourly. He states that most of his customers come to meals dressed reasonably well "but not formally." Sometimes in the morning—particularly on the very early Thursday mornings before ROTC drill "I look down the line and just know they're still asleep." According to Boyd, more students are buying meal tickets than ever before and, as usual, they continue to lose them. Many cards are left in shirt pockets and disintegrate in laundries; others are left on visits home. A few months ago one boy explained that "when I was home our dog ate my ticket." He didn't, however, say whether the dog enjoyed his meal or not. FEDERAL grants totaling $40,000 have just been awarded three University System professors for research on the more effective use and control of our water resources. The three professors whose research will be administered through the Water Resources Research Center at Tech are: Dr. Roger Barnhart of the University's School of Forestry, Dr. C. S. Martin and Marion R. Carstens of Tech's School of Civil Engineering. The grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Water Resources Research under a 1964 law: Since this federal program began, 13 projects totaling $300,000 have been initiated through the Tech Water Resources Center, according to the director of the center, Regents' Professor C. E. Kindsvater. The men directing these 13 research projects represent six different academic departments at Tech and two departments at the University, Kindsvater points out. Coordination of the joint program is administered by a committee of representatives from the two universities.
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THE INSTITUTE--contir lied which was printed in Business Horizons, published by the Graduate School of Business, Indiana University, Summer 1965 Issue. Mack A. Moore, I.M., has written a paper on "The Temporary Help Service Industry: Historical. Development, Operation, and Scope," which was published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, July 1965. Hugh Moore, Jr., English, has published two articles which have appeared as follows: "Hawthorne's Ideal Artist as Presumptuous Intellectual" in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. II, Spring 1965; and "The Sunny South and Its Literature" in The Georgia Review, Vol. X I X , Summer 1965.
A Pair of Appointments PAUL WEBER, Vice President for Plan-
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rector of development and Tonto Coleman, assistant athletic director, were the speakers at the Annual Fall Jamboree of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club on September 22. Over 190 Tech men turned out to hear Guthridge talk about Tech's new physical expansion program and Coleman talk about the 1965 football prospects. Tom Bradbury, newly-elected president of the club, was the master of ceremonies for the evening's festivities. B I R M I N G H A M , ALABAMA—The Georgia
Tech Alumni Club of Birmingham, Alabama held its fall meeting on October 11. Coach Tonto Coleman spoke on the athletic program at Tech and brought out many aspects of minor sports in addition to a report on football. H e pointed out to the group that Georgia Tech has one of the best all around sports programs in the country and that the school and alumni can be proud of the fine job that is being done. Officers for 1966 are Harold Roberts, president; Steve Russo, vice president; Mack Gibbs, second vice president; Cliff McConnell, treasurer; and Bob Williams, secretary. JACKSONVILLE,
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sonville. President Edward M. "Snake" Swanson presided at the meeting and reported that the club now had enough funds to establish a Jacksonville scholarship at Georgia Tech. A report was read during the business meeting on the TechMiami Freshman game plans (the game was sponsored by the Jacksonville Kiwanis Club and played on October 9 in the Gator Bowl where the Tech frosh lost to Miami, 14-8). Another report was made on the club's participation in the inauguration of Dr. Robert Spiro as president of Jacksonville University. Coach Griffin closed the meeting with a discussion on the 1965 team prospects and a movie on the highlights of the 1964 season. MACON,
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Georgia Tech Club held a stag dinner on October 21 with Joe Guthridge, director of development, and Tom Hall, associate alumni secretary as the speakers. Officers elected at the meeting included George Cates, president; James Harwood, III, vice president; Robert M. Pool, Jr., secretary-treasurer; and Dan Neighbors, roll call chairman. T h e next Memphis Club meeting is being planned for February. All Memphis area alumni who may have failed to receive notification of the October meeting are requested to contact Bob Pool at phone 526-0221 so that your names may be added to the roll. NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Members of the
Nashville Georgia Tech Club and their wives met on July 30 for a dinner and speech by John Robert Bell, Tech football line coach. Coach Bell was introduced to the group of 60 by Jack Patterson, president of the local alumni group, and his fine talk and presentation of a film was warmly received. Other new officers of the Nashville Club include Andrew W. Reid, vice president; Richard H. Wood, secretary-treasurer; and Wallace Rogers, recording secretary. N E W ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—On October 9
members of the Georgia Tech official party met with their alumni hosts in the Roosevelt Hotel for a pre-game reception. President Harrison, as well as many other key officials on the Tech campus were on hand to see the alumni and visit before their victory over Tulane, 13-10. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—The Pitts-
burgh Alumni Club held its semiannual meeting at the University Club on October 14. In attendance were 39 Tech men and their wives. Bob Holmes reported plans were encouraging regarding TECH A L U M N U S
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pansion plans for campus and students. The meeting was closed with a highlights film of the 1964 football season.
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Chapter of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association held its Annual Freshmen Dinner on September 10. This traditional meeting welcomes the incoming 1965 freshmen and their fathers into the Tech family. Approximately 60 members and guests including the 12 freshmen heard a very interesting talk by Dr. Vernon Crawford, director of the School of Physics. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Bob Wallace, publications director and editor of the Alumnus was the guest of honor at the Annual At the annual Club Officers weekend, the Fall Stag Party held on October 20 by Richmond Club won the National Advisory the Georgia Tech Club of Washington. Thirty-four alumni turned out to hear Board Cup for the highest roll call partici- Bob bring them up to date on current pation by a club area. Admiring the trophy events at Tech, showing particular inis Bill Cheeley, the club's representative. terest in the new reorganization that was being implemented. A film of the recent Auburn-Tech football game was shown THE CLUBS—continued and narrated by Bob. An engraved gavel the club's scholarship fund for 1966. All was presented to outgoing president Sam local high schools will be contacted re- Green. Officers elected for the coming garding available scholarships. President year are Bob Runkle, president; Bill J o h n J o r d a n introduced t h e guest Kruse, vice president; and Pete Dragan, speaker, Matt Cole, president of the Na- secretary-treasurer. The club also had tional Alumni Association. Matt an- a very successful summer family outing n o u n c e d t h e r e c e n t a d m i n i s t r a t i o n on August 14 which was run very well changes and explained the current ex- by Jim Shutt.
*f|Q Paul Wright, ME, has received a U O Fifty-Year Membership award in ASME, Birmingham, Alabama. 'fl/l ^ e r e c e n t l y learned of the death U*t of William B. Griffith. 'flQ T- F- Johnson, ME, died May 30, UO 1965. John H. Woodall, Sr., ME, died August 25. Mr. Woodall organized the Woodland Excelsior Works which became the Georgia Cushion and Wrapper Company. He was president of the Woodland Bank and was the first president of the Georgia School Boards Association. His widow lives in Woodland, Georgia. 'If!
^ ' Frank Rogers, S e a Island, Georgia, died October 21, 1964.
