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CONTENTS
Vol. 46, No. 5
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AN ISSUE LOOKS AT CRISES T h e opening editorial discusses, among other things, the two major problems now facing the American universities.
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THE DIARY OF A MONTH ON THE CAMPUS From his notes on the Tech student efforts to urge the Institute to become more involved with life on the outside, Editor Bob Wallace constructs a complete diary of the incidents of one crisis after another.
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CHOICE '68 Tech's involvement in the unique mock political election is documented in words by Sam Williams and pictures by Bill Childress, J r .
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SAM, SAM: THE POLITICAL MAN A profile of one of the nation's top student leaders who has just completed a term as president of the Tech student body.
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THE PLAIN FACT IS . .. A national article on another crisis facing America's universities speaks the t r u t h about financial problems.
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THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL Featured are the news of the Institute, a top alumni award, and the complete news about the alumni of Tech.
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RAIN AND MUD AND THE NEW LOOK T h e T-Night game proved only t h a t the 1968 Tech football team can hit with the best of them b u t it also pointed out some weaknesses t h a t were not surprising to the coaches.
T H E COVER Tech students moving across the campus away from the new E E Building are not immune to student activism b u t their approach to it is quite different than t h a t used a t other colleges as you can read by turning to page 5 of this issue. P H O T O G R A P H BY B I L L C H I L D R E S S , J R .
THE STAFF ROBERT B. WALLACE, JR., editor / CAROLINE MCCONOCHIE, editorial assistant I CHARLOTTE DARBY, class notes I BILL POTEET, advertising manager
Published six times a year—Jan.-Feb./Mar.-Apr./May-June/JulyAug./Sept.-Oct./Nov.-Dec.—by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Avenue, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
The Editor's Notes • T H E LAST TIME we saw Fred W. Ajax, he was leaning against the center column of the front of the Administration Building staring out at his campus on a beautiful Atlanta spring day. That's the way we want to remember the fataed one-time director of Tech's placement system who--*died just 36 hours after our final meeting, which consisted of a discussion of tomato plants and the up-coming commencement. We will remember him for a number of things he taught us over our 28 years of association as his student (and we never stopped being that), as his assistant (for some nine years in a public relations job he never really cared for because it separated him too much from the Tech students), and as his co-worker. But if we were pressed to state the most important lesson we learned from him it was to approach with caution the printed pages entrusted to us. "Put that editorial in your file for a couple of days before you send it to the printer. Nine out of ten times, you'll change your mind because you wrote it when you weren't yourself." Fred Ajax was perhaps the most gentle man we have ever known. He cared about people, even about those who had not been especially good to him. If something tragic happened in your life, you could safely bet that the first man on the campus to be on hand to try and help you through the loss would be Fred Ajax and that, in itself, made his being on this planet a special sort of thing. In the fading years when the fire had gone out of him, a lesser man might have lost his sense of belonging, but he still carried on his big love affair with Georgia Tech. The old "Autocratic Ajax" of the placement days has been gone for a decade and now the man himself has disappeared from a scene that he contributed so much to for so long a time. And another chunk of the mortar that held the old Tech together is forever lost, and the hole is bigger than the one where the Old Shop Building stood, and though we know change must continue we are just enough of a sentimentalist to say we don't like it worth a damn. RBW, JR.
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Scientist Barry J . Karafin of Bell Laboratories checks chart recorder waveforms from a BLODIB simulation. Karafin uses the computer console at his right to interact with the simulation program. This feature was developed for the BLODIB program to give users the flexibility of making changes in such things as component values without having to re-program an entire system. "PLUG-IN" MODULATORS
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More and more, engineers use digital computers to simulate new electronic systems. It's often faster and cheaper than breadboarding . . . building an experimental system. But simulation is most useful if the experimenter can " t a l k " to the computer in his own language . . . a block d i a g r a m s y m b o l i z i n g an e l e c t r o n i c process. To translate such a diagram into a computer simulation program, scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories designed an intermediate program or "compiler." The latest version is called BLODIB for BLOck Diagram compilerB (pronounced "Bloody Bee"). BLODIB's output is a simulation program—in machine language. The BLODIB user needs little prog r a m m i n g e x p e r i e n c e . He writes a description of a block diagram and its connections in terms from the BLODIB dictionary . . . which contains abbreviated names for most blocks, such as AMP for amplifier. The description need not follow signal flow; BLODIB arranges it properly. The BLODIB dictionary cannot c o n t a i n a block for every possible e l e c t r o n i c f u n c t i o n . B u t many new blocks can be built up from those available. A n d , if one combination will be used many times in a design, it can be named and used as often as necessary. To test prototype systems, the experimenter can leave parameters variable, or he can even arrange for their values to be supplied by another computer program for automatic simulation throughout a range of settings. Also, if he is doubtful about, say, a filter, he can simulate his system without the filter and " p l u g i n " simulation programs for various experimental filter designs. In this way, several designs can be tested before investing in a laboratory model. The BLODIB program has been used to s i m u l a t e a c o u s t i c a l a n d v i s u a l systems and was recently used to study automatic equalization techniques for Bell System data sets. The f i r s t b l o c k - d i a g r a m c o m p i l e r , BLODI, was conceived and developed at Bell Laboratories by V. A. Vyssotsky, John Kelly, and Carol Lochbaum. B. J. Karafin recently formulated the BLODIB program which extends the original BLODI program so it can interact with non-BLODI programs and provide the flexibility described above. This makes it an even more powerful tool for probing potential systems over a broad range of operating conditions.
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Editorial
An issue looks at crises • T H I S ISSUE addresses itself to the
two largest crises facing higher education today. The first one may appear at this time to be a long-range one, but several colleges are already caught up in the problem of getting enough money to keep going without cutting back on quality. On pages 23 through 38 of this issue, you will find a special report on this subject. It was produced by Editorial Projects for education, Inc., a group of alumni magazine editors, and we commend it to you without further comment. The other crisis is already in residence at a number of colleges, including to a certain extent, Georgia Tech. And the way it is catching fire, chances are it will show up at all of them in one form or another in the next year or so. This crisis, of course, concerns itself with the quest for power on the campuses by the students and, more often than not, the faculty. And no matter how much you might wish it to go away, it will not. It is real and there are no easy solutions to it for the harrassed administrators and the baffled alumni. Despite the fact that a small percentage of the total students in any college is involved in student revolt, several colleges (most recently, Columbia) have been paralyzed by these demonstrations of the application of student power. The latest figures show that less than 4 per cent of the Columbia students have been engaged in the senseless rape of a great institution. And this figure is high. For instance, just 2.7 per cent of the total student body of 62 colleges and universities hit by demonstrations or riots in the past year have been among the trouble makers. What must now concern the campuses in the coming year is what is going to happen when the other 97.3 per cent decide that they have May-June 1968
had enough of this ridiculous behavior and start their own part of what could be a civil war on the campus. Perhaps the only reason they haven't already begun action is that this group is basically the law abiding one in our society and you don't hear a helluva lot about it in the press. You need not go a step beyond Newton's Third Law of Motion to know that there is a definite tie between the two major crises discussed in this issue. And it does not take a political or economic genius to state with certainty that the "equal reaction" to the excesses of the use of student power will take the form of financial and political recrimination against the universities. Thus, it becomes an absolute necessity that the universities put their own houses in order, now, through dialogue and discussion. Or, if it has gone beyond that stage, as some of the student revolts have already, the obvious next step becomes the absolute enforcement of existing rules and regulations. If colleges and universities turn into the battlegrounds some want them to become, they cannot serve their basic purposes and they run the chance of failing to survive. The recent approach at Tech to an attempt to change the institution by the application of a type of pressure was a different one which should have been no surprise to any one who understands the practical mind of the students (even the activists) who attend the technological universities. It showed, in the words of one of its leaders, "that students could sit down with an administration and get some sympathy for their ideas." On the following pages it is detailed for you in words and pictures. Robert B. Wallace, Jr.
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OF A MOST UNUSUAL (at least for 1968) FORM OF STUDENT ACTIVISM AND THE EFFORTS OF ONE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION TO SET UP A DIALOGUE Text by Robert B. Wallace, Jr.
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"The open letter should not be viewed as a revolt or demonstration but as an expression of concern using the dialogue as its medium. The strong wording of the letter reflects the seriousness of our convictions rather than the militancy of our methods." • ON THE SAME DAY that a group of militants were taking over most of New York's Columbia University, Georgia Tech students were reviving an ancient and refreshing tactic in what is rapidly becoming an open battle for power on most every campus in America. The Tech dissenters (and they were, as they are in most other universities, a definite minority of the student body) simply decided to petition their grievances through channels in an attempt to initiate an open dialogue among students, faculty, and administrators. Through this dialogue, the students hoped to quickly force Tech to become more involved in attempting to help solve the multiple problems of the ghettos of Atlanta. As an active observer on the scene of this new student approach to prompting change, Alumnus editor, Bob Wallace (who is also responsible for Tech's relations with the press as director of information services) kept a diary of the events that resulted from the original petition. On the following pages—accompanied by the texts of the petitions, counter-petitions, administrative statements, and student statements—is the day-by-day record of an event with the potential to produce far-reaching changes in how America's colleges handle the student-power crisis. May-June 1968
APRIL 25 8:10 A.M. At breakfast this morning, Jamie Anthony (vice president/ controller) asked me if I had seen the petition concerning ghetto involvement that some students were circulating around the campus. I told him I hadn't and he asked me to come to his office to read a copy to see what I thought would result from it. It didn't take much of a reading to know that this one had some potential for trouble of one sort or another built into it. I made a copy of it and returned to my office to call a staff meeting to warn my people that we had better get ready for a busy time. Knowing the four students whose names appeared on the original petition, dated April 23, I figured that one or more of the newspapers probably already had that much of the story. The petition took the form of an open letter to President Harrison and read as follows: "Dr. Harrison: "We are concerned with the role of Georgia Tech in the challenge presently offered all individuals and institutions in this country. We are particularly concerned with the role of Tech as an educational institution placed in a city with urban problems threatening the existence of its structures and the freedom and lives of its inhabitants. "Last summer's riots told us that we could no longer ignore the problems of the cities. The reports that followed in the wake of the riots told us we could no longer feel innocent, in causing these riots. The killing of • 8
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the disorder that followed told us that we could no longer substitute talk and sympathy for action. Now that emotions have calmed, guns have stopped shooting and burning cities put to rest, we feel we can no longer return to our old-time sympathy and aloof concern. We must now be occupied with direct action and with contributions to real improvement of real problems. Our claim to be part of this nation can now only be guaranteed through our commitment to the programs that will relieve it from its present crisis. "As students at Tech, we are also citizens of Atlanta. The squalor of the slums, the poverty, the unemployment, and the racism and carelessness of the white population around us become the problems of our city, and our own environment. We see how small our own contribution to effect change is, if we only operate as individuals. We look to those with the power to change, and with competence and ability to build, and with the ability to inspire. We look to Tech for these abilities. We look to our administrators for leadership, and we find apathy. We look to our professors for involvement and concern, and we find indifference. We look at our curriculums, and we wonder to whom they are addressed. "Tech now has a moral obligation to look around its city and to work beyond Hemphill and North Avenue. As an educational institution, it must direct itself to a society of which the ghetto is a part. Its academic offspring, like Southern Technical In-
stitute, are no longer relevant in Marietta. That is not where the primary need is. Tech must now see the urban crisis as its own problem, and offer leadership in a full-fledged attack on its causes. It must completely rethink the priorities of its involvements. In its place as an innocent bystander, Tech is no longer innocent. "We feel that the following programs will constitute important first steps in this involvement, namely: " 1 . That the administration encourage faculties to actively participate in work towards improving conditions in the Atlanta slum areas. Many of these problems are of technological art, and the expertise of faculty members must be fully utilized in seeking their solutions. "2. That an Urban Studies and Research Program be established and operated as a consortium of the universities in Atlanta (Atlanta University Center, Emory, Georgia State and Georgia Tech). The program should seek to develop and coordinate efforts in devising means and methods in handling specific problems in urban redevelopment. "3. That Tech implements technical-educational programs designed specifically to cope with existing lack of professional skill among the ghetto population. "4. That Tech actively supports and promotes existing programs, like Cornerstone, Urban Core, Vista, HEW and HUD programs and tutorial programs. "5. That wages for Buildings & Grounds and Auxiliary Services employees be raised to a defendable minimum. The present minimum of $1.15 per hour is not significantly higher than welfare pay, and does not adequately provide for the basic needs of the worker and his family, particularly when seen in the light of of the seasonal character of Tech employment. It must be raised in order to meet these basic needs, to make the worker feel the importance of his work, sense the equality and dignity of his citizenship and to enforce his acceptance as a valuable individual by society. "6. That students be given course credits for taking on projects in the ghetto areas. Such projects must be seen as highly valuable academic programs, relating studies to actual problems in the world outside. "7. That a credit course be given in the history of the American Negro, in an attempt to correct distorThe Georgia Tech Alumnus
tions popularly held, and to explain the background of the ideologies and life-patterns of Negroes today. "We who have signed this letter see it as our responsibility that these or similar programs are seriously considered by the administration, faculty and the Board of Regents, and implemented in the form that best answers the purposes they are to serve. We shall rally all the support and the energy that is needed to convince others of the seriousness of our convictions and vital importance of our proposals. We see no easy way out of the moral obligation and the challenge to individuals and institutions at a time like this, and shall expect Tech to show its concern for the American society through its ressponse to this challenge." Attached to the letter was a note to students and faculty which read: "STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT TECH: "The following letter will be presented to President Harrison on Thursday, April 25. "We will present it with support from concerned students and faculty at Tech. It is your support which we now rally. "We shall seek a commitment from campus organizations. We shall go to our alumni. We shall get support from departments. We shall publicize and develop pressure. And we shall work further on the proposals. "But first of all, we need your support. Without it, the cause is lost and the idea will become a futile memory. "Peter H. Butenschon, Saxby Chaplin, Neal Williams, Sam Williams." This was accompanied by a sheet of paper with 52 lines for signatures after the statement, "We, students and faculty at Georgia Tech, support the open letter to President Harrison and endorse its recommendations." 9:05 A.M. During the meeting of my staff one of the girls pointed out that she had seen the petition and letter down by the post office, yesterday. She pointed out that some newsmen had also seen it and she just told them it was another student petition. She also said that there were a couple of other counter-petitions down there that already had several names on them. I then admonished the staff to let me know immediately when they saw such signs no matter how trivial they seemed to them. I May-June 1968
made some assignments to the staff, principally to research when the petition started and where and what other locations were petitions placed on the campus. 9:40 A.M. After closing the meeting, I went to the Post Office to take notes on the collection of petitions and to get an idea of the number of names on all of them. The original open letter had roughly 45 names on the attached petition and next to it was the first of the counter-petitions with 62 names on it. It was done hastily in pen and ink and read: "The purpose of Tech is to provide a top-notch technical education to its students and not to engage in civil militancy. It is totally out of character to expect otherwise and involvement of Tech in matters best left to authorities would only lower Tech's prestige to the detriment of us all." Additional comments scribbled on the paper in another hand included, "With a second-rate engineering school, how can we afford a third-rate school of social work," and in still another hand, "As Atlanta burns you will fiddle." The signatures on this counter-petition as well as on all in the area included George P. Burdell, Lester Maddox, Edwin Harrison, and other obvious forgeries along with legitimate ones. Next to this counter-petition on the wall of the Post Office was the classic Tech one, "Anyone who is indifferent to this whole matter, please sign here." There were three signatures on this one. 10:50 A.M. Returning to the office, I was notified by one of the staff that the original petition had been presented to the Student Council for a vote on Tuesday night, April 23. According to her information, the Council had engaged in a long and heated debate before voting against supporting the petition by 17 to 14. She also said that the petition might be brought up before the Council again next Tuesday because there was only one more than a quorum at the meeting. The prime supporters of the petition felt that it would win easy the second time but had decided to go ahead and present the "Open Letter" with its signatures to President Harrison today. She also related that according to her information the idea of the petition originated with a Tech student after President Harrison refused to close the Institute for
the day of Dr. Martin Luther King's funeral. (Actually, the president had originally ruled the classes would meet on that day but that any member of the student body, faculty, or staff who wished to attend the funeral could do so without penalty. Many Atlanta businesses and most of the other colleges in the area were closed that day and as it turned out, Tech stayed open only until 10:00 A.M. when a series of threats and the absence of students and teachers forced its closing for the rest of the day.)* 11:30 A.M. The report to President Harrison was complete and I took it over to him. We talked for a minute and both agreed that the attitudes by both sides so far indicated that there would be no violence on campus at this time. He then informed me that he had to leave the city for an important meeting in Louisville but would cancel his commercial reservations and go up on a private jet at 2:00 P.M. and wanted to get the word to the students that he would be available until 1:30 P.M. 11:45 A.M. A member of my staff was asked to contact the students and tell them of the president's plans and suggest that if they planned to present the petition today they had better do it by 1:00 P.M. in order that he might have some time to discuss it with the students. The staff volunteered to stay in the office for lunch in order that we could get some of our other work done. I waited for contact from the paper since I had now definitely heard that the Atlanta Constitution had the story. 12:10 P.M. I received a call from the Constitution asking about when the petition was to be presented and informing me that they had a copy of it and would need the president's response as soon as he met with the students. I told them I thought the meeting would be at 1:00 and that I would get the information to them as soon as possible. I called the president and told him of the newspaper's confirmation and request and he asked me to come over to take down his comments as he was having his lunch sent in so that he could be there when the students arrived. 12:50 P.M. 1 arrived in the president's office and he immediately began to discuss his initial reactions to the petition. I took notes on what he
