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LONG-AWAITED COMMENCEMENT Almost three decades after the serious planning started on Tech's Student Center, ground was broken on Pearl Harbor Day in a ceremony featuring the two cover subjects.

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THE MOON ABOVE & THE EARTH BELOW Two of the nation's best-known space experts discuss everything from NASA's policy with the universities to the hoped-for exploration of Mars in a special report.

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A LOOK BACK AT EUROPE A pair of Tech students recall some experiences during their recent visits to Europe and included in these memoirs are a conversation with some communists a n d a view of t h e I A E S T E program.

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SECOND VERSE, SAME OLD SONG The 1967-68 Tech basketball team picked u p the injury syndrome exactly where the football team left it and a t this writing sport a 9-9 record, which wasn't what Whack Hyder had planned for.

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THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL In its new format, the news of the campus, clubs a n d alumni may be found back of the second cover which this issue features snow, of which Atlanta has had its share this year.

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The two old friends on the cover of this issue are of course Professor Emeritus Fred Wenn of Industrial Management and Dean of Students Emeritus George Griffin, the two men who more than any other brought about t h e Tech Student Center. T h e photograph is by Bill Childress, J r . and you may find more about the men on page 4.

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January-February, 1968

You may recall that a few issues ago we devoted a column to the frustrations of the turnover of girls in the Tech News Bureau. Well, since that time, the situation has worsened considerably. Mary Ann Walker did not mar*^. a shrimp fisherman from Key West, but she couldn't resist a photographer from Chicago and off she went. After this defection, we gave up and hired a married type, the wife of a doctoral candidate in Nuclear Engineering, reasoning that she couldn't possibly run off and get married. But suddenly her two small children became ill and she left.

Back we went to the single-girl type. In mid-January we hired Julie McClure, the city's best young science writer. It so happens that Julie and Mary Ann roomed together in Atlanta, went to the University of Florida, and worked in Cocoa Beach before they migrated to Atlanta.

There are so many coincidences here that before Julie arrives on the scene, we are beginning to get nervous. If our luck changes, you will be reading Julie's copy in coming issues. If it doesn't, she will be walking into the office one of these days to announce that she is taking off for Viet Nam to marry-a war correspondent.

If this wasn't enough to boggle the mind, Editorial Assistant De Gilmore's husband of "What Makes Johnny Run" fame finished his degree requirements in December, and the entire family promptly left Atlanta to seek fame and fortune in the oil exploration industry in Cutoff, Louisiana. She was, in turn, replaced by the wife of another long-term student (who naturally is beginning to show signs of graduating very soon).

Her name is Caroline McConochie and she has been working on the magazine on weekends for six months while employed elsewhere.

But there is a happy note in all of this marriage fever around the office.

Mary Jane Reynolds, the heart and soul of the publications office for 10 years, caught a case of it in October and became Mrs. Bobby Smith. Fortunately for Tech and the editor's sanity, she is staying on the job. We are not sure we could have managed to stand up under that loss. R.B.W. Jr.

Photographed by James Walters and Bill Childress, Jr.

A LONG-AWAITED COMMENCEMENT ON T H E TWENTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY

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of Pearl Harbor Day, the two gentlemen flanking these pages were the central figures in a groundbreaking ceremony that they had been patiently waiting for since February 16 of the year of the infamous Japanese attack. They are Professor Emeritus Fred B. Wenn (left) and Dean Emeritus George C. Griffin. And their project, of course, is the Georgia Tech Student Center, the subject of more false starts, more frustrations, and more dedicated work by more people than any other building in Tech history.

The Student Center has been delayed for reasons ranging from lack of money (the usual one) to lack of interest in high places. During the seemingly never-ending period of gestation, the name of the building has been changed from Student Union to Student Activities Building to Student Center to Georgia Tech Center and finally back to Student Center. And it has become such a focal point for frustration on the campus that President Harrison was once moved to say that, "the best justification in the world for Georgia Tech to have a Student Center is that it is currently the only major institution in the country without one."

The building has still another distinction—the financing of the project came from the widest source of funds in Tech history. The new center and its furnishings will be paid for by $1,600,000 from state bond issues; $458,366 from the Student Activities Building Fund (which itself secured this money from hundreds of sources ranging from a Shakespearean play to the project's share of the Student Activities Fee voted by the students in 1954); $250,000 from Tech's Auxiliary Enterprises (which operates the dining halls, bookstore, and College Inn, among other things); $205,000 from the Athletic Association; $150,756 from the Letty Pate Evans Fund; $30,000 from the annual landscaping allocation; $25,000 from alumnus Harold Montag; and $25,000 The Georgia Tech Alumnus

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ON PEARL HARBOR DAY from the Tech County-City Fund.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, Professor Wenn traced the history of the building, pointing out that the origin of the then-called Student Union Fund could be traced directly back to February 16, 1941, when the Tech chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa voted to abandon a five-year improvement plan initiated in 1939 by the chapter in order to dress up the North Avenue side of the campus. The ODK officers approached Tom Jones, president of the 1939 class, and Howard Ector, president of the 1940 class, for permission to use their class gifts originally presented to ODK for the improvement project for the Student Union Fund. Both consented to the change in plans and the project was launched. The fund was upped to $1,880 by a gift from the 1941 class.

The funds were deposited with the Tech Treasurer's Office in December of 1941 when it became apparent that there would be little interest in the project with the coming of World War II. In April, 1942, those trying to keep the project alive in a time of trial approached the student body with an appeal to purchase defense stamps and donate them to the fund. A year later the first purchase of a Series F Bond for $600 was made by the fund.

In January, 1946, with the war behind them, ODK members brought in the Barter Theater Players to present Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as a benefit performance at the old Erlanger Theater. Despite one of the rainiest days in Atlanta's history, the play cleared $201.37.

This was followed by controller Jamie Anthony's permission to allow ODK the right to charge cars for campus parking during football games, and the honorary leadership fraternity also began holding used book sales along with APO, the service fraternity. Then came the auction of unclaimed items found on campus which featured George Griffin January-February, 1968

After close to three decades, the Tech Student Center is finally on its way

Viewing the model in the Library, the two men begin to see the fruits of their efforts for the Student Center.

Long-Awaited—cont. as the auctioneer. All of this helped the fund, but the long wait ahead if money were to only come through these types of efforts discouraged all but the most faithful of the workers on the project.

Tech's fifth president, Dr. Blake R. Van Leer, was, according to Wenn, "the best morale booster we had. He believed in the project and he continued to get funds from commencement speakers and other sources and each year would stump for the project in his report to the Board of Regents."

Van Leer and Coach Bobby Dodd suggested that ODK get some of the funds from the T-Day game initiated in 1946 and allowed the fraternity to hold sales of odds and ends found in the stadium. Van Leer organized a committee of faculty, students, and alumni to look into the building of the center and spent money on soil tests, architect's drawings, consulting fees, and other preliminary planning for the project.

In 1954, a group of student liaders joined George Griffin in a trip to Auburn to look 6yer the center there.

They came back with the idea that if the students voted an additional $2 per quarter to their activities fees for the Student Center Project, the program could move ahead much faster.

The vote was taken and since that time, this source of income has been, the primary one from the student,

sector. Wenn closed his talk by saying, "If I could just see all of those people who made up the WE behind the Student Center and thank them for all their work and time and money, I would be happy."

President Harrison, the man who finally pushed the Student Center project through the Regents, then introduced Dean Griffin by saying, "On the second day I was on the Tech campus, this man approached me about the Student Center idea and he and Professor Wenn and their successors, Professor Flynn and Dean James Dull, have not let up since that day."

Griffin, making the shortest speech of his career (five minutes and 48 seconds by the clock) thanked Professor Wenn and President Harrison for their help in the project and then mentioned campus figures such as the late Charlie Commander, Registrar William Carmichael, Professor Glenn Rainey, Professor Flynn, Dean Dull and "the many students and faculty members who have worked on this project." He paid special tribute to Russell Leverette, president of ANAK in 1954, who led the fight to sell the student activities fee project to the Tech student body. He closed by saying this had to be "one of the happiest days of my life. And I am so pleased for the students that this project is just a year and a half away from completion."

The new Student Center is scheduled for completion in June, 1969.

The exterior of the tri-level structure

will be of Georgia Tech-style brick and pre-cast concrete panels and will feature an attractive balcony going around the building. Included in the new Student Center will be bowling alleys, a main dining area, a snack bar, an immense ballroom, a music room, a craft shop, and a chapel.

There will also be student activity rooms, a photo lab and darkroom, comfortable lounges, informal lecture rooms, a barber shop, and two elevators. Upon completion of the Student Center, the campus Post Office will be moved into the building, and space will also be allocated for the YMCA offices.

Barge and Company is the contractor for the Center, and the design is by the architectural firm of Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal.

James L. Clegg, Assistant Dean of Students, is currently serving as Acting Director of the Tech Student Center.

Other speakers on the program emphasized how much this building would change the campus. Dean James Dull said, "I eagerly look forward with you to experiencing the impact which this center will have on our campus. I saw the change of student attitude when such a building came to another campus where I was working and I'm looking forward to the reactions here at Tech."

Dennis Williams, student president of the Student Center Committee which will govern the new operation, said, "It's been quite an experience being president of a center committee without a center. The Georgia Tech Student Center will eventually be the hub of a new feeling on this campus that will transform Georgia Tech from an engineering trade school to a college community."

Frank Nix, current president of the ODK chapter, stated, "I have the honor for men who worked before me to state that this is by far the most meaningful groundbreaking for the students at Tech."

Then with a word from President Harrison, George Griffin and Fred Wenn turned the first shovel of dirt on the location of the new center across Hemphill from the Classroom Building and what they had been waiting to see for over 26 years was finally beginning to take shape. And the students who come to this campus in the future will have no idea of how much of the lives of these two men went into their building.

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In a pair of articles, NASA's James Webb and Cal Tech's William Pickering Mss the Nation's space efforts from Surveyor to educational programs

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is today taking another step in keeping with its proud 80-year-old tradition of leadership. Its position as one of the largest—and in many ways the leading—of the engineering and industrial research universities of the South is important to the South.

Much is expected of a leader and NASA believes in putting the heaviest burden on the leaders. Tech's work with one of the nation's, largest nuclear research reactors, the South's first AC network calculator, the area's first and most complete digital computer center, analog computer laboratories, wind tunnels, a large hydraulics research laboratory, electron microscopes, and other modern facilities for research in the technological and scientific fields is reaching toward a still more important future.

In the first year of the NASA Traineeship program, Georgia Tech was one of the ten original schools.

It is one of five schools—the others are Stanford, Cornell, University of Kansas, and Purdue—that started NASA's new program of Systems Design Traineeships in September, 1967. Thirty-eight NASA regular trainees and five design trainees enrolled at Georgia Tech this fall. The Space Science and Technology Center we are dedicating is one of 36 such facilities that NASA has helped to build and support on university campuses around the country. And it is an important and tangible indication of the beneficial cooperation between Georgia Tech and a federal agency which is charged by law with an important role in the scientific and technical development of the nation's strength.

These research centers and facilities are in a very real sense a new and valuable kind of "capital asset"\ 8

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that will pay dividends to our nation—and to the states in which they are located—for many years to come.

Here at Georgia Tech, for example, in the past few years NASA has invested $6.5 million for research, training, and the facility dedicated today. And this million-dollar NASA facility is only one part of a $4 million dollar, three-building complex.

The other two buildings, as you know, were financed by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and by your own state of Georgia.

Even under our reduced budget NASA is sponsoring sustaining research here at a level of some $300,000 annually. Typical of this work is Dr. G. M. Rentzepis' research on nonlinear acoustics, and Dr. B. T. Zinn's work on instability in rocket engines. In Project Research, NASA has funded a cumulative total of some $2.1 million at this university.

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by Dr. Howard Edwards of high altitude chemical release and studies

by Dr. Howard McGee of chemistry at low temperatures.

The total picture of cooperation between Georgia Tech and NASA would also include a cooperative student program which was started with our predecessor agency, NACA, in 1952. There are currently 31 Georgia Tech cooperative students at NASA's M a n n e d Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas, and six at Langley Research Center in Virginia. More than 125 Georgia Tech alumni are employees of the Manned Space Flight Center and 60 alumni are at Langley. The Langley alumni, incidentally, include three division chiefs and five assistant division chiefs.

To turn from Georgia Tech to the national scene, on the campuses of over 200 other universities scientists, engineers, researchers, technicians

and graduate students participating in NASA activities have grown to about 10,000. Of these, almost 1,000 are involved as scientific or engineering investigators. Also working closely with us, and with Tech, are many industrial contractors. In the state of Georgia, for instance, NASA currently has $12.2 million work in contracts with 18 industrial concerns.

They are doing important work on such projects as support for Saturn V and rocket propulsion research.

NASA has also made other important inputs to industrial work here in Georgia. For example, in the case of the C-5A aircraft being built by the Lockheed Company at Marietta, we have carried out 7,260 hours of wind tunnel tests at the request of the Air Force on low speed stability and control with jet flaps, thrust reverser effectiveness, and several other important design features.

Another example of NASA work in aeronautics which will involve further close working relationships between NASA and Lockheed here in Marietta, Georgia has just been approved. We have just signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense to conduct a joint flight-test program utilizing the Lockheed-Georgia XV-4B Jet Vertical and Short Takeoff-Landing airplane. The NASA XV-4B aircraft will be a somewhat modified version of a similar aircraft being built for the Air Force, and will provide us with a unique research capability for studying Jet VTOL operation in the terminal area under instrumentweather conditions. This research will have specific application to the design of future military VTOL fighters and is also expected to be of value to Jet V-STOL transports, military and civil.

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is not burned up going to the moon.

The workers it goes to pay are not used up and cast aside. They remain in the country's factories and laboratories to work with higher skills in strengthening our nation's research and development capability. Employment by NASA industrial contractors grew from 36,000 in June of 1960 to 376,000 in June of 1965.

Since that time, it has been reduced by more than 100,000, and will be down to 235,000 by June of 1968.

In Georgia, as elsewhere, it is important to recognize that during NASA's large build-up since 1960 about 10 percent of the agency's funds have gone into permanent facilities for sound research and development. As in the case of this building at Georgia Tech, these all have usefulness over a long life. This was during a time when 90 to 95 percent of NASA's funds were used to pay industrial contractors and university researchers for advanced research and development work outside government installations. Our critics do not recognize that NASA was able to build up rapidly as funds were provided by Congress and to reduce its work force rapidly when funds were reduced. Our NASA management machine has a brake as well as an accelerator, and we have used both. In the past six years, a large capability for launching and operating spacecraft has been built up, has done its initial job, and is now in process of being phased down or phased out. Our production lines are slowing down and some of them will soon stop. We will wind up with the know-how to start up again, in many cases with improved systems, but the cost of stopping and starting, in time, money, and operational experience, will be very great. But it is important that the great universities such as Georgia Tech continue the advance so that the acceleration will always go forward.

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Is an example of what has been accomplished — during the second week of November we had four successful launches . . . ATS-III, a technology satellite with nine major experiments aboard; Surveyor VI, now resting for a lunar night after a period of successful operations in Sinus Medii on the moon; ESSA 6, an operational weather satellite for January-February, 1968

the Environmental Science Services equipment around the Earth at orbiAdministration; and, of course, thetal speeds of 18,000 mph, to operate Saturn V that launched Apollo 4. \ highly specialized equipment at Let me relate these events to their \ speeds of 25,000 mph and more retrue significance. On Monday, Noquired to get to the moon and Mars vember 6, we launched the Applicaand Venus, we have developed equiptions Technology Satellite, which ment that will automatically monitor was put into an earth synchronous circuits carrying high-speed traffic, orbit over the South Atlantic and that will automatically switch the is now sending back color pictures traffic away from a faulty circuit onto of the earth as the satellite hovers the best circuit available, and will 24 hours a day over the same spot automatically print out high-speed —near the mouth of the Amazon. transmissions. This equipment has This new model machine, which will been>"standardized and installed all stay in its present position for a over the world by the contractors long time, is adding greatly to our who operate the units of our system, knowledge of the Earth, its atmosand because they also operate most phere and weather, and the effects of the other international systems, of the Sun's energy on our life prothey have seen its high-performance, cesses here on Earth. This ATS-III low-cost advantages and can install Satellite is the third member of it in their operations. This will make the third generation of experimenthe entire international communicatal weather observation satellites tions network structure of the world launched since 1960. It has a dual several times more valuable today nature—it is also a member of the than it was before. fifth generation of communications satellites, all launched since 1961.