Colonel William M. Robinson, Jr., CE, died September 24 in Quincy, Florida. Prior to Colonel Robinson's retirement from the Army in 1950, he served as a member of the Army Dis-
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The Fourth Georgia Tech Holiday in Europe 1966 Leave New York May 12—and enjoy a trip to Europe that includes the comfort of scheduled jet airline and touring with the experienced tour leadership of Osborne Travel Service. The trip promises to be as unique a travel opportunity as the last three tours in 1962, 1964, and 1965. Fly to Copenhagen—for Denmark's cosmopolitan city with Hans Christian Andersen charm . . . continue to Berlin, visiting both sectors of the divided city and tasting the night life . . . depart to Vienna, famed capital of music, Vienna Woods, and the River Danube . . . fly to Athens where after two days we begin our adventures in Greece . . . Board our Mediterranean cruise ship for a seven-day tour of the Greek Islands . . . then, board a flight to Rome, Italy, to see the lovely Italian city.
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M r Ernest P. Tits* I U March, 1964. The 1915 class held 1 versary Dinner Frida the Atlanta Athletic C istration showed the tendance: Walter W. J gers, C. M. Butterfield Robert A. Clark, F. V Davidson, Allen P. Gardner, Col. Samuel L. Harlan, W. V. Lo Lucas, W. T. McCult Newill, J. B. Osborn, d land, John Pitman Sw Victor G. Vaughan, Sr brook, and C. M. Woe
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tie Alumni Masses ME, has received a lembership award in n, Alabama. learned of the death Griffith. n, ME, died May 30, '., Sr., ME, died Auodall organized the r Works which behishion and Wrapper resident of the Woodthe first president of Boards Association. Woodland, Georgia. 'ogers, Sea Island, [ October 21, 1964. am M. Robinson, Jr., tember 24 in Quincy, olonel Robinson's reArmy in 1950, he * of the Army Dis-
ability Review Board at the Pentagon in Washington. In 1955 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Florida State University. He wrote several historical books on naval and Confederate history. M C Ernest P. Titshaw, EE, died in I 3 March, 1964. The 1915 class held their Golden Anniversary Dinner Friday, October 29 at the Atlanta Athletic Club. Advance registration showed the following in attendance: Walter W. Ballew, J. W. Biggers, C. M. Butterfield, Robert A. Camp, Robert A. Clark. F. W. Darby, John L. Davidson, Allen P. Francis, Jesse J. Gardner, Col. Samuel G. Green, Homer L. Harlan, W. V. Lovell, James Herty Lucas, W. T. McCullough, Edward B. Newill, J. B. Osborn, Jr., John J. Strickland, John Pitman Sutton. L. S. Terrell, Victor G. Vaughan, Sr., James R. Westbrook, and C. M. Wood. ' 1 fi Floyd H. Elsom, Savannah, GeorI 0 gia, died August 10, 1965. »1"7 William G. Howel, ME, died Au' / gust 1. Mr. Howel was with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 42 years. His widow lives at 5 Poinsettias Drive, Rome, Georgia. M ' 9 ( 1 William - Tanner, EE, died fcU September 27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Tanner was with Western Union as an operations manager until retirement in 1960. His widow lives at 440 Lynnwood Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee. The 45th Anniversary of the 1920 class was held at the Biltmore Hotel on Friday, October 29. Those attending were: Hamilton C. Arnall, John H. Carter, Jr., S. B. Cockrill, John J. Conoley, Ira C. Evans, Frank W. Ferst, Harry O. Garrett, R. D. Hillex, A. Sidney Lewis, Guy E. Manning, John W. Mason, Jr., Paul K. McCash, Harold Moise, R. B. Newton, R. L. Parramore, Leon M. Pearsall, J. T. Roberts, J. M. Robinson, Grattan W. Rowland, Robert Russell, Dan B. Sanford, Frank Sheffield, I. M. Sheffield, Jr., Ivy H. Smith, J. P. Swann, John H. Vickers, Beverley D. Wayt, John A.
and former president of the H & S Pogue Company and vice president of Associated Dry Goods, Inc. His widow lives at 6321 Vista Ridge Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. Thomas Q. Winkler has been elected president of the Louisiana Surplus Line Association. Mr. Winkler is president of Winkler and Company, Inc., New Orleans. The 40th Anniversary of the 1925 class was held October 29 at the Parliament House. Advance reservations included: A. Fain Abbott. Allen L. Bartlett, H. Paul Barton, Thomas E. Bell, Sr., L. T. Bellah, Arthur B. Boazman, Cecil A. Brouch, Charlie Brown, J. R. Carmichael, C. Fred Chandler, Darwin W. Clanton, C. D. Collins, Ralph J. Conover, W. C. Cureton. Albert Davis, Robert B. Dodds, W. Pat Fischer, Sr., John W. Fountain, George Gardner, Col. W. E. Green, James C. Griffith, Warner W. Hall, Louis A. Hawkins, Kent Higgins, A. D. Holland, Donald B. Howe. E. Owen Hunter, W. L. G. Johnson, Stephen C. Jones; Jr., Jack Kelly, James L. Knight, J. William Lang, James W. LeMay, Robert S. Little, John H. Maddox, J. Frank McElwee, Jr., Charles B. McGehee, Joe W. Milner, John R. Murphy, Jr., Phil B. Narmore, John D. Nash, Lee H. Poe, Gordon F. Price, Harry H. Redwine, W. T. Roberts, Ernest Rubin, Cdr. Louis D. Rucker, Lee M. Sessions, W. Ches Smith, Jr., Joe A. Usry, J. P. Woodall, Carl B. Whyte, Don E. Woods, and G. M. Wynn. ' O P Daniel Lease, ChE, has retired fcO from Celanese Corporation of America after 36 years in production supervision and management in the manufacture of viscose rayon yarns. W ' 9 7 CaPtain - E- (Muddy) Waters, *• I CerE, has retired from Eastern Air Lines after a 29-year flying career. He and his family live at 3627 Paces Valley Road, Atlanta.
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Faces in the News Lucien B. Burdett, '47, has been elected a director of DATCO, Inc., an Atlanta-based technical writing, illustrating and cataloging firm. He is owner of L B Personnel Systems, 801 First Federal Bldg., 40 Marietta St., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30303.
Walter E. Crawford, '49, has accepted the directorship of the Miami Beach Convention Bureau, one of the largest c o n v e n t i o n promotion agencies in the world. His resignation from the Atlanta Convention Bureau was effective October 15.
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S. Porter Driscoll, '50, a former partner in Georgia and Florida architectural firms, has been appointed associate director for design of the Federal Housing Administration's Architectural Standards Division.
William B. Holland, '51 and '52, has announced the opening of his office for the practice of architecture at the Architects and Engineers Institute, 230 Spring St., N.W., Atlanta. He was vice president of Heery and Heery.
F. B. Christiphine, '52, director of Organoleptic Quality Control, The Glidden Co., Jacksonville, theorized recently that blind people could be trained to evaluate odor and flavor better than sighted people. The company now has six blind people working for it. William Rhymer, '52, has been named manager of plant engineering for Atlantic Steel Company, Atlanta. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and is a member of American Iron and Steel Engineers. He joined the company in 1963.