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ning and participation of this program can be accomplished within the next few months. said and we decided that the Constitution had to get first break on the "Concerning point #3 Dr. Harrison story since they had, in effect, held said, 'This is an area in which Tech it until the petition was delivered to is just not qualified. This really adthe president. By the time we findresses itself to the vocational and ished the discussion, three students trade schools in the Atlanta area. arrived with the petition. They were However, Tech is interested in offerPeter Butenschon, the originator of ing suitable technical education prothe "open letter;" Sam Williams, grams for which we have a compepresident of the student body; and tence among our faculty.' Phil Cook, editor of the Technique. "The only answer President HarriThe meeting was pleasant and the son could give to the 4th point was president stated his "first reaction" that 'I consider this the responsibility answers to the students' demands. As of individuals, both faculty and stusoon as they departed, I went back dents. Several of our students are to the office and dictated the press taking the lead in Cornerstone, which information to our editorial assistant is a cooperative program among coland called the news and editorial lege students in the Atlanta area. I sides of the Constitution that I have endorsed their efforts.' should have the copy there by 2:30 "In reference to point #5 Dr. HarP.M. rison pointed out that the only permanent Tech employees making as little as $1.15 an hour are the food 2:25 P.M. I arrived at the newspaservice employees. These people, he per with the informational release said, receive three free meals a day and talked with two people on the plus their uniforms in addition to editorial side and two on the news $1.15 an hour. This salary scale is side. I tried to fill any areas not covcompetitive with others in the Atered by the release which was-merely lanta area. a reproduction of the president's initial answers to the petition. This is "Concerning point #6 he said that how it read: 'This is strictly a faculty problem. If such courses were to be endorsed "Today at 1:00 P.M. President by the faculty in the Social Science E. D. Harrison, Georgia Tech, was department and we felt that there presented a petition signed by 580 was any educational benefit to be demembers of the student body and rived through such projects I would faculty (there are currently 712 have no quarrel with this approach.' members of the teaching faculty and 6,800 students at Georgia Tech) "Dr. Harrison also said that point urging greater Tech participation in #7 is also addressed to the faculty the problems of the ghettos of Atand is also up to members of the faclanta. ulty of the Social Science department. 'Initiation of new courses is the "Dr. Harrison's initial statement responsibility of the department head was 'I am delighted that some of our and the faculty members. Generally students and faculty are interested they are proposed for approval of the in more than just technology.' curriculum committee.'" "Dr. Harrison went on to discuss each of the points in the petition: I also brought a copy of Peter Butenschon's letter of transmittal to "About point #1 he said, 'Our facChancellor George L. Simpson, Jr., ulty has been called on a number of of the University System of Georgia. times in this area. For example, to Its final paragraph was especially assist in finding means to reduce costs significant in that it indicated the in housing construction in slum students' attitudes in presenting the areas. Several members of the faculty petition. The complete text of the and their families are involved jn acletter which was also sent to Presitive programs, both educational and dent Harrison and Atlanta Mayor recreational, in the, ghetto areas. And Ivan Allen, Jr., was: I endorse such participation by our people.' "Dear Dr. Simpson: "Please find included a copy of an "In discussing point #2 he pointed open letter to President Harrison, out that a member of the city planpresented to him today with the signing staff had submitted a program natures of 580 students and faculty to initiate such an institute which at Georgia Tech. will require cooperation of other educational institutions in the area. We i "During the last two days that the have hopes that the necessary plan- \ letter has been out for signatures, a 10
large number of students and faculty have come out with pledges to work actively for the implementation of our proposals. Organizations on and off campus have promised their cooperation. This tells us that the traditional concept of student apathy is at last outdated, and that sending the letter will only be the first step towards realizing its content. "The open letter should not be viewed as a revolt, a demonstration, but as an expression of concern using the dialogue as its medium. The strong wording of the letter reflects the seriousness of our convictions rather than the militancy of our methods. We have now initiated the dialogue, and we hope for a response expressing a concern about these matters no smaller than our own." 3:20 P.M. I returned to the office to find that one of the petitioners had picked up a copy of the president's remarks and had remarked that he thought it unfair of me to mention the total number of faculty and students on-campus which irritated me at the moment. I made a mental note to explain the needs of the press on such matters to him the next time I saw him and also to discuss the basic dishonesty of picking up things that didn't belong to him. 3:40 P.M. A student assistant who works in our news bureau came in with a new counter-petition that he found on campus. It was headed, "Reply to the open letter to President Harrison" and the author remains unknown. It was an attitude shared by many of the students, according to my student assistants, and was signed by 15 students at the time it was brought to me. Its text shed another light on students' attitudes towards this now-complex matter: "We, the undersigned, vigorously oppose a current attempt to subvert the legitimate functions of this institution. "Another open letter to you proposes several "first steps" by which Georgia Tech might serve as an instrument in aiding underprivileged Negroes. We maintain that if any individual sincerely desires to help others, more than ample opportunity exists in today's society for him to do so. We oppose the adoption of these proposals because of the suggestion made as to why we should accept them. "The open letter to which we refer begins with the curious mixture of The Georgia Tech Alumnus
This year, Tech students started their own Free University in the evenings to discuss social and political issues. The free university was amazingly well attended all year.
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pleas a n d threats which has become all too familiar in today's discussions. T h e specific purpose of this commonplace substitution of intimidation for rational argument is to force acceptance of a total moral inversion: t h a t in the face of the rioting by some Negroes which threatens the very survival of our society, it is " w e " who can "no longer feel innocent in causing these riots." T h e usage of the word " w e " is not defined in t h e letter; within the context in which it appears, it seems m e a n t to include every American Caucasian. " T o hold one m a n guilty for the actions of another is to pronounce judgment upon an individual as a result of circumstances completely beyond his power of choice. Such is the naked essence of racism—whether it consists of regarding a Negro as inferior because of the color of his skin or holding a white m a n responsible for the possible sins of his great-grandfather. Moreover, since morality consists of choosing the good above the evil, such a judgment, negating the possibility of choice, entails the destruction of morality. T o sanction the actions of the guilty a n d to punish the innocent for those actions represents the destruction of justice. Finally, when the actions involve burning, looting, a n d killing, May-June 1968
they constitute a n attack upon the foundations of society; to reward t h e m is to purchase the collapse of civilization. T o substitute racism for morality, justice, and civilization by means of a single concept is indeed a n impressive feat of evil. " T h e function of civilization is the protection of the individual against physical violence. For the same reason t h a t a m a n has a right to self-defense, no m a n has the right to initiate the use of force against another. A society t h a t tolerates force as a means of resolving disputes has lost its moral right to exist, a n d its survival is impossible. As a n educational institution, Georgia Tech is one of the citadels of our civilization. If it can be m a d e to submit to threats a n d blackmail, then there is no hope for the rest of the country." 4 : 0 0 P.M. T h e Constitution reporter handling the story called to ask clarification on a point in the release and also to tell m e t h a t the leaders of the petition h a d been by there to give him some quotes as we knew they would be. I didn't ask for the substance of the quotes, I, a t least, knew better than that. I spent the following hour mulling over whether or not to call a press conference in
the morning for I knew t h a t television and radio a n d the other newspapers would want to extend the story. I decided to wait until morning to do anything about a press conference. You can get one together in a h u r r y in this town. 5 : 2 0 "P.M. I left the office a n d went over to Rose Bowl Field to take in t h e spring practice session a n d try to get something else on m y mind for a change. T h e session helped a n d I was again impressed with the coaching job the new staff is doing b u t the horses just aren't there this year and I figure t h a t Carson will h a v e more woes next fall t h a n we have on the Hill a t the present time. 6 : 0 0 P.M. O n t h e w a y h o m e I stopped off at U n i t e d Press International a n d gave t h e president's statement and the student petition to the night m a n on the desk. I asked him to hold it for a n hour or so in order t h a t the Constitution, who got the first break on the story on their own, would not be completely scooped b y radio (the television newscasts are over by t h a t time a n d this story didn't seem big enough to become a T V b u l l e t i n ) . Associated Press already h a d the story as the Constitution reporter sent t h e m a carbon of 11
THE DIARY-continued his piece. With everybody covered I went home for some time with my family and something to eat. 7:30 P.M. I heard the first newscast on the story on radio at this time and I had been monitoring it since I left UPI. The wire services had kept their part of the bargain. Television had nothing on it in the earlier news programs. 10:30 P.M. P r e s i d e n t H a r r i s o n called me from Louisville to find out how things were going and to give me a complete time schedule of his activities for tomorrow along with a series of phone numbers where he could be reached. We agreed that there was little chance of violence on the campus but he stated that he could be back in Atlanta on a private jet within an hour and a half after we called him. Otherwise he would arrive back in his office between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. Friday. 11:00 P.M. I monitored the telecasts and they had just a brief statement on the student action, obviously picked up from the wire stories. I gave it up for the evening after the news was completed. APRIL 26 5:30 A.M. I woke up and went to get the morning paper to see how we fared. The coverage was very good. The reporter, Paul Ryan, a new man working on education, handled the news story just as it should have been handled. But in the students' quotes was an indication that they intended to pursue the petition and were not satisfied with the initial quotes from the president. The editorial page carried an excellent unsigned editorial which complimented the students at Tech for their approach as compared with those at other universities around the country. It closed with the words, "Students at the other Atlanta institutions should take up the challenge raised at Tech. They show the country that there is far more good will and more constructive potential on today's campuses than headlines from elsewhere might indicate." Eugene Patterson, the Constitution's editor, in his column which was also highly complimentary, praised the Tech student-faculty approach and closed with, "Surely a way can be found, as the Tech students sensed, to channel 12
the warm, human aspirations welling in the 'cold, mechanical men' into the effort to make a more humane society out of this decent revolution of the privileged discontent." 6:45 A.M. I left for the office feeling that Tech had been fortunate so far but in this business it doesn't pay to get optimistic about any story until it has run its course. Fighting the Atlanta expressway system, even at this hour of the day, is enough to kill any optimism about the fate of our civilization or any segment of it. 7:20 A.M. I arrived at the office and began thinking through the plans for a press conference if we needed one. I decided to ask Dr. Trabant (vice president of academic affairs) to represent the administration, Peter Butenschon to represent the petitioners, Sam Williams ( the student body president) to stand in the middle, and E. H. Brownlee (who wrote the anti-petition, petition) to look after the interests of the other side of the question. I decided to wait for the first press calls to see what was going to happen. 8:45 A.M. WAGA-TV's Phil Flynn called and wanted some advice on how they could handle the story. I suggested the press conference and we set it for 10:30. The principals were called and agreed to participate and the news bureau staff called the media to get the thing rolling. The meeting was set for the lobby of the Carnegie Building just outside the entrance to the president's office. We called security to make plans for parking the press cars and I went over to talk about the concept of the press conference with Dr. Trabant who had already been in touch with President Harrison. He managed to get the three students excused from a class to take part in the press conference and by 10:00 we were ready to go. 10:10 A.M. The press began arriving and were given kits the news bureau staff had hastily assembled. They contained the original open letter, the cover letter, the second open letter, and the president's statements of the day before. 10:30 A.M. With both newspapers, the wire services, all three television stations, and several radio stations represented, the press conference got under way. Peter was asked first if May-June 1968
he thought that the president's initial answer was satisfactory to the petitioners. He answered that it was a good show of faith but that it didn't go far enough. "His answer was no answer at all," he said. He then discussed some of the points that he felt the president did not cover completely enough to suit him. Dr. Trabant stated that there would be further study on this matter and a more complete program answering the petition would be forthcoming soon. Sam Williams complimented both sides and said he felt that the president's answer was a sign that the Tech administration intended to listen to the students unlike some of the other college administrations in the country, and then came the big question—"Would Tech students demonstrate if their demands are not met?" Williams answered that although he believes the school's involvement in the ghetto should be greater, he also believes that Tech students are "too conservative" to demonstrate. Brownlee stated that he does not believe that it is the purpose of the institution to become more involved with slum projects. "Our purpose in coming here was not to become social workers but engineers." He then added after Williams countered that he didn't think that an engineer was immune to the needs of society, that this type of work was an individual matter and not an institutional one. The conversation flowed back and forth between the four seated on the couch until the press had its fill and the conference broke up. It was obvious to the closest observer that Williams had made the strongest quotes of the day and would be the headliner on the news that evening. He and Dr. Trabant seemed to be taking positions just to opposite sides of the middle while Butenschon and Brownlee were so far apart that they would probably never be satisfied with any compromise. 11:45 A.M. With the press conference over, we returned to our offices and went back to the daily routine which was interrupted several times by requests for radio interviews from stations unable to get to the meeting on time. The staff managed to get Dr. Trabant, Peter, and a student opposed to the original petition to agree to individual interviews for these stations. The entire news bureau staff stayed in the office during lunch just in case anything broke. By quit-
ing time nothing much had happened so I released the staff and waited for President Harrison's return from Douisville as he had requested a briefing. 5:40 P.M. The president arrived back on the campus and heard my short briefing on the events of the past 28 hours. He asked whether I thought that the students were going to keep after him to come up with a more definitive answer to the petition j m d I answered that I thought they definitely would. He then said that he felt that way and he better have something ready by Monday. The evening paper treated the news story well and radio had handled it from one extreme to another with the farthest-out ones saying that the president had "bowed to students' demands," which was hardly true. 6:45 P.M. I arrived home in time to catch the television handling of the day's events and they edited the film well and brought out both sides. They spotlighted all four of the men who took part in the press conference and I felt better about the handling at this time than I had before. 11:00 P.M. Watching the late news I was struck by the fact that my favorite channel had bumped the Tech story completely and had played up another one concerning a sign-carrying group of 19 pickets at Georgia State College. They were taking" part in the National antiVietnam war day rallies. A strange turn of events and rather disheartening to those of us who follow news closely. APRIL 27 6:30 A.M. I went for the newspaper and found that the Constitution had again handled the story well and it had moved off the front page to the back of the paper. I went on to the office but the entire day was relatively quiet. 10:00 A.M. While holding a Saturday session with Joe Guthridge, vice president for development, concerning the coming year's budget for our operation, President Harrison dropped in and said that he intended to have something ready for release on Monday afternoon. At that time we were thinking in terms of a special ad hoc committee to handle the problem and he asked me to come up with an approach in this direction. 13
THE DIARY-continued I went back to the office and roughed out a committee and finished up my other work and went home. 4:00 P.M. The Journal treated the story editorially for the first time in a long lead editorial headlined, "Hear the Students?" Their thesis was much like the other editorials and dealt with the advantages of the Tech student approach over those going on at other colleges across the nation. It ended on a note expressing the hope that the Tech committees were paying attention when the students spoke. Television had moved on to other things and it looked as if the story was dead until the president made his next move on Monday afternoon or Tuesday. APRIL 28 The story was out of the papers and I spent the quiet Sunday working on these notes and some other articles for the magazine and for the T-Night football game program. APRIL 29 7:45 A.M. Arriving at the office I drafted the memorandum for President Harrison concerning the suggested committee approach and went to breakfast. 10:20 A.M. Our editorial assistant finished the memorandum and I took it to the president's office and was called in to the President's Council meeting to discuss it. After the reading of this proposal I noticed some questioning looks in the faces of a couple of the vice presidents but thought little of it. I left and returned to wait for the next move. 12:15 P.M. The president called me to his office and stated that the Council had decided to handle the matter through existing channels rather than by an ad hoc committee. He then handed me a series of points to build a news release around providing there was agreement By the students at the meeting at 3:00 p.m. today. I did some slight editorial work on them and returned the list to the president. 3:00 P.M. The president began his meeting with the student leaders and decided against any other staff member but himself being present at the meeting. The meeting lasted the rest1 14
of the afternoon and I was finally informed at 6:15 p.m. that the student reaction was good and to go ahead and get the news release up for the following day. APRIL 30 7:50 A.M. I arrived in the office and began work on the news release. It was not completed and approved by the president until after lunch because of conflicting schedules but I finally received the okay to release it to the Constitution and to the wire services for the first edition of the May 1 paper which comes out around 8:00 p.m. this evening. The complete text of the release follows: "Georgia Tech's President, Dr. Edwin D. Harrison, and three of the campus student leaders who petitioned for more institutional involvement in urban work have reached mutual understanding after a twohour meeting, yesterday. The students had circulated a petition urging Tech to get more involved in urban problems last Wednesday and Thursday and presented it with 580 student and faculty signatures to the president on Thursday afternoon. Since that time, several counter petitions have appeared on campus. "President Harrison called yesterday's meeting an excellent one and said that the students seemed pleased at the results of it. 'Because of Georgia Tech's excellent technological competence, the institution has something to offer toward the solution of the urban problems facing our city, the state, and the nation,' he said. 'And it is important that Tech continue to increase it utilization of this capability. " 'We have on our campus interested, capable individuals who are willing to make voluntary contributions of their professional competence in the interest of solving these problems. I look forward to joining with the business community in assisting in the expansion of our present efforts and in cooperating with interested students to bring about some worthwhile contributions.' "President Harrison expanded his answers to the student's original seven-point petition by indicating to the student leaders that he had already initiated an action program aimed at coordinating efforts of interested students and faculty in urban-problem-area programs. "Agreement was reached on the following actions by the president:
