THE MARCH
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A TONTO
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special man. In your lifetime you only meet one. And when he leaves, the sorrow engulfs you even though you know that h e is moving on to a better job, a n d you should be h a p p y for him. T h e Southeastern Conference has now been paid in full by Georgia Tech for any damages it m a y have suffered by our departure from the league a couple of years back. Tonto will make them a fine commissioner. H e is a n honest m a n a n d a faithful one, and these are the toughest ones to uncover in this age. B u t what about those of us who were his close friends on this campus? Whom do we go to and chat with on the dreary afternoons when something is troubling us? Where will we get the special inside view of the Tech athletic program that he was so adept at explaining? Where will we hear the latest news of t h a t fabled land t h a t is Tonto's Texas? It will seem strange this spring to go by football practice and not see the man sitting over on one side of the field, motioning to a vacant practice d u m m y a n d asking us to sit down and visit a spell. T h e three closest friends we h a d in the building at the bottom of the T h i r d Street hill are now gone. A year ago, Fred Lanoue died, and now Tonto a n d Dick I n m a n have moved on to better jobs elsewhere. T h e only thing left to do is start building some new ones from scratch.
A ACCORDING to the papers in Virginia, the famous D o d d luck is still holding as shown by the signing of Coach J o h n M c K e n n a of V M I as Tonto's replacement a n d as freshman coach. T h e words coming out of Roanoke a n d Norfolk a n d Richmond a n d even Washington read much like the ones we have written above. At the first meeting, you can see why. T h e m e n are much alike despite the fact that the New England accent has replaced the Texas drawl. J o h n M c K e n n a will approach m a n y problems in a different fashion t h a n Tonto Coleman, but the honesty and directness are there, and Tech, once again, has proven t h a t its athletic program attracts the best men available on the market. T h e other three new members of the MARCH 1966
staff are also impressive. B u d Carson will change the defense considerably this year because h e a n d J i m Carlen have come from different schools. T h i s does not m e a n t h a t both of t h e m cannot be right. Defenses must change or they will become ineffective. And a m a n must coach the way he feels comfortable. D u b Fesperman has developed some exceptional linemen at T u l a n e in one of the toughest situations in football. And Bill Fulcher is not really a newcomer, but a returnee who knows the D o d d theory of defense very well. All these changes along with the returnees from last year's staff and squad make for an interesting season.
A Y o u never know what the result will be when you try to communicate via the published word. I n the February issue, M a r i a n Van Landingham in an article on the alumni placement system wrote, " A n y alumnus requesting the bulletin will receive it for one quarter . . ." Of course, she m e a n t academic quarter. B u t try to explain t h a t to M a r y Bowie of the Alumni Office who has been receiving 25-cent pieces from alumni along with a request to be p u t on the mailing list. T h e r e is n o charge for this service.
A I T SEEMS that we spend a great m a n y of our writing hours commenting on errors that have cropped u p in previous editions. Over the past 12 years we have committed some beauties. B u t we cannot recall any to compare with the mass comedy of errors that was the "Faces in the N e w s " section of the February issue of the magazine. Somehow, the artist who pastes u p the magazine managed to interchange five pictures in that issue. W e caught it—just as we always seem to—on the day that the first copies were delivered to the office. Now, in a few sentences, we will a t t e m p t to undo the wrong and apologize to the innocent alumni caught u p in our slovenliness. On page 28 of the February issue, a photograph of D u a n e Hoover, '59, was positioned next to the copy referring to Robert Q. Sload, '54, whose picture was placed adjacent to the copy on W. Caldwell Smith, '55, whose picture was used with text about John Pringle,
'56, whose photograph was next to the copy on H a r r y A. Ecker, '57, whose picture adjoined the copy on D u a n e Hoover, '59, which is where you came in. Actually, you can see the thing much more clearly if you will get out your copy of the magazine and cut out the pictures and move them around. On second thought, the best thing might be to forget that you ever saw t h a t issue (or a t least t h a t section of it) and take a look at the corrected version of the announcements and pictures as they appear below. B.W.
Robert Q. Sload, '54, formerly manager of Dresser-ldeco's California Division in Los Angeles, has been appointed to the post of Broadcast Market Manager at the home office in Columbus, Ohio. The firm deals in the designing and buildi n g of tower and antenna support structures. W. Caldwell Smith, '55, AIA, Architect, has announced the opening of his office in the Paces Ferry Tower, Atlanta. He has been with Clement J. Ford for the last six years. His mailing address is 374 East Paces Ferry Road, N. E., Atlanta, Ga. 30305—phone 233-4919. John J. Pringle, '56, has been promoted to an assistant vice president of North Carolina National Bank, Charlotte. He is a native of Columbia, S.C., holds an electrical engineering degree from Tech and a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School. Harry A. Ecker, '57, of Systems Engineering Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has received his doctor of philosophy degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He is an aerospace engineer in the Deputy for Studies and Analyses. Duane L. Hoover, '59, has been promoted to assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Hoover received his B.S. degree in industrial engineering and is currently completing requirements for his master's degree. He is married and has two children.
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Number 6
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THE COVER While involved in following around a group of Tech students and their young friends from the Techwood-Howell Homes area, student photographer Deloye Burrell caught Tech junior J. B. Butler and his small friend, Jimmy Holloway on their way across the Tech campus. For more on what Burrell saw, see page 18.
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3. RAMBLIN'—a goodbye and a discussion of the perils of editing. 6. NEW MAN FOR ALL SEASONS—Dr. E. Arthur Trabant in profile. 9. VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM—science fiction by Marian Van Landingham. 12. THE TECH STUDENT: 1966—a special report in depth. 14. ANATOMY OF DEFEAT—students and the ballot box.
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18. PEOPLE WHO CARE—a new Tech student project. 22. CHANGING OF THE GUARD—new coaches, new system for this spring. 24. THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL—all the news in gazette form.
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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 s Kenneth G. Picha • William P. Rocker • S. B. Rymer, Jr., Cleveland (Tenn.) • Talbert E. Smith, Jr. • Ed L. Yeargan, Rome Thomas H. Hall, III, and Brian D. Hogg, associate secretaries •
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NEW MAN FOR ALL SEASONS With degrees in both the arts and the sciences and teaching and administrative experience in engineering, Tech's new vice president of academic affairs appears to be a man suited to his job
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but I've always wanted to be 6-3") stranger with the professorial face and the friendly but wary look of the experienced university administrator was sitting in the waiting room of the Office of the President a t Georgia T e c h talking about his acceptance of his February 9 appointment as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dr. E. ("It's for Edward, but I don't go by it") Arthur Trabant, currently D e a n of Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will officially take over Tech's number two post on September 1. "Meanwhile," h e was saying, " I plan to visit the campus at least a couple of days a month and for a week or so in April to get to know the people I'll be working with a n d the areas I'll be responsible for." These people h e will be working with had a great deal to do with D r . T r a b a n t ' s decision to accept what has to be the toughest administrative challenge in Tech's new chain of command. "Several things entered into my decision to accept this job," he recalled. " T h e first one was that I was impressed with President "'Harrison when we originally discussed the job in New York City a few months ago. It's a funny thing, but we recognized each other immediately. Neither one of us had remembered it until t h a t moment we met in New York, but I h a d once been a consultant for him when he was working on his P h . D . at P u r d u e and I was on the faculty there. W h e n I visited with him in New York
and here in Atlanta, I quickly became convinced that he was the kind of m a n I could work with effectively. " T h e n I was impressed with the members of the faculty and staff I met when I visited here before. And the students. I n fact, everyone I m e t in Atlanta including the community leaders and the Governor and the Chancellor and the Regents impressed me. It was clear to me that there was backing for Tech as well as understanding of the role of the institution among all of these leaders. "Of course, Tech's history of excellence and national reputation helped me make u p my mind to leave Buffalo, a move I dreaded in m a n y ways. T h e fact that Tech is at the threshold of what I like to call, the next quantum jump helped. B u t above all it was the people on this campus and in this city t h a t convinced me to leave a job I liked very much to move to one that wasn't even on paper a year ago." New challenges do not seem to phase Dr. Arthur T r a b a n t . A 45-yearold native of California, he received his A.B. degree from Occidental College in 1941 and then shifted to science a n d earned his P h . D . ( Applied M a t h e matics) from Cal Tech in 1947. " I could have stayed a t Cal Tech but I learned early t h a t a n alumnus normally has a difficult time getting anywhere by staying a t his own university," h e said. " I needed to see more, to meet different people. I h a d spent all of m y early years in California and I decided to take an instructor's job
in mathematics at P u r d u e . " Dr. T r a b a n t spent 13 years at Purdue where he rose from instructor to H e a d of the Division of Engineering Sciences before joining the State University of New York staff in 1960 as Engineering Dean. D u r i n g his tenure at P u r d u e he taught mathematics, mechanical engineering, and engineering sciences a n d was director of the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory a n d the off-campus graduate program in engineering. " I don't remember ever wanting to be anything but a college professor. B u t somewhere along the way I got sidetracked. I guess frustration m a d e me an administrator, just as it has created so m a n y of t h e m in our universities. Y o u see something t h a t should be done and you do it a n d then suddenly, you're an administrator. And as a colleague of mine once told me, 'once you've tasted blood, you're hooked.' " W h e n the Buffalo job came open, Dr. Arthur T r a b a n t once again faced a challenge. "Buffalo is right in the center of the Niagara frontier, one of the largest industrial complexes in America, yet there wasn't a n engineering school of any reputation within 50 miles of the city in a n y direction. T h e y asked me if I could come in and build one for them. A m a n can't turn down t h a t type of challenge." T h e man's ability to turn a challenge into an asset in a h u r r y was proved once and for all a t the State University of New York. T h e job done TECH
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Three other vice presidents named in October (from the top): Dr. Paul Weber (planning), Jamie R. Anthony (controller), and Joe W. Guthridge (development).