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NEWS BY CLASSES—cent. son, J. Robert Thompson, W. E. Tidmore, S. Jack Warner, C. L. Williamson, and Isaac W. Williamson. »QO Paul H. Lucas, EE, died June 28, O t 1965. ' Q A Robinson W. Schilling, Com., has *»T" been re-elected to the Atlanta Board of Education for a four-year term. ' O C Frederic A. L. Holloway. ChE, ww president of Esso Research and Engineering Company, is one of the twenty-five founding members of the National Academy of Engineering that will advise the government in engineering matters. The 30th Anniversary Party of the class of 1935 was held October 29 at Yogi's Restaurant in the Rodeway Inn. Advance reservations included: William O. Alt, Henry C. Andrews, Frank H. Baker, Jr., Ronald D. Brown, Jay L. Cannon, Jr., Charles C. Corbin, John J. Croft, Jr., Charles N. Dannals, Thornton Deas, Robert C. Eley, Jr., Augustus L. Ervin, Jr., Thomas Fuller, Walter E. Gay, Henry Geigerman, Jr., James Wm. Glass, William H. Glenn, Jr., W. G. Green, J. A. Hall, III, W. H. Horn, Horace R. Ivey, J. Leland Jackson, Joe K. Jernigan, Malcolm G. Keiser, Henry S. Long, James W. Lucas, W. H. MeClanahan, Frank B. Melson, Marion L. Moody, Berrien Moore, Jr., E. G. Morrison, Wright T. Paulk, Roy Richards, Edward Richardson, Jr., Carl F. Shaw. Clyde Shepherd, Jr., James L. Skinner, Jr., Joe M. Thrash, Jr., T. Foley Treadway, R. L. Warwick, Richard B. Wiley, Jr., and Olin A. Williams. » 0 Q William E. Vaughn, TE, has re**w tired from the Air Force after 24 years of service. He is now employed by the City of Daytona Beach as Superintendent of Engineering. Mr. Vaughn lives in Ormond Beach, Florida. ' Q Q James E. Corr, ChE, has been ww transferred to the Meadville, Pennsylvania acetate plant of American Viscose Division, FMC Corporation, as manufacturing superintendent.
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Carolina's General Plant Manager of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. Norman L. Holland was promoted to Colonel last November and was assigned to the U.S. Army Ordnance Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, as Director, Mobility Training Department. Dr. George Albert Wright died of a heart attack on August 30 in Asheville, N.C. His widow lives at Whitakers, North Carolina. The 1940 class held its 25th Anniversary Dinner October 29 at the Parlia-
ment House. Advance reservations showed the following in attendance: R. C. Anderson, W. B. Ashby, Dudley F. Bachler, W. Roane Beard, W. F. Bennett, John W. Birdsall, Marvin W. Blumberg, Russell Bobbitt, H. S. Boling, John Branch, Eugene E. Brooks, Robert A. Carl, John W. Cherry, Jena C. Collier, II, H. M. Conway, William C. Cromer, Albert G. Daniel, Paul H. Decker. Jr., Philip D. DeWitt, James H. Dukes, William V. Durkin, Howard Ector. Bill Estes, William Fort, Carl L. Fox. Jr., Herbert J. Frank, Morris V. Gelders, H. Carlton Gheesling, Jr., S. C. Hale, Jr., J. W. Hammond, A. E. Harrison, Alfred S. Hume, R. L. Ison, William E. Jamison, D. R. Krauss, J. B. Lawrence, Charles S. LeCraw, Selman Ledbetter, Frank Legg, William S. Lockman. III. Dan I. MacIntyre, III, Irvin Massey, Charles N. Mayo, Donald M. McRae, W. W. Mitchell, Lindsay M. Neely, Richard M. Norman, William B. Owens. Lloyd E. Parks, George W. Phi/lips, Paul C. Rhyne, Jr., Philip Richards, Alfred R. Roach, Forrest P. Ryan, Edward W. Samoden, Edward L. Scanling, John M. Sena, B. R. Snooks, W. A. Spell, R. P. Stuntz, Rogers B. Toy, Joseph E. Treadway, James E. Troutman. James A. Webb, Earl Wheby, Ira E. Wilks, W. F. Winecoff, Jr., Lamar Young, and Melville M. Zemek. 'A1
George S. Mauney, EE, has been transferred by TVA to the Wilson Construction Project, Wilson Dam, Alabama. His address is 318 Riverview Circle, Florence, Alabama. »* O Lt. Colonel Lochlin W. Coffey, CE, Tfc began 10 months of study at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C., August 23. Robert A. Cooper, Jr. is employed by De Laureal Engineers, Inc., as Chief, special projects section. Charles R. Sanders, IM, has been elected vice president of Spartan Radiocasting Company. Mr. Sanders has been with WSPA radio and television since 1961. *A0 S. H. Kernaghan. ChE, has been • 0 named technical superintendent of the Goodyear Chemical Division's polyvinyl chloride plant at Niagara Falls, New York. Captain Frank E. McKenzie has assumed command of Destroyer Development Group 2 in Newport. Prior to this he served in the office of the Chief of Naval operations. 1 AQ Philip E. Culbertson, AE, has been i O named director of Lunar Mission Studies of the NASA Manned Space Flight office in Washington, D.C. Mr. Culbertson lives in McLean, Virginia. John J. Glover, ChE, has been appointed manager of the commercial development department of American Cyanamid Company's Agricultural Division. He and his family live at 5215 Caver-
sham Drive, Houston, Commander Charl USNR, EE, died M a Maryland. Commande on the staff of the Co: of the United States Europe. A combined reunion II Classes ('44, '45, '4 ber 29 at the Cherokee attending were: J. E. P. Aichel, William \ Robert L. Austin, Jr Jack E. Bolt, Robert 1 Ham L. Carter, Rober P. Colmer, Jr., J. E. C Cox, J. E. Council, Tal Paul Duke, L. L. Gelle Gibson, Richard Grc Greene, Clayton Griffi R. F. Guill, B. Kemp h George S. Hiles, Jr., 1 Holladay, Bennett A. L. Johnson, Jack Kell Dan C. Kyker, Jr., C. Long, Howard McCat Jr., Robert F. Munro Feaster Newton, Wm W. J. Pettyjohn, Jr., win Reucher, James \ Robinson, Harris Sai Shaefer, John A. Si Simpson, Stanley S. S Smith, George F. Smiil badeau, Jack Thoma, Noel Turner, Fred A Wallace, Frank Weav* Whitmore, Jr., Geort Jr., Frank Willett, G. G. Winnette, and Sam ' 4 1 Reverend Samui • * has assumed the of the Methodist Vn serving the college an puses in Pittsburgh, received his Bachelor Master of Sacred Thei Yale University Divini • " vision constru< Southern Bell, Macoi new North Georgia d