It is proving out new concepts of how to vastly increase man's ability to communicate with man, machine ^ J n Tuesday, November 7, our secto communicate with machine, and ond launch of the week was Surveyor both at sharply reduced costs.

VI, which made a soft landing on the In understanding and predicting moon two days later and promptly weather, the measurements made by began to transmit pictures of a very ATS and NASA's other experimental rugged stretch of the lunar surface. spacecraft, • when added to the 24 This is next to the last launch of a hours-per-day regular operations series of automated lunar spacecraft now performed by ESSA's space systhat have included Ranger and Lunar tems, are already providing a handOrbiter, as well as Surveyor. The some return on the time and money Rangers came directly in to a crash invested. Late models continually landing, taking large numbers of pictransmit cloud-cover pictures as they tures of a limited area right up to the circle the Earth and any weather stapoint of contact. Many of you saw tion in any nation or on any ship the first telecast—and heard the anhas only to install an inexpensive nouncer say "Live from the moon." receiver to get this up-to-the-minute The Ranger pictures provide astronweather information. This is one way omers with the equivalent of a teleour country says to every other counscope a thousand times more powertry, every day, that we, as a people, ful than any previously available. want to use our new power over the There were five Lunar Orbiters, all forces of nature in a joint effort with of which were outstandingly successthem, with benefits to both of us, and ful, witb the result that we now have not to threaten them or force them a complete map of the moon, both to follow a pattern laid down by us. front and back, with excellent resoluThis has encouraged many nations tion obtained from altitudes of about to expand the training and use of 27 miles. We now can study any partheir own meteorologists and to share ticular place for landing astronauts with us the improved quality of their or to advance science. work in weather data.

The Surveyors are the soft-landers, In expanding the high performand you have seen them on television ance and reliability of world-wide digging holes, making chemical analcommunications, work with NASAyses of the soil, blasting small craters launched satellites has laid a founwith their jet engines. Now, Surveyor dation for sharply reduced costs. As VI has hopped from one place to one illustration, in order to operate another—in the first, very short but high-speed, high-performance space significant, rocket flight on the sur-

THE MOON ABOVE — c o n t . face of the moon. T h e rocket technology t h a t carried Surveyor to the moon provided astronomers with a further improvement in resolution, by another factor of 1,000 times more detail t h a n the Ranger results which were themselves another 1,000 times better t h a n a n y t h i n g before t h e applications of space techniques. And, of course, with instruments on the surface of the moon, lunar geologic investigations brought the geophysicists into close working relationships with the astronomers.

I n much the same way, rocketlaunched instruments are providing new data for studies of the interplanetary media—cosmic rays, solar plasmas, a n d magnetic fields in space, and the relationships of these to the E a r t h ' s magnetosphere have brought physics a n d geoscience into a close partnership. T h e launching of science into space—the use of the rocket to go out a n d m a k e measurements—has done much to Qlose the gap between disciplines. A new a n d very powerful partnership among geoscience, astronomy a n d physics is making vast scientific strides in the study of solar-terrestial relationships as well as in the comparative study of the E a r t h , moon, a n d planets. F a r greater strides have been m a d e t h a n the individual disciplines are able to make when their activities were largely separate.

On T h u r s d a y , November 9, the truly big shot of the week was the first test-launch of the S a t u r n V. T h i s test was to m a k e sure this powerful booster could develop t h e enormous power—7.5 million pounds of thrust—which we will need when our Apollo astronauts m a k e their roundtrip journey to the moon, or when we decide to send a 10,000 p o u n d payload to M a r s . A second p a r t of the test was to m a k e sure the h e a t shield o n t h e Apollo spacecraft could withstand the temperature, deceleration, a n d pressures of re-entry into the E a r t h ' s atmosphere a t 25,000 m p h . A third p a r t of the test was to m a k e sure the S a t u r n V-Apollo launch complex a n d global tracking a n d d a t a acquisition network could h a n d l e the job of automatically launching these large equipments a n d remotely controlling this complex mission.

Launch Complex 39, often called "Moonport," h a s been designed to h a n d l e this kind of launch every 6Q 10

James E. Webb, who has carried the title of Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since he was appointed by the late President Kennedy in 1961, is a former Director of the Bureau of Budget. The native of North Carolina also has served the government as assistant to the Under Secretary of the Treasury and as Under Secretary of State. During the 1950's, he engaged in a number of business activities, including banking, law, and manufacturing. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina.

d a y s a n d to be useful for 50 or more years. I t h a s cost $500 million. So this one important launch gave us assurance t h a t we have a first-class booster, able to p u t 280,000 pounds into a n E a r t h orbit a t a sharp reduction in cost per pound, a n d then send 110,000 p o u n d s out 240,000 miles to the moon. W e now know it can p u t about the same weight, 100,000 pounds, into a synchronous orbit a t 22,300 miles u p where such a machine will hover over one spot on the E a r t h as it rotates, or send as much as 10,000 pounds of equipment out as far as M a r s . T h i s launch showed t h a t we now h a v e t h e big-booster capability we have needed for so long. I t gave us assurance t h a t the Apollo spacecraft can guide itself to a precise point of return a n d survive a re-entry heat t h a t is almost two times the melting point of steel. I t gave u s assurance t h a t the design, construction a n d equipping of our largest launch complex has been well done by the m a n y tens of thousands of construction a n d other workers p u t on the job b y American industry.

And, last, b u t extremely important, it demonstrated t h a t the combination of h u n d r e d s of thousands of industry, university a n d government workers could coordinate their efforts successfully in the largest and most complex technical undertaking t h e h u m a n race has yet attempted.

% J P u r fourth launch of t h e week of November 6 was E S S A 4, from the Western T e s t Range, into a n orbit t h a t passes n e a r both t h e N o r t h a n d South Poles a n d is so synchronized with the rotation of the E a r t h about the sun t h a t it can observe a n d report on the entire E a r t h ' s daytime weather

every 24 hours. T h i s is called a sunsynchronous orbit. T h i s launch differs from the first three in t h a t it exemplifies not pioneering at the frontier of technology or science as does each of the others, b u t the way in which space operations have become a routine contributor of essential services for the benefit of everyone in our society. E S S A 4 was paid for by the Weather Bureau as a s t a n d a r d work-horse machine which it uses in its day-to-day task of forecasting the weather just as it uses weather reporting ships and balloons. T h e E S S A spacecraft and its sensors have evolved directly from N A S A ' s Tiros meteorological satellites.

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t would be easy to take this entire morning reviewing what led u p to the busy week I have described. T h e M e r c u r y Program, from Alan Shepa r d a n d J o h n Glenn to Gordon Cooper, could be used to show what it takes to man-rate a booster t h a t was developed to carry atomic weapons b u t not astronauts. I t would be easy to dwell on Gemini, in which we flew 20 m e n in 20 months. I t was in Gemini t h a t we demonstrated men could live a n d work in space for 14 days—could walk in space a n d move from one space vehicle to another—• a n d could return to E a r t h so accurately t h a t t h e opening of their parachutes could be seen from a waiting ship or plane.

M o r e time could be well spent o n our active space science program— we now know that the magnetosphere is a cavity carved out of the solar wind by the E a r t h ' s magnetic field, t h a t it is enveloped on the sunward side by a n immense shock wave t h a t sweeps around the E a r t h in much The Georgia Tech Alumnus

the same way that an aerodynamic shock wave accompanies a supersonic aircraft. Behind this shock wave lies a boundary area and within that the Van Allen regions of trapped radiation where intensities are too high to permit any long duration manned flights—a kind of no-man's space.

We know that while this region extends out to 10 or 15 Earth radii, 40 to 60,000 miles, in the direction of the sun, in the other or anti-solar direction the Earth's field lines are swept out to great distances by the solar wind, in a kind of comet-tail effect that reaches out beyond the moon.

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rom our studies of Mars and Venus, some of you might like to compare the results the Russians obtained from their recent Venus 4, weighing 2400 pounds, with the results we obtained with Mariner 5, weighing 540 pounds. The Russians sent a capsule weighing 845 pounds into the atmosphere of Venus and we made a close fly-by. In many ways, the Mariner data is more complete, reaching down to six miles from the surface while the Venus 4 data appears to have stopped at about 15 miles up.

My purpose has been not to develop these kinds of findings in detail, but rather to sum up and put in perspective the scientific, technological and industrial capabilities which are, at this end of the first decade of the space age, now in place, ready to serve our nation's future needs.

Scientific discovery and technological advance do not simply touch the periphery of man's life. They are not merely concerned, as they have so often been considered in the past, and too often still are, with the material side of life. They influence the whole framework of ideas and possibilities within which his social and moral aspirations are concerned.

The scientific revolution is not merely a material revolution. It has far wider and deeper results that are still not truly perceived by the majority even of educated men.

There are two major points that need to be kept in mind in considering the importance of basic research in contributing to our national strength, and in providing the basis for practical applications of science and technology. The first point has January-February, 1968

to do with the durability of basic knowledge. One often hears it said that it is necessary to replenish our stockpile of knowledge, because we have been using up previous knowledge in making applications and in carrying out essential developments.

This kind of statement implies a misconception of the durability of an idea. Actually, a clear concept of principle, once known and understood, continues virtually forever to be useful and used. For example, Newton's laws of motion don't get "used up" in each application that is made of them. No matter how many times these laws are applied, they are available and applicable over and over again. In addition, a principle or concept like Newton's laws has many facets or aspects, and many in a succession of new generations can profit from efforts to achieve a deeper understanding of the principle or concept. The role of basic research is not only to provide new ideas and concepts, but also to provide a deepening of our understanding of old ideas, concepts and principles from which we may derive even more sophisticated applications.

We find today that the statement that we need to replenish our stockpile of ideas and knowledge really should be rephrased to say that we need not only new ideas for their intrinsic worth, but we need also a deeper and more illuminated understanding of old ideas and principles so that their usefulness may be freshened and enhanced.

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I he second point to keep in mind in evaluating the importance of basic research is that, to a very great extent, the conversion of basic knowlledge into practical applications requires a period of gestation in which the basic knowledge becomes second nature to many engineers and entrepreneurs. In the 1700's and 1800's this period of gestation appeared to be about half a century. It took some 50 years for the development of the application of heat engines after the basic principles of thermodynamics were originally put forth. Likewise, it took about 50 years from the time that Dal ton put forth his laws of chemical proportions before these ideas flowered in the organic chemical and dye industries of the 19th century. The same period of time

elapsed between the elucidation of the principles of optics and the creai tion of the great optical industry that exists today.

But in the 20th century, this period of gestation appears to have reduced to about one generation, namely 30 years. It is, of course, true that there are examples of applications being made on a quicker time scale than the ones indicated. On the other hand, the substantial realization of the potential practical values in a body.pf knowledge appears to require a substantial period of gestation.

One of the problems of today which NASA is attacking in the fields of aeronautics and space is that of reducing the period of time required for knowledge to become second nature over a wide area of industrial and university life, to become an almost instinctive part of the points of view of scientists, engineers, administrators, and risk-takers. This immediately has bearing on our educational process and on the way in which we put our scientists and engineers to work. It may be important in our future planning to find ways to provide for some groups extended periods of review and thought separate from the immediate demands of projects and immediate results. We may find this essential to the best utilization of our national talent.

Students must be educated for the future, not the present. They must be prepared for their world, not ours.

If we can't always tell them what future science and technology will do—and most of the time we can't—• at least we may be able to suggest some of the needs that it might have to fill.

Here at Georgia Tech there is much evidence that you are rising to these demands and building toward a better tomorrow. May I again congratulate you on the great work that you are doing, and that I know you will continue to do.

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by Julie McClure

The scientist who runs the Jet Propulsion at California Institute of Technology has his work on the moon and now looks to tl of space has become the sustenance of the tapeworm in the guts of science—gobbling every scrap of information, but never satisfying the craving for more. In the paltry time span of man's existence, it has only been in the last decade that he could break the umbilical ties with Mother Earth and escape to space in search of perhaps a parallel brotherhood.

The effort to touch the stars by this country, placed in the hands of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will put a landing party on the moon in the near future.

When man lands on the moon, it will be a dream come true. Unfortunately there will be no life there to greet him.

But is there other life in our solar system? If there is, what form will it take? Of all of the planets in our solar system, Dr. William H. Pickering, head of Cal Tech's $100 million Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., points the finger at Mars. He feels the search for life on Mars should be the key experiment of the next decade.

He discussed the possibilities of discovering life on Mars and its implications as casually as he might reveal his plans for a holiday to the mountains. Dr. Pickering came to Georgia Tech on January 18 as a Frank H. Neely Distinguished Lecturer to share intimately some significant findings of the United States' space probes.

Dr. Pickering's family of 4,200 scientists, engineers and technicians at J PL have nursed the space-child from the early Explorers through the latest achievements of the Surveyor 7. With an impish glee, he told a press conference how they had solved a problem with the Surveyor from the laboratory on Earth. On the Surveyor, "we have this little instrument to make a chemical analysis of the, moon's surface. It is a little box,

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During his lectures at Tech, Dr. Pickering discussed the problems associated with the instrument that made the chemical analysis of the moon's surface (right).

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(about six inches on each side) that 50's, he never misses a chance to prohangs from the arm of the Surveyor.". vide liaison between the scientific Assuming the role of the delicate in- \ community and the rest of the world. strument, Dr. Pickering demon- ', During his visit to Tech, he constrated the working mechanism of tinuously pointed out the importance the little black box. "You drop it of technological achievements in down about half way to the surface shaping our civilization as we know (about three feet) and calibrate the it today. instruments," he said holding the Convincing an unknowing public invisible black box. "After you've or politician of the importance of done that, you drop it down to the scientific discoveries, he said, has led surface. When it's on the surface, it many scientists to rationalize their proceeds to make an analysis of the research in terms of practical beneparticular material it is resting on." fits.*As an illustration, he recounted Dr. Pickering, reliving the ema story about a meeting between barrassment of malfunction, told Faraday and Queen Victoria. "When what happened when they tried it.

Queen Victoria came around and "When we went to pull the pin to saw some of his experiments with make it drop—well, it didn't drop. electricity—he had a little magnet We were pretty embarrassed for a and a piece of material he was chargwhile. What do you do about this?" ing and picking up pieces of dust He proceeded to share, step by step, and so forth—Queen Victoria said to some of the solutions sought. The him that this was all very nice, but first reaction, he said, was to shake what good was it? His answer was, the spacecraft a bit. "We could do 'Your Majesty, some day you will this because there was an antenna on be taxing it!' And of course this top. So we moved the antenna and has happened." He said that it was shook the craft. Nothing happened." not unusual to find scientific work In another inspiration, the scientists being supported that apparently tried to nudge the little black box seems to have no practical value and with a sampling device on the spaceyet, "the whole nature of our civilizacraft. Again nothing happened. tion depends upon our supporting Finally, gesturing like a contorthis kind of intellectual curiosity tionist, Dr. Pickering told how they about the universe because the whole did get the stubborn little black box history of science shows that scito the ground. Experimenting in the entific discovery of this generation laboratory first with a model, they will lead to practical applications for managed to get some leverage with the next generation. another arm of the Surveyor, placing "When somebody says to me, its claw on top of the box and finally 'What- good is it to go to the pushing it down all the way to the moon?' I must agree that I don't exsurface of the moon. It would have pect to find gold or diamonds on the been a lot easier if a man had been moon and bring them back to Earth. there to push it down, he added.