NEW MAN—con inued at that school was so impressive that Tech's Dr. Paul Weber heading an Engineers Council for Professional Development inspection team in 1963 was so impressed with the school's improvement that he put the name Trabant down in his memory system, which if you know Dr. Paul Weber is one to hold in awe. When the reorganization plan at Tech was approved, Dr. Weber, who still holds the job of Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs as well as his permanent new position, Vice President for Planning, immediately recommended Dr. Trabant for the Academic Affairs opening. After the first interview with Dr. Trabant, Dr. Harrison came back to Atlanta and told a few of his confidents that this was the man he had been looking for. Dr. Trabant visited the campus two times and met with members of the Tech family and community and state leaders. "He is one of the few men we have ever interviewed for any job here at Tech that received unanimous approval from the people who met him," said the President. "And he met with department heads, deans, student leaders, and members of the staff here at Tech. He had everything needed to handle the toughest job on the campus." Dr. Trabant's credentials include consultant to the Allison Division of General Motors, the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Carborundum Company and consulting editor in engineering science for the Wadsworth Publishing Company. He is also a director of Houdaille Industries, Inc. He has been a member of the National Research Council's Materials Advisory Board and is now a member of several advisory panels including the Advisory Council of the Small Business Administration, the Army Scientific Advisory Panel, and the State of New York's Commission on Atomic Energy. A Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Trabant holds membership in the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Mathematical Society, the American Nuclear Society and Sigma Xi, the national science honorary society. The new man's administrative philosophy is to "surround myself with men who are better than I am." His personal views on Tech are that it is "an excellent school with a reputation that reaches far beyond the borders of
Georgia. I believe in excellence," he adds. "I like the Tech alumni interest and the record they have achieved in supporting the institution. I admire excellence in anything and that includes athletic programs. I don't subscribe to the theory that a move towards mediocrity in athletics helps the educational program. Mediocrity in anything should not be tolerated." The Trabant family is currently searching for a home in the Atlanta area not too far from the campus. The new vice president is married and the Trabants have two daughters, Jeri, 20, named for her mother Jeraldine Marlyn, and Arta, 16, born on the anniversary of her father's birth and thus named for him. Jeri is a student at the university in Buffalo and is currently considering continuing there. Arta, whom her father calls an excellent golfer, one that has carried him to several Father-Daughter tournament wins, is a sophomore in high school and will transfer to Atlanta this fall. Dr. Trabant, who calls himself a terrible golfer who loves the game because it is one way a man can challenge himself continuously, is also a rose gardener and along with the entire family a swimming addict. When he arrives here in September he will have the heaviest responsibilities of any of the five vice presidents under the new organization. The following administrators will report to Dr. Trabant: Dean of Engineering; Dean of the General College; the Directors of the Cooperative Division, the Extension Division, the Engineering Experiment Station, and Southern Technical Institute; the Dean of 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 functions will be to provide leadership and direction to the academic, research and related substantive programs of the Institute. This new breed of academician— highly educated, dedicated to the academic life, and a poised speaker and communicator—appears to have all of the background to carry out this immense challenge. TECH ALUMNUS
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SCIENCE FICTION—cont. and-metal, electronic translator helmet with a microphone mouthpiece over his head. Over his still damp, dripping skin h e rubbed some oil as protection against the cracking, drying presence of bright lights a n d air. Finally S a m Fliver plopped into a wheelcouch a n d strapped himself into place. Once again h e pressed a button a n d t h e inside door of t h e air-lock opened. H e rolled himself into another world—that one of the canteen in the Big T a n k where men a n d dolphins were eating, playing cards, a n d watching cowboys storm across a television screen. Talking through the mouthpiece t h a t electronically changed his beeps into words, Fliver called for a cup of hot coffee a n d a jug of soup, before wheeling to a table where his h u m a n friend J a c k Smith was shaking ketchup onto a hotdog. "Been down serving those vegetarian fish at Sea R a n c h T e n their daily seaweed?" asked Smith between bites of the juicy, red weiner. I n t h e metallic recesses of the translator helmet his words were instantaneously recoded into sounds the dolphin could understand, a n d his reply came back through the translating system with no more time lag t h a n is usual in a n y conversation. "Yea, I was there about a n hour ago," beeped Sam. " T h r e w in two bales of sea weed a n d swam around and watched them nibbling, munching a n d inhaling spaghetti lengths of the juicy green stuff. And then they quaffed gallons of algae soup I poured out for them." " I like those H i n d u s of the deep," mused Smith. " N o t one fish devouring another. N o t a carnivorous one in the churning kaleidoscope. T o o b a d we bright m e n a n d dolphins herd them like cattle for the tables of the world's hungry." Sam smiled, took the bottle of soup in his flippers, p u t the rubber nipple into his mouth, a n d like a great baby, let the warm goodness flow down his gullet. H e wasn't y e t convinced cooked sea food was better than t h a t eaten on the swim, b u t it was tasty a n d interesting. As h e meditated on this, h e only half heard Smith begin talking about the sea station's school—the school the men h a d organized for t h e dolphins in order to educate their friends. " I heard from Prof. Stubble yesterday t h a t you a n d a number of other | dolphins have been cutting class a lot 10
recently," Smith continued in a fatherly, concerned tone. " H e is wondering why—what's the reason?" T h e dolphin looked at the table a n d when h e finally spoke, his beeps were very low a n d the words came out of the translator slowly and almost in syllables: "Yes, I've missed a number of classes recently a n d I'm not sure I'll ever go back. In fact I'm contemplating leaving the station a n d the sea ranches entirely. I might just swim straight out into the ocean fifty miles or so a n d forget all of this—all of this world that is not mine." " W h a t do you mean, n o t mine? T h e sea is your world a n d you're still in it, aren't y o u ? " "Well, yes, I'm certainly still in the ocean. B u t you men have brought another world down here. By this I mean a world of thinking, knowing, a n d acting . . ." " I ' m not sure what you are implying," broke in Smith. "All we have done is develop a translating device so your brains, which are as good as ours, can share with us the knowledge that has enabled us to conquer this planet a n d is now leading us to others. You are helping us be sea farmers, so we, in gratitude have opened a school. W e are making it so easy for you, yet you are talking about swimming away from opportunity." H i s tone was angry, with a cutting edge of sarcasm, a n d loud enough so t h a t the other m e n a n d dolphins h a d suddenly grown quiet to listen—although some averted their heads so it was not so obvious. Fliver's beeps were still barely audible, but the translator automatically raised the voice level. " W e dolphins," h e began in t h e same slow, deliberate way, "sit in our wheelcouches in that great plastic globe of a tank that is our classroom, while Professor Stubble drones on about English literature or American history—subjects totally alien to u s — a n d we look a t the fish outside. T h e y stare in a t us as a t strange beasts within a lighted foreign particle t h a t displaces t h e free currents. W e stare back a t them like detached scientists viewing bacteria under a glass slide. T h e y are outside the golden light of our sphere, beyond the ticking instruments, the h u m of the heating system, and the fierce poetry of Macbeth. " C a n ' t you see," a n d there was a pleading cry in t h e sound of his beeps, "can't you understand how we might feel lifted out of our world into one that is in no way relevant to our past? Tell me, Smith, why should we be
forced to learn material t h a t h a s no meaning for us? And why should we also be forced to learn at a pace in which minutes are significant? Knowledge of t h e sea is what m a t t e r s to u s and the time scale we live by is that of the seasons a n d the tides." "You probably have a point," Smith conceded. " T h e translation of language a n d culture has always been a problem even among different peoples on land, a n d it is true t h a t it is very difficult to transmit any kind of knowledge without also transmitting a style of life. Certainly we men are guilty of a certain a m o u n t of intellectual a n d cultural imperialism. It is very easy to accuse us of this but I a m not sure there is a n y real alternative unless y o u are to forego all benefits of our ever having come into the sea." T h e dolphin pondered this a while, his grey a n d white face serious. " N o , there m a y be no alternative. I'm tired. I think I'll go for a long swim. I'll let you think about that. Please excuse me." As Fliver wheeled himself towards the door, the other dolphins in the room followed while the m e n sat in sad, stunned silence. A heavy, dull t h u m p a n d the air-lock closed. There was only the steady h u m of the tank's ventilating system, until finally, from a table near the silent T V set, a redheaded m a n washed pale a n d freckleless b y t h e deep sea muttered, " T h e y have a point, you know. Yes sir, they have a point." " I know they do. T h a t ' s the devil of the thing," said Smith with a great sigh. A middle-aged man, his head resting on the palms of his hands, his eyes sad a n d introspective, commented softly: "We've tried to make all the people in the world think and feel a n d be motivated like we N o r t h Americans— and now it's these children of the deep. W e never seem to understand how we offend. Like wondering why, in our slums, children become dropouts rather t h a n adopt the strange, middleclass way of life their schools represent. Or why children in Indian reservation schools also cease to want to learn when the people that teach them are unsympathetic to their culture." A tough old sailor on the other side of the room with a rasping, impatient voice interrupted. "Our trouble here on t h e bottom of the Big D r i n k is t h a t we got no stick a n d no carrot. N o t r u a n t officers since them dolphins can swim faster t h a n a n y sub or a n y of us paddling around with our flippers. TECH
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And no carrot since what kinda job you gonna promise a dolphin sporting a fancy piece of paper saying he's got a degree?" His comrade chewing an unlighted cigar agreed. "Yea, what's a decent standard o' living to a dolphin? He and his folks snooze on the waves. If he's hungry all he has to do is chase a fish for a minute or two, open his mouth and swallow. He just drinks warm fish soup here in the canteen to be polite and sociable, you know that. And a thirsty dolphin? In an ocean? Ha! Like Jake said, no carrot and no stick. I jest wonder how many schools up on the high and the dry could stay open without these." "All right, so they have economic independence. And so in essence they can tell us to lump it. That's what Fliver just did and the others too since they joined him in the walkout." As he said this Jack Smith's face was grimace-lined like a cartographer's drawing of a reef. "I think we can agree they have some reason but there is no reason for us to indulge too much in morbid self-criticism . . ." "Yea, I say let 'em go. Forget 'em," commented the old sailor. "No, now wait a minute," Smith raised his hands, palms outward in a stopping motion. "Just a second now. Consider. Can we afford to let them walk out on us? They help us run the sea ranches. Serve as guides. They are the only intelligent beings down here." "Well, now you're right there," admitted the sailor, shirking a meaty shoulder. "And there is not just the point of their leaving us. They might just work with some other nation, if that nation made a big issue of giving them special advantages. This may seem farfetched, but perhaps it's not. After all the translator-helmet that we devised could easily be duplicated and programmed to another language. Now I'll admit that dolphins are by nature peaceable creatures but they might be trained to sabotage our undersea efforts. In fact, as you perhaps know, our navy is already training a group to patrol enemy submarines. For our economic and military security, I say that we have got to get the dolphins back." A quiet man—one of the expedition's scientists who had been just sitting and listening with a wry, small smile breaking along his face—began talking very softly in a musing kind of way, "What if instead of joining the enemy forces or just ignoring us, the MARCH 1966
dolphins present a petition to the United Nations, saying that we have usurped their rights as dolphins. I can visualize it now—ten thousand dolphins in the East River, the General Assembly members gathered on the plaza looking down on the bottle-noses and the churning green-brown water. Ah . . . Back inside when the debate started, our delegate would say that this problem was an internal one of the United States and so not subject to international attention. And then the French would point out that dolphins are creatures of the Seven Seas and the high seas are international. Whereupon the debate would degenerate into a discussion of whether dolphins born within a three mile limit of the shore are nationals of that shore. Oh, there are wonderful possibilities." Smith's smile was not indulgent. "Thank you for your comment Jacobson. Now, back to the problem of how are we to get the dolphins to return. It seems to me we might tell the dolphins we would like to understand their way of life a little better so that we can arrive at a better sense of mutual benefit. Jones, why don't you begin radioing a sonic code message for Fliver to come back for further discussions?" "Yes, sir. Be glad to," Jones replied crisply. Several days later the men were again sitting around and chatting in the tank canteen when a loud "SHOOOOSH" filled the room and quieted the talk as effectively as a Grandma shooing a batch of boys in Church. Slowly the great steel-bound door of the air-lock swung open and Sam Fliver rolled in, a half smile of amusement on his grey and white face. "Well, so you invited me back. Whatever for?" "After you left we conferred very seriously for quite a while. And we agreed you had reason for complaint but we do not feel that this is sufficient reason to break all ties. Perhaps you would like to hold classes two or three days a week to instruct us on the interests, habits, and way of life of dolphins. It might even be helpful if you would also teach a course or so in oceanography based on discoveries by dolphins. In this way we might arrive at a better mutual understanding." Smith concluded with a smooth, broad smile, resting his clasped hands on the table. "Well, I don't know," began Fliver haltingly. "Well . . ." he stopped and looked, searched the portholes of the