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2e reservations showed tendance: R. C. Any, Dudley F. Bachler, W. F. Bennett, John n W. Blumberg, RusBoling, John Branch, Robert A. Carl, John 7. Collier, II, H. M. 7. Cromer, Albert G. decker, Jr., Philip D. Dukes, William V. ctor, Bill Estes, WilFox, Jr., Herbert J. Gelders, H. Carlton C. Hale, Jr., J. W. Harrison, Alfred S. William E. Jamison, Lawrence, Charles S. edbetter, Frank Legg, in, III, Dan I. MacMassey, Charles N. McRae, W. W. Mitchely, Richard M. Norjuens, Lloyd E. Parks, , Paul C. Rhyne, Jr., Ifred R. Roach, Forird W. Samoden, EdJohn M. Sena, B. R. II, R. P. Stuntz, RogE. Treadway, James •nes A. Webb, Earl s, W. F. Winecoff, Jr., I Melville M. Zemek. 'auney, EE, has been iy TVA to the Wilson ct, Wilson Dam, Alais is 318 Riverview abama. .ochlin W. Caffey, CE, >nths of study at the of the Armed Forces C , August 23. r, Jr. is employed by teers, Inc., as Chief, tion. ders, IM, has been ;nt of Spartan RadioVlr. Sanders has been and television since .ghan, ChE, has been ical superintendent of tnical Division's polynt
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sham Drive, Houston, Texas. Commander Charles R. Winnette, USNR, EE, died May 21 in Bethesda, Maryland. Commander Winnette served on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the United States Naval Forces in Europe. A combined reunion of the World War II Classes ('44, '45. '46) was held October 29 at the Cherokee Town Club. Those attending were: J. E. Aderhold, Stephen P. Aichel, William W. Anderson, Jr., Robert L. Austin. Jr., Victor Benatar, Jack E. Bolt, Robert E. Bruce, III, William L. Carter, Robert D. Cobb, Robert P. Colmer, Jr., J. E. Council, Robert M. Cox, J. E. Council. Talmadge L. Dryman, Paul Duke, L. L. Gellerstedt, S. Weyman Gibson, Richard Graham. Robert A. Greene, Clayton Griffin, John E. Gross, R. F. Guill, B. Kemp Haskell, Pat Henry, George S. Hiles. Jr., R. G. Hill, Durant Holladay, Bennett A. Hutchison, Jr., H. L. Johnson, Jack Kelly, Carroll Kimbro, Dan C. Kyker, Jr., C. B. Lawler, S. M. Long, Howard McCall, F. G. Morgan, Jr., Robert F. Munroe, L. J. Murrans, Feaster Newton. Wm. J. Orrnsby, Jr., W. J. Pettyjohn. Jr., K. G. Picha, Edwin Reucher, James V. Rice, Robert E. Robinson, Harris Saunders, R. Phillip Shaefer, John A. Simmons, Jr., Jack Simpson, Stanley S. Simpson, Jr., B. D. Smith, George F. Smith, Jr.. John S. Thibadeau, Jack Thoma, R. L. Thomison, Noel Turner, Fred M. Valz, John W. Wallace, Frank Weaver, Jr., Clifton W. Whitmore, Jr., George S. Whittlesey, Jr., Frank Willett, G. B. Wilson, HI, J. G. Winnette, and Sam F. Woodley. ' A~t Reverend SamuelN. Gibson, Arch., • ' has assumed the duties of director of the Methodist Wesley Foundation serving the college and university campuses in Pittsburgh. Reverend Gibson received his Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Yale University Divinity School. ' A f t ^ " ^" Hightower, EE, former di• " vision construction supervisor, Southern Bell, Macon, Georgia, is the new North Georgia division engineer. '^0
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PhD degree in Physics at Yale University. A. Carlton Herring, IM, has been appointed product specialist by Allied Chemical Corporation's Nitrogen Division with headquarters at the division's regional office in Atlanta. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kelley, IM, a daughter, Meredith Ellen, September 16. Mr. Kelley is with Western Electric Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland. They live at 403 Georgia Court, Baltimore, Maryland. Fred P. Powell, IE, representative for the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, has been awarded the Chartered Life Underwriter designation at the National Conferment Exercises of the American College of Life Underwriters. James D. Thomas is executive vice president of Tri-State Concrete Products Company in Kingsport, Tennessee. The 1950 class had its 15th Anniversary Dinner party October 29 at the Marriott Motel. Those attending were: Charles F. Almand, Bobby Joe Anderson, Julian J. Attaway, Emory Ayers, George E. Bailey, John H. Beach, James E. Biggs, Donald Boland, F. L. Breen, Jr., Brian S. Brown, Richard P. Bruce, W. G. Bruner, W. D. Burch, James E. Carroll, Ray Chaney, John B. Chapman, J. Tom Coleman, Jr., John J. Corley, Jr., Richard H. Crowe, James C. Derington, Emil J. Docekal, James Eliopolo, W. B. Erb, M. L. Fahrmeier, Kenneth W. Faulkner, Carl H. Fulton, Randolph Goulding, James W. Gray, Jr., Samuel G. Green, Jr., R. Page Griffin, Bill Hammond, James C. Hays, John G. Hiles, D. N. Howell, F. A. Hubbell, Jr., O. L. Jollay, Samuel Jordan, B. F. Kennedy, Donald J. Knapp, W. I. Langstaff, Ed Lindblom, Marshall A. Lochridge, Philip J. Malonson, W. J. Manley, Jr., G. C. Maxwell, Jr., Hank McCamish, Henry F. McCamish. Jr., S. P. McCranie, J. N. Moore, III, Hans J. Petermann, Claude A. Petty, Joseph M. Phillips, Jr., Thomas A. Pruitt, William Lee Queen, L. Walton Rabun. Jr., Charles P. Reed, Jr., E. W. Rumrill. Jr., Joseph M. Scott, J. J. Shannon, Ernest S. Silcox, J. W. Southard, David L. Smith, Charles F. Stanford, Jr., C. G. Statham. J. A. Stewart, G. L. Sutton. Jr., Ed M. Swanson, T. A. Tin-
Clarence A. Sweets, IE, pointed manager, employ Monsanto Company's gene St. Louis, Missouri. ': John W. Taliaferro, MS, pointed assistant professor and business administratioi University for the 1965-66 y ' C O James R. Brown, I *»™ appointed senior via Scott Hudgens Realty ai Inc., Atlanta Realtors, Lucius G. Bryant, Jr., ] promoted to Major in the L Major Bryant is assignee Command and Staff CoUeg AFB, Alabama. Born to: Mr. and Mrs Dixon, EE, a son, Thomas live at 708 Dennis Avenue, I Carolina. Mr. Dixon assur of the Naval Reserve Surfa July after serving as Exe since 1962. Dr. James Wei, ChE, c Mobil Oil Company, Inc., P; has won the $5,000 Ameri Society Award in Petrolei sponsored by the Precis Company in Chicago. His the application of mathema ics to chemical engineering. » C 0 Born to: Mr. and v0 Crake, IE, a dauj Davison, August 10. Captain Cyrus S. Grim assigned as an Aerospace I ficer at March AFB, Califc Leonard O. Hinton, Jr., cently named a supervisor e m Baptist Sunday Schoc search and statistics de Nashville, Tennessee. He r search analyst in this dep 1963. Harvie P. Jones, BS, h a vice president of the firn Jones and Davis Architect *tLA James G. Chapman,] * * " the opening of his office in Panama City, Chapman has practiced arc since 1959.