" 1 . Dr. E. A. Trabant, vice president for academic affairs, has been asked to examine with the appropriate Schools on campus the type of faculty expertise available and the manner of most usefully utilizing it to assist in the solution of urban problems. Also Mr. R. E. Winn, assistant to the president, is tabulating existing projects now being undertaken by the Tech family. These activities appear to be the richest source of expanded activities. The results of these efforts will be examined by the President's Council to see what can be improved, coordinated or expanded to make them more meaningful. "2. The Urban Institute proposal by the students has been under study in the Office of the Chancellor of the University System. "3. Tech does not have the competence to undertake vocational educational programs and much more can be accomplished by letting those with the expertise, facilities and financial support undertake this type of effort in order that our capabilities not be spread so thin as to dilute our accomplishments. "4. The president requested Dean James E. Dull to work with the Community Services Committee of the Student Council to seek to coordinate the efforts of students and faculty already working in urban projects and to improve the methods of information dissemination in order to provide an opportunity for all students and faculty with the time and interest to find the most useful and efficient means of lending their support in these various projects. "5. The president asked Mr. J. R. Anthony, vice president/controller, to bring up to the minute his previous studies on employee wage structures for all employees who work on an hourly basis. Based on his study and the financial resources available, Tech would then take the information with our recommendations to the Regents as required by Board policy. "6. The president asked Dr. E. A. Trabant to discuss with the Curriculum Committee the proposal with reference to granting academic credit for student involvement in ghetto projects. The curriculum committee will study the relationship between the types of activities undertaken and the possible relationship to the academic program. The Georgia Tech Alumnus
"7. He also asked Dr. Trabant to discuss with the Head of the Social Sciences Department the possibility of including in a history course the contributions made by all ethnic groups to the American scene. "In addition, President Harrison announced that he had issued an invitation to students and faculty with free time to attend the special Frank H. Neely Conference on "Impending Technology: Its Challenge to Livable Cities," which will be held at Tech from May 7 through May 9. The conference brings together 16 outstanding speakers from throughout North America to explain the application of technology to the problems of our cities. MAY 1 6:30 A.M. The morning paper treated the newest development in what I am calling "The Great Petition War" in extensive fashion. Unfortunately, the word, voluntary, was completely omitted from the article which changed considerably its meaning, especially from an administrative point of view. I don't think the president will be pleased with this 8:00 A.M. Arriving at the office, I had decided while sitting on the expressway for a total of 48 minutes that it was now time to let the matter drop for now. I expressed my views to the president and he agreed to let it run its course. He also stated that he was not pleased by the paper's handling of the latest release, which came as no surprise to me. However, he is understanding about such matters, especially when a deadline is involved. I went back to catching up with the things that had piled up on my desk because of this matter. Walking back to the office, I wondered how my friends in some of the other college PR offices could possibly keep their sanity with all these student riots going on on their campuses. MAY 6 9:15 A.M. All had remained relatively quiet until this morning when a friend of mine on the faculty dropped in to tell me about a meeting of the Tech chapter of an organization known as "Concerned Citizens of Atlanta." I had heard of the group early in the petition business but this was the first direct report I had received on one of their meetMay-June 1968
ings. My informant said that the CCA was all heated up to continue to apply pressure to the administration to carry out programs and was initiating several of their own. He also said there was another letter on its way to the president. 10:00 A.M. Jon J. Johnston, an assistant professor in the Social Sciences, stopped me this morning to tell me that a group of 17 members of the faculty, 18 members of the student body plus the Student Council were organizing a M. L. King Memorial Scholarship. He sent me a letter outlining the scholarship which stated: "Because of the contribution which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made to peace and mutual understanding in this city and the nation, it is fitting that an effort should be made to remember his name and work within the Georgia Tech Community. To this end we propose the establishment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund, and we urge the support of faculty, students and alumni in its foundation. "The fund will be administered by the Financial Aid Office through which full or partial scholarships will be awarded to students whose lives and commitment make them appropriate recipients of the Fund. The Financial Aid Office will make these awards at the recommendation of a Committee of the Fund to be appointed by the President. "Your contribution to this fund is deductible; your check should be made payable to Georgia Institute of Technology: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund, and may be returned to me in care of the Social Science Department. We earnestly solicit your aid. Jon J. Johnston, for the Committee of Sponsors" MAY 8 10:00 A.M. The second letter arrived in the president's office and I was given a copy. It was in a large measure a repeat of the initial letter and was signed by the same student. The key points in the letter started with the fourth paragraph and read: "We now wish to work with you and the administration in defining, developing and implementing such programs that are feasible within the existing structure of Tech. We shall take whatever steps necessary to
maximize the efficiency of our part of this cooperation. "This should in no way be viewed as an attempt to leave the major responsibility for ghetto action programs on the shoulders of the administration. Rather, we wish to involve all parts of the Tech community in such programs in response to the gravity of the situation. We are fully aware that a large part of these programs only can be operated on a student to student basis, and we Wave pledged to work actively on initiating and channeling such involved activity. Much of this work has been, and is, channeled through the Tech chapter of Concerned Citizens of Atlanta. This group was formed last month as a response to the demand to individuals to participate actively in improving race relations and slum conditions. Work in this group by many Tech students and other citizens has provided the basis for the open letter to you, and has given foundation to slum action programs involving the Tech community. It is imperative that programs are immediately acted on in view of the potentially explosive situation this summer. In this light time becomes an essential factor. Hesitancy will not only cause loss of impetus of the programs, but it will destroy the hope and trust they may have installed in the ghetto population. It is only through such hope and trust that our cities may yet be saved from the chaos of riot. "The following points are noted as parts of our efforts: " 1 . The Community Services Committee (CSC) of the Student Council is being restructured to incorporate an effective channeling of student slum problem-solving activities. It will: a. work with community organizations and city officials in mapping problems, and defining required actions. b. work with the Tech administration in coordinating efforts and developing projects. c. work with faculty in relating skills and academic programs to these projects. d. encourage student participation, channel its manpower and abilities into these projects, and oversee the operations. Chairman of CSC has just been appointed and members will be named shortly. Fields and methods of activity and a budget 15
THE DIARY-continued for short-term operations have been drawn up, and will be proposed for Student Council approval shortly. "2. The Graduate Student Senate will be asked to appoint members, responsible to the Senate, to work with the CSC. "3. Faculty members will work with CSC. Such involvement is now being structured within the faculty. "4. The selection of a specific area within the city where programs can be concentrated and effectively interrelated is being considered. Areas are being looked into, and contacts with community and civic organizations (Equal Opportunity Atlanta, National Urban League, Metropolitan Atlanta Summit Leadership Congress, Concerned Citizens of Atlanta, etc.) have been established and work has been started to relate problem areas with methodology and resources. "5. Contacts' with college leaders within the Atlanta League of Colleges have been initiated, in.an attempt to coordinate large-scale programs. "6. Work is being done with student leaders in Atlanta University Center to secure sensitivity and relevance of our programs. "7. Spring Cleaning in Savannah on May 19 and its following programs will be studied on location, with view to initiating similar action in Atlanta. "8. A program designed for Tech students to increase awareness and understanding of the problems of the Atlanta slum areas is being considered, with help from Morehouse College students and the Black Action Committee. "9. Exchange visits between Atlanta University System colleges and Tech will take place. "10. A lecture series on urban and race problems has been proposed within the framework of the Tech Free University. "11. Work will be done to establish slum problems as number one priority among study programs of the proposed Urban Studies Center, and emphasis will be7 put on the importance of the .development of shortrange and medium-range, rather than long-range solutions to the problems. The expediency of the establishment of the center will be stressed. "12. A study is being done of the feasibility of establishing a technical-1 educational institution in the down16
town area, utilizing the expertise of Tech in a duplication of Southern Tech adjusted to slum labor, social and economic conditions. "13. Work and research on the wage structure of low-paid Tech employment will continue. Salaries paid on an annual basis as well as those paid on an hourly basis will be included in the considerations. "14. The fraternity structure will be subject to scrutinizing investigations in regard to prejudice and wages. "15. Work with department heads on designing suitable credit courses for work on slum projects has been started, and will continue. "16. A meeting with the Social Sciences Department has been set up for this week, seeking the establishment of courses in the history of ethnic groups in America, with first priority on a course in the history of the American Negro. "The success of these and other programs depends on the level of cooperation that can be established between the administration, faculty and students. We believe that a good climate for such cooperation now exists. "The text of this letter will be used as a statement of principles and programs, clarifying the present state of our part of the cooperative effort that has now been initiated." We decided there was nothing to be gained by releasing this letter to the press as it was basically an internal matter concerned with procedures. MAY 21 4:00 P.M. I received a call from a reporter after a hiatus of almost two weeks on this subject. He asked if the Student Council was planning on voting on the "Project Uplift" program this evening. I said I had heard that they were meeting on it, but was not up-to-date on it because I had been tied up most of the day with the announcements of the death of Fred Ajax, a tragedy which had upset me greatly. I asked him to talk to one of the girls in the News Bureau about the subject. She normally is the one closest to student matters. MAY 22 6:30 A.M. The newspaper came out with a story that the Council had approved $300 to finance two pilot projects designed to promote student and faculty involvement in the ghetto.
"Project Uplift" had originally been designed by the Council's Community Services Committee earlier in the month and cost $3,000 as originally conceived. The majority of the members of the Council were strongly against spending 30 per cent of the total Council budget on this project. 4:30 P.M. A student from the Council came by to complain that the newspaper had not received the complete information on the latest story and I reported that this may have been my fault since I turned the reporter loose on the story. We discussed ways to keep this office in touch with the Council and he promised the minutes of the latest meeting by Friday afternoon so I could include them in this diary. MAY 25 8:00 A.M. I arrived at the office to find that the Council minutes had never been delivered so I decided to use the Technique news story of the meeting to close out this portion of the diary. Here it is: "Static questions and rebuttals sparked the charged atmosphere of this week's SC meeting which was primarily consumed by a fiery discussion of the finer points of last week's 'A Proposal—Project Uplift.' "These sparks were generated by the presentation of the report of a special committee organized last week to study this controversial proposal. The appointed members of the committee were Rich Cook, Chairman; Neal Williams, Secretary; Eric Ragir; Sam Williams; Paul Conte; and Tom Davis. "The committee decided to recommend that the SC endorse the part of the proposal stating 'I—Aid to residents of a slum area in an educational, recreational, and environmental manner; II—Enable interested students and faculty members of Georgia Tech to participate in a cooperative effort with slum residents to improve the conditions, both mental and physical, which exist in this area, and III—Initiate the first program of the Student Council which directly attempts to involve Tech students and faculty in a definite, constructive approach to community responsibility.' "They also recommended two special projects: '1—A fix-up, clean-up project in the Bedford Pine Area, in coordination with Economic OpporThe Georgia Tech Alumnus
tunity Atlanta and the Atlanta Youth Council. Such a project would be a cooperative effort with the teenage residents of the area, and 2—An 'imaginative playground' to be constructed in the Bedford Pine or Northwest Perry Area of the city. Such a playground would be built on land contributed by the city (already committed), and consists of items such as large sewer pipe and junked automobiles used in an imaginative manner.' "The committee report deliberately skirted any indication or mention of the allocation of funds for the program. Even the committee was divided on the question of supporting the report. Those committee members who went on record as supporting the report were Rich Cook, Neal Williams, Eric Ragir, and Sam Williams. "Upon presentation of this report, president Carey Brown opened the floor for comments and questions from any of the guests who were concerned enough about the proposal to attend the meeting and speak either for or against the proposal. The majority of the guests who spoke were of the opinion that the ideas expressed in the proposal were basically good, but that they did not feel that the SC had the moral right to allocate and spend the proposed $3,000 for the project. "This amount represents approximately 27% of the SC budget and would come largely from the student activities fees. These fees would not have to be increased in order to obtain this money, but would cut considerably the amount of money the SC would have to spend on other things. "The main question raised concerned whether the SC had the right to make mandatory any allocation of student-paid funds to be used in an off campus activity whether the student was in favor of having his money used this way or not. The point was brought up that the campus chest is an off campus item also, but this point was refuted by the reply that campus chest was a voluntary contribution, whereas the proposed project expenditure would be a mandatory 'taxation' over which the individual student would have no control. "This situation could be remedied by having a student referendum on the question to see how the majority of the student body stood. However, May-June 1968
the members of the SC felt that as the duly elected representatives of the student body they had the right to settle such questions without the nuisance of having to cut through the red tape which would be wrapped up in a student referendum. "At the end of 45 minutes of this endless repetitious arguing the chair decided to bring the motion concerning the proposal before the council members for discussion. After much interplay among Carey Brown, Paul Conte, Rich Cook, and several others concerning parliamentary procedure, the two projects listed in the committee report were amended to read '. . . in coordination with EOA, the Atlanta Youth Council and other groups concerned with this area . . .' and were then accepted as a fourth section under the first part of the proposal which contained the previously mentioned three sections. "Four other amendments were added to streamline the proposal and establish a definite means of implementing the two summer projects. "After much discussion, the sixth amendment reading 'For covering expenses occuring in the two pilot projects, the SC will approve expenditures of a maximum of $300 of SC funds to be used before October 1, 1968, and all other monetary values
(the previous figure of $3000) will be struck.' was approved and the SC finally passed the complete amended version of the 'Proposal— Project Uplift.' "The first phase of this project, the two pilot projects, will go into effect this summer with the hope that, if successful, these programs will be expanded next year." MAY 26 8:05 A.M. On this rainy Sunday morning, I must close the diary in order to make the final deadline of the magazine which now takes four weeks to produce. The results of this spurt of student activism at Tech will not be apparent until the fall when the committee reports back to the Council. However, I think it fair to say that the campus has a much better chance of remaining quiet during the summer than has the ghettos that the students are trying to help. If nothing else, this entire period has shown that engineering students remain their old practical selves and that they have approached this entire matter with great restraint, something you can't say for many other groups of activists in this country. Whether you agree with them or not, you must admire the tactics of this Tech group. 17
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not immune to student activism, in fact, they have a unique approach to this activity. On the average, technological students are conservative, know where they want to go, and are simply plugging appropriate requirements into the objective. You cannot fool them because they are too logical. But they truly reflect a responsible side of student activism today. As an example the top three debate teams this year were from major technological universities— Georgia Tech, R.P.I., and M.I.T. As for politics, they are not only interested but are involved. The last two years has noted a marked increase in their activity in this area. Two students on the Tech campus are "front" men for national political figures, traveling to far-away cities to arrange speeches and protocol. In fact, a technically-trained man is becoming an asset to a political campaign, and it is not unusual to see industrial engineers on such a staff. 1968 has already been the most active year for students all over the world. Columbia, Stanford, Paris, Indonesia, China, and other examples vividly illustrate student involvement in political as well as social conflicts. The average engineer looks at most of these outbreaks as ill-planned and uncalled for. They are much more inclined to work within the system rather than to cop out, which has become a fad in student demonstrations. Naturally the most logical way of expressing opinion is the ballot, and that's why CHOICE '68 was received so well. It gave a chance for the left as well as the right to work on the same project, which is probably the first thing the two groups ever agreed on. Georgia Tech was involved in CHOICE '68 long before the program was announced publicly. Last October Bob Harris, four years out of Michigan State (where he was student body president), came through Atlanta on a nationwide visit of student body presidents. He was trying the idea out on over 80 campuses and looking for a group of student The Georgia Tech Alumnus
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A student worker carries a battered sign for the man who lost the Tech segment of the election to Nixon but won the national poll convincingly.
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Academy a n d the Air Force Academ y . T h e resulting vote on April 24 brought out over 1,000,000 students to the polls in the largest student "demonstration" ever. T h e ballot contained n i n e different items varying from age, political p a r t y and presidential choices to answers on Viet N a m . B y computer tabulation over 22,000 pages of information became available on the nation's students. T h e total cost (absorbed b y Time a n d U N I V A C ) was over $250,000. Its significance will be judged for years to come. B u t to say M c C a r t h y won it is to mention only one fact of thousands. As the pre-voting tempo built u p on campuses, rallys a n d mock conventions were held. A t Georgia T e c h a rally featuring representatives from all major candidates drew widespread interest. Speakers flew in from D e troit, Nashville, Washington and other places to a t t e m p t to woo student voters a n d influence others b y television appearances in t h e process. T h e activities created a political atmosphere on campus t h a t carried over into the faculty a n d community. Eventually faculty a t T e c h were asked to vote too. Georgia T e c h actually became a political dialogue. Tables were set u p recruiting workers for different candidates, m a n n e d by faculty a n d students. Although most of the faculty interest came from English a n d social science faculties, other departments got involved. Comparing Tech to other colleges one could d r a w conclusions t h a t it h a d become a hotbed for politics, over 60 percent of our students voted in C H O I C E '68. Sam A.