eyes in front of him, but found they were opaque. Then for a moment he seemed to be peering inward into his own soul. When he peered back at the crowd of men a sly kind of twinkle glowing in his eyes and a slightly sardonic smile played at the corners of his mouth. "Men," he began with force that pushed out. "The school I want you to study in is not the big plastic globe or this canteen. I want you to get out of your tanks and away from your moorings. I want you to swim and swim and swim, for days, until you come to know the moods of the ocean, its currents, and the response of the water and the sea creatures to the pull of the moon. I want you to swim until you know the living and dying of all that exists at every level of the depths. To swim and surface until you are at home in the boundary area where atmosphere penetrates water, and water, atmosphere—where sometimes there are mists blending one into the other, or churning, fighting waves, and where other times the gases and liquids lie peaceably against each other. "You must leave behind your machines and your measuring devices. Forget your cameras and focus your eyes. Record in the grey core of your own head. Forget money and position and home, and all that you have learned before so that you see freshly. When you tire, doze on the soothing waves. Your gills may be artificial, but, after all, I have no gills at all." He stopped breathless, his eyes shining like tiny, iridescent beings. "Uh—perhaps you're a little too enthusiastic. We swim a good bit around the station . . ." began Smith shifting himself in his chair. "No—you're anchored. Holding on to a lifeline to one world that won't let you free to really know another." It was more than a week later, how many days or hours he hardly knew, since Smith and the other men had departed the tank, swimming off in different directions. Smith turned and dove and spun through the bubbly surface and then down through bright flecks of shimmering red, orange, and citron. "How strange," a thought glided through his brain, "that my primeval ancestors ever left these comforting, motherly waves. How strange we left our mother to stand alone in the dry wind and wrapped ourselves with artificial trappings of thinking, knowing, and acting." Marian Van Landingham 11
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In a year in which protest is the vogue on most college c a m p u s e s the T e c h student does his in unusual fashions in which protest has suddenly become a way of life on college campuses from Berkeley to Brooklyn, the Georgia Tech student—practical and dogmatic as ever—is doing most of his silently. The picket signs that appear at the drop of a Dean's eyelid in other places are not seen on this campus. But do not get the idea that the Tech student is satisfied with conditions either on campus or in the outside world. Others have and received a large jolt in the process. The hottest student political campaign in years, the Affirmation: Viet Nam rally, a smoldering feud between the Technique and much of the student body (and, at times, the administration and faculty), and a sudden boycott of basketball have all gone to prove that the Tech student may not make a great deal of noise about caring but he still cares. The so-called boycott of basketball is perhaps the easiest to explain to an alumnus. Last fall, the Athletic Association began a policy of issuing ID cards by the quarter only to those students who paid a special athletic activities fee. The regular student activities fee was reduced by $3.25 a quarter, which was the Athletic Association's share in that fee. This was done for several reasons including the fact that under the old system, the summer co-ops had to pay a full activities fee even though there was not a single athletic event during the summer quarter. Under the new system, the student is offered a freedom of choice about athletic events. If he wanted to see the Tech home football games and the December basketball games, he paid $7.50 for the ID card. If he wanted to attend the winter events, he forked over $5.00 for the card. In the spring the price will be $2.50 and there will be no card for the summer. There was practically no drop-off in the fall quarter as most of the students came up with the $7.50. Then came the winter and only 1,856 students, less than 30 per cent of the total student body, purchased the ID cards. Of that number an average of 505 turned out for the home basketball games. Actually, this was a better percentage than basketball had ever drawn. Last year just 925 of the over 6,500 students who had ID cards marked the average attendance. The fall-off came when the students bought the ID's. On top of this, overall attendance at Tech's home games in basketball diminished for the second time in two years. There are those on the campus who suspect that the low number of students buying the ID cards this winter reflected the beginnings of a silent protest against the system
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THE TECH STUDENT: 1 9 6 6 — c o n t i n u e d which places another decision-making step into an already bothersome registration procedure. Next fall, the real test of this theory will come. There is still another theory on the campus that might better explain the sagging attendance at the basketball games. " I t is the schedule," these theorists proclaim. "There are no Kentuckys and Vanderbilts coming to Atlanta any more. And there isn't even a Mississippi State or a Vanderbilt visiting the Coliseum." This theory has received a great deal of attention lately in faculty and student coffee circles. And the cause of the scheduling problem goes directly to Tech's withdrawal from the Southeastern Conference. "Without a conference race, basketball isn't very exciting," said one student the other day. And the phrase has been echoed by faculty members and alumni. Now, there is no feeling here t h a t Tech should get back in the SEC because there is close-to-complete agreement on the campus t h a t the withdrawal was done for excellent
and valid reasons. And it has not hurt football (in fact, last season was the healthiest football year from most standpoints in Tech's history), or any of the other sports. B u t many of Tech's natural rivals are in the SEC or other conferences and basketball scheduling being what it is, they can find no time to schedule the Jackets. Some of the visionaries are suggesting that Tech take the lead in organizing the Nation's top independents into a loose-knit conference for basketball only, a concept t h a t would please many people in the area including Whack Hyder. Take Army, Navy, Pitt, Penn State, Miami, FSU, Syracuse, Notre Dame, and Tech for starters, and build a conference for basketball championships only. I t might have some merit. B u t it also might be a tough n u t to sell. Meanwhile, the Technique has continued the editorial policies of the past two years, which boils down to pick on anything moving and if it reacts, go after it. The editorial staff often appears to be a group of selfstyled crusaders tilting with the windmills of student
A N A T O M Y OF DEFEAT Today's student still treasures his remaining freedoms as one student found out according to Ed Jacobson STUDENT BODY elections seem to create an interest on the Tech campus simply because it is more difficult for the engineer not to vote than to vote. Student government to the Techman has held the same image for years and years—the image of transparency and of inefficiency. "What's the difference which guy I vote for," will comment the normal Techman, dropping his IBM ballot either on the floor or in the ballot box (but slightly more probably in the box). "Whoever wins will merely continue in the same time-dishonored form." Hence, the Techman has not recently held too much store in council elections, until this year. Little was different this year from two years ago, when the cry was, "Who is George Burdell," or from last year when the vice-presidential office' went uncontested. In fact, so little was different this year, that the student body foresaw an unopposed campaign for Charlie Alpha, "The Worker," as he was often called. It was not until a few days before the qualifying deadline that an opponent finally declared himself. Until that time, most experts said, there was no reason that Charlie Alpha should not be a runaway win14
ner. Nobody wanted to run against him, and to be sure, few people saw any reason to run anyone against him, disregarding even the obvious futility of it all. Charlie Alpha, the epitome of a student councilor, is easily the most effective politician ever to cut a swath through the Tech campus. Starting with freshman elections, he worked his way successfully through the power structure to be the most likely one in line for the Student Council presidency. He played the opportunities so well, in fact, that there were precious few observers on campus that could muster courage enough to give such as Richard Russell 500 votes against Alpha. A s early as the beginning of the academic year, some members of the Student Council and some of the Technique staff saw imminent the unopposed victory of a candidate for student body president. Who is eligible to run for the office that would bear some credibility to the student voters? There were fewer than twenty rising seniors who had the credentials necessary to run, and Donald H. (known
far and wide as "Don") Omega was the man that everyone approached. He hemmed, and he hawed, but he never gave a sure answer. His grades had been faltering. Soon the question was submerged by more pressing matters. Charlie Alpha was the people's choice, it seemed. There appeared no conceivable hope of even approaching his vote-getting powers. All the electorate ever heard in regard to student government was the name of Charlie Alpha. The bandwagon had begun to roll, and nobody doubted the desire that Charlie had for the position. Likewise nobody could in good conscience say that from what he had contributed to the Student Council Charlie did not deserve to possess the president's gavel. Charlie surely had impressive credentials. He was vice president of both his freshman class and his sophomore class. Last year he was elected to the presidency of the junior class. Meanwhile he took on the job of being the chairman for the State of Georgia of the Southern Universities Student Government Association. For that group he has coordinated a number of events, the most notable having been the so-called "swap shop" that the Tech council hosted here in Atlanta. Also concurrently, Alpha had been working on the Georgia Tech Honor Code—stressed not to be an honor system, but merely a definition of and a concrete statement of the Techman's unalterable opposition to dishonor. In TECH ALUMNUS
disinterest and their own frustrations while riding on a saddle made of active hornets' nests. During the year, the seemingly fearless paper has attacked practically everything on the Tech campus from the lack of beatniks, "There is nothing complimentary at all to a campus t h a t has no beatniks," to the Legislature for not seating Rep. Julian Bond, "Censure him certainly, b u t do not deny him his legal right of dissent." They have blasted the Athletic Board for raising ticket prices, the Student Lecture and Entertainment Committee for putting on poor concerts and worse films, and physical training for the grading system and the lack of cuts. They have struck a t students, faculty members, administrators, and then when the campus began grumbling about the way the paper was being run, the editor calmly called a series of open meetings and invited everyone to come by and state how the paper could be improved. B u t the biggest impression the Technique has left on the campus this year is the editor's use of the paper Text continued top of page 16
conjunction with publicizing the Honor Code and prior to its inception, Charlie chaired the Student Council Publicity Committee. In that position, he made the name and deeds of the Student Council known far and wide. He had difficulty getting all the publicity he wanted in the Technique, although the newspaper was giving the Student Council about one-tenth of the total space in the news section each week. So he started his own newspaper, paid for by council money, called the Councilman. It contained, besides the expected columns by Student Body dignitaries, articles explaining such material as the workings of several of the committees and glorifying projects of the Student Council. C HARLIE Alpha was both the father of and the midwife for the new Student Council Constitution. His position as the framer of the constitution put him in a vulnerable spot regarding the Councilman. After the publication of the first issue in the fall of 1965, he received a challenge that his publication was illegal. All publications, said his own composition, the Constitution, that are financed by student monies must come under the auspices of the Publications Board. His political power was so strong, however, that the Hill, the Council, and he took the criticism with a grain of salt. Nobody was able to follow through with any indictment. But he had made his first mistake, MARCH 1966
and the campus analysts, among them the Technique, started to wax skeptical over the credentials of Charlie Alpha. They began wondering if he was really conscientious or if instead he was only a mercenary doing all these things merely to get his name before the voting public. He sensed the distrust, and he reciprocated in like manner. Heavy clouds formed over the relationship between Charlie Alpha and the Technique. Soon opportunity came, if you will, knocking. Going through the gory details, oft having been repeated before now, of the conception of Affirmation: Viet Nam is unnecessary. Charlie, it must be noted, was one of the three top people in the coordination of the Affirmation project on the Tech campus. Charlie had numerous occasions on which he could appear before the student body, but at no time did more than a handful of students show up. In their absence, the student body handed Charlie a severe shock. He felt he had suffered a political failure due to many causes, not the least of which was the conspicuous exclusion of editorial comment in the Technique concerning the Affirmation movement. The endearment that the Technique held in the heart of Charlie Alpha waned. In anticipation of the coming election, the Technique staff invited Charlie Alpha, as an announced aspirant, and Don Omega, as a prospective opponent, to visit the 'Nique office to talk
A SIGN OF TIMES: that dynamic duo of the one-dimensional TV show has got its hold on Tech students. Meetings have been moved two days a week just because of it.
with the staff concerning Georgia Tech in general and themselves in particular. Coming on different days, the two were subjected to impromptu interviews that were for the most part transcribed. The purpose of the interviews as to ascertain whether there was anything about either man that the staff thought it its duty to report to the student body. There was indeed much that the staff recognized as vital. The interviews were fruitful, and as a means of further investigation Charlie Alpha was invited, with his Honor Code committee, to visit the newspaper once more. In spite of his cohorts, he successfully painted a bad picture of the Honor Code, and the Technique editorialized the following week urging students to doubt the worth of the document. Then the week after that, in the paper of January 28, another critical editorial appeared attacking the Code. Nearly all love ebbed from the portion of Charlie's being that was set aside for the Technique. in the middle of January when the election loomed on the horizon, Charlie Alpha was the only one with a hat in the ring. The Technique of January 21 called for an opponent for the man allegedly favored by most of the deans and executives responsible for Georgia Tech. Don Omega wanted "THEN
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THE TECH STUDENT: 1966—continued Tom King (not the Charlie Alpha of the story below) was Tech's representative at the Affirmation: Viet Nam rally. He made the presentation to Viet Nam's Duy-Lien.