Faces in the News W. Leroy Williams, '55, has been a p p o i n t e d technical sales representative for The Synthetic Rubber Division of Enjay Chemical Company's Eastern District sales office in Plainfield, N. J. Williams joined Enjay in 1961.
Gavin P. Parrish, '56, who has been serving as building superintendent for Humble Oil & Refining Company, has been named building manager. Mr. Parrish is a native of Trinidad, British West Indies and holds a civil engineering degree.
Wes Lerdon, '58, has joined Philco Corp. of Ford Motor Co. as a senior engineer in the Flight Operatfons Section of Philco Houston Operations at Clear Lake City complex of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston, Texas.
Clyde L. Roberts, '58, has been made chief industrial engineer for Atlantic Steel Company, Atlanta. Prior to joining the company in 1960, he was with the City of Atlanta Traffic Engineering Dept. and Ga. State Highway Dept.
Frederick K. Bell, '62, has joined the staff of the State Development Board as administrator of the Community Planning Program for South Carolina. Bell earned his master of science degree in city planning from Tech.
Lemuel David Wyly, III, '65, has been named a Peace Corps Volunteer and will work to expand Peace Corps teaching efforts in the Philippines, and help replace v o l u n t e e r s who have completed their two years service there.
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NEWS BY CLASS IS—cent. Quality Control in the Georgia Department of Public Health in December. The 10th Anniversary party of the 1955 class was held at the Lion's Head O c t o b e r 29. T h o s e a t t e n d i n g w e r e : Charles E. Allen, John E. Anderson, Raymond H. Anderson, Chester W. Bankston, J. David Bansley, George D. Bass, M. L. Bell, Frank Belvin, J. M. Black, A. F. Blair, Jr., Otis D. Blake, Jr., Howard D. Cutter, Charles M. Davis, Elton D. Davis, James S. Davis, H. W. DiChristina, Thomas W. Donaldson, Alton L. Dowd, Jr., Eugene C. Dunwody, Peter Dragan, John Falkenholm, Jr., Ronald E. Fineher, Walter J. Furbish. Jr., Ed B. Hamilton, William M. Hill. Ralph Hinson, William D. Holland, Harry F. Homer, Jr., Louis B. Holtzclaw, Jr., Wm. R. Jacobsen, Ralph A. Johnson, Charles T. Johnston, Jr., Ralph W. King, Witt Langstaff, James C. Leathers, Thomas J. Lindsey, Jr., Robert C. Livingston, Fred C. Lutter, John R. Maddox, Curtis S. Martin, Jr., William H. Metcalf, William N. Mitchell, John S. Newman, Max T. Palmer, J. L. Peavy, Cecil R. Phillips, Jr., Harry E. Phipps, D. Raymond Riddle, Robert A. Rives, Robert L. Porter, Jr., Robert W. Ramsey. Jr., Donald L. Randle, William W. Scogin, William D. Scott, L. Neal Smith. Jr., Dan F. Springer, G. B. Stribling, Charles D. Switzer, Thomas E. Tidwell, Robert M. Torras, James V. Walters, Wilton N. West, and Raymond Willoch. ' R C Major Richard A. Barron, IM, has * ' " been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross at Forbes AFB, Kansas. John C. McFarland, IM, has been appointed as National Rush Director for Pi Kappa Alpha, national college fraternity. He and his family live at 262 Heaton Park Drive, Decatur, Georgia. ' C T Paul Dorn, Jr., IM, is associated *" * with Gene Craig Company Realtors as a sales representative specializing in Atlanta Northside residential property. C. E. Dunn, IE, has been appointed chief engineer in the Houston Industrial District of Mobil Oil Company. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Edwards, IM, a son, James Woodson, August 27. Mr. Edwards is plant manager of the Roanoke Manufacturing Company, Anniston Plant. They live at #3 Mark Woods Road, Anniston, Alabama. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Earl P. Jones, ME, a son, Robin Penuel, June 6. Mr. Jones is with Westinghouse Underseas Division. L. Thomas Murphy, Jr., IM, has been named assistant director of the Northwest Georgia branch office of the Georgia Tech Industrial Development Division in Rome, Georgia. Mr. Murphy and his family live at 121 Atteiram Drive, Rome, Georgia. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James Lee
Perry, IM, a son, Steven Brian, June 11. Mr. Perry is employed with A. C. Latimer and Associates. They live at 1166 N. Druid Woods Court, Decatur, Georgia. Arthur D. Sills, EE, received a P h D in Electrical Engineering at Penn State University in September. Dr. Sills is employed by the Department of Defense and resides in Laurel, Maryland. P ' 5 8 Theodore - Banks, Jr., IM, has ^ ^ been promoted from director to vice president in charge of the Latin America Programs Division of Conway Research, Inc. Samuel H. S. Fleming, IM, has been named graphic arts marketing assistant of the DuPont's Photo Products Department in Wilmington, Delaware. Married: Orrill H. Morris, Jr., IE, to Miss Betty Louise Westbrook, August 7. Mr. Morris is Quality Control Manager for Brunswick Corporation's Covington, Georgia plant. They live at 711 Howard Street, Covington, Georgia. J. B. Roach, ChE, has been promoted to superintendent of the SAB unit at Monsanto's Chocolate Bayou plant near Alvin, Texas. Engaged: Paula C. Stevenson, Tex., to George W. Humphreys, '55. The wedding will be in December and they will live in Atlanta. Paula is employed by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Gerold W. Stomberg. EE, has accepted a position as an engineer on the Senior Staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. Married: William B. White, IE, to Mrs. Linda Warnock Reeves, September 4. Mr. White is employed by W. R. C. Smith Publishing Company, Atlanta. ' f i f l David Addy Bishop, EE, received OU his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in August from the University of Illinois. He lives at 232 Boiling Springs Drive, Lexington, Kentucky. Basil E. Cason, IE, is the Assistant Chief, Engineering Division, VA Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He and his family live at Quarters 23, VA Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cloninger, Jr., IM, a son, Stephen Edward, May 2. Mr. Cloninger is with Louisville District Sales, Ford Motor Company, and has been promoted to Field Manager. They live at 26 Hallsdale Drive, Louisville, Kentucky. David E. Kennedy, IE, recently obtained his Pennsylvania State Professional Engineers License. He is a supervising industrial engineer for Armstrong Cork Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Alan R. Koenig, CerE, is now applications engineer with the Glass Technology Lab, General Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio. He lives at 27420 Sidney Drive, Euclid, Ohio. A. J. Land, Jr., IM, has recently received the Army Commendation Medal for services performed while on active duty with the U.S. Army. He is now employed by Pope and Carter Company,