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SAM, SAM: THE POLITICAL MAN For the past year, the most complete political man to hit the Tech campus in years has been the top student leader • His NAME IS SAM WILLIAMS.
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he is tall and has that "All-American" look and is quick with his mind and his answers. The most complete political animal to hit the Tech campus in the memory of the oldest resident, Sam Williams has a background that appears to be written by a computer program searching for the ultimate qualifications for an American politician. He was born and raised on a farm in West Tennessee where they take their politics seriously. His father was a rural mail carrier as well as a farmer. He spent his early summers raising purebred polled Hereford cattle and eventually became a. champion cattle judge. In high school he was elected 4-H Club Governor of Tennessee as well as president of the student body. He graduated with honors from Obion County High School and entered Georgia Tech as an Electrical Engineering cooperative student. He spent his work quarters with a major American corporation (Alcoa Aluminum in Knoxville) and was named the U.S. 4-H representative to Canada as a freshman. He worked on practically every single worthwhile project on the Tech campus in his years here and gathered up all of the honors Tech can bestow on a student including election to ANAK. He was the first co-op, nonfraternity student ever elected to the presidency of the Tech Student Government and during his tenure in office which ended in May, he traveled 25,000 miles, speaking on other campuses and attending conferences and meetings. He became intimately involved in politics in 1966 by serving On the state staff organizing Tennessee colleges for Howard Baker, Jr., who became Tennessee's first Republican U.S. Senator. During last summer he worked as an exchange student to the Netherlands, doing engineering research for Philips, Inc. and hitchhiking through seven countries. He also served as one of eleven students , on the National Board of Directors of I 22
Time Magazine's program, CHOICE '68: National Collegiate Presidential Primary, which polled over 1,000,000 students on the 1968 elections. He was one of twelve student body presidents from across the nation to confer with President Johnson in a special meeting at the White House in February, 1968. He is presently writing a book on student involvement in educational institutes as a special research project for Georgia Tech. Sam Williams will not graduate from Tech with honors (he isn't even close, come to think of it), but his point average and background are enough to gain him acceptance to Harvard Business School which he will attend after he completes his course work, here, in December of this year. Since being named to the CHOICE '68 board, Sam Williams has tasted the heady wine of television and radio interviews by the score and been offered top positions on the staffs of four major presidential candidates (two democrats and two republicans). In late May he accepted a post with the Rockefeller cam-
paign ("I'm still a republican and I can't see switching now," he says.) And he will spend the summer working with the Rockefeller entourage at a rather startling salary for a college senior even in these days of high salaries. He intends to get into politics after he finishes Harvard Business School which surprises no one who knows him. But the final summation of Sam Williams came from a veteran female observer of the Tech scene, who said, after watching him in front of a press conference during the recent student petition crisis, "The greatest thing about Sam Williams is his ability to keep his cool under fire. He instinctively knows the right thing to say to break the tension brought on by the less politically aware students and administrators who too often hurt their own point of view by not weighing their words like Sam does." It will be a long time before another Sam Williams arrives on the scene at Tech, but at least when the Institute needed him most, he was here. Robert B. Wallace, Jr. The Georgia Tech Alumnus
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The Plain Fact Is.. ... our colleges and universities "are facing what might easily become a crisis"
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A STATE-SUPPORTED upyvERsiTY in the Midwest makes /% a sad announcement: With more well-qualified / — % applicants for its freshman class than ever beJ. J ^ f o r e , the university must tighten its entrance requirements. Qualified though the kids are, the university must turn many of them away. • A private college in New England raises its tuition fee for the seventh time since World War II. In doing so, it admits ruefully: "Many of the best high-school graduates can't afford to come here, any more." • A state college network in the West, long regarded as one of the nation's finest, cannot offer its students the usual range of instruction this year. Despite intensive recruiting, more than 1,000 openings on the faculty were unfilled at the start of the academic year. • A church-related college in the South, whose denomination's leaders believe in strict separation of church and state, severs its church ties in order to seek money from the government. The college must have such money, say its administrators—or it will die. Outwardly, America's colleges and universities appear more affluent than at any time in the past. In the aggregate they have more money, more students, more buildings, better-paid faculties, than ever before in their history. Yet many are on the edge of deep trouble. "The plain fact," in the words of the president of Columbia University, "is that we are facing what might easily become a crisis in the financing of American higher education, and the sooner we know about it, the better off we will be." u t TROUBLE is not limited to a few institution^. Nor does it affect only one or two types of institution. Large universities, small colleges; state-supported and privately supported: the problem faces them all. Before preparing this report, the editors asked more than 500 college and university presidents to tell us— off the record, if they preferred—just how they viewed the future of their institutions. With rare exceptions, the presidents agreed on this assessment: That the money is not now in sight to meet the rising costs of higher education . .. to serve the growing numbers of bright, qualified students... and to pay for the myriad activities that Americans now demand of their colleges and universities. Important programs and necessary new buildings are
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being deferred for lack of money, the presidents said. Many admitted to budget-tightening measures reminiscent of those taken in days of the Great Depression. Js this new? Haven't the colleges and universities always needed money? Is there something different about the situation today? The answer is "Yes"—to all three questions. The president of a large state university gave us this view of the over-all situation, at both the publicly and the privately supported institutions of higher education: "A good many institutions of higher learning are operating at a deficit," he said. "First, the private colleges and universities: they are eating into their endowments in order to meet their expenses. Second, the public institutions. It is not legal to spend beyond our means, but here we have another kind of deficit: a deficit in quality, which will be extremely difficult to remedy even when adequate funding becomes available." Other presidents' comments were equally revealing: • From a university in the Ivy League: "Independent national universities face an uncertain future which threatens to blunt their thrust, curb their leadership, and jeopardize their independence. Every one that I know about is facing a deficit in its operating budget, this year or next. And all of us are hard-put to see where we are going to get the funds to meet the educational demands of the coming decade." • From a municipal college in the Midwest: "The best word to describe our situation is 'desperate.' We are operating at a deficit of about 20 per cent of our total expenditure." • From a private liberal arts college in Missouri: "Only by increasing our tuition charges are we keeping our heads above water. Expenditures are galloping to such a degree that I don't know how we will make out in the future." • From a church-related university on the West Coast: "We face very serious problems. Even though our tuition is below-average, we have already priced ourselves out of part of our market. We have gone deeply into debt for dormitories. Our church support is declining. At times, the outlook is grim." • From a state university in the Big Ten: "The budget for our operations must be considered tight. It is less than we need to meet the demands upon the university for teaching, research, and public service." • From a small liberal arts college in Ohio: "We are
on a hand-to-mouth, 'kitchen' economy. Our ten-year projections indicate that we can maim a in our quality only by doubling in size." • From a small college in the Northeast: "For the first time in its 150-year history, ourcoHere has a planned deficit. We are holding our heads above water at the moment—but, in terms of quality education, this cannot long continue without additional means of support." • From a slate college in California "We are not permitted to operate at a deficit. The funding of our budget at a level considerably below thai proposed by the trustees has made it difficult for us to recruit staff members and has forced us to defer ver>-much-needed improvements in our existing activities." • From a women's college in the South: "For the coming year, our budget is the tightest we have had in my fifteen years as president."
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Talk of the sort quoted above may seem strange, as one looks at the unparalleled growth of America's colleges and universities during the past decade: • Hardly a campus in the land does not have a brandnew building or one under construction. Colleges and universities are spending more than $."" billion a year for capital expansion. • Faculty salaries have nearly don hied in the past decade. (But in some regions they are still woefully low.) • Private, voluntary support to colleges and universities has more than tripled since 1958. Higher education's share of the philanthropic dollar has risen from 11 per cent to 17 per cent. • State tax funds appropriated for high* education have increased 44 per cent in just two \ cars, to a 1967-68 total of nearly $4.4 billion. This is 214 per cent more than the sum appropriated eight years ago. • Endowment funds have more than doubled over the past decade. They're now estimated to be about $12 billion, at market value. • Federal funds going to institution of higher education have more than doubled in four years. • More than 300 new colleges and universities have been founded since 1945. • All in all, the total expenditure this year for U.S. higher education is some $18 billion- more than three times as much as in 1955.
Moreover. America's colleges and universities have absorbed the lid a I wave of students that was supposed to have swamped i horn by now. They have managed to fulfill their teaching and research functions and to undertake a varicu of new public-service programs—despite the ominous predictions of faculty shortages heard ten or fifteen years ago. Says one foundation official: "The system is bigger, stronger, and more productive than it has ever been, than any system of higher education in the world." Why, then, the growing concern? Re-examine I he progress of the past ten years, and this fact becomes apparent: The progress was great—• but it did not deal with the basic flaws in higher education's financial situation. Rather, it made the whole enterprise bigger, more sophisticated, and more expensive. Voluntary contributions grew—but the complexity and costliness of the nation's colleges and universities grew faster. Endowment funds grew—but the need for the income from them grew faster. State appropriations grew—but the need grew faster. Faculty salaries were rising. New courses were needed, due to the uupuvedented "knowledge explosion." More costly apparatus was required, as scientific progress grew more complex. Enrollments burgeoned—and students stayed on for more advanced (and more expensive) training at higher levels. And, for most of the nation's 2,300 colleges and universities, an old problem remained—and was intensified, as the costs of education rose: gifts, endowment, and government funds continued to go, disproportionately, to a relative handful of institutions. Some 36 per cent of all voluntary contributions, for example, went to just 55 major universities. Some 90 per cent of all endowment funds were o\\ tied by fewer than 5 per cent of the institutions. In 1966, the most recent year reported, some 70 per cent of the federal government's funds for higher education went to 100 institutions. McGeorge Bundy, the president of the Ford Foundation, puts it this way: "Great gams have been made; the academic profession has reached a \\ holly new level of economic strength, and the instruments of excellence—the libraries and
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laboratories—are stronger than ever. But the university that pauses to look back will quickly fall behind in the endless race to the future." Mr. Bundy says further: "The greatest general problem of higher education is money . . . . The multiplying needs of the nation's colleges and universities force a recognition that each new attempt at a massive solution has left the trustees and presidents just where they started: in very great need."
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LRE ARE SOME of the harsh facts: Operating expenditures for higher education more than tripled during the past decade—from about $4 billion in 1956 to $12.7 billion last year. By 1970, if government projections are correct, colleges and universities will be spending over $18 billion for their current operations, plus another $2 billion or $3 billion for capital expansion. Why such steep increases in expenditures? There are several reasons: • Student enrollment is now close to 7 million— twice what it was in 1960. • The rapid accumulation of new knowledge and a resulting trend toward specialization have led to a broadening of the curricula, a sharp increase in graduate study, a need for sophisticated new equipment, and increased library acquisitions. All are very costly. • An unprecedented growth in faculty salaries—long overdue—has raised instructional costs at most institutions. (Faculty salaries account for roughly half of the educational expenses of the average institution of higher learning.) • About 20 per cent of the financial "growth" during the past decade is accounted for by inflation. Not only has the over-all cost of higher education increased markedly, but the cost per student has risen steadily, despite increases in enrollment which might, in any other "industry," be expected to lower the unit cost. Colleges and universities apparently have not improved their productivity at the same pace as the economy generally. A recent study of the financial trends in three private universities illustrates this. Between 1905 and 1966, the educational cost per student at the three universities, viewed compositely, increased 20-fold, against an economy-wide increase of three- to four-fold. In each of the three periods of peace, direct costs per student increased about 8 per cent, against a 2 per cent annual increase in the economy-wide index.
Some observers conclude from this thai higher education must be made more efficient—that ways must be found to educate more students with fewer faculty and staff members. Some institutions have moved in this direction by adopting a year-round calendar of operations, permitting them to make ma.\muim use of the faculty and physical plant. Instructional devices, programmed learning, closed-circuit television, and other technological systems are being employed to increase productivity and to gain economics through larger classes. The problem, however, is to increase elliciency without jeopardizing the special character of higher education. Scholars are quick to point out that management techniques and business practices cannot be applied easily to colleges and universities. 'I hey observe, for example, that on strict cost-accountin;1 principles, a college could not justify its library. A physics professor, complaining about large classes, remarks: "When you get a hundred kids in a classroom, that's not education; that's show business." The college and university presidents whom we surveyed in the preparation of this report generally believe their institutions are making every dollar work. There is room for improvement, they acknowledge. But few feel the financial problems of higher educat ion cart be significantly reduced through more efficient management.
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NE THING seems fairly certain: The costs of | higher education will continue to rise. To " meet their projected expenses, colleges and universities will need to inc rcase their annual operating income by more than $4 billion during the four-year period between 1966 and 1970. [hey must find another $8 billion or $10 billion for capital outlays. Consider what this might mean for a typical private
In publicly supported colleges and universities, the outlook is no brighter, although the gloom is of a different variety. Says the report of a study by two professors at the University of Wisconsin: "Public institutions of higher education in the United States are now operating at a quality deficit of more than a billion dollars a year. In addition, despite heavy construction schedules, they have accumulated a major capital lag." The deficit cited by the Wisconsin professors is a computation of the cost of bringing the public institutions' expenditures per student to a level comparable with that at the private institutions. With the enrollment growth expected by 1975, the professors calculate, the "quality deficit" in public higher education will reach $2.5 billion. The problem is caused, in large part, by the tremendous enrollment increases in public colleges and universities. The institutions' resources, says the Wisconsin study, "may not prove equal to the task." Moreover, there are indications that public institutions may be nearing the limit of expansion, unless they receive a massive infusion of new funds. One of every seven public universities rejected qualified applicants from their own states last fall; two of every seven rejected qualified applicants from other states. One of every ten raised admissions standards for in-state students; one in six raised standards for out-of-state students.
university. A recent report presented this hypothetical case, based on actual projections of university expenditures and income: . The institution's budget is now in balance. Its educational and general expenditures total $24.5 million a year. Assume that t he university's expenditures per student will continue to ;TOW at the rate of the past ten years— 7.5 per cent annually. Assume, too, that the university's enrollment will continue to grow at its rate of the past ten years—3.4 per cent annually. Ten years hence, the institution's educational and general expenses would total $70.7 million. At best, continues the analysis, tuition payments in the next ten \ eai s will grow at a rate of 6 per cent a year; at worst, at a rale of 4 per cent—compared with 9 per cent over the past ten years. Endowment income will grow at a rate of ^.5 to 5 per cent, compared with 7.7 per cent over the past decade. Gifts and grants will grow at a rate of 4.5 to 6 per cent, compared with 6.5 per cent over the past decade. "If the income from private sources grew at the higher rates projected," says the analysis, "it would increase from $24.5 million to $50.9 million—leaving a deficit of $19.8 million, ten years hence. If its income from private sources grew at the lower rates projected, it would have increased to only $43 million—leaving a shortage of $27.8 million, ten years hence."
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ILL THE FUNDS be found to meet the projected cost increases of higher education? Colleges and universities have traditionally received their operating income from three sources \from the students, in the form of tuition and fees; from the state, in the form of legislative appropriations; and from individuals, foundations, and corporations, in the form of gifts. (Money from the federal government for operating expenses is still more of a hope than a reality.) Can these traditional sources of funds continue to meet the need? The question is much on the minds of the nation's college and university presidents. • Tuition and fees: They have been rising—and are likely to rise more. A number of private "prestige" institutions have passed the $2,000 mark. Public institutions are under mounting pressure to raise tuition and fees, and their student charges have been rising at a faster rate than those in private institutions. The problem of student charges is one of the most controversial issues in higher education today. Some feel that the student, as the direct beneficiary of an education, should pay most or all of its real costs. Others disagree emphatically: since society as a whole is the ultimate beneficiary, they argue, every student should have the right to an education, whether he can afford it or not. The leaders of publicly supported colleges and universities are almost unanimous on this point: that higher tuitions and fees will erode the premise of equal oppor-
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tunity on which public higher education is based. They would like to see the present trend reversed—toward free, or at least lower-cost, higher education. Leaders of private institxttions find the rising tuitions equally disturbing. Heavily dependent upon the income they receive from students, many such institutions find that raising their tuition is inescapable, as costs rise. Scores of presidents surveyed for this report, however, said that mounting tuition costs are "pricing us out of the market." Said one: "As our tuition rises beyond the reach of a larger and larger segment of the college-age population, we find it more and more difficult to attract our quota of students. We are reaching a point of diminishing returns." Parents and students also, are worried. Said one father who has been financing a college education for three daughters: "It's like buying a second home." Stanford Professor Roger A. Freeman says it isn't really that bad. In his book, Crisis in College Finance?, he points out that when tuition increases have been adjusted to the shrinking value of the dollar or are related to rising levels of income, the cost to the student actually declined between 1941 and 1961. But this is small consolation to a man with an annual salary of $15,000 and three daughters in college. Colleges and universities will be under increasing pressure to raise their rates still higher, but if they do, they will run the risk of pricing themselves beyond the means of more and more students. Indeed, the evidence is strong that resistance to high tuition is growing, even in relatively well-to-do families. The College Scholarship Service, an arm of the College Entrance Examination Board, reported recently that some middle- and upper-income parents have been "substituting relatively low-cost institutions" because of the rising prices at some of the nation's colleges and universities. The presidents of such institutions have nightmares over such trends. One of them, the head of a private college in Minnesota, told us: "We are so dependent upon tuition for approximately 50 per cent'of our operating expenses that if 40 fewer students come in September than we expect, we could have a budgetary deficit this year of $50,000 or more." • State appropriations: The 50 states have appropriated nearly $4.4 billion for their colleges and universities this year—a figure that includes neither the $l-$2 billion spent by public institutions for capital expansion, nor the appropriations of local governments, which account
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5.5 per cent. I he Council of Southern Universities declined 6.2 per cent. Fifty-five major private universities received 7.7 per cent less from gifts. Four groups rained. The state universities and colleges received 20.5 per cent more in private gifts in 1965-66 than in the picwous year. Fourteen technological institutions gained 10.8 per cent. Members of the Great Lakes College Association gained 5.6 per cent. And Western Conference universities, plus the University of Chicago, gained 34.5 per cent. (Within each such group, of course, individual college! may have gained or lost differently from the group as a whole.) The biggest chop in voluntary contributions came in foundation giants. Although this may have been due, in part, to the fact i hat there had been some unusually large grants the previous year, it may also have been a foretaste of things to come. Many of those who observe foundations closely think such grants will be harder and harder for colleges and universities to come by, in years to come.