in a political campaign. This brought a great number of people to their feet, yelling for (1) the Technique's scalp or (2) the head of the candidate who suggested t h a t the Technique be brought under Student Council control in practice as well as in theory. T h e editor's initial column on the political subject was written as a satire, and by the admission of one of the Technique columnists, eight out of every nine students surveyed thought t h a t the editor had endorsed the very candidate he was trying to blast. Finding that irony is a style better suited to the masters, the editor came right back with a column that everybody understood. The rest of the story appears in this issue in the article, "Anatomy of Defeat," written by the editor of the paper. Only the names have been changed to protect those caught u p in the hussle. E d Jacobson is a pleasant enough student when he is not behind a typewriter, and his competence as a writer is such t h a t he won the top editorial writing award for Georgia college students. " I t consisted of an electric typewriter and a scholarship to the Journalism
ANATOMY—continued to run, but he had no vocal support. All it would take was a prod and an assurance, and he would run. That's all it took, and there was a race for student body president. Not even Omega's own lieutenants conceded fewer than 2000 votes to Alpha. Charlie had strategy: the election would be decided by the Atlanta students—those not subject to being contacted in the dormitories or fraternity houses. All Techmen living off campus received a letter of introduction from Charlie Alpha, in which he enumerated the arguments at the basis of his campaign. Charlie promised to make all efforts possible to acquire a better representation of independents in the Student Council. He pledged fairness and equity in all he was to endeavor. And most emphatically he promised the student body a student government, not merely a service club. CONCURRENTLY, however, January 28
marked the date of publication of a revolutionary issue of the Technique. For the first time in recallable history, the editor of the Tech newspaper wrote an overtly partisan column concerning a race in student body politics. The personal column was obviously satirical and it pulled no punches. Only the politically unaware missed the point of the article. That was the 16
February 3, 1966 Dear Fellow Student: Election posters and campaign cards vary little from one year to the next. In most elections the issues themselves do not change. Or else the candidates all have relatively the same attitudes about the problems. However, this election is different. Since I first appeared as a potential candidate for Student Body President, the Technique has satirically opposed me and publicly stated they would support whoever ran against me. The reason was very obvious to the Council but not to the majority of the student body. The Technique realizes that upon my election the mockery and literary slander which so many organizations and individuals have experienced from the Technique would come to an end. To criticize constructively is to spear-head progress. To knock as an attempt at humor or in ridicule is to degrade the student body as a whole• A student newspaper should be an information source for Georgia Tech and the surrounding community. The editorials should present both minority and majority opinions in a constructive and logical manner. The Student Council has the power to alter any decision of the Publications Board and its constitution - as a result the Technique which is under the Publications Board. I will set up a committee to rewrite the Publications Board constitution, review the Technique constitution, and will enforce the editorial policies suggested by this committee and passed by the Student Council. It is time the Student Council stood firm against an organ that is making a joke of meaningful and worthwhile aspects of this school. A student newspaper for Georgia Tech is necessary - but the Technique is not. The candidates have six days to contact 5000 people. I apologize if I have not been able to speak with you personally, but it is from lack of time and not from lack of interest. I hope this statement from me indicates to you that your Student Council next year will be a government with a backbone.
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School at Athens," he mused after receiving the award for what he describes as a "Chamber-of-Commerce" type editorial. He also won another award for editorial writing over the year, which caused a fellow staff member to comment, "Someone must have slipped a gear in the judging." (The Technique has its detractors on its own staff.) But if the Technique is a subject of controversy, it is a successful one. Prior to the student body president squabble, nothing the editors wrote seemed to bring in much mail. After the fight began, the letters to the editor increased considerably and the paper received a much more thorough reading than a t any time in the recent past. Since the editor is a junior who has not declared whether or not he will run again, the real test of the paper's standing with the college community may come when the Publications Board, made up of students and faculty advisors, meets to select the editor sometime in April. The Affirmation: Viet Nam rally, a testimonial to America's commitment in t h a t controversial land, was
last straw. And it was the straw that ultimately broke Charlie's back. On the following Friday, Charlie Alpha, while trying to cut off the head of what he thought was the dragon harming the entire Tech community, accidentally swallowed the sword. He circulated a letter, placing reams of copies of it at all accessible places on the campus. It's a safe bet that 99 per cent of the student body read the missive which is reproduced on page 16. The Technique was to be the scapegoat. He had erred; the sentiment of the student body, although often disagreeing with the Technique, was to cherish the freedom of expression. Many feared that if the Technique came under Alpha's thumb now, maybe their organization would soon follow. B U T the day the letter appeared on campus, the Technique editorialized without any knowledge of the publication of Alpha's letter: "The Technique promises objective criticism of either candidate, win or lose." And also under another headline in the column of consensus editorials appeared a cry for all dissidents to come to the newspaper office and to express their grievances. If the staff could not agree with the argument, the bearer of the idea was invited to use space that would be provided him on the pages of the Technique to communicate with the readers. MARCH 1966
begun by a group of Emory students. I t picked up help from some Tech student leaders early and the petitions on campus showed a healthy majority of Tech students (roughly 95 per cent) in favor of the commitment. Rain held the crowd down considerably at the Atlanta Stadium on February 12. But 15,000 Georgians turned out for the event and among them were 70 carloads of Tech students, a group t h a t exceeded its detractors' guesses of five or six cars by a large margin. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, retired General Lucius Clay, Senators Russell and Talmadge of Georgia, Governor Sanders, South Viet Nam's permanent observer to the United Nations, Dgyuen-Duy-Lien, and several other dignitaries spoke to the crowd. Tech's Tom King had an important part in the ceremonies. And the only sign of trouble came from the inevitable pickets t h a t walked around the Stadium carrying the same tired phrases t h a t have worn out their welcome. If the Tech student is a protester, he at least is one who has a contribution to make. The negative approach has had little success on this campus this year.
But next to the column containing the newspaper's editorials, the personal column of the editor blatantly endorsed Don Omega. Comments on the campus censured Charlie Alpha. People compared him to Franco, to Hitler, to Khrushchev, and even to Goldwater. Unlikely as the last analogue might appear, there was truth to it. In the same manner as during Goldwater's campaign, Charlie Alpha had some unsolicited assistance from an anonymous source. Someone published a vile letter implying all sorts of criminal things about the Technique. The wording was unmistakably that used in previous campaigns against the Technique. Charlie was as good as dead. The Monday after his hate-the-Technique letter came out, the voting began. Whereas Charlie could have claimed the victory easily two weeks before, possibly by acclamation, he lost by about 70 popular votes and by 20 out of 280 electoral votes—arrived at by weighing the rising senior vote most and rising sophomore least. C H A R L I E Alpha doesn't speak to the Technique any more, even though he, more than any other single force, was responsible for his own defeat. A lot of criticism was voiced against the ethics involved with what the editor perpetrated. But he should be vindicated in the results of what he did. It was not he who killed Cock Robin. 17
Tech's J. B. Butler and friend: "These boys have a need. They're lonely and lack guidance. We have the ability to fulfill that need. And it's a privilege to help them."
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" H E ' S not near as mean as my own little brother at home," the Techman remarked as he cast a sidewise glance at a somber-faced boy of 10 or 11 sitting next to him. The small boy smiled faintly and continued sipping on his lemonade. The lemonade was gratis the BOP plant at Doraville where about 30 Techmen and boys had just completed a tour in which they saw Buicks and Chevrolets assembled— saw the pieces of steel puzzle unloaded from box-cars, welders add piece to piece, saw the body shell then dropped down over the motor, the finishing touches, and the cars roll off the line. This was one of the special tours arranged this year by the Techwood Tutorial Project, in which Techmen work and plan recreation with boys from Techwood-Clark Howell Housing that is being sponsored by the Episcopal student group on campus. The Rev. Harwood (Woody) Bartlett, a 1955 Tech highest honor graduate and now the Episcopal Chaplain to Tech and Agnes Scott, has pushed the idea since its inception in the spring of 1964. There are now 52 Tech students and 52 children participating in the mutually benefiting project. "We try to pair them according to personality," says Carl Stover, general chairman, "and only twice do we feel we've really failed on this matching." The Tech boys usually meet their little brothers at least once a week for study and then occasionally take them on outings or to a picture show or perhaps on a short tour. On the nights Pete Shorts goes to Robert Walker's house to help him with his arithmetic and other school work, Robert's mother usually invites him to supper with the family. Robert says his grades have improved with Pete's help although Pete does not consider himself a teacher. What does Robert want to do when he grows up? "I used to want to be a doctor, but now I want to help poor people." He sits up brightly and his blue eyes sparkle as he tells about this ambition. There is no doubt that the Tech students do open many vistas for these TECH ALUMNUS
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"A boy coming up needs a healthy respect for an education. When they see one of the Tech boys studying or helping them to study, they feel more like working themselves. Perhaps love and compassion don't fit into the overall Tech image, but there are people here who care what happens to others—we can change the image."