Realtors, Atlanta. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John R. Minter, IE, a son, Keith Lafayette, September 16. Their address is 929 Ousley Place, Macon, Georgia. Married: Sam Nunn, Jr. to Miss Colleen Ann O'Brien, September 25. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William C. Scott, Jr., a son, David Stephen, July 16. Bill is employed as a computer programmer with Space Craft, Inc., Huntsville, Ala. Harry E. Teasley, Jr., IE, has been appointed Project Manager for New Packages in the Coca-Cola Company's newly formed New Products and New Packages Department. Jack W. Whatley, Jr., ChE, has joined the DuPont Company's Spruance Film Research and Development Laboratory at Richmond, Virginia. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jon G. White, IM, a daughter, Judith Elizabeth, July 30. Mr. White is Assistant Trust Officer with the C & S Bank. They live at 106 Kenland Road, Smyrna, Georgia. Jerry L. Whitten, Chem., has been appointed assistant professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University. The 1960 class held their 5th Anniversary party October 30 at the Playboy Club. Advance reservations included: R. Clark Adams, A. T. Allen, Robert S. Armstrong, John D. Beck. David L. Bergman, Ralph A. Blythe, Jr., Ronnie A. Bradley, J. T. Branan, F. Sibley Bryan, Jr., Arthur T. D'Alessio. Paul M. Daly, Malcolm D. Davies, Herbert A. Davis, John E. Dewees, LeRoy M. Dorman, Harry Draughon, R. Neal Ensley, Joel B. Esmond, Otis K. Etheredge, Jr., Don-
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aid D. Gehring, Stephen R. Grayson, Lowell S. Green, James T. Gresham, Robert H. Gunn, Jr., William H. Gwaltney, Eugene T. Harrison, III, Richard R. Heck, Claude Hemphill, Jr., Richard C. Hilton, Jr., Grey Hodges. Joe L. Holloway, Ralph W. Holzworth, Frederick K. Hube, Stewart M. Huey, Richard S. Jones, Jr., William W. Kampmeier, Joe A. Kilgore, Ron La Chance, Aaron J. Land, Jr., Frank C. Leister, Brannon Lesesne, Jr., Frank H. Maier, Jr., Robert H. McDonough, Thomas T. McDugald, David M. McKenney, J. S. McKensie, Jr., Harry Meyer, Donald L. Milligan, William F. Moss, Edgar Neely, Frank E. Nix, R. Erie Norton, T. Douglas Oxford, Jr., Raymond D. Page, Capers Palmer, Jr., Jonathan E. Parker, William C. Parris, Edmund F. Pearce, Jr., Oscar N. Persons, Eugene E. Reid, Jr., Gerald L. Raga, Harry W. Scrivener, Lowell Smith, Tommy R. Sommer, John Staton, Jr., Ernest E. Taylor, Jr., C. Watson Ten Eick, Jr., John K. Thompson, Larry O. Toney, Jack V. Walz, J. D. Wiley, W. W. Wells, Charles L. Whitley, S. B. Wilenchek, John D. Wiley, Paul H. Williams, Guyton Wilkinson. B. F. Wilson, Jr., James O. Wilson, Harold Woods, Maynard E. Young, Jr., and Ronald L. Young. ' R 1 Ronald M. Bowman, ChE, is em0 I ployed at the Industrial Development Division at Georgia Tech. He lives at 917 Highland Terrace, Atlanta. Hurley Brooking, ME, has been promoted to Machine Design Engineer at Sonoco Products in HartsviUe, South Carolina. John H. Crouch, AE, is employed by Boeing Company with the Flight Mechanics group engaged in mission and trajectory design studies for the ApolloSaturn V space vehicle. He and his family live at 2905 Moss Road, N.W., Huntsville, Alabama. R. Royce Kneece, Jr., Math., is on active duty with the U.S. Army, stationed at Data Support Command, Washington, D.C. Married: Jack H. Peek, Arch., to Miss Carol Ann Worthington, September 25. Mr. Peek is employed by John A. S. Fornara, Architect. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Pierce, Jr., ChE, a son, Thomas James, III, August 25. Mr. Pierce is attending the graduate school of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina. Married: Richard E. Sanner, IM, to Dr. Charlotte E. King, August 7. They live in Decatur, Georgia. Lt. Joe S. Smith, CE, has completed pilot training at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, in the U.S. Air Force's newest jet transport, the C-141 Starlifter. ' G O Married: O. B. Burton, Jr., ChE, O Z to Miss Mary Pat Renfro of Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 22. Thomas A. Edwards, ME, has comTECH ALUMNUS
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•Stephen R. Grayson, James T. Gresham, r., William H. Gwalt'rison, III, Richard R. phill, Jr., Richard C. lodges, Joe L. HolloIzworth, Frederick K. . Huey, Richard S. W. Kampmeier, Joe La Chance, Aaron J. C. Leister, Brannon H. Maier, Jr., Robert homas T. McDugald, ley, J. S. McKensie, Donald L. Milligan, Edgar Neely, Frank irton, T. Douglas OxD. Page, Capers Pah i E. Parker, William F. Pearce, Jr., Oscar e E. Reid, Jr., Gerald W. Scrivener, Lowell Sommer, John Staton, •ylor, Jr., C. Watson i K. Thompson, Larry . Walz, J. D. Wiley, rles L. Whitley, S. B. K Wiley, Paul H. Wilkinson, B. F. Wilson, ilson, Harold Woods, g, Jr., and Ronald L. Bowman, ChE, is emle Industrial Developieorgia Tech. He lives ?errace, Atlanta. ;, ME, has been pro; Design Engineer at in Hartsville, South , AE, is employed by with the Flight Me;aged in mission and tudies for the Apollohicle. He and his famss Road, N.W., Huntsce, Jr., Math., is on the U.S. Army, staport Command, Washl. Peek, Arch., to Miss ington, September 25. loyed by John A. S.
NEWS BY CUSSES—cont. pleted his military obligation and reentered the trooper training program of Bethlehem Steel. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Gathright, EE, a son, Todd Wesley, June 13. Mr. Gathright is an engineer at the Westinghouse Defense and Space Center. Lucian G. Guthrie, Jr., CE, has been awarded a traineeship by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for one year of graduate study for a Master of Science degree in Structural Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He and his family live at 128 Taggart Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. George W. Hammett, IM, has completed a 12-week training program with the Omal A l u m i n u m P l a n t of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation in Hannibal, Ohio. His address is 331A Martin Avenue, New Martinsville, West Virginia. Engaged: George F. Longino, III, IM, to Miss Martha June Hollis. The wedding will be November 6 in Newton, Alabama. Mr. Longino is employed as an associate marketing representative with the IBM Corporation, Atlanta. John T. Lowe, Chem., has received a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. He is working for DuPont at the Savannah River Plant. Robert G. Moore, TE, is employed by National Plastic Products Company, Inc., as a process engineer in the fiber manufacturing area.