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that the traditional sources of revenue may not yield the necessary funds, college and universin presidents are looking more and more to Washington for the solution to their financial problems. The presicleni of a large state university in the South, whose views are ivpical of many, told us: "Increased federal support is essential to the fiscal stability of the colleges and"un i \ i lies of the land. And such aid is a proper federal expend it u re." Most of his colleagues agreed—some reluctantly. Said the president of a college in Iowa: "I don't like it. . . but it may be ine\ liable." Another remarked: "On the quesEARINC,
tion of federal aid, everybody seems to be running to the same side of the boat." More federal aid is almost certain to come. The question is, When? And in what form? Realism compels this answer: In the near future, the federal government is unlikely to provide substantial support for the operating expenses of the country's colleges and universities. The war in Vietnam is one reason. Painful effects of war-prompted economies have already been felt on the campuses. The effective federal funding of research per faculty member is declining. Construction grants are becoming scarcer. Fellowship programs either have been reduced or have merely held the line. Indeed, the changes in the flow of federal money to the campuses may be the major event that has brought higher education's financial problems to their present head. Would things be different in a peacetime economy? Many college and university administrators think so. They already are planning for the day when the Vietnam war ends and when, the thinking goes, huge sums of federal money will be available for higher education. It is no secret that some government officials are operating on the same assumption and are designing new programs of support for higher education, to be put into effect when the war ends. Others are not so certain the postwar money flow is that inevitable. One of the doubters is Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California and a man with considerable first-hand knowledge of the relationship between higher education and the federal government. Mr. Kerr is inclined to believe that the colleges and universities will have to fight for their place on a national priority list that will be crammed with a number of other pressing
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problems: air and water pollution, civil rights, and the plight of the nation's cities, to name but a few. One thing seems clear: The pattern of federal aid must change dramatically, if it is to help solve the financial problems of U.S. higher education. Directly or indirectly, more federal dollars must be applied to meeting the increasing costs of operating the colleges and universities, even as the government continues its support of students, of building programs, and of research.
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N SEARCHING for a way out of their financial difficulties, colleges and universities face the hazard that their individual interests may conflict. Some form of competition (since the institutions are many and the sources of dollars few) is inevitable and healthy. But one form of competition is potentially dangerous and destructive and, in the view of impartial supporters of all institutions of higher education, must be avoided at all costs. This is a conflict between private and public colleges and universities. In simpler times, there was little cause for friction. Public institutions received their funds from the states. Private institutions received their funds from private sources. No longer. All along the line, and with increasing frequency, both types of institution are seeking both public and private support—often from the same sources: • The state treasuries: More and more private institutions are suggesting that some form of state aid is not only necessary but appropriate. A number of states have already enacted programs of aid to students attending private institutions. Some 40 per cent of the state appropriation for higher education in Pennsylvania now goes to private institutions. • The private philanthropists: More and more public institutions are seeking gifts%om individuals, foundations, and corporations, to supplement the funds they receive from the state. As noted earlier in this report, their efforts are meeting with growing success. • The federal government: Both public and private colleges and universities receive funds from Washington. But the different types of institution sometimes disagree on the fundamentals of distributing it. Should the government help pay the operating costs of colleges and universities by making grants directly to the institutions—perhaps through a formula based on enroll-
i tin us are inclined to think so. The heads of many low-enrollment, hightuition private institutions, by contrast, tend to favor programs that operate indirectly—perhaps In giving enough . money to the students themselves, to enable them to pay for an education at whatever institutions they might choose. Similarly, the strongest opposition to long-term, federally underwritten student-loan plans- some envisioning a payback period extending over most of ono'-a lifetime— comes from public institutions, while some private-college and university leaders find, in such plans, a hope that their institutions might be able to char v lull-cost" tuition rates without barring students whoso families can't afford to pay. In such frictional situations, involvin : not only billions of dollars but also some very deep-seated convictions about the country's educational philosophy, the chances that destructive conflicts might develop ire obviously great. If such conflicts were to grow, the\ could only sap the energies of all who engage in them.
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F THERE is INDEED A CRISIS building in \merican higher
education, it is not solely a problem of meeting the minimum needs of our colleges aiul universities in the years ahead. Nor, for most, is it a question of survive or perish; "colleges and universities are tough," as one president put it; "they have sm\ived countless cataclysms and crises, and one way or .mother they will endure." i The real crisis will be finding the means of providing the quality, the innovation, the pioneering that the nation needs, if its system of higher education is to meet the demands of the morrow. Not only must America's colleges and universities serve millions more students in the years ahead; they must also equip these young people to 11 u- in a world that is changing with incredible swiftness and complexity. At the same time, they must carry on the basic research on which the nation's scientific and technological advancement rests. And they must be ever-read> to help meet the immediateandlong-rangeneedsofsociety;ever-responsive to society's demands. At present, the questions outnumber the answers. • How can the United States make sine that its colleges and universities not only will accomplish the minimum task but will, in the words of one corporate leader,
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knowledgeable interest of o u r alumni. I t cannot possibly b e measured in merely financial terms. —A university president
provide " a n educational system adequate to enable us t o live in the complex environment of this century?" • D o we really want t o preserve the diversity of a n educational system that has brought the country a strength u n k n o w n in any other time o r any other place? And, if so, can we? • H o w can we provide every youth with as much education as he is qualified for? • Can a balance be achieved in the sources of higher education's support, so that public and private institutions can flourish side by side? • H o w can federal money best be channeled into o u r colleges a n d universities without jeopardizing their independence a n d without discouraging support either from the state legislatures or from private philanthropy? The answers will come painfully; there is n o panacea. Quick solutions, fashioned in an atmosphere of crisis, are likely t o c o m p o u n d t h e problem. T h e right answers will emerge only from greater understanding o n the part of the country's citizens, from honest a n d candid discussion of the problems, and from the cooperation and support of all elements of society. The president of a state university in the Southwest told us: " A m o n g state universities, nothing is more important
The report on this and the preceding 15 pages is the product of a cooperative endeavor in which scores of schools, colleges, and universities are taking part. It was prepared under the direction of the group listed below, who form EDITORIAL PROJECTS FOR
EDUCATION, a non-profit organization associated with the American Alumni Council. DENTON BEAL
Carnegie-Mellon
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DAVID A. BURR
The University of Oklahoma Swarthmore
JOHN I. MATT1LL
STANLEY SAPLIN
New York University
KEN METZLER
The University of California
RUSSELL OLIN
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The University of Colorado
CHARLES M. HELMKEN
Wesleyan
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GEORGE C . KELLER
ROBERT M. RHODES
Columbia University
The University of Pennsylvania
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The Cam vn I ommission on Hig I lucation ELIZAII
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CHARLES E. WIDMAYER
Dartmouth
RON
College
Andover
FRANK J. TATE
JOHN W . PATON
American Alumni Council
Naturally, in a report of such length and scope, not all statements necessarily reflet i the views of all the persons involved, or o\ their institutions. Copyright © 1968 by Editorial Projects for Education, Inc. All right-. reserved; no part may be reproduced withou i the express permission of the editors. Prim e J in U. S. A.
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than the growing critical a n d knowledgeable interest of our alumni. That interest leads t o general support. I t cannot possibly be measured in mereb financial t e r m s . " A private college president said: " I K (neatest single source of improvement can come from a realization o n t h e part of a b r o a d segment of our popn l.n ;on that higher education must have support. N o t o n h will people have to give more, b u t more will have t o giv\ But do people understand? A spe i 11 -tudy by the Council for Financial Aid to Education l<'iind that: • 82 per cent of persons in manarci ial positions or the professions d o n o t consider Ameri an business to be an i m p o r t a n t source of gift support loi colleges a n d universities. • 59 per cent of persons with income of $10,000 o r over do not think higher education has lina ncial problems. • 52 per cent of college graduates ippa rently are n o t aware that their alma mater has financ i i problems. To America's colleges a n d universities, these are the most discouraging revelations of all. Unless the American people—especially the college a n d university alumni— can come alive t o t h e reality of high< r Plication's impending crisis, then the problems of unlay will be the disasters of tomorrow.
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Georgia Tech Journal : 68 A digest of information about Georgia Tech and the alumni
Another Top Award for the Alumni of Tech Please turn the page
May-June 1968
NEWS FROM THE C A M P U S Alumni get another top award On May 8, Georgia Tech alumni became the first in the country to win first-place honors in all three of the American Alumni Council's top competitive categories for alumni service when the Institute and the National Alumni Association were awarded the 1968 "Sears-Roebuck Alumni Administration Award" at a special luncheon in Atlanta. Dartmouth College Vice President George H. Colton, the immediate past president of the American Alumni Council, presented the award and a $350 check to Tech President Edwin D. Harrison and Alumni Association President Howard Ector for the "overall excellence of the alumni program," before a gathering of over 75 top Tech alumni and administrators. The Alumni Administration Award for comprehensive programs went to three other institutions in the country this year, with Tech being the only public institution honored in the competition. Last year, Tech alumni leaders along with those of the University of Georgia received the Council's top award, "The Alumni Service Award" for the organization and operation of the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund. And in the years, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1964, Tech won first place for public institutions in the other major competition, the U.S. Steel Alumni Giving Awards. The Tech alumni organization has now received over $9,000 from these competitions since 1961. Tech was cited by the judges in this year's competition specifically for the excellence of its following programs: annual fund, alumni orientation, wills and bequests, clubs, institutional co-
operation, student aid, faculty aid, and publications. Especially praised by the judges was Tech's highly successful roll calls over the past three years when over 50 per cent of the entire alumni body gave to support the faculty salary supplementation and student financial aid programs. The continuous giving by over 50 per cent of the alumni is a national record for public institutions and is over 30 per cent above the national average for all institutions. The 1966-67 Roll Call figures at Tech (15,861 alumni gave $408,323) were also singled out by the judges as "outstanding for public institutions." Special guests at the meeting included trustees of the National Alumni Association, the Georgia Tech Foundation, the National Advisory Board and members of President Harrison's administrative staff.
Fred Ajax is dead at 59 FRED WESLEY
AJAX,
59,
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campus affairs at Tech and one of the pioneers of college placement in the nation, died on May 22 in a local hospital. Dean Ajax, a member of the Tech staff for 37 years, was a native of Corinth, Mississippi. He was a 1930 graduate of Emory University where he was Phi Beta Kappa, president of the student body, and a member of ODK and DVS and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He received his master's degree in English from Emory in 1931 and immediately joined the Tech staff as an instructor in English. He served in that department as an assistant professor until 1941 when he was named assistant dean of students in charge of student activities and placement.
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At the special luncheon for the presentation ofj-.the Alumni Administration Award, Donald H. Gareis, southern area vice president of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, presents the $350 check to President Howard Ector of the Alumni Association (left picture). And during the same ceremony Vice President George H. Colton of Dartmouth holds up the award itself while Tech President Edwin D. Harrison looks on. For more information on the third of Tech's big alumni awards see the article above.
After serving as a naval officer during World War II, he returned to Tech as associate dean of students in charge of placement, veteran affairs, and student activities. He served in this capacity until 1957 when he was named director of public relations for the Institute. In 1966, he was named director of campus affairs. At Tech he was a member of the Administrative Council, the Academic Senate, and several faculty committees including ceremonies, the Dean Skiles Fund, and public relations. He was the first honorary member named to ANAK, Tech's top student leadership society and was an honorary Tech alumnus. He helped organize and was a past president of the Southern College Placement Association. In 1966, he was named an honorary life member of this association for "his outstanding service to the organization and to placement activities among American colleges." A great favorite of students and industrial representatives, Dean Ajax was generally credited as being the driving force behind the development of Tech's Placement Office, one that has been called several times in national publications, "a model operation for college placement." During his days as placement director, he was quoted by every major newspaper and newsmagazine in the country on the problems of placing college students in industry and on the shortage of engineers and scientists in this country. He acted as a consultant without pay to several other colleges while they were organizing placement systems. He was a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve and an active member of the Naval Reserve Counselling Board, attached to the Group Commander/StafT Unit 6-1 (Medium) Atlanta. Since 1955, he has been chairman of the Advisory Committee on Scientific, Engineering and Specialized Personnel for State Headquarters of the Selective Service System. Dean Ajax was a communicant of the Cathedral of Christ the King of Atlanta. There was a Rosary for him at Patterson's Spring Hill on May 23. The funeral was held at Christ the King at 10 a.m. on Friday. Interment was in West View Cemetery. Survivors include his widow, the former Anna Blake Morrison of Atlanta, who resides at 67 N. Muscogee, N.W.; a son, Fred Wesley Ajax, Jr., of Atlanta; two sisters, Miss Margaret Ajax of Atlanta, and Mrs. W. L. Haile of Charleston Heights, S.C.; two nephews of Memphis; and three sisters-inlaw of Corinth, Mississippi. In lieu of flowers, the family suggested donations to the Georgia Tech Newman Club Building Fund or the The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Fred W. Ajax Memorial Student Loan Fund at Tech. Checks made out to either of these worthy projects may be sent to Jamie R. Anthony, vice president/controller, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
Retiring faculty honored at Annual Faculty Dinner O N MAY 16, the 1968 Georgia Tech Faculty Dinner honored seven retiring members of the faculty. Faculty retiring at the end of this academic year are: William L. Carmichael, Registrar and Director of Admissions; Theodoric C. Linthicum, Associate Professor of Engineering Graphics; Clarence O. Mackinder, Administrative Assistant, Office of the Dean of Students; Dr. Alpheus R. Marshall, Professor of Industrial Management; Edward Foster, Professor of English; Howard K. Menhinick, Regents' Professor of City Planning; and Dr. Wyatt C. Whitley, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. Carmichael came to Georgia Tech as an instructor in 1926. He became Tech's Director of Admissions in 1945 and Registrar in 1948. Linthicum came to Tech in 1955 after serving as President of the Red Anchor Dock and Steam Ship Co. for five years. Mackinder came to Georgia Tech in 1956 from Chrysler Motors. Dr. Marshall, after serving as Hearing Officer and Director of the National and Atlanta Regional War Labor Board for four years, came to Tech in 1946. Since that time he has been teaching industrial management. Regents' Professor Menhinick taught at Harvard University and was the Director of Headquarters Planning Staff for the United Nations, and Director of Regional Studies for the Tennessee Valley Authority before coming to Tech in 1951. He has been a member of the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission and in 1963, was chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Study Commission. Dr. Whitley came to Tech in 1929 to teach chemistry. In 1956, he became Chief of the Chemical Sciences Division of the Engineering Experiment Station, Associate Director of the Station in 1962 and was made Director in 1963. Professor Foster came to Georgia Tech in 1943 as an English instructor. His retirement also marked his 25th year with Tech. He and four other faculty members received 25 Years' Service Awards at the banquet. They were: John J. Harper, Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Walter C. Herbert, Director of Music; Dr. Glenn N. Sisk, Professor of Social Sciences; and John R. Vail, Professor of Mathematics. May-June 1968
Four get $1,000 teaching awards FOUR Georgia Tech faculty members received awards of $1,000 each for outstanding classroom teaching at Tech's faculty dinner. Nominated by students, faculty, and alumni and finally selected by a faculty-student committee were: Paul G. Mayer, civil engineering; Glenn W. Rainey, English; Frank R. Erskine Crossley, mechanical engineering; and James E. Hubbartt, aerospace engineering. Dr. Mayer was born in Frankfurt Main, Germany. He came to Tech as an associate professor in civil engineering in 1959 and is now a professor. He received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Cincinnati; his master's and Ph.D. hydraulic engineering from Cornell University. In addition to his duties at Tech, he is a consultant to the Georgia Power Co. Rainey received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from Emory University. Prior to coming to Tech's English department in 1932, he taught political science at Northwestern. He is one of the founders of the Tech chapter of the American Association of University Professors and Tech chapter of the Georgia Education Association. Dr. Crossley received his bachelor's and master's degrees at Cambridge University in England and Ph.D. from Yale University in mechanical engineering. Prior to coming to Tech in 1966, he taught mechanical engineering at the University of Detroit and Yale. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Technical University of Munich and Rhenish and Westphalian Technical University of Aachen. Hubbartt received his bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from Notre Dame and his master's in mechanical engineering from the Case Institute of Technology. He came to Tech as an associate professor in 1960 and became a full professor in 1965. Prior to coming to Tech, he was a group engineer with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for five years. All four of them hold memberships in professional organizations and are active in civic affairs. The $4,000 in prizes was made possible by grants from the Union Camp Paper Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Foundation. The awards are based on current teaching excellence and on the teacher's success in leading students to knowledge and the studdent's understanding of the subject.