MANY W H O CARE-cont. boys. One little fellow who still considers school "a prison, "I'd rather take a beatin' than go to school," still was proud to point out the new space science center buildings being built at Tech where "they are going to learn about rockets and things. My Tech brother told me." His grades have also improved a little since his brother has been helping. But improvement of grades should not be over-emphasized. "We are convinced that the problem with most of these boys is not basically one of education—this is more a symptom than a problem—the problem is the child's own sense of self-worth. This- is the reason we carefully pair the students and the boys. There has to develop some kind of personal involvement to really help," Bartlett explains. He illustrates with the case of Tech student Bruce Fitzgerald who was in the project before he graduated last June. "A few weeks after Bruce met his boy, he came to me and said, 'Woody, all my boy will say to me is yes, sir and no, sir. He's siring me all the time. I don't know whether I can cut this.' I told him to just hang in there and he'd get through to the boy after awhile. Then one day Bruce was greeted by the boy with a paper wad fired at his head. Bruce fired the wad back and from then on everything was O.K." There were some training sessions last fall to help prepare the Tech students for facing their boys and there have been several big outings like that at the General Motors plant. They went to the zoo last fall and another time visited Eastern Airlines ^sft the airport, which was a success. As Bartlett explains: "the^little boys loved the airplanes and the big boys the stewardesses." More seriously, he explains that not only is the project good for the Techwood boys but that it gives the Techmen "a chance to get outside themselves a bit, and gives them some very valuable cross-cultural experience.' 20
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THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD A big turnover in coaches and a new concept of defense will make this the most interesting spring practice in many years
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spring training season with more familiar faces among his players and fewer among his coaching staff than at any time in history. Of those who figured heavily in last season's 7-3-1 record, only ends Gary Williams and Corky Rogers (offense) and Steve Copeland (defense), guards John Battle (defense) andJoeColvin (offense), and backs Jerry Priestley, Terry Haddock and Ed Varner (offense) and Tom Bleick and Kenny Allen (defense) will be among the missing. The new coaching cast of characters is now complete. Bud Carson, last year's defensive chief at South Carolina, has replaced Jim Carlen as head of the defense. Dub Fesperman, Tech's old nemesis for three years as top defensive man at Tulane, comes in for Dick Inman to handle the defensive interior line. Bill Fulcher, ofice the Jackets' freshman boss and most recently a successful high school coach, returns to take Richard Bell's job as coach of the linebackers and defensive ends as one Bell moves over to offense to replace the other one (John Robert) . The other new member of the staff is John McKenna, for 13 years the head coach at VMI, who has taken over most of Tonto Coleman's chores 22
as well as those of departing freshman coach Jack Fligg. McKenna's hiring was a real coup for Dodd. The likeable VMI coach has three times been named coach of the year in the Southern Conference, and as an experienced head coach he will add a great deal of stability to the freshman job. After the hiring of McKenna to complete his staff, Dodd said that he considers this group, "potentially the best staff I have had at Tech since 1951." The new staff begins spring practice facing most of the problems associated with last year's team plus practically all of that spectacular team's assets. The entire starting backfield of King, Snow, Baynham, and Carlisle and Harvin (who alternated much of the year) will be back in harness. Carlisle will be given a shot at one of the linebacker jobs and perhaps even at offensive guard. Back of King will be Larry Good, the starter from the 1964 freshman team, Tash Van Dora, who played but one play as a freshman last season because of injury. Charlie Mason, who was on the defensive squad last season; and Ken Bonifay, number three man in 1965. Fighting for the third and fourth spot back of Snow and the rapidly improving Giles
Smith will be Billy Kinard, assigned to defense last season but injured and held out, freshman Johnny Tullos, and junior Scott Austin. The wingback post back of Baynham is really up for grabs and any of several good prospects could move into this important job under Tech's proposed pro-type offense. Stumpy Jimmy Brown, the kick-return specialist who was so spectacular at the wingback job in the Gator Bowl, returns and will be battling freshman John Sias and perhaps Tommy Chapman and a host of backs up from the redshirts. Harvin, who played both fullback and wingback last season, will be the number one fullback if Carlisle goes elsewhere, and freshman Johnny Weaver and Tim Eubanks will be fighting several Bteamers for the vacancy in back of Harvin. Finding a strong offensive guard to replace Joe Colvin and an end to take up the slack produced by Gary Williams' departure will be major tasks facing Richard Bell. These problems may be compounded by a proposed move of Bill Myddelton to defensive middle guard. Rick Nelson, number two man at both positions in 1965, will move into one of the guard slots, and the other could be anybody from experienced Frank Sellinger and Richard Rosebush to a freshman, a redshirt, or someone moved from elsewhere. Center is taken care of by Jim Breland, the surprise of last season, with giant freshman Galin Mumford as his replacement. The tackles on offense, Lamar Wright and Bill Moorer, are both back for a final year and the back-up men, Tommy Fiebelkorn and Jim Penley, have also had game experience. Mike Fortier will have help from Jimmy Brown, holdover speedster Tommy Elliott, and others still untested. It is likely that the job left open by the underrated Williams will be the toughest to fill. Steve Almond, who played behind Williams last season, is the best bet at this writing to be the starter, but freshman Joel Stephenson will figure in this job. The biggest losses defensively were Battle and Bleick, two of the best Tech has had in years. Copeland, however, may be the toughest to replace. The end improved with each game last season and if it had not been for the injury in his sophomore year, he might have been even stronger. With the new monster-man defensive system to be employed, it is a little early to be discussing who will play where. W. J. Blane, Randall Edmunds, Bill TECH ALUMNUS
Ellis, Bill Schroer, Claude Shook, Ike Tim Woodall, Dee Turner, Ronnie Jackets' kicking game is in experiLassiter, and Buddy McCoy all re- Newton, Bob Seaman, Jerry Paul, Eric enced and capable hands. turn from the line and linebacker Wilcox, Danny Adams, and Terry This spring practice, which closes spots. Backs with experience include Story. with the annual T-Night game on Bill Eastman, Haven Kicklighter, Another of the problems facing the April 29 should be the most interesting Sammy Burke, David Barber, and Roy coaching staff will be finding a punter and challenging in Dodd's 22 years. Jarrett (out with an injury last to replace Jerry Priestley, who was one With an all-new defensive staff and a season). The better holdover and of the best Tech has had in its his- planned switch in offensive concepts, freshman defensive specialists include tory including Billy Lothridge. Charlie there will be a number of surprises in Chris Denney, Alan Glisson (who may Mason, Tommy Chapman, and kick- the personnel. And some of the players go to offensive guard), Jim Trapnell, ing specialists Bunky Henry and Tom- who started last season may have to Bert Thornton, John Lagana, Jim Gib- my Carmichael are some of the possi- battle for their lives this spring and son, Ken Mugg, Al Gerhardt, Danny bilities for this job. With Henry and fall. The new facts of defensive life Handley, Jim Pauline, Duncan Dunn, Carmichael returning, the rest of the may-Joe too much for some. the Jackets play, Yellow Jacket Confidential is there to report the flow of action and the behind-the-scenes events to its readers. If you are looking for a different, inside view of Tech football after each game during t h e season plus a spring and fall preview of the Tech squad, Yellow Jacket Confidential is for you. The only sportswriter to cover every Tech game each year is Bob Wallace, now in his fourth year with the 17-year-old publication devoted to Tech football. Last season, over 40 of the Nation's top sportswriters used Yellow Jacket Confidential as column material on Tech football. You can get the complete story on the Jackets by filling in the order blank, now. Your subscription will start with the spring practice letter, which follows t h e T-Night game, April 29. Please make your check out to Yellow Jacket Confidential. WHEREVER
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GEORGIA TECH A digest of information about Georgia
Spring Looks Good This Year T H E SPRING of
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the best in history for Tech's athletic teams. Coach Jim Luck's baseball squad, which finished ninth in the nation last year with a 20-8 record, was basically a sophomore one and with seven of the starters back including all-America Randy Carroll, the Jackets should be even stronger than they were last season. The tennis team which sported an even better mark (15-3) a year ago will feature five of last year's top six and Coach Rodgers finds himself in the pleasant quandry of inheriting a pair of sensational yearlings who will both play this season at the expense of one of the 1965 starters. John Gilbart of St. Petersburg, Florida, is so highly thought of that he is expected to push both Walter Johnson and Paul Speicher, Tech's number one and two men for the past two years, for the top positions on the squad. Chris Brown, the Chattanooga sophomore, would play anywhere from number two man down. But he will play. The golf and track coaches are not as blessed with veterans as are Luck and Rodgers, but Tommy Plaxico has Bunky Henry back for a final year and the Jacket place-kicking specialist won the Canadian Amateur last summer and was a semifinalist in the Western Open tournament, no mean feat for a college boy. Coach Buddy Fowlkes is in the second year of an intensive rebuilding program and will be hard-pressed to match last season's 4-3 dual meet record. THE
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21—Valdosta State 22—Valdosta State 23—Rollins 24—Rollins 25—Florida Southern 26—Florida Southern 1—Milligan
Valdosta Valdosta Winter Park Winter Park Lakeland Lakeland Atlanta
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2—Milligan 6—Georgia 9—Furman 11—North Carolina 13—Georgia 15—Notre Dame 16—Notre Dame 18—Clemson 22—Auburn 23—Auburn 26—Georgia 2—Mercer 4—Georgia 6—Memphis State 7—Memphis State 10—West Georgia 11—Mercer 13—Miami 14—Miami 17—Auburn 18—Auburn 20—Clemson 21—Clemson 23—Berry 25—Berry
Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Athens Atlanta Atlanta Clemson Auburn Auburn Athens Macon Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta Rome Atlanta
Tennis Mar. 21—Yale Miami Mar. 22—Miami Miami Mar. 23—Southern Illinois Miami Mar. 24—Florida Gainesville Mar. 26—Florida State Tallahassee Mar. 28—Presbyterian Atlanta Mar. 29—Indiana Atlanta Mar. 31—Florida State Atlanta Apr. 2—Vanderbilt Nashville Apr. 4—Harvard Atlanta Apr. 7—Miss. State Atlanta Apr. 8—Florida Atlanta Apr. 15—L. S. U. Baton Rouge Apr. 16—Tulane New Orleans Apr. 20—Georgia Atlanta Apr. 21—Clemson Atlanta Apr. 26—Tennessee Atlanta May 4—Georgia Athens May 6-7-8—Georgia Colleg iates Athens Track Mar. 26—Florida Relays Apr. 2—Furman
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Golf Mar. 21—Florida Gainesville Mar. 23-26—Miami Invitational Miami Mar. 30—Indiana Atlanta Apr. 1—Indiana Atlanta Apr. 5-—Georgia State Atlanta Apr. 8—Vanderbilt Atlanta Apr. 19—Tennessee Atlanta Apr. 22—Presbyterian and Mercer (Tri-Meet) Atlanta Apr. 23—Florida State and Auburn (Tri-Meet) Auburn Apr. 26—Georgia Atlanta Apr. 27—Auburn and Wofford (Tri-Meet) Atlanta Apr. 30—Georgia Athens May 5-7—Southern Intercollegiate Cape Coral May 12—Georgia State Atlanta May 16—Tennessee Knoxville
Tech Chemist Battles Malaria A Georgia Tech chemistry professor is among U. S. scientists trying to develop chemical compounds that will be effective against the new simian malaria attacking soldiers in the jungles and paddies ofViet Nam. Dr. James R. Cox, Jr., an organic chemist, has already sent several compounds to be tested with experimental animals by the Office of the Surgeon General in Washington, D. C. Dr. Cox says these compounds and others he is working on are very subtly different from the drug chloroquine used during World War II to prevent malaria. The new strain of malaria that is causing so many casualties in Viet Nam is transmitted from monkeys to mosquitoes to man and is much more virulent than TECH ALUMNUS
the old strains. It has been termed "malignant malaria" because of the very high fevers it causes, the extreme debilitating effects it has on the body and much higher percentage of deaths resulting from it. Dr. Cox became interested in the problem through Dr. Donald E. Pearson at Vanderbilt University who was his former research director when he studied for his master's of science degree at Vanderbilt a few years ago. Dr. Pearson worked on anti-malarial compounds during the Second World War and has continued with this interest. Last year he received a grant from the Surgeon General's Office for a larger research program and enlisted Dr. Cox in his efforts. Searching for just the right compound that will not be "degraded" or broken down by the parasite and which will inhibit the parasites growth or reproduction is very difficult. Dr. Cox says, because very little is known about the basic biochemistry of malaria within the body. He says there are probably hundreds of thousands of possibilities for variations of compounds—some 20,000 compounds have already been synthesized and tested. "Sometimes it is hard to get straight in your mind exactly what sorts of things have already been done, but the field is fascinating. It is very good and very unusual chemistry. Moreover, there is the challenge and the satisfaction that we may be able to help save lives and further the nation's military efforts if we can find the right compound." Tech's Hyder points for a substitute as his assistants Gilbreath (left) and Morrison look on with the squad's only starting senior Pete Caldwell. The final 13-13
Physicist McDaniel Honored Again DR. Earl W. McDaniel has received a Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship and is the only U. S. physicist to win one of these awards for study in the United Kingdom for the 1966-67 academic year. McDaniel is the author of Collision Phenomena in Ionized Gases, a book endorsed by Nobel Prize Winner Sir E. V. Appleton and other outstanding scientific reviewers. He and his family will leave for England in July, to return to the U. S. in August, 1967. While in England, McDaniel will perform research and write on the theoretical aspects of atomic collisions at the University of Durham. He will also travel extensively in England, Ireland, and on the continent—giving seminars and lectures on his research at Georgia Tech. During the summer of 1967 he will attend the Fifth International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
Stiemke Appointed Acting Dean ROBERT E. STIEMKE has been appointed
Acting Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech. He will serve in this capacity until the Vice President for Academic Affairs recommends a permanent appointee for this post, according to President Edwin Harrison. At that time President Harrison will recommend to the Board (continued on page 26) record with a predominately sophomore team that lacked height was Hyder's best coaching job. Next year should show an even better record with all the returnees.