Nor do I expect to set up a tourist Confidently, Dr. Pickering comresort on the moon. But I do say that mented that "it was a nice indication by going to the moon and learning of the kind of sophistication you are more about our universe, we are gogetting in these unmanned devices ing to increase our fund of scientific nowadays. Here you are sitting in knowledge and the technology rethe laboratory in Pasadena controllquired to obtain these answers will ing a little repair job on the moon. lead to future development in areas I was very pleased with it. I didn't which I cannot now dream of," he think we could do it." The little resaid in defense. "This has been the pair job on the moon took about whole history of science and will three hours. continue to be the history of science.

And for this reason, science should A New Zealander by birth, Dr. be supported for its own values quite Pickering took over the directorship independently of whether we see of J PL in 1954 when space travel any immediate practical values," he was still left to the science fiction added. writers. He came into the American fold as a naturalized citizen in 1941.

Man's quest for knowledge in space His list of personal accomplishments seems to be only a quest for its own is awesome with five medals and a sake. However, as Dr. Pickering trophy to his credit. His pet areas of pointed out, "Man's curiosity to interest are lunar and planetary exsearch for knowledge underlies most ploration. A personable man in his of the advances of our civilization in 13

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Dr. Pickering and Dr. Vernon Crawford (right), Director of Tech's School of Physics, engage in an animated conversation following the space expert's seminar for faculty and students.

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our solar system." Taking a gregarious posture with Earth's neighbors— especially the Red Planet—and setting out in search for life he tabs as the most interesting and challenging project for the next decade. Mars, says Dr. Pickering, is the most likely candidate for life in our solar system.

Listing some of the known facts about Mars, he said that it has colder temperatures than Earth, but not unreasonable; there doesn't seem to be much water (and there can't be any free water such as streams), but you could have seepage water from underground; the atmosphere is thin— similar to that of Earth at 100,000 feet (this is not enough to support the higher forms of life as we have

the past 200 to 300 years." Explaining further he said, "If we discontinued this search, our applied science and our technology would quickly dry up and our whole civilization would begin to decay." So, the search and continuing effort to extend "our scientific knowledge of the universe, is very vital to our whole way of life."

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here on Earth, but some life form might have been able to adapt itself to this atmospheric condition); and with the change of seasons, there is a so-called "wave of darkness" which is very suggestive of some form of vegetation responding to sunlight.

One can make hypotheses about rock that changes color in response to temperature. "But," he said, "we do know that something is changing color with the seasons. What is it and why?" The only way to find out is to go there, he emphasized. "It is not going to do any good to just fly around Mars or photograph it from above," he confided. "This may give you some suggestions as to what to do next, but the real answer is to go down to the surface with some instruments and try and find out." As a matter of reference, he said, of the first 20,000 pictures the Tiros weather satellites took of Earth, only one of them suggested that there might be life on Earth.

The Mariner's pictures showed that there were craters on Mars.

"I think this was a great disappointment to some people," he said. "I think they hoped that Mars would turn out more like the Earth and Mariner 4 showed that it looked more like the moon than the Earth."

Mars does have some parallels with the Earth. Although its year is twice as long as an Earth year, a day on Mars is about the same as one on Earth. It also has a polar cap that disappears during the summer and reappears in winter. Mars does not have a magnetic field so there is little evidence of mountain building.

Dr. Pickering warned that if the United States did not explore Mars, he was sure the Soviet Union would definitely do so. "I think the discovery of life on Mars would have very far-reaching philosophical and religious implications to the people on Earth," he confided. "For example, all life forms on Earth are built around the same chemistry— the DNA molecule. Whether it is a tree or a man, there is the same underlying chemistry. If there are life forms on Mars, will it be the same chemistry or will it be some different chemistry? If there are life forms on Mars, have they evolved in completely different ways than life on Earth?"

These are interesting questions that can only be answered if Dr. Pickering gets his way—manned exploration of Mars.

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TWO TECH STUDENTS LOOK BACK AT EUROPE In a series of articles, Sam Williams, above, Tech student body president, talks about the unique IAESTE program while Ed Jacobson, once the Technique editor, discusses German education and a communist harangue.

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Of all American colleges and universities, Tech is the heaviest involved in the IAESTE exchange -ogram

by Sam Williams, EE '68 LAST SUMMER, through an interna-

tional engineering student exchange program, I was one of 21 Tech students working in a total of 12 countries spread out from Japan to Yugoslavia. The industrial experience gained through this IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) program is comparable to that acquired under the Tech Co-op system of working in American industry. But this experience is enhanced considerably by the educational experience of extensive travel in other countries, living in an alien culture, and speaking a language other than English.

Work periods under this program, founded in Western Europe in 1948, i average ten weeks thus giving stu16

dents three or four weeks to travel.

During my vacation I hitchhiked 2,500 kilometers through seven countries, seeing cities such as Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich, Innsbruck, Munich, Paris, and Brussels.

A few adventures included acting as interpreter in an argument between a Yugoslav and a Swiss; sleeping in a sheep barn in the Austrian mountains; soaring in a glider plane over the Swiss Alps; bicycling 200 miles in Holland; sailing the North Sea in ancient schooners; and living on cheese and wine in Paris when my money ran out. These are just examples of what can happen to one man in three months. My roommate had his $75 car impounded by Swiss highway police and ended up selling it to the policeman's brother for $25.

My job was with Philips Gloelampenfabriken in Holland. My assignment was to perfect a production machine for manufacture of thin film hydro-carbon deposited resistors—accurate to 0.1%. On the job I found the West Europeans very anxious to know about American industry. By no means an expert since my experience was limited to three years of co-oping, I still discussed industrial issues and exchanged views with the Dutch.

Many of these countries find themselves in an industrial conflict. More than half the employees ride to work on bicycles, and then ironically engage in research on fuel cells or the latest electronic marvels. Their home life has not been affected by this industrial revolution as has ours, alThe Georgia Tech Alumnus

This summer, Tech will send a record number of 45 students to Europe under the IAESTE program. At their first meeting, above, the Tech students heard Neal DeRosa, director of placement, talk about job opportunities. though they are gaining a few conveniences.

Engineers avidly read all our journals and can tell you who is doing research on what. They exchange information with other European countries and Russia, utilizing extensive interpretation operations. They have technical libraries and night schools for employees in the larger companies and they support community projects. Labor and management assume almost a father-son relationship. One labor group gave the company a statue symbolizing the close ties between industry and community. Have you heard of anything like that lately in American industry?

Their financial tactics are still conservative as they keep large amounts of capital available and don't believe extensively in deficit spending. One plant I visited had ultra-modern production equipment in some areas but used manual labor on the simplest items of production.

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An industrial engineer would have gone out of his mind, there.

Salaries are not at all comparable to the States for engineering. Engineers are looked upon as skilled laborers in society and consequently feel inferior to managers and other industrialists. This image is rapidly beginning to change, partly because of the "brain drain." This out-migration of engineers and scientists to our country is forcing European industry and society to realize how significant engineers are. Management fears the "brain drain" like the plague.

My impression of European industrialists places them as conservative.

They are hesitant to spend money on research or long term investments if the "adequate return" cannot be achieved immediately. But you cannot help but admire their technology, knowing that all their production centers were completely wiped out during the war. I wonder if American industry could recover this fast.

As marvelous as this student exchange program sounds, it has not caught on in the States. Of the 10,000 exchange students world-wide, the United States furnished only 180 last year—Georgia Tech being the largest participant. This year, Tech is planning on sending 45 students overseas through this program.

Tech's chapter, founded just two years ago through the initiative of Mechanical Engineering Professor Erskine Crossley, is unique in that it is entirely operated by students.

The "alumni" students plan orientation for interested prospects, select new members, and help them to obtain jobs stateside for their foreign friends. Meanwhile, jobs that they will fill are being obtained in other countries.

The student alumni also conduct an extensive training program for the new group. Language classes, cultural and historical courses, money exchange rates, what to expect on the job, technical nomenclature, where to find the girls and the best wines and restaurants are all taught in a cram course.

The technical ability of incoming students is very high. Therefore, the financial investment of participating industries is justified. Techmen have acquired jobs for their exchangees ranging from our own biology school to the offices of architects in New Orleans.

What do American businessmen think of IAESTE?" "The IAESTE

Program could be in our opinion, a very vital influence for better international understanding. We were glad to have even a small part in this program," says F. A. Smythe, President of Ailing-Lander Company.

"This type of student is well worth the cost of the placement. He is above average in several respects— intelligence, personality, initiative . . .," comments R. I. Tunney of New Holland Machine.

"Our trainee has a high scientific aptitttde and is also a very conscientious worker in the laboratory . . .," adds a report from Standard Oil of Ohio.

Western Electric says, "This is a very educational program and benefits are realized by both parties."

The program is also endorsed by leading educators such as Tech President E. D. Harrison.

As a Tech alumnus, you can help this program simply by writing IAESTE, Georgia Tech YMCA, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 and telling them you have a summer job open that will pay between $300 and $500 a month, exempt from withholding and social security taxes, depending .on the location of your business. The local chapter will then send you the qualifications of a group of students selected by IAESTE for this year's program. Your company in addition to paying the student for his work will have to pay IAESTE-US $150 per trainee to cover administrative costs of the national office for arranging the visas, selections, and the United States orientation program.

IAESTE is really just getting started at Tech. Tech's chapter is planning a Year Abroad with our Engineering College. Under this program the student spends three months in a language school, works in industry for three months, attends a university for three months and returns to Tech to receive a special degree upon graduation. With the great increase in overseas business done by American firms, the products of this program should be most valuable employees for industry in the future.

By letting our future leaders of industry work and live abroad, IAESTE projects the Big Picture of technology, trade and industry world wide. It broadens the horizons of a college education and lets a student see his own country from a different viewpoint. It is truly an EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE. 17

Educational systems of Germany

T H E WORD, education, means something essentially different to people in different countries. And the difference begins in the concept. In Europe it is most similar to the classical ideal —more rigor, more self-discipline, more discrimination and recognition of a goal from the very start, determined less often by social or economic position than by ability.

The educational systems in the several European countries are to a great extent based on the same principles. Only in the execution is there an obvious difference, and then most notably in the quality, not in the notion of how it ought to be done.

My familiarity, as it may be, with the continental methods is limited to that of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a result of having spent a year at the Technical University in West Berlin under the sponsorship of the Tech World Student Fund. But the important factor was the year and not the Technical

University. That is, I spent little time at the University itself—a practice followed by many German students.

From speaking with students, with parents of school-age children, with a professor or two, and with many who went not through the universities but by one of the other alternative paths to intellectual maturation, I obtained an encompassing, though somewhat superficial, view. The German concepts of education are not new. Rather, they evolved through centuries of social, political, and economic development. The first university in the German realm was founded, after all, centuries before Columbus.

A cursory examination of intellectual breakthroughs shows that German education has produced some of the most significant. Einstein and Planck, Marx and Hegel, Bach and Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schoenberg, Gropius and

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our magazine needs," said the East Berlin cartoonist, "is a competitor. Someone working against us would keep the quality from falling.

Not against the government of course, just against us." In the background was the sound of a Beatles record, and the man lit up a West German cigarette.

Around the room sat the weekly gathering of about 20 East Berlin students, young non-students, and a few older non-students. The fellow across the coffee table from me was about my age—normally a salesman, but on Thursday evenings a participant in this state-sponsored literary circle via his poetry.

The cartoonist had long since slipped into the background accompanied by the radio's contribution of a fuzzy reception of the French radio station of West Berlin. The fellow facing me put down his beer, brewed with the same excellence and for the most part in the same breweries as before state ownership arrived, and addressed me, "What is it really like in America? Is it like what we read about you?"

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From that question, a discussion ensued that managed to embrace the race problem, news controls, economic development, and international discrimination.

"Why don't the Negroes all leave the United States and go someplace where they would be free and treated fairly?" The answer that flashed to my mind was, logical or not, simply that the Negro community somehow has faith in the American society, and is willing to stay in hopes of a better United States rather than to give up and run away.

Apparently either the answer or that I could merely produce an answer was satisfactory. "But I cannot understand why the Negroes limit themselves to peaceful demonstrations—why they let themselves get pushed around?" he queried. "The use of force would get so much more so much faster; after all, the whole world is on their side." He and the people around us nodding in agreement pictured the civil rights struggle as quite a bit more brutal than I picture it.

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Buber, K a n t and Niebuhr, a n d Gutenberg, Kafka a n d Goethe, L u t h e r a n d von B r a u n have all been products of one sort or another of German educational practices.

At the beginning is where it indeed starts, not after 12 years of schooling. T h e idea of Kindergarten (children's garden) is German. A pre-school preparation to working in a n d being in groups a n d to getting along socially with the child's peers is still in controversy in G e r m a n y as it is here.

School starts in the child's sixth y e a r with the Volksschule or elem e n t a r y school (actually translated people's school). Schooling in Germany, as in the U n i t e d States, is free through t h e equivalent of high school.

B u t in Germany it h a s been state supported and relatively open to everyone for h u n d r e d s of years.

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can Negroes value democracy too highly to destroy it through violent revolution."

B u t t h a t idea was unacceptable, " W h a t k i n d of democracy is t h a t ?

W h a t good is democracy to the Negro if h e has no access to its benefits anyhow? Your democracy is really n o perfect democracy, y o u know." H e proposed that it is meaningless to use completely ineffective non-violent methods in the misguided notion t h a t to do otherwise would be to destroy something t h a t doesn't even exist in the first place.

I scraped u p some proof from m y questionable store of evidence to indicate t h a t the civil rights struggle h a s not been entirely futile, but in fact rather productive in view of the often stifling, ingrown, traditionally Continued at bottom of page 20 The sardonic Jacobson, who edited the Technique during his junior year, went to Germany last year under the World Student Fund program, which was created by Tech students and is still operated by them along with faculty members and the YMCA. January-February, 1968

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EDUCATION — cont. a decision is made, essentially whether the child will go into a trade or handwork or whether he'll decide later. If his choice is to learn a trade, then he continues in the Volksschule for four years. After completing the elementary education he becomes a Lehrling (translated learner) or apprentice, and he attends Berufsschule (vocational school) a few days a week. For three years he is an apprentice, at the end of which time he takes an extensive test to become a Geselle (translated bachelor) or journeyman. He must practice his profession in this capacity for a few years before he may take the tests to become a Meister.

This routine is followed by everyone who plans to be a baker, tailor, barber, electrician, carpenter, bricklayer, butcher, shoemaker, watchmaker, printer, salesman or clerk,

photographer, actor, and often painter, sculptor, and many others. When he is a Meister he is permitted to have apprentices.

The other route that may be followed dictates that the student leave the Volksschule after four years and go to the Gymnasium or high school.

That is, when he is 10 years old, he begins with nine years of Gymnasium, to finish when he is 19. There are several types of Gymnasiums, the most popular being the language and the technical. At the first, the student learns the classical languages and centers his studies on the humane aspects of education and at the second on math and science. In both, German and German literature and history are important.

At the end of the nine years comes a voluntary comprehensive test called the Abitur, which is somewhat the equivalent of a regents exam. One who passes the Abitur is in a relatively small percentage of the total

student body of the Gymnasium. He is entitled to go on to the university or to the Hochschule, the equivalent of our conservatories, art schools, institutes of technology, and teachers colleges. And at that point the free education ends. However, higher education still remains very inexpensive since all universities are owned by the State of Germany.

There are three major types of classroom environments: the lecture, the exercise, and the seminar. After about two years, there are comprehensive tests for the Vordiplom, the pre-degree level. And at the end of four or five years follow the examinations for the Diplom, approximately the same as a level somewhere just less than a master's degree. In the time between the two exams and before the first, there are few, sometimes no, tests.

Lectures are just that. A large auditorium classroom is addressed by a full professor (or docent). Thus

"What makes any educational system good is the honesty of those involved in it."