Four Receive Sigma Xi Awards DR. Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller University, and one of
America's top scientists, gave the Monie A. Ferst Memorial Lecture at Georgia Tech's Society of Sigma Xi Awards Dinner on May 28. Bronk spoke on "The Social Role of Science." A member of the President's Science Advisory Committee since 1957, Bronk is chairman of its Panel on International Science and a consultant-atlarge. He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A past president of the National Academy of Sciences, Bronk is well-known for his work in the arts and sciences. In addition to the lecture, four Georgia Tech faculty members received the Monie A. Frest Memorial Sigma Xi Research Awards. They were Eugene C. Ashby, associate professor of chemistry, for his work in the field of organometallic compounds; David J. McGill, assistant professor of engineering mechanics for his work in the field of shell theory; Edward W. Thomas, associate professor of physics, for his work in the field of atomic collisions; and Paul H. Wright, associate professor of civil engineering, for his work in the area of analysis and control of traffic flow.
Roper named Registrar T H E Board of Regents has approved the appointment of Frank E. Roper, Jr. as successor to William L. Carmichael, who will retire as Georgia Tech's registrar and director of admissions after 42 years of service. Roper, who has served as assistant registrar and later associate registrar since 1965, will become registrar and associate professor of Industrial Engineering on July 1. Carmichael will become registrar emeritus on June 30. Roper holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. He was an instructor in the School of Industrial Engineering while working as assistant to the director of the School, with the responsibility of coordinating undergraduate affairs. Roper is a member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers where he worked as assistant editor of the Journal of Industrial Engineering, as vice president of public relations and executive vice president for the Atlanta chapter. He is also a member of the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers where he served on the Committee for Professional Engineers in Education. In addition, Roper is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. Roper and his family live at 3436 Woods Drive in Decatur. 41
— CONTI Faculty honored by students DR. Arthur G. Hansen, dean of the College of Engineering, was given the first annual Outstanding Administrator Trophy by the Student Council at their banquet in May. Hansen was selected for this honor for his "open door" policy toward the students. Dr. Carl Biven, professor of Industrial Management at Tech, was awarded the annual Dean George Griffin Outstanding Faculty Member Trophy by the Council. As past chairman of the new Franklin Foundation Lecture Series in the Humanities, Biven was noted for his service to the campus and to the students. The Outstanding Student Council Member Award was presented to Eric Ragir, a senior in Industrial Management. And for the first time in the Student Council's history, an honorary Student Council member was named. Phil Rector, director of Tech's Physical Plant, was chosen for his record of service to student activities.
Successful student open house held May 18 A N OPEN HOUSE, "Tomorrow's Georgia
Tech Today," was held May 18. It was an invitation to view Tech as a guest of the student body. The program was arranged by the students to interest parents, alumni, members of the business and technical communities, counselors, and high school and junior college students. It was divided into small segments for concentration on subjects of personal interest. Over 1,500 people took part in the informal tours of the Engineering College and the General College as well as special tours of the Neely Nuclear Reactor, Rich Electronic Computer Center and the Engineering Experiment Station. Short talks and displays covered such topics as "What is Technology?", "What Constitutes a Technological University?" and "Leadership for the Future."
Tech Merit Scholars named TECH has selected four incoming freshmen to be Georgia Institute of Technology Merit Scholars. This scholarship will give the students a stipend of anywhere from $200 to $1,500 a year, based on his need. The Tech Merit Scholars are finalists in the National Merit Scholarship program and had designated Tech as their first choice. Schools and industry select students from the finalists to sponsor. The Tech program is supported by the Georgia Tech Foundation. The four Tech Merit Scholars are: \ 42
David L. Wolpert, Austell, Ga. (2676 Sharwood Drive); J. Carl Bedingfield, Columbus, Ga. (6186 Warner Road); Larry A. Bearden, Decatur, Ga. (2096 Dellwood Place); and Dennis K. Ledford, Johnson City, Tenn. (178 East Highland Road). Tech will also have at least 20 other new Merit Scholars on campus this fall under other sponsorship.
CE senior wins Tau Beta Pi award REAGAN
SCOTT MCCOY,
a
senior
in
Civil Engineering, is one of nine engineering students in the nation selected to receive T a u Beta Pi Fellowship Awards for 1968-69. The awards of $2,000 each for a nine-month academic year are given on a competitive basis for high scholarship, campus leadership and service, promise of future development in the engineering profession, and need of financial assistance in graduate study. McCoy, who is from Houston, Texas, has been a student under Tech's co-operative program where he worked with Houston Lighting and Power Company alternate quarters while attending school. He is a member of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity where he was secretary and scholarship chairman. He was president of Alpha Pi Omega service fraternity, a member of T a u Beta Pi (engineering honorary) and Phi Kappa Phi (scholastic honorary). McCoy has been on the Student Council, the swimming team, the Executive Roundtable of the YMCA, and a dormitory counselor. This year he was named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. McCoy will attend Tech's graduate division of the School of Civil Engineering beginning in the fall.
Tech administrators appointed DR. E. A. TRABANT, vice-president for
Academic Affairs, has been asked by the Department of the Army to serve as Chairman of a Special Committee
to Study and Evaluate Nuclear Effects Research. Dr. C. J. Roberts, School of Nuclear Engineering, will serve as a special consultant to the committee. The committee has been asked to evaluate present nuclear research programs in the United States, its characteristics and to make recommendations for change and/or improvement. T h e committee is currently conducting its investigation and plans to make a final recommendation to Dr. R. D. O'Neal, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Research and Development, by August 31, 1968.
Tech gets $11,300 in grants TECH has received grants totaling $11,300 from industrial firms and foundations to support higher education. American Cyanamid Co. h a s awarded a $2,500 Cynamid Faculty Support Grant for 1968 to be used for teaching chemical engineering. Dr. Homer V. Grubb, Director of Tech's School of Chemical Engineering, will administer the grant. The Schlumberger Foundation will award a $2,500 fellowship to a Tech graduate student in the School of Electrical Engineering and the School will receive a matching grant. This is the 14th year the Foundation has given financial support to Tech.
Robert Penn Warren lectures on campus ROBERT P E N N WARREN, America's man
of letters, was on the campus May 9 and 10 as a Franklin Foundation Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities. The critic, poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer and dramatist read some of his poetry in the Electrical Engineering Auditorium at 11 a.m. May 9. Later that day he met with an English seminar, and that same evening, he again read some of his poetry and/or prose in the Architecture Auditorium.
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ary 16. ' 0 ~ 7 George O. Hodgson, E E , a LJ / Denver engineer, died February 27. Mr. Hodgson worked for General Electric Corporation in Denver, Colorado, from 1913 until his retirement in 1950. His widow resides
at 655 Forest Street, Denver.
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FACES IN T H E N E W S Gordon B. Cauble, '40, has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army, becoming the sixth general officer in the global ranks of the Strategic Communications Command. He is serving as deputy commander of STRATCOM.
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Alvin Barge, '41, has been inaugurated as president of the Georgia Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America at its annual convention in Atlanta. He is president of Barge and Company, Inc., general contractors of Atlanta.
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Andreas Duus, Jr., '43, has been appointed product manager in charge of foil mounting and film converting products at Polymer Industries, Inc. Before joining Polymer, he was with Olin Mathieson Co. Henry C. Steed, Jr., '43, has been named chief of the Office of Grants Administration of the Public Health Service's National Center for Urban and Industrial Health in Cincinnati. Peter J. Van Norde, '43, along with three physicians, conceived, planned and created a "Medical Park" in Wayne, New Jersey. The park was selected as one of the 10 outstanding buildings representing the cream of construction in New Jersey this year. A. James Hackl, '46, has been elected president and chief executive officer of Herff Jones Co., in Indianapolis. The firm manufactures high school and college class rings, graduation stationery, medals, awards, and yearbooks. Gordon H. Robertson, '47, has been elected assistant controller and director of systems and data processing of the Reynolds Metals Company, by the Board of Directors, ye previously was manager of the systems department and/director of the company's data processing. Robert J. Jordan, '48, has been promoted to executive vice-president of Choice-Vend, a Division of The Seeburg Corporation. He joined Choice-Vend in 1961 as sales manager and was soon moved to ' vice-president in charge of marketing and sales.
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ALUMNI-CONTINUED James C. Senter, ME, died March 3. Irl W. Summerlin, ME, died March 30. Mr. Summerlin was president and owner of the Carolina Engineering Company at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His widow resides at Route #2, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514. M. L. Shadburn, CE, is now serving as executive director of the Georgia Crushed Stone Association. His offices are at 30 Pryor Street, 1039 Title Building, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303.
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We recently learned that L. G. Alexander died July 18,
1967. » Q (—J Clifford Walden Hodgson, T E , C _ U died recently. Mr. Hodgson was a retired staff vice president of the Coca-Cola Company. ' n / | Carl H. Boone, Com., died C. I March 23. We recently learned that Sidney W. Garrison, CE, died December 19, 1967. Robert M. McFarland, Jr., Com., retired southeastern regional manager of the Insurance Information Institute, was recently honored at a luncheon in Atlanta. ' 0 « ~ I Ed Dodd, Creator of "Mark C-CL Trail" and outstanding conservationist, was declared "National Conservationist of the Year" by the National Wildlife Federation. Mr. Dodd makes his home in "Lost Forest," a 130-acre tract near Sandy Springs, Georgia. Sr., CE, of 'DZL G Desville, - Newton,Georgia, died C^~X 8.Gaines March Mr. Newton was a special consulting engineer and a surveyor for Hall County. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, and two sons: Philip Newton and G. David Newton, Jr., BS '53. »f\ p r We recently learned that CL 3 Wilfred D. Kyser, EE, died. Theron W. Lumry, GE, died January 27. Mr. Lumry was retired from Georgia Power Company as a machinist. J. Lester Moore, Sr., Com., retired credit manager of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., died April 20. His widow resides at 381 Windsor Parkway, N.E. Frank Newton, EE, will become executive vice president of South Central Bell on July 1. Mr. Newton is currently vice president of Southern Bell Telephone Company in Alabama. Dr. Roy Y. Shaw died recently.
' t^ O Marion Brandts Jr., EE, ari C D electrical engineer for Colonial Pipeline Company, died March 10. His widow resides at 277 Lake View Avenue, N.E., Atlanta. ' Q ~ 7 Glenn A. Ellis, Com., died C_ / April 15. Mr. Ellis was owner of Ellis Realty and Insurance Company. His widow resides at 535 Jeff David Drive, Fayetteville, Georgia. We recently received notice that Ben J. Whatley, TE, died October 15, 1967. ' Q Q E. O. DeFore, ME, has reC. t j cently retired from Deering Milliken, Inc., after 21 years of service at Excelsior Clemson Mill, a division of Deering Milliken. On the date of his retirement from Excelsior Clemson Mill, the name of the mill was changed to DeFore Mill. We recently received notice that George H. Roberts died February, 1968. L. Ralph Wright, Jr., T E , an executive in local metal and plastic firms and a real estate developer in Buckhead, Georgia, died April 13. He is survived by a widow who resides at 3370 Valley Circle, N.W., Atlanta, and two sons; William Ralph Wright, ChE '54, and Joseph J. Wright, IE '59. ' Q f ~ | William B. Dunbar of AtO U lanta, Georgia, died April 20. Survivors include his mother and sister. Sidney Goldin, ChE, a vice president of Asiatic Petroleum Corporation, has accepted an appointment as a member of the executive committee of the Highway Research Board. Mr. Goldin will serve for a three-year term which began January 1, 1968. Connally F. McCutcheon, a tool dispatcher at the Lockheed-Georgia Company, died March 11.
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James A. Byars, T E , has has been named president of a new operation to be called Jordan Mills Inc., Columbus, Georgia. » Q Q William F. McGowan, ChE, V j C. has been named president of a new operation to be called Jordan Mills Inc., Columbus, Georgia. K. M. Nahas, ChE, has been promoted to managing director of Uniroyal, Inc. Mr. Nahas has been assigned to Naugatuck-Rumianca S.p.A. Corso Vinzaglio 35, 10129, Turin, Italy. W. M. Sapp, Jr., TE, died March 7, 1967. Alex E. Lindholm, Com., has recently retired after 40 '33 years' service with the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta. He is now on the faculty of Emory University in The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Atlanta with the School of Business Administration. ' O /\ James Lake Elrod, ME, of O r Atlanta, Georgia, died January, 1966. 'f^JPT Louis I. Merlin, BS, founder O l_J and president of Merlin, Inc., an institutional wholesale grocers firm, died March 12. Mr. Merlin was a past-president of the Georgia Institutional Wholesale Association. His widow resides at 2751 Dover Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Roy Richards, ME, has been elected a director of The Aluminum Association. Mr. Richards is presently president and chairman of the Southwire Company, Carrollton, Georgia. ' O C? We recently learned of the iD O death of Hugh O. Clark, Jr., BS, Knoxville, Tennessee. James K. Rankin. ME, has been promoted to southern regional manager, engineering and technical services, for Reynolds Metals Company. ' O ~7 Gervis G. Morrison, BS, died l3 / April 13. His widow resides at 31 Carlton Drive, N.E., Atlanta. Ma). Gen. R. G. Davis, ChE, arrived in Vietnam on March 21, and has been assigned deputy commander general of the Provisional Corps of Vietnam. We recently learned that R. G. Joyner, Sr. died. ' O n Lt. Col. Raleigh 0. Worrell, U L J EE, retired from the Army March 31 at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, after serving more than 25 years in active service. ' /\ f~\ Joseph E. Treadway, IM, is T L J proprietor and director of The Treadway Company, fund raisers and public relations counselors. The offices are located at 507 Carnegie Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. ' /I / l
John J. Woodside, III, president of John J. Woodside Storage Company, Inc., Atlanta, has been elected president of the National Furniture Warehousemen's Association. He has been southern regional vice president of the; trade organization, also.
' /\ O Capt. J. Q. Edwards, IM, has T C I been awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious performance of duty on the staff of the commander-in-chief Atlantic command, Norfolk, Virginia. He is currently serving as commanding officer of the naval investigative service in San Francisco. Hunter C. Harrison, IM, has two sons that have been decorated with May-June 1968
medals while in Vietnam. John was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action and a citation. Hunter, Jr., has completed his tour of duty in Vietnam with the Marines and was decorated with the Air Medal and four clusters. John McGowan, Jr., has been appointed director of corporate contracts of Aircraft Armaments, Inc., Cockeysville, Maryland. ' / | fQ We recently learned that Dr. T V J Caswell K. Smith, Chem., died February 22, in Dallas, Texas. ' / I p r Paul A. Duke, ME, has reTl«J signed his position as vice president in Atlanta's L. B. Foster Company to organize a new steel fabrication enterprise in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Talmadge L. Dryman, IM, has been appointed executive vice president and director of leasing for the Cushman Corporation, developers of the $40 million Colony Square office-apartment-hotel project at Peachtree and 14th Streets. Edgar W. Kopp, NS, has been selected the Florida West Coast engineer-of-the-year. Dean Kopp was given the award at the annual Engineering Week banquet in St. Petersburg. The award cited Dean Kopp for his industrial and educational activities, his contributions to society and the engineering profession. Dr. George B. Miller, Jr., AE, has been named professor of education at Ohio Northern University effective September, 1968. ' / \ Q James B. Hamil, ME, died H - L J March 15, 1967. His widow resides at 1099 Roxboro Drive, N.E., Atlanta, 30324. ' SI Q Ledlie W. Conger, Jr., of At4 3 lanta has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of the South. Robert M. Gill, IE, has recently been named vice president of personnel and industrial relations of Hormel. Hayden H. "Buck" Harriss, BS, has been made an associate in the Atlanta architectural firm of JovaDaniels-Busby. Mr. Harriss is currently project manager for 100 Colony Square, a 25-story office building in the Colony Square complex at Peachtree and 14th Streets designed by the firm. B. K. Maddox, IE, has been appointed district traffic manager in Greensboro, North Carolina, with AT&T. Thomas A. Wilson died April 28. Mr. Wilson was a veteran finance executive at Lockheed. He was a director of the Lockheed Management Club of Georgia and treasurer of the
Management Club of Georgia. His widow resides at 445 Montevallo Drive, N.E., Atlanta.