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Genus Academicus | itch is a sticky matter in academe. That is to say, it may gum up communicathe academic world, pitch refers to the level at which a lecture is delivered, i.e., the very low or freshman-sophomore level, the neophyte or junior-senior level, and the level for the initiated—graduate students and professors. As long as the correct pitch is thrown to the right group, communication may be enhanced, but if the pitch is uncertain or the audience vertically integrated, comprehension may suffer. Thus, it is perhaps correctly assumed that if a professor delivers a lecture at the upperclassmen pitch to freshmen, most of the pitiful young rats will have the oppressive feeling that something in the form of a leaden cloud is floating above their heads. And, if a graduate student is forced to sit through a lecture that can be understood by a freshman, he will be insulted—indignant because that which he already understands is being explained and because there are not enough erudite and technical terms and, finally, because there are not enough allusions to the works of famous oracles with whom he is familiar. To avoid such catastrophes, experienced professors rarely deliver the wrong pitch to the wrong class. Difficulty arises when a lecturer is expected to talk to a broader audience encompassing the entire academic community, or the academic community plus the interested public. For instance, Dr. Jeremiah Kelvin, A.B. Cone Professor of Physics at Apex University is invited to speak in the McGravity Lecture Series. Dr. Kelvin is an absolute expert. A glowing account of his biography, the esoteric topic he will speak on, and the history of the McGravity Series appears in the campus and town newspapers. There may even be announcements on radio and television. But only 20 intrepid individuals appear in the vast auditorium reserved for the occasion. This type of debacle can happen all too easily because of the tendency of absolute experts to talk in absolute expertise, i.e., at the highest possible level, and when too large a facility is chosen for his dissertation. There may also be difficulties if no one is sure exactly what his pitch will be. Only the title can give a clue to this and it is helpful when the speaker notifies the invitation committee with a title that is completely unambiguous in pitch. The speaker's intention to only welcome an audience of experts is fairly clear if he says he will talk on "The Characterization of Non-Elementary Singular Points of NonUnear Systems in the Phase Plane," but if he says he will speak on "From Newton to Silly Putty" the public might safely amble in. Rooms for the gatherings may be chosen according to the level of the discussion. Of course, all of the problems of pitch could be eliminated if speakers could be found with gifts of clarification—men who can deliver a talk enthusiastically in such a way that many can understand without the sophisticates being outraged. But where do you find such men? This may be more difficult than finding the right pitch for the selected group. M.V.L. 26
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of Regents of the University System of Georgia that Dean Stiemke be named to the office of Vice President for Special Projects (although the name of the office may be changed while the position description remains the same). Dr. J. W. Mason, formerly Dean of Engineering, has been named Regents' Professor of Chemical Engineering, President Harrison announced. Stiemke came to Tech in 1950 as professor and director of the School of Civil Engineering. From 1961-63 he was director of the Engineering Experiment Station and in 1963 stepped up to become the Associate Dean of Faculties and Administrator of Research. A native of Wisconsin, he received his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of numerous publications and a member of many scientific and professional societies. He has served as director of the American Sanitary Engineering Inter-Society Board, as a member of several national committees and chairman of the Sanitary Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, as a member of the Executive Committee of the C.E. Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, and as president of the Georgia Engineering Society. Stiemke is also a member of the National Advisory Council on Public Health Training and of the Administrative Committee of the Engineering College Research Council.
New Lab Established at Tech GEORGIA TECH has signed a contract with the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Cotton to establish and operate a Fiber Evaluation and Research Laboratory. The laboratory to be located in the Hightower Textile Building, will characterize the Georgia cotton crop each year as an aid to the farmer in the orderly marketing of his bales—(presumably, if we may be humorous, so there will be fewer baleful farmers). The results of tests of representative samples will be disseminated to producers, cotton merchants and textile manufacturers so they will know more about the characteristics and possible uses of the Georgia cotton. In this way it is hoped that more of the Georgia crop can be moved into the regular channels of trade rather than into governmental loan programs. The eventual goal is a program in which every bale grown in the state will be characterized in this laboratory and marketed on the basis of this analysis. The laboratory will be operated under a project assigned by Tech to the A. French Textile School—Dr. James L. Taylor, director. The project director will be Professor J. W. McCarty, with Professor Raymond K. Flege and Winston TECH ALUMNUS
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We can react diketene and tert.-butyl alcohol to tert.-butyl acetoacetate [CH 3 COCH 2 COOC(CH 3 ) 3 ] by methods that bring the price down to $3.50 a pound—about onesixth the prevailing research-quantity price—with the usual prospect for a substantial further plunge as volume develops. A plunge to reach the price level of methyl acetoacetate and ethyl acetoacetate, two currently large-volume acetoacetic esters of ours, is unlikely. The tert.-butyl ester, however, has an advantage over the other two. When alkylated to CH 3 COCHRCOOC(CH 3 ) 3 , mere heating
with a trace of acid catalyst drives off first (CH 3 ) 2 C = C H 2 and then C 0 2 , leaving CH 3 COCH 2 R. With the cheaper acetoacetate esters for making ketones, there is no such neat cleavage. There the ethyl or methyl group has to be hydrolyzed off, and if R happens to be hydrolysis-sensitive itself, poof goes the yield. This same readiness of a-alkylated tert.-butyl acetoacetic esters to split out isobutylene and then decarboxylate opens up promising routes also to carboxylic acids, pyrroles, pyrazalones, uracils, and coumarins.
Now assume we have large supplies of diketene and tert.-butyl alcohol, as indeed we do. The problem: multiply their combined economic value to many times the sum of their separate values.
THE INSTITUTE-cont. C. Boteler available to assist in the program as needed. Now under construction, the laboratory will be approximately 24 feet by 48 feet and equipped with its own air conditioning equipment so a standard atmosphere of 65 percent relative humidity at 70 degrees Fahrenheit may be maintained on a 24-hour-a-day basis. Testing equipment for determining color, fineness, length and strength of cotton fibers is being obtained. The regular textile mill machinery in the school will eventually be used to perform a number of small spinning tests.
Series of Large Grants Come to Tech GEORGIA TECH has recently received more
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than $250,000 from the National Science Foundation and over $51,000 from the National Institutes of Health. The largest, a $205,000 grant from the NSF, was awarded to Georgia Tech as an institution and not labeled for the support of particular projects. A committee of the top academic administrators received requests for funds from researchers in all of the scientific and technological schools and departments. Awards have been made to 35 for everything from the support of a postdoctoral fellow in the field of chemical kinetics to the continuation of a project dealing with fast neutron activation analysis. Another grant of $27,000 was awarded to Tech by the N S F for support of research under the direction of Dr. John A. Bailey in the School of Mechanical Engineering on "Chip Formation and the Mechanics of Metal Cutting." An N S F grant of $19,400 will support research by Dr. Eugene C. Ashby in the School of Chemistry on the "Composition of Grignard Compounds in Diethyl Ether." A $36,534 award from the Division of Radiological Health of the National Institutes of Health will continue the program of Radiation Health Training at Tech. Tech has one of two radiation health training programs in the state. Students studying for their master's degrees in any of the science or engineering fields at Tech can enroll at the same time in this program. Training qualifies them to supervise the safe use of radioactive materials in research laboratories.
Du Pont Supports Chemistry School
tunities to advance their professional development by engaging in research or other scholarly activities during the summer," according to Du Pont.
Water Resources Center Gets Grant A $30,541 grant that will allow a Georgia Tech researcher to study the interrelationships between the development of the Chattahoochee River Basin and the development of the Atlanta Metropolitan area has been awarded by the U. S. Office of Water Resources Research. Associate Professor of City Planning Guy J. Kelnhofer, Jr., received the grant through the Water Resources Center at Georgia Tech. Professor Kalnhofer says he will first analyze proposals for Chattahoochee Basin development suggested by government and private agencies and will estimate the effects of these improvements. He will next study plans for metropolitan development proposed by public and private planning agencies, and the probable effects on the Chattahoochee. Finally, he will analyze possible conflicts between the proposals and hopes to suggest changes in development planning procedures that will resolve these differences. The Tech professor says that this research will be a case study with broader applications in the general problems of river basin and urban development.
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meeting of the Americus Georgia Tech Club, the newly-revitalized group elected the following officers: T. Griffin Walker, president; Kernwood C. Brown, vice president; and William S. Harris, secretary-treasurer. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA—Joe Guthridge, vice
president for development; and Jamie Anthony, vice president/controller were the featured speakers at the January 22 meeting of the Southern California Georgia Tech Club. Guthridge gave a slide presentation of the Tech campus development plans and the current status of the program. Anthony talked briefly about the changes in the campus during his tenure at Tech. Elected during the business meeting were the following officers: Andrew A. Mahoff, president; Sidney R. Smith, vice president; Lawrence J. Ladner, secretary; and Lloyd R. Ash, treas-
GEORGIA TECH has received $7,400 recent-
ly in aid to education programs from the Du Pont Company. The School of Chemistry has received a postgraduate teaching assistant award of $3,000, while the Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering received summer research grants of $2,200 each. The purpose of the summer research grants is "to give younger staff members oppor-
ATLANTA, GEORGIA—A discussion on Ad-
missions and Recruiting was the highlight of the February 9 meeting of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club. Over 175 alumni turned out to hear Registrar and Director of Admissions Bill Carmichael trace the changes in Tech's admissions policies over the past decade and Assistant Coach and Recruiting Director Spec TECH ALUMNUS
Landrum discuss the athletic recruiting problems brought on by the changes. President Tom Bradbury presided.
M C We recently learned of the death I J of Ralph G. Malone, Sr., on December 12, 1965.
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA—In one of his final
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appearances before leaving Tech to become director of the Engineering Experiment Station at VPI, Dr. William B. Harrison talked to the Huntsville Georgia Tech Club on October 18. Harrison concentrated on discussing the capabilities of Georgia Tech's Nuclear Reactor, one of his responsibilities while he was at Tech. On January 27, Dean George Griffin paid a return visit to Huntsville by popular demand and spoke on leadership among today's college students. N E W YORK CITY—Elected as the new offi-
cers of the Georgia Tech Club of New York City during the December meeting were Peter Pund, president; Harvey R. Cohen, vice president; Herbert E. Boss, secretary-treasurer; Frank Watson, L. S. Covey, Phil Skidmore, W. J. Maier, J. Braun, and Hal Reeves, assistant secretaries; and Jack Holman, Hazard Reeves, Herbert Dieckmann, Sid Goldin, and Bill Stein, board of directors. ORLANDO, FLORIDA—The Georgia Tech Club of Central Florida elected the following officers at the November 22 meeting: C. C. Tomlin, Jr., president; Don Carraway, vice president; Art Siegel, secretary; and Max Ireland, treasurer. SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA—The Northern
California Georgia Tech Club met on January 21 in San Mateo to hear from Joe Guthridge, Jamie Anthony, and Roane Beard, alumni secretary. Terrell Hill presided at the meeting at which a new dues structure was established to support the club's Bay Area Scholarship Fund. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Washington Georgia Tech Club will hold its dinner dance at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington on April 30. Dean George Griffin will be the featured speaker at this annual affair, and all alumni in the area may make reservations by calling Bill Krause (Area Code 703, 671-2680) or Jim Talentino (Area Code 301, 622-1647).
James H. Preas, Jr., Johnson City, Tennessee, died January 31, 1965.