COMMUNISTS — cont. nurtured prejudices that must be overwhelmed. The group sitting around me could not comprehend how such ways of thinking could exist; they could not understand, or did not want to understand that prejudices that have been carefully developed through hundreds of years might be difficult to overcome.

It is disturbing that the history of the American civil rights struggle as it is understood in East Germany seems to be approximately as it stood about five years ago. And the news they get there since then has been exclusively about the unfortunate aspects of its developments. I asked my friend, who lives with his family, if he listens to West Berlin radio or if he swatches western television.

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he knows for certain that there is going to be something bad on. Then he watches the program with a sort of knowing attitude. Of course, I watch what I want when he is not there.

I realize that the news printed in our newspapers is slanted," said my partner in this conversation that had become the center of interest for about a half dozen other young people sitting around us. "But that is the case everywhere. I cannot imagine that the news in western newspapers is not slanted in favor of the government or of the industrial and economic interests."

After agreeing in pure principle, I attempted to differentiate between news and commentary by indicating that a reporter should at least try to be fair in his writing of a story— that there should be a place in the newspaper where you can read the news straight. "Is everything that appears in our newspapers false?" he asked skeptically.

"I have never seen anything," I answered him, "that has put the West German government in any sort of position but bad. Although

the news is not falsified, the deciding factor is what is left out. Practically the only news one sees about the rest of the non-communist world is about the Vietnam war, a phase of the Gemini project that failed, George Lincoln Rockwell, or the like." That drew a contemplative silence.

In the development of the conversation we somehow got to international travel and the restrictions involved. Resigned, he said that he would really like to visit the US and France; but his favorite city was Prague, Czechoslovakia, which was in fact the only city besides Berlin that he had visited. However, when one of them leaves East Germany, the law permits him to change no more than 30 East German marks (officially $7.50; really less than $2.00) into the foreign currency.

Most vacationers travel with officially planned tours and therefore do not need to worry about paying for room, board, and so forth, but nonetheless, the extent of a trip is somewhat limited.

"There is something I don't understand," noted the fellow. "Why is it The Georgia Tech Alumnus

every student has the advantage of having the material presented to him by someone thoroughly qualified in the area of study. Attendance is never required. In fact, some students schedule more than one lecture for the same hour. If a student knows the substance of the course but needs only a finishing or wants to have evidence that he has heard the lectures of a good professor, there is indeed sometimes little reason to go to the lectures regularly.

Corresponding to most scientific and technical lectures and to some humanities lectures, there are Uebungen, problem and exercise sessions.

These are perhaps the most similar to many Tech classroom situations.

Examples are given to the theory discussed in the lecture; special problems are considered; technicalities are cleared up. In these classes there are sometimes quizzes.

The Seminar is a German invention and is used extensively. An im-

portant aspect of most directions of study, the seminar form comprises much of the knowledge transfer in science and technology and in literature and art.

In comparison to the United States, only a small percentage of Germany's younger generation is at universities. As an obvious result, the cross section of any one of the institutions will look better than that of many American universities.

People ask which of the systems is better; the answer is not immediate.

Because of the magnitude and scope of the American educational complex, there are many more Americans with the advantage of higher schooling.

But the quality of the product of the German facilities is, in general, higher.

A graduate of a German insitution of higher learning is usually very competent in his field. The American system, on the other hand, would produce ingenious graduates with

curiosity, if colleges were used more uniformly effectively. The classes at the high school level in Germany are for the most part broadly enough based so that the student, upon entering the university, has no need for courses in music appreciation or general art history or local history or surveys of German literature or foreign languages. They are, neverthe less, offered (and with a significantly wider range than, for example, at Tech).

What makes any educational system good, however, is the honesty and straightforwardness of the students, professors, and administrators.

The freedom to conduct a class as a professor sees fit to is also important —as important as the freedom to be educated as one wants to. The severe shortcomings of both the German and American systems of education lie not in the lack of potential of the systems, but in the failure to use them to the optimum.

"It is merely that you have never had the opportunity to hear both sides," I added.

that in foreign countries our money is worth only one third the official value? That is another example of how the western countries discriminate against us! Also, why don't they recognize the DDR (German Democratic Republic—East Germany) ? What special right does the Federal Republic have that it is permitted to be Germany while we are not?"

Neither he nor I had the credentials of an economist, but that had little to do with the fact that I could not convince him that it has nothing to do with international prejudices that the East German mark is worth only a third of a mark in international exchange. According to my friend, the disadvantage must be due to politics and not to economics.

"Without a penny from such as the Marshall Plan, and in fact even though the Russians stole thousands of industrial plants right after the war, the DDR has developed into the world's tenth largest industrial producer," he continued. "And we have done it because we have not demanded so many autos or all the luxury products and food delicacies.

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We have built an economy out of absolutely nothing — nothing — because of the shrewdness of Walter Ulbricht and the will of the German Volk.

"You cannot convince me that it is not political. The same people who discriminate against us economically do not recognize us as a sovereign state, even though we are governed

by Germans and are really in no different position than the Federal Republic."

And, of course, I could not. The argument that the government of West Germany is chosen by free, mostly democratic election and is therefore the only government qualified to represent Germany, would be hardly a valid point to one who honestly believes in a "limited" dictatorship for his country. To make his point, he added, "Particularly when a democracy allows such a thing as the success of the National Democratic Party."

It was also impossible to convince him that the Federal Republic has taken on its shoulders all the debts of all past governments of Germany, including the Third Reich, and it is

still making millions of dollars worth of "making good again" payments to victims of the scourge of Nazism.

Since the official policy of the East German government is to divorce itself from the German past, naming itself "the first peaceful German state," it might not have been clear to my friend anyhow that perhaps associating with the past guilt allows the Federal Republic to stand up for Germany today.

If I didn't leave very soon I would not make it to the border crossing back to West Berlin before it closed for the night. "Do I give you the impression that I don't listen to reason, or am I fair to other opinions?" he asked.

"You don't seem to be unreasonable," because he really wasn't too closed-minded. "It is merely that you haven't the opportunity to hear both sides of the story."

"Yes, I guess you're right. I have lived in Berlin my entire life, and before the wall I went to West Berlin very often. But still taking all things into consideration, if I were ever able to leave, I would not move to West Germany."

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Whether he is grabbing a rebound from taller players, shooting his soft jumper, or knocking the ball back to a team mate, Phil Wagner is the heart of this team.

m The Georgia Tech Alumnus

Photographed by Jim Martin

THE SECOND VERSE OF THE SAME OLD SONG The basketball lads in Gold and White seemed to have picked up the injury syndrome at the spot where the football team dropped it during the Clemson game.

WHACK HYDER'S most recent edition of the Tech basketball team seems intent on carrying on the injury syndrome that struck their friends in the hard hats after the third game of last football season. The reprise by the basketball team was carried out right down to the minutest detail including the winning of the first three games in impressive fashion and then the coming of the tailspin.

The Jackets, sporting five starters who had answered the buzzer more often than not during the past two years, were figured to be one of Hyder's best teams when the season began. They had a bonafide allAmerican candidate in Phil Wagner and another steady to go with him in Stan Guth. And Hyder's system calls for the strong guards as his past record reflects. But by the sixth game, Guth was down with a broken finger and Wagner waited three more before he followed his teammate to the bench with a badly pulled stomach muscle. Without the experienced guards, Tech dropped eight of the next 11 before righting itself with the return of the back-court pair.

After a clean-sweep of a two game trip to Texas where they beat Rice, 84-70, and SMU, 77-74, the Jackets opened the Coliseum season with an impressive 86-78 win over the best Georgia team in the past 17 years.

The Georgia game was this Tech team at its best, forcing errors, shooting well, constantly moving, and staying in the rebounding battle despite the handicap of facing the Bulldogs' giant sophomore, Bob Lienhard, who is a graceful and competitive young man with a great future.

Tech got behind in this one before the largest crowd ever to visit the Coliseum and at the half, Georgia led by two, 39-41. But Tech kept pecking away at the lead and, midway in the second half, brought in sophomore Bob Seemer, who began

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controlling the tiring Lienhard and Tech took over the momentum. Wagner looked every bit the best allaround player in Tech's history as he led all scores with 30 points and broke the Bulldogs' backs with his steals and ball control.

Following examinations, Tech came back to face Auburn at home and at the half was leading, 34-28, in a rather sloppy display by both teams.

The Plainsmen began hitting and by the end of the evening had taken the game away from the Jackets, 52-63.

A couple of nights later, Tech still appeared rusty but managed to beat a weak TCU team at home, 70-67.

Then came the first blow. Early in the opening game of the Chicago Classic while playing against Illinois, Guth was injured and the Tech team, forced to go with inexperienced replacements, fell 54-65. Two nights later in the same tournament, Loyola of Chicago bombed Tech, 71-96. Returning home after the holidays, Tech lost a close one to Yale, 71-72, on a Eli shot that dropped through just ahead of the final buzzer. Then the team began to look like its old self against Tulane, winning 100-81, mainly because of the finest performance of Wagner's career. The senior from Cynthiana, Kentucky, scored 36 points in this one and late in the game suffered the injury that decked him for the next five games.

Without either of their top two guards, the Jackets lost four of their next five games. Jacksonville caught them on the road and upset them, 53-63. After a home win over Furman, 68-61, Tech dropped one to a strong FSU team in the Coliseum, 57-73, and to Big Ten leader Ohio State, 55-66, in Columbus. Then came the Tarheels' revenge in Charlotte when the Nation's number three team more than made up for the Tech upset of last season by handing the Jackets their worst defeat of the sea23

Dave Clark scores against Georgia.

Clark, another senior, has been hot and cold all season, a generality that may be applied to the entire 1967-68 team.

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son, 54-82. In this one Guth and Wagner made token appearances, returning to full duty three days later to help Tech whip VMI, 90-70 in the Coliseum.

With Wagner and Guth leading the way along with Seemer, Tech then proceeded to crush Clemson at home, 99-64 in their hottest night of the season. But six days later, they cooled off again and fell before West Virginia in Charlestown, 75-79. The team evened its record at 9-9 with a 97-67 win over hapless Wofford at home.

The Jackets went ahead of .500 when they crushed Jacksonville in a revenge match at the Coliseum, 9777. Seemer emerged from this one as the high scorer as Tech controlled the game from beginning to end.

But they fell back three nights later when they lost to Georgia in Athens, 76-89, for their seventh consecutive road loss. The Bulldogs, led by their hot-shooting sophomore guard, Jerry Epling, opened up an 11-point lead at the half and threatened to rim the Jackets back to Atlanta. But Seemer got hot and hit eight of eight in a stretch to bring Tech back to a tie situation, 65-65, with over 10 minutes remaining. Then Big Bob Lienhard took over and with Epling's help got the Bulldogs back out in front to stay.

Lienhard had 11 for 11 from the field for the night, as Seemer was high for Tech with 25 points.

The Jackets again moved ahead of the break-even point when they pulled the biggest upset of their season by stopping Army's winning streak at 12 via a 60-55 home court win.

Again Seemer was the big gun with 15, but Wagner had 14, Guth, 13, and Thorne, 12, to make the scoring close.

Dave Clark, who hadn't scored a point in the game until the closing minutes, put in three field goals in a row to break the Cadets' backs.

With four more games to go, three on the road, Tech will be fortunate to break even in a season that promised so much. But when you lose a full 40 per cent of your starters and half of that is the heart and soul of your team, you are lucky to come out of it that well.

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The Georgia Tech Alumnus

G orgiaTech Journal

JANUARY FEBRUARY

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A digest of information about Georgia Tech and the alumni

January-February, 1968

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NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS NSF grants Tech $90,900 TECH received $90,900 in grants from the National Science Foundation, recently.

Discovering how clays are formed in nature and how they can be synthesized in the laboratory is the continued research of Dr. Charles E. Weaver, professor of Geology in Tech's School of Ceramic Engineering. Weaver received a $45,000 renewal grant to continue his study of clay formation with particular emphasis on Georgia clay.

The School of Chemistry under the direction of Dr. James A. Stanfield received $21,900 to continue its 10week summer research participation for college teachers. Eight faculty members from institutions throughout the nation will take part in research at Tech this summer. Many of these participants have neither the facilities nor the opportunities in their own schools to do graduate research, but this summer program at Tech gives them a chance to put ideas into action. One of the benefits derived from this summer program is to help the person initiate research in his own school.

Dr. Eugene C. Ashby, associate professor of Chemistry received a $24,000 grant for a two years study of "Grignard Reagents."

These reagents, although one of the most common synthetic tools used in organic chemistry for the creation of structurally complex alcohols, have never been completely understood, according to Ashby. Two problems exist: that of understanding the composition of the reagents in solution, and that of understanding the mechanism of reactions of the reagents.

For the past two years, Ashby has

worked on the composition of the Grignard reagents. Under the present grant, he hopes to understand the exact way in which the reagents react to form certain compounds.

Working with Ashby are Joseph T. Laemmle, a post-doctoral fellow, and Frank Walker, Lee Chao, and Sha Pao Yu, all graduate students at Tech.

Merit scholars visit campus O N December 9 over 125 outstanding high school seniors and their parents converged on the Tech campus for the institution's second annual National Merit Scholars' Day. This program was held at Tech for the first time last year and met with a great deal of success: 72 of the 108 students who visited the campus on that day actually enrolled at Tech the next fall.

National Merit Scholarship contestants who have either reached the semi-finals in the scholarship competition or received letters of commendation in the judging, and who have indicated Tech as their first or second college choice were invited to come to the campus for this program.

The sequence of events got underway at 10:00 a.m. with a welcoming speech by Sam Williams, president of the Tech student body. Dr. E. Arthur Trabant, vice president for Academic Affairs, spoke on "Georgia Tech and the Superior Student." The next speaker was Registrar and Director of Admissions, William L. Carmichael, who discussed Tech's admission policies. Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, dean of the Engineering College, addressed the students on the programs in the Engineering College; and Dr. Sam Webb, acting dean of the General College, spoke on the programs in the General College.

THE SECOND COVER

The year 1968 brought more than its share of srfow to Atlanta. By February 7, the city had already been hit by three snowstorms, each of which lasted but a day. Unfortunately, at least from the student point-of-view, not one of the snows was enough to force cancellation of classes. So the boys had to be content to use up their own free time to engage in the traditional snowball battles that always develop on-campus with this type of precipitation. \ 26

After a coke break, Georgia Tech students presented a panel discussion on student life at Tech. A luncheon followed in the Hightower Textile Building.

The early part of the afternoon was devoted to touring points of special interest on the campus. The National Merit scholars later met in the Van Leer Electrical Engineering Building for addresses by Dr. Irvin E. Perlin, Chief of the Rich Electronic Computer Center, on Tech's computer systems and programs; Joe W. Guthridge, vice president for development, on the campus of the future; and Dr. Carlyle J. Roberts, director of the School of Nuclear Engineering, on the Tech Research Reactor and its uses. A tour of the Neely Nuclear Research Center concluded the day's activities.

Tech professor named UN advisor DR. Roderick F. O'Connor, professor of Industrial Management at Tech, was invited by the White House to serve as an advisor on the United States Delegation to the United Nations World Conference on Industrial Development. The meeting, which has been three years in preparation, was held in Athens, Greece, from November 29 to December 19. Dr. O'Connor was the only member of the United States delegation not associated with the government or private industry and acted as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Delegation, thus utilizing his special qualifications in industrial management.

The conference was organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to assist developing countries in industralization.

Over 100 member nations of the U.N. had representatives at the conference, which, for the first time in history, brought together industrial development leaders and specialists from all parts of the world. The U. S. delegation consists of approximately 20 members, representing various departments of the government and private industry.

Receiving emphasis at the meeting were a general survey of world industry with special reference to developing countries, problems, and prospects of main industrial sectors, policies and measures in developing countries, and international aspects of industrial development.