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John C. Portman, BS, has received the "Salesman of the Year" award from the Sales & Marketing Executives—Atlanta, Inc. Thomas R. Williams, IE, was featured in the Cleveland, (Ohio) Press, November 7, 1967, issue. Mr. Williams, in less than two years, rose to senior vice president-administration of the National City Bank of Cleveland. The family's^mailing address is 2685 Cranlyn Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. 'E^l Dr. Jesse M. Cleveland, » J I Chem., has advanced to associate scientist of the Dow Chemical Company. The family resides at 2828 Kenyon Circle, Boulder, Colorado. Richard W. Galphin, Jr., ChE, has been appointed plant manager of the Fernandina Mill of Container Corporation of America. Rodney Garner, IE, died April 14. He was production manager for Varco-Pruden, Inc. .Roy H. Harris, EE, has been promoted to manager of Military Systems Engineering-7500 of Bell Labs at Burlington. Married: Wilbur Culpepper Rumph, IE, to Miss Mary Juliet Lindley, March 23. Mr. Rumph is director of the engineering division of the Blue Bird Body Company in Fort Valley, Georgia. ' C~ t^ Maj. Daniel R. Apostolu, IM, i j C. has been appointed battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry,, located at 5200 Wissahicken Avenue, Philadelphia. John A. Caddell, BS, has graduated from the 53rd session of the advanced management program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. John C. Candler, Jr., EE, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve. Richard F. Kilburg, AE, presented an original paper dealing with special wind tunnel test instrumentation at the Third Aerodynamic Testing Conference, AIAA, San Francisco. Mr. Kilburg is a pro.'ect aerodynamics engineer with General Dynamics, Fort Worth division. The family resides at 6157 Whitman Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas, 76133. Dan N. Williams, IE, has been elected to the board of directors of the Chattanooga Boiler and Tank Company. ' [ Z O Felix A. Morreo, BS, has \-J »—J been selected as a Sloan Fellow for study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 45
F A C E S IN T H E N E W S Hayden H. Harriss, '49, has been made an associate in the Atlanta architectural firm of Jova/Daniels/ Busby. He is the project manager for 100 Colony Square, a 25-story office building being designed by the firm.
Edwin B. Feldman, '50, president of Service Engineering Associates in Atlanta, specializing in housekeeping and maintenance, has a new book out, "How to Use Your Time to Get Things Done,"
William H. Schloenbach, '50, has been appointed to the newly created position of product managermonomers and petrochemicals, at the Cleveland, Ohio, headquarters of B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. He joined the firm in 1950. Jesse Cleveland, ' 5 1 , a senior research chemist in research and development at the Dow Chemical Company's Rocky Flats Division, has co-authored a new book in two volumes, "Plutonium Handbook, a Guide to the Technology."
Fred L. Jones, '51, has been named manager of the Component Sales Operation East Central District of General Elect r i c s Appliance Motor Department. He joined GE in 1951 on the Test Engineering Program in Schenectady, N.Y. Richard D. Vaughan, ' 5 1 , has been named chief of the Solid Wastes Program of the Public Health Service's National Center for Urban and Industrial Health in Cincinnati. As chief he is responsible for direction of the PHS's efforts to reduce the pollution hazard of refuse. Robert C. Barnett, '52, has been named staff assistant to the vice president in charge of The Babcock & Wilcox Company's manufacturing department, at Barberton, Ohio. He joined the firm in 1955 and wa's nuclear component section manager. Campbell L. Smith, 52, has been named manager of the St. Louis district for the Industrial Products Division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. He will head the field sales force in Missouri, Kansas and | portions of seven neighboring states.
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Frederick R. Suchke, Arch., has moved. His current address is: 47 King's Road, Flat 8, Chelsea, London S.W.3, England.
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' p r /\ Robert Boniface, IM, has been «_J r promoted to regional administrative manager for the Reynolds Metals Company six-state southern sales region. S. M. (Pete) Brown, IM, is now on active duty with the Air Force Reserves. Mr. Brown was picked for the second year as one of the twelve top salesmen with Owens Illinois for '67. Thomas N. Colley, ME, died April 17. The widow resides at 1221 West Ituni Street, West Covina, California, 91790. William N. Shadden, Jr., IM, has been elected to the board of directors of The First National Bank, Cartersville, Georgia. Mr. Shadden resides at 22 Boatner Avenue, Cartersville, Georgia.
' [ — Q M a r r i e d : Donald Roland O Q Bearden to Miss Barbara Jean Sommers. Mr. Bearden is a minister of music and youth at the First Baptist Church in Tucker, Georgia. John M. Cochran. EE, joined Frontier Electronica as director of engineering in 1967 and has recently been elected vice p resident and member of the board of directors. Engaged: Dr. Sam Ronald Harrell, to Miss Karin Westphal. Dr. Harrell served his internship at St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York City and is now in practice in Darien, Connecticut. Engaged: Paul Amos Vickers, ME, to Miss Martha Elizabeth Rose. Mr. Vickers is employed by the IBM Corporation. The wedding will be June 15.
' p r p r James L. Dallam, IE, has acl_J l_J cepted a position with Ethyl Corporation as salary and employee relations coordinator. Ma]. Robert L. Giordano, BS, has received six awards of the Air Medal at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam for air action in Southeast Asia. Maj. Giordano was cited for his outstanding airmanship and courage on successful and important missions under hazardous conditions. He now holds 12 Air Medals. A. Duane Wills, IM, was recently promoted to a new job with the IBM Corporation, data processing division. He is working in the systems assurance department of GEM region in Washington, D.C. The family resides at 1001 Pruitt Court, S.W., Vienna, Virginia, 22180.
» P ~ Q Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph O t j F. Cornelius, Jr., ChE, a son, Joseph, III, on February 9. The family resides at 2608 Overbrook Drive, Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio. Thomas B. Harrell, Jr., BS, has been elected vice president of Chastain and Tindal, Inc., consulting engineers of Atlanta. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. James Russell Ivie, IM, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on March 30. Mr. Ivie is employed by the Bank of Dahlonega as cashier and director. Capt. James Lilly. IM, recently flew against a company of enemy soldiers caught in an open field ten miles southwest of Da Lat. Frank W. Pratt, EE, died March 4, 1968. Maj. William Henry Seward was killed in action March 6 in Vietnam. Survivors include his wife and two sons. Married: Frank R. Williamson, Jr., EE, to Miss Anne Gutherie Spencer, June 8. Mr. Williamson is employed by the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station.
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' p r O Maj. James P. Bradley, Jr., C J 1 3 ME, has arrived for duty at Ching Chuan Kang AB, Taiwan. Maj. Bradley, a navigator, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces. Born to: The Reverend and Mrs. Richard Erikson, CE, a daughter, Mary Douglas, on December 2, 1967. The family resides at 209 Overman Avenue, Salisbury, North Carolina, 28144. J. Robert Ouerby, Text., has been named supervisor of technical service in the marketing of apparel products for Dow Badische Company, Williamsburg, Virginia. The family resides at 10 Buchanan Drive, Newport News, Virginia. ' p r ~~? Capt. James V. Saravo, AE, \J / has graduated from the Air
» O f - ! Raymond C. Bell, Jr., has D U finished his master's work in business administration at Rollins College in January. Mr. Bell is presently employed as a computer analyst (senior grade) with Pan American Petroleum Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Alberto A. Gandia, IM, a daughter, Christina Maria, January 11. Mr. Gandia was promoted to manager of the Arecibo Branch of the Banco Credito & Ahorro The Georgia Tech Alumnus
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FACES IN T H E N E W S Jack C. Jones, '53, has been appointed as associate of Harza Engineering Company, Chicago. He joined the firm in 1956. He is assistant head of the Foundations, Soil Mechanics, and Geology Division. Fritz Suchke, '53, an associate in Curtis and Davis Architects, of New Orleans and New York, is now heading their London Office. He headed the Berlin office for three years and although he lives in London, still oversees both offices. Eugene Cox Dunwody, '55, has opened the firm of Eugene Cox Dunwody, Architect, in Macon, Ga. Associated with him will be J. L. Tibley Jennings, '64, of Milledgeville, and Robert C. Buland.
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William A. Meeker, '57, has been appointed plant superintendent of Handy & Harman Tube .Company. He joined the firm in 1965 as Supervisor of Production Planning and Inventory Control. He has had extensive supervisory experience in the metalworking trades. Robert A. Ogletree, '57, has been appointed manager of the Tire Cord Manufacturing for OwensCorning Fiberglas Corporation. He joined OwensCorning in 1963 as a process and quality control technologist at the firm's Technical Center in Granville, 0. Charles F. Howe, '58, has been appointed general manager of Redman Homes, Eastern. He will head the Dallas, Tex. based company's newly formed pre-built sectional homes division in Hazleton, Pa.
Homer B. Lovvorn, '58, has been named a vice president of the North Carolina National Bank in Charlotte. He joined NCfle last year, after earlier experience in managerhint consulting.
Jean A. Mori, '58, has assumed additional responsibilities with Management Science America, Inc. He is a vice president of the national management consulting and computer software firm.
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Poncejo in October, 1967. The Gandia's address is Box 734, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 00612. We recently received notice that Homer C. Jennings, ChE, died. Robert H. McCaughan, ChE, has been named assistant superintendent of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company's pulp mill. Edgar L. McGee, ChE, has been promoted to engineering supervisor of the conversion section in the technical division of Humble's Baytown Refinery. Robert G. Moulton, IM, has recently accepted a position with Burlington Industries, Burlington, North Carolina, as a detail assistant to division manager. He was previously associated with Deering Milliken.
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Donald L. Chapman, IM, has recently joined the professional staff of Management Science America, Inc., as a project engineer. Capt William N. Johnson, E E , has been decorated with the Silver Star and his third award of the Air Medal at Perrin AFB, Texas, for combat action during his recent tour of duty in Southeast Asia. Charles E. Porter, ChE, has been elected treasurer of the Student Association at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Married: William T. Poteet, Jr., IE, to Miss Marilyn Kay Adams, May 4. Mr. Poteet served as captain and pilot with the US Air Force and is presently associate director of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. The newlyweds will reside in Atlanta. Dr. Theodore T. Robin, Jr., ME, has been appointed assistant professor of radiology at Emory University. Dr. Robin has been working at Emory on research in the area of space radiation effects on man. Capt. Thomas M. Turner, IE, of Winston-Salem, has received the Air Medal for meritorious service as a C-130 Hercules pilot in missions over Vietnam. Capt. Turner participated in a night parachute delivery of munitions against a heavy defended target, the Thanh Hoa Bridge, and successfully completed his mission. ' O O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Wayne D (—- L. Adamson, a son, Jeffrey Lee, February 17. Hilton J. Arnold, II, IM, has been promoted to captain in the US Air Force. Capt. Arnold is a weapons controller at Cape Charles Air Force Station, Virginia. He is a member of the Aerospace Defense Command. Engaged: Robert John Charnley, Jr. to Miss Ada Catherine Mosley.
Mr. Charnley is associated with Bothwell and Associates, Architects. James C. Cooper, E E , is currently working for IBM in the area of engineering information system in the systems development division. Born to: Lt. & Mrs. Donald S. Gentry, IE, a daughter, Anne Randolph, on January 30. Lt. Gentry is at the Naval Post-graduate School in Monterey, California studying for a master's degree in computer science. Maj. Robert M. Gomez, MS, has arrived at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, to begin studies with the 43rd class of the college. Alex Green, ChE, has been promoted to production manager for all plastic specialty products with Baxter Laboratories, Inc., Morton Grove, Illinois. Dale L. Jennings, ChE, died March 6. Mr. Jennings was engaged in research on electrical insulating oils for Esso Research and Engineering Company in Baytown, Texas. He is survived by a wife and a daughter. Robert Preston Lewis, Text., has completed his initial training at Delta Air Lines' training school at the Atlanta Airport and is now assigned to the airline's Atlanta pilot base as a second officer. Dan H. Norton. Jr., EE, has recently been promoted to staff programmer at the IBM Space Systems Center, Huntsville, Alabama. R. G. Ouellete, EE, has received his master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. Married: John Kenneth Pfohl, III, IM, to Miss Pamela Ann Jones, March 23. The newlyweds will live in Atlanta. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. F. Manuel Reyes, ME, a daughter, Lori Elna. Mr. Reyes is now a project engineer with Phillips Fibers Corporation in Greenville, South Carolina. The family resides at 109 Wellington Drive, Mauldin, South Carolina, 29662. ' O O Emile Anthony Bernard, NS, D I J has recently joined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to work in the weapon physics division. F. Dee Brosnan. Jr., ME, has received a MBA degree from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. Bruce P. Ellen. II, IM, has recently been employed as a pilot with Pan American World Airways based in San Francisco. Engaged: Paul Robert Harris, ChE, to Miss Nancy Ellen Wolf. Mr. Harris received his MS degree from Northwestern University and his PhD degree from Michigan University. He entered active duty in March as a The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Bob Crosetto sells life insurance to professional men*What kind of career is that for a former teacher? "Just what the doctor ordered," says Bob* For six years, after graduating from the University of Washington and taking an M.A. at Seattle University, Bob Crosetto was a teacher in the Seattle school system. "Six wonderful years," says Bob, "but I felt I was ready for a bigger challenge." Bob joined New England Life's Meisenbach Agency in Seattle—where apparently he found what he was looking for. In his first year, Bob sold an amazing $2.6 million in life insurance, more than any other first-year New England Life representative in the country. Bob's clientele is made up chiefly of professional men—doctors, lawyers and engineers—and his success indicates that Bob must have a keen understanding of their needs, and how to serve them. For his achievement, Bob received New England Life's Rookie-of-the-Year Award. In making the presentation at the Leaders Meeting in Lake Placid last May, New England Life's President, Abram T. Collier, underscored an important point. "Bob's degree of accomplishment may be unusual, but the pattern isn't. An extraordinary percentage of our best
agents are men who have spent years—sometimes many more than Bob—in other careers before they come to us. They simply discover that they can do more for themselves, and for others, in* this business than in anything they've ever tried." There's a particularly interesting follow-up to Bob's story. His enthusiasm for the life insurance business was so infectious that his brother, Richard L. Crosetto (University of Washington '65) decided to join the same agency. Dick left his job as a management trainee at J. C. Penney—and in his first six months sold $750,000 in insurance! Perhaps a career in life insurance might make sense for you. We'd be happy to hear from you, in confidence, of course, and without obligation on either side. We'll send you a Personality Aptitude Analyzer—an easy first step that could tell us each a good deal more about whether it might be a good move for both of us. Write to New England Life, Dept. AL5, 501 Boylston Street, f \ C W Boston, Massachusetts 02117.
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Thomas B. Harrell, Jr., '59, has been elected vice president of Chastain and Tindel, Inc., Consulting Engineers, Atlanta. He is a registered professional engineer in Georgia and a member of the Consulting Engineers Council.
Donald K. Swanson, '59, has received a management-level promotion at the Defense Electronics Supply Center in Dayton, O., where he is employed as a staff engineer in the Directorate of Engineering Standardization. He joined the Center in 1962. Leon H. Toups, '60, Kennedy Space Center Complex 39 chief of the Planning and Control Branch, has been awarded the Hugh L. Dryden Memorial Fellowship. It is a $2,000 tuition aid awarded annually for post graduate education. James W. Standard, '61, an associate on the staff of Management Science America, Inc., has assumed new responsibilities. He is managing the firm's Northeastern Region Area Development office in New York City. Harry Sugden, '61, project engineer with Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Statesboro Division, was selected as first place winner in the 14th Annual Design Contest sponsored by the Iron Foundry Trade Association. He received a plaque and $500 cash. Marvin Tabor, Jr., '61, has been promoted to staff assistant of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. He has also been named to the company's Vice President's Club, a prestige organization which recognizes superior service to clients. Richard F. Ward, '61, has been promoted to an Associate by Management Science America, Inc., a national management consulting and computer software firm. He serves as one of the consulting division's account managers. Hugh D. Kinney, '62, has been appointed as a vice president of Store Services, Inc., the Atlanta based innovator of the pushbutton grocery and gasoline retailing system, the Bread Basket. .