' 1 7 ^ e n a v e been notified of the death I ' of C. W. Stoffregen, CE, on December 22, 1965. ' 9 ( | W. M. Tanner, EE, died Septem^ U ber 27, 1965. ' O O D. S. Kerr. EE, has retired after L.L. 44 years as commercial vice president for Allis-Chalmers, Atlanta. Mr. Kerr represented Allis-Chalmers in 12 southeastern and eastern states maintaining relationships with civic, industry and customer officials in the area. ' O Q George H. Brodnax has received ^ « a 40-year service emblem from the Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Brodnax is vice president. John O. Chiles died January 4, 1966.. Mr. Chiles was president at AdamsCates Company, Realtors, since 1953 and Chairman of the Board as of January 1, 1966. Mr. Chiles was known as "Mr. Real Estate" among his business associates. Mr. Chiles was a member of the Atlanta Real Estate Board for 35 years, a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Atlanta, and director of the Trust Company of Georgia and Colonial Stores, Inc. His widow lives at 2993 Andrews Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' O C Brig. Gen. R. H. Betts, Com., has £** been awarded the "Good Citizenship Medal" for 1965 by the Sons of the American Revolution. The award was for his ". . . most honorable and patriotic service so freely given to all mankind, and more especially in the local, state and National level in the Civil Defense program . . ." Frank Newton. EE, vice president, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Birmingham, Alabama, has accepted the John P. Newsome Free Enterprise Award on behalf of the company in Birmingham. • O l John William Smith, GE, owner ™ ' of Engineering Contractors and Certified Parts Company, died December 31, 1965. ' O O A. Hunter Baird, Jr., EE, died OC June 1, 1965, in Jackson, Ten-
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' 0 ^ James L. Elrod, ME, died Janu0*T ary 30, 1966. Mr. Elrod was Southeastern district sales manager for the electrical division of Reynolds Metal Corporation of Atlanta. His widow lives at 675 Edgewater Trail, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. R. R. Ludlam. Chem., has been appointed manager of the planning and
Faces in the News Leonard M. Thompson, '33, has been appointed vice president in charge of fabric development and planning for the Danville Division of Dan Rvier Mills, Inc. He is regional chairman of the Virginia Manufacturers Association and was recently elected to the Danville School Board. Frank Dunbar, '34, of Lakeland, Fla., has been named by Armour Agricultural Chemical Co. to be manager of its Florida phosphate operations headquartered in Bartow, Fla. A veteran of 31 years with Armour, Dunbar moved to Fla. in October as chief engineer.
James E. Pierce, '38, has been named General Manager of Sales—coordinating marketing activities in machinery and industrial equipment, construction products, appliances, and the fastener industries —for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh. L. J. Harris, '39, has been elected a vice president of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company with headquarters at Oak Brook, III. He joined CB&I in 1939, and is regional manager of the company's Western Contracting region, Pasadena, California.
H. R. "Ray" Perry, '40, has been appointed chief planning engineer for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco. A native of Arlington, Ga., he is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a registered electrical engineer.
Ralph W. Pries, '40, has been elected by ABC Consolidated Corp. as a corporate vice president of the national food service company. Active in helping handicapped children, he has been a member of Variety Clubs International for the past 25 years. Also is a past president of a Ga. Tech Club.
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Faces in the News Kenneth B. Woodard, '43, has been promoted to Head of the Public Telephone Department at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Indianapolis. He will be responsible for the design and development of public telephone station equipment including coin telephones and telephone booths. Samuel Marsh Long, Jr., '46, retired in 1964 with 20 years in the Navy Supply Corps. He now has been named assistant to the manager of Steel Plants, Lukens Steel Co., Coatesville, Pa. He earned his M.S. degree in Information Science from Tech in 1965. M. Lamar Oglesby, '50, vice president for Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated—one of the nation's largest investment banking firms — will direct the company's new Southeastern Regional Office in Atlanta. The office will service Ga., Fla., S.C. and Ala.
NEWS BY CLASSE S—cont. realization for the division's manufacturing department of Monsanto Company. ' Q C Dr. Frederick S. Barkalow. Chem., * * " has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr.. Barkalow's major field of research has centered around population dynamics in small mammals. Edwin A. Peeples, Arch., author and vice president for Gray & Rogers Advertising, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been named state chairman for the 1966 National Library Week observance in Pennsylvania. J. L. Brooks, Jr., CE, has announced the formation of a land development and insurance agency company, the J. L. Brooks Corporation, 2045 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. The new company will focus attention on land development and will continue to serve all major insurance needs.
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'Afi Stephen O. Addison has been •" named president of Cleveland Woolens, a division of Burlington Industries, Inc., in Cleveland, Tennessee. Eugene C. Gwaltney. Jr., ME, vice president and general manager of Russell Mills, Inc., Alexander City, Alabama, has been reappointed to serve on the Birmingham branch board of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank. 1
E. J. (Ed) Shockley, '50, has been promoted to chief development test engineer with LockheedGeorgia Company. He was elevated from the post of deputy chief development test engineer which he had held since 1964. He joined Lockheed-Georgia in 1953. Robert B. Van Tassel, '50, has been appointed vice president in charge of finishing and knitting for the Danville Division of Dan River Mills, Inc. Prior to this, he was assigned the responsibility for the expanding knitting operations at the Danville Division. Ben W. Martin, '52, has been named president of the Bulk Terminals Co., which was formed recently following acquisition of the Bulk Terminals Division (where Martin was head) of the Union Tank Car Company by a group of Chicago-area investors.
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Af) Frank A. Sayre, Jr., ME, retired • « naval officer, has joined Coast Engineering Company as a vice president. Mr. Sayre's last military assignment was as planning and estimating superintendent of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. ^AO John A. Marshall. ME, southeast •*• regional commercial manager in Atlanta for Honeywell Corporation, has been made regional sales manager for the mid-Atlantic, with offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ' A A ^r- Gordon B. Stine has been pre•• sented the Charleston, South Carolina, Exchange Club's "Man of the Year" award for the second consecutive year. ' AH Douglas A. Donald, CE, has been • I named Marketing Manager for Humble Oil & Refining Company's operation in Florida and Georgia, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Preston Mcintosh, Arch., died January 16, 1966, in Atlanta, Georgia. ' A f t William L. • " Camp Oil elected to serve on of the National Georgia.
Camp. IE, president, Company, has been the board of directors City Bank, Rome,
' E f l Stephen T. Biggers, Text., has * » " been named assistant district man-
ager for the New Orleans sales district of National Gypsum Company. Rogers M. MacMillan, IE, has been elected assistant mortgage loan officer with the C & S National Bank in Atlanta, Georgia. Henry F. McCamish. Jr., IM, staff supervisor of the Atlanta Agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, has set a new company record for individual life sales during 1965. Mr. McCamish has been with Massachusetts Mutual for 10 years. S. T. Nutting, Jr., IE, has been appointed general manager of Union BagCamp Paper Corporation's Honeycomb Division in New York. John C. Portman, Jr.. partner in the firm of Edwards and Portman, Architects and Engineers, has accepted an invitation from the American Institute of Steel Construction to serve as a juror on their 1966 Architectural Awards of Excellence judging to take place in New York City on May 13. Portman was also one of 38 construction newsmakers honored in New York at the first "Construction's Man of the Year" banquet, sponsored by the Engineering News-Record magazine. ' C I Charles C. Baker. ME, has been ** I promoted to major in the United States Air Force. Major Baker is an instructor at the Warfare Systems School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. John Dillard Watt, Jr.. IM, died in January, 1966, at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mr. Watt was associated with Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated. J. Tom Walters, Text., president, Integrated Products, Incorporated, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the National City Bank, Rome, Georgia. ' C O Hix H. Green. Jr.. IM, has been **fc elected president of the Hix Green Buick Company. Mr. Green is 1966 president of the Atlanta Automobile Association. Campbell L. Smith. IM, has been named assistant manager of Goodyear's Industrial Products Division conveyor belting sales department. Captain James C. Wise, Jr., was killed December 23, 1965, in Viet Nam. Captain Wise was leading a mission of the South Vietnamese Air Force's "Divine Wind" Squadron. He was serving with the 522nd V. Than Thang squadron as an advisor. He has been posthumously promoted to the rank of major. Commander John W. Young, AE, has drawn a flight assignment for Gemini 10 as the command pilot. Gemini 10 is officially on the books for the third quarter of this year. »CQ Dr. Robert F. Dye. ChE, has joined 3 0 the staff of Shell Development Company's Emeryville, California, research center as an engineer in the licensing and design engineering department. George Lundquist, Arch., died Jan. 4. TECH ALUMNUS
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Faces in the News Joseph C. Sewell, '53, has been elected a vice president of Southeastern Construction Company, with headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. Sewell joined the firm after graduating from Tech and worked on various field projects and also in the Fla. office of the company. Phillip J. Sullivan, '55, was r e c e n t l y named manager of aircraft programs, Washington, D.C. area for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. He joined the company in Burbank, Calif, in 1957 and moved as Washington representative in 1964. His home address is 6005 Milo Dr., Wash. William R. Skinner, '56, who is with the National Gypsum Company, has been named assistant district manager of the Charlotte, N.C. sales district with pro'duct sales responsibility for the company's general line of building products in the State of South Carolina. Richard W. Forsythe, '57, has been appointed manager of Rocket Research Corporation's Eastern Office located in Hyattsville, Maryland. He is a specialist in satellite engineering and was formerly with Electro-Mechanical Research, Inc. and also with NASA.
W. Richard Havenstein, '58, has made the Million Dollar Round Table for the seventh straight year. Richard, agent for the National Life of Vermont, is connected with the Warren Griffin Agency in Atlanta. He is a Chartered Life Underwriter. Lt. Richard H. Truly, '59, (Navy) has been selected as one of the 8 aerospace research pilots for assignment to the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOD program. He is one of the first to be selected of a planned total of 20 who will be trained for future space flights.
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NEWS BY CLASS S—cent. Major Don H. Noakley, IM, is attending the 18-week associate course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. Kansas. A. G. Randolph, EE, has been elected President and Chairman of the Board of Systems Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated. Claude R. Reip has been elected assistant operations officer—data processing with the Citizens and Southern National Bank. » C ^ Charles C. Crawford, Jr., AE, has **• been awarded the Army's Outstanding performance award. Mr. Crawford is Chief, Technical Management Division, Office of the Project Manager, Light Observation Helicopter, Headquarters, U. S. Army Materiel Command, Washington, D. C. W. C. Landis, Jr., has been elected secretary-treasurer of the firm, Systems Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated. ' E C Robert J. Bitowft, Arch., has re*'*' cently accepted a position as a senior management consultant with the firm of Peat, Marwick, Livingston and Company. Mr. Bitowft received a Master's degree in Business Administration from Loyola University in June, 1965. Louis B. Hotzclaw, Jr., Arch. Engr., has been promoted by Texaco, Incorporated, to chief construction engineer, Atlanta, Georgia. Charles Edward Niedner, TE, is factory manager of the Thurmont Shoe Company, Thurmont, Maryland, a division of the Cannon Shoe Company, Baltimore, Maryland. D. Glenn Rainey, IM, has been named Jackson, Tennessee's Young Man of the Year for 1965 by the Jaycees. Talmadge T. Williams, Phys., Systems Analysis, has written a paper on Calibration and Accuracy Evaluation of ARIS Radars for Signature Measurements that was presented at the 1965 International Space Electronics Symposium. ' C C Major Lesil S. Bomar, Jr., Text., *»W has completed the associate course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. John E. Greasel, ChE, has joined Consumers Cooperative Association as plant superintendent of a 600 Ton/day Anhydrous Ammonia plant now under construction at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. F. M. "Buck" Wiley, Jr., IM, a son, F. M. "Buck" Wiley III, November 26. Mr. Wiley is associated with Adams-Cates Co. Realtors, Atlanta. They live at 811 Wesley Drive, N.W. Atlanta. ' C I Edward W. Davis, ME, is working *» ' on a PhD degree at Yale University. Captain Ralph N. Knox, ME, was graduated from the Air University's Squadron
Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Captain Knox was selected for the special professional officer training in recognition of his potential as a leader in the aerospace force. Theodore M. Williams is a senior at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in the School of Theology. ' C O C. Sam Davis. IE, president of * » " Sam Davis Engineers, Incorporated, announces the relocation of the office to Suite 136, 795 Peachtree Street Building, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Sam Davis Engineers is currently practicing industrial engineering, civil engineering, land surveying and industrial improvement. Lt. Thomas J. Leverette, Jr., IM, was killed January 7, 1966, at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Meridian, Mississippi. Lt. Leverette was an instructor in a Navy jet trainer. Bernard L. Weinstein. Arch., has recently opened his own architectural firm in Nashville, Tennessee. The address is 203 Fairfax Avenue, Nashville, Tennes' E Q C. Spencer Godfrey, IM, has just ^ ^ received his Masters of Professional Accounting from Georgia State College. He is employed by National Service Industries as a systems analyst. Robert N. Johnson, IM, has been appointed dealer sales supervisor in the Jacksonville, Florida, district of the Atlantic Refining Company. | Married: Robert Allingham, Jr., VV to Miss Laura Pou in January. Mr. Allingham is associated with Cameo Paints, Incorporated in Atlanta. Captain Raymond K. Elderd, Jr., IE, has transferred from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to Georgia Tech to study for a Master's degree in industrial engineering. Captain and Mrs. Elderd announce the birth of a son on December 19, 1965. Frank Howden, Phys., is a theological student at the School of Theology of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Brannon B. Lesesne. Jr., IM., has become associated with the Atlanta Southeastern Regional Office of Kidder, Peabody and Company, Incorporated, as an account executive. Married: Joseph W. Oldknow, Jr., to Miss Beverly Brackett, December 4, 1965. Mr. Oldknow is employed by the Ashcraft-Wilkinson Company. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Reeves, IM, a daughter, Leigh Ruth, April 22, 1965. Mr. Reeves is with the Clorox Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, as plant engineer. Joseph L. Simmons, IM, has been elected assistant trust officer of the Citizens and Southern National Bank. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
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Faces in the News Stanley L. Daniels, '60, has formed a partnership with Henri V. Jova for the general practice of architecture. The firm, known as Jova/Daniels, Architects, is located at 75 Cone Street, N.W., Atlanta. Daniels is a member of American Institute of Architects.