Three professors aid crane design THREE Tech professors were instrumental in designing a unique type of crane for use in piggyback operations in which trailers or containers are moved to and from railroad cars.

The professors are Dr. F. R. Erskine Crossley, School of Mechanical Engineering; Mr. William J. Seay, The Georgia Tech Alumnus

School of Architecture; and Dr. Paul H. Sanders, School of Civil Engineering. The manufacturer of the crane is the Southern Iron and Equipment Company of Chamblee, Georgia.

Crossley's contribution toward the design of the 50-ton gantry crane was the development of a power steering system to ensure proper alignment, while turning, of the crane's steerable wheels, which are 56 feet apart. T h e crane is steerable through two doubletired wheels which rotate about their vertical axes.

Seay was concerned with the complex problem of operator control. He designed the totally-enclosed operator's cab, with careful attention to the required visibility and to the simplicity of operating the extensive array of controls in the cab. T h e trailers lifted can be moved longitudinally, laterally, and in rotation about a vertical axis.

The design of most of the structural steel in the crane was the project of Dr. Sanders, who also set u p the design and loading criteria. The crane is constructed entirely of high-strength welded steel box selection, in which are hidden stiffeners and diaphragms to ensure the crane's withstanding the loads to which it is subjected.

The crane incorporates as its most unusual feature a complete and automatic weighing system for accurately determining and recording load weight at the same time the load is being handled. Contained in the operator's cab are a dial indicator and ticket printer. Load cells in the hoisting mechanism send signals to the weighing system. The weighing system, floodlights, and control cab heater derive electrical power from an engine-driven generator.

The crane has a capacity of 50 tons and features bottom lift grappling arms for moving cargo. There is an optional spreader beam for top lift containers. T h e crane is rubber-tired and is constructed of high-strength steel. A welded box beam design, containing a minimum of mechanical fasteners, is used.

The crane is self-propelled and has a V-8 diesel engine. All power for load handling and crane movement is transmitted hydraulically. T h e crane can be propelled in either direction by a stepless, reversible hydrostatic drive and can operate at speeds up to 465 fpm. Hydraulic cylinders provide load clamping force and fail-safe suspension of load.

Southern Iron and Equipment Company personnel played major roles in ensuring the success of the crane.

James W. Braze] 1, project engineer, coordinated the design, fabrication and assembly of the crane and designed the systems of hydraulic pumps, cylinders, hoses and piping which operate the crane. Thomas J . Holmes, January-February, 1968

drafting supervisor, put down on paper the efforts of the professors and Mr. Brazell so that the crane would fit together when assembled.

Mr. Tom C. Campbell, president of the firm, provided the necessary leadership and guidance for such a major undertaking.

The crane is presently being tested in the Tilford Railway Yard in Atlanta.

lands, International Paper Company, Southern Kraft Division, chairs the S.E.A. Steering Committee which authorized the research. T h e School of Industrial Engineering a t Georgia Tech is under the direction of Dr. R. N . Lehrer. N . K. Rogers is the Project Director. Dr. T. A. Walbridge, the Director of the A.P.A. Harvesting Research Project, will provide the Tech group with liaison.

IE School gets grant from S.E.A.

Alumnus Gives Library $100,000

T H E Southern Executives Association, which represents a group of sixteen paper-producing corporations in the Southeast, recently granted $80,000 to the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech for the development of a research project entitled, " T h e Systems Aspect of Harvesting and Transportation of Pulpwood."

This research project, a two-year effort, will analyze, from t h e systems engineering viewpoint, the future problems to be encountered by paper mills in obtaining the necessary resource materials for their continued successful contribution to the economy of the Southeastern section of the United States. It will evaluate the impact of changing technological, economic, and social factors. Assisting the group at Georgia Tech in this effort will be representatives from the School of Forestry at the University of Georgia.

Fred C. Gragg, Vice President and Assistant General Manager for Wood-

TECH

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Price

Gilbert,

Jr.,

'21, has presented the Price Gilbert Memorial Library a gift of $100,000, largest ever given the Institute by an individual alumnus. The Library is named for Gilbert's father, Judge Price Gilbert of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Gilbert joined The Coca-Cola Company in June of 1921, when he walked across North Avenue the day he graduated from Tech to show his diploma to Harrison Jones, then its vice president and sales manager.

He worked with the company until World War I I when he left his job of vice president in charge of advertising to go into the Navy in 1942 as a Lt. Commander. H e returned from his tour of duty with the Bronze Star which he won in combat in the Pacific.

Gilbert has been the library's staunchest supporter and biggest booster since the planning stages back in the early fifties.

NEWS FROM THE CLUBS ATLANTA, GEORGIA—The Greater

At-

lanta Georgia Tech Club held its first coed meeting in eight years on February 1. The program, presided over by President J i m Brown, featured Dr. E. Arthur Trabant, vice president for academic affairs, and Basketball Coach Whack Hyder. Following the formal program, the club members and their guests attended the Tech-Clemson basketball game at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA—The Birming-

ham Georgia Tech Club held its most successful fall meeting in years on October 16 when 115 alumni turned out to hear Athletic Director Bobby Dodd discuss his plans for the Tech athletic program. During the business meeting prior to Coach Dodd's talk, the following new officers were elected:

At the Cape Kennedy Club meeting of December 7, Mike Fisher, president of the club, presented an honorary membership certificate to J. Harry McDonald of Ormond Beach (center) as President Harrison looks on.

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C. T. McConnell, president; Robert L. Williams, first vice president; Rudy M. Hauenstein, second vice president and scholarship chairman; George A. Jackins, Jr., treasurer; and C. Lynn Strickland, Jr., secretary.

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KENNEDY,

FLORIDA—President

Edwin D. Harrison was t h e guest speaker at the December 9 meeting of the Cape Kennedy Georgia Tech Club held in Titusville. After Dr. Harrison's talk on the present and future of Georgia Tech, he and J. Harry McDonald of the Daytona Beach Georgia Tech Club were presented honorary membership in the relatively new Tech club at the Cape. Visitors from the Central Florida Club and the Daytona Beach Club brought the meeting crowd up to 113. Films of the Saturn V launch were shown to close out the highly successful evening.

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CAROLINA—The Western Carolinas Alumni Club held a successful dual meeting on October 5 with films of the Tech-TCU game being shown in Spartanburg at a luncheon "meeting and in Greenville at a supper meeting. This was the first time such an approach has been attempted by a Tech alumni club.

NEWS OF THE ALUMNI »i—»j— H. C. Smith, T E , of GreenU i J ville, South Carolina, died October 19, 1967. »#-» r ^ We recently learned of the U O death of J. T. Dargan. ' r~\ Q Philip F. L'Engle, a retired U O builder in Atlanta, died November 7, 1967. His widow resides at 120 Peachtree Circle, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. »#—» Q Albert L. Abbott, of 127 32nd U O Street, N.W., Canton, Ohio, died November 5, 1967. Mr. Abbott had retired from Diebold, Inc. in 1958 as a research and mechanical engineer where he had perfected methods and processes in the development of armor plate for the B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft and scout cars during WW II. H e is survived by his widow, Kathleen S. Abbott; two daughters; two sons; and two brothers including R. S. Abbot, '06, of Alexandria, Louisiana.

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N E W ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—The New

Orleans Georgia Tech Club has recently elected the following new officers: W. D. Stroud, president; Dave Molthrop, vice president; and Al Nichols, secretary-treasurer. The club also passed a resolution limiting the term of president to one year and calling for the automatic promotion to the next higher office for the vice president and secretary-treasurer. This way only a new secretary-treasurer will be elected each year.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—Bill Po-

teet, associate secretary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, was the guest speaker at the November 17 meeting of the Pittsburgh Georgia Tech Club. Poteet spoke on "What Alumni Mean to the Institution" and showed the 1966 Football Highlights film following his talk. During the business meeting De Beeson~^ave a report on the National Club Officers' Weekend. \}j RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—The Richmond

Georgia Tech Club held a special television party on November 25 to watch the Tech-Georgia game. The club's annual meeting is being planned for late February or early March. Interested area alumni, not on the club's mailing list, may contact Bob Branner at 288-9038 for details. \ 28

William C. Mather died October 28, 1967. His widow resides at 484 Holiday Drive, Hallandale, Florida.

We recently learned of the death of Ashley C. Frazier.

R ' l / l °Ser S. Howell, Sr., M E , \£+ died December 8, 1967. Mr. Howell began teaching at Tech, rising in 30 years to a professorship of mechanical engineering. He was also the former head of Georgia Tech's Engineering Extension Division. His widow resides at 2121 Clearwater Road, Marietta, Georgia. Other survivors include his daughter of Chattanooga and a son of Marietta.

' / j r~ J. Jordan Gardner, ME, died | I 3 October 24, 1967. Mr. Gardner was a retired Marietta attorney and former president of Marietta Federal Savings and Loan Association.

His widow resides at 414 South Woodland Drive, Marietta, Georgia. ' / i r ^ Augustus C. Keiser, Com., | D died November 20, 1967, in Atlanta. Mr. Keiser retired in 1948 as manager of the Georgia News Company. H e came to Atlanta in 1907 and has lived at 1091 Briarcliff Place, N.E., Atlanta, for many years.

Among his survivors are two sons, A. C. Keiser, Jr., M E '32 and Malcolm G. Keiser, M E '35.

»/| —l Frank D. Montague, Sr., CE, | / died December 3, 1967. Mr. Montague was a senior partner in the insurance agency of Montague, Sizler, and Ferrell. H e was chairman of building committees, war bond drives, and various other civic and church efforts over the years. H e is survived by his widow, a daughter, and two sons.

Morris L. Shadburn, CE, was awarded the Thomas H. Mac-Donald Award on October 16, 1967, at Salt Lake City by the American Association of State Highway Officials. Mr. Shadburn is the chief engineer for the State of Georgia Highway Department. Mr. Shadburn is also a past president of AASHO and has been active in all aspects of its work and that of other highway organizations and engineering societies. »/i *—\ We recently learned that | y Cletas Bergen of Savannah, Georgia, died May 6, 1966. »(—»/i John Durr Wise, past prosif y I dent of the Mississippi Economic Council, died October 20, 1967.

At the time of his death, Mr. Wise was president of the Wise Oil Corporation and Dixie Land Royalty Company, Inc. of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, director of Sanderson Farms Inc. of Laurel and director of Misceramic Tile Company of Cleveland, Mississippi. His widow resides at Hazlehurst, Mississippi. f (—»(—\ George David Anderson, Jr., C* f^ E E , retired electrical engineer, died December 26, 1967. His widow resides at 314 Freyer Drive, Marietta, Georgia. Mr. Anderson is also survived by a daughter and son.

Paul K. Blackwell, M E , died November 16, 1967. He was a mechanical engineer for 38 years with Florida Power & Light Company. His widow resides at 10395 S. W. 132nd Street, Miami, Florida.

Gerald J. Creighton, M E , of Conroe, Texas, died recently.

We recently learned that C. H. Dudley, CE, died in October, 1967. > j—» j - } D. W. Brosnan, CE, chairf^ j j j man and chief executive officer of Southern Railway Company, has retired.

Clifford L. Hipps, of Atlanta died September 12, 1967. Among his survivors is his sister, Margaret Hipps, who lives at 71 Sheridan Drive, AtThe Georgia Tech Alumnus

Read Goode's idea led to an extra $250,000 in business in a single yean His idea was Greg Porter* R. Gregory Porter, III (Virginia Polytechnic Institute '64) and New England Life's Read F. Goode, (University of Richmond '65)

While Read F. Goode was still in college, he worked with Gregory Porter for a prominent Richmond investment firm.

Greg stayed with the brokerage firm, but Read entered the insurance business with N e w England Life.

Several years later, when each was established in his own field, Read had an idea which he believed could benefit them both, and benefit their clients, too. H e suggested that he and Greg cooperate, whenever possible, to offer balanced financial programs to their clients. Greg agreed.

Together, they analyze a prospect's needs, with Read setting up the fixed dollar portion through insurance, and Greg handling the variable dollar portfolio through investments.

T h e idea has proved abundantly productive. In the last 12 months, Read's new business from this source alone has totalled more than $250,000—an impressive portion of an equally impressive $1,535,000 total.

"This is typical of what I hoped to be able to do when I chose the insurance field," says Goode. "I wanted a business in which initiative and ideas paid off. I wanted opportunity, with a large measure of freedom, and I've certainly found it here."

Read Goode's choice of a life insurance career was ideal for him. And his choice of N e w England Life has given him the added advantages of the prestige, resources and reputation of the oldest mutual life insurance company in America.

Could such a career be as'rewarding for you? A sound ( a n d simple) first step is to send for N e w England Life's Personality Aptitude Analyzer, which can give us both a preliminary opportunity to find out if this business and this company are right for you.

Not everyone qualifies—in fact, less than half of the men who take our Personality Aptitude Analyzer are urged to investigate a career with us further.

But for those who do qualify, we offer a substantial training salary, an exceptional training program, and the kind of freedom to grow as you want, with the kind of people you want to do business with.

Interested? W r i t e to George G. Joseph, C L U , Sr. V.P., N e w f } V ^ J f J England Life, 501 Boylston St., H T l f i l f l T ^ Q Boston, Massachusetts 02117.

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New England Mutual Life Insurance Company The following Georgia Institute of Technology Alumni are New England Life Agents: G. Nolan Bearden, '29, Los Angeles Carl S. Ingle, CLU, '33, Jacksonville Joe A. Sowell, Jr., '47, Montgomery William L. Simmons, Jr., M9, Atlanta

F A C E S IN T H E N E W S Julian 0. Cole, '25, has retired from his position as Vice President, Textile Products Division, of Dayco Corporation, Dayton, Tennessee. Cole will be retained as a consultant.

Dayco is a manufacturer of rubber and plastic products.

William L. Quinlen, '30, has been nominated as a director of First National Bank of Memphis. He is president, general manager, and a director of Choctaw, Inc., a Memphis based firm dealing in construction equipment.

David S. Lewis, '39, is one of nine aerospace scientists and engineers to be elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics this year. He is President of the McConnell Douglas Corporation.

Charles w. Bastedo, '43, has been elected vice president and general manager of Atlantic Steel's Steel Division. He was formerly president of Atlantic Steel's wholly owned subsidiary company, Dixisteel Buildings, Inc. James A. Suddeth, '43, has been named Assistant to the Vice President- Marketing of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati. Suddeth will serve in the areas of market planning and research, sales and special assignments.

Ashton H. Cary, '44, is the new assistant manager of West Point Pepperell's Dunson Mill in LaGrange, Georgia. Cary was formerly the Plant Industrial Engineer and is active in civic affairs.

He is married and has five children.

E. J. Justus, '48, has been named Vice President in Charge of Engineering, Research, and Development at the Beloit Corpo- < ration, Beloit, Wisconsin.

He has over 80 U. S. patents dealing with paper machinery and other equipment.

Harry F. Hardy, '49, has joined the Rockwell-Standard Divisions of North American Rock-Well Corporation as manager of purchasing. He was formerly purchasing manager of the McCord Corporation in Detroit. \

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We recently learned of the death of James L. Keen, Jr., Com. We recently learned that Edgar H. Meadows died October 8, 1966.

His widow resides at 3836 Maryland Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana 71106.

R. H. Reynolds of Milledgeville, Georgia, died November 5, 1967. ' Q / l Cecil H- Ramsey, Sr., CE, C - H - died December 2, 1967. Mr. Ramsey was president of Wesley Heights Inc. and a director of Commercial Trust Inc. His widow resides at 1434 Womack Road, Dunwoody, Georgia. Among survivors include Cecil H. Ramsey, Jr., IM '53.