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Lt. George R. Pearson. Jr., USAF, IE, has been promoted to Chief, Tactical Air Command M a n a g e m e n t E n g i n e e r i n g Team located at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. He and his wife live at 803 Lackland Street, Goldsboro, North Carolina. Lt. William A. Studer, IM, has been awarded the U.S. Air Force Medal at DaNang Airport, Viet Nam, for aerial achievement. Lt. Studer is a C-123 pilot. Lt. Thomas M. Turner, IE, has flown over 30 combat missions in Viet Nam in a C130E. ' C O Engaged: Jack W. Carroll. EE, to " « Miss Linda Marie Long. The wedding will be December 4 in Alexandria, Virginia. Engaged: John Douglas Craig, ChE, to Miss Isabel Allen Davis. The wedding will be December 11. Mr. Craig is a production engineer with FMC Corporation. Thomas McKinley Craig, IM, received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University on June 17. Lt. Darryl "Bo" Floyd, EE, received his pilot wings at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He is stationed in Viet Nam. Lt. Charles E. Hammond, AE, has been awarded the U.S. Air Force Comm e n d a t i o n M e d a l at Robins A F B , Georgia. James W. Plummer, ME, has joined the engineering staff of Texaco Incorporated's Port Arthur, Texas refinery. Robert A. Soper, Biology, has entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas, to begin work on the Bachelor of Divinity degree. Married: Richard Lee Stevens. IM, to Judith Gretchen Wiley, October 10, 1964. Mr. Stevens is assistant director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the United States National Student Association. ' R A ^lt' James P- Burke, ME, has com" • pleted the rigorous U.S. Air Force survival and special training course conducted by the Air Training Command at Stead AFB, Nevada. David W. Ellwanger. IM, has been transferred by Dow Corning Corporation to Dallas, Texas, to represent the Building Products Sales Department in the Southwest region. J. B. Ethridge, IE, has been given an industrial engineering assignment at Armstrong Cork Company's Millville, New Jersey Plant following completion of his training program. Married: Denny E. Henderson. IM, to Miss Mary Starnes, September 4. Mr. Henderson is with U.S. Steel in Atlanta. Engaged: Lt. Fred M. Hirons, III, ME, to Miss Mary Margaret Harvey. The wedding will be December 18. Lt. William A. Kownacki, Physics, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. He has been assigned to
Moody AFB, Georgia, for pilot training. Ensign Boyce Y. McQueen, USNR, ChE, has been promoted to Supply Officer of the Fleet Oiler, USS MATTAPONI (A041). Don A. Ricketson. IM, U.S. Army Artillery, has been promoted to first lieutenant and is enroute to an assignment in Viet Nam. Lt. Jimmie E. Wray, IM, has been graduated from the U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantom II pilot course at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. ' C C Micky S. Arrington, IE, has been "*» assigned to Self ridge AFB, Michigan, after completing Air Force basic training. Married: Gary Leo Brune, IM, to Miss Ute Edith Grimm. October 14. Mr. Brune is employed by the Zachary Company in Atlanta. Married: Lt. James S. Carpenter, Jr., IM, to Miss Nancy Lee Sturgeon, October 30. Married: Clinton W. Deisenroth, EE, to Miss Mary Michele Kayser in September. Mr. Deisenroth is an electrical engineer with Spaco, Inc., at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Robert M. Gross, Jr.. IE, has been graduated with honors at Sheppard AFB, Texas, from the training course for U.S. Air Force aircraft loadmasters. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. T. Rex Hamilton, Arch., a son, Mark Talbot, August 18. Captain Bobby D. Harper, IE, has reported to the U.S. Army Aviation Materiel Command, St. Louis, Missouri. His duty will be closely identified with contractual matters in the procurement and support of Army aircraft. Married: Charles L. Knight, BC, to Miss Pamela Margaret Barre, September 18. Robert E. Millican. Jr., EE, is employed by International Business Machine, Federal System Division, Huntsville, Alabama. Forrest Smith, IM, has been named a service trainee at the Maytag Company in Newton, Iowa. Terrence M. Smith, CerE, has completed the initial phase of a six-month training program with Babcock and Wilcox Company. He has been assigned to its refractories division headquarters in Augusta, Georgia, for specialized training. Married: Robert M. Sneed, IE, to Miss Janis Elaine Bonner, September 18. Mr. Sneed is employed by the Ford Motor Company in Atlanta. Married: Ronald Stallings, IE, to Miss Vicki Chandler, August 21. Mr. Stallings is attending law school at the University of Virginia. Sam L. Van Landingham, ME, has joined the Trane Company's Atlanta sales office as a dealer specialist. T. Allan Wilson, IE, has been appointed to the Atlanta sales office of the Trane Company. TECH ALUMNUS
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FIVE TIMES AT GRANT FIELD, KIM KING TOOK THE FREE RIDE—PHOTO, DELOYE BURRELL
A FLIP-FLOP YEAR LEADS TO THE GATOR BOWL AFTER showing only a tie, a loss a n d a win in their first three games, Tech's 1965 J a c k e t s won five of their final seven to close out the season with a 6-3-1 record a n d a trip to the Gator Bowl to play Texas Tech on December 31. To start the final segment of the season, T e c h trailed T u l a n e in N e w Orleans for over half of the game (for the third year in a row) a n d then rallied to win. Trailing 3-10 deep in the third period, the sophomore-studded J a c k e t s p u t on an 80-yard drive with T o m m y Carlisle going over from the one on the first play of the final period. T h e next time they got the ball the Jackets, again led by K i m King a n d Lenny Snow, drove 77 y a r d s to t h e T u l a n e 3 from which Bunky H e n r y kicked the second field goal t h a t won it. Returning to Grant Field, K i m K i n g took over where S a n d y Koufax left off to close out national southpaw week by personally rallying the Georgia Tech Yellow J a c k e t s to a convincing 23-14 win over the Auburn Tigers before 50,164. T h e left-handed sophomore, playing what Bobby D o d d called, " t h e best single game by a Tech quarterback since I have been coaching," accounted for 216 of Tech's 270 offensive yards, scored once on a sparkling 31-yard run, passed for another touchdown, a n d did everything else except
win t h e game ball. T h a t went to T o m Bleick, t h e defensive cornerback who scored the other Tech touchdown a n d generally m a d e life miserable for Auburn all afternoon. T h e defense began the game fighting for Tech's life after Auburn got the ball at its own 45 on a short p u n t a n d drove for a field goal a n d then grabbed a fumble a t t h e Tech 25 a n d tried another. King didn't get a chance to show his wares until late in t h e first period a n d a t that time you could have got T e c h a n d 10 from almost anyone in the stadium excepting the Jackets, themselves. King hit 5 of 5 passes in a touchdown drive that put Tech ahead, 6-3, with 13:27 on the second period clock. T h e n Auburn came right back for a tie on a long drive t h a t was again climaxed by a field goal b y Lewis whose first one was for 49 yards a n d a W a r Eagle record. I t was t h e last time Auburn was to be in the game, but nobody realized it then. A fumble on the second half kickoff led to the play that broke t h e Tigers' backs. Tech's T o m m y Elliott fell on it at the Auburn 31. On the next play, King started to drop back as if to throw t h a t bomb the book says y o u should unleash after recovering a fumble, spotted a n open space in t h e Tigers' defense, hipped his way past a pair of defenders at the line of scrim-