William M. Graves, '60, has been elected vice president of Management Science Atlanta, Inc. Graves was one of the founders of the firm and has served as director of Scientific Programming. New location for the company is The MSA Building, 1389 Peachtree Street, N.E. John D. R. Bowen, '61, has joined Welsh Manuf a c t u r i n g Co., Providence, R.I., as regional sales manager for the Southwestern- territory, consisting of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Brian D. Hogg, '61, has joined the staff of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association as associate secretary. Hogg, who has previous experience with IBM, Beck and Gregg, and the Strombecker Corp., will concentrate on office management and procedures initially. W. Davison Gale, M.S., '62, has recently joined MacConochie Construction, Incorporated, Atlanta, as a vice president. Formerly a vice president with AnsleyAderhold Co., Dave, his wife and three children now reside at 3929 N. Stratford Road, N.E. Johnny Gresham, '65, a former varsity football co-captain, has joined Pope & Carter Company as a building leasing and sales representative. Since his June graduation, he has been a member of the Tech freshman football squad coaching staff.
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NEWS BY CLASS ES—cent. Cheryl Elizabeth, October 31, 1965. Mr. Howell has accepted a position as Southern district sales manager for the Stearns and Foster Company, Cincinnati. Ohio. Lt. William N. Johnson, EE, was graduated December 17, 1965, from the Air University's Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Lt. Joe S. Smith, CE, has been certified as a C-141 Star Lifter aircraft commander at Charleston AFB, South Carolina. ' C O Lt. Donald L. Burke, EE, has been "L awarded silver wings upon graduation from the U. S. Air Force navigator school at James Connally AFB, Texas. Robert L. Hunter, Jr., IM, has completed his tour of active duty in the U. S. Air Force as a management engineering officer at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas. He is now with IBM in data processing sales. Married: Donald Langston Norris, IM, to Miss Lucretia Lynn Jordan, February 20, 1966. Mr. Norris is employed by Procter and Gamble as a unit manager in Montgomery, Alabama. Lt. Herbert W. Stewart, IM, has been awarded silver wings upon graduation from the U. S. Air Force Navigator training at James Connally AFB, Texas. J. D. Williamson, HI, ME, was separated from the Army on November 17, 1965. He is with General Electric in their manufacturing training program. Walter J. Wise, Jr., IM, is now associated with the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Goodbody and Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange. He recently completed three years active duty with the U. S. Marine Corps. CQ Married: Lt. William D. Clark, U v IM, to Miss Emily Tyler, February 12, 1966. Lt. Clark is stationed with the U. S. Air Force Strategic Air Command at Seymour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, North Carolina. Engaged: Lt. Samuel P. Clemence, CE, to Miss Jane Houck. The wedding will be next summer in Atlanta. Lt. Clemence is now stationed with the Seabees in Thailand. Married: Evelio E. Gil, ME, to Miss Gloria Michel, December 23, 1965. Mr. Gil is a sales engineer for the International Division Headquarters of Otis Elevator Company in New York City. Mr. William H. Mc Daniel, Jr., EE, joined Radiation, Incorporated, Melbourne, Florida, as an engineer. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Stoddard, Psy., a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, November 18, 1965. Mr. Stoddard is enrolled at Stetson Law School, St. Petersburg, Florida. Lt. Robert W. Sturgeon, AE, was Miss Carrol Baker's escort officer on the USS Ticonderoga. Miss Baker was with the Bob Hope Troupe.
' R A E- A. Brackney. EE, is an aircraft " T 1 research engineer at LockheedGeorgia Company. Lt. Philip L. Martin. IE, a member of the 242nd Supply and Service Battalion attached to the 24th Infantry Division, participated in Exercise VICTORY EXPRESS, a nine-day field training exercise in Germany. Lt. D. David Maynard, ME, has been awarded U. S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Laredo AFB, Texas. Lt. M. L. Rogers, IE, presently on duty with the 7th Infantry Division in Korea, has been assigned to the U. S. Army Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Georgia. He is engaged to be married to Miss Janice Middlebrooks in April, 1966. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Lamar E. Sarratt, ChE, a son, Christopher Emery, December 30, 1965. Mr. Sarratt is project engineer for Mobil Chemical Company, Nichols, Florida. Their address is Route 5, Box 374, Lakeland, Florida. George M. Taylor, Phys., has graduated from the Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia. He has been ordered to the Navy Supply Center, Charleston, South Carolina. Engaged: Richard C. Tucker, CE, to Miss Laura Marie Bunte. Their wedding is planned for March 26, 1966. ' C E Lt. Henry W. Beeson, IE, is at" J tending the U. S. Army Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Texas. Lt. James L. Conn, EE, has completed an ordnance officer basic course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Engaged: Paul D. Espy, ChE, to Miss Suellen Schuessler. The wedding will be June 25, 1966, in Dalton, Georgia. Lt. Robert C. Gordon, IE, has been assigned to a Signal Battalion in Duesseldorf, Germany. Lt. Nicholas Grynkewich CereE, has been assigned to Moody AFB, Georgia, for pilot training. Thomas J. Hankee. EE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Dennis T. Love, EE, has completed an ordnance officer basic course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Lt. James F. Mincey, Jr., ME, has completed an ordnance officer basic course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Richard W. Oates, AE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force upon completion of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. A3C Charlie Oldham, Chem., has been assigned to the medical squadron at Wilford Hall USAF Hospital helping with medical research. Lt. William W. Sumits, IE, has completed an eight week signal officer basic course at the Army Southeastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia. TECH ALUMNUS
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Y( UR 1966-67 OFFICERS NOW
OMINATED to head the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association during the 1966-67 year is Alvin M . Ferst, '43, of Atlanta. T h e nominating committee (Fred Storey, '33, chairman; Allen H a r d i n , '53; a n d M a r t h a m e Sanders, '26) n a m e d t h e following men to run on the slate with Ferst: W. Howard Ector, '40, of Marietta, vice president-at-large; L. Lawrence Gellerstedt, '45, vice president; and D . Braxton Blalock, Jr., '34, treasurer. Also named by the committee for three-year elected terms as trustees were H u g h H. Armstrong, '43, of Savannah; Philip J. Malenson, '50, of Marietta; Willard B. McBurney, '52, of Atlanta; and Charles H. Peterson, '51, of Metter, Georgia.
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The Nominees For President—Alvin M . Ferst, Jr., a vice president of Rich's, is serving his second year as vice president of the Association. A top business and civic leader in the Atlanta area, Ferst has headed the Association Board's important research committee since 1963 when it was founded a n d has served two years as chairman of the fundraising committee. For Vice President-at-Large—Howard Ector—formerly executive secretary of both the Alumni Association a n d the Georgia Tech Foundation and business manager of the Athletic Association— is currently a trust officer with the Trust Company of Georgia a n d one of the state's best-known business a n d civic leaders. H e served as vice president-at-large of the Association during the past year. For Vice President—Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr., is president of the Beers Construction Company of Atlanta. Gellerstedt, a top student a n d student leader at Tech, has been a member of the Board of Trustees for two years a n d treasurer for the past two years. H e is president of the Georgia Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America. For Treasurer—D. Braxton Blalock, Jr.—president of Blalock Machinery a n d E q u i p m e n t Company, Inc.—is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association. H e is now serving as a member of the scholarship MARCH 1966
a n d fund raising committees. H e is past president of the Associated Equipment Distributors and of the Kiwanis Club of Sandy Springs. For Trustee—Hugh H. Armstrong— president of Armstrong Construction Company, a n d H u g h Armstrong Real E s t a t e Company, and C h a t h a m Picture Framing Company, all of Savannah, as well as president of Ocala N a tional Forest Campsites, Inc. of Ocala, Florida—is a past president of the Savannah Georgia Tech Club. For Trustee—Philip J . Malenson—a partner and secretary-treasurer of D a mar, Inc. (sheet metal contractor)—is a past president of both the M a r i e t t a Rotary Club a n d the M a r i e t t a Country Club. A member of the M a r i e t t a Chamber of Commerce, Malenson was the 1963-64 chairman for the M a r i e t t a area campaign of the J o i n t TechGeorgia Development Fund. For Trustee—Willard B. M c B u r n e y — general partner in M c B u r n e y Stoker and Equipment Company—is a member of the Georgia Engineering Society, the American Society of M e chanical Engineers, the Capital City Club, and the Piedmont Driving Club. For Trustee—Charles H . Peterson— president of the M e t t e r Manufacturing Company—is currently an appointed trustee on the Association Board. A director of the M e t t e r Chamber of Commerce and a Rotarian, Peterson is a member of both the scholarship and fund raising committees.
How to Vote All active members of the Association who desire to confirm the above nominations for officers and elected trustees or who wish to present write-in candi-
A. M. Ferst, Jr., '43
L. L. Gellerstedt, '45
H. H. Armstrong, '43
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W. B. McBurney, '52
W. H. Ector, '40
D. B. Blalock, Jr., '34
P. J. Malenson, '50
C. H. Peterson, '51
dates m a y do so b y filling out the official ballot on this page and mailing it to the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. T h i s vote is for election. Be sure to sign your ballot.
BALLOT FOR NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND T R U S T E E S , 1966-67 • My check in box indicates approval of nominees or I vote for the following write in candidates: FOR P R E S I D E N T : FOR VICE P R E S I D E N T : FOR VICE P R E S I D E N T (at large): FOR TREASURER: FOR T R U S T E E S (vote for four): Signed:_ Class: Mail before May 1 to Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Atlanta, Ga. 30332
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