James H. Taylor, Jr., Com., an insurance and real estate broker in Atlanta, died November 23, 1967. Mr. Taylor was past president of the Atlanta Area Association of Independent Insurance Agents and was a member of the Atlanta Real Estate Board. He also was a member of the Building Owners and Managers Association and the National Apartment Owners Association. His widow resides at 326 Manor Ridge Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' 1^ EZ Charles D. Beeland of AtlanC_ i j ta died recently. His widow resides at 849 Cascade Avenue, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

John M. Leverett, CE, died September 19, 1967, from injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Leverett practiced engineering in Colquitt County for many years. His widow resides at 2032 Third Street, S.E., Moultrie, Georgia.

Thomas R. McCrea, ChE, has been appointed editor for the new (1968) Grand Lodge publication "The North Carolina Mason." His new business address is The Masonic Grand Lodge Building, Glenwood Avenue, P.O. Box 6506, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Frank K. Shaw, EE, retired industrial and aviation consultant for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, died October 26, 1967. His widow resides at 1514 Stokes Avenue, S.W., Atlanta.

J. F. Dowie Smith, ME, has received the Doctor of Laws degree from Manhattan College.

William Thomas Walton, ChE, of Chicago, Illinois, died recently. ' O O We recently learned of the C. D death of J. W. Barker, CE, of Orlando, Florida. ' O ~J Jack Kelvin Bleich, ChE, has L_ / gone into the practice of Cardiology & Internal Medicine at 229-B Doctors Building, 490 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308.

James C. Shelor, Com., has retired as senior vice president and senior trust officer of the Houston National Bank. Mr. Shelor has been elected an advisory director of the bank. ' Q Q R- K. Stewart, Jr., of VicksC— C J burg, Mississippi, died September 26, 1967. His widow resides at 1617 Chambers Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180.

We recently learned that W. B. Willingham died December 2, 1967.

His widow resides at 6604 Deep Creek, Prospect, Kentucky. ' O f~~\ Clarence L. Lott has been l 3 L J elected president of the Country Club of Jackson, Mississippi.

We recently learned of the death of S. L. Marienthal, ChE. Robert C. Paul BS, died October 30, 1967. His widow resides at 3610 Holly Grove Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida 32217. ' O / j John B. Bass died November O I 9, 1967. He was an employee of Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Graveside services were held in Atlanta. Among his survivors are his widow, two sons and two daughters.

We recently learned of the death of William H. Boyd, Com. ' O O Jack Glenn, BS, was elected O L_ chairman of the board of The Citizens & Southern National Bank at a joint meeting of the bank's boards of directors of Savannah and Atlanta. ' *"D <^3 We recently learned that O O Louia V. Maddox, Com., died June 5, 1965.

We recently learned that Francis C. Philips was killed in an automobile accident in September, 1967.

H. D. Southerland, Jr., has been elected vice president of Region III, Sons of the Revolution, at the society's triennial meeting in New Orleans. Mr. Southerland, who is supervisor-land, Southern District, for United States Steel, in his new position will coordinate the activities of Sons of the Revolution societies in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Tennessee. ' O / l Ross Wilson, Com., certified VJ 1" public accountant, announces the merger of his accounting practice with the firm of Lester Witte & Company of Chicago. The practice will continue as the Atlanta office of Lester Witte & Company, Healey Building, Atlanta, Georgia.

O C Henry D. Geigerman, Jr., *—'*—» ChE, an agent and executive with the Atlanta general agency of National Life Insurance Company of The Georgia Tech Alumnus

Vermont, died November 3, 1967, after a short illness. His widow resides at 2926 Arden Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. He is also survived by two sons, Harry D., Ill, of New Orleans and Robert M., of Atlanta.

Berrien M. Moore, Jr., BS, of Atlanta, died August 12, 1967.

Lieutenant Colonel Joe M. Thrash, Jr. (Ret.), Arch., has been named executive director of the Housing Authority of the city of Douglas, Georgia.

H. H. Wadsworth, Sr. of Columbus, Georgia, died September 1, 1967. ' O ~~i Donald C. Johnson, TE, vice V J / president of J. P. Stevens Company, Inc., in Milledgeville, Georgia, has been elected president of the Textile Education Foundation, Inc. Henry L. Plage. IM, World War II Lieutenant Commander, USN, winner of the Legion of Merit Cross, is cited for his heroism in a recently published book, Hulsey's Typhoons,

by H. C. Adamson and G. F. Kosco.

The book is published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, New York 10016. ' O Q Ivey O. Drewry, ME, has VJ t 3 been made Nike-X project manager of the "Nike-X Anti-Missile Missile System," in Huntsville, Alabama.

John R. Hammond, Jr., ME, has been named a member of the Titusville (Florida) Board of Appeals and Adjustments.

Hugh B. Hutchins, EE, died January 8, 1968. Mr. Hutchins was chief electrical engineer for Georgia Power Company. Survivors include his widow, a daughter, a son and three brothers.

Marvin G. Mitchell, CE, has been elected executive vice president of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, Oak Brook, Illinois.

John Ryscuck. EE, died August 10, 1967. He was assistant chief engineer of Communications-Radio Division of Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. His widow and two sons reside at 505 North Chapman Street, Ashland, Virginia 23005.

Sergio Sobredo, EE, has accepted a position with the firm of Walk, Haydel & Associates in New Orleans, Louisiana. ' /\ r~\ Gordon B. Cauble, ME, has 4 U been promoted to Brigadier General at Ft. Huachca, Arizona.

Lawrence H. Macintosh died of a heart attack August 27, 1967. His widow resides at P. O. Box 123, Opelika, Alabama. Mr. Macintosh was president of Macintosh Appraisal Service. ' /\ / | Colonel Anderson Q. Smith C-T I has been promoted to Commanding Officer of the US Army January-February, 1968

Computer Systems Evaluation Command.

Colonel Charles E. Hammett, ME, helped evaluate lessons '42 learned in Vietnam at a special US Air Force-industry support conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

W. L. Hole, ME, is now manager of Hawaiian Division, California Packing Company. His address is P. O. Box 149, Honolulu, Hawaii 96810.

Henry Clay McGarity, ME, an aircraft engineer with Lockheed-Georgia, died October 26, 1967. His widow resides at 449 Ramona Street, Marietta, Georgia. He is also survived by his son, Henry Stephen of Marietta. ' /I O We recently learned that ^"TLJ Nicholas Vasilendo, Clifton, New Jersey, died December 12, 1967. ' /\ O Louis Gordon Sawyer, NS, ^ T L J has been elected president of the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville, Georgia. Mr. Sawyer is president of Sawyer Advertising.

Commander Howell M. McGaughey, TE, died in Tor4 7 rance, California, December 13, 1967.

Graveside services were held at Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Georgia, on December 18.

Ralph Puckett, Jr. has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (First Oak Leaf Cluster) for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam. » /\ Q Robert F. Darby, BS, has be' T C J come a partner with Reynolds, Smith and Hills. He will be located in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Darby specializes in the field of hospital and medical facility planning and design. He is also responsible for production and personnel of the Architectural Division.

Dr. Leonard M. Diana, Phys., has been elected "Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."

Richard D. Dombach, ME, has been promoted to assistant plant manager of the Lancaster Closure Plant of Armstrong Cork Company.

Dr. James W. Sweeney, IM, has been named director of Computer and Electronic Data Processing Laboratories at the University of Oklahoma. ' yi Q David K. Humphrey, EE, ^ + 0 died November 29, 1967. Mr. Humphrey was a commercial sales specialist with the Georgia Power Company. His widow resides at 4056 May Apple Court, Decatur, Georgia.

E. Robert James, IM, has been

promoted to manager of the Atlanta office of Task Force Office Reserves.

Charles L. Johnson, BS, is district building systems engineer, Metal Products Division, Armco Steel Corporation. He will provide technical sales assistance to the company's building systems sales organization in seven states.

W. A. Reiser, E E , has been appointed assistant vice president in the General Personnel Department of Southern Bell. Mr. Reiser is responsible for labor relations and associated matters for the West area and is located in Birmingham, Alabama. »p~ r - | Major Terrell E. Home, IM, C j U recently took part in a successful mission over Vietnam. Major Home and fellow A-37 pilots flew into a Viet Cong stronghold to support allied troops during recent fighting near Dak To in Kontum Province.

Married: Henry McCamish, Jr., IM, to Miss Margaret Price Beckham, December 27, 1967. Mr. McCamish is with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Commander Cameron O. Mixon, Jr., IE, has recently completed his duty in Vietnam as senior advisor to the Vietnamese Naval Shipyard, Naval Engineering consultant to the senior Naval advisor and the Naval advisory group staff. His new duty station is at Long Beach Naval Shipyard in California.

M. J. Yates, Text., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for Retarded Children. ' £ ~ / l James T. Cantrell, Jr. died CD I • October 28, 1967. Mr. Cantrell, a native of Birmingham, Ala. bama, served in the Merchant Marines during World War II and was employed as an electronics engineer.

His widow resides at 1770 Saxon Place, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Jesse M. Cleveland, Chem., has co-authored a new book entitled Plutonium Handbook, A Guide to the Technology. Dr. Cleveland is a senior research chemist in Research and Development at The Dow Chemical Company's Rocky Flats Division. The book was prepared under the auspices of the US Atomic Energy Commission Division of Technical Information, and published by Gordon and Breach, science publishers.

Robert A. Duffy, AE, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the US Air Force. General Duffy is assigned to Norton AFB, California, where he is deputy for ballistic missile reentry systems with the Air Force Systems Command Space and Missile Systems Organization. He is also responsible for certain US Navy Polaris and Poseidon reentry vehicles and the US Army tar31

THE NEws Carl Jensen, '49, has received the first annual Award of Excellence sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of the Health Physics Society. He is Assistant Chief, Occupational Health, U.S. Public Health Station, Salt Lake City.

Robert E. Eskew, '49, has been named managing partner of The Arena Group, a new nationwide consulting firm to organizations planning new stadiums, sports arenas, and other related public facilities. Eskew was formerly business manager of athletics at Tech.

Carl H. Hudson, '50, has been named Sales Manager of the Memphis District of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, in charge of field sales organization. He will handle the sales of building materials and industrial products.

Raymond G. Moore, '50, is the new product manager of flat Belting for 6. F. Goodrich Industrial Company, Akron, Ohio. A former district sales manager in Dallas, he is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

T. F. Reese, ' 5 1 , has been named vice president of corporate planning and engineering at Atlantic Steel Company. He was formerly vice president of operations for the Steel Division. He is a director of Dixisteel Buildings, Inc. David I. J. Wang, '53, has been named Products Manager for New Products, of the Cryogenic Products Department of Union Carbide's Linde Division. He will handle commercialization of newly developed technology.

William R. Cole, Jr., '54, Head Engineer of StahlUrban Company and its affiliates, has been named to the committee to direct the activities of ARK, Inc. This is the newly-formed research and development arm of Kellwood Company.

David C. Garrett, Jr., '55, has been promoted to senior vice president of operations, Delta Air Lines.

He was in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and joined Delta in 1946.

He is a native of Pickens, South Carolina.

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Bill A. Marion, Chem., has joined Lennen & Newell, San Francisco, as an account executive assigned to the Hewlett-Packard account.

J. W. (Red) Patton, IM, has become a full partner with Hartman White Trucks, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family reside at 6008 Robert E. Lee Drive, Nashville.

Martin B. Roberts, IE, has been elected assistant vice chancellor of administration and planning of the University System. Mr. Roberts has been an assistant professor at Georgia State College since Sepember, 1966.

Giles C. Toole, Jr., IM, has earned a double high ranking from the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont's sixth annual autumn sales campaign. Mr. Toole was sixth nationally in volume of life insurance paid for and seventh in percentage of quota achieved in the five week competition.

A. W. Wren, of Indialantic, has recently been promoted to manager of Engineering Support for RCA-MTP at Cape Kennedy, Florida. ' p ~ r ^ Major Lucius G. Bryant, Jr., C J ( _ EE, supported the recent unmanned Apollo Space flight aboard the US Air Force's new "droop snoot" EC-135N transport. Major Bryant is a pilot with the first aircrews to receive accelerated training in the modified C-135 Stratolifter, a sophisticated Apollo/Range instrumentation aircraft (ARIA).

William K. Howard, IE, has joined the management consulting firm of Summerour & Associates, Inc. as a staff consultant. He will reside in Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters of the firm, with his wife and two children.

Commander William L. Reger, IE, assumed command of the destroyer USS Putnam (DD-757) on July 14, 1967. The Putnam is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.

Wiley E. Williams has been named a member of the Titusville (Florida) Board of Appeals and Adjustments. ' pâ&#x201E;˘ O Dr. Douglas H. Hutchinson, C J VJ IE, has been appointed head of the University of Tennessee's Department of Industrial Engineering.

Dr. Hutchinson received his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degree from Georgia Tech.

We recently learned that Richard E. Reddy died September 20, 1967.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Scinto, IM, twins, Paul and Laura, October 25, 1967.

Billy L. Story, Text., has been promoted to Army Lieutenant Colonel at

Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Colonel Story is presently a student at the college in Ft. Leavenworth.

Carlos L. Ygartua. IM, has been transferred to Brussels, Belgium, as marketing manager for the European Oilfield Division of Gardner-Denver Company.

Richard A. Lane, AE, has '54 qualified for the "Top 50 Club" of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vermont ' PT PT We recently heard that Paul Âť_J C J E. Cordle, IE, was among eight recipients of the first annual Michelson Laboratories awards of "Fellow in Ordnance Science" and "Fellow in Management" at the US Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, California. T h e award was made in May, 1967.

Robert J. Lindegard, CE, is now manager of Architect Service for the central division of the United States and has eleven architect service representatives working under him.

Bob Porter, IM, has been promoted to program administrator with IBM Corporation, White Plains, New York.

He will reside at 22 Long Pond Road, Windmill Farms, Armonk, New York 10504.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John William Tate, EE, a daughter, Laura Beth, June 22. Mr. Tate is employed with the Georgia Power Company.

The family resides at 1242 18th Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31906. ' p r O Tommy L. Gossage, ChE, has i j D accepted a new position as Group Marketing director with New Enterprises Division of Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri.

Married: Thomas Cason Hunter, Jr., E E , to Miss Isla Johnson Stack, February 3. Mr. Hunter is employed

by Fischer and Porter Company in Atlanta.

W. D. McCurry, CE, has recently been promoted to division engineer with Plantation Pipe Line and has relocated to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Robert L. Orth, CE, has been appointed as engineer of right-of-way for the Florida State Road Department.

Dr. H. H. Sineath, PhD., has been named general manager, Film Operations at American Viscose Division, FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

R. Joe Taylor, IM, placed tenth nationally in volume of insurance paid for in the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont's sixth annual autumn sales campaign. Mr. Taylor is a long-time President's Club member, belongs to the Million Dollar Round Table and holds several National Quality Awards. He has won two of the life industry's annual National Sales Achievement Awards.

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James Walker, III, Text., has been promoted to market director of Monsanto Company, Textiles Division, New York. ' p r " 7 Warren S. Anderson, IM, has ÂŤ_) / been promoted to the rank of Colonel in recent ceremonies at Fort Belvoir's Nuclear Weapons Surety Group. Colonel Anderson is currently serving as chief of the Weapons Environment Division at the NWSG. H. Bruce English, Text., has been promoted to carpet and home furnishings field sales director of Monsanto Company, Textiles Division in New York.

Captain Lee V. Greer, IM, is a member of an Air Defense Command unit which recently accomplished a dramatic first in air defense tactics. Captain Greer's 2,800-mile flight marked the first time aerial refueling was used in deploying the 1,400-mile per hour flight outside of the continental United States.

Major Marion Heeke, IM, received a check for a suggestion submitted through the Army's Incentive Awards Program. Major Heeke designed, from existing equipment and parts, a device for drying out wet missile data-transmisssion and power cables. The procedure will save the government an estimated $300,000 a year. Major Heeke is stationed at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Captain Norman W. Lee, Jr., AE, has been selected for promotion to Major in the US Air Force. Captain Lee is a systems program staff officer at Andrews AFB, Maryland, with the Air Force Systems Command which advances America's aerospace technology through development of new systems and hardware to keep pace with the world's technological race.