mage a n d cut to his right to go all the way for the score. T h i s time B u n k y H e n r y added the point after missing the first of his career at Tech on t h e original Tech score. T h e J a c k e t s a d d e d 10 more points on a T o m m y Carmichael field goal of 46 yards, which was just one shy of the Tech record, a n d Bleick's stunning, down-the-Eastsidelines, 57-yard run with the pilfered pass. Auburn scored in the final period, but it was too late then for a n y hope t h a t the Tigers might pull this one out. King h a d another spectacular d a y against Navy as Tech built a 23-0 halftime lead on the left-hander's spectacular passing a n d then turned it over to the offensive reserves after Bill Eastm a n a n d S a m m y Burke p u t together a couple of back-to-back p u n t returns to build the lead to 37-0. T o m m y Carmichael started the Tech scoring with a 31-yard field goal early in t h e first quarter. On t h e next drive, King hit Corky Rogers for a 20-yard pass-run play that climaxed a n 80-yard drive. J i m m y Brown returned a p u n t 52 yards to the Navy 33. I n three plays, t h e last one a 17-yard pass-run from King to Craig Baynham, the J a c k e t s were in again to make it 16-0. Late in the second quarter, King h i t B a y n h a m again for 10 yards a n d t h e score that m a d e it 22-0 before H e n r y upped it to 23-0. T h e 86-yard p u n t reTECH ALUMNUS
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IR BOWL his right to go all )re. T h i s time B u n k y point after missing xeer a t T e c h on t h e e. T h e J a c k e t s added on a T o m m y Carl of 46 yards, which of the Tech record, ning, down-the-Eastr u n with t h e pilfered 3d in the final period, ;e t h e n for a n y h o p e ight pull this one out. ;her spectacular d a y ^ech built a 23-0 halfleft-hander's spectac;hen turned it over to Tves after Bill EastBurke p u t together a
turn by E a s t m a n was followed minutes later by one of 77 y a r d s by Burke which p u t Tech's final points on the board. N a v y scored twice against the J a c k e t reserves in the second half to make the final, 37-16. I n a game that h a d more turning points t h a n a L e M a n s track, Tech finally outlasted D u k e 35-23, before a homecoming crowd a n d a regional television audience. D u k e started it with a 63-yard drive t h a t p u t t h e Devils ahead, 7-0. Tech came right back on the strength of a 42-yard pass from King to Baynham to tie it up. T h e n the Jackets added another on a second King-Baynham pass play for five y a r d s to close out a 40-yard drive a n d make it 14-7. D u k e came back with a field goal a n d it was 14-10 at the half. D u k e went ahead early in the third period with a 57-yard drive that ended in a touchdown to turn it around to 14-16, Duke. B u t the Jackets roared right back with a 73-yard drive that p u t them back on top to stay at 21-16. An interception by Randall E d m u n d s after a jarring rush of passer Orvald a t the D u k e 13 made it 28-16 as E d m u n d s went in from 20 yards out. Tech padded the lead with a n 80-yard drive t h a t again ended in a KingB a y n h a m scoring pass a n d it was 3516. D u k e scored once more before the exhausting afternoon was over. For t h e third time in five seasons a Tennessee team snatched a n almostcertain Orange Bowl bid from the eager h a n d s of a Tech team during a n afternoon of frustration for the White a n d Gold unmatched in modern football history. M i n u s Lenny Snow, their most feared running threat in over a decade, t h e J a c k e t s ' game plan was to go by air, but on this afternoon, first one thing a n d then another seemed to go wrong with the passing attack. T h e Volunteers defended their goal line like the J a p a n e s e defended Tarawa. A n d it is little wonder that this is
rooters, t h e third quarter must have been pure bliss. T h e orange clads intercepted a King pass for one score a n d added two more on a pass climaxing a 79-yard drive a n d a plunge closing out a 66-yard journey, all in the elapsed time of 7:39. Tech came back to score on a perfect 32-yard r u n by Giles Smith who threw the ball high into t h e end zone seats to show his feelings about the way t h e d a y h a d been going. Final score was 21-7. Stylish sophomore K i m King took Billy Lothridge's n a m e out of t h e record book in three places a n d erased 1948 quarterback J i m m y Southard's only entry in Ned West's prize ledger as the Jackets piled u p a 28-0 half time lead a n d then went on to whip Virginia, 42-19. With just two minutes left on the first half clock, K i n g smacked down the first Lothridge record (most passes completed in a season) when he hit E d Varner at the Virginia 10 for his 84th completion of the year. On the next play Lenny Snow scored Tech's third touchdown, a n d K i m King spent the rest of the afternoon adding 12 more completions to his first mark in the book. B y the middle of the fourth period, King h a d also broken Lothridge's record for the most yards gained passing a n d rushing in a game a n d Southard's mark for the most yards passing in a game. On his final throwing try, the lefthander hit his favorite target for the afternoon, Craig B a y n h a m for 16 yards a n d broke Lothridge's record for the most passes completed in a game a n d his mark for most yards passing a n d rushing during a season. Stymied for three quarters b y a tenacious and pressing Georgia defense and their own sudden propensity for errors, the Georgia Tech offense couldn't get moving until the final minutes of the third quarter against Georgia a n d by that time it was all over but the shouting. T h e Bulldogs,
hit Snow for a completi three y a r d s as the Build ing for t h a t semi-screen so much success with all into a passing situation, back from his 30 a n d as his a r m to throw, tackle struck the left-hander an set free to be recovered J o h n Glass at the Tec plays, the Bulldogs h a d Bob E t t e r a d d e d t h e j it 0-7 with 11:19 on tl clock. Another break follow* utes when King again f heavy pressure, a n d Var other great Georgia tac at t h e Tech 42. T h i s t i leaguered defense plal the Bulldogs at the Tecr missed a 29-yard field-g plays later, Lynn H u g ! a King pass at the Geor turned it to the Tech 25. fense held off the Bull< time E t t e r ' s 40-yard fieli good a n d the margin < D u r i n g the entire first hi threatened once when th the Georgia 45 to the 3C Carmichael missed a fielc of 47 yards. T h e Bulldog offensi came out to start the se viously determined to le know that they could their own. From the k i c ber, Moore, Wheeler, Jen p a n y drove 61 yards in n: Ridlehuber, last year's tor, going in from the fiv< goal. W i t h 26 m i n u t e s ai remaining in the game, 1 ing 0-17. M i d w a y in the third moved from its own 22 t 46 where on fourth a n d c thrown for a loss a n d looked like they were go
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