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first lieutenant in the US Army. Capt. James S. Hawkins, Psy., has been decorated with the Bronze Star medal at Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, for meritorious service while engaged in military operations against Viet Cong forces. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Don House, Text., a son Donald Lee, Jr., on November 1, 1967. Mr. House is employed by the Jefferson Mills, Inc., Jefferson, Georgia, as assistant to the president. The family resides at 3 Johnson Street, Jefferson, Georgia, 30549. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Allen E. Hyre, IM, a son, Carl Theodore, March 21. Mr. Hyre is packaging salesman with the Aluminum Company of America. The family resides at 728 Noyes Street, Evanston, Illinois. Fred Kachelhofer, E E , is being transferred to chief electrical and instrument engineer for the Bahama Agriculture Industries L T D sugar mill at Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Bahama Islands. The mailing address will be P.O. Box 2268 West Palm Beach, Florida 33402. Peter J. Linn, IM, has been transferred to the Seneca Plastics division of Talon Inc. as an industrial engineer. The family resides at R D #2, Ridgewood, Cambridge, Ohio, 43725. Capt. Maurice J. Maguire, Jr., IM, is on duty at Takhli Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Capt. Maguire, a management engineering officer, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces. Allan W. Morton, MS, has been promoted to major in the US Air Force. Maj. Morton is a civil engineer at Niagara Falls International Airport, New York, in a unit of the Aerospace Defense Command. Capt. John R. Sellmer, IM, has been recognized for helping his unit earn the US Air Force Outstanding Unit award. Capt. Sellmer is a pilot in the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Married: Charles Frederick Sims, IM, to Miss Carolyn Louise Medlin. Mr. Sims is employed by the Lockheed-Georgia Company. Capt. John M. Taylor, Jr., IE, has completed an infantry officers' basic training course at the Army Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Georgia. » n y i Capt. Robert W. Carter, Jr., • ^ T EE, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross at Korat Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, for extraordinary achievement in military operations over North Vietnam. Capt. Carter received the medal for his participation in a flight near Hanoi as a F-105 Thunderchief electronics warfare officer.
Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Joel H. Doobrow, EE, a son, Jay Winston, March 9. Mr. Doobrow is a project engineer at the Charleston Naval Shipyard. The family resides at 1845 Gippy Lane, Charleston, South Carolina 29407. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Thomas David Eskew, CP, a son, Thomas David, Jr., on March 14. Born to: Michail A. Esterman, Chem., and Bonnie J. Esterman, Math, a son, Martin Samuel, March 9. Mr. Esterman is in cancer research at Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana. The family resides at 4409 Brookline Place, Indianapolis, 46220. Married: Capt. G. K. Huddleston, EE, to Miss Victoria Etzel. Capt. Huddleston is stationed at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. The family resides at 5276 Maris Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia. F. Eugene Myers. Jr., EE, has been promoted to senior engineer in the C&E division of Philco-Ford Corporation. Jerry R. Phillips. ChE, has been appointed process engineer in Monsanto's Decatur Plant. Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pignataro, ME, a daughter, Lisa Ann, August 18, 1967. M. L. "Mike" Rogers, IE, has been promoted to administrative assistant of technical operations planning at Delta Air Lines' general offices in Atlanta. His primary responsibility is the coordination and planning of technical operations activities related to the 375-passenger Boeing 747 aircraft which Delta will begin operating in 1970. John A. Whiteside, AE, has been promoted to captain in the US Air Force. Capt. Whiteside, an astronautical engineer at Los Angeles A F Station, California, is a member of the Air Force Systems Command. ' O C T James B. Burgin, ChE, has \~D i l been promoted to development engineer at the new Research and Development Center of Georgia Kraft Company, Rome, Georgia. First Lt. Henry W. Byars, AE, has been graduated from the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Lt. (j.g.) John B. Cooper, IE, has completed his second combat cruise aboard USS Ticonderoga. Lt. Cooper has received 16 Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals and a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. John Roy Emmett, Bio, has been awarded an eight-week National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship. Born to: First Lt. & Mrs. Robert E. Lindholm, ME, a son, Brian, in November, 1967. Lt. Lindholm is now with the US Air Force and is staThe Georgia Tech Alumnus
tioned in Okinawa. Engaged: Dennis Love, EE, to Miss M. Christine Lill of Harve de Grace, Maryland. Mr. Love has completed Army active duty and is presently employed with Southern Bell and working on his MBA at Georgia State. Engaged: Stephen Milton Mitchell, IE, to Miss Carolyn Docia Goss. Mr. Mitchell is employed as an engineer with the Lockheed-Georgia Company. The wedding will be June 29. Charles D. Moseley, Jr., IE has graduated from Harvard Business School and moved to Atlanta to begin work with the Robinson-Humphrey Company. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Gary F. Nunn, CE, a daughter, Carey Leigh, March 20. Mr. Nunn is employed by the DuPont Company. The family resides at Apartment 2, Park Court Apartments, Camden, South Carolina. Maj. Forrest W. Paige, MS, is on duty at Nha Trang AB, Vietnam. Maj. Paige, a forward air controller, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces. John K. Pharr, Jr., IM, was promoted to first lieutenant in January. He and his wife reside in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Steven M. Spivak, Text., has been appointed apparel researcher at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Engaged: Douglas McArthur Whitlow, IE, to Miss Elizabeth Anne Lane. Mr. Whitlow is employed by the E. I. DuPont de Nemours in Kinston, North Carolina. The wedding will be June 22. Engaged: Erskine Brewster Wickersham, Jr., IM, to Miss Judith Oliver Jarman. Mr. Wickersham is associated with Napp-Deady Associates, Inc. in Atlanta. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Woodall, IM, a daughter, Wendi Paige, on April 27. ' O C D Paul J. Bennett, Jr., IM, has L J L J been commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Born to: Lt. & Mrs. Douglass N. Chew, Psy., a daughter, Ginger Lin, February 26. The family resides at 175 Wildwood Drive, Fayetteville, N.C., 28304. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Jim Collins, III, IM, a son, Jim, IV, on March 24. First Lt. Collins received his aviator wings at NAS, Pensacola, Florida, and is stationed at Santa Ana, California. Ronald K. Cooper, IE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Engaged: First Lt. Holcombe Sawyer Kelley, III, IE, to Miss Martha May-June 1968
Katherine Baker. Lt. Kelly is stationed in Savannah, Georgia. The wedding will be July 27. Married: Robert E. Leonard, IM, to Miss Patricia Anne Graham, July 8, 1967. On March 5, 1968, Lt. Leonard received his "Navy Wings of Gold" and became a helicopter pilot. After two schools he will be a SH3-D pilot for Helicopter Squadron Five in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. The mission of the squadron is anti-submarine warfare. Married: Joseph R. O'Gorman, Jr., IE, to Miss Sandra Schultz, December 1, 1967. Mr. O'Gorman was recently promoted to staff engineer in the marketing and services administration of United Air Lines at the executive offices in Elk Grove, Illinois. The couple resides at 1017 Ashton Court, Stream wood, Illinois, 60103. Robert S. Spain, Arch., has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation
from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Spain is being grained as a base civil engineering officer. Second Lt. Donald P. Spann, IE, is attending a course for civil engineers at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Lt. Spann will study management of base-level Air Force civil engineering activities during the nineweek course. Born to: Mr. Stanley L. Tollman, IM, and Joan T. Tollman, IM, a daughter, Monica Francine, March 5. Maj. Bobby J. Wilson, IM, is on duty at Nha Trang AB, Vietnam. Maj. Wilson, a forward air controller, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces. James R. Wynn, IE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Wynn is being as-
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J r-\ —7 J. A. Armstrong, Jr., CE, has | ) / recently completed t h e infantry officers' basic course for regular army officers and Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia. H e is now assigned as a platoon leader in C Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry, Third Division, Schweinfurt, Germany. Married: John Henry Bordelon, E E , to Miss Carole Wayne O'Brient, May 25. Mr. Bordelon is employed by Scientific Atlanta, Inc. Engaged: Larry F. Brauer, ME, to Miss Barbara Louise Jarrett. Mr. Brauer is employed by General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego, California. T h e wedding will be June 29. Second Lt. Lewis Brewer, Jr., IM, has arrived for duty at Whitsman AFB, Missouri. Lt. Brewer, a missile launch officer, is assigned to a unit of the Strategic Air Command. We have just been notified of the marriage of Ensign David L. Carroll, Chem., J u n e 24, 1967 to Jane Wood Ball of Ft. Myers. Ensign Carroll's current address is 316 East 34 th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452. Maj. Joseph A. Devlin, I E , is on duty at Kimpo AB, Korea. Maj Devlin is an air operations officer in a unit of the Pacific Air Forces at the aerial port just west of Seoul. Paul C. Ellis, IE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in t h e US Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Ellis is being assigned to Laughlin AFB, Texas, for pilot training. Engaged: Wesley Olin Field, I E , to Miss Karen Dianne Walden. Mr. Field is associated with the Citizens and Southern National Bank in Atlanta, Georgia. Second Lt. David L. Gates, AE, has been awarded his US Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Moody AFB, Georgia. Lt. Gates is being assigned to Charleston AFB, South Carolina, for flying duty with the Military Airlift Squadron. Capt. John R. Gibbons, IS, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, for heroism in military operations in Southeast Asia. Married: David Dixon Goglia, I E , to Miss Eileen Theresa O'Connor. Mr. Goglia will receive his MS degree in information science in September from Georgia Tech, where he is presently a teaching assistant. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Robert HarThe Georgia Tech Alumnus
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS gives inventors, scientists and engineers 5 pointers on obtaining royalty income WHO NEEDS NEW PRODUCTS? One of our clients—a relatively small metalworking division of a billion dollar company—is seeking new proprietary products. If you have a good invention, they might want to be licensed to make and market it in exchange for paying you royalties. Of course such a product must be novel, needed, and protectable. In addition it should be compatible with either the technology or markets of one of the products listed below. HERE'S HOW YOU COME IN: If you have an invention which could fit with any of the products listed below we would like to hear from you now. You can deal with us in confidence since we are neither a manufacturer nor an agent of our client, nor do we conduct original R&D. Furthermore, our services cost you nothing; Product Development Consultants is paid entirely by our clients. We serve professional inventors and R&D facilities by helping to turn dormant inventions into royalty paying licensee agreements. OUR CLIENTS NEW PRODUCT AREAS are electrical products and industrial specialties. Electrical products: Industrial specialties: Unique conduit designs Explosion proof fittings A better junction box Special fittings Electricians tools Rigid or flexible conduit
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F A C E S IN T H E N E W S R. J. Whitaker, '62, has been promoted to foreman, Silica Pigments, of PPG Industries, Chemical Division in Lake Charles, La. Prior to his promotion, he was involved in training for the start-up of the new pigments plant.
Walter G. Cornett III, '63, has been promoted to assistant to the president of Baxter Laboratories, Inc. With the company for one year, he previously served as marketing staff assistant and biomedical engineering staff assistant.
Edward L. Parrish, '63, has been promoted to salary administration officer of the North Carolina National Bank, Charlotte. He was formerly personnel officer for the bank's Greensboro offices. He joined NCNB after three years with Fieldcrest Mills. Haushang Rahimzadeh, '63, has been named an associate of Chastain and Tindel, Inc., Consulting Engineers, Atlanta. A native of Meshed, Iran, he has been with the firm since his graduation.
Ebert F. Harrold, '64, has been promoted to a senior associate mathematician in the Uprated Saturn I Control Design Department at International Business Machines' Federal Systems Division in Huntsville, Ala. He joined IBM in 1964 as a junior mathematician. Ronald E. Scharf, '65, has been promoted to market research manager with Baxter Laboratories, Inc. With the company for eight months, he previously served as marketing staff assistant.
Richard F. Wiggins, '65, has been promoted to manager, Industrial Products, at Southwire Company of Carrollton, Ga. He will be marketing Southwire products to the company's industrial accounts.
Eugene B. Van Etten, '67, has been named a service engineer at The Babcock & Wilcox Company's Atlanta district office. He joined the company's student engineer training program last June and is presently doing service I work in Spain. \
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is attending a course for civil engineers at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. James Hall Seals. IM, to Miss Diann Marcia Eastabrook. Mr. Seals attends the University of Florida Law School. C. Michael Stuart, IE, has joined Eli Lilly and Company as an industrial engineer. Richard H. Volavka. ChE, has been named service engineer of The Babcock & Wilcox Company's Atlanta, Georgia, district office. Born to: Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Warren, EE, a daughter, Julie Michelle, April 20. Mr. Warren was recently promoted to associate engineer in the R F Systems department of IBM at Cape Kennedy. Capt. Edward A. Weathers, IS, is on duty at Phu Cat AB, Vietnam. Capt. Weathers, a data automation officer, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces. Married: Lt. Allen McLeod Young, EE, to Miss Carol Lynn Mason, April 20. Lt. Young is stationed with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in Quantico, Va. C Q William D. Alexander, Jr., *—' t J EE, has been comissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Richard L. Berry. AE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Richard A. Binger, IE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Oscar V. Bryan, Jr., IE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Bryan is being assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, for training as a base civil engineering officer. Capt. Jackie Burgess, IS, is stationed in Vietnam with the U. S. Air Force. Married: Joseph Michael Dahm, ME, to Miss Virginia Marie Spurlin. Engaged: Ronald James Elliott, Phys., to Miss Sandra Dianne Allen. Mr. Elliott will begin work on his master's degree at Georgia Tech in June. Robert R. Foster, IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Foster is being assigned to Tyndall AFB, Florida, for training as a weapons controller. The Georgia Tech Alumnus
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Marian T. Boultinghouse (BS Geol., Indiana U. '59) is sheet mill superintendent at Anaconda Aluminum Company's plant in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Dennis James, the evening's hero, scores the Golds' fourth touchdown on a screen pass as he just makes it to the corner of the end zone.
RAIN AND MUD AND THE NEW LOOK • BAD WEATHER negated plans for the public unveiling of Bud Carson and Bill Crutchfield's new "40 yards and a cloud of dust" offense in the T-game won by the favored Gold team, 30-13. But Dennis James and John Weaver, a pair of large Florida-bred backs, more than made up for the bad weather by their strong running and pass catching. It was James who stole the show. The hero of last year's Georgia game gained 115 yards in 23 carries and one touchdown, caught three passes for 62 yards and another scofe, and generally behaved as if he had spent his childhood watching the Green Bay Packers on television or discussing running style with Vince Lombardi. Totaling it up, the Tallahassee junior accounted for 40 per cent of the Golds total offense as well as an equal portion of their scoring. Weaver, the 214pound fullback from Jacksonville who has had a spectacular spring, added 66 yards on 18 carries plus 54 more on a pass play that was obviously de-\ 58
veloped after a quick glance at last year's Notre Dame films. The famed Packer sweep was roughly a third of the offense the Jackets displayed for the 10,828 fans who braved the elements to sit through this one. And it was run with the precision of execution that makes it a thing of beauty. The other two-thirds came from almost equal parts of the Houston dive series and Crutchfield's own "spread-'em-out-and-get-the-ballto-somebody" passing game. Despite the rain and the wet ball (and the Jackets have not practiced on a single damp day this spring until tonight), Larry Good managed to complete 10 of 24 for 198 yards and two touchdowns during the evening's workout. But then the Whites picked off four of them to dampen that statistic and keep the score respectable. After a scoreless first period, marked by a pair of interceptions and a fumble that stopped their own drives, the Golds gave the Whites a shot at it from up close when Tommy Chapman
tried to run on a bad punt snap and was caught at the Gold 12. Steve Harkey, another big tailback with promise, failed to gain, and two Jack Williams' passes were broken up before Johnny Duncan, who kicked for both sides, missed a 28-yard field goal try. The Golds promptly brought out that long pass to the fullback and Weaver got back of the defense on Good's fake and took the ball down to the White 26. James got 8, Weaver added a yard, and then James came back with 4 and 8 more as he began to smell the end zone. Weaver added another yard before James went in on the power sweep without any trouble. Chuck Hixon missed the P A T and it was 6-0, Golds, with 10:41 remaining in the half. The Golds liked this so much that they did a reprise the next time they got their hands on the ball. This one featured a Good-James pass for 16 yards, a Good run of 11, two James dashes of 9 and 5, and a Weaver 14yard run. James came out with bruised ribs and the Golds reached over to the Whites for Harkey who promptly went in on the sweep after Good had reached the 2 on a pair of runs of 3 and 6 yards. Duncan added the point to run it to 13-0. After the Whites failed, the Golds got field position on a Joe Bill Faith punt return of 15 yards that put them on the White 36. Good and James got to the 21 on three running plays and then Good found Chapman open at the 11. On the next play Good hit Percy Helmer for the score. Duncan made it 20-0 at the end of the half. The third period was much like the first as the rain really began to pelt the fans and the players. Fumbles and interceptions halted anything resembling drives by either team. But early in the final period, the Golds added three points on a perfect 27-yard field goal that was set up by a fumble recovery by Doug Dale at the White 30. The Whites came right back to close it to 23-7 on the strength of a 17-yard run by quarterback Dave Stroyan and another dash of 45 yards by Stroyan on a busted signal. Duncan added the point. This lasted just long enough for the Golds to go 76 yards in 7 plays with Good hitting James on a screen pass for 49 yards and the score that made it 29-7. Duncan made it 30-7 and the Golds were through scoring. The Whites put on a drive against the clock to get their final score with 7 seconds left. Doug Calhoun, a sophomore tailback, was the featured runner of this one, getting 8 yards on one run, 10 on another, and the final yard for the score. Duncan missed the point and a play later the two squads went off the field yelling louder than they did when they came out to start it all some three hours earlier.
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