John W. Parrott, ChE, has been promoted to group leader in the Chemical Engineering Department of Rohm & Haas Company, Houston, Texas. He will head the technical group responsible for design and development improvements on existing plant process.

Captain Joe H. Roberts, EE, has received the Air Medal at Phu Cat AB, Vietnam. Captain Roberts, a pilot, was decorated for meritorious achievement during aerial flights in Southeast Asia. He was cited for his outstanding airmanship and courage on successful and important missions under hazardous conditions.

Charles H. Sudduth, IM, has accepted a position with Summerour and Associates, Inc., Atlanta-headquartered management consulting firm. He will reside in Atlanta with his wife and 3 children.

James E. Thompson, IM, has been promoted to the position of vice president and sales manager of Dixie Size and Chemical Company, Columbus, January-February, 1968

TODAY'S TECH STUDENTS STILL NEED YOUR HELP T H E methods most often used to make a charitable gift are outright gifts of cash or securities. Many alumni who have made provisions for Georgia Tech in their wills have also come to realize that lifetime gifts have certain advantages which may increase their spendable income now. These men feel that the saving of tax dollars is important.

And, they also have the satisfaction of knowing their gift is immediately going to work for Georgia Tech.

These lifetime gifts may result in an income tax deduction now, as well as an estate tax advantage later. Let's look at an example: Gifts of Securities

Mr. Burdell owns shares of stock'that are now worth $10,000, but which cost him, many years ago, only $2,000. He gives the stock to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. The tax results: Mr. Burdell's contribution is $10,000. He can deduct this on his Federal income tax return for the year in which he made the gift (within the usual ceiling limitations on deductible contributions). Carry-over is possible on all contributions over 30% of income for the next five years.

He does not report any capital gain upon making the gift. As for the Federal estate tax, Mr. Burdell reduces his estate by $10,000, minus the income tax he saves by means of deduction. He pays no Federal gift tax.

Here is one of the most advantageous ways to help Georgia Tech.

If Mr. Burdell had sold the stock, instead of giving it to Tech, he would have had a gain of $8,000 and his capital gains tax could have been as much as $2,000. But, he has no such tax to pay if he gives the stock to the Georgia Tech Foundation (Rev. Rul. 55-275, 1955-1 C.B. 295).

Doesn't Georgia Tech have to pay a large tax if it ever sells the stock? No. In this case, the Georgia Tech Foundation is exempt from Federal income tax. Note that Mr. Burdell gave stock that had gone up in value since he acquired it. If he held stock that had gone down, it would have been better for him to sell the stock, take the loss (which is generally deductible), and give the Georgia Tech Foundation the proceeds of the sale.

For further information on considerations concerning your financial planning write Thomas H. Hall, III, Director of Resources Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. Telephone: 404-873-4211.

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Wendell E. Lavender, '55, has been named Manager of the Large Screen Displays at CBS Laboratories, Stamford, Connecticutt.

He, his wife, and five children reside at 1 Tenton Hill Road, Ridgefield, Connecticutt.

John S. Newman, '55, has been elected president of the Cartersville Bank, Cartersville, Georgia. The bank has joined the C & S National Bank as a correspondent associate. A native of Canton, N. C , Newman joined C & S in 1958.

Glenn W. Summerlin, '55, Vice President-Sales of Grizzard Advertising in Atlanta, received the C. S. Bolen Award at the Annual Southern Industrial Editors Institute.

He is a past president of the Georgia Industrial Editors' Association.

Euel Wade, Jr., '55-56, has been named Georgia Power Company's "Engineer of the Year." He is responsible for the design and coordination of operations of the power company's underground residential distribution system.

M. Hayes Kennedy, '57, has been named Director of Industrial Engineering for R. J. Reynolds Foods, Inc., New York City. He will direct industrial engineering activity of all Reynolds Foods' Manufacturing facilities.

Robert J. Amman, '60, has been promoted to head of the Control Systems Analysis Department, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He will be studying guidance problems associated with missile defense systems and the Apollo mission.

George E. Mewborne, '60, has been appointed vice president of Riegel Textile Sales Company of New York City.

Prior to his appointment, he was Merchandise*?" of Men's Work Clothing and Government Goods.

James Jerry Eiland, '64, has been named thirdshift supervisor in the twisting department at the Fairfax Mill of Westpoint Pepperell.

Eiland was formerly a graduate trainee assigned to the personnel department.

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Major Sam R. Winborn, Jr., IM, has completed his 255th and final combat mission over Vietnam. During his combat tour, Major Winborn served as an F-100. Super Sabre pilot with the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Bien Hoa AB. The major is scheduled for reassignment at Luke AFB, Arizona, as an instructor pilot.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bryan, Chem., a daughter, '58 Coral Yvonne, December 13, 1967. Mr. Bryan is employed as a senior chemist and plastics specialist, at Kennedy Space Center by Southern Research Institute. The family resides at 1310 Holt Drive, Merritt Island, Florida.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Collett, IE, a son, Steven Rolf, December 20, 1967. The family resides at 30 Fairglen Drive, Titusville, Florida.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James L. Gibson, IM, a son, John Robert, October 21, 1967. The family resides at 419 Bamboo Lane, Largo, Florida.

W. Richard Hauenstein, IE, has qualified for the "Top 50 Club" of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vermont.

Lieutenant Commander H. Lynn Hazlett, IM, is now serving in Vietnam as the director, Inventory Control Department, Navy Supply Depot, DaNang, R.V.N. Lieutenant Commander Hazlett will be attending the University of George Washington for graduate study in June 1968. His mailing address is Box 72, Naval Support Activity, FPO San Francisco, California 96695.

Dr. Cecil I. Hudson, Jr., Phys., has been appointed assistant to the associate director for Nuclear Design at the University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California.

Captain Jerry H. Nabors, IM, has received the Air Medal at DaNang AB, Vietnam. Captain Nabors, an F-4C Phantom pilot, was decorated for meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flights in Southeast Asia. He is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces.

Married: Albert Nixon Parker, IM, to Miss Natalae Adams Waters. Mr. Parker is vice president of Beck and Gregg Hardware Company. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Piedmont Driving Club, the Capital City Club and the Nine O'Clocks. ' PT Q Jack C. Aycock, ME, has rei-J CD cently joined the firm of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The family resides at 4541 N.W. 10th Court, Apartment K-202, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Captain Karlheinz O. W. Ball, AE, a research scientist in the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, recently received his doctor of philosophy degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.

John A. Busby. Jr., Arch., has received recognition in the December issue of Contract magazine, a professional magazine of the interior design industry. His firm, Jova/Daniels/Busby, remodeled a 45 year old downtown Atlanta building into a handsome and efficient layout for the practice of architecture.

Captain Thomas N. Gibson, III, IE, has received the US Air Force Commendation Medal at Perrin AFB, Texas. Captain Gibson was decorated for meritorious service as an F-102 Delta Dagger pilot at Clark AB, Philippines.

Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst, CerE, announce the adoption of a daughter, Amanda Fleming. Mr. Hurst is with the Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

Neil Lesser, EE, has accepted the position of systems engineering manager for IBM. Mr. Lesser resides at 500 Ben Hogan Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462.

George W. Murphy, Jr., Text., has recently taken the position of director of Quality Control for Mount Vernon Mills, Inc. and lives in Tallassee, Alabama. ' CI f~\ Captain James H. Bowman, D U USMC, CE, stationed with the 3rd Engineer Battalion in Vietnam, was recently assigned as regimental engineer to the 9th Marine Regiment.

Stanley L. Daniels. Arch., has received recognition in the current (December, 1967) edition of Contract magazine, a professional magazine of the interior design industry, as a "show case" office. The firm Jova/Daniels/Busby is located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.

Engaged: Donald Morris Kennedy, IE, to Miss Clinton Ray Blackledge.

Mr. Kennedy is associated with Adair Realty and Loan Company in Atlanta.

The wedding will be March 30.

Joe M. Norman. IM, has been promoted to traffic manager of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in Greenville, South Carolina.

Mr. Norman resides at Route #4, Howell Road, Taylors, South Carolina 29687.

William A. Robison, CE, has been promoted to senior associate engineer in the Stablizer Systems V Department of IBM at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Thomas R. Shillington, CE, has been appointed assistant manager of the Miami district of the Ceco CorpoThe Georgia Tech Alumnus

ration. He resides at 16215 West Prestwick Place, Miami Lakes, Florida.

William J. Stewart, EE, has resigned his commission in the naval service in March, 1967. He is now a flight officer with United Air Lines in Chicago. Mr. Stewart resides at 522 West 136th Street, Riverdale, Illinois 60627. ' C ^ / l Born to: Captain and Mrs. D I Clark B. Dorsey, IM, a son, Christopher Benton, October 18. The family resides at 22 Mount Desert Drive, Bangor, Maine.

Engaged: Richard Theodore Frazier, Chem., to Miss Sara Frances Groover.

Mr. Frazier is now pastor of the Marvin Methodist Church in Martinez.

W. Donald Head, IE, has joined the Atlanta sales office of PittsburghDes Moines Steel Company.

Married: Brian Douglas Hogg, IM, to Miss Linda Gay Koger. Mr. Hogg is associated with Executive Action, Inc., in Atlanta.

Kenneth R. Kase, Phys., has been promoted to head of the Radiation Safety Section of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California. Mr. Kase resides at 972 Via Bregani, San Lorenzo, California 94580.

James R. (Bob) Smith, IE, has recently been promoted to Southern Divisional sales manager for Miller Fluid Power Division of Flick Reedy Corporation of Bensenville, Illinois.

Mr. Smith and his family reside at 1409 Cerro Vista Drive, S.E., Atlanta.

Married: David Samuel Wainer, Jr., IM, to Miss Patricia McCormick.

Mr. Wainer has served as a first lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers for three years in Paris, France. ' C O Married: Belfield Howell D C. Carter, Jr., IM, to Miss Barbara Maury Bowen. Mr. Carter served as a First Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps and is now assistant director of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. The newlyweds live in Ansley Park, Atlanta.

Captain David J. Decker, IM, was killed by a sniper's bullet November 9 near Dak To, South Vietnam. Captain Decker was commander of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, First Air Cavalry Division. Before going to Vietnam, he had served two years at Ft. Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone. Survivors are his wife, Gay Rhodes Decker; and two sons, Christopher Edward and David John, Jr., all of Smyrna, Georgia.

Captain Foster W. Harrison, IE, is on temporary duty with the 4258th Strategic Wing at U-Tapao Royal Thai AFB, Thailand.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. January-February, 1968

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Heard, Jr., a daughter, Julie Lenore, September 17, 1967. The family resides at 3314 Capitol Trail, Apartment H-l, Wilmington, Delaware.

Engaged: Robert Lee Hunter, Jr., IM, to Miss Rebecca Hart Teague.

Mr. Hunter is employed by the IBM Corporation in Atlanta. The wedding will be March 2.

Captain James E. Knight, TE, has been graduated from the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He is being reassigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, as a munitions officer.

Married: Wayne Brocklesby McConnell, Jr., IE, to Miss Eva Perry Badger. Mr. McConnell received his MBA degree in finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and is employed by the Tennessee Corporation in Atlanta. He

is a member of the Capital City Club and the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Captain James W. Meier, IM, has been graduated with honors from the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

The captain is being assigned to Robbins AFB, Georgia* as a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft commander.

Stanley Sattinger, ME, is employed

by Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory as a test and analysis engineer working with naval nuclear reactor structures. He resides at 6452 Monitor Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15217.

Lieutenant Donald L. Smith, Phys., research physicist with the US Army Missile Command's Physical Sciences Laboratory, makes an adjustment at the control console of a Van de Graaff accelerator. He is one of several officers assigned to the command holding Doctoral degrees.

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' O n Captain William D. Clark, O O Jr., IM, is on duty at Nha Trang AB, Vietnam. Captain Clark, a forward air controller, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces.

Married: John Douglas Doster, ME, to Miss Evelyn Carole Copeland.

Mr. Doster is employed by the Lockheed-Georgia Company.

Second Lieutenant Joseph M. Raiteri, ME, has been awarded silver wings upon graduation from US Air Force navigator training at Mather AFB, California.

Navy Lieutenant Robert W. Sturgeon, AE, is now wearing the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. The presentation was made during ceremonies at Attack Squadron 174, Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Florida. Lieutenant Sturgeon received the award for exceptional bravery while serving as a pilot with Attack Squadron 56 aboard the nuclear-powered attack aircraft carrier USS Enterprise off the Tonkin Gulf.

Fitzhugh L. Wood, IM, has been promoted to Captain in the Air Force and transferred to Headquarters Air Training Command at Randolph AFB, Texas. His new address is 211 Woodview Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78233. ' P / | Married: Captain Harry I J ^ T Duane Beaver, Jr., IE, to Miss Nancy Louise Ayer. Captain Beaver is now stationed with the US Army at Dexheim, West Germany.

Edward A. Clark, CE, was promoted to Army Captain during ceremonies in Vietnam, November 3, 1967.

Captain Clark is a sanitary engineer in the 20th Preventive Medicine Unit.

Lieutenant Colonel William T. Dugard, ME, has arrived for duty at Patrick AFB, Florida. Colonel Dugard, an aircraft maintenance staff officer, is assigned to a unit of the Air Force Systems Command.

Captain Paul B. Fierman, IE, is one of the first Air Force pilots to fly the "swing-wing" F - l l l . The captain was specially selected for assignment to the first F i l l unit on the basis of his past record and performance.

F. C. Gregory, IE, has been named assistant manager at the Gayle Plant in Chester, S.C. He had formerly been overseer of weaving at the Fort Mill Plant in Fort Mill, S.C. Born to: Lieutenant and Mrs. David Herckis, IM, a daughter, Jennifer Fran, October 27, 1967. The family resides at 615B Alder Street, Myrtle Beach AFB, South Carolina 29577.

Gordon H. McGee, Jr., EE, was promoted to Army Captain December 28, 1967 near An Khe, Vietnam, where he is assigned as intelligence officer of the 13th Signal Battalion of the 1st Air Cavalry Division.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Barry Levitt, IE, a son, Stephen Howard, October 21, 1967. The family resides The Georgia Tech Alumnus

There is a growing need for nonferrous metals.

To grow with it, contact Anaconda.

Robert Lindsay (BSME, U. of Kansas '64) is quality control supervisor of Anaconda Aluminum Company's plant in Louisville, Ky.

Joel Kocen (BS Commerce, Wash. & Lee '59; LLB, Wash. & Lee '61) left, is senior tax analyst at New York headquarters of Anaconda.

David Madalozzo (BSEE, Bradley '61) is plant engineer of the new Anaconda Wire and Cable Company mill in Tarboro, N.C.

Alvin Cassidy (BA Econ., Bellarmine '54; MBA, U. of Louisville '59) is director of financial planning of Anaconda Aluminum Company, Louisville, Ky.

Robert Zwolinski (BSME, Rutgers '57) is chief mechanical engineer with Anaconda Wire and Cable Company, New York.

Willard Chamberlain (BE'Metal. Eng., Yale '53) is manager of Anaconda American Brass Company's Valley Mills, Waterbury and Ansonia, Conn.

Robert Ingersoll (BS Geol., Montana Tech. '51 MS Geol., Montana Tech. '64) right, is senior geologist, Anaconda's mining operations, Butte. Mont.

Thomas Tone (BS Mining, U. of Arizona '62) is foreman of the furnace dept. at the electrolytic copper refinery in Perth Amboy, N.J.

Richard Symonds (BS Metal., U. of Nevada '57) is superintendent of the lead plant at Anaconda's smelter in Tooele, Utah.

Jay Bonnar (BS Met., M.I.T. '57; MS Ind. Mgmt, M.I.T. '62) left, is research administrator of Anaconda American Brass Company's research and technical center, Waterbury. Conn.

Wilson McCurry (BSc, Arizona State '64) is an assistant geologist in Anaconda's new mines dept., currently working on development of the Twin Buttes mine near Tucson, Ariz.

Terrence McNulty (BS Chem., Stanford ' 6 1 ; MS Metal., Montana Tech. '63; DSc Metal., Col. School of Mines '66) is senior research engineer, extractive metallurgical research, Tucson, Ariz.

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R. Phillip Moore, IM, has been named assistant superintendent of The Dow Chemical Company's Ion Exchange Plant in the Organic Chemicals Production Department at Midland, Michigan.

Captain Marshall W. Nay, Jr., CE, has been decorated with the Bronze Star Medal at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado, for meritorious service while engaged in military operations against Viet Cong forces.

First Lieutenant William A. Ransom, III, IM, has been assigned to the Highlands Army Defense Site, Highlands, New Jersey.

Lucius Ed Scott, Jr., IE, has recently been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant junior grade.

Evan E. Settle, III, ME, has been promoted to test supervisor in the Engineering Test Section of the Product Development Division of Reynolds Metals. Mr. Settle resides at 8324 Robert Bruce Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23235.

First Lieutenant Stephen C. Small, IM, has completed a six-month ordnance officer career course at the

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Army Ordnance Center and School.

Captain Julian A. Wilson, Jr., EE, has assumed command of the 147th Light Equipment Maintenance Company in Vietnam.

T. Allan Wilson, IE, has been promoted to manager of Dealer Sales, Trane Company, in Louisville, Kentucky. ' R C Married: Robert S. Brown, D ÂŤ J EE, to Miss Marta Riddle of Spartanburg, South Carolina, on November 25 in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Joanne Butterworth, IS, is now technical librarian for Memorex Corporation in Santa Clara, California.

Born to: Lieutenant & Mrs. William C. Carmichael, IM, a son, William Lawson, II, October 29, 1967.

The family resides at 125 Algonquin Road, Hampton, Virginia 23361.

Lewis O. Crawford, HI, ME, has recently moved to 645 Holly Circle, Aberdeen, Maryland.

Married: Anthony J. Cwiertny, Jr., AE, to Miss Mary Alice Bollom. The newlyweds presently reside at 2002 Sebastian Court, Apartment 206, Houston, Texas 77058.

Born to: Captain & Mrs. Mebben M. Eudy, Jr., ME, a daughter, Mary Louise, November 12, 1967. Captain Eudy is currently assigned to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where he has recently been promoted to Captain.

John B. Fitch, MS, has been promoted to Army Lieutenant Colonel at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

John F. Glutting, CP, has been named the new county planning director of Titusville, Florida.

Engaged: Kenneth Merrill Horwitz, Psy., to Miss Barbara Lynn Smith.

Mr. Horowitz is a senior at the Emory University Law School, where he is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, and is on the Board of Governors of the Fulton County Democratic Party.

Engaged: Harold Jerry Lambert, Text., to Miss Norma Faye Rice. Mr. Lambert is employed by the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Manufacturers in Summerville, Georgia.

Charlie Oldham, Chem., has been reassigned to the Air Force Special Projects Production Facility, Westover AFB, Massachusetts, as a scientific assistant.

Roger D. Speed, ME, received his master's degree in Applied Physics from the University of California, Davis-Livermore. Mr. Speed is working towards his PhD in the area of hydrodynamics.

James A. Steed, IM, is now in Vietnam serving with the US Marine Corps.

Married: Jerry Edward Stoneking, EM, to Miss Linda Kaye Parnell.

Mr. Stoneking received his master's degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois, where he is studying for a P h D

degree on a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Jose A. Trias, ChE, has been cited for scholastic achievement at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

John H. Weber, AE, is now employed with Hughes Aircraft Company, in the Close Support Systems of their Aeronautical Systems Division, in Culver City, California.

Peter B. Wright, Biol., has been selected to take part in the United States Antarctic Research Program.

His duties entail collecting squid and octopus under a National Science Foundation grant. ' O C2 Ensign Harold Aikens, IE, is L J C J aboard the destroyer, USS Fletcher.

Married: Frederick Wesley Ajax, Jr., IM, to Miss Frances Kate Wilson. Mr. Ajax attends Emory University Law School, where he is a member of Phi Delta Phi, on the Dean's List, and a candidate for the Law Review.

Army Major Charles W. Bagnal, MS, has received the Bronze Star Medal at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

W. J. Barrs, IE, has been appointed manager of Royal Crown Cola Company's concentrate and canning plant in Granite City, Illinois. Mr. Barrs joined Royal Crown Cola Company in September 1965 and since then has served as manager of Custom Canners of Baltimore and as an industrial engineer at Royal Crown Cola Company's corporate headquarters.

Airman Carl K. Bragg, ME, has been graduated from a US Air Force technical school at Armarillo AFB, Texas.

Navy Ensign Abram Y. Bryson, Jr., CE, has received his Parachutist Badge after completion of the Infantry School's three-week airborne course at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Jack David Darby, ME, of Adel, Georgia, died November 24, when his jet trainer crashed near Lubbock, Texas. The plane was on a routine solo mission. Lieutenant Darby is survived by his mother, father, widow and brother.

Second Lieutenant William B. Daviette, IM, has been awarded US Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Laughlin AFB, Texas. Following specialized aircrew training at other bases, he will be assigned to Travis AFB, California, for flying duty in the Strategic Air Command.

Married: Peter H. Graeler, ME, to Miss Carminne Donegan Webb of Ripney, Tennessee.

Second Lieutenant Samuel A. Hodnett, Jr., ME, has been awarded US Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Webb AFB, Texas.

Lieutenant Hodnett received the Officer Training Award and was named The Georgia Tech Alumnus

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A L IU M N I -CONTINUED one of four outstanding graduates.

The lieutenant is being assigned to Luke AFB, Arizona, for flying duty with the Tactical Air Command.

Ensign L. W. Holmes, IM, is aboard the destroyer, USS Fletcher.

Joe F. Jones, EE, has been promoted to associate engineer in the flight control systems-V Department of International Business Machines Corporation at Cape Kennedy. He and his family reside at 140 Minna Lane North 201, Merritt Island, Florida.

Married: Warren Gustave Marx, ME, to Miss Margaret Frances Kehoe. Mr. Marx is employed by Grumman Aircraft Company of Long Island.

George W. Morris, IM, has joined Summerour & Associates, Inc., as a staff consultant. Prior to joining the Atlanta-based management consulting firm, he was assistant to the director of the A. French Textile School at Georgia Tech.

Thomas R. Pisano, IM, is in his final year of study at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. Mr. Pisano will be receiving a Master of Business Administration degree in June 1968.

Second Lieutenant Cecil L. Snell, Text., has been awarded US Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Moody AFB, Georgia. Lieutenant Snell is being assigned to McConnell AFB, Kansas, for flying duty with the Tactical Air Command.

Married: Richard Stephens, IE, to Miss Elaine Carol Sasala. Mr. Stephens is a technical representative with the Union Carbide Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of Plastic Engineers in Cleveland.

William C. Warren, II, IE, has been commissioned an Army Second Lieutenant at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia.

Married: Robert Steele Watson, EM, to Miss Adele Archer Dietz. Mr. Watson is a graduate student in the department of engineering mechanics at Georgia Tech, where he was a NASA fellow and is now a graduate assistant.

James R. Wynn, IE, has been promoted to associate industrial engineer at the IBM Facilities Services Department at Cape Kennedy, Florida. }

C1~~7 Robert H. Ammerman, Jr., C J / EE, has been promoted to Army Major while serving with Headquarters, US Army Regional Communications Group, Vietnam.

Born to: Mr. & Mrs. R. Wayne Boatright, CE, a son, Marshall Ray, December 2, 1967. The family resides at 11748 Sands Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida.

Robert M. Bush, Arch., has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in

the US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. The lieutenant is being assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, for training as a base civil engineering officer.

Married: Welborn Orr Darden, Jr., to Miss Melba Ann Whigham. Ensign Darden is in Naval flight training at Whiting Field, Milton, Florida.

Ensign Bill Donnerly, Phys., is aboard the destroyer, USS Fletcher.

Samuel H. Fulford, IE, has been assigned to Mobil Oil Corporation's Houston Industrial District as a sales engineer.

Captain John C. Galen, CE, recently helped defend allied ground forces under a midnight attack in the Mekong Delta. Captain Galen was the navigator on an AC-47 Dragonship crew that dropped two million candlepower flares to light rescue helicopter operations at a besieged outpost 35 miles northeast of Can Tho. The captain is assigned at Binh Thuy AB as a member of the 4th Air Command Squadron that flies the attack version of the C-47 Skytrain from several locations throughout Vietnam.

Second Lieutenant Charles R. Gillespie, Jr., IM, has completed a sixmonth ordnance officer career course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

James C. Haigler, Arch., fired expert with the M-14 rifle near the completion of basic combat training at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Second Lieutenant Gary L. Hays, IE, has completed a six-month ordnance officer career course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Spurgeon G. Hogan, EE, a son, Spurgeon G., I l l , June 21, 1967. The family resides at 10-A Alpine Drive, Wappingers Falls, New York 12590.

Roy E. Jarrett. IM, has joined Eli Lilly and Company as a sales representative in Greenville, South Carolina.

Married: William Mell Jernigan, CE, to Miss Toni Grace Bishop. Mr. Jernigan is employed as an engineer with the Georgia Water Quality Control Board.

James E. Kitson. IE, has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. The lieutenant is being assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, for training as a base civil engineering officer.

Captain Fred L. Metcalf, IE, has arrived for duty at the US Air Force Academy. Captain Metcalf, an administration officer, previously served in Thailand.

Married: Barry Samuel Minkoff, to Miss Nancy Sue Leff. Mr. Minkoff The Georgia Tech Alumnus

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LONDON .ONDON • AMSTERDAM HEIDELBERG • LUCERNE VENICE • FLORENCE • ROME • PARIS

This is one European Tour that takes you off the sidelines and puts you where the action is. Yet every Alumni tour is designed to combine a wide range of sights and sounds with a relaxed pace to ensure your complete enjoyment. In short, your Tech Alumni Tour of Europe will take the Wreck out of your Rambling and you'll purr through your itinerary on delightful cuisine and restful accommodations. You can see a Queen in London, check the dikes in Amsterdam, buy a beer in Heidelberg, set your watch in Lucerne, hear violins in Venice, find romance in Rome, enjoy a Festival of Art in Florence . . . and Party in Paris.

You don't have to go in training for Tech's European tour. Your Tour Host is pre-conditioned to assist your every need from PASSports to TOUCH DOWN on your return. As on all Tech-Together tours the roster is limited to just thirty members.

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is stationed with the US Navy in Key West, Florida.

Newton J. Norman, III, AE, has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation from. Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lieutenant Norman is being assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, for duty as an aeronautical engineer.

Engaged: Leslie Waits Rue, IE, to Miss Passie Fenton McCarty. Mr. Rue is attending graduate school at Georgia Tech. The wedding will be April 20.

Married: Dwight Rogers Sedgwick, IE, to Miss Aline Virginia McRae. Mr. Sedgwick attends graduate school at Georgia Tech.

Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Stephens, ME, a son, Jerry Stan, May 25. Mr. Stephens is employed as an engineer with Celanese Fibers Company, Fibers Tech. Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. ' C Q Married: Watkins Judson O O Blane, Jr., CE, to Miss Vicki Lynn VosKoetter. Mr. Blane plans to attend graduate school in civil engineering at Georgia Tech.

Married: John Crane Bryan, Math, to Miss Cheryl Eileen Warren.

Married: William Andrew Haruill, ME, to Miss Anita Donna MacLellan.

Married: Haven Leaston Kicklighter, Jr., CE, to Miss Sandra Dale Thames. Mr. Kicklighter is a member of Alpha Tau Omega and was a threeyear member of the Georgia Tech football team.

Married: Roy Alan Lefever, IM, to Miss Jane Eileen Fannon. Mr. Lefever is in the US Air Force Officers

Training School at Medina AFB, San Antonio, Texas.

Married: David Pierce Mason, Jr., IE, to Miss Elaine Elizabeth Cerulli.

Married: Frederick Jefferson Ransom, IM, to Miss Linda Ann Moore.

Mr. Ransom is employed by Jerome Drown Studios.

Engaged: David Roy Savage, III, to Miss Patricia Anne Patrick. Mr. Savage will be commissioned in the US Naval Reserve. The wedding will be in March.

Married: Jackie Lamar Shinall, to Miss Virginia Suzanne McGee. Mr. Shinall is employed by the General Motors Acceptance Corporation.

Married: Leslie Thomas Smith, IE, to Miss Regina Ann Crockett. Mr. Smith is attending US Army Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning.

Engaged: William Carl Smith, IE, to Miss Susan Rebecca Daley. Mr. Smith attends US Naval Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island.

The wedding will be April 8 at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Georgia.

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James S. Floyd died October 12, 1967. Mr. Floyd was chairman of the board of the Exposition Company, Automobile Financing, Inc., and was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Atlanta.

In 1964 he made a gift of $50,000, the largest undesignated gift ever received from a living non-alumnus. Survivors include a son, a daughter, a sister and a brother.

Mrs. William T. Rich died January 2, 1968. The widower, William T. Rich, '09, was former executive of the Jacobs Drug Company.

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THE GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INC. Officers and Trustees / Oscar G. Davis, president / J. J. McDonough, vice president / Henry W. Grady, treasurer / Joe W. Guthridge, executive secretary / Jack Adair / Ivan Allen, Jr. / John P. Baum, Milledgeville / Fuller E. Callaway, Jr., LaGrange / Robert H. Ferst / Y. Frank Freeman, Hollywood, California / Jack F. Glenn / Ira H. Hardin / Julian T. Hightower, Thomaston / Wayne J. Holman, Jr., New Brunswick / Howard B. Johnson / George T. Marchmont, Dallas / George W. McCarty / Walter M. Mitchell / Frank H. Neely / William A. Parker / Hazard E. Reeves, New York / Glenn P. Robinson, Jr. / I. M. Sheffield / Hal L. Smith / John C. Staton / Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston / Robert Tharpe / William C. Wardlaw, Jr. / Robert H. White / George W. Woodruff / Charles R. Yates /

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This is the image oi a Kodak mechanical engineer

Correct, literally. But misleading because Larry Wood's job is not typical of Kodak engineers in general. Most of them get to handle a camera—assembled or disassembled—only at home or on vacation. Unless they happen to be personally hipped on cameras (which Larry once told us he is).

Diversification has been going on here for a long, long time. That's why we can give an engineer plenty of solid ground for choice—at the outset and later. If his personal feelings incline him away from devoting his talents to fun things like cameras, he gets just as good a chance to demonstrate his capacity for higher responsibility through work in the 72% of our business that has nothing to do with fun cameras. He may be solving problems in the packaging of bulk vitamins for dairy cattle or designing spinnerets for polyolefin hay baler twine or making x-ray processing machines run faster so that society can get more use out of its short supply of doctors.

Kodak itself really serves as a magnificently effective machine through which M.E.'s and other engineers can apply their talents against society's demands. There can be no more valid excuse for Kodak's continued existence.

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The engineer's duty consists of constantly improving effectiveness. Here are five w a y s each suiting a different personality makeup—to fit in: 1. Designing new products and better performance into the established ones.

2. Figuring out the best possible ways to manufacture the products.

3. Applying pure reason through mathematical tools to make the laws of physics serve human needs, not oppose them.

4. Creating the right physical tools, the right plants to house them, and the right services to keep them functioning.

5. Getting out to where the products are being used, showing the users how to get their money's worth, and bringing back word on how to do even better in the future.

If you want more specific details than that, we are very glad. Just communicate with EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Business and Technical Personnel Department Rochester, N.Y. 14650 An employer that needs mechanical, chemical, industrial, and electrical engineers for Rochester, N.Y., Kingsport, Tenn., Longview, Tex., and Columbia, S.C., and offers equal opportunity to all, choice of location, and geographical stability if desired. A policy of promotion from within has long been maintained.

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